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Silver and golden bells are frequently mentioned as part of the horse furniture. The Wild People of the Glen Description of Cuchulain's helmet in the story of The Tain bo Chuailgné. O'Curry's "Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish," Vol. II., p. 301. The Fair of Tara
"At the opening of the assembly there was always a solemn proclamation of peace, and the king who held the fair awarded prizes to the most successful poets, musicians, and professors and masters of every art." See Dr. Sullivan's "Introduction to O'Curry's Lectures." The Contest of the Bards
"Bose, the great Norse harper, could give on his harp the Gyarslager, or stroke of the sea gods, which produced mermaids' music." O'Curry's Lectures. The Fairy Tree of Dooros
The enormous mass of materials which exists for the early history of Ireland, various as they are in critical value, may be seen in Mr. O'Curry's "Lectures on the Materials of Ancient Irish History"; and they may be conveniently studied by the general reader in the "Annals of the Four Masters," edited by Dr. O'Donovan.
But the impulse came to him before this period, in an atmosphere which held little that could nourish the sentiment so abundant among us to-day. O'Curry's and Dr. Joyce's books were almost the only sources of Gaelic inspiration open to a writer who was not a professed student.
"Good, my lad," said Cuchulain; "these are the tokens of a herald." Description of the herald MacRoath in the story of The Tain bo Chuailgné. O'Curry's "Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish," Vol. II., p. 301. Golden Bells In O'Curry's "Lectures on the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish" are several dazzling descriptions of cavalcades taken from the old tales.
XIV. ISLAND OF SATAN'S HAND The early part of this narrative is founded on Professor O'Curry's Lectures on the manuscript materials of Irish history; it being another of those "Imrama" or narratives of ocean expeditions to which the tale of St. Brandan belongs.
His influence has already been most happy; and as I have enlarged on a certain failure in criticism of Eugene O'Curry's, whose business, after all, was the description and classification of materials rather than criticism, let me show, by another example from Eugene O'Curry, this good influence of Zeuss upon Celtic studies.
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