Próinséas Ní Chatháin

Ní Chatháin, (Máire) Próinséas MRIA (1936 – 24 November 2018), was an Irish scholar, academic and lexicographer, who made substantial contributions to the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of the Irish Language (a dictionary of Old and Middle Irish) and held the position of Professor of Early and Mediaeval Irish at University College Dublin.[1]

Career

Ní Chatháin held the position of President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland from 1997 to 2000.[2] In 2002 she was honoured with a festschrift entitled Ogma: essays in Celtic studies in honour of Próinséas Ní Chatháin, edited by her former colleagues Michael Richter and Jean-Michel Picard.[3]

Bibliography
  1. Murray, Kevin (2019). "In memoriam Máire Próinséas Ní Chatháin (1936–2018)". Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. National University of Ireland. 40: 414–17.
  2. "Past Presidents of the RSAI". Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  3. "Richter, Michael, and Jean-Michel Picard (eds.), Ogma: essays in Celtic studies in honour of Próinséas Ní Chatháin, Dublin: Four Courts, 2002". CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies. Retrieved 25 February 2019.


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