phone: +353 1 6140116
e-mail: fq@celt.dias.ie

Research Interests

Early Irish law; narratives in law texts; Old and Middle Irish language; early Irish poetry and metrics; medieval grammatica; historical comparative linguistics (Indo-European, Turkic and Sino-Tibetan).

Publications

‘Wandering cows and obscure words: A rimeless poem from legal manuscripts and beyond’ Studia Celtica Fennica X (2013), 90–111.

‘Narratives in Early Irish Law: a Typological Study’, in Medieval Irish Law: Texts and Contexts, eds. Anders Ahlqvist and Pamela O’Neill (2013), 111–141.