The Blarney Ballads With Illustrations (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Blarney Ballads: With Illustrations Nearly all departments of Irish poetry are here represented, from the Bardic Ode to the Broadsheet. T/ze Arabian Knig/zt closely follows the metre of Mangan's Dar/e Rosaleen, in its turn a translation of a poem by an Irish bard of the Elizabethan era. Specimens of Convivial and Humorous Songs will be found in Ine Premise-éreaenes, based upon, and in some parts borrowed from, Party Molly Brallagnan in Came! To Me Classes, and in modernized versions of T/ze Groves of Blarney, Tne Bangs qf Mallow, and Ike Monés of t/ze Serew. The street ballad is represented by Tne Grana' Oala' Man, Tne Wearing of Me Blue, and Willy, I Hardly Knew Yon; while a chord of tenderer sentiment is struck in such pieces as Billy Maenree, - adapted from Gerald Griffin's Gil/e Maenree, - Tne Munster Maia', A Leap Year Male/i, and Waiting for Me Tia'e; the last mentioned being closely modelled on D. F. Mccarthy's Wailing for Me May. The originals of other pieces will be familiar to readers of Moore and Sheridan. Purists may resent such procedure as sacri legious in the extreme; but if it prompts them to consult the Celtic exemplars, the end will have justified the some what questionable means adopted. Some few of these ballads may lay claim to originality in form and sentiment. 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.