Congratulations to Dr Denis Casey who won the 2010 Irish Chief’s Prize in History, which is awarded by the Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains in association with the History Department of Trinity College, Dublin and History/Ireland magazine. Dr Casey recently completed a PhD in ASNC and currently lectures and supervises in the department.
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ASNaC awarded British Academy Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Alderik Blom, Research Fellow at Girton College, who has been awarded a British Academy post-doctoral Fellowship. Dr Blom will hold his Fellowship at the University of Oxford, affiliated to Corpus Christi College, and will be working on a large scale-comparison of early mediaeval vernacular glossing, both Germanic and Celtic. His new project […]
Continue Reading2010 Clemoes Reading Prize Winners
This annual event in which competitors read and perform passages in any of the languages taught in the Department was held on May 5. This year’s standard was very high and the joint winners were Moa Höijer (reading extracts from Lokasenna in Old Norse) and James Lloyd (reading from Genesis III in Old English). Elisabeth […]
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