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PREFACE |
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finding a place in the alphabetical order under the title of Street Ballads, Hedge Songs and Anonymous verse.
For those who wish to study the groups into which Irish songs and lyrics naturally fall, the apparatus furnished at the end of the volume will be found readily practicable. The thousand and one gems of Irish poetry contained herein are classified in the indexes in such a manner that the student can easily find every group with which he may wish to acquaint himself. The folk songs, the Bardic songs, the love songs, the humorous and convivial songs and the sacred poetry, as well as many other minor subdivisions will be found in their places.
The translations from the Gaelic by different hands included in the volume are indexed under the names of their translators; and so far as the authorship is known, under the names of the writers; they are also indexed in the general group of Gaelic authors. A few translations of the same poems by different hands will be found as for example : " The famous hills of Eire O," of which no less than three different versions are given.
In garnering this collection the editor has had the advantage of the critical judgment of some of the foremost Irish scholars and poets among whom may be mentioned with grateful thanks : Dr. Douglas Hyde, Mr. Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Francis Joseph Bigger and D. J, O'.Donoghue as well as some of the best |
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