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2: s01e02 Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (ASNC, Cambridge)

2: s01e02 Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (ASNC, Cambridge)

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 Hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

Music by Michele Tasin.

An interview with Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh– ASNC, St John's College, Cambridge.

Recorded on 30.01.2021.

Contents:

0.13: introduction

SECTION 1 (general)

1.36: Irish roots
3.51: language requirements (none)
4.47: ASNC at Cambridge (language)
7.02: Celtic Studies in Ireland vs Britain
8.33: the earliest writing in Ireland
10.21: Irish manuscripts (language)
12.44: Latin vs vernacular manuscripts over time
14.29: non-textual features
17.37: Irish scribes (St Gall Priscian & Lebor na hUidre)
21.06: cultural backgrounds

SECTION 2 (Mapping the Medieval Mind)

23.47: mobility, places & COVID-19
28.15: old and new research
30.45: topography in archaic literature
32.06: the Dindshenchas Érenn
34.04: the DH as historiography
35.33: the author(s) and audience of the DH
38.06: surviving manuscripts > popularity
39.09: the DH “in practice”
41.22: etymology (Knowth)
45.16:  Irish culture today (logainm.ie & placenamesni.org)

SECTION 3 (Text and Meaning)

47.34: revising the Dictionary of Mediaeval Irish (and A History of Ireland in 100 Words)
50.25: difficult words (stiúraslong)
53.15: loanwords
55.21: Old vs modern Irish
57.18: Irish and the monopoly of English

59.35: goodbyes
1.00.15: acknowledgements (with an anecdote)

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