Bards of the Gael and Gall (1925)

Author: George Sigerson

Book ID: 64458

Price: 125.00

Bards of the Gael and Gall. With Memorial Preface by Dr. Douglas Hyde. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1925. Third Edition. Pp, 431. Green cloth boards, in publisher’s dust jacket featuring Celtic style design. A fine bright copy. Scarce in jacket.

An anthology of translated Gaelic poetry given in historical series, specimens of verse from the earliest known to that of recent time and presenting them in the spirit, form and structure of the originals.

First published in 1897, this volume was printed as part of a uniformly bound series of works on Irish literature & history issued by the Phoenix Press, circa 1935.

George Sigerson was President of the National Literary Society of Ireland, Corresponding Member of La Socété d’Anthropologie.

 

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