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Hymn of Fíacc
verse beg. Génair Pátraicc i nNemthur

  • Old Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
Old Irish hymn attributed to Patrick’s pupil Fíacc of Sléibte (Sletty, Co. Laois).
First words (verse)
  • Génair Pátraicc i nNemthur
Author
Ascribed to: Fíacc of SlettyFíacc of Sletty
(supp. fl. 5th century)
reputed disciple of Saint Patrick, abbot and patron saint of Sléibte (Sletty, Co. Laois).
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Manuscripts
Language
  • Old Irish
Date
The poem is usually dated to (c.) the eighth century (Grosjean 1950, Binchy 1962), with Grosjean arguing for some ninth-century interpolations. Ó Riain (1997) allows for the possibility that it may have been composed as late as the 9th century.
Form
verse (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Pátraicc Macha mártai GaídilPátraicc Macha mártai GaídilMiddle Irish poem (13 st.) in praise of St Patrick.

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Saint PatrickSaint Patrick
(fl. 5th century)
St Patrick
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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, and John Strachan [eds.], Thesaurus palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old-Irish glosses, scholia, prose, and verse, 3 vols, vol. 2: Non-Biblical glosses and scholia; Old-Irish prose; names of persons and places; inscriptions; verse; indexes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903.  
comments: Reprinted by DIAS in 1987, together with Stokes' supplementary volume.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Wikisource: <link>
307–321 direct link
[ed.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson [eds.], The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 1: Text and introduction, Henry Bradshaw Society, 13, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.  
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> – originally from Google Books: <link>
97–103 direct link
[tr.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson, The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translation and notes, Henry Bradshaw Society, 14, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.  
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books (missing: pp. 18-19, 86-87): <link>
32–35 direct link
[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, The tripartite Life of Patrick: with other documents relating to that saint, 2 vols, vol. 2, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, 89.2, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1887.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive: <link>
402–427

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Riain, Pádraig, “When and why Cothraige was first equated with Patricius?”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 49–50 (1997): 698–711.
Binchy, D. A., “Patrick and his biographers: ancient and modern”, Studia Hibernica 2 (1962): 7–173.
Carney, James P., The problem of St. Patrick, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1961.
Grosjean, Paul, “S. Patrice d’Irlande et quelques homonymes dans les anciens martyrologes”, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 1:2 (1950): 151–171.
Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson, The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translation and notes, Henry Bradshaw Society, 14, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.  
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books (missing: pp. 18-19, 86-87): <link>
175–187 Notes to the text direct link
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