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OʼDriscoll, James, and Patrick Gleeson, “Locating historical Dún Bolg and the early medieval landscape of Baltinglass, County Wicklow”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 121 C (2021): 1–34.
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During the early medieval period (c. AD 400–1200), the Baltinglass landscape in eastern Ireland may be interpreted as a major central place connected with important regional dynasties like the Uí Cheinnselaig and latterly the Uí Máil. Its significance is recorded in sources such as the Bórama Laigen and Fingal Rónáin, as well as a number of annal entries, which refer to an important royal fortress in the area known as Dún Bolg. This fortress has been linked with a complex of enclosures on Spinans Hill, including a massive fort of some 131ha, located a few kilometres to the east of Baltinglass. This, along with a number of previously unrecognised early medieval sites, reveals a heavily mythologised landscape that was instrumental to dynasties emerging from the shadows of the Iron Age in central Leinster. This paper attempts to assess the rich textual evidence alongside the archaeological evidence to elucidate the broader importance of the Baltinglass landscape during the early medieval period.
MacCotter, Paul, “The origins of the parish in Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 119 C (2019): 37–67.
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This study addresses the emergence of a parish system in Ireland between AD 700 and AD 1300. This process is examined against the background of similar processes in Britain and the Continent, and a taxonomy of early Irish church types reveals parallels, if not indeed linkages, between Ireland and her neighbours. By the early twelfth century a de facto parish system based on the local community, the túath, emerges in Ireland. The parish church of this system may be described as the túath-church. Some elements of this system can be found much earlier, in the eighth century canons. The arrival of the Anglo-Normans sees the túath-church system replaced by the English version of the Gregorian reform parish, the establishment of which in Ireland occurs during the century from 1172. This system is a complex mix of rectories and vicarages with origins both secular and ecclesiastical, and was the result of tension between lay and monastic interests on the one hand and episcopal efforts to maintain the cura animarum on the other. Elements of the earlier túath-church system survived within the later reformed parish structure.
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, “Rethinking settlement values in Gaelic society: the case of the cathedral centres”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 119 C (2019): 69–102.
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The idea that settlements of Gaelic peoples were primarily dispersed and eschewed urban form has dominated interpretations of later medieval and early post-medieval Gaelic settlement arrangements in Ireland, but to what extent do the categories of urban and rural even apply to places where people were settled in late medieval Gaelic polities? Through an investigation of cathedral-centred communities inter Hibernicos, which were closely identified with the political territories in which they were situated, it is suggested that altogether different values from the urban–rural paradigm motivated the continuity and development of such social formations between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.
Collins, Tracy, “Unveiling female monasticism in later medieval Ireland: survey and excavation at St Catherine’s, Shanagolden, Co. Limerick”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 119 C (2019): 103–171.
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This project provides new insights into the chronology and character of St Catherine's, Shanagolden, the best-preserved later medieval nunnery in Ireland. Fieldwork comprised a survey of the ruins followed by two seasons of excavation. Trenches were excavated in the cloister, refectory, kitchen and inside and outside the church. Archaeological evidence for the construction and use of the nunnery was found along with a small assemblage of artefacts. There was a change of layout during the main construction phase and a pre-existing structure was apparently repurposed. The cloister garth was not used for burial and was delimited by a stone wall. Burials of women, children and men, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, were found in the church, ambulatories and outside the church. It is proposed that the west doorway of the church was originally intended as the chapter-house doorway. It is argued that the fifteenth-century 'Black Hag's Cell', previously interpreted as a sacristy, was an anchorhold.
Hewer, S. G., “The myth of the ‘five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 118 C (2018): 167–200.
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This paper examines two issues: misconceptions concerning English law in high medieval Ireland; and the invention and mutation of an exceptio (objection) in court which was based on a fabrication. The plea, or defensive claim, was that the plaintiff in a court case was an unfranchised Gael (Hibernica/Hibernicus) and therefore could not sue a civil writ in the English king's royal courts in Ireland. This pleading has led some historians to surmise that all Gaels were unfranchised in English Ireland without a personal grant of access from the crown of England. The plea also claimed that only five Gaelic families were allowed to sue in the royal courts. Each time the plea was made, it changed, and after sixty years a defendant claimed that the ancestors of the then current king (Edward III) had granted access to English law only to five Gaelic families. There are many problems with this claim.
Harbison, Peter, “Old Testament prefigurations of New Testament events on Irish high crosses”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 118 C (2018): 123–139.
Grace, Pierce A., “From blefed to scamach: pestilence in early medieval Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 118 C (2018): 67–93.
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Between A.D. 540 and 795 a series of major epidemics occurred in Ireland. Recorded in the Irish annals, each outbreak was given a name in Latin or Irish, but without clinical details the identity of specific diseases is speculative. Tentative diagnoses are: bubonic plague (blefed, second buide chonnail, mortalitas puerorum), relapsing fever or infectious hepatitis (first buide chonnail), Hansesn's disease or any scaly skin disorder (samthrosc, lepra), smallpox (bolgach), dysentery (riuth fola), lameness from polio or a cattle zoonosis (baccach) and pneumonia (scamach). Through examination of the annals and their interpretation by medical and other historians, this article provides an overview of the diseases in Ireland during the early medieval period and offers novel suggestions as to the identity of some of the disorders described.
Marron, Emmet, “The communities of St Columbanus: Irish monasteries on the continent?”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 118 C (2018): 95–122.
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The image of the Irish saints on the continent, carrying the light of Christianity into the darkness of a Europe descended into barbarity, has proven one of the most enduring aspects of the ‘Island of Saints and Scholars’ narrative that formed part of every Irish schoolchild's education. Although this motif may persist in the popular imagination, regularly used as a shorthand for Ireland's relationship with Europe, it has been widely critiqued in recent decades as an overly nationalistic reading of the past. While recent reappraisals have focussed primarily on historical evidence, there is an enduring expectation among some that the monasteries founded by these individuals would be distinctively ‘Irish’ in their layout and material culture. This article offers a critique of this assumption by outlining the results of recent work carried out by an Irish-French team at the first of St Columbanus' continental foundations, Annegray, in Eastern France. The preliminary results of work at two of his other foundations, Luxeuil and Bobbio, are also discussed. It is argued that there is nothing inherently Irish about the material culture of these sites, nor should we expect there to be.
Rynne, Colin, “Technological change in the agrarian economy of early medieval Ireland: new archaeological evidence for the introduction of the coulter plough”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 118 C (2018): 37–66.
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Several authors have argued that coulter ploughs were not introduced into Ireland until the Viking period. This theory is problematic given the extraordinary corpus of archaeological evidence for cereal production in pre-Viking Ireland, including several hundred corn drying kilns and some 153 water-powered mill sites. Using comparisons with continental examples, two pre-ninth century plough coulters are identified. The implications of these discoveries and the relationships between coulter ploughs and other cereal processing technologies are considered.
Lyons, Susan, “Food plants, fruits and foreign foodstuffs: the archaeological evidence from urban medieval Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 115 C (2015): 111–166.
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The historical record is largely used to qualify the consumption of cultivated crops, and other food plants, such as fruits, vegetables, herbs and imported goods in the medieval Irish diet. Despite our rich literary sources, evidence for horticulture as well as the use of collected and exotic foodstuffs in medieval Ireland is still under-represented, and the remains of such plants rarely survive to make any inferences on the subject. The increase in archaeobotanical research in Ireland is producing a valuable archaeological dataset to help assess the nature, composition and variation of food plants in the medieval diet. Botanical remains preserved in anoxic deposits provide a unique snapshot of the diversity of plants consumed at a site, including information on processing techniques, storage and seasonality. With particular reference to urban medieval sites dating from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, this paper will present and appraise the archaeological evidence for the use and consumption of cultivated, wild and imported foodstuffs, and the areas of research that still need to be addressed.
Shanahan, Madeline, “‘Whipt with a twig rod’: Irish manuscript recipe books as sources for the study of culinary material culture, c. 1660 to 1830”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 115 C (2015): 197–218.
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From the mid- to late seventeenth century on women from the elite classes in Ireland started to write and exchange recipes, which they recorded in domestic manuscripts. Cultural imports to Ireland at this time, these manuscripts are excellent sources for the study of food, giving us a window into the early modern kitchen during a period of great culinary change. This paper will begin by briefly outlining the development of recipe writing as a genre in Ireland, considering issues such as chronology, authorship and content. The second part of the paper will focus more specifically on what these sources can tell us about material culture relating to cookery within high-status Irish homes of this period. By considering the objects mentioned, as well as the way in which they were described, the paper will discuss not simply what people owned, but also, what patterns of naming can tell us about these people's changing relationships with goods, and an emerging consumer identity.
Beglane, Fiona, “The social significance of game in the diet of later medieval Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 115 C (2015): 167–196.
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While the vast majority of the meat consumed in later medieval Ireland (c. 1100–1600) was from domesticates such as cattle, sheep and pig, the hunting of game was important as a social marker. Access to game varied depending on social status, occupation and geographical location, and could be used to mediate social relationships. This paper focuses mainly on the zooarchaeological evidence from eastern Ireland, examining castles, and urban, rural and ecclesiastical sites of mainly Anglo–Norman origin. It will review this evidence for both truly wild mammal species such as red deer, wild pig and hare as well as for species such as fallow deer and rabbits, which were maintained in a managed environment before being hunted for food.
Peters, Cherie N., “‘He is not entitled to butter’: the diet of peasants and commoners in early medieval Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 115 C (2015): 79–109.
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Hospitality was an important part of early medieval Irish culture and one of the ways this was expressed was through the preparation of meals for guests. Old and Middle Irish law tracts, written mainly in the seventh and eighth centuries, described the types of foods to which each level of free society in early medieval Ireland was entitled during these social visits and, as can be seen from the quotation in the title of this paper, certain restrictions based on grade and status applied. The legal entitlements of commoners to vegetables, dairy products, breads and, on the rare occasion, meats while in another person's home was neither the full range of foods available in early medieval Ireland nor the totality of the foods an individual might consume in their own home or during feasts. An investigation into these law tracts as well as Old and Middle Irish sagas, poetry, other literary compositions and ecclesiastical descriptions of a penitential or hermetic diet suggest a wider range of available foods, including fruits, fish and wild game that both peasants and commoners were likely to have consumed on a seasonal basis.
Canny, Nicholas, “The Haliday collection: a printed source for the seventeenth century”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 113 C (2013): 279–307.
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Sir Charles Haliday's collection of Tracts, Pamphlets and Broadsides was willed by his widow to the Library of the Royal Irish Academy in 1867. Known as the Haliday Collection, it is most appreciated for its wealth of material from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However it also contains many written and illustrated sources appertaining to the years before the 1641 insurrection in Ireland and the outbreak of civil conflict in England in 1642. This paper explains how this corpus of printed material provides key insights into historical developments in the 'three kingdoms' of England, Scotland and Ireland during the lead-up to these cataclysmic events.
Hamann, Stefanie, “St Fursa, the genealogy of an Irish saint—the historical person and his cult”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 112 C (2012): 147–187.
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The Irish saint Fursa (d. 649) is renowned for his visions of the otherworld, transmitted in a near-contemporary Vita. He also appears in the Irish martyrologies and genealogies, the latter attributing to him a variety of pedigrees on his father's as well as his mother's side. This paper aims to show that by combining evidence from different types of sources; biographies, genealogies (Corpus genealogiarum sanctorum Hiberniae and Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae), martyrologies (Félire Óengusso, Martyrology of Donegal and Martyrology of Cashel), and several Irish saints' Lives, it is possible to single out the most probable strand of tradition for the saint's origins. As it turns out, Fursa's differing genealogical affiliations mirror the subsequent shifts in political and ecclesiastical developments in Irish medieval history. Viewed from this perspective, the genealogies can supply valuable source material necessary for a biographical approach to a personality of the early Middle Ages.
Ní Mhunghaile, Lesa, “An eighteenth-century Gaelic scribe’s private library: Muiris Ó Gormáin’s books”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 110 C (2010): 239–276.
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The transcription and teaching career of the Gaelic scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin spanned three-quarters of the eighteenth century. From the 1750s onwards he became one of the most sought after scribes as he was employed by many of the leading Irish antiquarians, both Protestant and Catholic, to copy and translate Gaelic manuscripts. During the 1760s and 1770s he compiled detailed catalogues of the contents of books and manuscripts in his possession, together with his estimation of their value. Not only do these catalogues provide an important insight into the type of material he considered worth collecting but they also point towards the fact that he functioned as a book-dealer. The bilingual nature of these catalogues, and the large number of books in the English language they contained, challenge the argument first put forward by Daniel Corkery in the 1920s that the worlds of the Gaelic-speaking Irish and the English-speaking Protestant élite were divided from one another with little interaction between them, and Joep Leerssen's contention more recently that Gaelic Ireland was isolated from print culture in English.
McNamara, Martin, “Five Irish psalter texts”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 109 C (2009): 37–104.
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In 1973 the present writer published an essay on the psalms in the early Irish Church (from AD 600 to 1200). In this he reviewed the material available for a study of the subject and gave a more detailed examination of some of the texts. The present work intends to supplement the 1973 essay. It concentrates on three central topics:
(1) the full collation of a hitherto unstudied text, the fragments of an Irish Hebraicum Psalter in MS. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) fr. 2452 (tenth century), fols 75-84, which on analysis is revealed as an early representative of the typical Irish recension of the Hebraicum (AKI—the sigla for the psalter text of the three MSS Amiatinus, Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana Amiatino I; Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 38; Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale 24 [A. 41]);
(2) a more detailed examination of the Psalter of Cormac (thirteenth century);
and (3) of the so-called Psalter of Caimin (c. 1100).
With these, two comments on two other psalters are also given (that in the 'Reference Bible' and the Double Psalter of St-Ouen) while a preliminary section treats of texts having a bearing on the understanding of the psalter in Ireland (the Tituli psalmorum attributed to Bede; psalm prologues and biblical canticles and psalm prayers).
(1) the full collation of a hitherto unstudied text, the fragments of an Irish Hebraicum Psalter in MS. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) fr. 2452 (tenth century), fols 75-84, which on analysis is revealed as an early representative of the typical Irish recension of the Hebraicum (AKI—the sigla for the psalter text of the three MSS Amiatinus, Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana Amiatino I; Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 38; Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale 24 [A. 41]);
(2) a more detailed examination of the Psalter of Cormac (thirteenth century);
and (3) of the so-called Psalter of Caimin (c. 1100).
With these, two comments on two other psalters are also given (that in the 'Reference Bible' and the Double Psalter of St-Ouen) while a preliminary section treats of texts having a bearing on the understanding of the psalter in Ireland (the Tituli psalmorum attributed to Bede; psalm prologues and biblical canticles and psalm prayers).
Warntjes, Immo, “The Munich Computus and the 84 (14)-year Easter reckoning”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 107 C (2007): 31–85.
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The construction, and especially the assignment of the Easter dates, of the Easter reckoning used in the British Isles from the fifth to the eighth century, here called the 84 (14), has been a matter of scholarly debate for the past 400 years. Since the discovery of the Munich Computus in AD 1878, the text that became the primary source for this Easter reckoning, the debate has centred almost exclusively on it. This changed with the discovery of an Easter table of this reckoning in AD 1985, which provided reliable Easter dates as well as a most valuable insight into the construction of the table itself. However, these primary sources have never been compared thoroughly. Such a comparison is provided in the present article, which leads to an analysis of its implications for the 84 (14) in general, and for the Munich Computus in particular.
Müller, Anne, “Conflicting loyalties: the Irish Franciscans and the English Crown in the High Middle Ages”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 107 C (2007): 87–106.
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This paper seeks to identify the ways in which religious orders dealt with the problem of conflicting loyalties in the medieval period in Ireland. The English crown expected the Franciscan community to play a vital part in the Anglicisation of the Irish church, usually by way of nominating members of the order to episcopal sees. These appointments could have considerable implications from a political point of view and often resulted in ethnic divisions among the Franciscan bishops. Furthermore, from the second generation of friars onwards, the problem of conflicting loyalties spread to the Franciscan communities in Ireland. In addition to these issues, this article will examine how both the order’s own authorities and the secular rulers reacted to disobedience and divided loyalties. The aim of the ecclesiastical authorities was to restore unity to the Franciscan order in this fringe province, while the intention of the English crown was to weaken the influence of the Irish faction within the order, especially in the English colony.
Bhreathnach, Edel, “In retrospect: introduction to George Petrie’s On the history and antiquities of Tara Hill”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 106 C (2006): 409–416.
Dempsey, G. T., “Aldhelm of Malmesbury and the Irish”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 99 C (1999): 1–22.
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The relative scale of Aldhelm of Malmesbury's indebtedness to Irish, as opposed to Continental, intellectual influences has long been a vexed question. Dismissed by the previous generation of Anglo-Saxon scholars as hopelessly 'Hisperic' and obscurantist, Aldhelm has been reclaimed by this generation as 'the first English man-of-letters'. An untoward consequence of this restoration of Aldhelm's native standing, however, has been a Hiberno-sceptical depreciation, amounting to a denial, of any Irish influence on Aldhelm. This study, primarily through a close reading of writings by or associated with Aldhelm, redresses the balance. The tradition of Aldhelm's early schooling under Irish tutelage is substantiated. This educational grounding was apparently so thorough that it produced in Aldhelm-once he had been exposed, as a mature student, to the intellectual riches of the school at Canterbury of Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian-a nativist backlash that emerged in the abusive allusions directed at Irish scholars and scholarship that pepper virtually all of his writings.
Mc Carthy, Daniel P., “The chronology of the Irish annals”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 98 C (1998): 203–255.
Picard, Jean-Michel, “Adomnán’s Vita Columbae and the cult of Colum Cille in continental Europe”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 98 C (1998): 1–23.
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The study of the text transmission of Adomnán's Vita Columbae on the Continent brings new insights into the diffusion of the cult of Colum Cille in Continental Europe in the early Middle Ages. Continental writers were able to supplement the information found in Adomnán's Vita Columbae with oral tradition collected from Irish monks travelling or living in the Continent; this is evident in the works of Walahfrid Strabo of Reichenau (†849), Notker Balbulus of St-Gall (†912) and Hermann of St-Félix (982-3). The evidence drawn from calendars, martyrologies, missals and catalogues of relics confirms the extent of his cult from Brittany to Austria. Continental folklore traditions complete the information found in hagiographical and liturgical texts and suggest that the transmission of the lore concerning Colum Cille was a live phenomenon linked to Irish activity in specific areas on the Continent.
OʼSullivan, William, “A finding list of Sir James Ware’s manuscripts”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 97 C:2 (1997): 69–99.
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This paper discusses the collection of manuscripts built up by the Irish historian Sir James Ware (1594-1666) and is particularly concerned to trace its descent through a complicated series of book sales and to establish, where possible, the present whereabouts of the manuscripts. Ware's Catalogus is reproduced in full.
Wasserstein, David, “The creation of Adam and the apocrypha in early Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 88 C (1988): 1–17.
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A story in the Babylonian Talmud datable to roughly the fourth century A.D. relates how sods of earth taken from specific, named places were used in the formation of specific, named parts of Adam's body at the Creation. A number of stories in Old Irish texts and in other texts with Irish connections, as well as in Slavonic and Spanish texts, share this motif with the Talmudic story. It is argued here that the story in these Irish texts is a descendant of the Talmudic story: the form of the story is essentially the same, and the place-names are plausible as corruptions of the Hebrew (while otherwise they make no sense). The Irish versions, which are no more than anecdote, have totally lost the original purpose of the story, which was to provide a clear relationship between the parts of Adam's body and places which had a significance in a Jewish context.
Brockliss, L. W. B., and Patrick Ferté, “Irish clerics in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: a statistical survey”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 87 C (1987): 527–572.
McNamara, Martin, “The inverted eucharistic formula Conversio corporis Christi in panem et sanguinis in vinum: the exegetical and liturgical background in Irish usage”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 87 C (1987): 573–593.
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In the Leabhar breac bilingual homily (probably of eleventh-century origin) entitled 'In cena Domini' we find the curious expression Conuersio corporis et sanguinis [Christi] in panem et uinum, the exact opposite of what one would have expected. Since the Irish translation of this is quite different, and for us traditional ('the pure mysteries of his own Body and Blood under the species of bread and wine'), a simple scribal error might be suspected. This, however, is rendered less likely by the presence of the same unexpected formulation in Irish in another more or less contemporary composition in the Leabhar breac, the 'Instruction on the Sacraments'. The Irish Latin formula is probably best explained as a later development of such earlier Latin formulations as Transfiguratio [or transformatio] corporis Christi in panem et sanguinis in uinum, used in liturgical (with transformatio) and non-liturgical (with transfiguratio) texts. Early Hiberno-Latin exegetical and homiletic texts, in particular, make frequent use of the transfiguratio formula, and in contexts closely related with the Leabhar breac homily 'In cena Domini'. The present paper studies the general use of the liturgical formula and the Hiberno-Latin texts, and goes on to suggest ways in which this could have developed to give us the Leabhar breac Latin and Irish formulation.
Ó Cuív, Brian, “Observations on the Book of Lismore”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 83 C (1983): 269–292.
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Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “A seventh-century Irish computus from the circle of Cummianus”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 82 C (1982): 405–430.
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The Letter of Cummian on the Paschal question (c. A.D. 632) has long been recognised as one of the primary historical documents of the early Irish churches. The purpose of this paper is to show that a computus in Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS 5413-22, is the work either of Cummian himself or of a member of his immediate circle, and therefore represents an important new witness to the state of scientific learning in seventh-century Ireland.
Sanderlin, Sarah, “The manuscripts of the annals of Clonmacnois”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 81 C (1982): 111–123.
Loeber, Rolf, “Sculptured memorials to the dead in early seventeenth-century Ireland: a survey from Monumenta Eblanae and other sources”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 81 C (1981): 267–293.
Cross, J. E., “The influence of Irish texts and traditions on the Old English martyrology”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 81 C (1981): 173–192.
Bradley, John, Conleth Manning, and D. Newman Johnson, “Excavations at Duiske abbey, Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 81 C (1981): 397–426.
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Excavation in the north transept of the abbey church uncovered portion of a tiled pavement dating from the mid- to late thirteenth century. Four panels were in situ and thirty-three types of decorative inlaid tiles were recovered. The pavement remained in use as the church floor until the dissolution in 1536. Thereafter fill began to accumulate above the floor and a number of burials were inserted into this prior to the building's re-use as a Roman Catholic church in 1813.
Ó hAodha, Donncha, “The Irish version of Statius’ Achilleid”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 79 C (1979): 83–138.
Herren, Michael, “Some new light on the life of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 79 C (1979): 27–71.
Harbison, Peter, “The inscriptions on the Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnois, County Offaly”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 79 C (1979): 177–188.
Kissane, Noel, “Uita metrica sanctae Brigidae: a critical edition with introduction, commentary and indexes”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 77 C (1977): 57–192.
Tierney, J. J., “The Greek geographic tradition and Ptolemy’s evidence for Irish geography”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 76 C (1976): 257–265.
Long, Joseph, “Dermot and the earl: who wrote ‘the Song’?”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 76 C (1975): 263–272.
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The Song of Dermot and the Earl is an important primary text for the coming of the Normans to Ireland. But who wrote it? And what part was played in its composition by Morice Regan, the close friend of King Dermot MacMurrough, and who held office as his secretary/interpreter? These questions are especially significant, as they can affect our view of the historical and documentary value of the poem. Surprisingly, they have not been clarified, in spite of the work of commentators as distinguished as G. H. Orpen and J. F. O'Doherty. The present article critically examines the commentators' views and re-interprets the evidence of the text.
Sanderlin, Sarah, “The date and provenance of the ‘Litany of Irish saints-II’ (The Irish litany of pilgrim saints)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 75 C (1975): 251–262.
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A linguistic analysis of the ‘Litany of Irish saints-II’, articles 1-49, suggests that it was written ca. A.D. 900. Certain elements are older than this date, notably the references to Romani and ‘Egyptian monks’, and possibly also the pilgrimage element; while other aspects, particularly the inclusion of various immrama legends, are evidently contemporary with the language. The litany also displays a curious three-fold martyrdom concept in that every article appears to reflect one of the three ‘colours’ of martyrdom. This concept is possibly as old as the seventh century in Ireland. The various archaisms in the short litany may be explained by the suggestion that an antiquary was responsible for the compilation. As it is in Irish, not Latin, there is reason to doubt that this litany was ever said. A study of the identifiable place-names and geographic indications, strongly suggests that the litany was written at Lismore, Co. Waterford.
Hennig, John, “The notes on non-Irish saints in the manuscripts of Félire Óengusso”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 75 C (1975): 119–159.
Ryan, Michael, “Native pottery in early historic Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 619–645.
McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600–1200)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 201–298.
Doyle, Peter J., “The text of St. Luke's Gospel in the Book of Mulling”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 177–200.
OʼBrien, A. F., “Episcopal elections in Ireland, c. 1254–72”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 129–176.
Bateson, J. D., “Roman material from Ireland: a re-consideration”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 21–97.
Dumville, David N., “Biblical apocrypha and the early Irish: a preliminary investigation”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 299–338.
O’Dwyer, B. W., “The annals of Connacht and Loch Cé and the monasteries of Boyle and Holy Trinity”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 72.4 C (1972): 83–101.
Cross, J. E. [ed.], “‘De signis et prodigiis’ in Versus S. Patricii episcopi de mirabilibus Hibernie”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 71 C (1971): 247–254.
Hennig, John, “Studies in the Latin texts of the Martyrology of Tallaght, of Félire Oengusso and Félire húi Gormáin”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 69 C:4 (1970): 45–112.
Stanford, W. B., “Towards a history of classical influences in Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 70 C (1970): 13–91.
Oskamp, Hans P. A., “Notes on the history of Lebor na hUidre”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 65 C (1966–1967): 117–137.
Hillgarth, J. N., “Visigothic Spain and early Christian Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 62 C (1962): 167–194.
Henry, Françoise, and G. L. Marsh-Micheli, “A century of Irish illumination (1070–1170)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 62 C (1961–1962): 101–166.
Henry, Françoise, “Remarks on the decoration of three Irish psalters”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 61 C (1960–1961): 23–40.
Tierney, J. J., “The Celtic ethnography of Posidonius”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 60 C (1960): 189–275.
Gleeson, Dermot, and Seán Mac Airt [eds.], “Annals of Roscrea”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 59 C:3 (1958): 145–171.
Sheldon-Williams, I. P., and Francis Shaw [appendix], “An epitome of Irish provenance of Erivgena’s De divisione natvrae [with appendix: The Irish glosses and marginalia in Bodl. MS. Auct. F. 3. 15]”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58 C (1956–1957): 1–20.
Brooks, E. St. John, “Irish possessions of St. Thomas of Acre”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58 C (1956–1957): 21–44.
Henry, Françoise, “Early monasteries, beehive huts, and dry-stone houses in the neighbourhood of Caherciveen and Waterville (Co. Kerry)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58 C (1956–1957): 45–166, plates I–XLIX.
MacDermott, Máire, “The crosiers of St. Dympna and St. Mel and tenth-century Irish metal-work”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58 C (1956–1957): 167–195.
Hartnett, P. J., “Excavation of a passage grave at Fourknocks, Co. Meath”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58 C (1956–1957): 197–277, plates LXIV–LXXXI.
Murphy, Gerard [ed.], “The lament of the old Woman of Beare”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 55 C 4 (1953): 83–109.
Hughes, Kathleen, “A manuscript of Sir James Ware: British Museum Additional 4788”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 55 C (1953): 111–116.
Bieler, Ludwig [ed.], “The Hymn of St. Secundinus”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 55 C (1953): 117–127.
Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], “The taboos of the kings of Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 54 C (1951–1952): 1–36.
comments: Paper read on 14 June, 1948
Quinn, David B., “Government printing and the publication of the Irish statutes in the sixteenth century”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 49 C (1943–1944): 45–129.
Hogan, James, “Irish law of kingship, with special reference to Ailech and Cenél Eoghain”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 40 C (1932): 186–254.
Hogan, James, “The tricha cét and related land-measures”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 38 C (1929): 148–235.
MacSwiney, Patrick, “Notes on the history of the Book of Lecan”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 38 C (1928–1929): 31–50.
Seymour, St. John D., “The vision of Adamnán”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 37 C (1927): 304–312.
Gwynn, E. J., “Fragmentary annals from the west of Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 37 C (1924–1927): 149–157.
OʼRahilly, T. F., “Irish poets, historians and judges in English documents, 1538–1615”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 36 C (June, 1922): 86–120.
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Macalister, R. A. S., “Notes on some Ogham inscriptions, including two recently discovered”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 34 C (1919): 400–404.
Internet Archive – offprint: <link>
Esposito, Mario, “The ‘secrets of Salerno’: an ancient French manuscript in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 35 C — 1919 (1918–1920): 208–213.
Internet Archive: <link>
comments: French medical manuscript, formerly catalogued as Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 G 8, but now missing. It contained a French translation of the Circa instans.
Esposito, Mario, “On the Pseudo-Augustinian treatise De mirabilibus sanctae scripturae written in Ireland in the year 655”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 35 C — 1919 (1918–1920): 189–207.
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Lawlor, H. J., and R. I. Best [eds.], “The ancient list of coarbs of Patrick”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 35 C (1918–1920): 316–362.
Internet Archive: <link>
Butler, Constance Mary, and John Henry Bernard, “The charters of the Cistercian Abbey of Duiske in the County of Kilkenny”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 35 C (1918): 1–188.
Internet Archive: <link>
Armstrong, E. C. R., and H. J. Lawlor, “The Domnach Airgid MS”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 34 C (1917–1919): 96–126.
Bernard, J. H., “The foundation of Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 23 C (1917): 527–529.
Lawlor, H. J. [ed.], “The Cathach of St Columba”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33 C (1916): 241–443.
Internet Archive: <link>
Esposito, Mario, “On the so-called Psalter of Saint Caimin”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32 C (1913): 78–88.
Internet Archive: <link>
comments: includes a reproduction of fol. 3b / page 6
Esposito, Mario, “On the earliest Latin life of St. Brigid of Kildare”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 30 C (1912–1913): 307–326.
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comments: March 1912
Esposito, Mario, “Hiberno-Latin manuscripts in the libraries of Switzerland (Part II)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 30 C (1912–1913): 1–14.
Internet Archive: <link>
comments: March 1912
Westropp, Thomas Johnson, “Types of the ringforts remaining in eastern Clare (Killaloe: its royal forts and their history)”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29 C (1911–1912): 186–212.
Internet Archive: <link>
Dix, E. R. McClintock, “The first printing of the New Testament in English at Dublin”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29 C (1911–1912): 180–185.
Internet Archive: <link>
Lawlor, H. J., “A calendar of the Register of Archbishop Sweteman”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29 C (1911–1912): 213–310.
Internet Archive: <link>
Hemphill, Samuel, “The Gospels of MacRegol of Birr: a study in Celtic illumination”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29 C (1911–1912): 1–10.
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Macalister, R. A. S., E. C. R. Armstrong, and R. L. Praeger, “Report on the exploration of Bronze-age cairns on Carrowkeel mountain, Co. Sligo”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29 C (1911–1912): 311–347.
Internet Archive: <link>
Westropp, Thomas Johnson, “Notes on the larger cliff forts of the west coast of County Mayo”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29 C (1911–1912): 11–33.
Internet Archive: <link>
Westropp, M. S. D., “Glass-making in Ireland”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29 C (1911–1912): 34–58.
Internet Archive: <link>
Esposito, Mario [ed.], “Conchubrani Vita Sanctae Monennae”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 28 C (1910): 202–238.
Internet Archive: <link>
MacNeill, John, “An Irish historical tract dated A.D. 721”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 28 C (1910, 1909–1910): 123–148.
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Lawlor, H. J., “A calendar of the Liber Niger and Liber Albus of Christ Church, Dublin”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 27 C:1 (1908, 1908–1909): 1–93.
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