John Carey is an American
philologist
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...
,
professor
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, and scholar of
Celtic studies
Celtic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celtic-speaking peoples (i.e. speakers of Celtic languages). This ranges from linguistics, literature and art histor ...
, specialising in subjects of
early Irish
The history of the Irish language begins with the period from the arrival of speakers of Celtic languages in Ireland to Ireland's earliest known form of Irish, Primitive Irish, which is found in Ogham inscriptions dating from the 3rd or 4th cen ...
and
Welsh literature, religion, and mythology. A graduate of
Harvard University
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, he was an associate professor at the Department of Celtic Languages and Literature. He has received fellowships at
Warburg Institute
The Warburg Institute is a research institution associated with the University of London in central London, England. A member of the School of Advanced Study, its focus is the study of cultural history and the role of images in culture – cros ...
(University of London), the Institute of Irish Studies at
Queen's University, Belfast
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and the
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
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. He later moved to the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at the
University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.
The university was founded in 1845 as one of ...
(UCC), where he now teaches. He is fellow at the
Temenos Academy
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and editor
of ''
Temenos Academy Review
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Selected works
*1982. "The Location of the Otherworld in Irish Tradition." ''
Éigse
''Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies'' is an academic journal devoted to the study of the Irish language and literature. It began in 1923 as part of an initiative by the Senate of the National University of Ireland to use the Adam Boyd Simpson Fu ...
'' 19 (1982): 36-43.
*1984. "Nodons in Britain and Ireland." ''
ZCP'' 40 (1984): 1-22.
*1987. "Time, Space, and the Otherworld." ''Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium'' 7: 1-27.
*1989-90. "Myth and Mythography in ''Cath Maige Tuired''." ''Studia Celtica'' 24-5: 53-69.
*1991. "A British Myth of Origins?" ''History of Religions'' 31: 24-38.
*1994. ''The Irish National Origin-Legend: Synthetic Pseudohistory''. Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval Gaelic History 1. Cambridge, University of Cambridge.
*1994 (ed. with John T. Koch). ''The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales''. Malden, Massachusetts: Celtic Studies Publications. Includes translations by John Carey.
*1994. "An Edition of the Pseudo-Historical Prologue to the Senchas Már." ''Ériu'' 45: 1-32.
*1996. "The Narrative Setting of ''
Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig
''Baile Chuind Chétchathaig'' (, "The Vision of Conn of the Hundred Battles") is an Old Irish list of Kings of Tara or High Kings of Ireland which survives in two 16th-century manuscripts, 23 N 10 and Egerton 88. It is the earliest such king- ...
''." ''Études Celtiques'' 32: 189-201.
*1997. "The Three Things Required of a Poet." ''Ériu'' 48: 41-58.
*1998 (1st ed.), 2000 (2nd ed.). ''King of Mysteries. Early Irish Religious Writings''. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
*1999. ''A Single Ray of the Sun. Religious Speculation in Early Ireland''. Andover and Aberystwyth.
*2002. "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts." ''Ériu'' 52 (2002): 53-87.
*2002. "Werewolves in Medieval Ireland." ''Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'' 44 (Winter 2002): 37-72.
*2004. "The Encounter at the Ford: Warriors, Water and Women." ''Éigse'' 34 (2004): 10-24.
*2005. "Tara and the Supernatural." In ''The Kingship and Landscape of Tara'', ed. Edel Bhreathnach. Dublin. 32-48.
*2007. ''Ireland and the Grail''. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications.
*2007. "''In Tenga Bithnua'' and the Days of Creation." ''Apocrypha'' 18: 231-46.
References
External links
Publications UCC.
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20th-century American educators
21st-century American educators
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21st-century philologists
Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Academics of University College Cork
American philologists
Celtic studies scholars
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Linguists of English
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)