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Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief
poets, celebrates the career of Tomas O Cathasaigh, Henry L.
Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is
one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world
of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book
of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to
Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre
Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic
Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced
Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his
legacy. The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in
Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form
three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and
poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies
scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising
stars or great professors at the finest universities around the
world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus
Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of
the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed
an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous
poem Messe ocus Pangur ban; a suite of articarticles on the ideal
king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known
heroes like Cu Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill. This book will be a
must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists
it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic
literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the
twenty-first century.
Ollam ("ollav"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief
poets, celebrates the career of Tomas O Cathasaigh, Henry L.
Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is
one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world
of early Irish saga literature. It is a complement to his own book
of essays, Coire Sois, the Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to
Early Irish Saga, also edited by Matthieu Boyd (University of Notre
Dame Press, 2014), and a sequel to his classic monograph The Heroic
Biography of Cormac mac Airt (Dublin Institute for Advanced
Studies, 1977) and as such it begins to show the richness of his
legacy. The essays in Ollam represent cutting-edge research in
Celtic philology and historical and literary studies. They form
three clusters: heroic legend; law and language; and poetry and
poetics. The 21 contributors are among the best Celtic Studies
scholars of their respective generations, whether they are rising
stars or great professors at the finest universities around the
world. The book has a Foreword by William Gillies, Emeritus
Professor at the University of Edinburgh and former President of
the International Congress of Celtic Studies, who also contributed
an essay on courtly love-poetry in the Book of the Dean of Lismore.
Other highlight include a new edition and translation of the famous
poem Messe ocus Pangur ban; a suite of articarticles on the ideal
king of Irish tradition, Cormac mac Airt; and studies on well-known
heroes like Cu Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill. This book will be a
must-have, and a treat, for Celtic specialists. To nonspecialists
it offers a glimpse at the vast creative energy of Gaelic
literature through the ages and of Celtic Studies in the
twenty-first century.
How does a written literature come into being within an oral
culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its
authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his
wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from
the writings of St. Patrick to the epic tales about the warrior Cu
Chulainn. These texts, written in both Latin and Irish, constitute
an adventurous and productive experiment in staging confrontations
between the written and the spoken, the Christian and the pagan.
The early Irish literati, primarily clerics living within a
monastic milieu, produced literature that included saints' lives,
heroic sagas, law tracts, and other genres. They sought to invest
their literature with an authority different from that of the
traditions from which they borrowed, native and foreign. To achieve
this goal, they cast many of their texts as the outcome of
momentous dialogues between saints and angelic messengers or
remarkable interviews with the dead, who could reveal some insight
from the past that needed to be rediscovered by forgetful
contemporaries. Conversing with angels and ancients, medieval Irish
writers boldly inscribed their visions of the past onto the new
Christian order and its literature. Nagy includes portions of the
original Latin and Irish texts that are not readily available to
scholars, along with full translations."
Each issue of the Yearbook has its own theme, includes an editor s
introduction and index, and features cutting-edge, peer-reviewed
articles, often based on papers given at meetings of the Celtic
Studies Association of North America. Contributors to this issue
include: M che l Mac Craith, Catherine McKenna, Damian McManus, the
late M irt n Briain, and Ruair h ig nn. Topics include images of
Utopia in bardic verse, late Ulster-cycle tales, Gaelic love
poetry, and the art of the Welsh poetic anthology.
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