THE RISE, INCREASE, AND EXIT OF THE GERALDINES, EARLS OF DESMOND, AND PERSECUTION AFTER THEIR FALL. TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF DOMINIC O'DALY, O.P., BY C. P. MEEHAN, C.C. Third Edition. Bublin: JAMES DUFFY AND CO., LTD., ΤΟ JOSEPH CASIMIR O'MEAGHER, ESQ., Solicitor, A HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF HIS PROFESSION, AND DILIGENT STUDENT OF HIS COUNTRY'S ANTIQUITIES A GRATEFUL FRIEND DEDICATES THESE PAGES. 88. MICHAEL AND JOHN, Nov. 26, 1878. INTRODUCTION. THE first edition of this work having been many years out of print, has become almost as scarce as its Latin original, for which collectors of rare books relating to Ireland used to give as much as fifteen and twenty pounds sterling.* The translation, doubtless,, helped to cure the harmless lunacy commonly called Bibliomania, and it is hoped that the present edition may check, if it does not entirely prevent, recurrences of the same malady, so far as Father O'Daly's work is concerned. The first edition (of the translation) was made hastily-currente calamo-and, consequently, had many faults of expression, not quite in accordance with English idioms. This induced the Editor to revise the text, in order to render it more readable. He has also omitted many of the notes which appeared in that issue, and substituted others, which he thinks will prove more pleasing and instructive. The Appendix has been enlarged with the addition of some valuable documents, to which the general reader would find it difficult to get access. The * Lownde's Catalogue. |