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‘“< We are enabled to ascertain the author of this poem by 
one of Dean Lyons’ tracings, now in the library of the 
Royal Irish Academy, and which was taken from a MS. in 
the College of St. Isidore, at Rome, from which it appears to 
have been the composition of Geoffrey Fionn O'Daly. 
‘¢ This is the tracing— 
OOFFPO Piond o Oalargs ccc 
Fd Cipein so h’aén ceaé. 
*“T am in possession of a very beautiful copy of this 
ancient poem, transcribed and literally translated for me by 
my valued friend, Eugene Curry, to whom Ireland is deeply 
indebted for rescuing most valuable portions of her history 
from oblivion and misrepresentation. 
** But before comparing this remarkable vestige of the 
olden time with the description given in this ancient poem, it 
may be well to observe that William O’Kelly was the son of 
Donogh Mummnecé O'Kelly, Chief of Hy-Maine, ob. 1307, by 
his wife, Ournéapa m Conéobaip (Duveassee O’Conor), daugh- 
ter of the King of Connaught. He will be found No. 27 in 
the Tabular Genealogy of the O’Kellies, in ‘ The Tribes and 
Customs of Hy-Maine,’ edited by my learned friend, Professor 
O'Donovan, for the Irish Archeological Society. 
“This poem, after extolling William’s liberality, and de- 
scribing how, by means of his invitation, the other districts of 
Erin will that year be bereft of their bards, proceeds— 
bids aca aléne a Geile To each other will be known 
Oatha Podla piofiperve The professors of smooth-landed 
Fodhla; 
Ipoarha Alban eaécpa cian And the far-travelled professor 
of Alba, 
Cp oceacca a n’apobpus Uil- Coming to William’s noble man- 
ham. sion. 
Tiucpad pin na feacc ngndoa Here will come the seven orders 
Do md veilb an veags Dana Who form the shape of good poe- 
try; 
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