Todd (James Henthorn)
- 1805–1869
- authors, scholars
James Henthorn Todd, Irish scholar known for his contributions to Irish studies.
See also: William ReevesReeves (William)
(1815–1892)
Irish antiquarian scholar; bishop of the Anglican see of Down, Connor and Dromore; keeper of the Armagh Public Library
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(1815–1892)
Irish antiquarian scholar; bishop of the Anglican see of Down, Connor and Dromore; keeper of the Armagh Public Library
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McDonough, Ciaran, “Investigating Irish antiquarianism: a comparative study between Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures, 1830 - 1876”, unpublished PhD thesis, NUI Galway, 2017.
abstract:
The aim of this study is to investigate the differences in and similarities between Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures in Ireland in the period 1830 to 1876. The thesis demonstrates that there were notable differences, which were largely due to matters of religion. It focuses upon a select group of scholars (John O’Donovan, Eugene O’Curry, James Henthorn Todd, William Wilde, George Petrie, Denis Henry Kelly, William Reeves, John Windele, Owen Connellan, James Hardiman, and Robert Shipboy MacAdam) from both religious confessions, who were the most prolific antiquarians of this time, and it examines their works and the contexts in which they were written. Using a new historicist methodology, this thesis highlights trends in antiquarian research, its dissemination, and modes of working and ascribes them to a particular religious community.This work is organised in three separate parts. In part one, a brief overview of the development of Irish antiquarianism from the early seventeenth to the late eighteenth century is presented in order to illustrate long-standing sectarian differences and their impact upon antiquarian pursuits in the nineteenth century.Previous scholarship has traditionally categorised the antiquarians studied in this thesis according to ethnicity (Gaelic Irish versus Anglo-Irish). Conversely, part two demonstrates that religion, and not ethnicity, was the greatest dividing social factor in Irish antiquarian circles in the first half of the nineteenth-century. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that emphasis on ethnicity and race only emerged after works had been published relating to that topic from the 1850s. Thus, part two is a comparative study between Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures in the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on the differences between the two in terms of subject matter and methodology employed.Part three traces the influence of antiquarian works on Cultural Nationalist ideology and thought at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first decades of the twentieth. In focusing specifically on the influence of antiquarian works on the images of ‘Irishness’ advanced by the Cultural Nationalists during this period, I determine that it was in fact Catholic antiquarian works that had a greater impact on the Cultural Nationalist discourse.
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Thompson, John, “William Reeves and the medieval texts and manuscripts at Armagh”, Peritia 10 (1996): 363–380.
abstract:
The achievement of William Reeves as Armagh keeper can be closely associated with the changing mid-nineteenth-century fortunes of the Armagh library property. In the absence of a detailed survey of small Irish collections to match the example set by N. R. Ker’s magisterial Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, this study traces the crucial role played by Reeves in the history of several important manuscripts and early books now in Armagh Public Library.
Todd, James H. [tr.], “Some account of the Irish MS. deposited by the President De Robien in the Public Library of Rennes”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Irish MSS series, 1:1 (1870): 66–81.
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Todd, James Henthorn [tr.], “Descriptive catalogue of the contents of the Irish manuscript, commonly called ‘The Book of Fermoy’”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Irish MSS series, 1:1 (1870): 3–65.
Todd, James Henthorn, Leabhar imuinn: the Book of Hymns of the ancient Irish Church, 2 vols, Dublin: Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1855–1869.
Internet Archive – fasc. 1 and 2: <link> Internet Archive – fasc. 1: <link> Internet Archive – fasc. 2: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de – fasc. 1: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de – fasc. 1: View in Mirador
Todd, James Henthorn [ed. and tr.], Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh: The war of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, or The invasions of Ireland by the Danes and other Norsemen, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, 48, London: Stationery Office, 1867.
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Todd, James Henthorn, Leabhar Breathnach annso sis: the Irish version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1848.
Bindon, S. H., “On the MSS. relating to Ireland in the Burgundian Library at Brussels”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 3 (1846–1847): 477–502.
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Todd, J. H., “Obits of Kilcormick”, The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society 1 (1846): 99–106.
Todd, J. H., “Autograph letter of Thady O'Roddy”, The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society 1 (1846): 112–125.
Todd, James Henthorn, “Introduction”, in: John Clarke Crosthwaite [ed.], The book of obits and martyrology of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ Church, Dublin, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1844. v–ciii.
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