A Celtic Miscellany: A Selection of Classic Celtic Literature

A Celtic Miscellany Preface – Maps: – (i) Ireland – (ii) Wales – Hero-Tale and Adventure – Note – 1. How Cú Chulainn Got His Name – 2. Cú Chulainn and the Charioteer – 3. The Killing of Edarcomhol – 4. Cú Chulainn’s Meeting with Findabhair – 5. Ceithern’s Blood-transfusion and Death – 6. Cú Chulainn in the Valley of the Deaf – 7. The Story of Deirdre – 8. The Death of Conchobhar – 9. How Celtchar Killed the “Brown Mouse” – 10. How Cobhthach Contrived his Brother’s Death – 11. The Recognition of Ulysses – Nature – Note – 12. May-time – 13. The Coming of Winter – 14. Winter Cold – 15. Winter – 16. The Four Seasons – 17. A Storm at Sea – 18. The Hermit’s Hut – 19. Arran – 20. The Hill of Howth – 21. Deirdre Remembers a Scottish Glen – 22. The Ivied Tree-Top – 23. Suibhne the Wild Man in the Forest – 24. Suibhne Praises the Garbh – 25. To May and January – 26. The Birch-wood Bower – 27. The Snow – 28. The Mist – 29. The Stars – 30. The Burial of the Poet, Dead for Love – 31. The Poet’s Arbour in the Birch-wood – 32. To a Birch-tree Cut Down, and Set Up in the Llanidloes for a Maypole – 33. The Mansion of the Woods – 34. To the Sun – 35. To the New Moon – 36. To the Moon – 37. The Mountain Stream – 38. Winter and Summer – Love – Note – 39. The Dream of Oenghus – 40. How Trystan Won Esylt – 41. Secret Love – 42. The Jealous Husband – 43. The Seagull – 44. In Defence of Women – 45. To Her Hair – 46. Reconciliation – 47. The Lover’s Doubts – 48. Do Not Torment Me, Woman – 49. The Hidden Love – 50. Take Those Lips Away – 51. Trust No Man – 52. Happy for You, Blind Man! – 53. Hate Goes Just as Far as Love – 54. The Blackthorn Pin – 55. The Indifferent Mistress – 56. Parted Lovers – 57. The Message of the Eyes – 58. She’s the White Flower of the Blackberry – 59. How Glad Are the Small Birds – 60. Young Lad of the Braided Hair – 61. At the Fiddlers’ – 62. He Whose Hand and Eye Are Gentle – 63. The Black-haired Lad – 64. The Laundress’s Sweetheart – 65. Mary, My Darling – 66. Kate of Garnavilla – 67. The Ballad of Marivonnik – 68. Fhir a’ Bhàta – 69. The Slender Lad – Epigram – Note – 70. The Wayside Fountain – 71. The Blackbird’s Song – 72. The Hermit Blackbird – 73. The Spring – 74. Heather Flowers – 75. Mountain Lakes – 76. Sliabh gCua – 77. Merioneth – 78. The Pole Star – 79. Night – 80. Night and Morning – 81. The Wind – 82. The Storm – 83. Thick Snow – 84. The Snowfall – 85. Flood-tide – 86. Autumn – 87. Winter Has Come – 88. Women’s Tongues – 89. Women’s Hats – 90. The Proud Lady – 91. The Twig and the Root – 92. Love Gives Wings – 93. Her Light Step – 94. Like the Birch-tree – 95. Lovelier than the Sun – 96. Red and White Roses – 97. Promiscuity – 98. Dream and Reality – 99. The End of the Day – 100. The Boorish Patron – 101. Finn’s Generosity – 102. Weariness of Body and Weariness of Spirit – 103. How Happy Are the Wild Birds – 104. Quando Ver Venit Meum? – 105. Sorrow – 106. Woe Is Me that I Ever Was Born – 107. Old Age Comes not Alone – 108. Old Age and Death – 109. Life’s Uncertainty – 110. Thoughts of Death – 111. Stealthy Death – 112. Not Divided in Death – 113. On the Tomb – 114. The Lover’s Grave – 115. For a Grave at Trawsfynydd – 116. Epitaph on a Little Girl – 117. Everyman’s Epitaph – 118. On Two Shipwrecked Sailors – 119. The Praises of God – 120. Christ Before Pilate – 121. A Vain Pilgrimage – 122. The Monk’s Mistress – 123. On Mael Mhuru the Poet – 124. Dinas Bran – 125. Imperial Caesar Dead and Turned to Clay – 126. The Court of Ifor Hael – “Celtic Magic” – Note – 127. The Adventure of Conle – 128. The Story of Lludd and Llefelys – 129. Ruadh in the Land Under the Wave – 130. The Creation of Blodeuwedd – 131. The Magic Gaming-board – 132. From The Voyage of Mael Dúin – 133. The Magic Pigs of Cruachu – 134. The Black and White Sheep and the Blazing Tree – 135. From The Voyage of the Uí Chorra – 136. The Three Werewolves from the Cave of Cruacha – 137. How the Fenians Found the Fairy Hill – 138. The Air Ship – 139. The Burial of the Priest’s Concubine – 140. Drowned Giantesses – Description – Note – 141. Froech in the Dark Pool – 142. Froech and the Fairy Women – 143. Midhir’s Invitation to the Earthly Paradise – 144. The Islands of the Earthly Paradise – 145. The Arrival at the Earthly Paradise – 146. Morning Sun – 147. Sunshine Through the Window – 148. The Mowers – 149. The White Lake of Carra – 150. Iubhdhán’s Fairy House – 151. Uncomfortable Lodgings – 152. The Cliff of Alternan – 153. Édaín the Fairy – 154. Olwen – 155. Gruffudd ap Cynan’s Wife – 156. The Reign of Gruffudd ap Cynan – 157. From The Misty Corrie – 158. From The Song of Summer – 159. You Are Whiter than the Swan – 160. At the Battle of Magh Mucraimhe – 161. The Battle of Ventry – 162. The Monster of Scattery Island – 163. St. Brendan’s Vision of Hell – 164. The Homeward Voyage – 165. The Troublesome Gillie – Humour and Satire – Note – 166. A Cursed Undutiful Son-in-law – 167. Bricriu’s Practical Joke – 168. Culhwch’s Arrival at the Court of King Arthur – 169. Some of King Arthur’s Wonderful Men – 170. “Eating a Mouse Includes Its Tail” – 171. The Guest House at the Monastery of Cork – 172. The Elders of the End of the World – 173. From the Early Welsh Laws – 174. The Vanity of Women – 175. The Girls of Llanbadarn – 176. A Night at an Inn – 177. The Magpie’s Advice – 178. The Poet and the Grey Friar – 179. My Purse, Gramercy to You for This! – 180. Welsh Harper and English Bagpiper – 181. The Letter of O’Neill to Sir John McCoughleyn – 182. “Civil Irish” and “Wild Irish” – 183. The Student’s Life – 184. A Smart Young Woman – 185. The Midwives and the Father – 186. Where Are You Going to, my Pretty Maid? – 187. Egan O’Rahilly and the Minister – 188. On the Murder of David Gleeson, Bailiff – Bardic Poetry – Note – 189. Elegy on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd – 190. The Battle of Tal Moelfre – 191. The Killing of Hywel ab Owein – 192. Maguire and MacDermot – 193. The Fertile Lands of Cathal Ó Conchobhair – 194. Prosperity in the Time of Tadhg Ó Conchobhair – 195. The Praise of Fermanagh – 196. The Harp of Cnoc Í Chosgair – 197. From the Lament for the Four Macdonalds – 198. To the Earl of Argyll before the Battle of Flodden – 199. Who Will Buy a Poem? – 200. On the Death of William Gould – 201. To Arouse the Gael in Support of Prince Charles – Elegy – Note – 202. From the Gododdin – 203. From the Elegy on Cynddylan – 204. Eimher’s Keen over Cú Chulainn – 205. The Wild Man of the Woods – 206. The Wild Man’s Life – 207. The Wild Man Comes to the Monastery – 208. Deirdre’s Farewell to Scotland – 209. Elegy on Druim nDen – 210. Senility – 211. Elegy on Gruffydd ab Addaf ap Dafydd – 212. The Vision – 213. The Unquiet Grave – 214. Ty’n y Coed – 215. Longing – 216. The Braes of Glen Broom – 217. Elegy on the Ruins of Timoleague Abbey – 218. Lament for Reilly – 219. Elegy for His Daughter Ellen – 220. The Death of Màiri – 221. The Lament for Art O’Leary – Religion – Note – 222. St. Columba’s Island Heritage – 223. The Wish of Manchán of Liath – 224. The Hermit – 225. St. Brendan and the Harper – 226. St. Ide’s Wish – 227. I Should Like to Have a Great Ale-Feast – 228. The Little Boys Who Went to Heaven – 229. A Ghost Story – 230. The Resurrection of Bresal Son of Diarmaid – 231. From The Vision of Adhamhnán – 232. The Tree of Life – 233. How St. Scoithin Got His Name – 234. St. Mael Anfaidh and the Bird’s Lament for St. Mo Lua – 235. St. Columba’s Nettle Broth – 236. Mo Chua’s Riches – 237. Repentance before Death – 238. Damnation – 239. Christ’s Bounties – 240. The Murder of Abel – 241. St. Meriasek Arrives in Cornwall – 242. The Best and Worst Nail in the Ark – 243. A Prayer to the Virgin – 244. A Charm with Yarrow – Notes – Pronouncing Index of Names.