Studies ‘post-traditional’ features in the Irish of West Connemara (mainly of Iorras Aithneach, but also of Ros Muc, An Cheathrú Rua and elsewhere) which are indicative of language attrition and incomplete language acquisition.
Fa chroidhe cumthar flaitheas. 41 qq., ascr. to Tadhg Ó hUiginn; composite text based on RIA 24 P 4 and Add. 40766, with English translation and textual notes.
Mo dhainid go fuin, mo shileadh deór, mo scíos, by Uilliam Mac Cartáin an Dúna. Text based on RIA A iv 2; with English translation and textual notes. In Aguisín: Ró stríocfad dom phrímhrith 's do rian mo lámh, from NLI G 114 [a poem on the exile of John Baptist Sleyne (1639?–1712)].
Complements the information on ideology and material culture in the Introduction and Notes of Gregory Toner's 2007 edition (particularly on points concerning gessa, war chariots and weaponry, sovereignty figures, performative utterances, and the bruiden).
Studies two cases in Ireland of the use of subscription to produce handwritten copies of MSS: Belfast Central Library MS XLIII, containing an Irish translation of Thomas à Kempis’s De imitatione Christi; and QUB Misc. MS 1/2 (formerly Phillipps 6465), containing a copy of the first volume of the Annals of the Four Masters.
Argues that the proper name Cú Cuilleasc cáinte in Aided Con Culainn §31 (as ed. by A. van Hamel 1933) is a corruption of the formula cáinte co culluaisc ‘satirist with an identifying mark’ found in Beochobra Con Culaind.
Review article of: [1.] Two texts on Loch nEchach, ed. by Ranke de Vries (London: ITS, 2012); [2.] Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh: reassessments, ed. by Liam P. Ó Murchú (London: ITS, 2012); [3.] Lebor gabála Érenn Pt. VI (Index of names), comp. by Pádraig Ó Riain (London: ITS, 2009); [4.] Gablánach in scélaigecht (Fs. Dooley), ed. by Sarah Sheehan et al. (Dublin: Four Courts, 2013).
Review article of: [1.] Téarmaíocht Ghaeilge na hAthbheochana, by Conchur Mag Eacháin (BÁC: Cois Life, 2014); [2.] Ár dtéarmaí féin, by Fidelma Ní Ghallchobhair (BÁC: Cois Life, 2014); [3.] Rogha alt: An peann coitianta (1989–2003), by Liam Ó Muirthile (Indreabhán: CIC, 2014).
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 43 (2017), pp. 272-274.