Dublaídi Dindshenchais – Studies on the Medieval Irish Place-Name Tradition

The present collection of essays is the product of a conference held at the School of Celtic Studies, at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 31 March and 1 April 2017. Drawing on the research of scholars from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and the United States, it is the first edited collection devoted to the topic of dindshenchas (‘history of eminent places’, ‘topographical legends’), and one of the first book-length treatments on the subject since the monumental editions and translations of the place-name corpus called Dindshenchas Érenn published by Whitley Stokes and Edward J. Gwynn between 1892 and 1935. The fourteen chapters in this volume showcase the multifaceted nature of the Dindshenchas corpus, as well as that of Irish topographical texts more broadly, and cover a diverse range of topics including manuscript studies, lexicography, genealogy, folklore, onomastics and literary analysis.

Edited by Marie-Luise Theuerkauf

• I Manuscripts, Texts, and Sources

1. Dindshenchas Érenn: An Overview of Textual Scholarship – Nollaig Ó Muraíle

2. Lebor na hUidre and Dindshenchas Érenn – Ruairí Ó hUiginn

3. The Poetry in the Rennes Dindshenchas – Kevin Murray

4. The Dindshenchas in Royal Irish Academy MS D ii 2 – Marie-Luise Theuerkauf

• II Memory, Place, and Medicine

5. The Memory Palace of Fintan mac Bóchrai – John Carey

6. Making the There Here and the Then Now: Place and Positioning in the Metrical Dindshenchas – Clodagh Downey

7. Medical Material in the Three Recensions of the Dindshenchas – Ranke de Vries

• III Onomastics

8. The Place-Names of Dindshenchas Érenn – Kay Muhr

9. In Pursuit of Táin Bó Cúailnge: Insights into the Work of Henry Morris from Dindshenchas Érenn – Gearóid Trimble

• IV Dindshenchas and Literature

10. Land-changing Feats in Tochmarc Étaíne and the dindshenchas of Ráth Ésa – A. Joseph McMullen

11. Áth Lúain and the Norse Reception of Irish Place-Lore – Matthias Egeler

12. ‘Ard na Ríag de ’na deagaid’: Tradition, Memory, and Continuity in Northern Connacht – Gregory R. Darwin

13. The Many Deaths of Tigernmas – Claire Collins

14. An Odd Death for a Pig – Joseph Falaky Nagy