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prose

Medieval Latin annals covering the period AD 1265-1480 and thought to have been compiled at the friary of New Ross (Ir. Ros Mic Triuin), Co. Wexford.

Latin language

Annals of Saints' Island on Lough Ree

prose

Magraidhin (Aughuistín)

Magraidhin (Aughuistín)

(fl. c.1349–d. 1405)

Irish chronicler and canon regular at the Augustinian priory of All Saints on Oileán na Naomh (Saints Island) in Lough Ree (Co. Longford).

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Two sets of Irish annals for the years 1392-1398 (beg. after a lacuna) and 1401-1407. The copy extant in Rawl. B 488 is largely in the hand of Aughuistín Magraidhin, an Augustinian canon of Saints’ Island on Lough Ree, who also appears to have been responsible for compiling the annals.

Early Modern Irish

Annals of St Mary's Abbey, Dublin

prose

Annals of the Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Dublin.

Latin language

Annals of St Mary's, Drogheda

prose

Latin annals associated with St Mary’s abbey, Drogheda. The original does not survive, but a transcript of entries covering events between 1388 and 1501 was made by James Ware (Rawl. 488).

Latin language

Annals of the Book of Dub Dá Leithe

prose

A set of Irish annals that was once contained in the Book of Dub Dá Leithe, a manuscript which is thought to have been compiled during the abbacy of Dub Dá Leithe (1049-1064). The annals are cited by the Annals of Ulster s.a. 630, 963, 1004 and 1021.

Annals

Annals of the Four Masters

prose

Ó Cléirigh (Mícheál)

Ó Cléirigh (Mícheál)

(d. 1643)

Irish scholar, historian and scribe.

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Ó Maoil Chonaire (Fear Feasa)

(fl. 17th century)

Irish scribe; one of the scholars known as the Four Masters

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Ó Cléirigh (Cú Choigcríche)

(d. in or after 1664)

Irish scholar, poet, historian and scribe; one of the so-named ‘Four Masters’.

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Ó Duibhgeannáin (Cú Choigcríche)

(fl. 17th century)

Irish scribe, known as one of the Four Masters

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Ó Cléirigh (Conaire)

(s. xvii)

A brother of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh and one of the occasional assistants of the Four Masters.

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Ó Maoil Chonaire (Muiris mac Torna)

(d. 1645)

Irish scholar, poet and scribe of the Ó Maoil Chonaire family. He is known to have made a small contribution to the Annals of the Four Masters.

Early Modern Irish

Annals of Tigernach

prose

Annals of Tigernach

Annals of Tigernach s.a. 1084.4

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beg. Teidm mor isin bliadain sin

Annals of Ulster

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Apair ri síl nEógain Móir

verse

17 st.

beg. Apair ri síl nEógain Móir

Senchán Torpéist

Senchán Torpéist

(fl. 6th–7th century)

Irish poet associated with Gúaire Aidne, king of Connacht; popular figure in Irish literary tradition, notably as one credited for having retrieved the Táin and, especially in Tromdám Gúaire, as the leader of a band of poets seeking to test the limits of Gúaire’s hospitality.

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Early Irish poem on the descendants of Éogan Mór, attributed in one version to Senchán Torpéist.

Early IrishÉogan Mór mac Ailella

Assia ingen Neir (Irish tract)

prose

Irish tract on the origins of the names of the continents (Asia, Africa and Europe) and other aetiological lore.

Middle Irish

Auraicept na n-éces

prose

Old IrishMiddle Irish

Banshenchas

prose

verse

The title Banshenchas refers to two versions composed in the late Middle Irish period:

[[Metrical Banshenchas

|a metrical version composed by Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside in 1147]] and

[[Prose Banshenchas

|a longer version in prose]].

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Middle Irish

Beatha Giolla Íosa agus Maghnusa Mhég Uidhir Fhear Manach

prose

Modern IrishEarly Modern IrishMág Uidhir (Giolla Íosa)Mág Uidhir (Maghnus)

Biblical genealogies in TCD 1336

prose

Biblical genealogies along with apocryphal notes about Mary and her father Joachim as well as a prayer to Mary. The text appears incomplete on a single page in a unit of TCD MS 1336, where it is said to be taken from the Lebor buide Meic Murchada. According to Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, the text derives from a lost version of the Sex aetates mundi.

Early Irish

Biblical genealogies in the Book of Leinster

prose

beg. Máire ingen Iochim meic Ioseph meic Eli meic Elizar meic Mathatha

A brief section found in the Book of Leinster containing the genealogies of a number of biblical figures, including Mary, Samuel, Saul, Esdras and Asaph son of Berechiah.

Early Irish

Blodh d'annálaibh Innis Faithlionn

prose

Modern Irish compilation of annals concerned chiefly with Munster.

Modern Irish

Caiseal cathair Chlann Mogha

verse

75 st.

beg. Caiseal cathair Chlann Mogha

Ó Dubhagáin (Seaán Mór)

Ó Dubhagáin (Seaán Mór)

(d. 1372)

Irish poet and historian.

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A list of kings of Munster in versified form (75 qq), attributed to Seaán Ó Dubhagáin.

Early Modern Irishkings of MunsterMunster/Cúige Mumhan

Cambrensis eversus

prose

Lynch (John)

Lynch (John)

(c. 1599–1677)

Irish priest and scholar; author of Cambrensis eversus (1662), under the Latin pseudonym Gratianus Lucius.

A printed work by Irish priest John Lynch (Gratianus Lucius) on the history of Ireland. It was published in 1662.

Latin language

Can a mbunadus na nGáedel

verse

beg. Can a mbunadus na nGáedel?

Máel Muru Othna

Máel Muru Othna

(d. 887)

Early Irish poet and historian, who was apparently attached to the monastery of Othain (now Fahan, Inishowen barony, Co. Donegal), as his epithet suggests

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Old Irish

Capa is Laigni is Luasad grind

verse

9 st.

beg. Capa is Laigni is Luasad grind

Early Irish poem (9 st.) in Lebor gabála Érenn concerning the arrival of three fishermen from Spain to Ireland before the Flood.

Early Irish

Cét breth rucad i nÉirinn

prose

Anecdote about the first judgment made in Ireland, which is said to have been uttered by Amairgen.

Early IrishAmairgen (Glúngel) mac Míled

Cethri arda in domain

form undefined

Early Irish tract. The text in LU is incomplete, preserving the prose section only.

Early Irish

Chronicle of Ireland

prose

The hypothesized compilation of Irish annals whose text is no longer extant in its original form but whose contents have been partially reconstructed, to varying extents of probability, from the so-called Clonmacnoise group of annals and the Annals of Ulster.

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