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ADVERTISEMENT.
That ONCE WE WERE, is aW we
have left to boast of; that once
WE WERE, we have record upon
record, and testimony upon testi-
mony, to convince the most incredu-
lous. In vain have plodding cunning,
and assiduous malice been laboring; in
vain still do they toil, to lay our ancient
honours in the dust, to wither with their
baneful breath the lovely wreaths of
lernia's glory. We yet can show the
stately pharos where waved the chief-
tain's banner, and the wide ruin where
the palace stood — the palace once the
pride of ages and the theme of song —
once Emuin a luin Aras Ullah,

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Fingal
Description"a fine-Eirin : a poem, in six cantos : with notes, intended to delineate the manners and state of society of Ancient Ireland." (Imperfect: missing pages 83-94.)
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DescriptionSelected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy.
Early Gaelic Book Collections
DescriptionSelected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history.