Texts
Dinnshenchas of Srúb Brain
verse
prose
beg. Matan do Choin na Cerdda
Dinnshenchas of Srúb Brain. The placename is etymologised as ‘Raven’s Bill’ with reference to an account of how Cú Chulainn killed a multitude of giant ravens or black birds and placed the bill of the last bird on the rock (Srúb Brain).
Middle IrishdinnshenchasCú ChulainnDún Delga ... Castletown HillSrúb Brain ... Stroove PointRamannRedg
Táin bó Cúailnge
prose
Old IrishMiddle IrishEarly Modern IrishMedb of CrúachanFindabair, FinnabairFergus mac RóichDubthach Dóel UladConall CernachThe MorríganCú ChulainnLugAmairgen mac Eccit (Salaig)The seven MainesCathbadFer DiadConchobar mac NessaCú Roí (mac Dáiri)Cormac Cond LongasFráechCethern mac FintainMunremar mac GerrcindEógan mac DurthachtAillil mac Máta
Táin bó Dartada
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Late Old IrishEarly Middle IrishAilill mac MátaDartaidEochu Becc mac CoirpriOrlám mac Ailella
Táin bó Flidais
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Early Irish tale which relates how Fergus mac Róich came to slay Ailill Find, king of the Ciarraige, and gained the latter's wife Flidais. It is regarded as one of the remscéla to the Táin bó Cúailnge.
Old Irishremscéla to Táin bó CúailngeAilill mac MátaFergus mac RóichFlidaisBricriuDubthach Dóel Ulad
Táin bó Flidaise II
prose
verse
Early Modern Irish recension of Táin bó Flidais, which relates how the exiled Ulster hero Fergus mac Róich obtained his wife Flidais after killing her husband Ailill Finn, king of the Ciarraige. In the earliest manuscript, it forms part of a longer narrative work about Fergus, beginning with Oidheadh Chloinne Uisnigh and concluding with a sequel entitled Tóraigheacht tána bó Flidaise.
Early Modern Irish
Táin bó Fraích
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Old Irishremscéla to Táin bó CúailngeMedb of CrúachanAilill mac MátaConall CernachFráechFindabair
Táin bó Regamna
prose
(arguably) one of the remscéla to the Taín.
Early Irishremscéla to Táin bó CúailngeThe MorríganCú Chulainn
Talland Étair
prose
Late Old IrishEarly Middle IrishgeisConall CernachCú ChulainnAthirneBenn Étair ... Hill of HowthLeborchamail-geis
Tathus drecht dron-amhnus
verse
beg. Tathus drecht dron-amhnus
Early Irish poem about Cú Chulainn, attested as an addition to several copies of the dinnshenchas of Srúb Brain.
Early IrishCú Chulainn
Teacht Chonnlaoich go hÉirinn
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Gaelic ballad version of the story of Cú Chulainn and the killing of his only son. This story is also known in an early prose form from Aided óenfir Aífe and in a later prose form from Oidheadh Chonlaoich.
Cú Chulainn
Tecosc Cuscraid
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A short series of precepts addressed to Cúscraid Mend Macha, Conchobor’s son and heir, by his foster-father Conall Cernach. The text is found in the introductory part of the tale of Cath Airtig.
Early IrishConall CernachCúscraid Mend Macha
Tochmarc Baisi bandruad
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A very short text written in an obscure form of medieval Irish and apparently relating to a meeting between Fachtna Fáthach, known from other sources as a legendary king of Ulster, and a certain Bais, sorceress (bandruad) and daughter of Crunnmáel.
Irish languageFachtna FáthachBais ingen Crunnmaíl
Tochmarc Emire
prose
Early Irishremscéla to Táin bó CúailngeAífe ingen AirdgemeConall CernachCú ChulainnConchobar mac NessaEmer ingen ForgaillScáthachLóegaire Búadach
Tochmarc Ferbe
prose
prosimetrum
Prosimetric tale from the Ulster Cycle
Middle IrishCú ChulainnCathbadConchobar mac NessaThe BadbMugainFerb
Tochmarc Lúaine ocus Aided Athairne
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Middle IrishConall CernachCú ChulainnAthirneManannán mac LirCathbadConchobar mac NessaSencha mac AilellaLeborchamCeltchar (mac Uithechair)Cúscraid Mend MachaMunremar mac GerrcindEógan mac Durthacht
Tochmarc Treblainne
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Middle IrishMedb of CrúachanAilill mac MátaMidir of Brí LéithCairpre Nia FerFráechBóann
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