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FOREWORD BY The Right Hon. T. P. O’Connor

DONN BYRNE’S FIRST POEM Published in Harper’s Magazine, 1911

I

TARA ONCE THE SEAT OF IRISH KINGS

II

A GIVING, LOYAL PEOPLE

IRELAND’S PLACE NAMES HAVE COLOUR AND CHARM

IRISH BULLS OFTEN REFLECT EFFORTS AT SUBTLE NUANCES OF SPEECH

INTRICACIES OF GAELIC POETRY

BLACK DESPAIR WAILS FROM IRISH PIPES

THE WORST HAUNTED HOUSE IN THE BRITISH ISLES

III

ROMAN MISSIONARIES LAID FOUNDATION OF IRISH CIVILISATION

BASQUE AND CELTIC ARE NOT RELATED

GAELIC IS A DIFFICULT TONGUE

MASONS AND ARTIFICERS ONCE HAD A SEPARATE LANGUAGE

MYSTERY SHROUDS IRELAND AFTER ROME’S NOBLE RETREAT

RICH MONASTERIES ATTRACTED NORSE RAIDERS

KING BRIAN RID THE ISLAND OF THE NORSE

HOW THE BRITISH CAME TO IRELAND

ELIZABETH RECONQUERED IRELAND

IRISH PROFIT BY DEFEAT

IV

LEGEND AND LITERATURE ENHANCE INTEREST OF MANY SPOTS

WHERE BRUCE TOOK REFUGE

RIOT HAS WROUGHT HAVOC IN DUBLIN

INTO A WORLD OF GLENS

WHERE SPENSER WROTE “THE FAËRIE QUEEN”

THE BLARNEY HOAX

THE MAJESTIC SHANNON IS BEING THROTTLED

AMONG CONNEMARA’S PEAKS

V

MONUMENTS THAT LEAVE THE HEART COLD

IRELAND OF THE THATCHED COTTAGE

VI

THE PASSPORT TO TIR NAN OG