Texts

Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig

Incoming data

The Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig, as intended here, refers to a series of poems that have been brought together in the framework of a dialogue between St Patrick and Finn's son Oisín.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Cambridge, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Ir 10

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 15

Earliest copy of the collection as such.

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

“To date, the published editions of fiannaigheacht lays have not provided a text of AOP that reflects what is found in the manuscripts” (Síle Ní Mhurchú, ‘Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig: composition and transmission’ in The Gaelic Finn tradition... (2012): 206).

[ed.] Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig [An Seabhac], Laoithe na Féinne, Dublin: An Chumainn le Béaloideas Éireann, 1941.

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An edition aimed at the wider public rather than a scholarly audience.

[ed.] [tr.] OʼDaly, John [ed. and tr.], Laoithe Fiannuigheachta: or, Fenian poems, 2 vols, Transactions of the Ossianic Society, 4, 6, Dublin, 1859–1861.

Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link>

Volumes 1 and 2 contain editions, with facing translation, of some of the lays.

Secondary sources (select)

Ní Mhurchú, Síle, “Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig: composition and transmission”, in: Sharon J. Arbuthnot, and Geraldine Parsons (eds), The Gaelic Finn tradition, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. 195–208.

Ní Mhurchú, Síle, “Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig: the growth of an Ossianic lay”, in: Stefan Zimmer (ed.), Kelten am Rhein: Akten des dreizehnten Internationalen Keltologiekongresses, 23. bis 27. Juli 2007 in Bonn, 2 vols, vol. 2: Philologie: Sprachen und Literaturen, Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2009. 175–179.

Ó Fiannachta, Pádraig, “The development of the debate between Pádraig and Oisín”, in: Bo Almqvist, Séamas Ó Catháin, and Pádraig Ó Héalaí (eds), Fiannaíocht: essays on the Fenian tradition of Ireland and Scotland — The heroic process: form, function and fantasy in folk epic, 54, 55, Dublin and Dun Laoghaire: An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann, 1987. 183–205.

Murphy, Gerard, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 3: Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary, Irish Texts Society, 43, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953.

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