Indo-European languages, tradition, xiv, xxviii, 9, 13, 40, 44, 60
Industrial Revolution, 285
Ingcél Cáech, 161–2
Inis Clothrand, 88
Inis Fáil, 55, 130
Inis Fionnchuire (or Findchuire), 154–5
Inishglora, 164, 165
Inishmore, 133
Inishowen Peninsula, 112
interment, see burial customs
International Socialist Congress, 104
interpretatio Celtica, 32–3
interpretatio Romana, xxi, 31, 39, 41
Into the West, 123
‘Intoxication of the Ulstermen, The’, see Mesca Ulad
Inverness, 228, 289, 291
inxana, 303–4
Iolanthe, 107
Iona, 50, 288
Ír, 146–7
Iraird Cuillen, 204
Ireland, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxi–xxii, xxiii, xxv, 6, 8, 9, 10, 16, 18, 21, 24, 25, 40, 43, 44, 46, 61, 90, 98, 108, 112, 113, 121, 124, 139, 143, 154, 164, 166, 171, 185, 223, 226, 235, 239, 242, 244, 249, 275–7, 285, 288, 293, 297, 302; chronology of, 50; division of, 131, 133, 147, 148, 185; as Éire, 62; history, of, 48–50; personifications of, 10, 61–3, 130; poetic names for, 55, 62, 147; Republic of, 62, 169, 203, 221; Spain, links to, 145–6, 302
Irgairech, 210
Irish art, 7
Irish Comic Tradition, The, 258
Irish Fairy Tales, 222
Irish Folklore Commission, xxv
Irish Free State, xvii
Irish Heracles, xxvi
Irish language, xi, xiii, xvi, xvii, xxiii, xxiv, 44, 105, 116, 122, 131, 145, 238, 240, 291, 293; mythic invention of, 129–30, 145; see also Old Irish
Irish literature, xxi, 131, 243; Cycles of, classification, 150–51, 243; early, xxi, xxvi, 127–8, 137, 147, 191–2, 200, 209, 220, 233, 262; native modes of categorization, 151
Irish Melodies, 52
Irish monks, monasticism, xvii, xxii, xxviii, 49, 109, 114, 237, 285–6, 295
Irish people, xvi, xxi–xxii, 114, 115, 135, 220; genome studies of, 145–6; Giraldus’s disdain for, 57–8; Welsh people, links to, 263; see also Gaels
Irish Popular Superstitions, 104
Irish Republican Brotherhood, 220
Irish Sea, 13, 124, 192, 293
Iron Age, xiv, xv, 7, 15, 20, 22, 44, 96, 108–9, 146, 182
Iruad, Ioruaidh, King, 154–5
Irving, Washington, 113
Isaiah, Book of, 96
Iseult, 234, 295
Ishtar, 96
Isidore of Seville, 128, 131
Island of Joy, 111, 112
Islay, 291
Isle of Man, see Man, Isle of
‘Isle of the Mighty’, Welsh phrase for Britain (q.v.)
Israel (ancient), Israelites, 129, 136, 145; ‘lost tribe of’, 129
Italy, Italian peninsula, xv, xx, 19, 102
Íth, 146, 147
Iubdán, 258
Iuchair, 153–5
Iucharba, 153–5
Iuchra, 16
Jack (Cornish giant), 296–7
Jackson, Kenneth H., 28
Jacobite Rebellion, 287
Jacobus de Voraigne, Archbishop, 245
Japheth, 132, 145
Jasconius, 114
Jefferson, Thomas, xii
Jennifer, 295, 296
Jeremiah, 300
Jerome, St, 131
Jesus Christ, 7, 91, 110, 111, 113, 171, 248, 277
Jewish calendar, see calendar
Jewish religion, see Judaism
Joan (Cornish narrative figure), 296
Johnson, Samuel, 287
Jones, Gwyn, 264
Jones, Thomas, 264
Joseph (Old Testament), 253
Jove, see Jupiter; cf. Zeus
Joyce, James, 14, 99, 233; see also Finnegans Wake
Judaism, 95, 129
Judas, 115
judges, xxii
Julius Agricola, xx
Julius Caesar, xi, xxi, 5, 16, 26–7, 31, 33, 34, 38, 39, 40, 67, 97, 127, 139, 192
Jung, Carl Gustav, xxviii
Jutland Peninsula, xix
Jupiter, Jove, xxi, 7, 21, 31, 33, 37, 38–9, 97; Beissirissa, 39; columns, 39; Partinus, 33; Poeninus, 39; Uxellinus, 39
Jutes, 261
Kala Goañv, 97
Kala Hañv, 102
Keating, Elizabeth Frances, 303
Keating, Geoffrey, xxvii, 59, 100, 103, 128, 174, 223
Keaton, Buster, 230
Kelleher, John V., 129, 227
Kelly, Oisín, 163
kelpie, 32
Keltoí, xi, xiv
Kenecunill, 58
Kenmare estuary, peninsula, 61, 147
Kennedy, Patrick, 231
‘Kenneth, Sombre’, see Brahan Seer
Kenneth Oaur, Owir, alternative forms for the Brahan Seer (q.v.)
Kentigern, St, 24
Kêr Is, summarized, 299–302
Kernow, 295
Kerry, County, 9, 61, 62, 64, 114, 117, 131, 147, 182, 233, 240, 247
Kildare, County, town, 13, 40, 89, 90, 91, 192, 223
Killaloe, 163–4, 244
Killarney, 9, 240
Killycluggin Stone, 98
Kincora, 244
King Kong, xxvi
King Lear, 129
‘King of Greece, The’, 227
‘king of Sicily’, 154–5
‘ king of the fairies’, see fairy, Finnbheara
‘ king of the world, the’, 222, 227, 228
Kings, Book of, 98
kingship, 22–3, 48–65, 243–4, 257, 280; definition, 48; gender of, 60; initiation, 57–60
kinship, Irish concepts of, 50–52
Knights of Labor, The, 104
Knockadoon Island, 123
Knockainy, 9
Knockaulin, 91
Knockmany, 231
Knocknarea, 88
knowledge (esoteric), 11, 14, 24, 25, 76, 131, 225
Knowth, 13, 166
Korentin, see Corentin
korrigans, 300, 301
Krause, David, 230
Kristof, 300–301
La Cathédrale engloutie, 302
La Coruña, 146, 302
La Tène, xv–xvi, xviii, 44, 98
La Villemarqué, Théodore Hersart de, xiii, 298–9
Laa Luanistyn, 105
Labraid Luathlám ar Claideb, 124, 213–14
Láeg, 79, 178, 181, 187, 189, 199, 209, 210, 213–14, 217–18
lai, lay (literary form), 298
Lailoken, 246, 263
Lairgnéan, 165
Laius, 230
Lallans language, xvi, 287
Lammas Day, 93, 106
Lancelot, 264
‘Land of-’: alphabetized under subject, e.g. ‘Women, Land of’
land of youth, see Tír na nÓg
Land’s End, 296
Landévennec, 299
Laoi Oisín i dTír na nÓg, 20, 123, 240; summarized, 240–42
Laois, County, 135
Laon, 34
Larzac Inscription, 31–2
Lascaux, 22
Latin, xi, xvii, xxi, xxii, xxiii, 5, 12, 14, 32, 42, 48, 91, 95, 108, 114, 128, 136, 145, 148, 169, 192, 234, 262, 285, 288, 302
lavandeira nocturna, 303
Lavoye, 7
law, legal systems, xxii, 44, 49, 54, 68–9
lay, see lai
‘Lay of Oisín in the Land of Youth’, see Laoi Oisín I dTír na nÓg
Le Châtelet, 8, 38
Lebor Gabála Érenn, Leabhar Gabhála, xxiii, 10, 18, 24, 29, 41, 55, 57, 61, 85, 102, 127–49, 151, 152, 155, 163, 166, 173, 192, 302; historicity of, 128; summarized, 129–40, 144–9; title translations, 127
Lebor na hUidre, xxii
Leborcham, 81, 185
legal systems, see law
legend, legends, xxvi; definition and etymology of, 245
‘Legend of Knockmany, The’, 231–2
‘Legend of F
in-Mac-Cool, The’, 232
‘Legend of the City of Ys’, 285; summarized, 299–302
Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, 231
legende, 245
Leiden, 34
Leinster, 50, 56, 62, 90, 160, 174, 204, 224, 242, 250, 251, 252, 254, 293
Leitrim, County, 107, 169
Lendabair, 179
Lenihan, Eddie, 107
Lenus, 36
leopard, leopard imagery, xx
leprechaun, 246, 256–7, 258, 304; etymology of, 256; Galician equivalent, 304
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, xxix
Lewis, Isle of, 289
Lhuyd, Edward, xii, 295
Lí Ban, 24, 79, 124, 213–15
Lia Fáil, 53, 55, 136, 170, 244
Liath Macha [Grey of Macha], 21, 179, 199, 218
Libyans, xx
Liegnitz, 34
Life of Brigid, 91
Liffey, River, 14, 89–90, 148, 160, 161, 224, 238
Lilliputians, 258
Limerick, City and County, 9, 13, 49, 62, 123, 245
Lincolnshire, 33
Lindow Man, xix, 28, 37
linear time, 96
Linn Féic, 11, 23, 225
Lir (father of swan children), 118, 137, 163
Lir (patronym of Manannán), 137, 163
Lisconner Bay, 123
L’Isola Brazil, 122
literacy, 285–6
‘Little Britain’, 297
Living, Land of the, see Tír na mBéo
Livy, xx
Llanes, 304
Llassar Llaes Gyfnewid, 76, 275
Lleu Llaw Gyffes, xxvii, 7–8, 34, 47, 80, 140, 280, 281–2; name explained, 282
Lloegyr (Welsh name for England), 278
Llwyd, 80, 279
Llyn Llyw, 24
Llyn Tegid, 266
Llŷr, 275
Llŷr, Children of, 71, 275–7
Labor Day, 104
Loch Lomond, 23
Loch Ness, 290
Loch Rudraige, 257–8
Lochaber, 19
Lochlainn, 16, 154, 155, 227, 228
Lóegaire Búadach, 177, 178, 179, 180–81, 182, 183, 186, 198
Loingsechan, 248–9
Loire, River, Valley, 21, 27, 67
Loki, 24
Lomna, 162
lón láith, 197
London, 5, 10, 90, 277
Longas (or Longes) mac nUislenn, 81–2, 171
Longford, County, 118, 156
‘lost tribe of Israel’, 129
Loucetious, 36
Loudon, 34
Lough Arrow, 140.
Lough Derraveragh, 164
Lough Foyle, 244
Lough Gur, 9, 123
Lough Lein, 240
Lough Neagh, 24, 293
Lough Ree, 88, 212
Louis XIV, 8, 48
Louth, County, 46, 53, 91, 187, 192, 200, 203, 209
Louvain, xxiii
‘love spot’, see ball seirce
Low Countries, xix, 61; see also Belgium, Spanish Netherlands
Lowlands, see Scottish Lowlands
Lucan, 8, 32, 37, 38, 46, 108, 119
Luchta mac Luachada, 43, 46, 139, 142, 143
Lucian, 41–2
Lucifer, 267
Lug Lámfhota, xxvii, 7–8, 16, 34, 40, 41, 43, 47, 62–3, 105, 106, 122, 136, 138, 139–44, 151, 153–5, 174, 191, 192, 193–4, 207–8, 246, 268, 296, 297; Christian linkage to Michael, 106; epithet of, 139
Lugaid (son of Cú Roí), 217–18
Lughnasa, 34, 95, 104–6, 133, 296; alternative forms, 105; celebrations, 105; Christianization of, 106; dates of, 105–6; Feast of Lughnasa, The, 105
Lugnasad, 105
Lugos, Lugus, xxvii, 34, 47, 104, 139
Lug(u) dunum, 34, 104
lunar calendar, see calendar
Lúnasa, see Lughnasa
Lunasduinn, 105
Lupercalia, 101
Luzel, François Marie, xxv
Lydney Park, 36, 138
Lyon, 34, 43, 104
Mab, Queen, 88
Mabinogi, xxiii, 9, 18, 21–2, 35, 38, 46, 66, 71, 76, 79–80, 119, 120, 262, 263, 266, 271–83, 284, 303; critique of, 271; preferred to spelling Mabinogion, 264; summarized, 271–83; texts included in, 264; themes of, 271; title, significance, 264, 271; see also branches: Branwen, Manawydan, Math, Pwyll
Mabinogion, Lady Guest’s, xxiv, xxvi, 264, 267, 299; bogus etymology of, 264
Mabon, 24, 35, 70, 262, 268, 269
mac –: family names with the lower case patronymic mac signal that the figure is alphabetized under the given name, e.g. Fionn mac Cumhaill
MacAlpin, Kenneth, 286
Mac an Lúin, 226
MacCana, Proinsias, 66, 90–91, 115–16, 271
Mac Cécht (of Tuatha Dé Danann), 10, 147
Mac Cécht (ally of Conaire Mór), 162
McCone, Kim, xxviii
Mac Da Thó, 174–6, 177
MacDonell, Margaret, 291
MacGregor, James, xxiv
Mac Gréine, 8, 147
Macha (general), 32, 45, 140; parentage of, 83–5, 173; triad, identifying, 85, 173
Macha (Ulster queen), 85, 173
Macha (Nemedian queen), 85, 132, 173
Macha (wife of Crunniuc), 21, 32, 45, 83–5, 172–4; cursing with birth pangs, 85, 173–4, 202, 204, 206; parentage of, 85, 173
Mac Cuill, 62, 147
Mac Glass, 252
Macgnímartha Find, 224–5
Mac-ind-Óc, 35
MacKenzie, Kenneth, 289
MacKinnon, Clan, 18
MacMathúna, Séamus, 110–12
MacNeil, Joe Neil, 292
MacNeill, Eoin, 50–51, 52, 54, 98
MacNeill, Máire, 95, 105–6
Mac Óc, 35
Macpherson, James, xii, xiii, xxiv, 20, 219–20, 229, 232, 288, 299
Macsen Wledig, xxvii, 298
Mad Sweeney, see Suibne, Suibhne
‘Madness of King Goll, The’, 250
Máel Dúin, 112–13, 122
Máel Fhothartaig, 250–52
Máel Sechnaill, 55
Maelgwn Gwynedd, 266, 267
Mag Cruchna, 213
Mag Dá Chéo, 124
Mag Ítha, 148
Mag Mell, 124, 149, 213
Mag Muirtheimne, 153, 192, 193, 195, 212, 217, 256
Mag nAilbe, 176
Mag nElta (Moynalty), 131
Mag Rath, Battle of, 245, 247, 248
Mag Slécht, 98
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