Examines the references to the Franks in St. Patrick’s Epistula and argues that the events mentioned in it agree with a suggested composition date of 482×486, thus preferring the late obit of Patrick (in 492 or 493).

Discusses the structure of the text, analyses its usage as a form of ‘verbal power’, and considers its presence in a Christian environment. Incl. new text and translation.

Explores the sources for the lore on exotic and monstrous races in Ethiopia and Asia described in the section headed Cétproicept Ísu sund.

Offers a list of motif correspondences between Stair Éamoinn Uí Chléirigh and the Gargantua and Pantagruel series, and argues for a direct influence (via English translation) of François Rabelais on the work of Seán Ó Neachtain’s.

On Joyce’s reception of early Irish literature.

Examines how the redactor of Betha Colaim Chille reshaped the ‘traditional truth’ present in some of his sources (focusing on Tromdhámh Guaire) in order to create a new, ‘falsified’ truth agreeing with accepted, official history on the saint.

Against R. Baumgarten’s attempt to derive the Connemara idiom ní mé go/an 'I don’t know, I wonder’ from early Irish, suggesting instead a connection to a comparable idiom diabhal mé found in modern Irish usage.

English version of SGS 28 (2011), pp. 254-306.

Reviews the preceding literature on the pre-Celtic linguistic situation in Ireland and Britain, focusing on the non-Indo-European features in syntax, phonology, lexicon and place-names posited for Insular Celtic.

Discusses a set of placenames collected 1991 in this Gaeltacht area (Dúiche Sheoighe).