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Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim (Dublittir Úa hUathgaile)

verse

beg. Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim / co h-éimid, ní h-indeithbir

Úa hUathgaile (Dublittir)

Úa hUathgaile (Dublittir)

(c.1080–1120)

Irish scholar associated with the church of Glen Uissen (Killeshin, Co. Laois).

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Middle Irish poem attributed to Dublittir Úa hUathgaile (fl. late 11th century), fer léigin at Glen Uissen, now Killeshin. It is attested both as the concluding poem in the Sex aetates mundi and in independent manuscript contexts.

Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim (Flann Mainistrech)

verse

beg. Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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A series of seven poems

Relta na cruindi Caiterfhina

verse

11 st.

beg. Rélta na cruindi Caiterfhína

Irish poem (11 qq) on St Catherine of Alexandria.

Rí rogab Temair na treb

verse

beg. Rí rogab Temair na treb

Medieval Irish poem giving a summary of the story of the Bórama.

Ríg Themra dia tesband tnú

verse

beg. Ríg Themra dia tesband tnú

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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Middle Irish poem attributed and presumably written by Flann Mainistrech.

Ríg Themra tóebaige iar tain

verse

52 st.

beg. Ríg Themra tóebaige iar tain

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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Middle Irish poem attributed to Flann Mainstrech.

Rige duit a Choirpri chain

verse

8 st.

beg. Rige duit, a Choirpri chain

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Early Irish dialogue poem (8 qq) between Colum Cille and Coirpre mac Lugdach, with whom he bargains the terms and conditions of his kingship. It is found in the prose preface to the Amra Choluim Chille, according to which Coirpre Líath mac Lugdach was made king instead of his brother Crimthann, although he was later killed while under Colum Cille’s protection (fáessam).

Ro batar laeich do Laigneib

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53 st.

beg. Ro bátar laeich do Laigneib

Middle Irish poem on the birth of Áedan mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata, and Brandub mac Echach, king of Leinster.

Ro loiscit na láma-sa

verse

4 st.

beg. Ro loiscit na láma-sa

Oisín mac Finn

Oisín mac Finn

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Saint Patrick, Cormac mac Airt)

A fían-warrior, son of Finn, in the Finn Cycle of medieval Irish literature

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Four quatrains ascribed to Oisín in his old age.

Ro thinnscanad in tAmra

verse

1 st.

beg. Ro thinnscanad in tAmra

Máel Suthain [poet]Máel Suthain ... poet

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An Irish quatrain attributed to Máel Suthain, which is cited in the prose preface to the Amra Choluim Chille as supporting evidence for the composition of the Amra having been begun in Áth Féine Ollarba and completed in Tech Lomráin.

Ro-chúala crecha is tír thair

verse

beg. Ro-chúala crecha is tír thair

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

(d. 1016)

Irish poet; fer légind of Ros Ailithir (Rosscarbery, Co. Cork)

Poem on the Midianites (Book of Numbers 31).

Ro-cúala ní tabair eochu ar dúana

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1 st.

beg. Ro-cúala / ní tabair eochu ar dúana

Ro-det i nInis find Fáil

verse

beg. Ro-det i nInis find Fáil

Flann FínaFlann Fína

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Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind

verse

7 st.

beg. Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind

A poem of at least seven stanzas attributed to Cú Chulainn or Conchobar mac Nessa.

Rob soraid an sét-sa

verse

3 st.

beg. Rob soraid an sét-sa

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

(d. (c.) 1086)

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Middle Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille.

Robad mellach a meic mo Dé

verse

9 st.;10 st.

beg. Robad mellach a meic mo Dé

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

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

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Middle Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille.

Robé mainrechta Dé forsind fhormna-sa

verse

beg. Robé mainrechta Dé forsind fhormna-sa

Fursa

Fursa

(fl. 7th century)

Irish monk and missionary

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Early Irish poem attributed to St Fursa

Robo maith Aichil mac Pel

verse

14 st.

beg. Robo maith Aichil mac Péil

Irish poem on the deeds of Achilles (Aichill) in his younger years

Rochúala la nech légas libru

verse

7 st.

beg. Rochúala la nech légas libru

Mo Ling

Mo Ling

(d. 697)

Irish saint, abbot and patron saint of Tech Mo Ling (St Mullins, Co. Carlow) and reputed ‘bishop’ of Ferna (Ferns).

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Rodíchned Find, ba fer tend

verse

1 st.

beg. Rodíchned Find, ba fer tend

A single quatrain alluding to a story about the death of Finn mac Cumaill.

Rofessa i curp domuin dúir

verse

68 st.

beg. Rofessa i curp domuin dúir

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

(d. 1016)

Irish poet; fer légind of Ros Ailithir (Rosscarbery, Co. Cork)

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin

(d. 1016)

Irish poet; fer légind of Ros Ailithir (Rosscarbery, Co. Cork)

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Poem (68 stanzas) on the geography of the world.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Failge

verse

3 st.

beg. Nímutanic ó thír thend

Finn mac Cumaill

Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)

Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían

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Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Failge (Róiriu i nUíb Failge).

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Muiredaig

verse

prose

beg. Fail folach ós grían cen gái

Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in in Uí Muiredaig (Róiriu i nUíb Muiredaig)

Rop tú mo baile

verse