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Félire Óengusso‘The martyrology of Óengus’

Óengus of Tallaght

• Old Irish
• verse
• Texts associated with the Céli Dé

Author

Óengus of TallaghtÓengus of Tallaght (fl. early part of the 9th century) – author of Félire Óengusso
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Manuscripts

Per Westley Follett, Céli Dé in Ireland (2006): 221.

• LB = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (Hodges & Smith 224, 1230) = Leabhar Breac [s. xvⁱⁿ]
  pp. 75–106
• P = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 3 (1242) [s. xv-xvi (?)]
  ff. 1r–12v
• L = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 59–72 and ff. 123–146 = part of the Book of the White Earl [c. s. xv¹]
  ff. 59r–72r
• R² = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 II, ff. 53–75 [c. 1500]
  ff. 53v–64r
   
  Incomplete.
• B = Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5100-5104 (507) [1630]
  ff. 68r–119v
• R¹ = Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 505 = Codex Insulensis (MS R₂ or I) [s. xiv/xv]
  ff. 211r–220r
• F = Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 7 [s. xv]
• Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 10 2, pp. 19-50 [s. xvi]
  pp. 20–45
   
  Not used by Stokes
• E = London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 [c. 1564]
  ff. 88–93
• H = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 19, pp. 565–628 [s. xvi (?)]
  pp. 616b–622b
   
  A glossary to the Félire.

Language

• Old Irish
• Old Irish, excluding later additions

Form

verse (primary)

Textual relationships

• Related:
• Félire Óengusso/Preface
• O’Clery’s glossary

Classification

Texts associated with the Céli Dé

Milieu

Céli Dé

Contents

Preface (Remfhocul) » entry

Description: A Middle Irish preface added to the text of Félire Óengusso.

^[1] Invocation » entry

^[2] Prologue » entry

Summary:
First prologue (prolach)

^[3] January » entry

^[4] February

^[5] March

^[6] April

^[7] May

^[8] June

^[9] July

^[10] August

^[11] September

^[12] October

^[13] November

^[14] December

^[15] Epilogue

• 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.

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, The martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Henry Bradshaw Society 29, London: Harrison, 1905. CELT – edition (prefaces, prologue, main text and epilogue): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>

Secondary sources

Breatnach, Liam, “Varia: 1. An Old Irish gloss on Cáin lánamna. 2. An instance of do-maisi in the Irish Gospel of Thomas. 3. An OIr attestation of suacht, in Félire Óengusso”, Ériu 57 (2007): 155–163.

Dumville, David N., “Félire Óengusso. Problems of dating a monument of Old Irish”, Éigse 33 (2002): 19–48.

Follett, Westley, Céli Dé in Ireland: monastic writing and identity in the early Middle Ages, Studies in Celtic History 23, Woodbridge, 2006.

Hennig, John, “The notes on non-Irish saints in the manuscripts of Félire Óengusso”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 75 C (1975): 119–159.

Hennig, John, “Studies in the Latin texts of the Martyrology of Tallaght, of Félire Oengusso and Félire húi Gormáin”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 69 C:4 (1970): 45–112.

Hennig, John, “The Félire Oengusso and the Martyrologium Wandalberti”, Medieval Studies 17 (1955): 227–233.

Schneiders, Marc, “‘Pagan past and Christian present’ in Félire Oengusso”, in: Edel, Doris [ed.], Cultural identity and cultural integration. Ireland and Europe in the early Middle Ages, Blackrock: Four Courts Press, 1995. 157–169.

Schneiders, Marc, “Félire Oengusso en de liturgie”, in: Edel, Doris, W. P. Gerritsen, and Kees Veelenturf (eds.), Monniken, ridders en zeevaarders: opstellen over vroeg-middeleeuwse Ierse cultuur en Middelnederlandse letterkunde; aangeboden aan Maartje Draak; met een bibliografie van haar publikaties alsmede een autobiografische bijdrage, Amsterdam: Gerard Timmer Prods, 1988. 39–59.

Stokes, Whitley, “On the Calendar of Oengus”, Revue Celtique 5 (1881–1883): 339–380, 508. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Die Abfassung des Félire von Oengus”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908): 6–8. Internet Archive: <link>

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Hamann, Stefanie, “St Fursa, the genealogy of an Irish saint—the historical person and his cult”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 112 C (2012): 147–187.

Jennings, Brendan, “Micheál Ó Cléirigh, chief of the Four Masters, and his associates” [1936], in: Ó Muraíle, Nollaig [ed.], Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, his associates and St Anthony’s College Louvain, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 19–122. 71   [10] “The winter at Bundrowes (1629-30)”

Breatnach, Liam, “Varia: 1. An Old Irish gloss on Cáin lánamna. 2. An instance of do-maisi in the Irish Gospel of Thomas. 3. An OIr attestation of suacht, in Félire Óengusso”, Ériu 57 (2007): 155–163.

Follett, Westley, Céli Dé in Ireland: monastic writing and identity in the early Middle Ages, Studies in Celtic History 23, Woodbridge, 2006.

Dumville, David N., “Félire Óengusso. Problems of dating a monument of Old Irish”, Éigse 33 (2002): 19–48.

Carey, John, King of Mysteries: early Irish religious writings, 2nd ed. (1998), Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 180   [The saints] “Selections from Félire Óengusso”

Lambkin, Brian, “Blathmac and the Céili Dé: a reappraisal”, Celtica 23 (1999): 132–154.

Schneiders, Marc, “‘Pagan past and Christian present’ in Félire Oengusso”, in: Edel, Doris [ed.], Cultural identity and cultural integration. Ireland and Europe in the early Middle Ages, Blackrock: Four Courts Press, 1995. 157–169.

Ó Riain, Pádraig, “The Tallaght martyrologies, redated”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 20 (Winter, 1990): 21–38.

Schneiders, Marc, “Félire Oengusso en de liturgie”, in: Edel, Doris, W. P. Gerritsen, and Kees Veelenturf (eds.), Monniken, ridders en zeevaarders: opstellen over vroeg-middeleeuwse Ierse cultuur en Middelnederlandse letterkunde; aangeboden aan Maartje Draak; met een bibliografie van haar publikaties alsmede een autobiografische bijdrage, Amsterdam: Gerard Timmer Prods, 1988. 39–59.

Hennig, John, “The notes on non-Irish saints in the manuscripts of Félire Óengusso”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 75 C (1975): 119–159.

Hennig, John, “Studies in the Latin texts of the Martyrology of Tallaght, of Félire Oengusso and Félire húi Gormáin”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 69 C:4 (1970): 45–112.

Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor, “10: Invocation to the martyrs”, in: Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 56–60.

Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor, “11: The downfall of heathendom”, in: Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 61–66.

Hennig, John, “The Megas Kanon of Andrew of Crete and the Félire of Oengus the Culdee”, Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 280–293.

Hennig, John, “The Félire Oengusso and the Martyrologium Wandalberti”, Medieval Studies 17 (1955): 227–233.

Meyer, Kuno, “Introduction”, in: Meyer, Kuno, Fianaigecht: being a collection of hitherto inedited Irish poems and tales relating to Finn and his Fiana, Todd Lecture Series 16, London: Hodges, Figgis, 1910. v–xxxi. “Eleventh century (xxviii-xxxvi)” xxviii. Poem beg. ‘Atá sund Carn uí Chathbath’ (dinnshenchas of Carn Furbaide), ascribed to Cuán ua Lothcháin (d. 1024); xxix. Last section of Mittelirische Verslehren II, a treatise on Irish metrics; xxx. Fotha Catha Cnucha; xxxi. Poem beg. ‘Oenach indiu luid in rí’; xxxii. Marginal poem (two quatrains only) beg. ‘Máthair Díarmata ón dáil’ (LL 164); xxxiii. Gloss to Félire Óengusso; xxxiv. Scél na Fír Flatha, Echtra Cormaic i Tír Tairngiri, ocus Ceart Claidib Cormaic ; xxxv. ‘Annálad anall uile’, ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin; xxxvi. Annals of Tigernach, s.a. 283.

Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Die Abfassung des Félire von Oengus”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908): 6–8. Internet Archive: <link>

Stokes, Whitley, The martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Henry Bradshaw Society 29, London: Harrison, 1905. CELT – edition (prefaces, prologue, main text and epilogue): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>

Strachan, John, “Final vowels in the Félire Oenguso”, Revue Celtique 20 (1899): 191–198, 295–305. Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

d'Arbois de Jubainville, H., “Mélanges: Saint Germain, évêque de Paris, dans le Felire Oengusso”, Revue Celtique 9 (1888): 117–118. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

d'Arbois de Jubainville, H., “Mélanges: Le Felire Oengusso, le martyrologe hiéronymien et la liturgie gallicane”, Revue Celtique 9 (1888): 118. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Stokes, Whitley, “On the metre rinnard and the Calendar of Oengus as illustrating the Irish verbal accent”, Revue Celtique 6 (1883–1885): 273–297. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Stokes, Whitley, “On the Calendar of Oengus”, Revue Celtique 5 (1881–1883): 339–380, 508. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], On the calendar of Oengus, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Irish Manuscript Series 1.1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1880. Internet Archive: <link>

MacCarthy, B., “The litany of Aengus Céile Dé”, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record 3 (May and June, 1867, 1866–1867): 385–397, 468–477. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

O'Curry, Eugene, “Appendices”, in: O'Curry, Eugene, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland during the sessions of 1855 and 1856, Dublin, 1861. 461–648. Internet Archive: <link>, <link> 634   [Appendix CLIII]  (cf. Lecture XX). Note on the Scúap a Fánait in the Félire Óengusso (end of August), in Leabhar Breac f. 37b.

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