Dr Emmet Taylor
@emmettaylor.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork.
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We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our project, which will produce editions of the earliest version of Acallam na Senórach 'The Colloquy of the Ancients', the central Finn Cycle text from medieval Ireland. New software will also be developed to help in this work. 1/2
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our project, which will produce editions of the earliest version of Acallam na Senórach 'The Colloquy of the Ancients', the central Finn Cycle text from medieval Ireland. New software will also be developed to help in this work. 1/2
My copy of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 89 just arrived today, and my article 'Tricks of the Trade: the Origin of Clessa in Irish Heroic Literature' is out! I am really proud of it, and I hope people enjoy it. I think it is a great example of the weird directions the evidence can take you.
August 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My copy of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 89 just arrived today, and my article 'Tricks of the Trade: the Origin of Clessa in Irish Heroic Literature' is out! I am really proud of it, and I hope people enjoy it. I think it is a great example of the weird directions the evidence can take you.
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A very interesting article by @emmettaylor.bsky.social about coercion of Naoise and Diarmaid in medieval recensions of these tales: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/full/10.... It will certainly make us rethink oral retellings! #fianna #celticstudies
Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid* | Reconsidering Consent and Coercion
www.brepolsonline.net
July 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A very interesting article by @emmettaylor.bsky.social about coercion of Naoise and Diarmaid in medieval recensions of these tales: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/full/10.... It will certainly make us rethink oral retellings! #fianna #celticstudies
Today my article 'Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the
Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid' was published, and is open access for anyone to read! It was originally a talk presented for @celticstudents.bsky.social, and I hope people like it!
doi.org/10.1484/M.GM...
Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid' was published, and is open access for anyone to read! It was originally a talk presented for @celticstudents.bsky.social, and I hope people like it!
doi.org/10.1484/M.GM...
Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid* | Reconsidering Consent and Coercion
doi.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Today my article 'Love Under Threat: Reconsidering the
Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid' was published, and is open access for anyone to read! It was originally a talk presented for @celticstudents.bsky.social, and I hope people like it!
doi.org/10.1484/M.GM...
Experiences of Noísiu and Diarmaid' was published, and is open access for anyone to read! It was originally a talk presented for @celticstudents.bsky.social, and I hope people like it!
doi.org/10.1484/M.GM...
I'm currently writing a paper for later this month on the uses of Lebor Gabála Érenn in popular culture, and there's just fascinating stuff going on in attempts to 'Un-Christianize' the text (which of course is impossible, it is a Christian text not a shoddy palimpsest).
June 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I'm currently writing a paper for later this month on the uses of Lebor Gabála Érenn in popular culture, and there's just fascinating stuff going on in attempts to 'Un-Christianize' the text (which of course is impossible, it is a Christian text not a shoddy palimpsest).
I'll be up at DIAS next month talking about different versions of the 'Deirdre Story', and looking at exactly where we can draw the line between multiple versions of the same story and when it becomes a retelling!
(And a sneak-peak of what my half-secret post-doctoral project has been!)
(And a sneak-peak of what my half-secret post-doctoral project has been!)
🚨 Registration open: (Re)Creating Stories Conference
🗓️ 23–24 Bealtaine | 23–24 May 2025
🔗 www.dias.ie/2025/04/16/r...
⚠️ Clárú go dtí 13 Bealtaine | Registration until 13 May!
Bígí linn!
🗓️ 23–24 Bealtaine | 23–24 May 2025
🔗 www.dias.ie/2025/04/16/r...
⚠️ Clárú go dtí 13 Bealtaine | Registration until 13 May!
Bígí linn!
April 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I'll be up at DIAS next month talking about different versions of the 'Deirdre Story', and looking at exactly where we can draw the line between multiple versions of the same story and when it becomes a retelling!
(And a sneak-peak of what my half-secret post-doctoral project has been!)
(And a sneak-peak of what my half-secret post-doctoral project has been!)
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This is a short thread of correspondence in the papers of Eoin MacNeill concerning the dismissal of Julius Pokorny from the Chair of Celtic Philology at the University of Berlin, under the provisions of the racist Nuremburg Laws of 1935. #HolocaustMemorialDay
January 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is a short thread of correspondence in the papers of Eoin MacNeill concerning the dismissal of Julius Pokorny from the Chair of Celtic Philology at the University of Berlin, under the provisions of the racist Nuremburg Laws of 1935. #HolocaustMemorialDay
Taking portions of my thesis and incorporating them into articles is just an exercise in me sitting here mumbling 'Okay how can I say this in half the words'.
December 31, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Taking portions of my thesis and incorporating them into articles is just an exercise in me sitting here mumbling 'Okay how can I say this in half the words'.