Medieval Gaelic Sources"Gaelic language sources for medieval and early modern Irish history were the product of the bardic schools in history, poetry, law and medicine. Comprising annals, genealogies, poems, prose tracts and sagas, legal and medical material, colophons and marginalia, they have long been more familiar to Celticists than historians, apart from the editions of the Irish annals." "This book provides a practical guide for those interested in researching Gaelic Ireland who would like to glean usable historical information from such texts, and lays emphasis on works for which translated editions are available. It discusses the purposes for which they were originally created, their survival and accessibility in print and on the internet, and, above all, how to make use of them as historical sources. It is intended as an aid to those beginning postgraduate research, and for all interested in investigating Irish family or local history in the medieval and Tudor period." --Book Jacket. |
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ancestor Aodh Aodha bardic poems bardic poetry Book of Fenagh Book of Leinster Breatnach brehon brehon law Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh Celtic century chief chieftains Chronicle Church Clann Clonmacnoise compiled Conchobhair copy Donnchadh Dublin dynasty Early Irish early modern Early Modern Irish edited English translation Ériu example Fenagh fifteenth-century Four Masters Gearóid high-kings historians historical idem Irish annals Irish law Irish text Katharine Simms king of Connacht late later medieval Latin Leabhar Library Mac Firbhisigh Mac Niocaill Mac Suibhne Máire Maynooth medieval Ireland medieval Irish middle ages Middle Irish Mór Munster names Nollaig Ó Muraíle Ó Briain Ó Cianáin Ó Cléirigh Ó Cuív Ó Domhnaill Ó Muraíle Ó Néill O'Donovan Old Irish original patron pedigrees poet prose Rawlinson records Ruadh sagas saints scholars scribes Seaán seanchaidh seventeenth-century sources surname Tadhg Táin Bó Cúailnge Tír Tír Conaill Toirdhealbhach tracts twelfth twelfth-century Uí Mhaine Uí Néill Ulster verse vols