Dr Emmet Taylor
@emmettaylor.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork.
If it is of any help, there's an online MA offered jointly by the Department of Early and Medieval Irish and the Department of Folklore at University College Cork that's focused on making these exact sort of subjects more accessible to international audiences.
July 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If it is of any help, there's an online MA offered jointly by the Department of Early and Medieval Irish and the Department of Folklore at University College Cork that's focused on making these exact sort of subjects more accessible to international audiences.
I am really excited to present this paper! For Celticists the conclusions will probably not be particularly shocking, but I've got the legwork done (and a lot of really... weird retellings of LGE read) to actually prove a lot of expectations we've had about how the public engages with the sources.
June 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I am really excited to present this paper! For Celticists the conclusions will probably not be particularly shocking, but I've got the legwork done (and a lot of really... weird retellings of LGE read) to actually prove a lot of expectations we've had about how the public engages with the sources.
Oh also everyone always insists they're retelling LGE but they're actually only doing Cath Maige Tuired. Not even just 'the bits of CMT in LGE', they're just doing CMT and calling it LGE.
June 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Oh also everyone always insists they're retelling LGE but they're actually only doing Cath Maige Tuired. Not even just 'the bits of CMT in LGE', they're just doing CMT and calling it LGE.
I think what is catching my attention is that people -really- want the Fomori to be the like 'original first inhabitants' of Ireland, and I'm really not sure where that is coming from. There are different interpretations of this idea, maltheistic ones and Theogony-esque ones, but the root eludes me.
June 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I think what is catching my attention is that people -really- want the Fomori to be the like 'original first inhabitants' of Ireland, and I'm really not sure where that is coming from. There are different interpretations of this idea, maltheistic ones and Theogony-esque ones, but the root eludes me.
this leads to some issues of prestige, shame, and damage to honour? It is a quite curious section. The text was edited and translated by Kicki Ingridsdotter and is available online here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
www.diva-portal.org
May 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
this leads to some issues of prestige, shame, and damage to honour? It is a quite curious section. The text was edited and translated by Kicki Ingridsdotter and is available online here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
I discuss a lot of this at length in my thesis as well, which I'm happy to send over if you'd like it (though feel no obligation, nobody should have to read my thesis).
An interesting example with women is in the story Aided Derbforgail, where there is a urination contest between noble women, and
An interesting example with women is in the story Aided Derbforgail, where there is a urination contest between noble women, and
May 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I discuss a lot of this at length in my thesis as well, which I'm happy to send over if you'd like it (though feel no obligation, nobody should have to read my thesis).
An interesting example with women is in the story Aided Derbforgail, where there is a urination contest between noble women, and
An interesting example with women is in the story Aided Derbforgail, where there is a urination contest between noble women, and
Philip O'Leary, 'Contention at Feasts in Early Irish Literature', Éigse 20; 'Verbal Deceit in the Ulster Cycle' Éigse 21; 'Fír Fer: an Internalized Ethical Concept in Early Irish Literature', Éigse 22; 'Honour-Bound: the Social Context of Early Irish Heroic Geis', Celtica 20.
May 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Philip O'Leary, 'Contention at Feasts in Early Irish Literature', Éigse 20; 'Verbal Deceit in the Ulster Cycle' Éigse 21; 'Fír Fer: an Internalized Ethical Concept in Early Irish Literature', Éigse 22; 'Honour-Bound: the Social Context of Early Irish Heroic Geis', Celtica 20.
As Finn says, the Irish heroic tradition has a lot of examples of this with the representation of aristocratic men in the literature, but it hasn't been directly examined in the context of gender before (though there's clearly Gender (and Class) Afoot). O'Leary's work is a great starting point:
May 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
As Finn says, the Irish heroic tradition has a lot of examples of this with the representation of aristocratic men in the literature, but it hasn't been directly examined in the context of gender before (though there's clearly Gender (and Class) Afoot). O'Leary's work is a great starting point:
How people receive, retell, reimagine stories is hands down my favorite topic. I love that you can see it in the past too! Like, Cath Maige Tuired being written by monks going 'Jeeze the Norse suck, lets write a story and cast the Norse as Fomori'! Stories as living things ever shifting and changing
December 5, 2024 at 3:40 PM
How people receive, retell, reimagine stories is hands down my favorite topic. I love that you can see it in the past too! Like, Cath Maige Tuired being written by monks going 'Jeeze the Norse suck, lets write a story and cast the Norse as Fomori'! Stories as living things ever shifting and changing