Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G100004P

Annals of Inisfallen, Pre-Patrician Section

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1. First draft, revised and corrected.

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Sources

    MS sources
  1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 503. 11th century (AD 1092) and later; 57 folios; origin Emly and other Munster houses. From the beginning to entry 1092.5, it is the work of a single hand, perhaps that of Diarmait Ó Flainn Chua, bishop and lector of Emly and abbot (r. 1092–1114), or Mael Ísu Ó hArrachtáin, abbot of Emly (died 1092). The MS was continued to the early fourteenth century by some 38 scribes, six of whom made large contributions. Mac Niocaill, however, suggests that while the earliest stratum may be associated with Emly, the annals may have been continued at Tomgraney, transcribed at Killaloe after the mid eleventh century, and continued at Lismore from about the year 1119. The MS passed to a West-Munster monastery, most likely Inisfallen, in 1130×1159. There are lacunae in the years 1130–1159, 1214–6, and 1285–95. Much of the later part of these annals is in phonetic spellings, lending them an additional linguistic interest. For more details, see Oxford Cat i 201–7.
    Editions and translations
  1. R. I. Best and Eóin Mac Neill, The Annals of Inisfallen, reproduced in facsimile from the original MS Rawlinson B 503 Dublin 1933.
  2. Seán Mac Airt, The Annals of Inisfallen MS. Rawlinson B. 503 Dublin 1944 (1951).
    Comment on the text, and secondary literature
  1. J. J. O'Farrelly, 'The Annals of Inisfallen', Journal of the Ivernian Society 1 (1909) 110–118.
  2. Edmund Curtis (notice of the facsimile edition), English Historical Review 53 (1934) 169–71.
  3. M. C., review of Best and Mac Neill 1933, Studies Dublin 23 (1934) 169–71.
  4. Edmund Curtis, review of Best and Mac Neill 1933, English Historical Review 50 (1935) 309–10.
  5. Paul Walsh, 'The dating of the Annals of Inisfallen', Catholic Bulletin 29 (1939) 677–82; repr. in idem, Irish leaders and learning through the ages, ed. Nollaig Ó Muraíle (Dublin 2003) 477–83.
  6. Gerard Murphy, review of Mac Airt 1951, Éigse 6 (1948–52) 350–60.
  7. John T. Collins, review of Mac Airt 1951, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 57 (1952) 63–65.
  8. Paul Grosjean, 'Notes d'hagiographie celtique', Analecta Bollandiana 70 (1952) 312–26: 317–26.
  9. E. G. Quin, review of Mac Airt 1951, Irish Historical Studies 8 (1952–53) 168–71.
  10. Joseph Vendryes, review of Mac Airt 1951, Études Celtiques 6 (1953–54) 389–92.
  11. Vernam Hull, The preterite passive plural in the Annals of Inisfallen, Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 24 (1953–54) 126–27.
  12. Aubrey Gwynn, Were the Annals of Inisfallen written at Killaloe?, N Munster Antiq J 8 (1958) 20–33.
  13. Roger H. Leech, Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh and the Annals of Inisfallen, N Munster Antiq J 11 (1968) 13–21.
  14. Vernam Hull, The infixed and independent objective pronoun in the Annals of Inisfallen, Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 24 (1953–54) 136–38.
  15. Gearóid Mac Niocaill, The medieval Irish annals (Dublin 1975) 24–25.
  16. Francis John Byrne, 1000 years of Irish script (Oxford, 1979), section 3.
  17. Kathryn Grabowski and David Dumville, Chronicles and annals of medieval Ireland and Wales: the Clonmacnoise group of texts (Woodbridge 1984) esp. 3–107.
  18. Caoimhín Breatnach, 'Corrigenda to the Annals of Inisfallen', Celtica 18 (1986) 193–198.
  19. Caoimhín Breatnach, 1. The stem mar- for marb- in the Annals of Inisfallen; 2. The treatment of guttural spirants by Anglo-Norman hands, Ériu 40 (1989) 184–186.
  20. Caoimhín Breatnach, Varia VI: Blein for bliadhain in the Annals of Inisfallen, Ériu 41 (1990) 143–146.
  21. Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, A reconsideration of some place-names from the Annals of Inisfallen, Ainm 5 (1991–93) 21–32.
  22. Daniel McCarthy, The Status of the Pre-Patrician Irish Annals, Peritia 12 (1998) 98–152.
  23. Nollaig Ó Muraíle, The celebrated antiquary: Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600–71): his lineage, life and learning (Maynooth 1996; rev. repr. Maynooth 2002), 255, 262 (note 51).
  24. 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'.
  25. Daniel P. Mc Carthy, The Irish Annals: their genesis, evolution and history (Dublin 2008).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. The Annals of Inisfallen MS. Rawlinson B. 503. Seán Mac Airt (ed), first edition [596 pp] Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesDublin (1944, reprinted 1968, 1975, 1988)

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The present electronic text covers the Pre-Patrician section on pp. 1-45.

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Profile Description

Created: By unknown authors in Irish monastic scriptoria Date range: AD 550-1326.

Use of language

Language: [GA] Part of the text is in Middle Irish.
Language: [LA] Big portions of the text are in Latin.
Language: [EN] The editor's annotations are in English.

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