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University of Edinburgh. New York University.
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Thomas Clancy
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He did his undergraduate work at New York University, and his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently at the University of Glasgow, where he was appointed Professor of Celtic in 2005. In 2001, Clancy argued that Saint Ninian was a Northumbrian spin-off of the name Uinniau (Irish Street Finnian), the British missionary to whom Saint Columba was a disciple, who in Great Britain was associated with Whithorn.
He argued that the confusion is due to an eighth century scribal spelling error, for which the similarities of "u" and "n" in the Insular script of the period were responsible.
Doctor Clancy has also done work on the Lebor Bretnach, arguing that it was written in Scotland. (with Gilbert Márkus), Iona: the earliest poetry of a Celtic monastery, (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1995)
(ed), The Triumph Tree: Scotland’s Earliest Poetry, 550–1350, (Canongate: Edinburgh, 1998) with translations by G. Márkus, Justice of the Peace Clancy, T.O. Clancy, P. Bibire and J. Jesch
"The Scottish provenance of the ‘Nennian’ recension of Historia Brittonum and the Lebor Bretnach " in: South. Taylor (ed),Picts, Kings, Saints and Chronicles: A Festschrift for Marjorie O. Anderson (Four Courts: Dublin, 2000) 87–107
"A Gaelic Polemic Quatrain from the Reign of Alexander I, ca.
1113" in: Scottish Gaelic Studies volume.20 (2000) 88–96
Clancy, Thomas O (2001). "The real Street Ninian".
Innes Review 52: 1–28. doi:10.3366/inr.2001.52.1.1.
ISSN 0020-157X. "Philosopher-King: Nechtan mac Der-Ilei" in: the Scottish Historical Review, 83 (2004), 125–249.
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