Tomás Ó Cathasaigh

Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies

Warren House, 2nd Floor

617-495-1207

cathas@fas.harvard.edu

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Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies, 1995-, Director of Graduate Studies, 1997-. BA and MA, National University of Ireland (University College, Dublin). Junior Research Assistant, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1972. Assistant Lecturer/College Lecturer/Statutory Lecturer, Department of Early (including Medieval) Irish Language and Literature, University College Dublin, 1972-1995.

Author of The Heroic Biography of Cormac Mac Airt (Dublin, 1977) and of articles on early Irish literature, mythology and language. His research is devoted to various aspects of early Irish narrative literature, such as its politico-religious ideology; its relationship to mythology; and its thematic content and structure. He is interested in the ways in which language is used in the literary texts, and has been applying rhetorical criticism to them. He has also worked on the political and dynastic elements in the early Irish Origin Legends, and is engaged on an edition, with translation and full commentary, of the early texts of the Origin Legend known as “The Expulsion of the Déisi.”

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[Celtic 114. Early Irish Historical Tales]
Catalog Number: 0781

Celtic 184. The Táin
Catalog Number: 2150

[Celtic 200. Introduction to Old Irish]
Catalog Number: 8266

[Celtic 201. Continuing Old Irish]
Catalog Number: 6073

Celtic 204r. Readings in Early Irish Poetry
Catalog Number: 8493

Celtic 205r. Readings in Early Irish Prose
Catalog Number: 2705

Celtic 208. Early Irish Society
Catalog Number: 1359