Bibliography

Liam
Breatnach
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2022

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Breatnach, Liam, “An Old Irish text on kingship and the five provinces of Ireland”, in: Erich Poppe, Simon Rodway, and Jenny Rowland (eds), Celts, Gaels, and Britons: studies in language and literature from antiquity to the middle ages in honour of Patrick Sims-Williams, Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 49–70.

2020

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Breatnach, Liam, “The demonstrative pronouns in Old and Middle Irish”, in: Elliott Lash, Fangzhe Qiu, and David Stifter (eds), Morphosyntactic variation in medieval Celtic languages: corpus-based approaches, 346, Berlin, Online: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. 115–142.

2019

journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 69 (2019), Royal Irish Academy.

2018

journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 68 (2018), Royal Irish Academy.

2017

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Breatnach, Liam, Córus bésgnai: an Old Irish law tract on the church and society, Early Irish Law Series, 7, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 2017. xii + 346 pp.  
abstract:
Córus bésgnai, a component tract of the Old Irish law text Senchas Már, is an important source text for the Church in early mediaeval Ireland. This book consists of annotated editions and translations of the Old Irish text as well as the later mediaeval glosses and commentaries. It should be of use to those interested not only in early mediaeval Ireland, but also in the early mediaeval Western Church.
abstract:
Córus bésgnai, a component tract of the Old Irish law text Senchas Már, is an important source text for the Church in early mediaeval Ireland. This book consists of annotated editions and translations of the Old Irish text as well as the later mediaeval glosses and commentaries. It should be of use to those interested not only in early mediaeval Ireland, but also in the early mediaeval Western Church.
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Breatnach, Liam, “Varia III: 1. On the preposition for with the negative particle in Old Irish; 2. The river Níth”, Ériu 67 (2017): 227–237.
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Breatnach, Liam, “The Treḟocal tract: an early Middle Irish text on poetics”, in: Gordon Ó Riain (ed.), Dá dtrian feasa fiafraighidh: essays on the Irish grammatical and metrical tradition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017. 1–65.
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 67 (2017), Royal Irish Academy.

2016

journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 66 (2016), Royal Irish Academy.
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Breatnach, Liam, “The glossing of the early Irish law tracts”, in: Deborah Hayden, and Paul Russell (eds), Grammatica, gramadach and gramadeg: vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales, 125, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016. 113–132.
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Breatnach, Liam, “On Old Irish collective and abstract nouns, the meaning of cétmuinter, and marriage in early mediaeval Ireland”, Ériu 66 (2016): 1–29.

2015

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Boyle, Elizabeth, and Liam Breatnach, “Senchas Gall Átha Clíath: aspects of the cult of St Patrick in the twelfth century”, in: John Carey, Kevin Murray, and Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (eds), Sacred histories: a Festschrift for Máire Herbert, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015. 22–55.  
abstract:

This Festschrift contribution comprises the first edition, translation and detailed discussion of Senchas Gall Átha Clíath (‘History of the Foreigners of Dublin’), a late Middle Irish (twelfth-century) poem on the conversion of the people of Dublin to Christianity. Anachronistically, the conversion is attributed to St Patrick, and the poem is discussed in the context of the production of local hagiography and anachronistic charter material in twelfth-century Ireland and Britain in response to Canterbury’s claims to ecclesiastical hegemony. Introduction and source analysis by Elizabeth Boyle; edition, translation and textual notes by Liam Breatnach.

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abstract:

This Festschrift contribution comprises the first edition, translation and detailed discussion of Senchas Gall Átha Clíath (‘History of the Foreigners of Dublin’), a late Middle Irish (twelfth-century) poem on the conversion of the people of Dublin to Christianity. Anachronistically, the conversion is attributed to St Patrick, and the poem is discussed in the context of the production of local hagiography and anachronistic charter material in twelfth-century Ireland and Britain in response to Canterbury’s claims to ecclesiastical hegemony. Introduction and source analysis by Elizabeth Boyle; edition, translation and textual notes by Liam Breatnach.

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Breatnach, Liam, “Lebor na hUidre: some linguistic aspects”, in: Ruairí Ó hUiginn (ed.), Lebor na hUidre, 1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2015. 53–77.
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 65 (2015), Royal Irish Academy.
edited work
Breatnach, Liam, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Damian McManus, and Katharine Simms (eds), Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies, held in Maynooth University, 1–5 August 2011, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015.
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Breatnach, Liam, “Sluindfet dúib dagaisti in dána: a Middle Irish poem on metres”, in: Caoimhín Breatnach, and Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (eds), Aon don éigse: essays marking Osborn Bergin’s centenary lecture on bardic poetry (1912), Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015. 51–90.
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Breatnach, Liam, “Legal and societal aspects of the poems of Blathmac”, in: Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), The poems of Blathmac son of Cú Brettan: reassessments, 27, London: Irish Texts Society, 2015. 104–118.

2014

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Breatnach, Liam, “Forms of payment in the early Irish law tracts”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 68 (Winter, 2014): 1–20.
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 64 (2014), Royal Irish Academy.
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Breatnach, Liam, “Varia I [1. De duodecim abusivis saeculi in mediaeval Ireland; 2. ané, aná and an example in bardic syntactical tracts]”, Ériu 64 (2014): 205–211.

2013

journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 63 (2013), Royal Irish Academy.

2012

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Breatnach, Liam, “Dinnseanchas Inbhear Chíochmhaine, ‘trí comaccomail na Góedelge’, agus caibidil i stair litriú na Gaeilge”, in: Eoin Mac Cárthaigh, and Jürgen Uhlich (eds), Féilscríbhinn do Chathal Ó Háinle, Inverin: Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2012. 37–55.
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Breatnach, Liam, “Varia III: The meaning of nómad”, Ériu 62 (2012): 197–205.
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 62 (2012), Royal Irish Academy.

2011

journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 61 (2011), Royal Irish Academy.
work
Breatnach, Liam, The early Irish law text Senchas Már and the question of its date, E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lectures, 13, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2011. ii + 48 pp.

2010

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Breatnach, Liam, “Law and literature in Early Mediaeval Ireland”, in: Centro Italiano di studi sull’Alto Medioevo (ed.), L'irlanda e gli irlandesi nell'alto medioevo (Spoleto, 16-21 aprile 2009), 57, Spoleto: Presso La sede del Centro, 2010. 215–238.
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 60 (2010), Royal Irish Academy.
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Breatnach, Liam, “The king in the Old Irish law text Senchas Már”, in: Folke Josephson (ed.), Celtic language, law and letters. Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, 38, Göteborg, 2010. 107–128.

2009

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Breatnach, Liam, “Reviews, reviewers, and critical texts: a brief final response”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 57 (Summer, 2009): 71–73.
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Breatnach, Liam, “Araile felmac féig don Mumain: unruly pupils and the limitations of satire”, Ériu 59 (2009): 111–137.  
This paper offers an annotated edition and translation of a short Middle Irish tale about poets. It includes discussion of language and date, Bérla na Filed, the metre aí fhreisligi and the use of satire as a means of gaining redress.
(source: p. 111)
This paper offers an annotated edition and translation of a short Middle Irish tale about poets. It includes discussion of language and date, Bérla na Filed, the metre aí fhreisligi and the use of satire as a means of gaining redress.
(source: p. 111)
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 59 (2009), Royal Irish Academy.

2008

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Breatnach, Liam, “Cinnus atá do thinnrem: a poem to Máel Brigte on his coming of age”, Ériu 58 (2008): 1–35.
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, Rolf Baumgarten, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 58 (2008), Royal Irish Academy.

2007

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Breatnach, Liam, “A verse on succession to ecclesiastical office”, in: Pádraig A. Breatnach, Caoimhín Breatnach, and Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (eds), Léann lámhscríbhinní lobháin: The Louvain manuscript heritage, 1, Dublin: National University of Ireland, 2007. 32–41.
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Breatnach, Liam, “Varia: 1. An Old Irish gloss on Cáin lánamna. 2. An instance of do-maisi in the Irish Gospel of Thomas. 3. An OIr attestation of suacht, in Félire Óengusso”, Ériu 57 (2007): 155–163.
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, Rolf Baumgarten, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 57 (2007), Royal Irish Academy.

2006

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Breatnach, Liam, “Satire, praise and the early Irish poet”, Ériu 56 (2006): 63–84.  
abstract:

The role of the fili in the composition of praise-poetry in the pre-Norman period has been questioned. This paper begins with an examination of its negative counterpart, satire, and then goes on to look at the connection between satire and the fili, and the connection of satire with praise, before proceeding to discuss the evidence from the law texts, which shows that the composition of praise-poetry was indeed an important function of the fili.

abstract:

The role of the fili in the composition of praise-poetry in the pre-Norman period has been questioned. This paper begins with an examination of its negative counterpart, satire, and then goes on to look at the connection between satire and the fili, and the connection of satire with praise, before proceeding to discuss the evidence from the law texts, which shows that the composition of praise-poetry was indeed an important function of the fili.

journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, Rolf Baumgarten, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 56 (2006), Royal Irish Academy.

2005

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Breatnach, Liam, “Miscellanea Hibernica”, in: Bernadette Smelik, 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. 141–151.
journal volume
Breatnach, Liam, Rolf Baumgarten, and Damian McManus (eds), Ériu 55 (2005), Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

2004

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Breatnach, Liam, “On satire and the poet's circuit”, in: Cathal G. Ó Háinle, and Donald E. Meek (eds), Unity in diversity. Studies in Irish and Scottish Gaelic language, literature and history, 1, Dublin: School of Irish, Trinity College Dublin, 2004. 25–35.
journal volume
Mac Cana, Proinsias, Rolf Baumgarten, and Liam Breatnach (eds), Ériu 54 (2004), Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

2003

journal volume
Mac Cana, Proinsias, Rolf Baumgarten, and Liam Breatnach (eds), Ériu 53 (2003), Royal Irish Academy.

2002

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Mac Cana, Proinsias, Rolf Baumgarten, and Liam Breatnach (eds), Ériu 52 (2002), Royal Irish Academy.

2000

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Mac Cana, Proinsias, Rolf Baumgarten, and Liam Breatnach (eds), Ériu 51 (2000), Royal Irish Academy.

1999

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Mac Cana, Proinsias, Rolf Baumgarten, and Liam Breatnach (eds), Ériu 50 (1999), Royal Irish Academy.

1998

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Breatnach, Liam, “Cáin ónae: an Old-Irish law text on lending”, in: Jay H. Jasanoff, H. Craig Melchert, and Lisi Oliver (eds), Mír curad: studies in honor of Calvert Watkins, Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Innsbruck, 1998. 29–46.
journal volume
Mac Cana, Proinsias, Rolf Baumgarten, and Liam Breatnach (eds), Ériu 49 (1998), Royal Irish Academy.