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A aingil, beir a Míchíl mórfhertaig

verse

9 st.

beg. A aingil / beir a Míchíl mórfhertaig

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

(d. (c.) 1086)

No short description available

Metrical invocation (9qq, treochair) of Michael the archangel.

Middle IrishMichael the archangel

A Brénaind abair rium sin

verse

7 st.

beg. A Brénaind, abair rium sin

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

See more (ascr.)Brénainn of Clonfert

Brénainn of Clonfert

(d. 577)

Brénainn (Brenden; Brendan) mac Findloga, early Connacht saint, patron of Clonfert, and legendary voyager

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Irish dialogue poem (7 qq) between Colum Cille and Brendan of Clonfert.

Irish language

A Brighit a náemhingen

verse

5 st.

beg. A Brighit a náemhingen

A metrical dialogue (5 qq in Brussels MS 5100-5104) between Patrick and Brigit.

Early Irish

A Brigit cuinnigh ar Críst an cobair

verse

5 st.

beg. A Brigit cuinnigh / ar Críst an cobair

An Irish poem of praise (5 qq) addressed to St Brigit in the life of St Mo Ling that is known as Genemain Moling ocus a bethu (‘The birth and life of Mo Ling’). According to that narrative, Mo Ling recited the poem as a prayer for protection before continuing on a perilous journey and did not encounter an ambush thereafter. It is one of two poems addressed to Brigit in the life, the other beginning A Brigit bennach ar sétt.

Irish languageBrigit of Kildare

A chléirigh an churraigh cain

verse

7 st.

beg. A chléirigh, an churraigh cain

Irish languageColum Cille

A Chrínóc cubaid do cheól

verse

11 st.

beg. A Chrínóc, cubaid do cheól

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

(d. (c.) 1086)

No short description available

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Middle Irish lyrical poem addressed to a certain Crínóc (‘dear old little thing’, a hypocoristic form of crín). Crínóc is lovingly described as an old, judicious woman, who had lain with the speaker as well as other men yet who is without sin. James Carney was the first to suggest that she personifies an old psalm-book that the speaker had turned to since the age of seven, i.e. when he first received his religious education.

Middle Irishpsalters

A Dé dúlig, atat-teoch

verse

50 st.

beg. A Dé dúlig, atat-teoch

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

(d. 1016)

Irish poet; fer légind of Ros Ailithir (Rosscarbery, Co. Cork)

Poem on the psalms and other religious matters.

Middle IrishPsalms

A Dhé dhil tabair dham-sa adhám digh

verse

7 st.

beg. A Dhé dhil / tabair dham-sa adhám digh

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Irish poem (7 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Irish language

A dhuine nach creit íar cóir

verse

86 st.

beg. A dhuine nach creit íar cóir

Úa Cúanáin (Echtgus)

Úa Cúanáin (Echtgus)

(d. 1161?)

Author of a Middle Irish metrical treatise on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. According to a rubric in the Brussels copy of the poem, he was of the community of Roscrea. It has been suggested, e.g. by Aidan Breen, that he is the same person as Ísác Úa Cúanáin, first known bishop of Roscrea, whose obit is recorded in AFM under the year 1161.

Úa Cúanáin (Echtgus)

Úa Cúanáin (Echtgus)

(d. 1161?)

Author of a Middle Irish metrical treatise on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. According to a rubric in the Brussels copy of the poem, he was of the community of Roscrea. It has been suggested, e.g. by Aidan Breen, that he is the same person as Ísác Úa Cúanáin, first known bishop of Roscrea, whose obit is recorded in AFM under the year 1161.

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Late Middle Irish metrical treatise (86 qq) on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, attributed to Echtgus Ua Cúanáin of Roscrea.

Late Middle Irishreal presence of Christ in the Eucharisteucharists

A Éire is duit is doraidh

verse

8 st.

beg. A Éire, is duit is doraidh

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Irish poem (8 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Irish language

A fhir fhéil, madh áil let gan beith a péin

verse

3 st.

beg. A fhir fhéil, madh áil let gan beith a péin

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Early Irish religious poem (3 qq) ascribed to Colum Cille on the virtue of generosity.

Early Irish

A gilla glac do leabhar

verse

13 st.

beg. A gilla, glac do leabhar

Irish poem (13 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Irish language

A Maire mín maithingen

verse

beg. A Maire mín, maith-ingen

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Middle Irish litany (16 qq) attributed to Colum Cille

Middle IrishMary ... mother of Jesus

A meic madatt buan

verse

19 st.

beg. A meic madatt buan

Mo Ling

Mo Ling

(d. 697)

Irish saint, abbot and patron saint of Tech Mo Ling (St Mullins, Co. Carlow) and reputed ‘bishop’ of Ferna (Ferns).

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Irish poem (18 + 1 qq) attributed to Mo Ling.

Irish language

Acta sanctorum Hiberniae

prose

Colgan (John)

Colgan (John)

(d. 1658)

Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.

A collection of the acts of the Irish saints, written in Latin. It covers those saints whose feast-days were believed to fall in January, February and March.

Latin language

Additamenta in the Book of Armagh

prose

A collection of charter-like records in Latin and Old Irish relating the activities of St Patrick in Ireland and the lands that were granted to him and his church. The collection can be divided into three parts: (1) a text about the foundation of Trim (Co. Meath), including an account of the conversion of Feidlimid son of Lóegaire mac Néill, king of Leinster; (2) a group of six records concerning churches in northern Connacht; and (3) a group of four records concerning churches in Leinster.

Old IrishLatin languageSaint PatrickLeinster/Cúige LaigheanConnacht/Cúige ChonnachtÁth Truimm ... TrimArd Macha ... Armagh

Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano

prose

Latin Life of St Foillán of Fosses, a brother of St Fursa. It was written as a supplement to Vita Fursei. BHL 3211.

Latin languageHagiographyFursaNivialcha ... NivellesFoillanDido ... bishop of PoitiersGertrude of NivellesFosses-la-Ville

Admuinemmar nóeb Pátraicc

verse

beg. Ad-muinemmar nóeb Pátraicc

Fíacc of Sletty

Fíacc of Sletty

(supp. fl. 5th century)

reputed disciple of Saint Patrick, abbot and patron saint of Sléibte (Sletty, Co. Laois).

See more (ascr.)Niníne ÉcesNiníne Éces

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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Early Irish prayer which invokes St Patrick and was composed, according to the prose attribution, by either Niníne the poet (éces) or Fíacc of Sleibte (Sletty, Co. Laois).

Old IrishSaint Patrick

The adventures of Mac Dá Cherda

prose

Early Irish tale about (Comgán) Mac Dá Cherda, son of Máel Ochtraig (king of the Déisi of Mag Femen)

Early IrishComgán Mac Dá CherdaDéisi/Déssi

Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus caiticiosma

prose

Ó Cearnaigh (Seán)

Ó Cearnaigh (Seán)

(c.1540–c.1587)

Irish translator

Irish primer written by Seán Ó Cearnaigh, containing a Protestant catechism translated into Irish from a number of English-language sources, along with a letter to the reader and a version of the Articles of religion, and an alphabet of the Irish language. It was published in 1571 ‘in the house of alderman John Ussher’, in new Irish letter forms, and is known for being the first book in Irish to have been printed in Ireland. Like the translation of the Old and New Testament into Irish in later decades, its publication served a wider programme of propagating Protestantism among Irish Catholics by making use of the Irish language.

Early Modern Irish

Aingeal Dé dom dhín

verse

30 st.

beg. Aingeal Dé dom dhín

Irish poem of prayer for protection (30 qq). According to the editor, O’Nowlan, qq. 1–19 represent the original extent of the poem, ending as it does with a dúnad, while the remainder (beg. Dá apstol déc Dé) is an invocation that was added to the text.

Irish language

Airdena inna cóic lá ndéc ria mbráth

prose

Middle Irishfifteen signs before Doomsday

Aisling Tundail

prose

Ó Maoil Chonaire (Muirgheas mac Pháidín)

Ó Maoil Chonaire (Muirgheas mac Pháidín)

(d. 1543)

Muirgheas mac Pháidín Uí Maoil Chonaire, of Cluain Plocáin, scribe and compiler of the Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26).

Sixteenth-century Irish translation of the Latin Visio Tnugdali. The translation is the work of Muirgheas Ó Maoil Chonaire.

Early Modern IrishTnugdal ... Tundal(us)

Amra Senáin

verse

beg. Senán soer síd-athair

Dallán Forgaill

Dallán Forgaill

(fl. 597)

early Irish poet, known as the author of Amra Choluim Chille

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Eulogy on Senán mac Geirrcinn, saint of Inis Cathaig (Scattery Island, Co. Clare), with gloss.

Early IrishSenán of Inis Cathaig

An Biobla Naomhtha

form undefined

In 1690, the Irish translations of the Old and New Testament were published together as An Biobla Naomhtha. The printing of this book, which involved transliteration from Irish into Roman characters, was overseen by Rev. Robert Kirk, who intended it for Scottish Gaelic readers. Kirk’s effort met with little enthusiasm.

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