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Ó Háinle, Cathal, “Múin aithrighe dhamh, a Dhé revised”, Ériu 54 (2004): 103–123.

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“Múin aithrighe dhamh, a Dhé revised”
Periodical
Ériu 54 (2004)
Mac Cana, Proinsias, Rolf Baumgarten, and Liam Breatnach (eds), Ériu 54 (2004), Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.
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54
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103–123
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This essay consists of a new edition of the poem 'Múin aithrighe dhamh, a Dhé', together with a translation, commentary and notes. Lambert McKenna's edition of the poem, which was published in Dánta do chum Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh (1919), was based on a single eighteenth-century manuscript, in which the poem was attributed to 'Ó Dálaigh Fionn' and which provided an incomplete and corrupt text. Further manuscripts containing the poem have since come to light. They provide a better text and suggest that Tadhg Óg Ó hUiginn was the author. The commentary pays particular attention to the apologue of the blood-spotted hand contained in the poem. A version of this apologue is contained in the late medieval collection Gesta Romanorum and seems to have provided the inspiration for Shakespeare's characterization of Lady Macbeth in the sleep-walking scene in Macbeth.

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Irish bardic poetry
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textual editing textual translation
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Tadhg Óg Ó hUiginnÓ hUiginn (Tadhg Óg)
(d. 1448)
Irish bardic poet of the Uí hUiginn of Connacht, son of poet Tadhg Ó hUiginn. His extant work reveals a wide range of elite patrons for whom he composed poems.
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blood-spotted hand
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Dennis Groenewegen
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