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The Chronicle of Ireland is the principal source for the history of events not only in Ireland itself but also in what is now Scotland up to 911. It incorporated annals compiled on Iona up to c. 740 - a monastery which played a major role in the history of Ireland, of the Picts to its east and, from 635 to 664, of Northumbria. Up to c. 740 the Chronicle is thus a crucial source for both Ireland and Britain; and from c. 740 to 911 it still records some events outside Ireland. The text of the Chronicle is best preserved in the Annals of Ulster, but it was also transmitted through chronicles derived from a version made at the monastery of Clonmacnois in the Irish midlands. This translation is set out so as to show at a glance what text is preserved in both branches of the tradition and what is in only one. -- Amazon.com.

This book provides a fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish between the fourth and ninth centuries AD, from St Patrick to the Vikings - the earliest period for which historical records are available. It opens with the Irish raids and settlements in Britain, and the conversion of Ireland to Christianity. It ends as Viking attacks on Ireland accelerated in the second quarter of the ninth century. The book takes account of the Irish both at home and abroad, including the Irish in northern Britain, in England and on the continent. Two principal thematic strands are the connection between the early Irish Church and its neighbours, and the rise of Uí Néill and the kingship of Tara.

To deepen our understanding of early medieval exile, the present study characterizes ways in which scholars have studied cave use in Britain and Ireland. As key figures in the history of archaeology, Sir Daniel Wilson and Sir James Young Simpson were crucial for establishing Scotland’s cave sites as subjects for study. Triggered by these two, a century and a half of research has related these places to the flowering of Gaelic monasticism. Nonetheless, fundamental similarities between early Christian communities in Britain and Ireland are at odds with this northern distribution, and bring the question of cave use beyond Scotland sharply into focus. Our paper therefore targets two questions: (1) to what extent were cave sites used by early Christian communities elsewhere in the Insular world; and (2) is our perception of cave use as a particularly north British phenomenon skewed by the long history of Scottish interest in the topic? Dans le but de mieux comprendre nos pensées à propos de l’exil au début du moyen-âge, cette étude caractérise des méthodes employées par les érudits pour étudier l’occupation des grottes en Grande-Bretagne et en Irlande. Etant donné qu’ils étaient des personnages clés de l’histoire de l’archéologie, le rôle de Sir Daniel Wilson et de Sir James Young Simpson fut d’une importance cruciale pour l’établissement des grottes en Écosse comme sujets d’étude. Lancées par ces deux hommes, des recherches d’un siècle et demi ont associé ces sites à l’épanouissement du monachisme gaélique. Néanmoins, les similarités fondamentales entre les premières communautés chrétiennes dans la Grande-Bretagne et l’Irlande ne concordent pas avec cette attribution septentrionale et nous amènent à nous concentrer sur la question de l’occupation des grottes au-delà de l’Écosse. Par conséquent, notre communication cible deux questions : 1) à quel point ces grottes avaient-elles été occupées par les premières communautés chrétiennes dans d’autres parties du monde insulaire; et 2) notre perception de l’occupation des grottes en termes de phénomène particulier au Nord de la Grande-Bretagne a-t-elle été déformée par le fait que ce sujet intéresse les Écossais depuis longtemps? In dieses Studie werden die Methoden von Wissenschaftlern unter die Lupe genommen, die die Siedlung von Höhlen im Großbritannien und Irland untersucht haben, um unser Verständnis vom frühmittelalterichem Exil zu erweitern. Die wichtigsten Schlüsselfiguren in der Geschichte der Archäologie waren Sir Daniel Wilson und Sir James Young Simpson, beide Forscher waren ausschlaggebend bei der Erkenntnis von schottischen Höhlen als Forschungsobjekte. Diese beiden haben den Anstoß gegeben, daß nach über anderthalb jahrhundert langen Forschungsarbeiten erkannt wurde, daß diese Plätze dem gälischem Mönchswesen zugehörig sind. Trotzdem stehen die fundamentalen Gemeinsamkeiten der frühchristlichen Gemeinschaften aus dem Großbritannien und Irland mit dieser für den Norden typischen Siedlungsverteilung im Konflikt, und stellen deshalb die Nutzung von Höhlen außerhalb Schottlands in den Brennpunkt. Diese Abhandlung hat deshalb zwei Ziele: (1) Inwieweit wurden Höhlen von frühchristlichen Gemeinschaften im übrigen Inselreich benutzt; und (2) ist unsere Vorstellung von der Siedlung von Höhlen als ein typisches nördliches Phänomen durch die lange schottische Forschungsgeschichte geprägt?

\"Church Organisation in Ireland, AD 650 to 1000\" by Colman Etchingham is reviewed.

Two major contributions to epigraphical scholarship emphasise the diversity of Celtic languages and sound a note of caution as to the interpretation and presentation of this Gaulish, Brittonic, Latin and Irish legacy. Previously, the most extensive collection was that given by Joshua Whatmough in his book The Dialects of Ancient Gaul, published in 1970 but prepared in the years after the second World War. For one thing, some of the Gaulish inscriptions are in fact bilingual, Latin and Gaulish, such as some of the delightful ones on loom weights, which seem often to have been presents from young Gaulish males to their girl-friends: here one can find out how to inscribe a St Valentine's Day card in Gaulish (NATA VIMPI CVRMI DA, 'pretty girl, give [me] beer') or in a mixture of Gaulish and Latin (NATA VIMPI POTA VI[NV]M, 'pretty girl, drink [some] wine').