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Title

Early Irish lyrics : eighth to twelfth century / edited with translation, notes and glossary by Gerard Murphy ; with a new foreword by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh.

Publication

Dublin : Four Courts Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Murphy, Gerard
• Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, 1942-
• Murphy, Gerard, 1901-1959

Description

xxii, 315 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• To 1550
• Irish poetry > To 1100
• Irish poetry > Middle Irish, 1100-1550

Note

• Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1956.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• English and Irish (Old or Middle Irish) on facing pages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Monastic Poems -- Ninth Century -- 1 The Scholar and his Cat (starting p. 2) -- 2 The Scribe in the Woods (starting p. 4) -- 3 The Bell (starting p. 4) -- 4 The Lord of Creation (starting p. 4) -- 5 The Blackbird by Belfast Loch (starting p. 6) -- 6 The Blackbird Calling from the Willow (starting p. 6) -- 7 Sell not Heaven for Sin (starting p. 6) / Daniel ua Liathaiti -- 8 King and Hermit (starting p. 10) -- 9 A Hermit Song (starting p. 18) -- 10 God Be with Me (starting p. 22) -- 11 Jesus and Saint Ite (starting p. 26) -- Tenth and Eleventh Centuries -- 12 Manchan's Wish (starting p. 28) -- 13 All Things to all Men (starting p. 32) / Mo Ling -- 14 Christ's Cross (starting p. 32) -- 15 I Invoke Thee, God (starting p. 36) / Airbertach mac Cosse Dobrain -- 16 Prayer for Forgiveness (starting p. 36) / Oengus ceile De -- 17 On the Flightiness of Thought (starting p. 38) -- 18 Be thou my Vision (starting p. 42) -- 19 Evening Hymn (starting p. 44) -- 20 Invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (starting p. 46) / Colum Cille -- 21 I am Eve (starting p. 50) -- 22 Invocation of the Holy Spirit (starting p. 52) / Mael Isu Ua Brolchan -- 23 Deus Meus (starting p. 52) / Mael Isu Ua Brolchan -- 24 Lord, Guard me (starting p. 54) / Mael Isu Ua Brolchan -- 25 Beloved Lord, Pity me (starting p. 58) / Mael Isu Ua Brolchan -- 26 My Mind's Desire (starting p. 58) -- Twelfth Century -- 27 Prayer for Tears (starting p. 62) -- 28 Praise God (starting p. 64) -- Poems Connected with the Life of Colum Cille -- 29 A Blue Eye Will Look Back (starting p. 64) -- 30 An Exile's Dream (starting p. 66) -- 31 The Three Best-beloved Places (starting p. 68) -- 32 Derry (starting p. 68) -- 33 My Hand Is Weary with Writing (starting p. 70) -- Secular Poems -- Miscellaneous -- 34 The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare (starting p. 74) -- 35 Liadan Tells of Her Love for Cuirithir (starting p. 82) -- 36 The Lament of Creide, Daughter of Guaire of Aidne, for Dinertach, Son of Guaire of the Ui Fidgente (starting p. 86) -- 37 On the Loss of a Pet Goose (starting p. 88) -- 38 Ungenerous Payment (starting p. 90) -- Otherworld Poems -- 39 Manannan, God of the Sea, Describes his Kingdom to Bran and Predicts the Birth of Mongan (starting p. 92) -- 40 The Island Protected by a Bridge of Glass (starting p. 100) -- 41 Fair Lady, Will You Go with Me? (starting p. 104) -- 42 Loeg's Description to Cu Chulainn of Labraid's Home in Mag Mell (starting p. 106) -- Nature Poems Attributed to Suibne Geilt -- 43 My Little Oratory (starting p. 112) -- 44 The Cry of the Garb (starting p. 112) -- 45 Suibne and Eorann (starting p. 118) -- 46 Suibne in the Woods (starting p. 122) -- 47 Suibne in the Snow (starting p. 138) -- Poems from the Finn-Cycle -- 48 Cael Praises Creide's House (starting p. 140) -- 49 Creide's Lament for Cael (starting p. 148) -- 50 The Passing of the Fiana (starting p. 152) -- 51 Description of Winter and Memory of the Past (starting p. 154) -- 52 May-day (starting p. 156) -- 53 Summer has Gone (starting p. 160) -- 54 Grainne Speaks of Diarmait (starting p. 160) -- 55 Diarmait's Sleep (starting p. 160) -- 56 Oisin's Parting from Cailte (starting p. 164) -- 57 These Hands have been Withered (starting p. 166) -- 58 Once I was Yellow-haired (starting p. 168) -- Notes (starting p. 171) -- Glossary (starting p. 241) -- Index of Names (starting p. 304) -- Index of First Lines (starting p. 314)

ISBN

1851821988

LCCN

gb^98058228^

OCLC

• 39677853
• SCSB-12583177

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library