EriuPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/eri.0.a903266
Lionel S. Joseph
{"title":"Old Irish Námae 'Enemy' and the Celtic NT-Stems","authors":"Lionel S. Joseph","doi":"10.1353/eri.0.a903266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.0.a903266","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, I will present as complete a collection as I can of Celtic nt-stems in order to answer the general question what types of nt-stems occur in Celtic, and specifically to use that collection to determine the most probable pre-form of Old Irish námae ‘enemy’ and its Gaulish cognates, about which there has been a lively discussion ever since 1923. I will also discuss in detail the system of adjectives and abstracts of which Old Irish lethan ‘broad’ : lethet ‘breadth’ is representative.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"1 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66308837","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}
EriuPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/eri.0.a900887
M. Hoyne
{"title":"Paradigm Splits and Hiatus Forms: The Origins of Modern Irish Sceach and Scottish Gaelic Sgitheach 'Thorn Tree', and the Old Irish Precursor of Scottish Gaelic Dìthean 'Flower'","authors":"M. Hoyne","doi":"10.1353/eri.0.a900887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.0.a900887","url":null,"abstract":"This paper consists of two notes. The first argues that Scottish Gaelic <em>sgitheach</em> and Modern Irish <em>sceach</em> both have their origins in plural forms of Early Irish <em>scé</em> ‘thorn tree’, a paradigm in which we would expect to find alternation between <em>iä</em> and <em>e</em>. Similar paradigm splits and instances of paradigmatic levelling are discussed, with examples from Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish. The second note draws on the evidence of Scottish Gaelic <em>dìthean</em> ‘flower’ to clarify the earlier form of the word attested in Early Modern Irish manuscripts as <em>dithan</em> or <em>dithen</em> ‘corn marigold’. It is argued that <em>dìthean</em> most likely goes back to Early Irish <em>díán</em>. This discussion also sheds some light on the form of the Early Irish word for ‘purple foxglove’.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49447141","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}
EriuPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1353/eri.2022.0003
Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail
{"title":"A Éamainn, An Agad Féin!: Dán Cointinne Agus Dán Ómóis In Éineacht","authors":"Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail","doi":"10.1353/eri.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article provides an edition of a poem beginning A Éamainn, an agad féin! which is preserved today in National Library of Scotland MS Adv. 72.1.42. The focus of its anonymous author is twofold, namely (i) to praise Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill (ob. 1649), nephew of Aodh Ó Néill, second Earl of Tyrone, for his extraordinary martial abilities, particularly throughout the 1640s following his return to Ireland from Spanish Flanders in July 1642; (ii) to upbraid the audacity of ‘Éamann’ for his criticism of Piaras Feiritéar, poet and military leader from the Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, who himself composed a poem in support of Ó Néill’s auspicious military credentials.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"72 1","pages":"57 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309249","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}
EriuPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1353/eri.2022.0004
M. Hoyne
{"title":"Restrictions on the Use of the Historical Present in Irish: The Evidence of the Grammatical and Syntactical Tracts","authors":"M. Hoyne","doi":"10.1353/eri.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is not so much concerned with how the historical present is used in Classical Modern Irish (and to a lesser extent also in Early Irish) as with how it is not used. The historical present is introduced here with examples from Early and Classical Modern Irish before the Bardic terminology used to discuss it is explained. Attention is drawn to information in the Bardic grammatical tracts concerning general restrictions on the use of the historical present and to references to specific verbs which may not be used in the historical present. It is shown that the historical present does not occur in negative and relative clauses and that it is usually avoided after conjunctions, and it is argued that atelic verbs cannot (normally) be used in the historical present.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"110 1","pages":"118 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309292","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}
EriuPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1353/eri.2022.0005
Eoin MacCárthaigh
{"title":"Gofraidh Óg Mac An Bhaird Cecinit: 7. Treóin An Cheannais Clann Dálaigh","authors":"Eoin MacCárthaigh","doi":"10.1353/eri.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This is the seventh in a series of editions of the poems of Gofraidh Óg (son of Gofraidh son of Brian) Mac an Bhaird, who flourished in the 1640s and 1650s. It is in praise of An Calbhach Ruadh (son of Maghnas son of Conn Óg son of Conn) Ó Domhnaill and, in supplementary quatrains, of his wife, Eibhilín daughter of Báitéar Mac Suibhne. A quatrain in praise of Donnchadh (son of Niall son of Donnchadh) Mac Suibhne is also appended. An apologue likens An Calbhach’s struggle to that of Conn Céadchathach, forced at first to concede territory to hostile forces but ultimately triumphing and winning all. The poem was previously edited by Owen McKernan in Éigse in the 1940s. It is edited anew here from Stonyhurst College MS A II 20, with readings from National Library of Ireland MSS G 167 and G 299, Trinity College Dublin MS H 6. 7 (1411) and British Library MS Egerton 112, and with a full discussion of these and other extant witnesses.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"72 1","pages":"119 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47962933","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}
EriuPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1353/eri.2022.0008
Eoin MacCárthaigh
{"title":"Varia II: Éanainmneacha agus éanseanchas i bhfilíocht na scol II","authors":"Eoin MacCárthaigh","doi":"10.1353/eri.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Leanann sé seo ar varium in Ériu 71 (2021), 155–9, agus tá an cur chuige céanna anseo arís agam. Is é sin dornán éanainmneacha in ord aibítre a úsáid mar áis chun eagar a chur ar thagairtí éagsúla don éanlaith atá aimsithe agam san fhilíocht. Cadhan: Seo an Ghaeilge oifigiúil ar ‘brent goose’ (Branta bernicla) anois agus is é ‘gé ghiúrainn’ an leagan oifigiúil i gcás an ‘barnacle goose’ (Branta leucopsis). Chonacthas sampla aonair san fhilíocht de éan gioghrann = ‘barnacle goose’ sa varium ar a leanann sé seo (s.v. gioghra), ach ní hionann sin is a rá go mbeadh idirdhealú i dtólamh ag na filí idir an dá chineál gé, ná go bhfuil aon locht ar ‘barnacle goose’ i roinnt de na haistriúcháin thíos. Is dócha nach n-aithneodh Tadhg Ó Cobhthaigh cineál amháin thar an gcineál eile pé scéal é, agus a chumas mar éaneolaí bainte de ag tinneas an ghrá, mar is léir ón rann deiridh sa dán Corrach do chodlas a-réir:","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"72 1","pages":"227 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309305","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}
EriuPub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1353/eri.2022.0001
E. Ó. Raghallaigh
{"title":"‘Woe is he Who Does Not Praise the Mother Of God’: Another Poem Beginning Mairg Nach Molann Máthair Dé","authors":"E. Ó. Raghallaigh","doi":"10.1353/eri.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1919 Lambert McKenna published a poem beginning Mairg nach molann máthair Dé in a collection entitled Dánta do chum Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh. The poem edited here, which survives in TCD 1340 (H. 3. 19), begins with the same first line and as a result has been overlooked up to now. Unlike the poem published by McKenna, in which the author emphasises the difficulty in finding original praise for the Virgin Mary, our poem is straightforward in its direct and immediate praise of her.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"72 1","pages":"33 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309235","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":"When did nd become nn in which Early Irish environments?","authors":"Jürgen Uhlich","doi":"10.1353/eri.0.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.0.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the various accentual environments in which clusters of nasal plus voiced stop were assimilated to an unlenited nasal, focusing principally on nd > nn. It is argued that the chronological differentiation offered in GOI between (a) Early Old Irish nd > nn in proclitics and (b) Classical Old Irish nd > nn in stressed words is not sufficient. Instead, the accentual status of each syllable surrounding the cluster needs to be considered separately, and the chronological sequence needs to be enlarged to three stages: (a) Early Old Irish nd > nn between two pretonic syllables, (b) Classical Old Irish nd > nn between a stressed and a post-tonic or between two post-tonic syllables, and (c) Middle Irish nd > nn between a pretonic and a stressed syllable, occurring specifically in the article form ind and nasalised nd-. Some apparent exceptions to (c), suggesting pre-Middle Irish assimilation in this environment, are redefined as properly belonging to environment (a), and the appendix presents a complete sample, with statistical analysis, of relevant spellings (mainly of the article) from four texts of different dates of composition as preserved in the late Middle Irish manuscript Lebor na hUidre.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"1 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66308830","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}