The Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature Into the English Tongue

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Excerpt from The Need and Use of Getting Irish Literature Into the English Tongue: An AddressI felt deeply the honour done to me when I was asked to deliver the in augural lecture, and I felt as deeply how little I was fitted, and how much better others were, to write this Lecture. But I was so interested in the work of the Society, I wasso delighted to think that we should perhaps induce England to look more fully into Irish literature, and especially Irish heroic literature, I was so entirely at one with the aims of the Society, I was so glad to meet more of my countrymen, and Ireland was so dear to me, that I forgot my own unfitness for the work, and only thought of the work itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.