Proceedings of the Royal Irish AcademyRoyal Irish Academy, 1893 - Science Includes also Minutes of [the] Proceedings, and Report of [the] President and Council for the year (beginning 1965/66 called Annual report). |
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Page 617 - AD noo; the oldest volume now known entirely in the 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. In folio, on toned paper, half.calf.
Page 617 - 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 617 - 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 617 - 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 371 - Scharff2, from a study of the freshwater fishes and molluscs, is of opinion that " Ireland was in later Tertiary times connected with Wales in the south and Scotland in the north ; whilst a freshwater lake occupied the present central area of the Irish Sea. The southern connection broke down at the beginning of the Plistocene period, the northern connection following soon after. There is no evidence of any subsequent land-connection between Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 438 - AD 636. MAOLCETHAIR,' son of Roñan, son of the king of Uladh, of Gill Melchedair, near the shore of the sea to the west of Brandon Hill." He was of the race of Fiatach Finn, monarch of Erin.
Page 297 - The throne was formed of solid gold, incrusted over with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. Two peacocks stood upon it with their tails expanded, which were studded with various jewels to represent the life. Between the peacocks stood a parrot, of the ordinary size, cut out of one emerald. There were also two nosegays, consisting of various sorts of flowers, all of beaten gold enamelled. The twelve columns that upheld the canopy were set round by rows of pearl ; and at each side of the throne...
Page 617 - Language, in part compiled at the end of the Fourteenth Century ; now for the first time published from the original Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, by the Royal Irish Academy.
Page 126 - tall and slender, of a whitely complexion, of a flaxen and smooth hair, of behaviour mild and temperate, of speech good and deliberate, greatly reverenced not only by his own men, but generally of all the whole company.
Page 617 - Roxburghe, cloth sides. £6, 6s. (200 copies only printed.) DELBOS (L.). NAUTICAL TERMS IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH AND FRENCH AND ENGLISH. With Notes and Tables. For the use of Naval Officers and Naval Cadets. By Leon Delbos, MA, of HMS Britannia, Dartmouth. 4th Edition, thoroughly revised and...