This book presents a collection of texts, translated from both Latin and Irish, which provide a many-faceted view of the religious culture of Ireland in the ear…
The first Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook (CSANAY) appeared in 2000, under the editorship of Joseph Falaky Nagy (UCLA) with the guidance of…
The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Latin around AD 800, describes how the 6th-century Irish saint Brendan set sail for an island paradise on the …
This volume acknowledges the personal scholarly contribution of Francis J. Byrne, one of Ireland's leading Celtic scholars. For a full list of contents, pleas…
Howlett charts a tradition of thought and composition from the fifth century to the thirteenth, from the Romano-British writers Pelagius, St Patrick, and Faustu…
An incandescent vision, a wildness of imagination, sensibility to sound and colour and form … human passion, love, sorrow and anger’. Thus Myles Dillon describe…
The author defines rules for composing literary texts exhibited in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament, reproduced in the Vulgate Latin Bible, …
The earliest writing in Ireland is in the form of ogham inscriptions, carved along the edges of numerous stones found throughout the country, with a strong conc…
Dramatic differences between Latin texts written before and after the settlement of the Normans in England imply that the conquerors inherited from the conquere…
The subject of this book is biblical style and its influence on Celtic Latin authors from the time of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest and beyond. The autho…
Little is known of Ailerán, except that he was lector of Clonard, Co. Meath, and that he died in the great plague of 665. He is also credited with the authorshi…
Ireland occupies a distinctive position in the cultural history of early medieval Europe. Uniquely untouched by Roman cultural influence, yet deeply informed by…
