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An Irish poem of prayer attributed to Mo Ling at the end of the Bóroma tract, in which Brigit and other saints are addressed.
A devotional hymn written in a learned kind of Latin, interspersed with Greek and Hebrew words. It consists of 22 rhyming triplets with lines of seven or eight syllables. The first letter of each triplet follows the order of the alphabet. It has been suggested that the poem was composed by an Irish cleric active in the 10th century.
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Latin prayer attested in early Irish or Irish-influenced manuscripts (though probably not of Irish origin).
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Latin hymn in praise of St Michael, attributed to Máel Rúain of Tallaght.
Metrical Latin hymn in honour of St Camelacus (Ir. Cáemlach?), a now obscure saint who is elsewhere described as having been a contemporary of St Patrick.
Early metrical hymn in honour of the rule of the community (familia or muinter) of Bennchor (Bangor, Co. Down), which is found in the Antiphonary of Bangor.
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Early Latin hymn in honour of Mary, attributed to Cú Chuimne, who was a monk and scholar at Iona and is also credited with co-authoring the Collectio canonum Hibernensis.
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An early metrical Latin hymn (35 qq) on the life of Christ, written in trochaic tetrameter and attributed to St Hilary (fl. 4th century). The text is attested in a 7th-century Irish manuscript, the Bangor antiphoner, and became one of the most popular hymns in medieval Ireland.
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A hymn for St Winwaloe/Gwenolé written by Clemens, monk of Landévennec. The main piece is an abecedarius, beg. Alme, dignanter supplicum, preceded by a brief prose preface and poem written in pentameters (beg. Ecce tuo Clemens hymnum construxit honori), which attribute the work to Clemens.
Metrical Latin hymn (8 st) of the ‘Ambrosian’ type, written in iambic dimeter. The text may have been written by an Irish author and seems to have been intended for the blessing of the Paschal candle on Easter night.