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Dr. Mícheál Hoyne
Assistant Professor, Irish

Biography

BA in Modern Irish and History from TCD (2010). PhD from the same institution (2014). Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the Philipps-Universität, Marburg (2013-14). O'Donovan Scholar (2014-17) and Bergin Fellow (2017-22) in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Co-editor of the journal Ériu with Prof. Emeritus Damian McManus. // BA sa Nua-Ghaeilge agus sa Stair ó Choláiste na Tríonóide (2010), PhD (2014). Cúntóir taighde in Philipps-Universität, Marburg (2013-14). Scoláire an Donnabhánaigh (2014-17) agus Comhalta an Aimhirgínigh (2017-22) i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath. Comheagarthóir ar Ériu i gcomhar leis an Ollamh Emeritus Damian McManus.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Ériu, 74, (2024), 269ppp, Damian McManus, Mícheál Hoyne, [Co-editor] Journal, 2024

Dearbh Fhorghaill, Cupid and Gofraidh Mac an Bhaird: courtly love and panegyric poetry at the end of the Bardic era in, editor(s)Síle Ní Mhurchú, Mícheál Hoyne , Seal re saobhnós: essays on Irish courtly love poetry, Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2024, pp147 - 186, [Mícheál Hoyne] Book Chapter, 2024

Bouncers, stewards and gatecrashers: access and hierarchy at the Gaelic court in Early Modern Irish literature, c. 1400-c.1650 in, editor(s)David Edwards, Brendan Kane , Ireland and the renaissance court: political culture from the cúirteanna to Whitehall, 1450-1640, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2024, pp29 - 44, [Mícheál Hoyne] Book Chapter, 2024 DOI

Síle Ní Mhurchú, Mícheál Hoyne, Seal re saobhnós: essays on Irish courtly love poetry, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2024, xx + 285pp Book, 2024

Mícheál Hoyne, Finding the 'right' Irish for the New Testament: register in the first three printed books in Irish, 1567-1602, Linguistica, 63, 2023, p177 - 196 Journal Article, 2023 DOI

Uilliam Ó Ceallaigh, Gairm na Nollag (1351) agus stair eacnamaíoch Fhilíocht na Scol in, editor(s)Christina Cleary, Chantal Kobel , Essays in memory of Eleanor Knott, Dublin, 2023, pp67 - 130, [Mícheál Hoyne] Book Chapter, 2023

Classical Modern Irish poems on the Uí Cheallaigh within and without Leabhar Ua Maine in, editor(s)E. Boyle, R. Ó hUiginn , Book of Uí Mhaine, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2023, pp274 - 301, [Mícheál Hoyne] Book Chapter, 2023

Ériu, 73, (2023), iv + 130p, Damian McManus, Mícheál Hoyne, [Co-editor] Journal, 2023 Other

Mícheál Hoyne, Paradigm splits and hiatus forms: the origins of Modern Irish sceach and Scottish Gaelic sgitheach 'thorn tree', and the Old Irish precursor of Scottish Gaelic dìthean 'flower', Ériu, 73, 2023, p105 - 120 Journal Article, 2023 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, Restrictions on the use of the historical present in Irish: the evidence of the Grammatical and Syntactical Tracts, Ériu, 72, 2022, p79 - 118 Journal Article, 2022 DOI

Ériu, 72, (2022), iv + 239p, Damian McManus, Mícheál Hoyne, [Co-editor] Journal, 2022

Ériu, 71, (2021), iv + 163p, Damian McManus, Mícheál Hoyne, [Co-editor] Journal, 2021

Mícheál Hoyne, The future tense forms of Old Irish fo-acaib, Middle Irish fác(b)aid and Classical Modern Irish fágbhaidh, Ériu, 71, 2021, p61 - 68 Journal Article, 2021 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, Unaccusativity and the subject pronoun in Middle and Early Modern Irish, Celtica, 32, 2020, p145 - 181 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

Richard Sharpe and Mícheál Hoyne, Clóliosta: printing in the Irish language, 1571-1871 -- an attempt at narrative bibliography, Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2020, xxxviii + 1253pp Book, 2020

Ériu, 70, (2020), iv + 179p, Damian McManus, Mícheál Hoyne, [Co-editor] Journal, 2020

Mícheál Hoyne, The assassination of Mág Raghnaill and the capture of his ship in 1502, Studia Hibernica, 46, 2020, p53 - 66 Journal Article, 2020

Mícheál Hoyne, Addenda and Corrigenda, Celtica, 32, 2020, p183 - 185 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, The origin of the surname element Mág, Ériu, 70, 2020, p83 - 93 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, IGT/BST citations and duplicate entries: the ascriptions in the H 2.17 copy of IGT III-IV, Ériu, 69, 2019, p41 - 54 Journal Article, 2019

Mícheál Hoyne, Brief rules for reading Irish found in printed books, 1571-1863, Celtica, 31, 2019, p213 - 297 Journal Article, 2019

Mícheál Hoyne, Seacht bpearsain fhichead uair mé: a poem on the optative subjunctive in a copy of Irish Grammatical Tracts III-IV, Ériu, 68, 2018, p99 - 128 Journal Article, 2018 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, Fuidheall Áir: Bardic poems on the Meic Dhiarmada of Magh Luirg c. 1377 - c. 1637, Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2018, xvi + 489pp Book, 2018

Mícheál Hoyne, Early Modern Irish miscellanea: 1. Corrigendum (ad Ériu lxvi 72-3) and a note on comparatio compendiaria; 2. A detail of vowel shortening in hiatus in Classical Modern Irish; 3. Áoi trasgartha; 4. A rhyming example of nom. pl. dee "gods" in Classical Modern Irish, Ériu, 67, 2017, p169 - 186 Journal Article, 2017 DOI

Why resumption? Resumptive pronouns in prepositional relative clauses [in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish] in, editor(s)E. Poppe, K. Stüber and P. Widmer , Referential properties and their impact on the syntax of Insular Celtic languages , Münster, Nodus Publikationen, 2017, pp69 - 100, [Mícheál Hoyne] Book Chapter, 2017

Mícheál Hoyne, An adjectival construction expressing lesser degree in Early Modern Irish, Ériu, 66, 2016, p63 - 75 Journal Article, 2016 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, Structural ambiguity and resumptive pronouns: the pragmatics of the transitive "direct" and "indirect" relatives in Modern Irish, Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 17, 2016, p31 - 95 Journal Article, 2016

Mícheál Hoyne, Stressed monosyllables ending in a short vowel in Classical Modern Irish, Celtica, 28, 2016, p186 - 200 Journal Article, 2016

Mícheál Hoyne, Imtheacht an Dá Nónmhar agus Tóraigheacht Taise Taoibhghile: an Early Modern Irish exemplary tale, Ériu, 65, 2015, p1 - 47 Journal Article, 2015 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, The political context of Cath Muighe Tuireadh, the Early Modern Irish version of the Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh, Ériu, 63, 2013, p91 - 116 Journal Article, 2013 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, A Bardic poem to Diarmaid Ó Conchubhair Donn (d. 1600), Ériu, 61, 2011, p59 - 93 Journal Article, 2011 DOI

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

From Bishop Bedell to Mr Boyle: printing the Old Testament in Irish in, editor(s)Brendan Scott , Bishop William Bedell, 1571-1642: his life, work and contemporaries, Cumann Seanchais Bhréifne, 2025, pp147 - 178, [Mícheál Hoyne] Book Chapter, 2025

Mícheál Hoyne, Review of Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach: Reassessments Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2023., by Kevin Murray (ed.) , Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 71, 2024, p359-361 Review, 2024

Mícheál Hoyne, Review of The Mythological Cycle of Medieval Irish Literature, by John Carey , Studia Hibernica, 48, 2022, p162-4 Review, 2022

Mícheál Hoyne, Review of Applying and Expanding Role and Reference Grammar (Freiburg, 2018), by R. Kailuweit, L. Künkel and E. Staudinger (eds) , Journal of Celtic Linguistics , 22, 2021, p189-192 Review, 2021

Mícheál Hoyne, Review of Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn: his historical and literary context (London, 2010), by P. Riggs (ed.) , Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 67, 2020, p282-286 Review, 2020

Mícheál Hoyne, Richard Sharpe (1954-2020), Ériu, 70, 2020, p1-4 Journal Article, 2020 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, Review of Súgán an Dúchais: aistí ar ghnéithe de thraidisiún liteartha Chúige Uladh i gcuimhne ar Dhiarmaid Ó Doibhlin (Derry, 2019), by N. Mac Cathmhaoil, M. Nic Cathmhaoil and C. Mac Seáin (eds) , Celtica, 32, 2020, p293-297 Review, 2020

Mícheál Hoyne, Review of Lorg na Leabhar: a Festschrift for Pádraig A. Breatnach (Dublin, 2019), by C. Breatnach, M. Ní Úrdail and G. Ó Riain (eds) , Celtica, 32, 2020, p298-300 Review, 2020

Transmission, metre and language: some observations on the poetry of Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe in, editor(s)P. Riggs , The Poems of Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe: the poet and his craft, London, Irish Texts Society, 2019, pp24 - 70, [Mícheál Hoyne] Book Chapter, 2019

Bardic Poetry, Irish, S. Echard and R. Rouse, The Encyclopaedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, Hoboken, Wiley Blackwell, 2017, pp232 - 236, [Mícheál Hoyne] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2017 DOI

Mícheál Hoyne, Review of The Art of Bardic Poetry (Dublin, 2014), by Eoin Mac Cárthaigh , Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 63, 2016, p270-274 Review, 2016

Mícheál Hoyne, Review of Aon don Éigse: essays marking Osborn Bergin's centenary lecture on Bardic poetry (1913) (Dublin, 2015), by C. Breatnach and M. Ní Úrdail (eds) , Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 63, 2016, p239-245 Review, 2016

Research Expertise

Description

My primary research interest is Irish Bardic poetry (1200-1650). I am particularly interested in the language in which these poems are written (Classical Modern Irish) and in the Bardic grammatical tracts, the textbooks used to teach that language at the highest level in the Bardic schools. This interest has inspired a number of philological and linguistic studies on various features of the Irish language (Old, Middle and Modern). My exploration of Bardic poetry has also led me to take an interest in the early history of printing in the Irish language, in which Bardic poetry features prominently. I am currently working on an edition of the poetry of Seifín (or Seithfín) Mór, a fifteenth-century poet, and Irish Grammatical Tracts III-IV (an account of the morphology of verbs and abstract nouns in Classical Modern Irish).