Pádraic* Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie) is an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow, based in Classics (School of Languages, Literature and Cultures) at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Research interests
- The Irish intellectual tradition in the early Middle Ages.
- Didactic literature (in Latin and Irish), classroom texts and scholia, the grammatical tradition, early Irish glossaries.
- The study of Greek and Hebrew in the early medieval West.
- Historical linguistics, manuscript studies.
- Digital humanities.
Work
2009–2011 IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow, National University of Ireland, Galway
I am beginning a new, two-year project on the St Gall manuscript of Priscian’s Latin grammar.
The project will explore the pedagogical contexts of the St Gall glosses and their evidence for Irish and European intellectual culture in the early Middle Ages.
It will also make available the full text of all the Latin and Irish glosses (c. 9,400), in collaboration with Rijcklof Hofman (see www.stgallpriscian.ie).
2007–2009 Research Associate, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.
I worked with Paul Russell and Sharon Arbuthnot on the Early Irish Glossaries Project, to produce new critical editions of Irish glossaries: Sanas Cormaic (Cormac’s glossary), Dúil Dromma Cetta, O’Mulconry’s glossary and some shorter related texts. I also created the Early Irish Glossaries Database (see beta version), providing full transcriptions and other resources.
2003–2007 Web developer/IT consultant (see www.pmoran.net)
2000–2003 Project manager/team lead, Aró, Furbo, Co Galway
1999–2000 Webmaster, A & L Goodbody Solicitors, Dublin 1
1997–1999 Contributing editor, Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia
Education
PhD, ‘Sacred languages and Irish glossaries: evidence for the study of Latin, Greek and Hebrew in early medieval Ireland’.
National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007.
Treated the evidence of Irish vernacular glossaries for the transmission and reception of Latin literature, and the study of languages in early medieval Ireland. Supervised by Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín.
BA, Ancient Classics (major), Philosophy (minor).
University College, Cork, 1995. First class honours.
Publications
Pádraic Moran, ‘Irish glossaries and other digital resources for early Irish studies’, in Malte Rehbein and Seán Ryder (eds.), Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 10 (Darmstadt, 2009).
Pádraic Moran, with Sharon Arbuthnot, Paul Russell, Early Irish Glossaries Database www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/ (2009).
Pádraic Moran, ‘High Island and the cult of Saint Féichín in Connemara’, in Georgina Scally (ed.), High Island, Archaeological Monographs (Dublin: Stationary Office, forthcoming 2009).
In preparation:
Pádraic Moran, ‘Multilingualism in the medieval Irish learned tradition’. Chapter for proceedings of the 2009 Cambridge conference (see below).
Pádraic Moran, with Sharon Arbuthnot and Paul Russell (eds.), Sanas Cormaic, Dúil Dromma Cetta, O’Mulconry’s Glossary. Four-volume edition, currently nearly completion.
Studies dealing with the transmission of the Latin grammarian Charisius, the pronunciation of Greek in early medieval Ireland, and the Irish reception of Jerome’s Book of Hebrew Names.
Recent conference and seminar papers
18–19 Sep 2009. Ireland, India, London: The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909), Cambridge. ‘“Harmless calling”: Stokes on “native” etymology and lexicography.’
30 May 2009. Multilingualism from Alexander to Charlemagne: Cross-Cultural Themes and Perspectives, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. ‘Multilingualism in the medieval Irish learned tradition.’
9 May 2009. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo. ‘Commentaries and glossaries in early medieval Ireland.’
17 Feb 2009. Cambridge Group for Irish Studies. ‘Language, identity and the Hebrew roots of Irish.’
29 Nov 2008. Tionól, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. ‘Hebrew in Irish glossaries.’
30 Oct 2008. Oxford Celtic Seminar. ‘Féichín of Fore, Connacht and Pictland? Evidence for the cult of a midlands saint.’
20 Oct 2008. ASNC dept lecture (Graduate Seminar). ‘Hermeneumata Hibernica: Greek schoolbooks in early medieval Ireland.’
3 Oct 2008. Celebrating Cormac Symposium, Utrecht. 1) ‘Sanas Cormaic in the context of Classical and Continental learning.’ 2) ‘Greek etymologies in Sanas Cormaic.’ 3) ‘Patterns of composition in Sanas Cormaic and related glossaries.’
Scheduled papers:
23 Feb 2010. Edinburgh Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. ‘Teaching advanced Latin in the ninth century: The St Gall Priscian glosses.’
Teaching
In 2009–2010 I will be working on research full-time.
In 2008–2009 I taught the following at the University of Cambridge: 1) lectures on medieval Irish literature; 2) language classes in both Old Irish and medieval Latin; 3) supervisions for both early Irish literature and Irish/Scottish history. I was also Director of Studies for Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Digital editing
I have professional experience and advanced technical skills in many areas of web and multimedia development: project management, graphic and user-interface design, database development, website programming and text encoding. Technical proficiency: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript; XML, XSLT, TEI (P5); PHP, MySQL, etc.
Recent work includes the Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain database.
* ‘Pádraic’ is pronounced PAW-rick, IPA [ˈpɑːrɪk]!
