Cin Chille Cuile: Texts, Saints and Places Essays in Honour of Pádraig Ó Riain

by John Carey, Máire Herbert (Editor), Kevin Murray (Editor)

An attractive volume containing 28 substantial studies by John Carey, Maire Herbert, Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh, Sean O Coileain, Donnchadh O Corrain, and other leading Celtic scholars, focusing on the subjects of Celtic Saints, Irish placenames, Irish literature and language of all periods. Includes a bibliography of the publications of Professor Padraig O Riain, the leader of the Irish Place Name Survey. 8 chapters are in Gaelic

406 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2004

About the author

John Carey is an American Celtic scholar, specialising in early Irish and Welsh literature, religion, and mythology. A graduate of Harvard University, he was an associate professor at the Department of Celtic Languages and Literature. He has received fellowships at Warburg Institute (University of London), the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University, Belfast and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He later moved to the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork (UCC), where he now teaches. He is fellow at the Temenos Academy and editor of Temenos Academy Review.