Máire Ní Mhaonaigh

University of Cambridge, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Faculty Member

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Classical Compositions in Medieval Ireland: the Literary Context

Translations from Classical Literature (ed. Kevin Murray), 2006

This article provides an introduction to Middle Irish translations and adaptations from classical... more

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'The Peripheral Centre: Writing History on the 'Western Fringe''

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2017

History-writing has a central place in the rich, extensive literature of medieval Ireland and in ... more History-writing has a central place in the rich, extensive literature of medieval Ireland and in depicting their past, learned authors employed their own vernacular creatively and confidently. This article situates medieval Irish historical writing within the broader Latinate literary culture of which it formed an integral part. An examination of the relative linguistic harmony in Irish learned circles in which Latin and vernacular written media were interwoven in a mutually beneficial embrace can help better inform our understanding of cross-cultural European elite interaction of the time.

'Légend hÉrenn: "The Learning of Ireland" in the Early Medieval Period', in "Books Most Needful to Know": Contexts for the Study of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Paul E. Szarmach, Old English Newsletter Subsidia XXXVI (Kalamazoo, 2016), pp. 85-149 TYPESCRIPT

This contribution was written to provide an overview of medieval Irish written sources to scholar... more This contribution was written to provide an overview of medieval Irish written sources to scholars from other fields. It was submitted for publication in 2007 but as a result of publisher's delays it did not appear until almost a decade later. In 2012 the bibliography was updated and the version uploaded here is the revised version submitted to the publisher in April 2012. After further delays, it was finally published in 2012. Changes to the format of referencing introduced at the typesetting stage mean that it may be easy to locate references in this typescript. The published version should be cited.

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'Mongán's Metamorphosis: 'Compert Mongáin ocus Serc Duibe Lacha do Mongán', a Later Mongán Tale', in Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards, ed. Fiona Edmonds and Paul Russell, Studies in Celtic History 31 (Woodbridge, 2011) pp. 207-16

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'Of Saxons, a Viking and Normans: Colmán, Gerald and the Monastery of Mayo', in Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings, ed. James Graham-Campbell and Michael Ryan, Proceedings of the British Academy 157 (Oxford, 2009), pp. 411-26

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''Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Kingship' Revisited: Alfred, Æthelred II and Brian Bórama Compared', in Dublin in the Medieval World: Studies in Honour of Howard B. Clarke, ed. John Bradley, Alan J. Fletcher and Anngret Simms (Dublin, 2009), pp. 83-97

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'Of Bede's 'five language an four nations': the Earliest Writing from Ireland, Sccotland and Wales', in The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English, ed. Clare A. Lees (Cambridge 2012), pp. 99-119

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'The Literature of Medieval Ireland: from the Vikings to the Normans', in The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, ed. Margaret Kelleher and Philip O'Leary (Cambridge, 2006), vol. 1, pp. 32-73

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'A Neglected Account of the Battle of Clontarf', Zeitschrift fuer celtische Philologie 59 (2012), pp. 143-67 PROOFS

This is a discussion of a fragmentary text concerning the Battle of Clontarf in the manuscript Ox... more This is a discussion of a fragmentary text concerning the Battle of Clontarf in the manuscript Oxford, Bodley Library, Rawlinson B486; an edition and translation of the fragment is also provided.
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'Seanchas Traidisiúnta, Idirnáisiúnta: Cruthú na Staire in Éirinn san Aonú agus sa Dara hAois Déag', in Litríocht na Gaeilge ar Fud an Domhain: Cruthú, Caomhnú augs Athbheochan, ed. R. Nic Congáil et al., (Dublin, 2015), vol. 1, pp. 1-21

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'Poetic Authority in Middle Irish Narrative: A Case Study', in Authorities and Adaptations: the Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Ireland, ed. Elizabeth Boyle and Deborah Hayden (Dublin, 2014), pp. 263-89

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''The Metaphorical Hector': the Literary Portrayal of Murchad mac Briain', in Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative, ed. Ralph O'Connor, Studies in Celtic History 34 (Cambridge, 2014), pp. 140-61 PROOFS

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'The Hectors of Ireland and the Western World', in Sacred Histories: A Festschrift for Máire Herbert, ed. John Carey, Kevin Murray and Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (Dublin, 2015), pp. 258-68 PROOFS

This article examines how Hector is used as a model in medieval Irish literary texts, focussing i... more

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'Caraid tairisi : Literary Links between Ireland and England in the Eleventh Century' , Adapting Texts and Styles in a Celtic Context: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Processes of Literary Transfer in the Middle Ages, Studies in Honour of Erich Poppe, ed. A. Harlos and N. Harlos, pp. 265-66 PROOFS

This paper explores some evidence for links between Ireland and England, focussing in particular ... more

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'Glorious by Association: the Clontarf Obituary of Brian Boru', in Medieval Dublin XVI: Proceedings of Clontarf 1014-2014, National Conference marking the Millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, ed. Seán Duffy (Dublin, 2017), pp. 170-87 PROOFS

This article explores the significance of the obituary of Brian Boru (d. 1014). Note: This is the... more

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'Tales of Three Gormlaiths in Medieval Irish Literature', Ériu 52 (2002), pp. 1-24

ABSTRACT A body of literary material in Middle and Early Modern Irish has survived pertaining to ... more ABSTRACT A body of literary material in Middle and Early Modern Irish has survived pertaining to two historical queens both named Gormlaith: Gormlaith (ob. 948), daughter of Flann Sinna, and Gormlaith (ob. 1030), daughter of Murchad mac Finn. In addition, the latter was confused at an early period with an earlier royal Gormlaith (ob. 861), daughter of Donnchad Midi, about whom passing references have also come down to us. As actual personages who have engendered a corpus of fictional material, our trio of regal Gormlaiths parallel the host of male rulers whose deeds are celebrated in what have come to be known as king-tales. By addressing aspects of the traditions that have come to be associated with these three queens, this article seeks to chronicle their development as distinct literary entities and to shed light on the process whereby an historical figure is transformed into a complex literary character.

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