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_The Rising of the Moon and Other Poems_ (1869). By permission of Messrs. Cameron & Ferguson, the present publishers.

l. 2. _ma bouchal._ My boy.

11. _banshee._ The fairy spirit of doom (Irish, _ban-sidhe_).

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_Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland_ (Dublin: Gill & Son, 1888). By permission of the author. Clonmacnois, founded by St. Kieran in the sixth century, was for many generations one of the greatest ecclesiastical establishments and centres of learning in Ireland. It was the chosen burial-place of many royal and noble families.

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_The Wind in the Trees_ (Grant Richards, 1898). By permission of the author.