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The impact of constructing aqueducts on the settlement patterns of Roman Crete
(2004-10)In this paper the Roman aqueducts of Crete will be presented for the purpose of exploring the effects of aqueduct construction on settlement patterns on the island.1 The study will demonstrate the diversity and the extent ... -
John B. Wilkins: Accordia’s first Director (27.iv.1935 – 8.iii.2017)
(Accordia Research Institute, University of London, 2019)Sine amicitia, vitam esse nullam (Cicero, de Amicitia, 86) Neither the cursus honorum of an academic career nor a simple list of publications can capture the rich texture of a scholar’s life. This is especially true of ... -
The language and the date of Amrae Coluimb Chille
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Latin and Old Irish in the Munich Computus: a reassessment and further evidence
(Royal Irish Academy, 2007)A previously rather neglected area of research, namely the interaction between Latin and the vernacular in medieval Irish texts, and the possibility of applying categories of linguistic analysis like code-switching and ... -
L’Epistula ad Dardanum et l’exégèse irlandaise des instruments de musique
(Département de Breton et Celtique, Université de Rennes, 2015)[No abstract available] -
Neo-Assyrian relief in the Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities, Trinity College Dublin; a case study in artefact acquisition.
(2012)The focus of this paper is a neo-Assyrian relief discovered in the Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities at Trinity College Dublin (hereafter the Weingreen Museum). The shallow relief depicts a pictorial vignette of a ... -
A new citation from a work of Columbanus in BnF lat. 6400b
(Brepols, 2014)The author argues that a section of the newly-discovered eighth-century Irish computistica in Paris, BnF, lat. 6400b may contain a citation from a (lost?) work of Columbanus. -
The origins of the preterite of the Old Irish copula and substantive verb: an overview and new ideas
(University of Wales Press, 2012-12)As is well known, Old Irish presented a morphological and functional distinction between the copula and the so-called 'substantive verb'. While in the present indicative the former is based on the PIE root *h1es- and the ... -
Prolegomena to the study of code-switching in the Old Irish Glosses
(Brepols, 2014)This article investigates the frequent alternation of Latin and Old Irish in several collections of Early Medieval Irish glosses (especially focussing on the glosses to the Epistles of St Paul in Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, ... -
She’s can be “heroes”: Female status and the Daunian stelae
(Accordia Research Institute, University of London, 2019)In Accordia Research Papers 11, Guilia Saltini Semerari published a thought-provoking article on ‘high status’ female burials in 6th century BC Basilicata. In this paper, she contended that ‘wealthy’ female burials should ... -
Tarbflaith: une influence classique dans Audacht Morainn?
(CNRS Éditions, 2015-09-29)Audacht Morainn (AM) – ou « Testament de Morann » – est, sans aucun doute, l’un des textes les plus célèbres de toute la production littéraire en vieil-irlandais. Cette situation est due à plusieurs facteurs : en particulier, ... -
Western Classics 1
(Classics, University of Galway, 2018-03)Contents: University Teaching—the skills agenda : Res gestae: staff news : Current PhD research : A thought on Heraclitus : Latin biblical commentaries : Remembering Ma Heavey : New databases : Events and photos : Colm ... -
Western Classics 2
(Classics, University of Galway, 2019-03)Contents: Senatus Populusque Galviensis : Ireland and Carolingian Brittany : Texts and Transmission : Res gestae: staff news : Current PhD research : Taking manuscripts to school : Losing a Greek vase : Notes from ... -
Western Classics 3
(Classics, University of Galway, 2020-12)Contents: Johannes Scottus Eriugena and Gothic Architecture : Culinary Chauvinism : From Caesar to the Coronavirus : Lorenzo Valla in the Time of Social Media : The Island Child : An Interview with Molly Aitken : All ... -
Western Classics 4
(Classics, University of Galway, 2022-06)Contents: War and heroism in 2022 : What’s in a name—(Ancient) Classics? : Talking the talk: Gilgamesh in Conversation : Virgil and Hungarian war poetry : Ekphrasis: Visualizing the verbal in ancient and contemporary ...