Mac Allans, the, of Scotland,67
Macalister, on ogams,120
Macaulay,511
Mac Auliffes, the,61,64
Mac-an-Bhaird, or Ward, Father Hugh,574
Mac Brodin,see"Teig"
Mac Brody, Conor, historian,578
Mac Cabe, poet,605
Mac Carthys, the,32,58,64,67,205,479; of Duhallow,61; Riabhach,61; genealogy of Mac Carthy, Mór,61
Mac Carthy, Cormac, King of Munster,213
Mac Carthy, Diarmuid, poet,593
Macha,53,54; her curse on Ulster,294; saga of,402
Mac Cathmhaoil, Hugh, archbishop, author,571
Mac Ceibhfinn, poet,545
Mac Con, High King,32,60,67
Mac Comber's Christian Remembrancer,626
MacConmara, Donough, poet,602
Mac Coise, poet,434,447
Mac Coise, tale of,278
Mac Craith, wars of Thomond,466,470,582
Mac Curtin, Hugh, poet,599
Mac Curtin, Andrew, poet,49,50,546
Mac Curtin, Hugh, óg, poet,470
Mac Cuairt, poet,605
Mac Cumhaidh, Art, poet,605
Mac Dáire,see"Teig"
Mac Datho's pig and hound,354
Mac Davids, the,62,64
Mac Dermot,28; Mac Dermot, Roe,66,599
Mac Dermots, princes of Moylurg,33,66,204,527
Mac Dermot, writes in Latin,530
Mac Dermot, prince of Coolavin,575
Mac Donnell, John Clarach,600
Mac Donnell, Captain Alexander, book of,471
Mac Donnells, the,60,546
Mac Donalds, the,33
Mac Donaghs, the,33,66
Mac Donald, Alaster,568ff.
Mac Dugalds, the,33
Mac Egan, Flann, Brehon of Ormond,421,578,615
Mac Eochaidh, or Keogh, Donogh, poet,475
Mac Finneens, the,61,64
Mac Firbis, Duald,52,206,421; his Book of Genealogies,73; its size,562; on the Irish historians,74; his life and works,562ff.
Mac Gee, D'Arcy, poem,88
Macgeoghegan, Connell, or Mac Echagain, Connla,207,227,616
Mac Gilla Patrick,610
Mac Gilla Keefe, poet,432ff.
Mac Giolla Meidhre, poet,601
Mac Gilla Cody, Richard, author,572
Mac Grath, Andrew, poet,604
Mac Graths, the,524
Mac Govern, poet,605
Macgregor, dean of Lismore,271,426,492,506,508
Mac Hale, archbishop,511
Mac Innes, Gaelic stories,371
Mackenzie's "Sár-obair,"543
Mac Laughlin, P. O'C.,190
Mac Liag, poet,428,430ff.
MacLeod, Mary, poetess,543ff.
Mac Leod, D. B., poet,550
Mac Mahons, the,33,67
Mac Murroughs, or Murphys, the,31,610
Mac Namee, Brian, poet,520
Mac Neill, John,559
Macpherson's Ossian,628
Mac Raicin, story of,559
Mac Regol, Gospels of,268
Mac Ritchie, Mr.,371
Mac Roth, Mèves messenger,336
Mac Robartaighs, the,175
Mac Rories, the,33
Mac Sweeny [Mac Suibhne], poet of Connacht,605
Mac Vuirichs, bards of Clanranald,568
Machut, St.,199
Madden, Dr. Samuel,623
Maelruain,209
Maelsuthain O'Carroll,141,213
Maeldubh, or Maelduf,221
Maelfathartaigh mac Ronain, death of,403
Maelsheachluinn, pronunciation of,431
Maelbrigte Ua Maelruanaigh, scribe,463
Maedhóg, or Mogue, life of,85
Magennises, the [Mac Aonghusa],66
Maguires [MacUidhir or Meguidhir], the,33,60,67,522,536
Maguire, of Inniskillen, satirised,476
Maguire, Cathal, annalist,470
Maguire, Cuchonnacht, lord of Fermanagh,519,523
Maineach, [O'Kelly's Country],59
Mailmura of Fahan, poet,427
Malachy [Maoilsheachlainn], King,447
Malachy O'Morgair,208
Malcolm IV., of Scotland,34
Manannán,54,81,99,102
Mangan quoted,221,432,523
Mannus,59
Manuscripts, illuminated,461
Maolmordha MacSweeny's house described,520
Marainn Phadraig, the,148,270
Marco Polo in Irish,572
Maundeville's travels in Irish,572
Marianus Scotus,209,449ff.
Martyrology of Tallaght,151; by whom composed,209
Mary of the Gael, the,162
Marseilles, trilingual,310
Masters,see"Annals of the Four Masters"
Maud, modern form of Mève [Meádhbh],26
Masree, bardic college,490
Max Müller,270
Meath, book of,59; made into a province,29
Memory for ancestors,72; Celtic memory is long,271
Meehan, Father,567
Menapii, the,19
Merlin the prophet,210
Metempsychosis, Irish belief in,95,381,400
Metal-work, Irish,456ff.
Metre, poems dependent on,273ff.; no alteration of feet, beat, or stress, in Irish metres,408; metre of the Féilirè,413; of Saltair na Rann,414,418; Droighneach metre,479; metres of the bards,487; classical metres merge in popular,497; the Ossianic metres,510,513; Dr. MacHales,id.; Little Rannaigheacht,526; Great R.,530; Roman metres,530; Seadna and great Séadna, Ae-fri-Slighe, Great and Little Deachna,531; how to read the classical metres,532,545; necessitate condensed thought,537; examples of late metres,548ff.
Metrical text books,241ff.
Mève or Méadhbh,26; how pronounced,31; in topography,57; in saga,319ff.; furious temper of,323; fights like Boadicea,335; she and Oilioll receive the Firbolg,283
Mève's poem on Cuchorb,273ff.
Meyer, Kuno, Dr.,41,86,97,114,301,354,411,413; on Irish scansion,232-3
Mi-chuarta or Midh-Chuarta, the house of,32,248
Midir,102
Middle-Irish,268
"Midnight Court," the,601
Migne,203
Milan, Irish MSS. in,267
Mill first, in Ireland,32
Miledh Easpáin,46
Milesius, Latinised form of Miledh,17; his genealogy,45; his son Donn addressed as a god,49,50,77
Milesians, different dates assigned to their landing,17,60; by what route did they come,18ff.; their characteristics,563
Milton,569
Missal, ancient Irish,436
Missionaries, British, in Ireland,106
Missionaries, Irish, abroad,223,488ff.
Mobhi, St., school of,168,196
Mochuda, St., or Carthach,211,233
Modan, poet,246
Moengal of St. Gall,448
Molesworth, Robert,621
Moling, St.,209,210,236ff.394
Molaise, St.,174,177,178
Momera, courtship of,402
Monasterevin,153
Monasteries, rival, fight,234; established by Irish monks on the Continent,449,451
Montrose's wars in Gaelic568
Montelius, Prof.,124
Mongan,99,380,403; Dallán and Mongan,410ff.; "Love of Dubhlacha" for,634-5
Moran, the jurist,246
Moran, Cardinal,198
Moreen ni Culenáin, air,549
Moore, Irish History,65; his melody, "Rich and Rare,"444
Morini's life of St. Cathaldus,211
Morighan, or Mór-rigu, the, war-goddess, consorts with the Dagda,288; assists the Tuatha De Danann,291; is wounded by Cuchulain,325; speaks to the Dun Bull,339; cry of,478
Mountjoy, Lord,476,564
Moville, school of,167,209
"Mower, the," a poem,604
Moy [mágh] Bolg, massacre of,29
Moy Cullen, whence called,48
Moy Léana, battle of,31,368
Moy Mell,99,199,201
Moy Muirtheimhne, Great Breech of,326
Moy Mochruime, battle of,32,60,355,376; date of,380,382
Moy Rath, battle of,382,403,413
Moytura, first battle of,284
Moytura, battle of South,80,116,289ff.
Moy Slaught or Sleacht,84,85
Mucaille, bishop,158
Muiredach takes the surname Mac Carthy,61
Muirchu Maccu Machteni, his life of St. Patrick,136,142,148,151
Muircheartach Mór mac Earca,232
Muircheartach of the Leather Cloaks,428
Muirthemni, derivation of,49
Muiredach Mac Robertaigh,see"Marianus Scotus"
Munster, book of,59; the two Munsters,29
Mura, St.,167,182
Muratori,149
Murough, or Murrough [Murchadh], son of Brian Boru,440
Murough the Scotchman,see"O'Daly,"492
Murphy, John, poet,604
Murphy, Father Denis,564
Murphys, the,see"Mac Murroughs"
Music, Irish,463
Musicians in Ireland,496
Myth, runs into history,57
Mythology, Hellenic and Teutonic,78
Mythological cycle of sagas,271ff.
N
Names of Ireland, various,20
Names, Christian, disused,162; the Irish ordered to adopt English names,609; the Normans change their names,609
"National" Schools, the,x,xi,220
National Board, unsympathetic teaching of,162,179,606; sets itself to exterminate the Irish language,630ff.
Navigatio Brendani,198
Nechtan's dún,111
Neith, god of battle,54
Neide,240,245
Nemedians, the,47,82,280,430
Nemon, wife of Neith,54
Nennius the Briton,18,46,47; Irish translation of,48
Netlau, Max,328
Netterville, poet,605
New Grange,48,454
Newfoundland,603
Niall of the Nine Hostages,33,34,60,65,71,75,166,446,452,515,527,579,603
Niall of the Black Knee,35,58,425
Niamh, Cuchulain's sweetheart,346
Nice, Council of,202
Nigra, Constantine,596; on the Celtic invention of rhyme,481; on the monks' ode to the blackbird,485
Nile, the, Irish sail up it,223
Ninian, St.,194
Ninnidh, St., of Loch Erne,196
Nindid "the scholar,"161
Niul, son of Fenius Farsa,45
Noli pater, Columcille's,181
Nomad, a measure of time,84
Norman invasion, the, its effects,453ff; arrests Irish development,463; effect on the bards,491
Norman ancestry of Keating,553,556; Norman names amongst the Irish poets,493
Norsemen destroy the church shrines,457,see"Danes"
Normans,see"Anglo-Normans"
Norwegians, or "white foreigners,"435
Nuada of the silver hand,284ff.
Nugent of Delvin, poet,492
Nugent, Robert, S.J.,612
Nuts, mystic,447
Nutt, Alfred,88,95,635; on the Fenians,371,379
O
Oak-tree, the,169,170
Oath by the elements,25,28,88
O'Briens, the, of Thomond,35,64,452,493,518
O'Brien, Turlough, exploits of,470;see "Caithréim"
O'Brien Donough, earl of Thomond, hangs three poets,493
O'Brien Donough, fourth earl,515,518
O'Brien, Turlough, poet,516
O'Brien, Murrough,569
O'Brien, Father E., theory on St. Patrick,137
O'Brien, Patrick, Irish printer,601-2
O'Bruadar, David, poet,592,615
O'Byrnes, the,31,544,610; their poets,472ff.; their generosity,475; ode to,46
O'Byrne, Rose, burnt alive,474
O'Byrne, Fiach,475
O'Callaghans, the,32,61,64,477
O'Cassidy, Gilla Maduda, poet,441,446
O'Cavanaghs,60,64,68,75,473
O'Carrols, the,32,58
O'Cainte, Fearfeasa, poet,516,535
Ocha, battle of,579
O'Cleary's, the, Ch. III n.24
O'Clerys, or O'Clearys, antiquarians of Ulster,154,264; poets,524,573
O'Clery, Lughaidh, poet and historian,516,564ff.
O'Clery, Michael, Book of Genealogies,68; poem copied by,170; Féiliré,231,239; on the dispersion of the old books,266; lives of the saints,406; Book of Invasions,seesub voce; his life and works,573-580
O'Clery, "Adventures of Edmund,"597
O'Clery, Conary,575; Peregrine, one of the Four Masters,577
O'Coffeys, the,524
O'Coffey, Malachy, poet,474
O'Conors of Connacht, the,33,60,64,204,206,452,515,527,545
O'Conors of Belinagare, poem to their house,545ff.
O'Conors of the South, the,32
O'Conor Faly,31,610
O'Conor Turlough, High King,34
O'Conor, Charles, of Balinagare,341,578; on the wars of the Gael and Gaill,434; on Carolan the harper,497; on O'Curneen's poem,546
O'Conor Kerrys,66
O'Conor, Roderick, last High King of Ireland,34
O'Conor, Rev. Charles,578,580
O'Conor Don or Donn,34,65; the O'Conor Don,65; his MSS.,471,559
O'Conor, Sligo,545
O'Connor, Dermot, translator of Keating,558
O'Connell, Daniel, physiognomy of, Ch. VI n.6; his descent,64,65; failed to encourage the national language,626
O'Conollys, the,35
O'Coileáins or Collinses,62
O'Cronins,62
O'Crowleys,65
O'Curneen, Father Patrick, Poet,545
O'Curry, Eugene,xi,116,117,137,154,211,606; his list of lost books,265; on the number of existing Irish sagas,279,358,404,426,433; on some poems in Book of Leinster,471; onocht-foclachmetre,544; on Mac Firbis's genealogies,564; his work on the Brehon Law,583