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Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Ceilbe

prose

verse

32 st.

beg. Mithid dam comma Ceilbe

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).

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Dinnshenchas of Ceilbe.

Ceileabram leighim lubrum

verse

5 st.

beg. Ceileabram, léighim, lubrum

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish poem (5 stt) attributed to Colum Cille.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Céis Chorainn

prose

verse

6 st.

beg. Sunda robói Corand cáin

Dinnshenchas of Céis Chorainn

Ceithre coimperta caema

verse

beg. Ceithre coimperta caema

Late Middle Irish poem on the nature and appearance of the Antichrist.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Cell Chorbbáin

verse

25 st.

beg. Cell Chorbbain, clár cen chreidim

Dinnshenchas of Cell Chorbbáin (Kilcorban).

Cath Maige Tuired, Sanas Cormaic, Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille, O'Davoren's glossary, Ind áer-sin do-rigne Cairpre mac Etaine do Bres mac Elathan, Bretha nemed dédenach

Cen cholt for crib cernine

verse

beg. Cen cholt for crib cernine

A quatrain of verse purporting to represent the first satire in Ireland.

Cenn ard Adaim étrocht rád

verse

3 st.

beg. Cenn ard Adaim, étrocht rád

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

(d. 1016)

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

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Brief Middle Irish poem on the origin and composition of Adam’s head and other body parts (head from ‘the land of Garad’, belly from Laban/Lodain, etc.). The copy in MS Rawlinson B 502 occurs as part of a poem on the Psalter (beg. A Dé dúlig, atat-teoch) and is directly followed by an additional quatrain with an ascription to Airbertach mac Coisse (d. 1016), saying that he translated the poem from Latin into Irish.

Bruiden Átha Í, Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Cenn Cuirrig

verse

prose

beg. Currech Life cona Lí

Dinnshenchas of Cenn Cuirrig.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Cenn Febrat

verse

prose

beg. Cend Febrat, álaind slíab sen

Mac Raith Úa PaainMac Raith Úa Paain

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Tract on the dinnshenchas of Cenn Febrat.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Cenn Finichair

verse

prose

16 st.

beg. Inmain in fáid Finichair

Finn mac Cumaill

Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)

Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían

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Dinnshenchas of Cenn Finichair

Cerball Currig cáem-Life

verse

20 st.

beg. Cerball Currig cáem-Life

Dallán mac Móre

Dallán mac Móre

(fl. c. 909)

early Irish poet; reputedly a bardic poet to Cerball mac Muirecáin, king of Leinster (d. c. 909)

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Poem (20 stanzas) concerning Cerball mac Muirecáin. Metre: casbairdne.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Cerna

prose

verse

25 st.

beg. Cía bem sund nar suidi sel

Text on the dinnshenchas of Cerna

Cert cech ríg co réil

verse

72 st.

beg. Cert cech ríg co réil

Fothud na Canóine

Fothud (or Fothad)

(d. 819)

early Irish poet who was attached to the church of Othain (now Fahan, Inishowen barony, Co. Donegal)

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Cét-rí ro-gab Érind uill

verse

14 st.

beg. Cét-rí ro-gab Érind uill

Poem (14qq) on the kings of Ailech who held the kingship of Ireland.

Macgnímartha Find

Cétamon

verse

14 st.

beg. Cétemain, caín cucht

Old Irish poem on May-day, which offers images of the season of May in all its vivid glory, from the blackbirds and bees to the appearance of the trees. The poem is extant as a composition incorporated in a later text, Macgnímartha Find (‘The boyhood deeds of Finn’), where it is attributed to Finn as a demonstration of his poetic skills after he had learned the three arts of poetry (teinm láeda, im-us forosna and díchetal di chennaib).

Cétbriathra Bic meic Dé

verse

beg. Ailech cen gíall, Temair hi tráig

Becc mac Dé

Becc mac Dé

(d. 550s)

legendary seer, best known from literary sources as an Irish prophet associated with Díarmait mac Cerbaill

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An Irish poem about the downfall of Ireland. The prose introduction explains it as a poem about the end of the world, representing the first words uttered by the prophet Becc mac Dé after his birth.

Cethrar cóic fichit iar fír

verse

beg. Cethrar cóic fichit iar fír

Poem on Adam's 124 children

Cethrar sagart súairc in dam

verse

prose

33 st.

beg. Cethrar sagart, súairc in dam

Baíthín of Taghboyne

Baíthín of Taghboyne

(fl. 6th/7th century?)

Baíthín mac Cúanach, saint associated with Tech Baithín/Taghboyne, Co. Westmeath, and said to belong to the Cenél Énda. According to Pádraig Ó Riain, he is ultimately identical with Baíthín/Baíthéne mac Brénainn, Colum Cille’s successor in Iona.

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Irish poem (33 stt.) found in Laud Misc. 615, where it is attributed to Baíthín mac Cúanach, saint associated with Tech Baithín/Taghboyne, Co. Westmeath.

Cethri meic Airtt Mis-Telmann

verse

3 st.

beg. Cethri meic Airtt Mis-Telmann

Short poem (3qq) on the four sons of Art Mes Telmann.

Cétna laithe tairiraith

verse

9 st.

beg. Cétna laithe tairiraith

Moelmoedóc mac DiarmadaMoelmoedóc mac Diarmada

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Middle Irish poem (9 qq) on the seven journeys of the soul after if leaves the body. It is found in the Leabhar Breac, where it is attributed to Moelmoedóc Ua Mongair but internally, in the final quatrain, to Moelmoedóc mac Diarmada, possibly referring to the abbot of Glen Uissen (Killeshin, Co. Laois) (ob. 917).

Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille

Cetracha sacart a lín

verse

1 st.

beg. Cetracha sacart a lín

A scrap of early Irish verse (1q only) cited the beginning of the preface (remfhocul) to Amra Choluim Chille. While in LU it occurs in the upper margin of the first page of the preface, with no explicit relationship being made to the text, it is more fully integrated into the main body of narrative in other manuscripts. The stanza gives a list of churchmen, together with their numbers, which in the context of the prose preface, would seem to refer to those who travelled with Colum Cille at the time of the convention of Druim Cetta.

Cind cethri ndíni iar Frigrind

verse

34 st.

beg. Cind cethri ndíni iar Frigrind forraig gleógal

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

Cinnus atá do thinnrem

verse

beg. Cinnus atá do thinnrem

Middle Irish poem of advice addressed to the student Máel Brigte

Clann Ailella Oluim uill

verse

8 st.

beg. Clann Ailella Oluim uill

Early Irish poem (8 qq) on the descendants of Ailill Ólom, king of Munster.

Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna

verse

80 st.

beg. Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna

Anonymous Irish poem (80 st.) on the Christian kings of Ulster, thought by F. J. Fyrne to have been written in the reign of Eochaidh Mac Duinnshléibhe (1158-1166).

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