Professor Thomas Owen Clancy, BA (New York University),
Ph.D. (Edinburgh), FSAScot
Chair of Celtic
Contact: T.Clancy@celtic.arts.gla.ac.uk
Research interests
- The development of Christianity in early medieval Scotland
- The poetry of early medieval Scotland
- Medieval Gaelic narrative, especially Christian literature
- Scottish place-names and saints’ dedications
- Medieval Welsh narrative
- The northern Britons
Publications
I. Books
- Richard Welander, David Breeze and Thomas Owen Clancy (eds) The Stone of Destiny: Artefact and Icon ( Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Monograph Series no. 22, 2003). ISBN 0-780903-903226
- Michel Byrne, Thomas Owen Clancy and Sheila M. Kidd (eds) Litreachas & Eachdraidh: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2; Literature and History: Papers from the second conference of Scottish Gaelic Studies, Glasgow, 2002 ( Glasgow: Department of Celtic, 2006) ISBN 0-903204-22-3
- John T. Koch (ed.) [Thomas Owen Clancy, Contributing Editor] Celtic Culture: An Encyclopedia ( Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2006) ISBN: 1-85109-440-7
II. Chapters in Books
- ‘Reading medieval Irish satire: The Trial of Mac Teléne’, in Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, (eds), Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo, pp. 20-47 (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001). ISBN: 1-900289-12-1
- ‘Scottish saints and national identities in the early middle ages’, in Richard Sharpe and Alan Thacker (eds), Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, pp. 397-421 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 0-19-820394-2
- ‘Magpie hagiography in twelfth-century Scotland: the case of Libellus de nativitate Sancti Cuthberti’ in Jane Cartwright (ed.), Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults, pp. 216-31 ( Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003) ISBN 0708317499
- ‘King-making and images of kingship in medieval Gaelic literature’, in R. Welander, D. J. Breeze & T. O. Clancy (eds) The Stone of Destiny: Artefact and Icon, pp. 85-105 ( Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Monograph Series no. 22, 2003). ISBN 0-780903-903226
- [with Barbara E. Crawford], ‘The formation of the Scottish kingdom’, in R. A. Houston and W. W. J. Knox, (eds), The New Penguin History of Scotland, pp. 28-95: solely responsible for pp. 28-57 (London: Penguin, 2001). ISBN: 0-713-99187-9
- ‘King, court and justice in the Ulster Cycle’, in Medieval Celtic Literature and Society, ed. H. Fulton, pp. 163-82 ( Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005). ISBN: 1-85182-928-8
- ‘Brendan’s European tour: the Middle Irish poem Mochen, Mochen, A Brénaind and the changing nature of pilgrimage in the eleventh century’, in Glyn S. Burgess and Clara Strijbosch (eds), The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions, pp. 35-49 ( Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2006) ISBN: 90-04-15247-4
- ‘Mourning Fearchar Ó Maoilchiaráin: texts, transmission and transformation’, in W. McLeod, J.E. Fraser and A. Gunderloch 9eds), Cànan & Cultar / Language and Culture. Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 3, pp.57-71 ( Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic press, 2006) ISBN: 1-903765-60-9
III Articles in Journals
- ‘The Real St Ninian’, The Innes Review: The Journal of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association vol. 52, pp. 1-28 (2001). ISSN: 0020-157X
- ‘“Celtic” or “Catholic” ? Writing the history of Scottish Christianity, AD 664–1093’, Records of the Scottish Church History Society 32 pp. 5-40 (2002 [2004]). ISSN 0264-5572
- ‘Philosopher-king: Nechtan mac Der-Ilei’ Scottish Historical Review 83, pp.125-149 (2004). ISSN 0036-9241
- ‘Diarmait sapientissimus: The career of Diarmait dalta Daigre, abbot of Iona, 814 x 839’, Peritia 17-18, pp. 215-32 (2003-4). ISBN 2-503-51575-4.
- ‘ Iona in the kingdom of the Picts: a note’, Innes Review 55, pp. 73-6 (2004). ISSN: 0020-157X
IV Entries in Encyclopaedias, etc.
- Numerous entries in John T. Koch (ed.) Celtic Culture: An Encyclopedia, 5 vols (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2006) ISBN: 1-85109-440-7: s.u. Aberdeen Breviary; Aithbhreac nighean Coirceadail; Caimbeul, Donnchadh; Clann MacMhuirich; Comgán Mac Da Cherda; Constantine, St (of Govan); Corc of Caiseal; Cú Chuimne; Cummíne Fota, St; Cusantín mac Aeda (Constantine II); Cusantín mac Cinaeda (Constantin I of Scotland); Cusantín mac Cuilén (Constantine III); Custantin son of Uurguist (Cusantín mac Forgusa); Dallán Forgaill; Dean of Lismore, Book of the; Donnán, St; Dorbbéne; Eochaid son of Rhun; Jocelin of Furness; Ní Mhic Cailéin, Iseabail; Ninian, St; Ó Dálaigh, Muireadhach Albanach; Scotttish Gaelic literature (to 1200); Scottish Gaelic poetry [1] classical Gaelic; Ystrad Clud
- V. Selected Reviews (to indicate non-research-core expertise, e.g. modern Gaelic poetry)
- Review of Collected Poems and Songs of George Campbell Hay, ed. M. Byrne, in Northern Studies vol. 36, pp. 141-145 (2001). ISSN 0305-506X
- Review of Ronald Black, An Tuil: Anthology of 20 th Century Scottish Gaelic Verse, in Scottish Gaelic Studies 21 (2003) 269-77.
IN PRESS
Books
- I. Brown, T.O. Clancy. S. Manning and M. Pittock (eds) Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, 3 vols ( Edinburgh: EUP) Autumn 2006: Thomas Owen Clancy & Murray Pittock, volume editors, vol. I.
- The Making of Scottish Christianity: A History to 1215 ( Edinburgh: Birlinn/John Donald) 2007
Chapter in essay collection
- ‘Poetry of the court: praise’; ‘A fragmentary literature: narrative and lyric from the early middle ages’ in I. Brown, T.O. Clancy. S. Manning and M. Pittock (eds) Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, vol. 1 ( Edinburgh: EUP) Autumn 2006.
- ‘Spaghetti junction:OI rót, roüt, SG ròd, rathad, Scots rod, rode, Eng.road, and some other minor by-ways’, in S. Arbuthnott and K. Hollo & A. Ross (eds), Festschrift for Colm Ó Baoill 2007?
- ‘Adomnán in medieval Gaelic literary tradition’, in J.M. Wooding, R. Aist & T.O. Clancy (eds) Theologian-Law Maker-Peace Maker. A Volume to Commemorate the 1300th centenary of the Ninth abbot of Iona 2007
- ‘Deer and the early church in the North-East’, in ‘This Splendid Little Book’. Studies on the Book of Deer , ed. Katherine Forsyth ( Dublin: Four Courts Press) 2007
Article in journal
- ‘The needs of strangers in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi’, in Quaestio 6 (2005) ISSN 1471-3314
- ‘“Die like a man”: the Ulster Cycle death-tales revisited’, in Aiste 1 2006?