Ériu Volume LXX (70), 2020 (Print Copy)
Edited by: Damian McManus and Mícheál Hoyne
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CONTENTS
Richard Sharpe 1954–2020 (pp. 1-4)
Mícheál Hoyne
Binomial Phrases, Dvandva Compounds and the House in Which Cú Chulainn Was Born (pp. 5-29)
Damian McManus
The Floruit of Gilla Cóemáin (pp. 31-39)
John Carey
Neart Banbha 'Ga Barúnaibh: Dán Molta ar Phádraigín Mac Muiris (pp. 41-72)
Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh
Explanations of Three Rare Words in the Tale Known as Úath Beinne Étair and a Re-Assessment of this Title (pp. 73-81)
Caoimhín Breatnach
On the Origin of the Surname Element Mág (pp. 83-93)
Mícheál Hoyne
A Latin Source for Merugud Uilix, the Medieval Irish Narrative of Ulysses (pp. 95-118)
Michael Clarke
Gofraidh Óg Mac an Bhaird Cecinit: 5. Gabhla Fódla Fuil Chonaill (pp. 119-170)
Eoin Mac Cárthaigh
Varium. Cú Chulainn's battle-scars: a new interpretation of a quatrain in Aided Guill meic Carbada 7Aided Gairb Glinne Rige (pp. 171-176)
Chantal Kobel
Abbreviations (pp. 178-179)
About the author
Damian McManus
Professor Emeritus Damian McManus, Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, Trinity College Dublin, is a graduate of the University of Dublin (BA 1977), where he also completed his doctorate on 'The Latin loanwords in Early Irish' in 1982. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of Trinity College and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His main areas of research are Primitive Irish, in particular the Latin loanwords and the Ogam alphabet, and Classical Modern Irish. He is author of A guide to Ogam, joint editor of Stair na Gaeilge, and has published many articles in learned journals in Celtic Studies. He was director of the Trinity-based 'Bardic Project', which published five hundred medieval Irish poems from manuscripts in Irish and British libraries (A Bardic miscellany, eds D. McManus and E. Ó Raghallaigh, 2010), and created a database of two thousand such poems (https://www.tcd.ie/Irish/database/). He has also been joint editor of Ériu, the journal of the Royal Irish Academy devoted to Irish philology and literature, since 2005.
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