Excerpt from The Poets and Poetry of Ireland: With Historical and Critical Essays and Notes Some apparent discrepancies will appear in the spell ing of Celtic words on account of the difference between the correct and scholastic, and the common or Anglicized form. I have considered it merely finical to attempt to change to the less known form such familiar words as colleen, cruiskeen, etc., in places where they are parts of the dialect, although I have usually followed the scho lastic authority elsewhere. 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.