Chapter XLIV · (continued 2)
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Norsemen destroy the church shrines, 457, see "Danes"
Normans, see "Anglo-Normans"
Norwegians, or "white foreigners," 435
Nuada of the silver hand, 284 ff.
Nugent of Delvin, poet, 492
Nugent, Robert, S.J., 612
Nuts, mystic, 447
Nutt, Alfred, 88, 95, 635; on the Fenians, 371, 379
O
Oak-tree, the, 169, 170
Oath by the elements, 25, 28, 88
O'Briens, the, of Thomond, 35, 64, 452, 493, 518
O'Brien, Turlough, exploits of, 470; see "Caithréim"
O'Brien Donough, earl of Thomond, hangs three poets, 493
O'Brien Donough, fourth earl, 515, 518
O'Brien, Turlough, poet, 516
O'Brien, Murrough, 569
O'Brien, Father E., theory on St. Patrick, 137
O'Brien, Patrick, Irish printer, 601-2
O'Bruadar, David, poet, 592, 615
O'Byrnes, the, 31, 544, 610; their poets, 472 ff.; their generosity, 475; ode to, 46
O'Byrne, Rose, burnt alive, 474
O'Byrne, Fiach, 475
O'Callaghans, the, 32, 61, 64, 477
O'Cassidy, Gilla Maduda, poet, 441, 446
O'Cavanaghs, 60, 64, 68, 75, 473
O'Carrols, the, 32, 58
O'Cainte, Fearfeasa, poet, 516, 535
Ocha, battle of, 579
O'Cleary's, the, Ch. III n.24
O'Clerys, or O'Clearys, antiquarians of Ulster, 154, 264; poets, 524, 573
O'Clery, Lughaidh, poet and historian, 516, 564 ff.
O'Clery, Michael, Book of Genealogies, 68; poem copied by, 170; Féiliré, 231, 239; on the dispersion of the old books, 266; lives of the saints, 406; Book of Invasions, see sub voce; his life and works, 573-580
O'Clery, "Adventures of Edmund," 597
O'Clery, Conary, 575; Peregrine, one of the Four Masters, 577
O'Coffeys, the, 524
O'Coffey, Malachy, poet, 474
O'Conors of Connacht, the, 33, 60, 64, 204, 206, 452, 515, 527, 545
O'Conors of Belinagare, poem to their house, 545 ff.
O'Conors of the South, the, 32
O'Conor Faly, 31, 610
O'Conor Turlough, High King, 34
O'Conor, Charles, of Balinagare, 341, 578; on the wars of the Gael and Gaill, 434; on Carolan the harper, 497; on O'Curneen's poem, 546
O'Conor Kerrys, 66
O'Conor, Roderick, last High King of Ireland, 34
O'Conor, Rev. Charles, 578, 580
O'Conor Don or Donn, 34, 65; the O'Conor Don, 65; his MSS., 471, 559
O'Conor, Sligo, 545
O'Connor, Dermot, translator of Keating, 558
O'Connell, Daniel, physiognomy of, Ch. VI n.6; his descent, 64, 65; failed to encourage the national language, 626
O'Conollys, the, 35
O'Coileáins or Collinses, 62
O'Cronins, 62
O'Crowleys, 65
O'Curneen, Father Patrick, Poet, 545
O'Curry, Eugene, xi, 116, 117, 137, 154, 211, 606; his list of lost books, 265; on the number of existing Irish sagas, 279, 358, 404, 426, 433; on some poems in Book of Leinster, 471; on ocht-foclach metre, 544; on Mac Firbis's genealogies, 564; his work on the Brehon Law, 583
O'Dalys, the, 62, 64, 544
O'Daly, Donogha Mór, of Boyle, poet, 271, 466 ff.
O'Daly, Cuchonnacht, Book of, 439
O'Daly, Fergal, poet, 470; Maurice, ditto, 470; Dermot, ditto, 470
O'Daly, Angus, poet and satirist, 473, 476 ff.
O'Daly, Murrough, poet, 568; story of, 491 ff.
O'Daly, John, printer and publisher, 602; his "Irish Jacobite poetry," 596, 599
O'Deorans, the, Leinster antiquarians, 154
O'Donnells, the, 35, 60, 64, 65, 167, 516, 564
O'Donnell's Life of Columcille, 157, 177, 189
O'Donnell, present bishop of Raphoe, 180
O'Donnell's Kerne, story of, 404
O'Donnell, Hugh, poet, 516
O'Donnell, Manus, 527
O'Donnell, Red Hugh, 564 ff.
O'Donnell, John Francis, English poet, 575
O'Donnell, General, 622
O'Donnell, John Clárach, poet (read Mac Donnell), 600
O'Donnell's quarrel with Murrough O'Daly, 491 ff.
O'Donnellan, Brian, poet, 520
O'Donoghue, of the Glen, 62; Mór, 62
O'Dogherties, the, 62
O'Donovans, the, 62
O'Donovan, John, 66, 72, 107; his Satires of Angus O'Daly, 491; prosody, 540; his edition of the Four Masters, 578 ff.; his work on the Brehon Law, 583; on the word troithlighe, 475
O'Dowdas, the, 33
O'Driscolls, the, 58, 67, 535
O'Dugan, John, mór, poet, 469 ff.
O'Duigenan, one of the Four Masters, 577
O'Dunn, Gilla-na-naomh, poet, 447
O'Flaherties, the, 33, 60
O'Flanagan, Theophilus, 28, 310, 505, 517
O'Falvies, the, 65
O'Flannghaoile, Mr., 601, 603
O'Farrells, the, 66, 315
O'Flynn, poet, see "Eochaidh"
O'Gara, Friar, collection of poetry, 471
O'Gara, Fergal, patron of the Four Masters, 576, 578
O'Gara, of Coolavin, 66
O'Garas, the, 32
O'Gallaghers, the, 65
O'Garvans, the, 62
O'Gallagher, bishop of Raphoe, sermons, 600
O'Grady, Standish Hayes, [Standaois Aodh O'Grádaigh] on Ossianic poetry, 499, 506; on the Midnight Court, 602; his "Silva Gadelica" quoted passim.
O'Gnive, poet, 522, 537
Ogam writing, 105, 107-108 ff.; 133, 458, 487
Ogma, the god, 113-15, 285
O'Gormans, the, 31
O'Haras, the, 32, 521
O'Hanlons, of Orior, the, 33
O'Harts, the, 35
O'Halloran, the historian, 525; his history of Ireland, 211, 364
O'Hartigan, Dunlang, 440
O'Hartigan, poet, see "Cinaeth"
O'Hanlon, Father John, Lives of the Irish Saints, 198
O'Hehirs, the, 62
O'Heynes, the, 33
O'Heffernan, poet, 604
O'Hĭginses, the, 524
O'Hĭgrinn Teig, [Tadhg] Dall, poet, 519, 537
O'Hĭginn, Conor, poet, 520
O'Higgin, or Hĭginn, John, poet, 473
O'Huidhrin, poet, 469
O'Hussey, Maelbrigte, 612
O'Hussey, Eochaidh, poet, 474, 519, 523 ff.
O'Hussey, Bonaventura, poet and author, 534
Oilioll, husband of Mève, 319 ff.; 354 ff.
Oirfideadh, a musician, not a poet, 496
Oilioll Olum, King of Munster, 31, 58, 60, 62; a poet, 246
O'Keefes, the, 32, 62, 64
O'Keefe, Father, poet, 604
O'Keefe, Art óg, 516
O'Keefe, Donal óg, slain at Aughrim, 64
O'Kellys, the, 60, 67, 205, 283, 612
O'Kelly, of Bregia, 35, 610
Ollamh, or Ollav, his inauguration ode to a prince, 28; training of an, 278, 401, 488; the head of the filés, 488
Ollamh, grandson of Ogma, 52
Ollamh Fodhla, 245
O'Learys, of Roscarbery, 67
O'Longan, Micheál óg, poet, 547
O'Looney, Brian, 546
O'Lochain, 441, see "Cuan"
O'Lugair, 273
O'Longan, scribe, xi
O'Mahony, John, the Fenian, 179, 364, 558
O'Mahonys, Finn and Roe, the, 62; of Carbery, ditto.
O'Malone, 206
O'Mahon, a scribe, 228, 341, 403
O'Mellon, friar, narrative of, 568
O'Meaghers, the, 32, 477
O'Meehans, the, 62
O'Melaughlins, the, 206
Omens, Cuchulain's evil, 343, 347
O'Mores, the, 66, 315, 473, 610
O'More, Rory, 615
O'Moriartys, 62
O'Mullane, 62, 64
O'Mulconreys, the, 524, 545
O'Mulloy's prosody, 537, 572; his "Lamp of the Faithful," 572; grammar, id., 617
O'Mulchonry, one of the Four Masters, 575
O'Mulconry, Maurice, aided the Four Masters, 575
O'Mulchonry, Tanaidhe, poet, 446
O'Neill, abrogates his title, 527, 529
O'Neill's, the, 35, 58, 60, 64, 65, 74, 452, 515
O'Neill, Owen, 614-5
O'Neill, of Clanaboy, 623
O'Neill, Shane, 65
O'Neills, wanderings in 1607, 566
O'Neaghtan, John, poet, etc., 597 ff.
O'Neaghtain, or O'Naghten Teig, poet and lexicographer, 599
O'Pronty, Patrick, 258
O'Rahilly, poet, 604
Ordeal, druidic, 90
Orbsen, 48
Orders of Saints, the three, 192-3
O'Reillys, the, 33, 477, 527
O'Reilly, Father, O S F., 567
O'Reilly's "Irish writers," 221, 429, 433, 469, 470 ff., 524, 536, 564, 597
O'Regans, the, 35
Oriel, Book of, 59
Oriel, i.e., Monaghan, 67
Ormond, Duke of, born 1607, 614-15
Orthography of the Irish Latinists, 185
O'Rorkes the, of Breffny, 53, 205, 527, 545
O'Rorke, Brian, poem to, 520
O'Ryans, the, 610
O'Seasnan, poet, 446
O'Shaughnessies, the, 33
O'Sheas, the, 65
Osgar an fléau [na suiste], 27
Ossian, or Oisín, Finn Mac Cúmhail's son, 364; his daughter married to Cormac Cas, ancestor of the Dalcassians, 76, Macpherson's Ossian, 364; oldest poems ascribed to, 381; meets Patrick, 383; lives in Tir na n-óg, 498, 601; dialogue with St. Patrick, 501; complaint of, in his old age, 508
Ossianic poetry, 466, 498 ff; its subject matter, 499; half-acted, 511; authorship of, 512; largely post-Danish, 513; list of poems, 513; imitation Ossianic poem, 597, 601; orally preserved, 606, 628
O'Sullivans, the, 32, 62, 477
O'Sullivan, Teig Gaolach, poet, 548, 602
O'Sullivan, Owen Roe, poet, 604
O'Sullivan, Beare, 465
Ota, 207
O'Toomey, the Gay, poet, 604
O'Tooles, the, 31, 473
Ovid of Ireland, the, 466
Owen [Eóghan], rival of Conn of the hundred battles, 13, 62, 75, 153, 368; his "Sailing," 369
Owen Mór, son of Duthracht, 317, 358
Oxford and Celtic Studies, xii, 414
P
P, loss of the letter in Celtic, 4; rarely used in Irish, Ch. I n. 8; becomes c in Irish, 5
Pagan element in Irish literature, 243, 251 ff.
Pagan Irish better artificers than the Christian Irish, 456
Pale, the, 554; English confined to, 609; Irish spoken universally in it, 612
Palgrave, Sir Frances, 199
Palladius, 106, 137
Pan, 79
Pantheon, Gaulish, assimilated to Roman, 112
Pan-Celtic Society, lays and lyrics of, 191
Papists, judgment of the Bishops concerning, 555
Paradise, MacGilla Keefe travels to find site of, 433
Paris, life of Columcille found in, 189
Parliament of Clan Lopus, 260
Partholon, 281, 429
Patrick, St., 35; life of in Book of Armagh, Father Hogan's edition, Ch. III n. 30; says that the Irish worshipped idols, 84; overthrows Crom Cruach, 87; his Confession, 112; listen to the Fenian stories, 116; date of his landing, 134; his companions, 134; more than one Patrick, 136; date of his death, ch. XIII n. 7; confession of, 141; his life, 141 ff.; prophesies to St. Brigit, 158; as a Christian name, 162; his advice to St. Carthainn, 268; made verses, 409; is treated with banter in the Ossianic lays, 500; is made to denounce Ossian, 501 ff.; birth of, recorded in Chronicon Scotorum, 581; revises the Brehon Laws, 588
Pavia, school of, 208
Pedigrees, Irish, not for sale, 69; importance of to the Irish and Welsh, 72; chanting of, an incitement to battle, 331
Pelagius, 41, 106
Penal Laws, 512, 554, 594
Persecution of Irish authors, 560 ff.
Persian history, 78
Petrie, xii, his antiquities of Tara, 447; on Irish shrines, 457
Petronius, 276
Petty, Sir William, 15, 618
Philip of Macedon and the Celts, 7
Philomela, an Irish, 393
Phœnicians, 6
Picts of Scotland, 34; or Cruithni, 282-3, 371
Piers Ploughman, 486
Pindar, 51
Pig, Mac Datho's, 356
Pinkerton on Adamnan's Columcille, 183
Plague, the, of 664, 201
Pliny, 89
Plutarch, 79
Poets, originally judges also, 241; text books of, 241; antiquity of their text books, 243; oldest pre-Christian poets in Ireland, 244; poet-saints, 413; Irish poets of Norman race, 493; see also "Bards"
Poems, the first written in Irish, 242, 273 ff.; topographical, 469; historical, 445
Poetry more easy to date than prose, 269; obligatory on the Fenians, 373; mixed with prose in the sagas, 399; early technique of, 406 ff.; in the "wars of the Gael with the Gaill," 441; anonymous more interesting than that by known authors, 448; tribal, and family, 472; development of, 479 ff.; last specimen of unrhymed, 479; well remunerated in Ireland, 486; allegorical, 597; Jacobite, 596 ff.
Pomponius, Mela, 21, 94
Poison, used by Elizabethan statesmen, 554, 567
Pope, 271
Pork as a food, 104
Posidonius, 254
Pot of avarice, 489
Pottage, Columcille's, 174
Pre-Danish poets, 405 ff.
Priests of the early Germans, 14
Priests, early, their simple equipment, 135
Printing press, want of in Ireland, 534
Presbyterian view of Church Government, 183
Prince, advice to a, 247 ff.
Prose mixed with verse, 260 ff., 399
Proceedings of Great Bardic Association, 260
Prophets, the four great, of Erin, 210
Prosper's Chronicle, 106, 137
Prophecy, druid's, about St. Patrick, 91
Provinces, different characteristics of their speech, 617
Psalter, the copy of in the "Cathach," 175
Ptolemy Keraunos, slain by the Celts, 8
Ptolemy on the names of Irish tribes, 19, 22
Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, MSS. of, 385
Pyramids, Dicuil's account of the, 222
Q
Q. The Indo-European guttural changed into P, 4
R
R passives, in Celtic, Ch. I n. 21
Raftery, a Connacht poet, 96, 605
Raghallach, King of Connacht, 233
Rannaigheacht, Great, metre, 418, 487, Little R., 526
Rathcoole, 57
Rathkenry, bardic college of, 490
Ratisbon, Irish monastery of, 449, 451
Reality of the characters of the Cuchulain saga, 252
Reciter, Irish, described, 627
Red Sea, Irish on the, 223
Red Branch, the, warriors of, 66; House of, 295; saga, cycle of, 293 ff.; saga not materially altered after the Norman Conquest, 466; connected with the Brehon Law, 589; in topography, 56; "Red Branch Knights," 363
Reeves, Dr., 41, 171, 181, 182, 218
Reeves' collection of Irish MSS., 375, 385
Reinach, Solomon, M., 5, 454
Réim Rioghraidhe, O'Clery's, 576
Reincarnation, Irish stories of, 95, 381
Religion of Celts and Germans different, 12, 13
Religious songs of Connacht, 148, 270, 467, 606
Renan, 225
Residences of the High Kings of Ireland, 232
Rethwisch, Dr. Ernst, 108
Revue Celtique, 217, et passim
Rhine, derivation of the name, 10
Rhyme amongst the Irish, 480 ff.; when first met with, 481; a Celtic invention, 481 ff.; perfect rhymes in seventh century, 485; derivation of the word, 485; "Irish rhyme," 539 ff.; Anglo-Irish rhyme, 540 ff., vowel-rhyme replaces consonantal rhyme, 541
Rhys, Dr. John, on the Crom Cruach, 85, 87; on Ogma, 113 ff.; on Ogam inscriptions, 121; on the Lochlannachs, 500
Ricardus Corinensis, 23
Ridgeway, Professor, on coinage, 125
Rinuccini on the Irish language, 613
Rinn áird metre, 413
Rivers help to heal Cuchulain, 334
Rodan, or Ruadhan, or Lothra, St., 196, 227 ff., 231, 403
Rodenberg, a German traveller in Ireland, 629 ff.
Rolleston, T. W., poem on Clonmacnois, 205
Romans, their relations with the Celts, 8; defeat them, 9; never invaded Ireland, 17; chase the Irish out to sea, 23
Roman tax collector, the, 79; Roman mission of St. Patrick, 142; Roman metres, 530
Romanised Britons, the, 104
Romanesque, Irish, 460
Romance, or saga, in Greek and Latin, 276
Rome stormed by the Celts, 8
Ros, or Ross, poet, 408, 588
Ross, the school of, 213
Rosg, the poetry so-called, 146, 479
Roscommon, 509
Round Towers, the, derived from the East, 459 ff.
Royal Irish Academy, see "Academy"
Rudricians, or Clanna Rudhraighe [Rury], 66, 388
Ruadhan, St., see "Rodan"
"Runs" in Irish, 277
Russel, T. O'Neill, 394
Ryan's history of the Co. Carlow, 210
S
Sacra, Ireland called, 20
Sacred tree, 170
Sacrifice, human, 83, 85, 92, 93
Sadhbh, wife of Oilioll Olum, 31; how pronounced, 31, 32
Saints, three orders of, 192-3
Saints take different sides, 233-4; figure in romances, 234; saints who were also poets, 413; the number of them buried in Aran, 194; list of their lives, 574-5; three works by Colgan on them, 577; Book of the Saints, 563
Sailing of Cúmhal, the, 366
Sailing of Owen Mór, the, 369
Saga, or romance, in Greek and Latin, 276; in Irish, 277 ff.; unconscious developing into conscious, 378-9; list of mythological sagas, 292; of Red Branch sagas, 361; of Fenian sagas, 385; of miscellaneous sagas, 401 ff.; golden era of the Irish saga, 387; list of sagas in Book of Leinster, 278, 287; all saga shot through with verse, 399 ff.; the great number of lost sagas, 400 ff.; see also "Stories"
Salmon of knowledge, the, 448
Saltair of Tara, 72, 264, 555
Saltair of Cashel, 265-6
Saltair na rann, 414 ff.
Samhan's Day, 247
"Sancti Venite," 150
Satire on a prince, mode of, 242; power of, to raise blisters, 328; the first satire ever made in Ireland, 285, 409; Dalian threatens Mongan with a satire, 411; the satires of Angus O'Daly, 476 ff.
Saxon invasion of Britain, 23; Saxon chronicle, 23, 42; Saxons flock to Armagh, 134; Saxon genealogies given by Mac Firbis, 563
Saxo Grammaticus, 78
Scansion of Irish classical metres, 532
Scathach, a female trainer of warriors, 298
Schaffhausen, Library of, 184
Schools, curriculum in early Irish, 215 ff.; Anglo-Saxons educated gratis in the Irish, 220; length of term in, 529; closed by James I., 554; old Irish texts used in, 155
Schoell on Adamnan's Life of Columcille, 184
Scots, Irish so called by Claudian, 23; see also "Highlands"
Scottish race, i.e., the Irish, 164, 187; the Irish suffer from the ambiguity of the word "Scottish," 451
Scotia, Ireland so called till the 15th century, 34; used for Hibernia, 164; confounded with Great Britain, 106; Scotland called Lesser Scotia, 34
Scots, absurd derivation of the name, 45
Scotus Erigena, 218, 248, 448
Scota, daughter of Pharaoh, 45
Scott, Sir Walter, 400
Script of Adamnan's life of Columcille compared with that of the Book of Armagh, 184
Sculpture, Irish, 457
Scymnus of Chio, verses on the Celts, 6, 42
Sea, "the seven daughters of the," 242
Seanchus, or Senchus, Mór, character of, 88, 283, 584 ff.; 588 ff
Seachnall, St., 147-8
Seasons, good or bad, caused by good or bad rulers, 28, 388
Sedulius of Lüttich, 448
Sedulius, abbot of Kildare 217-8
Sedulius, author of Carmen Paschale, 107
Seefinn, 57
Segienus, abbot of Iona, 202
Senanus, or Senan, of Iniscathy [Inis Cathaigh], 196, 213, 410
Sencha, the Nestor of the Red Branch, 336, 589
Senchan, Torpeist, poet, 263, 411
Servile tribes, the, 27, 29
Seventh century, the golden age of Irish saga, 387
Shield, Dallan's poem on King Aedh's, 410
Shannon, origin of the name, 447; a Roscommon poem on, 448
Siadal, or Sedulius, 107
Sidh [shee] mounds, or fairy palaces, 96, 100
Sidhe [Shee] the, 284; the Fomorians, so called, 287; friends of Cuchulain, 327
Sigerson, Dr., F.R.U.I., 106, 133, 147, 216, 409, 505, 596
Silken, Thomas, 493
Silius Italicus describes the Celtic Boii, 18
Síol [Sheeol] Carthaigh, 61
Síol nDálaigh, 64
Skene, 76, 371
Skriebentium, Irish monks at, 449
Slane, Dagobert educated at, 220
Sliabh Echtge, poem on, 428
Sligo, history of, 623
"Slender-with-slender," rule of, 482
Slieve Luachra, 47
Slieve Bladhma, or Bloom, 49
Slieve Cualgni, whence called, 49
Slieve Fuad, whence called, 49
Snakes, none in Ireland, 22, 45
Snedgus and Mac Riaghla, voyage of, 403
Snow, fall of, described, 324
Socrates, his descent, 78
Solinus, 238
"Son of Ill Council," the, 260
Spain, overrun by Celts, 5; the Irish take refuge in, 553
Spanish stories translated into Irish, 572
Spenser, 557; on the Irish bards, 494 ff.
Spiral, the, in Irish art, 454
Sru, 45
St. John's eve, 90-91
St. Gall, monastery of, 197, 485
St. Paul, in Carinthia monastery of, 210
Stag laments for hind, 384
State, idea of the State absent from the Irish, 252, 585
State papers, the, 474, 525, 567
Stapleton, Theobald, author, 571, 616
Steeds, Cuchulain's, 345, 350, 351
Stems, the four great Irish genealogical, 59; Teutonic, ditto, 59
Stern, Ludwig Christian, 536, 540
Stilicho, 35
Stone used in Irish buildings, 459
Stories, list of, in the Book of Leinster, 278; number still existing, 279; epitomised in the older texts, 296 ff.; translated from foreign languages, 572; see "Saga"
Stokes, Professor G., 203, 214, 218, 222
Stokes, Dr. Whitley, on Seachnall's Hymn, 149; on St. Brigit, 161; on the Sindbad story, 199; on ogams, 113; on the Féilire of Aonghus, 265, 413; on the meaning of Dagda, 287; on "rithim," 486; on the Saltair na Rann, 414; his Tripartite Life, 43, 154; Lives of the Saints, 92; Dinnseanchus, 93
Stokes, Miss Margaret, Six Months in the Apennines, 451; on Irish art, 455; on Irish Romanesque, 460; on the arrest of Irish development, 463
Stowe MSS., the, 471
Strongbow, 212
"Strong-armed Wrestler," the, 597
Strabo on the stature of the Celts, 18; calls Ireland Ierne, 21
Strachan, studies on the Irish deponent, 265, 405
Strangers in Ireland, 219, 222
Stuarts, sentimental affection for the, 594
Stuart, Charles Edward, 596
Suetonius, 149
"Sugar-loaf" mountain, the, 49
Suibhne's madness, saga, 403
Sullivan, Dr. W.K., 260, 399, 512
Sun-worship, 455
Swift, Dean, ix, proposes to exterminate the Irish language, 621
Swords, have speech and sensation, 291; sword "of light," 391; make music, id.; juggled with, 337, 392
T
"Tabhal-lorg," or tablet-staff, 117
Tacitus on the Irish, 19, 21, 43
Tadhg Mac Daire, poet, 28; see "Teig"
Taibhli Fileadh, 116
Taillefer, 337
Táin Bo Chuailgne, 7, 110, 260; oldest copy of, 263; the saga of, 319 ff.; Dr. Sullivan on its composition, 399; nearly an epic, 400
Tailltinn, fair of, 48
Talti, 48
Tamhlorg fileadh, 116
Tara, Féis of, 73, 126; cursed by St. Ruadhan, 226 ff.; effect of this curse, 234; a college at, 245; Conall Cearnach spares, 352; Cuan O'Lochain on, 447; how built, 458 ff; the Teach Miodh-chuarta at, 127, 458
Teach Mior Miodh-chuarta, 127, 129, 458
Teagasg Riógh, 246 ff.
Technique of the Irish poets, 406
Teffia or Longford, 206
Teig [or Tadg] Mac Daire, poet, 515 ff., 564; death of, 517
Teig, son of Cian, saga of, 402
Teig used to designate an Irishman, 594
Teinm laeghdha or tenmlaida, 84, 241
Telltown, miscalled, 48
Temples, 55
Tennyson, 510
Tethra, 101
Teudor Mac Regin, 40
Teutoni, the, 10
Teutonic theogony, 13; mythology, 78
Theogony, Old Gaelic, 50; few names in common in Indo-European, Ch. I n. 25
Theodosius, 35
Theft, spell for discovering 241
Thierry, 23
Thor, equated with Taranucus by Rhys, 13
Three Sorrows of Story-telling, 279, 287
Thucydides, his descent, 78
Thurneysen, 97, 153, 241; on Irish metric, 482 ff.
Tibride Tirech, ancestor of the old Ulster princes, 27
Tighearnmas, Fomorian culture king, 78, 87
Tighearnach, his date, 23; on early Irish History, 24; books used by him, 43; educated at Clonmacnois, 206; silent about the cursing of Tara, 227; on Finn mac Cúmhail, 380; his annals, 580
Timagenes, 94
Tirechan, 134, 136, 149; account of his work, 151 ff.
Todd, Dr., 202; on the Wars of the Gael and Gaill, 234; on O'Mahony's Keating, 556
Topography of Ireland, 56 ff.
Torna Eigeas, poet, 515
Tory Island, 282
Towers, 459; see "Round Towers"
Translations from modern languages into Irish, 572
Trench, Hon. Power, Archbishop of Tuam, 620
Trias Thaumaturga, 153, 574
Tribal system, supported by genealogy, 71
Trinity College, i.e., Dublin University, xiii; its attitude towards Celtic studies, xiv, xv; its so-called Irish professorship, xiv, 625; its neglect to bridge the gap between the different inhabitants of Ireland, 308; indignation of the native Irish at being excluded from it, 561; founded, says Lombard, "sumptibus indigenarum," 561; does not recover Flood's bequest, 625
Trinity, Columcille's hymn to the, 181
Tripartite life of St Patrick, 107, 147, 149; described, 153
Tritenheim, John of, 107
Troithlidhe, meaning of, 475
Tuatha De Danann, 47, 51, 52; their druids, steeds, servants, etc., 524; the names of their chief people, 52; believed by O'Donovan and O'Curry to have been real people, 53; no Irish families descended from them, 76, 563; their gods die, 80, 287; their druids, 82, 83; history of, 280 ff.; confounded with the sidhe, 284; meaning of the name; 286; aid Cuchulain, 334; Mac Firbis on them, 563
Tuathal, or Toole, 29; extorts the Boru tribute, 30, 393 ff.
Tuan mac Cairill, 95, 381
Tugen, the, or poet's robe, 240
Tuisco, 59
Tuireann, children of, 78, 287
Turin glosses, the, 267
Turlough mac Stairn, tale, 260
Turpin's Chronicle in Irish, 572
Turgesius, 204-7
"Tutor of the saints of Ireland," the, 194
"Twelve apostles of Ireland," the, 196, 229
Tyrconell's viceroyalty, 593
U
Uacongbháil, Book of, 264
Ua Corra, voyage of the sons of, 403
Ugony the Great, 25, 408
Uillinn, 48
Uisneach, hill of, 90
Ui Briain, the, 33, 34, 527
Ui Fiachrach, the, 33
Ui Néill, the, 35, 171, 204, 206, 232, 233, 452
Uladh, or Ulster, 66; Book of genealogies of, 59
Ulster Journal of Archæology, 375
Ulster monks in Germany, 449
Ulidians, or Ulstermen, 66
Ultan, Bishop, 151, 163, 164
University, anxiety of the Irish for a, 550 ff.; Dublin University, see "Trinity College"
Uraicept na n-Eigeas, or, na n-égsine, 244, 487
Ursgeul, the Irish, or saga, 227, 277
Ussher, Archbishop, 554; his "Antiquities," 211; on Caimin's Psalter, 214; attacks Bedell, 619; anomalous position of, 620
V
Valerius Maximus, 94
Van der Meer on Adamnan's "Columcille," 85
Ventry Harbour, battle of, 372, 384
Verse, used in the Táin Bo Chuailgne, 260; interspersed with prose, 260, 399; the various frameworks of verse amongst various nations, 559; accentuated replaces syllabic, 541 ff.; quoted in the Annals, etc., 579, 581
Vienna, Irish glosses in, 267
Virgilius, or Fergil, 224
Vision of Brigit on Ireland, 158
Vision of Baithin on Columcille, 173-4
Vision of St. Fursa, 198
Vision of St. Patrick on Ireland, 193; of Dryhthelm on purgatory, 199; of St. Brendan on hell, 200; of Adamnan, 200
Victor, St. Patrick's angel, 143
Vocabularius St. Galli, 420
Voyage of Bran, age of the verses in, 485
W
Walah, root of "Welsh" from Volcae, 4
Wards, the, 524
Ward, Father Hugh [Mac an Bháird], 574
Wars of the Gael with the Gaill, 434 ff.; analysed, 440 ff.
Waterford, endeavours to impose English on the citizens, 610
Welsh pedigree confirms Irish Annals, 411
Welsh language, 613
Westwood on Irish art, 460, 462
Wexford, 615, 618
Whiskey, Carolan's ode to, 599
White, Stephen, S. J., 183, 184, 612
Wild, an English tourist, 629
Wilfrid, 221
Willibrord, St., 222
Winds, the colours of the, 415, 416
Winter night, Caoilte's poem on a, 507
Windisch on St. Brigit, 161-3; on the pagan element in Irish literature, 251; on the archaism of the sagas, 261; on Irish scansion, 532; on the language of Irish copyists, 269; on Irish metric, 483
Woden equated with Welsh Gwydion, 13; accredited ancestor of various races, 78
Women, not shunned by the early saints, 192; shunned by the later ones, 193; tardily exempted from military service, 234; King Cormac's opinion of them, 249; Parliament of the, 260; as trainers of warriors, 296; enjoy their own dowries, 32; their price is the Brehon Law, 320; uncover their bosoms before Cuchulain, 348
Wood used in Irish buildings, 129, 130
Woodward, Dr., Bishop of Cloyne, 620
Wooing of Emer, 296 ff.
Workmanship of Irish gold, bronze, etc., 125 ff.
Wren, legend of the, 398
Writing materials of the early Irish, 116; art of writing, when introduced into Ireland, 105 ff.; druids forbidden to write their verses, 289
Wurzburg glosses, 97, 267
Z
Zeuss, 147; on the Celtic invention of rhyme, 480
Zimmer, 40, 97, 106, 111, 112, 152, 217; on the pagan character of Irish literature, 252; on the Táin Bo Chuailgne, 263, 269; on old Middle Irish MSS., 268; on the Irish scholars upon the continent, 449, 450-1; on Fiacc's Life of St. Patrick 483; on the scansion of the classical Irish metres, 532