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Leeuw, Henny de, “Chariots on high crosses: Celtic or Christian?”, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 138 (2008): 5–25.
abstract:
Many questions arise concerning the meaning of the chariots depicted on the Irish high crosses. Although some scholars have tried to interpret these images in a Christian way, no satisfactory solution has come up. Therefore, in this paper the question is asked whether the chariot could belong to a Celtic motif. By looking at the details of the images found on the Irish high crosses and comparing them to literary descriptions, the possibility is proposed that the figures in the chariots are Cú Chulainn and his charioteer Lóeg. It seems probable that the story of the Phantom Chariot of Cú Chulainn, Siaburcharpat Conculaind, is depicted in these cases. Even though this story has a clear Celtic element, it also has strong connections with Christian topics, which makes it even more probable that this is the story depicted on the Irish high crosses.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “Seventeenth-century readers of Foras feasa ar Éirinn: Ó Cléirigh, Colgan and Kearney”, in: Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn: reassessments, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 2008. 39–51.
Corthals, Johan, “Why did Fergus rise from his grave?”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 55 (2008): 1–9.
Ní Úrdail, Meidhbhín, “The literary legacy of Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn”, in: Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn: reassessments, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 2008. 52–67.
Ronan, Patricia, “Snow in the Ulster Cycle of tales: a sign of icy times or else?”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 56 (2008): 106–115.
Ó Dúshláine, Tadhg, “Medium and message: the rhetoric of Foras feasa ar Éirinn”, in: Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn: reassessments, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 2008. 68–89.
Ó Riain, Pádraig (ed.), Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn: reassessments, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 2008.
Ó Murchadha, Diarmuid, “Keating: traditionalist or innovator”, in: Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn: reassessments, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 2008. 90–102.
Putter, Ad, “Gerald of Wales and the prophet Merlin”, Anglo-Norman Studies 31 (2008): 90–103.
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My subject is the remarkable role of the prophet Merlin in English politics from Henry II through to King John, as evidenced by the writer who outlived them both, Gerald of Wales. [...]
OʼConnor, Ralph, “Prophecy, storytelling and the Otherworld in Togail bruidne Da Derga”, in: Katja Ritari, and Alexandra Bergholm (eds), Approaches to religion and mythology in Celtic studies, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 55–68.
Bradshaw, Brendan, “Reading Seathrún Céitinn’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn”, in: Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn: reassessments, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 2008. 1–18.
Gillies, William, “A poem on the land of the Little People”, in: Sharon Arbuthnot, and Kaarina Hollo (eds), ‘Fil súil nglais: a grey eye looks back’: a festschrift in honour of Colm Ó Baoill, Ceann Drochaid, Perthshire: Clann Tuirc, 2007. 33–52.
Edition and English translation of a poem (18 qq) in the Book of the Dean of Lismore beg. ‘Enyt machtyr / is ma er nyilt ra milezow’, normalised in Gaelic orthography to Iongnadh m’eachtra, 's mé ar ndeaghailt ré m’fhileadhaibh.
Haycock, Marged [ed. and tr.], Legendary poems from the Book of Taliesin, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2007.
Borsje, Jacqueline, “Úath mac Imomain und andere Schreckgespenster — Phantasievolle Kreationen oder traditionelle Elemente des irischen mittelalterlichen Erbes”, in: Helmut Birkhan (ed.), Kelten-Einfälle an der Donau. Akten des Vierten Symposiums deutschsprachiger Keltologinnen und Keltologen ... Linz/Donau, 17.-21. Juli 2005, Denkschriften, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007. 51–65.
Mac Gearailt, Uáitéar, “Leaganacha de Cath Ruis na Ríg: an deilbhíocht idir 1100-1650”, in: Pádraig A. Breatnach, Caoimhín Breatnach, and Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (eds), Léann lámhscríbhinní lobháin: The Louvain manuscript heritage, 1, Dublin: National University of Ireland, 2007. 168–197.
Graver, Jenny, “‘What’s in a name?’ About the syntax and philological functions of etymologies in the Táin”, Studia Celtica Fennica 4 (2007): 47–57.
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Deane, Marion, “Compert Conculainn: possible antecedents?”, in: Jan Erik Rekdal, and Ailbhe Ó Corráin (eds), Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, 7, Uppsala: University of Uppsala, 2007. 61–84.
Carson, Ciarán [tr.], The Táin: translated from the old Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Penguin Classics, London: Penguin, 2007.
Translation based on O’Rahilly’s editions of Recension II, LL, and Recension I.
Stalmans, Nathalie, and T. M. Charles-Edwards, “Meath, saints of (act. c.400–c.900)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2007–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51010>
Fraser, James E., “St Columba and the convention at Druimm Cete: peace and politics at seventh-century Iona”, Early Medieval Europe 15:3 (2007): 315–334.
Toner, Gregory [ed. and tr.], Bruiden Da Choca, Irish Texts Society, 61, London: Irish Texts Society, 2007.
Ní Úrdail, Meidhbhín, “Foras feasa ar Éirinn: establishing a literary canon”, in: Pádraig A. Breatnach, Caoimhín Breatnach, and Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (eds), Léann lámhscríbhinní lobháin: The Louvain manuscript heritage, 1, Dublin: National University of Ireland, 2007. 139–167.
Tristram, Hildegard L. C., “Die Langzeitüberlieferung der Táin Bó Cúailnge: Probleme und Desiderate”, in: Helmut Birkhan (ed.), Kelten-Einfälle an der Donau. Akten des Vierten Symposiums deutschsprachiger Keltologinnen und Keltologen ... Linz/Donau, 17.-21. Juli 2005, Denkschriften, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007. 583–594.
Edel, Doris, “Charakterzeichnung in der Táin bó Cúailnge am Beispiel des exilierten Fergus”, in: Helmut Birkhan (ed.), Kelten-Einfälle an der Donau. Akten des Vierten Symposiums deutschsprachiger Keltologinnen und Keltologen ... Linz/Donau, 17.-21. Juli 2005, Denkschriften, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007. 183–193.
McCone, Kim, “Die Spottwettkämpfe in der Geschichte von Mac Da Thós Schwein”, Keltische Forschungen 1 (2006): 149–161.
Bartlett, Robert, “Gerald of Wales (c.1146–1220x23)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2006–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10769>
Ó hUiginn, Ruairí, “Growth and development in the late Ulster Cycle: The case of Táin Bó Flidais”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed.), Memory and the modern in Celtic literatures, 5, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 143–161.
Clarke, Michael, “Achilles, Byrhtnoth, and Cú Chulainn: from Homer to the medieval North”, in: Michael Clarke, Bruno Currie, and Oliver Lyne (eds), Epic interactions: perspectives on Homer, Virgil and the epic tradition presented to Jasper Griffin by his pupils, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 243–272.
Herron, Thomas, “Early Modern Ireland and the New English epic: connecting Edmund Spenser and Sir George Carew”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 1 (2006): 27–52.
Kelly, Patricia, “Aislingi Oengusai”, in: TLH: Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae, Online: University College Dublin, 2006–2011.. URL: <http://www.ucd.ie/tlh/text/pk.tlh.002.text.html>
Dooley, Ann, Playing the hero: reading the Irish saga Táin bó Cúailnge, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Rutten, Stuart, “Battles at the ford: an introduction to the tradition of Comrac Fir Diad, with editions of the later versions of the tale”, PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 2006.
abstract:
This thesis is an introduction to the Old Irish tale Comrac Fir Diad, commonly known as "The Fer Diad Episode" from Tain Bo Cuailnge. The thesis introduces the reader to critical issues concerning the tale as it exists in the context of the larger Irish work and as it exists as a self-standing tale in later manuscripts in the context of the Cuchulainn saga.
Appended to the thesis and referred to in the introduction are four editions of the tale as it exists in later manuscripts and one self-standing version of "Feidhm as mo," a poem from the tale. These editions include a new edition of the tale as it appears in MS University College Dublin A25, as it appears in MS British Library Egerton 106, as it appears in MS British Library Egerton 150, and as it appears in MS Royal Irish Academy 24L20.
First, the thesis presents a history of scholarly criticism surrounding the tale and its inclusion within Tain Bo Cuailnge. Second, the thesis describes the various recensions of the tale and the manuscripts containing those recensions and offers a comparative chart for all versions of the tale. Third, the thesis examines the historical, mythological, onomastic and literary roots of Comrac Fir Diad by comparing it with similar episodes and tales in early Irish manuscripts in terms of character functions and by examining the relationship between the earliest extant manuscripts. Fourth, the thesis relates the tradition of the tale as it appears in the early recensions of Tain Bo Cuailnge and points out areas where an outside version of the tale has influenced "The Fer Diad Episode" in Tain Bo Cuailnge. Fifth, the thesis examines three, heretofore unexamined, later versions of Comrac Fir Diad from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries and their inclusion in the new context of the Cuchulainn saga of tales. Finally, the thesis suggests a number of areas for further scholarship concerning the tale, particularly in relation to its later versions.
Appended to the thesis and referred to in the introduction are four editions of the tale as it exists in later manuscripts and one self-standing version of "Feidhm as mo," a poem from the tale. These editions include a new edition of the tale as it appears in MS University College Dublin A25, as it appears in MS British Library Egerton 106, as it appears in MS British Library Egerton 150, and as it appears in MS Royal Irish Academy 24L20.
First, the thesis presents a history of scholarly criticism surrounding the tale and its inclusion within Tain Bo Cuailnge. Second, the thesis describes the various recensions of the tale and the manuscripts containing those recensions and offers a comparative chart for all versions of the tale. Third, the thesis examines the historical, mythological, onomastic and literary roots of Comrac Fir Diad by comparing it with similar episodes and tales in early Irish manuscripts in terms of character functions and by examining the relationship between the earliest extant manuscripts. Fourth, the thesis relates the tradition of the tale as it appears in the early recensions of Tain Bo Cuailnge and points out areas where an outside version of the tale has influenced "The Fer Diad Episode" in Tain Bo Cuailnge. Fifth, the thesis examines three, heretofore unexamined, later versions of Comrac Fir Diad from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries and their inclusion in the new context of the Cuchulainn saga of tales. Finally, the thesis suggests a number of areas for further scholarship concerning the tale, particularly in relation to its later versions.
Glaeske, Keith, “The children of Adam and Eve in medieval Irish literature”, Ériu 56 (2006): 1–11.
abstract:
Numerous traditions concerning the children of Adam and Eve survive in medieval Irish texts, most notably the Irish Sex Aetates Mundi, Lebor Gabála Érenn, the prose and metrical Banshenchas and the poems Cethror cóic [ḟ]ichit iar fír and Dúan in choícat cest. These extra-biblical texts present expanded numbers of children, names of non-biblical children and certain narrative details that are fragmentary and contradictory. No direct connection can be made when comparing these texts to Jewish and Christian apocryphal writings (especially to the secondary Adam literature, e.g. the Cave of treasures), texts which also seek to flesh out the Genesis account. It appears that these Irish medieval literature traditions are the product of Irish scribes, who may have transferred certain features originally attributed to the children of Noah to the children of Adam and Eve, to whom they may be linked typologically.
Sayers, William, “Róimid Rígóinmit, royal fool: onomastics and cultural valence”, Journal of Indo-European Studies 33 (2005): 41–51.
McTurk, Rory, “Chaucer, Gerald of Wales, and Ireland”, in: Rory McTurk, Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic worlds, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 34–66.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Cú Chulainn, the poets, and Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy, and Leslie Ellen Jones (eds), Heroic poets and poetic heroes in Celtic tradition: a Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford, 3, 4, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 291–302.
Eichhorn-Mulligan, Amy C., “Togail bruidne Da Derga and the politics of anatomy”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 49 (Summer, 2005): 1–19.
Hollo, Kaarina [ed. and tr.], Fled Bricrenn ocus Loinges mac nDuíl Dermait and its place in the Irish literary and oral narrative traditions, Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts, 2, Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish, National University of Ireland, 2005.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Sírrabad Súaltaim and the order of speaking among the Ulaid”, in: Bernadette Smelik, Rijcklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans, and David Cram (eds), A companion in linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 2005. 80–91.
Ó Dónaill, Caoimhín [ed. and tr.], Talland Étair, Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts, 4, Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish, National University of Ireland, 2005.
Borsje, Jacqueline, “Fled Bricrenn and tales of terror”, Peritia 19 (2005): 173–192.
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The episode about Úath mac Imomain from Fled Bricrenn, ‘The feast of Bricriu’, occurs only in Lebor na hUidre (s. xi/xii), on a leaf inserted by scribe H (also known as ‘the interpolator’). Edgar Slotkin concluded that H invented this episode himself and offers an impressive theory on why H may have done so. This is a fresh study of the relevant texts and a refinement of Slotkin’s theory. H inserted the episode, but drew on older traditions, possibly from manuscripts now lost. Moreover, Úath mac 10 Imomain is shown to be part of a larger literary context. The medieval Irish tale type called úatha (tales of terror) and the form and function of supernatural beings called úatha ‘terrors’ are discussed.
Gray, Elizabeth A., “The warrior, the poet and the king: ‘the three sins of the warrior’ and Cú Roí”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy, and Leslie Ellen Jones (eds), Heroic poets and poetic heroes in Celtic tradition: a Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford, 3, 4, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 74–90.
McTurk, Rory, “Chaucer and the Irish saga tradition”, in: Rory McTurk, Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic worlds, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 67–105.
Rooney, Catherine, “The manuscripts of the works of Gerald of Wales”, PhD thesis, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2005.
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My dissertation is a palaeographical study of the manuscripts of the works of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223). Gerald was a churchman, a member of the court of King Henry II and a prolific author. His extensive works include historical and topographical descriptions of Ireland and Wales, theological and hagiographical studies, and several autobiographical works. Throughout his career he constantly revised these works. A hundred manuscripts containing works of Gerald survive today, and the progress of his revision of his works may be observed from the manuscript-record. I therefore devote some space to the textual history of Gerald's works in the manuscripts; however, the emphasis is on the manuscripts and therefore on what the textual history can show about them, not on the texts themselves. There is an unusually large number of manuscripts (about 20%) surviving from Gerald's lifetime, including some which are decorated and illustrated and at least one which has been described as a 'working copy'. I have studied these manuscripts closely, concentrating on finding similarities between them - particularly the appearance of the same hand in different manuscripts - which may point to a common place of production, possibly 'Gerald's scriptorium'. I have also considered the manuscript evidence for Gerald's publishing processes and the possibility of finding Gerald's autograph. I have then considered the manuscripts surviving from after Gerald's death and what they can show about the continuing tradition of his works, for example: who read them, and which were most popular; the geographical spread of the manuscript-evidence; whether different works were popular at different times, and why; the treatment of the works by later scholars, for example translation, abbreviation and excerpting. This includes evidence which I have discovered for the existence of now lost manuscripts. Finally, I have compared the manuscript-tradition of Gerald's works with that of some other twelfth-century Insular writers whose works survive in various authorial editions and/or in autograph or quasi-autograph copies.
Herbert, Máire, “Becoming an exile: Colum Cille in Middle-Irish poetry”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy, and Leslie Ellen Jones (eds), Heroic poets and poetic heroes in Celtic tradition: a Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford, 3, 4, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 131–140.
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