Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás)

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1822.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): On the LU version of The expulsion of the Dési.
In Celtica 11 (1976), pp. 150–157.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 293-329.
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1604.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The semantics of síd.
In Éigse 17/2 (Geimhreadh, 1977–1978), pp. 137–155.
Síd/síth ‘Otherworld abode, hill or mound’ and síd/síth ‘peace’ are etymologically related, and are central to the notion and function of kingship.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 19-34.
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7311.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt.
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977. xiii + 138 pp.
I. The heroic biography; II. Cormac mac Airt; III. Scéla Éogain ⁊ Cormaic [critical edition based on Laud Misc. 610 with readings from TCD H 3. 17; normalized text, with English translation and notes].

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 21 (1984), pp. 360-361.
Patrick K. Ford, in Speculum 54/4 (Oct., 1979), pp 836-839.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 17/4 (Geimhreadh, 1978-1979), p. 557-562.
J. E. Caerwyn Williams, in StC 14-15 (1979-1980), pp. 451-455.
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6258.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Between God and Man: the hero of Irish tradition.
In Crane Bag 2/1-2 (1978), pp. 72–79.
Republ. in The Crane Bag book of Irish studies, ed. by Mark Patrick Hederman and Richard Kearney (Dublin, 1982), pp. 220-227.
With special reference to Cú Chulainn (Compert Con Culainn) and Conaire Mór (Togail bruidne da Derga).
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2044.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The theme of lommrad in Cath Maige Mucrama.
In Éigse 18/2 (1981), pp. 211–224.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 330-341.
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9814.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Cath Maige Tuired as exemplary myth.
In Folia Gadelica [R. A. Breatnach essays] (1983), pp. 1–19.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 135-154.
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351.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The theme of ainmne in Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin.
In Celtica 15 (1983), pp. 78–87.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 342-351.
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1789.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The Déisi and Dyfed.
In Éigse 20 (1984), pp. 1–33.
Analysis of The expulsion of the Déisi; appendix includes the edition of a note on the Muinter Chairbre from Rawlinson MS B 502, with variant readings from Laud Misc. 610, and English translation.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 301-329.
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6163.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Pagan survivals: the evidence of early Irish narrative.
In Die Kirche im Frühmittelalter (1984), pp. 291–307.
Exemplified with reference to a passage from Cath Maige Tuired.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 35-50.
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13673.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The concept of the hero in Irish mythology.
In The Irish mind (1985), pp. 79–90.
A discussion of Compert Con Culainn (for Cú Chulainn) and of Togail bruidne Da Derga (for Conaire Mór).

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 51-64.
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394.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The rhetoric of Fingal Rónáin.
In Celtica 17 (1985), pp. 123–144.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 376-398.
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851.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Varia: III. The trial of Mael Ḟothartaig.
In Ériu 36 (1985), pp. 177–180.
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1847.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Curse and satire.
In Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 10–15.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 95-100.
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3233.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The sister’s son in early Irish literature.
In Peritia 5 (1986), pp. 128–160.
On the significance of the maternal kindred in early Irish literature, as exemplified by Christ’s relationship with the Jews, Bres’s with the Túatha Dé Danann and Cú Chulainn’s with Conchobar.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 65-94.
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1881.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The eponym of Cnogba.
In Éigse 23 (1989), pp. 27–38.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 155-164.
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1065.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Three notes on Cath Maige Tuired.
In Ériu 40 (1989), pp. 61–68.
1. An unnecessary emendation (vs. W. Stokes’s emendation of snidhfed to sn[a]idh[m]fed, in RC 12 (1891), pp. 306-08 (§14), reproduced in E. A. Gray, Cath Maige Tuired (1982); also discussion of the theme of womenfolk’s intervention in political affairs); 2. OIr. -tochus (Interprets MS toc̄sa (§67) as tochus, prototonic fut. 1 sg. of do-cing ‘steps, strides forward; advances, comes’); 3. A redactorial intrusion [in §69].
Gray (E. A.) (ref.), Stokes (W.) (ref.)
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2169.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The rhetoric of Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin.
In Sages, saints and storytellers [Fs. Carney] (1989), pp. 233–250.
A commentary of the tale, focusing on lines 1-149 (as ed. by D. A. Binchy, 1963).

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 352-375.
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1091.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): On the Cín Dromma Snechta version of Togail brudne Uí Dergae.
In Ériu 41 (1990), pp. 103–114.
vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in CMCS 16 (Winter, 1988), pp. 1-40.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 399-411.
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502.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): On the Early-Irish prepositional relative without antecedent.
In Celtica 21 (1990), pp. 418–426.
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5940.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Mythology in Táin bó Cúailnge.
In Studien zur Táin bó Cúailnge (1993), pp. 114–132.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 201-218.
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13675.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The threefold death in early Irish sources.
In SCJ-NS 6 (Apr., 1994), pp. 53–75.
Focuses on the offences committed by four figures in early Irish literature (Áed Dub, Diarmait mac Cerbaill, Muirchertach mac Era, and Grác) which caused them to be punished with such death.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 101-120.
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5664.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Reflections on Compert Conchobuir and Serglige Con Culainn.
In Ulidia 1 (1994), pp. 85–89.
Includes a discussion of the Briatharthecosc Con Culainn.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 271-279.
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5842.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne.
In LCC 25 (1995), pp. 30–46.
Repr., followed by Engl. transl., in Coire sois, pp. 449-483.
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2126.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Early Irish narrative literature.
In Progress in medieval Irish studies (1996), pp. 55–64.
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8602.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Gat and díberg in Togail bruidne Da Derga.
In Celtica helsingiensia (1996), pp. 203–213.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 412-421.
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9549.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Knowledge and power in Aislinge Óengusso.
In Dán do oide [Ó Cléirigh essays] (1997), pp. 431–438.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 165-172.
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14904.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás) (forw. auth.), Murphy (Gerard) (ed.): Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century / edited with translation, notes and glossary by Gerard Murphy; with a new foreword by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh.
Dublin: Four Courts, 1998. xxii + 315 pp.
Repr. of [1962 corr. repr. of] 1st ed. Oxford, 1956 (= BILL: 5520).

Rev. by
Varese Layzer, in Peritia 12 (1998), pp. 432-434.
Jane Stevenson, in Early medieval Europe 9/3 (Nov., 2000), pp. 412-413.
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1243.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The oldest story of the Laigin: observations on Orgain Denna Ríg.
In Éigse 33 (2002), pp. 1–18.
Rechtas and lánríge and their political significance in ODR, and analysis of the form and structure of the narrative.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 422-438.
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13680.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Táin [bó Cúailnge].
In The epic voice (2002), pp. 129–147.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 187-200.
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2525.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Sound and sense in Cath Almaine.
In Ériu 54 (2004), pp. 41–47.
Discusses the value bestowed upon the spoken word.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 439-446.
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4208.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Irish myths and legends.
In SCF 2 (2005), pp. 11–26.
Considers various aspects of early Irish narrative, such as kingship, kinship and the threefold death.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 1-15.
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6068.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): ‘The Expulsion of the Déisi’.
In JCHAS 110 (2005), pp. 13–20.
Discusses its historical background, based mainly on the Rawlinson B 502 text.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 283-292.
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9517.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Sírrabad Súaltaim and the order of speaking among the Ulaid.
In A companion in linguistics [Fs. Ahlqvist] (2005), pp. 80–91.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 238-248.
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8833.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Cú Chulainn, the poets and Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe.
In Heroic poets and poetic heroes in Celtic tradition (2005), pp. 291–302.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 259-270.
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13681.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás) (ed.): Táin bó Cúailnge and early Irish law.
Bergin lectures, 5. Dublin: Faculty of Celtic Studies, University College Dublin, 2005. 23 pp.
“The Osborn Bergin Memorial Lecture V (endowed by Vernam Hull); lecture delivered 31st October 2003” .

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 219-237.
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12250.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The literature of medieval Ireland to c.800: St Patrick to the Vikings.
In The Cambridge history of Irish literature 1 (2006), pp. 9–31.
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13678.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Early Irish literature and law.
In Sphinx (2006–2007), pp. 111–119.
Lecture presented at the annual meeting of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, April 27, 2007.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 121-130.
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11508.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Myth and saga: ‘The wooing of Étaín’.
In Why Irish? (2008), pp. 55–69.
Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 173-184.
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10815.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Ailill and Medb: a marriage of equals.
In Ulidia 2 (2009), pp. 46–53.
Discusses the introductory ‘pillow-talk’ episode in Táin bó Cúailnge rec. II. In Appendix: Addendum on ar/for tinchur.

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 249-258.
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8775.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Kingship in early Irish literature.
In L’irlanda e gli irlandesi nell’alto medioevo (2010), pp. 135–151.
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17246.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Textual transmission and variation: a medieval Irish case study.
In 10th Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica (2010), pp. 169–179.
Compares the two earliest versions of ‘The expulsion of the Déisi’, listing the variations occurring in the material common to Rawl. B 502 and Laud 610.
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9476.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): King, hero and hospitaller in Aided Celtchair maic Uthechair.
In Bile ós chrannaibh [Fs. Gillies] (2010), pp. 355–364.
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11501.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Aspects of memory and identity in early Ireland.
In Narrative in Celtic tradition (2011), pp. 201–216.
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12625.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Conchobor and his court at Emain.
In Language and power in the Celtic world (2011), pp. 309–322.
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12442.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Early Irish bairdne: eulogy, panegyric.
In SCF 9 (2012), pp. 54–61.
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12472.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Tochmarc Étaíne II: a tale of three wooings.
In The land beneath the sea (2013), pp. 129–142.
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13007.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The body in Táin bó Cúailnge.
In Gablánach in scélaigecht [Fs. Dooley] (2013), pp. 131–153.
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16177.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The making of a prince: Áed oll fri andud n-áne.
In Rhetoric and reality in medieval Celtic literature [Melia studies] (2014), pp. 137–154.
Offers a detailed analysis of the panegyric in Thes. ii 295.
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13640.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás), Boyd (Matthieu) (ed.): Coire sois, the cauldron of knowledge: a companion to early Irish saga / Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, edited by Matthieu Boyd.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. xxvii + 618 pp.
A reprint of 31 articles and papers by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh.

pp. 484-500: Further reading, compiled by Matthieu Boyd [an up-to-date bibliographical supplement to items 1-31].
pp. 551-554: Bibliography of T. Ó C. [1969-2013].

Rev. by
Denis Casey, in IHS 39, nº 156 (Nov., 2015), pp. 683-685.
Raymond J. Cormier, in Mediaevistik 29 (2016), pp. 394-396.
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15752.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): On the genealogical preamble to Vita Sancti Declani.
In Sacred histories [Fs. Herbert] (2015), pp. 291–300.
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14792.
Boyd (Matthieu) (ed.): Ollam: studies in Gaelic and related traditions in honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh / edited by Matthieu Boyd.
Madison, NJ; Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. xxi + 350 pp.
pp. 299-302: Bibliography of T. Ó C.

Rev. by
Erich Poppe, in CMCS 74 (Winter, 2017), pp. 105-107.
Gregory Toner, in Éigse 40 (2019), pp. 380-386.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás) (hon.)
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16799.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): The Ulster exiles and thematic symmetry in Recension I of Táin bó Cúailnge.
In SCF 14 (2017), pp. 154–169.
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19306.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Observations on the text of Aislinge Óenguso.
In Fír fesso [Fs. McLeod] (2018), pp. 167–176.
Focuses on a number of textual issues arising from the editing of this story by Wolfgang Meid (Aislinge Óenguso: die Suche nach der Traumfrau…, Innsbruck 2017) and Francis Shaw (Dublin 1934 [Best² 1054]).
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19263.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Christ as an early Irish hero: the poems of Blathmac, son of Cú Brettan.
In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages (2019), pp. 76–99.
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19150.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Dubthach’s laíd in Táin bó Cúailnge.
In Lorg na leabhar [Fs. P. A. Breatnach] (2019), pp. 149–165.
Proposes a revision of Cecile O’Rahilly’s interpretation and translation of the laíd (beg. Atmaid nád chúalaid co sse) based on a detailed analysis of the text.
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19272.
Ó Cathasaigh (Tomás): Anders Ahlqvist (1945–2018).
In Celtica 31 (2019), pp. 308–310.
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