Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature
Kim McCone. . Maynooth Monographs 3. Maynooth: An Sagart, 1990.
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Argues that early Irish literature is the product of a monastic culture constructing a native past on biblical and patristic models, rather than a transcript of oral pre-Christian tradition.
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- Beltane
- For the character of the early Irish glossary tradition and its etymologies.
- Imbolc
- For how the early Irish glossary tradition constructs its etymologies.
- Lughnasadh
- For the character of the Irish literary material the festival is named in.
- Samhain
- For the monastic construction of a native past, which governs how the saga material can be read.
- The Coligny Calendar
- For the caution required before reading an Irish festival name into a Gaulish month name.