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Trecheng breth Féne, or Triads of Ireland ‘A triadic arrangement of the judgments/sayings of the Irish’

  • Old Irish
  • prose
  • Medieval Irish wisdom literature
Manuscripts

With sigla as assigned by Meyer:

L:
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 5, cols 217-280 = YBL section [1407]
pp. 414b–418a in facsimile col. 236ff
B:
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
ff. 65b–66b
M:
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
ff. 190a1–191a2
Complete.
Lec/H'?/HLec:
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
ff. 183b–184b
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319 vol. 2, pp. 172-187, 192-194 = fragment of the Book of Lecan [xvin]
p. 183b17 ff
N:
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (967) = Book of Ballycummin [s. xvi]
pp. 98–100, 7–10, 101
H':
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (H 1. 15) = The Psalter of Tara [1745]
pp. 946–957
A paper MS written by Tadhg Tiorthach Ó Neachtain in 1745
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 27 (966) [1714]
ff. 1a–7b
written by Domnall (or Daniel) ó Duind mac Eimuinn.
Copy in Rylands Library, Manchester, poor and corrupted copy written by Peter O'Longan in 1836.
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.7 [s. xv?]
f. 9vb
Vellum.
Excerpts:
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 1 [s. xvi]
f. 65v line 12, ff
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 7 (660) [s. xix1]
ff. 1r–6v
Fragment beginning ratha Laighnen (§ 56).(1)n. 1 Kuno Meyer, The instructions of King Cormac mac Airt (1909): x note 1.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C ii 3 (1218) [s. xvi]
f. 13r
Fragment beginning Cend Eirenn Ardmacha (§ 106).(2)n. 2 Kuno Meyer, The instructions of King Cormac mac Airt (1909): x note 1.
Language
  • Old Irish

  • Old Irish.

Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Glosses to Trecheng breth Féne (TCD 1289)Glosses to Trecheng breth Féne (TCD 1289)Glosses by Tadhg Tiorthach Ó Neachtain to Trecheng breth Féne (Triads of Ireland) in Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (c. 1745).

Classification

Medieval Irish wisdom literatureMedieval Irish wisdom literature
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Contents

§§ 1-31: Irish monasteries » entry

§§ 32-61: Places and peoples » entry

§§ 33-115: miscellaneous » entry

§§ 116-123: Tréde neimthigedar... » entry

§§ 124-148: miscellaneous » entry

§§ 149-186: a legal series of triads » entry

§§ 187-214: miscellaneous » entry

§§ 215-229: miscellaneous » entry

§§ 230-256: miscellaneous » entry

Sources

Notes

1.
Kuno Meyer, The instructions of King Cormac mac Airt (1909): x note 1.
2.
Kuno Meyer, The instructions of King Cormac mac Airt (1909): x note 1.

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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], The Triads of Ireland, Todd Lecture Series, 13, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1906.
Shean-Ghaeilge (website of Dennis King) – edition and translation: <link> CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Kelly, Fergus, “Thinking in threes: the triad in early Irish literature [Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture]”, Proceedings of the British Academy 125 (2004): 1–18.  
comments: Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lectures
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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February 2011, last updated: January 2024
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