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Ms Bronagh Ní Chonaill BA (UCD), M.Phil. (Dub), H.Dip Med. Welsh Lit. Lang. (UCD)

Lecturer - Departments of Celtic and History

On Study leave during academic session 2008 - 2009

Contact: B.NiChonaill@celtic.arts.gla.ac.uk

Research Interests:

  • Irish and Welsh laws in the middle ages
  • Childhood through the ages

Publications

  • ‘Fosterage in Ireland and Wales’ in Celtic Culture: An Historical Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara , CA : ABC-Clio, 2006)
  • ‘Childhood in Medieval Ireland’ in S. Duffy, A. MacShamhráin and J. Moynes (eds), Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, New York and London, 2005)
  • Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Dublin pre-1610, (Royal Irish Academy 2002). Researcher.
  • Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Bray (Royal Irish Academy, 1998). Researcher.
  • Two review articles in the Irish Economic and Social History Journal xxvi (1999), on John Bradley, Drogheda Its Topography and Medieval Layout (Drogheda, 1997); Michael McEvoy, Return to the Bull Ring (Drogheda, 1997).
  • Entries in The Oxford Companion to Irish History (Oxford, 1998): Divorce, p.151; Fosterage, p.204; Illegitimacy, pp 254-5; Marriage, pp 348-50.
  • ‘Fosterage: Child-rearing in Medieval Ireland’ in History Ireland vol. v (1997), pp 28-31.

Forthcoming:

  • 'Child-centred Law in Medieval Ireland' for An Empty Throne: Childhood and the Crisis of Modernity, ed. R. Davis & J. Dunne (Cambridge: CUP, 2007)
  • ‘Education, Empowerment and the Law’, The Binchy Memorial Lecture (May 2005). This will be published (electronically) by the Law School later this year.
  • ‘The Matter of Incest and Paternity in the Fourth Branch’ in Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium vol. 22 (Harvard University Press, forthcoming, Spring 2008).

In Preparation:

  • ‘Comments on Pregnancy and Paternity by the Medieval Jurist’ (Based on research presented at the Celtic Studies Association of North American/ UCLA, March 2006)
  • ‘Impotence in Medieval Irish Law’ (Based on research presented in a paper in Oxford, Nov.
  • Seen and Heard: Childhood in Medieval Ireland and Wales (monograph based on Ph.D. research)

Papers Given:

  • 2006 March. ‘Pregnant women, criminal intentions and the odd craving in medieval Irish Law, Celtic Studies Association of North American & UCLA Celtic Colloquium, LA
  • March ‘Whose child is it? – a medieval lawyer’s response’, St Andrew’s, Medieval Seminar Series.
  • 2005 Nov. ‘Consent & Responsibility in Medieval Irish Law’, University of Oxford
  • Oct. ‘Children in Cyfraith Hwyel’’, The Whitland Law Colloquium, Wales.
  • May ‘Family Law in Medieval Times’, The Law Society of Ireland, Dublin.
  • May ‘Education and Empowerment in the Law’, The Binchy Memorial Lecture, The Burren Law School, under the The Law Society of Ireland
  • 2004 June ‘Marriage, Divorce, & Fornication’, The Law Society of Ireland, Dublin.
  • Mar. ‘Perceptions and Pursuits: Childhood and Legality’, EMERGE, Edinburgh.
  • 2003 Aug. ‘Helpers and Hurdles’, International Celtic Congress XII, Aberystwyth.
  • 2002 Dec ‘Deliquency, Devotion & Discipline’, Medieval Scottish Seminar Series, Glasgow.
  • July Family Law within a course ‘Brehon Law in Modern Times’ jointly presented by the Law Society of Ireland and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
  • May From the cradle to the criminal- discipline and responsibility in medieval Ireland, Celtic Studies Association of North America, at University of Notre Dame.
  • Mar Searching for children in Medieval Irish Law, a paper presented in Oxford for the Celtic Seminar.
  • Feb. Medieval Welsh Legal Eagles on the Subject of Children, in Trinity College Dublin.
  • 2001 Oct. The Younger Members of Medieval Welsh Society, for the 21st Harvard Celtic Colloquium.
  • July Twins, hermaphrodites and bastards, the question of paternity in medieval Wales, the International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, ‘Domus’ and ‘Familia’.
  • 2000 Nov. Children in Medieval Irish law- the nature of childhood, a paper presented to the Celtic Seminar, Jesus College, Oxford.
  • Nov. ‘From three worths of a foetus’ to ‘three receptions of a child’; the innovation of a medieval Welsh lawyer. Paper presented at the annual conference at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
  • May ‘But the writer was interested in babies’ (Breeze)- the role of the child in the Four Branches, a paper presented at the Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium, Cambridge.
  • April An examination of the Iorwerth tradition §97-103, a paper presented at the Board of Celtic Studies Welsh Law Seminar held in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • April Children and Medieval Welsh Law, a paper presented at the conference, ‘ Wales and the Welsh 2000’ at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  • March ‘I am not yet of age to take a wife’ (Culhwch) Children in the Mabinogion’, a paper presented at the 22nd Celtic Conference at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
  • Feb. Math and medieval Welsh Narrative Technique, a paper presented to interdisciplinary/inter-faculty seminar on Medieval Narrative, Oxford.