The Celtic review Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and jested and mocked and aphorised in volumes. The following ranns may serve as specimens:— On Poverty Mo chradh-sa an bochtanacht, is mairg da 'r ceilc i... more », Gidh gur ard a's gur aoibhinn a mholas an ehU'-ir seo it Gach a bhfuil diobh ar thalamh 's i bhflaitheas i u rinfheacht (Mise mo bhannaidh) go dtreigfidfs fein i. i.e. A poor thing is poverty, and I smile rather slily When I hear our good clergy come praising it highly, For on earth or in heaven no cleric would sorrow To part with his poverty quickly to-morrow. Still keener is this other verse :— An bochtanas, ni mholaim a's ni chainim i, Acht ni'l neach do bheith d'd mholadh liom, nach aige b' fhearr Horn i! An bocht a bhios folamh, gan aird gan ceim, Is mor 's an tsolus ', is toirtmhear le each a mhe'id. i.e. I neither praise poverty, nor at it repine, But who praises me poverty, I would let him have mine! The poor man despised without money or food or wine, He is in the light always, despite how the sun may shine. I hope these few gleanings from a field as yet unreaped may be of interest. I cannot conclude without a word of heartfelt admiration for the success and assiduity with which the Scottish Gael has collected the unwritten literature of the people from their own mouths, setting a splendid example before us Irishmen, which it is not yet too late for us to follow. THE STUDY OF HIGHLAND PLACE-NAMES W. J. Watson Although much has been written about our Scottish names of places, we are as yet very far from possessing anything like a complete or satisfactory account of them. Nothing on the subject so far approaches, for example, the work of Dr. Joyce on the names of Ireland, or that of Canon IsaacTaylor on English Village Names. This may be ascribed partly to the great difficul...« less