This website is maintained by John McCone with a view to making available digital, downloadable copies of books and articles on Medieval Irish, Celtic and Indo-European topics by his father, Kim McCone, who held the Chair of Medieval Irish at Maynooth University from 1982 until his retirement in 2010
It is intended to add further items to it from time to time, and at present the following items are available to access by clicking in order to read them online or download (and, if wished, distribute) them free of charge.
Below is a comprehensive list of Kim McCone’s publications:
This website features downloadable copies of the following books and publications:
Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature
A first Old Irish grammar and reader, including an introduction to Middle Irish
Towards a Relative Chronology of Ancient and Medieval Celtic Sound Change
The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex
The good, the bad and the lovely: the transmission of kingship in Esnada Tige Buchet and The Odyssey, and medieval Irish reflexes of Proto-Indo-European sovereignty myths
THE << CELTS>> : QUESTIONS OF NOMENCLATURE AND IDENTITY
Cú Chulainn’s first arming and outing (cét-gabál gaiscid): Roman and Greek parallels for his slaying of three brothers (Horatius, the Curiatii and Heracles), “woman trouble” (Horatius and Coriolanus), and immersions (Diomedes and Odysseus)
Warriors’ blazing heads and eyes, Cú Chulainn and other fiery cyclopes, ‘bright’ Balar, and the etymology of Old Irish cáech, ‘one eyed’
King’s sons, a hideous hag and a golden stag in Indian epic
Mocking the afflicted: morals and missing body-parts in Scéla Muicce meic Da Thó and Waltharius
