Fergus Kelly MRIA is an academic at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His research interests centre on early Irish law-texts and wisdom-texts.

Fergus Kelly
Born
NationalityIrish
Education
  • B.A. – University College Dublin (UCD)
  • Ph.D. – Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
Known forA Guide to Early Irish Law (1988)

He graduated in 1967 in Early and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin. He spent a year in the University of Oslo's Linguistics Institute. He also taught a course in Celtic Civilisation at the University of Toronto. He is now a Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies (Irish: Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh) of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.[1] In 2003 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture.[2] A prolific author and researcher, he has written and edited a number of books and many articles including A guide to early Irish law. He co-edits the journal Celtica and has collaborated with many others including Thomas Charles-Edwards.

Awards and recognition

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Kelly was granted the highest academic honour in Ireland, membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004.[3]

Publications

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Kelly's publications include:

  • Audacht Morainn (Dublin 1976)
  • A guide to early Irish law (Dublin 1988, reprinted 1991, 1995)
  • Early Irish farming: the evidence of the law-texts (Dublin 1997, reprinted 1998)
  • Marriage Disputes: A Fragmentary Old Irish Law-Text (Dublin, 2014)
  • The Life & Work of Oisín Kelly (Carlow, 2015)
  • The MacEgan legal treatise (Dublin, 2020). Edition of work by Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin.

References

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  1. ^ "Fergus Kelly, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies". Trinity Centre for Environmenal Humanities, Trinity College Dublin.
  2. ^ "Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lectures". The British Academy. text video
  3. ^ "Fergus Samuel Kelly". Royal Irish Academy. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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