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Misc. dialogue and question-and-answer literature

Misc. dialogue and question-and-answer literature

Late Middle Irish

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Acallam bec

prose

verse

A prosimetric narrative, related to Acallam na senórach, concerning the wanderings of Caílte and other survivors of the Fían at the time of Patrick’s advent in Ireland. While the dialogue between Patrick and a representative of Finn’s old fían is central to both Acallam na senórach and the later Agallamh na seanórach, the meeting between Patrick and Caílte occupies comparatively little space in this text.

Apair rim a Sétna

verse

20 st.

beg. Apair rim a Sétna

Late Middle Irish poem (20qq) in the form of a dialogue between Finnchú, saint of Brí Gobann (Brigown), and a certain Sétna, whose speech occupies the greater part of the text with prophecies of political upheaval and moral decline at the end of the world. The identity of this prophet is uncertain. The prose heading in one manuscript identifies him as Sétna of Clúain Becc (presumably Clonbeg, Co. Tipperary), but it may also be significant that in Irish genealogies, a Sétna is listed as either Finnchú’s father or his grandfather.

Cros an Choimdhedh cumachtaigh

verse

12 st.

beg. Cros an Choimdhedh cumachtaigh

Irish poem representing a dialogue between St Moling and Suibne.

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Classification

Irish and Irish Latin religious literature

Irish narrative literature / Finn Cycle

Irish narrative literature / Finn Cycle / Dialogue of the Elders

Irish poetry / Early Irish (to c.1200)

Misc. / dialogue and question-and-answer literature

Misc. / prophetic literature / political

Misc. / religious literature / visions and eschatology

Language

Irish/Gaelic
Irish > Early Irish
Irish > Early > Middle Irish
Irish > Early > Middle Irish > Late Middle Irish
Irish > Early Modern Irish