Welsh
Room C206
John Henry Newman Building
Tel + 353 1 716 8105
richard.roberts@ucd.ie
Modules taught:
WEL 10030 Welsh Conversation & Composition
WEL 20060 Beginning Breton
WEL 10040 Introduction to Modern Welsh Literature
CCIV 20020 The Fortunes of the Celtic Languages (co-taught)
Research interests:
- Modern Welsh proverb collections, proverbs in Welsh literature and international paremiology
- The French and Anglo-Norman influence on Medieval Welsh literature
- Translation Studies
- Scholarship and ideology
Dwned 11 (2005): ‘Y Traddodiad Paremiolegol yng Nghymru’r Oesau Canol I. Rhai Diarhebion Cydwladol’
Dwned 12 (2006): ‘Y Traddodiad Paremiolegol yng Nghymru’r Oesau Canol II. ‘y reyn oll sydd yn llawn diarebion’
Some recent Conference papers:
Traddodiad Taliesin a Chyfaredd Platon (Llenyddiaeth mewn Theori, a conference to be held at the University of Wales, Llanbedr Pont Steffan, March 2007)
Réflexions sur une égalité superficielle: la traduction au Pays de Galles (in the colloquium Pays de Galles : quelle(s) image(s) ?, organized by the Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, Brest, January 2007)
Madwaith Hen Gyrys o Iâl: the sources of the Medieval Welsh proverb collections (Tionól 2006, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)