Publisher's Synopsis
CONTENTS:
Exile
Themes of exile in medieval Welsh court poetry by Nerys Ann Jones
Expulsion of the Familia Jae over the Spine of Britain by King Nechtán by Julianna Grigg
Baudri of Bourgueil peregrinus ac exsul in citeriori Britannia by Lynette Olson
The 'other' wild geese? Expatriate Scottish soldiers and the Jacobite Cause in 1691 by Matthew Glazier
Identity, loss and absence: the exilic experiences of Celtic women on migration to Western Australia from 1960 to 1969 by Paula-Lee M Magee
Diaspora
'Keeping the Faith': the Catholic press and the preservation of Celtic identity in Britain in the late nineteenth century by Joan Allen
Emigration or exile? the diaspora from the Hebrides in the mid-nineteenth century by Sybil Jack
The Celtic Curse by Stella G St Clair-Kendall
The blood is strong: constructions of Celtic health in Australia by Ronald McCoy; Michael Kidd and Felicity Allen
Jack and Jen in Oz: Cornish identity in Australian children's literature by Rosanne Hawke
Politics
An introduction to Tanistry by Neil McLeod
The Case of Tanistry and native title law in Australia by Rowena Finnane
Scottish princesses go abroad by Lorna Barrow
Schiller's Mary Queen of Scots by Michael Nelson
Clann MacKenna's Edwardian exile by Martin Farr
The general election of 1918 in Ireland, Scotland and Wales by Trevor Lloyd
Origins
Alba: Pictish homeland or Irish offshoot? by Dauvit Broun
Boundaries, routes and sculptured stones in early medieval Scotland by Pamela O'Neill
Pictland and its symbol stones by Helen McKay and Rain Fisher Wolf
Spiral patterns in Irish decoration from Newgrange to the tenth century by Tessa Morrison
Sacred water: pilgrimage to and veneration of holy wells by pagans and Christians in the British Isles by Dominique Beth Wilson
Túatha Dé Danann: their origin and exile by Bronwyn C Ledgard
Homecoming
An exile's return: John Mitchel's campaigns for Tipperary, 1875 by Andrew Shields
'I've come home, and home I'm gonna stay': The Quiet Man (1952) in Irish-American cinematic history by Richard C Allen
