Classics Ireland 27 (2020) - Contents

Classics Ireland 21-22 (2014-2015), 2015

This guide sets out the conventions of structure, layout and style used in Classics Ireland. Contributors are requested to ensure that the script which they submit adheres to these guidelines, as this will help to minimise costs and to meet publication schedules.

Classics Ireland, 2019

Contents for Classics Ireland volume 26 (2019)

Classics Ireland 27, 2020

Classics Ireland is the journal of the Classical Association of Ireland (http://www.classicalassociation.ie) It seeks to present the best of Irish and international scholarship on the ancient world and its reception throughout the ages, with a particular though not exclusive focus on its influence and reception in the Celtic world. Notes for Contributors Contributions are welcome on all aspects of the language, history, archaeology, and literature of Greek and Roman antiquity, especially if there is an Irish dimension. Contributions should be scholarly, but not technical. All Greek and Latin must be translated. Minimal footnotes are preferred. Articles should not normally exceed 5,000 words and will be independently refereed before formal acceptance for publication. Copyright remains with the author.

Classics and Irish Politics 1916–2016 , 2020

This chapter provides a comparative analysis of the careers of George Thomson and Margaret Heavey in their endeavours to advance the instruction of Classics through the Irish language at University College, Galway. The political context in which two lectureships were established, one for Thomson and one for Heavey, is re-examined and it is argued that the process by which Thomson was appointed has been unduly romanticized. Thomson’s three years in his position are contrasted with Heavey’s career of over forty years, and new archival materials are adduced to rehabilitate Heavey’s reputation as the tireless champion of initiatives for teaching Classics through the medium of Irish at University College, Galway.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, held on 26th - 29th June 2019, Coimbra, Portugal

Studies in Late Antiquity, 2017

It is often assumed that Ireland entered recorded history with the emergence of organized Christianity on the island, at some point in the fourth or fifth century C.E. This assumption has meant that the histories of late antique and early medieval Ireland are primarily viewed through the lens of conversion. Religious identities, frequently imagined as a binary opposition of “Christian” and “pagan,” have been a dominant historiographical focus. This paper argues that it is more fruitful to examine the relationship between Ireland and its neighbors from c. 150–c. 550 C.E., through a frontier dynamic, a dynamic in which religious identity was but one factor among many. By recasting the Irish experience in this way, a more comparative approach can be taken, one which cuts against the grain of Irish exceptionalism. Moreover, situating Ireland within the scholarly discourse of late antiquity allows for a new and nuanced understanding of the social and religious changes that characterized this period on the island.

Studia Hibernica 35 (2009) 167–86, 2009

Review article of the following: THREE ARMIES IN BRITAIN: THE IRISH CAMPAIGN OF RICHARD II AND THE USURPATION OF HENRY IV, 1397–1399. By Douglas Biggs. Pp xvi + 295, illus. Leiden: Brill, 2006. €110 hardback (History of Warfare, vol. 39). INQUISITIONS AND EXTENTS OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND. Edited by PaulDryburgh and Brendan Smith.Pp vi, 290. Kew: List and Index Society, 2007. Distributed to subscribers: £17 members, £22.50 non-members paperback (List and Index Society, vol. 320). DE COURCY: ANGLO-NORMANS IN IRELAND, ENGLAND AND FRANCE IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES. Pp 205, illus. By Steve Flanders. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. €55 hardback. IRELAND AND WALES IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Edited by Karen Jankulak and Jonathan M. Wooding. Pp 296.Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. €55 hardback. MEDIEVAL IRELAND: TERRITORIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DIVISIONS. By Paul MacCotter. Pp 320, illus. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. €55 hardback. MANX KINGSHIP IN ITS IRISH SEA SETTING, 1187–1229: KING RÖGNVALDR AND THE CROVAN DYNASTY. Pp 254, illus. By R. Andrew McDonald. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. €55 hardback. IRELAND AND THE ENGLISH WORLD IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ROBIN FRAME. Pp xii + 241. Edited by Brendan Smith. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. £50 hardback. THE ANNALS OF IRELAND BY FRIAR JOHN CLYN. Edited by Bernadette Williams. Pp 303. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. €65 hardback.

Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World, 2012

Tara Kelly (Independent Scholar) 'Purchasing the past: consumers of Irish facsimile jewellery and metalwork'; Colleen M. Thomas (TCD) 'The ‘Irish’ crosses of Earley & Powell in the 1860s'; Niamh NicGhabhann (UL) 'Medieval Ireland and the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme: reconstructing the past in independent Ireland'