Bibliography

Corthals, Johan. "Zitierte Literature." In Táin Bó Regamna: Eine Vorerzählung zur Táin Bó Cuailnge. In Studien zur Táin Bó Cuailnge, pp. 7-10. Verlag: Der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1987.

Bibliography of published versions of the Tain and secondary sources in Irish, German, French, and English.

Tristram, Hildegard L. C. "Auswahlbibliographie zur Táin Bó Cuailnge." In Studien zur Táin Bó Cuailnge, edited by Hildegard L. C. Tristram, pp. 245-62. Tüibingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1993.

Bibliography of secondary sources in German, Italian, French, and English.

Criticism

Berger, Pamela. "Many-Shaped: Art, Archaeology, and the Táin." Éire-Ireland 17 (1982): 6-18.

Relates the language of the Táin, which preserves the language of the La Tene Celts, to surviving artifacts of the period. By associating the literature and art of the period, Berger attempts to "partially recover and probe the mentality of the Iron Age Celts."

Butler, Mary Eugene. Epic Evidences in the Irish Heroic Saga, "Táin Bó Cúalnge." M.A. Thesis, University of Notre Dame, 1941, 89p.

Discusses the use of epic conventions in the Táin.

Mac Mathúina, Liam. "The Topographical Components of the Place-Names in Táin Bó Cúailnge and Other Selected Early Irish Texts." In Studien zur Táin Bó Cuailnge, edited by Hildegard L. C. Tristram, pp. 100-13. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1993.

Analyzes the topographical significance of placenames in the Tain "with a view to determining their semantic and other relationships to the topographical vocabulary of the text in general."

Mallory, J. P. "The World of Cu Chulainn: The Archaeology of the Táin Bo Cúailnge." In Aspects of "The Táin," edited by J. P. Mallory, pp. 103-59. Belfast: December Publications, 1992.

Discusses the historical and social world of the Táin with reference to archeological artifacts of the period.

McHugh, Máire. "The Sheaf and the Hound: A Comparative Analysis of the Mythic Structure of Beoweulf and Táin Bó Cúalnge" in La Narrazione: Temi e Tecniche dal Medioevo ai Nostri Giorni, pp. 9-43. Abano Terme: Piovan Editore, 1987.

Explores the similarities and differences betweeen the Táin and Beowulf concluding that, despite their radically different narrative strtuctures, the two epics express similar cosmologies.

Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás. "The Concept of the Hero in Irish Mythology." In The Irish Mind. Exploring Intellectual Traditions, edited by Richard Kearney, pp. 79-90. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1985.

Explores the ideological underpinnings of early Irish mythology, especially the role of the hero in writings such as the Tain.

O'Connor, Mary. "Sex, Lies and Sovereignty: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Re-Vision of The Táin." Working Papers in Irish Studies 91, Nos. 2-4 (1992): 1-10.

Interprets the "Atáin" poems of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Feár Suaithinseach as feminist revisions of the Táin stories.

O'Daly, Máirín. "The Verbal System of the LL. Táin." Ériu 14 (1946): 31-139.

Catalogues the verbal system of the Táin, including textual locations.

Olmsted, Garrett S. The Gundestrup Cauldron. Brussels: Latomus Revue D'Etudes Latines, 1979, 306p.

Studies the style, iconography, and narrative conventions of the illustrations on the Gundestrup cauldron, considering the myth portrayed to be a prototype of the later Táin.

O'Rahilly, Cecile. "Introduction." In The Stowe Version of Táin Bó Cuailnge, edited by Cecile O'Rahilly, pp. vii-lxi. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1961. Surveys the relationship of the Stowe version of the Tain to the LL version and recensions.

——. "Introduction." In Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Book of Leinster, edited by Cecile O'Rahilly, pp. ix-iv. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967.

Surveys the sources of the LL version of the Tain, including its different recensions.

Simms, Katharine. "Propaganda Use of the Táin in the Later Middle Ages." Celtica 15 (1983): 142-49.

Chronicles the O'Néill family's attempts to bolster their political ambitions by associating themselves with characters in the Táin.

Swartz, Dorothy Dilts. Stylistic Parallels between the Middle Irish Epic "Táin Bó Cúalnge" in the Book of Leinster and Twelfth-Century Neo-classical Rhetoric, with an Excursus upon the Personality of the Redactor. Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, 1983, 310p.

Uses linguistic evidence to argue that the Táin was compiled in the twelfth century.

Tristram, Hildegard L. C. "Aspects of Tradition and Innovation in the Táin Bó Cuailnge" in Papers on Language and Mediaeval Studies Presented to Alfred Schopf, edited by Richard Matthews and Joachim Schmole-Rostosky, pp. 19-38. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter lang, 1988.

Argues that Recension I of the Táin is the product of the late tenth or early eleventh centuries, when isolated episodes were incorporated into an integrated whole. Contrary to some critics' opinions, Tristram states that she does "not believe that the Táin existed in any cohenrent narrative form prior ro the Middle Irish period."