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Papers by Thomas Finan
4. The Anglo-Normans in the King’s Cantreds
Environmental Histories of the North Atlantic World, 2016
Dental microwear texture analysis of mandibular molars from Medieval Ireland and England
The FASEB Journal, Apr 1, 2012
Castle Strategy and the Rock of Lough Key
BRILL eBooks, Dec 5, 2022
1. The Gaelic Resurgence of the Thirteenth Century
Landscape and History on the Medieval Irish Frontier, 2016
An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland: 1570-1670 [Book Review]
The Australasian journal of Irish studies, 2008
Review(s) of: An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland, by Colin Breen, 1570-1670, Dublin, Four Courts... more Review(s) of: An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland, by Colin Breen, 1570-1670, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, 239 pp. 75 b/w illustrations, RRP 45 ISBN 978-1-84682-040-3.
5. Gaelic Strategy and the King’s Cantreds
03.09.33, Jankulak, The Medieval Cult of St. Petroc
Violence in thirteenth-century Ireland
... 10. Johnson, The Holy War Idea, 15. 1 1 . Gearoid MacNiocaill, The Medieval Irish Annals (Dub... more ... 10. Johnson, The Holy War Idea, 15. 1 1 . Gearoid MacNiocaill, The Medieval Irish Annals (Dublin: Dublin Historical Association Medieval Irish History Series, 1975), 32-37; DP McCarthy, The Irish Annals (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2008), 245-70. 12. ...
Editor's Note: Why a Journal of Irish Medieval Studies?
Editor's Note: The Future of Irish Medieval Studies
The Bardic Search for God: Vernacular Theology in Gaelic Ireland, 1200-1400
Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, 2007
1. For recent examples of this trend, see Thomas O'Laughlin, Celtic Theology (London, Contin... more 1. For recent examples of this trend, see Thomas O'Laughlin, Celtic Theology (London, Continuum Press: 2001); Celtic Spirituality, trans. Oliver Davies (New York, Paulist Press: 1999); Coim?n Etchingham, Church Organization in Ireland, AD 650-1000 (Dublin, Laigin Press: 1999); ...
Review Murphy and Potterton, The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages: Settlement, Land Use and Economy. (Discovery Programme Monograph.) Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. Pp. 598; color and b&w figs. and maps. €50. ISBN: 9781846822667
Speculum, 2012
influence, Mossman neglects their concrete historical impact. Marquard was “actively involved” (2... more influence, Mossman neglects their concrete historical impact. Marquard was “actively involved” (20) in the care of souls, and his mission and his texts likely influenced each other greatly. A final point of criticism is the book’s lack of visual illustrations, considering the fact that throughout the book Mossman often refers to visualizing practices, iconographical traditions, and representative paintings. Challenged by the ruling devotional practices of his time, and by the corresponding opinions of many of his Franciscan confreres, Marquard provides strikingly different insights that became widely read and highly influential. Whether or not these new finds are really key to explaining Marquard’s success (which suggests that he was responsible for new developments in thought, given the remarkable extent of manuscript transmission), it is to Mossman’s great credit that he gives back a rightful place in intellectual history to a central figure in late medieval religious life. Marquard von Lindau was not a voice in the wilderness, but, rather, a highly original one.
The Moated Site at Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
Dedicated in memory of Thomas Finan Senior who died in April, 2002 ... INTRODUCTION Until recentl... more Dedicated in memory of Thomas Finan Senior who died in April, 2002 ... INTRODUCTION Until recently archaeologists and historians have found it hard to recognise Gaelic-Irish habitation sites and fortifications of 13th-and 14th-century date in the Irish landscape. This difficulty ...
Landscape and History on the Medieval Irish Frontier
Landscape and History on the Medieval Irish Frontier
This is an interim report on the 2019 Excavations on the Rock of Lough Key. The conclusions in t... more This is an interim report on the 2019 Excavations on the Rock of Lough Key. The conclusions in this report should be viewed as tentative until such time as all final reports are produced.
Archaeology, 2020
A short article that appeared in Archaeology Magazine in February 2020 related to excavations on ... more A short article that appeared in Archaeology Magazine in February 2020 related to excavations on the Rock of Lough Key.
Princes, Prelates, and Poets in Medieval Ireland: Essays in Honour of Katharine Simms, 2013
This article considers the archaeology of the ecclesiastical complex at Kilteasheen and attempts ... more This article considers the archaeology of the ecclesiastical complex at Kilteasheen and attempts to identify where the church on the site may have been located.
Chateau Gaillard 28, 2018
T he moated sites of Gaelic Ireland continue to be one of the more enigmatic field monuments of m... more T he moated sites of Gaelic Ireland continue to be one of the more enigmatic field monuments of medieval Ireland. For the last three years field surveys in Rockingham townland south of Lough Key, County Roscommon, have revealed a complex medieval landscape that includes pastoral settlements, ecclesiastical settlements, and, of course, high status fortifications such as the Rock of Lough Key and the Rockingham moated site. Recent examinations of the Rock of Lough Key have proven that elements of the standing remains date to both the 11 th / 12 th centuries and 14 th / 15 th centuries, and geophysical examination of the moated site completed in 2015 show an extensive settlement both on the platform of the moated site and in the surrounding fields (
Archaeology Ireland, 2005
Prophecies of the Expected Deliverer in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Irish Bardic Poetry
New Hibernia Review, 2002
References to ancient prophecies in Irish bardic poetry usually see the prophecies as examples of... more References to ancient prophecies in Irish bardic poetry usually see the prophecies as examples of political propaganda for the patron. But providing political propaganda was not always the primary motivation behind the use of prophecy in bardic poetry; nor, for that matter, ...
4. The Anglo-Normans in the King’s Cantreds
Environmental Histories of the North Atlantic World, 2016
Dental microwear texture analysis of mandibular molars from Medieval Ireland and England
The FASEB Journal, Apr 1, 2012
Castle Strategy and the Rock of Lough Key
BRILL eBooks, Dec 5, 2022
1. The Gaelic Resurgence of the Thirteenth Century
Landscape and History on the Medieval Irish Frontier, 2016
An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland: 1570-1670 [Book Review]
The Australasian journal of Irish studies, 2008
Review(s) of: An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland, by Colin Breen, 1570-1670, Dublin, Four Courts... more Review(s) of: An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland, by Colin Breen, 1570-1670, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, 239 pp. 75 b/w illustrations, RRP 45 ISBN 978-1-84682-040-3.
5. Gaelic Strategy and the King’s Cantreds
03.09.33, Jankulak, The Medieval Cult of St. Petroc
Violence in thirteenth-century Ireland
... 10. Johnson, The Holy War Idea, 15. 1 1 . Gearoid MacNiocaill, The Medieval Irish Annals (Dub... more ... 10. Johnson, The Holy War Idea, 15. 1 1 . Gearoid MacNiocaill, The Medieval Irish Annals (Dublin: Dublin Historical Association Medieval Irish History Series, 1975), 32-37; DP McCarthy, The Irish Annals (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2008), 245-70. 12. ...
Editor's Note: Why a Journal of Irish Medieval Studies?
Editor's Note: The Future of Irish Medieval Studies
The Bardic Search for God: Vernacular Theology in Gaelic Ireland, 1200-1400
Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, 2007
1. For recent examples of this trend, see Thomas O'Laughlin, Celtic Theology (London, Contin... more 1. For recent examples of this trend, see Thomas O'Laughlin, Celtic Theology (London, Continuum Press: 2001); Celtic Spirituality, trans. Oliver Davies (New York, Paulist Press: 1999); Coim?n Etchingham, Church Organization in Ireland, AD 650-1000 (Dublin, Laigin Press: 1999); ...
Review Murphy and Potterton, The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages: Settlement, Land Use and Economy. (Discovery Programme Monograph.) Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. Pp. 598; color and b&w figs. and maps. €50. ISBN: 9781846822667
Speculum, 2012
influence, Mossman neglects their concrete historical impact. Marquard was “actively involved” (2... more influence, Mossman neglects their concrete historical impact. Marquard was “actively involved” (20) in the care of souls, and his mission and his texts likely influenced each other greatly. A final point of criticism is the book’s lack of visual illustrations, considering the fact that throughout the book Mossman often refers to visualizing practices, iconographical traditions, and representative paintings. Challenged by the ruling devotional practices of his time, and by the corresponding opinions of many of his Franciscan confreres, Marquard provides strikingly different insights that became widely read and highly influential. Whether or not these new finds are really key to explaining Marquard’s success (which suggests that he was responsible for new developments in thought, given the remarkable extent of manuscript transmission), it is to Mossman’s great credit that he gives back a rightful place in intellectual history to a central figure in late medieval religious life. Marquard von Lindau was not a voice in the wilderness, but, rather, a highly original one.
The Moated Site at Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
Dedicated in memory of Thomas Finan Senior who died in April, 2002 ... INTRODUCTION Until recentl... more Dedicated in memory of Thomas Finan Senior who died in April, 2002 ... INTRODUCTION Until recently archaeologists and historians have found it hard to recognise Gaelic-Irish habitation sites and fortifications of 13th-and 14th-century date in the Irish landscape. This difficulty ...
Landscape and History on the Medieval Irish Frontier
Landscape and History on the Medieval Irish Frontier
This is an interim report on the 2019 Excavations on the Rock of Lough Key. The conclusions in t... more This is an interim report on the 2019 Excavations on the Rock of Lough Key. The conclusions in this report should be viewed as tentative until such time as all final reports are produced.
Archaeology, 2020
A short article that appeared in Archaeology Magazine in February 2020 related to excavations on ... more A short article that appeared in Archaeology Magazine in February 2020 related to excavations on the Rock of Lough Key.
Princes, Prelates, and Poets in Medieval Ireland: Essays in Honour of Katharine Simms, 2013
This article considers the archaeology of the ecclesiastical complex at Kilteasheen and attempts ... more This article considers the archaeology of the ecclesiastical complex at Kilteasheen and attempts to identify where the church on the site may have been located.
Chateau Gaillard 28, 2018
T he moated sites of Gaelic Ireland continue to be one of the more enigmatic field monuments of m... more T he moated sites of Gaelic Ireland continue to be one of the more enigmatic field monuments of medieval Ireland. For the last three years field surveys in Rockingham townland south of Lough Key, County Roscommon, have revealed a complex medieval landscape that includes pastoral settlements, ecclesiastical settlements, and, of course, high status fortifications such as the Rock of Lough Key and the Rockingham moated site. Recent examinations of the Rock of Lough Key have proven that elements of the standing remains date to both the 11 th / 12 th centuries and 14 th / 15 th centuries, and geophysical examination of the moated site completed in 2015 show an extensive settlement both on the platform of the moated site and in the surrounding fields (
Archaeology Ireland, 2005
Prophecies of the Expected Deliverer in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Irish Bardic Poetry
New Hibernia Review, 2002
References to ancient prophecies in Irish bardic poetry usually see the prophecies as examples of... more References to ancient prophecies in Irish bardic poetry usually see the prophecies as examples of political propaganda for the patron. But providing political propaganda was not always the primary motivation behind the use of prophecy in bardic poetry; nor, for that matter, ...
Landscape and History on the Irish Frontier: The Kings Cantreds in the Thirteenth Century
Brepols, 2016
A consideration of the landscape, history and archaeology of medieval Roscommon in the thirteenth... more A consideration of the landscape, history and archaeology of medieval Roscommon in the thirteenth century.
Archaeology, People, and Landscapes: Essays in Honor of Jenna Higgins
This collection of essays contributed by the colleagues and friends of Jenna Higgins honors the l... more This collection of essays contributed by the colleagues and friends of Jenna Higgins honors the life and memory of a great colleague who was taken from archaeology too soon. Jenna was a post-graduate student at the University of Sheffield research the megalithic tradition of Atlantic Europe. The contributors to this volume all worked and studied with Jenna over her career.
Medieval Lough Cé: History, Archaeology, Landscape
The role of Lough Ce and its relationship to the various lordships of north Roscommon in the late... more The role of Lough Ce and its relationship to the various lordships of north Roscommon in the later Middle Ages is examined in this collection of essays. Lough Ce was a vital geographic feature in relation to the MacDermot and O'Conor dynasties of the 13th and 14th century, and was the scene of a number of military incursions on the part of English lordships in the mid-13th century. Yet, this lake, and the history and archaeology of the region surrounding the lake, has rarely been examined as a landscape feature in, and of, itself.
A nation in medieval Ireland?: perspectives on Gaelic national identity in the Middle Ages