Bibliography

Bernadette
Cunningham
s. xx–xxi

44 publications between 1984 and 2018 indexed
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Cunningham, Bernadette, Medieval Irish pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018.  
abstract:

There has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In this book the author reveals a story of a much longer connection between Ireland and the pilgrimage than previously thought. Stories of men and women who went from Ireland to Santiago de Compostela in the Middle Ages tell of Irish involvement in one of the major pilgrimages of the medieval Christian world. The long and hazardous journey by land and sea to the shrine of St James in Galicia was not undertaken lightly. This innovative book explores the varied influences on and motivations of the pilgrims, as well as the nature of medieval travel, in order to understand when, why and how pilgrims from Ireland went to Santiago in the heyday of the pilgrimage, between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. It draws on official documents, historical chronicles, literary texts, saints’ Lives and archaeological finds to uncover stories of those Anglo-Norman and Gaelic pilgrims who ventured beyond the confines of their local communities in search of salvation and perhaps a little adventure.

abstract:

There has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In this book the author reveals a story of a much longer connection between Ireland and the pilgrimage than previously thought. Stories of men and women who went from Ireland to Santiago de Compostela in the Middle Ages tell of Irish involvement in one of the major pilgrimages of the medieval Christian world. The long and hazardous journey by land and sea to the shrine of St James in Galicia was not undertaken lightly. This innovative book explores the varied influences on and motivations of the pilgrims, as well as the nature of medieval travel, in order to understand when, why and how pilgrims from Ireland went to Santiago in the heyday of the pilgrimage, between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. It draws on official documents, historical chronicles, literary texts, saints’ Lives and archaeological finds to uncover stories of those Anglo-Norman and Gaelic pilgrims who ventured beyond the confines of their local communities in search of salvation and perhaps a little adventure.

Cunningham, Bernadette, and Siobhán Fitzpatrick, Aon amharc ar Éirinn: Gaelic families and their manuscripts, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2013. 60 pp.
Cunningham, Bernadette, The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010.
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, Stories from Gaelic Ireland: microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003.
Cunningham, Bernadette, The world of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth-century Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.

Works edited

Cunningham, Bernadette, Siobhán Fitzpatrick, and Petra Schnabel (eds), Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009.

Contributions to journals

Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “Muirgheas Ó Maoilchonaire of Cluain Plocáin: an early sixteenth-century Connacht scribe at work”, Studia Hibernica 35 (2008–2009): 17–43.
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “James Ussher and his Irish manuscripts”, Studia Hibernica 33 (2004): 81–99.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “Foras feasa ar Éirinn and the historical origins of Irish Catholic identity”, New Hibernia Review 5:4 (Geimhreadh/Winter, 2001): 144–147.
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “Patrick Logan and Foras feasa ar Éirinn, 1696”, Éigse 32 (2000): 146–152.
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “The purposes of patronage: Brian Maguire of Knockninny and his manuscripts”, Clogher Record 13:1 (1988): 38–49.
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “Persecution in seventeenth-century Irish”, Éigse 22 (1987): 15–20.
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “An Ulster settler and his Irish manuscripts”, Éigse 21 (1986): 27–36.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “The Composition of Connacht in the lordships of Clanricard and Thomond, 1577–1641”, Irish Historical Studies 24:93 (May, 1984): 1–14.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “Owners and users: the changing contexts of the Book of Ballymote, 1500–1750”, in: Ruairí Ó hUiginn (ed.), Book of Ballymote, 2, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2018. 251–272.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “Catholic intellectual culture in early modern Ireland”, in: Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, and Robert Armstrong (eds), Christianities in the early modern Celtic world, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 151–163.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “John Colgan as historian”, in: Raymond Gillespie, and Ruairí Ó hUiginn (eds), Irish Europe, 1600-1650: writing and learning, 5, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 121–134.
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “Cultural frontiers and the circulation of manuscripts in Ireland, 1625–1725”, in: James Kelly, and Ciarán Mac Murchaidh (eds), Irish and English: essays on the Irish linguistic and cultural frontier, 1600–1900, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. 58–95.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “Annalists and historians in early modern Ireland, 1450–1700”, in: Julia M. Wright (ed.), A companion to Irish literature, vol. 1, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 77–91.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “Seventeenth-century readers of Foras feasa ar Éirinn: Ó Cléirigh, Colgan and Kearney”, in: Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn: reassessments, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 2008. 39–51.
Bernadette Cunningham, “Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann (Royal Irish Academy)”, in: John T. Koch (ed.), Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia (2006): 7–8.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “Illustrations of the Passion of Christ in the Seanchas Búrcach manuscript”, in: Rachel Ross, Colmán Ó Clabaigh, and Salvador Ryan (eds), Art and devotion in late medieval Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 16–32.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “A scholar’s notebook: NLI MS G 1 and the cultural world of a sixteenth-century Irish chronicler”, in: David Edwards (ed.), Regions and rulers in Ireland, 1100–1650: essays for Kenneth Nicholls, 4, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. 160–173.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “<Multiple contributions>”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–2011. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>.
includes: Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Bingham, Sir Richard (1527/8–1599)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Clifford, Sir Conyers (d. 1599)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Fitton, Sir Edward (1527–1579)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Fitton, Sir Edward (1548/9–1606)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘FitzSimon, Henry (1566–1643)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Keating , Geoffrey <Seathrún Céitinn> (b. c.1580, d. in or before 1644)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Ward, Hugh (1592–1635)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Mac Cairteáin, Uilliam <William MacCartan> (1667/8–1724)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Mac Dónaill, Seán Clárach (1691–1754)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Malby, Sir Nicholas (c.1530–1584)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Malone, William (1586–1656)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Ó Maolmhuaidh, Froinsias <Francis O'Molloy or Molloy> (c.1606–1677?)’ • Bernadette Cunningham, ‘O'Reilly, Hugh (c.1581–1653)’ • Bernadette Cunningham • Robert Dunlop, ‘Roche, David, seventh Viscount Roche of Fermoy (1573?–1635)’ • Bernadette Cunningham • John T. Gilbert, ‘Holywood <à Sacro Bosco>, Christopher (1559?–1626)’ • Bernadette Cunningham • A. F. Pollard, ‘O'Brien, Barnabas, sixth earl of Thomond (1590/91–1657)
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “Lost worlds: history and religion in the poetry of Dáibhí Ó Bruadair”, in: Pádraigín Riggs (ed.), Dáibhí Ó Bruadair: his historical and literary context, 11, London: Irish Texts Society, 2001. 18–45.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “Representations of king, parliament and the Irish people in Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn and John Lynch’s Cambrensis eversus (1662)”, in: Jane H. Ohlmeyer [ed.], Political thought in seventeenth-century Ireland: kingdom or colony, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 131–154.

In reference works

McGuire, James [ed.], and James Quinn [ed.], Dictionary of Irish biography, online ed., Online: Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, 2009–present. URL: <https://www.dib.ie>.