Togail Troí: Greek Mythology in Medieval Irish

Building on a long-term interest in the comparative study of Classical and medieval literatures and languages, Michael Clarke is working on Togail Troí, the Middle Irish narrative of the Trojan War. He developed this focus in 2007 as a visiting Fellow at the School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, and he is now mainly concerned with the unpublished Third Recension of Togail Troí, which dates from the late medieval period but incorporates much older materials. He is working on an edition and translation of the text based on two closely-related manuscripts, RIA MS D.iv.2 and King’s Inns Irish MS 12, with additional materials from the Book of Ballymote. This in turn forms part of a broader study of the reception and recreation of Late Antique myth as pseudohistory in the Insular vernaculars.

Articles published:

• (forthcoming), ’Cross-cultural translation in medieval English and Irish’, in M. Clarke and K. Shields (eds.), Translating Emotion (Peter Lang Publications).
• (2009) ’An Irish Achilles and a Greek Cú Chulainn’, in R. Ó hUiginn and B. Ó Catháin, eds., Ulidia II: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle, 271–84 (Dublin)
• (2006) ’Achilles, Byrhtnoth, Cú Chulainn: from Homer to the medieval North’, in M. Clarke, B. Currie and R.O.A.M. Lyne (eds.), Epic Interactions, 243–72 (Oxford)

The siege of Troy, from a fourteenth-century manuscript of Benoit de Sainte-More.

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