ULIDIA 5 – Papers from the fifth international conference on the Ulster cycle of tales, Maynooth 18–20 March 2016

edited by Lára Ní Mhaoláin, David Stifter & Elizabeth Boyle

x + 381 Seiten, Beiträge in englischer Sorache.

Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts, Extra Vol. I
ISSN: 1393-970X

ISBN: 978-3-942002-57-8 (e-book/pdf – open access)
ISBN: 978-3-942002-58-5 (print edition)

Inhalt

Ralph O’Connor: The Ulster cycle: History, fiction or literature? 
Máire Herbert: Christianity and the Ulster cycle: The case of Conchobar mac Nessa
Michael Clarke: The barbarity of the Ulster warriors in Mesca Ulad
Daniel James Watson: The ends of the earth: Brislech Mór Maige Muirthemni and Augustinian historiography
Ralph Kenna †, Pádraig MacCarron, & Denis Casey: Comparative network analysis of the Táin Bó Cúailnge
Patricia Ronan: The presentation of conflict talk in texts from the Ulster cycle of tales
Kay Muhr: Dáire, St Patrick and the bull: Person, place and time
Elizabeth Gray: Raven and wolf, satirist and fénnid: Defining Deirdre in Longes mac n-Uislenn
Thomas C. O’Donnell: Preliminary thoughts on Cú Chulainn’s physiology as presented in Táin Bó Cúailnge 
Mary Leenane: Tracing Cú Chulainn’s characterisation in the Ulster cycle
Gaël Hily: Lug and Cú Chulainn, the corrguinecht and the ogam
Phillip A. Bernhardt-House: Cracked cosmology, escaped eschatology: Averting apocalypse in Echtra Nerai
Marion Deane †: Feis Tigi Becfholtaig: Darkness yields to light
Cameron Wachowich: Anglo-Norman uses of the Ulster cycle: The case of John de Courcy’s Irish Lai
Breandán Ó Cróinín: Modern Irish retellings of tales from the Ulster cycle
Garrett Olmsted: The Táin: the Myth of the ancient Irish easter

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