O'Dalys, the,62,64,544
O'Daly, Donogha Mór, of Boyle, poet,271,466ff.
O'Daly, Cuchonnacht, Book of,439
O'Daly, Fergal, poet,470; Maurice, ditto,470; Dermot, ditto,470
O'Daly, Angus, poet and satirist,473,476ff.
O'Daly, Murrough, poet,568; story of,491ff.
O'Daly, John, printer and publisher,602; his "Irish Jacobite poetry,"596,599
O'Deorans, the, Leinster antiquarians,154
O'Donnells, the,35,60,64,65,167,516,564
O'Donnell's Life of Columcille,157,177,189
O'Donnell, present bishop of Raphoe,180
O'Donnell's Kerne, story of,404
O'Donnell, Hugh, poet,516
O'Donnell, Manus,527
O'Donnell, Red Hugh,564ff.
O'Donnell, John Francis, English poet,575
O'Donnell, General,622
O'Donnell, John Clárach, poet (read Mac Donnell),600
O'Donnell's quarrel with Murrough O'Daly,491ff.
O'Donnellan, Brian, poet,520
O'Donoghue, of the Glen,62; Mór,62
O'Dogherties, the,62
O'Donovans, the,62
O'Donovan, John,66,72,107; his Satires of Angus O'Daly,491; prosody,540; his edition of the Four Masters,578ff.; his work on the Brehon Law,583; on the wordtroithlighe,475
O'Dowdas, the,33
O'Driscolls, the,58,67,535
O'Dugan, John, mór, poet,469ff.
O'Duigenan, one of the Four Masters,577
O'Dunn, Gilla-na-naomh, poet,447
O'Flaherties, the,33,60
O'Flanagan, Theophilus,28,310,505,517
O'Falvies, the,65
O'Flannghaoile, Mr.,601,603
O'Farrells, the,66,315
O'Flynn, poet,see"Eochaidh"
O'Gara, Friar, collection of poetry,471
O'Gara, Fergal, patron of the Four Masters,576,578
O'Gara, of Coolavin,66
O'Garas, the,32
O'Gallaghers, the,65
O'Garvans, the,62
O'Gallagher, bishop of Raphoe, sermons,600
O'Grady, Standish Hayes, [Standaois Aodh O'Grádaigh] on Ossianic poetry,499,506; on the Midnight Court,602; his "Silva Gadelica" quotedpassim.
O'Gnive, poet,522,537
Ogam writing,105,107-108ff.;133,458,487
Ogma, the god,113-15,285
O'Gormans, the,31
O'Haras, the,32,521
O'Hanlons, of Orior, the,33
O'Harts, the,35
O'Halloran, the historian,525; his history of Ireland,211,364
O'Hartigan, Dunlang,440
O'Hartigan, poet,see"Cinaeth"
O'Hanlon, Father John, Lives of the Irish Saints,198
O'Hehirs, the,62
O'Heynes, the,33
O'Heffernan, poet,604
O'HÄginses, the,524
O'HÄgrinn Teig, [Tadhg] Dall, poet,519,537
O'HÄginn, Conor, poet,520
O'Higgin, or HÄginn, John, poet,473
O'Huidhrin, poet,469
O'Hussey, Maelbrigte,612
O'Hussey, Eochaidh, poet,474,519,523ff.
O'Hussey, Bonaventura, poet and author,534
Oilioll, husband of Mève,319ff.;354ff.
Oirfideadh, a musician, not a poet,496
Oilioll Olum, King of Munster,31,58,60,62; a poet,246
O'Keefes, the,32,62,64
O'Keefe, Father, poet,604
O'Keefe, Art óg,516
O'Keefe, Donal óg, slain at Aughrim,64
O'Kellys, the,60,67,205,283,612
O'Kelly, of Bregia,35,610
Ollamh, or Ollav, his inauguration ode to a prince,28; training of an,278,401,488; the head of the filés,488
Ollamh, grandson of Ogma,52
Ollamh Fodhla,245
O'Learys, of Roscarbery,67
O'Longan, Micheál óg, poet,547
O'Looney, Brian,546
O'Lochain,441,see"Cuan"
O'Lugair,273
O'Longan, scribe,xi
O'Mahony, John, the Fenian,179,364,558
O'Mahonys, Finn and Roe, the,62; of Carbery, ditto.
O'Malone,206
O'Mahon, a scribe,228,341,403
O'Mellon, friar, narrative of,568
O'Meaghers, the,32,477
O'Meehans, the,62
O'Melaughlins, the,206
Omens, Cuchulain's evil,343,347
O'Mores, the,66,315,473,610
O'More, Rory,615
O'Moriartys,62
O'Mullane,62,64
O'Mulconreys, the,524,545
O'Mulloy's prosody,537,572; his "Lamp of the Faithful,"572; grammar,id.,617
O'Mulchonry, one of the Four Masters,575
O'Mulconry, Maurice, aided the Four Masters,575
O'Mulchonry, Tanaidhe, poet,446
O'Neill, abrogates his title,527,529
O'Neill's, the,35,58,60,64,65,74,452,515
O'Neill, Owen,614-5
O'Neill, of Clanaboy,623
O'Neill, Shane,65
O'Neills, wanderings in 1607,566
O'Neaghtan, John, poet, etc.,597ff.
O'Neaghtain, or O'Naghten Teig, poet and lexicographer,599
O'Pronty, Patrick,258
O'Rahilly, poet,604
Ordeal, druidic,90
Orbsen,48
Orders of Saints, the three,192-3
O'Reillys, the,33,477,527
O'Reilly, Father, O S F.,567
O'Reilly's "Irish writers,"221,429,433,469,470ff.,524,536,564,597
O'Regans, the,35
Oriel, Book of,59
Oriel,i.e., Monaghan,67
Ormond, Duke of, born 1607,614-15
Orthography of the Irish Latinists,185
O'Rorkes the, of Breffny,53,205,527,545
O'Rorke, Brian, poem to,520
O'Ryans, the,610
O'Seasnan, poet,446
O'Shaughnessies, the,33
O'Sheas, the,65
Osgar an fléau [na suiste],27
Ossian, or OisÃn, Finn Mac Cúmhail's son,364; his daughter married to Cormac Cas, ancestor of the Dalcassians,76, Macpherson's Ossian,364; oldest poems ascribed to,381; meets Patrick,383; lives in Tir na n-óg,498,601; dialogue with St. Patrick,501; complaint of, in his old age,508
Ossianic poetry,466,498ff; its subject matter,499; half-acted,511; authorship of,512; largely post-Danish,513; list of poems,513; imitation Ossianic poem,597,601; orally preserved,606,628
O'Sullivans, the,32,62,477
O'Sullivan, Teig Gaolach, poet,548,602
O'Sullivan, Owen Roe, poet,604
O'Sullivan, Beare,465
Ota,207
O'Toomey, the Gay, poet,604
O'Tooles, the,31,473
Ovid of Ireland, the,466
Owen [Eóghan], rival of Conn of the hundred battles,13,62,75,153,368; his "Sailing,"369
Owen Mór, son of Duthracht,317,358
Oxford and Celtic Studies,xii,414
P
P, loss of the letter in Celtic,4; rarely used in Irish, Ch. I n.8; becomes c in Irish,5
Pagan element in Irish literature,243,251ff.
Pagan Irish better artificers than the Christian Irish,456
Pale, the,554; English confined to,609; Irish spoken universally in it,612
Palgrave, Sir Frances,199
Palladius,106,137
Pan,79
Pantheon, Gaulish, assimilated to Roman,112
Pan-Celtic Society, lays and lyrics of,191
Papists, judgment of the Bishops concerning,555
Paradise, MacGilla Keefe travels to find site of,433
Paris, life of Columcille found in,189
Parliament of Clan Lopus,260
Partholon,281,429
Patrick, St.,35; life of in Book of Armagh, Father Hogan's edition, Ch. III n.30; says that the Irish worshipped idols,84; overthrows Crom Cruach,87; his Confession,112; listen to the Fenian stories,116; date of his landing,134; his companions,134; more than one Patrick,136; date of his death, ch. XIII n.7; confession of,141; his life,141ff.; prophesies to St. Brigit,158; as a Christian name,162; his advice to St. Carthainn,268; made verses,409; is treated with banter in the Ossianic lays,500; is made to denounce Ossian,501ff.; birth of, recorded in Chronicon Scotorum,581; revises the Brehon Laws,588
Pavia, school of,208
Pedigrees, Irish, not for sale,69; importance of to the Irish and Welsh,72; chanting of, an incitement to battle,331
Pelagius,41,106
Penal Laws,512,554,594
Persecution of Irish authors,560ff.
Persian history,78
Petrie,xii, his antiquities of Tara,447; on Irish shrines,457
Petronius,276
Petty, Sir William,15,618
Philip of Macedon and the Celts,7
Philomela, an Irish,393
Phœnicians,6
Picts of Scotland,34; or Cruithni,282-3,371
Piers Ploughman,486
Pindar,51
Pig, Mac Datho's,356
Pinkerton on Adamnan's Columcille,183
Plague, the, of 664,201
Pliny,89
Plutarch,79
Poets, originally judges also,241; text books of,241; antiquity of their text books,243; oldest pre-Christian poets in Ireland,244; poet-saints,413; Irish poets of Norman race,493;seealso "Bards"
Poems, the first written in Irish,242,273ff.; topographical,469; historical,445
Poetry more easy to date than prose,269; obligatory on the Fenians,373; mixed with prose in the sagas,399; early technique of,406ff.; in the "wars of the Gael with the Gaill,"441; anonymous more interesting than that by known authors,448; tribal, and family,472; development of,479ff.; last specimen of unrhymed,479; well remunerated in Ireland,486; allegorical,597; Jacobite,596ff.
Pomponius, Mela,21,94
Poison, used by Elizabethan statesmen,554,567
Pope,271
Pork as a food,104
Posidonius,254
Pot of avarice,489
Pottage, Columcille's,174
Pre-Danish poets,405ff.
Priests of the early Germans,14
Priests, early, their simple equipment,135
Printing press, want of in Ireland,534
Presbyterian view of Church Government,183
Prince, advice to a,247ff.
Prose mixed with verse,260ff.,399
Proceedings of Great Bardic Association,260
Prophets, the four great, of Erin,210
Prosper's Chronicle,106,137
Prophecy, druid's, about St. Patrick,91
Provinces, different characteristics of their speech,617
Psalter, the copy of in the "Cathach,"175
Ptolemy Keraunos, slain by the Celts,8
Ptolemy on the names of Irish tribes,19,22
Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, MSS. of,385
Pyramids, Dicuil's account of the,222
Q
Q. The Indo-European guttural changed into P,4
R
R passives, in Celtic, Ch. I n.21
Raftery, a Connacht poet,96,605
Raghallach, King of Connacht,233
Rannaigheacht, Great, metre,418,487, Little R.,526
Rathcoole,57
Rathkenry, bardic college of,490
Ratisbon, Irish monastery of,449,451
Reality of the characters of the Cuchulain saga,252
Reciter, Irish, described,627
Red Sea, Irish on the,223
Red Branch, the, warriors of,66; House of,295; saga, cycle of,293ff.; saga not materially altered after the Norman Conquest,466; connected with the Brehon Law,589; in topography,56; "Red Branch Knights,"363
Reeves, Dr.,41,171,181,182,218
Reeves' collection of Irish MSS.,375,385
Reinach, Solomon, M.,5,454
Réim Rioghraidhe, O'Clery's,576
Reincarnation, Irish stories of,95,381
Religion of Celts and Germans different,12,13
Religious songs of Connacht,148,270,467,606
Renan,225
Residences of the High Kings of Ireland,232
Rethwisch, Dr. Ernst,108
Revue Celtique,217,et passim
Rhine, derivation of the name,10
Rhyme amongst the Irish,480ff.; when first met with,481; a Celtic invention,481ff.; perfect rhymes in seventh century,485; derivation of the word,485; "Irish rhyme,"539ff.; Anglo-Irish rhyme,540ff.,vowel-rhyme replaces consonantal rhyme,541
Rhys, Dr. John, on the Crom Cruach,85,87; on Ogma,113ff.; on Ogam inscriptions,121; on the Lochlannachs,500
Ricardus Corinensis,23
Ridgeway, Professor, on coinage,125
Rinuccini on the Irish language,613
Rinn áirdmetre,413
Rivers help to heal Cuchulain,334
Rodan, or Ruadhan, or Lothra, St.,196,227ff.,231,403
Rodenberg, a German traveller in Ireland,629ff.
Rolleston, T. W., poem on Clonmacnois,205
Romans, their relations with the Celts,8; defeat them,9; never invaded Ireland,17; chase the Irish out to sea,23
Roman tax collector, the,79; Roman mission of St. Patrick,142; Roman metres,530
Romanised Britons, the,104
Romanesque, Irish,460
Romance, or saga, in Greek and Latin,276
Rome stormed by the Celts,8
Ros, or Ross, poet,408,588
Ross, the school of,213
Rosg, the poetry so-called,146,479
Roscommon,509
Round Towers, the, derived from the East,459ff.
Royal Irish Academy,see"Academy"
Rudricians, or Clanna Rudhraighe [Rury],66,388
Ruadhan, St.,see"Rodan"
"Runs" in Irish,277
Russel, T. O'Neill,394
Ryan's history of the Co. Carlow,210
S
Sacra, Ireland called,20
Sacred tree,170
Sacrifice, human,83,85,92,93
Sadhbh, wife of Oilioll Olum,31; how pronounced,31,32
Saints, three orders of,192-3
Saints take different sides,233-4; figure in romances,234; saints who were also poets,413; the number of them buried in Aran,194; list of their lives,574-5; three works by Colgan on them,577; Book of the Saints,563
Sailing of Cúmhal, the,366
Sailing of Owen Mór, the,369
Saga, or romance, in Greek and Latin,276; in Irish,277ff.; unconscious developing into conscious,378-9; list of mythological sagas,292; of Red Branch sagas,361; of Fenian sagas,385; of miscellaneous sagas,401ff.; golden era of the Irish saga,387; list of sagas in Book of Leinster,278,287; all saga shot through with verse,399ff.; the great number of lost sagas,400ff.;see also"Stories"