Terence Dolan
Terence Dolan (8 April 1943 – 20 April 2019) was an Irish lexicographer and radio personality. He was professor of Old and Middle English in the School of English and Drama at University College Dublin. He acted as the School's Research Co-ordinator, and was the director of the "Hiberno-English Archive" website. He appeared weekly on Seán Moncrieff's radio show (Mondays) on Newstalk 106. Podcasts of his appearances are available from Newstalk's website. Life. Dolan was born in London of Irish parents, both of whom hailed from County Cavan. He was formerly a Hastings Senior  Scholar of The Queen's College, Oxford. He was twice the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, University of Richmond, Virginia (in 1986 and 1992). He was a director of the international James Joyce summer school, Dublin. He is perhaps best known for his "Dictionary of Hiberno-English" which gives a comprehensive account of the English language as it is spoken in Ireland. Illness and death. Dolan suffered a stroke in February 2008, and began a period of recuperation. He left Tallaght Hospital on 15 December 2008. He talked to Seán Moncrieff's about this  experience, and also about the origins of medical words and about writing a book about the first hand experience of having a stroke and the recovery. He died on 20 April 2019. Research interests. Dolan performed research in medieval English literature, Hiberno-English, lexicography, and James Joyce.