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Beannacht, a Bruin, ar Brigit

verse

23 st.

beg. Beannacht, a Bruin, ar Brigit

Mac Líacc [Muirchertach]

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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Beatha Chríost

verse

beg. Sé lá bhí Dia ’na bhriathraibh caoine

A lengthy Modern Irish poem (roughly about 4000 lines) on the life and death of Christ.

Bec innocht lúth mo dá lúa

verse

4 st.

beg. Bec innocht lúth mo dá lúa

Caílte mac Rónáin

Caílte mac Rónáin

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)

or Caílte mac Crundchon meic Rónáin, kinsman of Finn mac Cumaill and a prominent member of his fían; accomplished warrior and hunter; one of the protagonists of Acallam na senórach

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Poem of four stanzas, attributed to Caílte. It uses a special, learned vocabulary known as bérla na filed.

Becca na delba acht delb Dé

verse

11 st.

beg. Becca na delba acht delb Dé

Middle Irish poem (11 qq) on the personal appearances of Christ and his apostles.

Beir mo bachaill lat im láim

verse

beg. Beir mo bachaill lat im láim

Early Irish poem which occurs in the prose preface to the Amra Choluim Chille and related textual contexts. It is a dialogue poem between Colum Cille and Scandlán Mór, apparently in continuation of the previous dialogue poem (beg. Slécht sís, a Scandláin, dom réir), in which Scandlán has promised to deliver tribute at Durrow. In the present poem, Colum Cille offers him his crozier (bachall) as a means of protection against trouble on the road to Durrow, specifically any trouble he might encounter from Domnall mac Áeda.

Beir mo scíath, sceo fri úath

verse

beg. Beir mo scíath, sceo fri úath

Ailill Ólomm

Ailill Ólomm

(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)

king of Munster; reputed ancestor of the Éoganacht and Dál Cais; a prominent figure in various king-tales, such as those revolving around the Battle of Mag Mucrama.

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A poem put in the mouth of Ailill Ólomm, king of Munster, relating to events surrounding the battle of Mag Mucrama.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Belach Conglais

verse

prose

beg. Rochúala seilgg, srethaib gal

Dinnshenchas of Belach Conglais

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Belach nDúirgein

verse

prose

beg. Durgen fúair ingir cech aird

Dinnshenchas of Belach nDúirgein (Road of Dúrgen, unidentified)

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Belach Gabráin

verse

prose

beg. Inmain dam in Gabrán glan

Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid

Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid

legendary poet and king of Leinster; son of Russ Rúad

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Texts in prose and verse relating variant versions of dinnshenchas on Belach Gabráin (B. nGabráin, B. Gabrán), perhaps Gowran Pass (Co. Kilkenny) or more probably, according to Edward Gwynn, the pass of that name in Maistiu (Co. Kildare). This pass (belach) is said to derive its name from the hound Gabrán whose heart broke (i.e. it died) from a fatiguing and unsuccessful pursuit of a swine whose name appears exclusively in the genitive, Lurgan (cf. lurga, lurgu ‘shanks’). The swine escaped from it underground in the bog of Allen (móin Almaine). The prose story identifies the hiding place as Loch Lurgan.

Ben romarbsat fir Gaba

verse

4 st.

beg. Ben romarbsat fir Gaba

Poem on the war fought by Benjamin’s tribe against other children of Israel (Judges 19-20).

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.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Benn Bóguine

prose

verse

22 st.

beg. Fil dam aichne áige

Dinnshenchas of Benn Bóguine

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Benn Étair I

verse

beg. Étar étan ri dílind

Cináed úa hArtacáin

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 II

verse

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 Berba

prose

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 I

verse

beg. Síd Nechtain sund forsin t-shléib

Cuán ua LothcháinCuán ua Lothcháin

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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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 bithmaith

verse

beg. Brigit bé bithmaith

Colum Cille

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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See more (ascr.)three of Brigit's householdthree of Brigit's household

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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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.

Bronaig Conailli indiu

verse

4 st.

beg. Bronaig Conailli indiu

GaborchennGaborchenn

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Early Irish poem, 4 qq of which are quoted in the Annals of Ulster, in an entry sub anno 688 concerning the battle of Imlech Pich. The poem, here attributed to one Gabaircenn or Gaborchenn, laments the deaths of two leaders on the side of the Conailli, Dub Da Inber and Uarchride. On the grounds that quatrains 2-3 are metrically distinct from 1 and 4, Kuno Meyer expressed doubt if all four quatrains originally belonged together.

Dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne II

verse

beg. A chóemu Breg, bríg nad bréc

Mac Nía mac Óengusso

Mac Nía mac Óengusso

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Poem on the dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne.

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