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The Oldest Irish Tradition

The Oldest Irish Tradition

The Oldest Irish Tradition

A Window on the Iron Age
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson , University of Edinburgh
February 2011
Paperback
9780521134934

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    K. H. Jackson's The Oldest Irish Tradition: A Window on the Iron Age was originally delivered as the Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1964. Jackson intended to show that the heroic literature of Ireland, the Ulster cycle of tales, derived from 'pre-historic' oral traditions which flourished before the introduction of Christianity in the fifth century. By closely examining this body of heroic narrative, Jackson attempted to illustrate how different aspects of the social structures, customs, ethos, and material culture in the tales could provide a picture of Ireland in the Early Iron Age.

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    February 2011
    Paperback
    9780521134934
    64 pages
    203 × 127 × 4 mm
    0.08kg
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    Table of Contents

    • The Rede Lecture, 1964: The Oldest Irish Tradition: a Window on the Iron Age
      Author
    • Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson , University of Edinburgh