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Cath Almaine‘The battle of Allen’

  • Old Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings
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Language
  • Old Irish
Textual relationships
Related: Scéla Cormaic meic Cuilennáin ⁊ na crosánScéla Cormaic meic Cuilennáin ⁊ na crosánA brief Irish prose story, with poem, concerning the death of Cormac mac Cuilennáin, who was slain in the battle of Mag Ailbe (908). On the night before the battle, three entertainers (crossáin) promise the king to perform before him the following night, but the king and the crossáin do not live to meet again. By some act of divine providence, however, the crossáin are allowed to perform their art and utter a poem beg. Truaghán sin, a Rí na righ (10qq).

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Cathal mac FinguineCathal mac Finguine
(d. 742)
A king of Munster from the Éoganacht Glendamnach, known for his military conflicts with kings of the Uí Néill, including Fergal mac Máele Dúin (d. 722) and the latter’s son Áed Allán (d. 743). In a Middle Irish narrative satire, Aislinge Meic Con Glinne, he is portrayed as being possessed by a demon of gluttony.
See more Fergal mac Máele DúinFergal mac Máele Dúin
(d. 722)
Fergal mac Maíle Dúin
king of Tara from the Cenél nÉogain
See more Cú Brettan mac CongussoCú Bret(t)an mac Congusso
(d. 740)
Cú Bretan mac Congusso
king of Fir Roiss (in modern-day Co. Monaghan); son of Congus; father of the Irish poets Blathmac and Donn Bó
See more Donn Bó mac Con BrettanDonn Bó mac Con Brettan
Irish poet; son of Cú Brettan mac Congusso
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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.] Ó Riain, Pádraig [ed.], Cath Almaine, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 25, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.
CELT – edition: <link>
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The battle of Allen”, Revue Celtique 24 (1903): 41–70, 446 (add. and corr.).
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
[tr.] Ford, Patrick K. [tr.], The Celtic poets: songs and tales from early Ireland and Wales, Belmont, Massachusetts: Ford & Bailie, 1999.
56–63
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2010, last updated: August 2020
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