of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years. It is hard to say where history ends in the

some possess it in manuscript. The bush, a forerunner of the 'Talking Oak' or the 'Father of the Forest,' gives its recollections, which go back to the times of the Firbolgs, the Tuatha De Danaan, 'without heart, without humanity'; the Sons of the Gael; the heroic Fianna, who 'would never put more than one man to fight against one'; Cuchulain 'of the Grey Sword, that broke every gap'; till at last it comes to 'O'Rourke's wife that brought a blow to Ireland': for it was on her account the English were first called in. Then come the crimes of the English, made redder by the crime of Martin Luther. Henry VIII 'turned his back on God and denied his first wife.' Elizabeth

War, and the Repeal movement; and it is natural that his poems, like those of the poets before him, should reflect

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and by Ireland, the English guard would be feeble, and every gap made easy. The Gall (English) will be on their back without ever returning again; and

But the cards will turn, and we'll have a good hand: the trump shall stand on the board we play at.... Let ye have courage. It is a fine story I have. Ye shall gain the day in every q

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etched without anyone to cry after them; but with us there will be a bonfire lighted up on high.... The music of

in a verse, that they should look at the English Government, and think of all the soldiers it had, and all the police-no, there were no police in those days, but gaugers and such like-and they should think how full up England was of guns and arms, so that it could put down Buonaparty; and that it had conquered Spain, a

Galway Gaol for three months for a song he made against the Protestant C