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Agents



A module for identifying agents - encompassing persons, peoples and organisations - and managing information about them has been around for many years, continually evolving as time went by, but what was absent all this time is a public interface for accessing relevant data in a user-friendly way.

This is a first attempt at offering such an interface, which is provided "as-is" and should be considered beta-quality for now (not that there is any official product release cycle as such but using the label is a convenient means to sound the right alarm bells). It currently consists of a basic search, aggregated data overviews for individual agents, and hover-card labels that you will meet elsewhere in the catalogue.

I am aware of duplicates, uneven coverage and other shortcomings that typically arise from the progressive nature of this website or simply, lack of personpower. An earlier version of the interface was available to editors partly because it helps us address some of those issues. None of these objections, however, seemed to weigh heavily against the alternative, which is having nothing at all to offer.

Note that for convenience's sake, many agents are not formally indexed but are nonetheless included by exclusive virtue of being linked. It is a wonderful forte of the system that allows us to retrieve and bring together disparate data from disparate data sources, but some useful metadata will be missing and discoverability is more limited as a result. For instance, we may be linking to a scribe whose name and associated data can be retrieved and presented, but without, say, a floruit it will be difficult to find this person within the appropriate time range. I say "difficult" because it is possible, to an extent, to rely on the dates we have, if any, for associated objects (manuscripts, scribal hands), but such a circuitous approach comes with limitations of its own and is not necessarily methodologically sound.

Meanwhile, I hope that the new interface will improve your experience in using this website. Next up are thematic categories for scribes (in the broadest, non-pejorative sense of the word), authors and scholars.

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Scribes
  • Pilib Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin
    fl. second half of the 16th century
    Irish historian and scribe, known for producing NLI MS G 1.
  • Domhnall Ó Teimhinn
    s. xviiiin
    Domhnall Ó Teimhinn (or perhaps Teinn), Irish scribe
  • Mac Aodhagáin family
    Mac Aedagáin; MacEgan (anglicized); important learned family of legal historians and scribes based in Connacht and Co. Tipperary.
  • William Jordan [of Helston]
    fl. 1611
    Cornishman responsible for an incomplete transcript of the Cornish biblical play known as The creacion of the world or Gwreans an bys.
  • Mícheál mac Peadair Ó Longáin
    c.1693–c.1770
    scribe from Limerick
  • Aodhagán Mac Aodhagáin
    fl. 16th century
    Irish scribe of the Meic Aodhagáin, son of Conchobhar.
  • John Leland
    c.1503–1552
    English antiquary and poet.
  • Murchadh Ó Cuindlis
    ''fl. c''.1400?
    Murchadh (Riabhach) Ó Cuindlis, Irish scribe; pupil of Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh
  • Uilliam Mac an Leagha
    fl. 15th century
    Irish author, translator and scribe
  • Pádruic Gruamdha Ó Siadhail
    fl. 1657–58
    Irish scribe.
  • Robert of Poppleton
    fl. 14th century
    Carmelite friar, who had been a brother of the priory at York and later became prior of the Carmelite friary at Hulne, near Alnwick (Northumberland). He oversaw and probably contributed to the compilation of BNF lat. 4126, the so-called Poppleton manuscript.
  • Finghin Ó Scannaill
    fl. 19th century
    Irish scribe who worked for James Hardiman.
  • Ó Duibhgeannáin family
    angl. Duigenan, important learned family of historians and scribes
  • Thomas ab Ieuan ap Deicws
    fl. 16th century
    Welsh priest(?) and scribe.
  • William Reeves
    1815–1892
    Irish antiquarian scholar; bishop of the Anglican see of Down, Connor and Dromore; keeper of the Armagh Public Library
  • Authors

    A random selecton of authors and those so described.

  • Hervé Le Boterf
    1921–2000
    Writer and journalist who specialised in Breton history.
  • Gronw Ddu
    s. xiv
  • Cúanu mac Ailchíne
    King of the Fir Maige Féne.
  • Prudentius [bishop of Troyes]
    d. 861
    Bishop of Troyes, theologian and historian. He was born in Spain and became active at the Frankish court in the time of Louis the Pious. In response to Hincmar and Eriugena, he wrote treatises on the doctrine of predestination.
  • Cadwgan [bishop of Bangor]
    d. 1241
    Bishop of Bangor (1215–1235/6), previously abbot of Whitland.
  • Aughuistín Magraidhin
    fl. c.1349–d. 1405
    Irish chronicler and canon regular at the Augustinian priory of All Saints on Oileán na Naomh (Saints Island) in Lough Ree (Co. Longford).
  • John Colgan
    d. 1658
    Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.
  • Colum Cille
    fl. 6th century
    founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
  • William Bedell
    d. 1642
    English churchman, bishop of Kilmore, Co. Cavan (Church of Ireland); commissioned and assisted an Irish translation of the Old Testament (Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna), printed in 1684.
  • Fedelm [Connacht prophetess]
    female poet (banfhili) and seeress (banfáith) associated with Connacht at the beginning of recensions I and II of the Táin; trained in Alba, according to the first recension; may ultimately be identical with the Fedelm Foltcháin who features in the fore-tale (remscél) known as Ces Ulad.
  • John O'Donovan
    1806–1861
    Irish scholar
  • Thomas Pennant
    1726–1798
    Welsh naturalist, traveller and antiquary.
  • Aindrias Mac Cruitín
    c.1650–1738
    Irish poet
  • Tadhg Óg Ó hUiginn
    d. 1448
    Irish bardic poet of the Uí hUiginn of Connacht, son of poet Tadhg Ó hUiginn. His extant work reveals a wide range of elite patrons for whom he composed poems.
  • Bede
    d. 735
    English monk at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow; author of the ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'' and works on various religious and theological subjects.