Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha

Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Irish academic and scholar.

Doctor Ní Dhonnchadhais Established Professor of Old and Middle Irish and Celtic Philology (Sean- agus Meán-Ghaeilge agus Teangeolaíocht Cheilteach) at National University of Ireland, Galway. She graduated from University College, Cork, with a BA in Celtic Studies, and MA's and PhD in Old Irish and Middle Irish from Cork, Jesus College, Oxford, and the School of Celtic Studies at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. She has being "Assistant Editor at the Royal Irish Academy's Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge, a lecturer in Irish at University College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin, and an Assistant Professor at the School of Celtic Studies, DIAS." [1]. She has taught at Galway since 1996.

Her work covers medieval and modern Gaeilge and its literatures. She co-edited The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes IV and V: Irish Women's Writings and Traditions in 2002.