{"title":"The Permanence of Place: Places and Their Names in Irish Literature","authors":"P. Stalmaszczyk","doi":"10.54586/bcbf2160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/bcbf2160","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the relation between places and their names as reflected in Irish literature. According to Robbie Hannan (1991: 19) attachment to place is among the strongest human emotions, explicitly revealed in literature. Celtic literature is ‘saturated’ with images of landscape and preoccupied with places and their names, landscape is constantly present in ancient sagas and bardic poetry, modern drama, short stories, novels and essays. The sense of place is explicitly manifest in medieval heroic tales (such as The Táin), and twentieth century novels (e.g. James Joyce’s Ulysses) and poetry, or contemporary drama (e.g. Brian Friel’s Translations). Patrick Sheeran (1988: 194) has observed that the idea of the Irish sense of place is: (a) a product of the native tradition; (b) it is a verbal or nominal preoccupation and has little to do with any actual cultivation of things; (c) it relates to death rather than to life. The principal aim of this paper is to further add to the above characteristics.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116880402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Древнеирландская сага «Пир Брикрена и Изгнание сыновей Дол Диармайда» о полюдье и продуктовой ренте (The Early Irish Saga “Fled Bricrend ocus Loinges Mac nDúil Dermait” on the Food-Rent and Royal Circuits)","authors":"Nina Chekhonadskaya","doi":"10.54586/dcsm1887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/dcsm1887","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with two kinds of sources for early Irish economic history: sagas and law-tracts. The author compares data on food-rent provided by free and unfree clients from the sagas “Bricriu’s Feast” (FB) and “Bricriu’s Feast and the Exile of the sons of Duil Diarmaid” (LMDD) with the lists of food-rents from a number of law-tracts. Unlike the FB, the list in LMDD is quite realistic and may even reflect the custom of preparing feasts for a lord for eve-ry season of the year.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117181204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obligatory Control in Irish and Polish: A Reappraisal","authors":"A. Bondaruk","doi":"10.54586/cdpg3873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/cdpg3873","url":null,"abstract":"Obligatory control (henceforth, OC) has constituted a topic extensively discussed in the literature (cf., for instance, Williams (1980), Landau (2000), Wurmbrand (2001)). Recently the controversy over OC has climaxed in the emergence of two rivaling approaches, deriving it via two distinct mechanisms. The movement theory of control, advocated by Hornstein (1999, 2001, 2003), Boeckx and Hornstein (2004, 2006), among others, derives OC by means of the N(D)P-movement of the alleged controller of PRO without posting PRO as a separate empty category altogether. The latter approach – the calculus of control proposed by Landau (2004, 2008) – maintaining the existence of PRO, obtains OC thanks to the interplay between C and I found in the non-finite clause. The present paper is rooted within the second approach and its main objective consists in providing an analysis of OC in Irish and Polish. The paper starts with a short overview of two subtypes of OC, i.e. exhaustive and partial control. This is followed by a brief outline of Landau’s (2004, 2008) model. Afterwards, an attempt is made to analyse Irish and Polish OC within Landau’s calculus of control.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128362012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Gaelic Scholar's Approaches to Recording and Tabulation in Early Eighteenth-Century Dublin","authors":"L. Mac Mathúna","doi":"10.54586/jdeo4812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/jdeo4812","url":null,"abstract":"Seán Ó Neachtain (c. 1640–1729) and his son Tadhg (1671–c.1752) were at the centre of a network of some thirty Irish language scholars which existed in Dublin in the early eighteenth century. The modernising tendencies demonstrated by Tadhg in his manuscripts continue to attract considerable academic attention. The poem beginning Sloinfead scothadh na Gaoidhilge grinn / dá raibhe rém rae i Nduibhlinn, composed by Tadhg in 1728/29, celebrates some 26 scholars connected with the city at the time, while six of his manuscripts contain commonplace entries and incorporate many contemporary newspaper accounts of events in Ireland and abroad, both in Irish translation and in the original English, alongside more familiar material associated with the Gaelic literary tradition. This paper sees the versified catalogue of scholars in Dublin and the manuscript interaction with news from the public sphere in Dublin and abroad as relating to new understandings of information, coupled with the urge to record, tabulate and interact. Among other sources which will be considered are Tadhg's list of family events (births, deaths) (in Irish), an inventory of books and manuscripts lent out (in English) and poems celebrating his father's creative works and listing the subjects and teachers who provided his son Peadar's schooling (both in Irish). Finally, an attempt will be made to situate Tadhg Ó Neachtain's interaction with information and knowledge with other aspects of the Gaelic tradition.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127115575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Specific Zoological Isoglosses between Celtic and (Balto-)Slavic","authors":"V. Blažek","doi":"10.54586/cqlp7556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/cqlp7556","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution deals with three major questions: 1. Was ‘eagle’ in Celtic and Balto-Slavic extended in -l- or in -r-? 2. Can Balto-Slavic ‘swan’ be etymologised as ‘beaked’ with the help of Celtic? 3. Can words for ‘fox’ be based on a Celto-Baltic or Celto-Slavic isogloss?","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127378673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fishing, Fishing Boats and Traditional Lore Based on Maritime Memorates Collected in the 19th and 20th Centuries in Ireland and Scotland","authors":"S. Mac Mathúna","doi":"10.54586/gwhf2143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/gwhf2143","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will analyse and assess material contained in a corpus of maritime memorates, or stories of the sea, collected in Ireland and Scotland, in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is based on the Ulster University research project ‘Stories of the Sea: A Typological Study of Maritime Memorates in Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Folklore Traditions’, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and aims to add to previous published studies on this subject, including Fomin and Mac Mathúna 2010, 2015, 2016.\u0000 The focus of this paper is on matters relating to fishing, fishermen and their boats, in Ireland, especially on the Gaelic-speaking western seaboard, and to a lesser extent in Scotland, during the period under consideration. Most of the narrators and some of the collectors themselves were fishermen, and the close bond and shared beliefs and taboos between informant and collector serves to emphasise the personal nature of the accounts. The information gained from these stories is supplemented here by works of other writers and scholars on Irish vernacular boats and on the practice of fishing and the legends, taboos and other matters associated with it.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127337521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Vita Sancti Brendani in the Russian National Library: A Latin Manuscript of the Twelfth Century","authors":"Fyodor Korandey","doi":"10.54586/qkus7622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/qkus7622","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses questions concerning the place that Vita Sancti Brendani of the Russian National Library (Codex Lat.0.v.I № 199) takes in the manuscript tradition. A Latin manuscript of the twelfth сentury, probably of German origin, contains a version of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani — the prose work, which had greater popularity throughout the Middle Ages than the actual Vitae Brendani. Listing the Navigatio as the Vita, a mediaeval complier followed a widespread fallacy as the latter was unfamiliar to him.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128998609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From 'Ambassador' to 'Whisky': A Note on Celtic Elements in Contemporary Polish Vocabulary","authors":"P. Stalmaszczyk","doi":"10.54586/ttdb1714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/ttdb1714","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses elements of Celtic origin present in contemporary Polish vocabulary. Polish did not have any direct contacts with the Celtic languages, however, some elements of Celtic (i.e. Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton) origin entered it via other languages, especially English and French. Additionally, several early borrowings from Continental Celtic spread through Latin, and subsequently the Romance languages, to other languages, including Polish, thus becoming internationalisms of Celtic origin. For the purpose of this paper all such indirect borrowings will be referred to as ‘Celtic elements in Polish vocabulary’. The relevant lexical items have been extracted from a general dictionary of Polish, several other words come from specialized sources.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"46 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128875085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Celtic Studies in Poland: Recent Themes and Developments","authors":"P. Stalmaszczyk","doi":"10.54586/wmro7332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/wmro7332","url":null,"abstract":"Though works devoted to various aspects of Celtic philology and history appeared in Poland already by the end of the 19th century, it is Stefan Czarnowski (1879–1937) who deserves to be called the forerunner of Celtic studies in Poland. Czarnowski, the author of numerous studies on sociology, religion, history and theory of culture, also published several articles devoted to Celtic issues, especially literature and religion, and translations of specimens of Celtic literatures. However, his most important achievement in the field of Celtology was Le culte des héros et ses conditions sociales: Saint-Patrick, Héros national de l’Irlande (Paris 1919), an historical and sociological study of St. Patrick and mediaeval Ireland, in which he followed the methodological assumptions worked out by Émile Durkheim. Though published more than eighty years ago, this study has lost very little of its value and importance, and still deserves to be closely analysed. Today, several Polish scholars and institutions conduct research pertinent to Celtic Studies: most notably at the Chair of Celtic Studies at the Catholic University of Lublin, the only place in Poland where regular courses in modern Irish and Welsh have been offered, and where vigorous research, especially in the phonology of the Celtic languages is conducted. Also other universities offer more or less regular courses and seminars, such as the ‘Introduction to Celtic Studies Seminar’ at the Department of English Language at Łódź University. Hopefully, the future will see more of such initiatives. In the paper, I also stress the importance and appropriateness of providing information about Celtic Studies to students of English.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126485828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recording the Last Native Manx Speakers 1909–1972","authors":"G. Broderick","doi":"10.54586/qogo4973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54586/qogo4973","url":null,"abstract":"This article concentrates on those native Manx Gaelic speaking informants recorded during the last phase of obsolescence in Manx which took place during the course of the twentieth century, from 1909 to 1972. The aim here is to include as much detail and information about the circumstances of the recording sessions, their interviewers, the interviewees, comments made on their Manx by the interviewers, and additional information and comment from the field-workers who accompanied the recording sessions, and who had got to know the informants individually and knew what they could offer. All in all, it is hoped that we now have a complete a picture as possible of this unique events that accompanied the end-phase of Manx Gaelic of the Isle of Man that had functioned as the community language of Manx men and women for some 1500 years, from c.500 CE down the the passing of the last reputed native Manx speaker, Ned Maddrell, on 27 December 1974.","PeriodicalId":370965,"journal":{"name":"Studia Celto-Slavica","volume":"26 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113943028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}