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Banshenchas
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Banshenchas
‘Lore of women’
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1. The metrical Banshenchas, composed by Gilla Mo-Dutu Ó Caiside (1147)
2. The prose Banshenchas
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Book of Uí Maine [1394]
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2542
- Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.11
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (H 3. 17) [s. xvi]
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Middle Irish
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Notes
Sources
Editions and translations
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Dobbs, Margaret E. (ed. and tr.), “The Ban-shenchus [part 1]”, Revue Celtique 47 (1930): 283—339.
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Dobbs, Margaret E. (ed. and tr.), “The Ban-shenchus [part 2]”, Revue Celtique 48 (1931): 163—234.
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Dobbs, Margaret E. (ed. and tr.), “The Ban-shenchus [part 3]”, Revue Celtique 49 (1932): 437—489.
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Secondary sources
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Connon, Anne, “The Banshenchas and the Uí Néill queens of Tara”, in: Smyth, Alfred P. (ed.), Seanchas. Studies in early and medieval Irish archaeology, history and literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 98—108.
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Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann, “The Banshenchas revisited”, in: O'Dowd, Mary, and Sabine Wichert (eds.), Chattel, servant or citizen: women’s status in church, state and society, Historical Studies 19, Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, 1995. 70—81.
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Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann, “The manuscript tradition of the Banshenchas”, Ériu 33 (1982): 109—135.
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Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann, “A possible source for Keating's Forus feasa ar Éirinn”, Éigse 19:1 (1982): 61—81.
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