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Dinnshenchas of Descert, possibly Descert Laigen
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Descert

Short anecdote
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Bran and Sceólang

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Dinnshenchas of Druim nDairbrech
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Druim nDairbrech

Collection of Fenian poems.

  • Irish language
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Middle Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Caílte mac Rónáin

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Eirigh suas a Oscair
  • verse
  • (6 st.)
  • beg. Eirigh súas, a Oscair
  • (part of/cited in Duanaire Finn, Acallam na senórach)
  • Late Middle Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Middle Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Conán

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Lists A and B represent two versions of an alphabetically arranged list of personal names associated with the Finn Cycle. A prose introduction precedes both of these lists.
  • Late Middle Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

  • Fil duine
  • verse
  • beg. Fil duine
  • (part of/cited in Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille)
  • Late Old Irish
  • Early Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Middle Irish
  • minor Irish prose tales
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

An anecdote told in Sanas Cormaic, under the entry for ‘Orc tréith’.
  • Sanas Cormaic
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Lomnae ... druth

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.
  • Old Irish
  • minor Irish prose tales
  • Finn Cycle
  • Imbas forosnai
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Cúldub mac uí Birgge
  • Anonymous ... woman of the síd
  • Derg Corra mac hUí Daigre

  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

The prose history of Ireland completed by Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) in c. 1634. Comprising an introduction, two books and appendices, it narrates the history of the island from the time of Creation to the Norman conquest in the 12th century. As set out by the vindicatory introduction (an díonbhrollach), the work was written in response to the cultural biases of Anglo-centric writers (e.g. William Camden and Edmund Spenser).
  • KEATING (GEOFFREY)
  • Early Modern Irish
  • history
  • compilation
  • compendium
  • Mythological Cycle
  • Irish texts
  • Cycles of the Kings
  • Ulster Cycle
  • Irish legendary history
  • Finn Cycle

  • Dinnshenchas of Fornocht
  • verse
  • beg. Fornocht do dún, a Druim nDen
  • (part of/cited in Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C)
Dinnshenchas of Fornocht, formerly Druim Den.

  • Late Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

The tale of the conception and birth of Finn mac Cumaill.
  • Middle Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Géisid cúan
  • verse
  • beg. Géisid cúan
  • (part of/cited in Acallam na senórach)
  • Late Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

Text on the dinnshenchas of Glaisse Bulga
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Oscar mac Oisín
  • Glas ingen Deirg meic Dedad
  • Derg mac Dedad
  • Glaise Bulgáin

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

A ballad on the death of Garaid’s son Aod. The story of Aod's quarrel with Muc Smaile for killing his uncle Goll mac Morna, which is known from the Acallam na senórach (ed. Stokes, ending on line 2009), is continued here. E. J. Gwynn(1)n. 1 E. J. Gwynn • J. H. Lloyd, ‘The burning of Finn’s house’, Ériu 1 (1904): 13. summarises the tale as follows:
“Muc Smaile had killed Aod's uncle Goll mac Morna, and had refused to give an eric that Aod considered sufficient. Aod seeks him out at Sliabh Cua, and kills him in single combat: whereupon he is surrounded, with a handful of the Clann Morna, by six hundred of Muc Smaile's men, all of whom are slain in the fight that follows, except their leader Fionn mac Cubhain. But Aod has been twice wounded; 'clouds of weakness' fall on him; the sea comes in, he is unable to stir, and is drowned by the rising tide”.
  • Irish language
  • Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Is cuimhin liom an imirt
  • verse
  • (27 st.;21 st.)
  • beg. Is cuimhin liom an imirt
  • (part of/cited in Duanaire Finn, Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne)
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • La da raibh Fionn ag ol
  • verse
  • (19 st.;127 st.)
  • beg. La da raibh Fionn ag ol
  • (part of/cited in Independent, Duanaire Finn, Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig)
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle