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Mellach lem bith i n-ucht ailinn

verse

12 st.

beg. Mellach lem bith i n-ucht ailinn

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 (12 qq) ascribed in one MS to Colum Cille.

Mesce Chúanach

verse

8 st.

beg. Is pind limp / In tan gabther mo dúan dam

Cúanu mac Ailchíne

Cúanu mac Ailchíne

King of the Fir Maige Féne.

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Medieval Irish poem (8 st.) attributed to Cúanu mac Cailchíni, king of the Fir Maige Féne.

Messe ocus Pangur bán

verse

8 st.

beg. Messe ocus Pangur Bán

Metrical Banshenchas

verse

beg. Adam oen-athair na ndoene

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

(fl. c. 1147)

Irish poet, credited as the author of Éri óg inis na náem and Ádam óenathair na ndóene (the metrical Banshenchas).

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

(fl. c. 1147)

Irish poet, credited as the author of Éri óg inis na náem and Ádam óenathair na ndóene (the metrical Banshenchas).

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Metrical version of the Banshenchas, composed by Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside (1147).

Mian mná Tethrach a tenid

verse

1 st.

beg. Mian mná Tethrach .i. Badb a tenid

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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1 stanza.

Mide maigen Clainne Cuind

verse

beg. Mide maigen Clainne Cuind

Middle Irish poem on the kings of Mide.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Mide

prose

verse

13 st.

beg. Mide magen na marc mer

Áed úa CarthaigÁed úa Carthaig

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Dinnshenchas of Mide.

Mithig dam-sa tairerad

verse

10 st.

beg. Mithig dam-sa tairerad / do thriall o thoraib teglaig

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Religious Irish poem (10 qq) on pilgrimage. In MSS of the Annals of the Four Masters, under the year 926, it is attributed to Céle Dabhail, abbot of Bangor, who is said have composed it before going on pilgrimage to Rome. The copy in Laud Misc. 615, a collection of poetry associated with Colum Cille, comes with an attribution to that saint.

Mithig techt tar mo thimna

verse

beg. Mithig techt tar mo thimna

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

(d. 908)

bishop and king of Munster

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Mittelirische Verslehren IV

verse

14 st.

beg. Sluindfet dúib dagaisti in dána

Cellach úa RúanadaCellach úa Rúanada

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Middle Irish poem ascribed to Cellach úa Rúanada in which for educational purposes, every stanza is composed in a different metrical form.

Mo chara-sa Cnámíne

verse

beg. Mo chara-sa Cnámíne

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 cited as an example by Mittelirische Verslehren II.

Mo chreach is mo léun thú

verse

beg. Mo chreach is mo léun thú, a Bhéul Átha na Cairrge

Irish poem lamenting the exile of Pilib mac Aodha Uí Raghallaigh in Spain after the Irish Confederate Wars.

Mo labrad

verse

beg. Mo labrad

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

(d. (c.) 1086)

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Moch ddwyreawg huan haf dyffestin

verse

beg. Moch-ddwyreawg huan haf dyffestin

Gwalchmai ap Meilyr

Gwalchmai ap Meilyr

(fl. c.1130–1180)

Welsh poet from Anglesey, one of the early Gogynfeirdd.

Gwalchmai ap Meilyr

Gwalchmai ap Meilyr

(fl. c.1130–1180)

Welsh poet from Anglesey, one of the early Gogynfeirdd.

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A gorhoffedd (vaunting poem) by Gwalchmai ap Meilyr.

Mochean do teacht a leabhair

verse

104 st.

beg. Mochean do teacht, a leabhair

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

(d. 908)

bishop and king of Munster

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Medieval Irish poem (104 qq) attributed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin, relating how Constantine, king of Greece, eloped with Solomon’s wife.

Mochean duit a chluicc bláith bind

verse

8 st.

beg. Mochean duit a chluicc bláith bind

Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille, on St. Patrick’s bell.

Mochen a chlaidib Cherbaill

verse

21 st.

beg. Mochen, a chlaidib Cherbaill

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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Praise-poem. 21 stanzas.

Mochen, mochen, a Brénaind

verse

beg. Mochen, mochen, a Brénaind

Móen óen

verse

beg. Móen óen

One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Móenmag

prose

verse

beg. Móenmag, cá Móen ótá in mag

Dinnshenchas of Móenmag

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Móin Gai Glais

verse

prose

beg. Culdub mac Déin dia Samna

Dinnshenchas of Móin Gai Glais, in prose and verse. When Cúldub mac Déin slays one Fidrad at Samain, Gae Glas, grandson of Lug, comes to avenge Fidrad's death and kills Cúldub with a spear. The prose version, which is generally fuller, adds that the spear entered the ground and was not found until Máel Odrán dug it up and used it to kill Aithechdae, king of Uí Máil. The prose also identifies the spear as the Carr of Belach Duirgen.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Móin Tíre Náir

prose

verse

3 st.

beg. Mebul lemm inní dia fail

Text on the dinnshenchas of Móin Tíre Náir

Mór báis mór baile

verse

1 st.

beg. Mór báis mór baile

A single quatrain of Old Irish verse.

Mór do ingantu do-gní

verse

2 st.

beg. Mór do ingantu do-gní

Adomnán

Adomnán

(fl. c.628–704)

Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.

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Two elegiac stanzas attributed to Adomnán and preserved in his Irish Life.

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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