_This book is one of the earliest, and, if not the most scientific, perhaps the most attractive of the many collections of Irish fairy-lore. Later compilations are Mr. William Larminie’s_ _“West Irish Folktales and Romances”, and Mr. Jeremiah Curtin’s “Hero Tales of Ireland”, “Myths and Folklore of Ireland”, and “Tales of the Fairies, collected in South Munster”. On the Scotch side, notice should be particularly taken of Campbell’s “Popular Tales of the West Highlands” and the volumes entitled “Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition”. All these books are either recent or recently republished, and are merely selected out of a large list of works, valuable and otherwise, upon this lighter side of Celtic mythology._ BRITISH John Rhys.—CELTIC FOLKLORE, WELSH AND MANX. 2 vols. Oxford, 1901. Wirt Sikes.—BRITISH GOBLINS: Welsh Folklore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions. By Wirt Sikes, United States Consul for Wales. London, 1880. FOLKLORE COMPARATIVELY TREATED George Laurence Gomme.—ETHNOLOGY IN FOLKLORE. “Modern Science” Series. London, 1892. _An attempt to assign apparently non-Aryan beliefs and customs in the British islands to pre-Aryan inhabitants._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INDEX Aberffraw, marriage of Branwen at, 289. Abergeleu, sacred well at, 415. Achill Island, folk-tales preserved at, 233. Achilles, the Irish, 158. Achren, battle of, 305, 306; castle of, 320. Acrisius, 236. Adamnan’s _Life of Saint Columba_, 401, 417. Advocates’ Library at Edinburgh, 11, 190. Aebh, wife of Lêr, 142. Aed, son of Lêr, 143. Aedh, son of Miodhchaoin, 105. Aeife, wife of Lêr, 142, 143, 144. Aerfon, a title of the river Dee, 413. _Æs Sídhe_, the “folk of the mounds”, the gods or fairies, 137, 168. Africa, 19, 120, 274, 324. Aganippus, king of the Franks, 382, 383. Agriculture god of, British, 261; a Gaulish, 274. Ailbhe, foster-daughter of Bodb the Red, 142. Aileach, grave of Nuada at, 122, 157. Ailill, king of Connaught, 147, 154, 164, 165, 175, 179, 200. Ailinn, love-story of, 188, 189. Ailioll of Arran, 142. Ainé, queen of the fairies of South Munster, 244-246. Ainle, one of the sons of Usnach, 192, 193, 196. Airceltrai, the _sídh_ of Ogma, 136, 157. Airem, Eochaid, high king of Ireland, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 331, 332. _Airem_, meaning of the word, 149, 333. Airmid, daughter of Diancecht, 80, 81, 82, 110. Alator, a war-god worshipped in Britain, 275. Alaw, river in Anglesey, 294, 295. Alba, 97, 104, 163, 178, 192, 193, 196, 382; Deirdre’s farewell to, 194-195. Albania, a name for Alba, 382. Ale of Goibniu, 61. Allobroges, 384, 385. Amaethon, son of Dôn, British god of Agriculture, 261, 305, 308, 313, 316, 345; fights against Brân in the battle of Achren, 305-308;