Interests and Information
Old and Middle Irish
Old and Middle English
Medieval Welsh
Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1980
M.A., University of Toronto, 1976
M.Phil., University College, Dublin, 1975
B.A., University College, Dublin, 1968
pponeill@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-4025
Patrick P. O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill holds the Norman and Dorothy Eliason Chair of English. He was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (2001-02), and is currently a Research Associate at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies (1990-) and a Fellow of the Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Kansai University (2003-05).
Among his publications are:
Glossae Divinae Historiae: the biblical glosses of John Scottus
Eriugena, with John J. Contreni (Florence, 1997);
King Alfred's Old English Prose Translation of the First Fifty
Psalms (Cambridge, MA, 2001);
Cáin Adomnáin and Canones Adomnani, 2 parts,
with David N. Dumville (Cambridge, 2003);
The Study of the Bible and Gaelic History (Cambridge, 2003).
He is currently completing a book on cultural relations between early Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England (635-735).