Fergus Kelly | |
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Nationality | Irish |
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Known for | A Guide to Early Irish Law (1988) |
Fergus Kelly MRIA is an academic at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His research interests centre on early Irish law-texts and wisdom-texts.
He graduated in 1967 in Early and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin. He spent a year in the University of Oslo's Linguistics Institute. He also taught a course in Celtic Civilisation at the University of Toronto. He is now a Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies (Irish: Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh) of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. [1] In 2003 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture. [2] 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 Thomas Charles-Edwards.
Kelly was granted the highest academic honour in Ireland, membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004. [3]
Kelly's publications include:
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