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2300.
Ó Murchadha (Diarmuid): A reconsideration of some place-names from The Annals of Connacht.
In Ainm 6 (1994), pp. 1–31.
ad A. M. Freeman, The Annals of Connacht, 1944 (BILL: 8615).
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2309.
Ó Murchadha (Diarmuid): A reconsideration of some place-names from The Annals of Tigernach.
In Ainm 7 (1996), pp. 1–27.
ad W. Stokes’ edition, in RC 16-18 (1895-1897).
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8926.
Breatnach (Pádraig A.): On the Ó Cléirigh recension of Leabhar gabhála.
In Éigse 37 (2010), pp. 1–57.
I. Introduction; II. Lines of transmission; III. Content in K and D contrasted (main text); IV. Alignment of M; V. Diction in K, M contrasted; VI. Joint consolidated recension (M); VII. Joint recension recast (K): motive and method; VIII. Cú Coigcríche Ó Cléirigh’s authorship of K; IX. Summary conclusions. Bibliography & abbreviations.

Separately published Dublin: National University of Ireland, 2010 [same pagination + 2 plts].
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Smyth (A. P.): The earliest Irish annals: their first contemporary entries, and the earliest centres of recording.
In PRIA-C 72 (1972), pp. 1–48.
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6656.
Cowan (Edward J.): The Scottish chronicle in the Poppleton manuscript.
In IR 32/1 (Spring, 1981), pp. 3–21.
Paris, BNF, latin 4126.
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8315.
Ó Murchadha (Diarmuid): A reconsideration of some place-names from Chronicum Scotorum.
In Ainm 9 (2008), pp. 11–33.
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3559.
Harrison (Kenneth): Epacts in Irish chronicles.
In StC 12–13 (1977–1978), pp. 17–32.
Particularly in the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Inisfallen.
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2290.
Ó Murchadha (Diarmuid): A reconsideration of some place-names from the Annals of Inisfallen.
In Ainm 5 (1991), pp. 21–32.
ad. S. Mac Airt, The Annals of Inisfallen, 1951 (BILL: 8602).
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1502.
Ó Súilleabháin (Pádraig): Nótaí ar thrí fhocal ó na hAnnála.
In Éigse 15/1 (Samhradh, 1973), pp. 22–23.
1. dálach ‘mournful, sad, sorrowful’ in Annals of the Four Masters; 2. slam: siabhra slaim ‘fairy or magic hosts ?' (sic leg. not siabhra Sláini as printed by O’Donovan in his edition of Annals of the Four Masters) ; 3. tiagh: as a tiaghaibh in Annals of Ulster vs. as a ttiaghaibh fearrdha in (unpublished portion of) Annals of the Four Masters.
O’Donovan (John) (ref.)
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10511.
Gillespie (Raymond): A missing Dublin saint?
In A grand gallimaufry [Nick Maxwell essays] (2010), pp. 26–29.
ad AFM 1545.6.
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6085.
Ó Canann (Tomás G.): The Annals of Inisfallen: an independent witness to northern events.
In JCHAS 113 (2008), pp. 31–39.
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15695.
Mc Carthy (Daniel): TCD MS 1282 (The Annals of Ulster): a scholar’s book and exemplar.
In The Old Library (2013), pp. 33–39.
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21094.
Ó hUiginn (Ruairí): Why was the king offered six wives by the pope?
In The historian as detective [Gillespie essays] (2021), pp. 37–40.
AConn. ad annum 1233.3.
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4484.
Miller (Molly): The last century of Pictish succession.
In ScS 23 (1979), pp. 39–67.
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2333.
Ó Murchadha (Diarmuid): A reconsideration of some place-names from Fragmentary Annals of Ireland.
In Ainm 8 (1998), pp. 41–51.
ad J. Radner, Fragmentary annals of Ireland, 1978.
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21095.
Duffy (Seán): Carlingford Castle: whodunnit?
In The historian as detective [Gillespie essays] (2021), pp. 41–44.
Carlingford Castle was built on the site of an earlier fortress called Dún Ocalla (Mac Carthaigh’s book, ad annos 1202.4 and 1210.2).
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3440.
Meckler (Michael): The Annals of Ulster and the date of the meeting of Druim Cett.
In Peritia 11 (1997), pp. 44–52.
ad annum 574; supports its redating to c.590.
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1463.
McCarthy (Daniel): The chronological apparatus of the Annals of Ulster ad 431-1131.
In Peritia 8 (1994), pp. 46–79.
[1.] Introduction; [2.] Anno Domini dating; [3.] Bissextile; [4.] Anno Domini dating in AU; [5.] The origin of March-Anno Domini dating; [6.] Ferials and epacts; [7.] Au’s list of papal succession; [8.] Bissextile data; [9.] Anno Mundi; [10.] Pre-AD dating of records in Ireland; [11.] Conclusion: AU includes two different dating systems. Discusses the historical background for the adoption of 1 January or 25 March as the date for the beginning of the year.
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4336.
Hudson (Benjamin T.): The language of the Scottish Chronicle and its European context.
In SGS 18 (1998), pp. 57–73.
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8317.
Downham (Clare): Tomrar’s death at Port Manann: a possible longphort site in Ireland.
In Ainm 9 (2008), pp. 57–64.
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1313.
Ó Cróinín (Dáibhí): A fragment of Irish annals.
In Peritia 2 (1983), p. 58.
Ed. of 18th c. transcript of a small collection of Latin annals from MS PSL Gilbert Collection 169.
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8927.
B. (P. A.): Approbationes.
In Éigse 37 (2010), p. 58.
A series of scribal testimonials from the compilers of Leabhar gabhála Éireann; from RIA 23 K 45.
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19547.
Sanderlin (Sarah): Gormlaith ind rígain: the history and the legend.
In Notebooks in cultural analysis 1 (1984), pp. 67–79.
Discusses the treatment of Gormlaith in the Annals of Clonmacnoise.
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5349.
Mc Carthy (Daniel): The original compilation of the Annals of Ulster.
In StC 38 (2004), pp. 69–96.
A study of textual, palaeographical and codicological aspects of MS TCD H 1. 8, focusing on the annals of folios 12-14.
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13228.
Dumville (David N.): The chronicle of the kings of Alba.
In Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland [M. O. Anderson essays] (2000), pp. 73–86.
Discusses the Scottish chronicle in MS Paris, BNF, Latin 4126.
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332.
Ó Cuív (Brian): A fragment of Irish annals.
In Celtica 14 (1981), pp. 83–104.
Two framentary annals for the years 1467 and 1468, edited with transl. and notes from MS Oxford, University College 103.
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3833.
O’Dwyer (B. W.): The Annals of Connacht and Loch Cé and the monasteries of Boyle and Holy Trinity.
In PRIA-C 72 (1972), pp. 83–101.
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16283.
Hunter (Robert J.), McHugh (Ronan), Scott (Brian G.): The use of cannon against Enagh Castle, County Londonderry.
In UJA 70 (2011), pp. 83–110.
Includes a comment on AFM s.a. 1555, explaining the meaning of the Irish term an gonna cam.

Addendum in UJA 71 (2012), p. 87.
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1304.
Nicholls (K. W.): Late medieval Irish annals: two fragments.
In Peritia 2 (1983), pp. 87–102.
Edition of fragments of annals in Latin: 1. Annales anonymi from MSS BL Additional 4793, PROL SP 63/214; 2. A single entry from Annals of Nenagh s.a. 1399 from MS BL Additional 4821; 3. Annals of Duisk from MS TCD E 3. 10 and BL Lansdowne 418).
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1211.
Jaski (Bart): Additional notes to the Annals of Ulster.
In Ériu 48 (1997), pp. 103–152.
Provides identifications, cross-references and corrigenda to names of persons in the pre-Norman entries to AU arranged by year and entry.
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6548.
Ní Úrdail (Meidhbhín): Annála Inse Faithleann an ochtú céad déag agus Cath Chluain Tarbh.
In ECI 20 (2005), pp. 104–199.
Discussion of: (1) the 'Dublin Annals of Inisfallen’; (2) the 'MacCurtin Annals of Inisfallen; (3) the ‘O’Longan’s Annals of Inisfallen’ (Jesuit Archives IL 1).
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3860.
Sanderlin (Sarah): The manuscripts of the Annals of Clonmacnois.
In PRIA-C 82 (1982), pp. 111–123.
Offers a description and comparison of the eight surviving MSS of AClon, with the aim of presenting a stemma codicum.
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8148.
Schmidt (Jürgen): Die Irischen Weltannalen und Beda.
In ZCP 57 (2009–2010), pp. 113–123.
Criticism of D. P. McCarthy’s theory (in Peritia 12 (1998), pp. 98-152) that the Irish world annals (in particular the pre-Patrician section of the Annals of Tigernach) and Bede’s Chronica maiora have a common origin in a world chronicle by Rufinus of Aquileia.
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16267.
Cunningham (Bernadette): ‘An honour to the nation’: publishing John O’Donovan’s edition of the Annals of the Four Masters, 1848–56.
In Print culture and intellectual life in Ireland [Adams essays] (2006), pp. 116–142.
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2888.
Smyth (Alfred P.): The Húi Néill and the Leinstermen in the Annals of Ulster.
In ÉtC 14 (1974–1975), pp. 121–143.
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1306.
Ó Riain-Raedel (Dagmar): Twelfth- and thirteenth-century Irish annals in Vienna.
In Peritia 2 (1983), pp. 127–136.
Edition with commentary of the Irish events recorded in the Latin chronicle of the Schottenkloster of Vienna. Text from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek MSS 926 and 364.
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16222.
Cunningham (Bernadette): John O’Donovan’s edition of the Annals of the Four Masters: an Irish Classic?
In Editing the nation’s memory (2008), pp. 129–149.
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16836.
Alcock (Leslie): The site of the ‘Battle of Dunnichen’.
In SHR 75/2 (Oct., 1996), pp. 130–142.
On the location of the battle site mentioned in AU 686.1 (Bellum Duin Nechtain).
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4149.
Ní Úrdail (Meidhbhín): Some observations on the ‘Dublin Annals of Innisfallen’.
In Ériu 57 (2007), pp. 133–153.
Discusses the sources and compilatory process of two substantial entries concerning the O’Briens of Thomond (s.a. 1014 and 1306) which draw upon Cath Chluana Tarbh and Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh respectively.
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13035.
Charles-Edwards (T. M.): ‘The Continuation of Bede’, s.a. 750: high-kings, kings of Tara and ‘Bretwaldas’.
In Seanchas [Fs. Byrne] (2000), pp. 137–145.
Also refers to AU 750.11.
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3404.
Maund (K. L.): Sources of the ‘world chronicle’ in the Cottonian Annals.
In Peritia 12 (1998), pp. 153–176.
Examines the early section of the Annals of Boyle with the aim of identifying the sources used, relating it to the world chronicle sections in other Irish annals.
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1670.
Mac an Bhaird (Alan): Dán díreach agus ranna as na hannála 867-1134.
In Éigse 17/2 (Geimhreadh, 1977–1978), pp. 157–168.
Based on verse mostly from AFM and AU¹, illustrates the gradual development of dán díreach from the ninth to twelfth century. Fifteen verses / excerpts ed. from printed editions of AFM and AU, with Engl transl. and notes. First lines: 1. Flann mac Conaing cosnaidh ríogh; 2. Ba congbhaidh Cearbhall do ghréas; 3. Brónach inniu Éire uagh; 4. Sudrall Muighe (maith re bágh); 5. Lasar Laighean lir go tráigh; 6. Má ro bíoth ua Breasail Bhric; 7. Ó ad-bhath Donnchadh, deilm do raoi; 8. Macha mhainbhtheach meadhraid muaidh; 9. Duibhlitir dionn eagna uaigh; 10. Flann a prímhchill Bhuithe bhinn; 11. Rángadar Laighin Luimneach; 12. Dubhthach duine dlightheach dúr; 13. Cumha ardríogh in Áth Cliath; 14. Ní chuala coinnmheadh n-eimhir; 15. Moghéanar duit id dheathaigh.
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16101.
Ní Ghrádaigh (Jenifer): 'But what exactly did she give?': Derbforgaill and the Nuns’ Church at Clonmacnoise.
In Clonmacnoise studies, vol. 2 (2003), pp. 175–207.
On AFM ad annum 1167 and the patronage by Derbforgaill (1108-1193) of the Nuns’ Church at Clonmacnoise.
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15101.
Cunningham (Bernadette): The Louvain achievement I: the Annals of the Four Masters.
In The Irish Franciscans, 1534–1990 (2009), pp. 177–188.
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2281.
Ó Murchadha (Diarmuid): A reconsideration of some place-names from Miscellaneous Irish annals.
In Ainm 4 (1989–1990), pp. 180–193.
ad S. Ó hInnse, Miscellaneous Irish annals, 1947 (BILL: 8644).
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1078.
Breatnach (Caoimhín): Varia: IV.
In Ériu 40 (1989), pp. 184–186.
1. The stem mar- for marb- in the Annals of Inisfallen; 2. The treatment of guttural spirants by Anglo-Norman hands.
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16083.
Moore (Eoghan): Foibrén in Mide.
In JRSAI 142–143 (2012–2013), pp. 188–190.
ad AU 816.8.
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13040.
Ó Mórdha (Eoghan): The placenames in the Book of Cuanu.
In Seanchas [Fs. Byrne] (2000), pp. 189–191.
Examines entries in Annals of Ulster extracted from the lost Book of Cuanu for place name evidence.
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16251.
Ní Chon Uladh (Póilín): The rígdál at Terryglass (737 A. D.).
In THJ (1999), pp. 190–196.
AU s.a. 737.9.
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414.
Breatnach (Caoimhín): Corrigenda to The annals of Inisfallen.
In Celtica 18 (1986), pp. 193–198.
Edited by Seán Mac Airt (BILL 8602), resulting from a collation with the facsimile of MS Rawlinson B 503.
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14416.
Breatnach (Caoimhín): The Annals of Ulster: verse, sources and editions.
In Aon don éigse (2015), pp. 221–238.
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3433.
Ó Corráin (Donnchadh): Vikings II: Ros Camm.
In Peritia 10 (1996), p. 236.
AU² ad annum 807.8.
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3354.
McCarthy (Daniel): The chronological apparatus of the Annals of Ulster ad 82-1019.
In Peritia 16 (2002), pp. 256–283.
Studies the annals in fos. 12-14 of TCS H 1. 8 (= ad 81-387), arguing that it formed part of the original compilation of the Annals of Ulster.
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2145.
Schmidt (Jürgen): Zu einer Neuausgabe des Annalenfragments in der Hs. Rawl. B 502 (sog. Tigernach-Annalen, erstes Fragment).
In 1. Deutsches Keltologensymposium (1993), pp. 267–286.
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3410.
Jaski (Bart): Druim Cett revisited.
In Peritia 12 (1998), pp. 340–350.
AU ad annum 575; criticism of R. Sharpe, Life of St. Columba and the redating of the meeting at Druim Cett to 590.
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3376.
Murray (Kevin): *Eterrí ‘intermediate king, subordinate king’.
In Peritia 15 (2001), pp. 377–378.
ad AU 840.4 = Kuno Meyer, Bruchstücke der älteren Lyrik Irlands p.10 §15 [Is hē Feidilmith in rı̄]; read eterríg.
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12317.
Flechner (Roy): The Chronicle of Ireland: then and now.
In EME 21/4 (Nov., 2013), pp. 422–454.
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3388.
Woods (David): On ‘ships in the air’ in 749.
In Peritia 14 (2000), pp. 429–430.
AU² ad annum 749.9; suggests emendation to nubes visae sunt converescere, denoting a rare meteorological fenomenon.
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3389.
Ó Corráin (Donnchadh): King-making in Leinster in 835.
In Peritia 14 (2000), p. 431.
AU² ad annum 835.1; emends corodigestar to co ro ordigestar.
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3339.
Woods (David): Acorns, the plague, and the ‘Iona Chronicle’.
In Peritia 17–18 (2003–2004), pp. 495–502.
ad AU 576.2; argues that a reference to the bubonic plague was misunderstood as a great crop of acorns by the continuators of the Iona Chronicle.
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2903.
Smyth (Alfred P.): Húi Failgi relations with the Húi Néill in the century after the loss of the plain of Mide.
In ÉtC 14 (1974–1975), pp. 502–523.
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21189.
Ó Muraíle (Nollaig) (ed.): Annals of Cluain Mhic Nóis (to AD 1408) also known as Mag Eochagáin’s Book (‘Leabhar Conaill Mhig Eochagáin’) translated by Conall Mag Eochagáin, AD 1627; together with a remnant of ‘Annals of Leacán’, AD 1443-68 translated by Dubhaltach Mac Fhir Bhisigh, AD 1666 / edited by Nollaig Ó Muraíle.
Dublin: Edmund Burke, 2022. 679 pp.
Text of Annals of Clonmacnoise based on BL Add. 4817, with variants from Armagh; text of Lecan annals fragment from autogr. MS BL Add. 4799. Anglicized names replaced by historically attested Irish forms; orthography of English texts modernized. With Introduction, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index to Introduction, Editorial methodology, Genealogical tables, Appendices, Indexes.

Rev. by
Denis Casey, in StH 49 (2023), pp. 172-174.
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7292.
Radner (Joan Newlon) (ed.): Fragmentary annals of Ireland / edited by Joan Newlon Radner.
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978. xxxvii + 241 pp.
Five sections of annals relating to the years 573-914. Edited, in chronological order, from MS Brussels 5301-20, with English translation and notes.

Rev. by
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 18 (1981), pp. 373-374.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 19 (1979), pp. 181-185.
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, in Éigse 18/1 (1980), pp. 143-145.
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1644.
Mac Airt (Seán), Mac Niocaill (Gearóid): The Annals of Ulster (to A.D. 1131). Part I: Text and translation.
Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. xv + 579 pp.
Edition based on MS TCD H 1. 8 (with some readings from Rawlinson B 489); with English translation [abbreviation: AU²].

Rev. by
David Dumville, in CMCS 10 (Winter, 1985), pp. 67-86.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 23 (1986), pp. 345-346.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 325-326.
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14423.
Charles-Edwards (T. M.) (trans.): The Chronicle of Ireland / translated with an introduction and notes by T. M. Charles-Edwards.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. xiv + 349 + 192 pp. (Translated texts for historians, 44).
Vol. 1. Introduction, text. xiv + 349 pp.
Vol. 2. Glossary, bibliography, indexes. 192 pp.

431–911 AD, reconstructed mainly from the Annals of Ulster, the Annals of Tigernach, the Annals of Clonmacnoise and the Chronicum Scotorum.

Rev. by
Nicholas Evans, in IR 58/1 (Spring, 2007), pp. 116-122.
Fergus Kelly, in Celtica 25 (2007), pp. 270-271.
Daniel P. Mc Carthy, in Peritia 20 (2008), pp. 379-387.
David Woods, in Classics Ireland 13 (2006), pp. 85-88.
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7296.
Dumville (David), Grabowski (Kathryn): Chronicles and annals of mediaeval Ireland and Wales: the Clonmacnoise-group texts.
SCH, 4. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1984. x + 242 pp. (Studies in Celtic history, 4).
1. The Annals of Inisfallen, A.D. 431-1092: sources, structure and history; 2. The peculiarity of the Annals of Tigernach, A.D. 489-766: the Clonmacnoise redaction of the ‘Chronicle of Ireland’; 3. Where did the ‘Clonmacnoise chronicle’ originate? The evidence of the Annals of Tigernach and the Chronicum Scotorum, A.D. 974-1150; 4. When was the ‘Clonmacnoise chronicle’ created? The evidence of the Welsh annals.

Rev. by
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 24 (1987), pp. 357-358.
Morag Redford, in The Scottish historical review 66/1 (Apr., 1987), pp. 68-69.
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8084.
Ó Murchadha (Diarmuid): The Annals of Tigernach: index of names.
ITS-SS, 6. London: Irish Texts Society, 1997. ix + 222 pp.
An index to Stokes’ ed., Best¹, p. 252.

Rev. by
Patricia Kelly, in Éigse 32 (2000), pp. 169-172.
Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in Ainm 7 (1996-1997), pp. 185-187.
Mary A. Valante, in Celtica 24 (2003), pp. 367-369.
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