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Early Irish Population-Groups: Their Nomenclature, Classification, and Chronology

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Eoin MacNeill

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    Internet availability
  1. This paper is available in pdf format on www.archive.org.
  2. Many manuscripts referred to in this paper, such as the Book of Ballymote (Dublin, RIA, 536 olim 23 P 12) and the Book of Lecan (Dublin, RIA, 535 olim 23 P 2), are available as digitized images on the website of the ISOS Project, School of Celtic, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. (See www.isos.dias.ie).
    Literature mentioned in the text (selection)
  1. John O'Donovan (ed), Leabhar na gCeart (Book of Rights), (Dublin 1847). [Re-edited as Lebor na Cert by Myles Dillon, ITS 46 (Dublin 1962). His edition is online at CELT in files G102900 (Irish text) and T102900 (his English translation), with further bibliographic details.]
  2. John O'Donovan, Three Fragments of Irish Annals (Dublin 1860).
  3. Eugene O'Curry, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history (Dublin and New York 1861; repr. Dublin 1878; repr. Dublin 1995).
  4. Edward O'Reilly, An Irish-English dictionary : with copious quotations from the most esteemed ancient and modern writers [...] (Dublin 1817, reissued 1821). New edition, with supplement by John O'Donovan (Dublin 1864).
  5. Edmund Hogan (ed): now for the first time published from a manuscript preserved in Clongowes-Wood College (Dublin 1878).
  6. Philip's Handy Atlas of the Counties of Ireland, constructed by John Bartholomew; revised by P.W. Joyce, London 1882.
  7. Henri D'Arbois de Jubainville, Cours de Littérature Celtique (Paris: A. Fontemoing, 1883–1902).
  8. Whitley Stokes, The Tripartite Life of Patrick, with other documents relating to that Saint. Edited with translations and indexes. D.C.L., L.L.D., Rolls Ser. 8vo, London. Part I. cxcix + 267 [8] pp. facs. Part II. 269–676, 1887.
  9. W. M. Hennessy & B. Mac Carthy, Annala Uladh: Annals of Ulster otherwise Annala Senait, Annals of Senat: a chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. 4 vols. (Dublin 1887–1901).
  10. John Healy, Ireland's ancient Schools and Scholars (Dublin 1890).
  11. Geoffrey Keating, The History of Ireland [...], Part 1, ed. David Comyn, (London: Irish Texts Society 1902).
  12. Eoin MacNeill, 'Moccu, maccu', Ériu 3 (1907), 42–49.
  13. Eoin MacNeill, 'The Irish Ogham Inscriptions: 'notes on the distribution, history, grammar and import of the Irish ogham inscriptions', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (C), 27 (1908–09), 329–370.
  14. Eoin MacNeill (ed), Duanaire Finn, ITS volume 7 (London 1908).
  15. Alfred Anscombe, 'The Longobardic Origin of St. Sechnall', Ériu 4 (1908), p. 74–90.
  16. Edmund Hogan, Onomasticon Goedelicum: locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae; an index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes (Dublin 1910). [A version prepared by the LOCUS project in UCC is vailable online at http://publish.ucc.ie/doi/locus.]
  17. Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Sprachschatz. 3 vols, Leipzig 1891–1913.
  18. Ernst Windisch (ed), Die altirische Heldensage Táin Bó Cúalnge nach dem Buch von Leinster, in Text und Übersetzung mit einer Einleitung [und Wörterverzeichniss]. Gedruckt mit Unterstützung der kgl. sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Leipzig 1905).
  19. Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht. Todd Lecture Series 16 (Dublin 1910).
  20. Rudolf Thurneysen, Handbuch des Alt-irischen: Grammatik, Texte und Wörterbuch (Heidelberg: Winter 1909).
  21. Eoin MacNeill, 'An Irish Historical Tract dated A.D. 721', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (C), vol. 28 (1910) 123–48.
    Further reading (selection)
  1. Julius Pokorny, 'Beiträge zur ältesten Geschichte Irlands (3. Érainn, Dári(n)ne und die Iverni und Darini des Ptolomäus)', in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918) 323–57.
  2. John [= Eoin] MacNeill (ed and trans), 'Poems by Fland Mainistrech on the dynasties of Ailech, Mide and Brega', Archivium Hibernicum 2 (1913) 37–99.
  3. Edmund Hogan, 'The Tricha Cét and related land-measures' in PRIA 28 (1928–29) (C), August 1928, 148–235.
  4. Toirdhealbhach Ó Raithbheartaigh (ed), Genealogical Tracts I: Anmand na n-Athachthuath (Dublin 1932) 107–116.
  5. T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology (Dublin 1946).
  6. Francis Xavier Martin, 'The Writings of Eoin MacNeill', Irish Historical Studies 6:21 (March 1948) 44–62.
  7. Francis John Byrne, Francis Xavier Martin (eds), The scholar revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867–1945, and the making of the new Ireland (Dublin 1973).
  8. Paul MacCotter, 'The cantreds of Desmond', Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 105 (2000) 49–68.
  9. Paul MacCotter, Medieval Ireland: territorial, political and economic divisions (Dublin 2008).
    Internet availability:
  1. http://www.archive.org/details/papersirishacad00macnuoft.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Eoin MacNeill, Early Irish Population-Groups: Their Nomenclature, Classification, and Chronology in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Ed. [Royal Irish Academy]. , Dublin, Royal Irish Academy (April 1911) volume 29 section C no 4 page 59–109

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Created: Article written by Eoin (=John) MacNeill (d. 1945) (1911)

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [GA] Many group names and quoted text passages are in Old and Middle Irish.
Language: [LA] Many words and phrases are in Latin.
Language: [FR] Some words and phrases are in French.
Language: [GR] A few words and phrases are in Greek.

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