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An Introduction to Medieval Irish Literature with Dr Elizabeth Boyle

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Welcome back to the second season of The Medieval Irish History Podcast!

We are very excited to be back with you all! Today, in our very first episode of the new season, we are back with Dr Elizabeth Boyle to talk little bit about Early Irish Literature. You have probably heard about some key figures of medieval Irish literature, such as Cú Chulainn and Queen Medb from Táin Bó Cúailnge, but how can we as historians (or interested readers) interpret these sagas? Are they myths that provide a window into Ireland's past or are they the result of a cleric's fertile imagination?

Suggested reading:

– For translations of a selection of Irish saga narratives see Jeffrey Gantz, Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Penguin, 1981) but please disregard the outdated introduction.

– Ann Dooley, Playing the Hero: Reading the Irish Saga Táin Bó Cúailnge (Toronto, 2006)

– Elizabeth Boyle, Fierce Appetites (Dublin and London, 2022)

– Elizabeth Boyle, 'Early Medieval Perspectives on Pre-Christian Traditions in the Celtic World' In: Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook (Berlin, 2020).

– Gregory Toner, ‘Wise Women and Wanton Warriors in Early Irish Literature’ in Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, xxx (2010), pp 259–27

– Angela Bourke et al (eds), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volume IV: Irish Women’s Writings and Traditions (Cork 2002)

– Thomas Owen Clancy, ‘Women poets in early medieval Ireland’, in C. E. Meek & M. K. Simms (eds), The Fragility of her Sex? Medieval Irish Women in their European Context (Dublin, 1996), pp. 43–72

Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday).

Email: [email protected]

X (formerly Twitter): @EarlyIrishPod

Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & Taighde Éireann (formerly Science Foundation Ireland/Irish Research Council).

Views expressed are the speakers' own.

Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.

Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa

Music: Lexin_Music

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Welcome back to the second season of The Medieval Irish History Podcast!

We are very excited to be back with you all! Today, in our very first episode of the new season, we are back with Dr Elizabeth Boyle to talk little bit about Early Irish Literature. You have probably heard about some key figures of medieval Irish literature, such as Cú Chulainn and Queen Medb from Táin Bó Cúailnge, but how can we as historians (or interested readers) interpret these sagas? Are they myths that provide a window into Ireland's past or are they the result of a cleric's fertile imagination?

Suggested reading:

– For translations of a selection of Irish saga narratives see Jeffrey Gantz, Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Penguin, 1981) but please disregard the outdated introduction.

– Ann Dooley, Playing the Hero: Reading the Irish Saga Táin Bó Cúailnge (Toronto, 2006)

– Elizabeth Boyle, Fierce Appetites (Dublin and London, 2022)

– Elizabeth Boyle, 'Early Medieval Perspectives on Pre-Christian Traditions in the Celtic World' In: Prognostication in the Medieval World: A Handbook (Berlin, 2020).

– Gregory Toner, ‘Wise Women and Wanton Warriors in Early Irish Literature’ in Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, xxx (2010), pp 259–27

– Angela Bourke et al (eds), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volume IV: Irish Women’s Writings and Traditions (Cork 2002)

– Thomas Owen Clancy, ‘Women poets in early medieval Ireland’, in C. E. Meek & M. K. Simms (eds), The Fragility of her Sex? Medieval Irish Women in their European Context (Dublin, 1996), pp. 43–72

Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday).

Email: [email protected]

X (formerly Twitter): @EarlyIrishPod

Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & Taighde Éireann (formerly Science Foundation Ireland/Irish Research Council).

Views expressed are the speakers' own.

Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.

Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa

Music: Lexin_Music

  continue reading

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