Peter McQuillan

Associate Professor
Department of Irish Language and Literature

Degrees

B.A., M.A., National University of Ireland; Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Profile

Research interests: History of the Irish language; linguistic anthropology: the relationship between language and culture history. Monographs: 1. Modality and grammar. A History of the Irish Subjunctive. Maynooth Studies in Celtic Linguistics, Volume 5. Dept. of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2002. 2. Native and Natural: Studies in the concepts of 'Right' and 'Freedom' in Irish. Cork University Press. Forthcoming, September 2003 as Volume 12 or 13 of the Field Day Critical Conditions series.