A Selection of Moore's Melodies: Translated Into the Irish Language (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Moore, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1397238232 ISBN 13: 9781397238238

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Selection of Moore's Melodies: Translated Into the Irish Language

Having published at intervals several of Moore's Melodies trans lated into Irish, I now give an edition of them, accompanied, for the most part, by the original English, in juxtaposition. This is an ad vantage of which the want has been much felt in the preceding edi tions. Aware of the more extensive circulation which an edition in both languages could not fail to command, I sought from the firm of Longman, in London, a relaxation of their copyright of the English in favor of a project which I considered would not injuriously inter fere with their commercial interests. In this expectation, however, I was disappointed, although Moore himself had the kindness to inter fere, as may be seen by the annexed correspondence on the subject of the Irish Melodies, now after several years published for the first time.

Time, however, the great arbiter of conflicting interests more im portant than those literary publications, has at length settled the question, and, by the expiration of the exclusive copyright, has re leased the earlier and almost the entire of those national productions. The present issue contains above eighty of those inimitable songs, comprising all of the ten numbers, which, for their national tone, I deemed most deserving of an Irish translation. Of the later numbers, there are a few as yet without the English accompaniment. But, during the few unexpired years of their copyright, the reader can easily supply the blanks from the many cheap editions of the Melo dies now in circulation.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1397238232
• ISBN 13: 9781397238238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116