Research Catalog

Title

The Gaelic Finn tradition II / Sharon J. Arbuthnot, Síle Ní Mhurchú, Geraldine Parsons, editors.

Publication

• Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arbuthnot, Sharon J.
• Ní Mhurchú, Síle
• Parsons, Geraldine

Description

256 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map; 24 cm

Subject

• Finn MacCumhaill, active 3rd century
• Folk literature, Irish > History and criticism
• Folk literature, Irish

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "The Gaelic Finn tradition encompasses literature and lore centered on the figure of Finn mac Cumaill. The essays in this volume cover, as with those in the earlier volume, 'The Gaelic Finn tradition' (2012), numerous aspects of this material, including texts both medieval and modern, collectors and collections of oral Finn material, the landscapes of Finn mac Cumaill and the reception of the Finn Cycle outside the Gaelic world"--Page 4 of jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and indexes.

Contents

PART I. Encounters with acallam texts -- The dating of the Acallam / Gregory Toner -- Editing Acallam na senórach: a test case based on the mucc shlánga episode / Kevin Murray -- Hunting places in the Finn Cycle and their association with borderlands of medieval Gaelic territories / Elizabeth FitzPatrick -- The Reeves Agallamh as a lexical resource / Sharon J. Arbuthnot -- The poetic contention in Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig / Síle Ní Mhurchú -- PART II. Texts and traditions in the pre-modern period -- The narrative unity of ‘Finn and the man in the tree’ / Rebecca Shercliff -- The Cín Dromma Snechtai-fíanaigecht complex in London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 / Martina Maher -- Tecosca Cormaic and fíanaigecht tradition / Maxim Fomin -- The death of Diarmaid: Pessinus to Ben Bulben? / John Carey -- ‘A chloidhimh chléirchín an chluig’ and the concept of the literary cycle in medieval Ireland / Joseph J. Flahive -- PART III. Collection and modern adaptation -- The fianna and the folklore collectors / Natasha Sumner -- John Francis Campbell, William Robertson and the collection of fianaigheachd tales and ballads in nineteenth-century Scotland / Anja Gunderloch -- Late Victorian ideas about Ossian and the origins of Celtic Studies in Scotland and Germany / Bernhard Maier -- Dùsgadh na féinne (1908): Katherine Whyte Grant’s Scottish Gaelic kinderspiel / Sìm Innes The Gaelic Finn.

Call Number

JFE 22-4327

ISBN

• 1846827957
• 9781846827952

OCLC

1091653114

Title

The Gaelic Finn tradition II / Sharon J. Arbuthnot, Síle Ní Mhurchú, Geraldine Parsons, editors.

Publisher

Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-235) and indexes.

Added Author

Arbuthnot, Sharon J., editor.

Ní Mhurchú, Síle, editor.

Parsons, Geraldine, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-4327