A Grammar of the Modern Irish Language: Designed for the Use of the Classes in the University of Dublin (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Charles Henry Hamilton Wright

9780365445845: A Grammar of the Modern Irish Language: Designed for the Use of the Classes in the University of Dublin (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365445843 ISBN 13: 9780365445845

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Mss. Existing are not to be found eitherin the library of Trinity College, Dublin, or of the Royal Irish Aca demy, nor yet in Oxford or London but that they had been hidden for hundreds of years in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, in the old monastery of St. Call, in Switzerland, and in some other Continental places. Most people know how this occurred. Ireland was at one period famous for its learning, and called by our ancestors the Island of Saints, and Irish missionaries were then the missionary teachers of the Continent. In the numerous monasteries founded by them, such as St. Gall and Bobbio, learned men found a refuge. _the mss. Zeuss found in the German and Italian libraries are the results of their pious labours. These, however.

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