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20032025

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Biography

My surname is more correctly spelled Färber. I studied Celtic Philology and (Historical) Linguistics in Bonn with Karl Horst Schmidt; worked for several years in technical, educational and games software localization. I specialized in non-technical language to open up technical content to 'non-technical' users, copy-editing, terminology, quality control, creating and customizing glossaries. I tested software for major vendors, used TMs, and CAT. In 2000 I came to CELT, UCC. Since then Manager and Editor of a TEI-XML encoded corpus of multilingual documents: Irish of all periods, English, Latin, German, and other languages. MPhil in History 2013 with a thesis on Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn in manuscripts, print, and electronic edition. I was awarded my PhD in Modern Irish on two Irish translations of Bernard de Gordon's medical treatise De Decem Ingeniis curandorum morborum.

Research Interests

Electronic Text Editions, TEI Guidelines, Humanities Computing, Digital Humanities, Text Encoding, XML applications, digital lexicography, corpus linguistics; reception of Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn; reception of German literature in Ireland; Caspar Voght; Carl Gottlob Küttner; Magdalene von Dobeneck, Irish medical manuscripts in the vernacular, c. 1350-1600, especially reception and translation of treatises by Bernard de Gordon, Professor of Medicine in Montpellier. I have written my doctoral thesis on an annotated edition of two independent Irish translations of Bernard's De decem ingeniis in 2025. For CELT I have prepared (or co-edited) electronic, TEI-conformant deep-level encoded versions of twenty Irish medical tracts from the early modern period. These are based on Latin originals and were originally edited by Winifred Wulff, James Carney, Lilian Duncan, Shawn Sheahan, H. Cameron Gillies, and Whitley Stokes. I have prepared an XML-encoded edition of Tadhg Ó Cuinn's Irish Materia Medica edited, and so far unpublished, by Micheál P.S. Ó Conchubhair. The electronic text was launched on 27 June 2019.

Teaching Activities

Supervision of CELT interns, as well as placements of postgraduates in the Medieval History MA. Over the last few years, I have supervised and monitored a number of postgraduate and graduate interns from Austria, Germany, France, Italy, China and Ireland. Often my work with these and CELT volunteers involves structured tutoring on a one-to-one basis, which I greatly enjoy.

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  • SDG 4 - Quality Education

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