Irish annals

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A number of Irish annals, of which the earliest was the

Liber pontificalis.[1]

Chronology

The origins of annalistic compilation can be traced to the occasional recording of notes and events in blank spaces between the

Easter table adopted from Gaulish writer Sulpicius Severus (d. c. 423).[1]

Extant

Manuscript copies of extant annals include the following:

MAP of Irish locales linked to Irish Annals writing assembled by De Reir Book of Moytura team

Other sources

Others which contain annalistic material include:

Many of these annals have been translated and published by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, or the Irish Texts Society. In addition, the text of many are available on the internet at the Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT Project) hosted by the History Department of University College Cork, National University of Ireland. (See External Links below)

The famous epic political tract Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib also contains a great deal of annalistic material from the Viking Age in Ireland which is to be found in no other surviving sources. Much of this was taken from the same sources ancestral to the Annals of Inisfallen, which have come down to us both abbreviated and lacunose.

Lost annals

Annals known to have existed but which have been lost include:

  • Annals of the Island of Saints
  • Annals of Maolconary
  • Book of Cuanu
  • Book of Dub-da-leithe
  • Book of the Monks
  • Leabhar Airis Cloinne Fir Bhisigh
  • Leabhar Airisen
  • Leabhar Airisen Ghiolla Iosa Mhec Fhirbhisigh
  • Synchronisms of Flann Mainstreach
  • The Chronicle of Ireland

Modern annals

  • Chronology of Irish History to 1976
  • The Chronicle of Ireland 1992–1996

Notes

  1. ^ a b Ó Corráin, "annals, Irish", p. 69.
  2. ^ "The Tripartite life of Patrick : With other documents relating to that saint". 1887.

References

  • ABC-CLIO
    . pp. 69–75.
  • The Medieval Irish Annals,
    Gearoid Mac Niocaill, Medieval Irish History Series, 3, Dublin
    , 1975
  • The earliest Irish annals, Alfred P. Smyth, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, # 70, 1972, pp. 1–48.
  • Astronomical observations in the Irish annals and their motivation, Aidan Breen and Daniel McCarthy, Peritia 1997, pp. 1–43
  • "The Chronicle of Ireland: Then and Now", Roy Flechner, Early medieval Europe 21, 2013, pp. 422–54
  • The chronology of the Irish annals, Daniel P. McCarthy, PRIA 98, 1998, pp. 203–55
  • The status of the pre-Patrician Irish annals, Daniel P. McCarthy, Peritia 12, 1998, pp. 98–152.
  • The Historicity of the Early Irish Annals:Heritage and Content, Patrick C. Griffin, 2001.
  • The chronological apparatus of the Annals of Ulster A.D. 82-1019, Daniel McCarthy, in Peritia 16, 2002, pp. 256–83
  • The original compilation of the Annals of Ulster, Daniel McCarthy, in Studia Celtica 2004, pp. 69–96.
  • The Annals of the Four Masters:Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century,
    ISBN 978-1-84682-203-2
  • The Irish Annals: Their Genesis, Evolution and History, Daniel McCarthy, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2008 .

External links

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