Fergus Kelly
Introduction '''Fergus Kelly'''  is an academic at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His research interests centre on early Irish law-texts and wisdom-texts.He graduated in 1967 in Early and Modern Irish from Trinity College Dublin. He spent a year in the University of Oslo's Linguistics Institute. He also taught a course in Celtic Civilisation at the University of Toronto. He is now a Senior Professor in the School of Celtic Studies (Irish: ''Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh'') of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2003 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture. A prolific author and researcher, he has written and edited a number of books and many articles including ''A guide to early Irish law''. He co-edits the journal Celtica and has collaborated with many others including Thomas Charles-Edwards.
Awards and recognition Kelly was granted the highest academic honour in Ireland, membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004.
Publications Kelly's publications include:* ''Audacht Morainn'' (Dublin 1976)* ''A guide to early Irish law'' (Dublin 1988, reprinted 1991, 1995)* ''Early Irish farming: the evidence of the law-texts'' (Dublin 1997, reprinted 1998)* ''Marriage Disputes: A Fragmentary Old Irish Law-Text'' (Dublin, 2014)* ''The Life & Work of Oisín Kelly'' (Carlow, 2015)* ''The MacEgan legal treatise'' (Dublin, 2020). Edition of work by Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin.
References
External links * Professor Fergus Kelly , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies webpage* Fergus Kelly in the BBC's  plantation series. * Fergus Kelly speaks in Trinity College about  'Early Irish Music: An overview of the linguistic and documentary evidence'.