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Measgra Dánta

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T. F. O'Rahilly

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber , Ruth Murphy

Proof corrections by Hilary Lavelle, University of Ulster at Coleraine

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The HEA via the LDT Project and
The IRCHSS via the Digital Dinneen Project

3. Third draft, revised.

Extent of text: 18200 words

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Notes

The editor notes: ‘The spelling employed in the text is in general a normalized and slightly modified form of the orthography in common use some three centuries ago. It should be carefully borne in mind that the pronunciation required in reading most of these poems is often very different from that of the Irish of to-day; thus every consonant (including dh, gh, bh, and mh) must, as a rule, be as fully pronounced in the middle or end of a word as at the beginning. On the other hand, in the occasional supplementary stanzas in accentual metre, as well as in a few of the dánta, a frankly modern pronunciation is required, and accordingly in these the orthography has been somewhat modernized. Here and there a macron has been employed to indicate that the metre requires the modern pronunciation of a word spelled in the old way.’ [T. F. O'Rahilly, p 61.]

Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Poem 1: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 4, p 41. A second, incomplete version, identical with the first, except for the spelling, is found at p 115.
  2. Poem 2: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 4, p 43 [=J]; MS 23 I 23, p 109 [=K]; National Library of Ireland, xviii, p 36 [=N].
  3. Poem 3: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 225; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 27, p 89; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 25, p 335 bis.
  4. Poem 4: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 29, p 356.
  5. Poem 5: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 120; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 37, p 3.
  6. Poem 6: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 B 28, p 339; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 20, p 241; Trinity College, MS H 6 17, p 163; Trinity College, MS H 6 14, p 153; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 24, p 274; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 13, p 72; British Library, Egerton 133, fo 86b (Robin Flower, Cat. 39).
  7. Poem 7: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 45, p 16; Trinity College, MS H 6 11, p 146; Royal Irish Academy, MS F v 3, p 50; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 25, p 9; Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 B 9, p 303.
  8. Poem 8: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS F v 3, p 334; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 24, p 366.
  9. Poem 9: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 226; Trinity College, MS H 5 1, p 3; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 38, p 152; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 24, p 38; Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 B 9, p 250.
  10. Poem 10: Gadelica i, 260-262; Ms. written by Seán Ó Murchú na Ráthíneach in 1722.
  11. Poem 11: Edinburgh MS. xlviii printed in Reliquiae Celticae i, 127; Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS F v 5, p 172; British Library, Egerton 187, fo 29b (Robin Flower, Cat. 22).
  12. Poem 12: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS G vi 1, p 66; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 Q 2, p 29; British Library, Egerton 139, fo 101 (Robin Flower, Cat. 96).
  13. Poem 13: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 34, p 178.
  14. Poem 14: Dublin, Trinity College, MS H 6 7, p 41; Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 B 5, fo 41b; Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 C 13, p 69; Royal Irish Academy, MS E iv 3, p 173; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 16, p 209.
  15. Poem 15: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 95; Royal Irish Academy, MS E iv 3, p 174; Royal Irish Academy, MS F vi 2, p 143; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 24, p 57.
  16. Poem 16: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 40, p 38.
  17. Poem 17: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 17, fo 141a.
  18. Poem 18: Clonalis House, Castlerea, O'Conor Don's MS., fo 24a.
  19. Poem 19: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 40, p 3; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 8, p 197; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 35, p 38 (margin); 23 L 34, p 179.
  20. Poem 20: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 40, p 47.
  21. Poem 21: Clonalis House, Castlerea, O'Conor Don's MS., fo 27a.
  22. Poem 22: British Library, Add. 40766, fo 14.
  23. Poem 23: Dublin, Trinity College, MS H 5 9, p 20.
  24. Poem 24: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 397.
  25. Poem 25: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 38, p 55; 23 N 15, p 152.
  26. Poem 26: Maynooth, MS 2 g 14, p 509; Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 14, p 112; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 14, p 20; London, British Library, Add. MS 29614, fo 31.
  27. Poem 27: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS E iv 3, p 175; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 23, p 197; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 30, p 124; Ms. written by Seán Ó Murchú na Ráthíneach in 1722.
  28. Poem 28: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 Q 2, p 89; London, British Library, Add. MS 40766, fo 20 (Robin Flower, Cat. 165).
  29. Poem 29: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 45, p 68; Royal Irish Academy, MS F v 3, p 184; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 35, p 173.
  30. Poem 30: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 123; Nieders. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen MS. 773, fo 1a.
  31. Poem 31: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 F 16, p 126.
  32. Poem 32: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 38, p 67; UCD, Franciscan MS 35, p 441.
  33. Poem 33: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 404.
  34. Poem 34: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 214.
  35. Poem 35: UCD, Franciscan MS A 34, p 127.
  36. Poem 36: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 F 16, p 88; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 11, p 131; O'Molloy's Grammar (1676), pp 184–7; Royal Irish Academy, MS F vi 2, p 366; Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 B 39, p 292.
  37. Poem 37: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 38, p 59.
  38. Poem 38: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS G vi I, p 35; Universitätsbibl. Giessen, 1267 (ca 1685) fo. 56v; Royal Irish Academy, MS A iv 2, p 50; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 26, part 2, p 180; British Library, Egerton 133, fo 75b (Robin Flower, Cat. 38).
  39. Poem 39: Dublin, National Library of Ireland xix pp 116 seq.; Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 C 4, fo 171; Royal Irish Academy, MS 12 I 16, fo 43; London, British Library, MS Egerton 164, fo 30b; British Library, MS Egerton 208, fo 79 (Robin Flower, Cat. 347, 136).
  40. Poem 40: Chatsworth, Book of Lismore (at Chatsworth since 1930); Agallamh na Seanórach, ed. Stokes, Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore, ll. 340sq.; UCD, Franciscan MS text; Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 5, p 17z; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 34, p 258.
  41. Poem 41: Dublin, Trinity College, H 6 7 p 14; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 45, p 66.
  42. Poem 42: Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels MS. 5100–4, p 34; Edinburgh, MS. v, fo 10a.
  43. Poem 43: A MS. in private hands; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 38, p 57; a copy in the Black Book of Clanranald, printed in 'Reliquiae Celticae.' ii, 306.
  44. Poem 44: Whitley Stokes, The death of the sons of Uisnech, Irische Texte, ser 2, ii, 127–9.
  45. Poem 45: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 13, p 174; A MS. in private hands.
  46. Poem 46: Poem pieced together from various verses quoted in Maghnus Ó Domhnaill's life of the saint (ed. O'Kelleher and Schoepperle, pp 188–200, 290–294); 'Obind beith ar Beind Edair' by Columcille, Reeves, Adamnan's Life of Columcille, pp 285 sq; Rawl. B 512 (Stokes, Tripartite Life, i, p xxxix).
  47. Poem 47: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 5, p 335; H 1. 11, fo 143a (copied in 1752 from Add. 30512, fo 34b, in British Library); Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin (1808), pt. 3, pp 180 sq., ed. by T. O'Flanagan.
  48. Poem 48: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4. p 96; Trinity College, H 6. 7, p 16; Royal Irish Academy, E iv. 3, p 173; Mur. 48, Maynooth.
  49. Poem 49: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 40, p 189; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 F 16, p 89; p 141.
  50. Poem 50: Eleanor Knott, Gadelica i, pp 10 sq. (corrections pp 300–1).
  51. Poem 51: Dublin, Trinity College, H 3 19, p 57.
  52. Poem 52: Clonalis House, Castlerea, O'Conor Don's MS., fo 410a ("O"); Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A iv. 3, p 697; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 40, p 181.
  53. Poem 53: Clonalis House, Castlerea, O'Conor Don's MS., fo 25b ("O"); 23 F 16, p 191; 23 D 4, p 136.
  54. Poem 54: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 F 16, p 14; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 40, p 192.
  55. Poem 55: 2 g 14, Maynooth, p 427, in the hand of Eóghan Ó Caoimh, 1704 ("M"); Dublin, Trinity College, H 4 5, p 160; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 12, p 30.
  56. Poem 56: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A v 1, fo 75b; Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 27, p 133; Clonalis House, Castlerea, O'Conor Don's MS., fo 178a; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 17, fo 88b.
  57. Poem 57: Royal Irish Academy, MS E iv 3, p 48; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 17, p 26; Dublin, National Library MS. 12, p 65.
  58. Poem 58: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 F 16, p 127; 23 G 23, p 211.
  59. Poem 59: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 A 22, p 255; Mur. 48, Maynooth, p 66; 24 C 13, p 81.
  60. Poem 60: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 28, p 300.
  61. Poem 61: H 4. 5, p 93.
  62. Poem 62: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 142.
  63. Poem 63: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 4, p 144.
  64. Poem 64: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 L 38, p 4; 23 C 3, p 62; 23 M 16, p 111; 23 N 15, p 176.
  65. Poem 65: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 L 6, p 2; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 34, p 154; Reliquae Celticae i, 126; Keating's Poems ed. Rev J.C. MacErlean, p 46; Royal Irish Academy, MS A iv 2, fo 23b; Trinity College H 2 5, p 344; Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 29, p 347; Trinity College H 5 13, p 76; Trinity College H 4 10, p 52; Trinity College H 4 10; Trinity College H 2 5; Trinity College H 5 13; Maynooth MS 2 g 14, fo 7a.
  66. Poem 66: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 13, p 243; Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 B 5, fo 43b.
  67. Poem 67: Clonalis House, Castlerea, O'Conor Don's MS., fo 79a; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 F 16, p 75; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 A 8, p 274; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud 615, p 135.
  68. Poem 68: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 L 13, p 7.
  69. Poem 69: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 28, p 285.
  70. Poem 70: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 L 6, p 31.
  71. Poem 71: UCD, Franciscan MS., Duanaire Finn, fo 73b; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 4, p 131.
  72. Poem 72: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 14, p 200.
  73. Poem 73: UCD, Franciscan MS., Duanaire Finn, fo 43.
  74. Poem 74: UCD, Franciscan MS., Duanaire Finn, fo 57b.
  75. Poem 75: O'Molloy's 'Grammatica Latino-Hibernica' (1676), p 204; Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 I 40, p 4; Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 34, p 158.
  76. Poem 76: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 13, p 155; Trinity College MS H 6 14, p 169; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 27, p 206; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 14, p 98; National Library xii, pt. 2, p 170.
  77. Poem 77: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 34, p 155; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 24, p 184; Trinity College, MS H 5 13, p 78.
  78. Poem 78: Clonalis House, Castlerea, O'Conor Don's MS., fo 77b; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 19, p 287; Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 B 31, p 111.
  79. Poem 79: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 L 34, p 208; Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 35, p 10.
  80. Poem 80: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 B 35, p 32.
    Editions
  1. Thomas Francis O'Rahilly, Measgra Dánta. Reprinted. Dublin: Brown and Nolan 1960.
  2. Thomas Francis O'Rahilly, Measgra Dánta, miscellaneous Irish poems. Reprinted. Corcaigh: Cló Ollscoile Chorcaí [=Cork: Cork University Press] 1972.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Measgra Dánta (Miscellaneous Irish Poems). T. F. O'Rahilly (ed), first edition [ii + 277 pp.] Cork (1927) Cork University Press

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Created: By various Irish authors. Date range: 1100–1799.

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Language: [GA] The text is in Middle to Modern Irish.
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