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- [A Maire mín maithingen]
- verse beg. A Maire mín, maith-ingen
- In English: ‘Gentle Mary, good maiden’
- Ascribed to: Colum Cille
- Middle Irish
- verse
- Short description: Middle Irish litany (16 qq) attributed to Colum Cille
- Initial words (prose): BAÍ goba amra i nUltaib
- Middle Irish
- prose
- In English: ‘The guesting of Athirne’
- Middle Irish
- prose; verse; prosimetrum
- Short description: The short prose text includes eight poems ascribed to Athirne.
- [In mac ndíaid a athar a nArd Mauchai]
- verse beg. In mac ndíaid a athar a nArd Mauchai
- In English: ‘The son succeeding his father in Armagh’
- Initial words (prose): Is mairg thairgeubhai a hairisne a luc tíri na n-Gáidhel
- Ascribed to: Becc mac Dé
- verse
- Initial words (prose): Maircc taircébai ind-aimsir a mbia saerbráth cin chaemgnímha (...)
- Ascribed to: Fursa
- Early Irish
- prose
- Short description: Prophecy attributed to St Fursa (the Devout)
- [Dúthracar, a maic Dé bí]
- verse beg. Dúthracar, a maic Dé bí
- In English: ‘The comad of Manchán of Liath’
- Ascribed to: Manchán of Lemanaghan
- In English: ‘A triadic arrangement of the judgments/sayings of the Irish’
- Old Irish
- [Sanas Cormaic/Prull]
- part of or cited in: Sanas Cormaic; Independent
- prose
- Old Irish; Middle Irish
- prose
- Initial words (prose): Ba sanct n-amra inti Senan
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Short description: A Middle Irish preface and epilogue to the poem Amra Senáin ‘The eulogy of Senán’ mac Geirrcinn, abbot and saint of Inis Cathaig (Scattery Island, Co. Clare), in two parts: (1) a short miracle story which relates how Senán delivered an artisan named Nárach from a monster inhabiting the estuary of the Shannon in which the river island is located, and (2) a short passage, directly before and after the poem (except in NLI MS G 30), attributing the poem to Dallán Forgaill. The first part seemingly derives from a version of the story as it is told in the Commentary to Félire Óengusso (8 March). Both versions take their cue from a reading of two lines in the Félire (Senan Indse Cathaig / crochais écrait n-árach ‘Senán of Inis Cathaig / disabled the enemy with a binding’, for which see Breatnach’s text and translation). The tale of Senán’s encounter is expanded, if without mention of Nárach, in Betha Shenáin.
- Initial words (prose): Fechtas do M. is toidin co n-acca Mael Doborchon
- Early Irish
- prose
- Short description: Anecdote about Mo Ling
- Initial words (prose): Drochcomaithech ro baí i n-ocus dosom .i. Grác
- Old Irish
- prose
- Short description: Anecdote about Mo Ling and a neighbouring couple, Grác and his wife Crón
- Initial words (prose): Caillech dorat a mac dósum do M'Ling. Findat a h-ainm
- Early Irish
- prose; verse
- Short description: Early Irish anecdote about Mo Ling and an old woman (caillech) named Findat who gave her son to him; also on the appearance of Christ as a leper (clam).
- In English: ‘The wooing of Bais the druidess’
- Irish language
- Short description:
A very short text written in an obscure form of medieval Irish and apparently relating to a meeting between Fachtna Fáthach, known from other sources as a legendary king of Ulster, and a certain Bais, sorceress (bandruad) and daughter of Crunnmáel.
- In English: ‘The adventures of Rícenn ingen Chrimthainn and Caírech Dergáin’
- Initial words (prose): Crimthann mac Lughdhach diatā Crimthann la Hū Maine is ē cētfher di Chonnachtaib romarb mnāi iar creidem hé.
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Short description: Short narrative about two pious women, Rícenn, daughter of the king of Uí Maine, and her tutoress Caírech Dergáin, nun at Clúain Bairenn.
- Middle Irish
- Short description: A Middle Irish short story about a dialogue between Brénainn of Clonfert with one of his successors, Moínenn, bishop of Clonfert, on the subject of death and the afterlife.
- [Finn and the man in the tree]
- part of or cited in: Introduction to the Senchas Már
- Old Irish
- prose
- Short description: Two short prose stories about Finn, cited in the commentary to the Senchas Már as a gloss on the term imbas forosnai. The first, about Finn's encounter with the supernatural thief Cúldub, tells how Finn acquired the gift of imbas, while the second story, about Finn and the gilla Derg Corra, tells how Finn put this gift to use.
- Middle Irish
- prose
- In English: ‘Concerning the origin of the wandering of the Éoganachta’
- Old Irish; Middle Irish
- prose
- Short description: Origin legend of the Éoganachta and the Dál Cuinn.
- In English: ‘Concerning the sons of Conaire’
- Short description: Prose narrative in which the sons of Conaire mac Moghaláma take revenge on Nemed mac Srobcind for slaying their father. Gwynn suggests that the scribe of the Book of Leinster amended his text so as to make this story a continuation of Togail bruidne Da Derga.
- In English: ‘The conception and birth of Fiachu Muillethan’
- Short description: Brief anecdote about Éogan Mór mac Ailello and the birth of Fíachu Muillethan.
- In English: ‘The ancient sayings of Fíthal’
- Old Irish
- In English: ‘The instructions of Cormac’
- Old Irish
- Short description: A collection of Old Irish maxims presented as words of advice by the legendary judicious king of Ireland Cormac mac Airt in reply to questions asked by his son and successor Cairpre (Lifechair). The maxims cover a variety of topics relating especially to the nature of good kingship.
- [The quarrel between Finn and Oisín]
- verse beg. Is derb lem-sae, cia domaimse in fer líath
- Old Irish
- [Samthann fri soillsi sainmann]
- verse beg. Samthann fri soillsi sainmann
- Ascribed to: Áed Allán mac Fergaile
- Old Irish
- verse
- Short description: Poem on St Samthann of Clúain Brónaig (3 qq), ascr. to Áed Allán (ob. 743), who was king of Ailech and high-king of Ireland
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...John of Cornwall
- Latin language
- Short description: Latin poem (139 hexametric lines) on Merlin and his prophecies, written by John of Cornwall in the middle of the 12th century in response to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account of the same subject. In the introduction, John dedicates his work to his patron Robert Warelwast (d. 1155), bishop of Exeter, and puts forward the claim that he is drawing on an independent Cornish source for his text. The text is accompanied by a prose commentary, notably including glosses in a variety of Brittonic, possibly Cornish, the origin and nature of which has been subject to some debate.
- [Reicne Fothaid Canainne]
- verse beg. Trí Fothaig Elcca cen on
- In English: ‘The reicne of Fothad Canainne’
- Old Irish
- verse
- Short description: Old Irish poem, with later prose introduction.
- In English: ‘Cú Chulainn’s shield’
- Irish language
- In English: ‘The Psalter of the Pig’
- Middle Irish
- [Scéla Labrada Luirc]
- part of or cited in: Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille
- In English: ‘The story of Labraid Lorc’
- Late Middle Irish
- prose
- Short description: Middle Irish tale which tells how Labraid Lorc tried to conceal the fact that he had the ears of a horse and how the truth came out.
- [Rochúala la nech légas libru]
- verse beg. Rochúala la nech légas libru
- In English: ‘I have heard it said by someone who reads books’
- Ascribed to: Mo Ling
- Early Irish
- verse
- 7 st.
- In English: ‘The story of Cormac and Ciarnat’
- Initial words (prose): Ciárnat ingen ríg Cruithnech tucsat cūicer Ulad
- Early Irish
- prose; verse
- Short description: Brief account of the affair between Cormac mac Airt and Cíarnat, a Pictish princess who was taken captive.
- In English: ‘The passion of Marcellinus’
- Initial words (prose): O atchuala tra Dioclian in t-impir clu crabuid ⁊ ecna ⁊ cretmi in abbad Pasnute
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Short description: Homily on the passion of the Roman martyr Marcellinus.
- In English: ‘The raid of Regamon's cattle’
- prose
- In English: ‘The raid of Fráech’s cattle’
- Old Irish
- In English: ‘The raid of Flidais' cattle’
- Old Irish
- Short description: Early Irish tale which relates how Fergus mac Róich came to slay Ailill Find, king of the Ciarraige, and gained the latter's wife Flidais. It is regarded as one of the remscéla to the Táin bó Cúailnge.
- In English: ‘The three who first spoke after birth’
- Middle Irish
- In English: ‘The wooing of Treblann’
- Middle Irish
- In English: ‘The wooing of Moméra’
- prose
- Short description: Story in which Éogan Mór is invited to Spain and marries the daughter of the King of Spain. Afterwards he returns to contend for the kingship in Ireland and his first son, Ailill Aulom, is born to him.
- In English: ‘The wooing of Ferb’
- Middle Irish
- prose; prosimetrum
- Short description: Prosimetric tale from the Ulster Cycle
- In English: ‘The wooing of Ailbe’
- [The colloquy between Fintan and the hawk of Achill]
- verse beg. Arsaidh sin, a eoúin Accla
- Middle Irish
- verse
- 116 st.
- Short description: Poem presenting a conversation between Fintan mac Bóchra, the sole survivor of the Flood, and an ancient hawk (seboc) of the island of Achill.
- Middle Irish
- In English: ‘The phantom chariot of Cú Chulainn’
- Early Middle Irish
- In English: ‘The settling of the manor of Tara’
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Initial words (prose): Lá n-áen robátar muintear Clúana a n-oireachtus for urrlár na cille
- Early Modern Irish
- prose
- Short description: Narrative anecdote in prose based on one of the wonders in De ingantaib Érenn.
- In English: ‘The wasting sickness of Cú Chulainn’
- Old Irish
- prose
- In English: ‘The story of the finding of Cashel and blessing of kings’
- Old Irish; Middle Irish
- prose
- In English: ‘Traditional lore about the Airgialla’
- Old Irish
- prose
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description: Anonymous grammatical treatise which shows affinities with other, Hiberno-Latin or insular grammars.
- Initial words (prose): Quae sunt quae omnem ueritatem scripturae commendant
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description:
Early medieval, 7th or 8th-century grammatical text in the form of a collection of select glosses on Donatus’s Ars minor and to a lesser extent, the Ars maior. It may have been written by an Irishman at home or on the continent.
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description:
The hypothetical Irish commentary on Donatus’ Ars maior which according to Louis Holtz, underlies three extant Hiberno-Latin commentaries produced on the continent in the ninth century: those by Sedulius Scottus and Muiredach and the anonymous Ars Laureshamensis. The suggested scenario is that the work originated at home in Ireland and was brought to the continent by Irish peregrini.
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...Asperius
- Ascribed to: Asporius
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description:
A 6th-century or early 7th-century commentary on Donatus, Ars minor, ascribed to one Asperus/Asperius or Asporius, who may have been an Irishman. It represents a Christianised reworking of the material.
- Initial words (prose): In dei nomine pauca incipiunt de philosophia et de partibus eius
- Ascribed to: Clemens Scottus
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description:
Latin grammar (ars grammatica) once attributed to the Irish peregrinus and teacher Clemens Scottus but now regarded as an anonymous work.
- [Fuaras i Saltair Chaisil]
- verse beg. Fuaras i Saltair Chaisil
- In English: ‘I found in the Psalter of Cashel’
- Ascribed to: Gilla Cóemáin Mac Líacc ... Muirchertach
- Early Modern Irish
- verse
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...Benedict of Gloucester
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description: Latin life of St Dyfrig (Dubricius) written by the twelfth-century Benedictine monk Benedict of Gloucester.
- prose
- Short description:
The second recension of the Latin Life of St Teilo, which is attested in the Book of Landaff.
- prose
- Short description:
The earliest recension of the Latin Life of St Teilo, which is attested in the legendary of Vespasian A.xiv.
- [Cros an Choimdhedh cumachtaigh]
- verse beg. Cros an Choimdhedh cumachtaigh
- Late Middle Irish
- verse
- 12 st.
- Short description:
Irish poem representing a dialogue between St Moling and Suibne.
- [Uamhain Gall tainic Muling]
- verse beg. Uamhain Gall tainic Muling
- In English: ‘Fear of foreigners came to Mo Ling’
- Ascribed to: Mo Ling
- Irish language
- verse
- 21 st.
- Short description:
Irish poem. In Dobb’s summary of the text, the poem “tells a story about Mulling and his kinsman Muiccin of Maighin. Muiccin is in the book of saints in LL, Lecan, BB, and elsewhere. The gist of the poem is as follows. There was a scare of foreign invasion. (Such actually occurred in 638, according to the Four Masters) Mulling asked Muiccin to hide two-thirds of his books. He hid them in a cave known as Derc Ferna, where they were destroyed by wet. These books were probably the work of years and the handiwork of Mulling himself. It must have been a great blow. No one would blame him if he had cursed Muiccin, but when this latter implored pardon, Mulling, with real saintliness, forgave him.”
- Early Modern Irish
- prose
- Latin language; Irish language
- prose
- Short description: The hypothesized compilation of Irish annals whose text is no longer extant in its original form but whose contents have been partially reconstructed, to varying extents of probability, from the so-called Clonmacnoise group of annals and the Annals of Ulster.
- Irish language
- prose
- Short description: The lost, Irish original that underlies the early modern English translation known as Mageoghegan’s book or Annals of Clonmacnoise. To judge from the latter, the annals were updated into the beginning of the 15th century.
- In English: ‘History/lore of the descendants of Ír’
- Short description: One of the major compilations of Irish genealogical material and king-lists, describing the Ulaid and (allegedly) related population groups whose descent is traced from Ír, a third son of Míl. The oldest seven manuscript versions of the collection represent at least three distinct recensions. In John V. Kelleher's view, their “chief theme is that the true Ulaid (fír-Ulaid) are the Dál nAraide and Uí Echach Coba, and this particularly set forth in the tracts that begin the section, which recount the senchus of Síl Ír, the Ulaid kings of Ireland, the kings of Emain Macha, etc. Also of Síl Ír are the Ciarraige, Corco mdruad, Conmaicne, and Ulaid. In the corpus the historical Ulaid are closely related to the Érainn and both are attached to the ancestral line of Dál Cuinn at Óengus Turbech Temrach, 19 generations before Conn Cétchathach. However, not much attention is paid to Dál Fiatach in Rawl. 502.”
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...Malsachanus
- Latin language
- Short description: Latin grammatical treatise on the verb and the participle. In the Naples manuscript version of the text, there is also a section on nouns and pronoun but its relationship to the present text is unclear.
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description: Latin commentary on the Catholic Epistles by an anonymous but probably Irish author.
- Short description: A single verse quatrain about the the transience of a scribe's life.
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...Laidcenn mac Baíth Bannaig
- Ascribed to: Laidcenn mac Baíth Bannaig
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description: An epitome of Gregory the Great's lengthy commentary on the Book of Job, Moralia in Iob. This abbreviated version is attributed to the 7th-century Irish theologian Laidcenn mac Baíth Bannaig, abbot of Clúain Fertae Mo Lua (Clonfertmulloe), and may have been brought to mainland Europe by Irish peregrini. The work is now extant in a dozen continental manuscripts.
- [Deus a quo facta fuit]
- verse beg. Deus a quo facta fuit
- Latin language
- verse
- Short description: Hiberno-Latin synchronistic poem on the six ages of the world, covering both biblical and classical history. Each line consists of 15 syllables. A detail for which this poem attracted attention is the obit of Domnall rex Scottorum, presumably Domnall mac Áeda (although Domnall Brecc has been suggested as another candidate), in the year 642.
- In English: ‘The life of Senán’
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description: A Latin breviary in nine lessons relating the Life of St Senán of Inis Cathaig. It was written for use in Brittany and derives, according to Pádraig Ó Riain, from the metrical version of the saint's Life.
- In English: ‘The life of Senán’
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description: Latin prose Life of St Senán of Inis Cathaig (BHL 7574) which is found in copies of the Magnum Legendarium Austriacum [1 July].
- Initial words (prose): Ba sanct n-amra inti Senan
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Short description: A Middle Irish preface and epilogue to the poem Amra Senáin ‘The eulogy of Senán’ mac Geirrcinn, abbot and saint of Inis Cathaig (Scattery Island, Co. Clare), in two parts: (1) a short miracle story which relates how Senán delivered an artisan named Nárach from a monster inhabiting the estuary of the Shannon in which the river island is located, and (2) a short passage, directly before and after the poem (except in NLI MS G 30), attributing the poem to Dallán Forgaill. The first part seemingly derives from a version of the story as it is told in the Commentary to Félire Óengusso (8 March). Both versions take their cue from a reading of two lines in the Félire (Senan Indse Cathaig / crochais écrait n-árach ‘Senán of Inis Cathaig / disabled the enemy with a binding’, for which see Breatnach’s text and translation). The tale of Senán’s encounter is expanded, if without mention of Nárach, in Betha Shenáin.
- In English: ‘The life of Senán mac Geirrcinn’
- Early Modern Irish
- prose
- Short description: Vernacular Irish Life of St Senán of Inis Cathaig (Scattery Island).
- Short description: A collection of dinnshenchas articles, much of it in prose, that is uniquely attested in RIA MS D ii 2 (ff. 81v-90r), where it occurs as a supplement to a copy of Dinnshenchas Érenn (recension C). Many items are unique to this manuscript, while some of the material appears to have been derived from other texts, such as Tochmarc Emire, Lebor gabála Érenn and Cath Maige Mucrama, and even other recensions of Dinnshenchas Érenn.
- [A fir ce no turcba raith]
- verse beg. A fir ce no turcba raith
- Irish language
- verse
- Short description: Irish poem (7qq) apparently concerning Emain Macha and Cimbáeth. It is found in NLI MS G 7, where it is prefaced with a short prose introduction (beg. Toforaint in Márrighan laithriuch nduine lie hAulta hi Machi) referring to the the dinnshenchas for Emain Macha. Editions, translations and discussions in secondary literature are unknown at this stage.
- [Aibhind sin a Ériu ard]
- verse beg. Aibhind sin, a Ériu ard
- Ascribed to: Úa Duinn (Gilla na Náem)
- Late Middle Irish
- verse
- Short description: Long poem attributed in various manuscript copies to Gilla na Náem Úa Duinn.
- [Éri íarthar talman torthig]
- verse beg. Éri íarthar talman torthig
- Ascribed to: Úa Duinn (Gilla na Náem)
- Late Middle Irish
- verse
- 121 st.
- Short description: A long poem (121 qq) giving a précis of the Dinnshenchas Érenn and included at the end of the version of that collection in the Book of Uí Maine. The last stanza attributes the poem to Gilla na Náem Úa Duinn and gives the year 1166.
- [Luid Iason ina luing lóir]
- verse beg. Luid Iason ina luing lóir
- Ascribed to: Flann Mainistrech
- Middle Irish
- verse
- Short description: Medieval Irish poem attributed to Flann Mainistrech on the destruction of Troy. Mac Eoin believed it to have been based on a prose text concerning the Trojan war but not a text of Togail Troí as we know it today.
- [Emain álainn árus Ulad]
- verse beg. Emain álainn árus Ulad
- Ascribed to: Úa Sesnáin (Colmán)
- Late Middle Irish
- Short description: Irish poem attributed to Colmán Úa Sesnáin on the prehistoric kings who ruled in Emain Macha, from Conchobar mac Nessa onwards.
- [Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna]
- verse beg. Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna
- Late Middle Irish
- verse
- Short description: Anonymous Irish poem on the Christian kings of Ulster, thought by F. J. Fyrne to have been written in the reign of Eochaidh Mac Duinnshléibhe (1158-1166).
- Initial words (prose): In nomine Dei summi
- Old Irish
- prose
- Short description: Short prose homily in Old Irish and Latin, which has been dated as early as the 7th or the first half of the 8th century and on that account, has some claim to being the earliest specimen of Old Irish in continuous prose. The text has been frequently cited for its linguistic features and for its account of three forms of martyrdom categorised according to colour: white (bán), blue/green (glas) and red (derc).
- Initial words (prose): Atlochomar buidi do Dia uile-cumachtach
- Old Irish
- prose
- Short description: Old Irish prose homily (beg. Atlochomar buidi do Dia uile-cumachtach)
- Initial words (prose): Tri hollamain Chondacht .i. mac Liacc 7 mac Coisi 7 Fland mac Lonain .i. mac De 7 mac duine 7 mac deamain
- Irish language
- prose
- Short description: Short Irish prose tale about three poets of Connacht, Mac Liac, Mac Coise and Flann mac Lonáin. The text occurs in the Yellow Book of Lecan by way of a preface to the verse Dinnshenchas of Slíab nEchtga II attr. to Flann and follows another prose introduction about and poem attributed to Flann (Bó bithblicht meic Lonán).
- Initial words (prose): Laithe n-aen dia rabadar treis gnía léigind
- Irish language
- prose
- Short description: Short Irish prose tale, which has been edited by Meyer as an example of bérla na filed.
- [Is trúag in ces i mbiam]
- verse beg. Is trúag in ces i mbiam
- Early Middle Irish; Late Old Irish
- verse
- Short description: Religious poem (8 qq)
- Old Irish
- [Baldo Dei famule]
- verse beg. Baldo, Dei famule, clare magister
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...Dungal of Saint-Denis
- Ascribed to: Baldo of Salzburg
- Latin language
- verse
- Short description: Carolingian Latin poem written by Dungal (l. 3) and addressed to a certain Baldo magister.
- [Hos Karolo regi versus Hibernicus exul]
- verse beg. Dum proceres mundi regem venerare videntur
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...Hibernicus Exul
- Ascribed to: Hibernicus Exul
- Latin language
- verse
- Short description: Latin poem addressed to Charlemagne and reflecting on his conflict with Tassilo III, duke of Bavary, whom he deposed in 788. The poem is preserved, in fragmentary form (103 hexametrical lines), in a single manuscript (Vatican, BAV, MS Reg. lat. 2078) and was written by an anonymous Irishman known from the heading as Hibernicus Exul.
- Latin language
- prose
- Short description: Latin Life of St Brynach (Lat. Bernachius). BHL 1186.
- In English: ‘The history of Gruffudd ap Cynan’
- Middle Welsh
- prose
- Short description: Middle Welsh translation of an earlier Latin biography of the life and career of Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd (r. 1081-1137).
- Early Modern Irish
- Short description: Irish Life of St Catherine of Alexandria
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...Ó Neachtain (Tadhg)
- Modern Irish
- prose
- Short description: Glosses by Tadhg Tiorthach Ó Neachtain to Trecheng breth Féne (Triads of Ireland) in Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (c. 1745).
- Short description: A brief set of Irish annals, running from the reign of Laegaire to AD 1134 and thought to be of Armagh provenance.
- Initial words (prose): Is hé titul fil i n-dreich ind libuir se taitni do menmanaib inna légnide
- Old Irish
- prose
- Latin language; Old Irish
- Short description: Latin and some Irish glosses on computus in Vat. lat. 5755.
- In English: ‘The prose ‘Lore of women’’
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Short description: Prose version of the Banshenchas
- [Metrical Banshenchas]
- verse beg. Adam oen-athair na ndoene
- In English: ‘The metrical ‘Lore of women’’
- Authored by:Thought to have been authored by...Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)
- Ascribed to: Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)
- Middle Irish
- Short description: Metrical version of the Banshenchas, composed by Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside (1147)
- Middle Welsh
- verse
- Short description: A long Middle Welsh verse litany enumerating the apostles, martyrs and saints of the world.
