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British Academy/Royal Irish Academy Joint Symposium

Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings

'Pimples on the face of the earth': negative representations of the Irish in the Easter controversy

Damian Bracken (UCC)

This paper considers characterisations of the Irish as heretics in the Anglo-Saxon sources in the context of early patristic and historical literature.