Find texts (beta)
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
A medieval Irish poem (60 qq) found in the Book of Uí Mhaine. It remains to be published. but according to the catalogue description, the poem deals with Aencherd, artisan of Bérre/Beara peninsula (a character also mentioned in the Acallam), his three sons, Glas, Gér and Guda, and their hounds, Lúath, Seang and Sige.
See more
Early Modern Irish grammatical poem (9 qq) on sealbhadh – here referring to conjugated forms of the copula and infixed pronouns – and its effects, primarily nasalisation, e.g. ‘the sealbhadh of b becomes m’ (line 5).
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Middle Irish dialogue poem (18qq) with prose epilogue in the Book of Leinster. The poem is presented as a contentious dialogue between an old woman (callech) of Leinster and a servant (gilla) of the king of Munster (Cerball mac Muirecáin), in which the latter insists on his entitlement to meals and hospitality. The prose epilogue goes on to explain the reasons for the quarrel.
See more (ascr.)
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
Entry not yet available. View incoming data.
This user interface is work in progress and requires further work to be carried out on the underlying data to become more useful. By selecting multiple filters and where this makes sense, multiple filter values, you can string together query criteria to restrict the scope of possible search results. In computer terms, this means that conditions on either side of the boolean operator AND (not OR) must be satisfied. What the present interface does not offer is integration with full-text search (which is separately served by Google) nor does it bring the kind of faceted search in which value selection in one filter (facet) automatically narrows down the scope of the others.
Filter: Title / Keyword
Title phrases and keywords. If this filter is used on its own, without any of the other filters selected, your search will additionally look for case-sensitive matches on titles for which no catalogue entry has been created yet but which already receive incoming connections from other data types, such as publications and manuscript items.
Filter: Classification
Classifications into genres and other textual varieties.
Filter: Form
Form is primarily intended to distinguish between prose and verse texts, but some other categories have been added, notably list, which is used of a variety of enumerative genres.
Filter: Language
Languages and language varieties. Work is in progress to make sure that selecting a generic description like ‘Cornish language’ will also fetch results with narrower terms for varieties like ‘Middle Cornish’.
Filter: Possible period
To be approached with due circumspection. Termini a quo/ad quem are lower/upper bounds used for asserting that a text cannot have been composed earlier/later than a given date. Even provided that all the required reading has been taken into account, the available scholarship may not have been able to arrive at precision, may not have have reached consensus, or simply may not have had occasion to look into the matter in extenso. Because the window of possibilities can be wide, say between 900 and 1199 (which is where our in-house definition of the twelfth century ends), your search will be interpreted generously. Whether you select the 10th, 11th or 12th century, a text dated as having been composed somewhere between 900 x 1199 will turn up in the results in all three use cases.
Filter: By / Attributed to
Those who have been identified as authors or to whom particular works have been attributed in the sources.
What if appropriate information is missing?
Our datasets no doubt contain significant gaps that will have to be remedied, but this takes time. To compensate to some extent for situation, certain fallback values can be used to stand in for absent data, where possible:
- Classification:
Miscellaneous - Form:
form undefined - Language:
language undefined or unknown - Possible period:
Date not defined
Some questions about possible strategies remain unsolved. For instance, should a text recorded as being written in Middle Irish but without a more precise indication of date be automatically assigned termini between 900 and 1199? But what if a modern scholar had written a poem in a decent attempt at Middle Irish? Should neo-Middle Irish get its own spot in the sunlight?
