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Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne ‘The pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne’

  • Early Modern Irish
  • prose
  • Finn Cycle
Manuscripts

Copies include:

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 9 (739) [1651]
Oldest manuscript. Beginning missing.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 27 (556) [s. xviii]
Language
  • Early Modern Irish
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)
Associated items
The chess-game beneath the yew-treeThe chess-game beneath the yew-tree

Classification

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle
id. 578

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.] Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa [ed. and tr.], Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne: The pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne, Irish Texts Society, 48, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1967.
Earlier editions
[ed.] [tr.] OʼDuffy, Richard J. [ed. and tr.], and Standish Hayes OʼGrady, Tóruigheacht Dhiarmuda agus Ghráinne: The pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne, 2 vols, 4th, revised ed., Dublin, 1903–1906.  
The second, third and fourth editions represent an enlarged work edited by O'Duffy, in succession of O'Grady's work (1880-1881).
Internet Archive – volume 1 of the 2nd edition (1884): <link>, <link>, <link>
[ed.] [tr.] OʼGrady, Standish Hayes [ed. and tr.], Tóruigheacht Dhiarmuda agus Ghráinne: The pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne, 2 vols, 1st ed., Dublin: Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language, 1880–1881.  
This work reproduces / re-uses O'Grady's earlier edition and translation in Transactions of the Ossianic Society 3. New editions were later published for the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language.
Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – vols 1 and 2: <link>, <link>, <link>
[ed.] OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, “Toruigheacht Dhiarmuda agus Ghrainne: The pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne”, in: Standish Hayes OʼGrady, Toruigheacht Dhiarmuda agus Ghrainne; or, the pursuit after Diarmuid O'Duibhne, and Grainne, the daughter of Cormac Mac Airt, King of Ireland in the third century, 3, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1857. 40–211.

Secondary sources (select)

Murray, Kevin, The early Finn Cycle, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. 200 pp.  
abstract:
The Finn (or Fenian) Cycle (fíanaigecht) is classified by modern scholarship as one of four medieval Irish literary cycles along with the Ulster Cycle, the Cycle of Historical Tales (or Cycles of the Kings) and the Mythological Cycle. It is primarily composed of material dealing with the legendary character Finn mac Cumaill, his warrior band (fían), his son Oisín and his grandson Oscar. In a fashion recalling the expansion of the Arthurian legend throughout Europe, the traditions centred on Finn grew from localized beginnings to spread throughout the entire Gaelic-speaking world. This study takes as its focus the early Finn Cycle, up to and including the composition of the most significant fíanaigecht tale, Acallam na senórach (‘The colloquy of the ancients’), at the beginning of the Early Modern Irish period. The volume also deals in detail with topics such as the nature of the fían; the extent of early fragmentary Finn Cycle sources; the background to Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne (‘The pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne’); the boyhood deeds and death of Finn; and the development of the Fenian lay tradition. The Early Finn Cycle details and investigates the primary and secondary sources for the study of this material and traces the literary development of the early fíanaigecht corpus. In so doing, it seeks to account for the emergence of the Finn Cycle from fragmentarily documented beginnings to become the dominant genre of Gaelic literature after 1200.
esp. 95–105
Breatnach, R. A., “Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne”, in: Myles Dillon (ed.), Irish sagas, Dublin, 1959. 138–151.  
Revised version of “The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Grainne” (1958)
Breatnach, R. A., “The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Grainne”, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 47:185 (Spring, 1958): 90–97.
OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, “Introduction”, in: Standish Hayes OʼGrady, Toruigheacht Dhiarmuda agus Ghrainne; or, the pursuit after Diarmuid O'Duibhne, and Grainne, the daughter of Cormac Mac Airt, King of Ireland in the third century, 3, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1857. 1–39.
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