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FAMOUS SONGS
tatingly assigns Latin and English words and moslc to the inspiration of John of Fornsete, following in the footsteps of other explorers, of course. I make no suggestions.
" Blooming Deirdre/'" Mary a Roon," " The Fair Hills of Ireland/" " The Expulsion of Shane Bui/' "John O'Dwyer of the Glen/' and other Irish Jacobite songs teem with interest of a kind more suitable to the antiquarian than the general reader. Pieces of a different cast could be cited by the score, dating back to very remote ages, which are valuable if only on account of their antiquity.
The fanciful, fantastic and faeristic elements have ever furnished Erin's writers with pleasant food for their prolific pens, and ballads on "The Island of Atlantis/' " Hy-Brasil—the Isle of the Blest/' phantom islands of gold, enchanted islands, holy wells, fairy wells, have been written by Gerald Griffin, Thomas Moore, Clarence Mangan, the Reverend George Croly, Charles Lever, Samuel Lover, Sir Samuel Ferguson, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and other poets of equal eminence, and are to be found in most collections of Irish songs and ballads. The notion with regard to " Hy-Brasil/' by Gerald Griffin, is concerned with several other places— the locality generally being the only difference
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