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Betha Mo Chuda‘Life of Mo Chutu’

• Irish
• prose
• Irish hagiography

Irish Life of Mo Chutu of Rahan and Lismore

Manuscripts

• (Unidentified)

  A manuscript now lost, but which appears to have been at Cork in the 1620s, when it served as an exemplar (see notes below)
  • Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2324-2340 (3410) [1629]

    ff. 151a–157b

    Copied, from an unknown exemplar, at Cork in the summer of 1629
  • Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A iv 1 (968) [c. 1627]

    p. 18 ff

    Copied at a Franciscan house in Cork. Plummer suggests that this copy may have derived from the same exemplar.

Language

• Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

Mo Chutu of Rahan and LismoreMo Chutu of Rahan and Lismore
(d. 637)
Mo Chutu mac Fínaill, Carthach (the younger), Mo Chutu of Rahan, Mo Chutu of Lismore
Mo Chutu mac Fínaill (Carthach the younger), patron saint of Rathan (Rahan, Co. Offaly) and Les Mór (Lismore, Co. Wexford)
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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.] Plummer, Charles, Bethada náem nÉrenn: Lives of Irish saints, 2 vols, vol. 1: Introduction, texts, glossary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.

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291–299

[tr.] Plummer, Charles, Bethada náem nÉrenn: Lives of Irish saints, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translations, notes, indexes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.

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202–210

Secondary sources (select)

Plummer, Charles, Bethada náem nÉrenn: Lives of Irish saints, 2 vols, vol. 1: Introduction, texts, glossary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.

CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

xxxvii–xxxviii

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May 2014, last updated: April 2021