Dr Chantal Kobel

    Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge), School of Celtic Studies

    Lecturer

    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 She is also editing two unpublished medieval Irish glossaries from these manuscripts and preparing a volume of essays on intentional obscurity in medieval Irish and Welsh literature.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.

    Edited Book

    Year Publication
    2023 Chantal Kobel; Christina Cleary (Ed.). (2023) Essays in Memory of Eleanor Knott. Dublin: Léann na Tríonóide/Trinity Irish Studies 3 (Dublin: Department of Irish, Trinity College Dublin),

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    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

    Year Publication
    2025 Chantal Kobel (2025) 'Tradition and innovation in the materiality of medieval Gaelic law manuscripts' In: Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 19. Charlottenlund : Museum Tusculanum Press.
    2023 Chantal Kobel (2023) 'The tale concerning Mongán mac Fíachnai and Echaid Rígéicis: a reappraisal of text and language' In: Essays in Memory of Eleanor Knott. Dublin : Léann na Tríonóide/Trinity Irish Studies 3 (Dublin: Department of Irish, Trinity College Dublin).
    2021 Chantal Kobel (2021) 'The codicology of late medieval Irish legal manuscripts: a preliminary study of TCD MS H 3.18 (1337)' In: Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 17; Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen 13th–15th April 2018 (Copenhagen). Charlottenlund : Museum Tusculanum Press.

    Book Review

    Year Publication
    2023 Chantal Kobel (2023) Wolfgang Meid, Der Rinderraub: Táin Bó Cúailnge in Auszügen. Restaurierter altirischer Text, mit Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar herausgegeben (Innsbruck, 2018). [Book Review]
    2021 Chantal Kobel (2021) Pádraic Moran, De Origine Scoticae Linguae (O’Mulconry’s glossary): An Early Irish Linguistic Tract, With a Related Glossary, Irsan. Corpus Christianorum, Lexica latina medii aevi, 7 (Turnhout: 2019). [Book Review]
    2019 Chantal Kobel (2019) M.B. Ó Mainnín agus Gregory Toner, Ulidia 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Queen’s University, Belfast, 27–9 June 2013. [Book Review]
    2017 Chantal Kobel (2017) Wolfgang Meid, The romance of Froech and Findabair or the Driving of Froech’s Cattle: Táin Bó Froích, Old Irish Text, with Introduction, Translation, Commentary and Glossary. [Book Review]

    Blog

    Year Publication
    2023 Chantal Kobel (2023) Ogam script and cryptography in the Irish legal manuscript tradition. [Blog] [Link]
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