Dr Ian Hughes

Dr Ian Hughes has specialized mainly in the field of medieval Welsh prose. He has published new Welsh editions of two of the Mabinogi tales, Math Uab Mathonwy (Aberystwyth University, 2000), and Manawydan Uab Llyr (University of Wales Press 2007). He was awarded the Vernam Hull award in 2007 for the latter. Currently Dr Hughes is completing an English edition of Math Uab Mathonwy for the internationally renowned Medieval and Modern Welsh Series, The School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. His intention in the near future is to produce new Welsh publications of the other tales of the Mabinogi, Branwen Uerch Lyr and Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet.

He has published a number of articles on the Four Branches of the Mabinogi and the Arthurian Legend in Wales. His interest in the medieval texts encompasses apocryphal texts in both Welsh and Irish.  He has already published a Middle Irish version of Evengelium Nicodemi and has been working on a Middle Welsh version of the same text with the intention to publish eventually. In addition to his interests and teaching duties associated with Middle Welsh texts, Dr Hughes in the Irish language and literature and Scottish Gaelic, especially in the modern period.