Irish Minstrelsy, Or, Bardic Remains of Ireland; Introduction. Memoir of Carolan. Memoir of Thomas Furlong. Remains of Carolan. Addenda. Sentimental songs - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...to whom, as we hare seen, Carolan's grateful muse had before paid a tribute. The Irish reader will immediately recognize the translation, as adapted to the sweet old air of "ChusUnip fein An rAmhpA linn."--"We have brought the summer with us." " The nobles of Spain have been seen at her side." Multitudes of the exiled victims of the penal laws of Ireland, during the last century, became eminent in arts and arms throughout Europe. Many of them were conspicuous in promoting the honor and prosperity of every country except their own. In France and Spain, particularly, their virtues and valor were repeatedly crowned with the most distinguished marks of honor; and we find the politic rulers of those countries not unfrequently exalting them to the highest ranks of the nobility. Not all those honors, however, could make them forget their native land. Restless exiles doomed to roam, Meet pity every where; Yet languish for their native home, Tho' death attends them there. Many of these eminent individuals from time to time revisited their relatives, who, at home, dragged on a painful existence in penury and scorn, persecuted by the laws, and trampled to the dust by every official bigot who could yell loudest against Pope and Popery. Some of the visitors, in the present instance, were "The nobles of Spain," alluded to by Carolan. JOHN JONES. 'John Jones was a descendant of Jeremy Jones, of Ardneglasse, and Bellaghy, in the county of Sligo, by Elizabeth, granddaughter of Sir James Ware, the celebrated Irish antiquary. We are inclined to think that the present respectable members of his name and family will be pleased to find so handsome a mark of respect to one of their ancestors amongst the Works of Carolan. Tradition has not p...