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Hughes, Kathleen, “The church in Irish society, 400–800”, in: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 1: Prehistoric and early Ireland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 301–330.
Carey, John, “Eochaid ua Flannucáin [Eochaid ua Flainn] (c.936–1004)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50109>
Butler, David J., “The churches and plate of the Church of Ireland in the dioceses of Cashel, Emly Waterford & Lismore”, Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland 134 (2004): 91–165.
Ní Ghrádaigh, Jenifer, “Fragments of a twelfth-century doorway at the church of St. Multose, Kinsale?”, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 133 (2003): 68–77.
Moran, Gerard, “‘Near famine’: the Roman Catholic Church and the subsistence crisis of 1879–82”, Studia Hibernica 32 (2002, 2002–2003): 155–177.
Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [ed.], “Mary, Eve and the Church (c. 600-1800)”, in: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, and Maria Luddy [et al.] (eds), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions, Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. 45–165.
Ó Riain, Pádraig, “Irish saints’ cults and ecclesiastical families”, in: Alan Thacker, and Richard Sharpe (eds), Local saints and local churches in the early medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 291–302.
Flanagan, Marie Therese, “Irish church reform in the twelfth century and Áed Úa Cáellaide, bishop of Louth: an Italian dimension”, in: Michael Richter, and Jean-Michel Picard (eds), Ogma: essays in Celtic studies in honour of Próinséas Ní Chatháin, Dublin: Four Courts, 2002. 94–104.
Charles-Edwards, T. M., “Érlam: the patron-saint of an Irish church”, in: Alan Thacker, and Richard Sharpe (eds), Local saints and local churches in the early medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 267–290.
Edel, Doris (ed.), The Celtic west and Europe: studies in Celtic literature and the early Irish church, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.
comments: The bibliography occupies pp. 291-309.
Edel, Doris, “Identity and integration: Ireland in the early Middle Ages”, in: Doris Edel (ed.), The Celtic west and Europe: studies in Celtic literature and the early Irish church, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 19–34.
Tatsuki, Akiko, “The early Irish Church and marriage: an analysis of the Hibernensis”, Peritia 15 (2001): 195–207.
abstract:
The modern view of marriage in early Ireland has been drastically changed by recent work, but much remains to be done in this field. From an examination of books 45 and 46 of the Collectio canonum hibernensis, for example, we can deduce what were the policies and attitudes on the part of the church which must have influenced native Irish laws. The provisions concerned basically conform to the continental norm in moral matters, but as regards the legal dimension, especially where property is involved, they tend to adopt the provisions of native laws. Traces of Roman law, which Ó Corráin proposed to see in Cáin lánamna, are not obvious. Moreover, though the Hibernensis and Cáin lánamna do not differ in every respect, their dissimilar natures cannot be overlooked. In conclusion, it will be argued that the success of the church was not so total by the early eighth century as Ó Corráin maintained.
Edel, Doris, “Usque ad ultimum terrae. The Christianization of Ireland: a learned culture between conflict and integration”, in: Doris Edel (ed.), The Celtic west and Europe: studies in Celtic literature and the early Irish church, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 112–120.
Holland, Martin, “Dublin and the reform of the Irish church: eleventh and twelfth centuries”, Peritia 14 (2000): 111–160.
abstract:
This paper traces the complex and evolving relationship between Canterbury and the Irish church in the context of church reform in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the political attitudes and activities of the diocese of Dublin which aimed to be a metropolitan see with all Ireland as its province but under the primacy of Canterbury. It traces the role of the astute Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Munster and of Ireland, in ecclesiastical politics and argues that the threat from the Canterbury-Dublin alliance and the urgings of Ua Briain brought a hitherto conservative Armagh over to the side of the reformers. This led to the creation of an Irish hierarchical and diocesan structure independent of Canterbury and ultimately to the absorption of Dublin into that structure, to the intense displeasure of Canterbury and contemporary English observers.
Picard, Jean-Michel, “Princeps and principatus in the early Irish Church: a reassessment”, 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. 146–160.
Ó Riain-Raedel, Dagmar, “German influence on Munster Church and kings in the twelfth century”, 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. 323–330.
McNamara, Martin, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
A collection of reprints of articles which were first published in the period 1973-1999.
McEnery, Michael Joseph, and Raymond Refaussé, Christ Church deeds, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.
abstract:
When the Irish Public Record Office was destroyed by fire in 1922 one of the most important collections to be lost was the Christ Church deeds, which had been deposited in the office by the cathedral during the church's restoration in the 1870s. Before the destruction of the deeds, however, a calendar had been prepared detailing the contents of each document. This was partly published in the Reports of deputy keeper of the public records in the 1880s. This volume reprints this now unobtainable calendar and includes, for the first time, that part of the calendar dealing with the 17th century, which remained unpublished. This unique collection of deeds, which ranges from the late 12th to the early 18th centuries, casts light on every aspect of medieval and early modern Ireland.
Hudson, Benjamin T., “Time is short: the eschatology of the early Gaelic Church”, in: Caroline Bynam, and Paul Freedman (eds), Last things: death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 101–123, 301–306.
McNamara, Martin, “Psalter text and Psalter study in the early Irish Church (A.D. 600-1200)”, in: Martin McNamara, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. 19–142.
Reprint.
Smyth, Alfred P., “The effect of Scandinavian raiders on the English and Irish churches: a preliminary reassessment”, in: Brendan Smith (ed.), Britain and Ireland 900–1300: Insular responses to medieval European change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1–38.
Etchingham, Colmán, Church organisation in Ireland A.D. 650 to 1000, Maynooth: Laigin Publications, 1999.
Reprinted in 2002.
Flanagan, Marie Therese, “John de Courcy, the first Ulster plantation and Irish church men”, in: Brendan Smith (ed.), Britain and Ireland 900–1300: Insular responses to medieval European change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 154–178.
Hughes, A. J., “The virgin St Duinsech and her three Ulster churches near Strangford Lough, County Down”, Celtica 23 (1999): 113–124.
Kehnel, Annette, Clonmacnois: the church and lands of St. Ciarán. Change and continuity in an Irish monastic foundation (6th to 16th century), Vita Regularis: Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter. Abhandlungen, 8, Münster: LIT, 1997. 368 pp.
Universität Mannheim, Historisches Institut: <link>
Jaski, Bart, “ [Review of: Etchingham, Colmán, Viking raids on Irish church settlements in the ninth century: a reconsideration of the annals, Maynooth Monographs, Series Minor, 1, Maynooth: St Patrick's College, Maynooth Department of Old and Middle Irish, 1996.]”, Peritia 11 (1997): 449–451.
Etchingham, Colmán, Viking raids on Irish church settlements in the ninth century: a reconsideration of the annals, Maynooth Monographs, Series Minor, 1, Maynooth: St Patrick's College, Maynooth Department of Old and Middle Irish, 1996.
Mac Shamhráin, Ailbhe, Church and polity in pre-Norman Ireland: the case of Glendalough, Maynooth Monographs, 7, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1996. xxv + 274 pp.
Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín, “The Lex Innocentium: Adomnán's law for women, clerics and youths, 697”, in: Mary OʼDowd, and Sabine Wichert (eds), Chattel, servant or citizen: women’s status in church, state and society, 19, Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, 1995. 53–76.
Simms, Katharine, “Frontiers in the Irish church: regional and cultural”, in: T. B. Barry, Robin Frame, and Katharine Simms (eds), Colony and frontier in medieval Ireland: essays presented to J. F. Lydon, London, Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1995. 177–200.
OʼDowd, Mary, and Sabine Wichert (eds), Chattel, servant or citizen: women’s status in church, state and society, Historical Studies, 19, Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, 1995.
Swan, Leo, “Ecclesiastical settlement in Ireland in the early medieval period”, in: M. Fixot, and E. Zadora-Rio (eds), L’environnement des églises et la topographie religieuse des campagnes médiévales: actes du IIIe congrès international d'archéologie médiévale (Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 septembre 1989), 3, Caen: Société d’archéologie médiévale, 1994. 50–56.
Persée: <link>
Dumville, David N., “Church-government and the spread of Christianity in Ireland”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 179–181.
Etchingham, Colmán, “The early Irish Church: some observations on pastoral care and dues”, Ériu 42 (1991): 99–118.
Ó Riain, Pádraig, “Conservation in the vocabulary of the early Irish church”, in: Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Liam Breatnach, and Kim R. McCone (eds), Sages, saints and storytellers: Celtic studies in honour of Professor James Carney, 2, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1989. 358–366.
Richter, Michael, Medieval Ireland: the enduring tradition, New Gill History of Ireland, 1, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1988.
Bray, Dorothy Ann, “The Image of St. Brigit in the early Irish Church”, Études Celtiques 24 (1987): 209–215.
Journal volume: Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 24, 1987: <link>
abstract:
L’image de sainte Brigide emprunte à la fois des éléments de la déesse païenne Brigit et des éléments provenant de la christianisation. Plutôt qu’à la Vierge Marie, il faut la comparer à une grande figure de l’épopée irlandaise, la reine Medb, ainsi qu’aux sorcières surnaturelles représentant la souveraineté. Brigide est restée associée aux manifestations de la fertilité, et en particulier à la fabrication de la bière.
McNamara, Martin, “The text of the Latin Bible in the early Irish church: some data and desiderata”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und die Christenheit: Bibelstudien und Mission. Ireland and Christendom: the Bible and the missions, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1987. 7–55.
Hughes, Kathleen, Church and society in Ireland, A. D. 400–1200, ed. David N. Dumville, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 258, London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.
Moisl, Herman, “The church and the native tradition of learning in early medieval Ireland”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und die Christenheit: Bibelstudien und Mission. Ireland and Christendom: the Bible and the missions, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1987. 258–271.
Breatnach, Liam, “The ecclesiastical element in the Old-Irish legal tract Cáin Fhuithirbe”, Peritia 5 (1986): 36–52.
abstract:
This paper examines some aspects of the Old Irish legal tract Cáin Fhuithirbe, especially the role of the church in its compilation. This text is of particular importance in that it can be dated on historical grounds to within a few years of AD 680. The paper discusses the state of preservation of the text, analyses various passages which can shed light on the date and style of composition of, and ecclesiastical involvement in, this fragmentarily preserved text, and concludes with a discussion of the final part of the text which is of relevance to Patrician studies.
(source: Brepols)
Hamlin, Ann, “The archaeology of the early Irish churches in the eighth century”, Peritia 4 (1985): 279–299.
Ní Chatháin, Próinséas, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und Europa: die Kirche im Frühmittelalter / Ireland and Europe: the early church, Veröffentlichtungen des Europa Zentrums Tübingen. Kulturwissenschaftliche Reihe, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984.
Subheadings: I. Die Entstehung der frühen irischen Kirche / The formation of the early Irish Church (p. 9ff) -- II. Archäologie und Kunst / Archaeology and art (105ff) -- III. Kanonisches Recht und irisches Recht / Canon law and Irish law (151ff) -- IV. Sprache und Literatur / Language and literature (179ff) -- V. Irland und Europa / Ireland and Europe (311ff) -- VI. Zusammenfassung / Results (409ff).
Mac Niocaill, Gearóid, “Christian influences in early Irish law”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und Europa: die Kirche im Frühmittelalter / Ireland and Europe: the early church, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984. 151–156.
Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Irish law and canon law”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und Europa: die Kirche im Frühmittelalter / Ireland and Europe: the early church, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984. 157–166.
Sharpe, Richard, “Some problems concerning the organization of the church in early medieval Ireland”, Peritia 3 (1984): 230–270.
