The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-29


duon of beautiful and descriptive accounts of Fenian bat
Ties and Fenan warriors Even the present day there
old handes to be found who repeat Osanic pieces and
stories in Gaelic Mcpherson however, did really deposit
old Gaelic manuscript hands of gentlemen in
Edinburgh but is certain they Irish manuscripts and
mol the originals any part of the originals from which his
Ossan was translated for if they they would long
have been brought light by those dishonest Scochmen
who have backed Mcpherson the forgery he commit
ted and that making Scotchmen of Irshmen and
changing tne names Oh places and persons to make them
appear and consequently unIrsh. We as well as
know historical conempoaneous fact that Ossian was
lrshman and Finn and Oscar but Mcpherson with
impotence really astounding ignores this fact altogether
and would lead to think that all those old heroes
Scotchmen and downright enemies of Ireland is turned
into fngal by Mcpherson, and made King of Morven and
Carbre into Carber changes the DID, welknown political
capital of ancient Ireland Tara into Temoa change is
in itself not altogether fab for the old form of writ
ing the word Isara but told was
the seat of the Irish monarch that Cormac Carbre
whose often mentioned in Ossan were Irish
Kings Some Hghlandes of the present day complain sadly
because best historians and scholars have
Phersons Osan exactly forgery, but something great
deal worse namely, barefaced attempt transform we'll
known Irish historic into Seotchmen who regarded
Ireland foreign and hostile country This is what reused
the ire of Irish scholars, and well it might.
The fact is, that up comparatively recent period the
Highland Scotch and the Irish absolutely people,
considered themselves SUCH They called themselves Gael and
their language and traditions the The settlement
of the parts of Scotland by the Irish historical
fact and took place the sixth century, long Finn o.
san and Oscar had been gathered their fathers that
Fenan and Ossanc legends and poetry should Scot
land well as in Ireland is quite natural suppose That
these traditions did exist in Scotland in the last century
be doubt they manipulated changed by
the INSCRIPTIONS Mcpherson that hardya vesge of the orig
na remained What would future English historian say if
he found American poet turning Byron
Moore and Wellington into Yankees Mcpherson has been
guilty of a similar delinquency aud however may admire
the genuine poetry that abound in his Ossan the efforts of
the living Scohmen who endeavor vndcate him.
him from the bad he Justly deserves
the most barefaced of literary swindlers
Apart from historical evidences altogether there are proofs
that Mcpherson could original writings for
the foundation of his POEMS Those poems written mod
and Scotch Gaelic every that
in them be understood by uneducated fisherman
of Lewis Skye This poetica DETECT but it shows
plainly that they could be ancient because the language of
the Fenian Ossianc although Gaelic was so diff
rent from the language of Ireland and Scotland that
person conversant only with the modern Dialects could not
translate half page of it to his life We know this to
fact for have plenty of Gaelic manuscripts of the Os
sanc PERIOD least manuscripts Of later date which
contain specimens of the language Of that period The
guage which they written different from McPher.
Ossan the English of King Areds from that
IN which we write the dghanders managed to
their language without change for fifteen hundred years. they
must have performed pathological miracle that beats the
scpura of the confusion of tongues and completely
POUNDS all the theories of Max Miller
There is however, still stronger proof of the deception
practiced by MCPHERSON and which, like the
to in the last paragraph shows him to have been
of the most literary knaves that existed
He either have known nothing at all about the Irish
Celtic literature else he mperfecy acurain
ed with the Gaelic language and its poetic rules for
the socaed original Gaelic of his Ossian has
OF all things connected with composition the old Celtic writer's
been careful about the quantity or
of their They may have written in dialect under
stood by moden and they have had fixed for
! words using and hut he