Here’s a short CV below. You can also download a more formal short CV (PDF).
Recent work
2011–2012 Research Associate, NUI Galway/University of Cambridge
2009–2011 IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow, NUI Galway (see www.stgallpriscian.ie)
2007–2009 Research Associate, Early Irish Glossaries Project, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
Qualifications
2007 PhD, NUI Galway: ‘Sacred languages and Irish glossaries: evidence for the study of Latin, Greek and Hebrew in early medieval Ireland’
2006 Dioplóma sa Ghaeilge (Diploma in Modern Irish), NUI Galway
1995 BA (first class honours), Ancient Classics (major), Philosophy (minor), University College, Cork
Publications
‘High Island and the cult of Saint Féichín in Connemara’, in Georgina Scally (ed.), High Island, Archaeological Monographs (Dublin: Stationary Office, forthcoming).
‘Greek in early medieval Ireland’, in P. James and A. Mullen (eds), Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press, due August 2012).
‘A living speech? The pronunciation of Greek in early medieval Ireland’, Ériu 61 (2011), 29–57.
‘ “Their harmless calling”: Stokes and the Irish linguistic tradition’, in E. Boyle and P. Russell (eds), The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) (Dublin: Four Courts, 2011), pp. 175–84.
‘Hebrew in early Irish glossaries’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 60 (Winter 2010), 1–21.
‘Irish glossaries and other digital resources for early Irish studies’, in M. Rehbein and S. Ryder (eds), Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 10 (Darmstadt, 2010), 131–49.
with Rijcklof Hofman, St Gall Priscian Glosses <www.stgallpriscian.ie> (2010).
Review of R. Baumgarten (compiler), R. Ó Maolalaigh (ed.), Electronic Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature, 1942–1971 (Dublin, 2004), in Peritia 21 (2010), 357–9.
In preparation: A new edition, translation and commentary of O’Mulconry’s Glossary (De
origine scoticae linguae) and Irsan (due for completion in 2012).
Recent conference and seminar papers
30 Jan 2012 ASNC Graduate Seminar, Cambridge:
‘Language learning in the ninth century: The St Gall Priscian glosses.’
18 Nov 2011 Tionól, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies:
‘The date of O’Mulconry’s Glossary and its place in the Irish glossary tradition.’
4 Aug 2011 14th International Congress of Celtic Studies, Maynooth:
‘Language switching in the St Gall Priscian glosses.’
31 Mar 2011 Text and Cultural Construction Seminar, Birmingham:
‘Teaching Priscian: Pedagogical strategies in the St Gall Priscian glosses.’
19 Nov 2010 Sodalitas, Université Lumière Lyon 2:
‘Reading Latin, learning Greek: The St Gall Priscian glosses.’
23 Feb 2010 Edinburgh Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies:
‘Teaching advanced Latin in the ninth century: The St Gall Priscian glosses.’
Teaching
Classical and medieval Latin, ancient Greek, history of writing, medieval Irish literature, Celtic mythology.
Other
Organising Secretary for the 25th Irish Conference of Medievalists (NUI Galway, 24–26 June 2011).
Personal
Grew up in Tuam, Co. Galway. Married with two boys (aged 6 and 8). Train and teach aikido.