Annals of Clonmacnoise
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Country | Ireland |
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Subject | Ireland |
The Annals of Clonmacnoise (
Translation
The Irish chronicle was translated into English, in the style of the Elizabethan period, in 1627 by
The translation was completed on 20 April 1627, in the Castle of Lemanaghan in County Offaly. The original manuscript of Mag Eochagáin's translation is lost, but there are several copies of it in both the
The original work was in
Provenance of the original chronicle
The original manuscript or manuscripts of the Irish annals are lost, and the names of its compilers are unknown. These annals have usually gone by the name of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, because the work was thought to be based on materials gathered at the monastery of
Contents
The Annals give the history of Ireland and the areas surrounding Clonmacnoise from the creation of man to the year 1408. Mag Eochagáin points out that several parts of the original work are missing as from 1182 to 1199 and again from 1290 to 1299. He states that the originals were destroyed not merely by the books being burnt by marauding Vikings but also by tailors cutting the leaves of the books and slicing them off in long pieces to make their measures.
Edition
The translation of the Annals was first published in Dublin in 1896 and again reprinted by Llanerch Publishers in 1993. Scholars have repeatedly called for a new edition as Murphy's edition has been deemed inadequate for modern scholarly purposes. Such scholars include Prof David Dumville who has bemoaned the "poor textual condition of the Annals of Clonmacnoise and the lack of adequate modern criticism of that text".[4] Dr Nollaig O Muraile has also expressed a wish that someone will undertake one of "those great desiderata in this particular field – namely new, up-to-date editions of the Annals of Tigernach, of Mageoghegan's Book" (i.e. the Annals of Clonmacnoise).[5]
- Murphy, Denis (ed.). The Annals of Clonmacnoise. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Dublin, 1896. PDFs available from the Internet Archive here and here.
See also
- Conall MacGeoghegan
- Irish annals
- The Chronicle of Ireland
Notes
- ^ Murphy Annals of Clonmacnoise (Dublin 1896).
- JSTOR 25528658.
- ^ Mac Niocaill, Gearóid (1975). The Medieval Irish Annals. Dublin: Dublin Historical Association.
- ^ D. Dumville and K. Grabowski, Chronicles and Annals of Mediaeval Ireland and Wales (Boydell Press, 1984), p. 176.
- ^ N. O Muraile, Review of D. P. Mc Carthy's The Irish Annals: their Genesis, Evolution and History Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
References
- Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature, Robert Welsh, 1996. ISBN 0-19-280080-9
- Chronicles and Annals of Mediaeval Ireland and Wales, David Dumville and Kathryn Grabowski, 1984.