Stories of Finn Mac Cumaill and his fían (warband) constitute the most enduringly popular branch of Gaelic literature. These thirteen essays, the first English-…
This volume contains a collection of essays on the centrepiece of fíanaigecht scholarship, Agallamh na Seanórach ‘The Dialogue of the Ancients’. Initially deliv…
This collection of essays honours one of Ireland’s foremost Celticists. It contains contributions from some forty scholars, many of them his former students or …
This book discusses the rich written heritage of the Old and Middle Irish period, 600–1200, and is suitable for students of medieval Ireland as well as the gene…
Prominent in the literature of early Ireland are the tales known as echtrai (adventures) and immrama (voyages), stories telling of journeys to the Otherworld of…
