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Hero-Tales
of
Ireland

COLLECTED BY
JEREMIAH CURTIN

LONDON
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1894

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University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

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TO
THE RIGHT HON. JOHN MORLEY,
Secretary of State for Ireland.

Sir,—

To you, a thinker who values every age of humanhistory, and a statesman who takes deep interest in thenation which produced and kept these tales, I beg todedicate this volume.

JEREMIAH CURTIN.

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