The Gathering 2013

To mark the publication online of the Letter Book of Florence MacCarthy Mór,
Dunmanway Historical Association will hold the MacCarthy Historical & Cultural Weekend
at the Parkway Hotel, Dunmanway, Co. Cork, from Friday 31st May to Sunday 2nd June 2013.
Supported by UCC School of History, this event will include talks on history and archaeology,
local tours and live music. Book early. For more details, please click here.

CELT's own Resources

Travel to Ireland, Geography and Customs of the Country.

Ireland's Heritage of Healing and History of Medicine

North Munster Antiquarian Journal 1–30
(pdf): Index of Authors, North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 1–30 (1936-1988),
compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

Imarcaigh sund ar gach saí
(pdf): an anonymous Early Modern Irish poem on the contemporaneous emperors of Byzantium
and the kings and ecclesiastics of Ireland, by Dr Peter Smith, Magee College Derry:

A Primer of Irish Metrics (pdf): by Kuno Meyer, London 1909,
scanned and digitised by Andrew M. Doherty in 2004.

A Bibliography of Bibliographies compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

Published work of Gearóid Mac Niocaill compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

Nationality and Kingship in Pre-Norman Ireland by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

General: Vikings in Ireland (pdf) by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

Vikings in Scotland and Ireland (pdf) by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

Viking Ireland: Afterthoughts (pdf) by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

The Apocrypha and their transmission: a select bibliography (pdf) by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

Maps of Ireland and its counties

The writings of Johannes Scottus Eriugena, with a select bibliography by Donnchadh Ó Corráin.

Women and the Law in Early Ireland by Donnchadh Ó Corráin – also available in pdf. format.

Marriage in Early Ireland by Donnchadh Ó Corráin – also available in pdf. format.

The 1597 Ceasefire Documents (pdf) by Hiram Morgan.

Faith and Fatherland or Queen and Country?
An unpublished exchange between O'Neill and the State at the height of the Nine Years War
(pdf) by Hiram Morgan.

The Introduction of the Gregorian calendar in Ireland (pdf) by Hiram Morgan. [This large file may take some time to load.]

Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex and Ireland (pdf) by Hiram Morgan.

Introduction to the study of political ideas in Ireland (pdf) by Hiram Morgan.

Ó Faoláin's Great Ó Néill (pdf) by Hiram Morgan.

Online Index to the Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions) based on R.A.S. Macalister's translations and notes
This index in PDF format was compiled over five years by Michael Murphy, New York.
It is accompanied by a full introduction. CELT is grateful to Michael Murphy for agreeing to make it available on our website,
and grateful to the ITS, especially Prof. em. Pádraig Ó Riain, who facilitated this.

Dromore, an Ulster Diocese by E.D. Atkinson, Archdeacon of Dromore (Dundalk 1925),
has been digitized in pdf format and offered to CELT by G. Damien Kerr.

TEI by Example is a resource in Belgium launched in July 2010 with 'freely available online tutorials
walking individuals through the different stages in marking up a document in TEI (Text Encoding Initiative),
these online tutorials will provide examples for users of all levels.' CELT has also contributed sample files.

The Book of Lismore (Book of Mac Carthaigh Riabhach) is now digitized.
Read more about the Book of Lismore,

The following CELT texts are based in whole or in part on the Book of Lismore: Prose: Cathréim Cellacháin Caisil, edited by Alexander Bugge; Críchad an Chaoilli (The ancient territory of Fermoy), edited by J.G. O'Keeffe, with English translation; Lebor na Cert (The Book of Rights), edited by Myles Dillon, with English translation; das Apgitir Crábaid des Colmán maccu Béognae (of which the Book of Lismore contains only a fragment); Molaisse und seine Schwester, edited by Julius Pokorny; Drei Erzählungen aus dem Buch von Lismore, edited by Julius Pokorny; Tromdámh Guaire, edited by Maud Joynt; Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore, Acallamh na Senórach I, and the Gaelic abridgment of the Book of Ser Marco Polo, edited by Whitley Stokes, with English translation.
Poetry: Is aire charaim Doire, Turus acam Día h-Aíne, Géisid cúan, Forud na Fíann fás in-nocht, and Is úar geimred; at-racht gáeth, all edited by Gerard Murphy; and Arann ná n-oigheadh n-iomdha, which is poem 40 in Measgra Dánta edited by T. F. O'Rahilly.
Electronic editions of the Book of Lismore tales Airne Fíngein and Echtra Loegairi meic Crimthainn are available from the Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae Project at UCD.

CELT News

January/February 2013

The Book of Clanranald (English translation), edited and translated by
Alexander Cameron, Alexander Mcbain, and John Kennedy, Reliquiae Celticae, vol. 2, Inverness 1894, 149–288.

The Book of Clanranald (Gaelic original), edited by
Alexander Cameron, Alexander Mcbain, and John Kennedy, Reliquiae Celticae, vol. 2, Inverness 1894, 148–309.

A description of Ireland: A.D. 1618, by Thomas Gainsford (1566–1624), edited and donated to CELT
by Luke McInerney. The primary text is part of an article published in The Other Clare 36 (2012), 33–37.

Johann Friedrich Hering's description of Connacht,
edited by C. J. Woods, Irish Historical Studies 25/99 (May 1987) 311–321: 315–321.

Auf Deutsch: Schilderung von Irland (Bruchstücke aus dem Tagebuche eines Reisenden: Im Herbst 1794),
by Caspar Voght, in: Der Genius der Zeit, vol. 8 (May to August 1796) 566–653.

Créd fá seachnaim síol Aodha?, a bardic poem by Domhnall Ó Maoilchonaire, edited by
Luke McInerney, Seanchas Ardmhacha 22 (2009) 1–27: 24–27. The English translation
by Luke McInerney is available, too: Why do I avoid the descendants of Aodh?

March 2013

Tugsad naoimh Mumhan go maith, a bardic poem edited by
Luke McInerney, Seanchas Ardmhacha 24:1 (2012) 10–22: 17–19. The English translation
by Luke McInerney is available, too: The saints of Munster brought it about well, 19–22.

Vita sancte Ite Virginis, edited by Charles Plummer, Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (Oxford 1910) vol. 1, 116–130.

April 2013

The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, translated and annotated by John O'Donovan,
from a manuscript of Duald MacFirbis (Dublin 1844). Made available on CELT in increments. Part 2: All text up to p. 209.

Read more about Travel to Ireland, Geography and Customs of the Country.

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge First published 1710. Reprint, edited with a preface by Thomas J. McCormack (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company 1910).

Dreizehn Briefe aus Irland nach Sachsen, by Carl Gottlob Küttner, Leipzig 1875, 1–75.