Celts and MythologyIce-age geography • What happened to Ireland in the last ice-age? • c....
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Celts and Mythology
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Ice-age geography
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Ice-age geography
• What happened to Ireland in the last ice-age?
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Ice-age geography
• What happened to Ireland in the last ice-age?
• c. 125,000-15,000 years ago
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Ice-age geography
• What happened to Ireland in the last ice-age?
• c. 125,000-15,000 years ago
• c. 6000 years ago Ireland becomes island again (England still part of mainland Europe)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Ice-age geography
• What happened to Ireland in the last ice-age?
• c. 125,000-15,000 years ago
• c. 6000 years ago Ireland becomes island again (England still part of mainland Europe)
Mesolithic houseWednesday, January 16, 2013
Stone-Age Irish
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Stone-Age Irish
• Mesolithic peoples: hunters, c. 6000 BCE
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Stone-Age Irish
• Mesolithic peoples: hunters, c. 6000 BCE
• Neolithic peoples: agriculture, c. 3000 BCE
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Stone-Age Irish
• Mesolithic peoples: hunters, c. 6000 BCE
• Neolithic peoples: agriculture, c. 3000 BCE
Neolithic house
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Neolithic archeology
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Neolithic archeology
Cairns
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Neolithic archeology
Cairns
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Neolithic archeology
Cairns
Knocknarea
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Neolithic archeology
Cairns Dolmen (passage tombs)
Knocknarea
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Neolithic archeology
Cairns Dolmen (passage tombs)
Knocknarea
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Neolithic archeology
Cairns Dolmen (passage tombs)
The BurrenKnocknarea
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The Bronze Age
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The Bronze Age
• Begins in Ireland c. 2000 BCE
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The Bronze Age
• Begins in Ireland c. 2000 BCE
• New bronze-age culture came to Ireland c. 800 BCE
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The Bronze Age
• Begins in Ireland c. 2000 BCE
• New bronze-age culture came to Ireland c. 800 BCE
• In Greece, this is time of the Iliad (c. 1200s BCE)
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The Bronze Age
• Begins in Ireland c. 2000 BCE
• New bronze-age culture came to Ireland c. 800 BCE
• In Greece, this is time of the Iliad (c. 1200s BCE)
Crannog: Bronze Age house
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Celtic expansion
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Celtic expansion
• Iron-age civilization
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Celtic expansion
• Iron-age civilization• Come to Ireland as
early as 600 B.C.E.
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Celtic expansion
• Iron-age civilization• Come to Ireland as
early as 600 B.C.E.• Invade from
Southwest (via Brittany) and Northeast (via Britain)
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Celtic expansion
• Iron-age civilization• Come to Ireland as
early as 600 B.C.E.• Invade from
Southwest (via Brittany) and Northeast (via Britain)
• Dominate the island by 150 A. D.
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Celtic expansion
• Iron-age civilization• Come to Ireland as
early as 600 B.C.E.• Invade from
Southwest (via Brittany) and Northeast (via Britain)
• Dominate the island by 150 A. D.
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Book of Invasions
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Book of Invasions
• Preserved in Book of Leinster (1150), Book of Fermoy (1373), Great book of Lecan (1418), et al.
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Book of Invasions
• Preserved in Book of Leinster (1150), Book of Fermoy (1373), Great book of Lecan (1418), et al.
• 1. Cessair (granddaughter of Noah), circa the Flood (only Fintan survives)
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Book of Invasions
• Preserved in Book of Leinster (1150), Book of Fermoy (1373), Great book of Lecan (1418), et al.
• 1. Cessair (granddaughter of Noah), circa the Flood (only Fintan survives)
• 2. Partholon, greatgrandson of Noah, 300 years post-Flood; Fomorians attack; plague kills them
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Book of Invasions
• Preserved in Book of Leinster (1150), Book of Fermoy (1373), Great book of Lecan (1418), et al.
• 1. Cessair (granddaughter of Noah), circa the Flood (only Fintan survives)
• 2. Partholon, greatgrandson of Noah, 300 years post-Flood; Fomorians attack; plague kills them
• 3. Nemed, great-grandson of Partholon’s brother; flood and Fomorians destroy them
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• 4. Fir Bolg; descendents of the Nemedians (who were enslaved in Greece for 250 years)
• 5. Tuatha de Danaan; also Nemedian descendents, invade 37 years later and defeat Fir Bolgs; Fomorian Bres is king for 7 oppressive years till defeated by Lug; these are Yeats’s faeries
• 6. Milesians (humans): 150 years later
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Real Heroic Age
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Real Heroic Age
• Ends probably around 450, with Ui Neill’s destruction of Emain Macha (Navan Fort)
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Real Heroic Age
• Ends probably around 450, with Ui Neill’s destruction of Emain Macha (Navan Fort)
• Oral tradition up to the 700s
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Real Heroic Age
• Ends probably around 450, with Ui Neill’s destruction of Emain Macha (Navan Fort)
• Oral tradition up to the 700s
Emain Macha
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Origins of the Mythology
Book of the Dun Cow
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Origins of the Mythology
• Ulster Cycle: set in 1st Cen. A. D.
Book of the Dun Cow
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Origins of the Mythology
• Ulster Cycle: set in 1st Cen. A. D.
• Fenian Cycle: set in 3rd Cen. A. D.
Book of the Dun Cow
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Origins of the Mythology
• Ulster Cycle: set in 1st Cen. A. D.
• Fenian Cycle: set in 3rd Cen. A. D.
• Oral traditions first recorded in 700s
Book of the Dun Cow
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Origins of the Mythology
• Ulster Cycle: set in 1st Cen. A. D.
• Fenian Cycle: set in 3rd Cen. A. D.
• Oral traditions first recorded in 700s
• Manuscripts survive from 1100s
Book of the Dun Cow
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600 or so Existing Tales
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600 or so Existing Tales
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600 or so Existing Tales
• The Book of the Dun Cow, written at Clonmacnoise ca. 1100 A. D.
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600 or so Existing Tales
• The Book of the Dun Cow, written at Clonmacnoise ca. 1100 A. D.
• The Leinster Book, compiled around 1150 at Terryglass in Tipperary
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600 or so Existing Tales
• The Book of the Dun Cow, written at Clonmacnoise ca. 1100 A. D.
• The Leinster Book, compiled around 1150 at Terryglass in Tipperary
• Rawlinson Manuscript, compiled 1150 at Clonmacnoise
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600 or so Existing Tales
• The Book of the Dun Cow, written at Clonmacnoise ca. 1100 A. D.
• The Leinster Book, compiled around 1150 at Terryglass in Tipperary
• Rawlinson Manuscript, compiled 1150 at Clonmacnoise
• Yellow Book of Lecan (c. 1390s)
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