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Párliament na mban

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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).

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Cambridge, University Library, MS Additional 6530

Fragment in the hand of S. H. O'Grady.

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Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 204

Imperfect.

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Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 429

Manuscript used by Ó Cuív.

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 26

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 A 15

Revised version (1703), also edited by Ó Cuív.

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 17/part 1

Sources

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[ed.] Ó Cuív, Brian, Párliament na mBan, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1952.

Edition, with introduction, notes and vocabulary.

[tr.] Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [ed.], “Mary, Eve and the Church (c. 600-1800)”, in: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, and Maria Luddy [et al.] (eds), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions, Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. 45–165.

159–161 Selection.

Secondary sources (select)

Meaney, Gerardine, Mary OʼDowd, and Bernadette Whelan, Reading the Irish woman: studies in cultural encounters and exchange, 1714–1960, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013.

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