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Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus caiticiosma

prose

Ó Cearnaigh (Seán)

Ó Cearnaigh (Seán)

(c.1540–c.1587)

Irish translator

Irish primer written by Seán Ó Cearnaigh, containing a Protestant catechism translated into Irish from a number of English-language sources, along with a letter to the reader and a version of the Articles of religion, and an alphabet of the Irish language. It was published in 1571 ‘in the house of alderman John Ussher’, in new Irish letter forms, and is known for being the first book in Irish to have been printed in Ireland. Like the translation of the Old and New Testament into Irish in later decades, its publication served a wider programme of propagating Protestantism among Irish Catholics by making use of the Irish language.

Aisling Tundail

prose

Ó Maoil Chonaire (Muirgheas mac Pháidín)

Ó Maoil Chonaire (Muirgheas mac Pháidín)

(d. 1543)

Muirgheas mac Pháidín Uí Maoil Chonaire, of Cluain Plocáin, scribe and compiler of the Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26).

Sixteenth-century Irish translation of the Latin Visio Tnugdali. The translation is the work of Muirgheas Ó Maoil Chonaire.

Betha Decclain

prose

Vernacular Irish translation of the Latin Life of St Declán of Ardmore (Vita sancti Declani).

Betha Féchín Fabair

prose

Nicól ÓgNicól Óg

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Irish Life of St Féchín of Fore. According to a note in the manuscript (NLI MS G 5), it is based on a Latin work and was translated into Irish by Nicól Óg, abbot of Cong.

Bethadh Bibuis o Hamtuir

prose

Mac an Leagha (Uilliam)

Mac an Leagha (Uilliam)

(fl. 15th century)

Irish author, translator and scribe

Medieval Irish adaptation of the story of Bevis of Hampton, based on a Middle English version of the legend.

Bethadh Sir Gui o Bharbhuic

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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Fiarfaidhi San Anselmuis

prose

Ua Conchubhair (Seán) [translator]

Ua Conchubhair (Seán) ... translator

(d. 1391?)

Seán Ua/Ó Conchubhair, Irish scholar, or possibly scholars of the same name, credited with the translation into Irish of the Dialogus de passione Christi attributed to St Anselm and the Liber de passione Christi attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. AFM s.a. 1391 records the killing of one Seaan mac Mathgamhna Uí Choncobhair. Their names may but need not refer to the same person.

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Irish version of the Dialogus de passione Christi... (wrongly) attributed to St Anselm, who is presented as conversing with the Virgin Mary on the passion of Christ. The translation and adaptation are believed to have been undertaken by Seán O Conchubhair.

Gabháltus Séarluis Mhóir

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Irish abridgment of the Expugnatio Hibernica

prose

Early Modern Irish adaptation of part of Gerald of Wales’ Expugnatio Hibernica, I.1-II.19. According to Aisling Byrne (2013), it is “a translation of the Hiberno-English text and not, as has been previously assumed, an independent adaptation of the Latin original”.

Irish astronomical tract

prose

Early Modern Irish adaptation based on a Latin translation (Liber de orbe) of a lost astronomical tract written in Arabic by Masha’allah (Māshā’allāh) ibn Athari, a Persian Jewish scholar (fl. early 9th c.). The Irish text appears to be based on a longer, 40-chapter version of the Latin text as opposed to the shorter (27-chapter) and better known version which was first printed in the 16th century and has been attributed to Gerard of Cremona.

Irish Liber de passione Christi

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Ua Conchubhair (Seán) [translator]

Ua Conchubhair (Seán) ... translator

(d. 1391?)

Seán Ua/Ó Conchubhair, Irish scholar, or possibly scholars of the same name, credited with the translation into Irish of the Dialogus de passione Christi attributed to St Anselm and the Liber de passione Christi attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. AFM s.a. 1391 records the killing of one Seaan mac Mathgamhna Uí Choncobhair. Their names may but need not refer to the same person.

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Irish version of the Liber de passione Christi et doloribus et planctibus matris eius usually attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. It is in the form of a dialogue between St Bernard and the Virgin Mary about the passion of Christ. The text is anonymous and may have been the work of Irish scholar Seán Ó Conchubhair.

Irish Life of Catherine of Alexandria

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Ó Gilláin (Enóg)Ó Gilláin (Enóg)

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Irish Life of St Catherine of Alexandria.

Irish Life of Mo Chóemóc of Leigh

prose

Irish translation of the Latin vita of St Mo Chóemóc, abbot of Liath Mo Chóemóc (Leamakevoge or Leigh, Co. Tipperary).

Irish Rosa Anglica

prose

An Early Modern Irish version, or versions, of the Rosa Anglica, an early 14th-century practical treatise on medicine written by John of Gaddesden.

Leabhar Ser Marco Polo

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Lorgaireacht an tSoidigh Naomhtha

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Páis Cristoforus

prose

Medieval Irish passion of Saint Christopher, dog-headed saint, evangelist and martyr.

Párliament na mban

prose

Ó Colmáin (Domhnall)

Ó Colmáin (Domhnall)

(c.1645–c.1704)

Irish Catholic priest, author of Párliament na mban.

Didactic prose work written in Irish by Domhnall Ó Colmáin, a Catholic priest of Cork, before the end of the 17th century and based on a division of Erasmus’ Colloquia familiaria that is concerned with an assembly (Senatulus or Γυναικοσυνέδριον) of women. The original version is lost, but the text went through two revisions by the author, both of which survive in manuscript copies. In the Irish text, the convening noblewomen are brought closer to the preacher’s home, in Glanmire (Co. Cork). Ó Colmáin addressed the second version of his work to his young pupil James Cotter (Séamus Óg Mac Coitir).

Sdair na Lumbardach

prose

A 15th-century Irish translation, probably of chapter 19 (‘De sancto Pelagio papa’) from Jacobus de Voragine’s hagiographic compilation Legenda aurea (1260 x 1270).

Seachrán na Banimpire

prose

Early Modern Irish adaptation of the Middle English Octavian, which is itself based on the late medieval French chanson de geste Florent et Octavien.

Sgél Ainnte Crisd

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Smaointe beatha Chríost

prose

Ó Bruacháin (Tomás Gruamdha)

Ó Bruacháin (Tomás Gruamdha)

(fl. 15th century)

choral canon of Killala (Co. Mayo), known for having translated the Meditationes vitae Christi attributed to Bonaventure into Irish.

Early Modern Irish version of the Meditationes vitae Christi (traditionally attributed to Bonaventure though not written by him). The translation is thought to have been undertaken by Tomás Gruamdha Ó Bruacháin, canon of Cill Aladh (Killala, Co. Mayo), in c.1450.

Stair Fortibrais

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