O'Meara, John Joseph

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O'MEARA, John Joseph

O'MEARA, John Joseph. Irish, b. 1915. Genres: Classics, Humanities, Philosophy, Biography. Career: Professor Emeritus of Latin, University College, Dublin (joined faculty, 1945). Director of Eriugenian Studies, Royal Irish Academy, 1984-89. Member of the Governing Body, University College, 1956-59, 1962-65; member of the Senate of the National University of Ireland, Dublin, 1964-72; Vice-President, Royal Irish Academy, 1967-70. Publications: The Young Augustine: The Growth of St. Augustine's Mind Up to His Conversion, 1954; (with Courcelle and Mohrmann) Recherches Augustiniennes, 1958; Porphyry's Philosophy from Oracles in St. Augustine, 1959; Charter of Christendom: The Significance of St. Augustine's City of God, 1962; Porphyry's Philosophy from Oracles in Eusebius's Praeparatio Evangelica and Augustine's Dialogues of Cassiciacum, 1969; Eriugena, 1969; (with L. Bieler) The Mind of Eriugena, 1973; An Augustine Reader, 1973; The Creation of Man in De Genesi ad Litteram, 1980; Eriugena, 1988; The Singing Masters (memoir), 1990; Studies in Augustine and Eriugena, 1992; Understanding Augustine, 1996. TRANSLATOR: Against the Academics, by St. Augustine, 1950; Topography of Ireland, by Giraldus Cambrensis, 1951; On Prayer and Exhortation to Martyrdom, by Origen, 1954; Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, 1976; (with I.P. Sheldon-Williams) Eriugena's Periphyseon III, 1981; (with I.P. Sheldon-Williams) Eriugena's Periphyseon IV. EDITOR: (with B. Naumann) Latin Script and Letters A. D. 400-900, 1976; (F.X. Martin and J.A. Richmond) From Augustine to Eriugena: Essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in Honor of John O'Meara, 1991. Address: 15 Maple Rd, Dublin 14, Ireland.

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