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He was born in Portlaoise, County Laois and was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Synge Street, Dublin.
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The text and translation of early Irish poems, both secular and religious. ""These translations...from the point of view of a telling economy and a regard for the original image, its absolute rightness, are far and away superior to anything else I have read"" - Cork Examiner. ""Carney has thrown light where there were shadows before, and for this he is, as scholar and poet, due our gratitude"" - Dublin Magazine. Carney's noted lecture 'The Irish Bardic Poet', is also included.
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Physical description: 193 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography. Subject: Patrick Saint 373?-463?. Patrick Saint, apostle of Ireland - Studies. Christian saints - Ireland - Biography. Other names: Carney, James. PATRICK, Saint, Apostle of Ireland. Other names: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Genre: Illustrated.
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VOLUME I ONLY Hardiman, James, 1782-1855. Irish minstrelsy, or, Bardic remains of Ireland; with English poetical translations. Collected and edited, with notes and illustrations by James Hardiman, M. R. I. A. Two volumes. London: Joseph Robins, 1831, lxxx, 376p; 436p, errata page, illustrations. Translated by Thomas Furlong, Henry Grattan Curran and others./ Poems in Irish and English. ****VOLUME I ONLY******* v.1. Introduction. Memoir of Carolan. Memoir of Thomas Furlong. Remains of Carolan. Addenda. Sentimental songs -- v.2. Jacobite relics. Odes, elegies, etc. Ex-library with usual library treatments, stamps, perforated stamps, and the like. Rebound in a very sturdy buckram The page block is in good, clean, tight condition. Texts are in Gaelic and English.
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He was born in Portlaoise, County Laois and was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Synge Street, Dublin.
He took his degree at University College Dublin in 1935, before going to Bonn University to study under Rudolf Thurneysen. On returning to Dublin, Carney worked under Osborn Bergin, Gerard Murphy, Richard Irvine Best and T. F. O"Rahilly. He pioneered an approach to early Irish texts which focused on their literary merit and their affinities with the other literatures of the medieval world.
His Studies in Irish Literature and History which appeared in 1956 challenged the "nativist" approach to Irish literature which had dominated the scholarship of the previous decades.
His work on Saint Patrick also proved controversial. He was attached to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies from its foundation by Éamon de Valera in 1940 and became Professor of Irish there.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by that institution in 1975. The couple had a son, Paul, now a judge in the Irish High Court.
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(Studies in Irish Literature and History (Irish literature...)
(The text and translation of early Irish poems, both secul...)
(VOLUME I ONLY Hardiman, James, 1782-1855. Irish minstrels...)
(Physical description: 193 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Notes: Inc...)