THE WOOD-CUTS INTRODUCED INTO THIS VOLUME ARE: A St. Patrick's cross, as manufactured of coloured papers as made by school-boys Ditto, two specimens, as now printed and pub lished.. Button of the Irish Volunteers Specimens of Whisky bottles and glasses Viz. Deoch an Durrus glass. Poteen bottle. Modern whisky bottle. Poteen glass. Modern whisky glass. Substitutes for ditto; viz. a clusheen shell and an egg shell. A Topographical Sketch of the Kilruddery Hunt, 1744 PAGE 8 10 42 107 221 THE POPULAR SONGS OF IRELAND. ST. PATRICK. Or a personage so celebrated as the National Saint of Ireland, it is here only necessary to state that the anniversary of his death,* namely, the 17th of March, has been long carefully observed by all good and pious Irishmen; not, indeed, with painful abstinence or melancholy seclusion, but with glorious feasting and uproarious jollification. Harris recommends, in consequence, the publication of a Life of St. Patrick, as "the means of * Quere, that of his birth! It is very difficult, in the lives of the saints, to ascertain one from the other; as the same word is commonly used by their biographers to express both events. "A nativity, or natal day," that is, the day on which a saint is released from mortality here, and born to eternal life. |