Geraldine Parsons

Acallam na Senórach

Here is some detailed information about the late Middle Irish text Acallam na Senórach (‘The Colloquy of the Ancients’). 
If you would rather start with a general introduction to the text, go here.

Scholars speak of three different versions, or ‘recensions’, of Acallam na Senórach.  They are referred to as Acallam na Senórach, the Acallam Bec and Agallamh na Seanórach II.  These pages will deal with the first of these recensions primarily, but details of editions and translations of all three (or of select passages from them) are provided here:

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Editions and Translations

The Manuscript witnesses to Acallam na Senórach

Secondary Literature