Project MUSE®: Studia Hibernica - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Studia Hibernica.daily12026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 50 (2024) through current issueLatest Articles: Studia HibernicaTWOProject MUSE®Studia Hibernica 2397-45320081-6477Latest articles in Studia Hibernica. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Medicine in Old Irish law
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972941
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The indigenous law of Ireland, known as Fénechas,1 was used throughout the island of Ireland long before the Anglo-Normans introduced common law in the thirteenth century.2 The ancient law evolved from the opinions of professional jurists rather than statute or case law and comprised detailed rules and legal principles;3 the colloquial name, brehon law, derives from the Irish word breithem (judge).4 As noted by Robin Chapman Stacey, the law tracts are ‘extended discussions of the structure and practices prominent in Irish society of the period’, including clientship, social status, dues owed, and the regulation of animals, such as bees.5 The origins of the Irish laws may go back to the common Celtic era, c.1000
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallMedicine in Old Irish law2026-01-01text/htmlen-USMedicine in Old Irish law2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®1652952026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01A prosopography of poets, writers and scholars from Thomond
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972942
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Cethardai condagar da cech elathain .i. locc 7 aimser 7 persa 7 fáth airicc[Four things are required of every work of art, to wit, a place and a time, an author and a cause of invention]As early as Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh’s 1656 tract, De Scriptoribus Hibernicis,2 writers have gathered materials on the Gaelic literati of Ireland. Notwithstanding efforts in the eighteenth century by Gaelic scribes to keep alive the transmission of traditional scholarship and learning in handwritten manuscripts, it was not until the early nineteenth century that antiquaries and those connected to the Celtic revival, such as the Gaelic Society of Dublin,3 began to translate, print and popularise bardic verse.Building on the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallA prosopography of poets, writers and scholars from Thomond2026-01-01text/htmlen-USA prosopography of poets, writers and scholars from Thomond2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®2703622026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01‘We laughed until we forgot what we came for’: Davy Rees—a comedian of the nineteenth-century Irish stage
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972943
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The early nineteenth century was a vibrant time for Irish theatre, despite being overlooked by many historians. Christopher Morash observes that the period ‘has long been something of a blind spot for Irish theatre historians’.4 During this time Irish audiences demonstrated a particular fondness for comedy, and many nights at the theatre concluded with either a burletta or a comic farce.5 This preference for comedy was quite specific, shaped by the renowned humour and wit of Dublin audiences. Visitors often remarked on the lively interjections from the gallery, reflecting the audience’s active engagement and appreciation for comedic performances. Travel writer John Carr noted that Dublin audiences embodied gaiety
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmall‘We laughed until we forgot what we came for’: Davy Rees—a comedian of the nineteenth-century Irish stage2026-01-01text/htmlen-US‘We laughed until we forgot what we came for’: Davy Rees—a comedian of the nineteenth-century Irish stage2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®1281372026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01An Gúm agus an Afraic Theas: ciorrú téacsanna, an chinsireacht pholaitiúil, agus cairdeas na míshástachta
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972944
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Is teoranta an lón léitheoireachta atá ag an té a dteastaíonn uaidh bunleabhar Gaeilge faoin Afraic Theas a léamh. Breis agus leathchéad bliain ó shin, thrácht Garreth Ó Broin ar na trí shaothar neamhfhicsin ina raibh ábhar faoin tír sin:1 An Aifric Theas (1947) le hÉamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta, ar leabhar faisnéise é;2 agus an dá bheathaisnéis, Art Ó Gríofa (1953) le Seán Ó Lúing agus Gandhi (1969) le Nollaig Ó Gadhra ina bhfuil caibidlí faoi na tréimhsí a chaith an Gríofach agus Mahatma Gandhi faoi seach san Afraic Theas.3 Níor tháinig aon leabhar Gaeilge eile amach, idir neamhfhicsean agus fhicsean, faoin Afraic Theas ó shin.Ba é an Gúm, arbh é an brainse foilsitheoireachta Gaeilge den Roinn Oideachais é san am, a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallAn Gúm agus an Afraic Theas: ciorrú téacsanna, an chinsireacht pholaitiúil, agus cairdeas na míshástachta2026-01-01text/htmlen-USAn Gúm agus an Afraic Theas: ciorrú téacsanna, an chinsireacht pholaitiúil, agus cairdeas na míshástachta2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®1042322026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Eoghan Desmond’s Amra Choluim Chille: A contemporary choral setting of a sixth-century poem
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972945
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Eoghan Desmond (b. 1989) is a composer at the forefront of a burgeoning Irish contemporary choral scene, with a distinctive compositional oeuvre that continues to expand and reach wide international listenership. His extensive output of sacred and secular music demonstrates a sensitivity to the texts he sets and the voices for which he is writing, but his work remains under-explored from a research perspective.1 Desmond has noted the influence of ‘his long association with the cathedral choral tradition’ and of Renaissance polyphony on his writing, with his profession as a bass-baritone in cathedral choirs predominantly impacting his sacred output.2 He has also expressed his interest in recreating the effects of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallEoghan Desmond’s Amra Choluim Chille: A contemporary choral setting of a sixth-century poem2026-01-01text/htmlen-USEoghan Desmond’s Amra Choluim Chille: A contemporary choral setting of a sixth-century poem2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®1058992026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Dindshenchas Érenn by Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972946
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This is the seventh volume in the Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures series, which was launched in 2017. The purpose of the present volume by Marie-Luise Theuerkauf is to provide an ‘accessible overview and entry’ (xii) into the literary genre known as dindṡenchas which is generally understood as referring to the ‘history or legendary lore of notable places’.1 In addition, the term has also been taken in the Dictionary of the Irish language to mean ‘topography’, and this is the only meaning assigned to it in the Modern Irish dictionary, Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla (1977).2 Topography most commonly refers to the physical shape and arrangement of features in an area (which may be rural or urban), and their description or
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallDindshenchas Érenn by Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USDindshenchas Érenn by Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®96252026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Irish and Scottish art, c.900–1900: survivals and revivals ed. by Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972947
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This is a most informative, exciting and, indeed, provocative book. The very title itself indicates a novel approach: the lengthy time span involved, the decision to treat the art of two separate countries as a unit, not to mention the value given to survivals and revivals. Emboldened by their choice of title, the editors set out their stall in no uncertain fashion in the very first paragraph:The ability to pinpoint the date or period of an object or monument is a fundamental part of academic training for art historians and archaeologists. Generations of students have been asked to identify a work by giving its name, maker, date, style, place (country or culture of origin) and perhaps its material. Works for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallIrish and Scottish art, c.900–1900: survivals and revivals ed. by Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USIrish and Scottish art, c.900–1900: survivals and revivals ed. by Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®182792026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01The wars of Charlemagne: reassessments ed. by Pádraigín Riggs (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972948
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The wars of Charlemagne: reassessments, edited by Pádraigín Riggs, contains a selection of essays based on the proceedings of the twenty-first annual seminar of the Irish Texts Society and combined Irish Departments of University College Cork. The seminar itself was due to be held in 2020 but had to be postponed until 2021, which, as the editor alludes, mirrors how the subject of the conference, The wars of Charlemagne, an edition and translation of Gabháltais Shearluis Mhóir by Douglas Hyde, was similarly postponed to 1919, despite being the Irish Text’s Society’s 1917 volume. The work contains five essays in total, which have both direct and indirect links to the original work and which, when combined, provide
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallThe wars of Charlemagne: reassessments ed. by Pádraigín Riggs (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USThe wars of Charlemagne: reassessments ed. by Pádraigín Riggs (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®119802026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University by Cornelius G. Buttimer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972949
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Cornelius G. Buttimer’s Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University is a meticulously researched and invaluable contribution to Irish manuscript studies. This landmark publication not only provides a comprehensive catalogue of the manuscripts housed at Harvard—the largest collection of Irish-language manuscripts in North America—but also situates them within their broader historical, cultural and diasporic contexts. By combining precise descriptions with insightful analysis, Buttimer offers an essential resource for scholars of Irish-language literature, Celtic studies and manuscript research. His work adheres to the rigorous editorial standards established by previous major manuscript
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallCatalogue of Irish manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University by Cornelius G. Buttimer (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USCatalogue of Irish manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University by Cornelius G. Buttimer (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®143332026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Pádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896): an Irish scholar from the Béarra Peninsula by Le Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972950
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Ag trácht ar Chorcaíoch fir agus scoláire Gaeilge darbh ainm P. Ó Laoire, ní dócha gur Pádraig an t-ainm a thiocfadh chun cuimhne, ach tugann Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail faoin scéal sin a leigheas ina beathaisnéis faoin Laoghaireach eile seo. Ina leabhar Pádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896), tá cuntas breá cuimsitheach ar shaol Phádraig agus, is dócha, gach píosa a scríobh sé féin nó a thagair dó a mhaireann go fóill faoi chaibidil aici.Cé nach raibh sé ach i dtús a shaoil agus a ghairme nuair a cailleadh é, b’fhairsing agus ba mhór an méid a chuir Pádraig Ó Laoghaire le léann agus le staidéar na Gaeilge le linn a bheatha. Scoláire ceart Gaeilge ab ea é agus tugann Ní Úrdail léargas leathan ar a shaol gairid sa gcéad chaibidil
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallPádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896): an Irish scholar from the Béarra Peninsula by Le Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USPádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896): an Irish scholar from the Béarra Peninsula by Le Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®99702026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Irish artisans and radical politics, 1776–1820: apprenticeship to revolution by Timothy Murtagh (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972951
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The United Irishmen are usually identified as the most advanced manifestation of political radicalism in Ireland in the eighteenth century. This is readily explicable because they are not only the most compelling Irish expression of the continent-wide appeal of the revolutionary impulse fomented by the French Revolution, but also the progenitors of the republican separatism that was a formative force in the evolution of Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. It is also predicated on an overly reductive reading of the forces that gave rise to their gestation. The United Irishmen organisation was first and foremost an expression of the disquiet of the ‘middling sort’ at their exclusion from the representative
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallIrish artisans and radical politics, 1776–1820: apprenticeship to revolution by Timothy Murtagh (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USIrish artisans and radical politics, 1776–1820: apprenticeship to revolution by Timothy Murtagh (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®105902026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Dúchas: Iris Staire Dhúiche Ealla / The Duhallow Historical Journal by Aogán Ó hIarlaithe (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972952
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Is é seo an dara himleabhar den irisleabhar Dúchas: Iris Staire Dhúiche Ealla / The Duhallow Historical Journal, curtha in eagar ag Aogán Ó hIarlaithe. Tagann an t-imleabhar seo sna sála ar an gcéad eagrán a foilsíodh bliain roimhe. Dhá cheann déag d’aistí atá ann, deich gcinn acu i mBéarla agus an dá cheann eile i nGaeilge, mar aon le réamhrá i nGaeilge (sa chló Gaelach) agus i mBéarla agus nótaí beathaisnéise ar údair an chéad dá imleabhar. Ábhar ilghnéitheach a chuirtear i láthair in Dúchas 2, agus stair bharúntacht Dhúiche Ealla in iarthuaisceart Cho. Chorcaí á phlé ó pheirspictíochtaí iomadúla.Sa chéad alt, ‘A wrongful conviction: the murder of John Donovan in Glenlara,’ pléann Niamh Howlin cás John Twiss
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallDúchas: Iris Staire Dhúiche Ealla / The Duhallow Historical Journal by Aogán Ó hIarlaithe (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USDúchas: Iris Staire Dhúiche Ealla / The Duhallow Historical Journal by Aogán Ó hIarlaithe (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®131892026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Irish nuns and education in the Anglophone world by Deirdre Raftery (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972953
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Since the 1990s, the study of Irish female religious has developed into a rich historiographical field, yielding insights into religious practice, education, healthcare, adoption and missionary work. The growth of religious orders in Ireland during the nineteenth century accompanied their increased social and cultural significance as purveyors of education, and scholars have recognised that this influence expanded beyond Ireland. Raftery’s monograph builds on existing scholarship to document the transnational dimension of Irish conventual education across the Anglophone world. The book is part of the Palgrave Macmillan series, Global Histories of Education, launched in 2019 by the International Standing Committee
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallIrish nuns and education in the Anglophone world by Deirdre Raftery (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USIrish nuns and education in the Anglophone world by Deirdre Raftery (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®94382026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Poverty, children and the poor law in industrial Belfast, 1880–1918 (Reappraisals in Irish History, 17) by Olwen Purdue and Georgina Laragy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972954
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One of the most moving images in this book is the account that opens chapter 4. A bunch of boys (inmates of the Belfast workhouse) run around in a downpour, seemingly enjoying getting filthy and wet. They are just children, seizing an opportunity to play. This image encapsulates what this book adds to the large and growing literature on Ireland’s many spaces of containment. Purdue and Laragy have combined meticulous research with a sense of genuine care for the people contained in the institutions they examine. They have brought great curiosity as well as great sympathy to their research and therefore offer insights into unseen aspects of the life of poor children in Belfast between 1880 and 1918. The growth of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallPoverty, children and the poor law in industrial Belfast, 1880–1918 (Reappraisals in Irish History, 17) by Olwen Purdue and Georgina Laragy (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USPoverty, children and the poor law in industrial Belfast, 1880–1918 (Reappraisals in Irish History, 17) by Olwen Purdue and Georgina Laragy (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®85212026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Conflict, diaspora and empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 by Darragh Gannon (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972955
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Any archival study of Irish nationalism in Britain, ranging from the purely cultural to gun-running, cannot fail to notice an occasional sense by the participants that their enthusiasm and indeed ‘sacrifice for Ireland’ was not appreciated ‘at home’ in Ireland. Some Gaelic League members of London believed they were regarded as lesser beings because they had no Gaeltacht background and, when they arrived at meetings in Dublin, thought that their Irish, spoken with an English accent, was mocked. Despondent at being unable to get a job in Ireland during World War Two, London-Irish nationalist, Joseph Fowler, complained that a job was surely not too much to ask, given all his service to Ireland during the War of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallConflict, diaspora and empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 by Darragh Gannon (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USConflict, diaspora and empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 by Darragh Gannon (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®111612026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01Screen workers and the Irish film industry by Denis Murphy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972956
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This closely argued study focuses on film labour over six decades up to the present day and forensically demonstrates how the industry was ‘co-created’ by film workers, film producers and the Irish state, through institutions like the Irish Film and Television Guild, film worker unions like the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) and Irish Actors Equity, producer associations like Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), and state funding bodies like Screen Ireland.Murphy has ‘skin in the game’ having worked in the media industry for many years before moving into academia and completing his doctoral studies in DCU and post-doctoral work that refined this labour history in Trinity College. Crucial
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallScreen workers and the Irish film industry by Denis Murphy (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USScreen workers and the Irish film industry by Denis Murphy (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®131872026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01NORAID and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970–1994 by Robert Collins (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/972957
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In 1916, when Patrick Pearse stood outside Dublin’s General Post Office and read out the Proclamation of the Republic, special mention was made of the fact that Ireland’s rebels were ‘supported by her exiled children in America’. Indeed, as academic Robert Collins points out, Ireland’s ‘exiled children’ have been supporting Irish rebels since the days of the United Irishmen and, in the latter half of the twentieth century, they did so again.In his recently published book, NORAID and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970–1994, Collins looks at the importance of Irish America contributing to ‘the longevity of the Provisional IRA’s [modern day] campaign’. He argues that ‘there is a lack of any up-to-date study on the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/906/image/coversmallNORAID and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970–1994 by Robert Collins (review)2026-01-01text/htmlen-USNORAID and the Northern Ireland Troubles 1970–1994 by Robert Collins (review)2026-01-012026TWOProject MUSE®123542026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-01-01