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Benaidh bhar cluig ar Conall

verse

3 st.

beg. Benaidh bhar cluig ar Conall

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish poem (3 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Caomh Colum cáidh ciuin cubaid cobsaid

verse

6 st.

beg. Caomh Colum cáidh ciuin cubaid cobsaid

Mongán mac Fiachnai

Mongán mac Fíachnai

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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.

Ceithre coimperta caema

verse

beg. Ceithre coimperta caema

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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 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.

Cormac húa Líathán lí nglan

verse

24 st.

beg. Cormac húa Líathán lí nglan

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Cris finnáin dumimdegail imum

verse

beg. Cris Finnáin dum imdegail imum

Cros an Choimdhedh cumachtaigh

verse

12 st.

beg. Cros an Choimdhedh cumachtaigh

Irish poem representing a dialogue between St Moling and Suibne.

Cughaire do-chúalammar

verse

3 st.

beg. Cúghaire dochúalammar

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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

Sex aetates mundi

Dá mac ar chaécait co mbroit

verse

6 st.

beg. Dá mac ar chaécait co mbroit

Mugrón Tuama dá Gualann

Mugrón Tuama dá Gualann

(d. 1032 (AFM))

Mugrón úa Níoc, abbot of Tuam; presumably the Mugrón ‘of Tuam’ (Tuaim dá Gualann) to whom a poem is attributed in the Book of Lecan version of Sex aetates mundi.

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Middle Irish poem found in the Book of Lecan version of Sex aetates mundi.

Dá mac déc Iacóib

verse

6 st.

beg. Dá mac déc Iacóib

Óengus mac SuibneÓengus mac Suibne

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Early Middle Irish(?) poem (6 qq) attributed to one Óengus mac Suibne on the twelve sons and one daughter of Jacob. The text is known from certain recensions of the Sex aetates mundi.

Danklied einer erlösten Seele

prose

verse

8 st.

beg. Bennacht for in n-irnaigthe

Prose anecdote about a soul released from hell through the mediation of prayer by an anonymous holy man (maybe St Gregory), including by a poem (8 qq) uttered by the soul in gratitude for his release.

Deichdúan na h-eisséirge

verse

beg. Ba cóir do cach crístaide

A group of ten Middle Irish poems on the week before Judgment Day, which is found as an addition at the end of Saltair na rann.

Dena a Ghuaire maith um ní

verse

beg. Dena, a Ghuaire, maith um ní

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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