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Conference

"A two-day conference exploring the historical, ecclesiastical, literary and illustrative aspects of An Leabhar Breac which ran from Thursday 27 April – Friday 28 April 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy." Audio from this is available for free here [1], and might be a goldmine of additional details, for someone with the patience for audiobook material. Particular presentations of probable interest include: "Leabhar Breac Connacht and Ceallach", Ruairí Ó hUiginn; "An Leabhar Breac Scribe History and Contents", Nollaig Ó Muraíle; "Later History of the Leabhar Breac", Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie.

One immediate salient point is that the book is now belived to have been written "at Cluain Lethan in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary and at other locations, between the years 1408 and 1411", while our article is just saying it was written in Duniry (which may have been one of the "other locations" but apparently not the only one).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:33, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Holohan source

The Holohan source I cited also provides an overview of scholarly consensus about the work, as of the writing in 2020 (some of which may have been superseded by the conference mentioned above):

Researchers who have traced the history of the Leabhar Breac from the time it was bought by the RIA back to the time of its compilation have concluded that:

• The Leabhar Breac was written some time before 1411;
• It was written for or by one of the Mac Egans of Muscraighe Tire, who resided at Redwood or Bally Mac Egan in Lower Ormond, who copied some of it from the Book of Clonsost at Clonsost itself, some of it at Clonmacnoise, Lorrha and other religious houses where the books from which the text was copied were to be found;
• It passed into the hands of the Mac Egans of Dun Daigre sometime before 1544 and remained in their possession until certainly 1595 and probably until after 1629 when Micheál O'Clery used it in the monastery of Cineál Feichin in Abbey.
• Nothing of its history is known after this until 1768 when it was in the possession of Dr O'Brien, Bishop of Cloyne, at whose death it passed into the hands of Cornelius O'Daly of Mitchelstown who in 1789 sold 131 leaves of it to the Royal Irish Academy and 11 leaves to the Chevalier O'Gorman, which have since become the property of the Academy.
• These eleven leaves formed part of the book when Micheál O'Clery used is in 1629 and in 1708 the Leabhar Breac consisted of 144 leaves or 13 leaves more than the existing book, so that two leaves have been lost since 1708.

Note: That's a block-quotation from the Holohan source, not material to just copy-paste verbatim into our article.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  14:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC)