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EARLY CHRISTIAN TEXTS: Blathmac—an eighth-century Irish poet in Rome

WHAT ARE SURELY AMONGST THE LONGEST CONTINUOUS TEXTS WRITTEN IN OLD IRISH ARE THE RELIGIOUS POEMS OF BLATHMAC, SON OF CÚ BRETTAN. BUT WERE HIS SOURCES ONLY LITERARY? By Peter Harbison The poems of Blathmac, son of Cú Brettan, were discovered in a seventeenth-century manuscript (NLI G.50) by Nessa Ní Shéaghdha in 1953, and largely … Read more

Categories Features, Gaelic Ireland, Issue 4 (July/August 2016), Volume 24
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