Dr Pádraic Moran is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Galway. He specialises in Latin manuscripts and texts spanning Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages (fourth to ninth centuries AD). His research focuses on the codification of Graeco-Roman literature and learning in the later Roman Empire, and how this knowledge survived and remained influential in the post-Roman period. He has a particular interest in the Irish dimension to this story.

His work has involved the construction of digital editions for early Irish glossaries and commentaries on Priscian’s Latin grammar. He has also developed various online databases, including a catalogue of Manuscripts with Irish Associations.

His IRC Laureate research project Global and Local Scholarship on Annotated Manuscripts (GLOSSAM) investigates annotated manuscripts across a wide variety of cultural regions from Ireland to Japan, incorporating Natural Language Processing, Network Analysis and Linked Open Data.

He is the co-founder of the Network for the Study of Glossing and the Databases of Early Latin Manuscripts network.

Website: http://www.pmoran.ie