Here is a selection of articles written by our principal, Dr Pamela O’Neill. Click on the title in green to access the text of the article.
Early Medieval
Old Irish muirchrech, ‘sea-boundary’
Article published in Ériu 2017
A possible early medieval route across Scotland
Article published in Germano-Celtica: a Festschrift for Brian Taylor 2017
Control of the means of production in early Irish law
Article published in Studia Celtica Fennica 2013
Material culture and social development in early Irish law texts
Article published in Medieval Irish Law: Text and Context 2013
Unravelling time in early Irish law
Article published in Language and Power in the Celtic World 2013
Old Testament borrowings in early Irish law
Article published in Australian Celtic Journal 2013
The meaning of Muirbolc: a Gaelic toponymic mystery
Article published in Celts and their Cultures at Home and Abroad 2013
Peregrinatio: punishment and exile in the early Gaelic church
Article published in Australian Celtic Journal 2010
When onomastics met archaeology: a tale of two Hinbas
Article published in Scottish Historical Review 2008
St Vigeans no 1 and no 1a: a reconsideration
Article published in Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 2008
Six degrees of whiteness: Finbarr, Finnian, Finnian, Ninian, Candida Casa and Hwiterne
Article published in Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 2007
Landmarks of another kind: carved stones, setting adrift and early Irish law
Article published in ANZ Law and History Society e-Journal 2006
Reading cross-marked stones in Scottish Dalriada
Article published in Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 2006
‘A pillar curiously engraven with some inscription upon it’: what is the Ruthwell Cross
The short opening and closing chapters of the book based on Dr O’Neill’s PhD thesis, published by British Archaeological Reports 2005
Boundaries, routes and sculptured stones in early medieval Scotland
Article published in Exile and Homecoming 2005
The political and ecclesiastical extent of Scottish Dalriada
Article published in Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 2005
Historical reconstruction or imaginative recreation? The nineteenth-century approach to the early medieval
Article published in antiTHESIS 2006
Dimensions and distribution: aspects of Pictish sculpture
Article published in Between Intrusions 2004
From Bede to Bragg: the politics of literature about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
Article published in Literature and Politics in the Celtic World 2000
The Lichfield Gospels: the question of provenance
Article published in Parergon 1996
Book Reviews
Review of Barnwell & Mostert (ed) Political Assemblies in the Earlier Middle Ages
Review of Baxter, Karkov, Nelson & Pelteret (ed) Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald
Review of Blanton Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St AEthelthryth in Medieval England 695-1615
Review of Boyd (ed) Ollam: Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
Review of Bredehoft Early English Metre
Review of Chapman Stacey Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland
Review of Clarke, Blackwell & Goldberg Early Medieval Scotland
Review of Cubitt (ed) Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages
Review of Davis Mysticism and Space
Review of Follett Céli Dé in Ireland
Review of Hartmann (ed) Flora and Fauna in the Middle Ages
Review of Kleist (ed) The Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice and Appropriation
Review of Lang Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture VI Northern Yorkshire
Review of Lionarons Old English Literature in its Manuscript Context
Review of Mac Cana The Cult of the Sacred Centre: Essays on Celtic Ideology
Review of Mac Carthaigh & Uhlich Feilscribhinn do Cathal Ó hAinle
Review of McNally Ireland’s Ancient Stones: a Megalithic Heritage
Review of Ní Bhrolcháin An Introduction to Early Irish Literature
Review of Noone (ed) Nicholas O’Donnell’s Autobiography
Review of Simms Medieval Gaelic Sources
Review of Sobecki The Sea and Medieval English Literature
Review of Stout & Stout Newgrange
Review of Watson The Celtic Place-names of Scotland (introduction by Simon Taylor)
Review of Woolf From Pictland to Alba 789-1070
Other Publications
Introduction to Fír Fesso: A Festschrift for Neil McLeod 2018
Anders Ahlqvist imithe ar shlí na firinne
Obituary published in Tinteán 2018
John Clugston 1942-2015
Obituary published in Australian Celtic Journal 2016
Ollam na nÉces: Anders Ahlqvist and Celtic Studies in Australia
Article published in The Land beneath the Sea: Essays in Honour of Anders Ahlqvist’s Contribution to Celtic Studies in Australia 2013
Owning cultural property: whose past; whose future?
Unpublished article 2011
Preface to Celts in Legend and Reality 2010
Law and history: why isn’t rape shield legislation working
Article published in ANZ Law and History eJournal 2008
A sense of place: monastic scenes in Irish-Australian funerary monuments
Article published in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: History, Politics and Culture 2007
Michael Davitt and John Davitt Jageurs
Article published in Australasian Journal of Irish Studies 2007
National religions and the survival of stone sculpture
Article published in Nation and Federation in the Celtic World 2003
Music
Here are a couple of recordings of our Principal playing Gaelic folk songs on her treble recorder many years ago: ‘The Bens of Jura’ and ‘Lag nan Cruachan’ (with baritone Robin-MacKenzie-Hunter).
Australian School of Celtic Learning 