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Clanna Bresail Bricc builid

verse

13 st.

beg. Clanna Bresail Bricc builid

Middle Irish poem on Leinster dynasties.

Clanna Israél uili

verse

43 st.

beg. Clanna Israél uili

Flann Fína mac OssuFlann Fína mac Ossu

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Early Irish poem ascribed to Flann Fína mac Ossu, which relates how Mog Ruith beheaded John the Baptist.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Cleitech

prose

verse

6 st.

beg. Cleitech in druí díles daith

Text on the dinnshenchas of Cleitech

Clocán binn

verse

beg. Clocán binn

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Clóenloch

prose

verse

4 st.

beg. Sund dodechaid Clóen ar chel

Text on the dinnshenchas of Clóenloch

Cluig tolla senbachla crína croma

verse

3 st.

beg. Cluig tolla / senbachla crína croma

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Brief Irish poem (3 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Sanas Cormaic, Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Cnocc Rafann

verse

prose

1 st.

beg. Inráith morsa (ł hisa) forsna mfil

Mac Dá CherdaMac Dá Cherda

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Dinnshenchas of Cnocc Rafann

Coeca fichet filed

verse

beg. Coeca fichet filed

One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’

Cóic adnaicthi ní mod mend

verse

7 st.

beg. Cóic adnaicthi, ní mod mend

Short, early Irish poem (7 qq) found in the Leabhar Breac.

Cóic Mumain i Mumain móir

verse

7 st.

beg. Cóic Mumain i Mumain móir

Topographical poem on the five divisions of Munster.

Cóic ríg tríchat do Laignib

verse

beg. Cóic ríg tríchat do Laignib

Middle Irish poem which, as the opening quatrain announces, lists 35 kings of Leinster who were high-kings of early Ireland, from Labraid Loingsech to Nad Buidb mac Eirc.

Cóic ríg tríchat triallsat róe

verse

55 st.

beg. Cóic ríg tríchat triallsat róe

Middle Irish poem (55qq) which enumerates early medieval kings of Leinster since the arrival of Christianity. According to M. A. O'Brien, who published an edition of the text, the poem is a composite work consisting of two parts: the first, longer series of stanzas (1-38) listing 35 kings from Crimthann mac Énnai Chennselaig to Fáelán mac Muiredaig (d. 934), together with two additional quatrains of slightly later date (39-40), and a final series (41-55) ending with Donnchadh mac Dúnlaing (d. 1036). The final kings in both parts are represented as being still alive.

Cóica traighedh tólaibh tlacht

verse

2 st.

beg. Cóica traighedh tólaibh tlacht

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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Two sts of a medieval Irish poem concerning the gigantic physical heights of Tadg mac Céin and Conchobar mac Nessa.

Cóictach descipul foglaintid

verse

10 st.

beg. Cóictach, descipul, foglaintid

Úa Cerbaill (Máel Suthain)Úa Cerbaill (Máel Suthain)

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Medieval Irish poem attributed to the Munster scholar Máel Suthain Úa Cerbaill (d. 1010), dealing with the ecclesiastical and secular grades.

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.

Coinne Mongain is Coluim caim

verse

22 st.

beg. Coinne Mongáin is Coluim caim

Muru of Fahan

Muru of Fahan

(c.600–c.650)

founder and patron saint of Othain (now Fahan, Inishowen barony, Co. Donegal)

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Irish poem on Colum Cille, attributed to Mura.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Coire mBreccáin

prose

verse

23 st.

beg. Coire Breccáin, bail i fail

Dinnshenchas of Coire mBreccáin

The colloquy between Fintan and the hawk of Achill

verse

116 st.

beg. Arsaidh sin, a eoúin Accla

Poem presenting a conversation between Fintan mac Bóchra, the sole survivor of the Flood, and an ancient hawk (seboc) of the island of Achill.

Colum caid cumachtach

verse

5 st.

beg. Colum cáid cumachtach

Cainnech of Aghaboe

Cainnech of Aghaboe

Cainnech moccu Dalonn, patron saint of Achad Bó Chainnig (Aghaboe, Co. Laois) and Cell Chainnig (Kilkenny)

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Prayer (5st in ochtfhoclach metre) for Colum Cille attributed to Cainnech.

Colum Cille cend Alban

verse

beg. Colum Cille cend Alban

Mugrón [abbot of Iona]

Mugrón ... abbot of Iona

(d. c.981)

Abbot of Iona and supposed author of a number of vernacular Irish poems. His obit in AFM remembers him as ‘scribe/writer and bishop, sage of the three divisions’ (scribhnidh ⁊ epscop, saoi na t-Tri Rand).

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Colum Cille co Dia domerail

verse

beg. Colum Cille co Dia domerail

Adomnán

Adomnán

(fl. c.628–704)

Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.

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Baíthéne mac Brénainn

(d. 598)

Second abbot of Iona, in succession to Colum Cille.

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Early Irish devotional poem addressed to Colum Cille and usually attributed to Adomnán.

Comad croiche Críst

verse

7 st.

beg. Creidim-si Críst israeracht

Comae ríaguil in Choimded

verse

beg. Comae ríaguil in Choimded

Early Irish religious poem which prescribes a set of moral guidelines that together make up ‘the rule of the Lord’ (ríagal in Choimded). Strachan, who first edited the poem, distinguishes between two recensions, A and B, both of which carry some interpolations of their own.

Comhardadh cionnas is cóir

verse

20 st.

beg. Comhardadh cionnas is cóir

Comrac Líadaine ocus Cuirithir

prosimetrum

prose

verse

Prosimetric story about the tragic love relationship between two professional poets, Líadain, a poetess of the Corcu Duibne, and Cuirithir, a Connachtman.

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