Authors and Textual Sources

Found in Simancas, Archivo General, Guerra Antigua, leg. 587, in Irish, with a contemporary Spanish version and an English translation. Cf. R. A. Breatnach, in Éigse 6 (1948-52), pp. 314-325 (BILL 7567).

Seven songs (with phonetic transcription) recorded from Jimmy (Shéamais Bháin) Ó Mianáin, Tory Island: [1.] Pádraig 'ac Ruaidhrí beg. A Phádraig 'ic Ruaidhrí, is tú corp an duine uasail; [2.] Na Buachaillí in Albain beg. Mo bheannacht leis na buachaillí a d’imthigh uaim thar sáile; [3.] Conall Ó Baoighill beg. Tháinig an bás go fáilthidhe 'ugam ar cuairt; [4.] Brighid Óg Ní Mháille beg. A Bhrighid Óg Ní Mháille, is tú d’fhág mo chroidhe cráidhte; [5.] Seán Bán beg. Mo chosa, mo lámha, mo chnámha, is tá mé uilig tinn; [6.] Béal Buidhe Uaighe beg. Is iomdhaidh lasta préataí a thug mé féin is mo dhearbhráthair; [7.] Péarla an Bhrollaigh Ghil Bháin beg. Tharlaidh dom péarla an bhrollaigh ghil bháin.

Analyses the ‘speech’ of Clann Tomáis in Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis, Táin bó Geanainn and Lucht na Simléirí. Includes sections on 1. Focail dar críoch éis; 2. Siombalachas fuaime; Béarlagair léannta, e.g. mac ar muin, ceann fa eite, plaic fa chuim, méar fá bhróig, bróg fá shop, ceanar fá iris.

Stylistic similarities between Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis and a crosántacht composed c. 1560–80.

Poem by Seán Ó Neachtain, beg. Buidheachas lis an mháthair, ed. from MS RIA 23 L 32.

Etym. of Ir. ceithearn.

ad lines 1037-8.

Interpretation of PCT I against that of N. J. A. Williams, Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis (Dublin, 1981).

Rev. by
Katharine Simms, in Éigse 19/1 (1982), pp. 174-175.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 331-333.

1. Forleitheadas: Plunkett glosses Lat. faex as ‘Clann Thomáis Mhic Lóbais’; 2. sladuighe satha: vs. N. J. A. Williams, PCT, p. 151 n. 936: should be translated as ‘hive-robber, drone’ (cf. ladrann saithe); 3. ruisín vs. N. J. A. Williams, PCT 188 s.v.: refers to ‘lunch, etc.'; cf. T. de Bhaldraithe, in Ériu 31 (1980), pp. 169-171.

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

Rev. by
Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, in StH 35 (2008-2009), pp. 258-261.
Nancy Stenson, in Celtica 28 (2016), pp. 254-259.

Satirical text, derivative of Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis, containing prose and poetry (a crosánacht ?), directed against the Hearth Money Act of 1662. Edited from MSS TCD H 5.9, H 2. 6, RIA 23 K 24, RIA 23 O 79; perhaps composed by Roibeard Nuinsionn. Contains two poems beg. Ceist agam ort, a Shéamuis and Ní dual simeléar ag síol Lóbuis. Includes a glossary and indexes of proper names.

Satirical poem beg. Do bhí Ludar cróin Mac Lóbuis; ed. from MS RIA 23 L 32 with notes and glossary; derivative of Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis.

61 sermons by Fr. Muiris Paodhar (1791-1877), edited from autogr. MS UCC T. xxxiv. Téacs, Fonótaí, Nótaí ar an teanga, Foclóir, Aguisíní (1. Liosta focal iasachta sa téacs; 2. Dornán focal inspéise as lgh. 431-466 den Ls.).

Rev. by
Seán Ó Coileáin, in Éigse 16/1 (Samhradh, 1975), pp. 70-72.
Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, in StH 16 (1976), pp. 195-197.

From RIA 23 E 9.

Argues MS Manx Museum 188A (the sole surviving 18th c. copy of the Manx version of Milton) was made by lexicographer John Kelly from an exemplar in the possession of Philip Moore in 1776.

On James Cotter (1689-1720) and the political dimension of Párliament na mban.

vs. B. Ó Cuív, Párliament na mBan (Dublin 1952), 146; dar an eóruinn (l. 2357) ‘by the anvil’ (i.e. ‘by St. Patrick’s anvil’); eóruinn < inneoir < inneoin ‘anvil’.

I. An tráchtas ar Teampoll Mhuire Loreto in Teagasg Críosdaidhe Uí Eodhasa; II. An t-aithríoch ríoga (ad P. Ó Súilleabháin, An t-aithríoch ríoga [BILL 2794]); III. Nóta eile ar Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe (ad N. J. A. Williams, in Éigse 17 (1979), p. 436); IV. Pointí éagsúla as Párliament na mBan (ad B. Ó Cuív, Párliament na mBan [BILL 2793]).

Rev. by
Breandán Ó Cróinín, in Éigse 39 (2016), pp. 398-400.

Examines five Irish-language catechisms: Ó hEodhasa’s, Stapleton’s, Gearnon’s, Ó Maolchonaire’s, and an anonymous tract in RIA 23 L 19.

Ascr. to ‘The Parson’. 15 qq., edited from the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Diplomatic and restored text, with English translation and notes.

Textual history of the Passio Domini nostri Iesu Christi found in RIA MS 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac), incl. its collation with a homily from MS Dublin, King’s Inns 10 (exordium given in extenso).

On De mirabilibus Hibernie, attributed to Patrick (†1084), second bishop of Dublin.

On Constet quantus honos, attributed to bishop Patrick (†1084).

Studies the relationship between St. Patrick and Palladius, and argues in favour of the two being the same person.

ad Confessio §4 (as ed. by Ludwig Bieler 1952).

Introduction, Translation of St. Patrick’s works and commentary.

Rev. by
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, in IHS 24, nº 95 (May, 1985), 398-399.

In Excursus: I. Le latin de Patrick; 2: Notes sur la vie et le vocabulaire ecclésiastiques dans la Bretagne et l’Irlande du temps de Patrick.

Rev. by
T. Ó Raifeartaigh, in IHS 21, nº 82 (Sep., 1978), pp. 219-224.

ad Confessio §1.

Discusses early Irish expressions of theology based on an examination of texts by St. Patrick, Adomnán, Muirchú and other sources such as the Penitentials, the Collectio canonum hibernensis, etc.

Rev. by
Ian Bradley, in JEH 53/1 (Jan., 2002), pp. 136-137.

On Confessio 9 and the question of Saint Patrick’s education.

Edition of St. Patrick’s Epistola ad milites Corotici and Confessio. Text based on L. Bieler’s edition (BILL 7980), presented per cola et commata; with English translation.

Rev. by
Aidan Breen, in Éigse 29 (1996), pp. 212-214.
Patrick J. Campbell, in SAM 15/2 (1993), p. 260.
John Higgins, in Peritia 10 (1996), pp. 400-407.
Ann E. Moyer, in Peritia 9 (1995), pp. 408-409.
A. S. Mac Shamhráin, in StH 28 (1994), pp. 186-188.
Marina Smyth, in Arthuriana 6/3 (1996), pp. 77-78.
Jane Stevenson, in Early medieval Europe 4/2 (1995), pp. 225-226.

Reprint in one volume of L. Bieler, 1952 (= BILL: 7980).

Rev. by
John Higgins, in Peritia 10 (1996), pp. 400-407.

Rev. by
Andy Orchard, in CMCS 22 (Winter, 1991), pp. 114-115.

Analyses influence of Patristic writers on Patrick’s Confessio.

Explores the chronological gap between Patrick’s death and 7th c. texts relating to the church at Armagh.

Translation and commentary of Patrick’s Confessio; Lat. text in Appendix.

Rev. by
Tomás Ó Fiaich, in SAM 6/2 (1972), pp. 416-.

Challenges the view that OIr. Cothraige is a loan-word from Latin Patricius, and argues that it is a place-name with originally no relation to St. Patrick.

Locates Patrick’s Silva Focluti in Co. Mayo.

pp. 134 ff.: discussion of ‘St. Patrick’s breastplate’.

Ed. of scribal colophon on Pelagius’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles from MSS Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 9530 and Salisbury, Cathedral Library, 5; with Engl transl. Suggests that the text was copied in Wales. Discusses the names Helisęus, Merianus and Salamonis.

Seven songs (with phonetic transcription) recorded from Jimmy (Shéamais Bháin) Ó Mianáin, Tory Island: [1.] Pádraig 'ac Ruaidhrí beg. A Phádraig 'ic Ruaidhrí, is tú corp an duine uasail; [2.] Na Buachaillí in Albain beg. Mo bheannacht leis na buachaillí a d’imthigh uaim thar sáile; [3.] Conall Ó Baoighill beg. Tháinig an bás go fáilthidhe 'ugam ar cuairt; [4.] Brighid Óg Ní Mháille beg. A Bhrighid Óg Ní Mháille, is tú d’fhág mo chroidhe cráidhte; [5.] Seán Bán beg. Mo chosa, mo lámha, mo chnámha, is tá mé uilig tinn; [6.] Béal Buidhe Uaighe beg. Is iomdhaidh lasta préataí a thug mé féin is mo dhearbhráthair; [7.] Péarla an Bhrollaigh Ghil Bháin beg. Tharlaidh dom péarla an bhrollaigh ghil bháin.

Argues that MS Rawlinson B 502 is to be identified as the Book of Glendalough.

Argues that Saltair na Rann is the old name for the second vellum part of MS Rawlinson B 502, against P. Ó Riain’s identification of this MS with the lost Book of Glendalough (in Éigse 18 (1981), pp. 161-76). Also on the textual history of the Pedigrees of the Saints, and the poems Druim Ceta Céte na Náem, Colum Cille co Dia domerail, Tánic sam slán sóer, Fuitt co bráth and Cia lín don rígraid ráin ruaid.

Ed. of scribal colophon on Pelagius’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles from MSS Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 9530 and Salisbury, Cathedral Library, 5; with Engl transl. Suggests that the text was copied in Wales. Discusses the names Helisęus, Merianus and Salamonis.

Discusses early Irish expressions of theology based on an examination of texts by St. Patrick, Adomnán, Muirchú and other sources such as the Penitentials, the Collectio canonum hibernensis, etc.

Rev. by
Ian Bradley, in JEH 53/1 (Jan., 2002), pp. 136-137.

Suggests Gulinus in the second Purgatory story in Peter of Cornwall’s Liber revelationum may be the Latinization of Ir. Guile or Gulide, the names of characters of a comparable type present in the medieval narratives Ceasacht inghine Guile and Erchoitmed ingine Gulide.

A tract on the wonders preceding the Day of Judgement, beginning Cuicc comurdha .x. bratha ann-so. Text from Liber flavus, with English translation and textual notes. Addendum 1: Fott fabaill [a short note describing the distance from the Garden of Eden to the dwelling house of the Trinity; from Liber flavus, with English translation]; Addendum 2: The Comestor version [Cap. CXLI: De signis quindecim dierum ante judicium].

Hib-Lat. orbis used to convey meaning of OIr. síde, and validity of its English translation ‘otherworld’.

Rev. by
Caoimhe Whelan, in Speculum 98/2 (Apr., 2023), pp. 631-632.

Yeats drew upon Irish folk source for a song in The Pot of Broth (1902).

Paris, BNF, latin 4126.

Edition of a composite treatise (based on Taddeo Alderotti and others) on the healing properties of alcohol, from MS TCD H 3. 22. Also includes the Latin source texts and an independent translation of Alderotti from NLS Advocates’ Library 72.1.2; with glossary (no translation).

From UCD Ferriter 2.

An investigation of the early editions of this printed work, extant in four different versions, based on a comparison of S. Ó Casaide’s account (in Gaelic Journ. 15/4 (Dec., 1905) pp. 49-51, etc.) with present-day library holdings. In Appendix: [1.] Contents of the Pious miscellany (Types A, B, C, and D); [2.] Annotated catalogue of the known editions.

Discusses the popularity of Aodh Mac Gabhráin’s song and the 18th-century English translations by Dean Swift and Charles Henry Wilson.

SR 21-280 is based on a lost eighth-century cosmological tract drawing on: De ordine creaturarum (Pseudo-Isidore); Pliny’s Historia naturalis, ii; Isidore of Seville; etc.

On the work of the early modern lexicographers Lhuyd, Walsh, Begley, Plunkett and Ó Neachtain.

1. Forleitheadas: Plunkett glosses Lat. faex as ‘Clann Thomáis Mhic Lóbais’; 2. sladuighe satha: vs. N. J. A. Williams, PCT, p. 151 n. 936: should be translated as ‘hive-robber, drone’ (cf. ladrann saithe); 3. ruisín vs. N. J. A. Williams, PCT 188 s.v.: refers to ‘lunch, etc.'; cf. T. de Bhaldraithe, in Ériu 31 (1980), pp. 169-171.

1. conús [also conuas, conas, both < canós]; 2. froisín [< fras + ín]; 3. priompallán [also pr(o)impeallán, prompalán < Engl ‘bumble’ (= ‘bumblebee’; prombarlán, plumbarlán, primpearlán, plimpearlán, prumparlán < Engl ‘bumbler’ (= ‘bumblebee’); variants with tr(i)omp-, trump-, treamp- influenced by trompa ‘jew’s harp’; ‘etymological’ spelling proimpsheilleán derives from W. Shaw’s form priompsheillain]; 4. rumpall [< Engl ‘rumble’; cf. ‘etymological’ spelling rumptholl]; 5. *alfat ‘a cause’ [an error traceable to E. Lhuyd (1707), who copied two consecutive words (al, fáth) in R. Plunkett’s dictionary (1662) as one word; gives rise to other variants: alfad, álfath, alfáth]; 6. *alfhalach ‘hide’ [an error traceable to E. Lhuyd (1707) for a bhfalach in R. Plunkett’s dictionary (1662); gives rise to alfalach ‘thoroughly hid’].

[1.] Foinsí na Laidine; [2.] Ainmneacha barantúla nó cumadóireacht; [3.] Anáil an Phluincéadaigh. Includes a list of plant-names from Plunkett’s unpublished ‘Latin-Irish Dictionary’ (1662).

On the author of a Modern Irish translation of St. Fiacc’s Hymn.

Examines the recent transmission and study of this poem, both in print and manuscript form, from Colgan’s 1647 Louvain edition (and the subsequent manuscript circulation derived from it) to its 1791 publication in Roman type by Plunket and down to its definitive edition by Wh. Stokes in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus ii, 1903.

On the work of the early modern lexicographers Lhuyd, Walsh, Begley, Plunkett and Ó Neachtain.

1. Foclóir no Sanasan nua (1643), by Micheál Ó Cléirigh; 2. Vocabularium Latinum et Hibernicum (1662), by Risteard Pluincéad; 3. Foclóir Gaoidheilge-Shagsonach, by Edward Lhuyd; 4. The English-Irish dictionary = An foclóir Béarla-Gaoidheilge (1732), by Conchubhar Ó Beaglaoich and Aodh Buidhe Mac Cruitín; 5. Foclóir Gaedhilbhéarlach (1739), by Tadhg Ó Neachtain; 6. Focalóir Gaoidheilge-Sax-Bhéarla (1768, 1832), by John O’Brien; 7. An English-Irish dictionary intended for the use of schools (1814), by Thaddæus Connellan; 8. Sanas Gaoidhilge-Sagsbhéarla = An Irish-English dictionary (1817, 1821, 1864), by Edward O’Reilly; 9. Foclóir Gaoidhilge-Sacs-bhéarla (1849), by Thomas de Vere Coneys; 10. An English-Irish dictionary intended for the use of students of the Irish language (1855), by Daniel Foley; 11. An English-Irish dictionary and phrase book (1903), by Edmund Fournier d’Albe; 12. Lane’s Irish English dictionary (1904, 1915), by Timothy O’Neill Lane; 13. Foclóir Gaeilge agus Béarla (1904, 1927), by Patrick Dineen; 14. Foclóir Béarla agus Gaedhilge (1935), by Lambert McKenna; 15. English-Irish dictionary (1959), by Tomás de Bhaldraithe; 16. Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla (1977), by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Rev. by
Seán Ua Súilleabháin, in ECI 24 (2009), pp. 210-211.

[1.] Foinsí na Laidine; [2.] Ainmneacha barantúla nó cumadóireacht; [3.] Anáil an Phluincéadaigh. Includes a list of plant-names from Plunkett’s unpublished ‘Latin-Irish Dictionary’ (1662).

1. Forleitheadas: Plunkett glosses Lat. faex as ‘Clann Thomáis Mhic Lóbais’; 2. sladuighe satha: vs. N. J. A. Williams, PCT, p. 151 n. 936: should be translated as ‘hive-robber, drone’ (cf. ladrann saithe); 3. ruisín vs. N. J. A. Williams, PCT 188 s.v.: refers to ‘lunch, etc.'; cf. T. de Bhaldraithe, in Ériu 31 (1980), pp. 169-171.

1. conús [also conuas, conas, both < canós]; 2. froisín [< fras + ín]; 3. priompallán [also pr(o)impeallán, prompalán < Engl ‘bumble’ (= ‘bumblebee’; prombarlán, plumbarlán, primpearlán, plimpearlán, prumparlán < Engl ‘bumbler’ (= ‘bumblebee’); variants with tr(i)omp-, trump-, treamp- influenced by trompa ‘jew’s harp’; ‘etymological’ spelling proimpsheilleán derives from W. Shaw’s form priompsheillain]; 4. rumpall [< Engl ‘rumble’; cf. ‘etymological’ spelling rumptholl]; 5. *alfat ‘a cause’ [an error traceable to E. Lhuyd (1707), who copied two consecutive words (al, fáth) in R. Plunkett’s dictionary (1662) as one word; gives rise to other variants: alfad, álfath, alfáth]; 6. *alfhalach ‘hide’ [an error traceable to E. Lhuyd (1707) for a bhfalach in R. Plunkett’s dictionary (1662); gives rise to alfalach ‘thoroughly hid’].

New edition of a glossary of Forth and Bargy words (some of Irish provenance) compiled by Jacob Poole (1774–1827), of Growtown Co. Wexford.

Rev. by
M[andfred] G[örlach], in English world-wide 18/1 (1997), pp. 166-167.

Discusses the Scottish chronicle in MS Paris, BNF, Latin 4126.

Paris, BNF, latin 4126.

Yeats drew upon Irish folk source for a song in The Pot of Broth (1902).

Possibly by Fr. Daniel Power (†1830), official Catholic chaplain in New South Wales. Edited from Mitchell Library MS 1810 (Rev. John Joseph Therry Collection).

Possibly by Fr. Daniel Power (†1830), official Catholic chaplain in New South Wales. Edited from Mitchell Library MS 1810 (Rev. John Joseph Therry Collection).

On Patrick Power (1862–1951), author of The place-names of Decies (1907).

Poem beg. In éis mo aistear a chríochnadh in íochtar Éireann, edited from MS Belfast, Public Library XVI with notes on text, orthography, phonetics and grammar.

Based on an examination of the text of Priscian’s Institutiones Grammaticae in Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 904: 1. Corrections and additions to the text of the Old Irish glosses; 2. Some proposals about the translation or the interpretation of the St. Gall glosses; 3. An additional note on OIr. archiunn ‘a-head, further on’.

Some discussion of the terms samchásc ‘summer Easter’, corgus ‘Lent’, samchorgus ‘summer Lent’, gamchorgus ‘winter Lent’ and minchásc ‘Low Sunday’. Concludes that the St Gall Priscian MS was begun in October 850 and completed in August 851.

Rev. by
Robin Chapman Stacey, in Speculum 73/1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 190-192.

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

Norman Macleod (1783–1862) and the Irish language.

More evidence to support C. Breatnach’s view (in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 109-32) that it is the old name of the second vellum section of Rawlinson B 502.

Discuses in particular the date and provenance of the Munster genealogies that derive from the Psalter of Cashel.

‘The Old Irish treatise on the psalter’, edited by K. Meyer, Hibernica minora 1894 [Best¹, p. 77]), represents a translation of material both exegetical and grammatical originally composed in Latin.

Discusses the various versions of this list, as transmitted in Saltair na rann, the ‘Pseudo-Bede’ texts, the Reference Bible, the Irish Liber de numeris, and In tenga bithnua, particularly dwelling upon the interpretation of ‘Olympus’ as one of the levels in the sky of the Christian universe.

SR 21-280 is based on a lost eighth-century cosmological tract drawing on: De ordine creaturarum (Pseudo-Isidore); Pliny’s Historia naturalis, ii; Isidore of Seville; etc.

Examines the Irish place names in Ptolemy’s Geography II.2.1-12, providing a reconstruction of their Proto-Irish forms and identifications.

Proposes an etymological link with OIr. géd.

[1.] The Venicones, a people of Tayside; [2.] Ptolemy’s Tuesis and the river Spey; [3.] Soutra, near Edinburgh.

[1.] An emendation to Ptolemy’s Vacomagi; [2.] An emendation to Boresti in Tacitus; [3.] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 952 and Stirling; [4.] St. Kentigern and Aberlessic, Lothian; [5.] Dubuice, Lurchaire, and the Book of Deer.

1. Ptolemy’s Verubium promontorium or Noss Head, Caithness; 2. Bede’s Urbs Giudi; 3. Mendick, Lothian; 4. Minto, near Hawick; 5. Panlathy, near Carnoustie, Angus.

[(In Russian:) ‘Pictish’ ethnonyms in Ptolemy’s map: Epidii.]

[1.] Taexali; [2.] Caelis, the river Deveron; [3.] Loxa, the Lossie, and Welsh llosg ‘burning’; [4.] Eitis and Loch Etive.

Proposes it is the Dundrum inlet, in Co. Down; also discusses the connected early place-names Loch Rudraige, Fertas Rudraige and Tonn Rudraige.

Aims at identifying the places given in the coordinate lists of the second book of Ptolemy’s Geography. Chap. 2: Hibernia (II.2); chap. 3: Albion (II.3).

pp. 100–105: assessment of the Celtic element in Ptolemy’s onomastic material concerning Ireland.

vs. S. P. Ó Mórdha, StH 3 (1963), pp. 155-172. Rev. James Pulleine, dean of Dromore was not the translator of Thomas à Kempis’s De imitatione Christi. Suggests Féidhlimidh Ó Néill (Felim O Neill) as possible author of Tóruidheacht, early 18th-century sermons publ. in C. Ó Maonaigh, Seanmónta Chúige Uladh (1965) (see BILL 8343), and the panegyric at the funeral of Eoghan Ó Neill of Clanaboy in 1744 (see D. Hyde, UJA, NS 3 (1897), pp. 258-271 and 4 (1898), pp. 50-55 [Best¹, p. 270]).

Repr. in Dún Mhuire, Killiney, 1945–95: léann agus seanchas, pp. 127-134.