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Lebor gabála Érenn, Ó Cléirigh recension‘The book of the taking of Ireland’

• Early Modern Irish, Modern Irish
• Cycles of the Kings, Irish legendary history, Lebor gabála Érenn, Mythological Cycle, Compilation

A modern version of Lebor gabála Érenn, revised by Micheál Ó Cléirigh and his associates in 1631.

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• Lebor gabála Érenn

Manuscripts

Primary witnesses

• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 32 (O'Reilly 113, 617) [s. xvii]

  In the hand of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 70 [s. xvii]

  autograph manuscript of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh; incomplete
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iii 3 (777) [s. xvii]

Copies derived from the above, including:

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1286 1, pp. 1–184 [1742]

Revised copies.^{(1)n. 1} R. Mark Scowcroft, ‘Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text’, Ériu 38 (1987): 84.

• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 30 (Hudson 39, 485) = Seanchaidhe Muimhneach [1739]
• Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 18 [1721–1722]
• Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 94
• Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 296 [1763]
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1296 (H 2. 5) [s. xviii]
• Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 40
• Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 60
• Maynooth, Russell Library, MS C 98
• Fermoy, St Colman's College, MS CF 16

Abbreviated

• Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 22

Language

• Early Modern Irish Modern Irish
• Early Modern Irish/Modern Irish.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings Irish legendary history Lebor gabála Érenn Mythological Cycle

Sources

Notes

^1.

R. Mark Scowcroft, ‘Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text’, Ériu 38 (1987): 84.

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 entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Macalister, R. A. S., and John Mac Neill, Leabhar Gabhála: the book of conquests of Ireland. The recension of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, vol. 1, Dublin, 1916.  

comments: Unfinished, as no further volumes have been forthcoming.

Internet Archive: <link>

Edition, with translation, based on 23 K 32. It is left incomplete.

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Pádraig A., “On the Ó Cléirigh recension of Leabhar gabhála”, Éigse 37 (2010): 1–57.

Flahive, Joseph J., “Macalister and the Ó Cleirigh Leabhar Gabhála”, in: Carey, John [ed.], Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009. 76–93.

Carey, John [ed.], Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009.

Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text”, Ériu 38 (1987): 79–140.  

comments: The second part is Scowcroft, R. M., “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988).

Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988): 1–66.  

comments: This article continues Scowcroft, R. M., “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text”, Ériu 38 (1987).

Hamel, A. G. van, “On Lebor Gabála”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 10 (1915): 97–197.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

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page name: Lebor gabála Érenn (Ó Cléirigh)
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Contributors

C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen