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SUMMARY:Tamerlane\, Christopher Marlowe and Cogadh Gáedhel re Gallaibh: t
 owards an edition of the Annals of Clonmacnoise - Denis Casey (University 
 of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Elizabeth Boyle
DESCRIPTION:On the rare occasions when scholars mention the Annals of Clon
 macnoise they are simply described as an early modern translation (into En
 glish) of a now lost Irish annalistic text and then promptly ignored.  Thi
 s is in marked contrast to the attention paid to that other famous (and al
 most exactly contemporary) compilation of seventeenth-century Irish annals
 \, the Annals of the Four Masters.  Despite languishing in obscurity since
  the publication of Denis Murphy’s poor edition in 1896\, the Annals of 
 Clonmacnoise ought to be of interest to both medievalists and early modern
 ists (if such separation can/should be made).  While the Annals of Clonmac
 noise may be viewed as part of the medieval Irish annalistic tradition\, t
 heir early seventeenth-century compiler\, Conall Mag Eochagáin\, also inc
 orporated a substantial amount of extra-annalistic material into his text 
 and engaged with some of the political and historiographic controversies o
 f his own\, highly turbulent time.  In this seminar I hope to explore the 
 sources used by Mag Eochagáin\, as I slowly plod towards producing a new 
 edition.
LOCATION:GR-04\, English Faculty Building
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