id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8109 O'Grady, Standish Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. .txt text/plain 20502 875 64 cist of which the ancient traditional history is recorded; in Ireland other subjects, the author of a work on Irish history has to labour The pre-Christian period of Irish history presents difficulties from of the Irish bardic literature, having in his ears this century-lasting the immense mass of bardic literature which treats of the Irish gods age demands upon the subject of antique Irish history--an exact time of the Incarnation, and its characters are the leading Irish kings heroes around whom that cycle revolves have, in the history of Ireland, cycles, the history of the Irish gods, and the gradual growth of that objective truths; but as theogony, and the history of the Irish gods, When the Irish bards began to elaborate a general history of their ancient literature without seeing clearly the genesis of the Irish gods, ethnic bards had rationalised the history of the early gods; the Tuátha ./cache/8109.txt ./txt/8109.txt