Texts

Tromdámh Guaire

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Manuscript witnesses

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Cork, University College, Book of Lismore

ff. 144r–151v

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 11

pp. 1–37

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 6

A transcript of the Book of Lismore text (wrongly attributed to O'Curry by Joynt)

pp. 186a–193c

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 16

p. 1ff

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 34

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 40

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 M 31

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London, British Library, MS Additional 18748

Said to be copied from an older copy, c. 1730

p. 1ff

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London, British Library, MS Egerton 134

f. 25ff

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[ed.] Joynt, Maud [ed.], Tromdámh Guaire, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 2, Dublin, 1931.

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Text from 23 H 6, collated with variants from 24 M 31, 23 O 16 and 23 O 34.

[ed.] [tr.] Connellan, Owen, Imtheacht na Tromdháimhe; or, the proceedings of the great bardic institution, Transactions of the Ossianic Society, 5, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1860.

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Text from the Book of Lismore, collated with a version from “a valuable MS. on paper belonging to the late Rev. Mr. Lamb of Newtownhamilton” (xxxiv). Joynt supra: “Connellan took a good many liberties with his text and his translation is not always reliable.”

[tr.] Ford, Patrick K. [tr.], The Celtic poets: songs and tales from early Ireland and Wales, Belmont, Massachusetts: Ford & Bailie, 1999.

77–111

[tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong, De lastige schare, gevolgd door vijf anekdoten over dichtergeleerden, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1990.

Dutch translations of: Tromdámh Guaire, based on the edition of Maud Joynt (1931) -- three entries from Sanas Chormaic (Mug Eme, Lethec and Gaire) -- Passages from Immacallam in dá Thúarad (Colloquy of the two sages) -- Passages from Scéla Mongáin ⁊ Echdach Rígéicis (Why Mongán was deprived of noble issue).

[tr.] [adapt.] Ua Laoghaire, Peadar, Guaire, Dublin, 1915.

comments: Modernised version, in Irish, of the tale Tromdámh Guaire

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Modernised version in Irish.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Coileáin, Seán, “The making of Tromdám Guaire”, Ériu 28 (1977): 32–70.

Carney, James P., Studies in Irish literature and history, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1955.

170–189

Dillon, Myles, The cycles of the kings, London: Oxford University Press, 1946.

90–98 Brief introduction and summary.

Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921.

Contents: Part 1 (chapters 1-23): Allgemeines; Part 2 (chapters 1-85): Die Ulter Sage.

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254–267 Brief introduction and summary. direct link