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IRISH MINSTRELSY,


OR


BARDIC REMAINS OF IRELAND;


WITH


ENGLISH POETICAL TRANSLATIONS.



COLLECTED AND EDITED,

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,

BY JAMES HARDIMAN, M. R. I. A.


“Bíonn grádh agam ar dhantaigh is ar cheoltaigh.”

“I will give thee a book—it containeth the Songs of the bards of Erin, of the bards of the days that are gone.”

John Philpot Curran.


VOL I.


LONDON:

JOSEPH ROBINS, BRIDE COURT, BRIDGE STREET.


1831.