Fergus Kelly is an academic at the

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) ( ga, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a statutory independent research institute in Ireland. It was established in 1940 on the initiative of the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, in Dub ...

. His research interests centre on early Irish law-texts and wisdom-texts. He graduated in 1967 in Early and Modern Irish from

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. He spent a year in the

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's Linguistics Institute. He also taught a course in Celtic Civilisation at the

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. He is now a Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies (Irish: ''Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh'') of the

. In 2003 he delivered the

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's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture. A prolific author and researcher, he has written and edited a number of books and many articles including ''A guide to early Irish law''. He co-edits the journal Celtica and has collaborated with many others including

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Awards and recognition

Kelly was granted the highest academic honour in Ireland, membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004.

Publications

Kelly's publications include: * ''Audacht Morainn'' (Dublin 1976) * ''A guide to early Irish law'' (Dublin 1988, reprinted 1991, 1995) * ''Early Irish farming: the evidence of the law-texts'' (Dublin 1997, reprinted 1998) * ''Marriage Disputes: A Fragmentary Old Irish Law-Text'' (Dublin, 2014) * ''The Life & Work of Oisín Kelly'' (Carlow, 2015) * ''The MacEgan legal treatise'' (Dublin, 2020). Edition of work by Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin.

References

External links

Professor Fergus Kelly
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'Early Irish Music: An overview of the linguistic and documentary evidence'
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