Glen Collection of printed music > Printed music > Minstrelsy of Ireland

PBEFACE.
I have much pleasure in acknowledging the great kindness and courtesy
which I have received from all to whom I have applied for help in the
compiling of this volume of Irish folk-songs. My thanks are due to
Dr. Patrick W. Joyce, Dublin ; Mr. John Glen, Edinburgh ; Mr. Frank Kidson,
Leeds ; Mr. F. C. Cronin, Limerick ; Count and Countess Plunkett, Dublin ;
Mr. D. J. O'Donoghue, Finglas ; and Mr. Francis Fahy, London. To
Mr. T. L. Lyster, Principal Librarian of the National Library of Ireland,
I am especially indebted for allowing me access to the valuable Joli Collection
of Irish music contained in the National Library of Ireland. Owing to the
kindness of Miss Dora Sigerson (Mrs. Clement Shorter), Miss Katharine Tynan
(Mrs. Hinkson), Miss Rosa Mulholland (Mrs. Gilbert), Dr. George Sigerson,
Mr. Michael Hogan (the Bard of Thomond), and Mr. W. B. Yeats, I have
been enabled to enrich my work with many beautiful songs by these writers.
My thanks are also offered to my anonymous correspondent for the interesting
collection of traditional Irish airs, forwarded to me from Dublin about the
beginning of the present year; also to Messrs. Pigott & Co., Dublin, for
permitting me to extract some melodies from Hoffmann's Ancient Music of
Ireland.
ALFRED MOFFAT,
March, 1897.