Aidan MacDonald’s Publications
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Aidan MacDonald (1941–2013)
The Aidan MacDonal Digital Archive, hosted by CORA, UCC’s Open Access Repository, can be accessed here: https://hdl.handle.net/10468/14891
Over the course of his career, Aidan D.S. MacDonald (1941–2013) made important contributions to early medieval Scottish and Irish ecclesiastical archaeology, toponymy, and history. His publications have now been digitised and made available via CORA as The Aidan MacDonald Collection.
The digital collection comprises more than thirty publications on surveys and excavations, studies of place-name elements, and studies demonstrating the importance of textual sources to an understanding of the material environment of Insular monasticism. There are several papers about Iona as represented in the late seventh century Vita Columbae by Adomnán, including an influential study, published in 2001, about the layout of the site. For the first time, the collection also makes available a substantial monograph, completed in 2013, about the later history of the monastery, entitled Iona and the Shrine of Columba, c. 800-1200.
In the words of the distinguished early medievalist and place-names expert, Simon Taylor, ‘Aidan MacDonald is the kind of scholar whose work will increase, rather than decrease in relevance and value’ (Scottish Place-Name News 35, 11). This collection will make it easier for researchers to benefit from this rich scholarly legacy.
Sincere thanks to Professor Máire Herbert, Professor Terence O’Reilly, and Tom O’Reilly of ORP Cambridge for collaborating on this project, and to Siobhan Bowman of the Boole Library who was instrumental in putting the collection together.
Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin, Department of Archaeology, UCC
Aidan MacDonald’s Publications
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