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Murphy, Gerard, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 3: Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary, Irish Texts Society, 43, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953.

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3
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Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn : Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary- vol. 3 (3 vols)
Place
London
Publisher
Irish Texts Society
Year
1953
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Gerard Murphy • Eoin MacNeill, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn (1908–1953)
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Somhairle Mac DomhnaillMac Domhnaill (Somhairle)
(c. 1586–1632)
(Captain) Somhairle Mac Domhnaill, soldier who belonged to Clann Dhomhnaill of Co. Antrim; ended up in Flanders in 1616 to join the Irish regiment of the Spanish army; a patron who commissioned the compilation of Irish manuscripts.
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Aodh Ó DochartaighÓ Dochartaigh (Aodh)
(fl. 17th century, first half)
Doharty (Don Hugo)
Irish soldier and scribe. His patron was Capt. Somhairle Mac Domhnaill for whom he compiled two volumes of Irish verse, namely volume b of UCD Franciscan MS A 20 (Duanaire Finn) and the Book of the O'Conor Don.
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Foreword
iii–vi
“Introduction”
ix
“Notes on the poems”
3
Appendices
[App. A] “Orally preserved Fionn helper-tales”
177
[App. B] “Literary tales and folkstory-tellers”
188
[App. C] “On the use of the words ‘literature’, ‘unlettered’, etc.”
189
[App. D] “Antiquity of many Irish folktale motifs”
192
[App. E] “Attaching of the same folk theme to different fictional of historical figures”
194
[App. F] “On the use of non-essential resemblance to establish real influence of one story on another”
197
Foster (Idris L.), [App. G] “Gwynn ap Nudd”
198
[App. H] “Celtic divine synonyms”
205
[App. I] “Donu and Túatha Dé Donann”
208
[App. J] “Former theories concerning the origin of the Fionn cycle”
210
[App. K] “A. G. van Hamel's views concerning the origin of the Arthurian cycle and the Fionn cycle”
213
Jennings (Brendan), [App. L] “Some documents concerning the scribe of Duanaire Finn and his patron”
217
“Glossary”
“Addenda and corrigenda”
430
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Dennis Groenewegen
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