Classics Ireland vol. 26 (2019) – Ireland, Britain, and the Classical World

By | December 25, 2024

This volume of Classics Ireland is entitled ‘Ireland, Britain, and the Classical World.’ It contains six articles by Irish and international academics studying the influence of the Classical world in Britain and Ireland from antiquity to the twentieth century. Also contained within are the recent
presidential addresses of 2018 and 2019, by Tom Seaver and Prof. Brian McGing. It also features ‘Greek Tragedy in Ireland.’

  • Caolán Mac An Aircinn, “How to Use Giant Sheep to Prove the Gods Are Dead”, 1-24.
  • Alexandra Madeła, “The Sacred Island: An Ancient Name for Ireland”, 25-29.
  • Andrew Breeze, “Verolamium ‘St Albans’ and Old Irish Ollam ‘Poet’”, 30-45.
  • Andrew Breeze, “Vectis ‘Isle of Wight’ and Latin Vectis ‘Door-Bar’”, 46-57.
  • Ralph Moore, “Empire without End at the Ends of the Earth: Ireland and Thule in Roman Imperial Ideology”, 58-85.
  • Brian Arkins, “Horace in Two World Wars”, 86-97.
  • Michael Lloyd, “Greek Tragedy in Ireland 2019-2020”, 98-114 (Theatre Review).
  • Tom Seaver, “A Century of Classics in Ireland”, 115-141 (Presidential Address 2018)
  • Brian McGing, “Why Bother with the Classics in the Twenty-First Century?”, 142-157 (Presidential Address 2019)
  • Book Reviews, 158-199.

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