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Gaelic literature

Gaelic literature, literature in the native tongue of Ireland and Scotland. Since Scots Gaelic became separate from Irish Gaelic only in the 17th cent., the literature is conventionally divided into Old Irish (before 900), Middle Irish (until 1350), Late Middle or Early Modern Irish (until 1650), and Modern Irish and Scots Gaelic (from 1650).

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Gaelic literature: Old Irish - Old Irish The early literature has survived in Middle and Late Middle Irish manuscripts that are, ...
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Gaelic literature: Bibliography - Bibliography See A. Carmichael, ed., Carmina Gadelica (6 vol., 1928–71); D. Thomson, An ...
Gaelic literature: Gaelic in the Modern World - Gaelic in the Modern World A sharp decline in technique and content was evident in the 19th cent. ...
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