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)
- Mariamne Briggs, “Lactantius’ Commentary and the Tale of Harmonia’s Necklace in the Middle Irish Translation of Statius’ Thebaid, 2.265-305”, 1-22.
- Caolán Mac An Aircinn, “Exploring Knowledge and Translation in In Cath Catharda”, 23-35.
- 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.
- Brian Arkins, “Greek and Roman Themes in Gogarty”, 52-60.
- Michael Lloyd, “Greek Tragedy in Ireland, 2023: Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr”, 61-65 (Theatre Review).
- Rory O’Sullivan, “Against Narratology: J. Grethlein, Ancient Literary Texts and Modern Narrative Theory”, 66-86 (Review Essay).
- 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.