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Éri íarthar talman torthig

verse

121 st.

beg. Éri íarthar talman torthig

Úa Duinn (Gilla na Náem)

Úa Duinn (Gilla na Náem)

(d. c. 1160)

Irish scholar and poet who was attached to the monastery of Inis Clothrann, now Inchcleraun (Island), in Lough Ree.

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A long poem (121 qq) giving a précis of the Dinnshenchas Érenn and included at the end of the version of that collection in the Book of Uí Maine. The last stanza attributes the poem to Gilla na Náem Úa Duinn and gives the year 1166.

Éri óg inis na náem

verse

beg. Éri óg inis na náem

Gilla Mo Dutu Úa CaisideGilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside

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Érimón is Éber ard

verse

beg. Érimón is Éber ard

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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Middle Irish poem attributed to Flann Mainistrech.

Lebor gabála Érenn

Ériu co n-uaill, co n-idnaib

verse

beg. Ériu co n-uaill, co n-idnaib

Eochaid ua Flannucáin

Eochaid úa Flannucáin

(c.936–1004)

Irish poet and scholar, who was guestmaster at Armagh and superior at Cluain Fiachna (Clonfeacle). He was identified by Rudolf Thurneysen as the poet Eochaid úa Flainn, to whom several poems, most of them in the Lebor gabála, are attributed. This identification has gained favour over the years. In order not to pre-judge the matter, the two are distinguished in the present catalogue.

See more (ascr.)Eochaid úa Flainn

Eochaid úa Flainn

(fl. c.936–1004, if he is Eochaid úa Flannucáin)

A medieval Irish poet to whom a number of Middle Irish poems, most of them in the Lebor gabála Érenn, have been attributed. His identification with Eochaid úa Flannucáin, a poet and historian who was guestmaster at Armagh, has gained favour over the years. In order not to pre-judge the matter, the two are distinguished in the present catalogue.

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Poem in Lebor gabála Érenn.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Ess Rúaid I

verse

prose

beg. A fhir dodechaid atúaid

Tract on the dinnshenchas of Ess Rúaid (Assaroe, on the r. Erne, Co. Donegal).

Éstid a éolchu cen ón

verse

37 st.

beg. Éstid a éolchu cen ón

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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Middle Irish poem attributed to Flann Mainistrech, embedded in a number of recensions of the Lebor gabála Érenn (Min, A and C, but not in B).

Etir min is mór

verse

5 st.

beg. Etir min is mór

Early Irish religious poem (5 qq).

Fáelgus Nad Fráech febda cland

verse

2.5 st.

beg. Fáelgus, Nad Fráech / febda cland

Luccreth moccu Chíara

Luccreth moccu Chíara

(fl. 7th century)

early Irish poet

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Versified genealogy (5 couplets) of Fáelgus mac Nad Froích, chief of the Éoganacht of Cashel. It belongs to a group of genealogical poems that are attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara.

Fáeth fiada

verse

beg. Atom-riug in-diu / Niurt tréun

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Faffand

verse

prose

beg. Broccaid brogmar co n-gním gíall

Fulartach

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 Faffand

Fástini Airt meic Cuind ocus a chretem

prose

verse

beg. Cáin do Denna Den doma addonrúacht

Feidlimid athair Echach

verse

beg. Feidlimid athair Echach

Middle Irish poem on battles fought by Cú Chorb, king of Leinster, with Eochaid Find Fúath nAirt, ancestor of the Fothairt, against the men of Munster.

Félire Óengusso

verse

Óengus of Tallaght

Óengus (mac Óengobann) of Tallaght

(fl. early part of the 9th century)

author of Félire Óengusso

Félire Uí Gormáin (Martyrology of Gorman)

verse

Úa Gormáin (Máel Muire)Úa Gormáin (Máel Muire)

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Irish metrical calendar of saints compiled by Máel Muire Ua Gormáin in the 12th century.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Fert Medba

verse

3 st.

beg. Fegaid fert, forum nglinni

Dinnshenchas of Fert Medba.

Fianna bátar i nEmain

verse

beg. Fianna bátar i nEmain

Cináed úa hArtacáin

Cináed úa hArtacáin

(d. 975)

Middle Irish poet.

Cináed úa hArtacáin

Cináed úa hArtacáin

(d. 975)

Middle Irish poet.

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Fianna bátar i nEmain (addenda by Finn bishop of Kildare)

verse

11 st.

beg. Lecht maicc Carbad ir-Rea

Find Úa Gormáin [bishop of Kildare]Find Úa Gormáin ... bishop of Kildare

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An interpolated section in the Book of Leinster copy of the poem Fianna bátar i nEmain, consisting of 11 additional stanzas added and quite possibly composed by Finn, bishop of Kildare, and ending with a quatrain devoted to Díarmait Mac Murchada and the battle of Móin Mhór (1151).

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Fích mBúana

prose

verse

6 st.

beg. Dorat Búan, in ben nár bán

Text on the dinnshenchas of Fích mBuana

Fichi ríg cía rím as ferr

verse

61 st.

beg. Fichi ríg cía rím as ferr

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

(d. 1016)

Irish poet; fer légind of Ros Ailithir (Rosscarbery, Co. Cork)

Verse history of the kings of Israel and Judah residing in Jerusalem, from Saul to the destruction of the city.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Fid nGaibli

verse

prose

beg. Inmain dam in Gabol glan

Finn mac Cumaill

Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)

Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían

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Dinnshenchas of Fid nGaibli (Feeguile).

Fidbadach mac Feda Ruscaig

verse

beg. Fidbadach mac Feda Ruscaig

Flann mac Lonáin

Flann mac Lonáin

(d. 891 x 918)

early Irish poet; called ‘the Virgil of the Irish’ (Firgil Gáedel) and ‘King of the Poets of Ireland’ respectively.

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Poem attributed to Flann mac Lonáin. It is preceded by a prose story about the poet, beginning ‘Bó bithblicht meic Lonán’ (YBL col. 917 ff, facs. page 195b ff; D iv 2, fol. 51d ff).

Fíl and grian Glinne Aí

verse

beg. Fil and grian Glinne (h)Aí

Da Coca

Da Coca

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

blacksmith in the Ulster Cycle, whose celebrated hostel (bruiden) becomes the scene of action when Cormac Cond Longas is besieged there by the Connachta.

See more (ascr.)Anonymous [apprentice of Banbán]Anonymous ... apprentice of Banbán

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Old Irish poem (beg. ‘Fíl and grian Glinne Aí’) which uses kennings to describe a variety of foods at a banquet. It is accompanied by (a) a gloss which offers interpretations of a number of these kennings and (b) a prose account, according to which it was uttered either by Da Coca for Cormac Cond Longas, or by an apprentice of the poet Banbán as part of an educational test. In either case, the poem is said to describe a banquet (fuirec) of which they are about to partake.

Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille

Fil duine

verse

beg. Fil duine

Fil súil n-glais

verse

beg. Fil súil n-glais

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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