Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

All the publications just referred to were of works which came from a more or less remote period. No serious attempt had been made to publish the more recent works of the eighteenth-century poets, written in the still living language of the people, and still preserved by popular tradition. This defect was remedied by the [...]

Above : Brehon Laws (Inzet : St. Patrick) The oldest Gaelic MSS. that we have, date from this period. They, however, are not literature, but are in the form of ” glosses.” These were not written in Ireland, but in the numerous monasteries established by Irish missionaries in Britain and Europe. They consist of notes [...]