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    Annals are chronologically arranged records of significant events that provide the most important evidence for early Irish history up to the 16th century. The earliest surviving Irish annals are the Annals of Inisfallen from the late 11th century, while others were compiled by Irish monasteries between the 14th-16th centuries. The Annals of Ulster, compiled in the 15th-16th centuries, are perhaps the most significant. Several groups of annals, such as the Clonmacnoise group, drew from the Annals of Ulster and other sources. Anglo-Irish annals also followed this pattern of compilation, incorporating earlier annals and focusing more on English events.

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    Annals are chronologically arranged records of significant events that provide the most important evidence for early Irish history up to the 16th century. The earliest surviving Irish annals are the Annals of Inisfallen from the late 11th century, while others were compiled by Irish monasteries between the 14th-16th centuries. The Annals of Ulster, compiled in the 15th-16th centuries, are perhaps the most significant. Several groups of annals, such as the Clonmacnoise group, drew from the Annals of Ulster and other sources. Anglo-Irish annals also followed this pattern of compilation, incorporating earlier annals and focusing more on English events.

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    Annals are chronologically arranged records of significant events that provide the most important evidence for early Irish history up to the 16th century. The earliest surviving Irish annals are the Annals of Inisfallen from the late 11th century, while others were compiled by Irish monasteries between the 14th-16th centuries. The Annals of Ulster, compiled in the 15th-16th centuries, are perhaps the most significant. Several groups of annals, such as the Clonmacnoise group, drew from the Annals of Ulster and other sources. Anglo-Irish annals also followed this pattern of compilation, incorporating earlier annals and focusing more on English events.

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    annals, chronologically arranged records of significant events, are the most

    significant body of evidence available for earlier periods of Irish history, and remain an important source, for Gaelic Ireland in particular, up to the 16th century. Most Irish annals survive in relatively recent manuscripts, of which the earliest is that of the Annals of Inisfallen, from the end of the 11th century; the remainder are found in manuscripts ranging from the late 14th down to the 1 th century, and are combinations of several earlier te!ts. Most annalistic te!ts are of monastic origin" the earliest set, the Iona Chronicle, of the #th century, survives incorporated into later annals. $erhaps the most important surviving te!t is the Annals of Ulster, in two manuscripts of the 1%th& 16th centuries, but transmitted faithfully as far as early medieval linguistic forms are concerned. ' substantial part of the (lster te!t for this period reappears, sometimes abridged, in the socalled Clonmacnoise group" the Chronicum Scotorum the Annals of Tigernach, and the Annals of Clonmacnoise, an )nglish translation by *onell Mageoghegan in 16+ of a lost original; this group, from the 1,th century onwards, is independent of the Annals of Ulster. ' further te!t, the Annals of Roscrea, seems to be connected with the *lonmacnoise group. 'nnals also survive from the south, e.g. the Annals of Inisfallen, in which much of the pre1,thcentury material was probably ta-en from a member of the *lonmacnoise group, and compressed and garbled in the process. .he first part of this was compiled in the monastery of )mly towards the end of the 1,th century, and continued at .oomgraney in *o. *lare; thence transcribed in the monastery of /illaloe after the mid11th century; and the manuscript transferred to 0ismore about 1111, where it was continued; from the later 1+th century the te!t was in the monastery of Inisfallen. 2ome of the 13thcentury material in Inisfallen recurs in a rather later set of annals, the so called Mac*arthaigh 4oo-, a compilation drawing on various sources in Munster and the south (lster area, and even Gerald of Wales. In the same way, Munster material has been incorporated in the Annals of Tigernach, as also central 0einster material of the 11th century; in the Chronicum Scotorum material from Munster and 0einster has been added for the later 11th century. 5rom the beginning of the 11th century the Annals of Ulster has a substantial core of material from 'rmagh down to 11#1, as has the first part of the Annals of Loch C, and then annals from 6erry for 111,71++,; in Loch C, this is matched by material from north *onnacht, found also in the socalled Cottonian Annals, which down to 1++# were probably compiled in the Cistercian abbey of 4oyle; thereafter they were continued in the Premonstratensian abbey of 0och *8. .his latter, and the Annals of Connacht, are the two chief *onnacht sets of annals; both derive from a te!t compiled by a member of the 9 Maolchonaire family probably in the mid1%th century, and in the 16th century further processed by a member of the 9 6uibhgeann:in family. .he ultimate compilation is the Annals of the Four Masters, produced in the 1 th century. 'ngloIrish annals follow a similar pattern, though with more attention to )nglish events, with early sets of annals incorporated into te!ts such as the Annals of St Mary's, 6ublin; the Annals of Multyfarnham ;down to 1+ 4<, compiled by 2tephen 6e!ter, =5M; the Kilkenny Chronicle, also a 5ranciscan compilation, and the Annals of Clyn, going down to the Great $lague of 134#71; $embridge>s annals continue accounts down to 13 ,, and this is bridged to 14+1 by ?enry of Marleburgh>s chronicle. ' number of

    1%thcentury compilations by $hilip 5lattesburg, surviving in several manuscripts, have yet to be critically edited.

    Bibliography
    Grabows-i, /., and 6umville, 6., Chronicles and Annals of Mediae al Ireland and !ales ;11#4< Mac@iocaill, G., The Medie al Irish Annals ;11 %<

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