The Gaelic Finn tradition /
Stories of Finn Mac Cumaill and his fían (warband) constitute the most enduringly popular branch of Gaelic literature. These thirteen essays, the first English-language collection on the subject to be published in over twenty years, offer new insights into diverse aspects of the tradition.
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Dublin :
Four Courts,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Celtic and Indo-European origins of the fian / Kim McCone
- 2. Interpreting the evidence: problems with dating the early fianaigecht corpus / Kevin Murray
- 3. 'Finn and the man in the tree' as verbal icon / Kaarina Hollo
- 4. Finn, Ferches and the rincne: versions compared / Sharon J. Arbuthnot
- 5. Breaking the cycle? Accounts of the death of Finn / Geraldine Parsons
- 6. The deployment of some hagiographical sources in Acallam na senórach / Ann Dooley
- gt7. Keeping the Acallam together / Joseph Falaky Nagy
- 8. Some observations on the Acallam bec / Julia S. Kühns
- 9. The transmission and text of Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne: a re-appraisal / Caoimhín Breatnach
- 10. Fiannaigheacht, family, faith and fatherland / Ruairí Ó hUiginn
- 11. Tadhg Ó Cianáin: spaghetti fiannaigheacht / Mícheál Mac Craith
- 12. Duncan Kennedy and his heroic ballads / Anja Gunderloch
- 13. Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig: composition and transmission / Síle Ní Mhurchú.
