Biography
BA in Modern Irish and History from TCD (2014). PhD from the same institution (2019). Post-doctoral researcher in Maynooth University (2019-21). O'Donovan Scholar (2021-22) and Bergin Fellow (2022) in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Member of the working group of the project Léamh.org (since 2017) // BA sa Nua-Ghaeilge agus sa Stair ó Choláiste na Tríonóide (2014), PhD ón ollscoil chéanna (2019). Taighdeoir iar-dhochtúireachta in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad (2019-21). Scoláire an Donnabhánaigh (2021-22) agus Comhalta an Aimhirgínigh (2022) i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath. Ball de mheitheal an tionscnaimh Léamh.org ó 2017 i leith.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Triúr ríogh táinig do thigh Dhé: dán cráifeach agus plé ar a fhoinsí, Ériu, 67, 2017, p11 - 18Journal Article, 2017, DOI
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Neart Banbha "ga barúnaibh: Dán ar Phádraigín Mac Muiris, Ériu, 70, 2020, p41 - 72Journal Article, 2020, DOI
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Truagh sin, a chinn mo chroidhe: dán ar Sheaán Mac Gearailt, Celtica, 33, 2021, p277 - 294Journal Article, 2021, DOI
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Athraigh Gléas, a Ghiolla Íosa: Dán ar Dhroch-chláirseoir, Ériu, 73, 2023, p29 - 41Journal Article, 2023, DOI
- 'Cia an saoi lé seinntear an chruit': a bardic poem to a harper in, editor(s)Helen Lawlor and Sandra Joyce , Harp Studies II: World Harp Traditions, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2024, pp39 - 56, [Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh]Book Chapter, 2024
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Evan Bourke, Patronage Networks in Gaelic Ireland ca. 1541"ca. 1660, Renaissance Quarterly, 76, (3), 2023, p938 - 979Journal Article, 2023
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Tugadh an t-ár-so ar Éirinn: dán polaitiúil ó thús an seachtú haois déag, Celtica, 35, 2023, p224 - 244Journal Article, 2023, DOI
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Bodach an Chóta Lachtna: Eagrán Nua de théacs deireanach Fiannaíochta, Dublin, Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, 2025, 1 - 232ppBook, 2025
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, A Fhir Iomtha an Aosa Téad: Aoir Ar Reacaire, Ériu, 75, 2025Journal Article, 2025, DOI
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Evan Bourke and Philip Mac a'Ghoill, Spenser and the Filidh in Early Modern Ireland, Cambridge, Brewer, 2026, 1 - 227ppBook, 2026
- Truagh tír gan tighearna: Two poems on the Death of Tadhg Mac Carthaigh, Baron of Valentia in, editor(s)Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Evan Bourke, and Philip Mac a' Ghoill , Spenser and the Filidh in Early Modern Ireland, Cambridge, 2026, pp111 - 132, [Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh]Book Chapter, 2026
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, `Mar nuall seanchon ar seachrán: aortha ar chláirseoirí sa séú agus sa seachtú haois déag, Comhar Taighde, 11, 2025Journal Article, 2025, DOI
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, The Fitzmaurices of Lixnaw and their poets, Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, 2022, p105 - 130Journal Article
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Edmund Spenser, Donnchadh `an tSneachta" Mac Craith, and the writing of violence, The Spenser Review, 2022Journal Article
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Review of Bone and Marrow / Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry form Medieval to Modern, by S. K. Fisher and B. Ó Conchubhair , Celtica, 2022, p198-203Review
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Review of Leabhar na Longánach, by P. Ó Macháin and S. Ní Lochlainn (eds) , COMHARTaighde, 2021Review
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, 'An extract from 'Bodach an Chóta Lachtna'', Léamh.org, Léamh.org, 2019, -Digital research resource production
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Review of The Gaelic Finn tradition II, by Arbuthnot, Sharon J., Síle Ní Mhurchú & Geraldine Parsons , Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 70Review
- Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, Léann na Sionainne, Review of Léann na Sionainne, Aengus Ó Fionnagáin & Gordon Ó Riain, 71, 2024, p355-361Review
Research Expertise
My research focuses on Early Modern Irish prose, bardic poetry, and the Irish manuscript tradition in the post-classical period. I have a particular interest in the literature of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Ireland, and I have edited a number of poems from that period in peer-reviewed journals such as Ériu and Celtica. I am currently editing a series of classical poems on the harp and on harpers.
I have a sustained interest in Early Modern Irish prose texts, and my edition of the late burlesque tale Bodach an Chóta Lachtna is forthcoming. I am currently working on a project entitled Rómánsaíocht Revisited, which aims to make the corpus of Early Modern Irish prose texts more widely available and accessible. This project will involve the transcription and editing of select texts.
Languages and literature, Humanities and the arts,