Online Talk ‘Family names in the North of Ireland’

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Kay Muhr ‘Family names in the North of Ireland’	10/02/2022 12:30 PM	Heritage From Home
Event Details             Kay Muhr read Celtic Studies at Edinburgh and gained a PhD (on narrative style in traditional Gaelic literature) from the same University.  After postgraduate fellowships in Cambridge, Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast, she became a research fellow on the Ordnance Survey Memoir project in Queen’s University’s Institute for Irish Studies.  She was Senior Research Fellow of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project in Irish & Celtic Studies in Queen’s from its foundation in 1987 until 2010.  She is a member and former president of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and a member and former chairman of the Ulster Place-Name Society (www.ulsterplacenamesociety.org)     She is the author of vol. 6 in the Place-Names of Northern Ireland series (NW Down), an introduction to local place-name study called Celebrating Ulster’s Townlands, and joint author (with Patrick McKay) of Lough Neagh Places: their names and origins (2007). She was the consultant on Irish and Scottish Gaelic surnames for DAFN, the Dictionary of American Family Names (OUP 2003) and for FaNBI, Family Names of Britain and Ireland (OUP 2016), a role shared from 2013 with Liam ÓhAisibéil in Galway. In autumn 2021 Kay and Liam published a volume on Irish surnames north and south: A Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland (OUP).  End Date & Time 10/02/2022 01:30 PM Booking Please register in advance here.