PHASES OF IRISH HISTORY

PHASES OF IRISH HISTORY

BY EOIN MacNEILL
Professor of Ancient Irish History in
the National University of Ireland

M. H. GILL & SON, LTD.
50 UPPER O'CONNELL STREET, DUBLIN
1920

First Edition 1919
Second Impression 1920

CONTENTS
		page
	Foreword	[vi]
I.	The Ancient Irish a Celtic People	[1]
II.	The Celtic Colonisation of Ireland and Britain	[31]
III.	The Pre-Celtic Inhabitants of Ireland	[61]
IV.	The Five Fifths of Ireland	[98]
V.	Greek and Latin Writers on Pre-Christian Ireland	[133]
VI.	Introduction of Christianity and Letters	[161]
VII.	The Irish Kingdom in Scotland	[194]
VIII.	Ireland's Golden Age	[222]
IX.	The Struggle with the Norsemen	[249]
X.	Medieval Irish Institutions	[274]
XI.	The Norman Conquest	[300]
XII.	The Irish Rally	[323]
	Index	[357]

CONTENTS