I’m a Lecturer in Classics in NUI Galway (Ireland), interested in ancient and early medieval language, history and culture. My focus is on Celtic and Classical languages (principally Old and Middle Irish, Latin and Greek) and the history of education and scholarship.
This site is intended to provide some information about my own work and to share links to resources that interest me. Feel free to leave comments or get in touch!
This post aims to collect some online map resources for early medieval Ireland. A knowledge of local geography and toponymy is often indispensable for researching early Irish history and literature, but equally often inaccessible due to changing names and the … Continue reading
Ériu 61 arrived on my desk today, with my article ’A living speech? The pronunciation of Greek in early medieval Ireland’. (I think this should appear eventually on the RIA Metapress site, for anyone who has an institutional subscription.) Here’s the abstract: … Continue reading
This collection of essays, deriving from a Cambridge conference in 2007, has now been listed on the CUP website, due to appear in August 2012. I have a small contribution exploring how Irish scholars around the seventh century derived a … Continue reading
The Centre for Antique Medieval and Pre-modern Studies (CAMPS) at NUI Galway has been very active since its foundation less than a year ago in promoting closer collaboration between scholars spread throughout the university but working in related areas. We’ve … Continue reading
I’ve now made most of my publications available to download both on this site and on Academia.edu.