Barbara Freitag

Barbara Freitag was a lecturer of intercultural studies at Dublin City University, Ireland from 1981 to 2007, and since then has been a full-time researcher. She has published some twenty articles on Irish culture (mainly on literature), six book reviews, translations of Old Irish poems into German, contributed a chapter to a book and coedited a special issue of Die Horen. She is also the author of Keltische Identität als Fiktion (1989), Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an Enigma (2004), Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island (2013), and A New Interpretation of Irish Round Towers: Their Secular Origin and Function in the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries (2018).