FOOTNOTES
[1] Had Lady Wilde known Irish she might have quoted from a popular ballad composed on Patrick Sarsfield, and not yet forgotten:—
A Pádruig Sáirséul is duine le Dia thu
’S beannuighthe an talamh ar siúdhail tu riamh air,
Go mbeannuigh an ghealach gheal ’s an ghrian duit,
O thug tu an lá as láimh Righ’liaim leat.
Och ochón.
—i.e.,