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- p.62
- Tuc dam, a Dé móir,
for bith ché (ní chél),
ar píana na plág,
tonna díana dér. - Dom-roiched for rith
soithech ná rop saich
co rós m' áenur moch
tar cach m-báegul m-braith. - Uchán, a Chríst cáidh,
cen sruthán dom grúaid,
feib tucais in linn
don banscáil timm thrúaig. - Uchán, ar cach n-alt
cen sruthán tar m' ucht
co rob nige in-nocht
dom chride 's dom churp. - Ar cach senóir sruith
fo-rácaib a thoich,
ar do ríge réil,
ar do chéim for croich, - Ar cach óen ro chí
a chlóen for bith ché,
mo chloíne, a Dé bí,
co ro choíne mé. - Ar do maith co mór,
ar do ̇flaith cen lén,
co h-opunn, co h-úain,
tuc dam topur n-dér. p.64 - A mo dile, a Dé,
im chride do chrú.
Déra dam, a Dé,
cé do-béra acht tú?
Tuc dam, a Dé móir
Prayer for tears
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Title statement
Title (uniform): Tuc dam, a Dé móir
Title (translation, English Translation): Prayer for Tears
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Electronic edition compiled by: Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Funded by: University College, Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CURIA Project.
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2. Second draft, revised and corrected.
Extent: 894 words
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Publisher: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
Address: College Road, Cork, Ireland— http://www.ucc.ie/celt
Date: 1996
Date: 2010
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G400027
Availability: The hard copy on which the present electronic edition is based is copyright by Oxford University Press, and is here used by kind permission of the publishers.
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Manuscript sources
- London, British Library, Add. 30512, f. 30b (A) (consulted only in a copy, Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 1285, 137b (olim H. 1. 11)).
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1297, col. 400 (olim H. 2. 6 olim Yellow Book of Lecan). (Y).
- British Library, Egerton 92, f. 6b. (E).
Editions
- Kuno Meyer, Neue Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften. Gebet um Thränen, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1906) 232.
- Paul Walsh, Three Irish Hymns, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 4th series, 29 (1911) 525–527.
Translations
- Paul Walsh, Three Irish Hymns, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 4th series, 29 (1911) 525–527.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Prayer for Tears’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 62–64.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.1100–1200
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- The text is in Middle Irish. (ga)
- Subtitle is in English. (en)
Keywords: religious; poetry; medieval
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- 2010-11-14: File updated; new wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-09-03: File validated. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-07-30: Keywords added. (ed. Ruth Murphy)
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- 1997-09-05: Header created; text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
- 1996-02-05: Creation and insertion of TEI Header for the anthology; revision of structural mark-up. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
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- 1995-08: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Tiarnán Ó Corráin)
- 1995-02: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
- 1994: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Aideen O'Leary)
- 1994: Proofing and correction of edition. (ed. Patricia Kelly)
- 1993: Data capture completed. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)