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Ciaran Fiona Mcdonough - Postdoc

Ciaran Fiona Mcdonough

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School of Humanities

Ciaran Fiona McdonoughShe/Her

Postdoc

Postdoctoral Researcher

Location
Gimli / G-306
Email
mcdonough [at] hi.is

Unit
Historical Institute

Published works

2023

‘Medieval Irish Law as Alternative Justice in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland’Nordic Irish Studies
‘Brehon Law, Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, and Alternative Justice in Post-medieval Ireland’Hugvísindaþing
‘Nineteenth-century Translations of Medieval Irish Literature’,The XVIIth International Congress of Celtic Studies,
‘What relevance did medieval Irish law have in the nineteenth century?’
‘Medieval Law in the Nineteenth Century: Ireland, Iceland and the Uses of Legal History´
‘Medieval Irish Land Law as an Alternative Justice System in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland, Denmark, and Norway’Proceedings of Harvard Celtic Colloquium
Hardiman and Beyond: The Arts and Culture of Galway since 1820 Arden/Australian Scholarly Publishing
‘Cataloguing the National Canon’Medieval Studies in the Digital World

2022

‘“Oldtids tunge”: Nineteenth-century Antiquarian Research into the Sagas and the Politics of Language’Saga Conference
'Antiquarianism, Sectarianism, and Nationalism: Producing the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland'
'"Professor O' Curry States That…": Conflict in the Brehon Law Commission'Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Annual Conference
“The tentative translations of these obscure records”: Compiling the Glossary to The Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland’
‘The Fact and the Fiction: The Recirculation of Early Irish Land Law in the Nineteenth Century’17th International Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica
‘“For the patriotic purpose”: Printing Irish-Language Material and Manuscript in Irish, 1819–1850’Manuscript, Print, and the Regional Languages of Europe Conference
‘Antiquarius, Prímchríchaire, Antiquarian, Scholar: Terminology to describe Antiquarians in Ireland from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth-Century’

2021

‘The Recirculation of Medieval Irish Land Law in Nineteenth-Century Europe’40th Harvard Celtic Colloquium
‘Antiquarianism, Golden Ages, and Medieval Law’'The Danish-Icelandic Reception of Nordic Antiquity'
Review of The Correspondence of Thomas Stephens: Revolutionising Welsh Scholarship in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Through Knowledge Exchange edited by Adam CowardCeltica
‘James Hardiman: His Life and Role in Nineteenth-Century Irish Antiquarianism’
‘“The Work of Publishing the Brehon Laws is the Most Important that Irish Scholars could be Engaged in”: The Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland and the Afterlife of Medieval Irish Law’
‘Medieval Irish Law as Alternative Justice in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland’Nordic Irish Studies Network Biennial Conference,

2020

‘Hardiman, O’Curry, and the O’Davoren Manuscripts’A Brehon Lawyer's School in Sixteenth-Century Ireland

2019

‘“Ireland and Denmark are specially to be named”: The Connections between Irish and Danish Antiquarians in the Nineteenth Century’ Ireland and the North
Folk belief and landscape in Connacht: accounts from the Ordnance Survey lettersFolk Life
'Ireland and Denmark are specially to be named': The connections between irish and Danish antiquarians in the nineteenth centuryIreland and the North
‘Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, Golden Ages, and the British Government’Tionól, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
‘“A language without a mouth”: Antiquarianism and the Irish Language in the Nineteenth Century’The XVIth International Congress of Celtic Studies

2018

Antiquarianism, archeology : Irish Gaelic
‘“We will not suffer two of the finest races of men in the world, the Catholic and Protestant, or the Milesian and Anglo-Irish, to be duped into mutual hatred”: Examining the Unity of the Irish Medieval Past through the Lens of Sectarian Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’Nordic Irish Studies Network Biennial Conference
‘Nineteenth-Century Translations of Ulster and Fenian Cycle Texts: Antiquarians, the Academy, and Arguments’Ulidia VI Fíanaigecht III, Joint Meeting of the Ulster and Finn Cycles
Irish ArchaeologyAmsterdam University Press

2017

Investigating Irish antiquarianism: A comparative study of Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures, 1830-1876
‘The Translation of Old Irish Texts and the Language Shift from Irish to English: a Cause or Coincidence?’EFACIS Biennial Conference
‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Irish Medieval Past: Antiquarian Writing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’Inclusion and Exclusion in the History of Ideas, International Conference of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History
“There is still plenty of fun, frolic, and folk-lore in the West”: Folk belief in the west of Ireland in the nineteenth century, as evidenced by the Ordnance Survey Letters’Conference on ‘Folk Belief’ & ‘The Supernatural in Literature and Film’

2016

‘“Here begins the province of the antiquary, who will never be deemed an unserviceable member of the community”: an Investigation into the Role of the Eighteenth-century Irish Antiquarian’Eighteenth-Century Ireland Annual Conference
‘The “island of saints and scholars”? Rethinking the harmonious country of the past’Societas Celtologica Nordica XV International Symposium

2015

‘The Golden Age of a Barbarous Nation? Nineteenth-century Irish Antiquarian Writing about the Early Medieval Period in the Context of European Romantic Nationalism’International Congress on Celtic Studies XV
‘“Death and Renewal”: Translating Old Irish Texts in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’Word-Bridges: Translation in Ireland 1700-1900
‘The Translation of Old Irish Texts and the Language Shift from Irish to English: a Cause or Coincidence?’21st International Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland,
‘Nineteenth-Century Irish Medievalism in the Context of European Medievalism’Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies
‘“Acht do bhrígh go bhfuaras scríobhtha i sein-leabhraibh iad” (“Because I found them in some old books”): Medieval Memories and Nationalist Intentions in Nineteenth-Century Irish Antiquarianism’Ireland-Iceland Memory Studies, Hugvísindaþing
‘The Translation of Old Irish Texts and the Origins of Irish Cultural Nationalism’The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600 – 1815
Antiquarianism, archeology : Irish GaelicEncyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
Antiquarianism, archeology : Irish Gaelic
‘Rethinking the “Island of Saints and Scholars” and the harmonious country of the past’Rethinking Cultural Memory (1700-1850)

2014

‘Nineteenth-Century Irish Travel Writing as “Popular Antiquarianism”’Nordic Irish Studies Network Biennial Conference,
‘Death and Renewal’: Translating Old Irish Texts in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Learning Irish in Late-Eighteenth – and Nineteenth-Century Belfast: the Antiquarian Influence
Learning Irish in Late-Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Belfast: the Antiquarian InfluenceStudia Celtica Fennica
‘Did Medieval Monasteries have Antiquarians? An Examination of the Term Prímhcríchaire’Irish Conference of Medievalists
‘Death and Renewal’: Translating Old Irish Texts in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
‘The Translation of Old Irish Texts and the Origins of Irish Cultural Nationalism’1st Poznań Conference of Celtic Studies
‘Death and Renewal’: Translating Old Irish Texts in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

2013

‘Antiquarianism as a “Gentlemen's Hobby”'Ireland and Masculinities Conference
‘The Ancient Laws of Ireland and the Brehon Law Commission: a Project Doomed to Failure?’First European Symposium in Celtic Studies

2009

William Wilde’s Antiquarianism in Context: The Importance of 19th-Century Antiquarianism and the Impact of Contemporary Society on Wilde's Antiquarian Studies, MA Thesis

Keywords for Specialisation:

Antiquarianism; 19th-century; Ireland; Iceland; Medieval Irish; Medieval Icelandic