Offers an analysis of all the instances of code-switching in MS München, Clm 14456.

Examines the quality of the Old Irish consonants on either side of the anaptyctic vowel arising in syncopated syllables of the structure CRVC and CVRC, and formulates an exception to the rules of the third palatalization.

Refines K. McCone's theory of the origin of the Old Irish disctinction between absolute and conjunt flexion (as expounded in The origins and development of the Insular Celtic verbal complex, 2006) by substituting McCone’s early apocope of -i for an apocope that only affected clitic (i.e. non-initial) verbal forms thus obviating the necessity for a homogeneization of initial forms.

Argues that a single intervocalic consan teann and a single intervocalic consan éadrom preceded by short vowels will not make perfect rhyme with each other in dán díreach.

Edited from RIA MS D iv 2, with English translation and commentary. Includes a discussion of the relationship of this text with Togail Troí and Togail na Tebe.

Written in Irish, dated 1516 and 1510, and preserved in the Norfolk Record Office. Transcribed with English translation.

Discusses the reasons for the poetic and literary training of the late medieval and early modern brehon lawyers, arguing that such education was not just a pre-requisite to becoming a professional, but also the result of a long tradition that combined law with poetry. Also discusess the related figure of the brithem bélrai filedachtae.

Discusses the sources and compilatory process of two substantial entries concerning the O’Briens of Thomond (s.a. 1014 and 1306) which draw upon Cath Chluana Tarbh and Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh respectively.

ad §14, as ed. by R. Thurneysen 1936 (Best² 2148).

ad Gospel of Thomas, q. 21 (as. ed. by J. Carney 1964 [BILL 2778]). Rejects previous emendations and interprets MS domais as the 3rd sg. deut. pret. rel. of do-maisi ‘concocts’.

Reads a suacht ‘out of a receptacle’ in Fél. Apr. 19.