Author Description

The scholars who have written in this collection explore Brian Merriman's comic masterpiece, Cúirt an Mheón-OÃche, in terms of its thematic concern with power, freedom and control, and discuss its court setting in the context of real and imagined judiciaries. Contents: Patrick Crotty (U Aberdeen), Brian Merriman and Robert Burns; Louis Cullen (TCD), Merriman in a world of schoolmasters; James Kelly (St Patrick's, DCU), Political power in Merriman's Ireland; Vincent Morley (UCD), Comhthéacs polaitiúil Chúirt an Mheón-OÃche; Máire Nà Annracháin (NUIM), Saoirse agus fÃorthacht i gCúirt an Mheón-OÃche; MáirÃn Nà Dhonnchadha (NUIG), A bhfuil de chúirteanna i gCúirt an Mheón-OÃche; Breandán Ó Conchúir (UCC), MÃcheál Ó Longáin, file agus cara na saoirse; Gearóid Ó Crualaoich (UCC), Le ciumhais na habhann; Proinsias Ó Drisceoil (Kilkenny), Eagrán Sheáin Uà Dhálaigh de Chúirt an Mheón-OÃche; Ciarán Ó Murchadha (NUIG), Clare in the late 18th century; Liam P. Ó Murchú (UCC), The MS tradition of Cúirt an Mheón- OÃche; MáirtÃn Ó Murchú(DIAS), Brian Merriman agus an tsochaà dár di é; Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUIG), An eaglais Chaitliceach agus an cultúr i ré Mherriman; Alan Titley (UCC), The summons of The Midnight Court; Robert Welch (UU), Merriman's translators.