Balor the Fomorian, [286] ff.
Bards, the, contrasted with the filés, [486]; their numbers, [488]; as peacemakers, [258]; their power, [167], [194], [257] ff.; their mode of reciting stories, [277]; their colleges, [490]; their importance, [491], [495] ff.; acts passed against them, [493], [609]; Saor and Daor bards, [486] ff.; their metres, [487]; their lack of initiative after the Conquest, [465]; hereditary, [465]; were not harpers, [496]; arrogance of, [518]; bardic families, [465]
Bardic schools, [239] ff., [260]; intercommunication between, [279], [496], [525]; not an unmixed blessing, [488], [525]; inside of a later bardic school described, [528] ff.; bardic sessions, [600]; their break-up lamented, [522]; their end, [524]
"Bardic Association," proceeding of the great, [260], [399], [411]; Saga of, [403]
Bard Ruadh, the, [476] ff.
Banba, name for Erin, [48]
Barrett, Connacht poet, [605]
Barron, Phillip, of Waterford, [620]
Bavaria, origin of name, [19]
Bealtaine—May Day, [90]