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West Coast Rare Books

West Coast Rare Books

Westport / Ireland

MacLean, Typographia Scoto-Gadelica.

MacLean, Typographia Scoto-Gadelica.

MacLean, Donald. Typographia Scoto-Gadelica. Or, Books Printed in the Gaelic of Scotland from the Year 1567 to the Year 1914, with Bibliographical and Biographical Notes. Facsimile Reprint of the First Edition, published in 1915. Shannon, Ireland, Irish University Press, 1972. 23 x 15 cm. x, 372 pages. Original blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Neat gift inscription on front free end paper. Internally bright and clean.

Provenance: Próinséas Ní Chatháin
Ní Chatháin, (Máire) Próinséas MRIA (1936 – 2018), was an Irish scholar, academic and lexicographer, who made substantial contributions to the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language (a dictionary of Old and Middle Irish) and held the position of Professor of Early and Mediaeval Irish at University College Dublin.
Ní Chatháin studied at University College Galway (now NUI Galway) under Kathleen Mulchrone, where she received a B.A (1956), received a Travelling Studentship from the National University of Ireland to study in Bonn, and then studied at the University of Edinburgh where she received a PhD in 1966. She was a Scholar at the School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies between 1962 and 1965, and twenty-five years later sat on the governing board of that School (1987-88).
She began her teaching career as a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently joined the Old Irish Department of University College Dublin in 1967, where she rose from assistant lecturer to professor over the course of the next twenty years. There she established an interdisciplinary M.Phil with the historian Professor Francis John Byrne and later was involved in establishing an undergraduate course in Celtic Civilisation.
She held the position of President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland from 1997 to 2000. In 2002 she was honoured with a festschrift entitled Ogma: essays in Celtic studies in honour of Próinséas Ní Chatháin, edited by her former colleagues Michael Richter and Jean-Michel Picard.

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MacLean, Typographia Scoto-Gadelica.
MacLean, Typographia Scoto-Gadelica.
MacLean, Typographia Scoto-Gadelica.

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