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Elizabeth Boyle is Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth University. Her primary research interest is the intellectual and religious culture of early medieval Ireland. She is the author of History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland (2021); and her essay collection Fierce Appetites, published by Penguin, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards non-fiction book of the year in 2022.