Language and Power in the Celtic World

CONTENTS:Preface by Anders Ahlqvist & Pamela O'NeillThe Drinking of Blood in the Ritual Context of Mourning by Alexandra Bergholm 'Saint Patrick's Oath' by Liam Breatnach Literary History and the Medieval Canon in Wales by Helen Fulton Some Eighteenth-century Developments in Scottish Gaelic Poetry by William Gillies Causation in Medieval Irish Law by Jade Harman The Connection Between Fenian Lays, Liturgical Chant, Recitative, and Dán Díreach: a Pre-Medieval Narrative Song Tradition by Aindrias Hirt The Place of Women in Early Irish Society, with Special Reference to the Law of Marriage by Fergus Kelly Lost & Found - Reinstating Playwright Edward Geoghegan (1813-1869) and his Most Controversial Play, The Hibernian Father (1844) by Gay Lynch & Janet Tepelosi Reading with Rhydderch: Mabinogion Texts in Manuscript Context by Catherine McKenna Is there Vowel Harmony in Irish and Scottish Gaelic? by Malachy McKenna Cáin Adomnáin and the Lombards by Neil McLeod Sifting the Wreckage of Gaelic Culture in Victoria by Val Noone Language Resilience and Self-Esteem by Pierre Noyer Conchobor and His Court at Emain by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh Unravelling Time in Early Irish Law by Pamela O'Neill Exile and Authority in Lebor Gabála Érenn by Veronica Phillips The Early Welsh Harp Music of the Robert ap Huw Manuscript by Chris Ridgway Bizarre, Grotesque and Macabre: Gender and Humour in Early Irish Hagiography by Celia Scott From Repeal to Revolution: The Evolution of John Mitchel's Political Thought 1843-48 by Andrew Shields