Published in 1924, the book is a study of the Irish-language poets who kept a native learned culture alive across Cork, Kerry, and Limerick through the eighteenth century, long after the formal Bardic schools of medieval Ireland had been destroyed. Corkery called this world hidden for a precise reason.
When people imagine early Irish law, they usually picture the brithem — the brehon — weighing evidence and handing down a careful judgement based on precedent. That's true enough for…
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The Fianna, revered as warrior-hunter-poets in Gaelic Ireland, were a unique group of individuals who embraced a life of adventure, valour, and song. Roaming the lands of Ireland, they hunted…