estern Gael and other Poems," Dublin, 1897; "The Red Branch Crests,
A Trilogy," by Charles Leonard Moore, London, 1906; "The Laughter of
Scathach," by Fiona Macleod, in "The Washer of the Ford and Barbaric
Tales"; Hector Maclean, "Ultonian Hero-Ballads collected in the Highlands
and Western Isles of Scotland," Glasgow, 1892; ballad versions from
Scotland are found in Leabhar na Feinne, pages 1 and fol., in J.G.
Campbell's "The Fians," pages 6 and fol., and in the Book of the Dean
of Lismore.

Finally, scenes from the Tain have been dramatized by Canon Peter O'Leary,
in the Cork "Weekly Examiner," April 14, 1900 and fol., by Sir Samuel
Ferguson, "The Naming of Cuchulain: A Dramatic Scene," first played in
Belfast, March 9, 1910; in "The Triumph of Maeve," A Romance in dramatic
form, 1906; "Cuchulain," etc., (A Cycle of Plays, by S. and J. Varian,
Dublin), and in "The Boy-Deeds of Cuchulain," A Pageant in three Acts,
performed in Dublin in 1909.

[1] "L'histoire entiere de l'Irlande est une enigme si on n'a pas sans
cesse a l'esprit ce fait primordial que le climat humide de l'ile est
tout a fait contraire a la culture des cereales, mais en revanche
eminemment favorable a l'elevage du betail, surtout de la race bovine,
car le climat est encore trop humide pour l'espece ovine." F. Lot, in
_La Grande Encyclopedie_, xx, 956.

[2] As it is to this day in some parts of Ireland, and as for example
a female slave was sometimes appraised at three head of cattle among
the ancient Gaels.

[3] In fact the Clan Mackay was known as the Clan of the creaghs, and
their perpetuation was enjoined on the rising generation from the
cradle; See _The Old Highlands_, vol. III., p. 338, Glasgow.

[4] Pronounced approximately _Thawin' bow Hooln'ya_.

[5] _Revue Celtique_, 1895, tome xvi. pp. 405-406; _Rerum Hibernicarum
Scriptores_, ii. 14.

[6] _Mors Conchulaind fortissimi herois Scottorum la Lugaid mac tri
con, i. ri Muman, agus la Ercc, i. ri Temrach, mac Coirpri Niad fir,
agus la tri maccu Calattin de Chonnachtaib; vii. mbliadna a aes intan
rogab gaisced. xvii. mbliadna dano a aes intan mboi indegaid Tana Bo
Cualnge. xxvii. bliadna immorro a aes intan atbath. Revue Celtique,_
tome xvi. page 407.

[7] Ridgeway.

[8] See H. d'Arbois de Jubainville, _Essai d'un catalogue de la
litterature epique de l'Irlande_, Paris, 1883, pages 214-216, a