Gilla Cóemáin mac Gilla Samthainde was a
Medieval
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Irish poet (
fl.
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1072).
He was author of ''Annálad anall uile'', a poem of fifty-eight
quatrains
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Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Persia, Ancient India, Ancient Gree ...
, and a number of other works. Some of his works were incorporated into
Lebor Gabála Érenn
''Lebor Gabála Érenn'' (literally "The Book of Ireland's Taking"; Modern Irish spelling: ''Leabhar Gabhála Éireann'', known in English as ''The Book of Invasions'') is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language inten ...
.
References
* ''Gilla Cóemáin's chronological poem'', in ''The tripartite Life of Patrick'' (ed. and trans. by
Whitley Stokes, London, 1887.
* ''
Book of Leinster
The Book of Leinster ( , LL) is a medieval Irish manuscript compiled and now kept in Trinity College Dublin. It was formerly known as the ''Lebor na Nuachongbála'' ("Book of Nuachongbáil"), a monastic site known today as Oughaval.
In 2023 ...
'' iii, pp. 496–503, Dublin, 1957.
* ''Three poems ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin: a critical edition'', DPhil diss (Oxford, 1996), Dr. Peter J. Smith.
* ''Three Poems Ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin: A Critical Edition of the Work of an Eleventh-Century Irish Scholar'', Peter J. Smith, Münster, 2008.
* ''Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century'',
Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Donnchadh Ó Corráin (28 February 1942 – 25 October 2017) was an Republic of Ireland, Irish historian and professor emeritus of medieval history at University College Cork. He earned his BA in history and Irish from UCC, graduating in 1964.
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, ''Peritia'' 12, 1996.
Irish scribes
Medieval European scribes
11th-century Irish poets
Irish male poets
Irish-language writers
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