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Description
Kay Muhr grew up in East Anglia but discovering that these islands held other native languages besides English she gained a MA and PhD in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh. After fellowships at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the Institute for Irish Studies Belfast she became a researcher on the Ordnance Survey Memoir Project and then Senior Research Fellow of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project at Queen’s University 1984-2010. Kay tutored Linguistics modules for The Open University between 1985 and 2006 and tutored students in the H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison between 1986 and 1992. At time of... interview in 2013 she was working as researcher and editor of Gaelic surnames for the Dictionary of Family Names of Britain and Ireland published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Metadata describing this person
Gender: Female
Project person ID: 069_T
Interviewee role: OU staff
Interviewee role: Tutored in prison, 1985-2006
Location of work/teaching: H Blocks The Maze and Long Kesh