This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text.
In some cases, Irish words appear to be printed with grave accents
rather than the acute síneadh fada. In this edition all Irish words use
only the modern standard fada.
The page images used to create this ebook are inconsistent as to whether
there is a fada over the “a” in “Pádraic”, and it is not always clear
whether the fadas that do appear were printed with the volume or added
in afterwards. As there is no fada the majority of the time, the fadas
appearing in the front matter of the volumes have been omitted.
On page 102, the words “Íosa” and “Ísuccán” were printed in cló Gaelach,
Irish script. They are presented here in Roman script.
The end of the Appendix section on _The Singer_, on page v, ends with no
punctuation; this has been left as is.
New original cover art included with this ebook is granted to the public
domain.
The following changes and corrections have been made:
• Table of Contents: Added question mark after title “WHY DO YE TORTURE
ME?” to match title above poem.
• p. xii: Replaced “Paraic” with “Paraig” in phrase “Paraig wearing a
surplice.”
• p. 24: Replaced period with comma in phrase “I meant this to be a
home-coming, but it seems....”
• p. 51: Added period after phrase “It is not, but mine.”
• p. 72: Removed second period before phrase “He is fond of little
Iollann.”
• p. 76: Replaced “ladybird” with “lady-bird” before phrase “We watch
the wee lady-bird fly far away.”
• p. 81: Replaced “Ciarnn” with “Ciaran” before phrase “What do you
call your rann?”
• p. 91: Added comma in phrase “Bid him to come in, Iollann.”
• p. 105: Replaced comma with period before phrase “Yon one gave me
enough.”
• p. 106: Added period before phrase “I’ll make a _lúrabóg_ of you!”
• p. 189: Added opening double quotation mark before phrase “I’d rather
it than anything I have in the world.”
• p. 221: Removed opening quotation mark before phrase “Do you think,
Sean.”
• p. 225: Added opening double quotation mark before phrase “that she
didn’t know the railway.”
• p. 225: Moved closing double quotation mark from after to before
phrase “says my father.”
• p. 266: Changed comma to period after phrase “but that’s not the
fairing.”
• p. 269: Replaced “Padaric” with “Padraic” in phrase “bless my Uncle
Padaric that’s now in America”
• p. 276: Changed single to double closing quotation mark after phrase
“Niamh of the Golden Head.”
• p. 280: Changed “its” to “it’s” and “head” to “Head” in phrase “it’s
Niamh Goldy-Head would go out on the hill.”
• Appendix p. iii: Changed “the the” to “the” in phrase “because the
word is not given.”
• Appendix p. iii: Changed “do do” to “do” in phrase “What do you say,
Feichin.”
• Appendix p. vii: Removed closing double quotation mark after phrase
“my morality _An Rí_.”