Image: Flann for Érinn

Description: The opening lines of the poem Flann for Érinn (Flann over Ireland), written by Máel Mura Othna (died 887) in praise of Flann Sinna. From the Leabhar Mór Leacain (Book of Lecan), Royal Irish Academy manuscript RIA MS 23 P 2, folio 296 v. The work was written some time between 1397 and 1418. Scribe Adam ó Cuirnín copied the manuscript on the instruction of Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh.
Title: Flann for Érinn
Credit: This image from the Irish Script On-Screen project of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. website
Author: Original work: Adam ó Cuirnín and Gilla Isa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh; scan Royal Irish Academy
Permission: PD-ART. The original work has been available to the public at the Royal Irish Academy since 1787. Under the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000, "[c]opyright shall not subsist in a work which is, or to the extent that it is, a copy taken from a work which has been previously made available to the public." A collotype facsimile of the manuscript has been published: The Book of Lecan: Leabhar Mór Mhic Fhir Bhisigh Leacáin, ed. Kathleen Mulchrone (Dublin 1937).
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No