The Gaelic Finn tradition II

The Gaelic Finn Tradition

Sharon J. Arbuthnot & Geraldine Parsons, editors

Stories of Finn Mac Cumaill and his fían (warband) constitute the most enduringly popular branch of Gaelic literature. These thirteen essays, the first English-…

Life and death in medieval Gaelic Ireland

The skeletons from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal

Catriona J. McKenzie & Eileen M. Murphy

In 2003, the skeletal remains of some 1,300 individuals – men, women and children – were uncovered from Ballyhanna, near Ballyshannon in Co. Donegal. Radiocarbo…

Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages

History, culture and society

Katharine Simms

Nowadays, medieval Gaelic Ulster is virtually invisible. Physical evidence from the four centuries stretching between the invasion of the Anglo-Norman baron Joh…

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…

A dictionary of Irish saints

Pádraig Ó Riain

Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. Profe…

A supplement to A Dictionary of Irish Saints

Containing additions and corrections

Pádraig Ó Riain

To be bought in conjunction with A Dictionary of Irish Saints

In the ten years since its publication by Four Courts Press in 2011 A dictionary of Irish saints …

Adomnán, Adhamhnán, Eunan

Life and afterlife of a Donegal Saint

Brian Lacey

Adomnán (c.625–704) was ninth abbot of the monastery on Iona off the Scottish coast, and comarba (head) of the confederation of churches associated with St Colu…

Iona, Kells, and Derry

The history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba

Máire Herbert

First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth a…

Adomnán's Lex Innocentium and the Laws of War

James W. Houlihan

This book studies the Irish law dating from AD 697, called Lex Innocentium or the Law of the Innocents. It is also known as Cáin Adomnáin, being named after Ado…

The Irish Church, its Reform and the English Invasion

Donnchadh Ó Corráin

This book radically reassesses the reform of the Irish Church in the twelfth century, on its own terms and in the context of the English Invasion that it helped…

Medieval Gaelic sources

Katharine Simms

This short book is intended to serve as a practical guide to Gaelic language sources (as opposed to administrative or ecclesiastical records in Latin, French, o…