Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha

Biography

Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha is Established Professor of Old and Middle Irish and Celtic Philology (Sean- agus Meán-Ghaeilge agus Teangeolaíocht Cheilteach) at NUI Galway. She was educated at University College, Cork (BA in Celtic Studies, MA in Old and Middle Irish, PhD in Old and Middle Irish), Jesus College, Oxford, and the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). Before coming to NUI Galway in 1996 she had been an Assistant Editor at the Royal Irish Academy's Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge, a lecturer in Modern Irish at University College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin, and an Assistant Professor at the School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.

Research Interest

Editing and close reading of medieval and early modern Gaelic prose and verse texts.