Chapter 32

Bookshrines,457

Book of Clanranald,537,568ff.,571

Book of Cluain-Aidneach-Fintan,557

Book of Cluain Eidhneach,265

Book of Clonsost,265

Book of Conquests,see"Book of Invasions"

Book of Cuana,265

Book of the Connellians,59

Books of Cuchonnacht O'Daly,439

Book of Downpatrick,265

Book of Durrow,265

Book of Dubhdaleithe,265

Book of Dimma,268

Book of Epochs,557

Books of Eochaidh O'Flanagain,265

Book of Fermoy,403

Books of Flann of Monasterboice,265

Books of Flann of Dungiven265

Book of Glendaloch,266

Book of Howth,210

Book of Hymns,see"Liber Hymnorum"

Book of Invasions, or Leabhar Gabhála,27,47,245,280ff.,430,441; various copies of,576

Book of Innis an Dúin,265

Book of Kells,268; Westwood on,462; date of,463

Book of Kilkenny,198,227

Book of Leinster,70,85,93,111,129,234,241,264,278,310,316,330,341,354,380,434,444

Book of Lecan,70,93; when copied,470

Book of Lismore,158,164,167,180,227,239,383,512

Book of Lecan, the Yellow,168,197,401

Book of Leithlin, Long,265

Book of Mac Egan, the Red,266

Book of Mac Murrough, the Yellow,266

Book ofSaintMolling,210,266,268,557

Book ofSaintMolaga, the Black,176,265,266,557

Book of Monasterboice, the Short,265

Books of O'Scoba of Clonmacnois,265

Book of the O'Byrnes,472ff.

Book of Pedigrees of Women,557

Book of the Provinces,557

Book of Reigns,557

Book of Rights,73,227,420

Book of Sabhal Patrick,265

Book of Sligo,227,232

Book of Slane, the Yellow,265

Book of Synchronisms,557

Book of Uachongbhail,72

Borwick on Sts. Patrick and Columcille,185

Boru, or Borúmha, tribute,280,489; historical truth of,252; remission of,211,234,236; Saga of,393ff.; pronunciation of Borúmha,30

Bow, Mac Leod's,543; the bow in Montrose's wars,570

Boyne, condition of the Irish after the battle of the,592-597

Brady, Phillip, poet,605

Bran's colour,271

Bran mac Febail, Voyage of,81,97,111

Brash on Ogams,120

Brehon, originally a poet and historian,240; liabilities of a,586

Brehon Law,107; applied to a dispute on books,176; survives till the days of Duald Mac Firbis,562;books, account of,583-590; antiquity of, ch. XLII n.3

Brendan of Clonfert, St., the voyager,194,196,229

Brendan of Birr, St.,196,229

Breagh, or Bregia, or the plain of Meath, whence called,49,206

Brennus,262

Breas the Fomorian,284ff.;409

Breogan of Brigantia,46,49

Brethadh or Breithe Nimhedh,73,245

Brian Boru, or Borúmha,140; where educated,213; why so named,394; a lost life of,430; his tribute,431; his court described by Mac Liag,431; his generosity to a bard,433ff.; his death,437ff.; verses ascribed to him,441; his statesmanship,443; result of his semi-usurpation,552

Brian, son of Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin,33,59

Brian, a Tuatha De Danann god,47,52,287

Brigit, St., her life,156ff.; fifteen Saint Brigits,136; inspires a book,462; birth foretold by a druid,92; her poems,165

Brigit, disuse of as a Christian name,162

Brigit, a goddess,53; derivation of name,53; her characteristics pass to St. Brigit,161; inscriptions to,262

Brigantes, the,19

Brigantes, or Clanna Breogain,46,67

British Saints, influence of on Irish Saints,193

British Museum, catalogue of Irish MSS. in,521

Britain, Irish derivation of the name,282; plundered by the Irish,22,26,33,34

Britons call in the Saxons,23

Bricriu, his feast,254; raises strife,357

Brigantia, a goddess,262

Broccan, or Brogan, hymns to Brigit,161,163

Broccan's poem on the Boru tribute,394

Brontë, Charlotte,258

Bruidhean, or hostelry, described,355,388

Bruidhean Da Choga, saga,402

Bruidhean Da Derga, saga,26,388ff.

Brooke, Miss, Reliques of Irish Poetry,301,361,364

Bronzes, designs on Irish,455

Bruadar, or O'Bruadar, poet,592,615

Brunn, Johann Adolf,460,462

Bryant, Mrs. Sophie,463

Brunhild, or Bruni-Childis,3

Buchanan,19

Buanann,53

Bulls, cause of the táin Bo Chuailgne,320ff.;339ff.; description of the Dun Bull,479

Burke,ix

Burns,534

Burgundian Library, Irish MSS. in,574

Bute, Marquis of,180

Byzantium, its influence on Irish art,454

C

Cæsar quoted,14; on the druids,82; on the Gaulish belief in a future life,94; on the verses of the druids,259; on the Gaulish mode of fighting,255

Calpornus, St. Patrick's father,142

Calatin, or Cailitin, the druid,327,342; his children,342ff.

Callaghan of Cashel,61,404

Caithréim of Turlough O'Brien,470

Cairprè Niafer, High King,337,342

Cainnech, St.,168,196

Cáiminè of Iniscaltra,168

Caimin, or Caminus, St.,214-218

Cairneach, St.,232

Cairbre Cinn-cait,27,29,402

Cairbré of the Liffey,32,65,66,75,246ff.,376ff.

Cambrai sermon, glosses on,267

Cameron, Dr.,303-4,353

Campbells, the,67,508

Campbell, Iain, folk-lorist,499

"Cambrensis eversus,"554

Cambrensis,see"Giraldus"

Campion,530

Canon Phádraig,140

Candida Casa,194

Canterbury, School of,221

Caoiltè,243,381ff.;poems by,506ff.

Carolan, or O'Carolan,89,497,533,598ff.

Carmen Paschale,106

Carman, Fair of,219

Carthach St., of Lismore,195,211,233

Carlingford Mountains,49

Carthain, St.,268

Cas, ancestor of the Dalcassians,62

Castlepollard,232

Caseys, the,32

Cathba, orCathbad, the druid,96,302,314,336,344

"Cathach" the, of the O'Donnells,195,268

Cathbarr O'Donnell,175

Cathal, or Cathaldus, St.,211,222

Cáthaoir Mór, his will,30; ancestor of the great Leinster families,31; of St. Fiacc,152; of Columcille's mother,167; of Dermot Mac Murrough,452; succeeded by the Father of Finn mac Cumhal,366

Cathal Maquire, Compiler of Annals of Ulster,39

Carew, Sir George,476,553,560,564

"Catholic bishop but English senator,"561

Catholic University of Washington,xiv

Cauci, the, ch. II n.4

Ceallach, death of St., saga,395ff.

"Cead-cathach," real meaning of,31

Céile Dé, meaning of,412

Celestius,106

Celts, who were they,1; name how pronounced,3: invade Italy,6; their archæological remains,2; colonise Asia Minor,9; break-up of their empire,9,15; best understood by studying the Irish,253,257,260; their ornaments and designs,454

Celtic place-names,2; speech, extent of country over which it was spoken,2; spoken in Galatia in fourth century,14; extinction of in Gaul,15; its influence on French,16; allied to the speech of Italy,11

Celto-Germanic civilisation12

Celtiberi, the,3

Cenn Cruach,85ff.

Cétnad, an incantation,241-2

Cennfaeladh, or Cionnfaola, the poet,266,341,412,579,581,584

Celtchair mac Uthecair,259,322,357

Cet mac Mugach,357ff.

Cearbhall [Carroll], King of Leinster,421ff.

Charles the Bald of France,218

Charlemagne,208,448; triumphs of, in Irish,572

Chad, St.,220

Chessboard, plundered by Criomhthann,27,409

Chariots among the Irish,255ff.

Chimæra, the,292

Christian names, Irish, becoming disused,162

Christian allusions in pagan literature,250

Chronicon Scotorum,182,204,227; its reputed author,206; copied by Mac Firbis,262,581; account of,581

Chrysostom, St.,106

Ciaran St., the carpenter's son, of Clonmacnois,167,168,173,180,195-6,204ff.,219,375

Ciaran, of Belach Duin, St.,154

Ciaran becomes Piaran in Wales,5

Ciaran of Saighir, St.,176

Cian, ancestor of the Cianachts,32,58

Cian's leg, leeching of, saga,404

Cinaeth O' Hartigan, poet,380,429

Cimbaeth,24,42,244,430

Ciothruadh, a poet,246

Cin of Drom Snechta, the,70,264

Cios, derivation of the word,589

Cionnfaola, see "Cennfaeladh"

Civil power, conflicts with,225ff.

Civilisation, early Irish,122ff.

Claudian,23

Clancys, the,32,67

Clanranald,547; book of,568ff.

Clanrickard's brothers,611; memoirs,528

Classical bards of Ireland,515-536

Classical Irish metres,530ff.,537

Classics taught in the Irish schools,215

Clan Creidé,206

Clanna Breógain, the,46,67

Clanna Rudhraighe, or Rury, the,66,196

Clan system effected the clergy,234

Claudius, bishop of Turin,208

Clerics, exemption of from military service,234

Cliodhna or Cliona,49

Clontarf, description of battle of,437ff.,440

Close, Rev. Maxwell,376

Clonard [Cluain Eraird] school of,196ff.

Clonfert, school of,197,204

Clonmacnois, description of,204ff.,219,234

Clonenagh [Cluain Eidhneach], school of,209

Cnoca or Cnucha, battle of,258,365

Cobhthach Caol-mBreagh,25

Cnámhross, battle of,381

Coffey, George,123-5, on New Grange,454; the Coffeys,67

Coelan of Iniscaltra,164

Coin in Ireland,125; French coins found in,220

Cogitosus, life of St. Brigit,156,159ff.,163

Coirpne, the poet,285

Collinses, the,62,64

Colgan,107,153,163,170,171,180,184,189,406; life and works,574ff.

Colloquy of the Ancients,116,130,383ff.,507

Colman, St.,154,441

Colman Ua Cluasaigh,202-3,209,212

Colman, Clan,206

Colman, mac Lenene, poet and saint,404

Colgan or Colgu of Clonmacnois,206

Columba of Tir-da-glas,196,213

Columbanus,207,215ff.,219

Collas the three,33,66,430; their modern descendants,67; burn Emania,378

Coll ciotach, or Colkitto,568

Colours of the winds,415

Colours, a study of Irish, wanted,416

Columcille,36; nobility of his lineage,36,167; his first teacher,91; date of his birth,16; his life,167ff.; his poems,180ff.,409; lives of,182; death,186ff.; his farewell to Aran,195,234; his conversation with Aedh, High King,235; visit to Longarad,264; makes Latin rhyme,480; saves the Irish bards,489; poetic prayer of, at Culdreimhne,581

Comgall, St.,168,177,207

Comyn, Michael, author,260,512,601

Comyn, David,597,601

Conall Cearnach,58,60,69,95,255,300,310,315,337,351ff.,357,360

Conan the Fenian,258,290

Condon, David, poet,266

Conang's tower,282

Conachlonn, in Irish prosody,414

Conn, clan of,206

Conn of the Hundred Battles,31,65,66,75,368,587

Conall Gulban,36,166

Conairè the Great,26,280,388ff.

Connellians, book of the,59

Conor [Concobar or Conchubhair] mac Nessa, King,96,243; death of,69,581; father a druid83; race dies out,69,315; deprives the poets of the brehonship,240; invited by Bricriu,254; name how pronounced,254; as depicted in the Red Branch saga,295ff.; visits mac Datho,356

Congal Clairingneach, Triumphs of,401

Connellan, Professor Owen,410,412,578

Connla and the fairy lady,100

Consonants, Irish classification of,540

Consonantal rhyme,540

Conry, Florence, author,571

Connacht poems,605

Conmees, the,524

Contention of the Bards,516ff.,530

Continent, Irish scholars on the,448ff.

Conlaoch, Cuchullain's son,300

Cooldrevna, or Cuil Dremhne, battle of,177,182

Cork College,212

Cork, Irish language in,626

Cormac, son of Dima, the voyager,171,172

Cormac's glossary,53,110,111,381,420,589


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