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Howlett, David, “The earliest Irish writers at home and abroad”, Peritia 8 (1994): 1–17.

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“The earliest Irish writers at home and abroad”
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8
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1–17
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Analyses of compositions in verse and prose by early Irish writers in Ireland and on the continent reveal assimilation of structural techniques from Antiquity, the Latin bible and Boethius, which fix the ordering of diction. One note credits Columban with comprehensive disposition of varied rhythms, rhyme and alliteration in verse. The other credits Cummian with arrangement of clausular patterns and the infixing of a dating device.

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Dennis Groenewegen
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