Tyler Baxter, Saoirse Ní Dhonnobháin, Michael Frim, Kevin Collins
16 episodes
1 day ago
A general Celtic Studies podcast based out of Ireland. We cover various topics organised into thematic series. Hosted by Tyler Baxter (MA Celtic Studies, PDip in Ancient and Medieval Languages) and Michael Frim (current Celtic Civilisation postgraduate student). The podcast aims to be accessible to general audiences, blending storytelling and scholarship. Expect to find mythology and history in equal measure. This podcast is not appropriate for children. Our logo consists of two illustrations, both taken from the Book of Ballymote, folio 2v. Audio editing and music is by Kevin Collins.
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A general Celtic Studies podcast based out of Ireland. We cover various topics organised into thematic series. Hosted by Tyler Baxter (MA Celtic Studies, PDip in Ancient and Medieval Languages) and Michael Frim (current Celtic Civilisation postgraduate student). The podcast aims to be accessible to general audiences, blending storytelling and scholarship. Expect to find mythology and history in equal measure. This podcast is not appropriate for children. Our logo consists of two illustrations, both taken from the Book of Ballymote, folio 2v. Audio editing and music is by Kevin Collins.
Tyler and Saoirise have too much fun questioning the medieval Irish patriarchy.
Main topics addressed: patriarchy, misogyny, women, and children in early medieval Ireland.
This episode includes sexual references and swearing.
References and Suggested Media:
‘Debility of the Ultonian Warriors’ in Hull, Eleanor, The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature (London: David Nutt, 1898).
Fitzsimmons, F. ‘Fosterage and Gossiprid in Late Medieval Ireland: Some New Evidence’ in Duffy, P. J., Edwards, D. and FitzPatrick, E. (eds.) Gaelic Ireland c. 1250-1650: Land, Lordship, and Settlement (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 138–149.
‘How Cú Chulainn was Begotten’ in Kinsella, T. The Táin (Oxford, 1969), pp. 23–25.
Kelly, Fergus. A Guide to Early Irish Law (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2020), especially pp. 68–79.
Kelly, Patricia. ‘The Táin as Literature’ in Mallory, J. P. (ed.) Aspects of the Táin (Belfast: December Publications, 1992), pp. 69–102 (pp. 77–84, especially 79–80).
Meyer, K. The Wooing of Emer by Cú Chulainn electronic ed. (Cork: CELT, 2004, 2008). https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301021/index.html [Accessed 31 Aug 2025].
Ní Bhrolcháin, M. ‘Re Tóin Mná: In Pursuit of Troublesome Women’ in Ulidia 1, pp. 115–122. (especially bottom of 116–117). https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/4643/ [Accessed 31 Aug 2025].
Ní Chonaill, B. ‘Fosterage: Child-Rearing in Medieval Ireland’, History Ireland 5.1 (1997), 28–31.
‘Noínden Ulad ocus Emuin Macha: The Debility of the Ulstermen’, ed. by R. I. Best & Osborn Bergin, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, Vol. 2 (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1956), pp. 467–468; english trans. by George Henderson, Leabhar nan Gleann: The Book of the Glens; with Zimmer on Pictish Matriachy (Edinburgh: Norman Macleod, 1898), pp. 304–307; Modern Irish version supplied by Tadhg Ó Síocháin. https://iso.ucc.ie/Noinden-ulad/Noinden-ulad-index.html [Accessed 31 Aug 2025].
Ó Brolcháin Carmody, Isolde. ‘The Fairs of Early Irish Society’, Story Archaeology (blog), 9 Jul 2012. https://storyarchaeology.com/beidh-aenach-amarach/ [Accessed 31 Aug 2025].
Ó Corráin, Donnchadh. ‘Women and the Law in Early Ireland’ in Chattel, Servant or Citizen: Women’s Status in Church, State and Society, ed. by Mary O’Dowd and Sabine Wichert, Historical Studies 19 (Belfast, 1995), pp. 45–57. https://celt.ucc.ie/women_law.html [Accessed 16 Aug 2025].
Stokes, Whitley (trans.), ‘The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel’ in The Celtic Heroic Age, ed. by J. T. Koch and John Carey, 4th edn (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003), pp. 166–184.
Stokes, Whitley (ed. and trans.), ‘The Tidings of Conchobar Mac Nessa’, Ériu 4 (1910), 18–38.
Wycherley, Niamh. ‘Law and Society with Prof. Liam Breatnach’, The Medieval Irish History Podcast, 20 Dec 2024. https://open.spotify.com/episode/10nfUgLHjZLLM9f46O0Wpb?si=a382c8ee01a94f98 [Accessed 31 Aug 2025].
Transcript:
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Fabula Celtica: A Celtic Studies Podcast
A general Celtic Studies podcast based out of Ireland. We cover various topics organised into thematic series. Hosted by Tyler Baxter (MA Celtic Studies, PDip in Ancient and Medieval Languages) and Michael Frim (current Celtic Civilisation postgraduate student). The podcast aims to be accessible to general audiences, blending storytelling and scholarship. Expect to find mythology and history in equal measure. This podcast is not appropriate for children. Our logo consists of two illustrations, both taken from the Book of Ballymote, folio 2v. Audio editing and music is by Kevin Collins.
