Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G100001B
Annala Uladh: Annals of Ulster otherwise Annala Senait, Annals of Senat
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Electronic edition compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Funded by University College, Cork and
Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project.
1. Second draft, revised and corrected.
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Notes
[In this digital edition we have used Mac Carthy's very
unsatisfactory edition for the part from AD 1202 to the end. Mac Carthy's
codicological information is obscure, his citation of variants is patchy,
and he makes many unnecessary or wrong-headed attempts at emendation. These
latter are simply ignored, but emendations and corrections by Whitley Stokes
(1896, 1897) are integrated into the text. It is not, however, possible to
produce a satisfactory digital edition from Mac Carthy's ragged apparatus.
The current edition contains only the text from AD 1202 to AD 1378.]
Sources
Manuscript sources.- (i) Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1282, olim H. 1. 8,
siglum H, earlier A; vellum; s. xv 2/xvi in; for a description of the MS see
Abbott and Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in Trinity College Library
(Dublin 1921) 20 and B. Mac Carthy, Annals of Ulster iv (Dublin 1901)
ii-iii; scribe Ruaidhri Ó Luinín (to AD 1489), additional
hands to 1504, 1510 (?); ends imperfect). There are lacunae for the years
1102-8, 1115.4-1162.3, and 1374-8. The first lacuna may be supplied from MS
(ii); part of the second, viz. from 1115.5 to 1131.2 and from 1155 to
1162.3, 1374-8 may again be supplied from MS (ii); but for 1131.3 to late
1155 both MSS are lacunose. Literature: TCL Ir Cat 20; B. Mac Carthy (ed.)
Annals of Ulster, iv (Dublin, 1901) pp. ii-iii.
- (ii) Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 489, siglum R,
earlier B; vellum; s. xvi 1; patron Ruaidhrí Mac Craith of
Termonmagrath. There are two main scribes: (i) Ruaidhrí Ó
Casaide, archdeacon of Clogher (died 1541) who wrote from the beginning to
f. 32ra9 (AD 952); and (ii) Ruaidhri Ó Luinín, ollam to
Maguire (died 1528) who continued the work to f. 107vb12 (AD 1507). A third
scribe, whose name is not known, began on f. 107vb (the annal for 1507)
continued, alternating from time to time with a fourth. Many hands appear in
later folios, among them that of Matha Ó Luinín (died 1588)
grandson of Ruaidhri Ó Luinín. MS (ii) is a fair copy of MS
(i) but with supplementary entries, and it preserves some text lost by
mutilation in MS (i) as detailed above. Lacunae: 1131.3-1155, 1307-15.
Literature: Oxford Cat i 153-63; B. Mac Carthy (ed.) Annals
of Ulster, iv (Dublin, 1901) pp. iv-vi; Francis John Byrne, 1000 years of Irish script (Oxford: Bodleian Library 1979)
[para ]19.
- (iii) (a) London, BL, Additional 4795, olim Clarendon xlix;
paper; s. xvii; many hands. The text extends from AD 431 to 1132.1 and 1156
to 1307. (b) London, BL, Additional 4789, olim Clarendon xliii, 318a-321b;
paper; s. xvii?. The text extends from AD 1486 to 1504. The siglum for these
two MSS is C. This is a translation into English of the greater part of the
Irish text. Where original Latin occurs, it is retained. This text has some
notice of events not recorded in the Irish original. Literature: B. Mac
Carthy (ed.) Annals of Ulster, iv (Dublin, 1901) pp.
vi-vii.
- (iv) London, British Library, Additional 4784, olim Clarendon xx,
ff. 21a-32b, siglum D; paper. This is a translation into Latin of the Irish
text, AD 1200-96, with some material from other sources. Literature: B. Mac
Carthy (ed.) Annals of Ulster, iv (Dublin, 1901) pp.
vi-vii.
Editions.- W. M. Hennessy & B. Mac Carthy, Annala
Uladh: Annals of Ulster otherwise Annala Senait, Annals of Senat: a
chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. 4 vols. (Dublin,
1887-1901, repr. [with fresh introduction and bibliography, ed. Nollaig
Ó Muraíle] Dublin, 1998). Volume i, AD 4311056; volume
ii, 10571378; volume iii, 13791588; volume iv, introduction
and indexes. W. M. Hennessy edited volume 1; B. Mac Carthy edited volumes
2-3, and compiled volume 4 (the introduction and index). MS 1 (excluding the so-called Pre-Patrician
Annals, f. 12r14v) is printed with intermittent distinction of hands
(by parentheses, brackets, textual footnotes) and omission of some
interlinear interpolations; readings from MS 2 are sometimes cited in text
or in footnotes, and text lost in MS 1 is supplied from MS 2. MSS 3 and 4
are occasionally cited in footnotes, in the translation (s.a. 1132 for
example), and in the text. Expansions of manuscript abbreviations are not
indicated.
- Seán Mac Airt & Gearóid Mac Niocaill, (ed.
& trans.) The Annals of Ulster (to A.D. 1131)
(Dublin 1983). Text from MS 1 (including f. 12r14v, the so-called
Pre-Patrician Annals) with distinction of the main hand and the hands of
successive interpolators and glossators; additional material from MS 2 is
printed and distinguished. Expansions of manuscript abbreviations are
indicated.
Translations.- Hennessy & Mac Carthy (18871901).
- Mac Airt & Mac Niocaill (1983)to 1131.
Literature.- Trinity College Library Ir Cat 20.
- Oxford Cat i 153-63.
- Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (notice of Hennessy, vol. i) Revue Celtique 8 (1888) 402-406.
- Whitley Stokes, 'Notes on the Annals of Ulster', Academy 36 (1889) 207-8, 223-5, 240-1; 50 (1896) 182-3,
223-4 [criticism of, and corrigenda to, the edition of Hennessy & Mac
Carthy, vols i and iii].
- Whitley Stokes, 'The Annals of Ulster', Revue
Celtique 18 (1897) 74-86 [reviews of the edition of Hennessy & Mac
Carthy, ii-iii, with numerous corrections].
- Tomás Ó Máille, The
language of the Annals of Ulster (Manchester, 1910).
- Seán Ó Catháin, 'Some studies in the
development from Middle to Modern Irish, based on the Annals of Ulster', Z Celt Philol 19 (1933) 1-47.
- Paul Walsh, 'The dating of Irish annals', Ir
Hist Stud 2 (1941) 355-75.
- T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish history and
mythology (Dublin, 1946) 235-59, 501-12.
- Vernam Hull, 'The Middle Irish preterite passive plural in the
Annals of Ulster', Language 28 (1952) 107-8.
- Aubrey Gwynn, 'Cathal mac Maghnusa and the Annals of Ulster',
Clogher Record 2 (1958-9) 230-43, 370-84, repr. (with
introduction [1-25], corrections and annotations [53-57] and bibliography
[59-61]) in Nollaig Ó Muraíle (ed.) Aubrey
Gwynn, Cathal Óg mac Maghnusa and the Annals of
Ulster, (Enniskillen, 1998).
- Gearóid Mac Niocaill, 'Annála Uladh agus
Annála Locha Cé, 1014-1220', Galvia 6
(1959) 18-25.
- John Bannerman, 'Notes on the Scottish entries in the early Irish
annals', Scott Gaelic Stud 11 (1968) 149-70, repr. in
John Bannerman, Studies in the history of Dalriada (Edinburgh & London, 1974) 9-26.
- Isabel Henderson, 'North Pictland', in Edward Meldrum (ed.) The Dark Ages in the Highland (Inverness, 1970) 37-52.
- Kathleen Hughes, Early christian Ireland:
introduction to the sources (London & Ithaca NY, 1972) 99-159.
- A. P. Smyth, 'The earliest Irish annals: their first
contemporary entries, and the earliest centres of recording', Proc Roy Ir Acad (C) 72 (1972) 1-48.
- Marjorie O. Anderson, Kings and kingship in
early Scotland (Edinburgh & London, 1973) 1-42.
- Alfred P. Smyth, 'The Húi Néill and the
Leinstermen in the Annals of Ulster, 431-516 A. D.', Études Celtiques 14 (1974) 121-43.
- Gearóid Mac Niocaill, The medieval Irish
annals (Dublin, 1975).
- Francis John Byrne, 1000 years of Irish script
(Oxford, 1979) [para ]19.
- A. D. S. MacDonald, 'Notes on monastic archaeology and the
Annals of Ulster, 650-1050', in Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.)
Irish antiquity: essays and studies presented to Professor
M. J. O'Kelly (Cork, 1981) 304-19.
- A. D. S. MacDonald, 'Notes on terminology in the Annals of
Ulster, 650-1050', Peritia 1 (1982) 329-33.
- David N. Dumville, 'Latin and Irish in the Annals of Ulster, AD 431-1050', in Dorothy Whitelock,
Rosamond McKitterick & David N. Dumville (eds.) Ireland
in early medieval Europe: studies in memory of Kathleen Hughes
(Cambridge, 1982) 320-41.
- Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 'Irish
annals from Easter tables', Peritia 2 (1983)
74-86.
- David N. Dumville, 'On editing and translating medieval Irish
chronicles: The Annals of Ulster', Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 10 (1985) 67-86.
- Richard Sharpe, 'Saint Mauchteus, discipulus Patricii', in
Alfred Bammesberger & Alfred Wollmann (eds.) Britain
400-600: language and history (Heidelberg, 1990) 85-93.
- Daniel P. Mc Carthy, 'The chronological apparatus of the Annals of Ulster AD 431-1131', Peritia 8 (1994) 46-79.
- Michael Meckler, 'The Annals of Ulster and
the date of the meeting of Druim Cett', Peritia 11
(1997) 44-52.
- Bart Jaski, 'Additional notes to the Annals of
Ulster', Ériu 48 (1997) 103-52.
- Daniel P. Mc Carthy, 'The chronology of the Irish annals', Proc Roy Ir Acad (C) 98 (1998) 203-55.
- Nollaig Ó Muraíle, 'Cathal Mac Maghnusa: his
time, life and legacy', Clogher Rec 16/2 (1998)
45-64.
- Francis John Byrne, 'Chiasmus and hyperbaton in the Annals of Ulster', in Michael Richter & Jean-Michel Picard (eds.) Ogma: essays in Celtic studies in honour of Próinséas Ní Chatháin (Dublin, 2002) 54-64.
- Daniel P. Mc Carthy, 'The chronological apparatus of the Annals of Ulster AD 82-1029', Peritia 16 (2002) 256-83.
- Daniel P. Mc Carthy, on his website at http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/chronology/synchronisms/annals-chron.htm offers comprehensive information on two traditions of dating used in the Irish Annals, together with two ancillary articles, 'Chronological synchronisation of the Irish annals', and 'Collation of the Irish regnal canon'.
- Daniel P. Mc Carthy, 'The original compilation of the Annals of Ulster', Studia Celtica 38 (2004) 77-84.
- Daniel P. Mc Carthy, The Irish Annals: their genesis, evolution and history (Dublin 2008).
The edition used in the digital edition.- Annala Uladh: Annals of Ulster otherwise Annala
Senait, Annals of Senat. B. Mac Carthy (ed), First edition [vol. ii [iv, including 2 pages of corrigenda and addenda] +
565 pp; vol. iii 637 pp + 4 pages of corrigenda and addenda] Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury under the direction of the Council of the Royal Irish Academy (Her Majesty's Stationery Office) Dublin (1893)
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Mac Carthy's edition. The list of contents, historical notes, codicological
notes, and inconsequential variants have been omitted.
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Lenited f, m, s as f, m, s with
overdot in Mac Carthy' printed text are rendered fh, mh, sh. In
the electronic text, Kl. represents Kl^. of
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retained since they are merely graphical. In Roman numerals, especially
common in AD dates, the suprascript o and a have not been retained. In Anno Mundi dates, .iiiim represents 4000, m being a conventional representation of the italic m of the print text, itself a conventional
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numbered in the edition (Mac Airt & Mac Niocaill) or not (Mac Carthy).
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column numbers of each manuscript are recorded.
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Names (of persons, groups, dynasties, peoples, lineages, places) are tagged
and distinguished. The tagging of surnames in the late tenth, eleventh and
twelfth centuries, when they were coming into existence, poses many serious
historical problems, some of which cannot be resolved because of lack of
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Profile Description
Created: By mostly unknown authors in Irish monastic scriptoria and
medieval Irish clerics.
Date range: c. 550-c. 1588, various
and mostly unknown.
Use of language
Language: GA
Most of the later annals are in Old, Middle, and Early Modern Irish.
Language: LA
A large portion of the earlier part of the annals is in Latin; and there are many Latin words and formulae in the later Annals.
Language: EN
Some titles and other words are in English.
List of hands
H [main] Ruaidhri Ó Luinín
H1 [interpolator/glossator] unknown
H2 [interpolator/glossator] Cathal Mac Maghnusa
H3 [interpolator/glossator] unknown
H4 [interpolator/glossator] unknown
LATE [unidentified interpolator/glossator (vols 2-3)] unknown
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- (2000-11-22)
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- Additional structural mark-up (years, entries, and date values); entry
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