The background
Stories and storytelling
Druids, poets, and bards
The arrival of Christianity
Branches of literature
Oral tradition and written literature
Ogam, writing, and manuscripts
An example of the language about 1000
The mythological cycle
Addendum : theory
The heroic cycle
Discussion of the Táin
The Fenian cycle
The cycles of the kings
The otherworld
The location and nature of the otherworld
Otherworld visits and the heroic biography
The voyages and Brendan voyage
The vision tales
Kings, goddesses, and sovereignty
Goddesses of sovereignty
The manifestations of the sovereignty goddess
Madness in early Irish literature
The hero and heroic biography
Conception and birth
Account of youth and upbringing
Invulnerability
A fight with a dragon or a monster
The hero acquires a wife
The hero visits the otherworld
Exile and return
Death of the hero
Poets and poetry
The status of the poet
Prosimetrum
Poets and poetry
Early Irish lyrics.
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An introduction to early Irish literature by Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin. ISBN 9781846821776. Published by Four Courts Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
