Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commerce; Manners, Customs, and Domestic Life, of the Ancient Irish People
P. W. Joyce
1906
Frontispiece to the Epistle of St. Jerome in the Book of Durrow. Specimen of ancient Irish penwork (From Miss Stoke's Early Christian Art in Ireland).
CONTENTS
Sculpture on a Column, Church of the Monastery, Glendalough (From Petrie's Round Towers)
PART I.
GOVERNMENT, MILITARY SYSTEM, AND LAW
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
GOVERNMENT BY KINGS Section 1. Territorial Subdivision 2. Classes of Kings 3. Election and Inauguration 4. Revenue and Authority 5. Privileges 6. Limitations and Restrictions 7. Household, Retinue, and Court Officers 8. The Over-Kings CHAPTER III.
WARFARE Section 1. Foreign Conquests and Colonisations 2. Military Ranks, Orders, and Services 3. Arms, Offensive and Defensive 4. Strategy, Tactics, and Modes of Fighting CHAPTER IV.
THE BREHON LAWS Section 1. The Brehons 2. The Senchus Mor and Other Books of Law 3. Suitability of the Brehon Laws 4. Structure of Society 5. The Laws relating to Land 6. The Administration of Justice
PART II.
RELIGION, LEARNING, AND ART
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
LEARNING AND EDUCATION Section 1. Learning in Pagan Times: Ogham 2. Monastic Schools 3. Lay Schools 4. Some General Features of both Classes of Schools 5. The Men of Learning 6. Honours and Rewards for Learning 7. The Knowledge of Science CHAPTER VIII.
IRISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Section 1. Divisions and Dialects of Celtic 2. Writing, and Writing Materials 3. Ancient Libraries 4. Existing Books 5. Irish Poetry and Prosody CHAPTER IX.
ECCLESIASTICAL AND RELIGIOUS WRITINGS
CHAPTER X.
ANNALS, HISTORIES, AND GENEALOGIES Section 1. How the Annals were compiled 2. Tests of Accuracy 3. Principal Books of the Annals 4. Histories: Genealogies: Dinnsenchus CHAPTER XI.
HISTORICAL AND ROMANTIC TALES Section 1. Classes, Lists, and Numbers 2. Chronological Cycles of the Tales 3. General Character of the Tales 4. Story-Telling and Recitation CHAPTER XII.
ART Section 1. Penwork and Illumination 2. Gold, Silver, and Enamel, as Working Materials 3. Artistic Metal Work 4. Stone Carving CHAPTER XIII.
MUSIC Section 1. History 2. Musical Instruments 3. Characteristics, Classes, Styles 4. Modern Collections of Ancient Irish Music CHAPTER XIV.
MEDICINE AND MEDICAL DOCTORS Section 1. Medical Doctors 2. Medical Manuscripts 3. Diseases 4. Treatment
PART III.
SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE.
CHAPTER XV.
THE FAMILY Section 1. Marriage 2. Position of Women and Children 3. Fosterage 4. Family Names CHAPTER XVI.
THE HOUSE Section 1. Construction, Shape, and Size 2. Interior Arrangements and Sleeping Accommodation 3. Outer Premises and Defence 4. Domestic Vessels 5. Royal Residences CHAPTER XVII.
FOOD, FUEL, AND LIGHT: PUBLIC HOSTELS Section 1. Meals in General 2. Drink 3. Cooking 4. Flesh Meat and Its Accompaniments 5. Milk and Its Products 6. Corn and Its Preparation 7. Honey 8. Vegetables and Fruit 9. Fuel and Light 10. Free Public Hostels CHAPTER XVIII.
DRESS AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT Section 1. The Person and the Toilet 2. Dress 3. Personal Ornaments 4. Rough Classified List of the Gold Objects in the National Museum, Dublin CHAPTER XIX.
AGRICULTURE AND PASTURAGE Section 1. Fences 2. Land, Crops, and Tillage 3. Some Farm Animals 4. Herding, Grazing, Milking CHAPTER XX.
WORKERS IN WOOD, METAL, AND STONE Section 1. Chief Materials 2. Builders 3. Brasiers and Founders 4. The Blacksmith and His Forge 5. Carpenters, Masons, and Other Craftsmen 6. Protection of Crafts and Social Position of Craftsmen CHAPTER XXI.
CORN MILLS AND QUERNS Section 1. Mills 2. Querns and Grain Rubbers CHAPTER XXII.
TRADES AND INDUSTRIES CONNECTED WITH CLOTHING Section 1. Wool and Woollen Fabrics 2. Flax and Its Preparation 3. Dyeing 4. Sewing and Embroidery 5. Tanning and Tanned Leather CHAPTER XXIII.
MEASURES, WEIGHTS, AND MEDIUMS OF EXCHANGE Section 1. Length and Area 2. Capacity 3. Weight 4. Standards of Value and Mediums of Exchange 5. Time CHAPTER XXIV.
LOCOMOTION AND COMMERCE Section 1. Roads, Bridges, and Causeways 2. Chariots and Cars 3. Horse-Riding 4. Communication by Water 5. Foreign Commerce CHAPTER XXV.
PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES, SPORTS, AND PASTIMES Section 1. The Great Conventions and Fairs 2. The Fair of Carman 3. General Regulations for Meetings 4. Some Animals connected with Hunting and Sport 5. Races 6. Chase and Capture of Wild Animals 7. Caman or Hurling, and Other Athletic Games 8. Chess 9. Jesters, Jugglers, and Gleemen CHAPTER XXVI.
VARIOUS SOCIAL CUSTOMS AND OBSERVANCES Section 1. Salutation 2. Pledging, Lending, and Borrowing 3. Provision for Old Age and Destitution 4. Love of Nature and of Natural Beauty 5. Something further about Animals 6. Animals as Pets 7. The Cardinal Points 8. The Wind 9. The Sea 10. Bishop Ultan and the Orphans CHAPTER XXVII.
DEATH AND BURIAL Section 1. Wills 2. Funeral Obsequies 3. Modes of Burial 4. Cemeteries 5. Sepulchral Monuments
