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Fragmentary annals of Ireland

Mór liach Life lonngalach

verse

5 st.

beg. Mór liach Life lonngalach

Dallán mac Móre

Dallán mac Móre

(fl. c. 909)

early Irish poet; reputedly a bardic poet to Cerball mac Muirecáin, king of Leinster (d. c. 909)

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Poem (5 qq) on the death of Cerball mac Muirecán, king of Leinster (d. 909). It is attributed to his court poet Dallán (mac Móre).

Buile Shuibne

Mor múich i tú-sa in-nocht

verse

beg. Mor múich i tú-sa in-nocht

Mórchath Ocha fersaitir

verse

beg. Mórchath Ocha fersaitir

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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An item of verse attributed to Becc mac Dé and quoted in a number of annalistic and similar historical contexts. It refers to the battle of Ocha (dated c.482) and the death of Ailill Molt.

Independent, Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó, Dinnshenchas of Mag Léna

Muc mic Dá Thó, tlacht-múad torc

verse

6 st.

beg. Muc mic Dá Thó, tlacht-múad torc

Poem on Mac Da Thó's pig.

Mug Ruith, rígfhili cen goí

verse

37 st.

beg. Mug Ruith, rígfhili cen goí

Poem about Mog Ruith

Genemain Áedo Sláine

Mugain ingen Chonchraid chaín

verse

15 st.

beg. Mugain ingen Chonchraid chaín

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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Mugdorn ingen Moga Duib

verse

2 st.

beg. Mugdorn ingen Moga Duib

Two Early Irish quatrains found in the Book of Leinster, which are concerned with prehistoric female slaves in Ireland: the first on Mugdorn (Mugdorn ingen Moga Duib / de chuiciud Ulad ardmuir / cétben ra meil bróin mbind. / ria mnáib) and the second on Nabal (Nabal in ben fiad cach slóg / ba cumal la Partholon / Nabal tuc na seotu ille. / Nabal tuc na hindile.).

Muinter Pádraig na paiter

verse

beg. Muinter Pádraig na paiter

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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Middle Irish poem containing a long list of members of St Patrick’s household and attributed to Flann, possibly for Flann Mainistrech.

Ná sír fis do tsáegail shúaill

verse

13 st.

beg. Ná sír fis do tsáegail shúaill

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish religious poem (13 qq) addressed to one Andach (qq. 2, 6 and 11; cf. andach ’iniquity‘?), seemingly on what it would mean to know the length of one’s life-time. It is found in Laud Misc. 615, where it is attributed to Colum Cille in an answer given to Annach mac Duib Innsi meic Caibdenaig, descendant of Níall Noígíallaich.

Nas-geib ferg in rigan de

verse

4 st.

beg. Nas-geib ferg in rigan de

A poem (4 qq) cited in the prose preface to the Amra Choluim Cille and closely related textual contexts, all dealing with the convention at Druim Cett. The prose relates that when Colum Cille blessed Domnall, son of Áed mac Ainmirech, and promised the kingship to him, he incurred the anger of Domnall’s stepmother, Áed’s then wife. After she had accused the saint of corrgainecht (‘sorcery’), he uttered words that transformed her and her handmaiden into cranes (corr ‘crane’). Part of the poem renders the exchange between Colum Cille and the queen.

Cath Maige Tuired

Ní accus bith na mbéo

verse

rosc

beg. Ní accus bith na mbéo

The Morrígan

The Morrígan

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle, Túatha Dé Danann)

deity or supernatural figure in medieval Irish literature, frequently associated with war and destruction; she sometimes appears as part of a triad with Macha and the Badb; also associated with Nemain.

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A phophetic rosc attributed to the Morrígan about the unhappy end of the world. It occurs at the very end of the Middle Irish text Cath Maige Tuired, following a rosc attributed to the same deity about wealth and prosperity.

Ní car Brigit

verse

beg. Ní car Brigit búadach bith

Broccán clóen

Broccán clóen

(d. 650)

No short description available

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Ní celt ceis

verse

beg. Ní celt ceis céol do chruitt Chraiphtini

One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’

Ní disceoil duib Néill andes

verse

7 st.

beg. Ní disceoil d’Uib Néill andes

Early Irish poem (7 qq) in praise of Colum Chille, with ample quotations from the Amra Choluim Chille.

Ní théd an égean a n-aisgidh

verse

44 st.

beg. Ní théd an égean a n-aisgidh

Ó Dálaigh (Mathghamhain)

Ó Dálaigh (Mathghamhain)

(fl. 15th century)

Mathghamhain (mac Domhnaill mheic Eoghain) Ó Dálaigh, Irish poet. The Book of Lismore contains a poem ascribed to him, which is addressed to Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Riabhach, patron of that manuscript.

Ó Dálaigh (Mathghamhain)

Ó Dálaigh (Mathghamhain)

(fl. 15th century)

Mathghamhain (mac Domhnaill mheic Eoghain) Ó Dálaigh, Irish poet. The Book of Lismore contains a poem ascribed to him, which is addressed to Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Riabhach, patron of that manuscript.

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Early Modern Irish poem (44 qq) addressed to Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Riabhach. Ó Cuív remarks that it is written in a “highly technical legal language”.

Ní-m thá saegid for Día ndron

verse

58 st.

beg. Ní-m thá saegid for Día ndron

The second of two Middle Irish devotional poems that are found after the core of Saltair na rann in Rawl. B 502.

Nia Corbb Corbmacc Cairpre

verse

beg. Nia Corbb, Corbmacc, Cairpre

Níbu cráeb crínfeda

verse

beg. Níbu cráeb crínfeda

Early Irish poem (11 lines) on the descent of Colum mac Nainnida, patron saint of Terryglass, from Crimthann Án, son of Catháer Már.

Nidu dír dermait

verse

beg. Nidu dír dermait

Laidcenn mac Bairceda

Laidcenn mac Bairc(h)eda

(supp. fl. 5th century ?)

early Irish poet, said to be of the Dál nAraidi. Two early poems (beg. Énna, Labraid and Nidu dír dermait) belonging to the so-called rhyming ‘Leinster poems’ are ascribed to him.

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One of the rhyming ‘Leinster poems’, attributed to Laidcenn mac Bairceda.

Nin mac Bel roga na ríg

verse

21 st.

beg. Nin mac Bel, roga na ríg

Late Middle Irish poem on Assyrian kings and synchronic history in Ireland.

Nioclás Claudi fial an fear

verse

2 st.

beg. Nioclás Claudi, fial an fear

Brief Irish poem (2 qq) in memory of French astronomer Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (d. 1637).