Fergus Kelly is an academic at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Dublin, Ireland was established in 1940 by the Taoiseach of the time, Éamon de Valera under the . The Institute consists of 3 schools: The , the and the . The directors of these schools are currently Professor Werner Nahm, Professor Luke Drury and...

. He is currently Director of the School of Celtic Studies. His research interests centre around early Irish law-texts and wisdom-texts.

A prolific author and researcher, he has written and edited a number of books and many articles including A guide to early Irish law. He co-edits the journal Celtica

Celtica

Celtica: Journal of the School of Celtic Studies is an academic journal devoted to Celtic studies, with particular emphasis on Irish literature, linguistics and placenames. It was founded in 1946 and has since been published by the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced...

 and has collaborated with many others including Thomas Charles-Edwards

Thomas Charles-Edwards

Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards FRHistS FLSW FBA is an academic at Oxford University. He holds the post of Jesus Professor of Celtic and is a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College....

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Publications

Kelly's publications include:

• Audacht Morainn (Dublin 1976)
• A guide to early Irish law (Dublin 1988, reprinted 1991, 1995)
• Early Irish farming: the evidence of the law-texts (Dublin 1997, reprinted 1998)

A full list of publications is available here.

External links

• Fergus Kelly on the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
• A guide to early Irish law in the DIAS Catalogue, reviewed here.
• Fergus Kelly in the BBC's plantation series.