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"An headlesse Ladie" and "a horses loade of heades": writing the beheading.
Renaissance Quarterly
; 1. INTRODUCTION In 1612, five years after the Flight of the Earls signalled the symbolic end of the Gaelic order, John Webster wrote The White Devil. (1) The savagery of the Irish wars had already been winnowed down in English recollection to Irish savagery. Cold-bloodedly plotting to avenge his
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Words From the Wise
Irish Voice
; Irish Voice 01-04-2005 THE Counsels of Cormac is an ancient Irish guide to leadership, just released from Doubleday Press and translated from the old Irish by Harvard scholar Thomas Cleary. It is the kind of book that dispenses wisdom that has lasted down the ages and is still very relevant to our
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Celtic baby names. (finding a name for a child that celebrates Irish heritage)
World of Hibernia
; Whether chosen as a political statement, public enunciation of independence, or simply out a desire to honor one's ancestors, Celtic names provide a unique vehicle for personal expression. They express individuality while representing the aspirations of an entire people. They embody the power and
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The meteoric Finn.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; QUESTIONDid FinnMcCool exist or was his story a tale born of meteors?FINN McCool or Fionn Mac Cumhail has long been celebrated as a Celtic Irishgiant, but revision-ists are now calling into question his legend. Astronomers investigating movements in the sky have offered one of the moreinteresting
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Literacy, royal power, and king-poet relations in Old English and Old Norse compositions
Comparative Literature
; IN OLD NORSE WORKS, kings often steal acts of praise from the poets who normally offer these judgements. The motivation for these thefts comes from a tradition of competitiveness within Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian societies: most characters in sagas and heroic poems, especially in compositions
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Medieval Irish Language and Literature: An Orientation for Arthurians
Arthuriana
; Reasons and means are outlined for students and scholars of Arthurians letters to familiarize themselves with a unique and rich corpus of medieval literature. (WS) Medieval and early modern literature in Irish shows little of the passionate interest in the Matter of Britain that we otherwise find
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THE GIFT OF 'GABBY AGGIE'
Irish Voice
; Deignan, Tom Irish Voice 09-23-2003 STORYTELLER and poet Dwina Murphy-Gibb is coming to New York City later this month to perform selections of her hit radio comedy series The Gabby Aggies. She will also read sections from her other works, as part of a free, one night only reading at the Irish Arts
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Of graves, caves, and subterranean dwellings: 'Eoroscraef' and 'Eorosele' in the 'Wife's Lament.'
Philological Quarterly
; The past three decades have witnessed a bewildering variety of interpretations of the Old English Wife's Lament. We are no longer even certain that it is, in fact, the lament of a wife ; critics have suggested that the narrator is a lordless retainer, a heathen deity, the soul yearning for the body
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Identifying Celts in the past: a methodology.
Historical Methods
; Abstract. This article examines the problem of identifying individuals within and between medieval historical sources, especially medieval Irish chronicles and genealogies. A content analysis of these two groups of document provides the basis for a numerical methodology for nominal record linkage,
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WEST'S AWAKE: The Story Behind the Story
Irish Voice
; Irish Voice 11-10-1998 WEST'S AWAKE: The Story Behind the Story By Cormac Mac Connell ITOSSED a coin an hour ago in the newsroom and it came up heads. Two of us have been working hard enough recently to be in the running for a nice trip to New York to see the film premiere of Dancing at Lughnasa. I
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