Masree, bardic college, [490]
Max Müller, [270]
Meath, book of, [59]; made into a province, [29]
Memory for ancestors, [72]; Celtic memory is long, [271]
Meehan, Father, [567]
Menapii, the, [19]
Merlin the prophet, [210]
Metempsychosis, Irish belief in, [95], [381], [400]
Metal-work, Irish, [456] ff.
Metre, poems dependent on, [273] ff.; no alteration of feet, beat, or stress, in Irish metres, [408]; metre of the Féilirè, [413]; of Saltair na Rann, [414], [418]; Droighneach metre, [479]; metres of the bards, [487]; classical metres merge in popular, [497]; the Ossianic metres, [510], [513]; Dr. MacHales, id.; Little Rannaigheacht, [526]; Great R., [530]; Roman metres, [530]; Seadna and great Séadna, Ae-fri-Slighe, Great and Little Deachna, [531]; how to read the classical metres, [532], [545]; necessitate condensed thought, [537]; examples of late metres, [548] ff.