Entities

Bourke (Cormac)

Publications (15)

Bourke, Cormac, “Corporeal relics, tents and shrines in early medieval Ireland”, Ulster Journal of Archaeology 74 (2017–2018): 118–129.

abstract:

It is suggested that early Irish slab shrines served the cult of corporeal relics and reproduced the tents of the saints.

Bourke, Cormac, “[Note:] Slieve Donard and Slieve Commedagh, complementary Mourne mountain names”, Peritia 29 (2018): 223–224.

Bourke, Cormac, “Early Breton hand-bells revisited”, in: Jean-Christophe Cassard, Pierre-Yves Lambert, and Bertrand Yeurc'h (eds), Mélanges offerts au professeur Bernard Merdrignac, 17, Landévennec, 2013. 275–281.

Bourke, Cormac, “The shrine of St Gwenfrewi from Gwytherin, Denbighshire: an alternative interpretation”, in: Nancy Edwards (ed.), The archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches: proceedings of a conference on the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches, September 2004, 29, Leeds, London: Maney Publishing, Routledge, 2009. 375–388.

abstract:

This chapter focuses on the production of the shrine and the translation of the relics were more or less contemporary, and suggests that the shrine was big enough to have held the saint's skull and disarticulated bones. Hitherto believed to be of either Anglo-Saxon or Welsh origin and of 8th-century date or 9th-century date, the shrine is attributed to the early 12th-century Irish school which produced St Manchan's shrine and the Cross of Cong. The shrine of St Gwenfrewi from Gwytherin, Denbighshire, is known from a late 17th-century illustration and from some surviving fragments of wood. St Kappel Gwenfrewi's shrine, a container made of wooden boards with metal mounts, was formerly preserved at Gwytherin and was drawn in the 1690s by Edward Lhuyd. The Lhuyd illustration shows one face and one end of a tent-shaped shrine of triangular section comparable with the 12th-century Irish shrine of St Manchan from Lemanaghan, Co Offaly.

Bourke, Cormac, “A medieval bronze cross from Ballybrolly, Co Armagh”, in: Marion Meek (ed.), The modern traveller to our past: Festschrift in honour of Ann Hamlin, DPK, 2006. 186–191.

Bourke, Cormac, “Note: On the Ballach Damnatan”, Peritia 17–18 (2003–2004): 503–505.

Bourke, Cormac, “Note: Cairrecan Tempuill Solman”, Peritia 16 (2002): 474–477.

Bourke, Cormac, “A view of the early Irish church”, in: Anne-Christine Larsen (ed.), The Vikings in Ireland, Roskilde: Viking Ship Museum, 2001. 77–86.

Bourke, Cormac, “On the Imirce Ciaráin”, Peritia 15 (2001): 373–376.

abstract:

Imirce Ciaráin, hitherto regarded as the title of a lost voyage tale, is here identified as the proper name of a manuscript.

Bourke, Cormac, “The bells of Saints Caillín and Cuana: two twelfth-century cups”, in: Alfred P. Smyth (ed.), Seanchas. Studies in early and medieval Irish archaeology, history and literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 331–340.

Bourke, Cormac, “Fergna epscop”, The Innes Review 51:1 (Spring, 2000): 68–71.

Bourke, Cormac, “The work of angels?”, The Innes Review 50:1 (Spring, 1999): 76–79.

Bourke, Cormac, “Cillíne Pontifex”, The Innes Review 49:1 (Spring, 1998): 77–80.

Bourke, Cormac (ed.), From the Isles of the North: early medieval art in Ireland and Britain. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Insular Art held in the Ulster Museum, Belfast, 7-11 April 1994, Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1995.

Bourke, Cormac, “The Ballyrea Brooch”, Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group 10 (1992): 66–67.

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