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Title: Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry

Author: Thomas Davis

Commentator: T. W. Rolleston

Release Date: April 24, 2007 [EBook #21210]

Language: English

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THOMAS DAVIS

Selections from his Prose and Poetry

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY T. W. ROLLESTON, M.A.

NEW YORK:
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Library of Irish Literature

_General Editors_: ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M.A.

WILLIAM MAGENNIS, M.A. DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D.
(Dublin).

1. Thomas Davis. Selections from his Prose and Poetry.
Edited by T. W. ROLLESTON, M.A. (Dublin).

2. Wild Sports of the West. W. H. MAXWELL.
Edited by THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN.

3. Legends of Saints and Sinners from the Irish.
Edited by DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D. (Dublin).

4. Humours of Irish Life.
Edited by CHARLES L. GRAVES, M.A. (Oxon).

5. Irish Orators and Oratory.
Edited by T. M. KETTLE, National University of Ireland.

6. The Book of Irish Poetry.
Edited by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M.A. (Dublin).

Other Volumes in Preparation. Each Crown 8vo. Cloth,
with Frontispiece net $1.00

INTRODUCTION.

In the present edition of Thomas Davis it is designed to offer a
selection of his writings more fully representative than has hitherto
appeared in one volume. The book opens with the best of his historical
studies--his masterly vindication of the much-maligned Irish Parliament
of James II.[1] Next follows a selection of his literary, historical
and political articles from _The Nation_ and other sources, and,
finally, we present a selection from his poems, containing, it is
hoped, everything of high and permanent value which he wrote in that
medium. The "Address to the Historical Society" and the essay on
"Udalism and Feudalism," which w