Próinséas Ní Chatháin
Ní Chatháin, Próinséas MRIA, was an Irish scholar, academic and lexicographer, who made substantial contributions to the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of the Irish Language and held the position of Professor of Early and Mediaeval Irish at University College Dublin.Career
Ní Chatháin held the position of President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland from 1997 to 2000. In 2002 she was honoured with a festschrift entitled Ogma: essays in Celtic studies in honour of Próinséas Ní Chatháin, edited by her former colleagues Michael Richter and Jean-Michel Picard.
