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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Flann_Mainistreach&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Flann Mainistreach">Flann Mainistreach</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Irish poet and historian</div> <p> <b>Flann Mainistrech</b> (died 25 November 1056) was an <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Irish</a> poet and historian.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Flann was the son of Echthigern mac Óengusso, who had been <a href="/wiki/Lector" title="Lector">lector</a> at the monastery of <a href="/wiki/Monasterboice" title="Monasterboice">Monasterboice</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/County_Louth" title="County Louth">County Louth</a>), in Irish <i>Mainistir Buite</i>, whence Flann's byname, meaning "of Monasterboice". He belonged to the <a href="/wiki/Ciannachta" title="Ciannachta">Ciannachta Breg</a>, a kindred which, by the turn of the first millennium controlled Monasterboice, providing its <a href="/wiki/Abbot" title="Abbot">abbots</a> and other notables.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Flann himself was also <i>fer légind</i> (lit. 'man of textual study', i.e. lector, head of a monastic school) there, as was his father. His son, also called Echthigern (d. 1067), would become superior (<span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">airchinnech</i></span>) of Monasterboice.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Flann's earliest datable works are from the years following the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Clontarf" title="Battle of Clontarf">battle of Clontarf</a> (1014), when <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1el_Sechnaill_mac_Domnaill" title="Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill">Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill</a> of the <a href="/wiki/U%C3%AD_N%C3%A9ill" title="Uí Néill">Uí Néill</a> resumed his reign as <a href="/wiki/High_King_of_Ireland" title="High King of Ireland">High King of Ireland</a> (1014-1022). These are <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">Ríg Themra dia tesbann tnú</i></span> and <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">Ríg Themrea toebaige íar ttain</i></span>, which together comprise an Uí Néill-orientated history of the <a href="/wiki/Kingship_of_Tara" title="Kingship of Tara">kingship of Tara</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his other poems, some apparently composed much later in his life, <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">Mide maigen clainne Cuind</i></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> deals with <a href="/wiki/Clann_Cholm%C3%A1in" title="Clann Cholmáin">Clann Cholmáin</a>, to which Máel Sechnaill belonged, while <i>Mugain ingen Choncraid chain</i> and <i>Síl nÁedo Sláine na sleg</i> both deal with the neighbouring Uí Néill kindred of <a href="/wiki/S%C3%ADl_n%C3%81edo_Sl%C3%A1ine" title="Síl nÁedo Sláine">Síl nÁedo Sláine</a>, sometime overlords over Ciannachta Breg. Flann is also attributed a series of five poems on the kings and martial history of the northern Uí Néill kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Cen%C3%A9l_n%C3%89ogain" class="mw-redirect" title="Cenél nÉogain">Cenél nÉogain</a> and on the legendary origins of Cenél nÉogain's fortress at <a href="/wiki/Grianan_of_Aileach" title="Grianan of Aileach">Ailech</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A number of Flann's poems appear in the <i><a href="/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn" title="Lebor Gabála Érenn">Lebor Gabála Érenn</a></i>—the <i>Book of the Invasion of Ireland</i>—and his works on the <a href="/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann" title="Tuatha Dé Danann">Tuatha Dé Danann</a> were influential,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while a couple concern world history or themes from classical literature.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most influential was <i>Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim</i>, a lengthy metrical history of the world kings of <a href="/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius">Eusebian</a> tradition which appears to be related to <a href="/wiki/Bede" title="Bede">Bede</a>'s <i>Chronica Maiora</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the early modern era, Flann became known as the author of a number of prose synchronistic tracts. While the tracts are authentically medieval, non-circumstantial evidence for Flann's involvement is lacking.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of these tracts set Irish history within universal history, in the tradition of the Eusebius-Jerome <a href="/wiki/Chronicon_(Jerome)" title="Chronicon (Jerome)"><i>Chronicon</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another presents lists of Irish and Scottish kings arranged to show contemporaries, which is an important source for the early history of <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, whether or not Flann is taken as its author.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite its mysterious origins, the idea that Flann authored synchronistic material has had a big impact on his subsequent interpretation by scholars. For example, <a href="/wiki/Eoin_MacNeill" title="Eoin MacNeill">Eoin MacNeill</a> considered Flann to be the first of the synthetic historians; his supposed synthesis of biblical history and foreign world chronicles with <a href="/wiki/Irish_annals" title="Irish annals">Irish annals</a>, myths, and genealogical records was to be much emulated by subsequent writers.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More generally, <a href="/wiki/Francis_John_Byrne" title="Francis John Byrne">Francis John Byrne</a> has stated that he "<i>...was the leading light among the 'synthetic historians' who shaped what was to remain the official history till the seventeenth century and beyond...</i>" and that "<i>...it was largely on his [Flann's] authority that the official doctrine of the monopoly of the high-kingship by the Uí Néill from the time of St Patrick to the usurpation of Brian became accepted, even by the Munster Annals of Inisfallen.</i>"<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Considering his verse histories of Tara and of various Uí Néill kingdoms, Dauvit Broun has placed Flann within a central medieval historiographical movement towards promoting kingdoms over dynasties as political units; his interest in noting kings' causes of death, for instance, is to do with stressing the "<i>institutional longevity of a kingship in contrast with the mortality of kings.</i>"<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Flann himself died on 25 November 1056, the date supplied by the <i><a href="/wiki/Annals_of_Tigernach" title="Annals of Tigernach">Annals of Tigernach</a></i>. The <i><a href="/wiki/Annals_of_Ulster" title="Annals of Ulster">Annals of Ulster</a></i> call him "<i>eminent lector and master of the historical lore of Ireland</i>". A quatrain on Flann appears in an anonymous poem on the episcopal court of <a href="/wiki/%C3%81ed_Ua_Forr%C3%A9id" title="Áed Ua Forréid">Áed úa Forréid</a> (bishop of <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Armagh" title="Archbishop of Armagh">Armagh</a>, 1032–1056), composed between 1032 and 1042; it provides a brief but probably near-contemporary thumbnail sketch of the man. </p><p>"<i>Flann, from the famous church of sweet-voiced Buite</i>.<br /> <i>Slow the glance of the eye in his gentle head</i>.<br /> <i>He is a magic mead scholar who imbibes ale</i>.<br /> <i>Final scholar of the three Finns’ land is Flann</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Flann_Mainistrech&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See also <a href="#Carey2004">Carey:Flann Mainistrech (d.1056)</a>; <a href="#Ní_Mhaonaigh">Ní Mhaonaigh:Flann Mainistrech</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Dobbs">Dobbs, Pedigree and Family</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Carey2004">Carey: Flann Mainistrech (d. 1056)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#ByrneRIAxxv">Byrne, Ireland and her neighbours</a>, p.866</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Smith">Peter J. Smith (ed. and trans.): Mide Maigen</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#MacNeill1913">MacNeill (ed. and trans.): Poems by Flann Mainistrech</a>, <a href="#Gwynn">Gwynn (ed. and trans.): Ailech II</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Carey1994">Carey: Irish National Origin Legend</a>, pp.18-22; <a href="#Thanisch">Thanisch: Flann Mainistrech's Götterdämmerung</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example,<a href="#Mac_Eoin">Mac Eoin (ed. and trans. [commentary in Modern Irish]): Dán ar Chogadh na Traoi</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Mac_Airt1954">Mac Airt (ed. and trans.): Middle Irish poems on world-kingship</a>; <a href="#Mac_Airt1956">Mac Airt (ed. and trans.): Middle Irish poems on world-kingship (suite)</a>; and <a href="#Mac_Airt1959">Mac Airt (ed. and trans.): Middle Irish poems on world-kingship (suite)</a>. For more information, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/R%C3%A9idig_dam_a_D%C3%A9_do_nim">here</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Scowcroft">Scowcroft: Leabhar Gabhála Part 1</a>, pp.128 (n.135), 131</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For one such tract, see <a href="#MacCarthy">MacCarthy (ed. and trans.), Codex Palatino Vaticanus No. 830</a>, pp.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/codexpalatinovat00macc#page/286/mode/2up">286</a>–317</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Anderson">Anderson: List of the Kings</a>, p.109; <a href="#Broun1999">Broun: Irish Identity</a>, pp.2, 171 (n.23)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#MacNeill1921">MacNeill: Celtic Ireland</a>, pp.26–41</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#ByrneRIAxxv">Byrne, Ireland and her neighbours</a>, pp.865–866</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Broun2007">Broun, Scottish Independence</a>, pp.39–47</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#Murphy">Murphy (ed. and trans.), A Poem in Praise</a>, p.155</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Flann_Mainistrech&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="Anderson" class="citation cs2">Anderson, Marjorie O. 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