Background
B.A, Ph.D. in Celtic Studies and M.Sc. in Computing Science and Applications (QUB); Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching (UU). Research Fellow for Northern Ireland Placenames Project (1990-97); Lecturer in Irish at University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1997-99); Lecturer in Irish and Celtic Studies, University of Ulster (1999-date).

Research Interests
Early Irish literature and language; medieval historiography, Irish onomastics; IT in the Humanities; Computer-assisted language learning.

Teaching & Research Projects
Director of the eDIL project (Digitisation of the Dictionary of the Irish Language).

Director of the Centre for Excellence for Multimedia Language Learning at UU.

Director of CAPAILL (Computer-Assisted Practice Activities for Irish Language Learners).

Recent PublicationsBooks Authored: (with D. Barr, S. Carvalho Martins, V. Wright), Multimedia Language Learning in UK Higher Education (Coleraine 2008).

Bruiden Da Choca, Irish Texts Society, vol. 61 (London 2007).

(with M. Fomin, G. Bondarenko, & T. Torma) ed., An electronic Dictionary of the Irish language (www.dil.ie 2007).

Place-Names of Northern Ireland vol. 5 (Belfast 1996).

(with M. Ó Mainnín) Place-Names of Northern Ireland vol. 1(Belfast 1992).

Recent articles:‘Scribe and text in Lebor na hUidre: H’s intentions and methodology’, in Ulidia 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, edd. Ruairí Ó hUiginn & Brian Ó Catháin (Maigh Nuad 2009), 106-120.

‘The original Irish name of Carrickarade/Carrick-a-rede, County Antrim’, Ainm: a journal of names studies 9 (2008), 65-71.

‘Digitizing a dictionary of medieval Irish: the eDIL project’, with M. Fomin, Literary and Linguistic Computing 21 (1) (2006) 83-90.

‘Authority, verse and the transmission of senchas’, Ériu 55 (2005) 59-84.

Entries on ‘Mythological Cycle’, ‘Ulster Cycle’, and ‘Invasion Myth’, in Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, ed. Seán Duffy (New York 2005).

‘Baile: settlement and landholding in medieval Ireland’, Éigse 34 (2004) 25-43.

Forthcoming:
‘Messe ocus Pangur Bán: structure and cosmology’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies (forthcoming)

‘The Dictionary of the Irish Language’, in The history of the Irish book, ed. E. Ó Ciarrdha: series editors R. Welch & B. Walker (forthcoming).