Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

Isabelle Torrance is Associate Professor of Classics at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsForeword (Mary McAleese, President of Ireland 1997-2011)1. Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark)Part One: Medieval Ireland: Historiographical Migrations and Transfers of Knowledge2. Etymology, Graeco-Roman Mythology, and Hiberno-Latin Scholarship: Irish Migrant Scholars in the Pre-Carolingian and Carolingian Periods (Jason O’Rorke, Independent Scholar, Ireland)3. Narratives of Migration as Origin Stories: A Comparative Study of Lebor Gabála Érenn ‘The Book of Invasions of Ireland’ and Late Antique Historiography (Pau Blanco Ríos, Cambridge University, UK)4. Irish Identity, Stories of Migration, and Models from Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Maxim Fomin, Ulster University, UK)5. Tracing a Macrobian Dragon from Old Irish to Old Norse (Mikael Males, University of Oslo, Norway)Part Two: Early Modern Ireland: Politics of Travel and Exile6. 'For others Pergamum has been overthrown; for me alone it still stands': Reflections on Conquest and Migration in Neo-Latin Histories of Ireland (Feliks Levin, Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark)7. The Ius Communicandi (Right to Travel) and the Irish Franciscans in the Seventeenth Century (Ian Campbell, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland)8. Tiocfa Séasair clann Cholla ‘The Caesar of Cholla’s race will come’: Exiles and Homecomings in Early Modern Gaelic Political Poetry (Gregory Darwin, Uppsala University, Sweden)Part Three: Eighteenth-Century Voyages, Real and Imagined9. Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration, and Irish Manuscript Culture (Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, University of Edinburgh, UK)10. A Trip to the Moon by Mr. Murtagh McDermot (1727): Lucian, Swift, Migration Satire and Irish Politics (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark)11. Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin ‘The Voyage of the Hostage to Misfortune’: Virgil’s Aeneid and Eighteenth-Century Irish Migrations (Pádraig Ó Liatháin, Dublin City University, Ireland)Part Four: Gendered Experiences12. John Hogan and the Male Nude in 1820s Rome (Ciarán Rua O’Neill, Aarhus University, Denmark)13. A New Fidelity: Eavan Boland, Ovid, and Exile (Rosie Lavan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Part Five: Twentieth-Century Irish Odysseys 14. An Irish Odyssey: Autofiction and Tradition in Padraig de Brún’s An Odaisé (Richard Martin, Stanford University, USA)15. Readers on the Move: Migrant Subscribers to James Joyce’s Ulysses (Ronan Crowley, Aarhus University, Denmark)Part Six: Irish Classicism and the World Stage16. The Global Afterlives of Joycean Classicism: Case Studies from Argentina and India (Kiron Ward, University of St. Andrew’s, UK)17. Migration and Exile in Seamus Heaney’s Virgilian Pastoral (Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)18. Immigration, Classical Antiquity, and Diversity: Envoi (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark)NotesBibliography Index