The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-15
LECTURES AND LITERATURE.
Celtic Studies. Illustration of the Celtic Local
Names on Map Of Ancient Britain, Ire
land and Others
BY 7. IRWIN.


That the laid foundations of Europe to whose west
portions they driven unasceraned period by
the Teutonic races recognized historical fact though
in eastern Europe the proofs of their original ocatonwhch
is clear to the Celtic schoarhas been illustrated Phil
oogy indeed the only by which at this date
enabled the mgraons and settlements of whose
residence however remote has invariably left stamp
of locality We shall references the pre-
occupation of Greece by Celtic people, their possession of
Thrace and their settlement in Asia Minor in the provinces
aata and Cara for another OCCASION and ourselves
just with offering explanation of the on
the map of ancient Britain and Ireland and a
ian which few suspect to be Celtic.
The study of the Celtic language which is of the
copous powerful and musical in the world has been for
time earnestly cultivated in Ireland where ODonovan and
OCurry in their works have laid the the
history whose supestructure will require long period
ete The Annals of the Four Masters by the one
and the manuscript Materials of Irish History by the other
achievements whose meed Importance it impossible
overestmae Happily for Irish history both these great scho
employed the Ordnance Survey of the country
and through the experience thus derived the studies which
elected have left little to be done regards chronology
tribe history and the varied eucdaon of
OCurys published work the value of the great body of
literature yet untransated for the first time patent
Europe and America while the volumes which yet to
appear will be still interesting, they will deal with
details of the Celtic life of antiquity and the middle ages
CUSTOMS habitudes SPORTS costumes &c. &c. It
gratifying to observe that the high place which ancient Irish
writings hold in European literature just beginning be
recognized by English writer's Morley being the first who
his History of English Literature has given them ample
pace-a result attributable the abors of ODonovan and
OCury We need not however, that with the exception
of insignificant portion the of Celtic writings
historical poetic and imaginary, conserved in Ish English,
and Continental libraries remain unransated and that of
the version of the Behon laws rendered into English by the
abovenamed scholars but preliminary Volumes and those
by the most interesting have been published Among
the Germans Celtic studies have made considerable progress
Zeus Grammatical Ceic though containing nsep
arabic from the work of foreigner the most scientific yet
produced have also reaes partakng of the
merits and disadvantages whose object explain the
meaning of the Celtic Names personal and local. in CAESARS
Commentaries and Sabos Geography But though the pho
logical industry of the Germans has been carried into most
such departments connected with the classical literature of
Greece and Rome they have left ancient Britain untouched
has English historian applied Celtic studies the elu
cdation of the old of locality those of the and
tribes who settled in the country the epoch of Roman
conquest during the four succeeding centuries of Roman
occupation
glance at the map of ancient Britain number
of local names whose root Celtic but whose termination
Latin and whose derivation ancient anquaans have almost
invariably endeayored from the Latin merely while