Piers Ploughman, [486]
Pindar, [51]
Pig, Mac Datho's, [356]
Pinkerton on Adamnan's Columcille, [183]
Plague, the, of 664, [201]
Pliny, [89]
Plutarch, [79]
Poets, originally judges also, [241]; text books of, [241]; antiquity of their text books, [243]; oldest pre-Christian poets in Ireland, [244]; poet-saints, [413]; Irish poets of Norman race, [493]; see also "[Bards]"
Poems, the first written in Irish, [242], [273] ff.; topographical, [469]; historical, [445]
Poetry more easy to date than prose, [269]; obligatory on the Fenians, [373]; mixed with prose in the sagas, [399]; early technique of, [406] ff.; in the "wars of the Gael with the Gaill," [441]; anonymous more interesting than that by known authors, [448]; tribal, and family, [472]; development of, [479] ff.; last specimen of unrhymed, [479]; well remunerated in Ireland, [486]; allegorical, [597]; Jacobite, [596] ff.