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verse beg. Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna

  • Late Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
Anonymous Irish poem (80 st.) on the Christian kings of Ulster, thought by F. J. Fyrne to have been written in the reign of Eochaidh Mac Duinnshléibhe (1158-1166).
First words (verse)
  • Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna
Manuscripts
London, British Library, MS Egerton 90 4, ff. 17-20 = Fragments of the Book of Uí Maine [s. xiv]
f. 20
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 M 8
Modern transcript.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
f. 34b
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (H 1. 15) = The Psalter of Tara [1745]
p. 125
Transcript.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1296 (H 2. 5) [s. xviii]
p. 109
Transcript.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2 (1080) [1627-1628]
p. 40
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 131 [s. xvii]
pp. 142–147
Not mentioned by Byrne.
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2569-2572 (4640) [s. xvii]
ff. 69r.i–73r.7
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 1 (935) [s. xviii]
p. 113
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iii 2 (619) [s. xviii]
p. 141
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 1 (583) [s. xix]
p. 589
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C vi 2 (582) [1715–1716]
Transcript.
Language
  • Late Middle Irish
Date
12th c.
Form
verse (primary)
Metre
  • sétnad mór (8²+7¹+8²+7¹)
Length
Number of stanzas: 80

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

kings of Ulsterkings of Ulster
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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.] [tr.] Byrne, F. J. [ed. and tr.], “Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna”, Studia Hibernica 4 (1964): 54–94.

Secondary sources (select)

Ní Mhaonaigh, Máire, “The Hectors of Ireland and the western world”, in: John Carey, Kevin Murray, and Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (eds), Sacred histories: a Festschrift for Máire Herbert, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015. 258–268.
Clarke, Michael, “An Irish Achilles and a Greek Cú Chulainn”, in: Ruairí Ó hUiginn, and Brian Ó Catháin (eds), Ulidia 2: proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Maynooth 24-27 July 2005, Maynooth: An Sagart, 2009. 238–251.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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December 2017, last updated: March 2024
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