Biography
Damian McManus is Professor of Early Irish in Trinity College, Dublin, and Head of the Department of Irish. He is a graduate of the University of Dublin (BA 1977), where he also completed his doctorate on 'The Latin loanwords in Early Irish' in 1982. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of Trinity College and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His main areas of research are Primitive Irish, in particular the Latin loanwords and the Ogam alphabet, and Classical Modern Irish. He is author of A guide to Ogam, joint editor of Stair na Gaeilge, and has published many articles in learned journals in Celtic Studies. He was director of the Trinity-based 'Bardic Project', which published five hundred medieval Irish poems from manuscripts in Irish and British libraries (A Bardic miscellany, eds D. McManus and E. Ó Raghallaigh, 2010), and created a database of two thousand such poems (https://www.tcd.ie/Irish/database/). He has also been joint editor of Ériu, the journal of the Royal Irish Academy devoted to Irish philology and literature, since 2005.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Damian McManus, Repetition, parallelism and antonymous verbal phrases in Early and Classical Modern Irish, Ériu, 72, 2022, p167 - 222
Damian McManus, 'Identification copula clauses with substantives of different gender in Early and Classical Irish' , North American Journal of Celtic Studies, 4, (2), 2021, p30 pages
Damian McManus, 'Binomial phrases, dvandva compounds and the house in which Cú Chulainn was born', Ériu, 70, 2020, p30 pages
Ériu, 70, (2020), Damian McManus, Mícheál Hoyne, [Joint editor], fifteen years
Damian McManus, 'Early Modern Irish miscellanea', Ériu, 69, 2019, p155 - 170
joint editor, Ériu 69, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2019
Multiple authors, Ériu, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2018
Damian McManus, Celebrating the canine ii: the hunt in medieval Ireland with special reference to the evidence of Classical Irish poetry, Ériu, 68, 2018, p145-192
'Celebrating the female: eulogies, elegies and addresses to noblewomen in late medieval Ireland' Síle Ní Mhurchú, Mícheál Hoyne(ed.), Symposium on Dánta Grádha, Proceedings of the Dánta Grádha Symposium, The School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, September 2016, DIAS, 2017
joint editor, Ériu 67, vol 67, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2017
Damian McManus, Celebrating the canine: an edition of Slán dona saoithibh sealga 'Farewell to the masters of the hunt', an elegy for Diarmaid Mág Carthaigh's ( 1368) hound., Ériu, 67, 2017, p187 - 213
Fault-finding in the Grammatical Tracts in, editor(s)Gordon Ó Riain , Dá dtrian feasa fiafraighidh; essays on the Irish grammatical and metrical tradition, Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017, pp199 - 231, [Damian McManus]
Damian McManus, Besprechungen und Anzeigen, Review of 'The pearl of the kingdom: A study of A fhir léghtha an leabhhráin bhig by Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa' and 'The light of the universe. Poems of friendship and consolation by Giolla Brighde Ó hEódhasa', by Ó Corráin, AIlbhe , Zeitschrift fuer Celtische Philologie, 64, 2017, p496-99
Damian McManus, 'On the use of the Urlann in Deibhidhe and Séadna metres in Classical Irish verse', North American Journal of Celtic Studies, 1, 2017, p61 - 81
Damian McManus, Miscellanea on Classical Irish: 1 Cadad at -s s- boundaries; 2 The conjunctionless comparative; 3 The appositional genitive. , Ériu, 66, 2016, p111 - 134
'On the nature of true friendship: an edition of Eochaidh Ó hEódhasa's (ed.), Societas Celtologica Nordica 13, Studia Celtica Upsaliensia , Uppsala, 13, May 2015, Universit of Uppsala, 2016
Liam Breatnach and Damian McManus (editors), Ériu 66 Journal of the Royal Irish Academy, 2016
Damian McManus, Varia III Some corrigenda to A Bardic miscellany, Ériu, 65, 2015, p177 - 178
Ériu, 65, (2015), Damian McManus, [joint editor]
Liam Breatnach, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Damian McManus, Katharine Simms(ed.), XIV International Celtic Congress, Proceedings XIV International Celtic Congress Maynooth 2011, Maynooth, August 2011, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015
Female ancestry and mother's kin in Classical Irish poetry' in, editor(s)Caoimhín Breatnach, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail , Aon don Éigse. Essays marking Osborn Bergin's Centenary Lecture on Bardic Poetry (1912), , Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015, pp193-219 , [Damian McManus]
Damian McManus, 'Celebrating the female in Classical Irish poetry: the wife', Ériu, 65, 2015, p137-68
Damian McManus, Varia II: IGT/BST citations: further identifications, Ériu, 65, 2015, p175 - 175
Ériu 64, 2014, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [Joint editor], 2014-2018
Damian McManus, 'In defence of manslaughter: two poems by Muireadhach Leasa an Doill/ Albanach Ó Dálaigh for Domhnall Mór (mac Éigneacháin) Ó Domhnaill ( 1241)', Ériu, 64, 2014, p145 - 203
Damian McManus, Classical Irish miscellanea, Ériu, 64, 2014, p213 - 227
AVE reversing EVA: Miscellanea on Marian devotion in Irish bardic poetry in, editor(s)Seán Duffy , Princes, prelates and poets in Medieval Ireland: Essays in honour of Katharine Simms, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, pp503 - 513, [Damian McManus]
Ériu 63, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [joint editor], 2013-2018
Damian McManus, Surnames and scions: adjectival qualification of Christian names and cognomina in Classical Irish poetry, Ériu, 63, 2013, p117 - 143
Damian McManus, On the 2nd sg. subjunctive of do-ní in Classical Irish, Ériu, 63, 2013, p155 - 158
'Naomhú Néill Fhrosaigh Uí Néill' in, editor(s)Eoin Mac Cárthaigh agus Jürgen Uhlich , Féilscríbhinn do Chathal Ó Háinle, Indreabhán, Co. na Gaillimhe, Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2012, pp349 - 371, [Damian McManus]
Ériu 62, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [joint editor], 2012-2018
Damian McManus, Varia ii: The ainm coimhleanamhna, Ériu, 62, 2012, p189 - 195
Damian McManus, Varia II IGT/BST citations: some more identifications, Ériu, 61, 2011, p169 - 170
Ériu, 61, (2011), Damian McManus, [joint editor], 6 years
Damian McManus, Cited Poems, 2010, -
Ériu, 60, (2010), Damian McManus, [joint ed.], 5 years
Damian McManus and Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, A Bardic miscellany: five hundred Bardic poems from manuscripts in Irish and British libraries, Dublin, Department of Irish, Trinity College, Dublin, 2010, 1 - 710pp
Ériu, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [Joint Editor], 2009
McManus Damian, Good-looking and irresistible: the hero from Early Irish saga to Classical poetry, Ériu, 59, 2009, p57 - 109
Ériu, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [Joint Editor], 2008
Damian McManus, 'Varia ii: IGT citations: more identifications', Ériu, 58, 2008, p181 - 181
Damian McManus, 'Niall Frosach's "act of truth": a Bardic apologue in a poem for Sir Nicholas Walsh, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (d.1615)', Ériu, 58, 2008, p133 - 168
Ériu, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [Joint Editor], 2007
The smallest man in Ireland can reach the tops of her trees: images of the king's peace and bounty in Bardic poetry in, Joseph Falaky Nagy , Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp61 - 117, [McManus D.]
Ériu, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [Joint Editor], 2006
Ériu, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [joint editor], 2005
McManus D., Varia III: Miscellanea on Bardic poetry: metre, language and style, Ériu, 55, 2005, p147 - 166
McManus D., Varia II: IGT citations - further identifications, Ériu, 55, 2005
Ériu, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [joint editor], 2005-2018
Ériu, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, [joint editor], 2005-2018
Ériu, Dublin, Royal IrishAcademy, [Joint editor], 2005-2018
McManus D., Varia I: IGT citations and duplicate entries - some additional identifications, Ériu, 54, 2004, p249 - 251
The bardic poet as teacher, student and critic: a context for the Grammatical Tracts in, editor(s)C. G. Ó Háinle and D. Meek , Unity in diversity (Léann na Tríonóide/Trinity Irish Studies), School of Irish, TCD, 2004, pp97 - 123, [McManus D.]
McManus D., Ogam stones at University College Cork, University Heritage Series, Cork University Press, 2004, 24pp
The language of the Beatha in, editor(s)P. Ó Riain , Beatha Aodha Ruaidh: The life of Red Hugh O'Donnell, Historical and Literary contexts, Irish Texts Society Subsidiary Series 12, 2002, pp54 - 73, [McManus D.]
McManus D., Varia IV: IGT citations and duplicate entries: some additional identifications, Ériu, 51, 2000, p193 - 194
McManus D., An elegy on the death of Aodh Ó Conchobhair ( 1309), Ériu, 51, 2000, p69 - 91
McManus D., The Irish Grammatical and Syntactical Tracts: A concordance of duplicated and identified citations, Ériu, 48, 1997, p83 - 101
Classical Modern Irish in, editor(s)K. McCone and K. Simms , Progress in Medieval Irish studies, Maynooth, 1996, pp165 - 187, [McManus D.]
Celtic languages, Irish in, editor(s)P. Daniels, W. Bright , The World's Writing Systems, Oxford Univ. Press, 1996, pp655 - 660, [McManus D.]
McManus D., Úaim do rinn: linking alliteration or a lost dúnad?, Ériu, 46, 1995
McManus D., Teanga an Dána agus teanga an phróis, Léachtaí Cholm Cille, 24, 1994, p114 - 135
An Nua-Ghaeilge Chlasaiceach in, editor(s)K. McCone et al. , Stair na Gaeilge in ómós do Phádraig Ó Fiannachta, Maynooth, 1994, pp335 - 445, [McManus D.]
McManus D., On the vocalism of Old Irish crann, Ériu, 43, 1992, p205 - 206
McManus D., The preterite passive plural in BST, Éigse, 26, 1992, p13 - 19
McManus D., A guide to Ogam, Maynooth Monographs 4, 1991, xii + 211pp
Runic and Ogam letter-names: a parallelism in, editor(s)D. Ó Corráin, L. Breatnach, K. McCone , Sages, Saints and Storytellers (Celtic Studies in honour of Professor James Carney, 1989, pp144 - 148, [McManus D.]
McManus D., Irish letter-names and their kennings, Ériu, 39, 1988, p127 - 168
McManus D., Ogam: archaizing, orthography and the authenticity of the manuscript key to the alphabet, Ériu, 37, 1986, p1 - 31
McManus D., Moínigidir/moínigud, Ériu, 36, 1985, p202 - 206
McManus D., On final syllables in the Latin loan-words in Early Irish, Ériu, 35, 1984, p137 - 162
McManus D., Linguarum Diversitas: Latin and the vernaculars in Early Medieval Britain, Peritia, 3, 1984, p151 - 188
The so-called Cothraige and Pátraic strata of Latin loan-words in Early Irish in, editor(s)Próinséas Ní Chatháin and Michael Richter , Irland und Europa / Ireland and Europe: Die Kirche im Frühmittelalter / The Early Church, Stuttgart, 1984, pp179 - 196, [McManus D.]
McManus D., A chronology of the Latin loan-words in Early Irish, Ériu, 34, 1983, p21 - 71
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Ériu, 72, (2022), Damian McManus, Mícheál Hoyne, [Joint Editor], seventeen years
Ériu, 71, (2021), Damian McManus, Mícheál Hoyne, [Joint Editor], sixteen years
joint editor, Ériu 67, Dublin, RIA, 2017
Cormac mac Airt in Classical Irish poetry: young in age but old in wisdom, and not entirely flawless in, editor(s)Matthieu Boyd , Ollam: Studies in Gaelic and related traditions in honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, America, Rowman and Littlefield, 2016, pp117 - 139, [Damian McManus]
Damian McManus, Index to Bardic poems and sources, 2010, - 58
Damian McManus, Citations from the Irish Grammatical Tracts and the Bardic Syntactical Tracts, 2010, -
Damian McManus, Cited Poems, 2010, - 7
McManus D., Review of Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies, by Huw Price , Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 39, 2000, p75-7
McManus D., Review of Language in Pictland. The Case Against `Non-Indo-Eurpoean Pictish, by Katharine Forsyth , Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 38, 1999, p108-110
McManus D., Review of And shall these mute stones speak?, by Charles Thomas , Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 1997
Preface in, first reprint of R.A.S. Macalister's Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, Four Courts Press, 1996, [McManus D.]
Ogham in, editor(s)P. Daniels, W. Bright , The World's Writing Systems, Oxford Univ. Press, 1996, pp340 - 345, [McManus D.]
McManus D., Review of Metrik und Medienwechsel / Metrics and Media, by H.L.C. Tristram , Éigse, 28, 1995, p173-83
McManus D., Review of Akten des ersten Symposiums deutschsprachiger Keltologen, by M. Rockel and S. Zimmer , Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 30, 1995, p133-36
K. McCone et al., Stair na Gaeilge in ómós do Phádraig Ó Fiannachta, Maynooth, 1994, 905pp
McManus D., Review of The uses of literacy in Early Medieval Europe, by R. McKitterick , Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 23, 1992, p109-10
Celtic languages in, Linguistic Minorities in countries belonging to the European Community Document of the Commission of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1986, pp124 - 31, [McManus D.]
McManus D., The Role of British in the Adoption of Latin Loan-words into Irish, Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, edited by D. Ellis Evans , 1983, pp289