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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2016
It is a sad admission that the historical work of the past thirty years on the first seven centuries of Irish history can be very rapidly surveyed. Eóin MacNeill, who first laid the foundations for the serious study of early Irish history (and indeed of the Gaelic world down to its dissolution), expended his scholarship in many learned articles and brilliant essays. The task of weaving a consecutive narrative was left to the over-enthusiastic hands of Mrs Alice Stopford Green, since whose time no one has ventured to write a full-scale history of the period before the Norman invasion.
1 ‘The tricha cét and related land-measures’ in R.I.A. Proc, xxxviii, C, 7 (1929); ‘The Irish law of kingship’, ibid., xl, C, 3 (1932).
2 ‘The Ua Briain kingship in Telach Óc’, in Féilsgríbhinn Eóin Mhic Néill, ed. Ryan (1940), pp 406–44.
3 Cork : University Press, 1951.
4 Dublin and Cork : Talbot Press, 1931.
5 London : Methuen, 1966.
6 R.S.A.I. Jn., lxviii (1938), pp 1–50; Goedheer, A.J., Irish and Norse traditions about the battle of Clontarf (Haarlem, 1938).Google Scholar
7 N: Munster Antiq. Jn., ii (1941), pp 141–52; iii (1942), pp 1–52; iii (1943), pp 189–202.
8 O’Donnell Lecture (National University of Ireland, 1966).
9 Price, Liam, The place-names of Co. Wicklow, i-vi (Dublin, 1945–58)Google Scholar; ‘Glendalough : St Kevin’s road’, in Féilsgríbhinn Eóin Mhic Néill, pp 244–71. Briain, Féilim Ó, ‘The hagiography of Leinster’, ibid., PP 454–64Google Scholar; ‘The expansion of Irish Christianity’, I.H.S., iii (1943), pp 241–66; iv (1944), pp 131–63. Walsh, Paul, ‘Meath in the Book of Rights’, in Féilsgríbhinn, pp 508–21Google Scholar; Irish men of learning (Dublin, 1947); The place-names of Westmeath (Dublin, 1957); Irish chiefs and leaders (Dublin, 1960).
10 Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Ui Dhomhnaill (Irish Texts Society, xlii, xlv; Dublin, 1948, 1957).
11 Gleeson, Dermot F., A history of the diocese of Killaloe (Dublin, 1962)Google Scholar; the first two chapters are by Fr Gwynn. For other writings by Fr Gwynn on this period see the bibliography in Watt, Morrall, and Martin, , Medieval studies presented to Aubrey Gwynn, S.J. (Dublin, 1961), pp 502–7.Google Scholar
12 ’Cathal Mac Maghnusa and the Annals of Ulster’, in Clogher Record, ii (1958–9)> pp 230–43, 370–84.
13 ‘Contributions towards ithe political history of Munster, 450–800 A.D.’, in Cork Hist. Soc. Jn., Ivi (1951), pp 87–90; lvii (1952), pp 67–86; ‘Some researches in ancient Irish law’, ibid., lii (1947), pp 41–54; 135–48; Iii (1948), pp 1–12; 75–81.
14 Oxford University Press, 1963.
15 Articles by Père Grosjean on Irish hagiography and ecclesiastical history appeared regularly in Analecta Bollandiana until his death in 1964; an important study ‘Sur quelques exégètes irlandais du viie siècle’ appeared in Saeris Erudiri, vii (1955). Among Bischoff’s works may be mentioned his ‘Wendepunkte in der Geschichte der lateinischen Exegese im Frühmittelalter’ ibid., vi (1954), and ’Eine verschollene Einteilung der Wissenschaften’, in Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, xxxiii (1958).
16 L’art irlandais, i–iii (Paris, 1963, 1964, 1964); two volumes have now appeared in an English edition : Irish art in the early Christian period to A.D. 800 (London, 1965), and Irish art during the Viking invasions, 800–1020 A.D. (London, 1967).
17 London, 1958.
18 Studies in early British history; Studies in the early British church; Celt and Saxon (Cambridge, 1954, 1958, 1963).
19 Wainwright, F.T., The problem of the Picts (Edinburgh, 1955).Google Scholar
20 Edinburgh, 1953.
21 O’Rahilly, T.F., The two Patricks (Dublin, 1942)Google Scholar; Early Irish history and mythology (Dublin, 1946).
22 For an amusing example of O’Rahilly’s method of dismissing uncomfortable evidence see Early Irish history and mythology, p. 495.
23 Eóin MacWhite has mapped the lines along which a joint attack on these problems should be made : ‘Problems of Irish archaeology and Celtic philology’, in Z.C.P., xxv (1956), pp 1–29.
24 John Ryan, S.J. (ed.), Saint Patrick (Dublin, 1958).Google Scholar
25 Published by the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin, 1936).
26 Ed. Myles Dillon (Dublin, 1954).
27 Ed. Brian Ó Cuív (Dublin, 1962).
28 The most significant works are Bieler’s, Ludwig The life and legend of St Patrick (Dublin, 1949)Google Scholar; Carney’s, James Studies in Irish literature and history, ch. rx and app. C (Dublin, 1955)Google Scholar, and The problem of St Patrick (Dublin, 1961); and Binchy’s, D.A. ‘Patrick and his biographers : ancient and modern’’, in Studia Hibernica, 2 (1962), pp 7–173.Google Scholar A bibliography of Patrician literature to 1962 has been compiled by Rev. Professor F. X. Martin in the new edition of MacNeil’s St Patrick, ed. John Ryan (Dublin, 1964), pp 221–4. Dr Bieler has recently published St Patrick and the coming of Christianity as the first fascicule of A history of Irish Catholicism under the general editorship of Rev. Dr Patrick Corish (Dublin, 1967).
29 Early Irish history and mythology, pp 341–52, 528 f.
30 Ibid., pp 235–59, 501–12; cf. also pp 409–18. Macalister’s article on ‘The sources of the preface to the “Tigernaeh” annals’, in I.H.S., iv (1944), pp 38-57), following on previous studies by MacNeill, Van Hamel and Paul Walsh, is a valuable discussion of the prehistoric ’ world chronicle ’ portion of the annals. Walsh’s, Paul ‘The dating of the Irish annals’, in I.H.S., 2 (1941), pp 355–75Google Scholar is also an important contribution.
31 The charters from the Books of Kells, which are in Irish and date from the eleventh and twelfth centuries, have been edited by Gearóid Niocaill, Mac, Notitiae as Leabhar Cheanannais 1033–1161 (Dublin, 1961).Google Scholar
32 The Annals of Inisfallen, ed. Seán Mac Airt (Dublin, 1951).
33 Rev. Celt., xvi-xviii (1895–7).
34 Dublin, 1887.
35 The writings of Bishop Patrick of Dublin have been edited by Fr Aubrey Gwynn (1955), those of St Golumbanus by G.S.M. Walker (1957), the De locis Sanctis of Adomnán by Fr Meehan (1958), the Irish Penitentials by Dr Ludwig Bieler (1963), and the De mensura orbis terrarum of Dicuil by Professor J. J. Tierney (1967).
36 Epistolae S. Patricii (2 vols, Dublin, 1952).
37 Edinburgh, 1961.
38 Heist, W.W., Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae ex codice olim Salmanticensi nunc Bruxellensi (Brussels, 1965).Google Scholar
39 Sancti Bernardi apera, iii (Rome, 1963), pp 295–378, with historical notes by Fr Gwynn. Two other publications in the realm of hagiography deserve mention : Kathleen Mulchrone’s Bethu Phátraic, i (Dublin, 1939), containing the early Irish text and the Latin sources of the Vita Tripartita; and Carl Selmer’s edition of the Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis (Notre Dame, 1959).
40 Irish Manuscripts Commission, vol. i (1945)5 vol. ii (1949).
41 See the select bibliography given by Binchy in The Irish Jurist, i (1966), pp 90–2.
42 Dublin, 1941.
43 R.I.A. Proc., xxxvi, C, 16 (1923), pp 265–316.
44 Ériu, xviii (1958), pp 113–38.
45 Lebor na Cert: the Book of Rights, ed. Myles Dillon (Irish Texts Society, xlvi, Dublin, 1962).
46 Ed. Eóin MacNeill and Kathleen Mulchrone (Dublin, 1937).
47 Ed. R. A. S. Macalister (Dublin, 1942).
48 See Genealogical tracts 1, ed. Toirdhealbhach Ó Raithbheartaigh (Dublin, 1932), and ‘The O Clery Book of genealogies’, ed. Séamus Pender, in Anal. Hib., no. 18 (Dublin, 1951).
49 Dublin, 1962. This volume contains the genealogical material from the two twelfth-century manuscripts, Rawlinson Β 502 and the Book of Leinster, with indexes and cross-references to the parallel passages in Laud Misc. 610, the Book of Lecan and the Book of Ballymote.
50 The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, i, ed. R. I. Best, Osborn Bergin and M. A. O’Brien (Dublin, 1954); ii-v, ed. R. I. Best and M. A. O’Brien (Dublin, 1956, 1957, 1963, 1967).
51 O’Sullivan, W., ‘Notes on the scripts and make-up of the Book of Leinster’, in Celtica, 7 (1966), pp 1–31.Google Scholar
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53 Kelleher, John V., ‘Early Irish history and pseudo-history’, in Studia Hib., 3 (1963), p. 114.Google Scholar