John Toland (30 November 1670 – 11 March 1722) Druid's

John Toland (November 30, 1670 - March 11, 1722), Irish philosopher, Artist unknown.

In the Druid Path (Reading Room of "How to be a Druid Grove -group on Facebook).

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We will be dissecting John Toland's  seminal work on 'The Druid's' using:

A NEW EDITION of TOLAND'S HISTORY OF THE DRUIDS:
WITH AN ABSTRACT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS
and  Copious apprentie Containing Notes Critical, Philological and  Explanatory
 by H. HUDDLESTON, Schoolmaster, Lunan, (1814)

Using Google Books scanned source:
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPmljAAAAcAAJ%26printsec%3Dfrontcover%26dq%3DToland%27s%2520history%2520of%2520the%2520Druids%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D0ahUKEwi4utGyk5XNAhWH5IMKHWmkA34Q6AEIHTAA%23v%3Donepage%26q%3DToland%27s%2520history%2520of%2520the%2520Druids%26f%3Dfalse&h=HAQEwmXhF

I believe you  will be amazed at how much of current detailed Neo-Druidic writing and though can be traced back to his works on what the ancient Druid's did or did not do.

I will be adding all my own notes embedded, to this living blog and it will also serve both as a reference and example of how try to dissect and book and boil it down to knowledge facttoids.

This blog will also serve in our Yggdrasil (pagan research) Library on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/YggdrasilLibrary/

Bio:
John Toland (30 November 1670 – 11 March 1722) was a rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, which are early expressions of the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment. Born in Ireland, he was educated at the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leiden and Oxford and was influenced by the philosophy of John Locke.
Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Toland#Literary_hoax_.22The_Treatise_of_the_Three_Imposters.22


Study notes:
Please attach your own comments to either this blog or the file of it in our reading room.
TDK


Glossary / Dictionary general help: 
Specific Druidic Terms:

Druid Practices and Beliefs:

Druidic Gods / Goddesses:
Antiquary Authors on the Druids.

Toland's References:

B: Needles of Stone by Tom Graves 1978

A very old favorite of mine, I bought hardback many years ago and still reread it.

Free Download Link:

http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/ndlstone.html

Celtic Legacy in Galicia (Northwest Spain).

Interesting Read.
30 pages with images.

https://www4.uwm.edu/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes/vol6/6_20/alberro_6_20.pdf

English Latin Dictionaries

As I needed some shareable references for Latin to English translations besides the general suspect web sites. And something I could also use without Internet Access for our new Celtic Gods and Goddesses blogs.

All at Books.Google.com free PDF Downloads.

A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary 1871

 By William Smith, Theophilus Dwight Hall

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A Smaller English-Latin Dictionary: Abridged from the Larger Dictionary 1900

 edited by Sir William Smith

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A New English-Latin Dictionary 1783

 By John Entick

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An English-Latin dictionary for the use of junior students 1869
 By John Tahourdin White

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A new Latin-English dictionary: To which is prefixed an English-Latin dictionary. 1810

by Young

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A Dictionary, English-Latin, and Latin-English:   1711

 By Elisha Coles
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A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies Project:CODECS Celtic Studies

A valuable Resourse:

CODECS beta by  D. G. (talk)last edited:  27 May 2015

Welcome to the beta version of CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies. While its name and design are indeed new, this website continues the collection of digital resources, including the *selgā catalogue and Tionscadal na Nod, which was formerly accommodated on the main website of the A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies (itself now at www.vanhamel.nl/stichting). The project is still published by the Foundation and directed by board member Dennis Groenewegen.As you may have read over at www.vanhamel.nl, this part of the website needed to be taken offline while a major transition was in force. This was not so much a technical issue as a matter of insufficient resources at our disposal (remember that the project has carried on without any outside funding). A combination of unfortunate circumstances, however, led to a considerably longer period of delay than anticipated. It was in the middle of a series of scheduled activities when I had to devote more of my time and energy to a grievous personal situation. At this time, my father, who had been suffering from malignant mesothelioma, was becoming increasingly weaker every day. He sadly passed away on the 29th of April.


The release of a beta version might seem premature, but I found myself a little overwhelmed by the many messages that have reached me lately. Many visitors, in fact, seem to have been relying on the availability of the website. I have, therefore, decided to reopen it even in its unfinished, somewhat unsteady state. Obviously, this comes with a hefty disclaimer, but most of you should be able to find your way around these parts as you used to

.http://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Project:CODECS

Welcome to the website of the

A. G. van Hamel Foundationfor Celtic Studies

http://www.vanhamel.nl/stichting/Hoofdpagina

Well sorted and described content:

WISDOM TEXTS IN OLD IRISH
http://brendanhalligan.com/…/BH-Advice-Princely-final-NCn.p…

Ireland, Ur of the Chaldees By Anna Wilkes (1873)

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4pABAAAAQAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=The+Celts+:+the+people+who+came+out+of+the+darkness&ots=nwxULpEGzS&sig=AN4xUxbZNmIeVZo0SxzpQs-ApVA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The John O'Hart (1824 – 1902) Shelf Irish genealogis)

 He was born in Crossmolina, Co. Mayo, Ireland. A committedRoman Catholic, O'Hart originally planned to become Catholic priest but instead spent 2 years as a police officer. He was an Associate in Arts at the Queen's University of Belfast. He worked at the Commissioners of National Education during the years of the Great Irish Famine. He worked as a genealogist and took an interest in Irish history. He was an Irish nationalist. He died in 1902 in Clontarf nearDublin, at the age of 78.

O'Hart's 800-page The Irish and Anglo-Irish landed gentry(Dublin 1884) was reprinted in 1969, with an introduction byEdward MacLysaght, the first Chief Herald of Ireland. Another work, Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation, first published in 1876, has come out in several subsequent editions.

To complete his genealogies he used the writings of Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Duald Mac Firbis and O'Farrell, along with the Annals of the Four Masters, for the medieval pedigrees. He used the works of Bernard Burke, John Collins and others to extend his genealogies past the 17th century.

Stem of the Irish nation

In his Irish Pedigrees, O'Hart presents the legendary origins of the Irish people, from the Biblical Adam and Eve through the kings of ancient Ireland. Irish tradition holds that every Irish person is descended from the king Milesius who emigrated from Spain in approximately 1700 BC, according to the Annals of the Four Masters. O'Hart started each of his genealogies with Adam recording Milesius as his 36th descendant.

Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Hart

Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation (1892), by John O'Hart, is available in 2 volumes free on the Internet Archive.

Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation (1892), by John O'Hart, - Volume: 1

archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor_01ohar

Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation (1892), by John O'Hart, - Volume: 2

archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar

Another book by John O'Hart is also available free on the Internet Archive.

The Irish landed gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland (1887), by John O'Hart;

archive.org/details/irishlandedgentr00ohar