English translation of a selection from Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh, collected by Éamonn Ó Tuathail between 1929 and 1932 (cf. Best² 773a). English text only.
Poem (13 qq.) addressed by Diarmuid Mac an Bhaird to Brian mac Briain Mheic Mhathghamhna, beg. Fuar leam longphort mo charad. Ed. from MS RIA 24 P 4 with transl. and notes. Echoes from Eochaidh Ó hEodhusa’s poem to Aodh Mag Uidhir Fúar liom an adhaighsi dh’Aodh: see O. Bergin, Irish Bardic Poetry, no. 29 (BILL 5567).
Argues that mennán and bennán are etymologically unrelated but that the former attracted the latter to its semantic range because of the sporadic sound change b > m.
Identifies their territory as being the Ards Peninsula (Aird); emends a Forthuathaib arda to a Forthuathaib Arda in poem beg. Dligid ríg Eamna acus Ulad (Lebor na Cert: The Book of Rights, ed. by M. Dillon (Dublin, 1962) l. 1376).
Transl. of D. Flanagan, Béal Feirste agus áitainmneacha laistigh, in (pp. 45-64) Topothesia: essays in honour of T. S. Ó Máille, ed. by B. S. Mac Aodha (Galway 1982).
Ó Muraíle (Nollaig) (gen. ed.), Stockman (Gearóid) (gen. ed.): Place-names of Northern Ireland.
Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, 1992–2004.
Vol. 1: County Down I. Newry and South-West Down, by Gregory Toner and Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín. 1992. xxi + 217 pp.
Vol. 2: County Down II. The Ards, by A. J. Hughes and R. J. Hannan. 1992. xxi + 301 pp.
Vol. 3: County Down III. The Mournes, by Mícheál B. Ó Mainnín. 1993. xxi + 246 pp.
Vol. 4: County Antrim I. The baronies of Toome, by Patrick McKay. 1995. xxi + 313 pp.
Vol. 5. County Derry I. The Moyola Valley, by Gregory Toner. 1996. xix + 283 pp.
Vol. 6: County Down IV. North-West Down/Iveagh, by Kay Muhr. 1996. xxi + 422 pp.
Vol. 7: County Antrim II. Ballycastle and North-East Antrim, by Fiachra Mac Gabhann. 1997. xxi + 408.
Vol. 8: County Fermanagh I. Linaskea and district: the parish of Aghalurcher, by Patrick McKay. 2004. xxii + 260 pp.
Rev. by
Ian A. Fraser, in Nomina 17 (1994), pp. 142-143 (vols. 1-2).
Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, in Béaloideas 73 (2005), pp. 197-201 (vol. 8).
Kevin Murray, in Ainm 10 (2009), pp. 151-154.
Wilhelm F. H. Nicolaisen, in Names: a journal of onomastics 41/3 (1993), pp. 198-199 (vol. 3).
Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill, in Béaloideas 66 (1998), pp. 286-290 (vol. 3).
Seán Ó Cearnaigh, in IHS 30, nº 117 (May, 1996), pp. 125-126 (vols. 1-2).
Joe Ó Labhraí, in SAM 16/1 (1994), pp. 305-308 (vols. 1-3).
Simon Taylor, in Nomina 17 (1994), pp. 144-146 (vol. 3).
Robert L. Thomson, in CMCS 28 (Winter, 1994), pp. 98-101 (vols. 1-2).
Robert L. Thomson, in CMCS 39 (Summer, 2000), pp. 93-94 (vols. 4-6).
Discusses in particular the bardic families Ó Dálaigh, Ó hEodhasa, Mac Crosáin, Mac Aodhagáin, Mac an Bhaird, Ó Duibhgeannáin, Ó Gnímh, Mac Con Midhe, Ó hUiginn. Ó Ruanadha, Ó hEachaidhéin.
Edition of a wordlist of uncertain origin, containing forms of an undetermined East Ulster dialect with idiosyncratic phonetic annotations. It is argued that it was compiled by Seán Mac Airt on the basis of MS material dating from ca. 1900.
Hughes (A. J.): Some aspects of the salmon in Gaelic tradition past and present: 2. On identifying salmon in the Vita Tripartita of St. Patrick and elsewhere.
Discusses the changing loyalties of Irish bards during and after Elizabethan times, using the relationship between the Agnew bardic family and the Anglo-Norman Savages as a case study.
Hughes (A. J.): Robert Shipboy MacAdam (1808–95): his life and Gaelic proverb collection.
Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast in association with the Folkore Society, 1998. xii + 226 pp.
A reedition, with linguistic notes and indexes, of R. S. Macadam's Six hundred Gaelic proverbs collected in Ulster, first publ. serially in UJA (1st ser.) 6, 7, 9 (1858-1862); preceded by a biographical account of R.S.McA.
Rev. by
Bo Almqvist, in Béaloideas 68 (2000), pp. 161-172.
Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, in StH 30 (1998-1999), pp. 267-268.
Réamonn Ó Muirí, in SAM 18/1 (1999/2000), pp. 299-300.
Discusses the figures of Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta (c.1647–1733), Pádraig Mac A Liondain (c.1665–1733), Peadar Ó Doirnín (c.1700–1769), Art Mac Cumhaigh (c.1738–1773), Ó Nioclás Ó Cearnaigh (c.1802–1865) and Arthur Bennet (1793–1879).
Hughes (A. J.) (ed.), Nolan (William) (ed.): Armagh: history and society; interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county / editors: A. J. Hughes and William Nolan.
H&S, 15. Dublin: Geography Publications, 2001. lxxi + 1080 pp.
Rev. by
Damian Woods, in SAM 19/2 (2003), pp. 339-341.
Hughes (A. J.): Leabhar mór bhriathra na Gaeilge = The great Irish verb book.
Béal Feirste = Belfast: Clólann Bheann Mhadagáin = Ben Madigan Press, 2008. vii + 489 pp.
112 fully conjugated verb tables in standard Irish and in the three main dialects (Ulster, Connacht and Munster); with a bilingual introductory essay on dialectal variation, and an Index to 3300 other verbs.
Rev. by
Réamonn Ó Muirí, in SAM 22/2 (2009), pp. 320-321.
Abridged version: Leabhar laghdaithe bhriathra na Gaeilge = The abridged Irish verb book. Béal Féirste: Clólann Bheann Mhadagáin, 2009. 416 pp.
Discusses the geographical distribution of the various terms for ‘house’ in Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx, based on an analysis of the data in LASID and SGDS.
Hughes (A. J.): Brian Mag Mathghamhna (†1689): anailís ar a chiorcal liteartha idir an ré Chlasaiceach agus iar-Chlasaiceach i Muineachán agus níos faide i gCéin.