Publisher's Synopsis
CONTENTS:Preface by Anders Ahlqvist & Pamela O'Neill
The Drinking of Blood in the Ritual Context of Mourning by Alexandra Bergholm
'Saint Patrick's Oath' by Liam Breatnach
Literary History and the Medieval Canon in Wales by Helen Fulton
Some Eighteenth-century Developments in Scottish Gaelic Poetry by William Gillies
Causation in Medieval Irish Law by Jade Harman
The Connection Between Fenian Lays, Liturgical Chant, Recitative, and Dán Dìreach: a Pre-Medieval Narrative Song Tradition by Aindrias Hirt
The Place of Women in Early Irish Society, with Special Reference to the Law of Marriage by Fergus Kelly
Lost & Found - Reinstating Playwright Edward Geoghegan (1813-1869) and his Most Controversial Play, The Hibernian Father (1844) by Gay Lynch & Janet Tepelosi
Reading with Rhydderch: Mabinogion Texts in Manuscript Context by Catherine McKenna
Is there Vowel Harmony in Irish and Scottish Gaelic? by Malachy McKenna
Cáin Adomnáin and the Lombards by Neil McLeod Sifting the Wreckage of Gaelic Culture in Victoria by Val Noone
Language Resilience and Self-Esteem by Pierre Noyer Conchobor and His Court at Emain by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
Unravelling Time in Early Irish Law by Pamela O'Neill
Exile and Authority in Lebor Gabála Érenn by Veronica Phillips
The Early Welsh Harp Music of the Robert ap Huw Manuscript by Chris Ridgway
Bizarre, Grotesque and Macabre: Gender and Humour in Early Irish Hagiography by Celia Scott
From Repeal to Revolution: The Evolution of John Mitchel's Political Thought 1843-48 by Andrew Shields
