Pádraig Ó Riain
Pádraig Ó Riain is an Irish Celticist and prominent hagiologist focusing on Irish hagiography, martyrdom, mythology, onomastics and codicology.
Ó Riain has spent much of his academic life at the University College Cork, where he became a lecturer in 1964. Between 1973 and his retirement, he was professor of Old and Middle Irish. He has been a member of the Royal Irish Academy since 1989, president of the Irish Texts Society since 1992, and more recently, a member of the Placenames Commission of Ireland. In the academic year 2000-01, he was Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge.Selected works
- Clár na Lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge sa Bhreatain Bhig. Dublin, 1968.
- Corpus Genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae. Dublin, 1985..
- Beatha Bharra, Saint Finbarr of Cork: The Complete Life. Irish Texts Society 57. London. 1993..
- The Making of a Saint: Finbarr of Cork 600-1200. Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 5. London, 1997..
- Irish Texts Society: The First Hundred Years. Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 9. London, 1998..
- . Saints and Scholars: Studies in Irish Hagiography. Dublin, 2001..
- Four Irish Martyrologies: Drummond, Turin, Cashel, York. Woodbridge, 2002..
- Beatha Aodha Ruaidh, the Life of Red Hugh O’Donnell: Historical and Literary Contexts. Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 12. London, 2002.
- . Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames: Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 1, Names Beginning in A-. London, 2002..
Festschrift
- John Carey, Máire Herbert and Kevin Murray, Cín Chille Cúile: Texts, Saints and Places. Essays in Honour of Pádraig Ó Riain. Celtic Studies Publications. Aberystwyth, 2004..
