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A fhir thall triallus

verse

30 st.

beg. A fhir thall tríallus in scél

Fíngen mac Flainn

Fíngen mac Flainn

(fl. 9th century (?))

early Irish poet to whom is ascribed a threat of satire (a tréfhocal fócrai, beg. A mo Choimdiu nél) to the Fir Arddae; said to be a pupil to one Dubdhartach.

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Middle Irish poem (30qq) attributed to Fíngen mac Flainn, in the form of a series of questions and interlined answers concerning Irish history and pseudo-history.

Middle IrishIrish legendary historyearly Irish versedialogue and question-and-answer literature

A Rí richid, réidig dam

verse

111 st.

beg. A Rí richid, réidig dam

Gilla in Choimded ua Cormaic

Gilla in Choimded úa Cormaic

(11th/12th century?)

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Middle Irish synchronistic poem by Gilla in Chomdid úa Chormaic (fl. 11th c.) referring to events and personages from biblical, classical and native history.

Middle Irishearly Irish verse

Ancient history of the kingdom of Kerry (Friar O'Sullivan of Muckross Abbey)
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prose

O'Sullivan [Friar of Muckross Abbey]O'Sullivan ... Friar of Muckross Abbey

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History of Kerry written in English and compiled in c.1750 by Friar O'Sullivan of Muckross Abbey, possibly using 16th-century sources.

English languageIrish historiesantiquarian literature (early modern)

Annals of Ireland (James Grace)

prose

Grace (James) [of Kilkenny]Grace (James) ... of Kilkenny

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Latin compilation of annals for the history of Ireland, written by, or at least attributed to, one James Grace of Kilkenny. It may be thought of as consisting of an introductory history ending with the foundation of St Mary's Abbey near Dublin; regular annals for the period 1074-1370; and a series of obits for prominent families, the Lacys, Burkes, Butlers and Geraldines.

Latin languageIrish annals

Annals of Ireland (John de Pembridge)

prose

John de PembridgeJohn de Pembridge

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Latin annals for the history of Ireland, 1162–1347 AD, compiled by the Anglo-Irish Dominican friar John de Pembridge (d. in or after 1347) and continued down by anonymous author to 1370 AD.

Latin languageAnnalsIrish annalsIreland and Irish historyBaile Átha Clíath ... Dublin

Annals of Ireland (Thady Dowling)
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prose

Dowling (Thady)

Dowling (Thady)

(fl. c. 1544–1628)

Irish church administrator and scholar, who wrote a short set of annals as well as a grammar.

Collection of Latin annals for the history of Ireland, from the arrival of Partholón up to the year 1600, compiled by Thady Dowling (d. 1628), an ecclesiastic and chancellor of Leighlin.

Latin languageIrish annals

Apair damsa re Der Fáil

verse

15 st.

beg. Apair damsa re Der Fáil

Urard mac Coise

Urard mac Coise

(d. 983 x 1023)

Irish poet

Urard mac Coise

Urard mac Coise

(d. 983 x 1023)

Irish poet

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Middle Irish poem (15 qq) attributed to (Urard) mac Coise and composed for Derb Áil (Der Fáil), who was a daughter of Tadc mac Cathail, king of Connacht, and the consort of Domnall úa Néill, high-king of Ireland (d. 980). The poem laments the death of her young son Áed. In the process, it cites several tragedies of bereavement from Irish history (one from Trojan history) and adds a religious dimension to her grief and consolation.

Middle Irishearly Irish verseelegiesDerb Áil ingen Taidc meic Cathail

Bodmin manumissions

prose

A group of 51 records, in Latin and Old English, of grants and manumission, the freeing of slaves, at Bodmin, Cornwall. These records were added to blank spaces and additional leaves of a gospel manuscript, the Bodmin Gospels (BL MS Add. 9381), over a period stretching from about the mid-10th to 11th centuries. They form an important source of information about social history and onomastics. The majority of personal names are Old English, while others are Latin and Old Cornish, making it one of the earliest witnesses of the Cornish language to survive.

Old EnglishLatin languagerecord sources for Cornwall

Caisil atcondarc ane

verse

beg. Caisil atcondarc ane

A brief poem about the history of Cashel

Early Irishearly Irish verse

Cambrensis eversus

prose

Lynch (John)

Lynch (John)

(c. 1599–1677)

Irish priest and scholar; author of Cambrensis eversus (1662), under the Latin pseudonym Gratianus Lucius.

A printed work by Irish priest John Lynch (Gratianus Lucius) on the history of Ireland. It was published in 1662.

Latin languageIrish historiesprinted materialsIrish Neo-Latin literature

Chronica sancti Hieronymi
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prose

Pseudo-Jerome [author of Chronica sancti Hieronymi]Pseudo-Jerome ... author of Chronica sancti Hieronymi

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Jerome

Jerome

(c.340s–420 (Prosper))

Church father, born in Dalmatia, and biblical scholar who translated the greater part of the Bible into Latin and whose labours led to the Vulgate version.

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An eighth-century Latin Genesis commentary commonly ascribed to Jerome, which offers a guide to the history of creation and according to Charles Munier, served as a catechism.

Latin languagecommentariestheological and exegetical literature

Chronicle of the kings of Alba
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prose

Short Latin chronicle of Scottish history, the earliest of its kind, which is preserved in a single manuscript (BNF lat. 4162, or the Poppleton MS). The core of the text, which takes its structure from a regnal list, covers the period between the reigns of Cináed mac Ailpín (d. 858) and Cináed mac Maíl Choluim (d. 995), who appears to have been still alive when his reign was added. The form in which this text has come down, however, is in a later redaction, possibly of the 12th century, surviving in a 14th-century manuscript.

Latin languageannals and chroniclesregnal listsrecord sources for ScotlandCináed mac AilpínCináed mac Maíl Choluim

Chronicon Briocense
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prose

Latin chronicle compiled between the late 14th and early 15th century, which though left incomplete, aimed at describing a full history of Brittany. It incorporates a wide range of sources, including historical, hagiographical and archival materials. The work is anonymous and may have been written and compiled by Hervé Le Grant, a Breton notary with access to ducal archives.

Latin languageannals and chroniclesBreton Latin literature and learningBrittany

Cinnlae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúileabháin

prose

Ó Súilleabháin (Amhlaoibh)

Ó Súilleabháin (Amhlaoibh)

(1783–1838)

Irish businessman, storyteller and schoolteacher, known for writing a diary, largely in Irish, between 1827 and 1835.

Diary or journal written largely in Irish by Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin of Callan (Co. Kilkenny) between January 1827 and July 1835. Its observations on different aspects of Irish society are considered an invaluable resource for the history of 19th-century Ireland.

Modern IrishIrish historiesrecord sources for Irelanddiaries, journals and notebooksLeinster/Cúige LaigheanMunster/Cúige Mumhan

De antiquitate Glastonie ecclesie (William of Malmesbury)
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prose

William of Malmesbury

William of Malmesbury

(d. in or after 1142)

Anglo-Norman monk of the Benedictine foundation at Malmesbury, known as a historian, scholar and hagiographer.

Latin languagehistoriesAnglo-Latin literature and learningGlastonbury abbey

De excidio Troiae

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Dares PhrygiusDares Phrygius

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miscellaneous texts

De praesulibus Hiberniae (John Lynch)
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Lynch (John)

Lynch (John)

(c. 1599–1677)

Irish priest and scholar; author of Cambrensis eversus (1662), under the Latin pseudonym Gratianus Lucius.

A Latin history of the Catholic bishops and archbishops of Ireland, from early times to his own day, completed by John Lynch in 1672.

Latin languageIrish historiesIrish Neo-Latin literature

Deus a quo facta fuit

verse

beg. Deus a quo facta fuit

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.

Latin languageHiberno-Latin literature and learning to c.1169theological and exegetical literatureDomnall mac Áeda meic Ainmirech

Do mhacuibh Úa Suanaig

prose

Short Irish tract concerning the history of Rathan (Rahan, Co. Offaly) after the expulsion of Mo Chutu. It focuses on the lives of two 8th-century religious men, namely Fidmuine úa Suanaig, anchorite, and Fidairle úa Suanaig, abbot of Rahan, and various further events concerning the religious foundation up to the mid-12th century.

Irish languageIrish and Irish Latin hagiographyFidairle úa SuanaigFidmuine úa SuanaigColmán of LannMo Chutu of Rahan and LismoreRathan/Rathen ... Rahan

Don tres Troí

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Flannacán [author of Don tres Troí]

Flannacán ... author of Don tres Troí

(fl. late 12th century?)

Medieval Irish scholar who describes himself as the author of Don tres Troí.

An Irish narrative concerning the history of ‘the third Troy’, from its (re)foundation by Astyanax, son of Hector, until its destruction in Roman times.

Late Middle IrishEarly Modern Irishmiscellaneous texts

Fichi ríg cía rím as ferr

verse

61 st.

beg. Fichi ríg cía rím as ferr

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

(d. 1016)

Irish poet; fer légind of Ros Ailithir (Rosscarbery, Co. Cork)

Verse history of the kings of Israel and Judah residing in Jerusalem, from Saul to the destruction of the city.

Middle Irishearly Irish verseSolomonDavidSaulJerusalem

Foras feasa ar Éirinn

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Keating (Geoffrey)

Keating (Geoffrey)

(c.1580–1644)

Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn

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).

Early Modern IrishHistoryCompilationCompendiumFinn CycleUlster CycleCycles of the KingsIrish legendary historyIrish Mythological Cycleantiquarian literature (early modern)

Historia Brittonum

prose

Nennius

Nennius ... al. Ninnius

(fl. 9th century)

Welsh monk and student of Elvodugus (Elfoddw); best known from the prologue added to the Historia Brittonum, in which he is credited as the author of that work.

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Latin languageWelsh Latin literature and learning

Historia ecclesiastica Eusebii (Rufinus)
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prose

Rufinus of Aquileia

Rufinus of Aquileia

(d. 411)

Tyrannius Rufinus of Aquileia was a monk, theologian and historian. He is known for having translated Greek works by Origen, Eusebius and others in Latin.

Latin rendering and continuation of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical history. The work was undertaken at the beginning of the 5th century by Rufinus at the request of bishop Chromatius of Aquileia. Although Jerome had created a translation prior to Rufinus, it was mainly through Rufinus’ translation that Eusebius’ history became known to the early medieval West.

Latin languageannals and chroniclestranslations and adaptationslate antique literature

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

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Bede

Bede

(d. 735)

English monk at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow; author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and works on various religious and theological subjects.

A history in five books on the churches and peoples of England.

Latin languageAnglo-Latin literature and learning

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