Irish language, literature and folklore at Ulster University

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Dr R Folli, Dr Christina Sevdali, Dr Juliana Gerard, Dr Lynda Kennedy No more applications being accepted Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Londonderry United Kingdom Celtic Studies Linguistics

About the Project

Staff in Irish and Celtic Studies at UU have been at the forefront of Irish language textual studies and folklore and in recent years. We have produced key editions of Modern, Classical and Middle Irish texts and have made important contributions to the analysis of historical Irish textual traditions. We have headed up major Folklore-based projects, namely “Stories of the Sea” and have a very successful track record of doctoral supervision in both these areas.

PhD applications are invited on a variety of topics relating to the area of textual study, philology or folklore. Proposals may focus on specific topics in medieval Irish language and literature, critical editions of Old, Middle and Modern Irish texts, textual scholarship, the transmission of senchas and historical verse, voyage literature, hagiography, medieval Irish adaptations of foreign literary sources, the Gaelic manuscript tradition, archives from the revival period or folklore.

References

Mac Cathmhaoil (Nioclás): An scéalaíocht agus na lámhscríbhinní sa tréimhse mhall: gnéithe de sheachadadh Mac na Míchomhairle In Léachtaí Cholm Cille 51 (2021), pp. 59–81.
Ó Cuív (Brian): Ireland’s manuscript heritage. In Éire-Ireland 19/1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 87–110.
Ó Macháin (Pádraig) (ed.): Paper and the paper manuscript: a context for the transmission of Gaelic literature / edited by Pádraig Ó Macháin (2019).
Smith (Peter J.): Early Irish historical verse: the evolution of a genre. In Texts and transmission (2002), pp. 326–341.