transmographying of Gaelic names into English. The Gillespies
(Giolla-Easbuig, _i.e._, Bishop's servant) are Archbolds or Bishops. The
Mackays (Mac Aodha, _i.e._, son of Ae or Hugh) are Hughes. The Mac Reevys
or Mac Culreevys (Mac Cùil-Riabhaigh, _i.e._, son of the grey poll) are
Grays. The Mac Eóchagains instead of being all Gahagans or Geoghegans
have--some of them--deformed their name into the monstrosity of Goggin.
The Mac Feeachrys (Mac Fhiachraidh) are Vickors or even Hunters. The Mac
Feehalys are often Fieldings. Mac Gilleesa (Mac Giolla Iosa, _i.e._, sons
of Jesus' devotee) are either Gillespie or Giles. The Mac Gillamurrys (Mac
Giolla-Mhuire, _i.e._, son of the Virgin's devotee) is often made Marmion,
sometimes more correctly Macilmurray or Mac Ilmurry. Mac Gillamerry (Mac
Giolla Meidhre, _i.e._, son of the servant of merriment) is Anglicised
Merryman. Mac Gillaree (Mac Giolla-righ, _i.e._, son of the king's
servant) is very often made King, but sometimes pretty correctly Mac
Gilroy or Mac Ilroy--thus the Connemara people have made Kingston of the
village of Ballyconry, because the _ry_ or _righ_ means a king. The Mac
Irs, sons of Ir, earliest coloniser of Ireland, have, by some confusion
with _geirr_, the genitive of _gearr_, "short," become Shorts or
Shortalls, but sometimes, less corruptly, Kerrs. The honourable name of
Mac Rannell (Mac Raghnaill) is now seldom met with in any other form than
that of Reynolds. The Mac Sorarans (Mac Samhradháin, the clan or tribe
name of the Mac Gaurans or Mac Governs) have become Somers, through some
fancied etymology with the word _samhradh_. The Mac Sorleys (Mac
Samharlaigh) are often Shirleys. The honourable and poetic race of
Mac-an-bháirds (sons of the bard) are now Wards to a man. The
Mac-intleevys (Mac an tsléibhe, _i.e._, sons of the mountain) are Levys or
Dunlevys. The Macintaggarts (Mac an tsagairt, _i.e._, son of the priest)
are now Priestmans, or occasionally, I do not know why, Segraves. The
Macgintys (Mac an tsaoi, _i.e._, son of the sage) are very often Nobles.
The Macinteers (Mac an tsaoir, _i.e._, son of the carpenter) instead of
being made MacIntyre as the Scots always have it, are in Ireland
Carpenters or Wrights, or--because _saor_ means "free" as well as
Carpenter--Frees and Freemans. Many of the O'Hagans (O h-Aodhgáin) are now
Fagans, and even Dickens's Fagan the Jew has not put a stop to the hideous
transformation. The O'Hillans (Mac Ui Iollain, _i.e._, sons of Illan, a
great name in Irish romance) have become Hylands or Whelans. It would be
tedious to go through all the well-known names that immediately occur to
one as thus suffering; suffice it to say, that the O'Heas became Hayses,
the O'Queenahans, Mosses, Mossmans, and Kinahans, the O'Longans Longs, the
O'Naghtens Nortons, the O'Reardons Salmons, the O'Shanahans Foxes, and so
on _ad infinitum_.
[21] It is questionable, however, whether Partholan as a modern Christian
name is not itself an Irishised form of Bartholomew.
[22] For more information about Tailtin, see an article by me incorporated
in the "Rules of the Gaelic Athletic Association," recently published.
[23] In Irish it is Beul-áth-an-righ contracted into B'l'áth'n-righ,
pronounced _Blawn-ree_.
UNWIN BROTHERS,
THE GRESHAM PRESS,
CHILWORTH AND LONDON
THE PATRIOT PARLIAMENT
Of 1689, with its Statutes, Rites, and Proceedings.
By THOMAS DAVIS.
Edited, with an Introduction, by the Hon. Sir CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY, K.C.M.G.
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, Paternoster Square.
DUBLIN: SEALY, BRYERS & WALKER, Middle Abbey Street.
NEW YORK: P. J. KENEDY, Barclay Street.
NOTICES OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
_From_ THE DAILY NEWS.
The remarkable Series of papers on "The Patriot Parliament."
_From_ THE PALL MALL GAZETTE.
The papers are by far the most valuable of Davis's contribution to Irish
history. Mr Lecky, in his history, has spoken of them with much
admiration, and has adopted many of their conclusions. The account of the
Jacobite Parliament which is given by Lord Macaulay has long been
generally accepted in England, but we believe that any one who will
candidly examine the evidence that is collected by Davis will arrive at
the conclusion that this account is seriously misleading.
To many, however, the most attractive part of this little volume will be
the introduction which is written by Sir Gavan Duffy. It is a brilliant
and powerful indictment of the government of Ireland under the Stuarts. It
is impossible to mistake the accent of sincerity that runs through his
pages, and very few men have written Irish history with such eloquence and
force.
_From_ THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE.
We have Mr. Lecky's testimony that Davis's account of what he calls the
Patriot Parliament is "the best and fullest" he is acquainted with. He has
made it clear that Macaulay's condemnation of the Parliament was over
coloured.
_From_ NOTES AND QUERIES.
We do not discuss politics, even when upwards of two hundred years
intervenes between the then and the now. From the literary point of view,
taking into consideration the limitations of a popular book, we have
little but praise to give to Davis's "Patriot Parliament." He wrote as a
partisan; but we detect no perversion of facts. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's
introduction is remarkably interesting. Some of our readers will like to
put this volume on the shelf where they keep their books of historic
reference, for in the appendix is a carefully compiled catalogue of the
Lords and Commons of the Parliament of 1689.
_From_ THE TIMES.
A reprint of a politico-historical tract by a writer highly commended by
Mr. Lecky, with an appreciative biographical introduction from the pen of
a well-known authority on Irish history.
_From_ THE GLOBE.
Mr. Lecky once described Davis's work as "by far the best and fullest
account" of the assembly in question, and in reproducing it the Irish
Society have earned the thanks of all students of Irish history.
_From_ THE SCOTSMAN.
The work is a valuable and instructive account of the work done by "the
Popish Parliament of James II." It is introduced by a paper in which its
editor tells all that need be known of Davis, and shows in what respects
his account corrects Macaulay. The reissue should be welcome to every one
interested in Irish history.
_From_ THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.
It is a vigorous and readable paper, and it carries weight with it.
_From_ THE NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's introduction extends to nearly one hundred
pages, and traces in bold and rapid lines the history of Ireland under the
Stuarts. It is written with that ease, lucidity, and decision which marks
the style of Davis's colleague of fifty years ago, who now does this
service to the history of his country and to the memory of his friend.
_From_ THE SCOTTISH LEADER.
It would not have been easy indeed to make a better opening of such a
series as this aspires to be. "The Patriotic Parliament" is only a
characteristic fragment of the work of one of Ireland's most notable
heroes, and it is also a contribution of real merit to Irish history. A
perusal of this little book will fully justify Mr. Lecky's praise of the
skill and industry displayed by Davis, at the same time that it will fill
one with a kind of amused admiration of the fervid and somewhat youthful
enthusiasm of the "Young Ireland" of 1845.
_From_ THE FREEMAN.
The Irish Parliament of 1690 has been seriously maligned by Macaulay,
Froude, Ingram, and others. This is a vindication, and the work of an
Irish Protestant. The introduction by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy is very
vividly written and gives a view of the colonisation of Ulster of a very
serious character. We have not space for the story as given here, but we
commend it to our readers who desire to understand the springs of Irish
discontent.
_From_ THE BAPTIST.
To impartial students of history Davis's work will be indispensable.
_From_ THE METHODIST TIMES.
This humble-looking little book marks an era. Sir Charles Duffy has
prefixed an introduction in which he tells once more the long story of
Ireland's wrongs. The perusal of it makes one feel that England will never
lay aside her prejudices and look at Irish questions as she looks at
Italian or Russian questions. After Sir C. G. Duffy's introduction comes
Thomas Davis's modest preface. It fills five pages; it was written just
fifty years ago. It is altogether admirable in tone and sentiment.
_From_ THE UNIVERSE.
We are of opinion that the issue of this new library will tend to place
the position of our country more fairly before the public, and will foster
a much-wanted knowledge of Ireland, its requirements and its failings,
amongst our own people. We bid the patriotic venture most heartily
welcome.
As a necessity, this opening book is identified with Thomas Davis--not by
any means that it is the best specimen of his thought or writing--as in
some sort acting as a hyphen between his era and ours--the era of glorious
promise and that of partial fruition. Sir Gavan Duffy--thanks that he
still survives--supplies a masterly introduction, which to us is the
kernel of the volume.
_From_ THE CATHOLIC TIMES.
Not the least of the many services which Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's
prolific pen has rendered to the country which gave him birth, and which
he has long loved and served with patriotic devotion, is the interesting
historical introduction he has prefixed to Thomas Davis's "Patriotic
Parliament." The mind of the statesman, the heart of the patriot, and the
hand of the practised politician are strikingly evident on every page of
this powerful polemic.
_From_ THE WEEKLY REGISTER.
We are, it may be hoped, at the beginning of a better time. Along with the
publications of the Irish Literary Society, which have just begun so well
with "The Patriotic Parliament of 1689," the joint work of Thomas Davis
and Gavan Duffy, the twin brethren of modern literature in Ireland, may we
see also many a publication by the Irish clergy of such books as the two
we have named, and the volumes published some years ago by the present
Coadjutor-Bishop for Kildare and Leighlin.
_From_ THE COLONIES AND INDIA.
The book before us is one which no student of Irish history can well be
without, for it discloses in what is no doubt the true light the character
of the Catholic Parliament of James II.
_From_ THE WEEKLY DESPATCH.
The volume, a very graphic account of the "Patriot Parliament" of 1689,
written by Thomas Davis, the Irish patriot of two generations back, is an
interesting and very instructive narrative, correcting the slanders and
false statements of Macaulay and other English historians, and showing how
just, and even how tolerant of Protestant aliens, Irish Catholics could be
in the short time allowed to them, more than a hundred years before
Grattan's Parliament came into existence, for experimenting in Home Rule.
But the most readable portion of the volume is the long introduction
supplied by the editor, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, who here succinctly
reminds us of some of the wrongs inflicted on his fellow-countrymen and
fellow-religionists in the old days, and not yet redressed.
_From_ THE WEEKLY SUN.
There ought to be many such books in circulation in England and Ireland,
and I hope that this volume will run through many editions. Ignorance has
been the bane of the two countries hitherto. Books like "The Irish
Parliament under James II." will go far to cement that feeling of
friendship by showing the people of this country how erroneous their
preconceived opinions of the character of the Irish people have been.
_From_ THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.
Though written fifty years ago, it is as much alive with lessons for the
hour as any composition of recent date. The introduction is in itself a
most valuable summary of the story of Ireland during the Stuart period.
Together with Davis's work it forms a book of which no student of Irish
history or Irish politics can afford to remain in ignorance.
_From_ THE LYCEUM.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy in his Introduction gives us a sketch of the times
immediately preceding the 1689 Parliament, beginning with the Plantation
of Ulster under James I. Step by step he traces the course of events
through the dark period of Cromwell's campaigns, through the reign of
Charles II., with his lack of good faith and honour in his dealings with
Ireland, down to the time when James, a fugitive from his own country and
in peril of his life, landed on the shores of Ireland and summoned a
Parliament of his Irish subjects. Davis's writings on this Parliament and
his ample vindication of it from the contumely and abuse so freely
bestowed on it, have now, for the first time, been collected together and
given to the reading world as a connected whole. It is a book to be
closely studied as throwing a bright and instructive light on a dark and
much misrepresented portion of Irish history.
_From_ THE DUBLIN DAILY INDEPENDENT.
To Sir Charles Gavan Duffy this work must have been much of a labour of
love. Of that company of devoted Irishmen who had gathered together in
Dublin nigh fifty years ago--he alone survives with one other, a busy
philanthropist in a southern city who has enhanced the beauty of our
national ballads and endeared himself to his countrymen thereby. The
coming home of Gavan Duffy to renew the work of his early manhood after
half a century of exile is an interesting incident. The young fresh
revival in Irish literature in its connection with these few fine old men
is as the return of the Son of Cool to the few remaining old Fians who
kept true to the traditions of their youth in the heart of the wooded
hills of Connaught. It is the proof that their fond hopes cannot be for
ever unfulfilled. Sharing with Sir Charles Gavan Duffy the _kudos_ of
editing the New Library were two men--not unknown to their countrymen. One
of them, as _An Chraoibhin Aoibhinn_, has laboured earnestly and well to
resuscitate an interest in the purely Gaelic side of Irish literature--Dr.
Douglas Hyde. The other, recognising that Thomas Davis's influence is of
that peculiar kind rather bequeathed than withdrawn, has gone forth
zealously to the endeavour of making Thomas Davis understanded of the
people, and with confidence to Mr. T. W. Rolleston may be entrusted the
gathering up the fragments that remain--that nothing be lost--of those who
brought a new soul into Erinn.
_From_ THE DUBLIN EVENING TELEGRAPH.
An able work, by Thomas Davis, edited by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, with a
magnificent essay on the Stuart and Cromwell period. That we should get
such a jewel as this first volume, such a thing of beauty for a shilling,
is little short of a marvel.
_From_ THE CORK HERALD.
It might be said, without exaggeration, that the appearance of this
work--the forerunner as it is of a series in which Irish life, Irish
genius, and Irish character will be represented--constitutes an event of
no ordinary importance in Irish history. It is the outcome of a desire and
a want which have been long felt that the Irish people should know
accurately and intimately everything connected with the past history of
their country, with its literature, its music, its antiquities, and its
art. The same idea which is now taking visible shape, presented itself to
the minds of the leaders of the Young Ireland movement fifty years ago,
when a series of little books was published which have since been the
companions, the inspiration, and the delight of two generations of
Irishmen at home and abroad. There are few Irishmen who have not at one
time or another received a potent intellectual stimulus from the writings
of Davis or Duffy, Mitchell or M'Nevin. We do not err, therefore, when we
say that great possibilities lie hidden in this new movement.
WORKS by DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D. (An Chraoibhin Aoibhinn).
"LEABHAR SGEULUIGHEACHTA."
_viii--261 pp., 8vo. Price =5/-=. Gill & Son, O'Connell Street, Dublin._
Containing some sixteen Folk Tales, Riddles, Ranns, &c., in Irish, with
copious Notes on the Pronunciation, Vocabulary, and Dialect.
"The multitude of characteristic idioms and of those charmingly expressive
turns of speech which one meets with daily among the peasantry is so great
as to make the work a perfect treasure-house of rich jewels of thought....
Dr. Hyde deserves well, not only of his country, but of all scientific
investigators and philologists."--_Freeman's Journal._
"This is the most noteworthy addition that has been made for nearly a
century to modern Gaelic literature."--_Chicago Citizen._
"His collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories is the fruit of years of
pious work. He has travelled into every corner of Ireland where the old
tongue still lingers, gathering from the mouths of the Irish-speaking
peasants the olden stories that linger among them."--_Nation._
"BESIDE THE FIRE."
_lviii--204 pp., large 8vo. Price =7/6=. David Nutt, Strand, London._
Containing Folk Tales and Fairy Stories in Irish and English, collected
from the mouths of the peasantry. With Introduction and Notes, and
additional Notes by ALFRED NUTT.
"Any reader conversant with the subject will at once recognise the fact
that this book is distinctly the most valuable contribution that has ever
been made to Irish Folk-lore. It would be hardly an exaggeration to say
that it is the only work in that particular department that is trustworthy
in its details and scientific in its treatment."--_Nature._
"We may say that Dr. Hyde's is the first [collection of Irish Folk-lore]
which has been presented in a form entirely satisfactory to the scientific
folk-lorist.... Few men know the living Gaelic tongue so well as Dr. Hyde,
and he has made it his object to give these fragments of Gaelic tradition
exactly as he gathered them from the lips of the peasantry, and with all
the collateral information that the scientific investigator can require.
The result is certainly one of the most interesting and entertaining books
of Folk-lore that it has ever been our good fortune to come across."--_The
Speaker._
"Perhaps the most interesting part of Dr. Hyde's collection of Irish
tales, 'Beside the Fire,' is his Introduction."--_Saturday Review._
"We trust that his warning, though late, is not given in vain, and that a
whole literature will not be allowed to die or to become a fossil in the
studies of the Dryasdusts."--_Daily News leading article._
"COIS NA TEINEADH."
_60 pp., large 8vo. Price =1/6=. Gill & Son, O'Connell Street, Dublin._
Containing six Folk Stories in Irish, reprinted from the last volume. With
Additional Notes, &c.
CONTES IRLANDAIS.
Being Extracts from the untranslated portion of the "Leabhar
Sgeuluigheachta," translated into French by M. GEORGES DOTTIN, with the
original Irish text in Roman letters as arranged by Monsieur DOTTIN on the
opposite page.
_70pp., 4to. Price =7/6=. Gill & Son, O'Connell Street, Dublin._
ABHRÁIN GRÁDH; OR, LOVE SONGS OF CONNACHT.
Containing 45 Poems collected from the mouths of Connacht peasantry or
from modern manuscripts, now for the first time collected, translated, and
published, with metrical and literal versions in English on one side of
the page and the Irish text on the other, with Notes, Anecdotes, and much
Illustrative matter.
_160pp., 8vo. Price =2/6= net. T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Buildings, and
Gill & Son, Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin._
"In these Connaught Love Songs Dr. Hyde has made, whether in verse or
prose, the best transcript of Celtic poetry into English that we have yet
had. So much of the magic, so much of the local colour, the native grace,
the idiom of the Irish as he has given, one had thought it impossible to
give."--ERNEST RHYS, _in the Academy, Oct. 13th, 1893._
"We cannot too cordially commend to ethnologists and Gaelic antiquarians
these relics of Irish Folk Songs collected with so much industry and
devotion by Dr. Hyde."--_The Times, July 20th, 1893._
"The price of this valuable and delightful work is only half-a-crown, and
it should be welcomed by several classes of readers. The folk-lorists of
course will pounce on it, but folk-lorists are a very small public and
despised of men. Still less numerous are students of the Irish language,
who here find what they need, the Erse poetry on the left page, the
literal translation on the right.... There remains the class of English
readers of poetry, and to them the 'Love Songs of Connacht' may be warmly
recommended."--_From the Daily News leading article, Sept. 1st, 1893._
"No one who has examined Dr. Hyde's previous work can fail to see that he
combines two gifts, the conjunction of which is rarely met with in one
man; he adds to the knowledge, the love of accuracy, and the scientific
spirit of a modern scholar that sense of the _form_, and love of the
_spirit_ of his material which belongs to the creative far more than to
the critical mind. And if such praise seems to any reader excessive, let
him examine for himself the 'Fourth Chapter of the Songs of
Connacht.'"--_From the Speaker, July 15th, 1893._
"Every page deserves some quotation.... Accompanying the poems is the
enchanting commentary of Dr. Hyde; he tells of the old folk from whose
lips, of the old manuscripts, from whose pages he took his songs. He is
philosophical, historical, scientific, at need.... The reader will reflect
that were these poems, or poems a thousand times less good in Greek or
Latin, old French, or old German, or songs of Russia or Roumania, many a
learned man, many a lover of poetry, would be keen to edit, criticise,
proclaim them."--_From the Daily Chronicle, Aug. 21st, 1893._
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