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Short annals of Fir Manach
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Short set of Irish annals for the period 1566-1625, which are focused on the area of Fermanagh.
Manuscript witnesses
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.
[ed.] Walsh, Paul, “Annála beaga Fear Manach: Short annals of Fir Manach”, in: Paul Walsh, Irish chiefs and leaders, ed. Colm O Lochlainn, Dublin: Three Candles, 1960. 58–66.
Reprint.
[ed.] Walsh, Paul, “Short annals of Fir Manach”, The Irish Book Lover 23 (Jan-Feb, 1935): 7–10.
CELT – edition: <link>
Secondary sources (select)
Mc Carthy, Daniel P., The Irish annals: their genesis, evolution and history, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.
comments: Contents: Chronicles and annals: origins, compilation, taxonomy and nomenclature (p. 1); Witnesses to the annals: the primary manuscripts (18); Annalistic literature (61); World history in Insular chronicles (118); The Iona chronicle (153); The Moville and Clonmacnoise chronicles (168); Liber Cuanach and its descendants (198); The Armagh and Derry chronicles (223); The Connacht and Fermanagh chronicles (245); The Regnal-canon chronicles (271); Final compilation stages (304); Reliable annalistic chronology (342); Epilogue (355); Twelve centuries of Irish chronicling: from Bethlehem to Bundrowes (355); Necessity for a comprehensive analysis of chronicle features (357); Outstanding chronicle compilations (358); Manuscript witnesses to the annals (361); Survey of annalistic verse up to A.D. 1000 (364); The regnal-canon (368); Bibliography (375) and index (393).
[‘The Connacht and Fermanagh chronicles’]
