Books

This site features downloadable copies of the following books written by Kim McCone:

Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature

A First Old Irish Grammar Reader

Towards a Relative Chronology of Ancient and Medieval Celtic Sound Change

The Origins and Development of the Insular Celtic Verbal Complex

Articles

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

Bringing up boys: four Old Irish terms, Cú Chulainn’s two early birth-tales, and Celtic pederasty

Power, Gender and Mobility

‘To the waters and the wild’

The deaths of Baldr and Fergus mac Roig