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The Anglo-Norman ‘invasion’ had a profound impact on the names used by Irish families. New names such as Seán and Uilliam, introduced in the thirteenth, became widespread by the fourteenth century. In a number of cases a link can be established between the first occurrence of an Anglo-Norman name in an Irish family and an Anglo-Norman magnate with the same first name in the same region. This may have been the case for women also. Women's names were possibly more open to change, but in this field in particular more research needs to be done. The societies of both the Irish and the Anglo-Normans were patriarchal and as a consequence the naming pattern of the paternal family was usually followed. There are many similarities between the practices in Ireland and those in the rest of Western Europe, but it seems that Ireland differed in that here the eldest son rarely received the name of his paternal grandfather. Within the upper classes, the high nobility seems to have had a different attitude towards imitating Anglo-Norman names then did the lower nobility.

This version does not contain necessarily contain corrections made at the proofing stage. Only the published version should be used for citation purposes. The Themes and Structure of Aided Echach maic Maireda Aided Echach maic Maireda is a tale preserved only in Lebor na hUidre, RIA MS 1229 (23 E 25), and it is one of the texts in the manuscript written entirely by scribe H. The story has received very little attention since it was edited and translated in the nineteenth century, and the most recent printed translation, itself a reprint of the 1892 translation by Standish Hayes O'Grady, does not discuss the text in any great detail. 1 Yet the story is a literary and theological work of some complexity written by an author who was both educated in and well acquainted with Irish literary traditions. The tale draws on different sources to create a carefully structured narrative, focusing on salvation and baptism, and baptism is assigned an important role in salvation history. The text follows the dichotomous structure of the Bible and mirrors its relationship between type and antitype, the Old Covenant and the New, Eve and Mary.

This version does not contain corrections made at the proofing stage. Only the published version should be used for citation purposes. The different versions of Aided Chonchobair 1 The medieval tale Aided Chonchobair, which tells the story of the death of the Ulster king, Conchobar, is well known. In its multiple versions, Aided Chonchobair is a prime example of the variability of Irish medieval tales, and the surviving versions reflect the popularity of Conchobar's death-tale in medieval times. Eight manuscripts, which date from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, are known to me to preserve copies of the tale. These are the Book of Leinster (TCD 1339, s. xii, pp. 123b-124b; hereafter L); Dublin, RIA MS D iv 2 (Stowe 992; 1300, fol. 52rb); the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (Dublin, RIA MS 476, 23 O 48; s. xv, fol. 105ra); Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 610 (s. xv, fol. 42b); Dublin, RIA MS 1234 (C i 2; s. xv-xvi, fols 5v-8r); Edinburgh, NLS, Adv. 72.1.5 (s. xv, fols 7v-8r); Edinburgh, NLS, Adv. 72.1.40 (s. xvi, pp. 1-3); and Dublin, RIA MS 967 (23 N 10; s. xvi, pp. 16-289; hereafter N). 2 The texts preserved in these manuscripts show considerable differences, a fact which is reflected in Kuno Meyer's distinction between four versions, A-D, in his 1906 edition of the text in The death-tales 1 I would like to thank the editors of Ériu and an anonymous reviewer for their comments and corrections to this article. I am also grateful to Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Dr Dagmar Schlüter for their comments on drafts of this article. 2 In addition to these manuscripts, the nineteenth-century manuscript Leabhar Caol (Edinburgh, NLS, 72.3.5; pp. 224-5) preserves a post-medieval transcription of the text from Adv. 72.1.40.

This version does not necessarily contain corrections made at the proofing stage. Only the published version should be used for citation purposes. Altirische Erzählkunst, rev. ed. Johan Corthals. CreateSpace, 2016. 123pp. €9.95. ISBN 9781530451562. Johan Corthals's new edition of his book Altirische Erzählkunst (Forum Celticum. Studien zu keltischen Sprachen und Kulturen 1, Münster, 1996) contains translations of eight tales along with an introductory overview of early Irish, a pronunciation guide, and bibliographical details and suggested reading. The tales translated in the new edition of the book are the same as in the 1996 version: Organ Denna Ríg, a section of Tochmarc Étáine, Scéla Mucce meic

The words etar and ceta have a first syllable with a variable vowel: either e (e-variant) or i (i-variant). This paper investigates the diachronic distribut ion of these two variants. The innovation of the i-variants occurred by the eighth century at the latest in 'pretonic complexes': preverbal and prenom inal proclitic strings consisting of more than one element (for instance: preverb + relative mutation/pronoun, for example a n-itir·n-ūara 'when it cools' Ml. 71b5, or preposition + article, for instance hitar na doinmecha 'among the adverse things' Ml. 38a12). A statistical analysis of the Würzburg, Milan, St Gall, and certain minor ninth-century sets of glosses shows that the i-variant of ceta became more common than the e-variant in the late eighth century. Afterwards, in the ninth century, the i-variant of etar became statistically more common than the e-variant. A textual dating criterion is proposed on the basis of these results and comparison with other pretonic raising processes (do > du, ro > ru, tremi > trimi, etc.) is suggested. 140 ELLIOTT LASH (d) With an accusative noun, GOI distinguishes between an 'earlier' use of eter, iter, and etir and a later use of etar, or itar.

Arna fhoilsiú ag COMHAR Teoranta le cabhair deontais i gcomhair tograí Gaeilge a d'íoc an tÚdarás um Ard-Oideachas trí Choláiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh. Gabhann COMHAR buíochas le hAcadamh Ríoga na hÉireann as a dtacaíocht leis an bhfiontar seo. comhartaighde.ie

This grammar is based on extensive fieldwork, published and unpublished lore, and recent as well as older recordings, particularly those held in the archives of Roinn Bhéaloideas Éireann and Raidió na Gaeltachta. These sources provide a picture of extensive variation and change across the six generations born between 1850 and 2000. The grammar draws on several branches of linguistics: descriptive and historical linguistics, dialectology and sociolinguistics. It is the most comprehensive treatment of any variety of Irish. Volume II describes plural noun morphology, the verb and pronominals

Tá cur síos san alt seo ar chur chuige Fishmanach maidir le mionteangú na Gaeilge. Tráchtaim ar an nua-aoiseachas agus a chuid impleachtaí le haghaidh mhionteangacha an domhain. Tá cur síos ann ar imeallú na Gaeilge agus mionteangacha go ginearálta i gcomhthéacs sochshíceolaíochta mórtheanga fearacht an Bhéarla. Spíonaim castachtaí i leith an dátheangachais fhadsaolaigh i bhfianaise an bhaile ilteangaigh Cupvar san India; agus an fabht don mhionteanga atá sa ngaol dátheangach le mórtheanga. Tráchtaim ar shealbhú laghdaithe agus neamhthraidisiúnta na Gaeilge; agus ar anáil il-láithreacht na meán cumarsáide. Ar deireadh, tugaim moltaí maidir le tacú le sealbhú optamach na Gaeilge agus maidir le Tearmann Gaeilge le pobal Gael a tharrtháil