Research Staff:
Dr Pádraic Moran
Research Officer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Contact
Department of ASNC, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
(+44-1223-335079)
Email: pm394@cam.ac.uk
Personal site: www.pmoran.ie
Research Interests
- Early Irish glossaries and the Irish lexicographical tradition
- The St Gall Prisican glosses
- Historical linguistics (Classical, Celtic)
- Palaeography
- Language study and teaching (Irish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew) in the early medieval West
- Digital humanities: new technologies for research, teaching and publishing
Pádraic Moran is a researcher on the Learned and Vernacular Languages Initiative, a collaboration between National University of Ireland, Galway and the Department of ASNC at the University of Cambridge (funded by NUI Galway with matching funding from the Isaac Newton Trust).
Pádraic is currently working on a new edition of O’Mulconry’s Glossary and a related glossary titled Irsan, texts from early medieval Ireland that aim to explain the relationships between Irish and other languages (Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Norse, Welsh and English). These texts constitute some of the earliest explorations in Celtic linguistics and reveal the extent and competence of foreign language study in early Ireland. They also shed light on the Irish learned tradition more broadly.
The project builds on the work of the Early Irish Glossaries Project (see EIGD), established by Paul Russell in collaboration with Pádraic Moran and Sharon Arbuthnot and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2006–2009.
Research Publications
- ‘A living speech? The pronunciation of Greek in early medieval Ireland’, Ériu 61 (forthcoming, 2011)
- ‘Greek in early medieval Ireland’, in P. James and A. Mullen (eds), Multilingualism in the Greco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press).
- ‘ “Their harmless calling”: Stokes and the Irish linguistic tradition’, in L. Boyle and P. Russell (eds), The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) (Dublin: Four Courts, 2011)
- ‘High Island and the cult of Saint Féichín in Connemara’, in Georgina Scally (ed.), High Island, Archaeological Monographs (Dublin: Stationery Office, forthcoming, 2011)
- ‘Hebrew in early Irish glossaries’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 60 (Winter 2010), 1–21
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‘Irish glossaries and other digital resources for early Irish studies’, in Malte Rehbein and Sean Ryder (eds), Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 10 (Darmstadt, 2010), 131–49
- with Rijcklof Hofman, St Gall Priscian Glosses <www.stgallpriscian.ie> (2010)
- with Sharon Arbuthnot, Paul Russell, Early Irish Glossaries Database <www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/> (2006, rev. 2009)