Lige Guill The Grave of Goll: A Fenian Poem From The Book of Leinster

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Diarmuid Ó Murchadha (2009)

xl + 104 pp. ISBN 1 870 16662 1

Lige Guill is the last to be edited of a number of Fenian poems brought together by the compiler of the Book of Leinster. Described by the editor as a ‘somewhat bloodthirsty literary work,’ the poem nonetheless represents an important and welcome addition to the corpus of edited Fianaigecht texts, not least because of its large onomastic content. Diarmuid Ó Murchadha was an authority on Irish personal and place names, and in this edition he used his vast experience of dealing with often perplexing onomastic problems to the full.