The Learned Tales of Medieval Ireland

Contents: The Irish Storyteller - The Taxonomy of Oral Tradition - The Irish Tale-Lists - The Structure and Evolution of the Tale-Lists. The Irish "tale-lists" present and compare the two major medieval lists of tales found in manuscript sources. Includes three Appendices; Bibliographical References; Index of Titles; General Index. Celtic scholar Proinsias Mac Cana (birth name: Francis McCann) was born in Belfast in 1926, and died in Dublin in 2004. He served as President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1979 to 1982, and received honorary degrees from universities including Dublin, Ulster, and Wales. He taught at Queen's University of Belfast (1951-54); University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1955-57); Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1961-63); and University College Dublin (1963-71). He authored numerous books on Celtic mythology and other Celtic studies.