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verse beg. Sloinfead scothadh na Gaoidhilge grinn

Ó Neachtain (Tadhg)

• Modern Irish
• verse

A versified Irish list (26 qq) of scholars and scribes active in Dublin in the early 18th century. T. F. O'Rahilly, who produced an edition of the poem, attributes the poem to Tadhg Ó Neachtain, who also wrote the manuscript in which the poem is attested.

Initial words (verse)

• Sloinfead scothadh na Gaoidhilge grinn

Author

Tadhg Ó NeachtainÓ Neachtain (Tadhg)
(c.1670–c. 1752)
Irish scribe and scholar, son of Seán Ó Neachtain.
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Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1361 (H 4. 20) [1725-1729]

  p. 113

  26 qq. O'Rahilly notes that an additional quatrain is added in a later hand, in honour of Seaán Ó Héidéin = John Heyden.

Language

• Modern Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Number of stanzas

26

Classification

Subjects

Dublin

Baile Átha Clíath ... Dublin

County Dublin

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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.] O'Rahilly, T. F., “Irish scholars in Dublin in the early eighteenth century”, Gadelica: A Journal of Modern-Irish Studies 1:3 (1912–1913): 156–162.

CELT – Edition: <link> – Edition of the poem (pp. 158-161): <link>

[ed.] Connellan, Thaddeus, An duanaire, fonna seanma, danta, agus ranna ... : a selection of Irish melodies, poems and moral epigrams, collected from ancient manuscripts and oral tradition, Dublin: Printed for M. Goodwin, 1829.

Secondary sources (select)

Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa, “Irish scholars and scribes in eighteenth-century Dublin”, Eighteenth-Century Ireland 4 (1989): 41–54.

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