Lesa Ní Mhunghaile
Professor
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
NUI Galway
Ireland
Biography
Gibbstown, County of Meath, native to Lesa Ní Mhunghaile. She graduated from a BA in Irish and German in the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 1994. As part of that stage she spent the 1992-93 academic year in Rheinisch-Friedrich-Willhelms Universität, Bonn, on an DAAD undergraduate scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).
Research Interest
Contact between Anglo-Irish antiquarians and the Gaelic world; the eighteenth- and nineteenth Irish-language scribal tradition;