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Scíath Dé do nim umam

verse

26 st.

beg. Scíath Dé do nim umam

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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A lorica (lúirech) attributed to Colum Cille.

Scuchais in fer cerdda ar cáe

verse

6 st.

beg. Scuchais in fer cerdda ar cáe

Poem (6qq) on Cairid mac Findcháem, an ancestor of the Conmaicne Cúile Tolad and Síl Caritha, who was blessed by St Patrick. The earliest manuscript version, which is in Rawlinson B 502, adds two additional quatrains, which are, however, metrically distinct from the first 6 qq of the poem.

Simon Madian is Matha

verse

2 st.;1 st.

beg. Simon, Madian is Matha

A single quatrain in the Liber hymnorum (TCD MS 1441, f. 31vb), which lists names of the twelve apostles. A note in at least one version of the Commentary to Félire Óengusso (31 July) gives the same quatrain but adds another quatrain with names of prominent Irish saints corresponding in part to other lists of the ‘twelve apostles of Ireland’.

Trea ropo maith in ben

verse

4 st.

beg. Trea ropo maith in ben

Brief Irish poem (4 qq) on Trea or Créde, daughter of Rónán king of Leinster, and the strange conception of her son Baethín, patron saint of Ennisboyne.

Trédhe nach fuilngeand rígh réil

verse

beg. Trédhe nach fuilngeand rígh réil

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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Medieval Irish prophetic poem (72 qq) attributed in the final stanza to Bécán Bec mac Dé, better known elsewhere as the prophet Bec mac Dé. According to Eleanor Knott, it is a composite work, which may be regarded as falling into at least two sections (A = qq. 1–13, B = qq. 14-72).

Uch, a Dé

verse

6 st.

beg. Uch, a Dé

Middle Irish religious poem (6 qq)

Uga Corbmaic meic Cuilendáin

verse

29 st.

beg. In rogh so, a Rí na run

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

(d. 908)

bishop and king of Munster

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Early Irish religious poem (29qq) attributed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin. What appears to be a full copy of text is attested in a single manuscript, while fragments of it also turn up as citations elsewhere.

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Irish and Irish Latin religious literature

Irish and Irish Latin religious literature / hagiography /

Irish literature and learning / misc. learning and lore

Irish poetry

Irish poetry / Early Irish (to c.1200)

Irish poetry / lyrical

Irish religious literature / liturgical and devotional

Irish religious literature / liturgical and devotional / prayers and hymns

Irish religious literature / magical and divinatory / verbal charms and incantations /

Misc. / collections of verse (anthologies, etc.)

Misc. / dialogue and question-and-answer literature

Misc. / eulogies and panegyrics

Misc. / lists of people

Misc. / liturgical and devotional / prayers and hymns

Misc. / prophetic (vaticinatory) literature

Misc. / religious / apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature

Misc. / religious literature / theology and exegesis

Misc. / religious literature / visions and eschatology

Misc. / riddles and puzzles

Misc. > religious / / liturgical / martyrologies

Language

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Irish > Early > Middle Irish
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