Ebook: Early Irish Metrics

First published 1961.

Kuno Meyer's 'Primer of Irish Metrics', published in 1909, is both out of print and of necessity out of date (largely owing to Meyer's own later researches). It has therefore been decided to publish the present treatise. This treatise, though more detailed, follows on the whole the scheme of Meyer's 'Primer', and sometimes uses his very words. Meyer's list of the Poets of Ireland, published as an appendix to his 'Primer', has, however, been omitted, and also the references to other examples of a metre which Meyer sometimes added to his own example. The present treatise does not therefore wholly replace Meyer’s.