Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Benn Bóguineprose
verse
22 st.
beg. Fil dam aichne áige
Dinnshenchas of Benn Bóguine
Dinnshenchas Érenn A
Dinnshenchas of Benn Étair Iverse
beg. Étar étan ri dílind
Cináed úa hArtacáin
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Cináed úa hArtacáin
(d. 975)
Middle Irish poet.
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Poem on the Hill of Howth, Co. Dublin.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn C supplement
Dinnshenchas of Benn Étair IIverse
beg. Cid dorcha dam im lepaid
Poem on the dinnshenchas of Benn Étair (Hill of Howth, Co. Dublin)
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Berbaprose
verse
beg. In Berba búan a bailbe
Dinnshenchas of the River Barrow (Berba)
Bliadhain don cuaille co cert
verse
10 st.
beg. Bliadhain don cuaille co cert / a trí don gurt 'na glasbert
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Boand Iverse
beg. Síd Nechtain sund forsin t-shléib
Cuán ua LothcháinCuán ua Lothcháin
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Dinnshenchas poem of the River Boyne (Boand).
Bóroma Laigen na learg
verse
beg. Bóroma Laigen na learg
Bran Find Femin
verse
beg. Bran Find Femin, fūath slūaig
Old Irish poem on Brand Find (d. 671), king of the Déisi.
Brathir Fursu cóir a rad
verse
5 st.
beg. Brathir Fursu, cóir a rad
Brief Irish poem (5 qq) on Fursa and other saints supposed to have been the offspring of Brónach daughter of Miliuc.
Independent, Betha Brigte (Middle Irish)
Brigit bé bithmaithverse
beg. Brigit bé bithmaith
Colum Cille
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Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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Broccán clóen
(d. 650)
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Brénainn of Clonfert
(d. 577)
Brénainn (Brenden; Brendan) mac Findloga, early Connacht saint, patron of Clonfert, and legendary voyager
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Ultán of Ardbraccan
(d. 657)
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Irish poet and saint, abbot at Ard Breccáin (Ardbraccan) in Co. Meath.
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Brigit búadach
verse
2 st.
beg. Brigit búadach
Two stanzas of an Old Irish poem in praise of St Brigit of Kildare. The stanzas are quoted, possibly from a longer poem which no longer survives, in the tract on versification known as Mittelirische Verslehren III and a short, closely related one in the Book of Leinster.
Brinna Ferchertne
verse
36 st.
beg. Atchīu dā choin ac congail
A rhymed poem about the death of Cú Roí, preserved as part of a version of Aided Chon Roí. In a dream-vision, the poet Ferchertne utters a prophecy of Cú Roí’s death.
Dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne II
verse
beg. A chóemu Breg, bríg nad bréc
Mac Nía mac Óengusso
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Mac Nía mac Óengusso
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Poem on the dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne.
Búaid Cuinn rígróit rogaidi
verse
beg. Búaid Cuinn, rígróit rogaidi
Fíngen mac Luchta
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Fíngen mac Luchta
(time-frame ass. with Conn Cétchathach, Fedlimid Rechtaid)
In Airne Fíngein (‘Fíngen's vigil’), a prince (rígdomna) of Munster, who stands on top of Druim Fíngin one Samain night when he meets Rothníam, a woman of the síd, and through her learns of a series of wonders associated with the birth of Conn Cétchathach.
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Early Irish poem attributed to Fíngen mac Luchta on the wonders (búada) he witnessed surrounding the birth of Conn Cétchatach. The poem is attested in the context of the prose Dinnshenchas of Slige Dála, on the five chief roads out from Tara.
Búaidh crábuidh, búaidh n-ailithre
verse
4 st.
beg. Búaidh crábuidh, búaidh n-ailithre
Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)
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Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)
(d. (c.) 1086)
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Early Irish poem attributed to Máel Ísu (Ua Brolcháin).
Cá lín trícha i nÉrinn áin
verse
beg. Cá lín trícha i nÉrinn áin
Poem on the trícha cét (or triúcha) and subdivisions of Ireland
Cainnech mo chomarci
verse
7 st.
beg. Cainnech mo chomarci
Colum Cille
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Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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Early Irish poem (7st in ochtfhoclach) representing a eulogy by Colum Cille for Cainnech.
The caldron of poesy
verse
beg. Moí coire coir Goiriath
Can a mbunadus na nGáedel
verse
beg. Can a mbunadus na nGáedel?
Máel Muru Othna
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Máel Muru Othna
(d. 887)
Early Irish poet and historian, who was apparently attached to the monastery of Othain (now Fahan, Inishowen barony, Co. Donegal), as his epithet suggests
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Carais Páttraicc phuirt Macha
verse
beg. Carais Páttraicc phuirt Macha
Middle Irish poem on the virtues of the saints of Ireland, attributed to Cuimíne of Condere (Connor, Co. Antrim).
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Carmanprose
verse
beg. Eistid, a Laigniu nal-lecht
Fulartach
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Fulartach
An early Irish poet whose name is invoked in ascriptions of certain poems of Dinnshenchas Érenn in the Book of Leinster (Carmun, Liamuin, Slíab Bladma, perhaps Faffand and Druim nDairbrech if the abbreviation F. refers to him).
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Dinnshenchas of Carman.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Carn Conaillprose
verse
beg. Findaid in senchas diatá
Mac Líacc [Muirchertach]
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Mac Líacc ... Muirchertach
(d.. 1014 / 1016 (AU))
Middle Irish poet, who is described as 'chief poet of Ireland' (ard-ollamh Érenn) in the Annals of Ulster; becomes the subject of a body of later medieval Irish literature.
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Dinnshenchas poem on Carn Conaill
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Carn Feradaigverse
prose
beg. In carn-sa atchíu co ndechair
Dinnshenchas of Carn Feradaig, “probably Cahirnarry, Limerick” (Gwynn).
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