On an Irish Island (56 page)

Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe

Tain Bo Cualinge

Talbot Press,
9.1
,
9.2

technology,
10.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3

telegraph

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, “The Brook”

Thackeray, William Makepeace

theater,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
4.1
,
5.1
; Irish-language,
9.1
,
9.2
; Soviet,
11.1

Thomas, Dylan,
prl.1
,
14.1

Thompson, Stith

Thomson, Mrs. D. P.,
1.1
,
1.2

Thomson, Elizabeth,
11.1
,
13.1
,
13.2

Thomson, George,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
prl.3
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
14.4
,
14.5
,
14.6
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14.7
,
14.8
,
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;
Aeschylus and Athens: A Study in the Social Origins of Drama
,
11.4
,
11.5
; background of,
4.4
; “Barra na Trá”,
9.3
; “The Beginnings of European Civilisation” lectures,
9.4
; communism and,
11.6
,
13.3
; Craven Studentship,
5.3
; Moya Llewelyn Davies and,
5.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
9.8
,
9.9
,
11.7
; death of,
9.10
,
13.4
; in Dublin,
9.11
,
9.12
,
9.13
,
9.14
; at Dulwich College,
4.5
,
5.5
; Robin Flower and,
4.6
; as Galway professor,
9.15
,
9.16
,
9.17
; “Getting On in the World”,
8.1
; Great Blasket visits,
4.7
,
4.8
,
5.6
,
9.18
,
9.19
,
11.8
,
13.5
;
Greek Lyric Metre
,
5.7
,
11.9
,
11.10
; “The Illegitimate Child”,
8.2
; Irish language and,
4.9
,
4.10
,
4.11
,
9.20
,
9.21
,
9.22
,
11.11
,
13.6
,
13.7
,
13.8
,
14.9
,
14.10
,
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; “The Irish Language Revival”,
9.23
;
Island Home
,
13.9
; Mary Kearney and,
4.12
,
4.13
,
4.14
,
8.3
,
9.24
,
9.25
,
13.10
,
nts.8
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; at King’s College,
prl.4
,
prl.5
,
prl.6
,
4.15
,
4.16
,
4.17
,
4.18
,
5.8
,
5.9
,
9.26
,
9.27
; marriage of,
9.28
,
11.12
,
11.13
,
11.14
,
13.11
; Maurice O’Sullivan and,
4.19
,
4.20
,
4.21
,
4.22
,
5.10
,
5.11
,
5.12
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
9.29
,
9.30
,
10.2
,
11.15
,
12.2
,
13.12
,
13.13
,
13.14
,
14.11
,
14.12
; “The Prometheus Trilogy of Aeschylus, with an Appendix on Greek Lyric Metre”,
5.13
,
8.6
; relationship to Blasket islanders,
4.23
,
4.24
,
5.14
,
9.31
,
9.32
,
9.33
,
11.16
,
11.17
,
13.15
;
Studies in Ancient Greek Society
,
11.18
; translation of Greek classics,
5.15
,
8.7
,
9.34
,
9.35
,
9.36
,
11.19
,
11.20
,
11.21
; as University of Birmingham professor,
11.22
,
11.23
,
12.3
,
13.16
,
13.17
; World War II years,
12.4

Thomson, Katharine Stewart,
9.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3

Thomson, Minnie Clements,
4.1
,
4.2
,
9.1
,
9.2

Thomson, William

Three Sisters

Thucydides

Tiaracht,
5.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3

Tír na nÓg,
2.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
14.1

Titanic

Titley, Alan,
13.1
,
13.2

tobacco

Tonn Tóime

tourism,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
12.1
,
14.1
,
14.2

Tralee,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
14.1

translation,
7.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
14.1
; of Greek classics,
5.1
,
8.1
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
;
The Islandman
,
7.2
,
10.1
,
14.2
;
Twenty Years A-Growing
,
9.6
,
10.2
,
13.1
,
14.3

Trinity College, Dublin,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
12.1

Tripos

Trotsky, Leon

turnips

Twenty Years A-Growing
(O’Sullivan),
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,
prl.2
,
5.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
13.1
,
13.2
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13.3
,
14.1
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14.2
,
14.3
,
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,
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; publication of,
9.4
; reviews of,
9.5
; translation,
9.6
,
10.4
,
13.4
,
14.5

Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
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,
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U-boat sinkings

Uí Aimhirgín, Nuala

Ulster,
prl.1
; Irish,
1.1

United States,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
12.1
; Depression,
9.1
,
9.2
; imperialism,
13.1
; Irish immigrants,
3.2
,
5.2
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.3
,
10.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.2
,
14.1
,
14.2
; returned émigrés from,
6.7
,
10.2
; Roaring Twenties,
9.4
;
Twenty Years A-Growing
published in,
9.5

universities,
9.1
; Irish language and,
9.2
,
9.3
;
see also specific universities

University College, Dublin,
7.1
,
9.1

University College, Galway,
9.1
,
9.2

University of Birmingham,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
12.1
,
13.1
,
13.2

Vendryes, Joseph,
6.1
,
12.1

Ventry,
1.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
13.1

Ventry, Lord

Versailles Treaty,
11.1
,
11.2

Victorian era

Vikings,
2.1
,
2.2

village (on the Great Blasket),
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1
,
6.1
,
12.1
,
14.1
; abandonment of,
12.2
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
14.2
,
14.3
; customs and social practices,
1.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.2
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
14.4
,
14.5
; decline of,
10.3
,
10.4
,
12.5
,
13.3
,
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,
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,
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; dwindling population,
12.6
; Robin Flower and,
2.6
,
6.3
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
12.7
,
12.8
; Carl Marstrander and,
2.7
,
4.3
,
12.9
; music and dance,
2.8
,
2.9
,
4.4
,
5.1
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
7.1
,
10.7
,
11.1
,
14.8
; John Synge and,
1.4
; George Thomson and,
4.5
,
4.6
,
5.2
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
13.4
;
see also
Great Blasket
;
houses
;
islanders
;
school

Village, The
(documentary),

Virgil

von Sydow, Carl,
4.1
,
6.1
,
14.1

Waley, Arthur

War of Independence,
prl.1
,
3.1
,
4.1

Watermill,
9.1
,
13.1
,
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weather,
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,
2.1
,
3.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
; changes,
6.3

Webb, Beatrice

Webb, Sidney

Welsh

West, The,
1.1
,
8.1

West Dulwich,
4.1
,
4.2

West Kerry,
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,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
5.1
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6.1
,
6.2
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,
6.4
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
13.1
,
14.1
,
14.2

Whelan, Kevin

whiskey

White Strand,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
9.1
,
9.2

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
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,
11.2
,
11.3

Wodehouse, P. G.

women,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
14.1
; dancing,
4.3
; as domestic servants,
8.1
; emigration,
8.2
,
9.2
,
12.1
,
13.1
; hard life stories,
10.4
; illegitimate children of,
8.3
,
9.3
; names,
4.4
;
The Playboy
depiction of,
1.2
; Peig Sayers’s folktales,
10.5
; sex and sexuality,
2.2
,
4.5
; Victorian,
1.3
;
see also
islanders

Wood Quay

wool

Wordsworth, William

World War I,
prl.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
9.1
; end of,
6.1
,
6.2
; U-boat sinkings,
6.3

World War II,
10.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
13.1
,
nts.1
n

Yeats, William Butler,
prl.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
14.1

Yugoslavia

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Áine de Paor: English translation by Áine de Paor of an untitled poem by Tomás Ó Criomhthain originally published in
Scriobh,
vol. 4 (1979). Subsequently published in
Tomás an Bhlascaoid,
ed. Breandán Ó Conaire. [Joe Nugent, Boston College, and Áine de Paor, in Irene Lucchitti,
The Islandman: The Hidden Life of Tomás O’Crohan
]. Reprinted by permission of Áine de Paor.