Prophecy and kingship in Adomnán's 'Life of Saint Columba'

Adomnán at Birr, AD 697

Essays in commemoration of the Law of the Innocents

Thomas O'Loughlin, editor

In 697 Adomnán, the Abbot of Iona, promulgated a 'law' at the synod held in Birr. This Law, known as the Cáin Adomnán or Lex Innocentium, was to protect women, …

Adomnán of Iona

Theologian, lawmaker, peacemaker

Jonathan Wooding, editor

With Rodney Aist, Thomas Clancy & Thomas O'Loughlin.

The abbot of Iona in the late 7th century, Adomnán, a kinsmen of the founder St Columba, was one of the mo…

Lady with a mead cup

Ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tène to the Viking Age

Michael J. Enright

Lady with a Mead Cup is a broad-ranging, innovative and strikingly original study of the early medieval barbarian cup-offering ritual and its social, institutio…

The Otherworld Voyage in early Irish literature

An anthology of criticism

Jonathan Wooding editor

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…

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…