Departmental homepageProfessor Ní Mhaonaigh is a medievalist who was educated at University College Cork, the Universities of Bonn and Aberystwyth, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Her background is in Celtic Studies and Scandinavian Studies and her research is at the interface of literature and history and explores the evidence of medieval manuscript sources.
Professor Ní Mhaonaigh teaches medieval Irish language and literature, as well as medieval Welsh language and literature and Celtic philology in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. She contributes to courses on manuscript studies (palaeography and codicology) and textual criticism, as well as a range of medieval history options.
Her research focuses on the medieval manuscript evidence pertaining to Ireland and Britain, exploring connections between them and Scandinavia, as well as elsewhere in Europe. Dominant themes in her work include the nature of history-writing and medieval scholars' construction of the past, Vikings and landscape literature. She leads a project on medieval Ireland's literature of place, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and co-leads research funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, A Chronology of the Medieval Irish Lexicon.
Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts: Case Studies from Ireland to Japan, edited by Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Michael Clarke, Studies in Manuscript Cultures 24 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022)
Norse-Gaelic Contacts in a Viking World: Studies in the Literature and History of Norway, Iceland, Ireland and the Isle of Man, jointly authored volume by Colmán Etchingham, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Elizabeth Ashman Rowe and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 29 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019) ISBN: 978-2-503-57902-3
A History of Ireland in 100 Words, jointly authored volume by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Gregory Toner (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2019) ISBN: 978-1-911-479185
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Brian Boru: Ireland’s Greatest King? (Stroud and Charleston, SC: Tempus Publications, 2007) ISBN: 978-0-7524-2921-2
