Short essay on heroic violence and homoeroticism in the Fer Diad episode of the early Irish Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Ulidia 2.
A revised version appears in chapter 4 of my thesis, “Gender and sexuality in early Irish saga” (available online through ProQuest Dissertations).
Full bibliographical reference:
Sarah Sheehan, “Fer Diad De-Flowered: Homoerotics and Masculinity in Comrac Fir Diad,” in Ulidia 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, National University of Ireland Maynooth, 24–27 June 2005, ed. Ruairí Ó hUiginn and Brian Ó Catháin (An Sagart, 2009), 54–65.
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Sarah Sheehan 