Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle of Ireland

Title(s):
  • Chronicle of Ireland
Author:
Period covered:
431-911
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Hypothetical
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronica)
Remarks:
Entries that occur in the Annals of Ulster and the so-called Clonmacnoise group of Annales (Annals of Tigernach, Chronicum Scotorum, Annals of Roscrea: for texts see: http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html) are assumed to go back to a common source. McCarthy (2008) rejects this hypothesis. Shared entries start in 431; preceding parallels are attributed to the so-called Irish world chronicle. The earliest edition is supposed to have been compiled on Iona in ca. 563 and then continued until ca. 740. Burgess and Kulikowski (2012: 215-216) argue that at Iona the Irish world chronicle, an augmented edition of Isidore's Chronicle, an Irish Pascal chronicle, Jerome, Prosper, Marcellinus Comes and the Roman Book of Pontiffs were combined. After the eighth century, chronicling continued in Ireland.
Edition - Translation:
  • T.M. Charles-Edwards (2006) The Chronicle of Ireland (Translated texts for historians, 44). Liverpool.
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Bibliography:
  • R. Burgess, M. Kulikowski (2013) Mosaics of time: The Latin chronicle traditions from the first century B.C. to the sixth century A.D. Volume One: A historical introduction to the chronicle genre from its origins to the high Middle Ages (Studies in the early Middle Ages, 33). Turnhout.
  • K. Gabrowski, D.N. Dumville (1984) Chronicles and annals of medieval Ireland and Wales. Woodbridge.
  • N. Evans (2010) The present and the past in medieval Irish chronicles. Woodbridge.
  • R. Flechner (2013) 'The chronicle of Ireland: Then and now'. Early Medieval Europe 21: 422-454.
  • K. Gabrowski, D.N. Dumville (1984) Chronicles and annals of medieval Ireland and Wales. Woodbridge.
  • K. Hughes (1972) Early Christian Ireland: Introduction to the sources. London.
  • R. Burgess, M. Kulikowski (2013) Mosaics of time: The Latin chronicle traditions from the first century B.C. to the sixth century A.D. Volume One: A historical introduction to the chronicle genre from its origins to the high Middle Ages (Studies in the early Middle Ages, 33). Turnhout.
  • G. Mac Niocaill (1975) The medieval Irish annals (Medieval Irish history series, 3). Dublin.
  • D. McCarthy (2008) The Irish annals: Their genesis, evolution and history. Dublin.
  • D. Ó Carráin (2017) Claves litterarum Hibernensium: Medieval Irish books & texts (c. 400 - c. 1600). Volume Two (Corpus christianorum: Claves). Turnhout: 925-932.
  • A.P. Smyth (1972) 'The earliest Irish annals: Their first contemporary entries and the earliest centres of recording'. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 72C: 1-48.