Dr Ann Buckley

My research interests include the patronage, production and use of liturgical manuscripts in medieval Ireland; the liturgical cults of Irish saints in Ireland, Britain and Europe; song and society in medieval Europe.

I am editor of a forthcoming book on the liturgical veneration of Irish saints in medieval Europe (Brepols, 2016); an illustrated catalogue of liturgical manuscripts made or used in Ireland between c. 1050 and c. 1500 is currently in preparation (with Laura Cleaver). As well as publishing my research in written form, I also collaborate with musicians in producing recordings and public performances, focusing in particular on the surviving corpus of liturgical offices for Irish saints.

Books

• ‘Letetur Hibernia’: Music, Liturgy and Saints of the Medieval Irish Church and its European Cultural Legacy, ed. Ann Buckley (Turnhout: Brepols: forthcoming 2016).
• ‘Nobilitate vigens Furseus’. The Medieval Office of St Fursey: Lecture, with a critical edition of the music and text of the Office, and English translation. Fursey Occasional Papers (Fursey Pilgrims: Norwich, 2014).
• Music, Dance and Society: Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Memory of Ingrid G. Brainard, ed. Ann Buckley and Cynthia Cyrus. Medieval Institute Publications, (Western Michigan University: Kalamazoo 2011).
• Études de langue et de littérature romanes offertes à Peter T. Ricketts à l’occasion de son 70ème anniversaire, ed. Dominique Billy and Ann Buckley (Brepols: Turnhout 2005).
• Hearing the Past: Essays in Historical Ethnomusicology and the Archaeology of Sound, ed. Ann Buckley. E.R.A.U.L. 86. Études et Recherches Archéologiques de l’Université de Liège (Liège 2000).

Articles

• ‘The Cambridge Songs as Anthology of Musical Knowledge’, in Aspects of Knowledge: Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages, edd. Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis (Manchester University Press: in press).
• ‘From Hymn to Historia: the veneration of local saints in the medieval Irish church’, in ‘Letetur Hibernia’: Music, Liturgy and Saints of the Medieval Irish Church and its European Cultural Legacy, ed. with an Introduction by Ann Buckley (Brepols: Turnhout – forthcoming 2016).
• ‘Wandering Scholars and Saintly Cults: the liturgical legacy’ — in homage to Helen Waddell’, in Helen Waddell Reassessed: New Readings, ed. Jennifer Fitzgerald (Peter Lang: Bern, 2014), pp. 63–80.
• ‘The medieval Office of St Brigit’, in Treasures of Irish Christianity, 2, ed. Brendan Leahy and Salvador Ryan (Veritas: Dublin 2013), pp.  81–84.
• Contributor of various entries on medieval Ireland, liturgical manuscripts, musical instruments, iconography, to the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, gen. eds Barra Boydell and Harry White (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), and on Irish hymns to The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, gen. eds Jeremy Dibble and Emma Hornby (Canterbury: Canterbury Press, 2013).
• ‘Between Hagiography and Liturgy: fragmentary offices for Irish saints’, in A Carnival of Learning: Essays to honour George Cunningham and his 50 conferences on medieval Ireland in the Cistercian Abbey of Mount St Joseph, Roscrea, 1987–2012, ed. Peter Harbison and Valerie Hall (Cistercian Press: Roscrea 2012), pp. 41–52.
• ‘Abelard’s Planctus virginum Israel super filia Iepte Galadite and Li lais des puceles’, in Études de langue et de littérature romanes offertes à Peter T. Ricketts à l’occasion de son 70ème anniversaire, ed. Dominique Billy and Ann Buckley (Brepols: Turnhout 2005), pp. 545–570.
• ‘Music in Ireland to c.1500’, in A New History of Ireland, I: Prehistoric and Early Ireland, ed. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005), pp. 744–813.
•  ‘Representations of Musicians in medieval Christian Iconography of Ireland and Scotland as local cultural Expression’, in Art and Music in the Early Modern Period. Essays in honor of Franca Trinchieri Camiz, ed. Katherine A. McIver (Ashgate: Aldershot 2003), pp. 217–231

Teaching

I contribute to the modules, ‘Sources’ and ‘Saints and Sanctity in Medieval Europe’ for the M.Phil. in Medieval History; and I teach the modules on ‘Medieval Song’ and ‘Music in Medieval Ireland’ for the M.Phil. in Medieval Language, Literature and Culture (SLLCS).

Contact

buckleai@tcd.ie
Tel. 6289997
Mob. 087 2414121