Brian Merriman and The Midnight Court – reading list

This page contains a reading list of books, articles, theses, papers and other publications relevent to Brian Merriman or to Cúirt a’ Mheán Oíche.

The list was compiled by Liam P. Ó Murchú, to whom Cumann Merriman is duely grateful.

Commentaries

T. F. O’Rahilly
‘Léirmheas ar Ó Foghludha (1912)’
In Gadelica 1 (1912), 190 – 204
D. Corkery
The Hidden Ireland (1924, 1979)
Gill
Frank O’Connor
The Midnight Court: A Rhythmical Bacchanalia by Bryan Merriman
Preface (1945, 1989)
Fridberg
Cosslett Ó Cuinn
‘Merriman’s Court’
In The Pleasures of Gaelic Poetry (1982), 111 – 26
Seán Mac Réamoinn (ed.)
Alan Lane (Penguin Books Ltd.)
P. A. Breatnach
‘Irish Narrative Poetry 1200 AD
In Studia Hibernica 22 – 23 (1982 – 83), 7 – 20
Gearóid Ó Crualaoich
‘The Vision of liberation in Cúirt an Mheán Oíche
In Folia Gadelica (1983), ? – ??
P. de Brún, S. Ó Coileáin agus P. Ó Riain (edd.)
Cork University Press
Art Ó Beoláin
‘Brian Merriman’
In Merriman agus Filí Eile (1985), 7 – 23
By the same author
An Clóchomhar
Seán Ó Tuama
‘Cúirt An Mheán Oíche’
In Cúirt, Tuath agus Bruachbhaile: Aistí agus Dréachtaí Liteartha (1990), 7 – 37
An Clóchomhar
Alan Titley
‘An Breithiúnas ar Chúirt an Mheán Oíche
In Studia Hibernica 25 (1989 – 90)
G. C. Buttimer
‘Cogadh Sagsana Nuadh Sonn: Reporting the American Revolution’
In Studia Hibernica 28 (1994), 63 – 101
S. Heaney
‘Orpheus in Ireland: On Brian Merriman’s The Midnight Court
In The Redress of Poetry. The Oxford Lectures (1995), 38 – 62
By the same author
Faber and Faber
Séamas de Barra
‘An Chairt Bheathaisnéise ag Pilib Barún ar Bhrian ‘Merriman’ Mac Con Mara (1836)’
In Studia Hibernica 30 (1998 – 99), 155 – 66
Eoghan Ó hAnluain
Cuirfidh mé faghairt i bhfeidhm más cruaidh dom
In Saoi na hÉigse: Aistí in Ómós do Sheán Ó Tuama (2000), 153 – 67
P. Riggs, B. Ó Conchúir, S. Ó Coileáin (edd.)
An Clóchomhar
Liam P. Ó Murchú
‘Cúlra agus Múnla Liteartha do Chúirt Mherriman’
In idem (2000), 169 – 95
An Clóchomhar
Brian Ó Dálaigh
Poet of a Single Poem, Brian Merriman (c. 1749 – 1805)’
In County Clare Studies: Essays in Memory of Gerald O’Connell, Seán Ó Murchadha, Thomas Coffey and Pat Flynn (2000), 101 – 36
C. Ó Murchadha (ed.)
D. Kiberd
‘Brian Merriman’s Midnight Court’
In Irish Classics (2000), 182 – 202
Granta Books
Liam P. Ó Murchú
Merriman: I bhFábhar Béithe
(2005)
An Clóchomhar

Editions

L. Chr. Stern
Brian Merriman’s Cúirt An Mheadhóin Oidhche
In Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie V (1905), 193 – 415
Risteárd Ó Foghludha
.i. Fiachra Éilgeach
Cúirt An Mheadhon Oidhche
(1912)
Hodges Figgis
Risteárd Ó Foghludha
Cúirt An Mheadhón Oidhche
(1949)
Hodges Figgis
Daithí Ó hUaithne
Cúirt An Mheán Oíche
(1968)
Dolmen
Liam P. Ó Murchú
Cúirt An Mheon-Oíche
(1982)
An Clóchomhar

Entries

The Encyclopaedia of Ireland
(2003)
Gill Macmillan
New Dictionary of National Biography
(2004)
Oxford University Press
Beathaisnéis
D. Breathnach agus M. Ní Mhurchú (edd.)
(Imleabhar ?, ??)

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