Bibliography
Tomás
Ó Cathasaigh s. xx / s. xxi
Works authored
Contributions to journals
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “The Ulster exiles and thematic symmetry in Recension I of Táin bó Cúailnge”, Studia Celtica Fennica 14 (2017): 154–169.
Journal volume: Studia Celtica Fennica: <link>
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Early Irish bairdne: eulogy, panegyric”, Studia Celtica Fennica 9 (2012): 54–61.
abstract:
Early Irish bairdne, according to DIL, s.v., means ‘bardic craft, bardic composition, bardic metre’. My interest in this topic centres on the final quatrain in the ninth-century panegyric beginning Áed oll fri andud n-áne, which has been edited and translated by Stokes and Strachan (1901-1903, Vol. 2, 295).
Journal volume: Studia Celtica Fennica: <link>
abstract:
Early Irish bairdne, according to DIL, s.v., means ‘bardic craft, bardic composition, bardic metre’. My interest in this topic centres on the final quatrain in the ninth-century panegyric beginning Áed oll fri andud n-áne, which has been edited and translated by Stokes and Strachan (1901-1903, Vol. 2, 295).
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “The First Anders Ahlqvist Lecture — Irish myths and legends”, Studia Celtica Fennica 2 — Essays in honour of Anders Ahlqvist (2005): 11–26.
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Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “The sister’s son in early Irish literature”, Peritia 5 (1986): 128–160.
abstract:
This study of the sister’s son in some of the major early Irish narratives, in religious verse, and in the laws (and including linguistic analysis of kindred terminology) shows that the relationship between sister’s son and maternal kindred is an important theme in the literature; the relationship can be amicable (and accordingly be greatly beneficial to society) or hostile (and greatly destructive of social order); the sister’s son must be integrated into society by means of a solemn contract; and the social good will be served only if the obligations imposed by that contract are duly discharged on both sides. The social role of the sister’s son can be summed up in the word goire, and this is reflected in gormac, which came to replace the inherited term nia as the designation of ‘sister’s son’.
abstract:
This study of the sister’s son in some of the major early Irish narratives, in religious verse, and in the laws (and including linguistic analysis of kindred terminology) shows that the relationship between sister’s son and maternal kindred is an important theme in the literature; the relationship can be amicable (and accordingly be greatly beneficial to society) or hostile (and greatly destructive of social order); the sister’s son must be integrated into society by means of a solemn contract; and the social good will be served only if the obligations imposed by that contract are duly discharged on both sides. The social role of the sister’s son can be summed up in the word goire, and this is reflected in gormac, which came to replace the inherited term nia as the designation of ‘sister’s son’.
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “The making of a prince: Áed oll fri andud n-áne”, in: Henley, Georgia [ed.], Paul Russell [ed.], and Joseph F. Eska [assist ed.], Rhetoric and reality in medieval Celtic literature: studies in honor of Daniel F. Melia, CSANA Yearbook 11-12, Hamilton, NY: Colgate University Press, 2014. 137–154.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Tochmarc Étaíne II: a tale of three wooings”, in: O'Neill, Pamela [ed.], The land beneath the sea: essays in honour of Anders Ahlqvist’s contribution to Celtic studies in Australia, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 14, Sydney: Celtic Studies Foundation, University of Sydney, 2013. 129–142.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “King, hero and hospitaller in Aided Celtchair maic Uthechair”, in: McLeod, Wilson, Abigail Burnyeat, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Thomas Owen Clancy, and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (eds), Bile ós chrannaibh: a Festschrift for William Gillies, Tigh a' Mhaide, Brig o' Turk, Perthshire: Clann Tuirc, 2010. 355–364.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Sírrabad Súaltaim and the order of speaking among the Ulaid”, in: Smelik, Bernadette, Rijcklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans, and David Cram (eds.), A companion in linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 2005. 80–91.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Cath Maige Tuired as exemplary myth”, in: de Brún, Pádraig, Seán Ó Coileáin, and Pádraig Ó Riain (eds.), Folia Gadelica: essays presented by former students to R. A. Breatnach on the occasion of his retirement from the professorship of Irish language and literature at University College, Cork, Cork: Cork University Press, 1983. 1–19.
