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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.

Independent, Agallamh na seanórach, Acallam bec

Dám thrír táncatar ille

verse

beg. Dám thrír táncatar ille

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.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Descert

verse

beg. Athair Cailte, comul ngle

Dinnshenchas of Descert, possibly Descert Laigen

Deus meus adiuva me

verse

beg. Deus meus adiuva me

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

(d. (c.) 1086)

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Early Irish poem attributed to Máel Ísu Ua Brolcháin

Dia do betha a Cormaic cain

verse

beg. Dia do betha, a Chormaic cáin

Irish poem presented as a dialogue between Colum Cille and Cormac úa Liatháin.

Día feasaid lim nodas fuil

verse

4 st.

beg. Día feasaid lim nodas fuil

Mugrón [unidentified]

Mugrón (one or multiple unidentified authors)

The name Mugrón occurs in a number of textual attributions where the identity of the intended author cannot be ascertained. The references may be to Mugrón, abbot of Iona, to Mugrón of Tuam, or someone else entirely.

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Middle Irish poem (4qq) attributed to Mugrón, which offers a verse rendering or verse summary of the preface to De duodecim abusivis saeculi.

Día mór dom imdegail

verse

82 st.

beg. Día mór dom imdegail

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Late Middle Irish poem (82 stt. in ochtfhoclach metre) attributed to Colum Cille, which is known for its length and stylistic complexity.

Dia ngaire dam dum láim chlí

verse

8 st.

beg. Dia ngaire dam dum láim chlí

The dialogue of Cummíne and Comgán

verse

Early Irish poem in the form of a dialogue between Cummíne Fota and Comgán Mac Dá Cherda, with a prose prologue of later date about the two characters.

Duanaire Finn

Do bádus-sa úair

verse

3 st.

beg. Do bádus-sa úair

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Druim nAssail

verse

14 st.

beg. Druim n-Assail, iarfaigther dam

Dinnshenchas of Druim nAssail.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Druim Clíab

verse

prose

beg. Sunda roboí Caurnán cass

Dinnshenchas of Druim Clíab.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Druim Criaich

verse

prose

54 st.

beg. Druim Criaich, céte cét cuan

Cuán ua LothcháinCuán ua Lothcháin

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Poem and prose text on the dinnshenchas of Druim Criaich (Drumcree, Co. Westmeath), which is here said to have been known as Druim Cró and Druim n-úar nAirthir. In the Book of Leinster, the poem is attributed to Cuán ua Lothcháin (d. 1024). The poem falls into two sections. The story of the first is that of the quarrel between Eochu Feidlech, high-king of Ireland, and his three sons known as the three Findemna. On the night before the battle of Druim Criaich, in which the brothers are killed, their sister Clothru sleeps with each one of them in order to produce royal offspring. She later gives birth to Lugaid Riab nDerg, high-king of Ireland.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Druim nDairbrech

prose

verse

beg. Cid diatá in druim, Druim nDairbrech?

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 Druim nDairbrech

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Lebor gabála Érenn

Dinnshenchas of Druim Fíngin I

verse

3 st.

beg. A éicse Banba co m-blaid

Short poem (3 qq) on the dinnshenchas of Druim Fíngin.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Druim Fíngin II

verse

beg. Rop h-é-seo Druim n-Elgga n-oll

Poem on the dinnshenchas of Druim Fíngin.

Duaibsech laithi fri cech toisc

verse

5 st.

beg. Duaibsech laithi fri cech toisc

Mugrón [abbot of Iona]

Mugrón ... abbot of Iona

(d. c.981)

Abbot of Iona and supposed author of a number of vernacular Irish poems. His obit in AFM remembers him as ‘scribe/writer and bishop, sage of the three divisions’ (scribhnidh ⁊ epscop, saoi na t-Tri Rand).

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Brief Middle Irish poem (5qq) attributed to Mugrón, abbot of Iona, on the death of Congalach mac Maíle Mithig (d. 956) at the hands of Danish vikings from Dublin at Tech Giugrand.

Dúan in cethrachat cest

verse

prose

beg. Apraid a éolchu Elga

Eochaid ua Céirín

Eochaid (Eolach) úa Céirín

(fl. 11th century?)

Middle Irish poet

Eochaid ua Céirín

Eochaid (Eolach) úa Céirín

(fl. 11th century?)