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Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Mag Luirg

prose

verse

9 st.

beg. Is eól dam im threbthas tó

Dinnshenchas of Mag Luirg

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Mag Mucrama

prose

verse

10 st.

beg. Mag Mucrime molas cách

Dinnshenchas of Mag Mucrama

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Mag Muirisce

prose

verse

13 st.

beg. A fhir a Muirisc na marc

Dinnshenchas of Mag Muirisce

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Mag Raigne

verse

prose

beg. Atchúala daig-fher ndámach

Text on the dinnshenchas of Mag Raigne.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Mag Slecht

prose

verse

beg. Sund nobíd / idal ard, co n-immud fhích

Dinnshenchas of Mag Slecht

Maiccni Echach ard a nglé

verse

12 st.

beg. Maiccni Echach ard a nglé

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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Middle Irish poem (12 qq) attributed to Flann mac Lonáin on the struggle for dominance among Eochaid Mugmedón’s sons.

Maire máthair in maic bic

verse

7 st.;8 st.

beg. Maire máthair in maic bic

Short Old Irish poem (7 qq + 1 possibly interpolated) on the Virgin Mary, preserved only in a 17th-century manuscript (NLI MS G 50).

Mairg chuindges ní for carait

verse

1 st.

beg. Mairg chuindges ní for carait

Mairg do duine, mairg do neoch

verse

4 st.

beg. Mairg do duine, mairg do neoch

Early Irish religious poem

Mairg doní peta dá cholainn

verse

5 st.

beg. Mairg doní peta dá cholainn

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Irish poem (5 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Mairg duine cáines cléirech

verse

6 st.

beg. Mairg duine cáines cléirech

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Early Irish religious poem (6 qq) attributed to Colum Cille.

Mairg thochrus fri cléirchib cell

verse

beg. Mairg thochrus fri cléirchib cell

Díarmait mac Cerbaill

Díarmait mac Cerbaill

(supp. d. 565)

In Irish historical tradition, high-king of Ireland, son of Fergus Cerrbél.

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Early Irish poem attributed to Díarmait mac Cerbaill. In recensions of his death-tale, he is made to utter this poem after two saints, Ciarán and Rúadán, had cursed him for having acted against the rights and authority of the church.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Maistiu I

verse

prose

beg. Robái brón for bantrocht ban

Text on the dinnshenchas of Maistiu, commonly identified with Mullaghmast, Co. Kildare.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Maistiu II

verse

beg. Dare derg, roderg frossa

Poem on the dinnshenchas on Maistiu.

Mál ad-rualaid

verse

beg. Mál ad-rualaid

Briccine mac BrigniBriccine mac Brigni

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

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One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’

Már drecuin

verse

beg. Már drecuin

One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’.

Mára galgata

verse

beg. Mára galgata

One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’

Mára mairb

verse

beg. Mára mairb

One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’.

Marbh anocht mo cholann-sa

verse

38 st.

beg. Marbh anocht mo cholann-sa

Medieval Irish poem (38 qq), unattributed but apparently uttered by Colum Cille, who laments the disintegration of his familia in Ireland and Scotland.

Marthain duit, a Ioraird fhéil

verse

beg. Marthain duit, a Ioraird fhéil

Dialogue poem between Mac Líacc and Urard mac Coise.

Masu de chlaind Echdach aird

verse

34 st.

beg. Masu de chlaind Echdach aird

Orthanach úa Cóilláma

Orthanach úa Cóilláma

(d. 840)

bishop of Kildare and poet

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Máthair Díarmata ón dáil

verse

2 st.

beg. Máthair Díarmata ón dáil

Two quatrains alluding to a story about the birth of Oisín.

Máthair ime gaeth áithe

prose

beg. Máthair ime gaeth áithe

Short Irish text of prognostications of the weather. The opening part ([M]áthair ime gaeth áithe, sáille sneachta; Túar fola fleochadh, túar teadhma torann) recalls the two quatrains in Tecosca Cormaic § 17. This is followed by some prose notes using an ‘if (madh)/then’ formula.

Mé Éba ben Ádaim uill

verse

beg. Mé Éba ben Ádaim uill

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Medraige

prose

verse

beg. Medraige mac Dorcain Maill

Prose and verse dinnshenchas of Medraige, which gives an account of the battle of Mag Mucrama.

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