PREFACE. 13 



as Ireland is the land of the Giant's Causeway, 

 of the giant elk,* and of gigantic wollkounds,t 

 so it is the cradle of gigantic men. "A 

 large proportion of the giants are Irish ; " the 

 biggest skeletons in the world are those of 

 Irishmen,t and the tallest man in the British 

 army is an Irishman, named McCullagh. On 

 this subject I have made some researches, and 

 I have at my disposal the notes of Mr. W. F. 

 O'Donovan, LL.D., Father O'Nowlan, S.J., 

 F.K.TLL, and Father Russell, Editor of the 

 Irish Monthly ; but, as the matter is outside 

 the scope of my work, I cannot deal with it. 



EDMUND HOGAN. 



FEAST OF ST. BKIGIT, 1899, 

 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, ST. STEPHEN'S GREEN, DUBLIN. 



*Dr. Romer in N. Yahrbuch f. Mineralogie and Palceonlo- 

 logie, of 1877. 



t See my History of the Iriah Wolf dog. 



J English Cyclopedia, ed. of Bradbury, Art. " Giant," col. 

 1137; and Chambers' Encyclopaedia, Art. "Giants." 



