Excerpt from Abhrain Ghradh Chuige Connach, or Love Songs of Connacht: Being the Fourth Chapter of the "Songs of Connacht" I have, as you will see, carefully abstained from trenching upon anything ever before published, my object merely being to preserve What was in danger of speedy extinction. It is, however, more than time that the best of those gems of lyric song, published by, Hardiman, over sixty years ago, in two expensive and now rare volumes, were given to the public in a cheap and accessible form. It is to them the student should first look for the very highest expression of the lyric genius Of our race. 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.