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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.

Late Middle IrishEarly Modern Irish

Acallam na senórach

prose

verse

Middle IrishFinn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)Saint PatrickCaílte mac Rónáin

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Achall

verse

prose

beg. Achall ar aicce Temair

Cináed úa hArtacáin

Cináed úa hArtacáin

(d. 975)

Middle Irish poet.

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Dinnshenchas poem mostly on Achall, i.e. the Hill of Skreen, Co. Meath, with prose on Duma nEirc and Duma nAichle. Both the poem and the prose text offer the story according to which Achall died of grief for her brother Erc, who was killed in vengeance for Cú Chulainn’s death, and was buried in the mound that would bear her name.

Middle IrishDinnshenchasrevenge

Acta sanctorum Hiberniae

prose

Colgan (John)

Colgan (John)

(d. 1658)

Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.

A collection of the acts of the Irish saints, written in Latin. It covers those saints whose feast-days were believed to fall in January, February and March.

Latin language

Adam primus pater (Irish tract)

prose

Middle Irish

Additamenta in the Book of Armagh

prose

A collection of charter-like records in Latin and Old Irish relating the activities of St Patrick in Ireland and the lands that were granted to him and his church. The collection can be divided into three parts: (1) a text about the foundation of Trim (Co. Meath), including an account of the conversion of Feidlimid son of Lóegaire mac Néill, king of Leinster; (2) a group of six records concerning churches in northern Connacht; and (3) a group of four records concerning churches in Leinster.

Old IrishLatin languageSaint PatrickLeinster/Cúige LaigheanConnacht/Cúige ChonnachtÁth Truimm ... TrimArd Macha ... Armagh

Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano

prose

Latin Life of St Foillán of Fosses, a brother of St Fursa. It was written as a supplement to Vita Fursei. BHL 3211.

Latin languageHagiographyFursaNivialcha ... NivellesFoillanDido ... bishop of PoitiersGertrude of NivellesFosses-la-Ville

The adventures of Mac Dá Cherda

prose

Early Irish tale about (Comgán) Mac Dá Cherda, son of Máel Ochtraig (king of the Déisi of Mag Femen)

Early IrishComgán Mac Dá CherdaDéisi/Déssi

Ind áer-sin do-rigne Cairpre mac Etaine do Bres mac Elathan

prose

An anecdote about the ‘first satire in Ireland’, which is said to have been made by Cairpre mac Etaine on the unjust king Bres mac Elathan. The same story is found in Cath Maige Tuired.

Middle IrishBres mac ElathanCoirpre mac Étaíne (also mac Etna(i)/Ethne)

Duanaire Finn, Acallam bec

Ag so in fód in ar ghein Fionn

verse

43 st.

beg. Ag so in fód in ar ghein Fionn

Late Middle IrishEarly Modern Irish

Agallamh Fhinn agus Ailbhe

verse

A modernised Irish version of the riddle episode in Tochmarc Ailbe. Three versions of this collection of riddles are found in the manuscripts.

Early Modern IrishAilbe ingen ChormaicFinn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

Agallamh Leborchaim

form undefined

beg. A ingen a lúath, a láeb, a Leborcham, cía Ultu ána acca?

A prose introduction, including a list of Ulster women, and passage of rosc that are found as part of the early Irish tale Talland Étair. According to the tale, Leborcham is sent north to warn the wives of Ulster heroes and notables of the impending misfortunes of their husbands in battle. Her warning is uttered in the form of a rosc in which she presents a vision of the bloody outcome of the fight. Scholars like Dobbs have regarded the text as an interpolation, although this view may be open to debate.

Late Old IrishEarly Middle IrishLeborcham

Agallamh na seanórach

prosimetrum

prose

verse

A composite recension of the tale of the conversation (agallamh) between St Patrick and representatives of the old Fían, Oisín and Caílte.

Middle IrishEarly Modern Irish

Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig

verse

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.

Modern IrishEarly Modern Irish

Aided Bresail meic Diarmata

form undefined

A brief, early Irish saga and hagiographical legend, which relates how Díarmait mac Cerbaill had his son Bresal slain for appropriating a nun’s cow and how St Béccán rescued the soul of the king’s son from hell, resuscitating him.

Early IrishAidedaresuscitation of the deadDíarmait mac CerbaillColum CilleCenandas, Cenannas ... KellsBressal mac DíarmataLuchair of ElgraigeBéccán of Emlaghhell

Táin bó Cúailnge I, Táin bó Cúailnge II, Táin bó Cúailnge III

Aided Cáur

prose

Episode found in all three recensions of Táin bó Cúailnge.

Aided Cheit maic Mágach

prose

A tale of the Ulster Cycle, set after the death of Conchobar.

Middle IrishEarly Modern IrishAidedaConall CernachCet mac MágachBréifneBélchú BréifneÁth Ceit

Aided Cheltchair maic Uthechair

prose

A tale of the Ulster Cycle.

Middle IrishAidedaCú ChulainnConchobar mac NessaBlaí BriuguCeltchar (mac Uithechair)

Aided Chon Roí

prose

Old IrishCú ChulainnCú Roí (mac Dáiri)

Aided Chonchobair

prose

Early IrishCet mac MágachConchobar mac Nessa

Aided Chonchobuir (version D)

prose

Short anecdote about the death of King Conchobar.

Irish languagedeathCet mac MágachConchobar mac Nessa

Aided Chrimthaind maic Fhidaig ocus Trí mac Echach Muigmedóin

prose

A Middle Irish prosimetric saga about the infighting between the sons of Eochaid Mugmedón in their struggle for dominance, the roles of Mongfhind (mother of four of them) and her brother Crimthann in this conflict, and the fates of Brían, Fíachra, Ailill and their sons.

Middle IrishAidedaAilill mac Echach MuigmedóinFíachra mac Echach MuigmedóinEochaid MugmedónCrimthann mac FidaigMongfhind ingen FhidaigBrión mac Echach Muigmedóin

Táin bó Cúailnge I, Táin bó Cúailnge II

Aided con na cerda

prose

Aided Derbforgaill

prose

verse

prosimetrum

Early IrishCú ChulainnLugaid Ríab nDerg (Reóderg)Derbforgaill ... daughter of the king of Lochlann

Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill I

prose

A composite Middle Irish tale about the reign and (threefold) death of Díarmait mac Cerbaill, king of Ireland. A common theme is the king’s violation of ecclesiastical sanctuary or protection.

AidedCiarán (mac int Shaír) of ClonmacnoiseDíarmait mac CerbaillColum CilleRuadán of LorrhaBrénainn of Birr

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