Research Staff:
Dr Kaarina Hollo
Lecturer in Modern Irish language (half-time) 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: kh406@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Medieval Irish prose narrative
- Medieval Irish poetry and metrics
- The reception of medieval Irish literature
- Modern Irish language and literature
- Translation studies
Recent Publications
- ‘The Literature of Late Medieval Ireland , 1200-1600: From the Normans to the Tudors. Part II: Prose Literature.’ In Cambridge History of Irish Literature , ed. Phil O’Leary and Margaret Kelleher. Cambridge : CUP, 2006: 110-39.
- Fled Bricrenn ocus Loinges mac nDuíl Dermait and its place in the Irish literary and oral narrative traditions. Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts II. Series editor: Kim McCone. Maynooth: National University of Ireland , 2005.
- ‘Laments and lamenting in early medieval Ireland .’ In Medieval Celtic literature and society, ed. Helen Fulton. Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2005: 83-94
- ‘ Fingal Rónáin : the medieval Irish text as argumentative space.’ In Cín Chille Cúile: Texts, Saints and Places -- Essays in Honour of Pádraig Ó Riain, ed. John Carey, Máire Herbert, Kevin Murray. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2004: 241-49.
- 'The shock of the old: translating Early Irish poetry into Modern Irish.' Éire-Ireland 38 (2003), 54-71. Special issue: Language and Identity in Twentieth-Century Irish Culture, ed. M. Tymoczko and C. Ireland.
- ‘Cú Chulainn and Síd Truim.’ Ériu 49 (1998), 13-22.
- ‘Metrical irregularity in Old and Middle Irish syllabic verse.’ In Celtica Helsingiensia, ed. A. Ahlqvist et al. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 107. Helsinki : 1996, 47-56.
- ‘Eachtra Ridire na Leomhan ina comhthéacs Eorpach.’ In Nua-Léamha: gnéithe de chultúir, stair, agus polaitíocht na hÉireann c.1600-c.1900, ed. Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha. Dublin : Clóchomar, 1996: 54-71.
- ‘Conchobar’s ‘sceptre’: the growth of a literary topos.’ Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 29 (Summer, 1995), 11-25.
- ‘The Alliterative Structure of Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin's a aingil, beir.’ Ériu 41 (1990), 77-80.
- Ed. with Sharon Arbuthnot. Fil súil nglais: A Grey Eye Looks Back: Essays in Honour of Professor Colm Ó Baoill. Ceann Drochaid, Perthshire: Clann Tuirc [forthcoming 2007].
- ‘Keltische Sprachen’ and ‘Keltische Literatur’ for Enzyklopädie des Mittelalters , ed. Gert Melville and Martial Staub, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt [forthcoming 2007].
- ‘The Ulster Cycle, the law tracts, and the medieval Irish court: The depiction of Senchae mac Ailella, aurlabraid Ulad.’ Aiste 1 [forthcoming 2007].