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Journal articles on the topic "Irish Place Names"

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Stalmaszczyk, Piotr. "Place-names in Modern Scottish Gaelic Poetry." Studia Celto-Slavica 5 (2010): 119–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.54586/ohzi1150.

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The significance of place-names in Celtic, especially Irish, literature has been extensively discussed in numerous studies. Though an important feature of older poetry, the usage of geographical names is employed also in contemporary verse, not only in Irish, but also in Scottish Gaelic. The preoccupation with places may be viewed as a broader awareness of the geographical setting, a point extensively discussed by Sorley MacLean (1985) in connection with the consciousness of the presence of the sea in the seventeenth-century Gaelic poetry. Place-names are often used as means of appropriateness

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Stalmaszczyk, Piotr. "The Permanence of Place: Places and Their Names in Irish Literature." Studia Celto-Slavica 2 (2009): 93–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.54586/bcbf2160.

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This paper discusses the relation between places and their names as reflected in Irish literature. According to Robbie Hannan (1991: 19) attachment to place is among the strongest human emotions, explicitly revealed in literature. Celtic literature is ‘saturated’ with images of landscape and preoccupied with places and their names, landscape is constantly present in ancient sagas and bardic poetry, modern drama, short stories, novels and essays. The sense of place is explicitly manifest in medieval heroic tales (such as The Táin), and twentieth century novels (e.g. James Joyce’s Ulysses) and p

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Ryan, Catherine, Rebecca Grant, Eoghan Ó. Carragáin, Sandra Collins, Stefan Decker, and Nuno Lopes. "Linked data authority records for Irish place names." International Journal on Digital Libraries 15, no. 2-4 (2014): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00799-014-0129-8.

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Breeze, Andrew. "Cheshire’s Celtic Place-Names." Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire: Volume 169, Issue 1 169, no. 1 (2020): 155–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/transactions.169.10.

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Cheshire, settled by Anglo-Saxons in the later seventh century, has many placenames of British origin, as well as Irish place-names given by tenth-century migrants from Ireland. Twenty-seven real or supposed instances are discussed here: Arclid, Antrobus, Arrow, Bollin, Brynn, Cilgwri, Crewe, Dane, Dee, Eccleston, Goyt, Ince, Landican, Liscard, Lostock, Lyme, Mellor, Mottram, Noctorum, Peover, Rhedynfre, Tarvin, Tintwistle, Tybrunawt/Tybrunawg, Weaver, Werneth, Wheelock. Ten of them are provided with derivations at variance with The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names and other handboo

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Lyons, Susan. "Ireland's Medieval Woodland: An archaeological approach to understanding long term patterns of wood use, management and exploitation." Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork, no. 2014 (January 1, 2014): 66–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/boolean.2014.13.

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Mayo, Roscommon, Derry, Newry, Trim, Roscrea, Adare, Kildare, Kilcullen, Cratloe, Youghal, Clonakilty, – what do these Irish place names have in common? They all derive from the name of a tree or a wood. Of the 16,000 townlands in Ireland, approximately 13,000 are named after trees. Root words expressive of woods, forests and trees include coil/coillte (wood); daire/daur (oak); coll (hazel); cuileann (holly); sail (willow); iúir/eo (yew), trom (elder) and beithe (birch), the earliest written records date to the seventh century A.D. In most cases, the woods that lent their name to places in Ire

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Makaryshyn, Nadia. "CELTIC LANGUAGE ELEMENTS IN THE PLACE NAMES OF IRELAND." Inozenma Philologia, no. 133 (December 1, 2020): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/fpl.2020.133.3177.

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The article deals with the culture and heritage of ancient Celts by analyzing the toponyms of Celtic origin in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, as well as in the places where the Irish diaspora is present. In accordance with the set goal, the article considers the cultural component in the meaning of linguistic units and the classifi cation of toponyms and their use in diff erent parts of the island. By the example of the analysis of the meaning of Celtic toponyms functioning in modern Ireland and Northern Ireland, it is shown that Celtic national heritage has not been lost. The stud

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Hughes, A. J. "Irish Place-names: Some Perspectives, Pitfalls, Procedures and Potential." Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society 14, no. 2 (1991): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/29742494.

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Pascale, Mellisa. "Intersections in Early Irish and Japanese Nature Poetry: Seasons and Place Names." Studia Celtica Fennica 20 (February 28, 2025): 106–24. https://doi.org/10.33353/scf.148119.

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This article examines similar poetic conventions in Early Irish and Japanese nature poetry. The first section focuses on associations of the seasons, often used in both literatures to explore cycles of rulership, rituals both societal and personal, and phases in human experiences. The second section examines the use of dindṡenchas in Early Irish lyrics and a comparable device, the utamakura, in Japanese poetry. Dindṡenchas and utamakura add historical and literary depth to nature poetry.

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Darwin, Gregory R. "On Greek and Latin names in Early Modern Irish syllabic verse." Celtica 33 (December 1, 2021): 195–247. https://doi.org/10.58480/scs-2mnnz-9qp98.

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The present article offers an overview of Classical personal and place-names found in Early Modern Irish syllabic verse. The relative frequency of these names is discussed, and names are subjected to metrical analysis. Two categories of names are distinguished: those borrowed in Middle Irish or earlier, characterized by the loss of final syllables and other types of assimilation, and later borrowings, in which the Latin spelling is largely preserved. The evidence suggests that poets pronounced Latin words in a manner consistent with the evidence of later medieval Latin writing from Ireland, an

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Acadia, Lilith. "Conquering Love." Common Knowledge 26, no. 3 (2020): 407–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-8521507.

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In a contribution to a symposium on xenophilia, this essay — a study of Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations — raises the question of whether all xenophilia is by nature doomed to fail. Set in Ireland in 1833, the drama centers on the tension arising from a young British lieutenant’s falling in love with an Irish-speaker while he is in her country to translate Irish place-names into English for an imperial cartographic survey. While the lieutenant is referred to in the play as a Hibernophile, the essay interprets his love as xenophilic: love for the foreignness rather than the Irishness of wha

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Irish Place Names"

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Tempan, P. D. "A study of a selection of topographical elements in Irish place names." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546438.

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OÌ, Mainnin M. B. "Townland names and other place-names of Irish-language origin in the parishes of Armagh, Eglish and Grange, County Armagh." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252597.

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Morgan, Ailig Peadar Morgan. "Ethnonyms in the place-names of Scotland and the Border counties of England." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4164.

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This study has collected and analysed a database of place-names containing potential ethnonymic elements. Competing models of ethnicity are investigated and applied to names about which there is reasonable confidence. A number of motivations for employment of ethnonyms in place-names emerge. Ongoing interaction between ethnicities is marked by reference to domain or borderland, and occasional interaction by reference to resource or transit. More superficial interaction is expressed in names of commemorative, antiquarian or figurative motivation. The implications of the names for our understand

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Books on the topic "Irish Place Names"

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Laurence, Flanagan, ed. Irish place names. Gill and Macmillan, 1994.

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J, O'Connor Patrick. Atlas of Irish place-names. Oireacht na Mumhan Books, 2001.

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Ida, Grehan, and Joyce P. W. 1827-1914, eds. Book of Irish names: First, family & place names. Sterling Pub. Co., 1989.

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Room, Adrian. A dictionary of Irish place-names. Appletree, 1988.

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Room, Adrian. A dictionary of Irish place-names. Appletree Press, 1986.

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McKay, Patrick. A dictionary of Ulster place-names. Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1999.

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Pierce, Richard Andrew. The stones speak: Irish place names from inscriptions in Boston's Mount Calvary Cemetery. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000.

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Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. E ire thuaidh - Ireland north: A cultural map and gazetteer of Irish place-names. Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland, 1988.

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1957-, Carey John, Herbert Máire, Murray Kevin 1969-, and Ó Riain Pádraig, eds. Cín, chille, cúile =: Texts, saints, and places : essays in honour of Pádraig Ó Riain. Celtic Studies Publications, 2004.

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Irish Place Names. Gill & Macmillan, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Irish Place Names"

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Lopes, Nuno, Rebecca Grant, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Eoghan Ó Carragáin, Sandra Collins, and Stefan Decker. "Linked Logainm: Enhancing Library Metadata Using Linked Data of Irish Place Names." In Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08425-1_7.

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Lopes, Nuno, Rebecca Grant, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Eoghan Ó Carragáin, Sandra Collins, and Stefan Decker. "Linked Logainm: Enhancing Library Metadata Using Linked Data of Irish Place Names." In Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14226-5_7.

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Nierenberg, Ona. "The Psychoanalysis That Dare Not Speak Its Name." In Clinical Encounters in Sexuality. punctum books, 2017. https://doi.org/10.21983/p3.0167.1.29.

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In the opening essay of Love In A Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar, Colm Tóibin refers to Borges’s essay “The Argentine Writer and Tradition” to describe the position of exile as a condition for creation, for the possibility of the emergence of the new. Tóibin situates gay literary figures alongside the Jew-ish, Argentine, and Irish artists that Borges refers to, underlin-ing that the place of estrangement, of foreignness, is the sine qua non for speaking at the limits of the sayable. While certainly not sufficient, extra-territoriality is absolutely necessary to affect a break wit

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Kane, Frances, Justin Ó Gliasáin, and Úna Bhreathnach. "North and South of the Border: Parallel Place Name Research in Ireland." In Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science Volume 1 Keynote Lectures Toponomastics. Jagiellonian University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/k7501.45/22.23.18060.

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Irish language place-names were largely recorded in non-standardized anglicized spelling, which is variously subject to influences like diverging dialects, and socio-historical change. Following the partition of Ireland in 1921, place name research and authority is disconnected. In the Republic of Ireland, Irish is the first official language, reflected in support via a number of statutory bodies. The Placenames Committee within the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Government of Ireland) is the main authority on place names, and advises government on official place names as defi

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"Glossary of Irish Terms and Place Names." In Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics. University of California Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520353084-022.

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Grene, Nicholas. "Beasts and Birds." In Yeats’s Poetic Codes. Oxford University PressOxford, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199234776.003.0006.

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Tempan, Paul. "The Element sceilg in Irish Place-names – A Borrowing of Latin spelu(n)ca?" In Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science Volume 1 Keynote Lectures Toponomastics. Jagiellonian University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/k7501.45/22.23.18078.

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Modern Irish sceilg is defined as a ‘steep rock’ or ‘crag’ (Ó Dónaill, 1977). The Old Irish form is sceillec (Dictionary of the Irish Language, 1913–1976). It is rare and now chiefly known through a handful of toponyms but is of considerable importance due to its occurrence in names at two notable early Christian monastic sites, namely Sceilg Mhíchíl (Eng. ‘Skellig Michael’), a rocky island located off the coast of Co. Kerry, and Teampall na Sceilge (Eng. ‘Templenaskellig’) at Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Both Skellig Michael and Glendalough are believed to have been founded by hermit saints in t

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"Some problems in the rendering and identification of Irish place-names in the Gaeltachtaí." In The Death of the Irish Language. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203059944-28.

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Edwards, Nancy. "The Legacy of Rome, Irish Settlement, and Changing Identities." In Life in Early Medieval Wales. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733218.003.0004.

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Abstract This chapter considers the Roman legacy, which included Christianity and Latin literacy, and its reinvention, the significance of changing identities as indicated on the fifth- to seventh-century inscribed memorial stones, and the impact of Irish settlement. Early medieval activity is examined on key Roman sites, such as Caerwent and Caerleon, and it is argued that they were largely reinvented in Christian terms, thereby highlighting Christian continuity with the Roman past. Roman artefacts were also recycled, with some curated as amulets. Memorial stones with inscriptions in Latin or

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Mikhailova, Tatyana. "Cú Chulainn as Culann’s dog: towards a reconstruction of an archaic mythological motive." In Semiotics in the Past and Present. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/7576-0488-6.11.

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The starting point of the investigation is the episode in which the Irish epic hero got his name Cú Chulainn, i.e. Culan-the-Smith's Hound. In early Ireland, the prefix ‘Cú' (Hound) was really used in names of kings and of heroes, as it is generally considered, to denote warrior status. We do not fully agree with this straightforward interpretation. In Celtic tradition a hound possesses, in the first place, certain protective functions as a defender of “wives and cattle”, the fact finding its analogues in the Old Indian tradition. At the same time we are going to draw attention to the fact tha

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