Download or read book Irish Songs and Ballads (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred Perceval Graves and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Irish Songs and Ballads A few Bardic Lyrics are presented in verse closely trans lated from the Celtic, and a long poem, The Fairy Branch, based upon a somewhat homely prose original, a reference to which will be found in the notes, is put forward as an experiment in the poetical treatment of early Irish tales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.