Published Volumes

Past issues of Classics Ireland are available here for download.

All issues since volume 19/20 (2012/2013) have been produced by the current editor, Dr Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin).

Previous editors: Dr Brian Sheridan (Maynooth University), Dr David Woods (University College Cork), and the founding editor, Professor Theresa Urbainczyk (University College Dublin).

Classics Ireland vol. 30 (2023)

  1. Mariamne Briggs, “Lactantius’ Commentary and the Tale of Harmonia’s Necklace in the Middle Irish Translation of Statius’ Thebaid, 2.265-305”, 1-22.
  2. Caolán Mac An Aircinn, “Exploring Knowledge and Translation in In Cath Catharda”, 23-35.
  3. Jim Kertis and Paul Robertson, “Moral Laundering between Medieval Christianity and Irish Folktale: Merugud Uilixis Meic Leirtis and the Looted Gold of Troy”, 36-51.
  4. Brian Arkins, “Greek and Roman Themes in Gogarty”, 52-60.
  5. Michael Lloyd, “Greek Tragedy in Ireland, 2023: Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr”, 61-65 (Theatre Review).
  6. Rory O’Sullivan, “Against Narratology: J. Grethlein, Ancient Literary Texts and Modern Narrative Theory”, 66-86 (Review Essay).
  7. Book Reviews, 87-98.

Classics Ireland vol. 29 (2022)

  • Peter Liddel, “Greek Inscriptions in Ireland Part II: An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy in Ireland and the Greek Inscriptions at University College, Dublin”, 1-41.
  • R. A. Somerville, “Oculi omnium: The Graces of Trinity College Dublin”, 42-54.
  • Andrew Breeze, “The Firth of Clyde and Agricola 24.1”, 55-65.
  • George Broderick, “Ultima Thulē and Associated Island Names”, 66-81.
  • Book Reviews, 82-100.

Classics Ireland vol. 28 (2021)

  • Andreas Serafim, “Community, Division, and the Persuasive War of Identities in Attic Oratory”, 1-23.
  • Lynn Gordon, “Shadows on the Brink: Route 110, Aeneid VI and Seamus Heaney as Virgilian Vates”, 24-34.
  • Brian Arkins, “Modern Literary Theory and the Classics”, 35-51.
  • Charlotte Dark, “Gildas and the Sea”, 52-60.
  • Andrew Breeze, “Irish Muir nIocht ‘English Channel’ and Queen Boudica’s Iceni”, 61-69.
  • Andrew Breeze, “Ptolemy’s ‘Ratostabius’ and the Rhondda Valley, Wales”, 70-75.
  • Michael Lloyd, “Greek Tragedy in Ireland, 2022”, 76-78 (Theatre Review).
  • Book Reviews, 79-99.

Classics Ireland vol. 27 (2020): Platonic and Neoplatonic Thought – and Action. Essays in Honour of Andrew Smith, edited by Shane Wallace

  • Tom Seaver, “Andrew Smith: An Appreciation”, 1-4.
  • Christopher Strachan, “Hull”, 5-6.
  • John A. Madden, “The Galway Years”, 7-10.
  • Theresa Urbainczyk, “University College Dublin and Classics Ireland”, 11-14.
  • Pat Cronin, “The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies in Athens”, 15-19.
  • Rosalie Moloney, “Classical Tours (1981-1998)”, 20-26.
  • Joan Wright, “Classical Association of Ireland Tours (2000-2020)”, 27-32.
  • John Dillon, “Andrew Smith and Neoplatonic Studies”, 33-35.
  • Colm Shanahan, “Plato’s Democratic Man: Reasoning in the Wrong Direction”, 36-55.
  • Vasilis Politis, “Plato’s Seventh Letter: A Close and Dispassionate Reading of the Philosophical Section”, 56-77.
  • Robbert M. van den Berg, “Experiencing Beauty: Reading the Symposium and Phaedrus in the Neoplatonic Academy of Athens”, 78-97.
  • Anne Sheppard, “Plotinus on Choral Dancing”, 98-109.
  • Lloyd P. Gerson, “The Willing of the Good”, 110-125.
  • Gerard O’Daly, “Plotinus on Human Willing: The Argument of Ennead VI.8.1-6”, 126-134.
  • Suzanne Stern-Gillet, “On Freeing the Embodied Soul: Ennead VI 8 [39] 1-6”, 135-150.
  • Deirdre Carabine, “Neoplatonism & Negative Theology: Plotinus and Gregory of Nyssa”, 151-164.
  • Paul Kalligas, “Honey from Hymettus: Platonic Philosophy in the Cave of Pan”, 165-196.
  • Dominic J. O’Meara, “Philosophos Oikonomos: Household Ethics in Porphyry’s Vita Plotini and in Marinus’ Vita Procli”, 197-210.
  • Catherine Kavanagh, “Sacred Space and Sacred Symbol, East and West: Maximus the Confessor, Eriugena and Abbot Suger on Liturgical Space and Function”, 211-236.
  • Fran O’Rourke, “Immortality of the Soul in Plato and Aquinas”, 237-260.
  • Denis O’Brien, “John cap. xxi: New Light on the Fourth Gospel (Part 1)”, 261-293.
  • Book Reviews, 294-308.

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

  • 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.

Classics Ireland vol. 25 (2018)

  • Marco Vitale, “No ‘Britannia’ on Coins of the Severans. Methodological Problems of Contextual Interpretation”, 1-24.
  • Maeve O’Brien, “Fantasy Island: Greece and Rome in two Eighteenth-Century Irish Authors”, 25-62.
  • Charlie Kerrigan, “Virgil’s Georgics and Nineteenth-Century Ireland”, 63-80.
  • Eavan Boland, “The Living Language”, 81-97 (Presidential Address 2000, previously unpublished)
  • Carmel McCallum Barry, “Women in Classics: Some Landmark Achievements from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century”, 98-113 (Presidential Address 2017).
  • Book Reviews, 114-167.

Classics Ireland vol. 23-24 (2016-2017)

  • Andreas Serafim, “Revisiting Sexual Invective: Demosthenes as Kinaidos in Aeschines’ Speeches”, 1-30.
  • Rhoda Cronin-Allanic, “From Halicarnassus to Cork. The Story of how a Collection of Objects from Halicarnassus and Cnidus Found their Way to Queen’s College Cork in the 1860s”, 31-49.
  • Athina Papachrystomou, “Mapping the Athenian Democracy: Plutarch on the Political History of Athens”, 50-101.
  • Douglas Cairns, “Word and Deed: Brendan Kennelly’s Antigone”, 102-129.
  • Caroline Costello, “Ancient Shipwrecks and New Insights”, 130-145 (Presidential Address 2016).
  • Book Reviews, 146-176.

Classics Ireland vol. 21-22 (2014-2015): Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers

  • Raoul McLaughlin, “Ancient Contacts: The Roman Emperor and the Sinhalese King”, 1-40.
  • Peter Crawford, “The Coleraine Hoard and Romano-Irish Relations in Late Antiquity”, 41-118.
  • Raoul McLaughlin, “The Roman Plan to Conquer Ireland: Rethinking the Campaign by Gnaeus Julius Agricola (AD 77-83)”, 119-137.
  • Clodagh Lynch, “Roman Silver Ingots from the Balline Hoard, Co. Limerick”, 138-156.
  • Arthur Keaveney, “Sir William Herbert and his Latin Book about Ireland”, 157-164 (Presidential Address 2013).
  • Book Reviews, 165-199.

Classics Ireland vol. 19-20 (2012-2013)

  • Jo Day & Nicholas L. Wright, “The Roman Republican Coin Collection of the UCD Classical Museum”, 1-25. pdf-file
  • Judith Barringer, “Olympia – More than Meets the Eye”, 26-49. pdf-file
  • Athina Papachrysostomou, “Sopater’s Φακῆ (fragments 18, 19): A Play of Self-Satire?”, 50-81. pdf-file
  • Frank McGuinness, “The Passion and Power of Narrative in Greek Tragedy”, 82-113 (Presidential Address 2012).
  • Michael Lloyd, “Response”, 114-117 (Presidential Address 2012).
  • Michael Lloyd, “Greek Tragedy in Ireland 2012”, 118-121 (Theatre Review).
  • Shane Wallace, “Hellenistic History: S. Dmitriev The Greek Slogan of Freedom; M. Dixon Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth”, 122-39 (Subject Review).
  • Book Reviews, 140-200.