Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail is an Irish

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. She is Professor in Modern Irish at

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. She also worked at the school of Celtic Studies at the

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from 2001 to 2002. Ní Úrdail's areas of research include the Irish manuscript tradition; Ireland's

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written tradition from medieval times to the nineteenth century;

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and historical representation; the complementary relationship between script and print in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland; and contemporary

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and its heritage. On 16 March 2021, she was elected a member of the

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and was admitted on 21 May 2021.

Selected bibliography

* "Pádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870-1896): an Irish scholar from the Béarra Peninsula". Cork: Béarra Historical Society, 2021 * "Patrick Ferriter (1856-1924): an Irish scholar at home and abroad" in ''The American Journal of Irish Studies'' 15, 2019 * "Dán teagascach dar tús ''A dhuine cuímhnigh ar do chríochaibh déidheancha''" in ''Saoi na féile: aistí ar litríocht an ochtú haois déag in onóir do Úna Nic Éinrí'', eds. Stephen Newman, Breandán Ó Cróinín, Liam Ó Pairín. Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim, 2018 * "Na lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad" in ''Léachtaí Cholm Cille'' 48, 2018 * "''An Ghaeilge do choimeád ar bun agus ar buaintseasamh'': the exceptional case of the Ó Longáin family of

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s" in ''The Ó Longáin family: making

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s in Co. Cork'', ed. Pádraig Ó Macháin. Cork: Cork University Press, 2018 * "A Cork scribe in Victorian London" in ''Travelling Irishness in the long nineteenth century'', eds. Christina Morin, Marguérite Corporaal. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017 * "The battle of Clontarf in later Irish tradition" in ''Medieval Dublin XVI'', ed. Seán Duffy. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017 * "Tadhg Ó Neachtain agus Muiris Ó Conaill ag trácht ar bhlianta an áir, 1739–42" in ''Culture and society in Ireland since 1750: essays in honour of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh'', eds. Niall Ó Cíosáin, John Cunningham. Dublin: Lilliput, 2015 * "Cion an éigis" in ''Mo ghnósa leas an dáin: aistí in ómós do Mháirtín Ó Direáin'', eds. Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith. An Daingean: An Sagart, 2014 * "Ludwig Christian Stern, 'ollamh is seanchaidhe'" in ''Léachtaí Cholm Cille'' 43, 2013 * "Adhlacadh mo Mháthar" in ''Comhar'' 72, 2012 * "Léann agus litríocht sa naoú céad déag: cás Chúige Uladh" in ''Teanga agus litríocht na Gaeilge i gCúige Uladh sa naoú céad déag. Éigse Loch Lao 1'' eds. Fionntán de Brún, Séamus Mac Mathúna. Belfast: University of Ulster, 2012 * ''Cath Cluana Tarbh. The battle of Clontarf''. London: Irish Texts Society, 2011 * "The literary legacy of Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn" in ''Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn: Reassessments'', ed. Pádraig Ó Riain. London: Irish Texts Society, 2008 * "The representation of the feminine: some evidence from

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sources" in ''Eighteenth-Century Ireland'' 22, 2007 * ''Éigse: a journal of Irish studies''. Dublin: National University of Ireland, 2006 * "Annála Inse Faithleann an ochtú céad déag agus cath Chluain Tarbh" in ''Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Iris an Dá Chultúr'' 20, 2005 * "Dichter der nachklassischen Zeit Irlands und ihre Vision" in ''Keltologie heute — Themen und Fragestellungen'', ed. Erich Poppe Münster: Nodus, 2004 * "Two poems attributed to Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh" in ''Ériu'' 53, 2003 * ''The scribe in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland: motivations and milieu''. Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2000 * "The literary traditions of the O'Mahonys: Irish and European connections" in ''Irisleabhar Uí Mhathúna'' 17, 1994

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External links

* http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/irishcelticstudiesfolklore/assoc%20professormeidhbhinniurdail/ * http://www.nui.ie/eigse/pdf/louvain_docs/chancellorsAddr%C3%89igseLouvain.pdf * http://irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/odonnabhain2017.html * https://bill.celt.dias.ie/vol4/author.php?AuthorID=424 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Z3x-d-61k 21st-century Irish people Irish-language writers Academics of University College Dublin Members of the Royal Irish Academy Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Ireland-academic-bio-stub Academics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies