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Headlam, Walter,
5.1
,
9.1

heating

Herodotus

Hill, Christopher

Hitler, Adolf,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Homer,
4.1
,
5.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
; Blasket biographies and,
11.4
;
Iliad
,
9.3
;
Odyssey
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6

homosexuality

houses,
prl.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1
,
10.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
14.1
,
nts.1
n
; abandoned,
12.3
,
13.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
; description of,
2.3
,
10.2
; heating,
6.2
;
see also
village

Howe, Percival Presland

hunting,
prl.1
,
2.1

Hurston, Zora Neale

Huxley, Aldous

Hyde, Douglas,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
10.1
; “The Necessity of De-Anglicising Ireland”,
10.2

illegitimate children,
8.1
,
9.1
,
nts.1
n

illiteracy,
2.1
,
3.1
,
4.1

immigrants, Irish,
3.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
12.1
,
14.1
,
14.2

income

industrialization,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1
,
11.1

Inish

Inishtooskert

Inishvickillaun,
3.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1

Inverin

Ireland,
prl.1
; Anglicization of,
1.1
,
6.1
; Anglo-Irish War,
prl.2
,
3.1
,
4.1
; British rule,
1.2
,
1.3
,
3.2
,
4.2
,
11.1
; Catholic-Protestant divide,
1.4
,
1.5
; Civil Guard,
5.1
,
5.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
; Civil War,
prl.3
,
3.3
,
4.3
,
5.3
,
6.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
; conversion to Christianity,
6.3
; Easter Rising,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
5.4
,
8.1
; east-west split,
1.6
; emigration,
3.7
,
5.5
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
6.7
,
6.8
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.5
,
10.1
,
12.1
,
13.5
,
13.6
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
; Famine,
1.7
,
2.1
,
3.8
,
5.6
,
5.7
; folk culture,
10.2
; Free State,
7.1
,
8.4
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
10.3
,
10.4
; home rule,
1.8
,
3.9
; literary tradition,
prl.4
,
1.9
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
6.9
,
10.5
; Middle Ages,
prl.5
,
1.10
,
2.4
,
4.6
; oral tradition,
prl.6
,
2.5
,
7.2
,
14.4
; parliament,
1.11
,
3.10
; population decline,
5.8
; returned émigrés from America,
6.10
,
10.6
; War of Independence,
prl.7
,
3.11
,
4.7
; World War II and,
12.2

Ireland, Denis

Irish Folklore Commission,
5.1
,
10.1

Irish language,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
prl.3
,
prl.4
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
14.1
,
nts.1
n
; An Seabhac and,
7.1
,
9.2
; consonants and,
2.2
,
2.3
; decline of,
1.5
,
1.6
,
2.4
,
6.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
; dialects,
1.7
,
2.5
,
2.6
,
2.7
,
6.3
,
11.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
; English’s influence on,
6.4
,
14.4
; Robin Flower and,
2.8
,
6.5
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
12.2
; grammar,
2.9
;
The Islandman
translation and,
7.2
; Carl Marstrander and,
2.10
,
3.2
,
12.3
; Middle,
2.11
,
2.12
,
2.13
,
2.14
; modern,
prl.5
,
2.15
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
10.5
; Tomás Ó Criomhthain and,
2.16
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
7.5
,
14.5
; Old,
2.17
,
2.18
,
2.19
,
2.20
,
2.21
,
2.22
,
12.4
,
nts.2
n
; Maurice O’Sullivan and,
9.3
; revival of,
2.23
,
3.6
,
9.4
,
9.5
; Marie-Louise Sjoestedt and,
6.6
,
8.2
,
12.5
; spoken,
prl.6
,
1.8
,
1.9
,
1.10
,
2.24
,
2.25
,
3.7
,
6.7
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
14.6
,
nts.3
n
; John Synge and,
1.11
,
1.12
,
1.13
;
George Thomson and,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
9.8
,
11.2
,
13.4
,
13.5
,
13.6
,
14.7
,
14.8
,
nts.4
n
; universities and,
9.9
,
9.10
; vocabulary,
2.26
,
2.27
; vowels,
2.28
,
2.29
; written,
2.30
,
2.31
,
3.8
,
3.9
,
3.10
,
7.8
,
7.9
;
see also
Gaelic League
;
Irish-language literature
;
specific dialects

Irish-language literature,
prl.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
10.1
,
14.1
,
nts.1
n
; Great Blasket legacy,
prl.2
,
2.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
4.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.2
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
14.2
; Greek classics and,
11.1
; of Tomás Ó Criomhthain,
3.5
,
7.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
14.3
,
14.4
; of Maurice O’Sullivan,
prl.3
,
prl.4
,
9.1
,
10.6
,
13.1
,
14.5
,
14.6
,
14.7
; of Peig Sayers,
prl.5
,
10.7
,
14.8
; translation,
7.4
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.8
,
10.9
,
13.2
,
14.9
;
see also
Irish language
;
publication, Irish-language
;
specific authors and works

Irish National Literary Society

Irish Parliamentary Party

Irish Press, The

Irish Republic

Irish Republican Brotherhood

Irish Sea,
prl.1
,
1.1

Irish Statesman, The

Irish Texts Society,
7.1
,
7.2

Irish Times, The

Irish Volunteers

Island Cross-Talk
(Ó Criomhthain),
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
9.1
,
14.1
,
nts.1
n

islanders,
prl.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
12.1
; attitude toward mainlanders,
6.1
; celebrity and publicity,
6.2
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
10.7
,
10.8
,
10.9
,
12.2
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
14.1
; customs and social practices,
1.3
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.3
,
9.1
,
10.10
,
10.11
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
14.2
,
14.3
; decline of,
10.12
,
10.13
,
12.5
,
13.4
,
14.4
,
14.5
,
nts.1
n
; dwindling population,
12.6
; early families,
2.3
,
4.3
,
4.4
; emigration,
5.1
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
6.7
,
6.8
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.2
,
10.14
,
12.7
,
13.5
,
14.6
,
14.7
,
14.8
; Robin Flower and,
2.4
,
6.9
,
10.15
,
10.16
,
12.8
,
12.9
; folktales,
10.17
; Carl Marstrander and,
2.5
,
4.5
,
12.10
; music and dance,
2.6
,
2.7
,
4.6
,
5.2
,
6.10
,
6.11
,
7.1
,
10.18
,
11.1
,
14.9
; names,
4.7
; Tomás Ó Criomhthain and,
3.3
,
7.2
,
7.3
; “royalty”,
1.4
,
2.8
,
2.9
,
2.10
,
2.11
,
4.8
,
6.12
,
8.3
,
nts.2
n
; John Synge and,
1.5
; George Thomson and,
4.9
,
4.10
,
5.3
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
13.6
; weatherbound,
2.12
,
6.13
,
12.11
,
12.12
;
children
;
Great Blasket
;
houses
;
men
;
specific islanders
;
village
;
women

Islandman, The
(Ó Criomhthain),
3.1
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
nts.1
n
; edited by An Seabhac,
7.2
,
9.2
; publication of,
7.3
,
7.4
,
9.3
; translation,
7.5
,
10.3
,
14.3

Italian,
2.1
,
14.1

Italy

Jackson, Kenneth,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3

Jews, Nazi persecution of,
11.1
,
12.1

Jonval, Michel

Journal of Hellenic Studies

Joyce, James,
2.1
;
Ulysses
,
5.1

Kearney, Cáit,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

Kearney, Mary,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.1
,
13.1
,
14.1
,
nts.1
n
; becomes a nun,
9.4
,
13.2
,
nts.2
n
; death of,
13.3
; immigration to America,
8.2
,
9.5
,
13.4
; in Maynooth,
8.3
; George Thomson and,
4.6
,
4.7
,
4.8
,
8.4
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
13.5
,
nts.3
n

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