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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’.

Tarfas dam-sa dul for sét

verse

3 st.

beg. Tarfas dam-sa dul for sét

Brief Irish poem (3 qq), with prose preface, concerning a dream of Colum Cille.

Tegh Mulling meic Faolain

verse

5 st.

beg. Tegh Mulling meic Faolain

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 of three lines each) attributed to Colum Cille.

Temair Bregh gidh línmar libh lín a fer

verse

9 st.

beg. Temair Bregh / gidh línmar libh lín a fer

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish poem (9 stt.) attributed to Colum Cille, on the decline of Tara.

Tiucfa aimser dubach

verse

28 st.

beg. Tiucfa aimser dubach / cumthach brónach

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish prophetic poem ascribed to Colum Cille.

Tiughulbh in tighe abadh

verse

17 st.

beg. Tiughulbh in tighe abadh

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Medieval Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille, which tells of three Pictish brothers and their building works (mounds, etc.) in the area of land belonging to Dairmag (Durrow) at a time when Laisrén was prior of the monastery.

Torach aitreab nemnech naomh

verse

17 st.

beg. Torach, aitreab nemnech naomh

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish poem (17 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

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).

Tríar as mesa tic a clí

verse

5 st.

beg. Tríar as mesa tic a clí

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish poem (5 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Trúag lem a Baithín dil bías

verse

28 st.

beg. Trúag lem, a Baithín dil bías

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish poem (28 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

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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