Lebor gabála Érenn
Subtitle: The book of the taking of Ireland
By: edited and translated, with notes, etc., by R. A. Stewart Macalister.
Contributors: Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart, 1870-1950.
Series: Publications - Irish Texts Society -- v. 34-35,39,41,44.; Irish Texts Society (Series) -- v. 34, 35, 39, 41, 44.
Publisher: Published for the Irish texts Society by the Educational Company of Ireland
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Subjects: Irish language -- Texts.; Irish literature.; Ireland -- History -- Sources.
Other titles: Book of the taking of Ireland.
Work titles: Leabhar gabhála.
Notes: Irish and English on opposite pages.

"A compilation which professes to narrate the history of ... successive colonists ... The earlier redactions have come down to us ... in fifteen mss. ... They fall into redactional groups, essentially at variance in the selection ... of the narratives, and in the language ... The editor has no alternative but to print them in extenso."--p. [ix], pt. 1.

"These different histories appear..to have been still available in their separate form, when Nennius wrote his Historia Britonum, about the end of the eighth century."--p. xxviii, pt.1.

Includes bibliographical references.