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Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig

verse beg. A Oisín, as fada do shúan

• Early Modern Irish
• verse
• Classical Irish poetry, Duanaire Finn, Finn Cycle, Dialogue

Title

Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig

The poem is sometimes known as Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig (‘The dialogue between Oisín and Patrick’). This title will be used here, however, to refer to a series of poems, of which the present poem is the first one.

Initial words (verse)

• A Oisín, as fada do shúan

“Oisín, your slumber is long”

Scope

part of compilation • multiple versions

Context(s)

The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

• Duanaire Finn
• Poem LVII: short version (39 qq)

• Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig
• Expanded version, which is the first in the sequence of lays and the poem to provide the model for this collection. It numbers 167 stanzas in one manuscript version.

Author

Anonymous

Manuscripts

1. Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 20 (b) = Duanaire Finn [s. xvii¹]
   ff. 74v–75v
    
   Earliest copy
2. Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Ir 10 [c. 1800]

Language

• Early Modern Irish
• late Early Modern Irish (Murphy)

Date

unlikely to be earlier than the 16th century (Murphy)

Form

verse (primary)

Number of stanzas

39 or 167

Classification

Classical Irish poetry Duanaire Finn Finn Cycle

 Dialogue

Subject tags

Oisín mac FinnOisín mac Finn, Oisín (ass. time-frame: Category:Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt, Saint Patrick) – A fían-warrior, son of Finn, in the Finn Cycle of medieval Irish literature
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• Sources

Primary sources

Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in the entry for the relevant manuscript.

Murphy, Gerard [ed.], Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 2: Irish text, with translation into English, Irish Texts Society 28, London: Irish Texts Society, 1933. CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link> 204–215 Poem LVII. Edition and translation direct link

Secondary sources

Murphy, Gerard, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 3: Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary, Irish Texts Society 43, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953. Internet Archive: <link> 124–134

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Murphy, Gerard, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 3: Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary, Irish Texts Society 43, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953. Internet Archive: <link>

Murphy, Gerard [ed.], Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 2: Irish text, with translation into English, Irish Texts Society 28, London: Irish Texts Society, 1933. CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

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Dennis Groenewegen

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