"Fooboon,"526ff.
Forchern,244
Fortchern, Bishop,196
Forus Feasa, i.e., Keating's "History of Ireland,"61
Forus Focal, poem,470
Fothadh na canóine,234
Fragments of Irish annals,234,237,
Franciscans convent, Irish MSS. in,513,567,575,577
France, a refuge for the Irish,553,567
Frazer, Dr., on Irish gold,124
French, the; largely of pre-Celtic race,16
Frigidius,i.e., Finnian,209
Furnival, Lord,470
Fursa, St., vision of,198
G
Gabhra, battle of,32,365,366,378,383
Gaedhal, son of Niul,45
Gaels, old, jealous of the Galls,556
Gaelic spoken in Highland regiment,622
Gaethluighe,46
Gaileoin,323,563
Galls, the new and the old,558-9
Gall, St.,197,207; MSS. in,267,268
Gallia, as understood by the Romans,3
Galatians,2
Galatia founded by the Celts,14
Galway,554; English in,610; Irish in,630
Gartan Columcille's birth-place,167,179,180
Gaul becomes Romanised,15
Gaulish upper classes resemble the Irish,15
Gaul, Irish commerce with,218
Geasa (or tabus), Cuchulain's,301,344,347,348; of the Fenians,373; of the Kings of Ireland,447
Geanan, druid,344
Gemman, a poet,167
Genealogy, Irish,59ff.; Welsh,72; extended to Noah,78; great Irish books of,59; strictly kept,71
Geography, Irish treatise on,597; poem on,213
Gerald, Earl of Desmond, poet,547
Gerald Mac Shane Fitzgerald,610
Geraldines of Italian lineage,35,473,476
Germans, their relations to the Celts,8-10; defeat the Celts,14; less intellectually cultured than the Celts,253; unacquainted with rhyme,481; their loan-words from the Celts,12-13
Germanus, St.,144
Gernon, Anthony, writer,572
Gilbert, Sir John, facsimiles of national MSS.,141,463; catalogue of MSS.,567
Giles, Dr.183
Gilla Keevin, or Giolla Caoimhghim, the poet,379,446; translates Nennius,48; author of the Book of Reigns,557
Gilla in Chomded, poet,381
Giraldus Cambrensis on the physical beauty of Irishmen,181; on Welsh pedigrees,72; on St. Brigit,161; on Brendan's Voyages,198; on Moling,210; on Irish illumination and the Book of Kildare,461
Glam dichinn, a satire,242
Glendalough, school of,209
Glossaries copied by Mac Firbis,562
Glosses, the oldest Irish,267
Gods, confusion between them and men,51,79; races trace their origin to,77; they die,80; come and go in saga,294; wounded by men,325-6
Goddesses of the Tuatha De Danann,53
Goibniu, the smith,286,289
Gold, wealth of in Ireland,123ff.; Irish gold in Denmark,125
Goldsmith,ix
Goll Mac Morna, the Fenian,258,365
Gordons, the,569
Gormly, or Gormfhlaith, Queen,421,425; a poetess,426
Gort,168
Gothic art,454
Grattan on the Irish language,625
Gráinne, Finn's wife,380,382,385,409
Graves, Rev. Dr., on ogams,120; discovers date of the Book of Armagh,137
Grave of the three Patron Saints,190
Greeks, make alliance with the Celts,6; their topography compared with that of Ireland,58; belief in a divine ancestry,78; story cycles,80; legend of the gold and silver ages,292
Greek taught in Ireland,217ff.; alphabet used by the Gaulish druids,259; known to some of the Munster bards,604
Greenwell on Irish urns,126
Gregory, Pope, the Great,215,217
Grimm on the life of the gods,80
Guaire, King of Connacht,168,395ff.
Guardsman's Cry, the,197
Guinnesses, the,66
Guy of Warwick in Irish,572
Gwynedd,105
H
Haddan and Stubbs "Councils,"141,145
Halliday's Keating,364,558,615
Hardiman,221,432-3,472,493,555,596,597-9
Harlaw, battle of,479
Harris's "County Down,"623
Harpers, race of, not extinct in 1843,628ff.
Haughton, Dr.,434-5
Hawthorn tree,242
Hebraic adulteration of Irish legend,47
Hebrew in Ireland,217ff.
Healy, Rev. Dr.,106,135,144,160,171,197,209
Hell, descriptions of,200,416; cold, not hot,504
Hellanikus,51
Hennessy, Mr.,562,581
Hennessy, Dick, Edmund Burke's cousin,621
Heracles,114
Hercules,79
Herakleitus,motof,79
Herminones,59
Herodotus,51,79
Heroes confounded with gods,51
Hero's bit, the,254ff.,356ff.,589
Hesiod,351
Hibernia, derivation of,516
Hibernica minora,267
Highlands of Scotland, poetry of,542ff.; written language same as Irish,547,571; lyrical outburst in,549; lyrics compared with the Irish,605
High-kingship of Ireland, the,452
Hilary, St.,149
Himera, battle of,6
Himilco's account of Ireland,20
Hippocrates,78
History, none written in Irish before Keating's,582
Hippolytus, an Irish,403
Hogan, Father,57; documenta de S. Patricio,75,136,144; Rosnaree,342; on Curtin,600; on the Irish-speaking Franciscans,612; and Jesuits,615
Holywood, Father,612
Homer quoted,111,326,351,366; translated into Irish,600
Horace usesconachlonnonce,414
Hostelry,see "bruidhean"
Hound, Mac Datho's,354
Howel Dda,41
Howel, James, on the sound of Irish,613
Hull, Miss, her Cuchullin sagaxvi
Hyperboreans,2
Hy-Brasil,96
I
Iceland discovered by the Irish,223
Iconoclasts, the,208
Idols in Ireland,83ff.
Illyrians beaten by the Celts,6
Illumination of Irish MSS.,462ff.
Illusions caused by magic,344ff.,347
Images,55,92
Imbus Forosnai,84,241
Immortality a Celtic doctrine,96
"Imchiuin," the happy other world,99
Incantation to idols,84
Indaei,52
Ingaevones,59
Ingcel the Briton,389ff.
Innisfallen, school of,213; annals of,65
Iniscaltra, school of,213
Inscriptions, oldest,107
Inscriptions, Celtic,262
Instruction of a Prince,247ff.
Intoxication of the Ultonians,256
Inver Colpa, whence called,49
Iona,180
Ir and the Irians,44,58,64,65,68,198,204,515,563
Ireland, synonyms for,525
Irish, writers of English,ix; literature still remaining,xi; proper names,xv; Texts Society,190; monks and scholars on the Continent,448ff.; in Germany, etc.,449; Brigade, Irish spoken in the,621; art, collapses with the Normans,453ff.
Irish language, recent speeches made in it,180; why dying,606; how far spoken in Ireland at various periods,seeCh.XLIV, p.608-637; begins to borrow words from English,618; ignored by the Protestant bishops,619; so-called professorship of, in Trinity College, Dublin,xiv,625
Iscaevones, the,59
Ita, St.,201
Ith and the Ithians,32,44,58,64,65,67,204,244,563
Italo-Celtic period,12
Italy, Celts appear in,5
Iuchar and Iucharba,47,52,287
J
Jacobite poems of Ireland,596ff.,604
James I., commission on education,554
James II., rekindles hope in the Irish,593; an Irish poet on,594,596; elegy on his widow,598
James, the Pretender,596
Janus,79
Jarlath, St.,195
Jasonia,58
Jerome, St., finds the Galatians speaking Celtic,14; sees the Attacotti,22; his revision of the Psalter,176; on the language of Gaul,28
Jesters described,392
Jesuits in Ireland,615
Jews,225
Jocelin's life of St. Patrick,153
Joceline of Furness,207
John Scotus Erigena,218,284,448
John of Tinmouth,189
Johnson, Mr., on Irish gold-work,125
Jonas, Abbot,216
Jones, Dr., "Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd,"105
Jubainville, M. d'Arbois de,xi,3,10,11,130,215; on the Cuchulain cycle,252; on the Irish language,261; on the word Tuatha De Danann,286; on the Irish Sohrab and Rustum,300; on Cuchulain at Emania,347; on the name of the Fenian cycle,280; number of MSS. catalogued by him,404; on O'Hartigan's death,430; on Tighearnach,580; on the age of the Seanchas Mór,589
Juggler, a, described,391
K
Kavanagh, General,622
Keating, on Buchanan,19; on the names of Ireland,20; euhemerises51-2; on theCinof Dromsneachta,70,264; on the convention of Uisneach,90; on the attendants of the Irish kings,127; on the Tara assembly,129; on Cúl Dremhne,176; silent on the cursing of Tara,227; on Raghallach,233; on the Ulster and Connacht wars,318; on the Fenians,372ff.; on the Danes,444; on the number of bards,488; attended the bardic schools,551; life and works,551-560; his language compared with O'Clery's,580
Keevin, or Kevin [Caoimhghin], St.,195,209
Keegan, Father James,301,401,498
Kells,170
Keenan, Sir Patrick, on the use of the Irish language, and on bilingualism,631ff.
Kelly, Michael, composer,622
Keller, Dr. Ferdinand,184-5
Kemble, Mr.,456
Kenneth, King of Scotland,34
Kenneth, St., or Cainneach,196
Killeen Cormac, inscription of,108
Kildare, church of,158ff.; decorative art of,160; round tower of,160; book of,461ff.; Earl of, his library,611
Kilmacrenan [Cill mhic Neóin],167
Kilkenny, English in,608; confederation of,613
Kilkellies, the,33
Kings, number who reigned at Tara,42; prayer for Irish king and army,436; obliged by law to retain bards and ollamhs,490
Kincora, or Ceann Coradh, palace of Brian Boru,431; Mac Liag's ode to,432
Kinsale, battle of, effects of,566
"Knight," Irish for,363
Knock Aine,48
Knock Gréine,48
Knowth,48
Kohl, J. C, a German traveller,626
Küttner, a German traveller,623
L
Labhraidh, or Lowry the mariner,25,401,408
Labialism in Greek, Latin, Welsh, and Irish,5
Laeg,102,331ff.,350
Laeghaire, of the Red Branch,255,257,357
Laeghaire [Leary], Lorc,25
Laeghaire, or Laoghaire [Leary], High King,75,91,196
Laidcend mac Bairchida,243
Language, modification of, according to date of scribe,269ff.;seealso "Irish" and "English."
Languages spoken at Marseilles,218
Lanigan,85
Lands set apart by law for the bardic orders,490
Lappenberg, a German traveller,626
Lasserian, St.,196
Latin language nearly allied to Celtic,11
Latin, first poems made in, in Ireland,149; familiar to the Irish,530; works translated from,572,598; the late bards knew,603; rhymed verses in,482-3
Laurence of Durham,164
Laurence O'Toole [or Tuathail], St.,211,238
Lavarcham, or Leborcham,303ff.,343
Law, how administered in Ireland,584ff.;see"Brehon"; specially enacted,587; books of, very numerous,590
Laymen scholars,455
"Lay of the Heads,"353
Layamon,272
Leabhar Breac, the,138,150,151,157,164,173,257; when copied,470,489
Le gach boin a boinin,176
Leabhar na Féinne,499
Leabhar gabhála,281,see"Book of Invasions"
Leabhar na h-Uidhre,70,168,264,366,380,388,405,444; when compiled,207
Lecky, Mr.,623
Ledwich,135-6,185
Lecan, book of,59
Lee, as a surname,13
Leinster, book of genealogies,59
Leinster, the Boru tribute imposed on,393ff.
Leprecháns, King of the, his journey to Emania,401
L'Estrange as a name,577
Letters in Ireland,105ff.; ogam letters,113
Lhuyd,4
Liath Macha, the,345,350-351
Liber Hymnorum,146,149,165,180,202,444,480,485
Liber Dubhdaleithe,39
Linche, Dominicke,611
Lindon, Patrick, poet,605
Lismore, college of,211
Lisnacroghera, bronze sword-sheaths of,455
Lives of the saints,239; list of them,35; number still extant,574
Livy on the Celtic wars,8
Loch Cé, annals of,28,see"Annals"
Loch Corrib, whence called,48
Loch Derg,467
Lochlannachs, the, in poetry,499
Logographers, the Greek,51
Lombards, the,208
Lombard, Peter, archbishop of Armagh,560ff.; on the Irish language,617
Longarad, St., books of,264
Lorica, St. Patrick's,146
Lothaire, King of France,208
Love of Dubhlacha for Mongan,403,634
Lowry, or Labhraidh, the mariner,25,401,408
Lucan,94
Lucian,79; description of Gaulish god Ogmios,114
Lugh the Longhanded,47,78; dies,80; reappears,81,262; in saga,286ff.
Lughaidh [Lewy], son of Ith,44,244
Lughaidh, son of Curoi,342ff.,357
Lughnasa = August,48
Lugudunum, or Lyons,80,262
Lughar, a poet,245
Lyons,see"Lugudunum"
Luguædon,107
Lynch, John,554
M
Mac Adam, Mr.,375