A Literary History Of Ireland

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Author

Hyde, Douglas, 1860-1949

Title

A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day

Credits

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Language

English

LoC Class

PB: Language and Literatures: General works

Subject

Irish literature -- History and criticism

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 53793

Release Date

December 23, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A Literary History of Ireland
2. 2.Douglas Hyde, LL.D., M.R.I.A. — [An Craoibhín Aoibhinn] — DEDICATION. — PREFACE — CONTENTS — Literary History of Ireland — WHO WERE THE CELTS? — EARLIEST ALLUSIONS TO IRELAND FROM FOREIGN SOURCES — EARLY HISTORY DRAWN FROM NATIVE SOURCES — HOW FAR CAN NATIVE SOURCES BE RELIED ON? — THE PRE-MILESIAN FABLE AND EARLY PANTHEON — EVIDENCE OF TOPOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY — DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE — CONFUSION BETWEEN GODS AND MEN — DRUIDISM — THE IRISH ELYSIUM AND BELIEF IN REBIRTH — EARLY USE OF LETTERS, OGAM AND ROMAN — EARLY IRISH CIVILISATION — ST. PATRICK AND THE EARLY MISSIONARIES — ST. BRIGIT — COLUMCILLE — THE FIRST SCHOOLS OF CHRISTIAN IRELAND — THEIR FAME AND TEACHING — CONFLICTS WITH THE CIVIL POWER — THE BARDIC SCHOOLS — THE INSTRUCTION OF A PRINCE. — THE SUGGESTIVELY PAGAN ELEMENT IN IRISH LITERATURE — THE OLDEST BOOKS AND POEMS — EARLY SAGA AND ROMANCE — THE MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE — THE HEROIC OR RED BRANCH CYCLE—CUCHULAIN — DÉIRDRE — THE OPENING OF THE FATE OF THE SONS OF USNACH, FROM A MS. IN THE BELFAST MUSEUM. — THE TÁIN BO CHUAILGNE — THE FIGHT AT THE FORD. [14] — THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN — OTHER SAGAS OF THE RED BRANCH — THE FENIAN CYCLE — THE SAILING OF CÚMHAIL. — THE SAILING OF OWEN MÓR. — " To Torna son of Dubh, our dear friend in Glen Fuinnse in Britain in Saxony. — MISCELLANEOUS ROMANCE — DEATH OF CEALLACH. — PRE-DANISH POETS — THE DANISH PERIOD — DEATH OF CORMAC MAC CULINAN. [6] — DEATH OF BRIAN BORUMHA AT CLONTARF. — FROM CLONTARF TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST — SUDDEN ARREST OF IRISH DEVELOPMENT — FOUR CENTURIES OF DECAY — DEVELOPMENT OF IRISH POETRY — THE OSSIANIC POEMS — "FINN'S PASTIMES. — THE ISLE OF ARRAN. — THE LAST OF THE CLASSIC POETS — RISE OF A NEW SCHOOL — PROSE WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY — THE STORY OF MAC RAICÍN. — THE IRISH ANNALS — THE BREHON LAWS — THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — THE HISTORY OF IRISH AS A SPOKEN LANGUAGE — Buidheachas le Dia! — CRÍOCH.

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