Fergus Kelly
Fergus Kelly | |
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Born | Ireland |
Nationality | Irish |
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Known for | A Guide to Early Irish Law (1988) |
Fergus Kelly MRIA is an academic at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His research interests centre on early Irish law-texts and wisdom-texts.
He graduated in 1967 in Early and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin. He spent a year in the University of Oslo's Linguistics Institute. He also taught a course in Celtic Civilisation at the University of Toronto. He is now a Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies (Irish: Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh) of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.[1] In 2003 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture.[2] A prolific author and researcher, he has written and edited a number of books and many articles including A guide to early Irish law. He co-edits the journal Celtica and has collaborated with many others including Thomas Charles-Edwards.
Awards and recognition
Kelly was granted the highest academic honour in Ireland, membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004.[3]
Publications
Kelly's publications include:
- Audacht Morainn (Dublin 1976)
- A guide to early Irish law (Dublin 1988, reprinted 1991, 1995)
- Early Irish farming: the evidence of the law-texts (Dublin 1997, reprinted 1998)
- Marriage Disputes: A Fragmentary Old Irish Law-Text (Dublin, 2014)
- The Life & Work of Oisín Kelly (Carlow, 2015)
- The MacEgan legal treatise (Dublin, 2020). Edition of work by Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin.
References
External links
- Professor Fergus Kelly , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies webpage
- Fergus Kelly in the BBC's plantation series.
- Fergus Kelly speaks in Trinity College about 'Early Irish Music: An overview of the linguistic and documentary evidence'.
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