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verse beg. Is aire charaim Doire

  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
A single Middle Irish quatrain of verse attributed (in prose) to Colum Cille and referring to his foundation at Derry. It is attested in Betha Choluim Chille.
First words (verse)
  • Is aire charaim Doire
“This is why I love Derry”
Author
Ascribed to: Colum CilleColum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
Columba
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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Attributed, by the prose introduction, to Colum Cille.
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Irish
  • late Middle Irish
Date
12th century (Murphy)
Form
verse (primary)
prose (secondary)

Verse, with prose introduction.

Length
Number of stanzas: 1

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Colum CilleColum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
Columba
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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Doire [Derry]Doire ... Derry

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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.] Murphy, Gerard [ed. and tr.], “Anonymous: Derry”, in: Gerard Murphy [ed. and tr.], Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. 68–69, 205.
CELT – edition: <link>
Critical edition, collated and emended
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Betha Choluim Chille: On the Life of Saint Columba”, in: Whitley Stokes, Three Middle-Irish homilies on the Lives of saints Patrick, Brigit and Columba, Calcutta, 1877. 89–125, 140.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
108–109 LB version
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.
CELT: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive: <link>
27 Lismore version
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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April 2012, last updated: September 2023
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