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Ollam
Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
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2016
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Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his legacy.
The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising stars or great professors at the finest universities around the world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur bán; a suite of articarticles on the ideal king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known heroes like Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill.
This book will be a must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the twenty-first century.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-61147-834-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-61147-835-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
350
Product type
Edited Book
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Foreword No access
Preface No access
Abbreviations No access
1: The Death of Aífe’s Only Son and the Heroic Biography No access
2: Two by Two: The Doubled Chariot-Figure of Táin Bó Cúailnge No access
3: On Not Eating Dog No access
4: The Odrán Episode in Esnada Tige Buchet No access
5: Moling and the Bórama No access
6: Wavering Heroes in the Icelandic Sagas No access
7: Heroes Humiliated: A Theme in Bardic Eulogies No access
8: Annals, Histories, and Stories: Some Thirteenth-Century Entries in the Annals of the Four Masters No access
9: Cormac mac Airt in Classical Irish Poetry: Young in Age but Old in Wisdom, and Not Entirely Flawless No access
10: “Bhí an saol aoibhinn ait”: Cormac mac Airt in Oral Folk Tradition No access
11: Below Ground: A Study of Early Irish Pits and Souterrains No access
12: Recholl Breth: Why It Is a “Shroud of Judgments” No access
13: Comparing Like to (Un)like: Parables, Words, and Opinions in Romance and Irish No access
14: On the Line-Break in Early Irish Verse, and Some Remarks on the Syntax of the Genitive in Old and Middle Irish No access
15: “Dubad nach innsci”: Cultivation of Obscurity in Medieval Irish Literature No access
16: Pangur Bán No access
17: Finn’s Student Days No access
18: A Poem by Eochaidh Ó hEódhusa No access
19: The dánta grá and the Book of the Dean of Lismore No access
21: Terms of Art: Theorizing Poetry in the Earliest Welsh Anthology No access
Bibliography of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh No access Pages 299 - 302
