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The Book of Kells is an illustrated manuscript created by Irish monks circa.
The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th / early 12th century Lebor na hUidre which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the early 12th century Book of Leinster in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rawlinson manuscript B 502 ( Rawl.
* Merugud Uilix maicc Leirtis (" On the Wandering of Ulysses, son of Laertes ") is an eccentric Old Irish version of the material ; the work exists in a 12th-century AD manuscript that linguists believe is based on an 8th-century original.
A manuscript found at Bamberg states that Irish visitors to the court of Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad ( died 844 ), king of Gwynedd in Wales were given a cryptogram which could only be solved by transposing the letters from Latin into Greek.
There is another tradition, with some traction among Irish scholars, that suggests the manuscript was created for the 200th anniversary of the saint's death.
The Book of Leinster, a 12th century Irish manuscript, records the existence of geal-ruith ( triple jump ) contests at the ancient Tailteann Games.
The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia is the home of the handwritten manuscript of Ulysses and celebrates Bloomsday with a street festival including readings, Irish music, and traditional Irish cuisine provided by local Irish-themed pubs.
A rare facsimile of the Book of Kells is on public display in the library's Irish Room, and each day one page of the illuminated manuscript is turned.
Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan, progenitor of the Irish FitzGerald dynasty | Geraldines, from a manuscript of the Expugnatio Hibernica, an account of the 1169 invasion of Ireland written by Maurice's nephew, Gerald of Wales in 1189.
A 12th century Irish manuscript is found referenced in Fians, Fairies and Picts which equates the Fianna to fairies, but this is one of the few literary sources MacRitchie used as evidence, instead he turned to philology and comparative mythology.
Roughly contemporary with this is Lionel Winship's manuscript, dated 1833, which has been made available in facsimile on FARNE ; it contains copies of the Peacock tunes, together with Scottish, Irish, and ballroom dance tunes.
The Cathach is the oldest extant Irish manuscript of the Psalter and the earliest example of Irish writing.
The manuscript belongs to the category of Irish pocket Gospel Books, which were produced for private use rather than for church services.
Although the text and the script of the manuscript place it squarely in the tradition of the Irish Pocket Gospel, scholars have argued that the manuscript was produced in Scotland.
The Book of Armagh or Codex Ardmachanus ( ar or 61 ), also known as the Canon of Patrick and the Liber Ar ( d ) machanus, is a 9th-century Irish manuscript written mainly in Latin.
* notulae in Latin and Irish on St. Patrick's acts, and additamenta, charter-like documents later inserted into the manuscript
Includes Old Irish glosses from the manuscript.
The script forms strong links between the Lichfield manuscript and Northumbrian, Iona, and Irish manuscripts.

Irish and Yellow
* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
* August – Battle of the Yellow Ford: The Irish rebellion against English rule gains a victory.
* Sir William Cecil features prominently in Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy's play ' The O ' Neill ' ( 1969 ), in which Kilroy uses Cecil to challenge the myth surrounding Gaelic Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone just after the latter's victory over the English at The Yellow Ford.
The wars culminated in the Nine Years ' War ( Ireland ) in which the Irish displayed remarkable bravery, determination and prowess in their resistance, being able to defeat the English in many battles, most notably the battle of Clontibret in 1595, the battle of the Yellow Ford in 1598 and the battle of Curlew Pass in 1599.
* Irish Grand National – Yellow Girl II
They can house rare carpet flowers, such as Irish Lady's Tresses, orchids and Yellow Rattle, along with a diverse array of bird species including the Corn Crake, Twite, Dunlin, Common Redshank and Ringed Plover, as well as rare insects such as the northern colletes bee.
Imram Curaig Mailduin is preserved, in each case imperfectly, in the Lebor na hUidre, a manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin ; and in the Yellow Book of Lecan, MS. H. 216 in the Trinity College Library, Dublin ; fragments are in Harleian MS. 5280 and Egerton MS. 1782 in the British Museum.
Another Irish analogue is Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin, preserved in the 14th century Yellow Book of Lecan.

Irish and Book
William Bedell had undertaken an Irish translation of the Book of Common Prayer in 1606.
" Book Of Days " was featured prominently in the movie Far and Away, with an English-lyric version created for the film then replacing the old Irish language version on all pressings of the Shepherd Moons album from 1993 onwards.
Perhaps the most outstanding example of this genre is Leabhar na nGenealach / The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh ( d. 1671 ), published in 2004.
The revisionists would indicate passages apparently influenced by the Iliad in Táin Bó Cuailnge, and the existence of Togail Troí, an Irish adaptation of Dares Phrygius ' De excidio Troiae historia, found in the Book of Leinster, and note that the material culture of the stories is generally closer to the time of the stories ' composition than to the distant past.
* Rosalind Clark, The Great Queens: Irish Goddesses from the Morrígan to Cathleen Ní Houlihan ( Irish Literary Studies, Book 34 )
* November 27 – Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for offering reward money to informers.
In the early 1840s, Thackeray had some success with two travel books, The Paris Sketch Book and The Irish Sketch Book.
Scholarly associations & centers: the Children's Literature Association, the International Research Society for Children's Literature, the Library Association Youth Libraries Group, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators the Irish Society for the Study of Children's Literature, IBBY Canada and Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media ( CIRCL ), National Centre for Research in Children's Literature.
According to the 11th c. Lebor Gabála Érenn ( The Book of the Taking of Ireland ), the 14th c. Auraicept na n-Éces and other Irish folklore, the Irish originated in Scythia and were descendants of Fénius Farsaid, a Scythian prince who created the Ogham alphabet and who was one of the principal architects of the Gaelic language.
John the Evangelist | Saint John, evangelist portrait from the Book of Mulling, Irish, late 8th century
It is interesting that Brian is not referred to in the passage from the ' Book of Armagh ' as the ' Ard Ri ' — that is, High-King — but rather he is declared " Imperator Scottorum ," or " Emperor of the Irish " (" Scottorum " then being the common Late Latin term for the Irish: Ireland was usually referred to in Latin as " Scotia Major " while Scotland was referred to as " Scotia Minor ").
" Among the most prominent are the Irish ballad " Finnegan's Wake " from which the book takes its name, Italian philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico's La Scienza Nuova, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the plays of Shakespeare, and religious texts such as the Bible and Qur ' an.
The Tristan and Iseult legend – a tragic love triangle between the Irish princess Iseult, the Cornish knight Tristan and his uncle King Mark – is also oft alluded to in the work, particularly in Book II chapter 4.
In Irish mythology, Cessair ( also spelt Cesair and Ceasair ; anglicized Kesair ) was, according to the Book of Invasions, leader of the first inhabitants of Ireland before the Biblical Flood.
Nemed ( modern spellings: Neimheadh or Neimhidh ), meaning " holy " or " privileged " is a figure of Irish mythology who features in The Book of Invasions.
According to an Irish dinsenchas (" place-lore ") poem in the 12th century Book of Leinster, Crom Cruach's cult image, consisting of a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone figures, stood on Magh Slécht (" the plain of prostration ") in County Cavan, and was propitiated with first-born sacrifice in exchange for good yields of milk and grain.
In the old Irish tale from the Book of Lismore, " The Siege of Druim Damhgaire or Knocklong " ( Forbhais Droma Dámhgháire ), Crom is associated with Moloch.

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