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Lebor gabála Érenn, Ó Cléirigh recension ‘The book of the taking of Ireland’

  • Early Modern Irish, Modern Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings, Irish legendary history, Lebor gabála Érenn, Mythological Cycle, Compilation
A modern version of Lebor gabála Érenn, revised by Micheál Ó Cléirigh and his associates in 1631.
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Scope
redaction/recension
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Manuscripts
Primary witnesses
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 32 (617) [s. xvii]
In the hand of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 70 [s. xvii]
autograph manuscript of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh; incomplete
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iii 3 (777) [s. xvii]
Copies derived from the above, including:
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1286 1, pp. 1–184 [1742]
Revised copies.(1)n. 1 R. Mark Scowcroft, ‘Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text’, Ériu 38 (1987): 84.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 30 (485) = Seanchaidhe Muimhneach [1739]
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 18 [1721–1722]
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 94
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 296 [1763]
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1296 (H 2. 5) [s. xviii]
Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 40
Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 60
Maynooth, Russell Library, MS C 98
Fermoy, St Colman's College, MS CF 16
Abbreviated
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 22
Language
  • Early Modern Irish Modern Irish
  • Early Modern Irish/Modern Irish.
Associated items
A chóemu cláir Chuinn choímfhinnA chóemu cláir Chuinn choímfhinn

Middle Irish poem (25 qq) attributed to Eochaid úa Flainn concerning the first settlements of Ireland by Cessair and Partholón. The poem as we have it was incorporated in the Lebor gabála Érenn and is common to all major recensions.

A Emain idnach óebindA Emain idnach óebind

Middle Irish poem which is concerned with the origins of Emain Macha and is attested as a poem incorporated in recensions of Lebor gabála Érenn. While the Book of Leinster version seems to break off after 16 qq, the longer version which occurs in other recensions (46 qq) has a final quatrain which attributes the poem to Eochaid úa Flainn.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80
Irish legendary historyIrish legendary history
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Lebor gabála Érenn
Lebor gabála Érenn
id. 4019
Mythological CycleMythological Cycle
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CompilationCompilation
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Sources

Notes

1.
R. Mark Scowcroft, ‘Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text’, Ériu 38 (1987): 84.

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.] Macalister, R. A. S., and John Mac Neill, Leabhar Gabhála: the book of conquests of Ireland. The recension of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, vol. 1, Dublin, 1916.  
comments: Unfinished, as no further volumes have been forthcoming.
Internet Archive: <link>
Edition, with translation, based on 23 K 32. It is left incomplete.

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Pádraig A., “On the Ó Cléirigh recension of Leabhar gabhála”, Éigse 37 (2010): 1–57.
Flahive, Joseph J., “Macalister and the Ó Cleirigh Leabhar Gabhála”, in: John Carey (ed.), Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009. 76–93.
Carey, John (ed.), Lebor gabála Érenn: textual history and pseudohistory, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series, 20, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 2009.
Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I: the growth of the text”, Ériu 38 (1987): 79–140.  
Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988): 1–66.  
Hamel, A. G. van, “On Lebor Gabála”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 10 (1915): 97–197.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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January 2013, last updated: January 2024
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