EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/ERIU.2012.62.113
Róisín McLaughlin
{"title":"A TEXT ON ALMSGIVING IN RIA MS 3 B 23 AND THE \"LEABHAR BREAC\"","authors":"Róisín McLaughlin","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2012.62.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2012.62.113","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper presents a Latin-Irish text on almsgiving in RIA MS 23 P 16 (1230; the Leabhar Breac) and a previously unpublished Middle-Irish version which is found in RIA MS 3 B 23 (1227). Editions and translations of both texts are provided and the language of the latter text is discussed. Many of the Latin sources in the text are identified, and some general observations are made concerning the compilation and transmission of Latin-Irish texts. In addition, a transcription of the text as found in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud 610 is given as an appendix.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"62 1","pages":"113 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3318/ERIU.2012.62.113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48686353","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.2015.65.3
T. G. Barnes
{"title":"Old Irish cuire, its congeners, and the ending of the 2nd sg. middle imperative","authors":"T. G. Barnes","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2015.65.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2015.65.3","url":null,"abstract":"The 2nd sg. imperative of fo-ceird, -cuirethar ‘puts, throws’ has two forms in Old Irish: the expected cuirthe and an apparently irregular form cuire. The form cuire has attracted very little attention, and (as we shall see) its traditional explanation does not stand up to scrutiny. From manuscripts datable to the Old Irish period we find variation between the expected cuirthe and irregular cuire: thus while at Ml. 56c5 iecta (sic) is glossed cuirthe, in the glosses on Bede tolle is glossed cuire huait at BCr 32c11 as well as in the parallel BV(i) 4b1.70. The agreement of these two manuscripts indicates that the form cuire stood in the archetype of the Bede glosses, which may have been roughly contemporaneous with Ml. The form cuire is common in later manuscripts, for example at LU 4784 (cure) and 10821 (quoted below), and persists through typically Middle Irish writings, for example at SR 1561 (cuiri, Breatnach 1994, 298).","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"65 1","pages":"49 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3318/ERIU.2015.65.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515932","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.2017.67.2
Pamela O’Neill
{"title":"Old Irish muirchrech ‘sea-boundary’","authors":"Pamela O’Neill","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2017.67.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2017.67.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Old Irish word muirchrech (also murchrech and muirchreth) is found in law texts where it refers to the distance out to sea at which certain offenders are to be placed in a boat and left to the dictates of wind and tide. Uses of the word in literary texts either reflect this legal scenario or imply a convention of diplomatic protection within a muirchrech of a ruler's territorial lands. Although this general use of the term is clear, there has not yet been any agreement as to the literal meaning of muirchrech, or the actual distance referred to. This article sets out to explore possible literal meanings of muirchrech.1","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"67 1","pages":"1 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69516317","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.2017.67.5
Marie-Luise Theuerkauf
{"title":"The death of Boand and the recensions of Dindṡenchas Érenn","authors":"Marie-Luise Theuerkauf","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2017.67.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2017.67.5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The death of Boand is found in both prose and verse in the Dindṡenchas. Three poems, labelled Boand I, II and III by E.J. Gwynn, have survived in various sources. In the first section of this paper, I provide an analysis of the relationship of these poems to one another. This section also includes an edition and translation of a short poem, here called ‘Boand A’, from Oxford Bodl. MS Laud 610, which has a close connection to Boand I. In the second section, I discuss changes which occur between variants of the prose article on Boand. The outcome of the present enquiry demonstrates how studying individual Dindṡenchas articles broadens our knowledge of the dynamics and growth of the entire corpus. The results of this investigation also have an impact on our understanding of the recensions of the Dindṡenchas.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"67 1","pages":"49 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69516361","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.2004.0015
Diarmuid Ó Sé
{"title":"The 'After' Perfect and Related Constructions in Gaelic Dialects","authors":"Diarmuid Ó Sé","doi":"10.1353/eri.2004.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2004.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers the historical origin of the two kinds of perfect construction in the Gaelic languages (e.g. ModIr táim tar éisli ndéidh é a dhéanamh and tá sé déanta agam, both roughly 'I have done it'). The apparent descent of the former from a late MidIr and EModIr construction with iar 'after' and the verbal noun is described. The suggestion that the latter is most likely a development of a stative construction (e.g. Modlr tá sé ullamh agam 'I have it ready') is supported. Some related constructions are discussed also. Reflexes in the modern dialects of Ireland, Scotland and Man are described in some detail, and the Hiberno-English 'after' perfect (e.g. I am after doing it) is briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"54 1","pages":"179 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66308451","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.2013.0007
D. Mcmanus
{"title":"VARIA II: On the 2nd sg. subjunctive of do-ní in Classical Irish","authors":"D. Mcmanus","doi":"10.1353/eri.2013.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2013.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"63 1","pages":"155 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66308906","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.2004.54.1.139
J. Picard
{"title":"Bede and Irish Scholarship: Scientific Treatises and Grammars","authors":"J. Picard","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2004.54.1.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2004.54.1.139","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper revisits the question of Bede's debt to Irish scholarship. It attempts to show exactly which texts of Irish origin Bede used, not only in his scientific treatises but also in his exegetical works, and, perhaps more importantly, how he used them. He seems to have appreciated the synthetic approach of the Irish masters, but did not hesitate to query their scholarship, supplementing their information with classical and Patristic texts. On the other hand, he failed to understand their humour and is found to be led astray by the witticisms of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus. Although Bede does not acknowledge any of Irish masters, his attitude toward the Irish may not have been as negative as it would appear from a modern standpoint.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"54 1","pages":"139 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515439","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.2008.58.133
D. Mcmanus
{"title":"NIALL FROSACH'S 'ACT OF TRUTH': A BARDIC APOLOGUE IN A POEM FOR SIR NICHOLAS WALSH, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COMMON PLEAS († 1615)","authors":"D. Mcmanus","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2008.58.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2008.58.133","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Middle Irish story relating Niall Frosach's true judgement concerning a young woman and her fatherless child is told as an apologue in a late-sixteenth- or early-seventeenth-century Bardic poem attributed to Tuileagna (mac Torna) Ó Maoil Chonaire, and addressed to Sir Nicholas Walsh, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Speaker of the third parliament convened in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Perrott's parliament of 1585–6. The poem, Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann, was published in Tomás Ó Raghallaigh's Filí agus filidheacht Chonnacht (1938), but the apologue was censored in that publication. In this article the poem is edited with translation and critical notes from the only manuscript in which it has come down to us—RIA 23 L 17 (RIA 3). The two copies of the Middle Irish text that have survived (from LL and the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum) are also presented and compared in an appendix to the article; and a second appendix provides the text and translation of an Early Modern Irish version of the story found in An Leabhar Eoghanach and published (without translation) by Ó Donnchadha in Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"58 1","pages":"133 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515459","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.2014.64.23
M. Clarke
{"title":"The Extended Prologue of Togail Troί: From Adam to the Wars of Troy","authors":"M. Clarke","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2014.64.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2014.64.23","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:AbstractThis article is a study of the hitherto unpublished Prologue found in the later versions of Togail Troί (TTr), the Middle Irish history of the Trojan War. The Prologue sets the Trojan War in the context of the descent of nations from the sons of Noah and ultimately from those of Adam, and ends with a series of verses on Trojan genealogy. An edition is presented, based principally on the copy in RIA MS D.iv.2, with commentary and translation. Stemmatic relationships are plotted between this text of the Prologue and those in five other manuscript versions of TTr. The meaning and sources of the Prologue narrative are discussed, and it is argued that these include a variant or derivative of the Apocalypse of Pseudo- Methodius. It is also proposed that there are close affinities with the version of the Leabhar Gabhála represented by fragment H (TCD MS 1316a). Further connections are proposed with Auraicept na nÉces, Saltair na Rann, the Chronicle of Marianus Scottus and the Lecan Synchronisms.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"64 1","pages":"106 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3318/ERIU.2014.64.23","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515891","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}