Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World

Lorna Barrow completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2008. She currently works as a casual academic at Macquarie University in Sydney in the Modern History Department. Jonathan Wooding is Sir Warwick Fairfax Chair of Celtic Studies at the University of Sydney.

• Introduction: wishful returns and futures foreseen by Lorna G. Barrow and Jonathan M. Wooding1. Fable and fiction in the creation of contemporary beliefs about the past in Scottish life bySybil Jack2. Robert Owen and villages of unity and co-operation: a new concept of urbanism by Tessa Morrison3. Celticism, Science and the Mnemonic Universe byCairns Craig4. ‘One foot in Wales and my vowels in England’: the Welshness of Dylan Thomas by William Christie5. Ireland’s lexical memory: Irish words in English language texts, 1800–2016 byDymphna Lonergan6. Remembering the Celts: Celtic designs on modern coins by John Kennedy7. Scottish soldiers in fifteenth-century France: remembering an early Scottish diaspora by Elizabeth Bonner8. Memories of a Celtic past: challenges to an old culture on the changing Scottish and Australian frontiers of life by James Donaldson9. ‘To the land of my praise’: memories of Hugh Boyd Laing by Katherine Spadaro10. Nicholas O’Donnell on the origins of Munster O’Donnells by Val Noone11. ‘Dark and rude and strange …’ : Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran and the St Mary’s 1904 fair by Richard Reid12. Remembering Easter 1916: Australian links to the Irish rebellion by Anne Maree Whitaker13. Dancing bodies, living memories: Irish immigrants in Sydney by Jeanette MollenhauerAbout the authorsIndex

"Aspects of Celtic culture and identity and the global idea of Celtic memory is a theme explored in this collection of essays. The role that fact and fiction play in the creation of memory and the essential nature of memory itself in the creation of Celtic identity is also explored."– Mairéad Carew, Cultural and Social History 2022 19(5)