Celtic Studies – Literature

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

Cultures and connections

Claire Breay & Joanna Story, editors

Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of England are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books a…

Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells

Denis Casey

King-maker, land-grabber, wronged husband and vengeful man of honour — just some of the popular views of Tigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172), the long-lived king of …

Lorg na Leabhar

A Festschrift for Pádraig A. Breatnach

Caoimhín Breatnach, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Gordon Ó Riain, editors

The present volume contains a collection of essays to honour the enormous contribution by Professor Pádraig A. Breatnach to learning in a diverse range of field…

Éigse XL

A Journal of Irish Studies [Vol. 40]

Liam Mac Mathúna, editor

Published by the National University of Ireland.

Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature.…

Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa'

Essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin

Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor, editors

In Life, lore and song: essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / 'Binneas an tSiansa': Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin, twenty-seven contrib…

Ulidia 4

Proceedings of the fourth international conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales

Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín & Gregory Toner, editors

The Ulster Cycle is a jewel in the Irish literary tradition. Comprising approximately eighty distinct tales, it describes a heroic world set in Ireland’s distan…

The Early Finn Cycle

Kevin Murray

The Finn (or Fenian) Cycle (fíanaigecht) is classified by modern scholarship as one of four medieval Irish literary cycles along with the Ulster Cycle, the Cycl…

Douglas Hyde

The Professor of Irish who became President of Ireland

Attracta Halpin & Áine Mannion, editors

Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was founder and first President of the Gaelic League, the first Professor in Modern Irish at University College Dublin and an active me…

Éigse: a journal of Irish Studies (39)

Volume 39

Liam Mac Mathúna, editor

Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and vers…

Sacred histories

A festschrift for Máire Herbert

John Carey, Kevin Murray & Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, editors

This collection of essays in honour of Máire Herbert focuses primarily on the textual culture of Ireland (in Latin and Irish) in its historical context from the…

Archaeology and Celtic myth

An exploration

John Waddell

In this book John Waddell contends that elements of pre-Christian Celtic myth preserved in medieval Irish literature shed light on older traditions and beliefs …

Gaelic Grace Notes

The musical expedition of Ole Mørk Sandvik to Ireland and Scotland

Séamas Ó Catháin

The exploits of Ole Mørk Sandvik (1875–1976) in the collection of Norwegian folk music and his close involvement in the development of Norwegian church music ea…