The Rhetoric of Catastrophe
‘The Rhetoric of Catastrophe in Eleventh-Century Medieval Ireland: The Case of the Second Vision of Adomnán’, in: Catastrophes and the Apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. by Robert E. …
Holy Time Exhibition
The exhibition Holy Time: Martyrologies and Calendars Through the Ages was hosted in the Trinity Long Room Library in January 2018. I had the great pleasure of putting this together in …
Stokes and the Félire: Four Decades of Editing
Earlier in the summer I gave a paper at the Second European Symposium in Celtic Studies in Bangor (1 August) about the background to Whitley Stokes’ editions of the Félire Óengusso. I …
Celebrating the Saints Conference
In 2016, I had the pleasure of organising the symposium Celebrating the Saints: A Focus on Martyrologies and Calendars in the Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, on October 28-9, 2016. …
The Old English Account of the Seven Heavens (text and translation)
‘The Old English Account of the Seven Heavens’, in The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology, 285-306. [edition and translation] In this article I provide an edition and translation of this …
The Second Vision of Adomnán (text and translation)
‘The Second Vision of Adomnán’, in The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology, ed. J. Carey, et al. (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications), 647-81. [edition and translation] In this article I provide …
De Finibus
A few years ago I had the good fortune to work on the project De Finibus: Christian Representations of the Afterlife in Medieval Ireland in University College Cork. I was part of a team …
Genre in Medieval Celtic Literature
During my time in the School of Celtic Studies, I had the pleasure of launching the first of what became a series of thematic conferences. The Colloquium on Genre in Medieval …
Borderlines XIII
Borderlines XIII – Building Breaches: The Negotiation of Boundary in Medieval Culture Trinity College Dublin & University College Dublin 19th-21st March 2009 Co-organised with Pat O’Brien and Sinéad Connors from UCD. …