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Táin bó Cúailnge II

prose

prose

prose

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Early Irish tale which relates how Fergus mac Róich came to slay Ailill Find, king of the Ciarraige, and gained the latter's wife Flidais. It is regarded as one of the remscéla to the Táin bó Cúailnge.

Táin bó Flidaise II

prose

verse

Early Modern Irish recension of Táin bó Flidais, which relates how the exiled Ulster hero Fergus mac Róich obtained his wife Flidais after killing her husband Ailill Finn, king of the Ciarraige. In the earliest manuscript, it forms part of a longer narrative work about Fergus, beginning with Oidheadh Chloinne Uisnigh and concluding with a sequel entitled Tóraigheacht tána bó Flidaise.

Táin bó Fraích

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Táin bó Regamain

prose

Táin bó Regamna

prose

(arguably) one of the remscéla to the Taín.

Táin bó Rúanaid

prose

Tairired na nDéssi

form undefined

Talland Étair

prose

Tathus drecht dron-amhnus

verse

beg. Tathus drecht dron-amhnus

Early Irish poem about Cú Chulainn, attested as an addition to several copies of the dinnshenchas of Srúb Brain.

Teacht Chonnlaoich go hÉirinn

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Gaelic ballad version of the story of Cú Chulainn and the killing of his only son. This story is also known in an early prose form from Aided óenfir Aífe and in a later prose form from Oidheadh Chonlaoich.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C supplement

Dinnshenchas of Tech nDuinn

prose

Text on the dinnshenchas of Tech nDuinn

Tecosc Cuscraid

form undefined

A short series of precepts addressed to Cúscraid Mend Macha, Conchobor’s son and heir, by his foster-father Conall Cernach. The text is found in the introductory part of the tale of Cath Airtig.

Téighim ann do shúr na n-íath

verse

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beg. Téighim ann do shúr (na) n-íath

A poem found in Agallamh na seanórach, where it is attributed to Cáilte. The poem is largely a topographical catalogue of birds and beasts from all over Ireland, which are pairs of wild animals collected by Caílte as a ransom for Finn, who is imprisoned by Cormac mac Airt, king of Tara.

Temaile fáid Miled Espáin

prose

A prose passage in the Book of Leinster about a certain Temaile or Témaile, a prophet (fáid) of Míl Espáine whose name is associated with Druim Témaile (place unidentified). Because the outer edge of the manuscript page is worn, the text is now only partly legible.

Dinnshenchas of Temair (prose)

prose

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Temair I

verse

11 st.

beg. Temair Breg, cid ní diatá

Fintan mac Bóchra

Fintan mac Bóchra

(time-frame ass. with universal history)

A figure of medieval Irish tradition who survives the Flood and lives to give eye-witness accounts of the history of Ireland

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Poem on the former names and legendary associations of the Hill of Tara. Versions are extant in recensions of LGÉ as well as the Dinnshenchas Érenn.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Temair II

verse

19 st.

beg. Ní cheil maissi dona mnáib

Cináed úa hArtacáin

Cináed úa hArtacáin

(d. 975)

Middle Irish poet.

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Dinnshenchas of Temair.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C