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Dr Pamela O’Neill

BA (Macquarie); MA with Merit; MJur; PhD; FSA Scot
Honorary Fellow, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
Adjunct Lecturer, John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University of New South Wales
Series Editor, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies

Dr Pamela O

Research Interests

Early medieval landscape archaeology, material culture, ecclesiastical and legal history in Scotland and Ireland.

The contribution of Irish migrants to Australian history and culture.

Legal systems in social and historical context.

Publications

  • 2012 (ed, with A Ahlqvist) Australian Celtic Journal 10, 171 pp.
  • 2011a (ed, with A Ahlqvist) Language and Power in the Celtic World: Papers from the Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies (Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 10: Sydney, University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation): 424pp
  • 2011b ‘Unravelling time in early Irish law’, in Language and Power in the Celtic World ed A Ahlqvist and P O’Neill (as above): 323–350
  • 2010a (ed) Celts in Legend and Reality: Papers from the Sixth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies (Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 9: Sydney, University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation): 483pp
  • 2010b (ed, with A Ahlqvist) Australian Celtic Journal 9: ix + 121pp
  • 2010c ‘Peregrinatio: punishment and exile in the early Irish church’, in Australian Celtic Journal 9: 37–48
  • 2009 (ed, with V Fisher), Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 5: 228pp
  • 2008a ‘Law and history: why isn’t rape shield legislation working?’, in Australia and New Zealand Law and History E-journal http://www.anzlhsejournal.auckland.ac.nz/pdfs_2008/Pamela_O_Neill.pdf
  • 2008b ‘St Vigeans No 1 and No 1a: a reconsideration’, in Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 4: 159–173
  • 2008c ‘When onomastics met archaeology: a tale of two Hinbas’ in Scottish Historical Review 87/1: 26–41
  • 2007a ‘Michael Davitt and John Davitt Jageurs’ in Australasian Journal of Irish Studies 6
  • 2007b ‘Six degrees of whiteness: Finbarr, Finnian, Finnian, Ninian, Candida Casa and Hwiterne’, in Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 3: 259–267
  • 2007c ‘A sense of place: monastic scenes in Irish-Australian funerary monuments’ in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: history, politics and culture, ed L M Geary and A McCarthy (Irish Academic Press, 2007): 119–134
  • 2007d ‘Landmarks of another kind: carved stones, setting adrift and early Irish law’ in Australia and New Zealand Law and History E-journal http://www.anzlhsejournal.auckland.ac.nz/pdfs_2006/Paper_8_O%27Neill.pdf
  • 2006 ‘Reading cross-marked stones in Scottish Dalriada’ in [[i||Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association] 2: 195–208
  • 2005a A pillar curiously engraven; with some inscription upon it’: what is the Ruthwell Cross? (British Archaeological Reports British Series 397: Oxford, Archaeopress)
  • 2005b (ed), Exile and Homecoming: Papers from the Fifth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies (Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 8: Sydney, University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation)
  • 2005c ‘Boundaries, routes and sculptured stones in early medieval Scotland’ in Exile and Homecoming, ed P O’Neill (as above): 276–288
  • 2005d ‘The political and ecclesiastical extent of Scottish Dalriada’ in Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 1: 119–132
  • 2005e ‘Historical reconstruction or imaginative recreation? The nineteenth-century approach to the early medieval’ in antiTHESIS forum 3 http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/66374/20070301-0000/www.english.unimelb.edu.au/antithesis/new2005/forum-3/03-PamelaONeill....
  • 2004a (ed), Between Intrusions: Britain and Ireland between the Romans and the Normans (Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 7: Sydney, University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation)
  • 2004b ‘Dimensions and distribution: aspects of Pictish sculpture’ in Between Intrusions, ed P O’Neill (as above): 39–49
  • 2003a (ed), Nation and Federation in the Celtic World: Papers from the Fourth Australian Conference of Celtic Studies (Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 6: Sydney, University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation)
  • 2003b ‘National religions and the survival of stone sculpture: some preliminary observations’ in Nation and Federation in the Celtic World, ed P O’Neill (as above): 203–218
  • 2000a (ed, with J M Wooding), Literature and Politics in the Celtic World: Papers from the Third Australian Conference of Celtic Studies (Sydney Series in Celtic Studies 4: Sydney, University of Sydney Celtic Studies Foundation)
  • 2000b ‘The politics of literature about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne’ in Literature and Politics in the Celtic World, ed P O’Neill & J M Wooding (as above): 207–217