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Bridging<br />

the Old World and the New<br />

Foirceadlaidhe, Sair Canoine, and Drumcli. The High<br />

Professor was also called an Ollamh (Ollave), which represented<br />

the highest degree in every profession or branch<br />

of learning. There were degrees conferred in the pro-<br />

fessional and lay schools which will be mentioned later,<br />

and degrees which represented other distinctions, all of<br />

which are described in the Brehon law treatises; but<br />

these may be taken as representative. 1<br />

i Brehon Laws, Vol. IV, Sequel of the Crith Gablach; pp. 357-9; V, Small<br />

Primer; Cormac's Glossary, pp. 5, 6, 34, 53; Keating', History, pp. 446, 454.<br />

Se also Healy, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars, p. 596, seq.; Joyce,<br />

Social Hist. I, Chap. XI (Learning and Education) pp. 396-471; Richey, Short<br />

Hist, p. 83; Cambrensis Eversus, 277 seq.; O'Curry, Man. and Customs, I,<br />

79-83.

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