EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/eri.2010.0008
Micheal O Mainnin
{"title":"'SAIG IN MACHAI FOTHÚAID': ON THE APPLICATION AND EXTENT OF 'THE MACHA' IN NORTH-WEST ARMAGH","authors":"Micheal O Mainnin","doi":"10.1353/eri.2010.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2010.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The seventh-century Patrician documents in the Book of Armagh, and other early sources such as Bethu Phátraic, contain references to the toponym Macha, which has been identified by the Dictionary of the Irish Language with either the ecclesiastical centre of Ard Macha or the 'royal seat' of Emain Macha. This article examines the evidence for the name in the sources and illustrates that Macha applies primarily to the plain in which both Ard Macha and Emain Macha are located. It is to be identified with Mag Macha 'the plain of Macha', familiar to us from the Dindshenchus, and further evidence of the organic potential of a given toponym is witnessed in later sources where the plain is referred to as Mag/Machaire na hE(a) mna' the plain of Emain' and Machaire Aird/Arda Macha 'the plain of Armagh'. The extent of Macha is difficult to establish with certainty, but it seems very likely that it stretched north to the River Blackwater as well as south towards Slíab Fúait.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"60 1","pages":"111 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309318","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/eriu.2020.70.6
D. Mcmanus
{"title":"Binomial Phrases, Dvandva Compounds and the House in Which Cú Chulainn Was Born","authors":"D. Mcmanus","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2020.70.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2020.70.6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper analyses binomial phrases in their various collocations in Early- Early Modern Irish and investigates the form and meaning of the most intimate collocations of antonyms, the dvandva compounds. The discussion is book-ended with a survey of the house in which Cú Chulainn was born, the house cen bratt cen biad, ‘with neither food nor shelter’.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"70 1","pages":"29 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69516235","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/ERIU.2008.58.55
A. Griffith
{"title":"THE ANIMACY HIERARCHY AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE NOTAE AUGENTES IN OLD IRISH","authors":"A. Griffith","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2008.58.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2008.58.55","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A previously unknown restriction on the notae augentes in Old Irish is demonstrated here: the appearance of a nota augens after a verb containing an infixed pronoun is governed by a rigid and exceptionless hierarchy that is sensitive to the person of the subject and object, as well as to whether the subject and object are human or non-human. It is further demonstrated that the notae augentes of the third person refer (almost) exclusively to humans.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"58 1","pages":"55 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515465","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/ERIU.2011.61.95
Caoimhín Breatnach
{"title":"MANUSCRIPT ABBREVIATIONS AND OTHER SCRIBAL FEATURES IN THE \"LIBER FLAVUS FERGUSIORUM\"","authors":"Caoimhín Breatnach","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2011.61.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2011.61.95","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of manuscript abbreviations and other scribal features in a section comprising twenty-four folios of the important fifteenth-century manuscript now known as the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (RIA MS 476 (23 O 48)). Some issues with regard to the expansion of manuscript abbreviations will also be discussed, and it will be seen that several abbreviations serve many more functions than their original ones.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"15 1","pages":"163 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3318/ERIU.2011.61.95","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515731","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/eriu.2020.70.4
Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh
{"title":"Neart Banbha 'Ga Barúnaibh: Dán Molta ar Phádraigín Mac Muiris","authors":"Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2020.70.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2020.70.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article presents an edition of Neart Banbha 'ga barúnaibh, a praise poem on a certain Patrick Fitzmaurice, Baron of Lixnaw. Although it is unclear when it was composed, since neither the poet nor the honorand can be identified with certainty, a fifteenth-century date is suggested. It is one of a small number of extant poems in casbhairdne, brúilingeacht, and is of interest for the light it sheds on aspects of that rare metrical form. It also contains some linguistic features that are not otherwise attested. A creative expression of the enduring trope that nature acts in sympathy with the rightful ruler (fír flaithemon), the poem bears witness both to the acculturation of the Anglo-Normans and to their pride in their own distinct identity. It is edited here for the first time, from Stonyhurst College MS A II 20, II b.Abstract:Dán adhmholta é Neart Banbha 'ga barúnaibh ar Phádraigín Mac Muiris (3e; 15f; 18a), duine de bharúin Leic Snámha i mbarúntacht Chlann Mhuiris in iarthuaisceart Chiarraí. Tá comhthéacs an dáin doiléir—ní fios cé go díreach a chum, cathain a cumadh é, ná cé acu Pádraigín Mac Muiris atá á mholadh ann. Déantar iarracht na ceisteanna sin a fhuascailt anseo. Sampla gléineach é an dán den fhorbairt a rinne na filí clasaiceacha ar théama seanbhunaithe na fíréantachta le ceiliúradh a dhéanamh ar athchultúrú agus ar fhéiniúlacht shainiúil na nAngla-Normannach.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"83 1","pages":"41 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69516215","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/eriu.2020.70.3
Caoimhín Breatnach
{"title":"Explanations of Three Rare Words in the Tale Known as Úath Beinne Étair and a Re-Assessment of this Title","authors":"Caoimhín Breatnach","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2020.70.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2020.70.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>Explanations of the three rare words <i>sennin, sincreth</i> and <i>nemceissi</i> in a tale to which the title <i>Úath Beinne Étair</i> has been assigned are proposed. It is also argued that there is little justification for assigning this title to the tale.</p>","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"70 1","pages":"73 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47216104","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/eri.2005.0010
D. Mcmanus
{"title":"Varia II. IGT Citations; Further Identifications","authors":"D. Mcmanus","doi":"10.1353/eri.2005.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2005.0010","url":null,"abstract":"In my last contribution to this series of varia (see note 1 below), the total number of citations in the Grammatical and Syntactical Tracts identified in Bardic poetry was brought to 434, and the total number of poems from which these are cited reached 173. I now add twelve new identifications and one already noted, which occurs in two separate poems (175 and 177 below). Five new poems can now be added to the list, bringing the totals for citations and poems to 446 and 178, respectively.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"55 1","pages":"145 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47874563","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/eri.2005.0003
Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh
{"title":"A Gaulish-Gaelic Correspondence: S(o)uxt- and Suac(hd)an","authors":"Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh","doi":"10.1353/eri.2005.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2005.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A connection between Gaulish s(o)uxt-, early Irish suacht and later suacan has recently been tentatively suggested by Lambert (2000; 2004). The present paper, by exploring the phonological variants of the word suacan, its attestation and its semantic range in Scottish Gaelic, illustrates that Scottish Gaelic holds the key to establishing with certainty such a connection.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"55 1","pages":"103 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47572890","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}