A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities ... in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy: Animal materials and bronze. 1861Hodges, Smith & Company, 1862 - Archaeology |
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23 inches 9 gr Academy's Collection Annals antique Archæological armilla armlet attached bar of gold boss bracelets bronze brooch Carlow Celt centre Clare Find Clonmacnoise collar conical beads cups cylindrical Danes Dawson Collection Dean Dawson decorated diadem ditto Dublin edges embossed ends engraved enlarged EUGENE O'CURRY extremities fastened fibula figured and described fillet finger-ring flat foregoing found in Ireland Four Masters fragment gold articles gold plate golden gorgets grooved handle hollow hoop illustration inches in diameter inches in length inches long inches wide Irish gold Kilkenny lunula massive measures metal Mugain Museum naments narrow neck neck-torque orna ounces of gold oval penannular perfect plain plate of gold portion posterior disc present probably procured ring-money round Royal Irish Academy side silver Sirr slightly specimen Tara terminal thin plate tion torque Trinity College twisted unclosed ring Vallancey weighs 1 oz worn
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Page iii - The Alphabetical Hymn in praise of St. Brigid, attributed to St. Ultan, Bishop of Ardbreccan. 3. The Hymn of St. Cummain Fota. 4. The Hymn or Prayer of St. Mugint.
Page iii - Edited from a MS. in the British Museum, with Notes, by the REV. RICHARD BUTLER, AB, MRIA 2.
Page ii - The publication of these manuscripts will render many most important literary monuments accessible, not only for historical inquiry, but for the purposes of comparative philology. The production of twenty-one volumes, bearing upon Irish history, has been accomplished by the Irish Archaeological Society, founded in 1840, and the Celtic Society, established in 1845. The present Society has been formed by the union of these two bodies, under the name of the " Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society,"...
Page ii - Societies, two important volumes have been published. The Books of the Society are published solely for the use of its Subscribers, who are divided into two classes: Members, who pay three pounds admission, and one pound per annum; and Associates, who pay an annual subscription of one pound, without any entrance fee. The Fundamental Laws of the Society regulate the privileges of each class of Subscribers, who can also obtain the publications of the two former Societies, at the rates, and under the...
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Page ii - Irish language, many of which can be accurately translated and elucidated only by scholars who have been long engaged in investigating the Celtic remains of Ireland; and...
Page iii - Tract on Latin Declension, with examples explained in Irish. From a Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Together with the Lorica of Gildas, and the Middle Irish Gloss thereon, from the Leabhar Breac.
Page i - HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF LEINSTER. THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUESS OF KILDARE, MRIA THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN, MRIA THE RIGHT HON. LORD TALBOT DE MALAHIDE, MRIA . VERY REV. CHARLES W. RUSSELL, DD, President of Maynooth College.
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Page 97 - ... Romans. It was from one of these expeditions, say the annals, that he brought with him " the wonderful jewels, among which were a golden chariot, and a golden chess-board, inlaid with a hundred transparent gems, and the mantle of Criffan, which was a beautiful cloak, embroidered with gold. He brought a conquering sword, with many serpents of refined, massy gold inlaid in it; a shield, with bosses of bright silver; a spear, from the wound inflicted by which no one recovered; a sling, from which...