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Proceedings Of The Eighth Symposium Of Societas Celtologica Nordica
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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica by : Societas Celtologica Nordica. Symposium
Download or read book Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica written by Societas Celtologica Nordica. Symposium and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Third Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica Held in Oslo 1-2 November 1991 by : Societas Celtologica Nordica. Symposium
Download or read book Proceedings of the Third Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica Held in Oslo 1-2 November 1991 written by Societas Celtologica Nordica. Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica by : Societas Celtologica Nordica. Symposium
Download or read book Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica written by Societas Celtologica Nordica. Symposium and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel by : Ralph O'Connor
Download or read book The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel written by Ralph O'Connor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the strange world of Irish sagas. It offers a systematic literary analysis of any single native Irish saga and presents an analysis of the finest of the sagas, 'The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel'. The reader is invited to not only understand this and other Irish sagas, but also to enjoy them as literature.
Book Synopsis Ireland's Immortals by : Mark Williams
Download or read book Ireland's Immortals written by Mark Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fiction Ireland’s Immortals tells the story of one of the world’s great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation’s languages, the book describes how Ireland’s pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era—and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams’s comprehensive history traces how these gods—known as the Túatha Dé Danann—have shifted shape across the centuries. We meet the Morrígan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s elves; and many others. Ireland’s Immortals illuminates why these mythical beings have loomed so large in the world’s imagination for so long.
Book Synopsis Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland by : Andrew Sneddon
Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland written by Andrew Sneddon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it provides a detailed account of witchcraft trials and accusation.
Book Synopsis Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative by : Ralph O'Connor
Download or read book Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative written by Ralph O'Connor and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edited volume will make a major contribution to our appreciation of the importance of classical literature and learning in medieval Ireland, and particularly to our understanding of its role in shaping the content, structure and transmission of medieval Irish narrative." Dr Kevin Murray, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork. From the tenth century onwards, Irish scholars adapted Latin epics and legendary histories into the Irish language, including the Imtheachta Aeniasa, the earliest known adaptation of Virgil's Aeneid into any European vernacular; Togail Tro , a grand epic reworking of the decidedly prosaic history of the fall of Troy attributed to Dares Phrygius; and, at the other extreme, the remarkable Merugud Uilixis meic Leirtis, a fable-like retelling of Ulysses's homecoming boiled down to a few hundred lines of lapidary prose. Both the Latin originals and their Irish adaptations had a profound impact on the ways in which Irish authors wrote narratives about their own legendary past, notably the great saga T in B C ailnge (The Cattle-Raid of Cooley). The essays in this book explore the ways in which these Latin texts and techniques were used. They are unified by a conviction that classical learning and literature were central to the culture of medieval Irish storytelling, but precisely how this relationship played out is a matter of ongoing debate. As a result, they engage in dialogue with each other, using methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines (philology, classical studies, comparative literature, translation studies, and folkloristics). Ralph O'Connor is Professor in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland and Iceland at the University of Aberdeen. Contributors: Abigail Burnyeat, Michael Clarke, Robert Crampton, Helen Fulton, Barbara Hillers, M ire N Mhaonaigh, Ralph O'Connor, Erich Poppe.
Book Synopsis Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages by :
Download or read book Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines depictions of grief in the Middle Ages by exploring how grief relates to gender and identity, as well as how men and women perform grief within the various constructions of both gender and grief established by medieval culture.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language by : Moray Watson
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language written by Moray Watson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a range of perspectives on the Gaelic language, this book covers the history of the language, its development in Scotland and Canada, its spelling, syntax and morphology, its modern vocabulary, and the study of its dialects. It also addresses sociolinguistic issues such as identity, perception, language planning and the appearance of the language in literature. Each chapter is written by an expert on their topic.The book has been written accessibly with a non-specialist audience in mind. It will have a particular value for those requiring introductions to aspects of the Gaelic language. It will also be of great interest to those who are embarking on research on Gaelic for the first time. Authors include Colm O Baoill, David Adger, Rob Dunbar, Seosamh Watson, Ken Nilsen, Ken MacKinnon and Ronald Black.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23: 2003 by : Bettina Kimpton
Download or read book Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23: 2003 written by Bettina Kimpton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The 'Gallic Disaster': Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman; The Breton Compositions of Jean Cras, Paul Andre Bempéchat; Compert Con Culainn: Dangerous Liaisons: The Birth of the Hero and the Origins of Society, Marion Dean; Cernunnos: Looking a Different Way, David Fickett-Wilbar; Epic or Exegesis: The Form and Genesis of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, John Fisher; Introducing King Nuadha: Mythology and Politics in the Belfast Murals, Alexandra Hartnett; Gaelic Political Scripture: Uí Mhaoil Chonaire Scribes and the Book of Mac Murchadha Caomhánach, Benjamin Hazard; Voice, Power and Narrative Structure in Orgain Denna Ríg, Bettina Kimpton; Cucchulainn: God, Man or Animal?, Erik Larson; The Celtic Seasonal Festivals in the Light of Recent Approaches to the Indo-European Ritual Year, Emily Lyle; Vita I. S. Brigitae: An Eighth-Century Life with Seventh-Century Roots, Laurance Maney; Spirit and Flesh in Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry: A Comparison of the Work of D. Gwenallt Jones and Pennar Davies, D. Densil Morgan; Joseph Cooper Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards: Significance and Impact, Lesa Ní Mhunghaile; Old Irish *desgabál and the Concept of Ascension in Irish Religious Texts, Brian O Broin; Oenach Aimsire na mBan: Early Irish Seasonal Celebrations, Gender Roles and Mythological Cycles, Sharon Paice Macleod; Literature Reviews in An Claidheamh Soluis: A journalistic insight to Irish Literary Reviews in the Revival period 1899-1932, Regina Uí Chollatáin; and Insular and Celtic Influences on the Decoration of Yale MS 22, Elizabeth Willingham.
Book Synopsis Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain by : Barbara Korte
Download or read book Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain written by Barbara Korte and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today. The book's contributions discuss the representation of social suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability, the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism, potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a close reading of texts.
Book Synopsis Language Contacts Meet English Dialects by : Esa Penttilä
Download or read book Language Contacts Meet English Dialects written by Esa Penttilä and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of fresh research on language contacts and dialects, and the interface between the two. The volume celebrates the work of Professor Markku Filppula, an eminent scholar in the fields of Irish English, Celtic contacts in the history of English, and language contacts and vernacular universals in nonstandard Englishes. The articles in this volume explore theories and methods employed in the study of language contacts and variation, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles. The writers’ perspectives range from cognitive processing to sociolinguistics, and from theoretical and comparative discussions to new empirical, corpus-based studies.
Book Synopsis Britain and Ireland, 900–1300 by : Brendan Smith
Download or read book Britain and Ireland, 900–1300 written by Brendan Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing interest in the history of relations between the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish as the United Kingdom and Ireland begin to construct new political arrangements and to become more fully integrated into Europe. This book brings together work on how these relations developed between 900 and 1300, a period crucial for the formation of national identities. The conquest of England by the Normans and the subsequent growth in English power required the inhabitants of Britain and Ireland to reassess their dealings with each other. Old ties were broken and new ones formed. Economic change, the influence of chivalry, the transmission of literary motifs, and questions of aristocratic identity are among the topics tackled here by leading scholars from Britain, Ireland and North America. Little has been published hitherto on this subject, and the book marks a major contribution to a topic of lasting interest.
Book Synopsis MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by :
Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index of Conference Proceedings by : British Library. Document Supply Centre
Download or read book Index of Conference Proceedings written by British Library. Document Supply Centre and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Gaelic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf by : Sean Duffy
Download or read book Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf written by Sean Duffy and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. This book proposes a far-reaching reassessment of Brian Boru and Clontarf. By examining Brian's family history and tracing his career from its earliest days, it uncovers the origins of Brian's greatness and explains precisely how he changed Irish political life forever. Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf offers a new interpretation of the role of the Vikings in Irish affairs and explains how Brian emerged from obscurity to attain the high-kingship of Ireland because of his exploitation of the Viking presence. And it concludes that Clontarf was deemed a triumph, despite Brian's death, because of what he averted – a major new Viking offensive in Ireland – on that fateful day.
