A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day

by Douglas Hyde

[7] State Papers, part iii. vol. ii. p. 502.

[8] One of the four prophets of Ireland, see ch. XVI, note [23].

[9] Archdale ii, 27.

[10] Cal. of State Papers, p. 130.

[11] "Tribes of Hy Many," p. 20.

[12] State Papers, Dom. Eliz. an. 1600, p. 496.

[13] This was that Father Nugent who improved and developed the powers of the Irish harp. A letter in Irish to him from Maelbrighte O'Hussey is printed by Father Hogan, S.J., in "Ibernia Ignatiana," p. 167.

[14] Father Hogan's "Distinguished Irishmen of the Sixteenth Century," p. 38.

[15] MS. in Royal Library of Brussels of Stephen White's "Vindiciæ," fo. 62. Consulted by Father Hogan, S.J.

[16] "Transactions of the Ossory Arch. Society," vol. ii. p. 350.