Séamas ÓcatháinDr Séamas Ó CATHÁIN was educated at Queen's University Belfast, where he became Professor of Celtic. Later he was appointed Professor of Irish Folklore at University College Dublin, and Director of the National Folklore Collection. He has edited and uthored numer-ous books on the folklore of Ireland and north-western Europe, and has received many distinctions and awards, including Knight (First Class) of the Order of the Lion of Finland; the Dag Strömbäck Prize of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy, Uppsala, Sweden; the Ruth Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize, Edinburgh; and in 2022 the Jöran Sahlgren Award of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy.Living in Dublin since 1973, he is married to Maj Magnusson, whom he met in the late 1960s while he was a Lecturer in Celtic Philology and Folklore at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Read More Read Less