Manuscript Repositories

A collection of all the surviving textual witnesses to the saint’s life. Includes: (chap. 4) ‘The early vernacular life: texts and translation’ [semi-diplomatic texts from MSS Brussels 2324-2340, Book of Fermoy and RIA A iv 1; with English translation of Brussels]; (chap. 6) ‘The Latin life: texts and translation’ [from Marsh Z 3.1.5 and Rawlinson B 485]; (chap. 8) ‘The late vernacular life: edition of the text’ [based on King’s Inns 19 and four other MSS; with variants from St. Colman’s College Fermoy 24 and RIA 23 M 50].

In Appendices: 1. Notes to the texts; 2. John Lynch’s adaptation of Finbarr’s Life [taken from J. F. O’Doherty 1944 (BILL 7595)]; 3. The Paris Mass of St Finnbarr; 4. The lost original Life: an outline reconstruction; 5. The office lives of Fymberrus of Caithness (i.e. Aberdeen) and of Mac Cuilinn of Lusk (i.e. Lusk).

Rev. by
Pádraig A. Breatnach, in CMCS 32 (Winter, 1996), pp. 111-118.
Séamus Mac Mathúna, in ZCP 54 (2004), pp. 232-238.
Cormac Ó hÁdhmaill, in SAM 16/1 (1994), pp. 311-312.
Olivier Szerwiniack, in ÉtC (1996), pp. 288-292.

Provides text and translation for all the surviving redactions of the Life of Saint Ailbhe in Latin (Salamanca, Marsh-Trinity, and Rawlinson versions) and Irish (Brussels-Stowe version).

Ir. text beg. Baí rí amra for Ara Chliach, edited from Brussels 2324–40 and collated with RIA A iv 1; with Engl. translation and commentary.

App. 1: Do mhúsgail mé d’éis luighe araoir go sáimh; ed. based on MSS TCD 1399 (H 5.28) and 1367 (H 4.26), where it is ascribed to Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh and Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh resp.; with Engl transl. and notes; App. 2. Am leaba araoir do shíleas féin a’ teacht, attributed to Cearbhall Ó Dála na mBan; ed based on MSS TCD 1365 (H 4.24) and RIA A iv 2, with Engl transl. and notes; App. 3. Fada ar gcothrom ó chéile (from DG 78–79), attributed (in MS RIA F vi 2) to Cearbhall Ó Dála; with Engl. transl.

Poem dedicated to the harper Donn Ó Fáilbhe; beg. Tre chleasaibh na ccróbhann go tróm sa mbarr air bís, edited from RIA MS A iv 2 with Engl translation.

Three poems in praise of John Erskine, 23rd Earl of Mar, who led the Jacobite rising of 1715: 1. As mac do Mhars an Marso a nAlbain tuaidh (ascribed to Donnchadh Caol Ó Mathghamhna); 2. Más mac do Mhars an Marso a nAlabain aoírd (by Conchubhar Ó Briain); 3. Ó d’éirig Mar mar Mhars a néalaibh thuaidh (without ascription). Based on MS RIA A iv 2; with English translation.

17qq., critically edited using 10 MSS, including RIA A iv 2, 23 I 26, NLI G 430, Maynooth B 11, Torna 46, etc. With full variants and textual notes.

Mo dhainid go fuin, mo shileadh deór, mo scíos, by Uilliam Mac Cartáin an Dúna. Text based on RIA A iv 2; with English translation and textual notes. In Aguisín: Ró stríocfad dom phrímhrith 's do rian mo lámh, from NLI G 114 [a poem on the exile of John Baptist Sleyne (1639?–1712)].

Elegy (13 qq.) on Tadhg (mac Conchubhair) Ó Briain (†1731). Critical edition based on thirteen MSS; earliest copies: RIA A iv 2, 23 N 12, and 23 N 21 (all mid 18th cent.). With introduction, discussion of metre, Engl. translation, variants, and textual notes.

Incomplete poem by Aonghus (mac Taidhg) Mac Cearbhaill Bhuidhe, beg. Beag nár bháith Aodh oidhidh Chuinn (33 qq.), ed. from MS RIA A iv 3 (743) with Engl. transl. and notes. Stylistic feature of echo (generally involving parallelism or antithesis) between opening and closing couplets in many quatrains discussed. Also on the identification of mheic Cearbhoill (= Aonghus (mac Taidhg) Mac Cearbhaill Bhuidhe) and Aonghas Ruadh (= Aonghus Ruadh Ó Dálaigh) in Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh’s poem Cuimseach sin a Fhearghail Óig §§ 4 and 5 resp.

From Rawlinson B 514, with variants from NLI G 167 and RIA A iv 3; with English translation and notes.

Based on BL Additional 19995 where legible, otherwise RIA A iv 3 and 23 F 16; with English translation and notes.

Edition of a poem (50 qq.) by Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, beg. Mithidh sin a mhaca Míleadh. Text from RIA A iv 3 (743); with English translation and notes.

Written for Brian Mac Diarmada (†1592). 39 qq., ascr. to Brian Dorcha Ó hUiginn; text from RIA A iv 3.

Poem (22 qq.) by Tadhg Mór Ó Cobhthaigh; beg. Cia ré gcuirfinn séd suirghe. Ed. based on MSS RIA A v 1, 24 P 27, and NLI G 167, normalised, with Engl. transl and notes.

A comparative analysis of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh’s redaction of the poem (found in MSS RIA 24 P 27, RIA A v 1, NLI G 167) with that of ‘its original form as drafted by Dubhthach Óg Ó Duibhgeannáin’ (in MS ULC Add. 3084) in honour of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill. Redactor identified as Cú Choigcríche mac Diarmada Ó Cléirigh, one of the Four Masters.

To Ó Domhnaill, composed 1597×1598. First line: Cionnas do fhúigfinnse Aodh. Based on MS Dublin RIA A v 1; with English translation and notes.

Poem beg. Tairnic in sel-sa ac Síl Néill (53 qq.) addressed to Cathal Croibhdhearg, king of Connacht 1189-1224. A normalised edition in MidIr form from MSS RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine) and RIA A v 2, with Engl. transl. and notes.

Ascribed to Eochaidh Ó hEodhasa.

Provides an edition of three seventeenth-century apologues based on events of the Roman civil war: 1. qq. 22-31 of Rug cosnamh ar chrích Midhe (text from RIA A v 2); 2. qq. 26-39 of Cóir súil re seasamh Gaoidheal (text from TCD H 6. 7); 3. qq. 15-26 of A Thoirdhealbhaigh, turn th’aigneadh by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh (text based on TCD H 5. 6). Standardized text, English translation, notes, and discussion of each apologue in the context of the poem in which it occurs.

Poem beg. Mór theasda dh’obair Óivid by Eochaidh Ó hEodhasa to James I. Ed. from MS RIA 23 L 17, with Engl. tranls. and notes in Irish; incomplete copy of poem transcribed from MS RIA B i 1a.

48 qq., attributed to Gilla Cóemáin. Critical edition from MSS Brussels 2569–72, Cambridge Add. 3084, NLI G 131, RIA 23 K 32, B i 1a, B iv 2, C iv 3, D ii 1, TCD H 5. 28, Maynooth C 88; normalized to Early Modern Irish spelling. With English translation, textual notes and commentary, indexes.

The chief scribe of MS RIA B ii 1 is Aedh Buidhe Ó Leighin, scribe of the herbal tract in MS TCD 1343 (H 3.22); with palaeographical analysis. Also on Donncha Ó Conuill, a former owner of B, and the literary family of Ó Conuill. Includes plts.

beg. Caur croder cét n-ilach, attributed to Móen mac Etna. Reconstructed text (based on Ballymote, H 3. 3, Lecan, Uí Mhaine, Rennes 598, RIA D ii 2 and RIA B iii 1), with discussion, translation, and textual notes.

Edition of Version 1, based on MSS TCD H 2. 16 and TCD H 3. 18; and of Version 2, based on Egerton 1781 and RIA B iv 1; with English translation and notes. Includes an examination of the historical background and literary themes.

An early modern Irish retelling of the Deirdre story. Based on the incomplete version in NLS 73.2.3 supplemented by Maynooth M 103; normalized text, with English translation and textual notes. In Appendices: I. Text of Oidheadh chloinne hUisnech from RIA B iv 1; II. Keating’s introduction and epilogue from NLI G 113.

Rev. by
Caoimhín Breatnach, in Éigse 28 (1994-1995), pp. 200-218.
Doris Edel, in ZCP 48 (1996), pp. 331-333.
Mícheál Ó Flaithearta, in CMCS 29 (Summer, 1995), pp. 75-77.
Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin, in StH 28 (1994), pp. 180-182.

Provides an example of the motif of The Fool as Murderer (AT 1600) from Imtheachta na n-óinmhideadh; text based on RIA B iv 1.

Elegy on Brian Óg Mac Diarmada (†1637). 68 qq., ascr. to Muiris (mac Torna) Ó Maoil Chonaire (†1645). Text from RIA B iv 1.

Text based on RIA MS 24 P 8; with introduction, text of fragmentary versions (contained in MSS RIA B iv 1a and NLS 72.2.2), English translation, notes, indexes.

Rev. by
Deborah Hayden, in CMCS 72 (Winter, 2016), pp. 106-108.
Mícheál Hoyne, in ZCP 63 (2016), pp. 270-274.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 42 (2016), 277-278.
Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, in StH 43 (2017), pp. 156-158.
Michelle O Riordan, in Speculum 91/1 (Jan., 2016), pp. 231-232.
Erich Poppe, in JCeltL 17 (2016), pp. 261-265.

Based on Rawlinson B 514, with variants from RIA B iv 2 and NLI G 167; with English translation and notes.

48 qq., attributed to Gilla Cóemáin. Critical edition from MSS Brussels 2569–72, Cambridge Add. 3084, NLI G 131, RIA 23 K 32, B i 1a, B iv 2, C iv 3, D ii 1, TCD H 5. 28, Maynooth C 88; normalized to Early Modern Irish spelling. With English translation, textual notes and commentary, indexes.

Ar-síasair coimdiu Tailten suidi coimdemmar. From NLI G7; diplomatic and normalised texts, English translation, textual notes (MS facsimile in pp. 333-335).

In Appendix: A eolcha in domhoin duanaig. Diplomatic text from RIA B iv 2.

Edition of an anonymous MIr. poem beg. Pátraicc Macha mártai Gaídil (13 qq.). Text from RIA B iv 2 (only known copy); with English translation, commentary and textual notes.

Diplomatic edition of the early Irish law tracts in manuscripts from the professional schools: MSS TCD H 2.12 (8iii), H 2. 15A, H 2. 15B, H 2. 16, H 3. 17, H 3. 18, H 4. 22, H 5. 15, E 3. 3, E 3. 5; RIA 23 P 12, 23 Q 6, 23 P 3, C i 2; Rawlinson B 487, Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 506; Harley 432, Egerton 88, Egerton 90, Nero A 7, Add. 4783; NLI G 3, G 11; Copenhagen 261B.

Vol. I. 1978. xxviii + 337.
Vol. II. 1978. 339-744.
Vol. III. 1978. 745-1138.
Vol. IV. 1978. 1139-1531.
Vol. V. 1978. 1532-1925.
Vol. VI. 1978. 1926-2343.

Introductory matter (i-xxviii) also separ. publ.

Rev. by
Liam Breatnach, Aidan Breen and Donnchadh Ó Corráin, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 382-438.
T. M. Charles Edwards, in StH 20 (1980), pp. 141-162.

Text from RIA C i 2.

Examines the mutual relationship of all the extant manuscript witnesses (Book of Leinster; RIA 23 N 10, 23 O 48, C i 2 and D iv 2; NLS 72.1.5 and 72.1.40; Laud Misc. 610).

Compares two versions of an episode from the ‘Monastery of Tallaght’, preserved in RIA C i 2 and 3 B 23. With dipl. and norm. texts, Engl. transls., and discussion of selected linguistic features.

Criticises D. Ó Cróinín’s stemmatic representation of MS witnesses to his recension I of Sex aetates mundi and contends against P. Ó Riain’s view that MS Rawlinson B 502 is to be identified as the Book of Glendalough.

Eight stanzas assembled from quotations in various texts. Authorship of Colmán ua Cluasaig (7th cent.) rejected. Three separate parts distinguished; linguistically dated to 10th/11th centuries. First line Marbh friom andes marbh antuaidh. Variorum edition, with Engl. transl. and notes. Based on MSS Brussels 5301-20; Rawlinson B 503, RIA C iii 3; Harley 5280; TCD H 2. 16 (YBL); RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Maine); RIA 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac), TCD H 3. 18.

Edition, normalised to early Old Irish standard, of a poem beg. Marb friumm andess, marb atúaid (8 qq.) with translation and commentary. Based on MSS Brussels 5301–20; Rawlinson B 503; RIA C iii 3; Harley 5280; Yellow Book of Lecan; Book of Uí Mhaine; Leabhar Breac; TCD H 3. 18: for apparatus criticus, see G. S. Mac Eoin, The Lament for Cuimine Fota, in Ériu 28 (1977), pp. 17-31. Disagrees with some of the conclusions reached by G. Mac Eoin. Poem composed not later than c. ad 700.

Of two copies produced, one was intended for Fearghal Ó Gadhra, the other for publication in Louvain. Discusses and assesses the question of which of the surviving five MSS belongs to which copy of the annals. Concludes in favour of P. Walsh’s view (but against C. Mooney’s) that the Ó Gadhra set is represented by MSS RIA C iii 3 and TCD H 2. 11, and the Louvain set by Franciscan A 13, RIA 23 P 6, RIA 23 P 7. Includes ‘Appendix: Notes on the Individual MSS’. See also P. Walsh, The Four Masters and their work (1944) (Best² 8631), IBL (1936), pp. 81-83 (Best² 2081), and C. Mooney, IER 60 (1942), pp. 223-224, n. 4 (BILL 624).

DIAS statutory public lecture 1997. Appendix 1: Book of O’Conor Don f. 22 (transcription of acephalous satirical verses (poem?) (79 qq.), possibly composed by Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn); Appendix 2: RIA MS 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), pp. 81-82 (transcription of poem beg. Dleaghar cundradh do chomhall, 58 qq.); Appendix 3: Copenhagen 268b (catalogue including a list of materials from RIA C iv 1, one of whose scribes was Aodh Buidhe Mac Cruitín, and which was to be placed at the beginning of Copenhagen Ny kgl. Saml. 268b).

Elegy beg. Máthair na horchra an éigsi, possibly composed by Maolmhuire mac Eóghain Uí Uiginn on death of Muiris mac Torna Uí Mhaolchonaire (d. 1645). Edited from MS RIA C iv 1; with English translation and notes.

Irish prognostications from thunder (§§[1.]–[6.]) and from the howling of dogs (§[7.]). [1.] Poem beg. Torann Domhnaigh créd fatá, ed. from Laud Misc. 615 and TCD H 4. 22; [2.] Text beg. Torann Domhnaig do-fóirne díghbhail for chleirchibh, ed. from NLI G 1; [3.] Text beg. Tóirneach an Luain, bás ban, ed. from RIA 23 M 30; [4.] Text beg. Torann Enair sidh sainemail, ed. from TCD H 4. 22; [5.] Text beg. Gaoth mor ocus toirneach isin mí so, ed. from Edinburgh Laing 21; [6.] text beg. Da ti toirneach a mi Ianuarius, ed. from RIA 23 O 57 (and RIA C iv 2); [7.] Poem beg. Donál chon cenduigh co cert, ed. from Laud Misc. 615 (and NLS Advocates’ 72.1.41 and Egerton 158). All texts with English translation and notes.

Edition of a set of five verses (attributed to returned spirits of the dead) relating to the 1545–1548 revolt of An Calbhach O’Donnell against his father Mánus. Text from RIA C iv 2, with English translation.

vs. P. Ó Riain, in ZCP 51 (1998), pp. 130-147. Criticises the methodology used by P. Ó Riain in establishing textual relationships and concludes that Lebar Glinne Dá Locha and Rawlinson B 502 are two separate manuscripts. Cf. also P. Ó Riain, in Éigse 18 (1981), pp. 161-176 and C. Breatnach, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 109-132.

48 qq., attributed to Gilla Cóemáin. Critical edition from MSS Brussels 2569–72, Cambridge Add. 3084, NLI G 131, RIA 23 K 32, B i 1a, B iv 2, C iv 3, D ii 1, TCD H 5. 28, Maynooth C 88; normalized to Early Modern Irish spelling. With English translation, textual notes and commentary, indexes.

Argues that Rawl. B 514 can’t have been the copy prepared specially for Maghnus Ó Domhnaill, and suggests that the scribe of Franciscan A 19 may have had access to a now lost copy of the Liber hymnorum.

Discusses 42 manuscript witnesses to the Táin in four different recensions, ranging from 12th to the 19th centuries, and addresses the circumstances of their compilation.

Identifies the anonymous scribe of parts of YBL as Tomás Cam Mac Fir Bhisigh (son of Gilla Ísa) and identifies him with hand in the following MSS: RIA 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan), RIA D i 1, NLS 72.1.8, NLI G 4, TCD H 2.15a. Includes 9 plates.

[1] Text of Ó Duibhgeannáin document (beg. Labhram ann so mar do rinne Coluim Cille síth […] from MS London, Lambeth Carew 621, wr. in 1618 by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin; with the contemporary Engl. transl.); [2] Text of Mac Domhnaill genealogy (from MS London, Lambeth Carew 635, written, not earlier than 1618, by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh); [3] Verses on the second Earl of Antrim (fragm. of four quatrains in MS TCD H 3. 18, wr. by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh; beg. Ainmnigh ria ccách ceann a ccionn, with Engl. transl.); [4] An Ó Gnímh genealogy (comparison of entries in MSS RIA E iv 4, D i 3 and 23 M 17, and Dubhaltach Mac Fir Bhisigh’s ‘Abstract’ of genealogies in MSS RIA 24 N 2 and Maynooth B 8; with a geneal. table).

Cf. R. I. Best, The Journal of Celtic Studies 1 (1950), pp. 190-192 (BILL 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.

Critical edition of a poem by Gilla Coemán found embedded in Lebor gabála Érenn. Text based on the míniugud recension (mainly RIA D i 3 and the Book of Lecan), with variant readings from another 4 medieval and 2 modern ms. witnesses in apparatus criticus; with English translation, textual notes, personal and place name indexes.

Poem beg. Aimirgein Glúngel tuir tend (63 qq.) by Gilla in Choimded Úa Cormaic, dated to c. 1050-1150 on linguistic grounds. Ed. with Engl transl. and notes from MSS Book of Uí Maine, NLI G 488 and King’s Inns 20. Incl. app. on the language of the text, and indexes.

Edition of a late Middle Irish poem beg. Atá sund in senchas seng. From RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Maine); introduction, analysis, normalized text, English translation, textual notes.

13th- or 14th-century poem, beg. Sa ráith-se rugadh Muire, possibly composed in the Holy Land. Ed. from MS RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Mhaine), normalised; with English translation and notes.

Includes semi-diplomatic text from the Book of Uí Maine, with textual notes, commentary and evaluation.

MSS discussed incl. RIA 23 E 25 (LU), 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan) (and its nine leaves now contained in TCD MS H 2. 17), D ii 1 (Book of Uí Mhaine) (and its four leaves now contained in Egerton 90); NLI G 1; TCD H 3. 17, E 4.1; Laud Misc. 610; Lost MS E (used by John Lynch).

Edition of a 12th c. dinnṡenchas poem by Áed Ollbarr Úa Carthaig on the origin of the names Connachta and Mag nAí. Text from LL and Uí Maine with English translation and textual notes.

Incl. table and plts.

2. durchgesehene und verbesserte Auflage.

Teil 1.: Oberherrscher und Oberherrschaft in Irland.
Teil 2.: Texte und Übersetzungen, Register.

Texts edited and translated to German in Tbd. 2:

Chap. 10. Réim rígraide in Rawl. B 512, Rawl. B 502 and Book of Uí Maine : 1. The Míniugud-recension of Lebor gabála Érenn in Rawl. B 512, with an appendded king-list headed ríg Érenn iar creitim; 2. MIr. translation of the Lat. introduction to the Míniugud-recension in Rawl. B 512; 3. Compert Conchobuir followed by the scribal note mentioning ‘Leabar Gabala Glind da Locha’; 4. Réim rígraide in Rawl. B 502 [an account of pre-Christian kings of Ireland; acephalous]; 5. The réim rígraide materials in the Book of Uí Maine: (1.) The poem Cét-rí ro·gab Érind uill (14 qq.), immediately followed by (2.) the Christian réim rígraide ending with the poem Éri óg inis na náem (84 qq., by Gilla-Mo-Dutu Ua Casaide), and (3.) genealogies of Irish high-kings.

Chap. 11. Irish high-kings in the genealogical corpus: 1-3. The introduction to Senchas Síl Érimóin and the list of kings of Ireland, in three different versions: Rawl. B 502, Laud misc. 610, and Bk of Ballymote/Bk of Lecan; 4. List of Pictish kings from Bk of Uí Maine; 5. Two poems from Senchas Síl Érimóin in Rawl. B 502: Cia lín don rígraid ráin ruaid and Sé ríg déc Éogain anall; 6. List of kings of Ireland of the Lagin in NLI G 2; 7. Versions of poem Cét-rí ro·gab Érind uill in Rawl. B 502 and Ballymote; 8. Pedigrees of Irish high-kings in Uí Maine and G 2 (incl. four metrical sections: 1. Sláine Rudraige Gand glan, 2. Bres Nuadu ⁊ Lug na land, 3. Fir Bolg ba brígmar a medg, and 4. Mac Fiachna Finscothaig fuilig; Uí Maine and G 2 versions in parallel text).

Chap. 12. The metrical réim rígraide of Flann Mainistrech: edition of (1.) Érimón is Éber ard, early version, from Lecan (two texts, printed in parallel), (2.) late version of same, from RIA 23 K 32, (3.) Ríg Temra dia·tesband tnú, from Lecan and LL (in parallel text) and (4.) Ríg Temra tóebaige iar tain, from Lecan and LL (in parallel text).

Rev. by
T. M. Charles-Edwards, in ZCP 64 (2017), pp. 473-476.

17th c. citations of Leabhar Uí Dhubhagáin show that this is to be identified as Leabhar Ua Maine.

beg. Caur croder cét n-ilach, attributed to Móen mac Etna. Reconstructed text (based on Ballymote, H 3. 3, Lecan, Uí Mhaine, Rennes 598, RIA D ii 2 and RIA B iii 1), with discussion, translation, and textual notes.

Argues that the broad use of the label apocryphon should be abandoned. With discussion of (1) Dá brón flatha nime (see G. Dottin, RC 21.349 [Best¹, p. 232] and M. MacNamara, The Apocrypha in the Irish church 1975, pp. 24-27], and (2) A poem on three Judean kings missing in Christ’s genealogy [Ochozias io[a]s co cass; text from the Book of Uí Maine, with English translation].

Discusses and sets in its historical context the poem beg. Filidh Éireann go haointeach, composed by Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh in honour of Uilliam Ó Ceallaigh (†1381), chief of the Uí Maine who hosted the Christmas feast of 1351. Includes an edition of another poem in praise of Uilliam Ó Ceallaigh, beg. Táth aoinfhir ar iath Maineach (76 qq.); text normalized from the Book of Uí Maine, with English translation and textual notes.

29 qq., ascribed to Cúán (ua Lóthcháin?), semi-diplomatic text from RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Maine); with English translation and notes.

Examines the Bk of Uí Maine version of this poem.

Studies the interrelationship of the ‘shorter’ and ‘longer’ recensions, as well as the position of the NLI G 2 version in the stemma codicum.

Vol. 13: [1.] General introduction, by M. McN.; [2.] The Irish infancy narratives and their relationship with latin sources, by M. McN. and J.-D. K.; [3.] The Liber flavus Fergusiorum infancy narrative: introduction by M. McN., edition by D. Ó L. and C. B., translation by D. Ó L., M. H. and C. B., notes to the translation by M. McN. and J.-D. K.; [4.] The infancy narrative of the Leabhar Breac and related manuscripts: introduction by M. McN., text by P. Ó F., B. Ó C. and C. B., apparatus criticus by B. Ó C. and C. B., translation by P. Ó F., M. H. and C. B., notes to the translation by M. McN. and J.-D. K.; [5.] A versified narrative of the childhood deeds of the Lord Jesus [from MS NLI G 50]: introduction by M. H. and M. McN., edition and translation by M. H., notes to the translation by M. McN.

Vol. 14: [6.] A thirteenth-century Irish poem containing elements from infancy narratives: introduction, edition, translation and notes by B. Ó C. [Sa ráith-se rugadh Muire, ascribed to Giolla Brighde Albanach; based on RIA D ii 1, with readings from Rawlinson B 486; normalized to Early Modern Irish]; [7.] Hiberno-Latin texts on the wonders at Christ’s birth: introduction, edition, translation and notes by M. McN.; [8.] Short texts relating to the Nativity of Christ: introduction, edition and translation by B. Ó C. and C. B., notes to the translation by M. McN. [1. A narrative of the Caesarean tax and the birth of Christ (a. Irish version, beg. Ochtauín Auguist ba hairdríg; text based on Leabhar Breac); 2. The seventeen wonders of the night of Christ’s birth (a. Prose, entitled Do secht n-ingantaib déc in domain in adaig ro génir Críst; b. Verse, beg. In n-aidchi geini Críst cain; c. Additional wonder); 3. The marvels of the birth of the Saviour (a. Text from Paris, Fonds celtique 1, and Maynooth R 73; b. Variant version from Liber flavus Fergusiorum)]; [9.] Appendix [(1.) Latin infancy Gospels. The J Compilation: introduction and edition by J.-D. K. and M. McN.; (2.) Latin translation of the protoevangelium of James in MS. Paris, Sainte-Geneviève, 2787: introduction and edition by R. B.].

Rev. by

J.-Cl. Haelewyck, in Revue théologique de Louvain 35/2 (2004), pp. 244-245.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 36 (2008), pp. 214-215.
Brendan McConvery, in Irish theological quarterly 70/1 (Mar., 2005), pp. 86-89.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 35 (2008-2009), pp. 229-235.
Stephen D. Moore, in Catholic Biblical quarterly 66/1 (2004), pp. 155-156.
Thomas O’Loughlin, in Analecta Bollandiana 122/1 (2004), pp. 196-199.
Pádraig P. Ó Néill, in Éigse 35 (2005), pp. 133-136.
P. Ó Riain, in ZCP 55 (2006), pp. 275-276.
Erich Poppe, in CMCS 49 (Summer, 2005), pp. 74-77.
Clare Stancliffe, in Journal of theological studies 59 (2008), pp. 820-827.

Critical edition (49 qq.) normalised in a late Middle Irish form MS RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Mhaine) with English translation and notes. First line A fhir ná suid ar in síd; composed c. 1190. One of two poems belonging to the period 1190-1228 supporting a build-up of Ua Conchobair power in Connacht. Second poem, Tairnic in sel-sa ac Síl Néill, ed. by B. Ó Cuív, in Ériu 34 (1983), pp. 157-174.

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 [Best¹, p. 53]); 86 poems, normalized from the six extant witnesses, with linguistic and metrical analysis, manuscript readings, English translation and notes].

Rev. by
Johan Corthals, in Éigse 37 (2010), pp 174-178.
G. R. Isaac, in JGAHS 62 (2010), pp. 215-216.
Riita Latvio, in SCF 6 (2009), pp. 83-86.
Gerald Manning, in StH 36 (2009-2010), pp. 211-215.
Feargal Ó Béarra, in Béaloideas 77 (2009), pp. 132-134.
S. Ó D., in Clogher record 20/1 (2009), pp. 160-164.
Simon Rodway, in CMCS 62 (Winter, 2011), pp. 94-97.
Paul Russell, in ÉtC 38 (2012), pp. 324-326.
Robin Chapman Stacey, in Speculum 86/3 (Jul., 2011), pp. 785-786.

1. The metrical Banshenchas (composed by Gilla Mo-Dutu Ó Caiside in 1147); 2. The prose Banshenchas (archetype composed c. 1147-69). MB found in 4 MSS: TCD 1339 (H 2.18; LL), RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine), NLI G 3, RIA 23 P 2 (Bk of Lecan); 8 copies of PB found in MSS: RIA 23 P 2 (Bk of Lecan), RIA 23 P 12 (Bk of Ballymote), RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine), Brussels 2542-3, NLS Adv. 72.1.7, TCD H 3. 17.

Imarcaig sund ar gach saíd (108 qq.), dated to ca. 1200. Text based on RIA MS D ii 1, normalised to late Middle Irish spelling system; with English translation, textual notes, manuscript readings, commentary, indexes.

Eight stanzas assembled from quotations in various texts. Authorship of Colmán ua Cluasaig (7th cent.) rejected. Three separate parts distinguished; linguistically dated to 10th/11th centuries. First line Marbh friom andes marbh antuaidh. Variorum edition, with Engl. transl. and notes. Based on MSS Brussels 5301-20; Rawlinson B 503, RIA C iii 3; Harley 5280; TCD H 2. 16 (YBL); RIA D ii 1 (Book of Uí Maine); RIA 23 P 16 (Leabhar Breac), TCD H 3. 18.

48 qq., attributed to Gilla Cóemáin. Critical edition from MSS Brussels 2569–72, Cambridge Add. 3084, NLI G 131, RIA 23 K 32, B i 1a, B iv 2, C iv 3, D ii 1, TCD H 5. 28, Maynooth C 88; normalized to Early Modern Irish spelling. With English translation, textual notes and commentary, indexes.

Edition, normalised to early Old Irish standard, of a poem beg. Marb friumm andess, marb atúaid (8 qq.) with translation and commentary. Based on MSS Brussels 5301–20; Rawlinson B 503; RIA C iii 3; Harley 5280; Yellow Book of Lecan; Book of Uí Mhaine; Leabhar Breac; TCD H 3. 18: for apparatus criticus, see G. S. Mac Eoin, The Lament for Cuimine Fota, in Ériu 28 (1977), pp. 17-31. Disagrees with some of the conclusions reached by G. Mac Eoin. Poem composed not later than c. ad 700.

A discussion of this genealogical treatise; includes transcripts from the six extant manuscript witnesses.

1. The conception and characteristics of Antichrist. – The late Middle Irish poem Ceithre coimperta caema, normalised from MSS D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine) and NLS Adv 72.1.19, with Engl. transl. and notes; 2. The beheading of Saint John the Baptist. – The late Middle Irish poem Abstalón, adba na ríg, normalised from MSS RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Í Mhaine) and NLS Adv 72.1.1, with Engl. transl. and notes.

Edition and English translation, from RIA MS Stowe D ii 1.

Poem beg. Tairnic in sel-sa ac Síl Néill (53 qq.) addressed to Cathal Croibhdhearg, king of Connacht 1189-1224. A normalised edition in MidIr form from MSS RIA D ii 1 (Bk of Uí Mhaine) and RIA A v 2, with Engl. transl. and notes.

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’.

Discusses the genealogical tract entitled Duchusaich Corco Laidi so, from the Book of Lecan; with Commentary on the tuatha and place-names, Alphabetical list of surnames in the tract. In Appendix: The other manuscript recensions [Book of Ballymote, H 3. 17, Book of Uí Maine].

beg. Caur croder cét n-ilach, attributed to Móen mac Etna. Reconstructed text (based on Ballymote, H 3. 3, Lecan, Uí Mhaine, Rennes 598, RIA D ii 2 and RIA B iii 1), with discussion, translation, and textual notes.

Discusses the structure of the text, analyses its usage as a form of ‘verbal power’, and considers its presence in a Christian environment. Incl. new text and translation.

Concludes that the Old Irish tract on the mass was entered in the manuscript in all probability at Tallaght at the beginning of the ninth century.

Edition of the rosc passage at lines 957-962 of Táin bó Cúailnge (as ed. by C. O’Rahily, 1976), beg. In fitir in dub. Reconstructed from MSS Maynooth C 1, YBL, LL, LU, Stowe Missal; with English translation and textual notes.

Argues that the Stowe tract on the Mass is an abbreviation of a text preserved also in a later, more faithful version in Leabhar Breac, and draws conclusions on liturgical changes in the intervening centuries.

Numerical analysis of the Latin colophon in the Stowe Missal (fo. 11r).

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].

Cf. R. I. Best, The Journal of Celtic Studies 1 (1950), pp. 190-192 (BILL 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.

Provides transcripts of two fragmentary texts from MS RIA D. iv. 1 (b), namely (A) a story concerning Suithchern, daughter of Áed Bennáin, and (B) the two last episodes of the Munster version of Imtheachta na nÓinmhideadh. With English translation.

Edited from RIA MS D iv 2, with English translation and commentary. Includes a discussion of the relationship of this text with Togail Troí and Togail na Tebe.

Text from RIA D iv 2; with textual notes, German translation, and a discussion of the classical sources for this story.

Examines the mutual relationship of all the extant manuscript witnesses (Book of Leinster; RIA 23 N 10, 23 O 48, C i 2 and D iv 2; NLS 72.1.5 and 72.1.40; Laud Misc. 610).

Offers an edition and analysis of the Prologue found in later versions of Togail Troí. Text based on RIA D iv 2; with English translation and textual notes.

Text from RIA D iv 2 with variants from Leabhar Breac; with English translation. Includes a poem beg. A Dhe mhair, co n-agbainn mo dí erail (7 qq.), atributed to Moling (cf. Eugene O’Curry, Best¹, p. 121 [Scuip a Fanat]).

Analyses the sources and style of the narrative known as ‘How Samson slew the Gesteda’ (ed. by C. Marstrander in Ériu 5, pp. 145-159).

Edition based on King’s Inns 12, complemented by RIA D iv 2 where this is extant, with English translation and textual notes. Includes a full discussion of classical sources and models, relation of the two manuscripts, and language.

In Appendices: A. The fragment of Don tres Troí from RIA D iv 2 [full transcription of an acephalous fragment containing the older version from which K is derived]; B. The deaths of Polyxena and Astyanax in Togail Troí.

[1.] Introduction: reference to Síd Truim in poem in Serglige Con Culainn; [2.] Síd Truim and the Tuatha Dé Danann; [3.] Síd Truim as the place of Cú Chulainn’s birth: in first version of tale Compert Con Culainn contained in MS RIA D iv 2 (1223); [4.] Síd Truim as the place of Cú Chulainn’s burial: in poem A Oisín fuirigh ar Dhia; [5.] The location of Síd Truim; [6.] Conclusions.

[1.] The relationship between the MSS of V [= the longer recension contained in MSS RIA 23 E 25, RIA D iv 2, Harley 5280, RIA 23 N 10, RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), Egerton 92]; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 29 (1996), pp. 96-100; [2.] The lost portion of R [= the shorter recension contained in MS Rawlinson B 512]; [3.] The relationship of V and R; [4.] The language of R and V; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 102–18; [5.] Old and Middle Irish in V; [6.] Conclusion: V is an expanded version of R.

Variorum edition with Engl. transl. and notes of poem beg. Manib do liïc (9 ll.), which appears in two of the accounts of how Táin bó Cuailnge was rescued from oblivion. Ed. from MSS LL and RIA D iv 2.

Edited from MS RIA D iv 2, with variant readings from MS RIA 23 O 48 (Liber flavus Fergusiorum) and UCD Add. Ir. MS 14 (Mac Firbisigh’s Book of Genealogies); with translation and notes.

Argues that LU stands closer to the original Cín Dromma Snechtai texts than MSS Egerton 88 and Dublin, RIA 23 N 10, as it was the direct source of Gilla Commáin Ó Congaláin’s (†1135) selection whence the Connacht MS tradition comes.

Refutes the view that YBL originates directly from LU, and argues it belongs to a group of MSS deriving from a source independent of LU. A criticism of T. Ó Concheanainn, in Celtica 17 (1985), pp. 73-90, Éigse 16 (1975), pp. 146-162, etc.

Edition of a story and poem (25 qq.) concerning the poet Flann mac Lonán (†920). Includes transcripts from MSS RIA D iv 2 and TCD H 2. 16; with textual notes and English translation.

Cf. R. I. Best, The Journal of Celtic Studies 1 (1950), pp. 190-192 (BILL 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.

App. 1: Concordance of the O’Curry and O’Donovan law transcripts with CIH; App. 2: Bretha Éitgid from Royal Irish Academy MS D v 2 [Text of version Ai omitted from CIH]; App. 3: From TCD MS H 3. 17 (6) [Text of passages omitted (a) before CIH vi 2128.18 and (b) between CIH vi 2128.25-26]; App. 4: From TCD MS H 3. 18 (1) [Text of legal fragments omitted from CIH]; App. 5: From TCD MS H 3. 18 (21) [Text of legal fragment omitted from CIH]; App. 6: From National Library of Ireland MS G138 [Text of a legal miscellany omitted from CIH] ; App. 7: From Royal Irish Academy MS 23 Q 12 [Text of legal fragments omitted from CIH].

Rev. by
Paul Russell, in StC 41 (2007), pp. 249-251.
Neil McLeod, A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, in Peritia 19 (2005), pp. 136-163.
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, in StH 34 (2006-2007), pp. 193-195.
Dagmar S. Wodtko, in ZCP 57 (2009-2010), pp. 181-182.

Edition and discussion of a version found in the papers of Charles O’Conor of Belanagare, consisting of a transcription in Manx orthography and a transliteration of the Manx text to ‘traditional’ Gaelic orthography. From RIA E ii 1; diplomatic texts, MS photographs, textual notes, discussion of its provenance, language and date.

Written for Tomaltach an Einigh Mac Diarmada (†1458). 63 qq. (incomplete), ascr. to Duibhgeann Ó Duibhgeannáin; text from 23 P 9 and E vi 1.

Discusses native terms for ‘relative’ (té, teasaidheacht, ciall teasaidheachta) and ‘non-relative’ (fuar, ciall fhuar) found in the Irish grammatical tracts.

Elegy for Uaithne Mór Ó Lochlainn (†1617) by his widow Fionnghuala Ní Bhriain; beg. A nainm an Spioraid Naoimh h’imrighe, 'Uaithne. Diplom. edn from MS RIA E iv 3. With Engl. transl; notes in Irish.

Critical edition of two elegies: 1. Conall na ngliadh ndiachrach agus Cú na gCleas (anonymous); 2. A shúilín chroidhe, léig díot do shuan go fóill (ascribed to Conchubhar Mac Toirdhealbhaigh Óig Uí Chonchubhair). From RIA E iv 3; diplomatic and restored texts, English translation, textual notes.

[1] Text of Ó Duibhgeannáin document (beg. Labhram ann so mar do rinne Coluim Cille síth […] from MS London, Lambeth Carew 621, wr. in 1618 by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin; with the contemporary Engl. transl.); [2] Text of Mac Domhnaill genealogy (from MS London, Lambeth Carew 635, written, not earlier than 1618, by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh); [3] Verses on the second Earl of Antrim (fragm. of four quatrains in MS TCD H 3. 18, wr. by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh; beg. Ainmnigh ria ccách ceann a ccionn, with Engl. transl.); [4] An Ó Gnímh genealogy (comparison of entries in MSS RIA E iv 4, D i 3 and 23 M 17, and Dubhaltach Mac Fir Bhisigh’s ‘Abstract’ of genealogies in MSS RIA 24 N 2 and Maynooth B 8; with a geneal. table).

Edition of the ‘core narrative’ based on Egerton 106 (with variants from RIA 23 K 37); with English translation and textual notes.
Appendix I: Semi-diplomatic editions (The core narrative from Ó Riain MS 1; Version 2A from Ferriter MS 25; Version 2B from RIA MS 246 (24 C 14); Version 2C from RIA MS 211 (23 G 20); Version 2D from RIA MS 204 (E vi 3)). Appendix II: Manuscript sources [information on 182 individual texts].

Rev. by
Breandán Ó Cróinín, in Éigse 39 (2016), pp. 395-397.
Ken Ó Donnchú, in Peritia 27 (2016), pp. 290-293.
Liam P. Ó Murchú, in ZCP 61 (2014), pp. 208-283.
Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, in Béaloideas 80 (2012), pp. 240-241.
Erich Poppe, in StH 38 (2012), pp. 251-254.
Peter J. Smith, in ECI 28 (2013), pp. 221-223.

Gnáith féile ag fagháil innmhe (37 qq.); edited from versions A (RIA 23 C 18, Maynooth M 2, etc.) and B (RIA 23 G 24, Maynooth M 89, etc.). Text, English translation, variants, notes.

[Continued from SGS 13/1 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 46-55.]

Poem beg. Ní chodlann an dobhrán donn, ed. from BL Additional 40766 (and RIA F v 3). Echoes poem beg. Codail begán begán beg (qq. 11-15): see Duan. Finn 3, 70.

On the textual tradition of the poem Ceathrar do bhí ar uaigh an fhir in Scotland (NLS Adv. 72.1.37) and Ireland (RIA F v 5, 23 L 34; Egerton 127; Maynooth M 84) and and its relationship with Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird’s uirsgéal in Fill th’aghuidh uainn a Éire.

Edition of a poem dedicated to a blacksmith, beg. As é Emonn mhac Cathail ríabhaigh, from RIA MS F v 5. With English translation and textual notes.

App. 1: Do mhúsgail mé d’éis luighe araoir go sáimh; ed. based on MSS TCD 1399 (H 5.28) and 1367 (H 4.26), where it is ascribed to Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh and Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh resp.; with Engl transl. and notes; App. 2. Am leaba araoir do shíleas féin a’ teacht, attributed to Cearbhall Ó Dála na mBan; ed based on MSS TCD 1365 (H 4.24) and RIA A iv 2, with Engl transl. and notes; App. 3. Fada ar gcothrom ó chéile (from DG 78–79), attributed (in MS RIA F vi 2) to Cearbhall Ó Dála; with Engl. transl.

Cia as urra d’ainm an iarthair (32 qq.). Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 M 29, 23 L 37, 23 N 11, 23 N 13, F vi 2, 24 M 30, and Maynooth M1; with English translation and notes.

[Continued from SGS 12/2 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 194–208].

Gnáith féile ag fagháil innmhe (37 qq.); edited from versions A (RIA 23 C 18, Maynooth M 2, etc.) and B (RIA 23 G 24, Maynooth M 89, etc.). Text, English translation, variants, notes.

[Continued from SGS 13/1 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 46-55.]

Establishes that NLI G 664, acquired from the estate of T. F. O’Rahilly and containing O’Gorman’s catalogues of books and manuscripts, was once part of RIA Stowe I v 1.

Refers to four Irish instances of the theme of the charter of Christ: (1) Cairt a síothchána ag síol Ádhaimh by Tadhg Óg Ó hUiginn (†1448) (see L. McKenna, Dán Dé (1922), no. 3 [Best² 1323]); (2) Braon re dubhadh diomdha Dé (see L. McKenna, Aithdioghluim dána (1939), no. 84 [Best² 1692]); (3) Seacht dtroighe mo thír dhúthaigh by Philip Bocht Ó hUiginn (†1487) (see L. McKenna, Philip Bocht Ó hUiginn (1931), no. 21 [Best² 1728]); (4) a prose translation of The long charter of Christ (B-text) by Uilliam Mac an Leagha, dated to ca. 1461-63, contained in MSS King’s Inns 10, BL Additional 11809, and RIA 3 B 22.

Discusses the five known extant manuscripts by Úa Ríghbhardáin, analysing his scribal style and his orthographical features, including a list of the texts copied by this scribe.

Edition of two versions of a Middle Irish homily: (1) bilingual Latin-Irish, from Leabhar Breac (cf. R. Atkinson, Passions and homilies, pp. 207-213 [No. XV] and 446-450), and (2) Irish-only, from RIA 3 B 23; with English translation and textual notes, and a discussion of the Latin sources used. In Appendix: a transcription of the third version, found in Laud Misc. 610.

Compares two versions of an episode from the ‘Monastery of Tallaght’, preserved in RIA C i 2 and 3 B 23. With dipl. and norm. texts, Engl. transls., and discussion of selected linguistic features.

Edited from RIA 3 B 23; with analysis, English translation and linguistic notes.

Discusses the five known extant manuscripts by Úa Ríghbhardáin, analysing his scribal style and his orthographical features, including a list of the texts copied by this scribe.

Poem (49 qq.) addressed to Aodh mac Eoghain meic Ruaidhrí Uí Chonchubhair (†1309), beg. Cóir Chonnacht ar chath Laighean; normalised edition from RIA MSS 23 F 16 and 3 C 13. Includes apparatus, textual notes and parallel English translation.

Critical edition of a section of the third recension of In tenga bithnua describing the journey of the soul through the seven heavens. Provides the text of three versions (based on eighteenth-century MSS), with critical apparatus: 1. NLS Advocates’ Library 72.2.5 (Gaelic LV) with variants from Egerton 174; 2. Text from RIA 23 D 8 with variants from 15 other MSS; 3. Text from RIA 3 C 15. With English translation and notes.

Edits a sample chapter of the Irish translation of Gordon’s De prognosticis by Cormac Mac Duinnshléibhe (dated not later than ca. 1468). Text from RIA 3 C 19, with Engl. translation, Lat. text and glossary.

Poem on the Great Frost of 1740, by Séamas Mac Coitir; beg. Ní cogadh ná cargaill fhada idir airdríthibh. Ed. from RIA MSS 23 O 39, 23 N 32 and 4 A 46, and Maynooth M 7; with analysis of the metre, critical apparatus and notes.

From RIA 12 E 15.

From RIA 12 E 22.

Do chuala geoin ag slóite ar thaoibh cnoic, variously attributed to Liam Ó hIfearnáin and Seán Cundún. Critical edition, from RIA 23 M 21 and 12 E 24; spelling modernized. With English translation and textual notes.

Anonymous poem beg. Mairg rug an aimsirsi, ed. from RIA 23 D 4 and 12 F 8, and Torna lvii (a), with apparatus criticus, notes and commentary.

Anon. song (9 qq.), beg. Lá luainscrios lá gruama lá buartha d’éigsibh, composed on the death of Fr. Tadhg Ó Briain (1671-1747). Crit. ed. from MSS King’s Inns 6; RIA 23 L 6, 23 M 8, 12 F 17; NLI G 122; and St. John’s College 16, 32. With metrical analysis, critical apparatus, textual notes and English translation of qq. 1-7.

Ed. from RIA MSS 12 G 15 (iii) and 23 M 5.

composed by Máire Ní Dhuibh, his grandmother; beg. TTigh ad bheatha a Dhómhnail óig. Three versions, contained in RIA MSS 24 C 26 and 12 G 15 (iii). With Engl. tranls.

A passage from a letter (now RIA MS 12 L 9, item 146) from John O’Donovan to John Windele of Cork, dated 13 February 1845, regarding an Irish class taught by O’Donovan in the Royal Irish Academy.

Bilingual song composed between 1795 and 1802 by Thomas Murphy from Screathan, near the Cork and Kerry border, beg. Alone I condole in great anguish, my heart is in grief and pain. Edited from RIA MS 12 M 14.

[1.] Introduction; [2.] The structure of skin; [3.] The preparation of parchment; [4.] Disease and environment; [5.] Examination of parchment [examines flaws in five RIA MSS: Cathach of St. Columba, Lebor na hUidre, Leabhar Breac, Book of Lecan and Book of Fermoy]; [6.] Age and size of animals; [7.] Herd management; [8.] Cost of production; [9.] Position and size of flaws; [10.] Discussion.

Rev. by
Eric Graff and Mark Stansbury, in Peritia 17-18 (2003), pp. 521-524.
Gilbert Márkus, in IR 55/1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 93-95.

In Aguisín: 1. Homaile Cambrai [incl. MS photographs]; 2. An Cathach.

Gives a biographical account of Tadhg (mac Gearóid) Ó Rodaighe and offers a survey of the MSS in which Ó Rodaighe wrote one or more sections, of the MSS parts of which were copied from MSS written by Tadhg, and of the MSS that are thought to have been for some time in the possession of Tadhg. From these MSS materials (mainly TCD H 6. 15) twenty four poems, either by or directly concerning Tadhg Ó Rodaighe, are edited with translation, manuscript readings, metrical analysis, and textual notes.

[1.] By Tadhg Ó Rodaighe: (i) (Tugas tuile tromghráidh duit; (ii) Binn le neach a mholadh féin); [2.] in praise of Tadhg and his family: (iii) Beannacht uaim ó rún croidhe, by Seaan Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (iv) Niamhadh na huaisle an eagna, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (v) A fhir thaistil chríche Cuinn, by Pádraig Óg Mac an Bhaird; (vi) Truagh an mhaidhmsi ar mhaicne hÍr, by Seaan Ó Duinnín; (vii) Barr orchra ar fhréimh Rosa, authorship unknown; (viii) Barr orchra aicme Rosa, authorship unknown; (ix) Lúireach Chríost fa chosaibh Thaidhg, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (x) A mhic Gearóid an ghlóir ghloin, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xi) Fíorchrádh d’Éirinn turas Taidhg, by Diarmaid mac Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird; (xii) Cá dream is fhearr ná sliocht Ír?, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xiii) In ainm Chríost an ceangalso, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xiv) Cinnim comhairle le Dia, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xv) An chraobh chumhra uaim don tsaoi, by Séafraidh Ó Ruairc; (xvi) Deirbhshiúr don uaisle an eagna, by An tAthair Pádraig (or Cornán Óg) Ó Coirnín mac Cornáin; (xvii) Slán fa éirghe Eilíse, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xviii) Mó ná mionca triail go Tadhg, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xix) Uaibh mo théarnodh, a Thaidhg chroidhe, authorship unknown; (xx) Is gnáth dhá naomhadh Síol Róigh, authorship unknown; [3.] topics in which Ó Rodaighe manifested interest: (xxi) Comhnaigh, a Chríost, um chroidhe (Laoi na mBuadh), attributed to Colm Cille; (xxii) Aithne dhamh gach meirge mór (Suaitheantas Chloinne Iosrael), authorship unknown; [4.] poems concerning Tadhg mac Taidhg Uí Rodaighe: (xxiii) Maith, trá, do thoigheacht, a Thaidhg, by Fearghal Muimhneach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (xxiv) Aoinsciath chosnaimh na gceall, by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin.

Examines a small set of MSS written by an otherwise unknown scribe named Riobart Mhac Dhuibhfhir (fl. 1776–1799): 1. Cur síos ar na lámhscríbhinní [RIA 23 D 24; Eg. 182; Eg. 161; NUIG Hyde 10; TCD 10565; RIA 23 A 2]; 2. Riobart Mhac Dhuibhfhir; 3. Cnuasach lámhscríbhinní Dhubhglais de hÍde.

First line: Bhí giní óir ar bhudóig ann. Text based on RIA 24 C 57, normalized to modern Irish spelling. With English translation, apparatus and variant readings, textual notes, glossary.

In verse, beg. Chonairc an cruitneacht buidh; composed by Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (†1838). Edited from RIA 23 A 34; with manuscript readings.

A collection of all the surviving textual witnesses to the saint’s life. Includes: (chap. 4) ‘The early vernacular life: texts and translation’ [semi-diplomatic texts from MSS Brussels 2324-2340, Book of Fermoy and RIA A iv 1; with English translation of Brussels]; (chap. 6) ‘The Latin life: texts and translation’ [from Marsh Z 3.1.5 and Rawlinson B 485]; (chap. 8) ‘The late vernacular life: edition of the text’ [based on King’s Inns 19 and four other MSS; with variants from St. Colman’s College Fermoy 24 and RIA 23 M 50].

In Appendices: 1. Notes to the texts; 2. John Lynch’s adaptation of Finbarr’s Life [taken from J. F. O’Doherty 1944 (BILL 7595)]; 3. The Paris Mass of St Finnbarr; 4. The lost original Life: an outline reconstruction; 5. The office lives of Fymberrus of Caithness (i.e. Aberdeen) and of Mac Cuilinn of Lusk (i.e. Lusk).

Rev. by
Pádraig A. Breatnach, in CMCS 32 (Winter, 1996), pp. 111-118.
Séamus Mac Mathúna, in ZCP 54 (2004), pp. 232-238.
Cormac Ó hÁdhmaill, in SAM 16/1 (1994), pp. 311-312.
Olivier Szerwiniack, in ÉtC (1996), pp. 288-292.

From MS RIA 23 A 45; modernised text with English translation, textual notes, variants.

From MS RIA 23 A 45; modernised text with English translation, textual notes, variants.

Ag taisteal liom fá smúit im aonar, by Seán (or Seaghán) Cundún. 70 qq.; text based on RIA 23 B 4 (with variants from RIA 23 C 5, etc.).

Edition of a song in semi-phonetic spelling, beg. Céad fáilte Máirt Chásca it aois bhliana. From RIA 23 B 4.

A ghiolla an phíopa, an fíor san nó an cóir sin (68 ll.), with a prose preface. Based on NLI G 123; with additional lines and variants from MSS G 403, and RIA 23 I 18, 23 M 8, 23 C 13, 23 B 5 and 23 C 7.

A Thulaigh Aird ar ghnách na mílte, modernized from MSS UCD Morris 18 (autogr.) and RIA 23 B 19 respectively.

Repr. from SAM 5, (no. 2, 1970), pp. 359-369.

A Mhurchaidh Mhóir nach fann brí, by Séamus Mac Giolla Choille. From UCD Morris 17 (addressed to Art Mór Ó Murchaidh; includes Art’s poetic answer, found in RIA 23 B 19).

Edition of a poem in praise of a tailor. First line: Fógraim, leathaim is scaipim i measc na tíre; text based on RIA 23 C 3, 24 L 1 and 24 L 37.

Ag taisteal liom fá smúit im aonar, by Seán (or Seaghán) Cundún. 70 qq.; text based on RIA 23 B 4 (with variants from RIA 23 C 5, etc.).

A ghiolla an phíopa, an fíor san nó an cóir sin (68 ll.), with a prose preface. Based on NLI G 123; with additional lines and variants from MSS G 403, and RIA 23 I 18, 23 M 8, 23 C 13, 23 B 5 and 23 C 7.

From RIA 23 C 12.

Edition of two poems by an anonymous 18th-c. East Cork poet; perhaps Séamas (Beag?) Mac Coitir. 1. Créad an fhuaim seo ar fuaid na dtíortha; 2. M’atuirse ghéar mo phéin monuar mo bhroid. From MSS RIA 23 C 12 and 24 M 5, UCC 85 and BPL q Eng. 484; critical texts with variants and textual notes.

A ghiolla an phíopa, an fíor san nó an cóir sin (68 ll.), with a prose preface. Based on NLI G 123; with additional lines and variants from MSS G 403, and RIA 23 I 18, 23 M 8, 23 C 13, 23 B 5 and 23 C 7.

First line: Bhí giní óir ar bhudóig ann. Text based on RIA 24 C 57, normalized to modern Irish spelling. With English translation, apparatus and variant readings, textual notes, glossary.

Critical ed. of two poems to Donnchadh Cairbreach Ó Briain, king of Thomond (1210-42) with transl. and notes, incl. historical context and transmission: Mo leaba féin dhamh, a Dhonnchaidh (16 qq.) and Roinneam, a chompáin, chloinn mBriain (28 qq.), ed. mainly from MS RIA 23 C 18.

Gnáith féile ag fagháil innmhe (37 qq.); edited from versions A (RIA 23 C 18, Maynooth M 2, etc.) and B (RIA 23 G 24, Maynooth M 89, etc.). Text, English translation, variants, notes.

[Continued from SGS 13/1 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 46-55.]

Edition of a hymn entitled Sciathlúireach Mhuire, arguably taken down by George Petrie from the singing of O’Curry. Text based on RIA 23 C 20, with variants.

Composed on occasion of the birth (1736) of Donnchadh mac Conchubhair Uí Bhriain; I. by Séamas Mac Coitir, beg. Fáilte óm chroí le báb na mile. Edited from Maynooth MSS B 11, M 10, M 7, Franciscan A 52, and NLI G 430; and II. by Fr Seán Ó Briain, beg. Fáilte is fiche do chuirim le díograis ed. from RIA MSS 24 B 19, 24 L 38, 23 C 21, 23 O 73 and NLI MS G 122; with apparatus criticus and metrical analysis.

Oide i ndréachtaibh an dreasfháil, by Piaras Feiritéar. 12 qq., edited from RIA 23 C 31 and 23 O 73; with English translation, manuscript readings and textual notes.

Gnáith féile ag fagháil innmhe (37 qq.); edited from versions A (RIA 23 C 18, Maynooth M 2, etc.) and B (RIA 23 G 24, Maynooth M 89, etc.). Text, English translation, variants, notes.

[Continued from SGS 13/1 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 46-55.]

Edition of a genealogical tract on a branch of the Cork O’Callaghans, from RIA 23 C 23, p. 99; with English translation and commentary.

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.

from MS RIA 23 D 4.

25 qq., beg. Tairgidh mo sheachna, a shíol mBriain. Critical edition, with introduction, translation and notes, based on RIA MSS 23 D 4, 23 D 5, and 24 L 13.

Based on RIA 23 D 4 where available, otherwise on the Book of the O’Conor Don; with English translation and notes.

Edition based on RIA 23 D 4.

Edition based on RIA 23 D 4.

Edition based on 23 D 4, etc.

Edition based on 23 D 4, etc.

Discusses a short prefatory tract on the principal bardic metres, surviving in two versions: I. RIA 23 D 4, and II. TCD F 5. 3; includes transcripts.

Edition of a c. 1600 petition poem (26 qq.) addressed (possibly) to Tomás Mac Muiris (18^th Lord Kerry and Baron of Lixnaw; †1630). Text normalised from RIA 23 D 4; with English transl., textual apparatus and linguistic notes.

Lament for Conchubhar Mac Conghalaigh, harper to Domhnall Ó Donnabháin (†1639), by Tadhg Olltach Ó an Cháinte. First line: Torchair ceól Cloinne Cathoil; ed. from MS RIA 23 D 4, with Engl transl. and notes.

Among the unpublished love poems or poems about women in MS RIA 23 D 4 is the dán díreach poem edited here, normalised in spelling (3 qq.); first line Slán le sibheanradh Airt Óig.

A baudy poem exploiting the double entendre of words associated with weaving, once contained in the Book of O’Conor Don. Ed. with Engl. transl. and notes from MS RIA 23 D 4 (6 qq.).

Déanam fán moine so soir (5 qq.), and A chompáin cuimhnigh meise (3 qq.); edited from MS RIA 23 D 4, with text of the MS, orthographically normalised; English translation and notes. Suggests that both poems were probably composed by women.

Poem beg. Fúbún fúibh a shluagh Gaoidheal, ed. with Engl transl. and notes from MS RIA 23 D 4; poem relevant to events between 1539–1543; possibly composed 1542–1543.

Anonymous poem beg. Mairg rug an aimsirsi, ed. from RIA 23 D 4 and 12 F 8, and Torna lvii (a), with apparatus criticus, notes and commentary.

from MS RIA 23 D 4.

25 qq., beg. Tairgidh mo sheachna, a shíol mBriain. Critical edition, with introduction, translation and notes, based on RIA MSS 23 D 4, 23 D 5, and 24 L 13.

Critical edition of a section of the third recension of In tenga bithnua describing the journey of the soul through the seven heavens. Provides the text of three versions (based on eighteenth-century MSS), with critical apparatus: 1. NLS Advocates’ Library 72.2.5 (Gaelic LV) with variants from Egerton 174; 2. Text from RIA 23 D 8 with variants from 15 other MSS; 3. Text from RIA 3 C 15. With English translation and notes.

From RIA 23 D 8.

Based on RIA 23 D 12.

Beg. Créd fúarais oram, a Áoidh?, by Maolmuire mac Con Uladh Mic an Bhaird; addressed to Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill 1592×1595. Ed. from MS RIA 23 D 14, with Engl. transl. and notes.

beg. Cionnas tig Éire gan Aodh? Based on MS NLI G 992 (includes variant readings from Brussels 6131-33, Book of O’Conor Don, RIA 23 D 14, Franciscan A 32, and NLI G 167). With English translation and textual notes.

Mairidh teine i dteallach Ghaoidheal, by Eoghan (mac Aodha) Ó Cobhthaigh. 51 qq.; text based on NLI G 992, variant readings from RIA 23 D 14 and NLI G 127; with English translation and notes.

55 qq., based on NLI G 992, normalized (with variants from RIA 23 D 14 and Maynooth C 81). With English translation and textual notes.

From MSS RIA 23 D 16 and Egerton 139; modernised text with English translation, textual notes, variants.

From MS RIA 23 D 16; modernised text with English translation, textual notes, variants.

From MSS RIA 23 N 5, 23 D 16, NLI G 286 and Maynooth C 113; modernised text with English translation, Ó Gormáin’s English version, textual notes, variants.

On the 1817 sale of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh MSS by his descendant Seán Ó Cléirigh.

Elegy on the death of Máire Nic Carthaigh (†1720) by Uilliam Mac Cartáin, beg. Mairg do chuala marbh a tuairisc; ed. from RIA MSS 23 D 19, 24 M 33 and 23 N 14; King’s Inns MS 6; Torna 85; NLI G 374; Maynooth M 4; and Wisconsin 180. Normalised text with metrical analysis, critical apparatus and textual notes.

Examines a small set of MSS written by an otherwise unknown scribe named Riobart Mhac Dhuibhfhir (fl. 1776–1799): 1. Cur síos ar na lámhscríbhinní [RIA 23 D 24; Eg. 182; Eg. 161; NUIG Hyde 10; TCD 10565; RIA 23 A 2]; 2. Riobart Mhac Dhuibhfhir; 3. Cnuasach lámhscríbhinní Dhubhglais de hÍde.

An eighteenth century Irish translation of Ned Ward’s prose satire Female policy detected (1695). Edited from NLI G 654, etc.; Réamhrá, Téacs, Malairtí, Nótaí ar an téacs, Foclóir, Innéacs.

Edition of 14 poems (one in English) composed by Eugene O’Curry, modernized in spelling; some excerpted.

(1) A bhile gan bhéim, 's a réaltain solais na suadh [Maynooth M 97]; (2) A Chlannaibh na nGaoidheal ba gníomhach calma [Maynooth C 73(h)]; (3) A Éigse Chinn Chōradh is a threoin de Shíol Éibhir [RIA 24 M 5]; (4) A Éigse Chláir Thuamhan 's a shaorcheap na suadhaibh [RIA 24 L 1]; (5) A shéimhfhir shuairc shnuaghlain, is a shaoi gan cháim [Maynooth C 73(h)]; (6) A uaisle oirirc na bhfocalbhriocht is milse blas [RIA 23 H 30]; (7) Monuar is mairg don ghasra dhaonna [23 D 34]; (8) Go mbeannaí Críost gan dearmad, a Phádraig chneasta Uí Néill duit [RIA 24 L 1]; (9) Go mbeannaí Dia fá thrí duit a sheanbhean bhocht [Maynooth C 71(c)]; (10) Maidin mhoch im aonar ag taisteal coille craobhaí [Maynooth C 71(c)]; (11) Mo dhaithnid an dochar rér tolladh de shíorghnáth mé [Maynooth C 12]; (12) My friends and my neabors I pray you draw near [Maynooth C 52(b)]; (13) Scaradh le hÉirinn cé déarach lem chroí [Maynooth C 73(h)]; (14) Taistil gan spás, a bhánchnis chailce gan chiaich [Maynooth R 97].

Edition based on RIA 23 D 38.

Presents four manuscript versions of Cúirt an mheon-oíche with the aim of examining variations in the scribal tradition of the poem [MS text with facing normalized text and variants]: 1. RIA 23 D 40 (wr. 1796 by Dómhnal Mac Cormaic); 2. NLI G 230 (wr. 1821 by Tomás Ó hIceadha); 3. Maynooth C 6 (phonetic version, wr. 1817–1818 by John Shannon); 4. RIA 24 A 3 (wr. 1847 by Séamus Ó Súilleabháin). Also included is an early translation by Dennis Woulfe from UCD Add. 11 (wr. ca. 1877) and a list of selected manuscripts in which Cúirt an mheon-oíche is found either in Irish or in translation.

Based on RIA 23 D 42.

Oide i ndréachtaibh an dreasfháil, by Piaras Feiritéar. 12 qq., edited from RIA 23 C 31 and 23 O 73; with English translation, manuscript readings and textual notes.

Poem beg. Céad slán dos na cnoic thá ar ardghleannta an tsuilt!, attributed to ‘Father Conory of Bansha’ (fl. c. 1766). Text edited from RIA 23 E 1 and 23 F 22; 19th c. English translation from RIA 23 G 15.

Appendix 1: Do chlainn tSiomuinn [a tract on the Fitzsimons, edited from RIA 23 E 6; with English translation], by P. Ó Fiannachta. Appendix 2: Nótaí ar logainmneacha [occurring in the aforementioned tract from RIA 23 E 6], by P. Ó Cearbhaill.

From RIA 23 E 9.

From RIA 23 E 9.

[1.] [Amhrán] A1 Beir litir uaim scríofa, etc.: song beg. Beir litir uaim scríobhta síos go baile cuis cuain, ed. from MS RIA 677 (23 F 22); ascr. to Riocard Bairéad; [2.] [Amhrán] A2 Thíos ag Béal Bearnais, etc.: song beg. S[h]íos ag Béal-Barnuis tharlaigh me-si is mo ghrádh, ed. from MS RIA 718 (23 H 34); ascr. to Riocard Bairéad or Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Gunna; [3.] Amhrán B: song beg. 'Sé doi bheatha chum na tíre-se a fhaoileann is deise faoi ghruaim, ed. from MA RIA 769 (23 E 12); [4.] A agus B sa bhéaloideas; [5.] Nua-chumadóireacht: Amhrán C = song by Antoine Ó Reachtuire beg. Smaoinigh gur ceusadh Aon Mhac Muire ar an gcrann; [6.] Tuilleadh cumadóireachta; [7.] Athruithe eile; [8.] The Red-Haired Man’s Wife (beg. Ye muses divine combine and lend me your aid).

I bhFearann Báilligh tá'n táilliúir is mian liomsa trácht air, by Séamus Mac Giolla Choille. From RIA 23 E 12.

35 poems by, or attributable to, Nicholas O’Kearney, edited from autogr. MS RIA 23 E 12 (wr. 1846). Réamhrá [a biographical account, by S. Ó D.; also publ. separ. as Nicholas O’Kearney: the last of the bards of Louth ([n.p.]: Éigse Oirialla, 1989)], Réamhaiste [introduction to the anthology, by D. Ó D.], Filíocht, Nótaí, Foclóirín; with indexes.

Rev. by
Pádraig Ó hÁdhmaill, in SAM 13/2 (1989), p. 334.
P. Ó N., in JCLHAS 22/1 (1989), pp. 93–94.

From RIA 23 E 22.

Edition, with translation and notes, from TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, Harley 432, and Lebor na hUidre. Appendix 1 contains an edition from MS TCD H 3. 17 of a passage concerning Dubthach’s judgement (with translation and notes); Appendix 2 contains an edition from MS Harley 432 of the retelling of a story concerning the killing of Patrick’s charioteer, Odrán (with translation and notes). Cf. J. Carey, in CMCS 19 (Summer, 1990), pp. 1-18.

Also incl. Scél as-a:mberar combad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán, Scél Mongáin and Tucait baile Mongáin.

Discusses the development of the three earliest versions of commentary on the Amra (as preserved in LU, Liber hymnorum, and Rawl. B 502) by means of a detailed study of the sections of commentary on §§ 4 and 52.

1. The scribes; 2. The title of the manuscript; 3. The history of LU from 1359 to 1470; 4. Gaps in the history of LU; 5. The Leth Cuinn orientation of the original contents of LU; 6. Sources of LU texts: (1) Lost manuscripts from Armagh and Monasterboice; (2) Cín (or Lebar) Dromma Snechta; 7. The entry of CDS texts into the Connacht tradition; 8. The probable contents of CDS; 9. LU and the CDS tradition; 10. The authors mentioned in LU; 11. The text of LG [Lebor Gabála] lost from LU; 12. A reference to Muirghius mac Páidín’s manuscript; 13. TBC and Tochmarc Emire (TE); 14. The manuscripts of TE; 15. The recensions of TE; 16. LU and the intact text of TE; 17. The version of TE represented by R [Rawlinson B 512]; 18. The relationship between R and the intact text: (A) Miscellaneous forms; (B) Infixes and suffixes; 19. Conclusions as to the textual history of TE. Continued in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 27-91.

Refutes the view that YBL originates directly from LU, and argues it belongs to a group of MSS deriving from a source independent of LU. A criticism of T. Ó Concheanainn, in Celtica 17 (1985), pp. 73-90, Éigse 16 (1975), pp. 146-162, etc.

Questions Best’s original description of H and argues the fluctuations in script he recorded indicate the work of six distinct hands.

[1.] The relationship between the MSS of V [= the longer recension contained in MSS RIA 23 E 25, RIA D iv 2, Harley 5280, RIA 23 N 10, RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), Egerton 92]; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 29 (1996), pp. 96-100; [2.] The lost portion of R [= the shorter recension contained in MS Rawlinson B 512]; [3.] The relationship of V and R; [4.] The language of R and V; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 102–18; [5.] Old and Middle Irish in V; [6.] Conclusion: V is an expanded version of R.

Offers a tentative text of the conversation between Ailill, Fergus and Medb during the game of fidchell. Restored from MSS RIA 23 E 25, YBL, Egerton 1782 and Maynooth C 1, with Engl. transl. Cf. C. O’Rahilly, Táin bó Cúailnge: recension I (Dublin, 1976), lines 1069-1103.

[1.] Introduction; [2.] The structure of skin; [3.] The preparation of parchment; [4.] Disease and environment; [5.] Examination of parchment [examines flaws in five RIA MSS: Cathach of St. Columba, Lebor na hUidre, Leabhar Breac, Book of Lecan and Book of Fermoy]; [6.] Age and size of animals; [7.] Herd management; [8.] Cost of production; [9.] Position and size of flaws; [10.] Discussion.

Critical edition of the main core of 16 roscada (LU 5422-5520) and the rosc of Fiacc son of Fergus (LU 5323-28), with variant readings, detailed linguistic analysis and English translation. This is preceded by a short study of the genre of prophetic vision in the Táin and a discussion of the edited texts.

Reviser of LU dated on linguistic grounds to first half of 12th century; identifies Máel Muri (mac Ceileachair mac meic Cuind na mbocht) (ob. 1106) as the reviser. Incl discussion of [1.] The development it é > is íat (iat); [2.] Infixed and independent pronouns; [3.] The probationes pennae.

Discusses the question of the interrelationship of the MSS containing recension I of Táin bó Cuailnge, and concludes that the text of Lebor na hUidre is superior to that of the Yellow Book of Lecan. This view is supported principally by the textual analysis of the reference to Cú Chulainn lighting fire for Conchobar occurring in YBL 19r b 35-45 but absent in LU: it is argued that the loss by homoioteleuton detected in LU at lines 4945-46 by R. I. Best and O. Bergin 1929 (Best² 877) can be better explained as an interpolation by the editor of the YBL version of recension I, probably Giolla Íosa Mac Fhir Bhisigh, who used LU.

On the missing folio y.

Edition based on LU, supplemented by YBL; with English translation and notes.

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 16 (1979), pp. 296-300.
Daniel F. Melia, in Speculum 53/3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 607-609.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in StH 17-18 (1977-1978), pp. 215-216.

Argues that the text of Aided Nath Í in BB and YBL derives ultimately from LU, and suggests that LU was begun in Monasterboice.

Provides a survey of references to this story and a literary analysis focusing on its theological themes, in particular that of the sacrament of baptism.

vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 15/4 (1974), pp. 277-288.

Edition of the rosc passage at lines 957-962 of Táin bó Cúailnge (as ed. by C. O’Rahily, 1976), beg. In fitir in dub. Reconstructed from MSS Maynooth C 1, YBL, LL, LU, Stowe Missal; with English translation and textual notes.

MSS discussed incl. RIA 23 E 25 (LU), 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), 23 P 2 (Book of Lecan) (and its nine leaves now contained in TCD MS H 2. 17), D ii 1 (Book of Uí Mhaine) (and its four leaves now contained in Egerton 90); NLI G 1; TCD H 3. 17, E 4.1; Laud Misc. 610; Lost MS E (used by John Lynch).

In Aguisín: Córas briathartha Scéla laí brátha.

First line A mbe[ë] eirr ōengaile. Diplomatic texts from Rawlinson B 512, Egerton 1782, Egerton 88, RIA 23 N 10, and LU (Tochmarc Emere); reconstructed text, with English translation and notes.

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).

Rev. by
Vincent A. Dunn, in Oral Tradition 4/3 (1989), pp. 413-415.
Padraig A. Breatnach, in Éigse 24 (1990), pp. 155-167.
Ruth P. M. Lehmann, in Speculum 62 (1987), pp. 165-167.
Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, in Béaloideas 54-55 (1986-1987), pp. 280-203.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in Fabula 28 (1987), pp. 370-372.
R. Mark Scowcroft, in CMCS 12 (Summer, 1987), pp. 97-100.
Richard Skerrett, in StC 20-21 (1985-1986), pp. 278-280.

Presents an edition of the “Giant in the Mist” episode of Fled Bricrenn based on Egerton 93 (with English translation), together with the parallel text from LU interpolator H, which serves as a basis for an analysis of the narrative structure and possible elements of oral tradition in this text.

Offers an analysis, translation and commentary of poem beg. Hond úair dunánic Fáilbe (3 qq., incomplete), found at the end of Lebor na hUidre.

Discusses the relationship of the two extant versions as they appear in the two earliest sources, RIA 23 E 25 and Egerton 1782, and argues that a form of the Compert, corresponding to the second version, was known to the author of the poem A rí ríchid réidig dam.

1. A note on the Book of Leinster (LL). 2. A pointer to LU-matter in LL. 3. Táin bó Flidais. 4. Cath Cairn Chonaill. 5. Genemain Áeda Sláine. 6. The poem Atchíu fer find firfes cles.

The Interpolator H, fl. mid- to late 12th century, had connections with the Uí Maol Chonaire territory.

Discusses the genealogy of M, the main scribe of LU.

Argues that Yellow Book of Lecan version of Táin bó Cuailnge was redacted directly from interpolated text of Lebor na hUidre in 1392 by Giolla Íosa Mac Fhirbhisigh at Leacán.

Text restored from LU, YBL, Rawl. B 512, Egerton 1782 and 88, RIA 23 N 10, Harley 5280, and TCD H 1. 13. Supersedes J. Pokorny, Conle’s abenteuerliche Fahrt (Best² 1218).

Repr. in Coire sois, pp. 293-329.

Edited from MSS RIA 23 E 25 (Lebor na hUidre), RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), TCD H 3. 18, Laud Misc. 610, and Rawlinson B 512. With translation and notes.

Examines the textual tradition of Aided Nath Í and refutes of the historicity of the Amalgaid mac Nath Í in the LU text.

Part I: Edition of De causis torchi Corc’ Óche, based on Laud Misc. 610; parallel semi-diplomatic and reconstructed texts, with English translation, textual notes and vocabulary. Part II: Edition of Aided Echach maic Maireda, based on Lebor na hUidre; semi-diplomatic text, with English translation and textual notes. Appendix 1: Edition of the genealogy of Echu in the Book of Ballymote and the Book of Lecan. Appendix 2: Diplomatic transcriptions of De causis. Appendix 3: Diplomatic transcriptions of Aided Echach.

Rev. by
Maxim Fomin, in ZCP 63 (2016), pp. 250-255.
Séamus Mac Mathúna, in Éigse 39 (2016), pp. 257-281.
Erich Poppe, in StH 39 (2013), pp. 187-190.

Discusses 42 manuscript witnesses to the Táin in four different recensions, ranging from 12th to the 19th centuries, and addresses the circumstances of their compilation.

1. Two legends of Emain Macha: (1) Cess (or Noínden) Ulad; (2) The founding of Emain Macha by Macha Mongruad ; 2. TE [Tochmarc Emire] and the Dinnshenchas: (1) Conflicting views of Thurneysen and Gwynn; (2) A Dinnshenchas poem on the Boyne; (3) Other parts of the ‘riddling dialogue’; (4) A direct reference to TE in a Dinnshenchas text; 3. Cú Chulainn and the daughter of Ruad (TE §§80-4); 4. Scáthach’s prophecy for Cú Chulainn; 5. Affiliations of other LU texts: (1) Aided Nath Í; (2) Serglige Con Culainn (SCC); (3) Siaburcharpat Con Culainn (Siab. CC); (4) Immram curaig Máile Dúin; (5) Scél Tuáin meic Cairill; (6) Cethri arda in domain (‘The four quarters of the world’); 6. TBC: LU alterations and variants represented in YBL; 7. Togail brudne Da Derga (BDD); cf. Éigse 29, pp. 84-86; 8. Texts of minor tána (‘cattle raids’) lost from LU; 9. The textual tradition of the Irish Sex aetates mundi (SAM); 10. The textual history of Lebor Bretnach; 11. Scribe H’s work in two manuscripts: (1) In LU; (2) In Rawlinson B 502, ff. 1-12; 12. The probable date of scribe H: (2) ritire ‘rider, knight’; (3) Topographical glosses; 13. A reference to the Book of Dub Dá Léithe. Continued from Éigse 29 (1996), pp. 65-120.

Study edition. Ten selected episodes; takes LU as lead ms. complemented by YBL, Eg., etc.

I. Aufgebot und Versammlung des Heeres in Cruachain Aí; II. Aufbruch des Heeeres und Prophezeiung der Seherin; III. Erste Wegstrecke und Rast in Cúil Silinne. Medb inspiziert das Heer; IV. Wie Cú Chulainn das vorrückende Heer aufhielt; V. Cú Chulainns Jugendtaten: (1. Wie Cú Chulainn nach Emain Machae kam; 2. Wie Cú Chulainn Conchobor vom Schlachtfeld brachte; 3. Wie Cú Chulainn seinen Namen erhielt; 4. Wie Cú Chulainn Waffen erhielt und seine erste Ausfahrt machte); VI. Wie Cú Chulainn Fróech tötete; VII. Suche nach dem Stier. Beilager Fergus und Medb; VIII. Wie Cú Chulainn Etarcomol erschlug; IX. Wie Cú Chulainn Nad Crantail erschlug; X. Szenen aus dem Endkampf.

Also publ. as editio minor:
Der Rinderraub: Taín bó Cúailnge in Auszügen. Einleitung, Text und Glossar / herausgegeben von Wolfgang Meid. Editio minor. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, Bereich Sprachwissenschaft, 2018. 128 pp. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft; Neue Folge, Band 16a).

Rev. by
Christina Cleary, in CMCS 81 (Summer, 2021), pp. 117-119 (mai. and min. eds.).
Chantal Kobel, in ZCP 70 (2023), pp. 216-222 (mai. and min. eds.).

Recension I of Táin bó Cúailnge in Egerton 1782 can be traced indirectly to Lebor na hUidre and Yellow Book of Lecan.

Examines the interpolation at 48b11-49a16, and argues that the erased space could not have accommodated section x (48b12-49a5), thought by R. Thurneysen (in Best² 1030) to come from recension A, if written in M’s hand, therefore concluding with M. Dillon (in Best² 1138a) that x is from recension B.

On the marginal quatrain in LU p. 124, fn. a (first line: Mían mná Tethrach a tenid). In Appendix: Marginal poem, RIA MS 23 E 25, fo. 50 [text with English translation].

Reads ro ás gnóe móir in n-ingin (LU 3161) as *roás gnóe móir, ind ingin (with dative of apposition) and translates as ‘she grew with great beauty, the girl’, thus dismissing the claim that ásaid ‘grows’ is impersonal with two accusatives.

Argues that LU stands closer to the original Cín Dromma Snechtai texts than MSS Egerton 88 and Dublin, RIA 23 N 10, as it was the direct source of Gilla Commáin Ó Congaláin’s (†1135) selection whence the Connacht MS tradition comes.

Criticism of E. Duncan’s distinction of six H hands (in Lebor na hUidre (2015), pp. 29-52), arguing that variation in H may be due to material reasons such as writing on abraded vellum, space considerations, or nib width.

On the succession of the Mac Bradaigh chiefs of Cúil Bhrighdín and Teallach Cearbhuill. Based on extracts from TCD N 5. 12 and RIA 23 E 26.

A collection of all the surviving textual witnesses to the saint’s life. Includes: (chap. 4) ‘The early vernacular life: texts and translation’ [semi-diplomatic texts from MSS Brussels 2324-2340, Book of Fermoy and RIA A iv 1; with English translation of Brussels]; (chap. 6) ‘The Latin life: texts and translation’ [from Marsh Z 3.1.5 and Rawlinson B 485]; (chap. 8) ‘The late vernacular life: edition of the text’ [based on King’s Inns 19 and four other MSS; with variants from St. Colman’s College Fermoy 24 and RIA 23 M 50].

In Appendices: 1. Notes to the texts; 2. John Lynch’s adaptation of Finbarr’s Life [taken from J. F. O’Doherty 1944 (BILL 7595)]; 3. The Paris Mass of St Finnbarr; 4. The lost original Life: an outline reconstruction; 5. The office lives of Fymberrus of Caithness (i.e. Aberdeen) and of Mac Cuilinn of Lusk (i.e. Lusk).

Rev. by
Pádraig A. Breatnach, in CMCS 32 (Winter, 1996), pp. 111-118.
Séamus Mac Mathúna, in ZCP 54 (2004), pp. 232-238.
Cormac Ó hÁdhmaill, in SAM 16/1 (1994), pp. 311-312.
Olivier Szerwiniack, in ÉtC (1996), pp. 288-292.

Edited from MSS RIA 23 E 25 (Lebor na hUidre), RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), TCD H 3. 18, Laud Misc. 610, and Rawlinson B 512. With translation and notes.

DIAS statutory public lecture 1997. Appendix 1: Book of O’Conor Don f. 22 (transcription of acephalous satirical verses (poem?) (79 qq.), possibly composed by Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn); Appendix 2: RIA MS 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), pp. 81-82 (transcription of poem beg. Dleaghar cundradh do chomhall, 58 qq.); Appendix 3: Copenhagen 268b (catalogue including a list of materials from RIA C iv 1, one of whose scribes was Aodh Buidhe Mac Cruitín, and which was to be placed at the beginning of Copenhagen Ny kgl. Saml. 268b).

[1.] The relationship between the MSS of V [= the longer recension contained in MSS RIA 23 E 25, RIA D iv 2, Harley 5280, RIA 23 N 10, RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), Egerton 92]; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 29 (1996), pp. 96-100; [2.] The lost portion of R [= the shorter recension contained in MS Rawlinson B 512]; [3.] The relationship of V and R; [4.] The language of R and V; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 102–18; [5.] Old and Middle Irish in V; [6.] Conclusion: V is an expanded version of R.

[1.] Introduction; [2.] The structure of skin; [3.] The preparation of parchment; [4.] Disease and environment; [5.] Examination of parchment [examines flaws in five RIA MSS: Cathach of St. Columba, Lebor na hUidre, Leabhar Breac, Book of Lecan and Book of Fermoy]; [6.] Age and size of animals; [7.] Herd management; [8.] Cost of production; [9.] Position and size of flaws; [10.] Discussion.

Refutes the view that YBL originates directly from LU, and argues it belongs to a group of MSS deriving from a source independent of LU. A criticism of T. Ó Concheanainn, in Celtica 17 (1985), pp. 73-90, Éigse 16 (1975), pp. 146-162, etc.

Based on K. Meyer, ZCP 13 (1921), pp. 166-175 (= MS RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), 67a-71b).

Edited from MS Brussels 5301-20, normalized, with diplomatic text; also diplomatic edition of the texts in MSS YBL and RIA 23 E 29 (F); with notes and vocabulary.

Rev. by
Patrizia de Bernardo, in ZCP 40 (1984), pp. 301-303.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 19 (1979), pp. 203-206.
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, in Éigse 18/2 (1981), pp. 309-312.

Based on BL Additional 19995 where legible, otherwise RIA A iv 3 and 23 F 16; with English translation and notes.

Fulang annró adhbhar sóidh, attributed to Ruaidhrí Ruadh Ó hUiginn. 44 qq.; critical edition based on Rawl. B 514, Brussels 6131-33, RIA 23 F 16 and NLI G 167. Text normalized to Classical Irish standard, with English translation, textual notes and compositional analysis.

Late sixteenth-century poem (38 qq.) to two O’Farrell brothers (Irial and Rudhraighe Ó Fearghail) ; first line Ar sliocht trír atáid Gaoidhil. Ed. from MS RIA 23 F 16, normalised, with Engl. transl. and notes.

Poem (61 qq.) by Tadhg (mac Dáire) Mac Bruaideadha; beg. Eascar Gaoidheal éag aoinfhir. Ed. from MS RIA 23 F 16, normalised, with Engl. transl. and notes.

Poem (49 qq.) addressed to Aodh mac Eoghain meic Ruaidhrí Uí Chonchubhair (†1309), beg. Cóir Chonnacht ar chath Laighean; normalised edition from RIA MSS 23 F 16 and 3 C 13. Includes apparatus, textual notes and parallel English translation.

Ionmhain taise a-tá i nDoire (21 qq.), by Conchobhar Ruadh Mac Con Midhe. Edited from the Book of O’Conor Don and RIA MS 23 F 16; with English translation and notes.

Based on Rawlinson B 514, with variants from RIA 23 F 16; with English translation and notes.

Text from RIA 23 F 16; with English translation and notes.

Text from RIA 23 F 16; with English translation and notes.

G. Irish (MSS RIA 23 F 9 and TCD E 4. 1).

[1.] [Amhrán] A1 Beir litir uaim scríofa, etc.: song beg. Beir litir uaim scríobhta síos go baile cuis cuain, ed. from MS RIA 677 (23 F 22); ascr. to Riocard Bairéad; [2.] [Amhrán] A2 Thíos ag Béal Bearnais, etc.: song beg. S[h]íos ag Béal-Barnuis tharlaigh me-si is mo ghrádh, ed. from MS RIA 718 (23 H 34); ascr. to Riocard Bairéad or Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Gunna; [3.] Amhrán B: song beg. 'Sé doi bheatha chum na tíre-se a fhaoileann is deise faoi ghruaim, ed. from MA RIA 769 (23 E 12); [4.] A agus B sa bhéaloideas; [5.] Nua-chumadóireacht: Amhrán C = song by Antoine Ó Reachtuire beg. Smaoinigh gur ceusadh Aon Mhac Muire ar an gcrann; [6.] Tuilleadh cumadóireachta; [7.] Athruithe eile; [8.] The Red-Haired Man’s Wife (beg. Ye muses divine combine and lend me your aid).

Poem beg. Céad slán dos na cnoic thá ar ardghleannta an tsuilt!, attributed to ‘Father Conory of Bansha’ (fl. c. 1766). Text edited from RIA 23 E 1 and 23 F 22; 19th c. English translation from RIA 23 G 15.

Créd fá seachnaim síol Aodha? (29 qq.), composed by Domhnall Ó Maoilchonaire. Text from RIA 23 G 9. With English translation, textual notes, commentary.

Studies the early modern Irish poems contained in the later versions of Aided Con Culainn. Furthermore, argues that these may preserve the rosc missing in LL at line 13977.

Poem beg. Céad slán dos na cnoic thá ar ardghleannta an tsuilt!, attributed to ‘Father Conory of Bansha’ (fl. c. 1766). Text edited from RIA 23 E 1 and 23 F 22; 19th c. English translation from RIA 23 G 15.

Poem by Uilliam Mac Cartáin; beg. Níor bhoirbe an fhoireann sin in árthaíbh Gréag, ed. from NLI G 114 (autograph) and Egerton 154. Includes a metrical analysis (illustrated with a poem beg. Níorbh fhoirtile Solamh mac Dáth rí i gcéill quoted from P. Walsh (in BILL 432), with variant readings from RIA MS 23 G 20 and Maynooth M 4), critical apparatus, notes and English abstract.

Corr. in Éigse 27 (1993), p. 132.

Edition of the ‘core narrative’ based on Egerton 106 (with variants from RIA 23 K 37); with English translation and textual notes.
Appendix I: Semi-diplomatic editions (The core narrative from Ó Riain MS 1; Version 2A from Ferriter MS 25; Version 2B from RIA MS 246 (24 C 14); Version 2C from RIA MS 211 (23 G 20); Version 2D from RIA MS 204 (E vi 3)). Appendix II: Manuscript sources [information on 182 individual texts].

Rev. by
Breandán Ó Cróinín, in Éigse 39 (2016), pp. 395-397.
Ken Ó Donnchú, in Peritia 27 (2016), pp. 290-293.
Liam P. Ó Murchú, in ZCP 61 (2014), pp. 208-283.
Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, in Béaloideas 80 (2012), pp. 240-241.
Erich Poppe, in StH 38 (2012), pp. 251-254.
Peter J. Smith, in ECI 28 (2013), pp. 221-223.

Gnáith féile ag fagháil innmhe (37 qq.); edited from versions A (RIA 23 C 18, Maynooth M 2, etc.) and B (RIA 23 G 24, Maynooth M 89, etc.). Text, English translation, variants, notes.

[Continued from SGS 13/1 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 46-55.]

1806 letter (by Donnchadh Ó Floinn); from MS RIA 23 G 24, with English translation.

Edition based on RIA 23 G 27, etc.

Incl. edition of Ceasta Fhíthil, a later version (dated 1795) of an Early Modern Irish wisdom text edited by G. Mac Niocaill in ÉtC 12.512ff (beg. Fearus tighi andso; cf. BILL 1671). Based on RIA 23 G 25, with English translation, variant readings, textual notes.

Cia feasda as urra don eól (40 qq.). Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 H 8, 23 L 17, 23 O 78, 23 N 11, and Maynooth M 56c; with English translation.

Sermon on drunkenness, perhaps transl. from Engl by Tomás Ó hÍcí, from MS RIA 23 H 17 with notes in Irish and an index of words occurring in the text.

Edition of 5 Irish sermons in semi-phonetic spelling by Fr. Patrick Wall (1778–1834); normalized from RIA 23 H 17 (manuscript text in appendix).

Edition of 3 Irish sermons in semi-phonetic spelling by Fr. Patrick Wall (1778–1834); normalized from RIA 23 H 17 (manuscript text in appendix).

Edition of 8 Irish sermons in semi-phonetic spelling by Fr. Patrick Wall (1778–1834); normalized from RIA 23 H 17 (manuscript text in appendix).

Aguisín A: RIA MS 23 H 23; Aguisín B: NLI MS G 664 (English language books).

Coin airdfhiadhaigh Clann Choiléin, ascribed to Eoghan Mac Craith. Text from RIA MS 23 H 25 with English translation. Includes a discussion of the historical background to this poem.

Monuar is mairg don ghasra dhaonna, edited from RIA 23 H 30 and Maynooth C 55; with manuscript readings and textual notes (complements P. Ó Fiannachta, in Sages, saints and storytellers, pp. 280–307).

Edition of 14 poems (one in English) composed by Eugene O’Curry, modernized in spelling; some excerpted.

(1) A bhile gan bhéim, 's a réaltain solais na suadh [Maynooth M 97]; (2) A Chlannaibh na nGaoidheal ba gníomhach calma [Maynooth C 73(h)]; (3) A Éigse Chinn Chōradh is a threoin de Shíol Éibhir [RIA 24 M 5]; (4) A Éigse Chláir Thuamhan 's a shaorcheap na suadhaibh [RIA 24 L 1]; (5) A shéimhfhir shuairc shnuaghlain, is a shaoi gan cháim [Maynooth C 73(h)]; (6) A uaisle oirirc na bhfocalbhriocht is milse blas [RIA 23 H 30]; (7) Monuar is mairg don ghasra dhaonna [23 D 34]; (8) Go mbeannaí Críost gan dearmad, a Phádraig chneasta Uí Néill duit [RIA 24 L 1]; (9) Go mbeannaí Dia fá thrí duit a sheanbhean bhocht [Maynooth C 71(c)]; (10) Maidin mhoch im aonar ag taisteal coille craobhaí [Maynooth C 71(c)]; (11) Mo dhaithnid an dochar rér tolladh de shíorghnáth mé [Maynooth C 12]; (12) My friends and my neabors I pray you draw near [Maynooth C 52(b)]; (13) Scaradh le hÉirinn cé déarach lem chroí [Maynooth C 73(h)]; (14) Taistil gan spás, a bhánchnis chailce gan chiaich [Maynooth R 97].

[1.] [Amhrán] A1 Beir litir uaim scríofa, etc.: song beg. Beir litir uaim scríobhta síos go baile cuis cuain, ed. from MS RIA 677 (23 F 22); ascr. to Riocard Bairéad; [2.] [Amhrán] A2 Thíos ag Béal Bearnais, etc.: song beg. S[h]íos ag Béal-Barnuis tharlaigh me-si is mo ghrádh, ed. from MS RIA 718 (23 H 34); ascr. to Riocard Bairéad or Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Gunna; [3.] Amhrán B: song beg. 'Sé doi bheatha chum na tíre-se a fhaoileann is deise faoi ghruaim, ed. from MA RIA 769 (23 E 12); [4.] A agus B sa bhéaloideas; [5.] Nua-chumadóireacht: Amhrán C = song by Antoine Ó Reachtuire beg. Smaoinigh gur ceusadh Aon Mhac Muire ar an gcrann; [6.] Tuilleadh cumadóireachta; [7.] Athruithe eile; [8.] The Red-Haired Man’s Wife (beg. Ye muses divine combine and lend me your aid).

Based on RIA 23 H 39.

From RIA 23 I 9.

A ghiolla an phíopa, an fíor san nó an cóir sin (68 ll.), with a prose preface. Based on NLI G 123; with additional lines and variants from MSS G 403, and RIA 23 I 18, 23 M 8, 23 C 13, 23 B 5 and 23 C 7.

Two poetic asseverations, Dar mála mo phípe is dar an lán atá inti by Tomás Aerach and Lé sealad mé gan codladh séimh acht arraing ghéar 'om luascadh by Patrick Reddan. Ed. with metrical analysis, linguistic notes and glossaries, from MSS RIA 23 I 26 and RIA 23 I 35 resp. Cf. L. P. Ó Murchú, in Éigse 17/2 (1978), pp. 237-264, ÉtC 29 (1992), pp. 327-332.

17qq., critically edited using 10 MSS, including RIA A iv 2, 23 I 26, NLI G 430, Maynooth B 11, Torna 46, etc. With full variants and textual notes.

Two poetic asseverations, Dar mála mo phípe is dar an lán atá inti by Tomás Aerach and Lé sealad mé gan codladh séimh acht arraing ghéar 'om luascadh by Patrick Reddan. Ed. with metrical analysis, linguistic notes and glossaries, from MSS RIA 23 I 26 and RIA 23 I 35 resp. Cf. L. P. Ó Murchú, in Éigse 17/2 (1978), pp. 237-264, ÉtC 29 (1992), pp. 327-332.

Defective; from RIA 23 I 36.

From RIA 23 I 36.

Defective; from RIA 23 I 36.

1. A ghéaga cumainn na nGael gcumais, by Tomás Ó Míocháin, based on RIA 23 L 35; 2. D’fhág na flaithibh is na fáidhibh feasach, by Séamas Ó Dálaigh, from Maynooth C 15; 3. A ghéagaibh gníomha Choinn is Eoghain, by Tomás Ó Míocháin, from RIA 23 K 10, etc.

From RIA 23 K 10.

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.

vs. P. Ó Riain, in ZCP 51 (1998), pp. 130-147. Criticises the methodology used by P. Ó Riain in establishing textual relationships and concludes that Lebar Glinne Dá Locha and Rawlinson B 502 are two separate manuscripts. Cf. also P. Ó Riain, in Éigse 18 (1981), pp. 161-176 and C. Breatnach, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 109-132.

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].

48 qq., attributed to Gilla Cóemáin. Critical edition from MSS Brussels 2569–72, Cambridge Add. 3084, NLI G 131, RIA 23 K 32, B i 1a, B iv 2, C iv 3, D ii 1, TCD H 5. 28, Maynooth C 88; normalized to Early Modern Irish spelling. With English translation, textual notes and commentary, indexes.

On the 1817 sale of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh MSS by his descendant Seán Ó Cléirigh.

2. durchgesehene und verbesserte Auflage.

Teil 1.: Oberherrscher und Oberherrschaft in Irland.
Teil 2.: Texte und Übersetzungen, Register.

Texts edited and translated to German in Tbd. 2:

Chap. 10. Réim rígraide in Rawl. B 512, Rawl. B 502 and Book of Uí Maine : 1. The Míniugud-recension of Lebor gabála Érenn in Rawl. B 512, with an appendded king-list headed ríg Érenn iar creitim; 2. MIr. translation of the Lat. introduction to the Míniugud-recension in Rawl. B 512; 3. Compert Conchobuir followed by the scribal note mentioning ‘Leabar Gabala Glind da Locha’; 4. Réim rígraide in Rawl. B 502 [an account of pre-Christian kings of Ireland; acephalous]; 5. The réim rígraide materials in the Book of Uí Maine: (1.) The poem Cét-rí ro·gab Érind uill (14 qq.), immediately followed by (2.) the Christian réim rígraide ending with the poem Éri óg inis na náem (84 qq., by Gilla-Mo-Dutu Ua Casaide), and (3.) genealogies of Irish high-kings.

Chap. 11. Irish high-kings in the genealogical corpus: 1-3. The introduction to Senchas Síl Érimóin and the list of kings of Ireland, in three different versions: Rawl. B 502, Laud misc. 610, and Bk of Ballymote/Bk of Lecan; 4. List of Pictish kings from Bk of Uí Maine; 5. Two poems from Senchas Síl Érimóin in Rawl. B 502: Cia lín don rígraid ráin ruaid and Sé ríg déc Éogain anall; 6. List of kings of Ireland of the Lagin in NLI G 2; 7. Versions of poem Cét-rí ro·gab Érind uill in Rawl. B 502 and Ballymote; 8. Pedigrees of Irish high-kings in Uí Maine and G 2 (incl. four metrical sections: 1. Sláine Rudraige Gand glan, 2. Bres Nuadu ⁊ Lug na land, 3. Fir Bolg ba brígmar a medg, and 4. Mac Fiachna Finscothaig fuilig; Uí Maine and G 2 versions in parallel text).

Chap. 12. The metrical réim rígraide of Flann Mainistrech: edition of (1.) Érimón is Éber ard, early version, from Lecan (two texts, printed in parallel), (2.) late version of same, from RIA 23 K 32, (3.) Ríg Temra dia·tesband tnú, from Lecan and LL (in parallel text) and (4.) Ríg Temra tóebaige iar tain, from Lecan and LL (in parallel text).

Rev. by
T. M. Charles-Edwards, in ZCP 64 (2017), pp. 473-476.

Studies the early modern Irish poems contained in the later versions of Aided Con Culainn. Furthermore, argues that these may preserve the rosc missing in LL at line 13977.

Edition of the ‘core narrative’ based on Egerton 106 (with variants from RIA 23 K 37); with English translation and textual notes.
Appendix I: Semi-diplomatic editions (The core narrative from Ó Riain MS 1; Version 2A from Ferriter MS 25; Version 2B from RIA MS 246 (24 C 14); Version 2C from RIA MS 211 (23 G 20); Version 2D from RIA MS 204 (E vi 3)). Appendix II: Manuscript sources [information on 182 individual texts].

Rev. by
Breandán Ó Cróinín, in Éigse 39 (2016), pp. 395-397.
Ken Ó Donnchú, in Peritia 27 (2016), pp. 290-293.
Liam P. Ó Murchú, in ZCP 61 (2014), pp. 208-283.
Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, in Béaloideas 80 (2012), pp. 240-241.
Erich Poppe, in StH 38 (2012), pp. 251-254.
Peter J. Smith, in ECI 28 (2013), pp. 221-223.

A series of scribal testimonials from the compilers of Leabhar gabhála Éireann; from RIA 23 K 45.

From RIA 23 L 2.

Discusses 54 of O’Connor’s heraldic descriptions in Irish. In appendix: Glossary of O’Connor’s heraldic terms.

First line: Bhí giní óir ar bhudóig ann. Text based on RIA 24 C 57, normalized to modern Irish spelling. With English translation, apparatus and variant readings, textual notes, glossary.

An edition of poetry atributed to two members (possibly brothers) of the Harney family of Stradbally, Co. Waterford. Tomás Ó hAthairne: 1. Fóchtaim ort a gho[i]rmleic as réidhigh mo cheasd; 2. Irish translation of two lines of Virgil’s Georgics. Mícheál Ó hAthairne: 1. San mBuidhe-Chnocso thíos atá an maighistir léighin[n]; 2. A fholacha Fhódla na siolla mbinn suairc; 3. An brón leat a sháirfhear mar táimse le mí?; 4. Is fada mé sínte gan mhórdháil; Irish translations of Thomas Gray and Oliver Goldsmith. MSS used include RIA 23 L 5, RIA 23 Q 8 (autogr. ms), Manchester Irish 134, and Cambridge Add. 6558.

Anon. song (9 qq.), beg. Lá luainscrios lá gruama lá buartha d’éigsibh, composed on the death of Fr. Tadhg Ó Briain (1671-1747). Crit. ed. from MSS King’s Inns 6; RIA 23 L 6, 23 M 8, 12 F 17; NLI G 122; and St. John’s College 16, 32. With metrical analysis, critical apparatus, textual notes and English translation of qq. 1-7.

From RIA MS 23 L 10; with English translation and commentary.

10 qq., from Maynooth C 41 (collated with RIA 23 L 11). First line: Tugsad naoimh Mumhan go maith. With English translation and notes. [Transcription and translation by Pádraig Ó Riain.]

Critical edition of a late 14th c. poem (42 qq.), from MSS Siena, Biblioteca Comunale G.IX.50, London (private) Sir Con O’Neill, RIA 24 P 21, 23 M 33, 23 L 17, NLI G 430; normalized, with English translation and notes.

Poem beg. Mór theasda dh’obair Óivid by Eochaidh Ó hEodhasa to James I. Ed. from MS RIA 23 L 17, with Engl. tranls. and notes in Irish; incomplete copy of poem transcribed from MS RIA B i 1a.

Poem (33qq. interspersed with 17 prose sections) addressed to Uilliam mac Seaáin mheic Oilbh Éaruis Búrc (†1591), beg. Mairg im dheaghaidh cheanglas comann, by Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird. Edition based on MS Maynooth B 8; with textual notes and English translation. Includes a lament for the same addressee, beg. Beannocht ar anmuin Uilliam, transcribed from RIA MS 23 L 17 (diplomatic text only, no translation).

Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann (43 qq.), attributed to Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire. Text from RIA 23 L 17; with English translation and notes. Appendix I: Diplomatic edition of the two copies of the Middle Irish story of Niall Frosach’s judgement, from the Book of Leinster and the Liber flavus Fergusiorum. Appendix II: A shorter version of the same story from the Leabhar Eoghanach (Book of the O’Neills).

Cia feasda as urra don eól (40 qq.). Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 H 8, 23 L 17, 23 O 78, 23 N 11, and Maynooth M 56c; with English translation.

Edition of a brief speculum principis by Mac Bruaideadha addressed to Donnchadh Ó Briain (1581–1624), fourth earl of Thomond. Critical text based on Maynooth M 107, with variants from Egerton 187, Black Book of Clanranald, and RIA 23 L 17 (incl. discussion of 38 other later testimonies); with diplom. text of, English translation and notes (incl. text of damaged copy in TCD H 5. 9 which is not part of this critical edition, and the text of an additional quatrain only present in L).

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

From RIA 23 L 24.

In Irish and English; from RIA 23 L 24.

From RIA 23 L 24.

From RIA 23 L 24.

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.

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

On the textual tradition of the poem Ceathrar do bhí ar uaigh an fhir in Scotland (NLS Adv. 72.1.37) and Ireland (RIA F v 5, 23 L 34; Egerton 127; Maynooth M 84) and and its relationship with Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird’s uirsgéal in Fill th’aghuidh uainn a Éire.

Gives a biographical account of Tadhg (mac Gearóid) Ó Rodaighe and offers a survey of the MSS in which Ó Rodaighe wrote one or more sections, of the MSS parts of which were copied from MSS written by Tadhg, and of the MSS that are thought to have been for some time in the possession of Tadhg. From these MSS materials (mainly TCD H 6. 15) twenty four poems, either by or directly concerning Tadhg Ó Rodaighe, are edited with translation, manuscript readings, metrical analysis, and textual notes.

[1.] By Tadhg Ó Rodaighe: (i) (Tugas tuile tromghráidh duit; (ii) Binn le neach a mholadh féin); [2.] in praise of Tadhg and his family: (iii) Beannacht uaim ó rún croidhe, by Seaan Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (iv) Niamhadh na huaisle an eagna, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (v) A fhir thaistil chríche Cuinn, by Pádraig Óg Mac an Bhaird; (vi) Truagh an mhaidhmsi ar mhaicne hÍr, by Seaan Ó Duinnín; (vii) Barr orchra ar fhréimh Rosa, authorship unknown; (viii) Barr orchra aicme Rosa, authorship unknown; (ix) Lúireach Chríost fa chosaibh Thaidhg, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (x) A mhic Gearóid an ghlóir ghloin, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xi) Fíorchrádh d’Éirinn turas Taidhg, by Diarmaid mac Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird; (xii) Cá dream is fhearr ná sliocht Ír?, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xiii) In ainm Chríost an ceangalso, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xiv) Cinnim comhairle le Dia, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xv) An chraobh chumhra uaim don tsaoi, by Séafraidh Ó Ruairc; (xvi) Deirbhshiúr don uaisle an eagna, by An tAthair Pádraig (or Cornán Óg) Ó Coirnín mac Cornáin; (xvii) Slán fa éirghe Eilíse, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xviii) Mó ná mionca triail go Tadhg, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xix) Uaibh mo théarnodh, a Thaidhg chroidhe, authorship unknown; (xx) Is gnáth dhá naomhadh Síol Róigh, authorship unknown; [3.] topics in which Ó Rodaighe manifested interest: (xxi) Comhnaigh, a Chríost, um chroidhe (Laoi na mBuadh), attributed to Colm Cille; (xxii) Aithne dhamh gach meirge mór (Suaitheantas Chloinne Iosrael), authorship unknown; [4.] poems concerning Tadhg mac Taidhg Uí Rodaighe: (xxiii) Maith, trá, do thoigheacht, a Thaidhg, by Fearghal Muimhneach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (xxiv) Aoinsciath chosnaimh na gceall, by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin.

1. A ghéaga cumainn na nGael gcumais, by Tomás Ó Míocháin, based on RIA 23 L 35; 2. D’fhág na flaithibh is na fáidhibh feasach, by Séamas Ó Dálaigh, from Maynooth C 15; 3. A ghéagaibh gníomha Choinn is Eoghain, by Tomás Ó Míocháin, from RIA 23 K 10, etc.

From 23 L 35.

Based on RIA 23 L 35.

Cia as urra d’ainm an iarthair (32 qq.). Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 M 29, 23 L 37, 23 N 11, 23 N 13, F vi 2, 24 M 30, and Maynooth M1; with English translation and notes.

[Continued from SGS 12/2 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 194–208].

From RIA 23 M 4; modernised text with English translation, textual notes, variants.

Ed. from RIA MSS 12 G 15 (iii) and 23 M 5.

1. A ghéaga cumainn na nGael gcumais, by Tomás Ó Míocháin, based on RIA 23 L 35; 2. D’fhág na flaithibh is na fáidhibh feasach, by Séamas Ó Dálaigh, from Maynooth C 15; 3. A ghéagaibh gníomha Choinn is Eoghain, by Tomás Ó Míocháin, from RIA 23 K 10, etc.

Anon. song (9 qq.), beg. Lá luainscrios lá gruama lá buartha d’éigsibh, composed on the death of Fr. Tadhg Ó Briain (1671-1747). Crit. ed. from MSS King’s Inns 6; RIA 23 L 6, 23 M 8, 12 F 17; NLI G 122; and St. John’s College 16, 32. With metrical analysis, critical apparatus, textual notes and English translation of qq. 1-7.

A ghiolla an phíopa, an fíor san nó an cóir sin (68 ll.), with a prose preface. Based on NLI G 123; with additional lines and variants from MSS G 403, and RIA 23 I 18, 23 M 8, 23 C 13, 23 B 5 and 23 C 7.

From 23 M 11.

From RIA 23 M 14.

From RIA 23 M 14.

Edition of two poems by Toirdhealbhach Mac Mathghamhna addressed to Mícheál Coimín, and of Coimín’s reply to the first poem. 1. A Mhíchíl, ó chím sínte i gcré gach fear; 2.‘Nar sost go fóill is fearr sinn; 3. Ar dteacht aniar ba trua géar. From RIA 23 M 16. Cf. T. F. O’Rahilly, Danfhocail no. 256.

[1] Text of Ó Duibhgeannáin document (beg. Labhram ann so mar do rinne Coluim Cille síth […] from MS London, Lambeth Carew 621, wr. in 1618 by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin; with the contemporary Engl. transl.); [2] Text of Mac Domhnaill genealogy (from MS London, Lambeth Carew 635, written, not earlier than 1618, by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh); [3] Verses on the second Earl of Antrim (fragm. of four quatrains in MS TCD H 3. 18, wr. by Fear Flatha Ó Gnímh; beg. Ainmnigh ria ccách ceann a ccionn, with Engl. transl.); [4] An Ó Gnímh genealogy (comparison of entries in MSS RIA E iv 4, D i 3 and 23 M 17, and Dubhaltach Mac Fir Bhisigh’s ‘Abstract’ of genealogies in MSS RIA 24 N 2 and Maynooth B 8; with a geneal. table).

Suggests that the following ten MSS may once have belonged to Fr Paul O’Brien’s MS collection: Egerton 147; RIA 23 M 17; RIA 24 P 27; King’s Inns Library 9, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

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.

Do chuala geoin ag slóite ar thaoibh cnoic, variously attributed to Liam Ó hIfearnáin and Seán Cundún. Critical edition, from RIA 23 M 21 and 12 E 24; spelling modernized. With English translation and textual notes.

Written for Aodh Mac Diarmada (†1397). 49 qq., ascr. to Aingleach Ó Domhnalláin; text based on RIA 23 M 23.

Gives a biographical account of Tadhg (mac Gearóid) Ó Rodaighe and offers a survey of the MSS in which Ó Rodaighe wrote one or more sections, of the MSS parts of which were copied from MSS written by Tadhg, and of the MSS that are thought to have been for some time in the possession of Tadhg. From these MSS materials (mainly TCD H 6. 15) twenty four poems, either by or directly concerning Tadhg Ó Rodaighe, are edited with translation, manuscript readings, metrical analysis, and textual notes.

[1.] By Tadhg Ó Rodaighe: (i) (Tugas tuile tromghráidh duit; (ii) Binn le neach a mholadh féin); [2.] in praise of Tadhg and his family: (iii) Beannacht uaim ó rún croidhe, by Seaan Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (iv) Niamhadh na huaisle an eagna, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (v) A fhir thaistil chríche Cuinn, by Pádraig Óg Mac an Bhaird; (vi) Truagh an mhaidhmsi ar mhaicne hÍr, by Seaan Ó Duinnín; (vii) Barr orchra ar fhréimh Rosa, authorship unknown; (viii) Barr orchra aicme Rosa, authorship unknown; (ix) Lúireach Chríost fa chosaibh Thaidhg, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (x) A mhic Gearóid an ghlóir ghloin, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xi) Fíorchrádh d’Éirinn turas Taidhg, by Diarmaid mac Laoisioch Mac an Bhaird; (xii) Cá dream is fhearr ná sliocht Ír?, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xiii) In ainm Chríost an ceangalso, by Peadar Ó Maoil Chonaire; (xiv) Cinnim comhairle le Dia, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xv) An chraobh chumhra uaim don tsaoi, by Séafraidh Ó Ruairc; (xvi) Deirbhshiúr don uaisle an eagna, by An tAthair Pádraig (or Cornán Óg) Ó Coirnín mac Cornáin; (xvii) Slán fa éirghe Eilíse, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xviii) Mó ná mionca triail go Tadhg, by Éamonn Ó Caiside; (xix) Uaibh mo théarnodh, a Thaidhg chroidhe, authorship unknown; (xx) Is gnáth dhá naomhadh Síol Róigh, authorship unknown; [3.] topics in which Ó Rodaighe manifested interest: (xxi) Comhnaigh, a Chríost, um chroidhe (Laoi na mBuadh), attributed to Colm Cille; (xxii) Aithne dhamh gach meirge mór (Suaitheantas Chloinne Iosrael), authorship unknown; [4.] poems concerning Tadhg mac Taidhg Uí Rodaighe: (xxiii) Maith, trá, do thoigheacht, a Thaidhg, by Fearghal Muimhneach Ó Duibhgeannáin; (xxiv) Aoinsciath chosnaimh na gceall, by Cú Choigcríche Ó Duibhgeannáin.

Presents an edition of Version 1 based on the earliest manuscript witness, Franciscan A 25 (wr. ca. 1628 representing the Ulster tradition of the transmission); Introduction, Text, Variant readings, Textual notes, Vocabulary, Indexes. In Aguisín I: an edition of poem beg. Uchán do lámh, a Dhuibh dhil (24 qq.), found in the copies of the Munster tradition of Version 1 but not present in those of the Ulster tradition; text based on RIA 23 M 25. In Aguisín II: An edition of a 18th. c. reworking of this narrative (= Version 2), entitled Eachtra Abhlaicce inghine rígh Alban agus Chearbhuill mac Donnchadh Mór Uí Dhála; text from TCD H 3. 23.

Rev. by
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 24 (1988), pp. 199-201.
Pádraig Ó Macháin, in Éigse 23 (1989), pp. 214-217.
Seán Ua Súilleabháin, in Celtica 20 (1988), pp. 204-207.

Text of the episode of the seduction of Guiles’s daughter, edited from RIA MS 23 M 27, with English translation (source of the anecdote supplied by D. Ó Cróinín, in Éigse 31 (1991), p. 36).

Edition of an anonymous poem on the beheading of Sir John fitz James Fitzgerald, beg. Truagh sin, a chinn mo chroidhe. Text based on RIA 23 M 27, with variants, Engl. transl. and textual notes.

Cia as urra d’ainm an iarthair (32 qq.). Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 M 29, 23 L 37, 23 N 11, 23 N 13, F vi 2, 24 M 30, and Maynooth M1; with English translation and notes.

[Continued from SGS 12/2 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 194–208].

Irish prognostications from thunder (§§[1.]–[6.]) and from the howling of dogs (§[7.]). [1.] Poem beg. Torann Domhnaigh créd fatá, ed. from Laud Misc. 615 and TCD H 4. 22; [2.] Text beg. Torann Domhnaig do-fóirne díghbhail for chleirchibh, ed. from NLI G 1; [3.] Text beg. Tóirneach an Luain, bás ban, ed. from RIA 23 M 30; [4.] Text beg. Torann Enair sidh sainemail, ed. from TCD H 4. 22; [5.] Text beg. Gaoth mor ocus toirneach isin mí so, ed. from Edinburgh Laing 21; [6.] text beg. Da ti toirneach a mi Ianuarius, ed. from RIA 23 O 57 (and RIA C iv 2); [7.] Poem beg. Donál chon cenduigh co cert, ed. from Laud Misc. 615 (and NLS Advocates’ 72.1.41 and Egerton 158). All texts with English translation and notes.

Critical edition of a late 14th c. poem (42 qq.), from MSS Siena, Biblioteca Comunale G.IX.50, London (private) Sir Con O’Neill, RIA 24 P 21, 23 M 33, 23 L 17, NLI G 430; normalized, with English translation and notes.

A collection of all the surviving textual witnesses to the saint’s life. Includes: (chap. 4) ‘The early vernacular life: texts and translation’ [semi-diplomatic texts from MSS Brussels 2324-2340, Book of Fermoy and RIA A iv 1; with English translation of Brussels]; (chap. 6) ‘The Latin life: texts and translation’ [from Marsh Z 3.1.5 and Rawlinson B 485]; (chap. 8) ‘The late vernacular life: edition of the text’ [based on King’s Inns 19 and four other MSS; with variants from St. Colman’s College Fermoy 24 and RIA 23 M 50].

In Appendices: 1. Notes to the texts; 2. John Lynch’s adaptation of Finbarr’s Life [taken from J. F. O’Doherty 1944 (BILL 7595)]; 3. The Paris Mass of St Finnbarr; 4. The lost original Life: an outline reconstruction; 5. The office lives of Fymberrus of Caithness (i.e. Aberdeen) and of Mac Cuilinn of Lusk (i.e. Lusk).

Rev. by
Pádraig A. Breatnach, in CMCS 32 (Winter, 1996), pp. 111-118.
Séamus Mac Mathúna, in ZCP 54 (2004), pp. 232-238.
Cormac Ó hÁdhmaill, in SAM 16/1 (1994), pp. 311-312.
Olivier Szerwiniack, in ÉtC (1996), pp. 288-292.

Defective; from RIA 23 M 51.

Defective; from RIA 23 M 51.

On the discovery of MS RIA 23 M 70, previously owned by Kuno Meyer, containing the 1631 recension of Leabhar gabhála by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, probably an autograph.

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].

From MSS RIA 23 N 5, 23 D 16, NLI G 286 and Maynooth C 113; modernised text with English translation, Ó Gormáin’s English version, textual notes, variants.

A reworking of nº 10. From 23 N 5; modernised text, textual notes, variants.

Also incl. Scél as-a:mberar combad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán, Scél Mongáin and Tucait baile Mongáin.

Edition of recension B of Audacht Morainn, based on MS RIA 23 N 10; with French translation and notes.

Add. & corr. in ÉtC 24 (1987), p. 325.

An Old Irish speculum principum. Critical edition, restored, of recension B from MSS RIA 23 N 10, Edinburgh Advocates’ Library 72.1.42, Egerton 88, and RIA 23 N 27; with English translation, notes and vocabulary; linguistic analysis. Appendix 1: conflation, with variant readings, of seven later versions; Appendix 2: passages used in a rosc in Senchas fagbála Caisil (cf BILL 5108).

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 15 (1976-1978), pp. 358-360.
P. L. Henry, in StH 17-18 (1977-1978), pp. 203-210.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 16/4 (Geimhreadh, 1976), pp. 345-348.
N. J. A. Williams, in StC 12-13 (1977-1978), pp. 467-470.

Provides a diplomatic edition based on RIA 23 N 10, with variant readings from YBL ‘proper’, Egerton 88, Egerton 1782, Rawlinson B 512, YBL second part, and LU; with English translation.

On the martyrology in MS RIA 23 N 10, p. 143ff.

Eclectic critical edition based on an examination of 33 MSS witnesses, which are divided in three main recensions represented by their oldest MSS: RIA 23 N 10, YBL and LL. Text normalized to Class. OIr. spelling, with order of sections and sequence of maxims following that of RIA 23 N 10; with variants from the oldest nine MSS, facing Engl. transl., textual and linguistic notes. Additional texts given in Appendices: 1. §8 Cía fégam ránac; 2. §9 Secht comarthai déc; 3. Y₁: diplomatic edition; 4. L₁: diplomatic edition; 5. N₁: diplomatic edition and collation with Y₁ and L₁.

Rev. by
John Hudson, in Medium aevum 70/1 (2001), pp. 177-178 [short notice].
Nicolas Jacobs, in CMCS 40 (Winter, 2000), pp. 88-90.
Caoimhín Ó Muirigh, in Peritia 15 (2001), pp. 432-434.
Pádraig P. Ó Néill, in Éigse 35 (2005), pp. 173-174.
David Stifter, in Die Sprache 40/1 (1998), pp. 123-128.

Edition of an Old Irish legal text (c. 700). Provides diplomatic texts from Rawlinson B 512, BL Harley 5280 and TCD H 3. 17, and a critical edition based on Rawlinson; with English translation and textual notes.

Studies the use of pseudo-archaic spelling in texts found in a handful of sixteenth-century Irish manuscripts (particularly TCD H 3. 18, Harley 5280 and RIA 23 N 10).

Examines the mutual relationship of all the extant manuscript witnesses (Book of Leinster; RIA 23 N 10, 23 O 48, C i 2 and D iv 2; NLS 72.1.5 and 72.1.40; Laud Misc. 610).

First line A mbe[ë] eirr ōengaile. Diplomatic texts from Rawlinson B 512, Egerton 1782, Egerton 88, RIA 23 N 10, and LU (Tochmarc Emere); reconstructed text, with English translation and notes.

From 23 N 10 and Egerton 88; diplomatic and normalised texts, English translation, textual notes (MS facsimiles in pp. 330-332).

Poem beg. Ba haprainn nan dáil cu Artrig n-arnac, ed. with transl. and notes from MSS RIA 23 N 10 and LL. Incl. discussion of metre, style and ling. dating.

Ed. from MSS RIA 23 N 10 and RIA 23 O 48 (Liber flavus Fergusiorum), with transl. and notes.

[1.] The relationship between the MSS of V [= the longer recension contained in MSS RIA 23 E 25, RIA D iv 2, Harley 5280, RIA 23 N 10, RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), Egerton 92]; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 29 (1996), pp. 96-100; [2.] The lost portion of R [= the shorter recension contained in MS Rawlinson B 512]; [3.] The relationship of V and R; [4.] The language of R and V; vs. T. Ó Concheanainn, in Éigse 30 (1997), pp. 102–18; [5.] Old and Middle Irish in V; [6.] Conclusion: V is an expanded version of R.

Text restored from LU, YBL, Rawl. B 512, Egerton 1782 and 88, RIA 23 N 10, Harley 5280, and TCD H 1. 13. Supersedes J. Pokorny, Conle’s abenteuerliche Fahrt (Best² 1218).

On the textual history of the Middle Irish catalogues of tales; argues that through the analysis of the alliterative structure of recension A the nature and contents of the lost archetype (P. Mac Cana’s O) can be retrieved.

App. contains text of list A from P. Mac Cana, The learned tales of medieval Ireland, pp. 41–49.

Argues that LU stands closer to the original Cín Dromma Snechtai texts than MSS Egerton 88 and Dublin, RIA 23 N 10, as it was the direct source of Gilla Commáin Ó Congaláin’s (†1135) selection whence the Connacht MS tradition comes.

Cia feasda as urra don eól (40 qq.). Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 H 8, 23 L 17, 23 O 78, 23 N 11, and Maynooth M 56c; with English translation.

Cia as urra d’ainm an iarthair (32 qq.). Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 M 29, 23 L 37, 23 N 11, 23 N 13, F vi 2, 24 M 30, and Maynooth M1; with English translation and notes.

[Continued from SGS 12/2 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 194–208].

Elegy (13 qq.) on Tadhg (mac Conchubhair) Ó Briain (†1731). Critical edition based on thirteen MSS; earliest copies: RIA A iv 2, 23 N 12, and 23 N 21 (all mid 18th cent.). With introduction, discussion of metre, Engl. translation, variants, and textual notes.

Cia as urra d’ainm an iarthair (32 qq.). Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 M 29, 23 L 37, 23 N 11, 23 N 13, F vi 2, 24 M 30, and Maynooth M1; with English translation and notes.

[Continued from SGS 12/2 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 194–208].

Elegy on the death of Máire Nic Carthaigh (†1720) by Uilliam Mac Cartáin, beg. Mairg do chuala marbh a tuairisc; ed. from RIA MSS 23 D 19, 24 M 33 and 23 N 14; King’s Inns MS 6; Torna 85; NLI G 374; Maynooth M 4; and Wisconsin 180. Normalised text with metrical analysis, critical apparatus and textual notes.

Edition of poem beg. Teallach coisreagtha críoch Bharrach (42½ qq., interspersed with four prose passages); doubtful attrib. to Dáibhidh Ó Bruadair. Text based on MS BL Additional 29614, with variants from TCD H 6. 7 and RIA 23 N 15; with English translation and notes.

Elegy (13 qq.) on Tadhg (mac Conchubhair) Ó Briain (†1731). Critical edition based on thirteen MSS; earliest copies: RIA A iv 2, 23 N 12, and 23 N 21 (all mid 18th cent.). With introduction, discussion of metre, Engl. translation, variants, and textual notes.

An Old Irish speculum principum. Critical edition, restored, of recension B from MSS RIA 23 N 10, Edinburgh Advocates’ Library 72.1.42, Egerton 88, and RIA 23 N 27; with English translation, notes and vocabulary; linguistic analysis. Appendix 1: conflation, with variant readings, of seven later versions; Appendix 2: passages used in a rosc in Senchas fagbála Caisil (cf BILL 5108).

Rev. by
Édouard Bachellery, in ÉtC 15 (1976-1978), pp. 358-360.
P. L. Henry, in StH 17-18 (1977-1978), pp. 203-210.
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 16/4 (Geimhreadh, 1976), pp. 345-348.
N. J. A. Williams, in StC 12-13 (1977-1978), pp. 467-470.

On the 1817 sale of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh MSS by his descendant Seán Ó Cléirigh.

Edition of three early modern Irish poems found in a late 15th c. medical compendium wr. by Connla Mac an Leagha: 1. A recipe for chest ailment (RIA ms. 24 B 3, 60.17-24) [beg. Indis ā f[h]ir dān[a] dam]; 2. A recipe for slimming (RIA ms. 24 B 3, 66.6-15) [beg. Findaid a lega fer bFáil]; 3. A cure for urinary disease (RIA ms. 23 N 29 f. 7v23-8) [beg. Secht losa ar in ngalar fūail]. With English translation and textual commentary.

Describes the medical compilation contained in RIA 24 B 3 (disjoined paper leaves bound separately as part of RIA 23 N 29), wr. 1509 by Conla Mac an Leagha.

Discusses the two RIA manuscripts 24 B 3 (vellum, ff. 33-110) and 23 N 29 (paper, ff. 1-9), shown to contain a codicologically single medical manuscript compilation, paper section now separately bound; wr. 1509 by Conla Mac an Leagha.

Part of a larger Irish receptarium compiled in 1509 by Conla Mac an Leagha. Edited from RIA MS 23 N 29, with translation, textual commentary and discussion.

Poem on the Great Frost of 1740, by Séamas Mac Coitir; beg. Ní cogadh ná cargaill fhada idir airdríthibh. Ed. from RIA MSS 23 O 39, 23 N 32 and 4 A 46, and Maynooth M 7; with analysis of the metre, critical apparatus and notes.

Translation of the Mac Brady genealogy, based on MSS TCD N 5. 12 and RIA 23 O 36.

Poem on the Great Frost of 1740, by Séamas Mac Coitir; beg. Ní cogadh ná cargaill fhada idir airdríthibh. Ed. from RIA MSS 23 O 39, 23 N 32 and 4 A 46, and Maynooth M 7; with analysis of the metre, critical apparatus and notes.

[I.] Introduction; [II.] In tenga bithnua = The ever-new tongue: edition and translation of the Lismore text and of the second recension [prints the Lismore text and the text of the second recension (based on Paris, with variants) on parallel pages, presenting the edited text, critical apparatus and English translation on a split-page]; [III.] Commentary and textual notes; [IV.] Indices.

Rev. by
Elizabeth Boyle, in Irish theological quarterly 76/2 (2011), pp 183-186.
Erich Poppe, in CMCS 61 (Summer, 2011), pp. 91-93.
Clare Stancliffe, in The journal of theological studies (New series), 63/2 (Oct., 2012), pp. 755-758.

An Irish translation of the Latin apocrypha Gesta Pilati and Descensus Christi ad Inferos. Edition based on YBL; with English translation, apparatus criticus, comparison with original Latin text and textual notes. Also includes two divergent versions from the Leabhar Breac (fols. 170a-172b and 223a-227a); with English translation, commentary and textual notes.

Rev. by
Caoimhín Breatnach, in Éigse 27 (1993), pp. 162-167.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in CMCS 24 (Winter, 1992), pp. 105-108.
Anraí Mac Giolla Chomhaill, in SAM 14/2 (1991), pp. 261-262.
Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, in StH 26 (1992), pp. 239-243.
Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire, in Studies 81, nº 321 (Spring, 1992), pp. 108-110.

Examines the mutual relationship of all the extant manuscript witnesses (Book of Leinster; RIA 23 N 10, 23 O 48, C i 2 and D iv 2; NLS 72.1.5 and 72.1.40; Laud Misc. 610).

Diplomatic edition with English translation.

An Irish account of Christ’s descent into hell, beg. Ar n-eiseirghi Crist a carcair corcraa. From RIA 23 O 48 (Liber flavus); semi-diplomatic text and English translation.

Text based on Leabhar Breac with variants from Liber flavus Fergusiorum; with English translation and notes.

Edition of a poem (beg. Dia Luain laithi in measraidhthi) and accompanying prose tract from Liber flavus Fergusiorum; with English translation and textual notes.

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].

Ed. from MSS RIA 23 N 10 and RIA 23 O 48 (Liber flavus Fergusiorum), with transl. and notes.

Incl. app. with transcription of fragmentary text from MS RIA 23 O 48 (Liber flavus Fergusiorum).

Addendum in Ériu 40 (1989), p. 194.

A tale on the fate of two souls, one sinful and the other righteous, immediately after death, beg. Is coir a fhis tra conid foichlidhi do cach æn in dal derb. Edited from RIA 23 O 48; with English translation (cf. C. Marstrander, Best¹, p. 243).

Translations of Vita s. Eustachii and Vita s. Mariae Aegyptiacae in the Legenda aurea of Iacobus de Voragine (13th century). Editions based on Liber flavus Fergusiorum (MS RIA 23 O 48); with notes and linguistic analysis.

Suggests that an Irish legend concerning a gigantic corpse dug up at Clonmacnoise (earliest version in a ‘marvel’ found in De ingantaib Érenn, later amplified in a text in Liber flavus Fergusiorum) was the model used for the story of the discovery of King Arthur at Glastonbury in 1190 or 1191 told in Gerald of Wales, etc.

Edited from MS RIA D iv 2, with variant readings from MS RIA 23 O 48 (Liber flavus Fergusiorum) and UCD Add. Ir. MS 14 (Mac Firbisigh’s Book of Genealogies); with translation and notes.

Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann (43 qq.), attributed to Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire. Text from RIA 23 L 17; with English translation and notes. Appendix I: Diplomatic edition of the two copies of the Middle Irish story of Niall Frosach’s judgement, from the Book of Leinster and the Liber flavus Fergusiorum. Appendix II: A shorter version of the same story from the Leabhar Eoghanach (Book of the O’Neills).

Vol. 13: [1.] General introduction, by M. McN.; [2.] The Irish infancy narratives and their relationship with latin sources, by M. McN. and J.-D. K.; [3.] The Liber flavus Fergusiorum infancy narrative: introduction by M. McN., edition by D. Ó L. and C. B., translation by D. Ó L., M. H. and C. B., notes to the translation by M. McN. and J.-D. K.; [4.] The infancy narrative of the Leabhar Breac and related manuscripts: introduction by M. McN., text by P. Ó F., B. Ó C. and C. B., apparatus criticus by B. Ó C. and C. B., translation by P. Ó F., M. H. and C. B., notes to the translation by M. McN. and J.-D. K.; [5.] A versified narrative of the childhood deeds of the Lord Jesus [from MS NLI G 50]: introduction by M. H. and M. McN., edition and translation by M. H., notes to the translation by M. McN.

Vol. 14: [6.] A thirteenth-century Irish poem containing elements from infancy narratives: introduction, edition, translation and notes by B. Ó C. [Sa ráith-se rugadh Muire, ascribed to Giolla Brighde Albanach; based on RIA D ii 1, with readings from Rawlinson B 486; normalized to Early Modern Irish]; [7.] Hiberno-Latin texts on the wonders at Christ’s birth: introduction, edition, translation and notes by M. McN.; [8.] Short texts relating to the Nativity of Christ: introduction, edition and translation by B. Ó C. and C. B., notes to the translation by M. McN. [1. A narrative of the Caesarean tax and the birth of Christ (a. Irish version, beg. Ochtauín Auguist ba hairdríg; text based on Leabhar Breac); 2. The seventeen wonders of the night of Christ’s birth (a. Prose, entitled Do secht n-ingantaib déc in domain in adaig ro génir Críst; b. Verse, beg. In n-aidchi geini Críst cain; c. Additional wonder); 3. The marvels of the birth of the Saviour (a. Text from Paris, Fonds celtique 1, and Maynooth R 73; b. Variant version from Liber flavus Fergusiorum)]; [9.] Appendix [(1.) Latin infancy Gospels. The J Compilation: introduction and edition by J.-D. K. and M. McN.; (2.) Latin translation of the protoevangelium of James in MS. Paris, Sainte-Geneviève, 2787: introduction and edition by R. B.].

Rev. by

J.-Cl. Haelewyck, in Revue théologique de Louvain 35/2 (2004), pp. 244-245.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 36 (2008), pp. 214-215.
Brendan McConvery, in Irish theological quarterly 70/1 (Mar., 2005), pp. 86-89.
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, in StH 35 (2008-2009), pp. 229-235.
Stephen D. Moore, in Catholic Biblical quarterly 66/1 (2004), pp. 155-156.
Thomas O’Loughlin, in Analecta Bollandiana 122/1 (2004), pp. 196-199.
Pádraig P. Ó Néill, in Éigse 35 (2005), pp. 133-136.
P. Ó Riain, in ZCP 55 (2006), pp. 275-276.
Erich Poppe, in CMCS 49 (Summer, 2005), pp. 74-77.
Clare Stancliffe, in Journal of theological studies 59 (2008), pp. 820-827.