NOTES.
Reading edition
PREFACE
THE SONS OF USNACH
THE CHILDREN OF LIR
THE FORAY OF QUEEN MEAVE
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
Transcriber’s Notes
New original cover art included with this ebook is granted to the public domain.
The original printed book included both footnotes and endnotes. In this edition, all notes have been converted to sequentially numbered endnotes.
De Vere consistently spells the Irish title “ollamh” as “ollamb”; this and other non-standard spellings of Irish words have not been corrected.
There are some errors and inconsistencies in the rendering of single and double quotation marks in nested dialogue, especially in the long narration by Fergus starting on page 138. These have been silently corrected.
The following changes and corrections have been made:
p. vi: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “a famous scribe named Maelmire, who was killed there in 1106.”
p. 1: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “goodlier is this child / Than e’er till now on proudest parent smiled!”
p. 16: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Ever at Uladh’s feasts the clansmen say,” change internal opening single quotation mark in this stanza to double quotation mark, and add closing double quotation mark to end of stanza.
p. 17: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Their singing is the best all Uladh boasts” and at the start of the following stanza.
p. 28: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Lay first that head, and march we hence this night!”
p. 69: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “A woman’s hand one day shall strike him dead!”
p. 78: Replaced “Finōla” with “Finola” in phrase “Finola paced the high-arched alleys green.”
p. 80: Added period and closing single quotation mark after phrase “if not—my hate.”
p. 81: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “Their voices too are voices of the Gael!”
p. 89: Added exclamation mark and closing single quotation mark after phrase “Farewell, my little Conn!”
p. 90: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “Thou hear’st the charge: how makest thou reply?”
p. 114: Added period after phrase “Through Faith the birthright, though the younger son.”
p. 145: Changed “bou” to “boughs” in phrase “Bird-song by autumn chilled, that brake through boughs.”
p. 153: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “My strength must lessen day by day.”
p. 155: Changed “o er” to “o’er” in phrase “o’er the axle bent.”
p. 164: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “this Island should be theirs!”
p. 190: Changed “Fionbannagh” to “Fionbannah” in phrase “the Bulls that shake this day our land, / Fionbannah, and the Donn.”
p. 203: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “Is past since northward to the war we marched.”
p. 227: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “One day I shared her feast: she shall not die!”
p. 228: Added comma after phrase “The household stuffs, rich vests, and precious dyes.”