Latin culture in early medieval Ireland

  • Maps for early Irish studies

    Maps for early Irish studies

    This post aims to collect some online map resources for early medieval Ireland. A knowledge of local geography and toponymy is often indispensable for researching early Irish history and literature, but equally often inaccessible due to changing names and the disappearance of sites.

  • Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds

    Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds

    This collection of essays, deriving from a Cambridge conference in 2007, has now been listed on the CUP website, due to appear in August 2012. I have a contribution exploring how Irish scholars around the seventh century derived a basic knowledge of Greek vocabulary from a range of Late Antique sources and how they applied…