School of Celtic Studies / Tionól / 2008


Tionól 2008

The following papers were given at the School's annual Tionól, 28–29 November, 2008.

Gwen Awbery
Welsh place-names and the interaction of syntax and semantics
Johan Corthals
The Áiliu poems in Bretha Nemed Dédenach
Clodagh Downey
Dindshenchas and the Tech Midchuarta
Fiona Edmonds
Gaelic personal names in medieval northern England
Matthias Egeler
Some considerations on the Celtic character of the Lamiæ tres of the dedication stone CIL VII, 507 from the Roman fort Condercum on Hadrian's Wall.
Markku Filppula and Juhani Klemola
Celtic influences in English: a re-evaluation
Graham Isaac
The wave mechanics of Early Welsh verse
Fergus Kelly
Distraint of bees: a recently discovered Middle Irish legal commentary
Esther Le Mair
Some verbs in the Würzburg Glosses
Peter McQuillan
‘Civil Conversation’ and literature in Irish in the seventeenth century
Pádraic Moran
Hebrew in Irish glossaries
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
A fragmentary account of ‘Brian's battle’ in Rawlinson B486
Brian Ó Dálaigh
The Í Mhaoil Chonaire of Thomond
Tadhg Ó Dúshláine
Cuir srian rem chorp a Choimdhe: foinse agus fáth airge
Gordon Ó Riain
A fifteenth-century apologue on the death of Cú Chulainn
Cathy Swift
Sex in the civitas: early Irish intellectuals and their vision of women
Freya Verstraten
Was Walter de Burgh (†1271), Earl of Ulster, a descendant of Cathal Croibhdhearg Ó Conchobhair?
Immo Warntjes
The oldest occurrence of Old English gerīm
Nicholas Williams
The Brythonic preterite and Cornish syntax
Nicholas Zair
Middle Welsh subjunctive 1sg. -oef, 3sg. -oe: an Insular Celtic ‘ă-subjunctive’?