Pádraig Ó Riain

Pádraig Ó Riain is an Irish Celticist and prominent hagiologist focusing on Irish hagiography, martyrdom, mythology, onomastics and codicology.

Ó Riain has spent much of his academic life at the University College Cork, where he became a lecturer in 1964. Between 1973 and his retirement, he was professor of Old and Middle Irish.[1] He has been a member of the Royal Irish Academy since 1989, president of the Irish Texts Society since 1992, Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, since 2002 and more recently, a member of the Placenames Commission of Ireland (An Coimisiún Logainmneacha).[2]

Selected works

Festschrift

References

  1. "Roinn na Sean- agus Meán-Ghaeilge - Staff". ucc.ie. University College Cork. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  2. University College Cork
  3. "Céad bliain slán". The Irish Times (in Irish). 11 March 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
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