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  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Goll mac Morna

  • A bhean labhrus rinn an laoídh
  • verse
  • (13 st.)
  • beg. A bhean labhrus rinn an laoídh
  • (part of/cited in Duanaire Finn, Beatha Cholaim Chille (Maghnus Ó Domhnaill))
  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Oisín mac Finn

  • Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

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 Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Finn Cycle

  • Middle Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Saint Patrick
  • Caílte mac Rónáin

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

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

  • Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Finn Cycle

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 Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Aithrí agus bás Oisín
  • verse
  • (62 st.)
  • beg. Ná bí feasta ag luadh na bhFiann
  • (part of/cited in Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig)
Final piece of Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig, in which Patrick tricks Oisín into asking him for forgiveness and grants him absolution. Oisín dies not long afterwards.
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

Dinnshenchas poem on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare), which recounts the tale of the conception of Finn mac Cumaill.
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • conception
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Almu/Cnoc Almaine ... Hill of Allen

Dinnshenchas poem on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare).

  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Iuchna
  • Almu/Cnoc Almaine ... Hill of Allen
  • Clann Bresail
  • Almu ... wife of Iuchna
  • Beccán ... father of Almu

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Tract on the dinnshenchas of Áth Líac Find, a ford of the Shannon.

  • MÁEL MURU OTHNA
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Gúaire Goll
  • Áth Líac Find
  • Sinand ingen Mongáin

The title Banshenchas refers to two versions composed in the late Middle Irish period:
  1. [[Metrical Banshenchas

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

  1. [[Prose Banshenchas

|a longer version in prose]].

Follow the links for further references.
  • Middle Irish
  • Mythological Cycle
  • Cycles of the Kings
  • Ulster Cycle
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Irish legendary history
  • Finn Cycle

Poem of four stanzas, attributed to Caílte. It uses a special, learned vocabulary known as bérla na filed.


  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Caoineadh Áille Shnuagheal
  • verse
  • (91 st.)
  • beg. A Mheargaigh (chruaidh) na nglas-lann (ngéar)
  • (part of/cited in Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig)
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle
  • battle of Cnoc an Áir
  • Áille Shnuagheal
  • Meargach
  • Cnoc an Áir

  • Cath Chnoic an Áir
  • verse
  • (76 st.)
  • beg. Do bhamar uile Fhian a's Fionn
  • (part of/cited in Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig)
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Dinnshenchas of Cenn Cuirrig
  • verse
  • beg. Currech Life cona Lí
  • (part of/cited in Bruiden Átha Í, Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C)
Dinnshenchas of Cenn Cuirrig.
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Cenn Cuirrig ... Kincurry

Dinnshenchas of Cenn Finichair
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Tuirenn Tamnaige
  • Cenn Finichair
  • Tamnach
  • Finichair mac Golláin

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Dám thrír táncatar ille
  • verse
  • beg. Dám thrír táncatar ille
  • (part of/cited in Independent, Agallamh na seanórach, Acallam bec)
  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

Dinnshenchas of Descert, possibly Descert Laigen
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Descert

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Dinnshenchas of Druim nDairbrech
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Druim nDairbrech

Collection of Fenian poems.

  • Irish language
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Eirigh suas a Oscair
  • verse
  • (6 st.)
  • beg. Eirigh súas, a Oscair
  • (part of/cited in Duanaire Finn, Acallam na senórach)
  • Late Middle Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Fil duine
  • verse
  • beg. Fil duine
  • (part of/cited in Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille)
  • Late Old Irish
  • Early Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Dinnshenchas of Fornocht
  • verse
  • beg. Fornocht do dún, a Druim nDen
  • (part of/cited in Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C)
Dinnshenchas of Fornocht, formerly Druim Den.

  • Late Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Géisid cúan
  • verse
  • beg. Géisid cúan
  • (part of/cited in Acallam na senórach)
  • Late Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

Text on the dinnshenchas of Glaisse Bulga
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Oscar mac Oisín
  • Glas ingen Deirg meic Dedad
  • Derg mac Dedad
  • Glaise Bulgáin

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

A ballad on the death of Garaid’s son Aod. The story of Aod's quarrel with Muc Smaile for killing his uncle Goll mac Morna, which is known from the Acallam na senórach (ed. Stokes, ending on line 2009), is continued here. E. J. Gwynn(1)n. 1 E. J. Gwynn • J. H. Lloyd, ‘The burning of Finn’s house’, Ériu 1 (1904): 13. summarises the tale as follows:
“Muc Smaile had killed Aod's uncle Goll mac Morna, and had refused to give an eric that Aod considered sufficient. Aod seeks him out at Sliabh Cua, and kills him in single combat: whereupon he is surrounded, with a handful of the Clann Morna, by six hundred of Muc Smaile's men, all of whom are slain in the fight that follows, except their leader Fionn mac Cubhain. But Aod has been twice wounded; 'clouds of weakness' fall on him; the sea comes in, he is unable to stir, and is drowned by the rising tide”.
  • Irish language
  • Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Is cuimhin liom an imirt
  • verse
  • (27 st.;21 st.)
  • beg. Is cuimhin liom an imirt
  • (part of/cited in Duanaire Finn, Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne)
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • La da raibh Fionn ag ol
  • verse
  • (19 st.;127 st.)
  • beg. La da raibh Fionn ag ol
  • (part of/cited in Independent, Duanaire Finn, Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig)
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Laoi na seilge
  • verse
  • (37 st.)
  • (part of/cited in Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig)
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Lige Guill
  • verse
  • beg. Derg ruathar cloinne Morna
  • (part of/cited in Duanaire Finn)
  • Late Middle Irish
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Story in which Finn mac Cumaill and his servant Mac Lesc mac Ladáin are separated from the Fían. A number of verses are exchanged (cf. ‘Fuit (poem)’).
  • Middle Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Mac Lesc mac Ladáin

Dinnshenchas of Mag Dá Gési (Mag Dá Géise).
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Mag Dá Gési

  • Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Two quatrains alluding to a story about the birth of Oisín.
  • Middle Irish
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle
  • Oisín mac Finn

Metrical version of the Banshenchas, composed by Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside (1147).
  • ÚA CAISIDE (GILLA MO DUTU)
  • Late Middle Irish
  • Mythological Cycle
  • Cycles of the Kings
  • Ulster Cycle
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Irish legendary history
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Poem attributed to Oisín.

  • Middle Irish
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Seven quatrains attributed to Oisín, on the battle of Gabair Aichle.

  • Middle Irish
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle

Prose version of the Banshenchas
  • Middle Irish
  • Mythological Cycle
  • Cycles of the Kings
  • Ulster Cycle
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Irish legendary history
  • Finn Cycle

Poem cast as a dialogue between Finn and Oisín, with prose introduction and conclusion.

  • Old Irish
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Oisín mac Finn

Old Irish poem, with later prose introduction.
  • Old Irish
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle
  • The Morrígan
  • Fothad Airctech (Airgtech)
  • Fothad Cairptech
  • Fothad Canann (Canainne)
  • Ailill Flann Bec

Four quatrains ascribed to Oisín in his old age.

A single quatrain alluding to a story about the death of Finn mac Cumaill.
  • Early Middle Irish
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Failge (Róiriu i nUíb Failge).