“Bíonn grádh Agám Ar dhántáigh is Ar cheoltáigh.”

"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.

Celt 13,70.5 (1)

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIB
JUL ! 1307

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

THOMAS SPRING RICE,

REPRESENTATIVE IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE CITY OF

LIMERICK,

A STEADY FRIEND TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF IRELAND,

THIS WORK,

UNDERTAKEN WITH A VIEW TO PRESERVE AND ILLUSTRATE

A PORTION OF ANCIENT IRISH LITERATURE,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT,

JAMES HARDIMAN.

Dublin, September 1st, 1831.