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