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A Chinn Choradh, caidhi Brian
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| Initial words
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‘A Chinn Choradh, caidhi Brian?’ » (Oh Kincora, where is Brian?)
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Mac Líacc, poet to Brian Bóruma
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| Description
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Elegiac poem lamenting the desolation of Kincora (Co. Clare), Brian Bóruma's seat, after the Battle of Clontarf.
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Notes
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Editions and translations
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Hardiman, James (ed.), and John D'Alton (tr.), “Cionn-Chorraidh: Kincora, or Mac Liag’s lament”, in: Hardiman, James, Irish minstrelsy, or bardic remains of Ireland: with English poetical translations, 2 vols, London, 1831. Vol. 2: 196—201, 360—367.  Internet Archive: text notes
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Mangan, James Clarence (tr.), “Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora”, Irish Penny Journal 28 (1841): 220—221. Internet Archive: 1, 2
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Secondary sources
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Goedheer, A. J., Irish and Norse traditions about the battle of Clontarf, Nederlandsche bijdragen op het gebied van Germaansche philologie en linguistiek 9, Haarlem: Tjeenk Willink, 1938. 62—63.
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Ó Lochlainn, Colm (ed.), “Poets on the battle of Clontarf [part 2]”, Éigse 4:1 (1945): 33—47. 37.
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