Baile Binnbérlach mac Búain
prose
verse
Baile Bricín
form undefined
Early Irish tale in which an angel visits St Bricín(e), abbot of Túaim Dreccon (Tomregan, Co. Cavan), and reveals to him the names of many future churchmen in Ireland.
Baile in Scáil
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Banshenchas
prose
verse
The title Banshenchas refers to two versions composed in the late Middle Irish period:
- [[Metrical Banshenchas
|a metrical version composed by Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside in 1147]] and
- [[Prose Banshenchas
|a longer version in prose]].
Follow the links for further references.Bás Chearbhaill agus Fhearbhlaidhe
prose
Early Modern Irish romance about the tragic love relationship between poet-harper Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh from Corcomroe and Fearbhlaidh, daughter of the king of Scotland, who falls in love with the poet after he is revealed to her in a dream-vision. This Cearbhall, though clearly a creation of narrative fiction, might have been based on an historical poet of this name who was ollamh of Corcomroe and died in 1404. In the tale, Cearbhall is buried at the monastic site.
Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill
prose
Ó Cléirigh (Lughaidh)
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Ó Cléirigh (Lughaidh)
(c.1580–c.1630)
Irish historian and poet, known best as the author of a ‘biography’ of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill (Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill) and as one of the initiators of the ‘Contention of the Bards’; was one of the sons of Mac Con Ó Cléirigh and a cousin of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh.
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Bec innocht lúth mo dá lúa
verse
4 st.
beg. Bec innocht lúth mo dá lúa
Caílte mac Rónáin
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Caílte mac Rónáin
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
or Caílte mac Crundchon meic Rónáin, kinsman of Finn mac Cumaill and a prominent member of his fían; accomplished warrior and hunter; one of the protagonists of Acallam na senórach
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Poem of four stanzas, attributed to Caílte. It uses a special, learned vocabulary known as bérla na filed.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Belach Gabráinverse
prose
beg. Inmain dam in Gabrán glan
Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid
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Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid
legendary poet and king of Leinster; son of Russ Rúad
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Texts in prose and verse relating variant versions of dinnshenchas on Belach Gabráin (B. nGabráin, B. Gabrán), perhaps Gowran Pass (Co. Kilkenny) or more probably, according to Edward Gwynn, the pass of that name in Maistiu (Co. Kildare). This pass (belach) is said to derive its name from the hound Gabrán whose heart broke (i.e. it died) from a fatiguing and unsuccessful pursuit of a swine whose name appears exclusively in the genitive, Lurgan (cf. lurga, lurgu ‘shanks’). The swine escaped from it underground in the bog of Allen (móin Almaine). The prose story identifies the hiding place as Loch Lurgan.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Benn Bóguineprose
verse
22 st.
beg. Fil dam aichne áige
Dinnshenchas of Benn Bóguine
Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Benn Boirche Iprose
verse
3 st.
beg. Boirche búadach, ba búaid fir
Text on the dinnshenchas of Benn Boirche
Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Benn Boirche IIverse
prose
4 st.
beg. In eól duíb in senchas sen
Prose and verse texts on the dinnshenchas of Benn Boirche (Mourne Mountains, Co. Down - see Gwynn).
Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Benn Codailprose
verse
7 st.
beg. Senchas Codail cuimnig dam
Text on the dinnshenchas of Benn Codail
Dinnshenchas Érenn A
Dinnshenchas of Benn Étair Iverse
beg. Étar étan ri dílind
Cináed úa hArtacáin
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Cináed úa hArtacáin
(d. 975)
Middle Irish poet.
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Poem on the Hill of Howth, Co. Dublin.
Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Benn Foibneprose
verse
9 st.
beg. Eól dam co soirbi sercaig
Dinnshenchas of Benn Foibne/Foibni.
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Berbaprose
verse
beg. In Berba búan a bailbe
Dinnshenchas of the River Barrow (Berba)
Betha Abáin
prose
Vernacular Irish recension of the Life of St Abbán of Mag Arnaide (Moyarney, now Adamstown in Co. Wexford) and Cell Abbáin (Killabban, Co. Laois)
Betha Adamnáin
prose
Early Middle Irish Life of Adomnán, abbot of Iona (d. 704), written about the middle of the tenth century.
Betha Beineoin deiscipuil Pátraic
prose
prosimetrum
Life of St Benén, companion of St Patrick, in Irish and Latin.
Betha Beraig
form undefined
Irish Life of the Connacht saint Berach (mac Amairgin) of Clúain Coirpthe
Betha Brénainn Clúana Ferta I
prose
So-called first Irish Life of Brénainn of Clúain Fertae (Clonfert, Co. Galway), also known as the Lismore Life. While the first and second Lives represent much the same version during the first part of the narration, they diverge at the point where the second Life becomes conflated with the Navigatio sancti Brendani. The first Life, moreover, concludes with a fragment of Fis Adomnáin.
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