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Annals of Connacht

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Annals of Loch Cé

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Annals of Mac Carthaigh’s book

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Annals of Saints' Island on Lough Ree

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Magraidhin (Aughuistín)

Magraidhin (Aughuistín)

(fl. c.1349–d. 1405)

Irish chronicler and canon regular at the Augustinian priory of All Saints on Oileán na Naomh (Saints Island) in Lough Ree (Co. Longford).

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Two sets of Irish annals for the years 1392-1398 (beg. after a lacuna) and 1401-1407. The copy extant in Rawl. B 488 is largely in the hand of Aughuistín Magraidhin, an Augustinian canon of Saints’ Island on Lough Ree, who also appears to have been responsible for compiling the annals.

Annals of the Four Masters

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Ó Cléirigh (Mícheál)

Ó Cléirigh (Mícheál)

(d. 1643)

Irish scholar, historian and scribe.

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Ó Maoil Chonaire (Fear Feasa)

(fl. 17th century)

Irish scribe; one of the scholars known as the Four Masters

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Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche)

(d. in or after 1664)

Irish scholar, poet, historian and scribe; one of the so-named ‘Four Masters’.

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Ó Duibhgeannáin (Cú Choigcríche)

(fl. 17th century)

Irish scribe, known as one of the Four Masters

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Ó Cléirigh (Conaire)

(s. xvii)

A brother of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and one of the occasional assistants of the Four Masters.

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Ó Maoil Chonaire (Muiris mac Torna)

(d. 1645)

Irish scholar, poet and scribe of the Ó Maoil Chonaire family. He is known to have made a small contribution to the Annals of the Four Masters.

Beatha Giolla Íosa agus Maghnusa Mhég Uidhir Fhear Manach

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Caiseal cathair Chlann Mogha

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75 st.

beg. Caiseal cathair Chlann Mogha

Ó Dubhagáin (Seaán Mór)

Ó Dubhagáin (Seaán Mór)

(d. 1372)

Irish poet and historian.

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A list of kings of Munster in versified form (75 qq), attributed to Seaán Ó Dubhagáin.

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1297/Preface

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A preface to Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1297, written on a flyleaf in honour of the probable patron of the manuscript, captain Brian Mág Uidhir (d. 1726). It gives his pedigree, followed by a eulogy in which he is praised for his generosity towards poets and musicians, almsgiving to the poor and for his patronage of the preservation and renewal of manuscripts, including redeeming or ransoming (fuascladh) many of them “from the foreigners and from the Gaels”.

Foras feasa ar Éirinn

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Keating (Geoffrey)

Keating (Geoffrey)

(c.1580–1644)

Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn

The prose history of Ireland completed by Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) in c. 1634. Comprising an introduction, two books and appendices, it narrates the history of the island from the time of Creation to the Norman conquest in the 12th century. As set out by the vindicatory introduction (an díonbhrollach), the work was written in response to the cultural biases of Anglo-centric writers (e.g. William Camden and Edmund Spenser).

Fragmentary annals of Ireland

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A fragmentarily preserved text of Irish annals and narrative expansions, possibly compiled in the 11th century and perhaps based on the lost Annals of Clonenagh (Radner). Five fragments now remain in a late, 17th-century transcript, each covering a part of the period between 573 and 914 and focusing on the province of Leinster.

Fragmentum annalium cuiusdam Connatiensis

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Irish annals known only from two fragments in Raw. B 488 containing entries for AD 1237–1249 and 1303–1314. The extant entries appear to focus on affairs in or relating to Connacht.

Gionnallach Í Duinn

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Pedgrees and r notes relating to the Í Dhuinn.

Lebor gabála Érenn (Míniugud)

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prosimetrum

An abbreviated recension of Lebor gabála Érenn, known as the Miniugud recension. In the manuscripts, it is usually found as an appendix to Recension II.

Lebor gabála Érenn

Lebor gabála Érenn (Ó Cléirigh)

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A modern version of Lebor gabála Érenn, revised by Micheál Ó Cléirigh and his associates in 1631.

Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension C)

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Lebor gabála Érenn

Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension B)

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The so-called second recension of Lebor gabála Érenn.

Lebor gabála Érenn

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prosimetrum

Réim ríoghraidhe na hÉireann agus seanchas a naomh

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A collection of genealogies of the kings and saints of Ireland, compiled by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and his associates and completed in 1630.

Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh

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198 st.

beg. Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh

Ó hUidhrín (Giolla na Naomh)

Ó hUidhrín (Giolla na Naomh)

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A long topographical poem (198 stt) attributed to Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín (ob. 1420), created in continuation of Seaán Ó Dubhagáin’s poem beg. Triallam timcheall na Fódla. Where Ó Dubhagáin covered (Gaelic) lordships and lineages of the northern half of Ireland and part of Leinster, Ó hUidhrín focused on the southern half.

Turas na dTaoiseach nUltach as Éirinn

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Ó Cianáin (Tadhg)Ó Cianáin (Tadhg)

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The story of the Flight of the Earls (1607-1608), according to Tadhg Ó Cianáin.

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