Excerpt from Reliques of Irish Jacobite Poetry: With Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Interlinear Literal Translations, and Historical Illustrative Notes At a moment like the present, every exertion should be made to restore, if possible, the sweet and pathetic Songs of Ireland - the Songs written by her bards at the period of her bitterest woes, too long neglected - too long forgotten, and give them to the people and the land they belong to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.