Dating Félire Óengusso
My recent article on Félire Óengusso (the Martyrology of Óengus) reconsiders the traditionally thorny question of the date of composition of the text.
Category: Publications
Gaelicisation, Education and the cló gaelach
Included in Irish in Outlook, which I had the pleasure of editing with colleagues in the School of Education, is my article on the cló gaelach as an important marker of …
Irish in Outlook – new book
It was my great pleasure to host the conference Irish in Outlook: A Hundred Years of Irish Education in Trinity College Dublin in 2022. It marked the centenary of the publication …
Article on the Visio Sancti Pauli
Happy to say my article on the Visio Sancti Pauli is finally out and online. Subscribers to Peritia can access it here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.PERIT.5.124477 Cite as: N. Volmering, The Adaptation of the …
The Rhetoric of Catastrophe
‘The Rhetoric of Catastrophe in Eleventh-Century Medieval Ireland: The Case of the Second Vision of Adomnán’, in: Catastrophes and the Apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. by Robert E. …
The Old English Account of the Seven Heavens (text and translation)
‘The Old English Account of the Seven Heavens’, in The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology, 285-306. [edition and translation] In this article I provide an edition and translation of this …
The Second Vision of Adomnán (text and translation)
‘The Second Vision of Adomnán’, in The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology, ed. J. Carey, et al. (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications), 647-81. [edition and translation] In this article I provide …
De Finibus
A few years ago I had the good fortune to work on the project De Finibus: Christian Representations of the Afterlife in Medieval Ireland in University College Cork. I was part of a team …