16.07.2025
Sheol Cláraitheoir OÉ an t-imleabhar nua den iris Éigse go hoifigiúil Déardaoin 10 Meitheamh. Agus mhol an Dr Ó Laoghaire an t-eagarthóir, an tOllamh Mac Mathúna, as a chuid oibre. Rinne sé comhghairdeas leis an eagarthóir, leis na húdair, leis na léirmheastóirí agus leis an mbord comhairleach as an bhfoilseachán.
ÉIGSE: A Journal of Irish Studies, Volume XLII, edited by Professor Liam Mac Mathúna, was officially launched in NUI, 49 Merrion Square, on Monday 10 July 2025 by Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle.
Delivering the welcome address at the launch the Registrar, Dr Patrick O’Leary, expressed his sincere thanks, on behalf of NUI, to Professor Liam Mac Mathúna for his work as editor of Éigse and commended the latest volume for the excellence of its scholarship and the range of its content. The Registrar was also very pleased to announce that, one paper from volume XLII was being made available via open access. He commented that it was planned that Éigse would continue this practice in future, selecting historic and new papers to make available.
Professor Mac Mathúna has been editor of Éigse since 2011 and volume XLII is his last one as editor. Dr O’Leary said that while NUI are sorry to see him retire, they fully understand and appreciate the amount of work that goes into editing each volume. Dr O’Leary, on behalf of NUI, commended and thanked Professor Mac Mathúna for his scholarship and skill in guiding the journal over the last fourteen years. He noted that Professor Mac Mathúna leaves the journal in good stead and highly regarded in the field of Irish Studies. He remarked that NUI would now commence the difficult task of finding a new editor/editors for the journal. He then welcomed Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle to officially launch volume XLII.
Dr Ó Muraíle began: ‘Tá Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies, ar an saol ón mbliain 1939 i leith – rud a fhágann nach bhfuil ach 14 bliana fágtha go dtí go mbeidh céad bliain ar an saol le comóradh ag an iris. Ní miste a lua go raibh sé d’ádh ag an iris go raibh cúigear fathach de chuid léann na Gaeilge ina n-eagarthóirí uirthi ón mbliain 1939 i leith. Ba iad sin: Gearóid Ó Murchú (1939–59); Brian Ó Cuív (1959–74); Tomás Ó Concheanainn (1975–86); Pádraig A. Breatnach (1987–2010), agus, le cúig bliana déag anuas, Liam Mac Mathúna. Ní haon áibhéil é a rá go ndearna an fhoireann sin éacht’.
Dr Ó Muraíle then gave a meticulously detailed account of each article in the volume, including review articles and reviews. Dúirt sé: ‘Má chasaimid chuig an eagrán is deireanaí den iris .i. Éigse 42, feicimid go bhfuil beagnach 400 leathanach ann san iomlán. Ar dtús, tá díreach os cionn 300 leathanach atá roinnte ina gceithre chaibidil déag. Ina ndiaidh sin tá trí alt léirmheasa a shíneann thar 40 leathanach. Ansin tá 45 leathanach de léirmheasanna – daréag díobh ar fad – agus ag deireadh ar fad tá cuntas chúig leathanach mar mhír chuimhneacháin leis an Ollamh Séamas Mac Mathúna ar an sárscoláire úd agus iarollamh le Sean-Ghaeilge in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, Gearóid Mac Eoin’.
Professor Mac Mathúna then thanked the scholars who contributed articles and reviews for publication in Volume XLII. He commented on the wonderful range and diversity of papers, which includes discussions of language and literature, as well as reviews of current scholarship. He thanked the Advisory Board members of which were in attendance. He also thanked Dr Emer Purcell and the staff of NUI, Richard Kelly of CRM Print + Design, and Four Courts Press for managing sales and distribution of all Éigse publications.
Éigse has been published by the University since 1939 with the aid of the Adam Boyd Simpson Bequest and is now funded by the NUI Publications Fund. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Contributions, which may be in Irish or English, are particularly welcome from younger scholars and those working in newer and emerging research areas such as the interaction of manuscript and print, the revival period, and sociolinguistics.
For sales and distribution, contact Four Courts Press.
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Clár an Ábhair/Contents
Facsimiles and Transcripts: Two Cases of Decorative Scribal Work
Pádraig Ó Macháin and Anna Hoffmann
MANUSCRIPT CONTEXT AND POSSIBLE SOURCE OF TOCHMARC MOMÉRA Ksenia Kudenko
The Medical Fragments in the Book of Fermoy: Context and Sources
Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha
Araoir dam seal is me im’ aonar:
Aisling a Scríobh Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin
Máire Ní Íceadha
Manx Lexicology and Etymology: Four Case Studies
Christopher Lewin
Gender Marking in Late Manx Speech
George Broderick
Towards a Study of Epenthesis in Muskerry Irish, 1850–1950
David Webb
Gaolta na Gaeilge sna Canúintí Éagsúla:
FIANAISE LEAGAN CAINTE
Kevin Hickey
SEÁN Ó DÁLAIGH, AISLING PHADRUIC CUNDUN,
agus Dáibhidh do Barradh
Tony Ó Floinn
An Craoibhín Aoibhinn in Toronto, Bealtaine 1906
Pádraig Ó Siadhail
THE PRULL ENTRY IN SANAS CORMAIC: VERSE-CAPPING AS THE
Vehicle of Censure
William Sayers
GAULISH MĀROS ‘BIG, GREAT’, ULSTER IRISH BY-FORM [MɑRɑN] ‘A LOT’: DEVIATION FROM MAINSTREAM MÓRÁN OR ARCHAISM?
Art Hughes
Cas Siar, Caith(eamh) Siar? – Téarma Talmhaíochta
Conchúr Mag Eacháin
VARIA I: A practical context for the land-changing feats in
Tochmarc Étaíne
A. Joseph McMullen
VARIA II: An Irish salamander
Máire Nic Mhaoláin
VARIA III: Dán ar Bhás John Moore, le Charles Wolfe
Pádraig Ó Liatháin
Bernadette Cunningham: CONALL MAG EOCHAGÁIN’S HISTORY
OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND, 1627
Máirín Nic Eoin: LANGUAGE LEARNING IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND
Noel Ó Murchadha: BEARTAS TEANGA NA GAEILGE SA LÁ INNIU AGUS SAN AM ATÁ CAITE
Éigse has been published by the University since 1939 with the aid of the Adam Boyd Simpson Bequest and is now funded by the NUI Publications Fund. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Contributions, which may be in Irish or English, are particularly welcome from younger scholars and those working in newer and emerging research areas such as the interaction of manuscript and print, the revival period, and sociolinguistics.
Sales and distribution contact Four Courts Press: www.fourcourtspress.ie
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