Texts

A Mhuircheartaigh mhic Néill náir

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Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 17

In the hand of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh.

pp. 44–46

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 32

In the hand of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh.

pp. 212–215

Sources

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.] Hogan, Edmund, Móirthimchell Éirenn uile dorigne Muirchertach mac Néill, Dublin: Gaelic League, 1901.

Internet Archive: <link>

Edition of the poem, with text and translation of the prose preface (pp. 14-17) and appendices: I.Emendations of text, II. Names of persons, III. Names of places and tribes, IV. Short glossary.

[ed.] [tr.] OʼDonovan, John, “I. The circuit of Ireland, by Muircheartach mac Neill, prince of Aileach; a poem written in the year DCCCCXLII by Cormacan Eigeas, chief poet of the north of Ireland”, in: Tracts relating to Ireland, 2 vols, vol. 1, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1841. 1–68 (separately numbered).

CELT – Edition (pp. 24–58): <link> HathiTrust: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn and the ‘circuit of Ireland’”, in: Alfred P. Smyth (ed.), Seanchas. Studies in early and medieval Irish archaeology, history and literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 238–250.