Myths and Legends of the Celts (Penguin Reference) (67 page)

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