Price (Glanville) (ed.), Wells (David A.) (ed.): The year’s work in modern language studies 1987.
YWMLS, 49. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 1988.
pp. 563-565: Irish studies: Early Irish, by Ruairí Ó hUiginn;
pp. 567-569: Irish studies: Modern Irish, by Mícheál Mac Craith;
pp. 575-578: Scottish Gaelic studies, by Derick S.
Thomson.
Mac Craith (Mícheál): Lorg na hiasachta ar na dánta grá.
LT, 63. Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar, 1989. 251 pp. (Leabhair thaighde, 63).
Discusses the direct influence of English literature on Irish love poetry of the period 1550-1650. Study based on an analysis of the following eight poems: chap 2. Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh (Gearóid Iarla); chap. 3. A mhacalla dheas (Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh), Dála an nóinín (Pádraigín Haicéad), A bhean lán de stuaim (Geoffrey Keating), Fir na Fódla ar ndul d’éag (Riocard do Búrc); chap. 4. Fuar dó féin an croidhe tinn, A fhir éadmhair 'gá mbí bean; chap. 5. Féach orm, a inghean Eóghain (Ó Géaráin).
Rev. by
Breandán Ó Conaire, in StH 29 (1995), pp. 231-237.
Mac Craith (Mícheál) (ed.), Ó Héalaí (Pádraig) (ed.): Diasa díograise: aistí i gcuimhne ar Mháirtín Ó Briain / in eagar ag Mícheál Mac Craith agus Pádraig Ó Héalaí.
Indreabhán: Cló Iar-Chonnachta, 2009. viii + 496 pp.
pp. 491-494: Foilseacháin Mhairtín Uí Bhriain.
Rev. by
Lorcán Mac Cumhaill, in ZCP 60 (2013), pp. 310-314.
Argues Ó Cianáin may have consulted Palladio’s guide to the churches of Rome (Descritione de le chiese, 1554) when preparing to write Turas na dtaoiseach nUltach.
Addresses difficulties arising from Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s account of the Ulster earls’ pilgrimage to the Basilica of St. Francis (Turas § 6.5-7 as ed. by N. Ó Muraíle, 2007).
On the background to Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s account of the Veil of St. Veronica, shown to the Ulster earls in St. Peter’s Basilica during their visit 12 June 1608.
Mac Craith (Mícheál): Dochum glóire Dé agus an mhaitheasa phuiblidhe so = For the glory of God and this public good: the Reformation and the Irish Language.