Bibliography — Classification Index

In Latin, with a section in Irish; text from Leabhar Breac.

In Latin, with final section in Irish; text from Leabhar Breac.

Diplomatic editions of two closely related versions: A from Dublin, King’s Inns Library MS 10 (also YBL in App. I); B from Maynooth MS R 73 (b) (also Egerton 136 in App. II). With English translation and some linguistic discussion of version A only.

1. Introduction; 2. Sound patterning as poetic device: (a) The line; (b) sèis, Cultural Resonances, and Linguistic Reinforcement; 3. Sound patterning as linguistic sign; 4. Conclusion.

Argues that Old English homilists adapted numerical motifs from Old Irish and Hiberno-Latin models.

Includes an assessment of the Sulpician tradition in Ireland, in particular of the Middle Irish homily on St. Martin.

Text in of a 19th c. sermon from Kenmare (Co. Kerry), in semi-phonetic spelling, by a non-native speaker.

Examines the cosmological background to the concept of glasmartre, and discusses its meaning within the wider Christian literary context.

Entitled Cétáin in braith. Edition, with English translation and textual notes, and a discussion of its structure and sources.

Edition of 8 Irish sermons in semi-phonetic spelling by Fr. Patrick Wall (1778–1834); normalized from RIA 23 H 17 (manuscript text in appendix).

Sermon, in semi-phonetic spelling, by Fr. John Heely: Do casu Isa air Slanior... From MS Maynooth MF4; with transliteration.

Edition of two versions of a Middle Irish homily: (1) bilingual Latin-Irish, from Leabhar Breac (cf. R. Atkinson, Passions and homilies, pp. 207-213 [No. XV] and 446-450), and (2) Irish-only, from RIA 3 B 23; with English translation and textual notes, and a discussion of the Latin sources used. In Appendix: a transcription of the third version, found in Laud Misc. 610.

Discusses the translation into Irish by Pilib Ó Raghallaigh of St. Francis de Sales’ Introduction à la vie dévote.

Edition of an Irish sermon in an English-based orthography, written by Nicholas Archdeacon, bishop of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (1770-1824). Text from MS NAI M 6935/75, with transliteration into normal spelling.

Possibly by Fr. Daniel Power (†1830), official Catholic chaplain in New South Wales. Edited from Mitchell Library MS 1810 (Rev. John Joseph Therry Collection).

[1.] Structure; [2.] Sources; [3.] Circumstances of composition.

Studies the reutilization of earlier materials (particularly the Collectio canonum Hibernensis) for the composition of this bilingual homily on the duties of kings.

Attempts to identify the textual authorities used and adapted by the compiler of the text entitled Cétproicept Ísu sund (beg. Iar cur tra Eoin Bauptist hi carcair).

Textual history of the Passio Domini nostri Iesu Christi found in RIA MS 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac), incl. its collation with a homily from MS Dublin, King’s Inns 10 (exordium given in extenso).

Possibly by Fr. Daniel Power (†1830), official Catholic chaplain in New South Wales. Edited from Mitchell Library MS 1810 (Rev. John Joseph Therry Collection).

Edition of 5 Irish sermons in semi-phonetic spelling by Fr. Patrick Wall (1778–1834); normalized from RIA 23 H 17 (manuscript text in appendix).

With a study of the author’s philosophical vocabulary, focusing on the terms dliged, folud, aicned, umallóit, teorfegad.

Edition of 3 Irish sermons in semi-phonetic spelling by Fr. Patrick Wall (1778–1834); normalized from RIA 23 H 17 (manuscript text in appendix).

1. Designation; 2. Contents of Vatican Codex Reginensis Latinus 49; 3. History of research; 4. Catechesis Celtica and Irish biblical text; 5. Catechesis Celtica and Irish exegetical tradition; 6. The Catechesis Celtica and Irish homiletic tradition; 7. Catechesis homilies on Matthew and the Liber questionum in euangeliis; 8. Use in the Catechesis Celtica of apocrypha and rare Latin texts; 9. Concepts and phrases common to Catechesis and Irish texts; 10. Conclusion.

vs. S. P. Ó Mórdha, StH 3 (1963), pp. 155-172. Rev. James Pulleine, dean of Dromore was not the translator of Thomas à Kempis’s De imitatione Christi. Suggests Féidhlimidh Ó Néill (Felim O Neill) as possible author of Tóruidheacht, early 18th-century sermons publ. in C. Ó Maonaigh, Seanmónta Chúige Uladh (1965) (see BILL 8343), and the panegyric at the funeral of Eoghan Ó Neill of Clanaboy in 1744 (see D. Hyde, UJA, NS 3 (1897), pp. 258-271 and 4 (1898), pp. 50-55 [Best¹, p. 270]).

Repr. in Dún Mhuire, Killiney, 1945–95: léann agus seanchas, pp. 127-134.

Sermon on drunkenness, perhaps transl. from Engl by Tomás Ó hÍcí, from MS RIA 23 H 17 with notes in Irish and an index of words occurring in the text.

ad Thes. ii, 246-247 (Cambray Homily).

ad MS Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale 679, fol. 38a17 (Thes. ii 247.2). Reading cé rucésa amended to cení césa (‘although he does not endure’) in text on white martyrdom (‘issí in bánmartre [. . .]').

Discusses the three forms of martyrdom illustrated in the Cambrai Homily, arguing that their colours white, red and blue correspond to similar chromatic representations of Dumézilian Indo-European trifunctional symbolism in ancient India and Iran. In addition, finds further evidence for this interpretation in a passage from the Leinster Bórama.

Rev. by
Brian Ó Broin, in Eolas 5 (2011), pp. 203-205.

61 sermons by Fr. Muiris Paodhar (1791-1877), edited from autogr. MS UCC T. xxxiv. Téacs, Fonótaí, Nótaí ar an teanga, Foclóir, Aguisíní (1. Liosta focal iasachta sa téacs; 2. Dornán focal inspéise as lgh. 431-466 den Ls.).

Rev. by
Seán Ó Coileáin, in Éigse 16/1 (Samhradh, 1975), pp. 70-72.
Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, in StH 16 (1976), pp. 195-197.