Dr Chantal Kobel
Biography
Research
Publications
Professional
Biography
Chantal Kobel received a degree in Early and Modern Irish and a PhD in Early Irish from Trinity College Dublin. She also completed a Masters in Archives and Records Management (UCD). She has held positions as an O'Donovan Scholar and a Bergin Fellow in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Her research centres on Old and Middle Irish language and literature, Irish palaeography and codicology. She has published a range of articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings.
Research Interests
Dr Kobel's research interests include Early Irish language, literature, poetry and the Irish manuscript tradition. Her current work focuses on medieval Irish law manuscripts, for which she is preparing new descriptive catalogues, as well as palaeographical and codicological studies. She is also editing two unpublished medieval Irish glossaries from these manuscripts and preparing a volume of essays on intentional obscurity in medieval Irish and Welsh literature. Dr Kobel is also interested in the history of Celtic Studies and its scholars.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Chantal Kobel (2023) 'Script modification in late medieval Ireland: a case-study of Tadhg Ua Ríghbhardáin (fl. 1470s)'. Celtica, 35 . | |
| 2023 | Chantal Kobel (2023) 'Atd-īus dūib a n-aicned fīr – A poem about tears of repentance'. Zeitschrift fur Celtische Philologie, 70 . [Link] | |
| 2022 | Chantal Kobel; David Stifter (2022) 'A cryptic probatio pennae in the Seifín Duanaire (TCD MS H 4. 22 (1363), part XII)'. Celtica, 34 . | |
| 2020 | Chantal Kobel (2020) 'A descriptive catalogue of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337), vol. 2–4, pp. 1–87: ‘Máel Íosa’s book’'. Celtica, 32 . | |
| 2020 | Chantal Kobel (2020) 'Varium: Cú Chulainn’s battle-scars: a new interpretation of a quatrain in Aided Guill meic Carbada 7 Aided Gairb Glinne Rige'. ÉRIU, 70 :171-176. | |
| 2018 | Chantal Kobel (2018) '‘A note on the use of a feminine adjective following accusative and dative singular talmain’'. Celtica, 30 . | |
| 2015 | Chantal Kobel (2015) 'VARIA I: The use of an overt subject with a third-person verb & nota augens'. ÉRIU, 65 . |
Book Chapter
Book Review
Blog
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Chantal Kobel (2023) Ogam script and cryptography in the Irish legal manuscript tradition. [Blog] [Link] |
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