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verse beg. Eól dam seiser cloinne Cuinn

Néide ua Maolchonaire
  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry, eulogies and panegyrics
Praise poem tracing the descent of Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobair to Conn Cétchathach.
First words (verse)
  • Eól dam seiser cloinne Cuinn
Author
Néide ua MaolchonaireNéide ua Maolchonaire
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Ascribed to: Ó Dálaigh (Aonghus Fionn)
Ó Dálaigh (Aonghus Fionn)
(c.1548–c.1602)
also Aonghus Ó Dálaigh Fionn;
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In later manuscripts, the poem is frequently ascribed to Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh, but Ó Cróinín considers Néide ua Maolchonaire, to whom the poem is attributed in TCD 1291, to be a more probable candidate.
Manuscripts

include:

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 131 [s. xvii]
p. 105
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2 (1080) [1627-1628]
f. 27v
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 17 (790) = Ó Cléirigh book of genealogies [s. xvii]
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1378 (H 5. 6) [s. xvii]
p. 120 ff
48 st., ascribed to Néide Ó Maolchonaire.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1291 (H 1. 17) [1755]
Copy by Aodh Ó Dálaigh, similarly ascribed to Néide ua Maolchonaire.
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 24 [s. xviii]
p. 23 ff
Another copy by Aodh Ó Dálaigh, ascribed to Neidhe Ó Maoíl Chonaire.
Language
  • Middle Irish
Date
apparently mid-twelfth century (Ó Cróinín)
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 50

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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eulogies and panegyrics⟨document genres by function⟩
eulogies and panegyrics
id. 33145

Subjects

Ua Conchobair (Toirrdelbach)Ua Conchobair (Toirrdelbach)
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Conn Cétchathach
legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Fedlimid Rechtmar
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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 Cróinín, Dáibhí, “Eól dam seiser cloinne Cuinn: the fortunes of a twelfth-century Irish syncretistic poem”, in: Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon, and Westley Follett (eds), Gablánach in scélaigecht: Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 198–219.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “Eól dam seiser cloinne Cuinn: the fortunes of a twelfth-century Irish syncretistic poem”, in: Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon, and Westley Follett (eds), Gablánach in scélaigecht: Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 198–219.
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
November 2013, last updated: January 2024
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