Authors and Textual Sources

Draws attention to citation of Nicander (probably datable to 2nd c. B.C.) by Tertullian concerning a Celtic belief in visions of the dead appearing to those who sleep by tombs of ancestors. Suggestion that this is comparable with recovery of the Táin in Fallsigud Tána bó Cualgne.

Edition of miscellaneous manuscript material by Edward Farragher (1831-1908) from Cregneash, Isle of Man; with English translation and notes.

For corrections, see P. Le Besco, in ZCP 51 (1999), pp. 148-159.

Short text composed c. 1620–1722; derivative of Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis. Ed. with notes from MS NLI G 148.

Poem beg. Gabh umad a Fheidhlimidh addressed to Feidhlim(idh) Fionn, son of Ó Conchobhair Ruadh and composed by the historian Torna Ua Maoil Chonaire (†1468) c. 1464-66. Refers to two other poems possibly composed by same author, i.e. Tosach féile fairsinge, addressed to Tomaltach son of Conchobhar Óg MacDiarmada, chief of Magh Luirg (†1458); Buaidh n-easbaig ar Ardachadh, addressed to Cormac MagShamhradhain, bishop of Ardagh 1444-ca. 1476. Notes association of ae freislighe metre with informal poetry and its use by gifted amateurs rather than professional bards.

Tugas annsacht d’óigh Ghallda and Iomdha iorradh ag Tulaigh Tuathail.

Compares the imagery of the poem Leig díot t’airm, a mhacaoimh mná with some seventeenth-century ‘metaphysical’ poems. Suggests reading bannaí d’athruighthe ‘warrant for your imprisonment’ for bannaí dáirithe (DG 34, l. 4).

Discussion of (references from) Muirchú's Vita sancti Patricii, Adomnán’s Vita Columbae, Tírechán’s Collectanea, Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig, Feis Temro; on the relationship between Tara and Cashel.

Argues for a date of composition between 828 and 833 for Félire Óengusso and Félire Uí Gormáin.

On the inclusion of saints venerated at the Old Minster in Winchester into Irish calendars (Waterford calendar in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 405, and Félire húi Gormáin).

A note in Félire Óengusso (p. 90) is interpreted as a reference to the name of a manuscript.

Includes some comparison with Félire Óengusso, and some discussion of the significance and meaning of the term céle Dé.

With a list of all the types of linking alliteration.

I. Chronological list of poems (with references). II. Historical anchorage. III. Metrical and linguistic phenomena (includes: normalized version of poem beg. Nibu chroíb chrínḟredo with Engl. translation; discussion of poem beg. Ní car Brigit buadach bith).

Incl. Addendum on the authorship of Saltair na Rann and on the term céli Dé.

Revises the methodology used to establish the date of composition of FÓ and the Martyrology of Tallaght. Suggests terminus ante quem non of 797 for FÓ. Cf. P. Ó Riain, in CMCS 20 (Winter 1990), pp. 21-38.

Outlines the Isidorian etymological methodology and illustrates its application in Irish scholarship with four examples from Irish hagiography.

Argues for a date of composition between 828 and 833 for Félire Óengusso and Félire Uí Gormáin.

Argues that it was composed by Airbertach mac Cosse who ceased work on the poem not earlier than 990. Appendix includes translation of Canto 152, with notes.

Reads a suacht ‘out of a receptacle’ in Fél. Apr. 19.

Examines in particular evidence from Félire Óengusso and its 12th c. commentary.

Examines the interrelationship of the extant manuscripts of Félire Óengusso, and discusses in particular the date and provenance of Preface and Commentary.

Argues for a date of composition between 828 and 833 for Félire Óengusso and Félire Uí Gormáin.

Edits and discusses ten fragments of Fer Muman, along with two anecdotes concerning the poet.

1. Bid cách i faitchius i fóit; 2. Cochall coss ngall; 3. As-béra fíach goblom grág; 4. Ulcha dobrach i nDomhnach 5. Rucht fothuind fithend fói; 6. Is dána drech daimíni; 7. Nemain dega deirge; 8. Mo shon ó mac Máile hUmai; 9. Ind hue issind ass gandfhir; 10. Goth gruce golfad bréice; 11. In éssar dam to há?; 12. Cuillenn co mboin.

(= Veröffentlichungen der Keltischen Kommission, 8).

1. ŌenMōen ō ba nōediu, ba noos ardrı̄g.
2. Dind Rı̄g, ruad Tuaim Tenbath.
3. Ni celt cēis cēol do chruitt Chraiphtini.
4. Lug scēith, scāl find.
5. Māl adrualaid iatha marb mac sōer Sētnai.
6. Eochu Ferngen, Finteng, Aucha, +Eriu+.
7. Baı̄d, buide, bānān, dron.
8. Find, Taulcha –tuath cuire–, Caı̄lte.
9. Tri maic Ruaid, ruirig flaind.
10. Cathaı̄r cōem, Conn comfebaib fallnatar flaithemdai.
11. Doss dāile dāl Temra.
12. Fichet filed fiu bed nath n-airech fordarc.
13. Ān grian grı̄ssach goires brēoda Bresual.
14. Māra galgata, grith faebair.
15. Māir mairtt, tri maic mārrı̄g, maic Cairpri caı̄ne ānrı̄g.
16. Lāmair lergga lāna slōg slōgadach.
17. Tri Fothaid fı̄rmaic Maicniad, Lugdach luind, Dāiri Deirg.

Anhang 1:

18. Māir drecain da Ēnnae, huı̄ nı̄thaig Nuadat.
19. Eochu art arachridethar cathrōe, +coic donrodoman.

Anhang 2:

20. Nia Corbb, Corbmacc, Cairpre caı̄ne airt Ara, oirt airgtib.
21. In cath hi Cnāmrus, ni chēlam, coscrad rı̄gi.

Anhang 3:

22. Nibu chrāeb chrı̄nḟeda.

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in Kratylos 35 (1990), pp. 144-149.
Uaitear Mac Gearailt, in ZCP 44 (1991), pp. 326-328.
Anders Ahlqvist, in FoLH 9/2 (1991), pp. 181-182.
F. Bader, in ÉtC 26 (1989), pp. 265-267.

Studies the evolution of the figures of Medb and Fergus through the various stages of revision of the Táin, focusing on the progressive marginalization in the narrative of their love triangle with Ailill.

Discusses ascetic immersion, using evidence from early Irish religious literature.

Rejects the identification of Cothraige with Patricius (cf. A. Harvey, The significance of Cothraige, in Ériu 36 (1985), pp. 1-9), and argues that this equation results from an 8th-c. manipulation of Tírechán’s facts with the purpose of endorsing Armagh’s interests in Munster and Leinster.

Edition and translation of the Book of Leinster version.

Legal interpretation of the episode of Cormac’s sword in Scél na Fír Flatha (= IT 3/1, 183–229).

App. (a) contains Cert Claidib Chormaic, from TCD MS H 2. 15B with variant readings from Scél na Fír Flatha (cf. supra) 201-202 and O’Davoren’s glossary (W. Stokes 1903-1904, BILL I, p. 7) and English translation. App. (b) contains Gúbretha Caratniad §46, from MS Rawlinson B 502, with English translation. App. (c) contains commentary to Findṡruth Fíthail from TCD MS H 5. 15 (= CIH vi 2143.18-40, with corrections to D. A. Binchy's text), with English translation.

With reference to Fingal Rónáin and Pwyll and the role of honour and status in early Irish and Welsh society.

Analysis of the terms bréc ‘deceit’ and fír ‘true/truth’.

Offers an interpretation of the narrative based on the analysis of the actions of the opposing foster and blood-kin.

ad Fingal Rónáin lines 168-192 as ed. by D. Greene, BILL III: 5065.

Argues (against D. Greene, BILL III:5113) that Fingal Rónáin is a traditional narrative.

Examines the close association of a king and his jester in early Irish literature, suggesting that the royal buffoon is a symbol of Máel Fothartaig’s right to kingship.

ad ll. 245-251 (as ed. by D. Greene 1955).

Discusses the origin and function of seasonal poetry, arguing it was used by the poet to manifest his supernatural powers. Includes an English translation of Cétamon caín cucht based on J. Carney's edition, in Ériu 22, 1971, pp. 23–80; with textual notes.

A complete analysis of Finnán’s girdle (from MS Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg 587; beg. Cris Finnáin dum imdegail) including diplomatic and normalized text, German translation, textual notes and facsimile.

1. The Mongán tales (Argues that all four tales are are the work of a single author: (a) Scél asa mberar combad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán; (b) Tucait Baile Mongáin; (c) Compert Mongáín; (d) Scél Mongáin); 2. Tucait Baile Mongáin and Baile Chuinn Chétchathaig [and Baile in Scáil] (Concludes that TBM and Scél asa mberar represent texts in which southern traditions are appropriated by a northern author ); 3. The Imacallam texts, Immram Brain, and the Mongán tales (Immacallam Choluim Chille ₇ ind Óclaig and Immacallam in Druad Brain ₇ inna Banḟátho Febuil); 4. Echtrae Chonlai and Immram Brain; 5. ‘The Midland group’ (Claims these date from the reign of Fínnechta Fledach mac Dúnchada, perhaps from the years 688-9); 6. Tochmarc Étaíne.

Argues that Uuinniau (later Gaelicized as ‘Finnian’) was a Brittonic saint established in Ireland.

Argues that Uuinniau (later Gaelicized as ‘Finnian’) was a Brittonic saint established in Ireland.

The apocryphon of seven heavens described in Latin, Old English and Irish texts (incl. Fís Adamnáin) is traced back to fourth-century Egypt.

Rev. by
John Hudson, in Medium aevum 70/1 (2001), pp. 177-178.
David Stifter, in Die Sprache 40/1 (1998), pp. 123-128.

With discussion of his Irish name Flann Fína.

Ascribed to Flann Mainisrech (in LL). Critical edition based on Rawlinson B 502 (51qq); with English translation, variant readings and textual notes.

Surveys the form and function of úatha or terrors in medieval Irish texts.

ad LU 8507-50.

The beginning of the biblical story of Ahab and Jezebel concerning wives’ advice (1 Kings, 21.4-5) served as a model in Wales and in Ireland (e.g. Scéla muicce Meic Da Thó, Fled Bricrenn).

Text from TCD MS H 2. 16 (Yellow Book of Lecan).

From MS TCD H 2. 16 (Yellow Book of Lecan); translation only.

Explains the ‘illogical’ narrative structure of the LU text as a result of problems facing the interpolator as scribe, and suggests that MSS Egerton 93, TCD H 3.17, Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Vossianus lat. qu. 7, NLS Adv. 72.1.40 better preserve the exemplar used by the interpolator of the LU text. Includes a reconstructed order of the narrative of the LU text.

Postulates a 9th-c. Clonmacnoise provenance.

Text from TCD MS H 2. 16 (Yellow Book of Lecan).

From MS TCD H 2. 16 (Yellow Book of Lecan); translation only.

Postulates a 9th-c. Clonmacnoise provenance.

[(In Russian:) The early Irish saga Fled Bricrenn ocus Loinges mac nDuíl Dermait: on food-rent and royal circuits.] With English summary.

On the historical and literary context of the narrative.

Irish ghost words traceable to Lhuyd’s Foclóir Gaoidheilge-Shagsonach. Includes a list.

On some of the incorrect and misleading meanings in Irish and Scottish dictionaries derived from glosses in Míchéal Ó Cléirigh’s dictionary, Focloir no Sanasan Nua (1643). 1. acht ‘danger’; 2. ailcith ‘a strand stone’; 3. aincheas ‘danger’; 4. aineach ‘horsemanship’; 5. airmid ‘a swan’; 6. aitheallach ‘a second proof’; 7. aithréos ‘manure’; 8. ala(dh) ‘a trout’; 9. argad ‘a hindrance’; 10. bacat ‘a captive’; 11. béim ‘a nation’; 12. coibhchiogh ‘ravenous, fierce’; 13. coichmhe ‘an udder’; 14. díchealtair ‘a park’; 15. fé fiadha ‘a park’; 16. fec ‘a weakness’; 17. feothán ‘a dormouse’; 18. glinn, grinn ‘a fort’, ‘a garrison’; 19. meirceann ‘a finger’; 20. rae ‘a salmon’; 21. rear ‘provision’; 22. samhlat ‘active’; 23. sithbhe ‘a city’; 24. soma ‘a flock of swans’; 25. talchara ‘a generous lover’; 26. tealgadh ‘eating, consuming’; 27. urghais ‘suppression of antiquities’.

Texts include: (Chap. 2) An Old Irish tract on satire [beg. Cis lir fodlai aíre, reconstructed from Book of Ballymote, Book of Uí Maine and NLS Gaelic 1; with English translation, manuscript readings and notes, and including the text of a shorter version found in TCD H 3. 18]; (Chap. 3) The Old Irish heptad on satire [no. 33, beg. A-táat secht cenéla aíre le Féniu; restored text based on Rawl. B 487 and TCD H 3. 18, followed by diplomatic text of the glosses and commentary in Rawl. B 487; with English translation and notes]; (Chap. 4) A miscellany of medieval Irish satires [an edition of the satires cited in Mittelirische Verslehren III (ed. by R. Thurneysen 1891 [BILL I, p. 53]); 86 poems, normalized from the six extant witnesses, with linguistic and metrical analysis, manuscript readings, English translation and notes].

Rev. by
G. R. Isaac, in JGAHS 62 (2010), pp. 215-216.
Feargal Ó Béarra, in Béaloideas 77 (2009), pp. 132-134.
Gerald Manning, in SHib 36 (2009-2010), pp. 211-215.
Johan Corthals, in Éigse 37 (2010), pp 174-178.
Simon Rodway, in CMCS 62 (Winter, 2011), pp. 94-97.

On the developement and function of the story of Connla, son Aífe and Cú Chulainn.

Explores their literary connections, focusing on the concept of Gaeldom and its evolution in both Ireland and Scotland as seen in the work of Irish and Scottish bardic poets writing praise poetry for Scottish chieftains.

Discusses Bretha nemed, dated to between 721 and 742, composed in Munster by three kinsmen: Forannán (a bishop), Máel Tuile (a poet) and Báethgalach hua Búirecháin (a judge). Incl. ed. with transl. of six verses of a poem beg. Aimirgin Glungeal tuir teand by Gilla in Choimded Ua Cormaic from RIA MS D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine). Old Irish version of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis Book XLII, chaps 1-4, ed. with translation and notes from Cotton Nero A 7. Some discussion of rosc and ‘Archaic Irish’.

Studies the literary and historical associations of two passages from Ó Bruadair’s wedding crosántacht (quatrains 16-24 and the prose section), and argues that these, albeit differing in treatment and literary technique, are joined together by the theme of fertility.

Suggests that Keating’s allegory on the proimpiollán (‘beetle’) in the díonbhrollach to his Forus Feasa ar Éirinn is based on an exemplum from the English fabulist and preacher, Odo of Cheriton (†1247).

As related by Keating in his Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. In this case, the phrase do-chluinim óna lán do dhaoinibh is not evidence of Keating’s use of oral sources but rather his way conveying the hearsay element of earlier tradition.

A catalogue of 6 MSS from Mainisistir Chnoic Iósef, Ros Cré (MSS MCI 1–6): 1. Foras Feasa ar Éirinn; 2. Cúirt an Mheán Oíche; 3. Laoi na Mná Móire; Tuireamh na hÉireann; 4. Lucerna Fidelium; 5. Meascra; 6. Bileog Fáin.

Dermot O’Connor, al. Diarmaid Ó Conchubhair (c.1690–c.1730), scribe, author of the first English translation of Keating’s Forus feasa ar Éirinn to appear in print (London and Dublin, 1723).

Keating may have used Prose Banshenchas in his account of the kings of Ireland.

On the controversy between William Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph, and Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh over the origin and antiquity of the Kingdom of Scotland. Incl. text of a letter by Logan, ed. from NLS Advocates’ Library 33.4.11, where he justifies the commission of a copy of Keating’s work.

Refutes Keating’s identification of Dún Cermna with Downmacpatrick, on the Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork, arguing that the actual location may have been Dunmore in SE Co. Waterford.

Divided in: (a) Misreadings and mistaken forms; (b) Some minor errors; (c) Misplaced locations.

Traces the developement of its figurative use. Cf. N. J. A. Williams, in ZCP 35 (1976), pp. 169-171.

App. 1 incl. an Engl transl. of [1.] Macgnímartha Finn (as ed. by K. Meyer, Revue celtique 5 (1882), pp. 195-204); and [2.] Fotha Catha Cnucha (based on text in LU lines 3135-3219).

Cf. R. I. Best, The Journal of Celtic Studies 1 (1950), pp. 190-192 (see BILL III:674). Discussion of MS TCD H 2. 16) and fragments of RIA D i 3, D iv 1, D v 1 and Rawlinson B 488 fols 1-26. Identifies Four Masters’ ‘Book of Clonmacnoise’ as the Annals of Tigernach. On claidemscin (< claidheamh + scian) as a possible technical term. Contains 6 plates.

Exemplified chiefly by Cath Dúin Bolg and Cath Almaine, including anecdotes from Fragmentary annals of Ireland.

ad J. Radner, Fragmentary annals of Ireland, 1978.

ad Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh §29 (as ed. by J. H. Todd 1867 [BILL I, p. 254]) and FA² §341 (as ed. by Joan Newlon Radner 1978).

Syllabic metres with additional feet.

Syllabic metres with additional feet.