Ceapachán mór le rá don Ollamh Deborah Hayden
Comhghairdeas mór leis an Ollamh Deborah Hayden, ár gcomhghleacaí i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge (Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh), ar cheap Uachtarán na hÉireann í mar Chathaoirleach ar Bhord Rialaithe Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh ag Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath, ar chomhairle an Aire, James Lawless TD.
Is í an tOllamh Hayden Ceann Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad agus is comhcheannaire í ar Bhraisle Taighde an Dáimh, ‘Eagna agus Ábhar sa Mheán-Aois’, in Institiúid Ealaíon agus Daonnachtaí na hOllscoile. Tá meas uirthi mar dhuine de na sárthaighdeoirí i stair liteartha, intleachtúil agus chultúrtha na hÉireann ó thréimhse luath na meán-aoise go dtí an nua-aois. Mar aon leis an teagasc agus foilsiú fairsing sna réimsí seo, bronnadh dhá dheontas Ghradam Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland uirthi chun taighde ceannródaíoch a dhéanamh ar lámhscríbhinní leighis Gaeilge na meán-aoise. Ina measc, tá an tionscadal reatha LEIGHEAS: Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World, toradh amháin de is ea an mórshaothar a raibh sí mar chomheagarthóir air, Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World, a sheolfar ag comhdháil in Cambridge Meitheamh na bliana seo. Bhí sí ina Comh-Thaighdeoir ar thograí iomadúla comhoibríocha sna Daonnachtaí Digiteacha, an tionscadal Daonnachtaí Digiteacha RA-Éire dar teideal OG(H)AM: Harnessing Digital Technologies to Understanding of Ogham Writing, from the 4th century to the 21st ina measc.
Thóg aistear idirnáisiúnta acadúil an Ollaimh Hayden í ó Choláiste Wellesley (Massachusetts, SAM) agus an Université de Provence Aix-Marseille (An Fhrainc) go dtí Ollscoil Cambridge, áit a ndearna sí PhD i dTeanga agus Litríocht Ghaeilge na Meán-aoise mar Scoláire Gates Cambridge. Roimh a ceapachán i Maigh Nuad, bhí comhaltachtaí iardhochtúireachta taighde aici ag Teampall Chríost, Ollscoil Oxford agus ag Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath.
Prestigious appointment for Prof. Deborah Hayden
Huge congratulations to Professor Deborah Hayden, our colleague in the Department of Early Irish (School of Celtic Studies), who has been appointed by the President of Ireland as the Chair of the Governing Board of the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, on the advice of Minister, James Lawless TD.
Professor Hayden is the Head of the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University and a Co-Leader of the Faculty Research Cluster ‘Mind and Material in the Middle Ages’ in the University’s Arts and Humanities Institute. She is widely regarded as one of the outstanding researchers of the literary, intellectual and cultural history of Ireland from the early medieval up to the modern period. In addition to having published and taught widely in these fields, she has been awarded two Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Laureate Award grants to conduct ground-breaking research on medieval Irish medical manuscripts. These include the currently ongoing project LEIGHEAS: Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World, one outcome of which is the major co-edited volume Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World, to be launched at a conference in Cambridge this June. She has also been Co-Investigator of several major collaborative Digital Humanities initiatives, including the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities project OG(H)AM: Harnessing Digital Technologies to Understanding of Ogham Writing, from the 4th century to the 21st.
Professor Hayden’s international academic journey brought her from Wellesley College (Massachusetts, USA) and the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille (France) to the University of Cambridge, where she earned her PhD in Medieval Irish Language and Literature as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Prior to her appointment at Maynooth in 2015, she held postdoctoral research fellowships at Christ Church, University of Oxford and at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.