Posted 25 January 2013
UCD Professor honoured for contribution to folklore scholarship
The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture has presented UCD Professor Patrica Lysaght with the Torsten Janckes minnesfond prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to folkloristic and ethnological scholarship.
Patricia Lysaght of the UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics, University College Dublin, has published ten books and more than one hundred research articles.
Her book, The Banshee first published in 1986 has become a standard work, and the pocket version of the book, A Pocket Book of The Banshee, published in 1998, has been translated into Russian.
Her academic background is in Law (Barrister-at-Law), Irish Language and Literature, and Irish and European Folklore and Ethnology.
Professor Lysaght was an Alexander von Humboldt Scholar at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (1987-8), Acting Professor of Folklore at Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany (1996-7), and Guest Professor at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, (1998-9). She was visiting scholar at the Institute of Ethnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in 1993.
She is an elected member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, Uppsala, Sweden, and of The Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
She was presented with the award by the President of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, Professor Lennart Elmevik, in Uppsala Castle at the end of 2012
(Produced by UCD University Relations)
