The Religious Songs of Connacht or Abhrán Diadha Chúige Connacht. Cuid 1 (Being Chapters VI of The Songs of Connach). Now for the First Time Collected, Edited, and Translated by Douglas Hyde (An Craoibhín Aobhinn). Dublin: Gill, [1906]. Pp, (1) xxi, 404. Publisher’s smooth buckram cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine. A very good copy.

This volume Signed and Inscribed in Irish and English to the fly-leaf by Hyde to Mrs Cadbury, dated March, 1913:

“A voice from the remote parts of Ireland to the courteous lady who came over sea to us. In remembrance of her visit”

The first part of a two part work. Text in old Irish script with English translation to verso.

‘While collecting the poetry of the province of Connacht, a work which I began some twenty years ago, I found that those poems which touched upon piety or religion were very numerous.’ [Douglas Hyde]