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The School of Celtic Studies, the home of Irish Script on Screen, holds four Irish manuscripts. The Ó Catháin Manuscript was donated to the School by Sheila Falconer in 1982. The Ó Fearaoill Manuscript was bequeathed to the School by the late Fr Patrick Ignatius McLoughlin.

Professor Edgar Slotkin, University of Cincinnati, worked at DIAS during the academic year 1997–1998. In appreciation he bequeathed two Irish Manuscripts, Dunnington MS 1&2, to the School of Celtic Studies. His wife, Valerie Shesko emailed Professor Liam Breatnach in June 2017 and delivery was arranged in July 2017. Also included were annotated papers which have been added to the MacCana archive.

Requests to reproduce any of this material should be directed to isos@celt.dias.ie.

Manuscripts

Dunnington MS 1

Ossianic Verse, Romances and Miscellaneous Poetry

Edited By Pádraig A. Breatnach

'A Journal of Irish Studies',

ÉIGSE (1991) Volume XXV

TWO IRISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS IN THE MID-WEST

BY EDGAR M. SLOTKIN (University of Cincinnati)

In early August of 1982 I received a letter from Mr. Michael Dunnington of Lexington, Kentucky …

Dunnington MS 2

Ossianic Verse, Romances and Miscellaneous Poetry

Edited By Pádraig A. Breatnach

'A Journal of Irish Studies',

ÉIGSE (1991) Volume XXV

TWO IRISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS IN THE MID-WEST

BY EDGAR M. SLOTKIN (University of Cincinnati)

19th cent. Paper with watermark: an Irish harp surrounded by an octagon with motto 'Best Irish …

The Ó Catháin Manuscript

Síle Níc Fhachtna,

‘Cúntas ar láimhsgríbhinn de chuid Phroinnséis Uí Chatháin’,

Éigse 2/4 (1940) 278–83

[ Lámhscríbhinn a bronnadh ar Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh sa bhliain 1982 ]

Cheannuigh m'athair (Liam Mac Fachtna) an láimhsgríbhinn seo i siopa sean-leabhar ar an gcé i mBaile Átha Cliath tuairim is cúig bliadhna …

The Ó Fearaoill Manuscript

This manuscript forms part of the bequest of the late Fr Patrick Ignatius McLoughlin.

The description below is by Pádraig Ó Macháin.

19th century. Paper. 20 × 16.5 cm. Pp. 190, scribal pagination 1–64 (pp. 3–4 missing) continued in later pencil to 163, remainder unnumbered. Scribe: Séamus Ó …