It is the most important text of the Fenian Cycle and at about 8,000 lines is the longest surviving work of original medieval Irish literature.
After her masters degree and the first national examination in 1994, graduation followed in 1997 at the University of Freiburg with a work on Irish literature.
The Cycles of the Kings, also known as the Kings' Cycles or the Historical Cycle are a body of Old and Middle Irish literature.
Hugh Haughton's research interests lie in twentieth-century Irish literature, modern poetry and poetics in the United Kingdom, United States and Ireland; psychoanalysis and literature; and the literature of nonsense.
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Hugh Haughton is an academic, author, editor and specialist in Irish literature and the literature of nonsense.
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Due to ongoing wars, occupation and poverty much of the Irish arts were restricted to music and literature.
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms is a collection of ghost stories, essays and plays by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, edited by Darrell Schweitzer and illustrated by Tim Kirk.
Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark (published in 1996), is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and wins the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize.
His recent publications include academic books on James Joyce and critical essays on Irish literature.
The "Book of Ballymote" contains, amongst miscellaneous subjects, Biblical and hagiological matter; and the "Book of Lismore" contains lives of the saints under the form of homilies (see Hull, "Text Book of Irish Literature", appendix).
His fiction has also appeared in The Stinging Fly, Books Ireland and The Journal of Irish Literature.
Among his most notable works are The Cycles of the Kings (1946), Early Irish literature (1948), The Celtic realms (1967, with Nora Kershaw Chadwick).
The group of Irish scholars emerged from competing societies, such as the Celtic Society and the Irish Archaeological Society, focusing on the translation of Irish literature from the "Fenian period of Irish history", specifically, the mythological works of Oisín and the Fianna, and the promotion of the Irish language.
He studied French language and literature, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris, he explored the Indian influence on Irish literature.
These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.
She is included in several key Irish literature anthologies, including The Field Day Anthology (Edited by Seamus Deane), and The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (edited by Colm Tóibín).
His last marriage (1974-1989) was to the Irish novelist and children's writer Eilís Dillon, who edited his posthumous book, Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders (Oxford, 1994).