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Proinsias Mac Cana
Born(1926-07-06)July 6, 1926
Belfast, Northern Ireland
DiedMay 21, 2004(2004-05-21) (aged 77)
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Academic work
DisciplineCeltic studies
InstitutionsUniversity College Dublin
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Proinsias Mac Cana (6 July 1926 – 21 May 2004) was an academic and Celtic scholar. He held professorships at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and University College Dublin.

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Proinsias Mac Cana

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Proinsias Mac Cana (6 July 1926 – 21 May 2004) was an academic and Celtic scholar. He held professorships at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies...

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Proinsias

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campaigner Proinsias Mac Cana (1926–2004), academic and Celtic scholar Proinsias Ó Doibhlin (1660–1724), Irish Franciscan friar, poet, and scribe Proinsias Ó Maonaigh...

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Macha

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is associated with the land, fertility, kingship, war and horses. Proinsias Mac Cana discusses three Machas: Macha wife of Nemed, Queen Macha wife of Cimbáeth...

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Sovereignty goddess

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Literature.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 42 (167): 321–36. Mac Cana, Proinsias. 1955, 1958–1959. “Aspects of the Theme of King and Goddess in Irish...

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Cigfa

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appears more prominently in the third. Describing the character, Proinsias Mac Cana writes: "Cigfa strikes one as a slight though effective vignette of...

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King Arthur

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Lambert, Pierre-Yves (eds.), Ildánach Ildírech. A Festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana, Andover: Celtic Studies Publications, pp. 1–14, ISBN 978-1-891271-01-4...

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Avalon

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Lambert, Pierre-Yves (eds.). Ildánach Ildírech: A Festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana. Andover: Celtic Studies Publications. pp. 1–14. ISBN 978-1-891271-01-4...

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Rhiannon

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appear as larger-than-life figures, yet never described as goddesses. Proinsias Mac Cana's position is that "[Rhiannon] reincarnates the goddess of sovereignty...

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The Voyage of Bran

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about deriving the Welsh Brân from the Irish voyager. He also names Proinsias Mac Cana and Glyn E. Jones among skeptics, and Rachel Bromwich as proponent...

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Esus

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Religion. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart. p.98. Cited here. MacKillop 2004, pp. 194–195. [1] Proinsias Mac Cana (1970). Celtic Mythology. London: Hamlyn Publishing...

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Royal Irish Academy

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Barry 1973–1976: David Greene 1976–1979: Frank Mitchell 1979–1982: Proinsias Mac Cana 1982–1985: William Arthur Watts 1985–1987: T. K. Whitaker 1987–1990:...

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Efnysien

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sacrifices himself for his comrades", while he is characterised by Proinsias Mac Cana as a force of "irrational malice and hate". Efnisien appeared prominently...

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Celtic studies

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Kelly Eleanor Knott (1886–1975) Alexander Macbain (1855–1907) Proinsias Mac Cana Fr. Allan MacDonald (1859-1905) Bernhard Maier (born 1963) Ranko Matasović...

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Airship of Clonmacnoise

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love of miracles, marvels, and inversions of reality. The Celticist Proinsias Mac Cana instanced other Irish stories which, like the airship legend, explore...

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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

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Binchy, Cecile O'Rahilly, R. I. Best, James Carney, Myles Dillon, Proinsias Mac Cana, David Greene, Brian Ó Cuív, Breandán Ó Buachalla, Roparz Hemon and...

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Derek Allen Prize

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(numismatics): Dr J. P. C. Kent 1997 (Celtic studies): Professor Proinsias Mac Cana 1998 (musicology): Professor Peter Walls 1999 (numismatics): Cécile...

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Ancient Celtic religion

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religion as "fertile chaos", borrowing the term from the Irish scholar Proinsias MacCana. Cunliffe went on to note that "there is more, varied, evidence for...

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Louis le Brocquy

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Image, 26 September – 29 November 1981. Texts by Kevin M. Cahill; Proinsias MacCana ‘The Cult of Heads’; Anne Crookshank ‘Louis le Brocquy’. ASIN: B000PT8ZJE...

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Celtic mythology

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updated and enlarged (1976) Mac Cana, Proinsias. Celtic Mythology. New York: Hamlyn, 1970. ISBN 0-600-00647-6 Mac Cana, Proinsias, The Learned Tales of Medieval...

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Michel Meslin

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L'Homme et le religieux Honoré Champion, 2010 Rencontres de religions Proinsias Mac Cana, Michel Meslin, Georges Dumézil - 1986 "Michel MESLIN est né en 1926...

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Helmut Birkhan

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1961 to 1962. At Wales, his teacher was the prominent Celtologist Proinsias Mac Cana. Since 1963 he lectured at the Institute for Germanic Studies at the...

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Kuno Meyer

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living man". In 2004, on the centenary of the publication of Ériu, Proinsias Mac Cana described Kuno Meyer as a "great" scholar, in "brilliant" partnership...

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Deaths in May 2004

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Jean-Pierre Blanc, 62, French film director and screenwriter, cancer. Proinsias Mac Cana, 77, Academic and Celtic scholar. June Cochran, 62, American model...

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Ronan of Locronan

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Britannia Monastica. 10: 9–19. Lapidge, Michael; Sharpe, Richard; Mac Cana, Proinsias (foreword), eds. (1985). A Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature...

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Comhar

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hUaithne, Seán Mac Réamoinn, Proinsias Mac Cana, Caoimhín Ó Góilidhe, Helen Beaumont, Mícheál Ó Cíosóig Riobard Mac Góráin, Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Mícheál...

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