Bibliography
Fergus Kelly
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Kelly
Works authored
Kelly, Fergus, The MacEgan legal treatise, Early Irish Law Series, 8, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies, 2020.
abstract:
This treatise is attributed to Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin (MacEgan), chief judge of the province of Connacht, who died in battle in 1309 alongside his king Aodh Ó Conchobhair (O'Conor). It is of special importance as it provides a professional lawyer's account of Irish ‘Brehon’ law in the period after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. The castle photographed here [on the cover] is Redwood (Coillte Ruadha), Co. Tipperary, occupied from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries by descendants of Giolla na Naomh.
abstract:
This treatise is attributed to Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin (MacEgan), chief judge of the province of Connacht, who died in battle in 1309 alongside his king Aodh Ó Conchobhair (O'Conor). It is of special importance as it provides a professional lawyer's account of Irish ‘Brehon’ law in the period after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. The castle photographed here [on the cover] is Redwood (Coillte Ruadha), Co. Tipperary, occupied from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries by descendants of Giolla na Naomh.
Works edited
Contributions to journals
Fergus Kelly, “[Review of: Charlene M. Eska, Cáin lánamna: an Old Irish tract on marriage and divorce law (2010)]”, in: Medium Ævum 81 (2012): 323.
comments: Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lectures
Kelly, Fergus, “Trees in early Ireland”, Irish Forestry: Journal of the Society of Irish Foresters 56:1 (1999): 39–57.
Society of Irish Foresters – PDF: <link>
Kelly, Fergus, “Early Irish law: the present state of research”, Études Celtiques 29 (1992): 15–23.
abstract:
[FR] Le Droit irlandais ancien : état présent des recherches.
L’auteur discute les derniers développements dans l’étude du Droit irlandais ancien, depuis la publication du Corpus Iuris Hibernici de D.A. Binchy, en six volumes, en 1978. Il traite en particulier des objectifs de la collection “Early Irish Law Series”, dont trois volumes sont déjà parus. Il discute aussi des opinions récentes concernant les auteurs des textes de lois.
[EN] Early Irish Law : the present state of research.
The author discusses the developments in the study of Early Irish Law since the publication of D. A. Binchy’s six-volume Corpus Iuris Hibernici in 1978.
He deals in particular with the aims of the Early Irish Law Series, in which three volumes have already been published, and discusses current thinking on the problem of the authorship of the law-texts.
L’auteur discute les derniers développements dans l’étude du Droit irlandais ancien, depuis la publication du Corpus Iuris Hibernici de D.A. Binchy, en six volumes, en 1978. Il traite en particulier des objectifs de la collection “Early Irish Law Series”, dont trois volumes sont déjà parus. Il discute aussi des opinions récentes concernant les auteurs des textes de lois.
[EN] Early Irish Law : the present state of research.
The author discusses the developments in the study of Early Irish Law since the publication of D. A. Binchy’s six-volume Corpus Iuris Hibernici in 1978.
He deals in particular with the aims of the Early Irish Law Series, in which three volumes have already been published, and discusses current thinking on the problem of the authorship of the law-texts.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 29, 1992: <link>
abstract:
[FR] Le Droit irlandais ancien : état présent des recherches.
L’auteur discute les derniers développements dans l’étude du Droit irlandais ancien, depuis la publication du Corpus Iuris Hibernici de D.A. Binchy, en six volumes, en 1978. Il traite en particulier des objectifs de la collection “Early Irish Law Series”, dont trois volumes sont déjà parus. Il discute aussi des opinions récentes concernant les auteurs des textes de lois.
[EN] Early Irish Law : the present state of research.
The author discusses the developments in the study of Early Irish Law since the publication of D. A. Binchy’s six-volume Corpus Iuris Hibernici in 1978.
He deals in particular with the aims of the Early Irish Law Series, in which three volumes have already been published, and discusses current thinking on the problem of the authorship of the law-texts.
L’auteur discute les derniers développements dans l’étude du Droit irlandais ancien, depuis la publication du Corpus Iuris Hibernici de D.A. Binchy, en six volumes, en 1978. Il traite en particulier des objectifs de la collection “Early Irish Law Series”, dont trois volumes sont déjà parus. Il discute aussi des opinions récentes concernant les auteurs des textes de lois.
[EN] Early Irish Law : the present state of research.
The author discusses the developments in the study of Early Irish Law since the publication of D. A. Binchy’s six-volume Corpus Iuris Hibernici in 1978.
He deals in particular with the aims of the Early Irish Law Series, in which three volumes have already been published, and discusses current thinking on the problem of the authorship of the law-texts.
Kelly, Fergus, “An Old-Irish text on court procedure”, Peritia 5 (1986): 74–106.
abstract:
This paper provides an edition, translation and discussion of a bipartite Old-Irish text on court procedure. The first section, in straightforward Old-Irish prose, lists the sixteen persons (or categories of persons) who may be present at a court session and indicates where each of them should sit in relation to the judges. This section provides some information on the part played by both king and judges in reaching and promulgating a verdict. It also touches on the role of sureties, witnesses and custodians of tradition (senchaid) in court. The second section is in the obscure rosc style and contains early spellings which indicate that it was composed before the first section. It seems to be a riddle about court procedure to which the answer may be ‘judgement’ or ‘verdict’.
abstract:
This paper provides an edition, translation and discussion of a bipartite Old-Irish text on court procedure. The first section, in straightforward Old-Irish prose, lists the sixteen persons (or categories of persons) who may be present at a court session and indicates where each of them should sit in relation to the judges. This section provides some information on the part played by both king and judges in reaching and promulgating a verdict. It also touches on the role of sureties, witnesses and custodians of tradition (senchaid) in court. The second section is in the obscure rosc style and contains early spellings which indicate that it was composed before the first section. It seems to be a riddle about court procedure to which the answer may be ‘judgement’ or ‘verdict’.
Kelly, Fergus, “Tiughraind Bhécáin”, Ériu 26 (1975): 66–98, 98 (addendum).
Discussion, edition and translation of a poem in praise of Colum Cille from Laud Misc. 615. pp. 114-115, where it is entitled Tiughraind Bhécáin meic Luigdech do Cholum Cille ann so (‘The last verses of Bécán mac Luigdech for Colum Culle here’). It begins Doféd andes andáil fíadhatt.
Discussion, edition and translation of a poem in praise of Colum Cille from Laud Misc. 615. pp. 114-115, where it is entitled Tiughraind Bhécáin meic Luigdech do Cholum Cille ann so (‘The last verses of Bécán mac Luigdech for Colum Culle here’). It begins Doféd andes andáil fíadhatt.
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
Kelly, Fergus, “The relative importance of cereals and livestock in the medieval Irish economy: the evidence of the law-texts”, in: Centro Italiano di studi sull’Alto Medioevo (ed.), L'irlanda e gli irlandesi nell'alto medioevo (Spoleto, 16-21 aprile 2009), 57, Spoleto: Presso La sede del Centro, 2010. 93–108.
Kelly, Fergus, “Mac Aodhagáin, Giolla na Naomh”, James McGuire [ed.], and James Quinn [ed.], Dictionary of Irish biography, online ed., Online: Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, 2009. URL: <https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a5812>.
includes: Fergus Kelly, ‘Agriculture’ • Fergus Kelly, ‘Law schools, learned families’ • Fergus Kelly, ‘Law texts’
Kelly, Fergus, “Cormac mac Airt (supp. 196/7–267)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6318>.
Kelly, Fergus, “O'Curry, Eugene (1794–1862)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20531>.
Kelly, Fergus, “Níall Noígíallach (d. c.452)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20074>.
In reference works
McGuire, James [ed.], and James Quinn [ed.], Dictionary of Irish biography, online ed., Online: Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, 2009–present. URL: <https://www.dib.ie>.
Contributions: Níall Noígíallach (d. c.452)· Mac Aodhagáin, Giolla na Naomh
Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>.
comments: General editors include Lawrence Goldman, et al.
External links
Professor Fergus Kelly, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
