Lexicographical Neighbors of Shanachies
Literary usage of Shanachies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living: An Old Irish Saga by Alfred Trübner Nutt (1895)
"Conversely, it is at least possible that these bards and shanachies would learn
something of the songs and sagas the invaders had brought over sea, ..."
2. The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living: An Old Irish Saga by Alfred Trübner Nutt (1895)
"Conversely, it is at least possible that these bards and shanachies would learn
something of the songs and sagas the invaders had brought over sea, ..."
3. The Collected Works of George Moore by George Moore (1918)
"He sat, as it were, frozen in his meditations, and was not roused out of them
till at last I said: there have been great shanachies in this world, Alec; ..."
4. The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the English Invasion by Geoffrey Keating (1866)
"Against no class of her people did the English law rage with more violence than
against the bards and shanachies ; and none were hunted down more ..."
5. Journal by English Place-Name Society (1906)
"... and shanachies, who put together the pedigrees, is supplied by the Annals, by
the biographies of the Saints in incidental references to their ..."
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