The High Deeds of Finn and Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Автор:T. W. Rolleston Год: 2009 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 216 ISBN: 9781409974482 Thomas William Hazen Rolleston (1857-1920) was an Irish writer, literary figure and translator, known as a poet but publishing over a wide range of literary and political topics. He was born in Glasshouse, Shinrone, County Offaly, the son of a judge. He was educated at St Columba's College, Rathfarnham and Trinity College, Dublin. After a time in Germany he founded the Dublin University Review in 1885; he published Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland (1888), and a Life of Lessing (1889). In London in the 1890s he was one of the Rhymer's Club; he was to cross paths several times, and sometimes to clash, with W. B. Yeats. He was also involved in Douglas Hyde's Gaelic League. He also spent time as a journalist, and as a civil servant involved with agriculture. His other works include: The High Deeds of Finn and Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland (1910), Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race (1911) and Ireland and Poland: A Comparison (1917).
