Texts

Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach‘The violent death of the children of Uisneach’

Early Modern Irish
prose, verse, prosimetrum
Ulster Cycle

Tale of the Ulster Cycle which can be described as a later, Early Modern Irish version of Longes mac nUislenn.

Manuscripts

include the following.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} For now, see Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Oidheadh chloinne hUisneach: The violent death of the children of Uisneach (1993) for an extensive list of manuscripts.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.2.3 = Glenmasan manuscript [s. xv]
ff. 1r–2v, 4r–4v

Breaks off incomplete.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a (236a) = Book of the Ó Duibhgeannáin [s.xvii (?)]

Copy by Dáibhi Ó Duibhgeannáin (1671)
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.2.6 [s. xviii]
pp. 432–459
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 113
pp. 15–27heading: ‘Oighidh Chlainne hUisneach ann so’
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS E iv 3 (11) = Leabhar Uí Lochlainn (Book of Ó Lochlainn or the O’Loughlins) [1727]
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 F 7
Dublin, King's Inns, MS 5
London, British Library, MS Egerton 150 [1773-1774]
Dublin, King's Inns, MS 29
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 36

Language

Early Modern Irish

Form

prose, verse, prosimetrum (primary)

Textual relationships

(Possible) sources:
Longes mac nUislenn
Related:
Longes mac nUislenn

Classification

Ulster Cycle

Sources

Notes

^1.

For now, see Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Oidheadh chloinne hUisneach: The violent death of the children of Uisneach (1993) for an extensive list of manuscripts.

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.] Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhín [ed. and tr.], Oidheadh chloinne hUisneach: The violent death of the children of Uisneach, Irish Texts Society 56, London: Irish Texts Society, 1993.

[ed.] [tr.] O'Duffy, Richard J. [ed. and tr.], Oidhe chloinne Uisnigh: Fate of the children of Uisneach, 2nd ed. (1898), Dublin: Gill, 1914.

Internet Archive: <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The death of the sons of Uisnech”, in: Windisch, Ernst, and Whitley Stokes (eds.), Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2:2, Leipzig, 1887. 109–184.

Internet Archive: <link>

Text from the Glenmasan MS, apart from the conclusion, which is taken from Gaelic LVI.

[ed.] [tr.] Mackinnon, Donald [ed. and tr.], “The Glenmasan manuscript [part 1]”, The Celtic Review 1 (1904–1905): 3–17, 102–131, 208–229, 296–315.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

3–17, 104–131 Text from the Glenmasan MS.

[tr.] Joyce, P. W. [tr.], Old Celtic romances, 3rd ed. (1879), London: Longmans, 1907.

Internet Archive – 1920 reprint: <link> Internet Archive – 1879 edition: <link> Internet Archive – 1879 edition: <link>

427–453.

[tr.] Dottin, Georges [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: d'Arbois de Jubainville, Marie-Henri, L’épopée celtique en Irlande, Cours de littérature celtique 5, Paris: Thorin, 1892. [Various].

Internet Archive: <link>

252–286.

Secondary sources (select)

See Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Oidheadh chloinne hUisneach: The violent death of the children of Uisneach (1993) for a bibliography.

Breatnach, Caoimhín, “Oidheadh Chloinne Uisnigh”, Ériu 45 (1994): 99–112.

Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhín, “Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach: the transmission of a Gaelic romance”, in: Tristram, Hildegard L. C. [ed.], Text und Zeittiefe, ScriptOralia 58, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1994. 439–454.

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