Transactions of the Ossianic Society, Volume 2

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Printed under the direction of the Council, 1855 - Ireland
Volumes 1-6 include the 1st-8th annual report of the society.
 

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Page 217 - THAT the history of Great Britain must remain incomplete and defective, until the ancient literary monuments of the Kingdom of Ireland, which now forms an integral portion of the British Empire, have been fully investigated, is a truth requiring but little demonstration. An acquaintance with the annals of the countries whose relations with England have materially influenced her destinies, is indispensable to the inquirer who desires to trace the origin of many of the most important events of European...
Page 106 - Cuailgne of the Badhbh or Banshee who appeared to Meidhbh, "together with seven braids for the dead, of bright gold, in her right hand; a speckled garment of green ground, fastened by a bodkin at the breast under her fair, ruddy countenance, enveloped her form; her teeth were so new and bright that they appeared like pearls artistically set in her gums; like the ripe berry of the mountain ash were her lips; sweeter was her voice than the notes of the gentle...
Page 219 - Erin," now preserved in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. This learned historiographer died in 1643, m which year, his Sanasan Nua, or Glossary of difficult and obsolete Irish words, was published at Louvain. The peculiar feature of these Annals is, that they supply us with a calm chronological account of the great Celtic tribes, 'who for so many ages constituted the Irish nation, and whose history — which, until the commencement of the seventeenth century, is the history of Ireland — has...

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