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AN GAODHAL.
Mo — St Louis, M Hughes, per M Mangan; P
Dwyer, D Finn. (We stated in last Gael that Mr
Joyce sent $5 for subscribers ; that was a mistake
as the $5 was his usual contribution to the Gael.
We hope the subscribers whom Mr Joyce former¬
ly sent will answer for themseles — Kansas City, T
Gill, per Mr P McEniry (in last issue we had T for
P in Mr McEniry's initials). Mr McEniry is ogan¬
izing a Gaelic society in Armourdale, Kas., which
promises good results; he also bespeaks ten copies
of the projected dictionary.
Minn — Coon Creek, T Foley, per Rev. M C
Brennan, Jamestown, N Dak. (Father Brennan
expects to organize a Gaelic society in Jamestown
as he did formerly, in college, in Baltimore.)
Neb — Glenville, J Sheehy — Hastings, W W
Berry, per D A Coleman, Clay Centre.
N J — Rutherford, W H McLees — Newark, P J
Dolan, M Conry.
N Y — Brooklyn, the Misses B and R Dunlevy, J
J Kennedy, P Carrick — Buffalo, M J S Sullivan —
Corning, Mrs E Doyle — Cohoes, J Moynahan —
Monsey, E V D Murphy — New Brighton, S I. P
O'Driscoll, C Manahan — Poughkeepsie, B J Dug¬
gan — N Y City, P Brady, P Clune, J Muldoon, J
Henry, per Mr Muldoon.
Ohio — Cleveland. P O'Mally, per P Dever.
Pa — Reading, Rev. P J Hannigan — Phila. P
Sheils, per P Dever, Cleveland, O; M Hart, D M
Lennon.
R I — Providence, M T Murray, J King, per M
J Henehan.
Tex — Fort Hancock, J Clifford.
Vt — Fouldsville, E Ryan.
Wash — Port Ludlow, F Dunlevy — Spokane
Falls, P R Howley.
Canada — L'Epiphanie, E Lynch,
Ireland —
Cork — Gurrane. T O'Donovan (N School) —
Florence O'Driscoll, both per P O'Driscoll, West
N Brighton, Staten Island, N Y.
Donegal — Drimnacross. P McNillis, per Miss
Dunlevy, Brooklyn, N Y — Dungleo, Rev. C Mc¬
Glynn. per D Gallagher, Phila. Pa.
Dublin — J Leonard, per Miss M A Keegan,
Brooklyn, N Y; P O'Brien
Kerry — Caherdaniel, M Moriarty, per P Moriar¬
ty, Idaho City, Idaho.
Leitrim — Drumkerin, P Grogan, per B Grogan
Merced, Cal.
Waterford — St Stephen's N School, J O'Callagh¬
an, per Mr Tindall, Detriot, Mich. (Mr Tindall
sends two copies to this school to be given to the
most deserving Gaelic pupils).
Westmeath — Ballynacargy, Rev. E O'Growney
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O'Curry's Lectures.
ON THE
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL OF ANCIENT IRISH HIS¬
TORY.
LECTURE V.
[Delivered June 19, 1856.]
I have thus, I think, conclusively identified the
manuscript spoken of by Dr. O'Donovan as the
Annals of Kilronan, and I have identified it as one
different from the original Book of the O'Duige¬
nans of Kilronan, referred to by the Four Masters.
Whether that MS, is or is not the same as the An¬
nals of Loch Ce, referred to by Sir James Ware,
does not, however, appear to me to be by any
means clearly settled by Nicholson, the accuracy
of whose descriptions of Irish MSS. is not always
implicitly to be depended on. Certainly Sir Jas.
Ware does not quote from what he calls the An¬
als of Loch Ce at the year 1217, as we shall pres¬
ently see, though in the passage before quoted
from Nicholson, that positively says that "all he
(Ware) ever saw was a fragment of them, beginn¬
ing at 1249 and ending at 1408."
The references by Ware to these Annals are in
his History of the Bishops. In the first volume
of this important work (as edited by Walter Har¬
ris, pp. 84, 250, 252, 271), we find it stated on the
authority of the Annals of "Lough Kee' (Logh
Ce), that Adam O'Muirg (Annadh O'Muireadh¬
aigh), Bishop of Ardagh (Ardachadh), died in the
year 1217 ; Cairbre O'Scoba, Bishop of Raphoe
(Rath Bhotha), in the year 1275; William Mac
Casac, Bishop of Ardagh, in the year 1373; and
John Colton, Archbishop of Armagh, in the year
1404. On reference to our volume of Annals, we
find the death of Annadh O'Muireadhaigh and
Cairbre O'Scoba under the respective years 1217
and 1275. The other years, 1373 and 1404, are
now lost, though these lost sheets were probably
in existence in Ware's time.
The following little note, written in the lower
margin of the eleventh page of the fragment in
the British Museum, is not without interest in
tracing this very volume of Annals to the possess¬
ion of the family of Sir James Ware.
"Honest, good, hospital Robert Ware, Esqr.,
of Stephen's Green; James Magrath is his ser¬
ant for ever to command."
This Robert was the son of the very candid wri¬
ter on Irish history just mentioned, Sir Jos. Ware,
and it is pretty clear that this entry was made in
the book, of which the fragment in the British
Museum formed a part, while it was in the hands
of either the father or the son.
Having thus endeavored, and I trust successful¬
ly, to identify for the first time this valuable book
of Irish Annals, I now proceed to consider the
character of its contents, so as to form a just esti¬
mate of its value, as a large item in the mass of
materials which still exist for an ample and auth¬
entic History of Ireland.
These Annals of Loch Ce, as I shall hence forth
call them, commence with the year of our Lord
1014, containing a very good account of the battle
of Clontarf; the death of the memorable Brian Bo¬
roimhe; the final overthrow of the whole force of
the Danes, assisted as they were by a numerous
army of auxiliaries and mercenaries; and the tot¬
al destruction of their cruel and barbarous sway
within the 'Island of Saints'.
