Irish Peasant Songs in the English Language
With the old Irish airs: the words set to the Music.
A Hand-Book of School Management and Methods of Teaching
Ballads of Irish Chivalry
Edited, with Annotations, by his brother, P. W. Joyce, LL.D.
Old Irish Folk Music and Songs
A Collection of 842 Irish Airs and Songs never before published. With Analytical Preface and a running Commentary all through.
English as We Speak It in Ireland
Contents.—Chap. I. Sources of Anglo-Irish Dialect—II. Affirming, Assenting, and Saluting—III. Asserting by Negative of Opposite, IV. Idioms derived from the Irish Language—V. The Devil and his ‘Territory’—VI. Swearing—VII. Grammar and Pronunciation—VIII. Proverbs—IX. Exaggeration and Redundancy—X. Comparisons—XI. The Memory of History and of Old Customs—XII. A Variety of Phrases—XIII. Vocabulary and Index.—Alphabetical List of Persons who sent Collections of Dialectical Words and Phrases.
Notes
1 For both of these songs see my ‘Old Irish Folk Music and Songs.’
2 See my ‘Old Irish Folk Music and Songs,’ p. 202.
3 See the interesting remarks of O’Donovan in Preface to ‘Battle of Magh Rath,’ pp. ix-xv. Sir Samuel Ferguson also has some valuable observations on the close packing of the very old Irish language, but I cannot lay my hands on them. From him I quote (from memory) the remark about translating old Irish into English or Latin.
4 For the Penal Laws, see my ‘Child’s Hist. of Ireland,’ chaps. lv, lvi.
5 For ‘Poor Scholars,’ see O’Curry, ‘Man. & Cust.,’ i. 79, 80: Dr. Healy, ‘Ireland’s Anc. Sch.,’ 475: and, for a modern instance, Carleton’s story, ‘The Poor Scholar.’ The above passage is quoted from my ‘Social Hist. of Anc. Ireland.’
6 See my ‘Smaller Social Hist. of Anc. Ireland,’ chap, vii.
7 See for an example Dr. Hyde’s ‘Children of the King of Norway,’ 153. (Irish Texts Soc.)
8 From my ‘Old Irish Folk Music and Songs,’ p. 56, in which also will be found the beautiful air of this.