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Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Aarne, Antti
Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
Aeschylus, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1; Agamemnon, 11.2, 11.3; Oresteia, 4.1, 11.4; Prometheus Bound, 5.2, 8.1, 9.3
Agostini, René
agriculture, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1; crops, 6.2; 1849s crop failure, 1.2; land tenure, 2.2, 2.3
Alexiou, Margaret, 4.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1n
Alleyn, Edward
Allgood, Molly
Almqvist, Bo, 2.1, 2.2, nts.1n, nts.2n
An Blascaod Mór, see Great Blasket Island
an Chota, Sean, see Ó Caomhánaigh, Seán
An Cill, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1n
An Claidheamh Soluis
An Dáil
Anglicization, 1.1, 6.1
Anglo-Irish War, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1
An Gúm, 7.1, 7.2
animals, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1, 10.1
An Lóchrann
An Phoblacht
An Seabhac, see Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig
An Traigh Bhan
Ar Aghaidh
Aran Islands, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 5.1, 14.1; John Synge’s visits to, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 14.2
Arbois de Jubainville, H. d’
Arduni, Kathleen, 9.1, 13.1
Aristophanes, Clouds
Atlantic Ocean, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1
Aughrim, Battle of
Austen, Jane
Australia, 5.1, 8.1
Austria
Bachtin, Nicholas
Ballyferriter, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 6.1, 6.2
Bancroft, H. H., Native Races of the Pacific States
Barrington, Richard M.
Barrington, Thomas
Beckett, Samuel
Beginish, 4.1, 4.2
Belfast, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1
Belgium
Bell, Idris, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
Bergin, Osborn, 2.1, 6.1
Berlin, 1.1, 3.1
Best, Richard Irvine, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, nts.1n
Bible, 10.1, 13.1
Binchy, Daniel, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 14.1, nts.1n
birds, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1
Birmingham, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
birth, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1; illegitimate, 8.1, 9.2, nts.1n
Biuso, Tom, 13.1, 13.2
Black and Tans, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1
Black Head
Blasket Centre, prl.1, 14.1
Blasket Library
Blasket Roots, American Dreams (documentary),
Blaskets, see Great Blasket; Lesser Blaskets
Blasket Sound, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1
Blythe, Ernest, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
boats, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1; famine ships, 5.1; modern, 14.1; naomhógs, 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 5.2, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.2, 14.3; shipwrecks, 6.5; U-boat sinkings, 6.6
Boccaccio, Decameron
Bolshevism
Book of Common Prayer, 9.1, 10.1
Boston, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2
Boyd, Ernest
Boyd, Valerie, Wrapped in Rainbows
Boyne, Battle of the
Breathnach, Mícheál
Breton
Briffault, Robert, The Mothers
British Communist Party
British Museum, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Brittany, 2.1, 7.1
Browne, Paddy, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 8.2, nts.1n
Bugge, Sophus
cabbage
Cahillane, Sean
Cahircaveen
Cambridge University, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1
Cambridge University Press
Canada, 5.1, 6.1
Capitol Theatre, Dublin, 5.1, nts.1n
Carraroe, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
cartoons, 10.1, 10.2
Casement, Roger
Catholic Bulletin
Catholicism, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, nts.1n; and Catholic-Protestant divide, 1.4, 1.5
celebrity and publicity, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1
Celts, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; mythology, 6.1
Chamberlain, Neville, 12.1, nts.1n
Chambers, George, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, nts.1n, nts.2n; Great Blasket visits, 10.6; The Lovely Line and Other Verses, 12.5; “The Song of the Island Girl (Eilish)”, 12.6
Chatto & Windus
children, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1; declining population, 12.2; illegitimate, 8.1, 9.4, nts.1n; school, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
China, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; communist, 13.1
Christianity, Ireland’s conversion to
Christmas, 4.1, 5.1, 14.1
Cicero, prl.1, 4.1
Civil Guard, 5.1, 5.2, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Civil War, prl.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2
Cladach an Chapair
Clemens, Sister Mary, see Kearney, Mary
Clogher Head
clothing, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1; Anglicization of, 6.2
Cobh, see Queenstown
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, Michael, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Common Celtic
communism, prl.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1
Congested District Board, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1
Connecticut
Connemara, 1.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4; Irish, 1.2, 2.1
Corca Dhuibhne
Cork, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1
Cork, Earl of
Cornford, F. M.
Corrib Lodge, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 11.1
Croatia
Cuas Fhaill Beag
Curtin, Jeremiah, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Czechoslovakia
Daíl
Daly, Joe
Daly, Maurice
dance, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1
Danish
Dante, 9.1, 10.1
death, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
de Brún, Pádraig, see Browne, Paddy
Delargy, Séamus, 14.1, 14.2
de Mordha, Mícheál
de Valera, Éamon, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 12.1
Dickens, Charles
Dingle, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1
Dingle Bay
Dingle Fair
domestic servants
Donegal, 1.1; Irish, 1.2, 2.1
donkeys, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2
Donne, John
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
driftwood, 6.1, 12.1
drowning, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1
Dublin, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1, 9.
1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1; Easter Rising, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 5.4, 8.2; population, 5.5; train for, 5.6
Dublin Magazine, The
Dublin Opinion, cover of, 10.1, 10.2
Dublin University Gaelic Society
Dulwich College, prl.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Dún Chaoin, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
Dunlevy, Méiní, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2
Dunlevy, Seán
Dylan, Bob, “Bob Dylan’s Dream”
Early English Text Society
Easter Rising, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1
economy, 12.1, 14.1
Ediphone, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1
Edison, Thomas
Eire, see Ireland
electricity, lack of, prl.1, 14.1
emigration, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3; final, 12.2; medical examination, 8.3; process, 8.4; returned émigrés from America, 6.6, 10.2
England, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1; Anglicization of Ireland, 1.2, 6.1; Anglo-Irish War, prl.4, 3.1, 4.2; colonialism, 1.3, 4.3; Ireland ruled by, 1.4, 1.5, 3.2, 4.4, 11.1; revenue agents, 1.6; War of Independence, prl.5, 3.3, 4.5; World War I, 3.4; World War II, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
English, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2; An Béal Bocht translation, 10.1; influence on local Irish dialect, 6.3, 14.1; The Islandman translation, 7.1, 14.2; Twenty Years A-Growing translation, 9.1, 10.2, 14.3
Enright, Tim, 7.1, 9.1
Études celtiques
Euripides, prl.1, 4.1, 9.1
fadas (accent marks)
Fáinne an Lae
fairy music
Famine, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2
Feasta
Feiritéar, Breandán, 12.1, 13.1
feis
Ferriter, Pierce, 2.1, 9.1
Fianna Fail
Fianna myths
fiddle, 4.1, 5.1, 10.1
films, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, nts.1n
fishing, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2; modern, 14.3
Fitz Gerald, Joan
Flaherty, Robert, Men of Aran
Flower, Barbara, 6.1, 6.2
Flower, Ida, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1
Flower, Jean, 6.1, 12.1