The earliest writing in Ireland is in the form of ogham inscriptions, carved along the edges of numerous stones found throughout the country, with a strong conc…
Dramatic differences between Latin texts written before and after the settlement of the Normans in England imply that the conquerors inherited from the conquere…
The subject of this book is biblical style and its influence on Celtic Latin authors from the time of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest and beyond. The autho…
Little is known of Ailerán, except that he was lector of Clonard, Co. Meath, and that he died in the great plague of 665. He is also credited with the authorshi…
Ireland occupies a distinctive position in the cultural history of early medieval Europe. Uniquely untouched by Roman cultural influence, yet deeply informed by…
The Vision of Tnugdal, one of the great twelfth-century visions of the otherworld, was originally written in Latin by an Irish monk in Germany. This extraordina…
