WORKSBYP. W. JOYCE, M.A., LL.D., T.C.D.; M.R.I.A.ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THEANCIENT LAWS OF IRELAND;PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, IRELAND;LATE PRINCIPAL, MARLBOROUGH STREET TRAINING COLLEGE, DUBLIN.Two Splendid Volumes, richly gilt, both cover and top.With 361 Illustrations. Price £1 1s. net.A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT IRELAND.A Complete Survey of the Social Life and Institutions of Ancient Ireland. All the important Statements are proved home by references to authorities and by quotations from ancient documents.Of the 31 Chapter headings, 27 are the same as those given below for the Smaller Social History.One Vol., Cloth gilt. 598 pages, 213 Illustrations. 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WORKSBYP. W. JOYCE, M.A., LL.D., T.C.D.; M.R.I.A.
ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THEANCIENT LAWS OF IRELAND;PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, IRELAND;LATE PRINCIPAL, MARLBOROUGH STREET TRAINING COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
Two Splendid Volumes, richly gilt, both cover and top.
With 361 Illustrations. Price £1 1s. net.
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT IRELAND.
A Complete Survey of the Social Life and Institutions of Ancient Ireland. All the important Statements are proved home by references to authorities and by quotations from ancient documents.
Of the 31 Chapter headings, 27 are the same as those given below for the Smaller Social History.
One Vol., Cloth gilt. 598 pages, 213 Illustrations. Price 3s. 6d. net.
A SMALLER SOCIAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT IRELAND,
Treating Of the Government, Military System, and Law;Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce;Manners, Customs, and Domestic Lifeof the Ancient Irish People.
Traverses the same ground as the larger work above; but besides condensation, most of the quotations and nearly all the references to authorities are omitted in this book.
Part I.—Government, Military System, and Law.—ChapterI.A Preliminary Bird’s-eye View—II.Government by Kings—III.Warfare—IV.The Brehon Laws.
Part II.—Religion, Learning, and Art.—ChapterV.Paganism—VI.Christianity—VII.Learning and Education—VIII.Irish Language and Literature—IX.Ecclesiastical and Religious Writings—X.Annals, Histories, and Genealogies—XI.Historical and Romantic Tales—XII.Art—XIII.Music—XIV.Medicine and Medical Doctors.
Part III.—Social and Domestic Life.—ChapterXV.The Family—XVI.The House—XVII.Food, Fuel, and Light—XVIII.Dress and Personal Adornment—XIX.Agriculture and Pasturage—XX.Workers in Wood, Metal, and Stone—XXI.Corn Mills—XXII.Trades and Industries connected with Clothing—XXIII.Measures, Weights, and Mediums of Exchange—XXIV.Locomotion and Commerce—XXV.Public Assemblies, Sports, and Pastimes—XXVI.Various Social Customs and Observances—XXVII.Death and Burial. Index.
Third Edition. Thick Crown 8vo. 565 pages. Price 10s. 6d.
A SHORT HISTORY OF IRELAND
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 1608.
Cloth gilt. 528 pages. Price 3s. 6d.
Published in December, 1897: now in its 70th Thousand.
A CHILD’S HISTORY OF IRELAND,WITHSpecially drawn Map and 160 Illustrations,
Including a Facsimile in full colours of a beautiful Illuminated Page of the Book of Mac Durnan,A.D.850.
Besides having a very large circulation here at home, this book has been adopted by the Australian Catholic Hierarchy for all their Schools in Australia and New Zealand; and also by the Catholic School Board of New York for their Schools.
Cloth. 312 pages. 24th Thousand. Price 2s.
A CONCISE HISTORY OF IRELANDFROMTHE EARLIEST TIMES TO 1837.
With Introductory Chapters on the Literature, Laws, Buildings, Music, Art, &c., of the Ancient Irish People.
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OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF IRELANDFROMTHE EARLIEST TIMES TO 1905.
50th Thousand.
“This little book is intended mainly for use in schools; and it is accordingly written in very simple language. But I have some hope that those of the general public who wish to know something of the subject, but who are not prepared to go into details, may also find it useful.... I have put it in the form of a consecutive narrative, avoiding statistics and scrappy disconnected statements.”—Preface.
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THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF IRISH NAMES OF PLACES.
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IRISH LOCAL NAMES EXPLAINED.
In this little book the original Gaelic forms, and the meanings, of the names of five or six thousand different places are explained. The pronunciation of all the principal Irish words is given as they occur.
New Edition. Cloth. Price 3s. 6d.
OLD CELTIC ROMANCES.
Twelve of the most beautiful of the Ancient Irish Romantic Tales translated from the Gaelic.
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A GRAMMAR OF THE IRISH LANGUAGE.
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A READING BOOK IN IRISH HISTORY.
This book contains forty-nine Short Readings, including “Customs and Modes of Life”; an Account of Religion and Learning; Sketches of the Lives of Saints Brigit and Columkille; several of the Old Irish Romantic Tales, including the “Sons of Usna,” the “Children of Lir,” and the “Voyage of Maeldune”; the history of “Cahal-More of the Wine-red Hand,” and of Sir John de Courcy; an account of Ancient Irish Physicians, and of Ancient Irish Music, &c., &c.
Fourth Edition. 4to. Price—Cloth, 3s.; Wrapper, 1s. 6d.
ANCIENT IRISH MUSIC,
Containing One Hundred Airs never before published, and a number of Popular Songs.
Paper cover. 4to. Price 1s.
IRISH MUSIC AND SONG.
A Collection of Songs in the Irish language, set to the old Irish airs.
(Edited by Dr.Joycefor the “Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language.”)
Second Edition. Paper cover. Crown 8vo. Price 6d. net.
IRISH PEASANT SONGS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
With the old Irish airs: the words set to the Music.
Twentieth Edition. 86th Thousand. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth. Price 3s. 6d.
A HAND-BOOK OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENTAND METHODS OF TEACHING.
Footnotes:
[1]Many of the provisions of the Brehon Laws, such as those relating to Land, to Offences, Compensations, and Punishments; to Professions, Trades, and Industries; to the mutual duties of the various classes of people, from the king down to the slave; to the modes of summoning wrong-doers before the brehons’ courts, with a description of the manner in which trials were conducted; and various other details, will be found in my two Social Histories of Ancient Iceland.
[2]Freely translated (in “Old Celtic Romances”) by Dr. Joyce, from the old poem in the original Irish version.
[3]I saw the same custom in full swing in some of the lay schools before 1847. Many a time I prepared my lesson—with some companions—sitting on the grass beside the old abbey in Kilmallock, or perched on the top of the ivy-mantled wall.
[4]The Irishmen who went to the Continent in those times always took Latin names, which were generally translations of their Irish names.
[5]Translated in my “Reading Book in Irish History.”
[6]Translated in my “Old Celtic Romances.”
[7]For the originals of all the above names, and for numerous others of a like kind, see Irish Names of Places, vol.II., chap.IV., on “Poetical and Fancy Names.”