The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-01

which its present refuses access lest the popular
zaton of its contents should depreciate Its value when it
brought under the hammer In such extracts remain
from the lost books above referred to- and which are chiefly
valuable in the light they throw on ancient mere
are illusions to the earliest coonzatons OF Erie, which
ascend to an anteduvan period but the inference that te
we're written back after the bards became acquainted with
the Old Testament gives them little value Several such are,
nevertheless curious taken in connection with the immense
antiquity of Celtic migration into Europe Such Is the ire
quey repeated account that the early Cets Travelled by sea
through the center of Europe the island Erie Suppsng
this have any basis in fact it admits of two explanations
either that the reference is to the Mediterranean or that the
assertion is to be taken as it stands Geology estlhes ha
before the period of the Mosaic food great central sea oc
cuped the basin of the Danube but the other hand the
dispersion of the Aryan whose first westward was
the known Celtic placed by both philosophical and
srpura cronologsts aperiod after the food which
caused according the biologists aforesaid by the vast body
of which formed this central European connected
with the Euxne bursting through the Bosphor thus break
ing up the continent whose remains now the Greek
islands, and charging the volume of the Mediterranean until
Africa and found exit into the ocean-where the
hypothesis may suppose it overwhelmed the Atlantic
island mentioned by Plato who derived his account of it
from the chronicles of the priests of Memphis
Among the important of those historic records are
the Choncum Scoorum and the Annals the Four Masters
The FIRST has lately been edited by Mr. Hennessy-
compiled by Duald Mac Firbes in ST. Nicholas College,
Galway in 1850 Mac Fbes whowas the last of the native
chroncer murdered at Dunn ten years afterwards
ODonovan's edition of the Four Masters chiefly compiled
by M OCey from 1852 to 1885, eleventh of the reign
of Charles H. needs reference The Chronicum Scoto
rum gives of the earliest coonzaons of Ireland
such that of the Greeks under heroine named Er
Berba he respectively mean noble descendant and
angaage that of Particular, at Kenmare that of Nemedh
who cleared away forests and erected forts and whose people
persisted in plague still sgnazed in the name of Tallaght
the Frbogs who held Ireland until the arrival of the Tua
tina de Dananns with whom they offered to divide the island
account taken the oldest MS existing The landing of
the Milesians Wexford the next event. followed by
their with the Dananns and the final victory OF the
Spanish Celtsan which, according to OFlaherty
thousand years before the arrival of Cesar in Br
tain We not yet if we shall be- in position to
thing however is certain that above all other European
countries Ireland possesses the oldest MS materials ofhoy
and that the annals of this mystical period to say the
least reliable those which Lvy founded the earlier
books of his great work Rome What other country can
show historical the sixth century, as we san?