Janus: Ulster poems

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.3080	Transcript of Aristotle's Historia Animalium in Greek and Latin
MS Add.3081	Translation of Aristotle's Historia Animalium into English
MS Add.3082	Poems, chiefly on Philip O'Reilly
MS Add.3083	Transcription of Míchél Ó Cléirigh's Focloir no Seanasan Nua (Irish Glossary)
MS Add.3084	Historical and genealogical poems
MS Add.3085	Ulster poems
MS Add.3095	Collections of Irish historical and literary compositions, compiled for Sean Bhailis (John Walsh)
MS Add.31	St Ambrosius: Liber de Bono Mortis
MS Add.3100	Lectures on the satires of Juvenal, given at Gottingen
MS Add.3101	William Black: Biographical notes on eminent seventh-day baptists, and on other observers of the seventh-day sabbath
MS Add.3102	Commonplace book
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Ulster poems

Title	Ulster poems
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.3085
Covering Dates	1746–1832 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Plus other related material in four notebooks, now bound together, c. 1746-1832. Several hands.

I. Ulster poems in hand of Art MacBinighacht [Arthur Bennett], 1831-2, including poems by Seamus Mac Cuarta Aodh Mac Gabhrain, Art Mac Binighacht, Peadar O'Durnnin Padrug Mac Allindun Art Mac Cubhaidh Niall og Mac Murcadha, several available in printed versions.

II. Fenian poems and miscellaneous notes in hand of Matthias Mac Gill, mostly dated 1746-50. Many differ markedly from printed versions. The related material (fos 100-15v) includes amatory verses, forms of petition and will, both re Co. Down, medical recipes, note re tithes in Downpatrick deanery, genealogical notes on McGill and Smith, and copy of Joseph Addison, 'When all thy mercies, O my God', all in English.

III. Further compositions in two hands, one of them that of Peadar Mha Guidhir [Peter Maguire], 1755.

IV. Further compositions in a single hand, no date.

Monck Mason sale, 1858. From the library of William Reeves, bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore (d. 1892). Purchased by the Library from Bernard Quaritch, 27 Feb. 1893 (Cat. 132, lot 363).

General Fund.

Access and Use

In Irish and English

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Ulster poems, MS Add.3085

Further information

An incomplete description of the MS is printed in Gaelic Journal 14 (1905) 855-6, and 15 (1905) 28-9.

A full list is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.

Microfilm available

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Poems

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