Bibliography

Colmán
Etchingham
d. 2023

21 publications between 1991 and 2017 indexed
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Works authored

Etchingham, Colmán, The Irish ‘monastic town’: is this a valid concept?, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lectures, 8, Cambridge: ASNC, 2009.
Etchingham, Colmán, Church organisation in Ireland A.D. 650 to 1000, Maynooth: Laigin Publications, 1999.  
Reprinted in 2002.
Reprinted in 2002.
Etchingham, Colmán, Viking raids on Irish church settlements in the ninth century: a reconsideration of the annals, Maynooth Monographs, Series Minor, 1, Maynooth: St Patrick's College, Maynooth Department of Old and Middle Irish, 1996.


Contributions to journals

Etchingham, Colmán, “The ‘reform’ of the Irish church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries [Review article]”, Studia Hibernica 37 (2011): 215–238.
Etchingham, Colmán, “The battle of Cenn Fúait, 917: location and military significance”, Peritia 21 (2010): 208–232.
Etchingham, Colmán, and Catherine Swift, “English and Pictish terms for brooch in an 8th-century Irish law-text”, Medieval Archaeology 48 (2004): 31–49.
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Etchingham, Colmán, “North Wales, Ireland and the Isles: the Insular Viking zone”, Peritia 15 (2001): 145–187.  
abstract:
This paper deals with the historical evidence for political ties between north Wales, Ireland (especially Dublin) and the Scottish Isles in the pre-twelfth century Viking Age. Selected aspects of the relationship in the eleventh century, already illuminated in various degrees by recent scholarship, are reviewed. The position before the eleventh century, which has received comparatively less attention of late, is here the subject of detailed study.
abstract:
This paper deals with the historical evidence for political ties between north Wales, Ireland (especially Dublin) and the Scottish Isles in the pre-twelfth century Viking Age. Selected aspects of the relationship in the eleventh century, already illuminated in various degrees by recent scholarship, are reviewed. The position before the eleventh century, which has received comparatively less attention of late, is here the subject of detailed study.
Etchingham, Colmán, and Catherine Swift, “Early Irish church organisation: the case of Drumlease and the Book of Armagh”, Breifne: Journal of Cumann Seanchas Bhreifne 9:37 (2001): 285–312.  
abstract:

Were we dependent on the pre-Norman Irish annals alone, we should know nothing of the early history of the church of Drumlease, near Dromahair, Co. Leitrim. Like many of the other churches of Connacht, Drumlease suffers from the comparative neglect of the western province's early ecclesiastical history on the part of the surviving collections of annals. The ‘Patrician’ texts in the Book of Armagh, however, provide a snap-shot of Drumlease in the later seventh and eighth century, indicating that it was a church of considerable significance in north Connacht at that time. This study comprises two parts. The first, by Colmán Etchingham, introduces the references to Drumlease in the Book of Armagh and examines in detail the relevant passages of the eighth-century text known as the Additamenta. The second part, by Catherine Swift, places Tírechán's reference to Drumlease in the broader context of that seventh-century clergyman's portrayal of the Patrician churches of Connacht in general.

(source: Introduction)
abstract:

Were we dependent on the pre-Norman Irish annals alone, we should know nothing of the early history of the church of Drumlease, near Dromahair, Co. Leitrim. Like many of the other churches of Connacht, Drumlease suffers from the comparative neglect of the western province's early ecclesiastical history on the part of the surviving collections of annals. The ‘Patrician’ texts in the Book of Armagh, however, provide a snap-shot of Drumlease in the later seventh and eighth century, indicating that it was a church of considerable significance in north Connacht at that time. This study comprises two parts. The first, by Colmán Etchingham, introduces the references to Drumlease in the Book of Armagh and examines in detail the relevant passages of the eighth-century text known as the Additamenta. The second part, by Catherine Swift, places Tírechán's reference to Drumlease in the broader context of that seventh-century clergyman's portrayal of the Patrician churches of Connacht in general.

(source: Introduction)
Etchingham, Colmán, “The implications of paruchia”, Ériu 44 (1993): 139–162.
Etchingham, Colmán, “The early Irish Church: some observations on pastoral care and dues”, Ériu 42 (1991): 99–118.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Etchingham, Colmán, “Clontarf 1014: military significance, external dimension and outcome”, in: Seán Duffy (ed.), Medieval Dublin XVI: proceedings of Clontarf 1014–2014: national conference marking the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. 122–143.
Etchingham, Colmán, “Conversion in Ireland”, in: Roy Flechner, and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (eds), The introduction of Christianity into the early medieval Insular world: converting the Isles I, 19, Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. 181–207.
Etchingham, Colmán, “Names for the Vikings in Irish annals”, in: Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, and Timothy Bolton (eds), Celtic-Norse relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200, 65, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. 23–38.
Etchingham, Colmán, “Uita Findani: a Hiberno-German window on the early Viking Age”, in: Rudolf Simek, and Asya Ivanova (eds), Between the islands – and the continent: papers on Hiberno-Scandinavian-continental relations in the Early Middle Ages, 21, Vienna: Fassbaender, 2013. 55–82.
Etchingham, Colmán, “The organization and function of an early Irish church settlement: what was Glendalough?”, in: Charles Doherty, Linda Doran, and Mary Kelly (eds), Glendalough: City of God, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 22–53.
Etchingham, Colmán, “The Viking impact on Glendalough”, in: Charles Doherty, Linda Doran, and Mary Kelly (eds), Glendalough: City of God, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 211–222.
Etchingham, Colmán, “The location of historical Laithlinn / Lochla(i)nn: Scotland or Scandinavia?”, in: Mícheál Ó Flaithearta (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, Studia Celtica Upsaliensia, Uppsala: University of Uppsala, 2007. 11–31.
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Etchingham, Colmán, “Viking-age Gwynedd and Ireland: political relations”, in: Karen Jankulak, and Jonathan M. Wooding (eds), Ireland and Wales in the Middle Ages, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 149–167.
Etchingham, Colmán, “Pastoral provision in the first millennium: a two-tier service?”, in: Elizabeth FitzPatrick, and Raymond Gillespie (eds), The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland: community, territory and building, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 79–90.
Etchingham, Colmán, “Early medieval Irish history”, in: Kim R. McCone, and Katharine Simms (eds), Progress in medieval Irish studies, Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, St. Patrick's College, 1996. 123–153.
Etchingham, Colmán, “Evidence of Scandinavian settlement in Wicklow”, in: Ken Hannigan, and William Nolan (eds), Wicklow, history & society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, 7, Dublin: Geography Publications, 1994. 113–138.

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