Note 17 — Chapter XLIV
Reading edition
Preface to Halliday's edition of Keating's "Forus Feasa," p. xi. The fine poet, David Bruadar (p. 592), wrote a satiric poem on the haste the Irish made to speak English when the Duke of Ormond was in power, two lines of which I quote from memory:
"Is mairg atá gan Béarla binn Ar dteacht an Iarla go h-Eirinn."