Bibliography
Kim R.
McCone s. xx / s. xxi
Works authored
includes: Kim R. McCone, ‘Preliminaries’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘The noun, adjective and article’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘The verb ‘to be’ and word order’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘Pronouns, prepositions and numerals’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘The present stem, simple and compound verbs, object pronouns’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘The preterite active stem and the relative markers’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘The passive and the deponent’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘The subjunctive stem’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘The future stem’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘The augment’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘Further reading’ • Kim R. McCone, ‘A basic introduction to Middle Irish’
A collection of early Irish tales in a Modern Irish translation.
Websites
MacShamhráin, Ailbhe, Nora White, Aidan Breen, and Kim R. McCone, Monasticon Hibernicum: early Christian ecclesiastical settlement in Ireland, 5th to 12th centuries, Online: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies, 2008–present. URL: <https://monasticon.celt.dias.ie>.
Works edited
Contributions to journals
McCone, Kim R., “Dubthach maccu Lugair and a matter of life and death in the pseudo-historical prologue to the Senchas Már”, Peritia 5 (1986): 1–35.
abstract:
The three extant versions of the pseudo-historical prologue to the Senchas Már share an original core best preserved in the Harley recension. Its centre-piece, an archaising poem ascribed to Dubthach maccu Lugair, stands revealed in translation as a sophisticated scripturally-based argument for punishment of culpable homicide by death in spite of the christian doctrine of forgiveness. As such, it is integrally bound up with the surrounding prose ascribing the foundation of early Irish law to the fusion of native legal with imported biblical concepts under clerical auspices symbolized by St Patrick. Despite its bogus appearance as commentary, the prose must be contemporary with the poem, which is unlikely to be post-eighth-century on linguistic and stylistic grounds but is hardly much older either on the evidence that Muirchú’s Life of St Patrick was its main source. This earlier dating of the prologue goes hand in hand with further evidence for the recent revolutionary contention that so-called rosc composition is not necessarily an archaic, oral and pagan phenomenon but could be produced by clerics working from written Latin sources as late as the eighth century. An annotated text of Dubthach’s rosc concludes the discussion.
abstract:
The three extant versions of the pseudo-historical prologue to the Senchas Már share an original core best preserved in the Harley recension. Its centre-piece, an archaising poem ascribed to Dubthach maccu Lugair, stands revealed in translation as a sophisticated scripturally-based argument for punishment of culpable homicide by death in spite of the christian doctrine of forgiveness. As such, it is integrally bound up with the surrounding prose ascribing the foundation of early Irish law to the fusion of native legal with imported biblical concepts under clerical auspices symbolized by St Patrick. Despite its bogus appearance as commentary, the prose must be contemporary with the poem, which is unlikely to be post-eighth-century on linguistic and stylistic grounds but is hardly much older either on the evidence that Muirchú’s Life of St Patrick was its main source. This earlier dating of the prologue goes hand in hand with further evidence for the recent revolutionary contention that so-called rosc composition is not necessarily an archaic, oral and pagan phenomenon but could be produced by clerics working from written Latin sources as late as the eighth century. An annotated text of Dubthach’s rosc concludes the discussion.
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
McCone, Kim, “Unstressed vowels and consonant quality in Old Irish: u or non-u?”, in: Liam Breatnach, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Damian McManus, and Katharine Simms (eds), Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies, held in Maynooth University, 1–5 August 2011, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015. 109–135.
