Colmán Etchingham

Ba staraí Éireannach é Colmán Etchingham, arb é a réimse oibre stair na hÉireann roimh ré na Normannach.

Bhain Etchingham céim amach i gColáiste na Tríonóide i mBaile Átha Cliath, áit ar bhain sé PhD amach chomh maith. 

Bhí sé cleamhnaithe le hOllscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad, ó 2003, agus bhí sé ina Léachtóir Emeritus i Luathstair na hÉireann, tar éis dó dul ar luathscor sa bhliain 2019.

Ba shaineolaí é an Dr Etchingham i go leor gnéithe de stair na meánaoise luaithe, go háirithe luath-stair Eaglais na hÉireann, luath-dhlí na hÉireann agus stair na ruathairí agus na lonnaitheoirí Lochlannacha in Éirinn tráth na meánaoise luaithe, sa Bhreatain agus i 'nDomhan na Lochlannach‘ i gcoitinne.

Fuair Colmán bás Dé Céadaoin, 7 Meitheamh 2023, tar éis tinnis agus é ar saoire sa Ghréig.

Foilseacháin
Monagraif:
 Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland. Church-Raiding, Politics and Kingship. Series: Studies in Celtic History
Series Vol. Number: 48. Imprint: Boydell Press, 2025.

Church organisation in Ireland AD 650 to 1000 (Maynooth: Laigin Publications, 1999, reprinted 2002), pp viii + 538).

Viking raids on Irish church settlements in the ninth century: a reconsideration of the annals (Maynooth: St Patrick's College Maynooth Department of Old and Middle Irish, 1996), pp vi + 79).
PÁIPÉIR:
The Vikings in County Wicklow', in Roundwood and District Historical and Folklore Journal 18 (2008), pp 51-9.

'The location of historical Laithlinn / Lochla(i)nn: Scotland or Scandinavia?', in Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, ed. Mícheál Ó Flaithearta (Uppsala: Universitet,  2007), pp 11-31.

'Viking-Age Gwynedd and Ireland: political relations', in Ireland and Wales in the Middle Ages, ed. K. Jankulak  and J. Wooding (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp 149-167.

'The bishops of Nendrum: a note', in T. McErlean and N. Crothers, Harnessing the Tides: The Early Medieval tide mills at Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Lough, (Belfast: The Stationery Office and Environment and Heritage Service,  2007), pp 315-321.

'Pastoral provision in the first millennium: a two-tier service?' in The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland, ed. E. Fitzpatrick and R. Gillespie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006), pp 79-90.

(Jointly with Catherine Swift) 'English and Pictish terms for brooch in an eighth-century Irish law-text', in Medieval Archaeology 48 (2004), pp 31-49.

'Graiguenamanagh's 800 years of Faith', in The Word (August 2004), pp 7-9.

Contributions on 'Armagh, primacy of', 'Episcopacy' and 'Hierarchy, ecclesiastical', in The encyclopaedia of Ireland, ed. Brian Lalor (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2003).

'Les Vikings dans les sources documentaires irlandaises: le cas des annals', in L'héritage maritime des Vikings en Europe de l'Ouest, ed. Élisabeth Ridel (Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2002), pp 35-56.

'North Wales, Ireland and the Isles: the Insular Viking zone', in Peritia 15 (2001 [2002]), pp 145-187.

(Jointly with Catherine Swift) 'Early Irish church organisation: the case of Drumlease and the Book of Armagh', in Breifne 37 (2001 [2002]), pp 285-312.

'Kildare before the Normans: an "episcopal and conventual see"', in Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 19 (part 1) (2000-2001),pp 7-26.

'Kildare before the Normans: an "episcopal and conventual see"', in St Brigid's cathedral: a history, ed. Raymond Gillespie (Maynooth: Kildare Archaeological Society, 2001), pp 7-26 (reprinted from Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society 19 [part 1] [2000-2001]).

'Episcopal hierarchy in Connacht and Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair', in Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 52 (2000), pp 13-29.

'Preface to paperback edition', in E.A. Thompson, Who was Saint Patrick? (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999; first published 1985), pp xvii-xxxii.

'The idea of monastic austerity in early Ireland', in Luxury and austerity, ed. J.R. Hill and Colm Lennon (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 1999), pp 14-29.

'Bishops in Ireland and Wales in the early middle ages: some comparisons', in Contrasts and comparisons: studies in Irish and Welsh church history, ed. J.R. Guy and W.D. Neely (Welshpool / Keady: Welsh Religious History Society / Church of Ireland History Society, 1999), pp 7-25.

Contributions, on 'Cashel, synod of, 1101', 'Céile Dé / Culdee', 'Coarb', 'Erenach', 'Kells, synod of', 'Monasticism', 'Ráith Bressail, synod of', 'Termon', and 'Twelfth-century reform', in The Oxford companion to Irish history, ed. S.J. Connolly (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

'Early medieval Irish history', in Progress in medieval Irish studies, ed. Katharine Simms and K.R. McCone (Maynooth: St Patrick's College Maynooth Department of Old and Middle Irish, 1996), pp 123-53.

'Evidence of Scandinavian settlement in Wicklow', in Wicklow: history and society, ed. William Nolan and Ken Hannigan (Dublin: Geography Publications, 1994), pp 113-38.

'Bishops in the early Irish church: a reassessment', in Studia Hibernica 28 (1994), pp 35-62.

'The implications of paruchia', in Ériu 44 (1993), pp 139-62.

'The early Irish church: some observations on pastoral care and dues', in Ériu 42 (1991), pp 99-118.
LÉIRMHEASANNA:
Review of Viking kings of Britain and Ireland: the dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014 (Clare Downham), in Saga Book of the Viking Society 32 (2008), 106-7.

Review of Cenél Conaill and the Donegal kingdoms AD 500-800 (Brian Lacey), in Irish Historical Studies 36 no. 141 (May 2008).

Review of A new history of Ireland i (ed. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín) in English Historical Review 122 (2007), pp 1023-24.

Review of Medieval Dublin VI (ed. Seán Duffy), in Early Medieval Europe 15 (2007), pp 111-113.

Review of Adomnán at Birr AD 697 (Thomas O'Loughlin et al.) in Studia Hibernica 32 (2002-3) [2004], pp 192-4.

Short notice of Seanchas: studies in early and medieval Irish archaeology, history and literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne (ed. Alfred P. Smyth), in English Historical Review 116 (2001), pp 453-4.

Review of Saint Patrick: the man and his works (Thomas O'Loughlin), in Irish Theological Quarterly 65 (2000), pp 370-1.

Review of Patrick: the pilgrim apostle of Ireland (Máire B. de Paor), in Irish Theological Quarterly 65 (2000), pp 371-3.

Review of Saint Patrick AD 493-1993 (David Dumville et al.), in Irish Theological Quarterly 64 (1999), pp 92-4.

Review of Saint Patrick's world: the christian culture of Ireland's apostolic age (Liam de Paor), in Éigse 29 (1996), pp 214-20.

Review of Early Irish and Welsh kinship (T.M. Charles-Edwards), in English Historical Review 109 (1994), pp 654-6.

Review of reissues of Christianity in Celtic lands (Louis Gougaud) and Irish monasticism: origins and early development (John Ryan), in Irish Historical Studies 28 no. 112 (1993), pp 442-3.
Naisc sheachtracha
Regesta Imperii
Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland
Colmán Etchingham (d. 6 June 2023)
 Respected Wicklow medieval history lecturer dies in Greece

Tagairtí

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Catagóir:Scoláirí an Léinn Cheiltigh
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