Project MUSE®: Eolas: Journal of the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies - Latest Articles
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Sarah E. McKibben is Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. She is author of Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry, 1540–1780 (Dublin, 2010) and essays on early modern Irish poetry, eighteenth-century Irish poetry, and modern Irish poetry, prose and film, in various journals and collections. She is working on a monograph titled Tradition Transformed: Bardic Poetry and Patronage in Early Modern Ireland, c. 1560–1660, for which she has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Brittany Rancour is an art historian interested in the ways in which women navigated
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallContributors to Volume 182026-02-18text/htmlen-USContributors to Volume 182026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®38152026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18Editor’s Note
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Welcome to Eolas 18, our first produced and published with our new partner, Catholic University of America Press. We hope this relationship will increase the profile of Eolas and help us reach new readership, thereby drawing more people into the study of medieval Ireland.This volume we have three research articles which reflect the multidisciplinarity of Irish medieval studies. We open with Sharon Wofford’s consideration of the ethnic identity of St. Oswald. Oswald had a multicultural background, and this enabled him to be at ease in both English and Irish cultural milieus. Matthew Carey Salyer keeps a geographically tighter focus in his article, examining the places associated with St. Finán Cam on the Iveragh
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallEditor’s Note2026-02-18text/htmlen-USEditor’s Note2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®45972026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18English and Irish Identity in Early Medieval Accounts of St. Oswald
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983573
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When Oswald of Northumbria (c. 604–42) welcomed the Bishop Aidan and the other newly-arrived Irish monastics from the community at Iona, he likely did so in their own tongue. He was able to speak Irish because of his adolescence spent in exile among the Dál Riada, where he learned the Irish vernacular and was baptized as a Christian. Decades later, Oswald would draw on this time spent among the Irish during his formative years and petition the Ionan elders for a bishop, to whom he would grant the isle of Lindisfarne as the foothold of Christianity in Northumbria. After his death at the hands of Penda of Mercia in 642, Oswald’s body was divided among the monasteries at Lindisfarne and Bardney, as well as the royal
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallEnglish and Irish Identity in Early Medieval Accounts of St. Oswald2026-02-18text/htmlen-USEnglish and Irish Identity in Early Medieval Accounts of St. Oswald2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®705392026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18“A Place Built For God [Locum Deo Construendum]”: The Geographic Function in St. Finán Cam’s Hagiographic Tradition
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983574
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St. Finán Cam was a sixth/seventh-century abbot, reputed miracle-worker, and disciple of St. Brendan’s associated with several sites throughout Co. Kerry.1 R. A. S. Macalister called the Beatha Naomh Fionáin, a late medieval Irish redaction of the eighth/ninth-century Vita Sancti Finani, “little more than a collection of miracles strung together with very little connection.”2 The same might be said of its Latin source.3 But Irish hagiographies like Finán’s often organized their episodes in terms of “geographical structure” rather than biographical plot.4 Conversely, Irish monastic settlements metaphorically functioned as “theological signature[s]” on terrain.5 Like monastic settlements, medieval hagiographies
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmall“A Place Built For God [Locum Deo Construendum]”: The Geographic Function in St. Finán Cam’s Hagiographic Tradition2026-02-18text/htmlen-US“A Place Built For God [Locum Deo Construendum]”: The Geographic Function in St. Finán Cam’s Hagiographic Tradition2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®1551262026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18A Singular Woman: The Prioress of Lismullin Convent and Her Seal
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983575
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Suspended on a green, plaited cord, the dramatic and miraculous events at the end of the Virgin’s life transpire on a 3.3 x 2.3 cm oval wax seal from 1261–4 (Figure 1).1 The seal belongs to Avicia de la Corner, founder and prioress of the Holy Trinity Convent in Lismullin, Co. Meath.2 Her name appears in the legend that hugs the outer edge of the seal and surrounds the central pictorial field—the dead center of which is the Dormition of the Virgin. Mary reclines with her wimpled head to our left and her feet to the right; a few mourners stand just behind her. The stillness of the Dormition is interrupted by the action of the Assumption depicted above. The truncated bodies of angels materialize from behind an arch
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallA Singular Woman: The Prioress of Lismullin Convent and Her Seal2026-02-18text/htmlen-USA Singular Woman: The Prioress of Lismullin Convent and Her Seal2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®1037082026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18A Bardic Pickup Artist: Courtly Seduction Lesson or Parodic Play?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983576
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Across academia and beyond it, the reverberations of the #MeToo movement have prompted reconsideration of policies and practices, names and norms, including the name of this very lecture. How do we read both individual texts and whole genres when we question prior cultural assumptions? What do we assume about author and audience? How do we position ourselves as reader and interpreter? Do certain words and phrases reverberate afresh given the changes in language and social norms since the original composition? What new and varied readings might be sparked by our sense of our present as well as our sense of the past, each of which continues to change? Might we discern latent impulses in texts that we simply failed to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallA Bardic Pickup Artist: Courtly Seduction Lesson or Parodic Play?2026-02-18text/htmlen-USA Bardic Pickup Artist: Courtly Seduction Lesson or Parodic Play?2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®1212852026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18The Year in Digital Humanities: 2024–5
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Our annual round-up of digital humanities activities shows that Irish medieval studies is home to a healthy ecosystem of digital projects at every stage. A year on from our inaugural “The Year in Digital Humanities” review and what we can already see are many projects expanding and embedding themselves into our intellectual frameworks. It is a joy to see Irish medieval studies leading the way in this vibrant field.Have a project you’d like featured or reviewed? Please contact the Eolas editorial team.Several new projects situate medieval Ireland’s intellectual culture within broader geographic and chronological settings, leveraging digital technologies to explore transmission, annotation, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallThe Year in Digital Humanities: 2024–52026-02-18text/htmlen-USThe Year in Digital Humanities: 2024–52026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®185762026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18Castle to Classrooms: An Irish Castle in Virtual Reality by Thomas Herron (review)
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Castle to Classrooms is an innovative digital heritage project that brings Kilcolman Castle, Co. Cork, to life through Virtual Reality (VR) for educational purposes. Directed by Thomas Herron at East Carolina University, the project transforms a detailed 3D model of the now-ruined Irish castle into an immersive VR experience. This initiative provides a unique lens for exploring early modern literature, history, and the impacts of colonial imperialism, as the castle was once home to English poet and Plantation settler Edmund Spenser.Launched in 2020, Castle to Classrooms is designed for undergraduate and high school students, combining history, architecture, archaeology, Irish studies, and English literature into
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallCastle to Classrooms: An Irish Castle in Virtual Reality by Thomas Herron (review)2026-02-18text/htmlen-USCastle to Classrooms: An Irish Castle in Virtual Reality by Thomas Herron (review)2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®119802026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18Fionn Folklore Database by Natasha Sumner (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983579
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The Fionn Folklore Database is a digital repository of folklore about the Fianna, collected from Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, the US, and Canada, documented in Irish, Gàidhlig, Manx, and English. Directed by Natasha Sumner and contributed to since 2019 by a number of scholars in Celtic Studies, it aims to present material collected between the eighteenth century and the present day in one digital location, uniting texts hosted in various repositories in the aforementioned countries. According to the database homepage, it aims to:help researchers, singers, storytellers, school pupils, and others discover and navigate the vast corpus of orally collected folklore about these much-loved heroes. The approximately
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallFionn Folklore Database by Natasha Sumner (review)2026-02-18text/htmlen-USFionn Folklore Database by Natasha Sumner (review)2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®110202026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories: Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley by Niamh NicGhabhann and Danielle O’Donovan (review)
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This volume, part of the Studies in Gothic Art series, celebrates the career of Professor Roger Stalley and stands as a significant contribution to medieval art and architectural studies. Comprising thirty-seven essays, the collection reflects the breadth and depth of Stalley’s influence across disciplines. Renowned for his research on Irish medieval art and architecture, Stalley has been instrumental in positioning Irish studies within broader European contexts while simultaneously highlighting their distinctive qualities. Through its wide-ranging essays, this volume demonstrates the enduring impact of his scholarship and serves as a fitting tribute to his remarkable career.The festschrift opens with Terence
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallMapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories: Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley by Niamh NicGhabhann and Danielle O’Donovan (review)2026-02-18text/htmlen-USMapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories: Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley by Niamh NicGhabhann and Danielle O’Donovan (review)2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®97232026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18Sea and Settlement in Ireland by Geraldine Stout and Matthew Stout (review)
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Sea and Settlement in Ireland, edited by Geraldine Stout and Matthew Stout, is the result of a conference held in 2022 by the Group for the Study of Irish Historical Settlement. All but one of the chapters are discussions of either historical or archaeological research that explore some kind of coastal or international connection (with varying degrees of success). The chapter by Michael Branagan is the exception. This is a somewhat haphazard collection of stories about the ocean in terms of how it affects Ireland. This chapter, while including a number of interesting anecdotes (who could not love the image of 30,000 plastic yellow ducks being accidentally spilled into the northern Pacific Ocean and then gradually
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/898/image/coversmallSea and Settlement in Ireland by Geraldine Stout and Matthew Stout (review)2026-02-18text/htmlen-USSea and Settlement in Ireland by Geraldine Stout and Matthew Stout (review)2026-02-182026TWOProject MUSE®79362026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-02-18