Gaelic lays

Sharon Arbuthnott & Geraldine Parsons (eds), The Gaelic Finn Tradition, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2012 (13 essays by various contributors, mostly on early manuscript readings and themes rather than lays or ballads)

Rolf Baumgarten, ‘Placenames, etymology and the structure of Fianaigecht’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 5 4-5, 1986-7

Breandán Breathnach, Folk Music and Dances of Ireland 1971, Mercier Press 1986 reprint, p.25-27

George Broderick, ‘Fin as Oshin’, Celtica 1, 1990
(an edition of the only surviving Manx Fenian lay text)

Alan Bruford, ‘Oral and literary Fenian tales’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 54-5, 1986-7

J.F. Campbell, Leabhar na Feinne, 1872

John Gregorson Campbell, The Fians; or stories, poems and traditions of Fionn and his warrior band, Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition Argyllshire Series no. IV, 1891

Francis Collinson, The Traditional and National Music of Scotland, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1966, p.35-50, includes texts and scores.

Ann Dooley & Harry Roe (trans), Tales of the Elders of Ireland, Oxford 1999

Linda Gowans, Am Bròn Binn: An Arthurian Ballad in Scottish Gaelic, 1992
available from the Emporium

Andreas Hirt, Narrative Song Rythym in the Lays of Fionn mac Cumhaill: Performance Practices and Insights into Medieval Gaelic Heroic Song. MA Thesis, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2008 (unpublished)

Proinsias Mac Cana, ‘Fianaigecht in the pre-Norman period’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 54-5, 1986-7

Terence P. McCaughey, The Performing of Dán, Eriu XXXV, 1984

John Mac Innes, ‘Twentirth century recordings of Scottish Gaelic herioc ballads’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 54-5, 1986-7

Donald Meek, ‘Development and degeneration in Gaelic ballad texts’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 54-5, 1986-7

Donald Meek, ‘The Death of Diarmaid in Scottish and Irish tradition’, Celtica 21, 1990

Donald Meek, ‘The Gaelic ballads of Scotland’, in Howard Gaskill (ed), Ossian Revisited, 1991

Kuno Meyer, Fíanaigecht Dublin, 1910

Amy Murray, Father Allan's Island, 1936, p.100-1

Joseph Falaky Nagy, ‘Fenian heroes and their rites of passage’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 54-5, 1986-7

Joseph Falaky Nagy, ‘Fenian female food and other health and beauty secrets’, Bile ós Chrannaibh ed. Wilson McLeod, Abigail Burnyeat, etc., Clann Tuirc, 2010

Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, ‘The development of the debate between Pádraig and Oisíin’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 54-5, 1986-7

Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, ‘Magic attributes of the hero in Fenian lore’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 54-5, 1986-7

John Purser, Scotland's Music, Mainstream 1992, p.72-4

Neil Ross, Heroic Poetry from the Book of the Dean of Lismore, Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 1939

Hugh Shields, Scéalamhráin Cheilteacha, An Clóchomhar Tta, Baile Átha Cliath, 1985

Hugh Shields, ‘Lay&rsquo, in Fintan Vallely (ed), The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Cork University Press,1999, p.211-2

Derick Thomspson, ‘MacPherson's Ossian: ballads to epics’, Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore Society of Ireland vol. 54-5, 1986-7

Frances Tolmie, A. G. Gilchrist, Lucy E. Broadwood, George Henderson and J. A. Fuller-Maitland, ‘Ancient Heroic Lays’, Journal of the Folk-Song Society Vol. 4, No. 16, December 1911, pp. 245-254