A fantastic success by our PhD-student Paul Le Meur-Bouthemy. He received the 2025 Geneviève Nore Prize of the Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur (AMAES; Association of the Anglicist Medievalists in Higher Education) for his master thesis submitted 2023/4 at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, EPHE-PSL (Paris, France). Paul was also a visiting postgraduate student at the Maynooth Department of Early Irish during that year.
The title of Paul’s thesis is Le sermon vieil anglais De Falsis Diis et sa version norroise du Hauksbók : textes, traductions, introduction, commentaire (‘The Old English sermon De Falsis Diis and its Old Norse version from the Hauksbók: Texts, Translations, Introduction, Commentary’; supervisors Profs. Alessia Bauer and Daniel Petit).
In September 2024, Paul began a PhD in Early Irish at Maynooth as part of the Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland Advanced Laureate Award-funded project DiⒶgnostic – Tracing Diatopic Variation in a Corpus of Old Irish under the supervision of Prof. David Stifter. Paul is also teaching tutorials in the French Department.
Many congratulations to this awesome success, Paul!