Corca Laidhi, or Laidh,67,69,213
Coroticus, epistle to,144
Cormac, O' Lumlini,204
Cormac's chapel,213
Cormac mac Art, or Airt,32,40,65,72,75; his appearance,122; his court,127; his instruction to his son,246ff.; his Saltair,264; his date,364; his part in the Brehon Law,584; enacts special laws,587
Cormac mac Culenain,234; his Saltair of Cashel,265,420,557; his life,419ff.; his death,424,441
Corcran, a cleric, rules Ireland,447
Corb Olum, ancestor of the Eoghanachts,27
Cormac an Eigeas poet,428
Coolavin [Cúl-O-bhFinn],521
Copenhagen, Irish MSS. in,536
Cork, Irish language in,626
Court, description of High Kings,390
Courtship of Etain,401
Courtship of Crunn's wife,402
Courtship of Becfola,403
Courtship of Momera,402
Cows in Iona,193
Crane and fox,384
Crann-tábhail, or sling,325
Credé's house,130; lament for her husband,383ff.
Creeveroe,57
Crete,45
Crith gabhlach, the,584
Crimhthan or Criomhthann, High King,33; saga of his death,402
Crimthann Niadhnair,26,409
Criminal jurisdiction of priests,14
Cruithni, Cruithnigh, or Picts,282,292
Crom-Cruach,85ff.,134
Crowe, O'Beirne,402,407
Crosses, Irish sculptured,457
Cromwell,497,517,562,621
Crunn's wife, courtship of,402
Cruelty of later English settlers,601
Cry of the deer,146
Cuala, Cualann,49
Cuan O'Lochain, poet,72,264,441,447ff.
Cuana, author,39,265
Cuanna, St.,211
Cucoigcriche as a proper name,577
Cuchulain,49; first cousin of Conall Cearnach,69; death of recorded by Tighearnach,69; takes arms,90; his sick bed,101; cuts ogams,110; historical character of,252; his charioteer,255,350; his chariot,256; son of a god,294; stories of, in Red Branch cycle,296ff.; age,341; slays Curoi,245; Louth version of his death,627; leaves no descendants,69
Culmenn, or skin book,263
Culdee,412,see"Céile De"
Cumhal or Cool,57,365; sailing of,366
Cummain, or Cummian, the tall,168,201ff.,217
Cuimine or Cummene Finn of Iona,182,189; his epistle,203
Cumhsgraidh or Cumscraith of the Red Branch,322,359
Curoi mac Daire,245,342
Currency, Irish system of,125
Cursing of Tara,226ff.; of Cletty,232; of Raghallach,233; a saint's curse,237
Curigh or Curoi mac Daire,64,245
Cycles, Roman and Alexandrian,202
Cycles of story telling,various,280
D
Dagda, the,48,78; called Eochaidh the ollamh,52; figures in mythological saga,285ff.; dies,80
Dá Derg,389ff.
Dáithi, expedition to the Alps,403; ancestor of Mac Firbis,562
Dagobert,11; of France,220
Dalrymple, Sir James,183
Dál Araide, or old Ulster tribes,27
Dalcassians, the,62,63,76,428
Dál Fiatach,27
Dál Riada clans, the,34,60,68
Dalach, ancestor of the O'Donnells,64
Dallán Forgaill, poet,380,405ff.; his truculence,410
Dana, the Paps of,47
Dana, mother of the gods,47,286
Danes or Northmen,209,211,212,419; why aided by Leinster,394; called "black" foreigners,435; their oppressions,435; after Clontarf,442; despoil bards and poets,444; plunder Armagh for the last time,403
Dan Direach verse,537
Dante,198
Daniel Dewar,624
Daor-chlanna or servile tribes,27
Darmesteter, M., on Irish remains,216; on the antiquity of Irish literature,253; on "the decadence,"280
Date of Irish writings, difficulty of fixing,269
Daughter, eldest married before younger,393
David, St., of Wales,193
Davies, Sir John,585
De Mensura Pœnitentiarum,203
Dean of Lismore,see"Macgregor"
De Danann,see"Tuatha"
Declan,106
De Bourgos or Burkes,606
Delphi stormed,9,262
Deaf Valley,345
Deibhidh metre,414,446,469; meaning of the word,483; found in the oldest poems,484; the official metre of the bards,530; in Colloquy of the Ancients,507; in the "Contention of the Bards,"530; used in Scotland,547
Déirdre,26; saga of,302ff.; various versions of,304
Delbaeth, son of Ogma,52
Denmark, history of,78
Degrees, poetic,242,260
Dergthini,63
Design, Irish, not all Celtic,454
Dési, expulsion of the,40; saga of,402
Desmond, kings of,61
Destruction of books,107
Derry,169
Derrynane, etymology of,213
Devonshire, etymology of,283
Development, continuous, of Fenian saga,375
Devil appears to St. Brendan,200
Diarmuid, High King,93,176,206,228ff.; saga of his death,403
Dialogue of the Sages,see"Colloquy of the Ancients"
Dialogue of the two sages,240
Diarmuid O'Duibhne,380-1,385
Diarmuid and Grainne's beds,57; memorials of their flight,58; their elopement,508
Diancécht the leech,54,286ff.
Diarmuid, the Irish called Diarmuids by the English,511
Dictionary, O'Naghten's Irish-English,599; Mac Curtin's and O'Begley's English-Irish,599
Dicuil the geographer,107,222,448
Dichetal do Chennaibh na tuaithe,241
Diefenbach,21,23
Diodorus, calls Ireland Iris,21; on the Gauls,94
Dionysius the pseudo,218; on the druids,257
Dionysus,79
Dinnseanchus, contents and origin of,93: on Moy Slaught,85,92; on Tara,127; on Finn,381; published by Stokes,557
Dinn Righ, saga,401
Division of Ireland by Ugony,25; by Tuathal,29; by Conn and Owen,31
Dog's flesh,348
Domhnach Airgid the,268
Donnelly the boxer,294
Donn's House,49
Donatus, St., on Ireland,164
Donough O'Brien, ode to,28,518
Dorbene, scribe,184
Dottin, M. Georges,17
Dowth,48
Downpatrick, battle of,66
Downpatrick, St. Patrick buried in,190; Latin distych on,191
Dowden, Dr., bishop of Edinburgh,181
Drama, nearest approach to, in Ireland,511
Drom Damhgaire, siege of,402
Druim Ceat, Synod of,234,241,489
Druids and druidism,82; etymology of,89,91; functions of,92; as intermediaries,101; schools,240-1; as peacemakers257; in Britain,94; slain by Cuchulain,349;seealso "Cathbadh"
Dryden,271
Dryhthelm,199
Duachs, two,71
Dubhthach, the Brehon,152,588
Dubhthach, father of St. Brigit,156
Dubhthach, a fifteenth century poet,470
Dubhlacha, love of, for Mongan,403,634
Dubdaléithe, archbishop of Armagh,414,445
Duil of Drom Ceat,265
Dun in place-names, ch. I n.1
Dumbarton,147
Dun-Angus,459
Dungal, the astronomer,207ff.,222,448
Dun-na-sgiath,232
Dunraven, Lord,459
Durrow, monastery of,170,217,234
Dutton's Survey of Clare,625
Dyfed in South Wales,40
E
Eachtra Giolla an Amaráin,603
Eagle, the,541
Easter, the Irish,202
Eber and the Eberians,44,58,63-5,140,171,204,388,515,563
Eber Scot,45
Eber of the White Knee,46
Eclipses recorded in the Annals,39
Eevil,see"Aoibheall,"602
Egyptians in Ireland,219
Egbert,220
Eire, or Erin,48; whence so called,284
Elim,29
Eleran, St.,164
Elphin,508
Elysium, Irish,100
Elizabethan English in Ireland,494
Emania [Emain Macha], founded by Cimbaeth,24-5; taken and burnt,33,66,75; cursed by a druid,314
Emer, Cuchulain's wife,296,343,352ff.,592
Enda, St.,194,201
Enna Cennsalach,75
English plunder poets,470; speak Irish even in Dublin,611; wars in Munster,470; English language opposed to Irish,608ff.,seeCh.XLIV; works translated from,572
Eochaidh Muighmheadhhoin, xv.,33,65; saga of his sons,402
Eochaidh, chief of the Dési,40
Eochaidh, the ollamh,i.e., the Dagda,52
Eochaidh, son of Mairid, death of,402
Eochaidh, the poet,see"Dallan Forgaill"
Eochaidh Féidhleach,26
Eoghan [Owen], rival of Conn,31,62,see"Owen"
Eoghanachts, the,27,62,63
Eoghan, or Owen, Mór,62
Epistle, Cummian's,203
Epistolary style,376
Epic, approach made by the Irish to a great,400; material for an,509ff.
Erc, High King,337,349ff.
Erimon and the Erimonians,44,58,64,204,515,563
Erigena,see"Scotus"
Erard, or Errard,see"Mac Coisè"
Ernaan tribes,64,388
Ernin, son of Duach,71
Esru,15
Escir Riada, the,31
Etán, daughter of Diancécht,54
Etain, wooing of,102,401
Etruscans defeated by the Celts,6; allies,9
Eugenians, book of the,59
Euhemerus,51
Euhemerising tendency of Cormac's Glossary,54; of Keating,51
Eumenius,22
Eusebius,217
Evil eye,290
Eve, description of, in Saltair na Rann,416ff.
Evin, St.,153
Exaggeration in Irish style,440
Explosive consonants in German,11
F
F sound indubh,221
Fáchtna, St., of Ross,213
"Fair hills of holy Ireland,"603
Fairy sweetheart or "bain-leannán,"27,440
Falba Flann,61
Famine, effects of the great,xii,606
Faroe isles discovered by the Irish,224
Fasting on a person,229,233,236,242,417; the Brehon Law on,587
Fé,110
Fearadach,27,28, Ch. III n.13
Féithlinn, fairy prophetess,322
Fenius Farsa,45,581
Féis of Tara,73,126,176
Féiliréof Angus,173-4; date of,265,412ff.
Fenians, the,75,116,128; the Fenian cycle of saga,363ff.; origin of the name,364; who were they,371ff.; Keating on them,372; entry into the Fianship,374; long-extended development of the saga,375; kept for guarding coasts,389; help Leinster against the High King,394; imitation Fenian tale,597
Ferdomhnach the scribe,36,138,152
Feredach,111
Feredach, King, a poet,246
Ferceirtne or Feirceirtne,240,244,336,408
Ferdiad,327ff.
Fergil or Virgilius,224,448
Fergus the Great of Scotland,34
Fergus mac Roy or Róigh,60,69,198,245,295,311ff.
Fergus mac Léide, death of,401
Fergus Finnbheoil, Fenian poet,259,512,513
Ferguson, Sir Samuel, poem on Crom Cruach,87; on ogams,120; translation from O'Gnive,522; on the Brehon Law,586
Fiacc, or Fiach, of Sletty,89; his Life of Patrick,152ff.,227; learns the "alphabet,"112
Fiachra, brother of Niall of the Nine Hostages,93
Fiachaidh,62
Fiachaidh Sreabhtine,65,75
Fiachaidh, High King,29
Fiacadh, a Tuatha De Danann,52
Filé, the, in Ireland,486
Fierebras, chanson de geste, in Irish,572
Fiesole,164
Finn or Fionn mac Cúmhail, or Cool, in topography,57,76; his grandfather a druid,83; his fool,111; goes to the Lady Credé,140; a poet246,270; fights with Goll,258; two poems ascribed to,275,408,479; death of,379; character of,379; helps Leinster against the High King,394, Ossian describes his favourite pursuits,503
Finnén, or Finian, St., of Clonard,167,194,196,204; verse from his "office,"106
Finnian, St., of Moville,175,195,209
Fintan, St.,209
Finglas, Baron,210
Finnachta, King,211; remits the Bora tribute,236ff.,294
Finnbarr, St., of Cork,212
Finan, St., of Innisfallen,213
Finghin, a poet,246
Finnabra Mèves daughter,334-5
Finghin, King Conor's leech,337
Fingal, language spoken in (perhaps Danish),618
Fithil, a judge,246
Firbolg, the,47,282ff.; Mac Firbis's description of,563
Fir Domnann, or Domhnan,282,328,563
Fire-worship,455
Fitzgeralds, the,473,see"Geraldines"
Fitzgibbons, the, the Red Bard on,477; Fitzgibbon, Lord Clare,id.
Flag in Gartan,179
Flannagan, King, a poet,427
Flann mac Lonáin, a poet,427
Flann of Monasterboice,445ff.
Fleming, John,407,603
Floods legacy to Trinity College,625
Fodhla,48
Folklore,93,448; the Other world in,96
Fomorians, the,51,78,282ff.,429,563