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[Armes Prydein], verse beg. ‘Dygogan awen dygobryssyn’

» In English: “The (great) prophecy of Britain” » Language(s): Old Welsh » Form: verse » Categories: Medieval Welsh poetry, Text entries
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An early Welsh prophetic poem which envisages a future in which the Welsh will join forces with other peoples of Britain and Ireland to resist and drive out the English.

[Tuilsitir mo derca súain], verse beg. ‘Tuilsitir mo derca súain’

» Ascribed author(s): Id:Oisín mac Finn » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Finn Cycle, Text entries
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Poem on the boar of Muir Talláin, ascribed to Oisín.

[Chronicon Scotorum]

» In English: “The chronicle of the Irish” » Language(s): Old Irish, Middle Irish, Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Irish annals, Text entries » Type: Subject:Irish annals

[Annals of Tigernach]

» Form: prose » Categories: Irish annals, Text entries

[Vita sanctae Brigitae (Cogitosus)]

» Initial words (prose): ‘Cogitis me, fratres, ut sanctae et beatae memoriae Brigidae’ » Author(s): Id:Cogitosus » Ascribed author(s): Id:Cogitosus » Language(s): Hiberno-Latin » Form: prose » Categories: Irish hagiography, Text entries
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Early Latin Life of St Brigit, possibly the earliest of its kind to survive. BHL 1457.

[Dinnshenchas of Slíab Comailt]

» Initial words (prose): ‘Comalt ind Uaithnib cid diata dia mbái Oilill Olomm ic cuingid dilsi clainde for Art mac Cuind’ » Language(s): Early Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Medieval Irish literature, Text entries » Type: Subject:dinnshenchas
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A version of the beginning of the text known as Immathchor nAilella ocus Airt.

[Ríagail Phátraic]

» In English: “Rule of Patrick” » Ascribed author(s): Id:Saint Patrick » Language(s): Old Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Early Irish law texts, Irish religious texts, Text entries
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Tract on the relationship between church and laity.

[Ríagail na Céle nDé]

» In English: “Rule of the Céli Dé” » Language(s): Old Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish religious texts, Text entries
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Tract containing regulations on the practices of a religious community.

[Agallamh an anma agus an chuirp re ceil]

» Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish religious texts, Text entries

[Leachta carad i gcath Bhriain], verse beg. ‘Leachta carad i gcath Bhriain’

» Ascribed author(s): Id:Mac an Bhaird (Fearghal Óg) » Language(s): Early Modern Irish » Form: verse » Categories: Classical Irish poetry, Text entries
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Elegy for Brian Ua Néill and other, northern chieftains slain at the ‘battle of Dún’ (near Downpatrick) in 1260.

[Sciath Con Culainn]

» In English: “Cú Chulainn’s shield” » Language(s): Irish language » Form: form undefined » Categories: Ulster Cycle, Text entries

[Na trí Fothaid], verse beg. ‘Na trí Fothaid’

» In English: “The three Fothaid” » Ascribed author(s): Id:Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid » Language(s): Old Irish » Form: verse » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Text entries » Type: Subject:rhymeless Leinster poems
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One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’. The three Fothads, Find fer Umail, and Find Fili, king of Leinster, are said to descend from Núadu Necht.

[Trí meic Ruaid], verse beg. ‘Trí meic Ruaid’

» Ascribed author(s): Id:Senchán Torpéist » Language(s): Old Irish » Form: verse » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Text entries » Type: Subject:rhymeless Leinster poems
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One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’

[Úath Beinne Étair]

» In English: “The hiding/horror (úath) of the Hill of Howth” » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Finn Cycle, Text entries
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Short Fenian prose tale, with poem. It recounts how Diarmait, who is persecuted by Finn for having carried off Gráinne, daughter of Cormac mac Airt, the King of Ireland, takes refuge in a cave in the Hill of Howth and is betrayed by an old woman.

[Dinnshenchas of Crotta Clíach], verse beg. ‘Sunda sefain fer síde’ , part of or cited in: Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

» Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse, prose » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Text entries » Type: dinnshenchas
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Tract on the dinnshenchas of Crotta Clíach.

[Vita sancti Endei abbatis de Arann]

» In English: “The Life of Énda abbot of Aran” » Language(s): Latin language » Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish hagiography, Text entries
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Medieval Latin Life of St Énda of Aran

[Ulster Cycle]

» Form: form undefined » Categories: Ulster Cycle, Text entries
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The term ‘Ulster Cycle’ is used in modern scholarship to refer to a body of Irish narrative literature set in the heroic age of the Ulaid around the time of Conchobar mac Nessa.

[Trí croind Éirenn oiregda], verse beg. ‘Trí croind Éirenn oiregda’

» Ascribed author(s): Id:Cúán úa Lothcháin » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse » Stanzas: 29 st. » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Text entries

[Temair Breg, baile na fían], verse beg. ‘Temair Breg, baile na fían’

» Author(s): Id:Cúán úa Lothcháin » Ascribed author(s): Id:Cúán úa Lothcháin » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Text entries

[Tairired na nDéssi]

» In English: “The migration of the Déisi” » Language(s): Old Irish, Middle Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Cycles of the Kings, Text entries

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