“bíonn gradh agam ar dhántaigh 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 1.

LONDON :

JOSEPH ROBINS, BRIDE COURT, BRIDGE STREET.

Celt 1370.5 (1)

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HARVARD
UNIVIOSITY

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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.