John Carey is an American, who trained in Celtic studies

Celtic Studies

Celtic studies is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to a Celtic people. This ranges from linguistics, literature and art history archaeology and history, the focus lying on the study of the various Celtic languages, living and extinct...

, specialising in subjects of early Irish

Early Irish literature

-The earliest Irish authors:It is unclear when literacy first came to Ireland. The earliest Irish writings are inscriptions, mostly simple memorials, on stone in the ogham alphabet, the earliest of which date to the fourth century...

 and Welsh literature, religion, and mythology. A graduate of Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, he was an associate professor at the Department of Celtic Languages and Literature. He has received fellowships at Warburg Institute

Warburg Institute

The Warburg Institute is a research institution associated with the University of London in central London, England. A member of the School of Advanced Study, its focus is the study of the influence of classical antiquity on all aspects of European civilisation.-History:The Institute was founded by...

 (University of London), the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University, Belfast and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Dublin, Ireland was established in 1940 by the Taoiseach of the time, Éamon de Valera under the . The Institute consists of 3 schools: The , the and the . The directors of these schools are currently Professor Werner Nahm, Professor Luke Drury and...

. He later moved to the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at the University College Cork (UCC), where he now teaches. He is fellow at the Temenos Academy

Temenos Academy

Temenos Academy is a teaching organisation in London dedicated to creative spirituality.Its origin was in 1980, when the Temenos Review was launched by Kathleen Raine, Keith Critchlow, Brian Keeble and Philip Sherrard to publish creative work which acknowledged spirituality as a prime need for...

 and editor of Temenos Academy Review.

Selected works

• 1982. "The Location of the Otherworld in Irish Tradition." Éigse
  Éigse
  Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies is an academic journal devoted to the study of the Irish language and literature. It started life in 1923 as part of an initiative by the Senate of the National University of Ireland to use the Adam Boyd Simpson Fund for the publication of an Irish studies journal...
  
  19 (1982): 36-43.
• 1984. "Nodons in Britain and Ireland." ZCP 40 (1984): 1-22.
• 1987. "Time, Space, and the Otherworld." Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 7: 1-27.
• 1989-90. "Myth and Mythography in Cath Maige Tuired." Studia Celtica 24-5: 53-69.
• 1991. "A British Myth of Origins?" History of Religions 31: 24-38.
• 1994. The Irish National Origin-Legend: Synthetic Pseudohistory. Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval Gaelic History 1. Cambridge, University of Cambridge.
• 1994 (ed. with John T. Koch). The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales. Malden, Massachusetts: Celtic Studies Publications. Includes translations by John Carey.
• 1994. "An Edition of the Pseudo-Historical Prologue to the Senchas Már." Ériu 45: 1-32.
• 1996. "The Narrative Setting of Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig
  Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig
  Baile Chuind Chétchathaig is an Old Irish list of Kings of Tara or High Kings of Ireland which survives in two 16th century manuscripts, 23 N 10 and Egerton 88. It is the earliest such king-list known, probably dating from around 700 AD...
  
  ." Études Celtiques 32: 189-201.
• 1997. "The Three Things Required of a Poet." Ériu 48: 41-58.
• 1998 (1st ed.), 2000 (2nd ed.). King of Mysteries. Early Irish Religious Writings. Dublin: Fourt Courts Press.
• 1999. A Single Ray of the Sun. Religious Speculation in Early Ireland. Andover and Aberystwyth.
• 2002. "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts." Ériu 52 (2002): 53-87.
• 2002. "Werewolves in Medieval Ireland." Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 44 (Winter 2002): 37-72.
• 2004. "The Encounter at the Ford: Warriors, Water and Women." Éigse 34 (2004): 10-24.
• 2005. "Tara and the Supernatural." In The Kingship and Landscape of Tara, ed. Edel Bhreathnach. Dublin. 32-48.
• 2007. Ireland and the Grail. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications.
• 2007. "In Tenga Bithnua and the Days of Creation." Apocrypha 18: 231-46.

External links

• Articles in PDF, Celtic Digital Initiative.
• Publications, UCC.