Copies of thesebooks are now in all the principal libraries of Europe, so thatscholars everywhere have opportunities of studying them withoutcoming to Dublin and the opportunities have been turned toexcellent account. The Book of the DunCow, The Book of Leinster, The Speckled Book of MacEgan,The Book of Bally mote, and The Yellow Book of Lecan-which contain neaily all the important texts. The circumstance which gaVe, perhaps, the greatest stimulusof all to Celtic investigation was the publication in facsimileby the Royal Irish Academy, since 1870, of the most importantof the Dublin Gaelic manuscripts-viz.

[1865-1885 movement for the study of the language and antiquities ofIreland. George Petrie, who set at rest the question of the originof the Irish Round Towers, in his great work on the Ec-clesiastical Architecture of Ireland, and who, though nothimself a Gaehc scholar, was in fact the guiding spirit in the Todd, who edited the Iri.shRook of Hj-mns, the Wars of the Irish with the Danes,with transhxlion, and left several other important works andDr. Columba, a monument of exhaustiveaccurate learning the Rev. William Reeves, author of severalimportant woi-ks on Irish literature, among them his editionof Adamnans Life of St. Contemporary with ODonovan and OCurry were threeother scholars-the Rev. Eobert Atkinson, areon the eve of publication.What Zeuss did on theContinent these two greatscholars, ODonovan andOCurry, did in Ireland theyled the way in the properscientific method of investi-gating and illustrating thecontents of our ancient Gaelicmanuscripts, and laid the foundation of Gaelic scholarship athome. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-Ĭontributing Library: University of California LibrariesĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.ĭ, and twomore, under the editorshipof Dr. Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present dayĪuthors: Traill, H.

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