Irish Metrics and Poetry

Which of these consonants is a class unto itself in Irish metrics?

Which of these things afflicted the poet Antaine Raiftearaí?

The term "Jacobite" references which English name?

In which centuries were significant populations of English speakers planted onto the lands of dispossessed Irish?

In Irish metrics, if a poem structure is described as 4(2) -- with the number 2 written in superscript -- how many syllables does any given line contain?

In Irish metrics, if a poem structure is described as 6(2) -- with the number 2 written in superscript -- what does the 2 denote?

According to seventeenth-century political ideology, how many kingdoms were there among the islands of Ireland and Britain?

Which of these dates is most commonly used to denote the beginning of the medieval period in Irish history?

Which of these population groups left a significant mark on the development of the Irish language in the 9th century CE?

Which of these was not a common first name in the Jacobite dynasty?

What is the general message of aisling poetry?

What is the name given to the wealthy establishment that controlled Irish politics throughout the 17th and 18th centuries?

In Ireland, Christian missionaries, and their associated books, stretch back to which century?

Which of these themes from 'Cúirt an Mheán Oíche' (The Midnight Court) is also a common feature in the folk song tradition?

Of which population group was it famously said that they became "more Irish than the Irish themselves"?

The areas of Ireland most strongly associated with the Irish language today are called...?

Which of these topics is the most common in extant surviving bardic poetry?

What is the original language of the New Testament?

Which of the following pairs is used to describe the quality of vowels in Irish metrics?

In manuscripts studies, an individual's version of a shared or common script is known as what?

What name is given to the most common Latin translation of the Bible in the medieval period?

In the following quatrain, how many syllables are in lines 2 and 4? Is an fhód ar hoileadh mé fríoth uaim ar éis a chéile ainm gach tolcha ar a suidh sinn, a bhfuil ortha ní aithnim.

Which instrument did the poet Antaine Raiftearaí play, apparently to accompany himself?

Which of these statements best describes the term 'bardic poetry'?

Which of these is not a Goidelic language?

Which of these are the two most dominant languages of early medieval Irish literature?

In which area would you find the strongest concentration of ogham?

In the following quatrain, how many syllables are in lines 1 and 3? Beag aithnim dom aos chumtha, mar tú ní tuar cobhurtha, d'éis an chuire gar chleacht sinn is tearc duine le ndingninn.

According to Kuno Meyer, which of these periods of Irish poetry came first?

In the folk song tradition, which of these is the most common complaint of a woman narrator?

Which of these seemingly unreliable statements is a key premise in 'Cúirt an Mheán Oíche' (The Midnight Court)?

In Irish metrics, if the structure of a poem is described as 7(1) -- with the number 1 written in superscript -- what does the number 7 denote?

Which of these languages made significant contributions to Irish vocabulary on sea-faring?

Which of these usually meets the poet-narrator in an aisling poem?

The poet Antaine Raiftearaí was most esteemed in which counties in Ireland?

Which event of the 19th century most rapidly accelerated language shift from Irish to English?

Which of these professions was not practiced by Brian Merriman, the author of 'Cúirt an Mheán Oíche'?

The earliest form of writing in Ireland appears on which medium?

Which of these is a standout feature of the earliest surviving Irish poems?

To which of these countries could Ireland look to as potential allies in the 17th century, in the name of Catholicism?

Medieval bardic poetry is also known by which term (in translation)?

Which of these is the most common feature of ogham texts?

In which century did the Norman invasion of Ireland begin?

Which of these collections is not a common source of bardic poetry?

Which of these type of settlement is typically associated with the Vikings in Ireland?

Which of these is one prominent difference between bardic poetry and aisling poetry?

What is the aisling in the term 'aisling poetry'?

Which of these is immortalised in a medieval Irish monk's poem, comparing an animal's behaviour to learning?