Damian Mcmanus
Head of Department
Irish and Celtic Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Damian McManus is Professor of Early Irish in Trinity College, Dublin, and Head of the Department of Irish. He is a graduate of the University of Dublin (BA 1977), where he also completed his doctorate on The Latin loanwords in Early Irish’ in 1982. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of Trinity College and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His main areas of research are Primitive Irish, in particular the Latin loanwords and the Ogam alphabet, and Classcial Modern Irish. He is author of A guide to Ogam, joint editor of Stair na Gaeilge, and has published many articles in learned journals in Celtic Studies. He was director of the Trinity-based Bardic Projec’, which published five hundred medieval Irish poems from manuscripts in Irish and British libraries (A Bardic miscellany, eds D. McManus and E. Ó Raghallaigh, 2010), and created a database of two thousand such poems (https://www.tcd.ie/Irish/database/). He has also been joint editor of Ériu, the journal of the Royal Irish Academy devoted to Irish philology and literature, since 2005.
Research Interest
Classcial Modern Irish.
Publications
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Female ancestry and mothers kin in Classical Irish poetry in, editor(s)CaoimhÃn Breatnach, MeidhbhÃn Nà Úrdail , Aon don Éigse. Essays marking Osborn Bergins Centenary Lecture on Bardic Poetry (1912), , Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015, pp193-219
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On the nature of true friendship: an edition of Eochaidh Ó hEódhasas (ed.), Societas Celtologica Nordica 13, Studia Celtica Upsaliensia , Uppsala, 13, May 2015, Universit of Uppsala, 2016,
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Damian McManus, Miscellanea on Classical Irish: 1 Cadad at -s s- boundaries; 2 The conjunctionless comparative; 3 The appositional genitive. , Ériu, 66, 2016, p111 - 134
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Liam Breatnach and Damian McManus (editors), Ériu 66 Journal of the Royal Irish Academy, 2016, Book, PUBLISHED
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Celebrating the female: eulogies, elegies and addresses to noblewomen in late medieval Ireland SÃle Nà Mhurchú, MÃcheál Hoyne(ed.), Symposium on Dánta Grádha, Proceedings of the Dánta Grádha Symposium, The School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, September 2016, DIAS, 2017
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Damian McManus, On the use of the Urlann in Deibhidhe and Séadna metres in Classical Irish verse, North American Journal of Celtic Studies, 1, 2017, p61 - 81
