Bibliography

Kay
Muhr
s. xx–xxi

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Muhr, Kay, and Liam Ó hAisibéil, Oxford dictionary of family names of Ireland, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 848 pp.  
abstract:

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland contains more than 3,800 entries covering the majority of family names that are established and current in Ireland, both in the Republic and in Northern Ireland.

It establishes reliable and accurate explanations of historical origins (including etymologies) and provides variant spellings for each name as well as its geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes for family names that have more than 100 bearers in the 1911 census of Ireland. Of particular value are the lists of early bearers of family names, extracted from sources ranging from the medieval period to the nineteenth century, providing for the first time, the evidence on which many surname explanations are based, as well as interesting personal names, locations and often occupations of potential family forbears.

This unique Dictionary will be of the greatest interest not only to those interested in Irish history, students of the Irish language, genealogists, and geneticists, but also to the general public, both in Ireland and in the Irish diaspora in North America, Australia, and elsewhere.

abstract:

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland contains more than 3,800 entries covering the majority of family names that are established and current in Ireland, both in the Republic and in Northern Ireland.

It establishes reliable and accurate explanations of historical origins (including etymologies) and provides variant spellings for each name as well as its geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes for family names that have more than 100 bearers in the 1911 census of Ireland. Of particular value are the lists of early bearers of family names, extracted from sources ranging from the medieval period to the nineteenth century, providing for the first time, the evidence on which many surname explanations are based, as well as interesting personal names, locations and often occupations of potential family forbears.

This unique Dictionary will be of the greatest interest not only to those interested in Irish history, students of the Irish language, genealogists, and geneticists, but also to the general public, both in Ireland and in the Irish diaspora in North America, Australia, and elsewhere.


Contributions to journals

Muhr, Kay, “The early place-names of County Armagh”, Seanchas Ardmhacha 19.1 (2002): 1–54.
Muhr, Kay, “Water imagery in Early Irish”, Celtica 23 (1999): 193–210.
Muhr, Kay, “The East Ulster perspective on the Ulster Cycle tales”, Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group 14 (1996): 51–63.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Muhr, Kay, “The paruchia of St Lúrach of Uí Thuirtre”, in: John Carey, Kevin Murray, and Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (eds), Sacred histories: a Festschrift for Máire Herbert, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015. 230–246.
Muhr, Kay, “English place-names in Ireland”, in: Jayne Carroll, and David N. Parsons (eds), Perceptions of place: twenty-first-century interpretations of English place-name studies, Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2013. 355–398.
Muhr, Kay, “Queen Medb in place-names”, in: Gregory Toner, and Séamus Mac Mathúna (eds), Ulidia 3: proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, University of Ulster, Coleraine 22–25 June, 2009. In memoriam Patrick Leo Henry, Berlin: curach bhán, 2013. 49–73.
Muhr, Kay, “Placenames and the understanding of monuments”, in: Roseanne Schot, Conor Newman, and Edel Bhreathnach (eds), Landscapes of cult and kingship, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 232–255.
Muhr, Kay, “Hogan’s Onomasticon and the work of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project”, in: Kevin Murray, and Pádraig Ó Riain (eds), Edmund Hogan’s Onomasticon Goedelicum: reconsiderations, 23, London: Irish Texts Society, 2011. 47–80.
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Muhr, Kay, “Where did the brown bull die? An hypothesis from Ireland’s epic Táin bó Cúailnge Version I”, in: Ruairí Ó hUiginn, and Brian Ó Catháin (eds), Ulidia 2: proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Maynooth 24-27 July 2005, Maynooth: An Sagart, 2009. 121–139.
Muhr, Kay, “Territories, people and place-names in Co. Armagh”, in: Art J. Hughes, and William Nolan (eds), Armagh, history & society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, 15, Dublin: Geography Publications, 2001. 295–332.
Muhr, Kay, “The location of the Ulster Cycle: Part I: Tóchustal Ulad”, in: James P. Mallory, and Gearóid Stockman (eds), Ulidia: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8–12 April 1994, Belfast: December, 1994. 149–158.