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Cét-rí ro-gab Érind uill

verse

14 st.

beg. Cét-rí ro-gab Érind uill

Poem (14qq) on the kings of Ailech who held the kingship of Ireland.

Macgnímartha Find

Cétamon

verse

14 st.

beg. Cétemain, caín cucht

Old Irish poem on May-day, which offers images of the season of May in all its vivid glory, from the blackbirds and bees to the appearance of the trees. The poem is extant as a composition incorporated in a later text, Macgnímartha Find (‘The boyhood deeds of Finn’), where it is attributed to Finn as a demonstration of his poetic skills after he had learned the three arts of poetry (teinm láeda, im-us forosna and díchetal di chennaib).

Cétbriathra Bic meic Dé

verse

beg. Ailech cen gíall, Temair hi tráig

Becc mac Dé

Becc mac Dé

(d. 550s)

legendary seer, best known from literary sources as an Irish prophet associated with Díarmait mac Cerbaill

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An Irish poem about the downfall of Ireland. The prose introduction explains it as a poem about the end of the world, representing the first words uttered by the prophet Becc mac Dé after his birth.

Cethrar cóic fichit iar fír

verse

beg. Cethrar cóic fichit iar fír

Poem on Adam's 124 children

Cethri meic Airtt Mis-Telmann

verse

3 st.

beg. Cethri meic Airtt Mis-Telmann

Short poem (3qq) on the four sons of Art Mes Telmann.

Cétna laithe tairiraith

verse

9 st.

beg. Cétna laithe tairiraith

Moelmoedóc mac DiarmadaMoelmoedóc mac Diarmada

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Middle Irish poem (9 qq) on the seven journeys of the soul after if leaves the body. It is found in the Leabhar Breac, where it is attributed to Moelmoedóc Ua Mongair but internally, in the final quatrain, to Moelmoedóc mac Diarmada, possibly referring to the abbot of Glen Uissen (Killeshin, Co. Laois) (ob. 917).

Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille

Cetracha sacart a lín

verse

1 st.

beg. Cetracha sacart a lín

A scrap of early Irish verse (1q only) cited the beginning of the preface (remfhocul) to Amra Choluim Chille. While in LU it occurs in the upper margin of the first page of the preface, with no explicit relationship being made to the text, it is more fully integrated into the main body of narrative in other manuscripts. The stanza gives a list of churchmen, together with their numbers, which in the context of the prose preface, would seem to refer to those who travelled with Colum Cille at the time of the convention of Druim Cetta.

Cind cethri ndíni iar Frigrind

verse

34 st.

beg. Cind cethri ndíni iar Frigrind forraig gleógal

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

Cinnus atá do thinnrem

verse

beg. Cinnus atá do thinnrem

Middle Irish poem of advice addressed to the student Máel Brigte

Clann Ailella Oluim uill

verse

8 st.

beg. Clann Ailella Oluim uill

Early Irish poem (8 qq) on the descendants of Ailill Ólom, king of Munster.

Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna

verse

80 st.

beg. Clann Ollaman uaisle Emna

Anonymous Irish poem (80 st.) on the Christian kings of Ulster, thought by F. J. Fyrne to have been written in the reign of Eochaidh Mac Duinnshléibhe (1158-1166).

Clanna Bresail Bricc builid

verse

13 st.

beg. Clanna Bresail Bricc builid

Middle Irish poem on Leinster dynasties.

Clanna Israél uili

verse

43 st.

beg. Clanna Israél uili

Flann Fína mac OssuFlann Fína mac Ossu

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Early Irish poem ascribed to Flann Fína mac Ossu, which relates how Mog Ruith beheaded John the Baptist.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Cleitech

prose

verse

6 st.

beg. Cleitech in druí díles daith

Text on the dinnshenchas of Cleitech

Clocán binn

verse

beg. Clocán binn

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Clóenloch

prose

verse

4 st.

beg. Sund dodechaid Clóen ar chel

Text on the dinnshenchas of Clóenloch

Sanas Cormaic, Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Cnocc Rafann

verse

prose

1 st.

beg. Inráith morsa (ł hisa) forsna mfil

Mac Dá CherdaMac Dá Cherda

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Dinnshenchas of Cnocc Rafann

Coeca fichet filed

verse

beg. Coeca fichet filed

One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’

Cóic adnaicthi ní mod mend

verse

7 st.

beg. Cóic adnaicthi, ní mod mend

Short, early Irish poem (7 qq) found in the Leabhar Breac.

Cóic Mumain i Mumain móir

verse

7 st.

beg. Cóic Mumain i Mumain móir

Topographical poem on the five divisions of Munster.

Cóic ríg tríchat do Laignib

verse

beg. Cóic ríg tríchat do Laignib

Middle Irish poem which, as the opening quatrain announces, lists 35 kings of Leinster who were high-kings of early Ireland, from Labraid Loingsech to Nad Buidb mac Eirc.

Cóic ríg tríchat triallsat róe

verse

55 st.

beg. Cóic ríg tríchat triallsat róe

Middle Irish poem (55qq) which enumerates early medieval kings of Leinster since the arrival of Christianity. According to M. A. O'Brien, who published an edition of the text, the poem is a composite work consisting of two parts: the first, longer series of stanzas (1-38) listing 35 kings from Crimthann mac Énnai Chennselaig to Fáelán mac Muiredaig (d. 934), together with two additional quatrains of slightly later date (39-40), and a final series (41-55) ending with Donnchadh mac Dúnlaing (d. 1036). The final kings in both parts are represented as being still alive.

Cóica traighedh tólaibh tlacht

verse

2 st.

beg. Cóica traighedh tólaibh tlacht

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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Two sts of a medieval Irish poem concerning the gigantic physical heights of Tadg mac Céin and Conchobar mac Nessa.

Cóictach descipul foglaintid

verse

10 st.

beg. Cóictach, descipul, foglaintid

Úa Cerbaill (Máel Suthain)Úa Cerbaill (Máel Suthain)

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Medieval Irish poem attributed to the Munster scholar Máel Suthain Úa Cerbaill (d. 1010), dealing with the ecclesiastical and secular grades.

Coimétor liph cend an rígh

verse

30 st.

beg. Coimétor liph cend an rígh

Medieval Irish poem attributed in the final stanza to Aífe ingen Shogain, a síd-woman from Carn Treóin, and addressed by her to the Érainn, asking them to preserve the head of Cú Roí and recite his deeds.

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