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Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim (Flann Mainistrech)
verse
beg. Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim
Flann Mainistrech
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Flann Mainistrech
(d. 1056)
Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)
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Flann Mainistrech
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Flann Mainistrech
(d. 1056)
Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)
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A series of seven poems
Ro loiscit na láma-sa
verse
4 st.
beg. Ro loiscit na láma-sa
Oisín mac Finn
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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-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.
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.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A
Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Failgeverse
3 st.
beg. Nímutanic ó thír thend
Finn mac Cumaill
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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 Muiredaigverse
prose
beg. Fail folach ós grían cen gái
Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in in Uí Muiredaig (Róiriu i nUíb Muiredaig)
Sáerchlanna Érenn uile
verse
12 st.
A syllabic poem incorporated in the two Middle Irish recensions of the saga concerning the revolt of the aithech-thúatha, Bruiden Meic Da Réo and Scél ar Chairbre Cinn Cait. It consists of twelve stanzas.
Scéla Cormaic meic Cuilennáin ocus na crosán
verse
prose
beg. Truaghan sin, a Rí na righ
A brief Irish prose story, with poem, concerning the death of Cormac mac Cuilennáin, who was slain in the battle of Mag Ailbe (908). On the night before the battle, three entertainers (crossáin) promise the king to perform before him the following night, but the king and the crossáin do not live to meet again. By some act of divine providence, however, the crossáin are allowed to perform their art and utter a poem beg. Truaghán sin, a Rí na righ (10qq).
Sé bruidni Érenn gan dáil
verse
beg. Sé bruidni Érenn, gan dáil
Secht o. f. n.
verse
beg. Secht o. f. n.
Cináed úa hArtacáin
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Cináed úa hArtacáin
(d. 975)
Middle Irish poet.
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Poem on Brug na Bóinne, which offers a poetic version of Tochmarc Étaíne.
Senchas na relec
verse
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Sinann Iverse
beg. Sáerainm Sinna saigid dún
Cúán úa Lothcháin
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Cúán úa Lothcháin
(d. 1024)
Early Irish poet.
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Cúán úa Lothcháin
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Cúán úa Lothcháin
(d. 1024)
Early Irish poet.
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Poem on the dinnshenchas of the River Shannon (Sinann).
Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Sinann IIverse
beg. Sinann, cá hadbar diatá
Dinnshenchas on the River Shannon (Sinann).
Cath Maige Tuired
Sith co nem. Nem co domanverse
rosc
beg. Sith co nem. Nem co doman
The Morrígan
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The Morrígan
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle, Túatha Dé Danann)
deity or supernatural figure in medieval Irish literature, frequently associated with war and destruction; she sometimes appears as part of a triad with Macha and the Badb; also associated with Nemain.
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A prophecy in rosc found in Cath Maige Tuired, where it is attributed to the Morrígan. It seems to predict a time of great prosperity, while the next roscad prophecy, beginning ‘Ní accus bith na mbéo’, speaks instead of social disaster and the end of the world.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Bladmaprose
verse
beg. Blod mac Con maic Caiss clothaig
Fulartach
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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 Slíab Bladma.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Cúaprose
verse
9 st.
beg. Tanic tam, truag ind airle
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Cúa.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Echtge Iverse
prose
beg. Senchas Echtga áine
Dinnshenchas on Slíab Echtge
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Echtge II
verse
beg. Áibind, áibind, Echtge ard
Flann mac Lonáin
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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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Dinnshenchas on Slíab Echtge.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Fúait Iverse
14 st.
beg. Foderc dam fri sellad suairc
Irish poem on the dinnshenchas for Slíab Fúait as represented by a single copy in the Book of Leinster.
Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Fúait IIprose
verse
11 st.;3 st.
beg. Finnaid úaim, co ségda suairc
Úa Duinn (Gilla na Náem)
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Úa Duinn (Gilla na Náem)
(d. c. 1160)
Irish scholar and poet who was attached to the monastery of Inis Clothrann, now Inchcleraun (Island), in Lough Ree.
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Prose text and poem on the dinnshenchas of Slíab Fúait.
Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Slíab nGamprose
verse
4 st.
beg. Gam, gilla Eireamanon oirrdric
Dinnshenchas of Slíab nGam
Dinnshenchas Érenn A
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Mairge Iverse
3 st.
beg. Ba garg in gein im gním nhgá
Poem on the dinnshenchas of Slíab Mairge
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Mairge IIverse
prose
5 st.
beg. Margg mac Giúsca co ngné glain
Tract on the dinnshenchas of Slíab Mairge.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Slíab Misverse
prose
beg. Míss, ingen Maireda múaid
Tract on the dinnshenchas of Slíab Mis.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Slige Dálaverse
prose
beg. Senchas cía lín noniarfaig
Dinnshenchas tale, in prose and in verse, which begins with an etymological explanation of Slige Dála and proceeds to account for the names of the five chief roads leading out of Tara (Slige Dála, Slige Mór, Slige Midlúachra, Slige Chúalann and Slige Assail). In copies of the prose text of recension C, the story of Airne Fíngein is cited as a source and followed by a poem said to have been uttered by Fíngen mac Luchta on the night he witnessed the wonders from that tale.
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