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A PRIMER OF IRISH METRICS
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A PRIMER
[RISH METRICS
WITH A GLOSSARY, AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE
POETS OF IRELAND
BY
KUNO MEYER
DUBLIN
SCHOOL OF IRISH LEARNING
HODGES, FIGGIS, & CO., Ltd., 104, GRAFTON STREET
LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 57-59, LONG ACRE, W.C.
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PREFACE
No proper and full account of Irish versification from the oldest
period of unrhymed alliterative verse to the gradual supersession
of dan dueach by English metres can be written until we first
have special investigations into its history at almost every point.
Meanwhile I have thought it useful to sum up in a concise form the
present state of our knowledge both on alliterative and the strict
syllabic poetry. I have left aside altogether both the modern
metres, the looser forms of syllabic poetry, such as óglachas and
bruilingecht,x and the so-called ' rhetorics,' for the latter of which
the student should consult Windisch's articles in the Revue Celtique,
vol. v, pp. 389 and 478.
In my account of syllabic poetry I have followed almost
throughout Thurneysen's masterly and lucid treatise in his lrische
Verslehren in the third volume of Stokes' and Windisch's lrische
Texte. As he first traced the origin of the syllabic metres to the
Latin hymn poetry of the fifth and sixth centuries, so he was also
the first among modern scholars to recognize and establish all the
essential laws of this kind of poetry. By basing his exposition
upon the form of the verse-end in the different metres, he has
brought light and order into the chaos of native tradition. The
examples by which I have illustrated the various rules and metres
are taken either from the Old-Irish treatises printed by Thurneysen
— in which case the source is not indicated — or from well-known
poems.
It should be noticed that throughout this book an accent denotes
stress, not length, which is marked by a horizontal bar. A dot
under a vowel marks elision.
I hope that this primer will stimulate Irish students to take up
the study of Irish metrics. Almost every paragraph in it calls
See O'Molloy, Grammatica Latino-hibernica, cap. xxi and xxiii.
vi PREFACE
for further minute investigation, the value of which is not confined
to metrics ; for it will incidentally add to our knowledge of
pronunciation and the history of the language. The part played
in rhyme and alliteration by actual pronunciation on the one hand,
by tradition on the other ; the change in the pronunciation of
consonants and vowels, such as th, dh, gh, initial m before conso-
nants, oi and at; the effect of sandhi ; the division of syllables in
pronunciation, &c. — all this and much else it should be possible
to establish from a close observation of the laws of rhyme and
alliteration. On some of these points Whitley Stokes, in the intro-
duction to his edition of Gorman's Martyrology, pp. xxx-xxxviii,
has collected valuable material, and established certain laws. As
to the part played by sandhi, I may add an observation, which so
far as I know has not been made before, though it is a common-
place in Welsh metrics. If dh and d come together, they have
between them the value of /, as in the following couplet from
Goffraidh Fionn ua Clérigh's poem entitled ' Marbnad Dé ' :
t
marbhnadk Dc, nl trebhadh tnúidh, garmhac duinjé dleghar din.
The same rule would naturally apply in the case of gh + g, bh + b.
One word of advice to the beginner will not be out of place. He
must accustom himself to read Irish poetry entirely by ordinary word-
stress, discarding altogether the fanciful theories as to any regular
interchange between stressed and unstressed syllables,1 or as to any
secondary stress enabling certain syllables to carry a rhythmical
accent.2 At no period can unstressed, half-stressed, or even the
fully-stressed final syllables of Munster pronunciation carry such an
accent. Unless the ordinary accentuation is followed, neither the
laws of rhyme nor alliteration can be properly understood ; while
attention paid to rhyme and alliteration often teaches us to correctly
accent words as to whose stress there may have been any doubt.
Thus, some scholars would not have wrongly placed the stress in
didiu and dochum on the final syllable if they had known that these
words rhyme with ligiu and toffund respectively.
1 Such as the theory put forward by me in the Metrical Excursus at the end
of my edition of Cath Fionntragha.
-As assumed by Zimmer in his KeUische Studien, II, p. 160.
PREFACE vii
I hope that the list of poets which is appended will be found
useful. It was my intention to include the name of every Irish poet
except those still alive ; but the list is sure to be both imperfect
and faulty. One drawback to its utility is that the tribal name
(sloinneadh) is sometimes placed immediately behind the Christian
name, sometimes at the end. That for completeness' sake I have
also included fabulous or mythical poets will not, I trust, annoy
anybody.
In conclusion, I desire to thank my friends Professors Bergin
and Thurneysen very heartily for many valuable suggestions, and
Tadhg ó Donnchadha for several important corrections and
additions to the list of poets.
K. M.
March, igog.
IRISH METRICS
1 We can distinguish three successive periods in the history of
Irish versification :
(i) A period of rhythmical alliterative poetry (Early Irish).
This period lasts on into (2).
(2) A period of unrhythmical syllabic poetry, i.e., poetry
containing a fixed number of syllables in each verse, with end-rhyme
or consonance, internal rhyme, and alliteration (Old, Middle, and
Early Modern Irish).
(3) A period of rhythmical poetry in which the same sequence
of vowels recurs in the stressed syllables of each verse (Later
Modern Irish).
The last period lies outside the scope of this primer. It arose towards the
end of the sixteenth century, probably under the influence of English poetry,
and continues till the present day. For a description of the metres commonly
used during this period, and for the distinction between the two chief classes
of these metres [amhrdn and caoineadh) see P. Dinneen, Amhrdin Eoghain
Ruaidh uí Súilledbhdin, pp. xxxix ff. ; L. C. Stern, Cúirt an Mheadhóin
Oidhche (Zeitschrift f. celt. Phil, v., pp. 286 ff.) ; D. Hyde, A Literary Hutory
of Irelaiid, pp. 548 ff. ; Mac Erlean, Ddnta, Amhrdin is Caointe Seathrúin
Céitinn, pp. 13-15.
A. Alliterative Poetry
2 Few specimens of the rhythmical alliterative poetry of the
first period have reached us. Those we have are mostly to be
found scattered through some of the oldest sagas, often side by
side with poems in the later syllabic metres.
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2 IRISH METRICS
3 The following are the principles and laws of versification . -
(i) Each line contains a certain number of stressed syllables,
generally four. A pause or caesura divides the line into two halves.
The half-lines end in disyllables.
Windisch, Irische Texte I., p. 103 :
Fo-chén Cónall, críde lícce, K qSJJsS^
* /» lóndbruth lóga, lúchar éga, £ ^ a^y ; Cex.
1 fr^j' a^ gL'lss flánd férge fo chích cúrad.
Revue Cellique, vol. xvi., p. 277 {Dindienchas § 160):
Éo Róssa, róth rúirech,
récht flátha, fuaimm túinne,
déch dúilib, dírjuch drónchrand, *•> *»- '&**&
día drónbalc, dórus níme.
(2) Some of the stressed syllables in every line alliterate ; but
the principle'and distribution of alliteration vary greatly, as will be
seen from the following examples :
lb., p. 104:
Fo-chén Cét,
Cét mac Mágach, mágen chúrad,
críde n-éga, éithre n-éla, *•-***** a'^jtA
u dL<vuA"cL^H éirr tren tréssa, tréthan ágach, ix* Cf^- ?' /" 6 — "
<w^,jLí*é* cáin tárb tnúthach, Cét mac Mágach.
Ib., p. 21 1 :
Fo-chén Lábraid lúathlám ar chláideb, **0f-
láichdn o'caib, úallchu múrib ! <*^y. ^*««^* *- *
dijfcrtf Mánnraid góssa, gníid cáthu,
^jjuUá. críathraid Ócu, tócbaid lóbru,
táirnid tríunu, fo-chén Lábraid !
Here, in the fourth line, it seems sufficient that criathraid should alliterate
with cathu in the preceding line, unless we may substitute ocbaid for tocbaid.
Cf. ocbul, BCr. 18 d 2.
lb., p. 276:
4*d*A,*U*. Gréitrfg, sénrechtaid búada, *..*- «•**/p0»-*-f2«.
bare bódbae, brúth brátha,
ALLITERATIVE POETRY 3
breo dígla, dréch cúrad,
*******- cúinsiu chórad, Críde ndrácon, &C.1 tSr.-u. .aUM~^»~ <j. tSnnJ..
For further examples see Dindsenchas 42 ; Togal Bruidne Da Derga $ 157,
ib. Appendix § 156 ; Tain Bo Cualnge (ed. Windisch), 11. 4956, 5636, 5731, 5784,
5829. Longerlines will be found Ir. T. I., pp. 23 (cf. Thes. Palceo-hib. II., p. 322),
211, § 18, 212, 261, 262, 263, 267, 268, 270, &c.
Alliteration
4 The following rules apply both to the purely alliterative
poetry of the first period and to syllabic poetry. Cf. § 21. It is
to be noted that, even in Old-Irish, alliteration is traditional and
no longer based upon pronunciation.
(1) Any vowel may alliterate with any other.
(2) A consonant can alliterate only with itself repeated, or,
except f, s,p, with its lenited form, so that e.g. c may alliterate
also with ch (i.e. x), and / with ih (i.e. ]>, later h).
Note. — In Old and Early-Middle Irish poetry, s, and any combination of s
with other consonants, such as sc, si, sm, Sec, may alliterate.3 In Later-Middle
and Early-Modern Irish poetry, s followed by a stop (sc, sp, st) can only
alliterate with itself and the same stop, while s followed by a vowel and
s followed by a liquid or nasal may alliterate with each other.
f"
1 Professor W. P. Ker (The Dark Ages, p. 321) has drawn attention to
the analogies between Irish alliterative verse and the following specimen of
ancient Latin: —
uti tu morbos visos invisosque
viduertatem vastitudinemque
calamitates intemperiasque
prohibessis, defendas averruncesque:
uti fruges frumenta vineta virgultaque
grandire beneque evenire siris,
pastores pecua salva servassis
duisque honam salutem valetudinemque
mihi domo familiaeque nostrae.
Cato, De Re Rustica, 141 : arranged by
F. D. Allen, Early Latin.
2 As the possibility of s, si, sr, &c, alliterating with sc has been denied by
Prof. Atkinson (On Irish Metric, p. 8), I subjoin a few examples from the
older syllabic poetry: — Féi. July 8 : scribnid sóeibúaid. ib. 12: seel cechsenaid.
ib. Aug. 25 : ro sreth seel. Saltair na Rann, 1. 2257 : oclit mbliadna sescat, ni
scail. ib. 4365 : soillsi scuir. ib. 6031 : as sia do seel. ib. 6591 : siethaib seel.
ib. 7337 : sáerda in seel, &c.
4 IRISH METRICS
(3) In a word beginning with f, the following sound counts for
alliteration, e.g. d'zarraid fz'anbothe, a chrich wile d' folmugud.
Note. — Occasionally/ is found to alliterate with/, as: do /eiss la Ftixb,
Ir. Texte III., p. 520, 1. 803, an alliteration merely for the eye.
(4) s ( = h) before vowels should alliterate only with itself
repeated. But it is also found to alliterate with th, e. g. Salt, na
*-*«««£*». Rann, 1577 : déna mo //nnchosc di Jain. Book of Fenagh, p. 296,
22 : do T^igernach 's do .Sinchell. ib. p. 228, 30 : gébtait in tlr
Muaid da ill. Or it is treated as quiescent, so that the vowels
alliterate, e.g. cóic bliadna do S^tna ard. — ic athchumai int sásir. —
LL. 130 b 39 : bliadain ar FVchit 0 sain. SR. 2051 : ar is derb lat
tVc di sain. Book of Fenagh, p. 202, 1 : do samla ni fail. This
is always the case where it precedes a consonant, as : dot s/aidi
frit s/uagaib, TBC. (ed. Windisch) 3439. is Maine co /In a s/oig,
Book of Fenagh, p. 320, 21.
Note i. — As / with /, so s may also alliterate (for the eye) with s, as : is é
iCU/^ír*»**. ro-juidig each jeis, SR. 323. set ro-jaig, ib. 471. is é sin jenchas each jin,
E. Gwynn, Poems from Dindsenchas, p. 38.
Note 2. — We see from these rules that the laws of alliteration were fixed
after lenition or ' aspiration ' had affected initial c, t, p, f, and s.
(5) n- before vowels (in eclipse) and h, as in a /zathair 'her
father,' co Aéim ' readily' &c, do not count for alliteration, e.g.
tarlaic Oscur z'rehor n-cll, Ir. T. 1., p. 158.
^41main cona hardráthaib, Poems from Dinds. p. 14.
(6) As the laws of alliteration were fixed before the change of
nc to g, ni to d, nd into nn, mp to b, and of mb into mm had taken
place, and as these laws became traditional, c may alliterate with
g (written c in Old- and Middle-Ir.), / with d (written /), p
with b (written p), b with mb, d with nd, as : cáin a clu ' fair
their fame,' Bérre co mblaid, dercaim in ndomun.
(7) Only unstressed words [iarmbirla) may stand between
alliterating words, e.g:
lar mbrúimliud duit cech Megail.
SYLLABIC POETRY 5
B. Syllabic Poetry
5 The mass of Irish poetry from the eighth to the seventeenth
century is composed in metres requiring (i) a fixed number of
syllables in each verse, (2) rhyme, or consonance, in the final
word of each verse or couplet. There is no rhythm (regulated
stress), except in the rhyming words at the end ; and in the
debide-metrts (see § 16) even the rhyme is unrhythmical.
Examples :
(a) Cech mártir, cech díthrubach, cech nóib ro-bói i ngénmnat',
*■*-**/&* b- rop scfath dun diar n-ímdegail, rop sáiget úan fri áémnai.
IM& T" -
'tt^T. Here we have seven syllables in each verse, and disyllabic
rhythmical rhyme at the end of the couplets.
(3) Mésse ocus Pángur ban, céchtar náthar fria sáindJw :
bith a ménma-sam fri séi/gg, mu ménma céin im sáincheirdd.
Here, in a debide-metre, we have seven syllables in each verse and
monosyllabic unrhythmical rhyme at the end of the verses, the
rhyming syllable in the first couplet being stressed, while in the
second it is unstressed.
Note. — As Thurneysen, Zur irische?i Accent- und Verslehre (Rev. Celt. VI.,
pp. 336-347), has conclusively shown, this metrical system was derived from Latin
hymn-poetry of the fifth and sixth centuries. See alsoWilh. Meyer, Gesammelte
Abhandlungen zur Mittellateinischen Rhythmik, vol. I., pp. 174 ff. The pattern
upon which some of the oldest Irish metres were modelled is to be found in such
trochaic measures as S. Hilary's Hymnus in laudem Christi, beginning:
Ymnum dicat turba frátrum, ymnum cantus pérsonet,
Christo regi concinéntes laudem demus débitam.
Here the first verse of each couplet contains eight, the second seven syllables.
The first verse ends in j. _ , the second in j. . The two couplets form a
quatrain. In the following example from St. Colman's Hymnus in laudem
S. Michaelis Archangeli, the couplets are joined by rhyme : —
Gloria sit semper Déo patri atque filio
Simul cum spiritu sáncto in uno consilio.
6 Every poem (dúan f., or lóidi.) consists of a varying number of
stanzas {rami m., or comarg) each of which must make independent
6 IRISH METRICS
sense {cob£ge ceille). The most common form of the stanza is the
quatrain consisting of four verses {rami f., or cethramthu f.). These
are called rann tuisech, r. medonach, r. leth-dedenach, r. dedenach.
7 The two first verses and the two last form coup\ets(/efh-rann m.),
and are distinguished as leth-rann túisech and leth-rann dedenach,
or seolad and comad.
Example :
Clocán binn benar i n-aidchi gáithe,
c d
ba ferr limm dola ina dáií indás i ndáil mná báithe.
Here we have a quatrain consisting of four verses (a, b, c, d), of
which a + b and c + d form couplets.
8 The various metres (aiste f.) are distinguished (i) by the
number of syllables required in every line ; (2) by the form
and position of the rhyme.
Technical Terms
9 A syllable (sillab f.) or a number of syllables, as a metrical unit, is called
if each (m.), corresponding with Latin pes 'verse-foot.'
Feet varying from one to eight syllables are distinguished, as follows : —
dialt n. (n. pi. dialta) ' one syllable ' ; hence dialtach ' monosyllabic'
recomarc ' two syllables ' ; recomarcach ' disyllabic'
iarcomarc ' three syllables ' ; iarcomarcach ' trisyllabic'
feles (n. pl.fetesa) ' four syllables.'
cloenre ' five syllables.'
luibenchossach ' six syllables.'
claidemnus 'seven syllables.'
bricht (n. pi. brechta) ' eight syllables.'
10 The rhyming verse-end is called rinn (n. pi. rinn, Mid. Ir. renna) and
the rhyme itself cuibdivs (m.). Lan-chuibdius denotes the rhyme at the end
of the couplets, sal-chuibdius that at the end of the first and third verses
of the quatrain. The latter we shall call csesura.
Example :
Is é Fedlimid in 17 diarbo monar oinlath/ *l*J,1t*- ^
a, faVwt%J~< aithrige Connacht cen chatk ocus Mide do mannraíí'. ^Uv^j
Here ri and chath stand in caesura, while oinlathi and mannrad form lan-
chuibdius {debide, see § 16) with rl and chath respectively.
SYLLABIC POETRY 7
Rhyme
11 Rhyme proper commences with the stressed vowel of the
word, and consists in the agreement of all the vowels both in
quantity and quality, while the rhyming consonants must belong
to the same class. Thus in early Old-Irish at can only rhyme with
ái', as cáin : ail, oi with oi, as coil : froich, a* with d\ as ma?r :
dá'/, 0s with cr, as mo'r : sro'n, &c.
But in later Old-Irish the diphthong oi (oe) and o1', and the diphthong di (de)
and a» are allowed to rhyme.
12 In the older poetry the consonants fall, for the purposes of
rhyme, into the following three classes : —
(i) The stops c (gg, g), p (bb), / {dd), which may rhyme with
each other either by themselves or in combination with liquids, or
spirants. Examples : ee/ : ec, carpa/ : area/, s/ech/ : dec, Cm'// :ftii/,
pur/ : mucc, bochtdn : corpdn.
(2) The liquids /, r, the nasals n, ng, ??i, and the spirants
d( = dh), g( = gk), b ( = bh), m ( = mh), ch, th, f, which may rhyme
either by themselves or in combination with each other, but so
that 'aspirated' consonants rhyme with 'aspirated,' ' unaspirated'
with 'unaspirated ' only. Examples 0/ : mor : rdn, dorus : tomus,
dangeu : ange/, /rebair : degaid, rethes : teches, scllh : fir : rig,
ainm : airvi, duine : snide : /uige, calhrach : athkim, foglaimm : comraind,
seng : lenn, /inn : Birn, /ac]i/múad : a/trúag^ iaidbsigud : faiUsigtid.
Note. — After long vowels final 11 may rhyme with single consonants of this
group, as: call : cein, ciall : star.
(3) s can only rhyme with itself, as mis : scis, re/hes : /eches,
bossa : cossa. See Thurneysen, Rev. Celt, v, 329 ; vn, 305.
13 In later times stricter rules prevail, according to which
consonants are classed as follows :
(1) Voiceless stops: p, c, t.
(2) Voiced stops: b, g, d.
(3) Voiceless spirants : f, ch, th.
(4) Voiced spirants : bh, dh, gh, mh, and L, n, r.
(5) Double consonants : 11, m (O. Ir. mm, mb), nn, ng, rr.
(6) s.
NOTE. — Homonyms may rhyme, as e.g. dim ' a fortress ' and dun ' to us,'
fichit ' they fight ' and fichit ' scores.'
IRISH METRICS
Consonance
14 We have to distinguish between consonance in monosyllables
and polysyllables.
(i) In monosyllables consonance consists in the stressed vowels
and the following consonants being either palatal or non-palatal,
while the consonants must also belong to the same class.
Example :
Tri maicNera arlln \érg, tri maicUislend, cobra ngárg, c+^-oiAa.^»*.,
41h./> 4*4 .*-■£. senláech Arad nad bo barb, a Cruachnaib Con-alad árd. $*"*i:
(2) In polysyllables consonance begins with the first unstressed
syllable of the word. Cf. § 25. The consonants must belong to
the same class, and both vowels and consonants must be either
palatal or non-palatal.
Examples :
{*^. (a) Fland tendálach Témrach, tendrí Fótla íérainn,
óthá anall áo-méi\ai?)im, is si a chland <\o-gégainii. i^ce.l-uJr. -$
[b) In spirut nóib d aittreb ar cuirp is ar n-ánma, '
diar snádud co sólma ar gábud, ar gá/ra.
Here the -aimm of doinenaimm consonates with the -ainn of ferainn
and dogegainn, and the -Una of solum with the -nma of anma and
the -Ira of galra.
15 A quatrain in which all four verses consonate is said to be
cethar-chubaid. When there is no consonance between the verses,
the metre is called scáilie ' loose.'
Debide-rhyme
16 There is a third kind of rhyme which only occurs in the metres
called debide. See § 33. In these the two verses of the couplet
rhyme ; and if the first verse ends in a monosyllable, the second
must end in a disyllable or trisyllable ; similarly, if the first ends
in a disyllable, the second must end in a trisyllable. In the
first verse the rhyme begins with the last stressed vowel, while
in the second the unstressed final syllable or syllables form the
rhyme, which is thus unrhythmical.
SYLLABIC POETRY 9
Examples :
(a) Ro-slechtatar uili iar \ar sluag n-uag na n-angel nóibnar,
OLuiS^i 1^*5 rogádatar co Dla ndzV im dilgud cinad Adaim. SR. 2169.
jnujz^ J -^ j cúairt nam-múr, mór n-áthbach, immedon na -púmcha/hrach
Qtí*t>n -ii lébinn glainidi gldrdai, drqchte dronai dérgdrdai. SR. +73. fé- *6
17 In debide there is greater freedom of rhyme, amounting some- €f*id^«.*
times to mere consonance. Thus gulh may rhyme with tinfiud,
leirg : firmimint, glan : airmite{a)n, glana : caindromma, alt : fichet,
L.ivcruoke., breis : tegdais, cachta : comblechta. A long vowel may rhyme with
*in*lr' a short one, as gle : co?n?nairge, ti : bit, snd : indrada, bo : dartado,
clu : in gnu.
Internal Rhyme
18 Both in those metres in which the single verses rhyme, and
in those in which the couplets rhyme we often find additional
rhymes between a word or words in the first and second, and a
word or words in the third and fourth verses. This is called
internal rhyme. It occurs already in Latin hymn-poetry, e.g.
Conclamantes deo áignum \\ymnum sanctae Máriae.
ut vox pulset omnem anrem per \audem vicariam.
opport2///tf7« dedit curam aegrotanti homini.
19 We can distinguish two kinds of internal rhyme :
(1) A rhyme between the word in caesura (§ 10) and some word
in the second verse of the couplet. This is obligatory in the second
half of all non-debide metres whenever there is no consonance
between the word in caesura and the end-rhyme (§ 15). The
technical name for this kind of rhyme is aiccill ' anticipation,' and
a stanza containing it is called aicclech.
Examples :
CoiuM^j. («) In ba maten, in ba fyjn, in ba for tlr no for muir, Q
acht ro-fetar racha d' ec, mór in bit ! nl fetar cuin. *•#- eJ.ntfw- v
(b) Guidiu itge doaib, romm-airraratrogbus
^ení cain popul co Ytgdci/h, in xigrad im-rprdus. 'f1"H>- % **** "a^M^^e/-M/^'
^W^Ut^ c*&*>. Fél. Prol. 17.
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(2) A rhyme between any word in the first verse with any word
in the second verse of a couplet. Though this cannot be said to
be obligatory, it enters largely into poetry of almost any metre,
especially in later times.
Examples: tz&&&dL.&&A .
v*<~*> (a) Ri each thuir ihúafhaigdéin deirg ro-fiiajliaigfein firmimeint, tup..'
(m~<l ttn.i^
feib ba derb \aiss os each maig ros-d^/3 don mam écruthaig. *<y*J'
"SR. 145 ff.
(b) Lesc amlesc sinn co Ath Clíath, co díin Amláib na n-órscíath,
ó Ath CXiath na \ann 's na lecht is dJan, is mall mo imthecht.
MacLiac (f 1024) ZcPvH.n*.
20 The heaping of internal rhyme is technically called
breccad, e. g.
Ua Bricc Bxegain ónd lice \cbair ticc i Temair tqraib, t^*H iJj*^^
muir dar Mumain, daig ná dubaig, traig dar Tulaig Tomair. *
Alliteration
21 In the oldest syllabic poetry alliteration {uaimm n.) occurs
only sporadically and without any fixed laws : indeed some poems
or parts of poems show no trace of it. See e. g. Broccán's
Hymn 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, &c. ; Imram Brain 27, 28, 30, 37, 49;
Otia Mas. 1. 122, 1. 3; Zeitschr. ill. 216, 1. 4. In the course of
time its employment becomes more regular.
In Felire Oingusso there is alliteration in every stanza ; and in
Sal/air na Rann, though occasionally we find a whole quatrain
without alliteration (e.g. 329 ff.), as a rule one verse at least contains
it. At a later period it appears obligatory in the third and last verses
of a quatrain ; and in the poetry of the twelfth and following
centuries we often find every verse of a poem containing it.
22 Alliteration in the final words of the verse is called fir-úaimm ; when it
occurs in other positions it is called úaimm gniiise.
Uaimm di rind denotes alliteration at the end of a poem. See Book of
Ballymote, p. 2>22h\b.
Connecting the last word of a stanza by alliteration with the first (or the first
stressed) word of the following stanza, a practice much used in longer poems
as an aid to memory, is in Middle Irish technically called Jidrad freccomail,
in Later Irish conachlann. It is often merely alliteration for the eye.
HjUcL f*~<u~ \U UK ^ J^cK J>^ C*»& 4*3 «^^'
SYLLABIC POETRY ' ' 11
Elision
23 In the oldest poetry elision {bddud) was but rarely practised ;
and it cannot be said to have been obligatory at any time during
the Old and Early-Middle Irish periods. Verses in which hiatus
occurs are to be found almost in every poem. For examples
see Thes. II. 291, 16. 292, 21. 293, 25. 294, 1. 295, 15 &c. ;
Trip. Life 112, 15. 17. 186, 13. 19. 468, 6. But in Later-Middle
Irish an unstressed vowel after a word ending in a vowel is
generally elided, as in the following heptasyllabic lines :
ro iadimpi a da rigid. **<e. d^. % n*f. t£e £*u3*x ****** .
co mbói immedon na airce.
fri Eua pens fri Adam.
24 Elision also occurs sometimes between the end of one verse
and the beginning of the next, as e.g. :
^&Aeá I* *~#- lechta tri mac nDlarmata i fothaig mulind maic Dimma. ^jfc^
b^ LL. 43b+2.
MtdotJíCz4Mí> adteoch in dá mesraigthe, adteoch in dá uarda. t*&Ltz*^>.
sUAa. mo bith-se im sudiu fri re ic gudiu Dé in nach du. ^"*<<*
Eriu L, p. 39-i"U'fr??r?
25 For metrical purposes a word begins with the stressed syllable, so that f,uid+J.
the proclitics, such as verbal prefixes, prepositions, &c, do not count as part
of the words to which they are prefixed. Examples : iar-sín, co-sé, immal-lé,
im-mdch, im-mdig, imma-séch, in-nócht, in-diú, a-7-eir, san-chdn, fo-chén,
fo-díin, fo-déssin, imme-gdib, cota-gdib, al-dile, fo-chetoir, untie, nammd.
On the other hand, the pronominal suffixes -sa, -se, -su, -si, -ni, -sin, -som
count as part of the words to which they are suffixed, so that e.g. fathair-su
? forms a trisyllable. {Distinguish betweenlfl^.wDand and sin.}
26 Note that in many words two vowels, which in the later language form
one syllable, were disyllabic in Old and Early-Middle Irish. The following
are some of the most common words :— aer ' air,' bidd 'food,' biajd 'will
be,' &c. Bódnd ' the Boyne,' coir 'just,' cridd gen. of ere ' clay,' \cudid 'he ^V^f
went,' dedc ' ten,' dead ' end,' did ' day,' didd gen. oide ' smoke,' dids ' a pair,'
di'ib 'of them.' doib 'to them,' eo (gen. idch) ' salmon,' fidch 'raven,' foe
'under her,' fria 'towards his' {frie, friii), gl'eo 'fight,' gnid 'servant,'
12 IRISH METRICS
led 'lion,' lia 'with her,' lid 'stone,' liia 'kick,' lúatn 'helmsman,' nid
' champion,' nud 'new,' ode 'young,' rie gen. sg. of re ' time,' ridm ' before,'
roe ' field,' sctdch gen. of see 'hawthorn,' siacht 'reached,' sidn ' strain,' siiir
'sister,' sudirc 'pleasant,' toe 'silence,' trior ' three persons,' titiis 'leader-
ship,' ftd 'grandson.' yp
The name Eogan (Gaul. Esugenus) counts as trisyllabic in the oldest poetry.
Aphseresis
27 In order to obtain the requisite number of syllables, aphseresis
of unstressed syllables is often resorted to, though this is not
always expressed in writing. Thus isin has frequently to be read
'sin, is ' and ' 's, immach 'mack, co rogenair cor* ginair, &c., as in the
following examples of heptasyllabic verse : —
isin amsir sin cen ord bind, LL. 1 3 i ai .
co rogénair mace maith Maire, LL. 1 3 iai 8.
How to conclude a Poem
28 The concluding word {iarcomarc] of every poem must repeat
either the whole or part of the first word (or first stressed
word) of the poem (focul tuisech). The repetition of the whole
word is technically called saigid; that of half the word, ascnam,
and that of the beginning only, com-indsma, as the following
quatrain teaches : —
Comindsma do ' Dondchad ' ' do,' ascnam ' dond ' im each degló,
saigid so, is é in slicht amra, ' Dondchad ' in t-ainm ollamda.
Syntactic Licences
29 In the older poetry a freer order of words than in prose is
occasionally found. Thus both the substantive and adjective
attributes may precede the noun on which they depend, e. g.
Locho Uair ard áige ' Lough Owel's high pillar '; lir dar doe ' over
the sea's rampart ' ; i nOchiimbit etim ' in October's front ' ;
ro-fdith garb gam ' fierce winter has gone.' Sometimes one
adjective precedes, another follows, the noun, as brass glass gel
' a prattling shining brook.'
SYLLABIC POETRY 13
30 The accusative object and the instrumental sometimes
precede the verb, as lucht fris* failti feraim 'the folk to whom
I make welcome ' ; re notlaic aird airgáiss dogne ' before high
Christmas thou shouldst make great prayer'; dim dam, a Der/JtitLii .in jw.
ce~ no-bera acht tu ? ' who will give me tears but thou, O God ? '
bruid cliiasaib cluinethar ' it crushes him who hears it with ears,'
Ir. T. I., p. 68.
The Metres
31 We can distinguish four chief groups of different structure,
as follows :
I. Stanzas with rhyming couplets, in which both the verse
and the verse-ends are homosyllabic.
II. Debtde-sta.nza.s. See above, § 5 (b).
III. Stanzas with rhyming couplets containing
A. heterosyllabic verses and homosyllabic verse-ends,
B. homosyllabic verses and heterosyllabic verse-ends,
C. heterosyllabic verses and heterosyllabic verse-ends.
IV. Stanzas of different structure.
32 The most common metres of this group are those called
Rannaigechl ', in which the verse-ends are either monosyllabic or
disyllabic, and Cas-bairdne, in which the verse-ends are trisyllabic.
1. Ra?i?iaigecht diallach (mor), consisting of heptasyllabic verses
with monosyllabic verse-ends (71 + 71) :
Cétáin luid Iudas tar ord i lorg demna, digal garg,
5 ■ tL*&tt pn cctain ro-gab saint imm saich, cétáin ro-braith lsu n-ard.
2. Rannaigechi recomarcach {bee), 7* + 7s :
LL. 2ia6 : faILi
^uTtZ?1*^* A Emain idnach °ibi™ asa fidíad zá-iedim, v.?W fr*- **
*.xoM>uJiey>. is mór ndine dit gualainn ro-gab rige for Erinn.
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3. A common variation of these two metres consists in the
shortening of the first verse to three syllables, so that w'e get
31 + 71 + 71 + 71 and y + 7a + 7? + f respectively {rannaigecht garit).
(a) Rannaigecht garit dialtach :
a. rdn.. A Ri rind ! cid dub mo thech no cid find,
nocho n-Iadfaider fri nech, nár' iada Crist a thech frimm.
(b) Rannaigecht chetharchubaid garit recomarcach :
Corp slemon ocus tóib fota re/nor :
ttr\tr.U,-.^-0-9n biaid in cholainn oc lobud is in t-anim oc demon.
4. A shortening of the first verse to two syllables is less common :
Máeldub bidbu na ndemon ndderdub,
£*lih &w £*L acht a chuilche is a blá lin nochor' techt ni din tkdegul.
Another example, KC 20, 404, § 124.
5. When the whole first couplet is replaced by a verse of
three syllables, the metre is called ireochair.
^.Atijj-.jft. Qen dinius
in chaingen dorigenus : nech ro-charus xo-cxdidius.
Other examples, IiadaÍ7i and Curithir, p. 22 ff.
6. Rindaird (or kth-dechnach), 62 + 62.
Félire Oingusso, Prol. 313 ff. :
Mani tuicce samlid ord fil for ar \oidib, ^^ J****?' ^'
not-dlomaim fíad dálaib, it dallchéilliu doinib.
7. B recc-bairdne denotes a variation of rindaird, in which the
first verse has only five syllables, 52+62:
A dram in Coimdid cusna aicdib amraib,
^íití, nem gelmar co n-ainglib, ler tondbán for ta/main. %+.*&*''**
8. Slat brecht mbr, 63 + 63 '. rfb^/HW**
j. aj /? w 1/. Less Ruadrach rebánach, 'sé slúagach sribanach, \^v&**~*fll\r'¥e>u*t4luL-
^AUC*a2í»«eu ^eSS n-enach n-ailenach, less férach íidájiach. u^nk^c.
"9. Cas-bairdne, 7s + f.
LL. 52^44:
f<U* SUA (***> TCormac Femin, Fogertach, Colmán, Cellach cxúaid-ugra (^u^f^^*^
ImuJUju. I co nii''^ do-rochratar i cath Belaig muaid-Mugna. **Me..
X)lher examples: LL. 27b54, i49bi ; Silva Gad., p. 372; ib. p. 388.
do <u*acCc£*a<JL'' &UJ[r&&*4#42~
MA XyCdi U* ni HoXAIacI,
SYLLABIC POETRY 15
10. Sndm sebaic (ar chasbairdne) is the name for a variation
of casbairdne, in which the third verse ends in a monosyllable :
lÉi:cétlt * Cenn Escjach na n-aballgort, adba dona lathbechaib, **- *£f : <""" ****'
fttw inlAjf. muine luchair for a lár, itá stab do stiallchlethaib. skatf-eddi *c<aA*n
Other examples, Lismore Lives, p. xxxviii. 24 ; ib. 1. 777.
11. Carn-rannaigecht l mor, 81 + 81 :
A Mathgamain úi Chennglain chóim, a fir ind airm athramail din,
í 4*5 is tu/su ar tigemse-ni tnúith immon Siúir simenbuidi slain. ri~*^.i>uau yrffo
&XL. * ' - - ^^.^
}a£**j., 12. Rannaigecht bee mor (or Cam-dechnaid), 82 + 82:
A maic rig na Cairce a Cualainn, fin duit is mid mailte moidim :
(f«£rM. is frit, a milid/a málainn, dálaim do-ririb ic Rdin'nn. ~**»v~ ■
■ftp» - MhIU^ ruvb^*
*~-M,u*4 13. Druimne súithe na bairdne, 83 + 83 :
tTT^u"a^ ' Tech Duind dámaig, dún'*Congaile, carrac ruadfaebrach £e^J.
xdthaigthe, ^.^^JaJ-
'**"*' ráith rig fri Ian lir féthaigthe, faijjiir, nett grife gxádaigthe. &*f*u>uul,
14. OU-chasbairdne, 8*+84: £f*W r4* Í'*?1*-
^wlu^é^^M^u Ri Achaid Uir ibairdraignig crathaid in luin \ethanmeiiig: é-aW*.
u^túw. ■ í»mI»~*4Í. ocon maigin muiredrnimnig Laigin ina \ebarg-emlib. &C*ti-l*~*4l-<it*4
15. Ai t'dan, q2 + q2 :
«•**"» 4-kfy- A maic húi Chuind, cella do chabair, a glee imm thuind, a thenga JJ^j* ''teusu,
taniain, <xi,&*~a~.,a-*t»"+p-
•JP "3 *l * a m^ic húi Chuind, a chrithre imm chella, a rigthe gerra glassa<2££*A*'-?
16. Suirge mall or rt7/<2z'/- rindaird, 31 + 31 :
Scél lemm dúib : dordaid da7«,
snigid gaim, ro-fáith saw?.
Other examples, RC. 23, p. 412, § 23.
17. Anair or ailair tiniúdach, y + y '■
M*ttuu~, f&k- Scian scothas, rind rethes, fi*» .
Gf****- líaglothas, tind teches. <ú*A íwu.
Uhaim fitoJU. _ " '_
1 The addition of cam [carr) to the name of a metre denotes that an original
metre of six or seven syllables lias been extended to eight syllables.
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18. Trian rannaigechta móire, 41 + 41 :
A~.a~ tein- Aed Ailig uill, orb rígi rain,
recht borrfaid buirr, bare ordain din. vUa~. , dxxju*Uj .
Other examples, RC. 20, p. 132 ; Silva Gad., p. 242.
19. Rannaigecht bee bee, 42 + 42 :
Find ua Buidi, lind i mbl«fc, jj.a^u^^.e^.
í/*^^vu. d&bU. diultad dona, ichtar err^e. <M -**"* i***^| * **~*
j^.fUt^U*4 Another example, Silva Gad., p. 385.
With rhyming caesura this is called senamain ; while sndithe senatnna denotes
a form of this metre in which the noun in caesura is repeated in another case
in the next verse, as :
4JtyU*H- **¥*■-&*» ■ Madcoablajg ablach Arann, if* *e «* «$^ * h**" 4 a**^f!^tí^
mad co Muirgel Muirgel Manann.
20. Lethrannaigecht mor, 51 + 51 :
dMCU** ]jja limm fri each snlm, triár uasal din, <&*■
Athair ocus Mace ocus Spirut woib. /kh^-^**^''7.
Other examples, RC. 20, p. 158, §7 ; ib. 23, p. 41 8, 1 ; LL. i8a,
88% i48a; LU. 119*15; Silva Gad., p. 117, 245, 386; Arch. III.,
p. 222; ib. p. 232. With shortening of the first verse to three
syllables, Lism. Lives, 1. 887.
When the stanza consists of eight verses instead of four, it is called
lethrannaigecht mor chorn'tnach.1
21. Rindaird bee, y + 52 :
A Gilla Cóimgin maic Gilla Chomgaill,
cUiiSrMtA y. a~ ctUi-avd.^ Laignib labraim on dairbrig áondguirm.
Other examples, LL. 297a3i ; Ultan's Hymn on Brigit, Ir. T. I.,
p. 24 ; Ériu II., p. 89 : all scdilie.
22. Blogbairdne, 53 + 53 : - .
6 eJU^d*. Ú4UAJL attain*.
■tCCm-u* m. 9eOua^- A ri ordnidi uasau adamri,
U Hath wU* AW u*e bTd dom chomairli cuairt cen balamli. iyeJU^Jlsi fr i#~^
*.tnZU*l. QtherexampleS) RC> l6> p % * *i*fi W.
23. A stanza of six verses in this metre is called rothm~iallbaird?ie:
^, A £^^ <^*-^*»-Amláib airchjngid Atha airtheraig Erenn 'iathaige, ~U&aJ* Ii^*3-
\J^x^U <u K***e dagri Duiblinde déne duthaige tréne txjajhaige. t*Z<aUt& ■.
t^cuz HyXnS^ -t*>u^.
PpiM.1* ****** ^ l Corriinach generally denotes an extension of a quatrain either to six or
^"* ' eight verses. See Thurneysen, Ir. Versl., p. 132.
SYLLABIC POETRY 17
II.
33 24. Debide scdille. All the verses have seven syllables, and
there is neither rhyme nor consonance between the couplets.
Examples :
(a) Debide scáilte na seel, nl hi-side nád áthgen,
£. *~*6U is j-seo ind aiste bláith brass i ngnáthaigther in sénchtfí.
(b) Mo-chén, a chlaidib Chérbaill, ba menic i raoxcjiglaim, c^£a^~ .- «^
ba menic ac cur chd/ka, ac dlchennad árd'flaf/ia. C^ *
RC. 20, 9.
Note. — In later Middle-Irish the stricter laws of versification (dan direach)
demand that the termination of the couplets (aird-rinn) should exceed that
of the first verse (rimi) exactly by one syllable, as in the examples above ;
while in less strict versification (óglachas) a trisyllable is allowed to rhyme
with a monosyllable.
25. Debide imrind. The couplets rhyme, so that all four verses
are joined by rhyme or consonance. The first verses end in a
monosyllable.
Example : . . s .
M,5'M}'**f Op-sa becán gabsus gieith i tir cháich cen tarfaigid :
wpn.*Uc*~ MtA, . nocho n-acca beólu eich amail beólu ind XÍathainig. Q&dtU- ****&■'
26. Emain imrind. This is a variation of debide imrind, in
which the first verses end in a disyllabic
Example: , (/tuuL .% p~-ÁAn-
pué^f,**^ Is imda dujne ádJa ocus Cl^re cfa^rafa, 1 i+~ski*ux** **-**?
I an u~ds* 4« is imda samthach Id/a ic slúag dabchach D'iarma'hl uo&uL ,*&*£.
27. As in rannaigecht (32. 3), so in debide a verse of three syllables may take
the place of the first verse (debide garit). If the first verse ends in a disy liable,
the metre is called debide cenelach :
m fetor cia lasa faifea Étan, ****■■ ífa* J -tytfid ,frduL *».&*.
'*£- acht rofetar^Etan b<in nochon fáifea a hóenara».
^ UcL. 1«UU ^t- C-" ^ ««»— » CKjn-Y*
* I
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18 IRISH METRICS
28. When both couplets end in a verse of three syllables, the metre is
called debide ecoitchenn. When these three syllables form one word, the
metre is called debide airend :
(*^*~ L*Su UA^***1 RI Ele cuin teit im-mdch sluzigedach,
fnát. I-1"*!, <*" "*"*■ ni tora am-muig is é shin Rfgbardaw. ú.^.uA^i'. #+*A .
****') ttoX£°ÍJ-ip~ &■*« ■
qj^ i*. ***<■ c, ■**■**■ 29. A metre in which the verses of each couplet are joined
by rhythmical rhyme is called debide guilbnech.
*jj&<*~ W. ^^- [a) Debide guilbnech diallach :
In t-en gaires assin thai/, álaind gulbnén is glan gair, &■ **~*t* AjaK.
JU*A. rind bind buide fir duib druin, cass cor cuirther guth ind \uin. *** . *6«~* /
(b) Debide guilbnech recomarcach :
Fiú mór do maith Mael-Fdbaill, inmuin ócri ard álaind,
étrocht bass fo beinn buabaill, buide a folt dar a gualainn.
(c) Debide guilbnech cummaisc (shortened) :
b***M* Nom-geib iérg fri each n-indmas acht mo áélg : fa**L
*e< A dan**. Itt mo delg cia théis triam' démuinn, ferg fri suide nl áérnaím. ' CA****?
I it- 10' $♦«*♦♦*
30. These metres again admit of shortenings, as in debide smitach, which
replaces the first and last verse by a trisyllable. Similarly, debide baisse fi i toin
replaces the first verse by three syllables, the last by a monosyllable, as :
Trúagán trúag, nocho tabair do neuch \uag:
do-beir a n-as cumang dJ : bo.
31. Debide imrind cenntromm1 has eight syllables in each verse,
the first verses ending in a disyllable, the couplets in four-
syllabic words.
Example : uUtt* &*£?"
A maic Flannacáin úi Chéllaig, a ri in tire tdicetbennaig,
í~ixí*íuA-íá#J- a gabáil sréin brainig be'nnaig 6s muing airig dicelphellaig. ai&t - 1^***
1 The addition of cenntromm to the name of a metre denotes the extension of
the end-rhyme from three to four syllables.
SYLLABIC POETRY
III.
34. A. Stanzas with rhyming couplets, containing heterosyllabic
verses and homosyllabic verse-ends.
32. Dechnadfo/a, 82 + 62.
Masat almai co ndath almai, nidat almai chdilbo,
UntA^iiiuJa., atá fer bec 5ertas faebra for muin cecha hoinbo.
When a third couplet is added, the metre is called dechnad fota fordalach :
U~4 ■ ant lh- Darlimm llIdat fr0SSa snechta> acht mad fir bic h£CJía, i*U&t : e**U^^
Hm^^.ou^*'^- atát ina ngrmdi garta flas na rindi rechta, ***-& ^^k^wfjU^^^r '
AfkiciA. W. fiinu^u. i-A fer fo each starga chiuaid chorcra, is adbul ind elta. *?^^ •" \***t- <fl >**jtL»
33. Dechnad mor, 82 + 5= : ^'
Cuir fáilti frimm, a ri Róirenn, a lind buidi biiaball,
tocM, ■ 'tc~*ui~c. a fflas ar oscaraib Erenn, a chostadaig Cualann ! atstn***& 1 .
34. Snedbairdne, 82 4 4-' :
U^-.SeUMvuhJZ, Rq-_dál foraib Crist mac Muire, mod ax-canat, 4„-c**~c*~,<> •**£&.
:*~nz( :a6"~4a~*a. inrról tocaid ocus ordan ocus anai. Arch. III. p. 29^
ficAd.'tu<^i(^ic^.. Ui~tfj \ mite* ***
Other examples, LL. p. 3V, 45*1, 21 ; 45b39, i8ia, 182% 183';
YBL. p. ig6b ; O'Grady, Cat., p. 510; Anecd. I., p. 50.
35. This metre may be varied by placing the four-syllabic verse first
(ollbairdne Ruatnainn, a2 4- 83), or by alternately placing it first or last
{dechnad cummaisc) :
A n-asbermais iarna corai, cruth as áeiniu, sl%& 0*0 Jb
rH.-fci* ni fil fo grain fairind find féil basid ieiliu. v**-1*-'- irf- ■ J& a^, ktnt .
[AOjJfc^oJC^ Itulcc'LvilyjL Arch. III. p. 297. ^!>w. ?s?. ^.
fcitjwcouw \Ultt). "" *»*»- . . C&haC.
' ' 36. Dechnad mrechtfelesach or cro cummaisc etir rannaigecht moir ht^u^^uj-.
ocus sruth di aill, 81 + 41 : .HHE3" a^/U^
A Flaind, at tualaing gaiscid grind co Maistin ma/7/, "^'n icUue).
at glan, at gáeth, is garg do rind, at láech, a Flaind I
c 2
&UJL»U Mb * HctÁ^JÍMÚn One*/ u~t.
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37. Cummasc etir rannaigecht moir ocus lethrannaigecht, 71 + 51.
LL. 37oei7 :
Fil and étach meicc ind Rig ro-ches ar cech din,
fil and ind fuil ferr cech fin dolluid assa ihoib.
Another example : Lismore Lives, 11. 3502 ff.
38. Cro cummaisc elir rannaigecht moir ocus sruth di aill, 71 + 31 :
"**#'5fí*4^^2í^Conchobar cath mergech mór tentech txén, ft*****-
{t**~^ diburgud d'arm rindech ruad grindech ger. Oj^,uJ£^<.
*&*\ 39. Bairdnefodesin, 52 + 62 :
Cé gabtha Góidil gáir fer nErenn uiUe, M .>\«**t ; y*^ *«**■. I"***"
? consni cert clainde sil Cuind co Tuaig iuinde. IZasl 4l*nt fp* ******
35 B. Stanzas with rhyming couplets, containing homosyllabic
verses and heterosyllabic verse-ends.
40. Dian mid'se?ig chcnntromm (cf. p. 18 note), 82 + 84 : tzJl -iatÁ~u**L*
Mácl-Sechlaind mac Domnaill dathgil, dorn i Tailtin \.i'dggjdnaig\^ljnt^'
p. a y*~*c;w&* daig ná daim crannchor, mo chara, anfad mara múlbratánaig. "***"
41. Aefresligc, 7s + 7s
vvte*~-A
A chell cháem, ro-chualamar do chlárcen chrád, cen chrédim : «*£de** ;/}.-
nl hamlaid ro-fuaramar mar atá a tasc fo Erinn. ^i^$>^tLa^a.. '
Other examples, LL. p. 43b7 ; RC. 24, p. 182, 1 ; Acall. 1. 726 if,
1839 ff, 2210 if.; Zeitschr. v., p. 21 ; Eriu ii., p. 92 ; O'Grady, Cat.,
p. 601.
42. Aefreslige bee, with shortening of the first verse to three syllables :
I mBennchur atá Mongan mac Yuichna, . 1
&K4LAMM. 1. a.L*>LU.''vl*B'- is leis atá Conchobur ar grafaind scailte %<úathcha. M "" ^TÍJij^ , ítítttúu .
Imr. Brain, p. 86.
43. Ae freslige aicclech (cf. \ 19, 1) :
ffni( ^ lAmjfi . Descert Laigen longpjiortach, limtha an-airm rigni xuada, ^\*x*^-,
clanda fiuda Fe'rgusa, fir dia ndénius-sa átlana.
44. Cro cummaisc etir rannaigec/i/ moir ocus casbairdni, 'f + 71:
£Uu x In^p**.- A hui Scelin scurtemail, a scol cille cinn ar chin/i,
oat- &8L*m&. : a folt gobann gatbemnig, a chorann macclerig xxxinn. -i****. ; A«4^
^*-- Jfc-s-4- f^at**-^ "^'T4*
SYL L A ETC POETRY 2 1
45. Forditan, y + -j3 :
'*^,c**i Dairbre deligthe Dairbri, ili aidbli Sssoca, *u*-t.- a *#*~u^ éL*sm.
sló - ciU*~»* ■■ *-■ ■ eóchrann ocláechda uiljech direch duillech áóssfota. u»tu te€f
lu**>. 46. Dian air'seng or ciimmasc rannaigechta moire ocus casbairdne,
f + fl
Ond aidchi dos-fuc a fer ro-bái a teg i tdimgire, - &*&■'*>'■ £*-*&•
'ia^'coZ***?- taitnem rindnime do rot, findbile oc dinglide.
Other examples, Tochm. Ferbe, 1. ioo if.
47. Rannaigecht chtimmaisc or dechubaid fota, 71 + j2:
Ba ed ascnam isin flaith mad dia ndernta a chqmol, A&^*f-u- u~**~».
in Ri beres breith for each, a sere ocus a anion.
48. The same metre, with shortening of the first verse to
three syllables :
Clocán bind benar i n-aidchi gaithe,
ba ferr limm dola ina dáil indás i ndáil mná bilithe.
49. Sembairdne, 53 + 5%
50. Da trian rannaigechta f/wire, 4* + 4*4- 41, a stanza of six verses.
51. Sndm suad, 31 + 31 + 31 + 3s, a stanza of eight verses :
In t-én bee ro-léc fet do rind guib g\dnb.uidi, l^f^- «f^°-
aciy. fo-cerd faid os Loch Laig londochráib cdrrbuidi. -uefiUtj,
36 C. Stanzas with rhyming couplets, containing heterosyllabic
verses and verse-ends.
52. Dian tnid'seng (seudna ?nhdr, according to O'Molloy),
82 + 73. O'Grady, Catalogue, p. 413:
D' Fir chocaid chomaillter sithcháin, senfocal nách sdraig/her,
Wh? lVI nI faghXann sith acht fer iaghla fedh Banbha na vabanfoithredh. t&+-ff»*f*
Other examples, ib. p. 415 ; Silva Gad., p. 373 ; ib. 388, ,1. 30.
This is the metre which Thurneysen regards as the source of
most Irish rhythms. See RC. vi., p. 3366°.
Note. — In all sctrad [seudna) metres the internal rhyme called aiccill (j 19, 1)
is obligatory. There is often alliteration between the word in caesura and the
first word of the following verse.
22 IRISH METRICS
53. Setrad mbr or fota {seudna, according to O'Molloy),
82 + 71 :
Son a gotha Coluim Chille, mór a binne os each cteir:
co cenn cóic cét deác cémmenn, aidble rémmenn, ed ba réil. ^,'tSLiwv-
Other examples, RC. 20,168, 1.2; LL.p.i36bis; O'Gr. Cat. p. 423;
ib. p. 472 ; ib. p. 507 ; ib. p. 5 39 ; Silva Gad. p. 287 ; Book of
Rights, p. 32 ; Archiviii., p. 241. Fél. lxxiii. 32. Zeitschr. vi. p. 271.
fc*^**- 54. Setrad ngabldnach, io8 + 91.
[ ■ Mijjand<t&H a gilla leochaille Lecaig Mo-laise, a leca cuirre garbglaise -' (&*+»■
w* .a cuw _ gnan,
jj * CUc a gg^^g corcra) a chac ar maslaid, a rethe folta fásaig ar ^ £****..
{lad.
55. Ollbreccad dene cenntriiimme, 82 + io4.
56. Seudna mheadhonach (O'Molloy), 83 + f.
<v4uy.d4.-d4. Ferr silled na salm nemdaide do^nithi ar lepthaib \inne ;
u*a£. : fo.t..*«nru* maira: dogeib in nglóir n-étarbaig, óid ar brécsalmaib hinne*
57. O/tbairdne, 42 + 83.
Archiv hi., p. 234 (Goffraidh ó Clérig cecinit) : .^.
LdUjtA^^UtG^, Dligid lasacht a indlacud re aiarba, £.'**.-&»&*) 1
ZZá&t Cs^e*?- ni hé as innraic inte nach indlaic a acqrda. ft/dpfr
In the following example the first verse varies between
41 and 4- :
A Ri na rig, is tu mo din, mo dindbile, Ítu**íiu.
■aa^ SUt uUia. :\cu^ amlat uile, a Maic Muire ingine. & &.«•*/<**«« i^^i
58. Setrad mbaccacfi, 83 + 51 :
Goll Mena do muintir Grácáin, Gall ac cnu&sach cno, taK£*+~4'
ballán i mbl bainne lomma da]la Dromma Bó. Áaíss^, : fa ^
59. Setrad ngarit, 82 + 31. ^*lT^'
LL. p. 1 74* :
utk ******* "} Táncamar fri himluad n-athisc duit, a rf,
ó Meidb is 0 Ailill amra, calma a erf. $i*4h.
Other examples, LL. p. 302''; King and Hermit, p. 14 ff. ;
LB. p. 2621; Book of Rights, p. 168 ; Aisl. Meic C., p. 81, 1.
SYLLABIC POETRY 23
60. Dechnaid aicclech (cf. §19, 1) cummaisc, 41 + 82 :
-K<^.i*i« A óclaig óic, nocho n-urusa do thajjulir, na^ns^eL .
is mór do nert, is acut atá cert Cdthdtr.
61. D'mn air sen g impoid, 43+8'(cf. no. 46):
A Erennaig, do drochrannaib is lomnán dorn, C^i ^t^"^L^<^*t^^
a Albanaig, a Lochlannaig, a gqblán gorm ! $ - a u~A££fprk.
62. Cro cummaisc etir casbairdne octis lethrannaigecht, 7' + 51..
LL. p. 47a:
^j"^ Cerball Currig ch'áem-Life, clod catha for Cojid, *eaAtt^\f^emAJL
la aicsin a áebdreche ar-bath Cnogba corn (^e^^^MLG^á..
Other examples, Eriu, i. p. 122; ii. p. 55; iii. p. 13 ; Táin Bó
Cúalnge, ed. Windisch, 1. 3624; Acall. 1. 2956 if.; ib. 6415 ff . ;
Silva Gad., p. 160; ib. 214; Lismore Lives, 1. 782; Book of
Fenagh, p. 182 ; Book of Rights, p. 62 ; Zeitschr. vi. p. 271.
63. At freslige ar dechnaid, 63 4- 52 (cf. no. 41) :
*m..a ttútf . Miscais na ngataige gebas tech Temra, 4 &** • 0Sn- í^ v^6**
>W£«. S,c~*f^. sraigles na slataige, séig foltfind Ytrna. b ■*.&**+*, <"d*h ta ****
Other examples, Book of Rights, p. 136; Battle of Mag Lena,
p. 122, 63+5\ SG. i., p. 384.
64. Itmnardbairdne, 63 + 41. .
LL. p. 8"Hi: l^ '
IUl»**Mp»"\V* q Lumnech longadbal, lethan a \ár, c~^ÁtA un1U *ufr>
l- ttu nl^vi A***** ■ co Drobáis dronearmilan ris' ...
xJluuuJL •***&** . isu.fi-
65. Cro cummaisc etir rindaird ocus lethrannaigecht, b~ + 51.
/. *u ru^o) A***** - co Drobáis drongarmglan ris' tiben ml. -t^Lt <^i«. cs*+~*<U -%
LL. p. 4b, 6 :
Do-luid anair Cessair, ingen Be_tha in ben, -»- £«&- -
cona cóicait ingen, cona triúr ier.
Other examples, Lismore Lives, p. xviii, 1. 9. A metre 63 + 5 J
occurs in Silva Gad., p. 384.
24 IRISH METRICS
66. Anair irebrat'd1 or imbas forosna, 61 + 52 or 3' + 31 + 31 4- 22 :
Fégaid úaib sair fo-thuaid in muir muaid mllach, wwW&i£*í-
*fantz*>e. adba rón rebach ran ro-gab Ian \fnad. tUtU*. * faitf
67. Mimasc, 4s + b1 :
In acabair Aed Connachta 'sind dth ? P^-K- » bu***^ "■ . %• . _
atcondcamar cid a sciath ar a scJ/jfc.
68. Loid trebraid bee, 5'+ 4s (eight verses in the stanza).
Stanzas of different structure
37. Only a few out of a large number of complicated metres are
here given. For a fuller account see Thurneysen, I.e. p. 158 ff.
69. Loid litascach is an extension of debide scáilte (no. 24), to
which it adds a fifth verse rhyming with the second.
Otia Merseiana, II. p. 82 :
Is Ian ler, is lomnán muir, is álaind ind éthqjjbruig, *** \jZ%ks.
ro-lá curu jn gáeth gdnmech imm Inber na da dfitnech, */*****.
'«^ is Lúath lúi fri léíhanmuir. <*■■ P* *****
70. In a certain group of metres called eochraid, a number
of verses of like structure is at regular intervals interrupted by
a verse of shoi'ter structure. If the former end in trisyllables,
they are as a rule without rhyme, which is confined to the
intervening short verses.
Eochraid citicsrethaid, 4 x 63 + 41 || 4 x 63 + 41 :
^*% Coimdiu and cumachtach,
?***• Crist cain, ar clothbile,
comarba nóibnime,
*» . * />Vve~*jt&«*n nertaid flal firinne
^.p.sHp&^uvU fri ferba iqth, (w. ^uhx*^í) \»*&í.
Trebraid is used to denote the occurrence of consonance throughout.
SYLLABIC POETRY 25
mac Maire ingine,
Isu ard airechda,
ar n-ardflaith oirdnide,
n betha ic breithemnas
ar brig do bráth. *» \»-«* J" ****'
71. Rtcne dechubaid, 3 x 63 + 41 || 3 x 63 + 41.
Archiv, iii., p. 217 ; ib. 219 ; Rev. Celtique, xv., p. 302.
Other arrangements :
3 * 62 + 51 II 3 x 62 + 51, Silva Gad., p. 382.
3 x 73 + 51 || 3 x 73 + 51, LL. p. 2g8b ; Book of Fenagh, p. 19+ ;
Aisl. Meic Congl., p. 81, 19.
2 x 73 + 51 || 2 x 73 + 51, Aisl. Meic Congl., p. 35.
72. If, however, the larger lines end in disyllables or mono-
syllables, they rhyme within either half of the stanza.
<?W^ Cfc^. -~~.Tlcim 0 Chlúain cheMnd; *& - ^ ■" ■— t -— ^
Ochtfoclach mor, 3 x 62 + 51 || 3 x 62 + 5'
Can as tic mac Yegind ? :
lar légad mo \egind
tegim sis co Sor</.' <---£ Sto*^d^.
' Indis scéla Ch'iatta ! '
' Indisfet 'na cua/a :
sinnaig imm a hilaga ua% :t€>
1/*. P,f>^. 1 líu^. .ethait bxuana bolg.' ate. K $ •&*""»"* '* *******'
Other examples, LL. J 95b36 (Rev. Celt. xv. 422) ; Táin Bó C.,r&3««i*.
11. 3035, 3258> 33°9> 33!9. 3349; Rev. Celt. vi. 176 ; ib. xv. 319;
ib. xxiii. 42b, §48 ; Silva Gad., p. 382.
Other arrangements :
2 x 62 + 51 || 2 x 62 4- 51, Zeitschr. vi , p. 257.
2 x 42 + 31 || 2 x 42 + 31, Aisl. Meic Congl., p. 79, 7.
73. Lethmimasc is a very artificial metre with debide rhyme
arranged as follows: 32 + 72 || 71 + 31 || 7s + 71.
Í4 w «ui Nlrb ingnad j tig Chunnmáil'cháilftw;/^ ^^fy t&bmf ^
salann for arán cen imm. Is ménann tiiun^a^^^x^a^iiut _
■4z*4&u*.,i<L»i , ro-secc feóil a muintire amail seccas ruse imm chrann. Q-*H.i\i~LJ, s
u\Kkn ■
26 IRISH METRICS
74. Droignech is the name of a metre consisting of stanzas
of four verses with trisyllabic ending. Each verse may contain
from nine to thirteen syllables. The second and fourth verses
rhyme. The concluding words of the first and third verses must
rhyme with a word in the next verses, and consonate with the
end-rhymes.
O'Grady, Catalogue, p- 399 :
aty4n1Liit*~*4*,v* Degsamhail Ghuaire, fiorthobar1 in f loroinigh, vdLáú*,'}'"*** .
****** ,(&i**«.-Cttl>i. ctochotghir in chriochslóigh as buaine fa bhtianfolaibh, t££££jw
ua na gcaithbheodhach as córa do Ghaoidhealaibh, ccaJU\um>1&**&
a* . a £*rM« 6uk» fiaithlepghan don ikaoirfeadhain as cródha dá gcualabhair,
1 stiorthúir, O'Gr. wrthoir, fiorthoir MSS.
APPENDIX
The Poets of Ireland
Abach fili (Dindsenchas §34)
Adamnán mac Rónáin 1704
Adnae mac Uthidir 1. cent.
Aed Albanach (Abbott, Cat. p. 288)
Aed Allan 8. cent.
Aedh Buidhe mac Cruitin 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxx)
Aed Find 9. cent. (Anecdota i, p. 74)
Aedh mac Ainghil (Hugh McCowell) 19. cent.
Aedh mac an Bhaird 18. cent.
Aedh mac an Bhaird mac Nuadhad j-1522
Aedh mac Baethghalaigh mhic Flannchadha f 1 575
Aedh mac Domhnaill 18. cent. (Gael. J. xvi, p. 2io,b 225b)
Aedh mac Samhradháin (Gabhráin) 17/18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
p. 577; Gael. J. xiv, p. 855»)
Aedh 'Og mac Craith 15. cent.
Aedh Ollabhar ua Carthaigh 12. cent. (LL. p. iggh)
Aedh Ruadh mac Mathghamhna f'453
Aedh ua Cobhthaig mac an Chlasaigh fi452
Aedh ua Dálaigh 18. cent.
Aedh ua Dálaigh Bréifne 11438 (AU.)
Aedh ua Domhnaill 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxvii)
Aedh ua Huiginn mac Briain mhic Fearghail Ruaidh 11487
Aed ua Raithnén FM. 954
Aedacán mac Finnachta ollam Leithe Cuind (TF. p. 176)
Aedhagán ua Rathaille +1726
Aedán ua Melláin (RC. 13, p. 436")
28 APPENDIX
Aengus Céle Dé, see Aengus mac Aengobann
Aengus Fionn ua Dálaigh f 1 570
Aengus mac Aengobann maic Oiblén 8/9. cent.
Aengus mac Aengusa f93o (Ir. T. iii, p. 8)
Aengus mac Craith ^1461
Aengus mac Díchóime 6. cent. (Otia Merseiana iii, p. 47)
Aengus mac Máildúin maic Aeda maic Néill (RC. vi, p. 183)
Aengus mac Suibne (Rawl. B. 502, p. 72'')
Aengus na diadhachta, see Aengus Fionn ua Dálaigh
Aengus na n-áer, see Aengus Ruadh mac Amhlaoibh
Aengus ollam mac Ailello maic Labrada (Ir. T. iii, p. 364)
Aengus Ruadh mac Amhlaoibh ua Dhálaigh (an Bard Ruadh)
fi6i7
Aengus Ruadh ua Dálaigh "("1350
Aengus ua Dálaigh fi268
Aengus ua Dálaigh Cairbreach 11507
Aengus ua Dálaigh mac Cerbhaill Bhuidhe (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 353,
361) JI420
Aenghus ua Dálaigh mac Daighre 16. cent. (Hard, ii, p. 280;
Gael. J. ix, 36ib; O'Gr. Cat. p. 504; Abbott, Cat. p. 301)
Aengus ua Heodhusa tI35°
Aengus ua Heodhusa mac Seáin 11480
'Ai mac Olloman (Ir. T. iii, pp. 34, 65 ; Lism. fo. i2 5b2)
Ailbe Imblecha 5. cent.
Ailill 'Olum fca. 230
Aindiles ua Clumháin (FM. 1170)
Aindrias mac Craith (an Mangaire Súgach) 18. cent.
Aindrias mac Cruitin 18. cent.
Aindrias mac Marcuis1 16/17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 397)
Aindrias mac Mathghamhna
Aindrias magUidhir 17. cent.
Aingleach ua Domhnalkiin 14. cent.
Airbertach mac Coisse-dobráin fioi7 (LL. p. 135")
Aircion mac Crannchair na long (O'Gr. Cat. p. 591)
Amairgen Glúngel mac Miled
Amairgen mac Amalgado 6. cent.
O'R. p. clxvii calls him Angus mac Marcus.
THE POETS OF IRELAND 29-
Amairgen mac Ecetsalaig (CZ. iii, p. 15)
Amhlaoibh mac Firbhisigh f 1 362
Amhlaoibh Mór mac Firbhisigh fiijS
Anér mac Conglinne 8. cent.
Anluan mac Aedhagáin 17. cent.
Anmchaid (LL. p. 316c)
Annach mac Duibinse maic Chaibdenaig maic 'Enna maicNéill
Nóigíallaig 6. cent.
Anraoi mac Amhlaoibh 18. cent.
Antoine Cuillean 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccviii)
Antoine ua Reachtabhra f 1 835
Art mac Bingheacht (Gael. J. 14, p. 6q^.b)
Art mac Cobhthaigh (Cumhaidh, Cudhaidhe) (Arthur M'Covey)
i7'5-i773 (Gael. J. x, 251')
Art Mór ua Murchadha 18. cent. (Gael. J. xiv, pp. 75 5b, y6Sb)
Art 'Og ua Caoimh 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxviii)
Athairne Ailgesach mac Athgló 1. cent. (RC. viii, p. 48; Ir.
T. iii, p. 65)
Athairne ua Heodhusa mac Seáin f^Sg
Báetach ua Búirecháin (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Báithín mac Cúanach 6. cent.
Báithín mac Brénainn maic Fergusa ua Muiredaig 536-599
(Gael. J. iv, p, 229b)
Banbán éices (Hib. Min. p. 46)
Baothghalach Dubh mac Aodhagáin 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
P- 542)
Baothghalach (Boetius) Ruadh mac Aodhagáin (O'R. p. civ)
Bard Bóinne 1931 (FM.)
Bard Maile (LL. p. i52b)
an Bard Ruadh, see Aengus Ruadh mac Amhlaoibh
Bébhionn inghean ui Maoilchonaire 1 1 39 1
Bee Boirche jjiS
Bee mac Dé (druad) 1551 (Tig.)
Bécán mac Cúla 5. cent. (Fél.2 pp. 6, 112)
Bécán mac Luigdech 6. cent. (Laud 615, p. 1 14)
Benén mac Sescnéin 1468
Berchán 6. cent.
30 APPENDIX
Bladhmac mac Conbretan mheic Congusa 14th cent. (O'R.
p. cxii)
Boetius Ruadh mac Aodhagáin 17. cent.
Braccán Clóen 7. cent. (O'Mulc. 108)
Braccán of Ard Braccáin 7 cent.
Brénainn Clúana Ferta f577
Bressal briuga (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Brian Caoch ua Dálaigh 16. cent. (O'R., p. cxxxiv)
Brian Dorcha mac Conmidhe 11582
Brian Dorcha mac Solaimh mhic Chonmidhe "("1542
Brian Dubh ua Raghallaigh 18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxix ; O'Gr.
Cat. pp. 66, 579, 602)
Brian mac Eoghain Mhaoil ua Domhnalláin 11582 (O'Gr. Cat.
pp. 344,401)
Brian mac Giolla Meidhre, see Brian Merriman
Brian mac Roibeird mhic Aedhagáin ollamh Ui Chonchobhair
Dhuinn 7 Ui Ainlighi fi473
Brian mac Toirdhealbhaigh mhic Ghiolla Phádraig 17. cent.
(O'Gr. p. 653)
Brian Merriman ti8o8
Brian 'Og mac Briainmhic Dhomhnaill Chaim ua Huiginn 11505
Brian 'Og mac Briain Ruaidh mac Conmidhe f 1 5 16
Brian Reabhach ua Cléirigh fl. 1730
Brian Ruadh mac Conmidhe 15. cent.
Brian ua Cathaláin 19. cent.
Brian ua Flaithbheartaigh 18. cent.
Brian ua Huidir fer dána do Thrian Chonghail 11485
Brian ua Huiginn mac Ferghail Ruaidh ti47° (Ferm. 1 17^)
Briccne mac Brigni (LL. p. 3 1 ib)
Briccne mac Cairbri in biltenga (CZ. p. iii, 16)
Brigit ingen Dubthaig 1525
Brigit ban'fili 7 bandrui ingen Echdach Ollathir (O'Mulc. 159
LL. p. 187° ; Corm. s.v. Brigit)
Broccán Cráibdech 10. cent. (LL. p. 43b)
an Bromach ua Muireadhaigh (O'Gr. Cat. rj. 586)
in Chaillech Béirri 8. cent.
in Chaillech Laigen (Tig. a.d. 604)
THE POETS OF IRELAND 31
Caillin mac Niatach 5. cent.
Cáilte mac Rónáin 3. cent.
Cainnech moccu Dálon 1598
Cairbre Cluchechair (LL. p. 3 1 2a)
Cairbre fili mac Ailella Máir (Acall. 2551 ; Fél.2 p. 148)
Cairbre Lifechair mac Cormaic 3. cent. RC. 12, 70.
Cairbre mac Briain ua Huiginn 11505
Cairbre mac Etnai (Etaine) (Crithinbél) (LL. 11* 29; CZ. iii,
p. 16 ; Ir. T. iii, p. 65 ; Corm. Tr. pp. 37, 144)
Cairnech 6. cent.
Cathal Buidhe mac Giolla Ghunna 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14, p. 8o9b)
Cathal mac Muireadhaigh 17. cent. (H. 3. 18, p. 694)
Cathal ua Fearadhaigh (Gael. J. 14, p. 799")
Cathal ua Heislionnáin 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccix)
Cathán ua Duinnin 14. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 51, 564)
Cathaoir mac Cába 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 575; Brooke,
P- 307)
Cathbad drúi 1. cent.
Ceallach mac Cruitín f 1 373
Ceallach ua Maelchorgais 999 (FM.)
Ceallach ua Ruanada 11079 (LL. p. 38».)
Ceannfáelad na foglama mac Ailella maic Báetáin |6?9
Ceannfaelad ua Cuill ollam Muman 11048
Ceannfaeladh ua Cuill f 1 507
Ceanngégáin (Ir. T. iii. p. 101)
Cearbhall Buidhe mac Taidhg mhic Aengusa Fionnabhraigh ua
Dálaigh 11245
Cearbhall Fionn ua Dálaigh
Cearbhall mac Conchobhair ua Dálaigh (Ferm. 78*1)
Cearbhall óg ua Dálaigh 17. cent. (H, 4. 26, p. 118)
Cearbhall ua Dálaigh (Maccaomh Innse Creamha) 11404
Hard. I, p. 356)
Cearbhallán ua Ceallaigh 18. cent.
Cearmna fili 8. cent.
Cessirne fili Cuinn Chétchathaig 2. cent.
Cethern mac Fintain 3. cent.
Cethernach ua Catháin
32 APPENDIX
Céile Dabaill mac Scannláin 1927
Cian ua Mathghamhna 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxcvii)
Cíarán mac in tSáir fs49
Cináed ua Hartacáin 1975
Ciothruadh mac Athairne ui Eodhusa -f 1 5 1 8
Ciothruadh mac Rithbheartaigh 11478
an Clasach ua Cobhthaig fi4i5
Clothna mac Aengusa primFile 'Erenn fioo9 (LL. p. 37°)
Cobthach mac Sáergaile (Ir. T. iii, p. 66)
Cobhthach ua Carmain fl, 1300
Cóemgen Glinne Dá Locha |6i 7
Coireall mac Curnáin (Abbott, Cat. pp. 291, 307)
Colgu mac Connacán f87 1
Colgu ua Dúinechdo 1796 •
Colla mac Seáin 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxx)
Colmán mac Coimgelláin (CZ. iii, p. 15)
Colmán mac Fergusa (TF. a.d. 610)
Colmán mac Léníne |6o4 (Corm. Tr. pp. 10, 42 ; RC. xx, p. 40
Lism. L. pp. 63, 210)
Colmán moccu Chlúasaig |662 (Corm. Tr. p. 82 ; TF. p. bo)
Colmán ua Seasnáin 11. cent.
Colum Cille fS97
Colum Wallace 19. cent.
Comgall Bennchuir 517-602
Comgán, see Mac Dá Cherda
Commán mac Fáelchon 8. cent. (23 N 10, p. 93)
Conaing Buidhe ua Maoilchonaire f 1 3 1 4. ('Eriu ii, p. 163)
Conaing Buidhe ua Maoilchonaire fi42o (O'R. p. cxx)
Conall Menn a.d. 703 (TF.)
Conán mac Morna 3. cent.
Conchobhar Cam ua Dálaigh Cairbreach 17. cent.
Conchobhar Crón ua Dálaigh 16. cent. (CZ. ii, p. 330)
Conchobhar mac Criomhthainn 18. cent. (H. 4. 15, p. 680)
Conchobhar mac Nessa 1. cent.
Conchobhar 'Og mac Flannchadha 11483
Conchobhar Ruadh mac an Bhaird1 f 1 54.1
1 AnotherConor Roe mac an Bhaird is mentioned bv O'R. p. clxvii, a.d. i6oí.
THE POETS OF IRELAND 33
Conchobhar Ruadh mac Conmidhe f 148 1 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 342)
Conchobhar uaBriain 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 572 ; Gael. J. x, 22b)
Conchobhar ua Cellaigh 13. cent.
Conchobhar ua Coragán fl. 1690 (O'R. p. ccii)
Conchobhar (Maighistir) ua Ríordáin 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14,
p. 6oob)
Conchobhar ua Súilliobháin 18. cent. (Munster Poets, p. 306)
Congal mac Echdach Feidlig (O'R. p. xvi)
Conn mac Seáin ua Néill (Egerton 155, p. 153)
Cormac (Dall) Common 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 576 ; Brooke,
P- 307)
Cormac fili (LL. p. 28") = Cormac mac Cuilennáin ?
Cormac mac Airt 3. cent.
Cormac mac Cearbhaill mhic Chonmidhe 16. cent.
Cormac mac Cuilennáin tgo8
Cormac mac Eoghain ua Dálaigh 16. cent. (Ferm. 1 2 1 ai )
Cormac mac Fearghail mhic an Bhaird fiS34
Cormac mac Gillacholuim ua Huiginn 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
pp. 344, 447)
Cormac na casbairne ua Dálaigh (O'Gr. Cat. p. 331)
Cormac ua Cianáin fi5o8
Cormac ua Cuirnín oide éiges n'Eirenn f 1475
Cormac ua Líatháin (Reeves' Columba p. 264, Gorm. p. xi)
Cormacán éces mac Máelebrigte 1946
an Cosnamhach mac Fearghail mhic Donnchadha Duibh mhic
Aedhagáin 11529
Crechduile (i nAlbain, RC. 26, p. 8)
Créde ingen Gúairi 7. cent.
Crichenbél cáinte, see Cairbre mac Etnai
Crittine fili (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Crónán 7. cent. (Adamn. i, 42)
Crossán Finn, see Maol'Isa Crossán Finn
Cruittine (LL. p. 1 86*25, Corm. Tr. p. 102)
Cúán ua Lothcháin "[1024
Cú-Bretan mac Congusa (Tig. a.d. 721)
Cú-choigcríche macTuathail Bhuidhe ua Duigeannáin 17. cent.
(O'R. p. cxc)
Cú-choigríche (Peregrine) ua Clérigh fi664
D
34 APPENDIX
Cú-chollchoille ua Báigelláin fmg
Cú-Chonnacht mac Maoilsechlainn ua Dálaigh f. 1590 (O'R.
p. cxlviii)
Cú-Chonnacht mac Rithbheartaigh f 1 465
Cu-Chonnacht mac Rithbheartaigh 11524
Cu-Chonnacht mac Tairdhealbhaigh Bhuidhe (Book of the Dean
of Lismore)
Cu-Chonnacht na scoile ua Dálaigh fi 139
Cú-chuimne 1746
Cuigne mac Emoin (Arch, iii, p. 226)
Cuimmine Condeire 1658
Cuimmine Fota f66i
Cuirell mac Curnáin
Cuirither mac Doborchon 7. cent.
Cú-mara mac Mic Liag 11030
Cundedán (Lism. L. p. 107)
Cu-temin mac Aigile (Hy Fiach. p. 40)
Cú-Uladh mac an Bhaird fi. 1600 (O'R. p. clix)
Da-chiaróc (FM. a.d. 1166)
Dá Choca (Hib. Min. p. 46)
Dáibhídh mac Gearailt (Gael. J. 14, p. 693»)
Dáibhídh (Dáth) mac Pádraig ua Hiarlaithe 18. cent. (Gael. J.
14, p. 799a)
Dáibhídh ua Bruadair 1650-1693
Dáibídh ua Murchadha 17. cent. (Hard, i, pp. 228, 337)
Daighre ua Dálaigh ca. 1600
in Dall Clárenech, see Gilla Modhuda na Casaide
Dall mac Cuarta, see Séamus Dall
in Dall ua Lonáin airdfile 7 airdsenchaid na Muman fio64
Dalian Forgaill1 6. cent.
Dalian mac Machacáin maic Echthigirn (Dinds. §21)
Dalian mac More 9/10. cent. (LL. p. 47% 52b)
Daniel ua Liathaide |86i
Dathen éces (LU. p. 32*6, RC. 16, p. 279)
1 Dalian mac Alia maic Ere maic Feradaig, CZ. iii, p. 15.
THE POETS OF IRELAND 35
an Deagánach mac Conmidhe fi525
Dennis, see Donnchadh
Derccu glasfili comalta Cairpri maic Néill (Rawl. B. 502,
p. I2+a)
Derg mac Drethail (O'Gr. Cat. p. 592)
Diarmaid Innsi Clothrann (LB. 26 ia)
Diarmaid mac an Bhaird fl. 1590 (O'R. p. cxlix)
Diarmaid mac Cárrthaigh (Gael. J. 14, p. 7o8b)
Diarmaid mac Cearbhaill (LL. p. i49b)
Diarmaid mac Conchobhair mhic Dhiarmada mhic Seáin mac
Bruaidedha 11563
Diarmaid mac Craith f 1 4. 1 1
Diarmaid mac Eoghain mhic Mhathghamhna ua Dálaigh ollamh
Fear Midhe uile fi448
Diarmaid mac Lughadha mhic an Bhaird fl. 1690 (O'R. p. cci)
Diarmaid mac Muircheadhaigh (Abbott, Cat. p. 316)
Diarmaid mac Seáin ua Conaill 19. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p. 21 ia)
Diarmaid mac Taidhg Chaim ua Cléirigh "(-1522
Diarmaid 'Og (?) mac Domhnaill mhic Finghin Chaoil ua
Súilleabhain 17/18. cent.
Diarmaid 'Og ua Maoilchonaire 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxii)
Diarmaid 'Og ua Murchadha (Gael. J. xiv, p. 757s)
Diarmaid ua Briain 16/17. cent. (O'R. p. clxiii)
Diarmaid ua Cobhthaigh fl. 1584 (O'R. p. cxlv)
Diarmaid ua Curnáin 18. cent. (Gael. J. 3, p. 22, 47)
Diarmaid ua Duibhne 3. cent.
Diarmaid ua Floinn 19. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 563)
Diarmaid ua Hiffernáin (Book of the Dean)
Diarmaid (Darby) ua Riain (Gael. J. iii, 55*)
■ Diarmaid Ruadh ua Muireadhaigh fl. 1690 (O'R. p. cci)
Digdi, see Caillech Béirri
Dírengdrái (Arch, ii, p. 142 ; SG. p. 93, 28 ; Ir. Texts Soc. vii,
p. 10)
Doiminic Cosgar
Doiminic ua Mongáin 18. cent. (Munster Poets, p. 344)
Domhnall Carrach mac Eochadha 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxlv)
Domhnall Cnuic an Bhile mac Carthaigh (Ferm. 26ai ; H. 4. 15,
p. 89)
36 APPENDIX
Domhnall Faire ua Gormáin 18. cent. ?
Domhnall Garbh ua Súilleabháin 17. cent.
Domhnall na tuile mac Carthaigh (O'Gr. Cat. p. 632 ; O'R.
p. cxxxviii, Egerton 155, p. 156)
Domhnall Gorm mac Lochlainn (O'Gr. Cat. p. 617}
Domhnall mac Aedhagáin fi529
Domhnall mac Briain ua Huiginn fi502 (A Clonm., 1501 FM.)
Domhnall mac Cinnéidigh ua Briain 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14,
p. 649*; Egerton 160, p. 67)
Domhnall mac Dáire mac Bruaidedha 16. cent.
Domhnall mac Donnchadha ua Dálaigh (Bolg an dána) 11404
Domhnall mac Eochadha 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxliii)
Domhnall mac Eoghain ua Dálaig 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 343,
362)
Domhnall mac Fir gan ainm mac Eochadha 17. cent. (Abbott,
Cat. p. 302)
Domhnall mac Flannagáin ca.A.D. 1000 (MS. Mat. pp. 222, 577)
Domhnall mac Gillai na naomh (H. 4. 15, p. 150)
Domhnall mac Taidhg an Gharáin 17. cent.
Domhnall mac Taidhg mhic Ghiolla Mhichil ua Fiaich 11507
Domhnall mac Tomáis ua Huiginn 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 344)
Domhnall na Buile 18. cent. (Munster Poets, p. 226)
Domhnall ua Ceallacháin 18. cent.
Domhnall ua Cinnéidigh 18. cent.
Domhnall ua Cobhthaigh1 "f-1446
Domhnall ua Colmáin 17. cent.
Domhnall ua Donnabháin 18. cent. (Gael. J. 16, 2i2b)
Domhnall ua Huallacháin (H. 3. 23, p. 18)
Domhnall ua Lorgáin 17. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 302)
Domhnall ua Maoilchonaire (FM. a.d. 1487)
Domhnall ua Sléibhín ardollam Oirgiall fi 169
Dond na ndúan (LL. p. 1 37bi7)
Donn bó 8. cent. (TF. p. 34)
Donnchadh Baccach ua Maoilchonaire 11404
Donnchadh Caoch ua Mathghamhna 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxxix)
Donnchadh Dall ua Laoghaire (Gael. J. 14, p. 6oob)
1 O'R., p. cxxvii, calls him Donald mac an Chlasaigh O'Coffey.
THE POETS OF IRELAND 37
Donnchadh Lose ua Maoilchonaire 13. cent. (ALC. 1233, 1274,
1278, 1288)
Donnchadh mac Briain na Bórumha 11. cent.
Donnchadh mac Domhnaill mhic Eochadha 17. cent. (Abbott,
Cat. p. 302)
Donnchadh mac Eoghain ua Dálaigh (Ferm. p. 95b)
Donnchadh mac Labhradha 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 607)
Donnchadh mac Seáin Bhuidhe mhic Carrthaig f 1 726
Donnchadh Mór ua Dálaigh fI244
Donnchad Ruadh mac Conmara f 1 814 (CZ. v, 200 ; Gael. J. iii.
p. 6.*)
Donnchadh ua Fialáin 16/17. cent. (O'R. p. clxiii)
Donnchadh ua Floinn 19. cent.
Donnchadh ua Futhail (Misc. Ir. Arch. Soc. p. 370)
Donnchadh ua Mathghamhna 17. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxxi)
Donnchadh ua Muirghiusa (Abbott, Cat. p. 301)
Donnchadh (an drúchta) na Súilliobháin 18. cent. (Gael J.
xvi. p. 728b)
Donnchuach ua Huathghaile 11. cent.
Donnchadh Uasal fi 770.
Dorbán fili Connacht (LU. p. 38b7, 394)
Draigen mac Dorndobied (Ir. T. iii, p. 104, 6)
Druimm Súithe (Dinds. §160)
Dubdáchonn (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Dubdálethe (FM. a.d. 978)
Dubdartach Béirri f865 (Arch, iii, p. 291)
Dubdáthúath mac Stéléne 1783 (LL. p. 14.71. > Aisl. M. p. 7 ;
Lism, 95a2)
Dubdóid (LL. p. 330b)
Dubhghall mac Firbhisigh fit»6o
Dubhlaing ua Hartagáin 11. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 26)
Dubhlitir ua Huathghaile1 (LL. p. i4ib, Rawl. B. 502, p. 68b)
in Dubh.súilech ua Maoilchonaire (ALC. a.d. 1270)
Dubthach lánfili (LL. 3i5b)
Dubhthach mac Eochadha (AU. a.d. 141 5)
Dubthach moccu Lugair 5. cent. (LL. p. 45", 45'')
Identical -with Conchobar ua Huathgaile, lector at Glenn Uissen, FM. 1082.
38 APPENDIX
Dubthach ua Duibhgennáin 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxlvii)
Duinnin ua Maoilchonaire fi23 1
Dúnchad ua Brain fqyi (CZ. iii, p. 35)
Dúnlang ua Maoilchonaire (ALC. a.d. 1270)
Eachmarcach Ruadh mac Conmidhe fi42o
'Eachtghus ua Cúanáin (Gorm. p. x)
Eadbhard do Nógla (Edw. Nagle) 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 570)
'Eamonn an Chnuic ua Riain (Ryan, Rinn) 18. cent. (Gael.
J. iv, 9b ; Munster Poets, p. 265)
'Eamonn do Bhál 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 570)
'Eamonn mac Seáin 'Oig Mhaoil (Gael. J. 14, p. 7g8b)
'Eamonn ua Caiside 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccvi ; CZ. ii, p. 361)
'Eamonn ua Cléirigh (Gael. J. iii, 75')
'Eamonn mac Domhnaigh 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxciij
'Eamonn ua Macháin 18. cent. (Egerton 160, p. 20)
Eibhlin Dubh ni Chonaill 18. cent. (Gael. J. 7, p. 18)
Eibhlin ni Chaoilte (Ellen Quilty) 18. cent. (Hard. ii>
pp. 82, 149)
'Eigneach ua Duinnin fi4og
Eithne ingen Emangáeth (CZ. iii, p. 16)
En mac Ethomain (Rev. Celt, xii, p. 7b)
Enri mac Amhlaoibh 18. cent.
Eochaidh Dalian, see Dalian Forgaill
Eochaidh éiges1 ua Cléirecháin
Eochaidh Eolach ua Céirín 11. cent. (LU. 391 15, LL, 196*)
Eochaidh mac Maoilseachlainn fca. 1610
Eochaidh ollamh Fódla (FM. AM. 3922)
Eochaidh ua Caoimhgin (Abbott, Cat. p. 378)
Eochaidh ua Flannagáin (Flainn) fioo3 (AU.)
Eochaidh ua Ceithnén fio3o (AU. FM.)
Eochaidh ua Heodhusa 16/17. cent- (O'R. p. clxxxiii)
EochuEchbél di Albain 1. cent. (Ir. T. iii, p. ^} ; RC. 26, p. 8)
1 Eocho rígéices (m. Oengusa m. Dallain m. Dubthaig m. Miannaig
m. Lugdach) qui hospitatus apud Daimine qui sepultus est in Domnuch
Culind LL. 3300.
In RC. 20, 42 Eochaid ríg-éces is said to have been contemporary with
Dalian Forgaill, while according to YBL. p. 135' they were identical.
THE POETS OF IRELAND 39
Eoghan mac Aodha Buidhe mhic Aedha Duibh ua Domhnaill
Eoghan mac Aodha ua Cobhthaigh 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxlii)
Eoghan mac Aengusa ua Dálaigh (Ferm. p. 1031')
Eoghan mac an Bhaird 15th cent. (Bruss. MS. 6131-33, fo. i5b)
Eoghan mac Briain ua Huiginn (FM. a.d. 15 10)
Eoghan (an mhéirín) mac Carrthaigh 18. cent. (Minister Poets,
p. 320)
Eoghan mac Conchobhair ua Dálaigh (Ferm. p. 77'')
Eoghan (an tórthóir) mac Donnchadha Mhaoil mhic Craith ca.
1400 (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 342, 359, 660)
Eoghan mac Craith 17. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 289)
Eoghan mac Donnchadha ua Dálaigh 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxvi)
Eoghan mac Goflfradha Finn 15. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 358)
Eoghan mac GofFradha mhic Eoghain mhic Ghoffradha mac an
Bhaird fi6o9
Eoghan Mór ua Comhraidhe 19. cent. (Gael. J. viii, 5ia)
Eoghan Mór ua Dálaigh (Ferm. p. n6b)
Eoghan Ruadh mac an Bhaird Tire Conaill fi5io (O'Gr. Cat.
P- 342)
Eoghan Ruadh mac Fearghail mhic Dhomhnaill Ruaidh mac
an Bhaird fi572
Eoghan Ruadh an bhéil bhinn ua Súilleabháin 11784 (Oss. Soc.
iii, p. 97 n. 2 ; Gael. J. 16, p. 225s)
Eoghan ua Ceallacháin (Eg. 150, p. 719)
Eoghan ua Ceallaigh 18. cent.
Eoghan ua Caoimh 1656-1726 (O'Gr. Cat. 493, 527, 581)
Eoghan ua Caomhánaigh 19. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 666)
Eoghan ua Dálaigh 17. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 303)
Eoghan ua Donnghoile 17. cent. (Gael. J. xvi, p. 19515)
Eoghan ua Dubhthaigh 16. cent. (Gael. J. xiv, p. 766'; O'Gr.
Cat. p. 55)
Eoghan Ruadh mac Uilliaim mac an Bhaird1 17. cent. (O'R.
p. clxi)
Eoghan ua Fialáin fi43i
1 Another Eoghan Ruadh mac an Bhaird is mentioned by O'R. p. cxci,
A.D. 1640.
40 APPENDIX
Eoghan ua Raghallaigh 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxx)
Eóin Carsuel fi572 (Gael. J. no. no)
Eóin Másach ua Maethagáin (Misc. Ir. Arch. Soc. p. 328)
Eóin ua Ceallannáin 17/18. cent. (Gael. J. x, 23*)
Eóin ua Ruanadha fi 377
Erard mac Coisse príméices ''Eirenn Í990 (AU.)
Erard mac Coisse-briad fio23 (FM.)
Erard ua Maoilchonaire 11482
Erurach Innse Móire (Fél.2 p. 6)
Etan banfili ingen Déincecht (CZ. iii, p. 16; LU. 38h4o)
Fachtna mac Sencha 3. cent. (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Fáelán mac an gabann1 15. cent. (Arch, ii, p. 140 ; FM. 1423)
Faifne fili príméices Laigen 1958 (FM.)
Feidhelm (FM. a.d. 594)
Feidhlim mac Dubhghaill 19. cent.
Feidhlimidh mac Carthaigh (O'Gr. Cat. p. 632)
Feidhlimidh mac Crimthainn ri Muman 1847 (Lism. L.
p. xxxviii)
Fearchar (O'Gr. Cat. p. 361)
Fearcheart ua Huiginn fi4ig
Ferchertne fili Conrói i.cent. (CZ. iii, p. 41)
Ferchertne fili Labrada Luirc (CZ. iii, p. 4. 6)
Ferchertne mac Glaiss 1. cent.
Ferchess mac Commáin 2. cent. (Corm. Tr. p. 142; R.C. 13,
P- 434)
Fear dána ua Carthaigh 1131 (FM.)
Fear dorcha mac Cormaic ua Dálaigh 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
p. 578)
Fear dorcha ua Fearghaile fl. 1730 (O'R. p. ccxxii)
Fear dorcha ua Melláin (Eg. 187, p. 22)
Fear feasa ua (an) Cháinte 16/17, cent- (O'R. p. clxxvii)
Fear flatha ua Gnimh 16. cent. (Hard, ii, p. 102; O'Gr. Cat.
p. 642)
1 He was one of the scribes of the Book of Húi Maine, as appears from the
following colophon on fo. ill1': Faslan mac a[n] gabanw na seel do scrib in
caidirni seo da thigerrna carad companaig .i. don easpoc hua CheaUa/g .i.
Muirchertach.
THE POETS OF IRELAND 41
Fearghal mac Domhnaill Ruaidh mac an Bhaird fisso
Fearghal mac Eochadha -(-1480
Fearghal mac Eoghain ua Fialáin fisio
Fearghal mac Luighdhech mac Eochadha 16. cent. (O'R.
p. cxliii)
Fearghal mac Taidhg mhic Aengusa Ruaidh ua Dálaigh ollamh
Corcomodhruadh j-1420
Fearghal mac Tomáis mac Eochadha (Abbott, Cat. 300)
Fearghal Muimhneach ua Duibhgeannáin 17. cent. (O'R.
p. exeii)
Fearghal 'Og mac Fearghaile mac an Bhaird 11583 (O'R.
p. cxlii)
Fearghal 'Og mac an Bhaird1 fi. 1625 (O'R. p. clix)
Fearghal 'Og mac Eochadha ió. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 302;
Fearghal ua Cionga fl. 1560 (O'R. p. exxxvii)
Fearghal ua Duibhgennáin ollamh na Bréifne f 1 357
Fear gan ainm mac Eochadha (O'Gr. Cat. p. 648)
Feargus fianach (Laws i, p. 24)
Feargus fili 5. cent. (Trip. p. 564)
Feargus fili mac Athairne (Laws i, p. 22)
Feargus Fínbél fili Finn 3. cent. (Dinds. §52)
-$> Feargus mac Beathadh 18. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p. i96b)
Fear Muman (Ir. T. iii, p. 34, O'Mulc. 836; Corm. Tr. p. 11,
61, 62, 81, 84)
Fiacc Sleibte fl. 500
Fiachra mac Brádaigh 17/18. cent. (Gael. J. xii, 581)
Find fili mac Rossa Rúaid (pronepos Sétnai, O'Mulc. 606)
Find mac Cumaill ua Bá;scne 3, cent.
Fingein mac Flainn fl. 850
Fingein mac Luchta 2. cent.
Finghin ua Súilliobháin 19. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p. 100.)
Fínán mac Fiachrach di Dál Aride (Laud 610, fo. 97b)
Fínán (Ir.T. iii, p. 38)
Finnchú Brí Gobhann (CZ. iii, p. 31)
Finnéces (Macgn. F. §17)
1 Another Fearghal 'Og mac an Bhaird is mentioned by OR. p. exevi,
A.D. 1655.
42 APPENDIX
Fínsnechta ua Cuill fili Muman 1958
Fintan mac Bóchra 6. cent.
Fithel 3. cent. (LL. p. 149")
Flaithbertach ua Hinmhoinén (Lism. fo. 143s)
Flaithchius fili Connacht (LU. p. 39;'4)
Flaithri mac Fithil 3. cent.
Flaithir (Flaittir ?) 7. cent. (RC. 13, p. 370)
Flann Fina mac Ossu 1705
Flann mac Aodha mac an Bhaird f 1743 (O'Gr. Cat. pp.
599, 622)
Flann mac Bairdine do feraib Alban (Ir. T. iii, p. 65)
Flann mac Conmidhe fl. 1612 (O'R. p. clxxv)
Flann mac Craith fl. 1600 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 380)
Flann mac Domhnaill 1907
Flann mac Eoghain mac Craith1 fl. 1580 (O'Gr. Cat. pp.
343> 544)
Flann mac Lonáin (Mac Laitheóge) f 918
Flann mac Máilmáedóc 1977
Flann mac Seáin mhic Dhomhnalláin 11409 (mentioned ACL
1288)
Flann Mainistrech fic^ó
Flann 'Og ua Domhnalláin ollamh Connacht 11342
Flann ua Cináeda fi 100
Flannacán, see Eochaid ua Flainn
Flannacán mac Cellaig Breg 9. cent. (YBL. p. 1 2 5a, FM. 876.
890. 891)
Flannacán ua Dubthaig fi 168
Fothad na Canóine 9. cent. (LL. p. i48a, 149")
Froinsis Nugent 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxiii)
Froinsis ua Maoilmhuidhe 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 52)
Fúathach Fírchestach (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Fulartach (LL. p. 153% 192")
Fursa Cráibdech fó53
Gaborchenn (quoted TF. a.d. 687)
Garbdaire mac Samáin 8. cent. (Conn. Tr. p. 8 ; Aisl. M. p. 7)
1 Identical with Flann mac Ciaith above ?
THE POETS OF IRELAND 43
Gearóid mac Gearailt 18. cent.
Gearóid ua Cuillein 18/19. cent.
Gearóid iarla an dána f 1 397 (Ferm. 76b)
Gearóid Nuinsionn (Gerald Nugent) 16. cent. (Hard, ii, p. 226)
Giolla Aengusa ua Clúmáin ollam Connacht ti 143 (FM.)
Giolla an Choimdedh ua Cormaic 12. cent. (LL. i43a)
Giolla Brighde Albanach mac Conmidhe 13. cent.1 (O'C ii,
pp. 162-166)
Giolla Brighde (Bonaventura) ua Heodhosa 16/17. cent.
Giolla Brighde ua Scingín f i 382
in Giolla Cam mac Giolla Chiaráin fi259
Giolla Coemhain mac (ua) Gilla Saer Samthainne 11072 (LL.
p. 129 m. i.)
Giolla Caomhain ua Cuirnín (H. 4. 6, p. 2)
Giolla Comhghaill ua Sléibhéne 103 1 (FM.)
Giolla Crist mac Amhlaoibh fisog
Giolla Dubh ua Gluaráin (Gael. J. xvi, p. 225a)
Giolla Earnáin ua Martain ollamh 'Eirenn fi2i8
Giolla 'Iosa (Gelasius) mac Ailella ua Braoin fi 187
Giolla 'Iosa mac Firbhisigh f 1 30 1
Giolla 'Iosa mac Firbhisigh f 1 4 1 8
Giolla 'Iosa Mór mac Firbhisigh 11279
Giolla 'Iosa (Gelasius) ua Dálaigh f 1 3 1 1 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 331)
Giolla 'Iosa ua Dálaigh 17. cent. (O'R. p. clviii ; Abbott, Cat.
p. 302)
Giolla 'Iosa Ruadh ua Raghallaigh fi33o
Giolla Modudha ua Casaide fi 143 (LL. p. 136^)
Giolla Muire Caoch mac Cartáin 18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 607)
Giolla Muire (an dall) ua Conallta 1166 (FM.)
Giolla na naomh mac Maoilseachlainn ua Huiginn f 1475
Giolla na naomh mac Ruaidhri Mhór ua Huiginn f 1473
Giolla na naomh Ruadh mac Eochadha (Abbott, Cat. p. 300)
Giolla na naomh ua Dálaigh fi232 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 331)
'O'Reilly, Irish Writers, p. xcvii, wrongly gives his floruit as 1350. A
poem addressed by him to Maelsechlainn mac Domnaill Mór úa Domnaill, who
died in 1247, beginning Cotiall cuingid claimte Neill, is preserved in the
Brussels MS. 6131-33, fo. 35.'
44 APPENDIX
Giolla na naomh ua Duinn Sléibhe fer léiginn Inse Clothrann
fn6o
Giolla na naomh ua Dúnabhra ollam Connacht fnoi
Giolla na naomh ua Huidhrinn fi42o
Giolla na naomh ua Huiginn f 1349
Giolla Pádraig mac Briain mhic Mhaoilseachlainn ua Huiginn
ti485
Giolla Pádraig 'Og ua Fialáin f 1 -j.5 1
Giolla Pádraig ua Haireachtaigh (Goll Cluana) ollamh iarthair
Midhi fii3o
Giolla Pádraig ua Huidhir f 1 r 97
an Giolla Riabhach mac Taidhg Chaim ua Cléirigh ]\S21
an Giolla Riabhach mac Tuathail ua Cléirigh
Gionán 18. cent.
Goffraidh Fionn ua Dálaigh 11387
Glasdám cáinte (Bóroma § 51)
Goffraidh Fionn ua Dálaigh 11507
Goffraidh mac Tairdhealbhaigh ua Ruarca 17/18. cent. (O'R.
p. ccvi)
Goffraidh 'Og mac an Bhaird 11478 (AU.)
Goffraidh ua Cléirigh 15. cent.
Goll Cluana, see Giolla Pádraig ua Haireachtaigh
Goll mac Morna 3. cent.
GormFlaith ingen Flainn Sinnaf9i9
Gris banliccerd ingen Richisi (SG. ii, p. 482, 23)
Grúibne ogmaire éces di Albain (Ir. T. iii, p. 33 ; RC. 26, p. 8;
Corm. Tr. pp. 74, 75 ; Land 610, fo. 98"-)
Houston 19. cent.
Iarlaithe 6. cent. (Arch, ii, p. 142)
ingen húi Dulsaini 7. cent. (Corm. s.v. prúll)
Iollann ua Domhnalláin ió. cent. (CZ. ii, p. 330; O'Gr. Cat.
p. 380)
Irial ua Huiginn 16. cent. (CZ. ii, p. 330)
'Ita fl. 570
Labhán draoi, file Albanach (Keat. Hist, iii, p. 58)
Laidcend mac Baircheda (Rawl. B. 502, p. ii5b)
THE POETS OF IRELAND 4£
Laidgnén scolaige di Laignib (Ir. T. iii, p. 101)
Laigech fili (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Laisrén (Molasse) Daminse 1564 (or 571, AU.)
Laitheóc Láidech ingen Laignecháin 9. cent. (B. iv 2, p. 6ib)
Líadain ban-éces di Chorco Duibne 7. cent.
I Lochlainn 'Og ua Dálaigh 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxxxv)
Lomaide (Lism. fo. i43a2)
Lonn mac Liomhtha (O'Gr. Cat. p. 592)
Luccraid (Lucrith) moccu Chiara (Laud 610, fo. 94s1 ; Rawl. B.
502, i48b)
Lugaid Dall (Corm. s.v. coire Breccáin)
Lugaid mac 'Itha
Lughaidh ua Cléirigh fca. 1630 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 534)
Lugair lán'fili 1. cent. (LL. p. 315°, 3 1 6b ; Rawl. B. 502, p. i2oa)
Mac Amhlaoibh íó. cent. (O.R. p. cxlv)
]\Iac an Fileadh, see Giolla Crist mac Amhlaoibh
Mac Bethad mac Ainmere fio4i
Mac Cába 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14, 689b), see Cathaoir m. Ccába
Mac Cassarly (Abbott, Cat. p. 300)
Maccaomh Innse Creamha, see Cearbhall ua Dálaigh
MacCochlan (H. 6. 8, p. nb)
Mac Coisse, see Airbertach
Mac Colgan 16/17. cent. (O'R. p. clxiii)
Mac Con mac Concoigriche mhic Dhiarmada mhic Thaidhg
Chaim ua Cléirigh f 1595
Mac Dá Cherda mac Máileochtraig maic Dinertaig 7. cent.
Mac Diarmada 17. cent. (O'R. p. clvii)
Mac Giolla Chaoimh 11. cent.1
Mac Laitheóge, see Flann mac Lonáin
Mac Lamhaigh ó Achadh na Muilleann 18. cent. (O'Gr. p. 596)
Mac Lenin (LL. p. 37°), see Colmán m. Léníne
Mac Liag fioit> (LL. p. i52a)
Mac Liathglaisse mac Sáráin meic Duibi (Rawl. B. 502,
p. i6ob6)
Mac Meic Raith airdFile na Muman fioo8
1 Hardiman ii, p. 202, where for 'Mheic Liag' («c) read 'Mheic Ghiolla
Chaoimh.'
46 APPENDIX
Mac-nia mac Oengusa (LL. p. 194*)
Mac Raith ua Paáin (LL. p. ig8b)
Mac Raith fili m. Flaind m. Echthigirn (BB. i82b32)
Mac Reith1 (faith Finn m. Chumaill, SG. 93, 28)
Mac Samáin, see Garbdaire
Mac Teléne 7. cent.
Maccu, see Moccu
Máedóc Ferna fó24
Maghnus mac 'Ardghaile an t'Ucaire 18. cent. (Gael. J. x. 46b)
Maghnus ua Domhnaill 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxxxiv ; O'Gr. Cat.
p. 604)
Maine éces 6. cent. (Rawl. B. 502, p. i2ob)
Máire Bhuidhe ni Laoghaire 19. cent. (Gael. J. 6, p. 182'')
Máire ní Dhonnagáin 18. cent. (Gael. J. iv. 29)
Máire Lionduin (Alindon)
Maithias Mór ua Cillin (Ferm. p. i23b)
Manchín Léith f666
an Mangaire Súgach, see Andrias mac Craith
Maoilin mac Conchobhair mhic Dhiarmada mhic Seáin (FM.
a.d. 1563)
Maoilin mac Tanaidhe mhic Paidin ua Maoilchonaire f 1441
Maoilin mac Torna ua Maoilchonaire f 1 5 1 9
Maoilin 'Og mac Maoilin mhic Chonchobhair mac Bruaidedha
fióo2 (FM.)
Maoilin ua an Cháinte ió. cent. (CZ. ii, p. 349)
Maoilin ua Maoilchonaire (AC1. a.d. 1384)
Maoilire ua Maolagáin 13. cent. (O'R.)
Maol Brighde ua Heodhusa \ 1614
Maol cáich mac Scandláin temp. Aeda Róin (LL. p. 33oe)
Maol Cainnig ua Tolaig mac Láiri Láidig (LL. p. 37b)
Maol Cobha|6i5 (Tig.)
Maol Conaire mac Torna 15. cent, (mentioned FM. 1487)
Maol Féichíne (TF. a.d. 852)
Maol geimhridh (Fél.2 p. 130)
Maol Tosa Crossán finn- fi 137
1 Identical with Mac Raith ua Paáiu r
2 ' arch-poet in that kind of metre which is called crossanaght.'
THE POETS OF IRELAND 47
Maol 'losa Donn mac Aodhagáin "[1329
Maol 'losa mac Conmidhe ollamh Ui Néill fi434
Maol 'losa ua Brolcháin fio86
Maol 'losa ua Dálaigh ollamh 'Eireann 7 Alban f 1 1 85
Maol 'losa ua Dálaigh f 1 3 1 1 (AC1.)
Maol 'losa ua Maoilghiric fio88
Maol Muire Bacach ua Géaráin 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 407)
Maol Muire mac Cairbre ua Huiginn 16/17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
PP. 344, 442)
Maol Muire mac Connla mac an Bhaird fl. 1587 (O'R.
p. cxlvii)
Maol Muire mac Eochadha fi534
Maol Muire mac Craith fl. 1390 (Ferm. 92b)
Maol Muire mac Taidhg 'Oig ua Huiginn f 1488
Maol Muire ua Cianáin ti+59
Maol Muire ua Gormáin fu8i
Maol Muire ua Lennáin (Arch. II, p. 143)
Maol Muire ua Móirín 12. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 646)
Maol Muru Othna |S87
Maol Pátraic, see Pátríne
Maol Seachlainn mac Conchonnacht mhic Rithbheartaigh
tl502
Maol Seachlainn mac Lochlainn ua Maoilchonaire 11489
Maol Seachlainn mac Rithbheartaigh "[1354
Maol Seachlainn ua Cianáin fi52o
Maol Seachlainn ua Cobhthaigh 16. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 301)
Maol Seachlainn ua Comhraidhe 19. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 665)
Maol Seachlainn ua Domhnalláin f 1 3 75
Maol Seachlainn ua Huiginn (H. 3. 19, p. 26)
Maolsuthain ua Cearbhaill fioio (CZ. v, p. 498)
Maol Tamlachta (Abbott, Cat. p. 292)
Maol tuile ua Burcháin 8. cent.
Maon mac 'Etna (Edaine) (Dinds. §42, Conn. Tr. p. 112)
Marbán mac Colmáin 7. cent.
Marbgein mac Moga Ruith, Anecd. ii, p. 77.
Marcus ua Gribhthin (Eg. 150, p. 398)
Matha ua Héigceartaigh 18. cent.
Matha ua Huiginn 1337 (FM.)
48 APPENDIX
Matha ua Luinin -f-1396
Matha ua Scingin 11289
máthair Dega maic Cairpri (Rawl. B. 502, p. i28a)
Mathghamhain ua Duibhgeannáin (Gael. J. 14, p. 836*)
Mathghamhain ua Hiífearnáin 16/17. cent. (O'R. p. clxiii)
Mathghamhain ua Huiginn 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxliii)
Mathghamhain Ruadh ua Huiginn f14.fi
Mathghamhain ua Raghallaigh 14. cent.
Medb Lethderg (LL. p. 44b)
Menma mac Oengusa (Arch, ii, p. 145)
Micheál Bacach 19. cent.
Micheál Coimin fi76o
Micheál mac Carthaigh 19. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p. 193s)
Micheál mac Cormaic ua Súilleabháin 19. cent.
Micheál mac Suibhne 19. cent.
Micheál 'Og ua Longáin 19. cent.
Micheál ua Domhnaill (Gael. J. 16, p. 213*)
Mobí Clárenech, 1544 (AU.)
Moccu Dulsaine 7. cent. (Corm. s. v. prúll)
Mochuta mac Finaill do Chíarraigib Lúachra (Bruss. MS. 2324,
fo. 2Ó3b)
Mochuta (Carthach) Raithne 1637 (AU.)
MogRuith (Acall. 1. 2552)
Moling Lúachra 1697
Molúa Cluana Ferta |6o5
Mongán mac Fíachnai fÓ25
Mór Muman 1633
Morann (m. Móin) mac Cairbri Chinnchaitt 1. cent. (CZ. iii,
p. 16)
Morann mac Cairbri Chroimchinn (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Morcha ua Cairthig "f-1067
Mugrón abb Iae f98o
Muine éices (Ir. T. iii, p. 66)
Muircheartach Bee mac Conchertaig, see Mac Liag
Muircheartach mac an leagha (LL. p. 394)
Muircheartach ua Cionga fl. 1580 (O'R. p. cxli)
Muircheartach ua Cobhthaigh fl. 1586 (O'R. p. cxlvi)
Muircheartach ua Dálaigh fi459
THE POETS OF IRELAND 49
Muircheartach ua Floinn (Ferm. p. 103*)
Muireadhach Albanach (Lessa in Daill) ua Dálaigh (Midhe)
(FM. a.d. 12 1 3 ; Book of the Dean)
Muireadhach ua Carthaigh f 1067
Muireadhach ua Dálaigh 17. cent. (O'R. p. clviii)
Muirghius Ballach mac Conchoigriche mhic Dhiarmada ua
Cléirigh f 1572
Muirghius canánach mac Ruaidhri ua Conchobhair f-1224
Muirghius mac Dáibhídh Dhuibh mhic Ghearailt fl. i6io(0'R.
p. clxxv)
Muirghius mac Lochlainn ua Maoilchonaire 11487
Muirghius ua Maoilchonaire fl. 1660 (O'R. p. clix)
Muirghius mac Paidin ua Maoilchonaire f 1543
Muirghius (Muiris) Múinte ua Heichthighearnáin 18. cent.
Muirghius 'Og mac Gerailt (H. 4. 15, p. 197)
Muirghius ua Dálaigh (AU. a.d. 1415)
Muirghius ua Dálaigh fl. 1630 (O'R. p. clxxxv)
Muirghius ua Dubhagáin 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxcvii)
Muirghius ua Griobtha 18. cent.
Muirghius ua Gibelláin fi328
Muirghius ua Heodhusa 16. cent.
Muiris ua Moghan (Gael. J. 16, p. 196^)
Mumu éices (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Murchadh gan chris mac Crajth (O'Gr. Cat. p. 338)
Murchadh ua Carthaig prímdrúith 7 prímollam Connacht -f-1067
Murchadh ua Flaithegáin f 1 103
Muru Fathna, see Maol Muru
Néide mac Adnai 1. cent. (Corm. Tr. 87)
Néide ua Maoilmhanaigh (Abbott, Cat. p. 308)
Nera mac Findchuill a Sid ar Femin (CZ. iii. p. 16)
Nera mac Morainn (CZ. iii, p. 14.)
Niall mac Cannadh 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. cciii)
Niall mac Eoghain Bhig (Book of the Dean)
Niall mac Fearghail ua Huiginn fi46i
Niall ua 'Og ua Huiginn f Í46 1
Niall ua Huiginn fi340
Niall ua Ruanadha 16. cent. (O'R. p. cxliv)
E
50 APPENDIX
Nicolas ua Domhnaill (Gael. J. 14, p. 7o8b)
Nindíne éces (Tig. a.d. 621)
Noes éces mac Ailella Tassaig (Rawl. B. 502, p. 15 ib)
Nuadha mac an Bhaird 11488
Núadu Fuin éces, Anecd. ii, p. 77
Núadu ua Lomthuile (Tig. a.d. 721)
Ocha éces (Arch, iii, p. 241)
Oisin mac Find 3. cent.
Oliver Plunkett (1629-1681)
Onchú (Fel.2 p. 70)
Orthanach ua Cáelláma Cuirrich (TF. a.d. 722 ; Rawl. B. 502,
p. 88b; LL. p. 5ib)
Pádraig Cúndún 1776-1857
Pádraig Dáibhídh (Daeid) an tailliúir gorm 19. cent.
Padraig Denn fi828 (Gael. J. 14, 584»)
Pádraig Haicéad fl. 1620
Pádraig mac Lionduin (Alindon) fi 733
Pádraig mac Calpuirn f46i
Pádraig 'Og mac an Bhaird fl. 1690 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 55)
Pádraig Piarais 17. cent.
Pádraig ua Briain 18. cent.
Pádraig ua Cathaláin (Gael. J. 14, p. 767")
Pádraig ua Conchobhuir 18. cent. (Hard, ii, pp. 258, 415)
Pádraig ua Cúáin (O'Gr. Cat. p. 62 1)
Pádraig ua Cuirnin 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccv)
Pádraig ua Dobhailen (Devlin) (Gael. J. iv, 73)
Pádraig ua Donnghaiie (Gael. J. xli, 58*)
Pádraig ua Healaidhe (Hard, ii, p. 230)
Pádraig ua Murchadha 18. cent.
Padraig ua Héigceartaigh
Pádraig ua Hiarlaithe (Gael. J. 14, p. 657b)
Pádraig ua Pronntaigh 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14, p. 7Ó5b)
Pádraig ua Súilleabháin (Gael. J. 14, p. 7o8b)
Pádraig Warren 18. cent.
Páidín ua Maoilchonaire "[1506
THE POETS OF IRELAND 51
Pátríne (Arch, iii, p. 30 1)1
Peadar Breathnach 19. cent. (Gael. J. v, i5b; 2qb ; xii, 6ob)
Peadar mac Firfeasa ua Maoilchonaire 17/18. cent. (O'R.
p. cciv)
Peadar mac Siúrtáin 19. cent.
Peadar ua Conchobhair fl. 1800
Peadar ua Doirnín 1Ó82-1768 (Gael. J. x, 44")
Peadar ua Féichín 18. cent.
Peadar ua Gonaguil
Piarus Cam ua Luinin fi44i
Piarus Feiritér fca. 1653
Piarus mac Gearailt 18. cent.
Pilip Bocht ua Hniginn (Gael. J. xii., 55b; H. 3. 19, p. 12;
23 N 27, fo. 25a)
Pilip Charly, otherwise Phillips, 18. cent. (Egerton 178, fo. 7b)
Pilip mac Cuinn Chrosaigh 16. cent. (Gael. J. ix, 307*; Arch.
Rev. i, 148)
Pilip ministéir, see Pilip ua Brádaigh
Pilip Riabhach mac Amhlaoibh mhic Uidhir j-1480
Pilip ua Brádaigh 18. cent.
Pilip ua Duibhgeannáin fi340
Pilip ua Raghallaigh 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxi)
Pól mac Aodhagán 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccviii)
Pól ua Briain 1750-1820 (Gael. J. x, 29")
Raghnall Dall mac Domhnaill fl. 1700 (Gael. J. xiv, p. 767^)
Raghnall mac Eochadha 16. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 301)
Raghnall ua Dálaigh (ollam Desmuman le dán) fi 161
Rechtgal ua Siadail 7. cent. (LL. 37"; Ir. T. iii. p. 7; Conn.
Tr. p. 119)
Ristard Barret (Riocard Bairéad) 1729-18 19
Ristard de Búrc (Abbott, Cat. p. 316)
Robert mac Artúir 17. cent. (O'R. p. cliv)
Roennu Ressamnach 8. cent. (Aisl. M. p. 109)
Roigne Roscadach mac Ugaini Móir (CZ. iii. p. 16)
Ross Ruad (LL. p. 31 icr 5)
1 According to a note by Michael O'Clery in the Brussels MS. 5057-59,
fo. 36, Pátríne is identical with Máelpátraic presbyter Cluana, who died a.d. 1028.
E 2
52 APPENDIX
Rúadán Lothra 6. cent.
Ruaidhri Glas mac Carmuic1 f 1475
Ruaidhri mac Aodha mhic Chraith 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
PP- 5°3) 5°8 5 Abbott, Cat. p. 301)
Ruaidhri mac Craith ollamh Leithe Mogha fi343
Ruaidhri Ruadh ua Huiginn 11425
Ruamann (Ir. T. iii. p. 10)
Ruarcán ua (a) Hadhmaill (AU. 1376 ; FM. 1377)
Rumann mac Colmáin 1747
Samthand 1734
Sanctán epscop
Saorbhreathach mac Maoillosa Dhuinn mhic Aodhagáin ollamh
Conmhaicne f 1 354
Scandlán mac Eoghain (LU. 39*5)
Scandlán Mór (CZ. iii. p. 37)
Seachnall (Secundinus) 5. cent.
Séadna file mac Airt Chirb (Rawl. B. 502, p. 165»)
SéaíTraidh Caol ua Donnchadha 18. cent.
Séaffraidh ua Donnchadha an ghleanna 17. cent.
Sealbhach g. cent.
Séamus Ban mac Conmara 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxviii)
Séamus Bhailis nó Breathnach (Gael. J. x, 1 ia)
Séamus Bonnvill (Eg. 150, p. 670)
Séamus Cosgar
Séamus Dall mac Cuarta 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxi)
Séamus Dall ua Madadháin 18. cent.
Séamus do Nógla fl. 1760
Séamus mac Coilleadh (J. Woods) 18. cent. (Gael. J. xiv,
p. 766a)
Séamus mac Cunsaidin 18. cent.
Séamus mac Gearailt 18. cent. (Gael. J. xiv, p. 586)
Séamus mag Goireachtaigh 18. cent. (Egerton 178, fo. 7)
Séamus mac Uilliaim (Gael. J. xiv, p. 709'^
Séamus na srón Power (Gael. J. iii, p. 4)
Séamus ua Catháin 18. cent.
1 fer dénta rami óglachais, AU.
THE POETS OF IRELAND 53
Séamus ua Cearnaigh 19. cent.
Séamus ua Coindealbháin (Quinlivan) 19. cent. (Gael. J. iii,
53b)
Séamus ua Dálaigh 18. cent.
Séamus ua Dorian
Séamus ua Leathlobhair (Gael. J. xii, 59b)
Séamus Veale 18. cent. (Gael. J. iv, 25)
Seán Ballach ua Duibhgeannáin fl. 1690 (O'R. p. ccii)
Seán Bán ua Cléirigh
Seán Buidhe ua Dálaigh 16. cent. (Gael. J. 14, p. 836"; O'Gr.
Cat. pp. 343, 379)
Seán Cam mac Con-Uladh mhic an Bhaird fi459
Seán Clárach mac Domhnaill 1691-1754
Seán do Hóra 18. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 383 ; Gael. J. 14, p. 709b,
16, p. 279")
Seán Lloyd 18. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 383)
Seán mac Aedhagáin 11487
Seán mac Bháitéir Breathnach fl. 1600 (Hard, ii, pp. 244, 412)
Seán mac Céibhfínn 16. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp, 342, 355)
Seán mac Colgan 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 342, 388)
Seán mac Conaill (O'Gr. Cat. p. 574)
Seán mac Conchobhair mhic Aedhagáin 11487
Seán mac Conmidhe fi4Ó8
Seán mac Conmidhe (John Conway) it», cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
pp. 342, 368; Abbott, Cat. p. 379)
Seán mac Donnchadha mhic Firbhisigh fi3Ó2
Seán mac Feargghail 'Oi ua Huiginn fi4Qo
Seán mac Finghin Arda Cianachta 16. cent. (Gael. J. xii, 571')
Sean mac Héil (John Mac Hale) 1791-1881
Seán mac Muirghisui Urthaile (O'Gr. Cat. p. 523)
Seán mac Pilip mhic Eochadha (Abbott, Cat. p. 301)
Seán mac Pilip ua Fearghaile 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxix)
Seán mac Ruaidhri 'Oig ua Huiginn 11585 (CZ. ii, p. 343 ; Abbott
Cat. pp. 300, 303)
Seán mac Taidhg mhic Mhuircheartaigh ua Ceallacháin (Gael.
J. 14, p. 799a)
Seán mac Torna ua Maoilchonaire fl. 1560
Seán mac Uilliaim mhic Aodha ua Dálaigh j-1490
51 APPENDIX
Seán Mór ua Dubhagáin f 1 372 (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 52, 356)
Seán Mór mac Eoghain Cláraigh ua Raghallaigh 17/18. cent.
(O'R. p. cciii)
Seán na Cléire (Abbott, Cat. p. 387)
Seán 'Og mac Raith (Ferm. 119*1)
Seán 'Og ua Dálaigh 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 344, 399)
Seán 'Og ua Gadhra 17. cent. (Gael. J. 14, 712)
Seán Ruadh mac Bradaigh mhic Fiachra (Gael. J. xii, 55'')
Seán Ruadh ua Seitheacháin (Abbott, Cat. p. 316)
Seán ua Braonáin 19. cent.
Seán ua Briain fl. 1770
Seán ua Ciarmhic 18. cent. (Gael. J. 14, p. 649*)
Seán uaCléirigh 17. cent.
Seán ua Clumháin 11438 (O'Gr. Cat. p. 353 ; Book of the
Dean)
Seán ua Coileáin (John Collins or Cullane) 1754-18 17)
Seán ua Conaill 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 564, 598, 622, 632;
Abbott, Cat. p. 383)
Seán ua Cuinneagáin (John Cunningham) 18. cent.
Seán ua (mac) Diarmada 19. cent.
Seán ua Duinnin 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxcix)
Seán ua Fialáin f 1 378 (FM.)
Seán ua Fialáin 11483 (AU.)
Seán ua Gearáin 11507
Seán ua Maothagáin (Ferm. fo. i2oai, I2ibi)
Seán ua Murchadha na Ráithíneach 1 700-1 762
Seán ua Neachtain 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxiii)
Seán ua Néill 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxix)
Seán ua Nualáin 18. cent. (Gael. J. 10, p. 616, 10, p. 225*)
Seán ua Ruanadha f 1 376
Sean ua Tuama (an ghrinn) 1 706-1 775
Seanán Innse Cathaig mac Gerrchinn 5/6. cent,
Seanbheag ua Hebric (CZ. iii, p. 16)
Seancha mac Ailella
Seancha mac Cruiti.n fi434
Seanchán Torpéist 7. cent.
Searlus Buidhe mac Cuilleann (Oss. v, p. 5)
Seathrún Cétainn (Geoffrey Keating) 11642
THE POETS OF IRELAND 55
Segine abb Iae \6$x
Seoirse Robart (Roberts) 18. cent.
Seoirse ua Máille 19. cent.
Sinech Cró 7. cent. (CZ. iii, p. 205)
Síodhradh ua Cuirnín ollamh na Bréifne fi347
Siodhradh ua Maoilchonaire 11487
Solamh mac Seáin mhic Solaimh mac Conmidhe (FM. a.d.
1506)
Somhairlemac an Bhaird 17. cent. (O'R.p. cxciii)
Sorcha ní Ghiobúin 18. cent.
Stiophán Seógha 19. cent.
Suibhne Geilt 7. cent.
Tadhg an Gadhra mac Aodhagáin 17/18. cent.'(0'R. p. cciii)
Tadhg an tarta 18. cent., see Peadar ua Féichín
Tadhg Ballach ua Dálaigh (H. 3. 19, p. 26)
Tadhg Camchosach ua Dálaigh 14. cent.
Tadhg Cam mac Tuathail ua Cléirigh "[1565
Tadhg Cam ua Cléirigh Í1492
Tadhg Dall mac Cairbre ua Huiginn fca. 1615 (O'Gr. Cat.
PP- 344, 407)
Tadhg Dubh ua Crónáin 18. cent.
Tadhg Gaodhlach ua Súilleabháin f'795
Tadhg mac Aodha ua Cobhthaig fI554
Tadhg mac Aodhagáin fi486
Tadhg mac Cearbhaill Bhuidhe ua Dálaigh {1274 (O'Gr. Cat.
P- 330
Tadhg mac Conchobhair Ruaidh mhic Eachmharcaigh mac
Conmidhe fi493
Tadhg mac Dáire mac Bruaidedha 1 570-1652
Tadhg mac Diarmada 'Oig ua Dálaigh 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat.
pp. 344, 446 ; Misc. p. 340)
Tadhg mac Domhnaill 'Og (Ferm. p. 28a)
Tadhg mac Donnchaidh mhic Taidhg mhic Chearbhaill ua
Dálaigh Corcomruadh {1514
Tadhg mac Seáin ua Neachtain 18. cent.
Tadhg Mor mac Giolla-Choluim ua Huiginn 1 1 39 1
56 APPENDIX
Tadhg Mór ua Cobhthaig1 16. cent.
Tadhg Mór ua Huiginn J1315
Tadhg 'Og mac Taidhg Mhóir mhic Ghiolla-Choluim ua Huiginn
TI448
Tadhg ua Ceallacháin 18. cent. (Egerton 160, p. 91)
Tadhg 'Og ua Dálaigh 16. cent.
Tadhg Ruadh ua Conchobhair (Gael. J. xii, p. 57b)
Tadhg ua Cobhthaig (FM. a.d. 1546, 1554)
Tadhg ua Dábhoirenn 18. cent.
Tadhg ua Doirnin
Tadhg ua Duinnin 17/18. cent. (CZ. v, p. 538)
Tadhg ua Heachaidhéin + 1394
Tadhg ua Neachtain 18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxvii)
Tadhg uaRodaighe (Ruddy, Rody) 1623-1706 (Hard. ii. p. 429)
Tanaidhe mac Maoilin ua Maoilchonaire 11446
Tanaidhe mac Páidrigín Mhóir ua Maoilchonaire 11385
Tanaidhe ua Maoilchonaire J 1 136 (LL. p. 106)
Tanaidhe Mór mac Duinnin mhic Néidhe mhic Conaing
Bhuidhe ua Maoilchonaire (ALC. a.d. 1270)
Toirdhealbhach Carrach ua Conchobhair fl. 1640
Toirdhealbhach Láidir ua Briain 18. cent.
Toirdhealbhach mac Cudhaidhe (M'Covey) (Gael. J. xiv,
p. 694=)
Toirdhealbhach 'Og mac Donnchadha
Toirdhealbhach 'Og ua Briain 17. cent. (O'R. p. clxviii)
Toirdhealbhach 'Og ua Mithan (Gael. J. xvi. p. 2101)
Toirdhealbhach ua Cearbhalláin 1670-1738 (O'R. p. ccxxiii)
Tomás Dease 17. cent. (O'R. p. cxcii)
Tomás de Róiste (Gael. J, iii, 65a)
Tomás Flavell (Hard, i, p. 337)
Tomás Láidir Coisdealbhach 17. cent.
Tomás mac Coitir (T. Cotter) 18. cent.
Tomás mac Craith fnio
Tomás mac Craith 11507
Tomás mac Giolla na naomh fI4zS (O'R. p. cxxiv)
Perhaps identical with Tadhg mac Aodha ui Chobthaig. See O'R. p. cxxxvi
THE POETS OF IRELAND 57
Tomás Prinnbhiol (T. Prundivill) (O'Gr. Cat. p. 586 ; Abbott,
Cat. p. 316)
Tomás Ruadh ua Súilliobháin (Gael. J. iii, p. 109)
Tomás ua Bacacháin 18. cent.
Tomás ua Cléirigh 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccii)
Tomás ua Conduibh 17/18. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 591 ; Abbott,
Cat. p. 383 ; O'R. p. cciii)
Tomás Gleeson 18. cent.
Tomás ua Huiginn fi 536
Tomcás ua Miodhacháin 18. cent.
Torna éces 4. cent.
Torna ua Maoilchonaire 14. cent.
Tuán mac Cairill
Tuathal mac an Bhaird (YBL. pp. 394s, &c.)
Tuathal mac Maoilseachlainn ua Domhnalláin 11404
Tuathal mac Taidhg Chaim ua Cléirigh fi592
Tuathal ua Huiginn -[1450
Tuilgne (Tuileagna) Ruadh ua Maoilchonaire 16. cent.
Tuirn mac Tornai fl. 400
Ua Baoighelláin fni8
Ua Baodhasa (Eg. 146)
Ua Dálaigh Midhe1 (AU. A.D. 141 5)
Ua Derglega (Ir. T. iii, p. 105, 30)
Ua Lonáin Cáech fioÓ4
Ua Luinin 18. cent. (Abbott, Cat. p. 303)
Ua Máilcháin ollam Dál Cais fiogó
Ua Maoilchíaráin 14. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 344)
Ua Máil-Rióc fi2i8
Uaithne mac Uilliaim ua Cobhthaig f 1 5 5 6
Uallach ingen Muimnecháin2 f932
Uilliam Aorach ua Conaill (Gael. J. 14, p. 799s)
Uilliam Buidhe ua Ciaráin 18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxx)
Uilliam Buinneán (Bunghan) 18. cent.
Identical with Diarmaid mac Eoghain ua Dálaigh ?
Muinegháin, Otia Merseiana i, p. 121.
58 APPENDIX
Uilliam Dall ua Hiffearnáin (Heichthighearnáin) fl. 1750 (Hard.
ii, p. 24)
Uilliam Inglis '("1778 (CZ. i, p. 140; O'Gr. Cat, p. 570)
Uilliam mac Aengusa mhic Craith -f 1 5 7 3
Uilliam mac Barúin Delvin (Abbott, Cat. p. 367)
Uilliam mac an Leagha (O'Gr. Cat. p. 646 ; Abbott, Cat. p. 294)
Uilliam mac Cartáin an dúna 1 668-1 724 (O'Gr. Cat. pp. 580,
582, 583)
Uilliam ua Ciaráin 17. cent. (O'R. p. cc)
Uilliam ua Dábhoireann 18. cent.
Uilliam ua Dálaigh 18. cent. (Gael. J. 16, p. 2iib)
Uilliam 'Og mac an Bhaird mac Cormaic \iS7^ (H. 4. 15,
p. 148)
Uilliam 'Og ua Dubhsláine 17. cent. (O'Gr. Cat. p. 33)
Uilliam Ruadh mac Coitir 18. cent.
Uilliam ua Briain 17/18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxviii)
Uilliam ua Briain 18. cent. (O'R. p. ccxxxii)
Uilliam ua Fináin (H. 2. 17, p. 235)
Uilliam ua Hicidhe (Gael. J. xii, 58s)
Uilliam ua Líonáin 18. cent.
Uilliam ua Modhráin 18. cent.
Uilliam ua Murchadha (Eg. 150, p. 500)
Uilliam ua Súilleabháin 18. cent.
Ultán Liathdroma
Ultán moccu Chonchobuir 1657
GLOSSARY OF THE RARIiR WORDS
The numbers refer to the paragraphs.
aball-gort m. an orchard; 32, 10.
ablach f. apple-trees ; 32, 19.
acarda profit ; 36,57.
Achad Or n. 1. (lit. Freshfield) Fresh-
ford; 32, 14.
ad-teoch I beseech, pray ; 24.
aicet-phellach hard-skinned ; 3$, 31.
aig z'cí; gen. ega 3.
ailénach full of islets or knolls ; 32, 8.
áinius m. delight, joy. 32, 5.
air-chingid m. a chief champion ; 32,
23-
air-ech m. a packhorse ; 33, 31.
aith-rige n. a dethroning ; 10.
Amláib n. pr. m. Olaf; 32, 23.
am-lesc, eager ; 19.
anmech, a shower; 37, 6g.
Ara n. 1., gen. Arad 14.
ar-canim I recite ; 34, 34.
asa whose; 32, 2.
atarba ("ath-tarba) renewed prof t; 36,
57-
ath-bach a fraction, part ; 16.
ath-chumma (O. Ir. aith-chum-be) n.,
later f. a wotcnding.
athramail paternal ; 32, 11.
baccach halting, lame.
bairdne f. bardic art or composition.
balamle f. vanity; 32, 22.
bas-id 3 sg. pres. ind. rel. of the copula
with affixed pers. pron. 3 sg. fem.
bán-foithre a fair wood ; 36, 52.
becht certain, co7nplete, ccmpact ; 34,
32.
bennach, peaked ; 33, 31.
j bertaim, I shake, brandish ; 34,32.
bét a deed, crime, mischief; 19.
Bith n. pr. m. gen. Betha ; 36, 65.
bla a shirt; 32, 4. Uttf
blede1 f. a drinking cup ; 32, 19.
brainech edged : 33, 34.
braithim I betray ; 32, 1.
breis f. increase, profit.
brúan a morsel ; ace. pi. bruana 37, 72.
bruindiud a flowing, springing forth ;
4-
cabair = cobair f. help ; 32, 15.
cáid holy.
cáil-í'innach bristling (lit. hairy) with
wattles ; 37, 73.
cain good ; 19. _
cáin fair, beautiful. CAl*v-
in Charrac {Rock) i., 11. 1. gen. na
Cairce 32, 12.
carr-buide^/Zow, tawny; 35, 51.
cass quick, lively, passionate ; 33, 29.
cél-bind sweet-o>nened: 37, 72.
Cenn Escrach n. 1. 32, 10.
clall-brata of conspicuous sense? 33, 26.
cloch-oighir m. bosom-heir ; 37, 74.
Cluain, short for Cliiain mocu Nois ;
37, 72.
cnúasach a collecting, gathering; 36, 58.
cobfige a weaving together.
cobra conversation, speech. 14.
comblicht in milk.
comol n. union; 35, 47.
com-rand f. a share.
1 In Rawl. B. 502, p. 86a the dat. pi. bledib rhymes with demin, so that the e
of the root is shown to have been short.
60
GLOSSARY
Cond, short for Leth Cuind the
northern half of Ireland; 36, 62.
con-sniim I contest, defend; 34, 30.
cor m. a tune, melody ; 33, 2<).
cor m. a champion, gen. córad.
costadach checking, restraining; 34,
33-
corann f. tonsure; 35, 44.
crathaim = crothaim I shake, brandish;
32, 14.
credem f. corrosion, corruption ; 34, 41.
cri body ; 36, 59.
criathraim I riddle 3.
crithir f. a spark ; voc. pi. a chrithre
32, 15-
Ciuachu Con-alad n. 1. 14.
crúaid-ugra fiercely quarrelling ; 32, 9.
cuilche a sheet, cassock; 32, 4.
cuin when ? 19; -when; 33, 28.
cuinsiu f. countenance 3.
dabchach vatted, stout ; 33, 26.
daer-dub vile-black ; 32,4.
daig f. aflame; metaph. n hero 20;
35,40.
Dairbre n. pr. m. 35, 45.
Dairbre n. 1. 35, 45.
dairbrech f. an oakwood ; 32, 21.
dálaim (fri) I tryst (with) ; 32, 12.
dálim /distribute, apportion ; 34, 34.
dail-chiall of blind sense ; 32, (j.
data pleasing, comely ; 33, 26.
deg-samail a fair likeness or counter-
part; 37,74.
deligthe distinguished; 35,45.
deina the palm of the hand; ace.
dernainn ; 33, 29.
dine n. a generation ; 32, 2.
diriuch, Mid. Ir. direch straight.
diomaim /declare; 32, 6.
do-airndim I lay low ; 3.
do-benim / strike; 3. sg. pies. ind.
-tiben : 36, 64.
do-goim / choose, sec. fut. sg. 1 do-
gegainn 14.
dond-gorm dark-blue; 32, 21.
do-ririb in earnest, really; 32, 12.
do-ro-gaibim I transgress ; aiatrogbus1
from what I have transgressed 19.
doss-'fota with tall bushes ; 35, 45.
draic m. a dragon ; gen. dracon 3.
Drobáis f. the river Drow:s ; 36, 64.
drong-arm-glan bright with crowds of
weapons ; 36, 64.
drochet a bridge ; n. pi. drochte 16.
Druimm B5 n.l. 36, 58.
dubaigim /grow black ; 20.
duillech leafy ; 25, 45.
é-cruthach shapeless ; 19.
ega, see aig.
eim f. a tail; gen. eime 32, 19.
eirr m. a chariot-chief. 3.
eithre n. a tail ; 3.
ela a swan ; 3.
énach full of birds ; 32, 8.
englaim woof {of battle) ; 33, 24.
eó-chrann n. a yew-tree; metaph. a
hero; 35, 45-
Escir a ridge of sand-hills, n.l. gen.
Escrach 32, 10.
é-tarbach profitless ; 36, 56.
ethai-bruig the home of ships ; 37, 69.
fáid a cry; 35, 51.
fail a lair; 32, 13.
fáth (W. gwawd) poetry ; 37, 70.
Femen n.l. gen. Femin : 32, g.
fer m. man, used of a male bird; 33, 29.
férach grassy ; 32, 8.
ferb a word; gen. pi. ferba 37, 70.
fet a whistling; 35, 51.
féthaigthe calm ; 32, 13.
fethim /go; perf. sg. 3 rofáith 32, 16.
fidánach wooded ; 32, 8.
fidrad n. lore ; 32, 2.
flaith-leoghan m. a lordly lion ; 37, 74.
fo-chen welcome ! 3.
folmugud an evacuating.
for-osnaim / kindle.
fothach f. a mill- feed ; 24.
Fotla Ireland ; 14.
for aratorgbus, possibly to have alliteration (aratr'ogbus) with romm-ain.
GLOSSARY
61
fúathaigim I shape ; 19.
fuin evening; 19.
fuit cold.
gablanach forked.
gagar m. a beagle; 32, 15.
ganmech sandy ; 3", 6g.
gart hospitality, generosity ; gen. garta
34, 32.
gataigem. a thief; 36, 63.
gat-bémnech beating withes ; 35, 44.
gelmar white ; 32, 7.
glainide crystal ; 16.
glan-buide bright-yellow ; 35, 51.
glee f. a wrestling, fighting; 32, 15.
gleith a grazing ; 33,25.
glórda glorious ; 16.
gob m. a beak; 35,51.
goblán f. a small fork ; 36, 61.
Goll n. pr. m. ; 36, 58.
grádaigthe honoured, exalted; 32, 13.
grafann f. a horse-race; 35, 42.
greit ardour, valour; 3.
grif f. a griffin ; gen. grife 32, 13.
grind sharp ; 34, 36.
grinde f. a band ; 34, 32.
grindech sharp, cutting; 34, 38.
giisaim / make blush.
guidiu I pray 19 ; perf. pi. 3 rogádatar
16.
guilbnech beaked.
gulbnén a small beak ; 33, 29.
lath-bech a meadow-bee ; 32, 10.
lathach meadowy ; 32, 23.
ibair-draignech bristling with yew-
trees ; 32, 14.
idnach full of weapo?is or troops in
battle-array; 32, 2.
imda plentiful, numerous; 33,26.
im-de-gal (v. n. of im-de-nchim) f.
protection .
im-rádim / commemorate; perf. sg. 1
imrordus 19.
imrol abundance; 34, 34.
indlacaim I bestow, give ; 36, 57.
innraic worthy, honest ; 36, 57.
ithim I eat ; pres. ind. pi. 3 ethait.
láichda heroic; compar. láichdu 3.
lebar-gemel f. a long fetter, a fetter
reaching from the wrists to the
ankles. 32, 14. Cf. O. Engl, lang-
fetor, borrowed as langfiter into
Irish. See Cormac, p. 26, s.v.
lébenn m. a platform ; 16.
leca a cheek-bone ; 36, 54.
Lecach Molaise n.l. ; 36, 54.
lecc f. a flag-stone ; gen. licce 3.
leochaille f. niggardliness ; 36, 54.
lerg f. a slope ; battle-field; battle. 14.
lethan-merlech thieving far and wide ;
32, 14-
lethan-muir n. the broad sea ; 37, 69.
liag a ladle ; 32, 17.
liath-ainech grey-faced ; 33,25.
llg-dath n. shining colour ; 19.
limtha ground, sharpened ; 35, 43.
lobud a rotting, decaying; 32, 3.
Loch Láig n.l. Belfast Loch ; 35, 51.
lóid f. a song, lay ; 32, 6.
lornnan (for "lonrlán) quite full ; 36,
61 ; 37, 69.
long-adbal crowded with ships ; 36,
64.
long-phortachyW/ of camps ; 35, 43.
lothaim I ladle ; 32, 17.
lúath-lám swift-handed ; 3.
luchair glittering, bright; 32, 10.
luchar a glitter ; 3 .
lug a lynx ; gen. loga 3.
lui a rudder ; 37, 69.
luin f. a lance ; 32, 14.
Lumnech the lower expanse of the
Shannon ; 36, 64.
mailte ? an epithet of mid ' mead '132,
Maistiu f., n.l. Mullaghtnast.
málainn (voc.) ? Cf. mál ' a prince,
noble' ; 32, 12.
mall slow, gentle; 19, 34, 36.
mannraim 1 destroy; 3. 10.
] maslad f. reproach, disgrace; 36, 54.
, mass f. a mast; 19.
■ menann clear, evident, manifest; 37,
73-
62
GLOSSARY
menn dumb, mute, stammering; 35,
44.
mergech with battle standards ; 34, 38.
mesraigthe moderate (zone) 24.
mllach monsterful ; 36, 66.
mo-chen welcome ! 33, 24.
mod m. manner; 34, 34.
móidim / boast, tow, promise ; 32, 12.
monar work ; 10.
miiaid noble ; 32,9; 36, 66.
muire m. a lord ; dat. pi. murib 3.
muire-druimnech lordly-ridged ; 32,
14-
Muirgel n. pr. f. 32, 19.
mul-bratánach . . . -mantled; 35, 40.
náthar of us two ; 5.
nemdaide heavenly ; 36, 56.
ner m. a boar; gen. nir 32, 13.
nertaid m. a strengthener ; 37, 70.
nett a nest; 32, 13.
o\\ great; gen. m. uill, f. uille.
orb m. an heir; 32, 18.
ordan dignity; 32, 18 ; 34, 34.
ossoc a young deer ; 35, 45.
oscar ignorant; 34, 33.
Pangur the name of a cat ; 5.
ráthaigthe guaranteed; 32, 13.
rebach sportive ; 36, 66.
íebánach sportive, full of sport ; 32, 8.
rechta, part, of rigim I stretch ; 34, 32
rethe m. a ram; 36, 54.
rig the lower arm ; ace. du. rigid 23 ;
voc. pi. rigthe 32, 15.
Rig-bardán n. pr. m. Riordan ; 33, 28.
1 . rind a point, peak, beak ; 33, 29 ; 35,
5 1 . the point of a zueapon ; 34, 36.
2. rind a star; 32, 3. 17.
3. rind a spear-shaft; ace. pi. rindi
34, 32.
1 indech pointed ; 34, 38.
rind-nem n. starry heaven ; 35, 46.
rón a seal ; 36, 66.
rot m. a road; 35, 45.
1. íúad red.
2. ruad strong; 34,38; 35,43-
rúad-fáebrach full of stout blades ; 32,
13-
Ruadri n. pr. m. gen. Ruadrach.
ruire m. a lord ; gen. ruirech 3.
ruse bark, rind ; 37. 73-
saich bad, evil ; 32, 1.
sail f. a willow ; $$, 29.
sal sea ; 36, 64.
samthach f. the handle of a battle-axe ;
33, 26.
scothaim Hop; 32, 17.
scuitemail like a buffoon ; 35, 44.
seccaim 1 dry, wither; 37, 73.
seche f. a hide ; 36, 54.
séig f. a hawk, metaph. of a hero ; 36,
63.
séis m. a troop, band.
sen-rechtaid m. an a?icient law-giver.
sernim I declare ; pass. perf. rosreth.
simen-buide yellow with rushes ; 32,
II.
slaide f. a beating, striking.
slataige m. a robber; 36, 63.
sléchtaim I prostrate myself; 16.
slemon sleek ; 32, 3.
sluaigedach bound for a hosting ; 33,
28.
snáithe a thread.
snim distress; 32, 20.
Sord n. 1. Swords; 37, 70.
sraiglim I scourge ; 36, 63.
sribanach full of streams of people,
crowded; 32, 8.
stab a stoup, vessel, cup ; 32, 10.
starga a shield; 34, 32.
stiall-chleth f. a tied or twisted rod J
32, 10.
taicet-bennach with . . . gables; 33,
3i-
Tailtiu f., n. 1. Teltown.
taman a stump ; gen. tamain 32, 15.
tásc report, fame ; 34, 41.
tatháir reproach ; 36, 60.
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Tech Duind n. 1. the Bull, Cow and
Calf islands in the Bay of Kenfnare.
32, 13.
teS 35- 4° = tech n. house.
tendalach fiery ; 14.
tentech fiery ; 34,38.
tigernae m. a lord ; 32, 11.
tinchosc instruction.
tind sick, sore; 32, 17.
tnuth zeal, jealousy ; gen. tnúith 32,
II.
tnuthach angry, fierce ; 3, 2.
tocad m. good fortune ;
tond-bán -white-waved;
tor m. rt band, troop :
instr. toraib 20.
34. 34-
32, 7-
gen. tuir 19;
trethan (properly gen. sg. of triath)
sea; 3.
triathach lordly ; 32, 23.
Tuag f., short for Inber Tuaige the
mouth of the Bann ; 34, 39.
túathach tribal; 19.
Tulach Tomair n. 1. the hill on which
Dublin Castle now stands, so called
from Tomair or Tomrair iarla ; 20.
tul-gatánach front-withed ; 35, 40.
uag f. a grave ; n. pi. uaga ; 3
úarda cold {zone) ; 24.
uillech full of corners ; 35,45.
ur-usa very easy ; 36, 60.
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