John Carey is an American

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, and scholar of

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, specialising in subjects of early Irish and Welsh literature, religion, and mythology. A graduate of

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, he was an associate professor at the Department of Celtic Languages and Literature. He has received fellowships at

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(University of London), the Institute of Irish Studies at

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and the

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. He later moved to the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at the

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(UCC), where he now teaches. He is fellow at the Temenos Academy and editor of ''

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''.

Selected works

*1982. "The Location of the Otherworld in Irish Tradition." ''

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'' 19 (1982): 36-43. *1984. "Nodons in Britain and Ireland." '' ZCP'' 40 (1984): 1-22. *1987. "Time, Space, and the Otherworld." ''Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium'' 7: 1-27. *1989-90. "Myth and Mythography in ''Cath Maige Tuired''." ''Studia Celtica'' 24-5: 53-69. *1991. "A British Myth of Origins?" ''History of Religions'' 31: 24-38. *1994. ''The Irish National Origin-Legend: Synthetic Pseudohistory''. Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval Gaelic History 1. Cambridge, University of Cambridge. *1994 (ed. with John T. Koch). ''The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales''. Malden, Massachusetts: Celtic Studies Publications. Includes translations by John Carey. *1994. "An Edition of the Pseudo-Historical Prologue to the Senchas Már." ''Ériu'' 45: 1-32. *1996. "The Narrative Setting of '' Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig''." ''Études Celtiques'' 32: 189-201. *1997. "The Three Things Required of a Poet." ''Ériu'' 48: 41-58. *1998 (1st ed.), 2000 (2nd ed.). ''King of Mysteries. Early Irish Religious Writings''. Dublin: Four Courts Press. *1999. ''A Single Ray of the Sun. Religious Speculation in Early Ireland''. Andover and Aberystwyth. *2002. "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts." ''Ériu'' 52 (2002): 53-87. *2002. "Werewolves in Medieval Ireland." ''Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'' 44 (Winter 2002): 37-72. *2004. "The Encounter at the Ford: Warriors, Water and Women." ''Éigse'' 34 (2004): 10-24. *2005. "Tara and the Supernatural." In ''The Kingship and Landscape of Tara'', ed. Edel Bhreathnach. Dublin. 32-48. *2007. ''Ireland and the Grail''. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications. *2007. "''In Tenga Bithnua'' and the Days of Creation." ''Apocrypha'' 18: 231-46.

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