Celtic Studies – Literature

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…

Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. Volume 42 (2024)

Liam Mac Mathúna

Éigse Volume 42 includes contributions on medieval texts and manuscripts, an edition of an aisling poem by Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin and articles on Manx, the m…

Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250

Edel Bhreathnach

The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of Iona and Co…

Two Lives of Saint Brigid

Philip Freeman

St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at K…

Éigse Ancillary Volume 3

Douglas Hyde: Irish Ideology and International Impact

Liam Mac Mathúna & Máire Nic an Bhaird, editors

Drawing on the latest research on diaries, personal correspondence, memoir reflections, newspaper reports and State archives, this collection of essays by leadi…

Éigse Vol. 41

A Journal of Irish Studies. Volume 41

Liam MacMathuna, editor

Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research on the Irish language and its literature, embracing both textual and contextual studies. Volume …

The Historian as Detective

Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons & Salvador Ryan

This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archa…

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…

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.…