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Homer, 100.
Honau, 10.
Honorius of Canterbury, 219, 241.
Horace, oldest manuscript
hand, 75, 124.
Index
in Irish
Howell, James, Familiar Letters,
quoted, 332.
Huber, cited, 275.
Howorth, Golden Days of
the En-
glish Church, quoted, 206, 224, 264.
Iceland, discovered by Irish, 10 ;
in, 17, 18; Cormac in, 143, 189.
Ichtian Sea, 176.
Irish
Iliad, 119.
In Pisonem of Cicero, in Irish, 75.
In te Christe, 148.
Ina, dooms of, 304, 184, 188.
"Indarba mna n Dese," 174.
Inis Eoghain, king of, 308.
Inisboffin, 236, 237.
Iniscathy, 220.
Ingelborne, 250.
Ingethlingum, 226.
lona, 3, 21, 54; Columcille at, 126;
cause of Columcille's exile to, 127,
129; established, 130; Columcille
and brethren at, 131-156; guests at,
134; almsgiving at, 134; ritual and
ceremonial at, 134-136; authority
of abbot at, 136; literary work and
other occupations at, 136-140;
drought at, note, 137 ; last scene at,
145-158; Adamnan at, 149-154;
successors of Columcille at, 154;
decline of, 154-155 ; burial place of
kings of Scotland, 155, 182, 187;
Saxons at, 201, 207, 209; Oswald
at, 214; Easter in, 263.
Ir, descendants of, 161.
Ireland, home of Western learning,
1-4.
Ireland, schools of, 3-4; literary output
in, 4; beginning of Christianity
in, 7-8; claim to great past, 12;
ark of safety for the old wisdom,
27-31; not included in ruin of
I
351
Hume, 320.
Hutton, Finding of the Tain, quoted,
33; Writing of the Tain, quoted,
35, 168.
Hy, island of, 130.
Hy Fiachrach, 66.
Hy Niall, 142.
Hyde, Literary History of Ireland,
42, 79, 126, 145, 162; MacTernan
Prise Essays, cited, 65.
Roman civilization, 28, ff ; peace
and prosperity in, 29, ff ; beginning
of Gaelic monarchy in, 29; Celtic
invasions of, 29; Milesian dynasty
in, 29-30; culture in, before St.
Patrick, 30; Christians in, before
St. Patrick, 31 ; educational pro-
ficiency of, 31-35; universities in,
after introduction of Christianity,
32; intellectual leader of Christendom,
52-55 ; foreign students and
visitors in, 53-55; Anglo-Saxon
students in, 55-57; foreign students
in, to twelfth century, 59-61 ;
professional and lay educa-
tion in, 62-65; secular schools in,
proof of existence, 63-64; secular
education in, reorganized, 66; cultivation
of philosophy in, 69; En-
glish destruction in, 74-75; high
culture of a living reality, 73-76;
establishment of Gaelic kingdom
in, 84; medieval, military strength
and wealth of, 84-87; emigration
of Norman French and
Flemish to, 85-86; English
slaves in, 87-88; not isolated
from Europe, 88-90; Romans
in, 89; luxurious civilization
in, 90-91 ; abundance of gold
in, 91-94; Danes in, 93-94;
Christian, pagan spirit in, 96-98;
home of liberal arts, 104; of the
sixth century, 104-110; sense of
freedom in, 109; always civilization
in, no; ancient pagan and medieval