Bergin Fellow
email: chantal@celt.dias.ie
Biographical Sketch
Chantal Kobel graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an honours degree in Early and Modern Irish. She completed her PhD in Early Irish in the Department of Irish, Trinity College Dublin, for which she prepared a critical edition of the four versions of Aided Chonchobair ‘The Death-Tale of Conchobar’. She is also a professionally qualified archivist and has worked, for example, at the Royal Irish Academy Library and UCD Archives.
Dr Kobel received an O’Donovan Scholarship at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in August 2017 and was subsequently awarded a Bergin Fellowship in August 2019.
Dr Kobel is presently undertaking a detailed codicological examination, including the preparation of catalogue descriptions, of the medieval Irish legal manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin Library. Dr Kobel is also engaged in preparing a number of editions of a series of brief medieval Irish texts preserved in TCD MS H 3.18 (1337).
Dr Kobel currently teaches palaeography at the Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University.
Research Interests
Medieval Irish language, literature and poetry; medieval Irish manuscripts and manuscript culture; codicology.
Papers
‘Varia I: The use of an overt subject with a third-person verb + nota augens’, Ériu 65 (2015), 169–173
‘A note on the use of a feminine adjective following accusative and dative singular talmain’, Celtica 30 (2018), 10–13
‘The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts: a preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337), pp. 1–87’, Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 17; Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen 13th–15th April 2018 (forthcoming 2020)
Reviews
Review of Wolfgang Meid, The romance of Froech and Findabair or the driving of Froech’s cattle: Táin Bó Froích, Old Irish text, with introduction, translation, commentary and glossary. Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 63 (2017), 488–91.
Review of Ó Mainnín, M. B. and Toner, Gregory, Ulidia 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Queen’s University, Belfast, 27–9 June 2013. Celtica 31 (2019), 321–5.
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Last Updated: 23rd October 2019 by Andrew McCarthy
Dr Chantal Kobel
Bergin Fellow
email: chantal@celt.dias.ie
Biographical Sketch
Chantal Kobel graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an honours degree in Early and Modern Irish. She completed her PhD in Early Irish in the Department of Irish, Trinity College Dublin, for which she prepared a critical edition of the four versions of Aided Chonchobair ‘The Death-Tale of Conchobar’. She is also a professionally qualified archivist and has worked, for example, at the Royal Irish Academy Library and UCD Archives.
Dr Kobel received an O’Donovan Scholarship at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in August 2017 and was subsequently awarded a Bergin Fellowship in August 2019.
Dr Kobel is presently undertaking a detailed codicological examination, including the preparation of catalogue descriptions, of the medieval Irish legal manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin Library. Dr Kobel is also engaged in preparing a number of editions of a series of brief medieval Irish texts preserved in TCD MS H 3.18 (1337).
Dr Kobel currently teaches palaeography at the Department of Early Irish, Maynooth University.
Research Interests
Medieval Irish language, literature and poetry; medieval Irish manuscripts and manuscript culture; codicology.
Papers
‘Varia I: The use of an overt subject with a third-person verb + nota augens’, Ériu 65 (2015), 169–173
‘A note on the use of a feminine adjective following accusative and dative singular talmain’, Celtica 30 (2018), 10–13
‘The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts: a preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337), pp. 1–87’, Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 17; Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen 13th–15th April 2018 (forthcoming 2020)
Reviews
Review of Wolfgang Meid, The romance of Froech and Findabair or the driving of Froech’s cattle: Táin Bó Froích, Old Irish text, with introduction, translation, commentary and glossary. Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 63 (2017), 488–91.
Review of Ó Mainnín, M. B. and Toner, Gregory, Ulidia 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Queen’s University, Belfast, 27–9 June 2013. Celtica 31 (2019), 321–5.
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The British Ordanance Survey who sent a theodolite, and of course for the work of Cambridge University as well as Ireland's own national bodies. (3/3) Amazing what can be accomplished when we work together. #DIASdiscovers
An example being Lord Moyne, who offered a Guinness van for conversion to a mobile laboratory. And the Carnegie Trust's Institute at Washington who provided equipment to Thomas Murphy who led the Magnetic Survey. (2/3)
Date: 25 April 1951 Paper: The Irish Press Synopsis: How did the DIAS led, All Island Magnetic Survey, Gravity Survey, and Agricultural meteorological survey come to pass? With a little help from local and international agencies. (1/3)
Our @mathsweek talk is now confirmed! Join Dr Ian Jubb of @StpDias for this online event to discover how Einstein's theory of relativity opened up a whole new world of understanding and exploration. Tickets are free but booking is essential! eventbrite.ie/e/einsteins-re…
...obituaries of prominent individuals The manuscript has been preserved in the @Library_RIA since 1883. (3/3) @HistFest #DIASdiscovers #connacht #books
The Annals of Connacht is a vellum manuscript that was written in the mid-16th century. The contents were derived from older annals compiled for the O’Conors of the Connacht and contain an annual record of significant events over 320 years, and... (2/3)
Date: 19 October 1944 Paper: The Irish Press Synopsis: DIAS has been publishing books since it's founding. One such early publication is the edited manuscript of the Annals of Connacht (Annála Connacht) which was edited for the first time by Martin Freeman of DIAS. (1/3)
This work was to help towards the preservation of the Irish Language, to maintain it's continuity with the past, and was to become a resource for teachers to check pronunciation #DIASdiscovers #Irish #Irishlanguage #CelticStudies #Gaelic
Date: 02 June 1943 Paper: The Irish Press Synopsis: In 1943, a phonetic investigation led by Brian Ó Cuív, Risteárd B. Breathnach and Tomás de Bhaldraithe of DIAS would begin the first systematic scientific recording of the varied sounds of modern Gaelic speech.
The researchers used the International Phonetic Alphabet, slightly modified to represent vowels and consonants of living speech. At that time there were concerns over the deterioration of the Irish language due to the "overpowering influence of English"
Happy Birthday! twitter.com/thecelticist/s…
The papers were 1) Affine Field Theory: conservation identitites and relation to Weyl and Eddington 2)The Union of the three fundamental fields (Gravitation, Menson, Electromagnetism) Which went on to secure worldwide acclaim. #DIASdiscovers
Date: 01 December 1943 Paper: The Irish Press Headline: Two Papers by Dr. Schroedinger Synopsis: 1943 was a busy year for Schroedinger. Not only did he deliver the "What is Life?" Lectures in @tcddublin in February in November he delivered two papers in the @RIAdawson (1/2)
Available to buy on the DIAS bookshop: books.dias.ie/index.php?main… (5/5) #DIASdiscovers #celtic #studies #twopatricks
"In the lives of St. Patrick, the two saints are invariably fused into one", said Prof. O'Rahilly in his lecture. The lecture was a condensation from O’Rahilly’s book “The two Patricks: a lecture on the history of Christianity in fifth-century Ireland”. (4/5)
He was known by his first name Patricius, which in later times would lead to confusion as he was succeeded by another apostle of the same name (Saint Patrick or Patricius in Latin). (3/5)
He spoke on "Palladius and Patrick". Palladius was the first bishop of the Christians of Ireland. (2/5)
Date: 21st March 1942 Paper: The Irish Press Headline: Palladius and Patrick | School Of Celtic Studies Lecture Synopsis: The first public lecture under the auspices of the School of Celtic Studies was delivered in Trinity College by Professor T. F. O'Rahilly in 1942. (1/5)