Origins and Revivals

CONTENTS:On the Origins of the Old Irish Terms Godil and Godelc by John T. KochAspects of Declension and Case in Modern Irish by Damien O MuirOn the Adverbial Usage of Adjectives in Brittonic Languages by Alexander Falileyev Syntactic, Lexical and Other Transfers from Celtic in (Australian) English by Brian Taylor Vocabulary Renewal Trends in the Modern Celtic Languages by Geoffrey Hull The 'Native Irish Grammarian' Revisited (Plenary lecture) by Anders Ahlqvist Irish Vikings or Scandinavian Celts? The Sources for the Gall-Gaidhil and their language by Roderick W. McDonald Ireland in the slendingasogur by John Kennedy The Early Hagiography of Saint Samson of Dol by Lynette Olson The Transmission of Virgil and Virgil Scholia in Early Medieval Ireland by David Daintree The Scholars of Early Christian Ireland by Michael Richter The British Isles and the Mediterranean World: Contact and Exchange 400-700 AD by Mark A. Handley Arthur and the Giant of Mont-Saint-Michel: the Creation of a Folktale by Sonya Jensen The Unpopular Rabbie Burns and his Ilk: the Excisemen in Eighteenth-century Scotland by Sybil Jack Women and Power in Early Irish Literature by Elayne Jay Everybody's Father: Genealogy in Irish Poetry by Louis de Paor The Tin B Cailnge as Book of Signs by Bernard Martin Spoken Gaelic and the Descendants of the Scottish Immigrants of the 1850s by Kerry Cardell Celtic Survival in Victoria: Church and School by Cliff Cumming Some Celtic Survivals in Sixteenth-Century Scotland by Janet Hadley Williams The Politics of Magic in the Scottish Highlands: Insight into Earlier Times? by Alasdair Taylor The Clanranald Histories - Authorship and Purpose by William Gillies Celtic-Language Printing in Colonial Australia by Geraint Evans Adoption and Adaptation of Celtic Music in South Australia: The Case of Traditional Celtic Music Competitions by Dorothy O'Donnell A Statement of Ethnicity: The Scottish Highland Bagpipe in New Zealand by Jennie Coleman Fritz Hart: Melbourne's Celtic 'Composer-in-Residence' by Anne-Marie H. Forbes The Not-So-Exotic Law of Dian Ccht by Neil McLeod Annul Arinchain Fnechas: Discourse Characteristics of Early Irish Law Texts by Bette-Jane Crigger Reconciling the Tension between Stasis and Change in the Late Medieval Irish Law Manuscripts by Rowena Finnane Ban: Sn Alternative Model of the Impact of Christian Conversion on Women in Irish Society by Tracy Newlands Cultural Meanings in the Mabinogi by Helen Fulton Contemporary Anglo-Welsh Elegy: Negotiating the Cultural Hyphen by Fiona Morrison A Celtic Lohengrin in the Lai of Milan by Bernadette A. Masters A Reading of Dafydd ap Gwilym (Plenary Lecture) by R. Geraint Gruffydd Celtic Iberia: Archaeology and Ethnicity by Aedeen Cremin Bulls and Boars in Celtic Iberia by R. Ian Jack Celts and Dacians: Confrontation and Convergences by Vlad Protopopescu The Originality of Celtic Ideology: The Case of Continental Sanctuaries by Natalie Venclova The Ancient Celts: The First European Community? (Plenary Lecture) by M. Ruth Megaw and J. V. S. Megaw Celtic-Language Printing in Colonial Australia by Geraint Evans