Chapter 33

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


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