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" ... the real legends ... [which] put forward no obtrusive pretensions to accuracy, and for that very reason are far truer in that larger sense in which all the genuine and spontaneous outgrowth of a country form part and parcel of its history. Some of the best of these have been excellently translated by Mr Joyce, whose
Celtic Romances ought to be in the hands of every one ... who aspires to know anything of the inner history of Ireland; to understand, that is to say, that curiously recurrent note of poetry and pathos which breaks continually through all the dull hard prose of the surface."
- Emily Lawless,
The Story of Ireland, 1896
