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'foinuf •focttt— OR O'DUGAN's GLOSSARY. 



This Glossary was written by John O'Dugan, (chief poet of the 

 O'Kellys of Hy Maine in Connaught,^ who lived in the 14th cen- 

 tury. It is in verse, and consists of 73 ranns of 4 quartans 

 each. The author was a distinguished Irish antiquary as well as 

 poet. In this Glossary he gives the Synonyma generally understood 

 in his time. To him some of the moderns are much indebted, 

 and his work deserves publication with Cormac's Glossary. The 

 other unpublished Glossaries, written by various writers, come ge- 

 nerally under the description given of the preceding. If all were 

 collected and printed with the above, it would be doing much for 

 the ancient language of Ireland. 



Before we proceed to the works of this nature already in print, it 

 may be worth while to direct the attention of the student to two or 

 three unpublished Irish Dictionaries or Vocabularies yet remaining 

 in manuscript.* The first of these is in Latin and Irish, and was 

 compiled in the year 1662 by the Rev. Richard Plunkett of Trim, 

 of whom Lluyd speaks in high terms of praise. It is a most 

 valuable work. It contains copious explanations of the Latin 

 words by a great number of Irish, and in it are to be found many 

 words not inserted in any printed work of a similar nature. It is 

 very scarce. The autograph is preserved in Marsh's Library, St. 



• A monumental inscription in the church of Athlone informs us that Mathew de Renzie, 

 who died in the year ISS*, compiled an Irish Grammar, Dictionary and Chronicle, which 

 it is probable were destroyed during the wars of 1641 Mr. Philip Fitzgibbon, an emi- 

 nent Irish scholar, who died in Kilkenny, in 1792, compiled an Irish Dictionary, containing 

 upwards of 400 close quarto pages, which, with other MSS. he bequeathed to the Rev. Mr. 

 O'Donnell, P. P. of St. John's, city of Kilkenny. This circumstance is alluded to in hopes that it 

 may lead to a recovery of the Dictionary. 



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