Michelle O Riordan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Celtic Studies in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Irish history in the period 1300-1700 is her principal area of research. Her work draws particularly on source material in the Irish language for those centuries. She has published books, monographs, and academic articles in the Irish and English languages with academic publishers and in peer-reviewed journals. Among them are: Muinidh dom Glao: Eifeacht mhothalach an ghairmigh ag fili na Gaeilge (Leabhar Breac: Ionad an Leinn Eireannaigh, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016); Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality (Cork University Press, 2007); The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World (Cork University Press, 1990).