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Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus caiticiosma

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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

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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.

An Biobla Naomhtha

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In 1690, the Irish translations of the Old and New Testament were published together as An Biobla Naomhtha. The printing of this book, which involved transliteration from Irish into Roman characters, was overseen by Rev. Robert Kirk, who intended it for Scottish Gaelic readers. Kirk’s effort met with little enthusiasm.

Betha Decclain

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

Betha Féchín Fabair

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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.

Dígal fola Crist

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Epistil Ísu

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Old Irish version of the Sunday Letter (Carta Dominica), a letter allegedly written by Christ insisting on strict Sunday observance. In the manuscripts it is commonly found together with another Old Irish text, Cáin Domnaig.

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

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

Irish version of Innocent III's De contemptu mundi

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Early Modern Irish adaptation of Pope Innocent III’s De contemptu mundi (or De miseria conditionis humane).

Is fisigh cidh dia ndernad Adham

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Irish text on the divisions of Adam

Páis Cristoforus

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

Scél in dá lenab

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A short medieval Irish story, being an adaptation of the legend known the ‘Jew of Bourges’, which is itself a localised version of the ‘legend of the two infants’. Two children, one Christian and the other Jewish, are visiting a Christian temple together, in the course of which the Jewish boy learns about Jesus, the Crucifixion and the Virgin Mary, and partakes of consecrated bread. When the latter comes home, he is castigated for this by his father, who throws his son into a burning furnace. A miracle is witnessed the following day, when the child proves to be alive and well again, having received Mary’s protection, and declares himself to be a fosterson of hers. The boy’s parents convert to Christianity. Like many of the French versions of this narrative, the Irish story is set in France.

Sén Dé donfé for-donté

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beg. Sén Dé donfé for-donté

Colmán mac Uí CluasaigColmán mac Uí Cluasaig

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Early Irish verse hymn ascribed to one Colmán mac Uí Cluasaig, lector in Cork. The first divison (ll. 1-38) is regarded as the original poem, which appears to be an adaptation of a Latin prayer. The next divison (ll. 39-47), itself perhaps of mixed origin, serves as an appendix. The final one, almost certainly a later addition, invokes the chief patron saints of Ireland (Brigit, Patrick and Columba).

Sgél Ainnte Crisd

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Smaointe beatha Chríost

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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.

An teanga bithnua (modern recension)

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The so-called third or ‘modern’ recension of In tenga bithnua, preserved mainly in copies of the 18th and 19th centuries, though the oldest copy may date from the 15th century.

Tiomna Nuadh ar dTighearna agus ar slanaightheora Iosa Criosd

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Ó Domhnaill (Uilliam)

Ó Domhnaill (Uilliam)

(d. 1628)

Irish churchman, archbishop of Tuam (Church of Ireland); scholar of Trinity College, Dublin; continued an Irish translation of the New Testament

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Donnellan (Nehemiah) ... archbishop of Tuam

(d. 1609)

archbishop of Tuam

Irish translation of the New Testament, first printed in 1602. The translation was a joint effort that was begun by Nicholas Walsh, bishop of Ossory, Nehemiah Don(n)ellan (archbishop of Tuam), and John Kearney. William Daniel (Uilliam Ó Domhnaill) stepped in at a later stage.

Vita sancti Fechini ex MSS Hibernicis (Colgan)

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Colgan (John)

Colgan (John)

(d. 1658)

Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.

The second vita of St Féchín printed by John Colgan in his Acta sanctorum Hiberniae. Colgan made use of three Irish sources, which he conflated and translated into Latin to produce a composite text. The first life he found in a manuscript associated with Féchín's monastery in the island of Omey (vnam fusam ex Codice Immaciensi in Connacia, quam eius compilator aliàs recentior ... indicat ... desumptam esse ex alia latina); the second life is described as aliam habemus stylo plane uetusto et magnae fidei, sed principio et fine carentem. Plummer suggests that these lives must have corresponded to the vernacular life and homily found in NLI MS G 5. The third source is a metrical version now lost (tertiam uero uetusto et eleganti metro lxxiv distichis constante).

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