Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, New-street Square, London.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

ON

"The Aryan Origin

OF THE

Gaelic Race & Language,"

Showing the present and past Literary Position of Irish Gaelic; its Phonesis the Fountain of Classic Pronunciation; its Laws accord with Grimm's Laws; its Bardic Beauties the Source of Rhyme: the Civilization of Pagan Ireland; Early Knowledge of Letters; the art of Illuminating; Ancient Architecture.

THE ROUND TOWERS.
Four Opinions regarding them.

THE BREHON LAW.

THE IRISH RACE NOT PHOENICIAN

TRUTH OF THE PENTATEUCH.

Knowledge in Pagan Times Retrogressive, not Progressive; the Inductive Sciences; Philology and Ethnology confirm the truth of Irish History; Gaelic names of Persons and Places full of Historic Suggestiveness; in this respect and in poetic power,

IRISH GAELIC SUPERIOR TO SANSKRIT.

ONE THOUSAND UNPUBLISHED IRISH MANUSCRIPTS BY THE

VERY REV. ULICK J. BOURKE, M.R.I.A.,

Canon of Tuam Cathedral and President of
St. Jarlath's College,

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN & COMPANY, PATERNOSTER Bow.

1875.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

(From the Freemans Journal)

The consumate skill with which the Very Rev Author has utilized his ponderous materials, the acumen with which he states and supports his own views, the dexterity with which he aids a concurrent or combats an opponent -these, joined to great force of expression, signal illustrative faculty, and a wonderful range of learning, make this book altogether out of the ordinary category. Its perusal offers the most conclusive answer to those who question the advantage of exploration in the language, literature, and antiquities of Ireland. From this book the sceptical or the ignorant will learn to look with new sentiments upon what is the fashion to contemn or to neglect; to the scientific it will be a welcome auxilary, and no reader, we venture to predict, but will own that he has never spent his time to better purpose than in gathering from the rich stores here provided for him.

(From the Morning Mail)

Neither can we do more than indicate the popular rea sons for the cultivation of Irish which he deduces from the literature and architecture of Ireland, the extant evidences of high artistic culture among the ancient Irish, and the Keltic laws, all of which, he demonstrates prove the "Aryan Origin of the Irish Race." Canon Bourke treats all these subjects exhaustively, and with extraordinary erudition and laborious research. In such an investigation the vexed question of the origin of the Round Towers could not be overlooked, and the author presents us with an able summary of all that has been written on the subject for the past seven centuries, reviewing the arguments in support of each theory, and supporting his own opinions by reasons of a very convincing character The work is a most valuable contribution to philological literature; it displays immense erndition and research, combined with a judicial impartiality