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Definition of Middle Irish
1. Noun. Irish Gaelic from 1100 to 1500.
Definition of Middle Irish
1. Proper noun. The Gaelic language spoken in Ireland during the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Irish
Literary usage of Middle Irish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"From the Middle Irish. Thus sang the sages of the Gael A thousand years ago
well-nigh: " Hearken how the Lord on high Wrought man, to breathe and laugh and ..."
2. Ériu: Founded as the Journal of the School of Irish Learning Devoted to by Royal Irish Academy (1904)
"In this, as in other investigations into Middle Irish, it must be ever borne in
mind that Middle Irish is in a greater or less degree an artificial literary ..."
3. A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and by John Foster Kirk, Kirk, John Foster, 1824-1904, Samuel Austin Allibone (1891)
"(Ed.) Three Middle-Irish Homilies on the Lives of Saints Patrick, Brigit, ...
(Ed.) The Saltair na Raun : a Collection of Early Middle-Irish Poems: ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... but with relatively slight differences. Old Welsh extends to the end of the
llth century. Middle Welsh is about synchronous with Middle Irish. ..."
5. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1907)
"The early Middle-Irish writers, who immediately followed the Old-Irish writers,
... We believe that those early Middle- Irish writers, being nearer in time ..."
6. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"which the older stories were absorbed into the later Ossianic legends is shown
by Kuno Meyer, in his edition of the late Middle-Irish tale of ' The Battle ..."
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