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Celts and Mythology
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Ice-age geography
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Ice-age geography
• What happened to Ireland in the last ice-age?
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Stone-Age Irish
• Mesolithic peoples: hunters, c. 6000 BCE
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Stone-Age Irish
• Mesolithic peoples: hunters, c. 6000 BCE
• Neolithic peoples: agriculture, c. 3000 BCE
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Stone-Age Irish
• Mesolithic peoples: hunters, c. 6000 BCE
• Neolithic peoples: agriculture, c. 3000 BCE
Neolithic house
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Neolithic archeology
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Neolithic archeology
Cairns
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Neolithic archeology
Cairns
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Neolithic archeology
Cairns
Knocknarea
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Neolithic archeology
Cairns Dolmen (passage tombs)
Knocknarea
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Neolithic archeology
Cairns Dolmen (passage tombs)
Knocknarea
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Neolithic archeology
Cairns Dolmen (passage tombs)
The BurrenKnocknarea
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Bronze Age
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Bronze Age
• Begins in Ireland c. 2000 BCE
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Bronze Age
• Begins in Ireland c. 2000 BCE
• New bronze-age culture came to Ireland c. 800 BCE
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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Celtic expansion
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Celtic expansion
• Iron-age civilization
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Celtic expansion
• Iron-age civilization• Come to Ireland as
early as 600 B.C.E.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Celtic expansion
• Iron-age civilization• Come to Ireland as
early as 600 B.C.E.• Invade from
Southwest (via Brittany) and Northeast (via Britain)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Book of Invasions
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Book of Invasions
• Preserved in Book of Leinster (1150), Book of Fermoy (1373), Great book of Lecan (1418), et al.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
• 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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Real Heroic Age
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Real Heroic Age
• Ends probably around 450, with Ui Neill’s destruction of Emain Macha (Navan Fort)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Real Heroic Age
• Ends probably around 450, with Ui Neill’s destruction of Emain Macha (Navan Fort)
• Oral tradition up to the 700s
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Origins of the Mythology
Book of the Dun Cow
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Origins of the Mythology
• Ulster Cycle: set in 1st Cen. A. D.
Book of the Dun Cow
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
600 or so Existing Tales
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
600 or so Existing Tales
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
600 or so Existing Tales
• The Book of the Dun Cow, written at Clonmacnoise ca. 1100 A. D.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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)
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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