ollav

Glittereyed his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face bearded amid darkgreener shadow, an ollav, holyeyed.

Ulysses 2003

The lament was made by MacLiag, whom Brian had made ord-ollav or chief litterateur of Ireland.

Kincora 1922

The ollamh (ollav), or arch-poet, who was the highest dignitary among the poets, and whose training lasted for some twelve years, was obliged to learn two hundred and fifty of these prime sagas and one hundred secondary ones.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

There were two kinds of poets known to the early Gael. the principle of those was called the filè (filla); there were seven grades of filès, the most exalted being called an ollamh (ollav).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Glittereyed his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face bearded amid darkgreener shadow, an ollav, holyeyed.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

They reverenced wisdom, whether in king, bard, or ollav, and at the same time there was a communal basis for economic life.

The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity George William Russell 1901

That the Irish kings and heroes should succeed one another, surrounded by a blaze of bardic light, in which both themselves and all those who were contemporaneous with them are seen clearly and distinctly, was natural in a country where in each little realm or sub-kingdom the ard-ollav was equal in dignity to the king, which is proved by the equivalence of their cries.

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887

The ard-ollav ranked next to the king, and his eric was kingly.

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Standish O'Grady 1887

On a road again the learned men of Leinster, each with an idea in his head that would discomfit a northern ollav and make a southern one gape and fidget, would be marching solemnly, each by a horse that was piled high on the back and widely at the sides with clean-peeled willow or oaken wands, that were carved from the top to the bottom with the ogham signs; the first lines of poems (for it was an offence against wisdom to commit more than initial lines to writing), the names and dates of kings, the procession of laws of Tara and of the sub-kingdoms, the names of places and their meanings.

Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916