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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Irish

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Bibliographies and Catalogs
Critical editions
Manuscript Databases
Secondary Sources

Critical Editions

Irish texts by J. Fraser, P. Grosjean, S. J., and J. G. O'Keeffe (Editors)
Call Number: PB1347 .I55
Aims chiefly at providing accurate transcripts of texts which have not been previously published.

Largely untranslated

Gaelic manuscript at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. by Gerard Murphy
Call Number: PB1351 .M82 1962
Medieval Irish lyrics by James Carney
Call Number: PB1424 .C3
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse by Thomas Kinsella (Edited and Translated by)
Call Number: PR8851 .N48 1986
Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht. Love songs of Connacht; by Douglas Hyde
Call Number: PB1429 .H9 1969
Audacht Morainn by Fergus Kelly
Call Number: PB1397.A75 E5 1976
Text in Irish with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
An introduction to Irish syllabic poetry of the period 1200-1600 : with selections, notes and glossary by Eleanor Knott
Call Number: PB1331 .K66 1994
The Irish Adam and Eve story from Saltair na rann.
Call Number: PB1397.S33 E5 1976
The sources for the early history of Ireland, ecclesiastical : an introduction and guide by James F. Kenney
Call Number: DA905 .K361 1968
The cycles of the kings by Myles Dillon
Call Number: PR1329 .D5
Early Irish myths and sagas by Jeffrey Gantz
Call Number: PB1421 .E27 1985

Manuscript Databases

Trinity College Library Digitial Collections
Library in Dublin famous for the Book of Kells

Bibliographies and Catalogs

Medieval Celtic literature : a select bibliography by Rachel Bromwich
Call Number: Z7011 .B76
Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity-College, Dublin by Thomas K. Abbott
Call Number: Z6621 .D84 1980
Bibliography of Irish linguistics and literature, 1942-71 by Rolf Baumgarten
Call Number: PB1306 .B38 1986
Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford college libraries by Brian Ó Cuív
Call Number: Z6621.B663 I75 2001

Secondary Sources

The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature [Electronic Resource by Robert Welch (Editor)
Call Number: PR8706 .C66 2000
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature by Robert Welch (Editor); Bruce Stewart
Call Number: PR8706 .O88 1996
Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages by Proinseas Ni Cathain (Editor); Michael Richter (Editor)
Call Number: DA930 .I74 2001
Proceedings of the fifth International Colloquium on Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages held at the University of Konstanz, March 16-20, 1998.
The Cambridge History of Irish Literature by Margaret Kelleher (Editor); Phillip O'Leary (Editor)
Call Number: PB1306 .C36 2006
Studies in Irish literature and history by James Carney
Call Number: PB1306 .C37 1979
Conversing with Angels and Ancients: literary myths of medieval Ireland by Joseph Falaky Nagy
Call Number: BL980.I7 N34 1997
Ireland and the Grail by John Carey
Call Number: PN686.G7 C38 2007
Fiery Shapes : celestial portents and astrology in Ireland and Wales 700-1700 by Mark Williams
Call Number: PB1321 .W55 2010
The dwarfs of Arthurian romance and Celtic tradition. by Vernon Harward
Call Number: PN685 .H3
A Woman's Words: Emer and female speech in the Ulster Cycle by Joanne Findon
Call Number: PB1397.C8 F56 1997
The Otherworld Voyage in Irish Literature and History by Jonathan Wooding (Editor)
Call Number: PR8735 .O844 2000