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A Literary History of Ireland

by Douglas Hyde

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2I Dedicate
  3. 3Preface
  4. 4Chapter I — Who Were the Celts?
  5. 5Chapter II — Earliest Allusions to Ireland From Foreign Sources
  6. 6Chapter III — Early History Drawn From Native Sources
  7. 7Chapter IV — How Far Can Native Sources Be Relied On?
  8. 8Chapter V — The Pre-Milesian Fable and Early Pantheon
  9. 9Chapter VI — Evidence of Topography and Genealogy
  10. 10Chapter VII — Documentary Evidence
  11. 11Chapter VIII — Confusion Between Gods and Men
  12. 12Chapter IX — Druidism
  13. 13Chapter X — The Irish Elysium and Belief in Rebirth
  14. 14Chapter XI — Early Use of Letters, Ogam and Roman
  15. 15Chapter XII — Early Irish Civilisation
  16. 16Chapter XIII — St. Patrick and the Early Missionaries
  17. 17Chapter XIV — St. Brigit
  18. 18Chapter XV — Columcille
  19. 19Chapter XVI — The First Schools of Christian Ireland
  20. 20Chapter XVII — Their Fame and Teaching
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — Conflicts With the Civil Power
  22. 22Chapter XIX — The Bardic Schools
  23. 23Chapter XX — The Suggestively Pagan Element in Irish Literature
  24. 24Chapter XXI — The Oldest Books and Poems
  25. 25Chapter XXII — Early Saga and Romance
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — The Mythological Cycle
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — The Heroic or Red Branch Cycle — Cuchulain
  28. 28Chapter XXV — Déirdre
  29. 29Chapter XXVI — The Táin Bo Chuailgne
  30. 30Chapter XXVII — The Death of Cuchulain
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII — Other Sagas of the Red Branch
  32. 32Chapter XXIX — The Fenian Cycle
  33. 33Chapter XXX — Miscellaneous Romance
  34. 34Chapter XXXI — Pre-Danish Poets
  35. 35Chapter XXXII — The Danish Period
  36. 36Chapter XXXIII — From Clontarf to the Norman Conquest
  37. 37Chapter XXXIV — Sudden Arrest of Irish Development
  38. 38Chapter XXXV — Four Centuries of Decay
  39. 39Chapter XXXVI — Development of Irish Poetry
  40. 40Chapter XXXVII — The Ossianic Poems
  41. 41“Finn’s Pastimes
  42. 42Chapter XXXVIII — The Last of the Classic Poets
  43. 43Chapter XXXIX — Rise of a New School
  44. 44Chapter XL — Prose Writers of the Seventeenth Century
  45. 45Chapter XLI — The Irish Annals
  46. 46Chapter XLII — The Brehon Laws
  47. 47Chapter XLIII — The Eighteenth Century
  48. 48Chapter XLIV — The History of Irish as a Spoken Language
  49. 49Buidheachas le Dia! — Críoch

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