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  • 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
Late Middle Irish narrative about the exploits and fortunes of Finn mac Cumaill as a boy. The sole extant manuscript copy is imperfect, breaking off in the middle of an episode about Finn's encounter with an Otherworldly rival.
  • Middle Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
Dinnshenchas of Mag Dá Gési (Mag Dá Géise).
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  • 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)
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  • 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
Prophecy attributed to Finn ua Baiscne about the coming of Patrick (the Adze-Head or Tailcenn) and a (flag)stone (lecc or cloch) associated with him.
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  • Irish religious texts
  • Finn Cycle
  • prophecies
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Saint Patrick
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).

Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in in Uí Muiredaig (Róiriu i nUíb Muiredaig)
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Róiriu in Uí Muiredaig

Entry for ‘rincne’ in Sanas Cormaic, with an anecdote about Ferchess, Mac Con and Finn úa Báiscni.

  • Middle Irish
  • Medieval Irish literature about poets
  • Sanas Cormaic
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Lugaid Mac Con
  • Ferchess mac Commáin
  • aided
  • Cycles of the Kings
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Mongán mac Fíachnai
  • Fothad Airctech (Airgtech)
  • Forgoll ... poet
  • Finn Cycle
  • Ailill Ólomm
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Lugaid Mac Con
  • Ferchess mac Commáin
  • Dáire Doimthech
  • Seilg Sléibhe Fuaid
  • verse
  • (190 st.)
  • beg. Lá dá raibh Fionn sa shlóighte
  • (part of/cited in Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dinnshenchas of Snám Dá Én
  • verse
  • beg. Snám Da Én, na éoin diatá
  • (part of/cited in Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C supplement)
Prose tract and poem giving two versions of the dinnshenchas of Snám Dá Én. The first story also explains the origin of the names of Áth Lúain, Móin Tíre Náir and Mag nEstin.
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Snám Dá Én
  • Áth Lúain
  • Middle Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Cormac mac Airt

Text on the dinnshenchas of Tipra Sengarmna.

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  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Tipra Sengarmna

Early Irish prosimetric text which relates the story how an aging Finn mac Cumaill wooed Ailbe Grúadbrecc, daughter of Cormac mac Airt. A significant part of the text is taken up by their conversations, which involve a series of riddles and verbal games that establish their mental and intellectual complementarity.

  • Early Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Ailbe ingen Chormaic
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
  • Cormac mac Airt
A ballad about a tragic event and its aftermath in Fenian tradition. It relates how Garad mac Morna burnt to death the wives of the fían-warriors in Finn's house and how he was afterwards slain by his son Aod.
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Ailbe ingen Chormaic
  • Garad mac Morna
  • Áed mac Garaid
  • Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
Poem on the dinnshenchas of Tond Clidna, attributed to Caílte.
  • Middle Irish
  • dinnshenchas
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Dinnshenchas Érenn
  • Finn Cycle
  • Tonn Chlidna
  • Clidna
Late, burlesque prose tale of the Finn Cycle.
  • Finn Cycle
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • 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
  • Early Irish
  • Finn Cycle
Poem on the boar of Muir Talláin, ascribed to Oisín.
  • Late Middle Irish
  • early Irish lyrics
  • Early Irish poetry
  • Finn Cycle
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.
  • Middle Irish
  • Finn Cycle
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Classical Irish poetry
  • Duanaire Finn
  • Finn Cycle
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