Ancient Irish Minstrelsy (1852) - Hardcover

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MacDONNELL, D.D, PROYOST OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, AND M.R.I.A. Rev. Sir, To jou this small volume is inscribed by the A uthor, to testify the high estimation in which he holds your character, not merely as occupying the highly honourable and well-merited station of Provost of the University of Dublin, of which it can be no flattery to say that you are its decus et tutamen, but as a friend and encourager of the general literature of your country. When you sat in the Council of the Royal I rish Academy as one of their officers, you evinced a genuine patriotic desire to promote the cultivation of letters in I reland, not only by the general interest you took in the literary, as well as in the scientific and antiquarian researches of that learned society, but by proposing as the subject of prize essays .
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