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Irish narrative literature

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Dinnshenchas Érenn C supplement

Dinnshenchas of Dún Ruissárach

prose

Text on the dinnshenchas of Dún Ruissárach

Eachtra an Amadáin Mhóir

prose

Irish tale about the adventures of a Perceval-like hero known simply as An Amadán Mór ‘The Great Fool’, a name he earns in the course of the narrative.

Eachtra an mhadra mhaoil

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Eachtra Bodaig an Chóta Lachtna

prose

Eachtra cheithearnaigh Uí Dhomhnaill

prose

Irish humorous romance set in the time of Aodh Dubh Ó Domhnaill and written perhaps in the 16th century. The story deals with a kern (ceithearnach, a kind of lightly armed foot-soldier) who appears to Ó Domhnaill and his men and is able to perform a series of magic tricks or spectacular illusions. In some of the MS copies, he is ultimately identified with Manannán mac Lir.

Eachtra Conaill Gulbain

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Eachtra Lomnochtáin an tSléibhe Riffe

prose

Modern Irish prose tale of the Fenian Cycle, which may be described as a bruidhean-tale. A few copies form a considerably enlarged version containing an additional romance.

Eachtra mhacaoimh an iolair

prose

prosimetrum

Ó Corcráin (Brian)Ó Corcráin (Brian)

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Irish Arthurian romance

Eachtra Mhelóra agus Orlando

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Eachtra ridire na leómhan

prose

Eachtra Sheóin Mandavil

prose

Ó Mathghamhna (Fínghin)Ó Mathghamhna (Fínghin)

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An Irish translation / adaptation, probably of The buke of John Maundeville, which is itself a Middle English version of the Anglo-Norman text on the travels of Sir John Mandeville.

Eachtra Uilliam

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Echtra Airt meic Cuind ocus tochmarc Delbchaíme ingine Morgáin

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Echtra Ambacuc

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Echtra clerech Choluim Cille

prose

A recension of the medieval Irish tale of the voyage of Snédgus and Mac Riagla. A special feature of this recension is that it incorporates an abridged version of Fís Adomnáin.

Independent, Scél na Fír Flatha, Echtra Cormaic i Tír Tairngiri, ocus Ceart Claidib Cormaic

Echtra Cormaic i Tír Tairngiri

prose

Echtra Fergusa maic Léti

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Echtra Finn

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Echtra mac nEchach Muigmedóin

prose

A composite text about Níall Noígíallach, his early life and accession to the kingship of Ireland.

Echtra Nerai

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Echtra Thaidg mheic Chéin

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Echtrae Chonnlai

prose

Echtrae Chrimthainn Nia Náir

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The text is lost, but the title is included in medieval tale-lists A and B and the story is alluded to in a number of texts.

Echtrae Con Culainn

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Duanaire Finn

Eirigh suas a Oissín

verse

5 st.

beg. Eirigh suas a Oissín

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Breton and Breton Latin literature / hagiography /

Breton literature / in Latin

Early Irish verse / alliterative / Leinster poems / rhyming

General / matter of France

General / onomastic lore and learning

Hiberno-Latin literature and learning

Hiberno-Latin literature and learning / to c.1169

Irish and Irish Latin religious literature

Irish and Irish Latin religious literature / hagiography /

Irish histories

Irish histories / annals and chronicles /

Irish histories / genealogies /

Irish histories and narrative literature / legendary history

Irish learning / on language and style

Irish literature and learning / misc. learning and lore

Irish narrative literature

Irish narrative literature / Arthurian romances /

Irish narrative literature / Cycles of the Kings

Irish narrative literature / Finn Cycle

Irish narrative literature / Finn Cycle / Dialogue of the Elders

Irish narrative literature / Mythological Cycle

Irish narrative literature / Ulster Cycle / episodes in Táin bó Cúailnge (I, II, III)

Irish narrative literature / Ulster Cycle

Irish narrative literature / Ulster Cycle / remscéla to Táin bó Cúailnge

Irish narrative literature / about poets

Irish narrative literature / echtrai

Irish narrative literature / immrama

Irish narrative literature / minor tales (foscéla)

Irish narrative literature / onomastics / dinnshenchas /

Irish poetry

Irish poetry / Early Irish (to c.1200)

Irish poetry / bardic

Irish poetry / lyrical

Irish religious literature / liturgical and devotional

Irish tracts, institutions / early Irish law

Irish wisdom literature

Merovingian literature / hagiography /

Misc. / adaptations and translations

Misc. / adaptations and translations / classical

Misc. / collections of verse (anthologies, etc.)

Misc. / commentaries

Misc. / dialogue and question-and-answer literature

Misc. / elegies

Misc. / lists of people

Misc. / manuscript marginalia, colophons and notes

Misc. / on language and style / grammar

Misc. / prophetic (vaticinatory) literature

Misc. / records / charters and cartularies

Misc. / religious / apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature

Misc. / religious literature / theology and exegesis

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