Background
Born in Belfast, Ailbhe Ó Corráin has lectured in Celtic Languages and Literature at the University of Uppsala and at the University of Bonn. He was subsequently appointed Director of Celtic Studies at Uppsala. He came to UU in 1994 and was appointed Professor of Modern Irish at the Magee Campus in 2000. He is Vice-President of Societas Celtologica Nordica and from 1994-95 was Chairman of the European Society for Irish Studies. He is founding editor of Studia Celtica Upsaliensia and is a member of the Irish Board of Atlas Linguarum Europae.

Education
He was educated at St. Malachy's College and QUB, completing his PhD in Celtic Studies in 1985. In 1992 he was awarded the title Docent in Celtic Languages at the University of Uppsala.

Research Fields
His main areas of research are the diachronic syntax and semantics of Irish and insular Celtic. He has also carried out extensive work in the area of Irish Lexicography.

Recent PublicationsBooks Edited:On the Origins and Development of Periphrastic Perfects in Irish, in Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, Studia Celtica Upsalensia, 2007 pp.1-32

On Perfect Constructions in Insular Celtic, in Voprosy Jazikoznania Linguistics Journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 2007 pp.1-28

Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Celtica Upsaliensia Vol. 4, Uppsala, 2001, 159 pp.

Collins Pocket English-Irish and Irish-English Dictionary, (with Séamus Mac Mathúna), HarperCollins, Glasgow, 1997, xii + 628pp.

Collins Gem English-Irish and Irish-English Dictionary, (with Séamus Mac Mathúna), HarperCollins, Glasgow, 1995, 640pp.