Fenian Cycle - Associated Works

Associated Works

In the introduction to his Fianaigecht, Kuno Meyer listed the relevant poems and prose texts between the seventh and fourteenth centuries and further examples can be adduced for later ages:

Seventh century:

• poem attributed to Senchán Torpéist, along with Finn’s pedigree, in a genealogical tract of the Cocangab Már ‘The Great Compilation’ (Rawlinson B 502 and the Book of Leinster).

Late eighth or early ninth century:

• "The Quarrel between Finn and Oisin"
• "Finn and the Man in the Tree"
• Reicne Fothaid Canainne

Ninth century:

• "How Finn obtained knowledge and the Death of the Fairy Culdub"
• Bruiden Âtha Í
• "Find and the jester Lomnae"
• Cormac's Glossary, entry for rincne: Finn as member of Lugaid Mac Con’s 'fian,
• "Ailill Aulom, Mac Con and Find ua Báiscne"
• Poem ascribed to Maelmuru Othna in the dindsenchas of Áth Liac Find, where Finn is called 'mac Umaill'.
• Poem ascribed to Flannacán mac Cellaig, king of Bregia, in the Yellow Book of Lecan (125a), on Finn's death on Wednesday.
• Story according to which Mongán was Finn.

Tenth century:

• Triads of Ireland: anecdote about Finn and the boar of Druimm Leithe.
• Poem ascribed to Cináed úa Hartacáin on the cemetery of the Brug on the Boyne: on Finns death.
• Two poems on the dindsenchas of Almu.
• Poem on the dindsenchas of Fornocht
• Poem on the dindsenchas of Ráith Chnámrossa
• Poem ascribed to Fergus Fínbél on the dindsenchas of Tipra Sengarmna
• "Finn and Gráinne"
• "Finn and the Phantoms" (prose)
• Poem on Leinstermen and their expeditions against the Leth Cuinn
• Poems on winter and summer
• Poem ascribed to Erard mac Coisse
• Tochmarc Ailbe
• Aithed Gráinne ingine Corbmaic la Díarmait húa mDuibni (lost)
• Úath Beinne Étair
• Úath Dercce Ferna or Echtra Fhind i nDerc Ferna (lost)
• "The Death of Finn" (fragment).

Eleventh century:

• Poem by Cúán úa Lothcháin on the dindsenchas of Carn Furbaidi and Slíab Uillenn
• Treatise on Irish metrics, on Finn as one of twelve famous poets.
• Fotha Catha Cnucha (Lebor na hUidre)
• Poem "Finn and the Phantoms"
• Poem on the birth of Oisín (two quatrains in LL)
• Notes on Félire Óengusso
• Text on Irish Ordeals
• Poem by Gilla Coemain, "Annálad anall uile" (first line)
• Annals of Tigernach, AD 283, on Finn's death.

Twelfth century:

• Tesmolta Cormaic ui Chuinn ocus Aided Finn meic Chumail
• Boróma
• Prose Dindsenchas
• Poem "They Came a Band of Three" ("Dám Thrír Táncatair Ille") in LL on the hound Failinis from Irúaith
• Poem on the dindsenchas of Snám Dá Én
• Poem attributed to Finn on the dindsenchas of Róiriu i nHúib Failge
• Macgnímartha Finn, "The Boyhood Deeds of Finn"
• Poem attributed to Oisín
• Poem by Gilla in Chomdéd
• Poem by Gilla Modutu
• Bannsenchas Érenn
• Story of Mac Lesc mac Ladáin and Finn
• Poem attributed to Finn on the dindsenchas of Mag Dá Géise
• Poem ascribed to Oscur on the battle of Gabair Aichle
• Poem attributed to Cáilte, written in the so-called bérla na filed 'the poets' language'.
• Poem attributed to Oisín on the conversion of the fiana
• Poem attributed to Cáilte on the dindsenchas of Tonn Clidna.
• Áirem muintire Finn
• Fianṡruth
• Poem attributed to Finn on the deeds of Goll mac Mornai Glinne Garad.

Thirteenth and fourteenth centuries:

• Acallam na Senórach
• "The Chase of Slieve na mBan"

Late Fifteenth and early Sixteenth centuries:

• Cath Finntrágha ("The Battle of Ventry")
• "Book of the Dean of Lismore" (Scottish)

Seventeenth century:

• Duanaire Finn, book of miscellaneous poems written by Aodh Ó Dochartaigh.
• Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne, "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne"

Eighteenth century:

• Collections made in the Scottish Highlands by Alexander Pope, Donald MacNicol, Jerome Stone, James McLagan, and others

Nineteenth century:

• Further collections in Scotland and Ireland

Twentieth century:

• Tape recordings collected in the Scottish Highlands by Hamish Henderson, John Lorne Campbell and others, of sung performances as well as prose tales.