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Early Modern version or versions, of the tale of the battle of Ros na Ríg on the Boyne, written in a mix of prose and verse. It has been argued, foremost by Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, that it derives from a Middle Irish recension that is distinct from that contained in the Book of Leinster and that the latter represents a particular scribal innovation which draws on a common ancestor.

Coimétor liph cend an rígh

verse

30 st.

beg. Coimétor liph cend an rígh

Medieval Irish poem attributed in the final stanza to Aífe ingen Shogain, a síd-woman from Carn Treóin, and addressed by her to the Érainn, asking them to preserve the head of Cú Roí and recite his deeds.

Foras feasa ar Éirinn

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Keating (Geoffrey)

Keating (Geoffrey)

(c.1580–1644)

Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn

The prose history of Ireland completed by Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) in c. 1634. Comprising an introduction, two books and appendices, it narrates the history of the island from the time of Creation to the Norman conquest in the 12th century. As set out by the vindicatory introduction (an díonbhrollach), the work was written in response to the cultural biases of Anglo-centric writers (e.g. William Camden and Edmund Spenser).

Goire Conaill Chernaig ocus Aided Ailella ocus Conaill Chernaig

prose

Oidheadh chloinne hUisneach

prose

verse

prosimetrum

Tale of the Ulster Cycle which can be described as a later, Early Modern Irish version of Longes mac nUislenn.

Oidheadh Chonlaoich

prose

Oidheadh Con Culainn

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Sgéala muice Meic Dhá Thó

form undefined

Early modern version of Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó

Táin bó Cúailnge III

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Táin bó Cúailnge

prose

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.

Tóraigheacht tána bó Flidaise

prose

verse

Early Modern Irish tale forming a sequel to Táin bó Flidaise. It relates how the Gamhanraidh go in pursuit of Fergus and the men of Ireland to recover the magical cow of Flidais, Maol Flidaise.

Tóruigheacht Gruaidhe Griansholus

prose

Tromdámh Guaire

prose

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