Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1986. — 36 p. Reprinted with new pagination from: Celtica 18 (1986): 151–184. Aspects of Irish personal names. Abbreviations. Ogamic sources. Manuscript sources. Criteria for analysis of names. I - Sex. II - Period of currency. III - Area of currency. IV - Frequency of occurrence. V - Morphology. VI - Meaning. Women’s names....
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1994. — 271 pp. This is the most complete guide to Irish placenames published in modern times. It explains the origin and derivation of the names of over 3,000 cities, towns, villages and physical features. The book is in two parts. The first is a list of root or stem words which form the basis of the most common Irish place-names. The second, related...
Altirische Sage mit Einführung, Übersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar (sowie einem Anhang: Zur Phonemstatistik des Altirischen). Herausgegeben von Willibald Kraml. — Vorgelegt als Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde an der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien. — Wien, 1979. — xiii, 212 p. "Die hier edierte Sage ist nicht nur für den interessant, der sich...
Edited by Robert T. Meyer. — Mediaeval and modern Irish series, volume XVII. — School of Celtic Studies. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977 (reprint). — xvi, 47 p. — Medieval Irish version of the wanderings of Ulysses, but in a form which bears a little resemblance to the original. It is short and, apart from the general plot of Ulysses' return home from the...
Edited by Fergus Kelly. The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976. — xlv, 83 p. — " Audacht Morainn (Testament of Morann), a 7th-cent. gnomic text in Old Irish which consists of advice by the legendary judge Morann to a young king, stressing the importance of justice ( fír ) in bringing about peace and stability, which in turn ensure abundance of corn, milk, and fruit, as...
Edited by David Greene and Fergus Kelly. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976. — 113 p. — "The narrative of the poem begins in Canto 4 with the downfall of Lucifer and the creation of man. The story of Adam and Eve, which is the section of SR [ Saltair na Rann ] edited in Volume I of the present book by David Greene and Fergus Kelly, occupies about 1200 lines and is...
Translated with an introduction by John Joseph O’Meara. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1978. — xxi, 70 p. A translation from the Latin of one of the most famous and enduring stories of western Christendom, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis , written in Ireland perhaps as early as the year 800. While the routes of St. Brendan's journeys remain a subject of controversy, the tale...
Dublin: The Lilliput Press Ltd, 1990. — 188 p. Irish Names contains just under a thousand names selected from the enormous wealth of historical sources – annals, genealogies, myth, legend and epic poetry – that make up the literature of early medieval Ireland. Of the extraordinary variety of names available to the early Irish – some twelve thousand are recorded – only a handful...
Edited by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín. — Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. — xi, 188 p. "This tract in Middle Irish gives an overview of the six ages or aetates, which begin with Adam, the Flood, Abraham, David, the Babylonian Captivity and the birth of Christ, respectively (see Six Ages of the World). This follows the division of Bede, but the introduction of the tract claims...
Innsbruck: Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, 1970. — 73 S. — (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, herausgegeben von Wolfgang Meid, Band II). Behandelt die in Irland aus der schriftlosen Vorzeit ererbte, bis zum heutigen Tag lebendig gebliebene Tradition mündlicher Überlieferung allen Wissens und des alten Erzählgutes, deren Hüter die filid (professionelle...
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies, 1972. — xiv, 303 p. Revised with indexes by Brian Ó Cuív. First published in Dublin by Browne and Nolan, 1932. Basic overview of Irish dialectology. A monumental Linguistic Atlas and Survey of Irish Dialects by Henrich Wagner is recommended for further study.
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies, 1990. — vii + 176 p. An overview of the institute's 50-year existence, supplemented by lists of published publications, academic staff, scholars, research associates and extern research workers.
Ed. by J. Carmichael Watson. — Dublin: Stationery Office 1941. — xxxix + 131 p. — (Mediaeval and modern Irish series. Volume XIII). Mesca Ulad (English: The Intoxication of the Ulaid; the Ulstermen) is a narrative from the Ulster Cycle preserved in the 12th century manuscripts the Book of Leinster and in the Lebor na hUidre. The title Mesca Ulad occurs only in the Book of...
Edited by R.I. Best and Osborn Bergin. — Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1992. — xliv, 341 p. Lebor na hUidre or the Book of the Dun Cow is an Irish vellum manuscript dating to the 12th century. It is the oldest extant manuscript in Irish. It is held in the Royal Irish Academy and is badly damaged: only 67 leaves remain and many of the...