Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 23: 2003

This volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman; The Breton Compositions of Jean Cras, Paul Andre Bempéchat; Compert Con Culainn: Dangerous Liaisons: The Birth of the Hero and the Origins of Society, Marion Dean; Cernunnos: Looking a Different Way, David Fickett-Wilbar; Epic or Exegesis: The Form and Genesis of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, John Fisher; Introducing King Nuadha: Mythology and Politics in the Belfast Murals, Alexandra Hartnett; Gaelic Political Scripture: Uí Mhaoil Chonaire Scribes and the Book of Mac Murchadha Caomhánach, Benjamin Hazard; Voice, Power and Narrative Structure in Orgain Denna Ríg, Bettina Kimpton; Cucchulainn: God, Man or Animal?, Erik Larson; The Celtic Seasonal Festivals in the Light of Recent Approaches to the Indo-European Ritual Year, Emily Lyle; Vita I. S. Brigitae: An Eighth-Century Life with Seventh-Century Roots, Laurance Maney; Spirit and Flesh in Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry: A Comparison of the Work of D. Gwenallt Jones and Pennar Davies, D. Densil Morgan; Joseph Cooper Walker’s Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards: Significance and Impact, Lesa Ní Mhunghaile; Old Irish *desgabál and the Concept of Ascension in Irish Religious Texts, Brian O Broin; Oenach Aimsire na mBan: Early Irish Seasonal Celebrations, Gender Roles and Mythological Cycles, Sharon Paice Macleod; Literature Reviews in An Claidheamh Soluis: A journalistic insight to Irish Literary Reviews in the Revival period 1899–1932, Regina Uí Chollatáin; and Insular and Celtic Influences on the Decoration of Yale MS 22, Elizabeth Willingham.