A first book of Irish literature
Subtitle: Hiberno-Latin, Gaelic, Anglo-Irish from the earliest times to the present day
By: by Aodh de Blacam.
Series: Kennikat series in Irish history and culture
Publisher: Kennikat Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Port Washington, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Irish literature -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.; Civilization, Celtic, in literature.; Language and culture -- Ireland.; Ireland -- Intellectual life.
Notes: Reprint of the 1934 ed.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings. Definition of Irish Literature -- When did Irish Literature begin? -- Druidic Schools -- Introduction of Letters -- Life of St. Patrick -- Authentic writings of St. Patrick -- Monastic period: sixth and seventh centuries.  Great monasteries -- Early Latin writings -- St. Colmcille -- Ancient Filí: Dallán Forgaill -- Antiphonary of Bangor -- St. Columbanus -- First historians -- Cenn Faelad: birth of Gaelic letters -- Senchán Torpéist -- Adamnan (St. Eunan) -- Red branch cycle. What was the Red Branch? -- Framework of the Tam -- Subsidiary stories -- Characteristics of the cycle -- Urscealta. What are the Urscéalta? -- Mythological tales -- Historical tales -- Wonder tales: Voyages -- Wonder tales: Visions -- Monastic period: eighth and ninth centuries. Golden Age -- Language -- Old Irish Metrics -- Gaelic poetry -- Hiberno-Latin poetry -- Ecclesiastical works -- Lorica of St. Patrick, and others -- Rumann mac Colmáin -- Three Noted Codices -- Oengus the Culdee -- Secular Gaelic writings -- Norsemen -- Sedulius Scottus -- Johannes Scottus Eriugena -- Tripartite life of St. Patrick -- Middle Irish period: tenth and eleventh centuries. Synthetic historians -- Cormac mac Cuileannáin -- Lives of the saints -- Metrics and language -- Some Gaelic poems -- Saltair na Rann -- Brian Borumha -- Historians -- Poetry -- Religious works -- Marianus Scottus -- A red branch saga -- Fenian cycle. Fionn and the Fianna -- How the cycle rose -- How it grew -- Characteristics of the cycle -- A century of reconstruction. Book of the Dun Cow and the Book of Leinster -- Book of invasions -- Poetry and fiction -- Life of St. Colman -- Translations -- Looking back -- Characteristics -- The invasion and Irish revival. Effects of invasion -- First Anglo-Irish literature -- Modern Irish -- Bardic reform and revival -- Bardic families -- Three Poets -- Colloquy of the Ancients -- Song of Dermot and the Earl -- Entrenchment of New Ross -- Jofroi of Waterford -- Land of Cokaygne -- Liber Exemplorum -- Rival languages -- Friar Michael of Kildare -- Dame Alice Kyteler -- Friar Clyn -- Archbishop Richard FitzRalph -- Earl Gerald -- Bardic poets -- Wars of Turlough -- Two historians -- Giolla Iosa MacFirbisigh -- Three sorrowful stories -- Writers of the Pale -- Great codices -- Annals -- Bardic poets -- Fenian cycle -- The Reformation. Effects of the Reformation -- Archbishop O’Fihely -- Manus O’Donnell -- Other Gaelic prose -- Second Bardic Revival -- Other Gaelic writings -- Book of Howth -- Richard Stanyhurst -- Foreign Commentators -- Scottish Gaelic books -- Gaelic order passes. Language, metre, style -- Last bards -- Irish scholars abroad (Latin) -- Irish scholars abroad (Gaelic) -- Lives of saints -- Annalists -- Lughaidh 0 Cléirigh -- Flann Mac Aodhagáin -- An Dubhaltach Mac Firhhisigh -- Dr. Geoffrey Keating -- Other historians -- Three poets: Hackett, Ferriter, 0 Bruadair -- Gaelic Scotland -- Miscellaneous -- Rise of ascendancy. Foreign observers -- Anglo-Irish scholars -- Bible in Irish -- Some poets -- Ludovick Barry -- Robert Boyle -- William Molyneux -- “Hidden Ireland”. Penal oppression -- Aodhgán 0 Rathaille -- Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill -- Eoghan Ruadh 0 Súilleabháin -- Jacobite poets -- Micheál Cuimín -- Tadhg Gaedhealaeh 0 Súilleabháin -- Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara -- Brian Merriman -- Poets of Louth and Armagh -- Cathal Buidhe Mac Giolla Gunna -- 0 Neachtains -- O Cearbhalláin -- Prose writings -- New Scotland -- Anonymous Songs -- Continental Irish writers -- Historians -- Golden age of Anglo-Ireland. A nation over a nation -- Jonathan Swift -- Bishop Berkeley -- Sir Richard Steele -- Laurence Sterne -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Dramatic tradition -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Edmund Burke -- Orators: Flood, Grattan and others -- Theobald Wolfe Tone -- Poets and translators -- History, journalism, criticism -- Celtophiles -- English observer -- End of the penal age. Century summarized -- Last Gaelic poets -- Humphrey O’Sullivan -- Gaelic Society and Hardiman -- O’Donovan / O’Curry circle -- Novelists: Maria Edgeworth -- Novelists: Lover / Lever school -- Novelists: Maturin school -- Novelists: Patriots -- Novelists: Carleton and Kickham -- Thomas Moore -- Other Anglo-Irish poets -- Furlong, Callanan, Walsh, Keegan -- James Clarence Mangan -- Orators: Emmet, O’Connell and others -- Young Irelanders and successors.  Young Ireland movement -- Thomas Davis -- John Mitchel -- James Fintan Lalor -- Sir Samuel Ferguson -- Later poets -- Historical writers -- Last orators -- Gaelic writers and scholars -- Standish Hayes O’Grady -- Philologists -- Gaelic League and Irish Texts Society -- Standish James O’Grady -- Unclassified writers -- Scottish writers -- Renascent Ireland. New century -- Gaelic revival -- Abbey writers -- Edward Martyn -- William Butler Yeats -- Lady Gregory -- John Millington Synge -- George Russell -- Other abbey writers -- Historians -- Patriotic school -- Novelists -- Spiritual writers -- Daniel Corkery.