Terence Dolan

For other people of the same name, see Terry Dolan (disambiguation).

Terence Dolan is an Irish lexicographer and radio personality. He is Professor of Old and Middle English in the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin. He acts as the School's Research Co-ordinator, and is the director of the Hiberno-English Archive website.[1] He appears weekly on Seán Moncrieff's radio show (Mondays) on Newstalk 106. Podcasts of his appearances are available from Newstalk's website.[2]

Life

Dolan was born in London of Irish parents, both of whom hailed from Co. Cavan. He was formerly a Hastings Senior Scholar of The Queen's College, Oxford. He was twice the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, University of Richmond, Virginia (in 1986 and 1992). He is a former director of the international James Joyce summer school, Dublin. He is perhaps best known for his Dictionary of Hiberno-English which gives a comprehensive account of the English language as it is spoken in Ireland.

Illness

Dolan suffered a stroke in February 2008, and has been recuperating since. He left Tallaght Hospital on 15 December 2008. He talked to Seán Moncrieff's about this experience, and also about the origins of medical words and about writing a book about the first hand experience of having a stroke and the recovery.[3][4]

Research interests

Selected publications

Radio appearances

References

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