Pádraig Ó Riain

Pádraig Ó Riain [ pɑ ː ʲ o ː Drig riən ʲ ] (* 1939) is an Irish Keltologe and Hagiologe. He is considered the leading expert on the Irish saints.

Ó Riain spent his academic life largely at University College Cork. From 1964 he was professor there from 1973 to his retirement Professor of Old and Middle Irish. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, since 1992 President of the Irish Texts Society, since 2002 Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge University and recently became a member of the Place Names Commission of Ireland since 1989. In 1995 he was awarded the Humboldt Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany and 2003 for " distinction in the field of Celtic Studies" Derek Allen Prize of the British Academy.

His research focuses on the Irish hagiography, mythology, onomastics, the manuscript studies and the Irish martyrs.

Selections

  • County Clare na Gaeilge sa Lámhscríbhinní Bhreatain Bhig. Cló Bhréanainn, Leinster 1968 ( German as "Overview of the Irish-language manuscripts in Wales ").
  • As editors: Corpus Genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, 1985, ISBN 0-901282-80-4.
  • As editor: Beatha Bharra. Saint Finbarr of Cork. The Complete Life ( = Irish Texts Society. Vol 57). Irish Texts Society, London 1994, ISBN 1-870-16657-4.
  • The Making of a Saint. Finbarr of Cork. 600-1200 ( = Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series Vol. 5). Irish Texts Society, London 1997, ISBN 1-870-16684-1.
  • As editor: Irish Texts Society. The First Hundred Years. Essays to mark the Centenary of the Irish Texts Society ( = Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series Vol. 9). Irish Texts Society, London 1998, ISBN 1-870-16688-4.
  • As editor with John Carey, Máire Herbert and: Studies in Irish hagiography. Saints and Scholars. Four Courts Press, Dublin, inter alia, 2001, ISBN 1-85182-486-3.
  • As editor: Four Irish Martyrologies. Drummond, Turin, Cashel, York ( = Henry Bradshaw Society Vol. 115). Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2002, ISBN 1-870252-19-5.
  • As editor: Beatha Aodha Ruaidh. The Life of Red Hugh O'Donnell. Historical and Literary Contexts ( = Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series. Vol.12 ). Irish Texts Society, London 2002, ISBN 1-870166-91-4.
  • Diarmuid Ó Murchadha with the publisher and Kevin Murray: Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames. = Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge. Fascicle 1: Names in A. = Ainmneacha in A. Irish Texts Society, London 2002, ISBN 1-870166-70-1.

Festschrift

  • John Carey, Máire Herbert, Kevin Murray ( ed.): Cin Chille Cuile. Texts, Saints and Places. Essays in Honour of Pádraig Ó Riain. ( = Celtic Studies Publications. Vol 9). Celtic Studies Publications, Aberystwyth, inter alia, 2004, ISBN 1-891271-13- X.
  • Linguist
  • Keltologe
  • Onomastiker
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • Irishman
  • Born in 1939
  • Man
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