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THE DAILY NEBBASKAN
SCOn LECTURES
TO FRESHMAN ON
IRISH LITERATURE
Professor in English Depart
ment Gives First-Year Class
Short History of
Celts.
HIGH LEARNING IN 650
Danes and Romans Ravaged
Country and Destroyed
Universities St. rat
rick Christianized
Irish.
The literature produced by the Irish
people was described by Professor R.
D. Scott of the English department,
in a lecture on "Ancient Ireland"
given to the freshmen of the College
of Arts and Sciences Monday after
noon and Tuesday morning.
Professor Scott first gave a short
history of the Celtic people, explain
ing that about 1000 B. C. they were
dominant people in Central Europe
and that they invaded England and
Ireland from the continent about that
time. The Celts that invaded and
settled England were almost destroyed
by the Roman and the Anglo Saxon
conquests, -: that the Welsh were the
only people of Celtic extraction left
in England.
The nrofessor then told how St.
PatricX came to Ireland in 432 A. D.
and found the inhabitants living in a
condition of paganism. St. Patrick
Christianized the Irish and established
a university. Another university was
established at Kildare in 525 by fct.
Bridget, a woman missionary. By 650
Ireland was full of universities,' there
being 25 or more established there.
At these universities Greek, Latin,
and some of the Sciences were taught.
Professor Scott pointed out that at
an early date an Irish geographer was
advancing the theory that the world
was round. The professor then pointed
out that in 805, the Danes invaded Ire
land and destroyed most of the uni
versities and monasteries, and that
although the Irish ultimately drove
the Danes out, Irish learning never
recovered from the effect of their
ravages.
When the universities were in ex
istence, Professor' Scott explained.
Irish literature had its beginning. The
monks in the universities began to
print on hides. They printed their
family trees and thty also printed a
number of Irish myths and folk-
stones. With the invasion of the
Danes, this writing slopped and it
was not until the eighteenth century
that interest in this Irish literature
was revived. At that time a Scotch
school master, David McPherson, who
was visiting on the north-western
coast of Scotland, heard some of these
stories and decided to reproduce them
in print. He was afraid that the sale
of the book would not be a success,
so he announced that he had found
hides on which these stories had been
printed in 500 B. TJ. and that he had
made a literal translation. His book
became very popular, being read by
people ull over the world. This nat
urally began to stimulate interest in
Irish literature and when investiga
tions were made, tons and tons of
hides with stories printed on them
were dug up in Ireland.
Professor Scott then explained how
in recent years these old Irish stories
were used for political purposes. The
Irish nationalists, in an attempt to re
juvenate a love of Ireland in the
minds of the Irish, caused a large
number of these stories to be printed
in the old Irish tongue. As a result,
the Irish began to take pride in their
nationality and a- large number of,
them learned the old Celtic language.
Professor Scott then enumerated
some of the benefits of literature,
pointing out that it was not only use
ful in stimulating and creating .such
ideals as patriotism, but that it also
develops the ideals and character of
the individual tliat reads it.
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