James Carney

Life
1914-1989 [James Patrick]; b. Portlaoise; ed. CBS Synge St. UCD, Bonn; Prof. Irish in Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies (DIAS). DIW OCIL

Works
ed., Topographical Poems by Sean Mór Ó Dubhagain and Giolla-na-Naomh Ó hUuidrain (DIAS 1943), 159pp.; ed., Poems on the Butlers of Ormond, Cahir and Dunboyne, AD 1400-1650 (DIAS 1945), 145pp.; ed., Poems on the O’Reillys (1970); ed., and trans., A Genealogical History of the O’Reillys, from Irish of Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh (1950), 315pp.; ed., Medieval Irish Lyrics (Dolmen 1967; rep. 1985); Studies in Irish Literature and History (DIAS 1955, rev. edn. 1979) [var. 1956 DIW]; The Problem of St. Patrick (1961, 1973). [Cathach 1996-97.] Also, the Irish Bardic Poet (Dolmen ?1967)

Criticism
[Donncadha] Ó Corráin, Breatnach, and McCone eds., Sages, Saints and Storytellers, Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney (Maynooth: An Sagart 1989), 490pp.

Fergus Kelly and Michelle O Riordan, eds., Celtica vol. XXIII: Essays in Honour of James Patrick Carney ([Dublin]: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 1999), 435pp.

Gerry Smyth, Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature (London: Pluto Press 1998).

 

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