Pádraig Ó Riain
Irish linguist
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, and more recently, a member of the Placenames Commission of Ireland (An Coimisiún Logainmneacha).[2] In the academic year 2000-01, he was Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge.[3]
Selected works
- Clár na Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge sa Bhreatain Bhig. Dublin, 1968.
- Corpus Genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae. Dublin, 1985. ISBN 0-901282-80-4.
- Beatha Bharra, Saint Finbarr of Cork: The Complete Life. Irish Texts Society 57. London. 1993. ISBN 1-870166-57-4.
- The Making of a Saint: Finbarr of Cork 600-1200. Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 5. London, 1997. ISBN 1-870166-84-1.
- (ed.) Irish Texts Society: The First Hundred Years. Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 9. London, 1998. ISBN 1-870166-88-4.[4]
- (ed. with John Carey and Máire Herbert). Saints and Scholars: Studies in Irish Hagiography. Dublin, 2001. ISBN 1-85182-486-3.
- Four Irish Martyrologies: Drummond, Turin, Cashel, York. Woodbridge, 2002. ISBN 1-870252-19-5.
- (ed.) Beatha Aodha Ruaidh, the Life of Red Hugh O’Donnell: Historical and Literary Contexts. Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 12. London, 2002. ISBN 1-870166-91-4
- (ed. with Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray). Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames: Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 1, Names Beginning in A-. London, 2002. ISBN 1-870166-70-1.
- Feastdays of the Saints. A History of Irish Martyrologies. Subsidia Hagiographica, 86. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes. 2006. ISBN 978-2-87365-018-6.
Festschrift
- John Carey, Máire Herbert and Kevin Murray (eds.), Cín Chille Cúile: Texts, Saints and Places. Essays in Honour of Pádraig Ó Riain. Celtic Studies Publications. Aberystwyth, 2004. ISBN 1-891271-13-X.
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Recipients of the Derek Allen Prize
- 1977: Oliver Strunk
- 1980: Julian Budden
- 1983: David Brown
- 1986: Reinhard Strohm
- 1989: J. E. Stevens
- 1992: David Cairns
- 1995: Peter Holman
- 1998: Peter Walls
- 2001: Janice Stockigt
- 2004: Colin Timms
- 2007: Philip V. Bohlman
- 2010: Gary Tomlinson
- 2013: Arnold Whittall
- 2016: Margaret Bent
- 2019: Alejandro Planchart
- 1978: Karel Castelin
- 1981: J. B. Colbert de Beaulieu
- 1984: Simone Scheers
- 1987: Georges Le Rider
- 1990: P. Bastien
- 1993: Jean Lafaurie
- 1996: J. P. C. Kent
- 1999: Cécile Morrisson
- 2002: Gert Hatz
- 2005: Philip Grierson
- 2008: Emeritus Michael Metcalf
- 2011: Mark Blackburn
- 2014: Richard Reece
- 2017: Michael Crawford
- 2020: Andrew Burnett
- 1979: Kenneth Jackson
- 1982: Brian Ó Cuiv
- 1985: J. E. Caerwyn Williams
- 1988: Edouard Bachellery
- 1991: K. H. Schmidt
- 1994: Emeritus Eric P. Hamp
- 1997: Proinsias Mac Cana
- 2000: Derick Thomson
- 2003: Pádraig Ó Riain
- 2006: Daniel Huws
- 2009: Yr Athro Dafydd Jenkins
- 2012: Fergus Kelly
- 2015: Pierre-Yves Lambert
- 2018: Máire Herbert
- 2021: Ralph A. Griffiths