Rhyme With Reason

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Excerpt from Rhyme With Reason: A Garland of Irish Shamrocks, Many of Them Grown in America It is a long time now since a collection of Irish or Irish-American poetry was issued from the press except - here and there the outpourings of some individual bard, or a gathering of old "come-all-ye's" to piquantly tingle the memory and excite the vocal chords to action. In the following pages will be found a combination never before attempted from a poetic point of view of the vanished and ethereal past with the vigorous and living present. The shade of Fionn McCumhal - who got his poetic craft when he accidentally tasted the Salmon of Knowledge that he was cooking for his master bends down from that Irish Olympus, Slievenamon, "the Mountain of Fair Women, " to congenially clasp the hands and listen to the chantings of modern Celtic sons and daughters of song. There is a fitful flashing of the divine fire of poetry all the way from the Patrician days to the twentieth century, from royal Tara to philistine Chicago. Chronological sequence is exercised as far as possible. The current of the pages glides along through the ever varying lights and shades of Irish history and the changeful moods and tenses of Irish politics. Nobody with a songful and soulful message is here debarred from a hearing, be he or she separatist, conciliationist, home ruler, Fenian, Clan-na-Gael, Shin Feiner, Redmondite, hillsider, cattle-driver or Molly Maguire, lover of liberty or of noble life and high ideals, or votary of that apparently fast vanishing quality (37, 000 young emigrants annually), the tender home love of the Celt. 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.