h Academy_, vol. ii. (London, 1907); A.
Nutt, _Cuchulin, the Irish Achilles_ (London, 1899); H. Zimmer,
"Keltische Beitrage" in _Zeitschrift f. deutsches Altertum_, vols. 32,
33 and 35, and "Uber den compilatorischen Charakter der irischen
Sagentexte in sogenannten Lebor na hUidre," Kuhn's _Zeitschr._ xxviii.
pp. 417-689. We cannot here enumerate the numerous heroic texts which
have been edited. For texts published before 1883 see d'Arbois's
_Catalogue_, and the same writer gives a complete list in _Revue
Celtique_, vol. xxiv. pp. 237 ff. The series of _Irische Texte_, vols.
i.-iv. (Leipzig, 1880-1901), by E. Windisch (vols. ii.-iv. in
conjunction with W. Stokes), contains a number of important texts.
Others, more particularly those belonging to the Ossianic cycle, are
to be found in S.H. O'Grady's _Silva Gadelica_ (2 vols. London, 1892).
See also R. Thurneysen, _Sagen aus dem alten Irland_ (Berlin, 1901);
P.W. Joyce, _Old Celtic Romances_ (London[2], 1901).
For the Ossianic cycle see H. Zimmer, "Keltische Beitrage III." in
vol. 35 of the _Zeitschr. f. deutsches Altertum_, also _Gottinger
Gelehrte Anzeigen_, 1887, pp. 153-199; A. Nutt, _Ossian and the
Ossianic Literature_ (London, 1899); L.C. Stern, "Die ossianischen
Heldenlieder," in _Zeitschr. f. vergleichende Litteraturgeschichte_
for 1895, trans. by J.L. Robertson in _Transactions of the Inverness
Gaelic Society_, vol. xxii.; J. MacNeill, _Duanaire Finn_ (London,
1908); _Book of the Dean of Lismore_, ed. by T. Maclauchlan
(Edinburgh, 1862), and in vol. i. of A. Cameron's _Reliquiae Celticae_
(Edinburgh, 1892); _Transactions of the Ossianic Society_ (6 vols.,
Dublin, 1854-1861); Miss Brooke, _Reliques of Ancient Irish Poetry_
(Dublin, 1789).
Keating's _History_ was translated by John O'Mahony (New York, 1866).
The first part was edited with Eng. trans. by W. Halliday
(Dublin,1811) and the whole work in 3 vols. for the Irish Texts
Society by D. Comyn and P. Dinneen (London, 1901-1908). Comparatively
few specimens have been published of the older bards. Several from a
Copenhagen MS. were printed by Stern in the _Zeitschr. f. celt. Phil._
vol. ii.; J. Hardiman, _Irish Minstrelsy_ (2 vols., Dublin, 1831);
J.C. Mangan, _The Poets and Poetry of Munster_ (Dublin^4, no date); G.
Sigerson, _The Bards of the Gael and Gall_ (Dublin, 1906). Editions of
the poems of Ferriter, Geoffrey O'Donoghue, O'Rahilly
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