Irish Literature
Manuscripts
Mythological | Ulster | Fenian |
Kings | Immrama | Miscellania & Adaptations
Law | Wisdom | Poetry
Annals and Histories | Genealogies
Gaeilge | English |
Lebar na N�achongb�la (abbreviation: LL) | The Book of Leinster |
Lebor na nUidre (abbreviation: LU) | The Book of the Dun Cow |
Leabhar Baile an Mhota (abbreviation: LB) | The Book of Ballymote |
Leabhar M�r Mhic Fhir Bhisigh (abbreviation: Lec) | The Great Book of Lecan |
Leabhar Buidhe Lecain (abbreviation: YBL) | The Yellow Book of Lecan |
Leabhar Feirmoithe (abbreviation: F) | The Book of Fermoy/The Book of Roche |
Leabhar M�ig Shamhradh�in/Dunaire MagShamhradhain | The Book of Magauran |
Leabhar � Eadhra | The Book of O'Hara |
Leabar Chaill�n/Leabar Fidhnacha | The Book of Fenagh |
Fiannaidheacht: The Fenian Cycle
The Cycle of the Kings, or, the Historical Cycle
Immram Brain | The Voyage of Bran mac Febral |
Immacallam in Druad Brain ocus inna Banfh�itho Febuil | The Dialogue of Bran's Druid and the Prophetess of Lough Foyle |
Immrama curaig Mail D�in | The Voyage of Maildun |
Immrama hua Corra | The Voyage of the U� Chorra |
Immram Snedhghusa 7 meic Riaghla | The Voyage of Sn�dgus and Mac Riagla (poetic version) |
Immram Snedhghusa 7 meic Riaghla | The Voyage of Sn�dgus and Mac Riagla (prose version) |
Echtra Ambacuc | Ambacuc's Adventure |
Caenchomrac | The Disappearance of Caenchomrac |
Cormac mac Cuilenn�in and the Jesters | |
Cormac mac Cuilenn�in 7 Fern�c Inse Celtra | Cormac mac Cuilenn�in and the Alder of Inis Celtra |
Baile Bric�n | The Vision of Bric�n |
Comrac Liadaine ocus Cuirithir | The Romance of Liadan and Curithir |
Giolla an Fhiuga | The Lad of the Ferule |
Caithr�im Conghal Cl�iringhneach | Martial Career of Conghal Cl�iringhneach |
On the Ghost of Mac Maguire |
The Mogh Ruith/Tlachtga Cycle
The Beheading of John the Baptist by Mogh Ruith | The Beheading of John the Baptist by Mogh Ruith |
Apsalon baile in righ | The Executioner of John the Baptist |
Verse on Mogh Ruith, Book of Leinster | |
The Genealogies of Mogh Ruith | The Genealogies of Mogh Ruith |
Tlachtga | Tlachtga: genealogies |
Tlachtga (M�ller-Lisowski edition) | Tlachtga (Matthews translation) |
Tlachtga (Gwynn edition) | Tlachtga (Gwynn translation) |
Medieval Story Collections
Sc�lshenchas Lagen | Tales of Leinster (Rawl. 502) |
Comram Na Cl�enfherta | |
Esnada Tige Buchet | The Melody of the House of Buchet |
Orgain Dinn R�g | The Destruction of Dinn R�g |
Orgain Tr� Mac Diarmata Mic Cerbaill La Maelodr�n | The Destruction of the Three Sons of Dermot mac Cerball |
Tairired Na nD�ssi | |
Tr� Truaighe Na Sg�alaigheachta | The Three Sorrows Of Storytelling |
Aided Chloinne Lir | The Death of the Children of Lir |
Aided Chloinne Tuirend | The Death of the Children of Turen |
Aided Chloinne Uisnig | The Death of the Children of Uisnec |
Foreign Tales and Adaptations
Classical Adaptations | ||
Sc�l In Mh�naduir | Story of the Minotaur | |
Stair Ercuil ocus a bh�s | The history of Hercules and his death | |
Togail Tro� | The Destruction of Troy (Dares Phrygius) | |
Merugud Uilix Maicc Leirtis | The Wanderings of Ulysses son of Laertes | |
Imtheachta �n�asa | The Aeneid | |
Sc�la Alaxandair maic Pilip | The Tale of Alexander (the Great) son of Philip | |
Togail na Tebe | Statius: Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes) | |
In Cath Cathardha | Lucan: Bellum Civile/Pharsalia (The Civil War) | |
Arthurian Romances | ||
Eachtra an Mhadra Mhaoil | The Story of the Crop-Eared Dog | |
Eachtra Mhacaoimh-an-Iolair | The Story of Eagle-Boy | |
Eachtra Cloinne R�gh na h-Ioruaidhe | Adventures of the Children of the King of Norway | |
Lorgaireacht an tSoidhigh Naomhtha | the Quest of the Holy Grail | |
Eachtra Mhel�ra agus Orlando | Mel�ra and Orlando (Orlando Furioso) | |
C�ilidhe Iosgaide L�ithe | The Visit of Grey-Thigh | |
Popular Medieval Works | ||
Beathadh Sir Gui [o Bhar]bhuic | The Life of Guy of Warwick | |
Bethadh Bibuis O Hamtuir | The Life of Bevis of Hampton | |
Gabh�ltas S�arlais Mh�ir | The Conquest of Charlemagne | |
Stair Fortibrais | History of Fortibrais (Charlemagne Cycle) | |
Stair na Lombardach | The History of the Lombards (from Legenda Aurea) | |
Leabhar Ser Marco Polo | Marco Polo: Il Milione | |
Echtrae Maundeville | The Travels of John Mandeville |
Legal Texts
Based on Ancient Laws of Ireland and Corpus Iuris Hibernici.
Adeirim nach dein eisinraic | |
Aderim gurab uaisle an comarba saorda | |
Advice to Doidin | |
Aer Tract | |
Ant�chtae Breth | |
Archaic legal poem | |
Ata fasta 7 taithmech | |
Ataim da foillsiugh | |
Ataim da radh gurab .uii. cumala coirpdiri | |
Bal beg dh�fastad breithe | |
Bechbretha | |
Berrad Airechta | |
B�slechtae | |
B�sgnae R�ithe | |
B�shlechta | Cow-sections |
Breth gin dilsi gin arach | |
Bretha Cairdi | |
Bretha Cairdu | |
Bretha Comaithchesa | The Judgements of Neighbourhood |
Bretha Cr�dine | The Judgements of Cr�dine |
Bretha Cr�lige | The Judgements of Blood-Lying |
Bretha D�in Ch�cht | The Judgements of Dian Cecht |
Bretha �tgid | The Judgements of Inadvertence |
Bretha for Catslechtaib | |
Bretha for Conslechtaib | |
Bretha for Macslechtaib | |
Bretha for Techt Medbae | The Judgement of the House of Medb |
Bretha Forloiscthe | The Judgements of Arsons |
Bretha Forma | The Judgements of Trapping |
Bretha im Fuillemu Gell | The Judgements about pledge-interests |
Bretha Goibnenn | The Judgements of Goibniu |
Bretha Im Gata | The Judgements about thefts |
Bretha Luchtaine | The Judgements of Luchtaine |
Bretha Nemed To�sech | The First Judgement of Nemed |
Bretha Nemed D�denach | The Second Judgement of Nemed |
Bretha Sen Forma | The Judgements Relating To Nets For Trapping |
Briathar Cath Nam-Ban | |
C�in Aicillne | The Law of Base Clientship |
C�in Airlicthe | The Law of Airliciud |
C�in Dar � | The Law of Dar � |
C�in Domnaig | The Law of Sunday |
C�in Eim�ne B�in | The Law of Eim�ne |
C�in Fhuithirbe | The Regulation of Fuithirbe |
C�in �arraith | The Law of the fosterage fee |
C�in L�namna | The Regulation of Couples |
C�in Ona | Law of �n |
C�in Ph�traic | The law of Patrick |
C�in S�erraith | The law of free fief |
Ceart U� Neill | The Rights of the O'Neills |
Cethairslicht Athgab�lae | |
Cidh mor d�inndliged dogne duine | |
Cinta tugaiti | |
Coibnes Uisci Thairidne | |
C�ic Conara Fugill | |
Coirpri dixit fri Cormac | |
Comair nuinge isin mbanbeim | |
Cormac ua Cuinn dixit | |
C�rus Aithni | The Regulation Of Deposit |
C�rus B�sgnai | The Regulation Of Proper Behaviour |
C�rus Fiadnuise | The Regulation Of Evidence |
C�rus Fine | The Regulation Of The Kin-Group |
C�rus Iubaile | The Regulation Of Periods Of Immunity |
Crith Gabhlach | The Ordering of Society (Ancient Laws of Ireland v.4) |
D�fasta | |
D�imfulung feicheman toicheda | |
De deiligudh gotha | |
De Druthbrethaib | On Judgements Relating To Idiots |
Di Astud Chirt 7 Dligid | On The Confirmation Of Right And Law |
Di Astud Chor | On The Binding Of Contracts |
Di Brethaib Gaire | |
Di Chetharshlicht Athgab�la | On The Four Divisions Of Distraint |
Di Choim�t Dligthech | |
Di Dligiud Raith 7 Soma�ne la Flaith | On The Law Relating To The Fief And Profit Of A Lord |
Di Fodlaib Cen�oil T�aithe (Fodla Fine) | |
Di Gn�maib Gall | On The Actions Of Hostages |
Di Th�aslucud Rudrad | |
Dia Fis C�a Is Breitheamh I Ngach C�is | To Find Out Who Is A Judge For Every Case |
Dia fios cinnus icthar na feich | |
D�guin Tract | |
Dilsiugh beg eir rat | |
Din Techtugad | �On the legal entry� (Ancient Laws of Ireland v.4) |
D�re Tract | |
D�re Tract & Band�re Tract | |
Dober dres eir fasta rudharta | |
Do[n] aos fiachach | |
Do brethemhnus forna ceithre finibh 7 do roinn in dobaid etarru | |
Do breitheamhnus for finibh isle | |
Do breitheamhnas for ghellaibh | On Judgement About Pledges |
Do breitheamhnus for na huile ch�n don� gach cintach | On Judgement On Every Crime Which An Offender Commits |
Do breitheamhnus forna comorbaib | |
Do Brethaib Gaire | On Judgements Of Maintenance |
Do cinta tucaite | |
Do cointugud fir th�ircthe | |
Do dh�cur aicnid | |
Do druthaib 7 meraib 7 dasachtaibh | On Idiots, Insane Persons And Lunatics |
Do eircib fola 7 bainbeimenna 7 fodhlaib einech | |
Do dhilsiugh gac aoin ina m�ghn�mhaibh | |
Do fasta breithe co leicc | |
Do fasta fiadnaise | |
Do fastad tuinidhe | |
Do fortach fiadnaise | |
Do neamciontugud aosa taircthe | |
Do neamhfastad breithe | |
Do neimhaosa tairce | |
Do n�s dligthech 7 indligthech | |
Do ruidilse tobaig cach besgna | |
Do slaintiugh comhlaithre | |
Do tabairt ileneclainne do nech | |
Do tabairt mic i norba | |
Do tabarta ada dilsi 7 ada indilsi | |
Do taithmech breithe t�ata | |
Do thaithmech tuinidi | |
Do tiachtain f� choraib | |
Do tosac caingne | |
Do Tuaslucad Cundrad | On The Dissolution Of Contracts |
Do Tuaslucud Rudradh | On The Dissolution Of Prescriptions |
Don fuillem fil o dliged laisna fiachaibh | |
Don toichid is d�r do tabairt for chintac graidh flatha | |
Dona rathaibh | |
Dond d�fagbail a comocus | |
Don� ant imat dligthech | |
Doni berar .7. cumala | |
Doni dliges nech do denadh | |
Doni dlighus gac fer f�ne | |
Doni dligus nech fortach | |
Doni is coir d�thech dont� fora l�ther | |
Doni is coir don rathaib | |
Doni is comuasal gac duine | |
Doni is dlighti do nech | |
Doni is dilis in rath | |
Doni is fine do neoch | |
Doni is sruithem cor c�tcor | |
Doni na tabarr logh | |
Don� is taithmechta | |
Doni na fuil imdenamh a fatha | |
Doni na fuil n� do cennaib | |
Don� na tiagait anntesta acht do cranncor | |
Doni na teit in ferann a rudhru | |
Doni nach agarrta | |
Doni nach coir aimles do techt | |
Doni nach diles somaine | |
Doni nach dlighinn cairrtech | |
Doni nach dliginn nech | |
Don� nach eitir cuis na tuaithi | |
Doni nach millenn | |
Doni rethes fuillem 7 fiach | |
Doni teit indeman a breithe | |
Doni t�t in ferann a cionta | |
Doni nac taithminn nech | |
Don� nach dliginn nech | |
Don� saorus in breithemh | |
Donni nach eitir cuis | |
Duil Droma Ceta | |
D�ilchinni | |
Eisceaptaighi Uithir | |
Fidbretha | Tree-Judgements |
Finebretha | Kin-Judgements |
Fine neth | |
Fodla Fine | Types Of Kin (Or Kinsman) |
Fodla Tire | |
Fotha bec | |
Fotha mor | |
Fuidir Tract | |
Fuithribe Cormaic | |
Gac duine ina cion | |
Gib� minna dober-sa | |
G�bretha Caratniad | |
Immathchor nAilella 7 Airt | |
Injury Tract | |
Is iat screbail deolaid | |
Is dligthige do neoch | |
Is� mo cetfaid na fuil | |
Judgement of 1561 | |
Leabhar na gCeart | The Book of Rights |
Lebar Aicle | Book of Aicill (Ancient Laws of Ireland v.3) |
Legal poem | |
Mellbretha | Sport Judgements |
M�adslechtae | Rank Sections |
Molaim dona ratha | |
Mruigrecht | Land-Law |
Muirbretha | Sea-Judgements |
Na hagra duine | |
Nach dlegar aos taircthe | |
Ni dogniter ar daingin maithisa | |
Ni fuil a ndligi ar bith | |
Ni tabar geall | |
Ni taithminn nech | |
Ni tig dligi cion | |
O�Davoren�s Glossary | O�Davoren�s Glossary |
Osbretha | Deer-Judgements |
R� condamhna na s�t | |
Recholl Breth | |
Rethoric text about Cormac, Fachtna and Sogen | |
Rethus fuillem 7 fiach | |
R�agail Ph�traic | Rule of St. Patrick, The |
Rule of St. Columba | |
Rule of St. Columbanus | |
Rith Na C�nnan | The Extent Of The Laws |
S�rughadh | Violation [Of Protection, Asylum, Sanctuary] |
Secht rann fichit triasa toet | |
Sechtae | |
S�nbretha | Net-Judgements |
Senchus Mor | "The Great Old Law Book" (Ancient Laws of Ireland v.1-3) |
Sl�n N-Aitire Cairde | The Immunity Of A Hostage-Surety In A Treaty |
Slicht Othrusa | Section On Sick-Maintenance |
Status Tract | |
Succession tract & Appendix | |
Taithmech rudhatha | |
T�t an fearann a cintaib | |
Text by Giolla na Naem Mac Aodhagain | |
Text on Airecht | |
Text on Cairde and Cormac Condloinges | |
Text on court procedure | |
Text on Cr� 7 D�bad | |
Text on C� Chulainn and A�fe�s son | |
Text on evidence | |
Text on judges | |
Text on kin-slaying | |
Text on poets | |
Text on Rudrad | |
Text on status | |
Text on the seven noble sciences | |
Text on the seven ecclesiastical grades | |
Text on wounding | |
Texts on clientship | |
Texts on distraint | |
Tigim fai | |
T�r Cumaile | |
Tosach B�sgnai | |
Tract on Marriage | |
Tuarasndal na cana | |
Tuinidh | |
T[a]urbaid Tract | Legal Postponement |
Uide cinad | |
Uraicect becc | �The Small Primer� (Ancient Laws of Ireland v.5) |
Uraicecht na R�ar | The Primer Of The Stipulations |
Urcuilte Brethaman | The Forbidden Things Of A Judge |
Genealach h-Ua Maine | Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many |
Laud 610 | Laud 610 |
Leabhar Glinne da Locha | Rawlinson B 502 |
The Leinster Dynastic Poems | ||
Mo�n o�n o ba no�d | The Silent One | |
Dind Rīg rūad | Dind Rig is red | |
Ni ceilt ceis | ||
Lugh sc�ith | Lugh of the sheild | |
M�l ad-rualaid | ||
Eochu Ferngen | ||
Baeth buide | ||
Find Taulcha | ||
Tri meic Ruaid | The Three Sons of Ruad | |
Cathair coem | ||
Doss d�ile | ||
Coeca fichet filed | ||
�n grian | ||
M�ra galgata | ||
M�ra mairb | ||
L�mair lergga | ||
L�nais Nia | ||
M�r drecuin | ||
Lia l�ma | ||
Eochu art | ||
Na tri Fothaid | ||
�nna Labraid luad c�ich | ||
Nuadu Necht n� d�mair anflaith | ||
N�du d�r dermait | A Poem on the Kings of the E�ganachta | |
A Reilec Lāech Leith Cuinn | The Graves of the Kings at Clonmacnois | |
Other Provinces Poems | ||
Cōic Mumain | The Five Munsters | |
Do r�gaib Connacht | A poem on the Kings of Connaught | |
Eogan, Eogan, Crimthand Cael | ||
Eochaid, Eochaid, Ainmire | ||
Early Irish Poetry
Ossianic Poetry
Ossian | The Ossian Poems from the Book of the Dean of Lismore |
Boyish Exploits of Fionn | |
Sc�l L�m D�ib | Finn's Winter Tidings |
Finn's Song of Winter | |
Finn's Song of Summer | |
Autumn Song | |
Ois�n is born of a doe | |
Battle of Cnoc-an-Air | |
Laiodh Mearghach | The Lay of Mearghach |
The Wife of Mearghach | |
Chase of Loch Lein | |
Chase of Sliabh Guilleann | |
Chase of Sliabh Fuaid | |
Chase of Gleann an Smoil | |
Chase of Sliabh na-m-Ban | |
Chase of the Enchanged Pigs | |
Hunt of Sliabh Truim | |
Hunt on the Borders of Lough Derg | |
Fionn goes to Graffee | |
Fionn goes to Lochlin | |
Enchantment of the Giants in Ceash | |
Praise of Beinn Eadair | |
A Greceian Princess comes to Erin | |
Adventures of Amadan Mor | |
The Battle of Ventry | |
Greceian Princess comes to Erin | |
Death of Erraran son of Fionn | |
Ut dixit Gr�inne ingen Chormaic fri Finn | Grainne on Diamuid |
The Battle of Gavra | |
Lay of Ois�n | |
Lamentation of Ois�n | |
The Conversion of Ois�n | |
Ro loiscit na l�ma-sa | The Withering of Ois�n |
Duanaire Finn | The Poem-book of Fionn |
High Medieval Poetry
Late (Early Modern) Poetry
Egan O'Rahilly (1675 - 1729) | ||
D�nta Aodhag�in U� Rathaille | Poems of Egan O'Rahilly | |
Eileen Dubh O'Connell (ca. 1773) | ||
Caoineadh Airt U� Laoghaire | Dirge on the Death of Art O�Leary | |
Michael Comyn (ca. 1750) | ||
Laoi Ois�n ar Tir na n-Og | Ois�n in the Land of Youth | |
Brian Merriman | ||
C�irt an Mhe�n �iche | The Midnight Court |
Incantations and Loricae
St. Gall Incantations | St. Gall Incantations |
Stowe Missal Incantations | Stowe Missal Incantations |
The Klosterneuburg Incantation | The Klosterneuburg Incantation |
Faeth Fida | Lorica of St. Patrick/The Deer's Cry |
C�tnad nA�se | A Song for Long Life ("Seven Daughters of the Sea") |
Lorica de Leyde | Lorica from a Leyde MS. |
Lorica Brendani | Lorica of St. Brendan |
Lorica Colmani | Lorica of St. Colman |
Lorica Sanctani | Lorica of St. Sanctan |
Lorica Mugnoni | Lorica of St. Mugnon |