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The Brigid and Mary stories in Gaelic Culture: 'and anyway she was always going about with the Mother of God'

dc.contributor.author O'Connell, Mary Seaborne en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:27:22Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:27:22Z
dc.date.issued 2007 en_US
dc.description.abstract In the oral traditions of both Gaelic Ireland and Scotland, stories abound in which Mary, the Mother of God is assisted and supported by the dynamic, resourceful and miracle working Brigid. In most of these stories, the conflation of space and time is of little import. On a deep level these stories reflect and manifest an integration and reconciliation of potentially conflicting elements, a meeting place of Celt and Christian. Moreover they provided women with two powerful and divine feminine figures to apply to for protection, support and sympathy. With the decline of spoken Irish (and Scots Gaelic) however, the maternal spiritual universe of Ireland shrank under rising ideologies of rationality, and new constructions of femininity. An English speaking and increasingly centralised Catholicism reduced the Celtic divine feminine to a more minor role; one further elided in the diasporic communities who had lost both language and landscape. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-74210-189-7 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/52853
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other Celtic en_US
dc.subject.other Spirituality en_US
dc.subject.other Gender en_US
dc.subject.other Irish language and culture en_US
dc.subject.other Divine Feminine en_US
dc.subject.other St Brigid en_US
dc.subject.other History of Culture en_US
dc.title The Brigid and Mary stories in Gaelic Culture: 'and anyway she was always going about with the Mother of God' en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
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unsw.description.notePublic Paper presented at the 6th Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, July 2007. More information about the research and writer at maryoconnell.com.au en_US
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/72
unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Other UNSW
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceLocation Sydney, Australia en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceName Celts in Legend and Reality - Sixth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceProceedingsTitle Celts in Legend and Reality: Papers from the Sixth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, July 2007. Ed. Pamela O'Neill en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceYear 2010 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 199-220 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation O'Connell, Mary Seaborne, UNSW en_US
unsw.subject.fieldofresearchcode 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality en_US
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