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

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, 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

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since 1992, and more recently, a member of the Placenames Commission of Ireland (''An Coimisiún Logainmneacha''). 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. . * (ed.) ''Irish Texts Society: The First Hundred Years''. Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 9. London, 1998. . * (ed. with John Carey and

Máire Herbert Máire R. M. Herbert , also known as Mary Herbert, is an Irish historian and academic, specialising in early medieval Irish history and Irish saints. She is Emeritus Professor of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork, and was pre ...

). ''Saints and Scholars: Studies in Irish Hagiography''. Dublin, 2001. . * ''Four Irish Martyrologies: Drummond, Turin, Cashel, York''. Woodbridge, 2002. . * (ed.) ''Beatha Aodha Ruaidh, the Life of Red Hugh O’Donnell: Historical and Literary Contexts''. Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 12. London, 2002. * (ed. with Diarmuid Ó Murchadha and Kevin Murray). ''Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames: Foclóir Stairiúil Áitainmneacha na Gaeilge, Fascicle 1, Names Beginning in A-''. London, 2002. . *

Festschrift

* John Carey,

and Kevin Murray (eds.), ''Cín Chille Cúile: Texts, Saints and Places. Essays in Honour of Pádraig Ó Riain''. Celtic Studies Publications. Aberystwyth, 2004. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:ORiain, Padraig Celtic studies scholars Linguists from the Republic of Ireland Living people 20th-century Irish writers 21st-century Irish writers Irish-language writers Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of University College Cork Codicologists Members of the Royal Irish Academy