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Title

Gablánach in scélaigecht : Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley / Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon and Westley Follett, editors.

Publication

• Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Follett, Westley
• Findon, Joanne, 1957-
• Sheehan, Sarah
• Dooley, Ann, 1943-
• Herren, Michael W.
• Sheehan, Sarah, 1976-
• Follett, Westley.

Description

xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, maps; 24 cm

Summary

This book celebrates the career of Professor Emerita Ann Dooley, one of Canada's most eminent Celtic medievalists. Dooley's colleagues at the University of Toronto, her former doctoral students and some of the most prominent scholars in medieval Celtic studies honour her work with original essays reflecting her teaching and interests: early Irish and Welsh literature and history, literary theory and feminist approaches to medieval Celtic literature.

Alternative Title

Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley

Subject

• 1100-1550
• Celtic literature > History and criticism
• Irish language > Middle Irish, 1100-1550

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Patrick, Gaul, and Gildas : a new lens on the apostle of Ireland's career / Michael W. Herren -- The sea and the spirit : two notes / John Carey -- The O'Donohue lives of the Salamancan Codex : the earliest collection of Irish saints' lives? / Pádraig Ó Riain -- Women, blood, and soul-friendship : a contextual study of two anecdotes from the Tallaght memoir / Westley Follett -- Plotting Acallam na Senórach : the physical context of the 'Mayo' sequence / Anne Connon -- The Acallam : the church's eventual acceptance of the cultural inheritance of pagan Ireland / Harry Roe -- Lexical specificity in the Auraicept na nÉces / James Acken -- The body in Táin Bó Cúailnge / Tomás Ó Cathasaigh -- Nes, Deirdriu, Luaine : fated women in Conchobar's life / Joanne Findon -- Loving Medb / Sarah Sheehan -- The monstrous hero (or monster-as-hero) : a Celtic motif in contemporary literature / Connell Monette -- Eól dam seiser cloinne Cuinn : the fortunes of a twelfth-century Irish syncretistic poem / Dáibhí Ó Cróinín -- The Irish history of the 'third Troy' and medieval writing of history / Brent Miles -- Gwydion in the court of Pryderi / Patrick K. Ford -- How Irish was medieval Ceredigion? : pseudo-history, history, and historiography / Karen Jankulak -- The 'statue of Gruffudd ap Cynan' : a window on late-medieval Welsh bardic practice / David N. Klausner.

ISBN

• 9781846823862
• 1846823862

OCLC

• 825749360
• SCSB-12506146

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library