Tag: Irish
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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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Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland
A ground-breaking collection of nine original essays for Palgrave’s New Middle Ages series, co-edited with Ann Dooley. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan and Ann Dooley, eds., Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). From the jacket: “This book is a groundbreaking re-reading of gender construction in Medieval Ireland. Despite Ireland’s unique early literature, there…
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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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Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic Studies in Honour of Ann Dooley
A collection of sixteen original essays celebrating the career of Professor Emerita Ann Dooley of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies and Celtic Studies Program, published by Four Courts Press, Dublin. Co-edited with Joanne Findon and Westley Follett. Full bibliographical reference: Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon, and Westley Follett, eds., Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic…
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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…
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