Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Polite literature and antiquitiesRoyal Irish Academy, 1879 - Antiquities |
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Page 17 - Speckled Book," otherwise styled, "The Great Book of Dun Doighre" : a Collection of Pieces in Irish and Latin, transcribed towards the close of the Fourteenth Century. "The oldest and best Irish MS. relating to Church History now preserved
Page 67 - Irish language, and one of the chief surviving native literary monuments — not ecclesiastical — of ancient Ireland ; now for the first time published, from the original in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, with account of the Manuscript, description of its contents, index, and facsimiles in colours.
Page 420 - Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir, Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers,' This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle.
Page 201 - LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRI. A Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, in the Irish Language, transcribed about...
Page 408 - The Book of Leinster is one of the most important of the fragments of Irish Literature that have come down to us. In addition to copies of the native prose historic accounts of the Tain Bo Cualnge.
Page 278 - Generally speaking, the men who have hitherto written on the affairs of India were a set of liars, — D eimachos holds the first place in the list, Megasthenes comes next ; while Onesikritos and Nearchos, with others of the same class, manage to stammer out a few words (of truth). Of this we became the more convinced whilst writing the history of Alexander. No faith whatever can be placed in Deimachos...
Page 202 - A Collection of Pieces in the Irish Language, compiled in part about the middle of the Twelfth Century. From the original MS. in Trinity College, Dublin.
Page 496 - Ballymote contains numerous articles of interest to the scholar and to the antiquary. The original portion consists of— Genealogical Lists ; Histories and Legends; a fragment of the Brehon Laws; a copy of the Dindsenchas ; Treatise on Grammatical Topics, etc.
Page 68 - The Book of Leinster, sometime called The Book of Glendalough : A collection of Pieces (prose and verse), in the Irish Language, compiled in part about the middle of the Twelfth Century...