Life
1926-2004; b. Belfast, ed. QUB and Sorbonne, where he studied under George
Dumezil, and encountered Foucault; joined QUB Celtic Dept., 1951; Lect.
in Irish, Welsh Dept., Univ. of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1955; Institute of
Advanced Studies, Dublin [DIAS], 1961; Chair of Welsh, UCD, 1963; Chair
of Early Irish, 1971; Senior Professor at DIAS, 1985- ; Director of the
Institute, 1986-87. Board of Foundation for Celtic and Irish Studies,
1989- ; lectured in Cork on the ‘The Early Irish Concept of Unity’,
1973, and subsequently published in The Crane Bag (1978); issued
history of the Irish College, Paris (2001); d. May 2004. DIW OCWL
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Works
Scéalaíocht na Ríthe [cycle of Kings], with Tomás
Ó Floinn (1956), ill. Mícheál Mac Liammóir;
The Learned Tales of Medieval Ireland [The Medieval Story-teller]
(1980); commentary on second branch of Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi,
published as Branwen Daughter of Llyr (Cardiff 1958); also Celtic
Mythology (1970; 1973), standard ref. work; also articles on syntax
of Welsh and Irish and early Welsh poetry; contrib. essay on Mabinogi
in Writers of Wales [series] (1977); Collège des Irlandais: Paris and Irish Studies (DIAS 2001), 204pp.
Num. scholarly papers incl. ‘Notes on the Early Irish Concept of Unity’, in The Crane Bag (Vol. 2, 1&2, 1978), rep. in The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (Dublin: Blackwater 1982), pp.205-19; rev. as ‘Early Irish Ideology and the Concept of Unity’, in Richard Kearney, ed., The Irish Mind (1985) [q.pp.]; ‘The Ingen Moel', in Eriú, Vol. 52 (2001), pp 217-27.
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Notes
See Oxford Companion to Welsh Literature.
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