The New spirit of the nation : or, Ballads and songs by the writers of "The nation" : containing songs and ballads published since 1845

Macdermott Martin 1823-

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• Songs
• Ballads

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• Nombre de lectures: 7
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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THE
NEW SPIRIT OF THE NATION.IRISHTHE NEW LIBRARY.
EDITED BY
Sir CHARLES GAYAN K.C.M.G.DUFFY,
ASSISTANT :EDITORS
DOUGLAS W.T.HYDE, U.D., ROLLESTON,
National Literary Society, Irish Literary Society,
Hart4 College Green, Mansion, St.,Bloomsbury
DUBLIN. LONDON.THE
THESPIRIT OFNEW NATION;
OR,
;
SONGS BY THEBALLADS AND
-THE NATION."WRITERS OF
AND BALLADS PUBLISHED SINCE 1845.CONTAINING SONGS
WITH ANEDITED, INTRODUCTION,
BY
MARTIN MACDERMOTT.
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NEW SPIRIT OF THE NATION.
INTRODUCTION.
O have over a fullmany years gone
half since the first edition ofcentury
" "The of the Nation wasSpirit pub-
howthat it well be asked,lished, may
"
a New can be evolved now,Spirit"
from what be andsource it can drawn,
in case such a collection shouldwhy any
the Answers to all suchbe at time ?presentpublished
the editor will endeavour to in theenquiries supply
Introduction.following
The Nation which was the fountain andnewspaper,
"The of the made its firstoforigin Spirit Nation,"
in the world on the ofI5th October, 1842.appearance
The in its which fromoriginal poems appearing pages,
the first arrested attention reason of theirby striking
had won such favour and aroused suchliterary merit,
as that it wasas well poeticalenthusiasmpolitical
deemed advisable to issue in book form a collection of
782570vi INTRODUCTION.
which came out so asthem, accordingly early May, 1843.
The little book met with an immediate and an immense
success and it continued to in successive editions
; appear
until the 1st of(and additions) when itJanuary, 1845,
arrived at its in the form of a handsomematurity quarto
volume of the set to or
; ancientmany songs being
and the whole enclosed in a beautifuloriginal music, very
a notable Irish whosecover, artist, namedesigned by
I am not at to disclose.liberty
"
This is the of the as it has beenSpirit Nation,"
known from that to this the wade mecum of Irishday
which has the round of the world;patriotism gone
whose and musical words have beenkindling thoughts
a cherished in Irish not withinpossession homes, only
the four seas of but on distant shoreIreland, toevery
which inexorable hasfate driven her exiles. takenStill,
as the whole volume ofrepresenting song produced by
the writers of the it isNation, In theclearly inadequate.
first the verses it contains do not the endplace go beyond
of the for after thatyear 1845, although, many years date,
the stream of continued to flow frompoetry plenteously
the fountain-head. If it be asked there was sowhy
sudden a cessation in the work of the answercollection,
is not far to seek. It that in the autumn of that
is, year,
an event occurred which so overwhelmed the editor1845,
of the at first with and afterwards withNation^ grief,
new cares and that he had no leisure leftduties, longer
for himselfto the task of thedevoting collection.completing
That event was the death ofThomas Davis in
; thefact,
of the Nation be divided intohistory maynewspaper
three well-defined of which the oneperiods terminating
with Davis's death is the the nextfirst; to theextending
of when the of the Nation werecatastrophe '48, presses
broken order of the and
; theup by English government
last between and at which latter date the founder'49 '55,
and editor ofthe Irish closed his andgreat journal stormy
illustrious editorial and bade adieu to Ireland.career,
Now, the verses to the first ofthese threeonly belonging
found a in "Theperiods of thehaving place Spirit
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Nation, as hitherto it has been wellpublished, thought