Category: Essays
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Feasts for the Eyes: Visuality and Desire in the Ulster Cycle
Essay on gender and visuality in three sagas of the Ulster cycle published in my collection with Ann Dooley, Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland. First presented at Kalamazoo, May 2006. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, “Feasts for the Eyes: Visuality and Desire in the Ulster Cycle,” in Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland, ed. Sarah Sheehan…
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Loving Medb
Review essay examining past critical perspectives on Queen Medb, a character in the early Irish Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle-Raid of Cooley), published in the festschrift for University of Toronto Professor Emerita Ann Dooley, Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic Studies in Honour of Ann Dooley. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, “Loving Medb,” in Gablánach in Scélaigecht:…
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Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó
Essay on heroes, masculinity, and the body in the early Irish saga The Story of Mac Dathó’s Pig, published in the scholarly collection The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. First presented at Victoria College, University of Toronto in March 2006. A revised version appears in my thesis. Full bibliographical reference:…
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Fer Diad De-Flowered: Homoerotics and Masculinity in Comrac Fir Diad
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 my thesis. 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…
Sarah Sheehan 