Lecturer in Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College and currently Bridget Clancy Scholar, Loyola Institute, TCD. Research background: Double First History and Archaeology UCD, 1985; M.Phil (Dunelm) on Irish influence on early ecclesiastical settlements in Scotland 1989; D.Phil (Oxon.) on Tírechán’s Collectanea and seventh-century cult of St Patrick (1994); M.Phil (Dublin) on the influence of early forms of Irish on Tírechán’s Latin (2001). Extensive publications on medieval Ireland within its European context including Ogam stones and the earliest Irish Christians (Maynooth 1997) — for details see academia.edu.