Emma Nic Cárthaigh

 I qualified with a BA in English and Irish from University College Cork in 1996, the H.Dip.Ed. in English in 1997 and an M.Phil. in Medieval Irish with a Modern Irish component in 1999, for which I was awarded the NUI Travelling Studentship in Medieval Irish. I lectured in the Departments of English and Celtic Philology in the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland from 1999-2003. On returning to UCC in 2003, I was employed for three years as a Research Assistant with the Locus Project (http://www.ucc.ie/locus/), which is based in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish. In 2006, I was awarded a three-year Sparánacht Logainmneacha, or Placenames Scholarship, by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and I conducted my Ph.D. research on place-names and population groups in pre-historic and early medieval Ireland in conjunction with the Locus Project. On completing this research in 2009, I began a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with the De Finibus Project: Christian Representations of the Afterlife in Medieval Ireland (http://definibus.ucc.ie/). This project was funded by an IRCHSS Project Grant in Theology and Religious Studies. In 2012, I took up the post of Léachtóir le Gaeilge, or Lecturer in Irish Language and Literature, at the University of Limerick where I stayed until 2015. I took up my current post at UCC as a lecturer in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish in 2015. 

• Compilation and analysis of data for Foclóir stairiúil áitainmneacha na Gaeilge / Historical dictionary of Gaelic placenames (this is a Locus Project publication for which I am on the Editorial Board);
• Commentary on Irish onomastics and the determination of boundary-extents of ancient Irish population groups;
• Edition and translation with commentary of medieval and early modern Irish prose texts from their manuscript sources; 
• Edition and translation with commentary of middle Irish poetry from its manuscript sources;
• Edition and translation with commentary of classical early modern Irish (or bardic) poetry from its manuscript sources;
• Literary and historical analysis of medieval and early modern Irish poetry;
• Studies on early modern Latin translations of medieval Irish poetry;
• Christian representations of heaven, hell and the afterlife in medieval Ireland;
• The Irish precursors of Dante’s Divina Commedia;
• Modern Irish translations of Dante’s Divina Commedia and the translators’ use of a hybrid of 17th-century Irish metrical form and the structure of Dante’s terza rima in order to convey the subtlety of the rhyme;
• Classical echoes (Ovid and Homer) in medieval Irish literature.
• Medieval, early modern and Modern Irish palaeography