Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction

St. Patrick's birthplace

The flotsam and jetsam of medieval Irish voyage literature

Cuan ua Lothchain and the transmission of the Dindsenchas

'No fox can foul the lair the badger swept': aspects of the fox in Irish tradition

On the language of the Irish in New Testament 1602

Some late tales of the Ulster Cycle

The O Neachtain circle and the evolving intellectual world of Gaelic Dublin, c. 1730

Observations of the text known as the Leabhar Oiris

Irish satirical verse in the eighteenth century: reading the northern poets

Early twentieth-century field-work in Ireland and Scotland by the Norwegian ethnomusicologist, Ole Mork Sandvik (1875-1976)

The emergence of a modern Irish-language print culture

Conversations in Uppsala and diversity in language learning