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Tom Dunning first published ''"Piers Plowman": An Interpretation of the A Text'' in 1937 when he was only twenty-four years old (placing his year of birth in about 1913). He had scarcely begun the process of revising this text when he died in 1973, with the task falling to Terry P. Dolan.<ref>Book Review: ''"Piers Plowman": An Interpretation of the A Text'' (Second Edition) by John A. Alford in ''Speculum'', vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 367-370 (1982).</ref> | Tom Dunning first published ''"Piers Plowman": An Interpretation of the A Text'' in 1937 when he was only twenty-four years old (placing his year of birth in about 1913). He had scarcely begun the process of revising this text when he died in 1973, with the task falling to Terry P. Dolan.<ref>Book Review: ''"Piers Plowman": An Interpretation of the A Text'' (Second Edition) by John A. Alford in ''Speculum'', vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 367-370 (1982).</ref> | ||
One of Dunning's students recalled in 1974, "Does anyone remember Father Thomas Dunning, lecturer in Middle English, teaching Chaucer's | One of Dunning's students recalled in 1974, "Does anyone remember Father Thomas Dunning, lecturer in Middle English, teaching Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale'? In a small Belfield lecture room, upstairs, he pressed the moral of the tale: ''radix malorum est cupiditas'' and carefully stressed to us young adults that ''cupiditas'' really meant 'the excessive love of material things'." (The moral of Chaucer's story essentially being that "greed is the root of all evil.")<ref>{{webcite|author=[[Denis J. Cotter]]|articleurl=http://www.ucd.ie/alumni/memories/ucd-in-the-1970s/blog/|articlename=UCD Memories|website=University College Dublin|accessed=21 Dec 2015}}</ref> | ||
Dunning was a former student of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]; the latter started supervising Dunning's thesis on [[17 October]] [[1952]].<ref>{{CG|C}}, ''passim''</ref><ref name=Lambe>{{webcite|author=[[Carl F. Hostetter]]|articleurl=http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/1134|articlename=Re: Quenya inscription: "Sí man i·yulmar men enquantuva?"|dated=13 May 2013|website=Lambe|accessed=18 May 2013}}</ref> | Dunning was a former student of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]; the latter started supervising Dunning's thesis on [[17 October]] [[1952]].<ref>{{CG|C}}, ''passim''</ref><ref name=Lambe>{{webcite|author=[[Carl F. Hostetter]]|articleurl=http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/1134|articlename=Re: Quenya inscription: "Sí man i·yulmar men enquantuva?"|dated=13 May 2013|website=Lambe|accessed=18 May 2013}}</ref> | ||
Revision as of 19:48, 21 December 2015
Thomas "Tom" Patrick Dunning (1913 — 1973) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon at University College Dublin, and a priest and member of the Congregatio Missionis. Dunning was a native of Tiperray, Killendaule County, Ireland and was ordained a priest in 1939. He was educated at Castleknock College and the University College in Dublin. He received his masters degree in 1936 and his PhD in 1939. A specialist in Old and Middle English, he was a noted lecturer throughout Ireland and occasionally the United States. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1954.[1]
Tom Dunning first published "Piers Plowman": An Interpretation of the A Text in 1937 when he was only twenty-four years old (placing his year of birth in about 1913). He had scarcely begun the process of revising this text when he died in 1973, with the task falling to Terry P. Dolan.[2]
One of Dunning's students recalled in 1974, "Does anyone remember Father Thomas Dunning, lecturer in Middle English, teaching Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale'? In a small Belfield lecture room, upstairs, he pressed the moral of the tale: radix malorum est cupiditas and carefully stressed to us young adults that cupiditas really meant 'the excessive love of material things'." (The moral of Chaucer's story essentially being that "greed is the root of all evil.")[3]
Dunning was a former student of J.R.R. Tolkien; the latter started supervising Dunning's thesis on 17 October 1952.[4][5]
Tolkien inscribed a Quenya sentence — a variation on a phrase occuring in Galadriel's Lament — in Dunning's copy of The Fellowship of the Ring: "Sí man i·yulmar men enquantuva?".[5]
Bibliography, selected
- 1937: Piers Plowman: An Interpretation of the A Text (Dublin: Talbot Press; also London: Longmans)
Books
- 1969: The Wanderer (co-editor with A.J. Bliss)
Articles
- 1962: English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
- "God and Man in Troilus and Criseyde"
See also
References
- ↑ "Father Dunning to Speak" in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's The Daily Tar Heel, Tuesday, April 4, 1967, page 6.
- ↑ Book Review: "Piers Plowman": An Interpretation of the A Text (Second Edition) by John A. Alford in Speculum, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 367-370 (1982).
- ↑ Denis J. Cotter, "UCD Memories", University College Dublin (accessed 21 December 2015)
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, passim
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Carl F. Hostetter, "Re: Quenya inscription: "Sí man i·yulmar men enquantuva?"" dated 13 May 2013, Lambengolmor mailing list (accessed 18 May 2013)
