Some useful resources

These are some useful resources for anyone wanting to learn more about the Ulster Cycle or medieval Irish literature more generally.

  • CODECS: Collaborative Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies, published by the A.G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies. This is a wonderful site with many useful sections. The catalogue of texts is particularly relevant here. Each text has a page listing the different manuscripts in which it is attested, as well as a list of editions and translations and a selection of secondary literature. There are usually direct links to any publicly available translations on the Internet Archive or elsewhere. I’ll be sure to link to the relevant CODECS page for each text that I discuss.
  • CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts, at University College Cork. A collections of digitized editions and translations of texts.
  • Irish Sagas Online, also at University College Cork. Original medieval Irish texts are provided with translations into Modern Irish and English.
  • Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae at University College Dublin. Provides digital editions and translations of texts.
  • eDIL: The electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language.
  • The Spoken Word, from the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at the University of Cambridge. This provides texts from a number of languages including Medieval Irish with translation and an audio recording so that you can hear how we think the language might have sounded.

If you can think of anything that I should add to this list, please let me know!