A Literary History of Ireland

The present volume has been styled—in order to make it a companion book to other of Mr. Unwin's publications—a "Literary History of Ireland," but a "Literary History of Irish Ireland" would be a more correct title, for I have abstained altogether from any analysis or even mention of the works of ...

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A Literary History of Ireland

PREFACE
CHAPTER I WHO WERE THE CELTS?
CHAPTER II EARLIEST ALLUSIONS TO IRELAND FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
CHAPTER III EARLY HISTORY DRAWN FROM NATIVE SOURCES
CHAPTER IV HOW FAR CAN NATIVE SOURCES BE RELIED ON?
CHAPTER V THE PRE-MILESIAN FABLE AND EARLY PANTHEON
CHAPTER VI EVIDENCE OF TOPOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY
CHAPTER VII DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
CHAPTER VIII CONFUSION BETWEEN GODS AND MEN
CHAPTER IX DRUIDISM
CHAPTER X THE IRISH ELYSIUM AND BELIEF IN REBIRTH
CHAPTER XI EARLY USE OF LETTERS, OGAM AND ROMAN
CHAPTER XII EARLY IRISH CIVILISATION
CHAPTER XIII ST. PATRICK AND THE EARLY MISSIONARIES
CHAPTER XIV ST. BRIGIT
CHAPTER XV COLUMCILLE
CHAPTER XVI THE FIRST SCHOOLS OF CHRISTIAN IRELAND
CHAPTER XVII THEIR FAME AND TEACHING
CHAPTER XVIII CONFLICTS WITH THE CIVIL POWER
CHAPTER XIX THE BARDIC SCHOOLS
CHAPTER XX THE SUGGESTIVELY PAGAN ELEMENT IN IRISH LITERATURE
CHAPTER XXI THE OLDEST BOOKS AND POEMS
CHAPTER XXII EARLY SAGA AND ROMANCE
CHAPTER XXIII THE MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE
CHAPTER XXIV THE HEROIC OR RED BRANCH CYCLE—CUCHULAIN
CHAPTER XXV DéIRDRE
CHAPTER XXVI THE TáIN BO CHUAILGNE
CHAPTER XXVII THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN
CHAPTER XXVIII OTHER SAGAS OF THE RED BRANCH
CHAPTER XXIX THE FENIAN CYCLE
CHAPTER XXX MISCELLANEOUS ROMANCE
CHAPTER XXXI PRE-DANISH POETS
CHAPTER XXXII THE DANISH PERIOD
CHAPTER XXXIII FROM CLONTARF TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST
CHAPTER XXXIV SUDDEN ARREST OF IRISH DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER XXXV FOUR CENTURIES OF DECAY
CHAPTER XXXVI DEVELOPMENT OF IRISH POETRY
CHAPTER XXXVII THE OSSIANIC POEMS
CHAPTER XXXVIII THE LAST OF THE CLASSIC POETS
CHAPTER XXXIX RISE OF A NEW SCHOOL
CHAPTER XL PROSE WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XLI THE IRISH ANNALS
CHAPTER XLII THE BREHON LAWS
CHAPTER XLIII THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XLIV THE HISTORY OF IRISH AS A SPOKEN LANGUAGE

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