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Dindshenchas and the Tech Midchúarta  (p.1)
Clodagh Downey 

A Latin-Irish text on fasting in the Leabhar Breac (p.37)
Roisin McLaughlin 

Macha and the invention of myth (p.81)
Gregory Toner 

‘Saig in Machai fothúaid’: on the application and extent of ‘the Macha’ in north-west Armagh (p.111)
Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín 

Crowd-control in sixth-century Clonmacnoise (Adomnán, VC 1.3) (p.131)
David Woods 

Two early examples of the preposition acht followed by the accusative case
outside the law texts and an example of acht inge (p.137)
Ranke de Vries 

The invisible third. The Basque and Celtic words for ‘Swallow’ (p.145)
David Stifter