Lorg na Leabhar
A Festschrift for Pádraig A. Breatnach
Caoimhín Breatnach, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Gordon Ó Riain, editors
The present volume contains a collection of essays to honour the enormous contribution by Professor Pádraig A. Breatnach to learning in a diverse range of fields including Medieval Latin, Early Modern Irish, palaeography, literary history, eighteenth-century verse, and Modern Irish literature and language. The contributors engage with written material relating to Early, Medieval and Modern Irish as well as with oral traditions in Gaelic-speaking areas of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Cnuasach aistí atá curtha ar fáil anseo in ómós don Ollamh Pádraig A. Breatnach, fear a bhfuil ‘lorg na leabhar’ go trom ar a chuid scoláireachta. Cuimsíonn an t-ábhar féin foinsí scríofa na Gaeilge ón luathré anall go dtí an tréimhse chomhaimseartha chomh maith le foinsí béil Ghaeilge na hÉireann, na hAlban agus Oileán Mhanann.
Caoimhín Breatnach is Associate Professor, School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin. Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail is Associate Professor, School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin. Gordon Ó Riain lectures in the School of English, Irish and Communications at the University of Limerick.
