Gabháltais Shearluis Mhóir – The Conquest of Charlemagne

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Douglas Hyde (foilsithe den chéad uair / first published 1919)

xvi + 128 pp. + iv ISBN 1 870 16619 1

The ‘Conquests of Charlemagne’, a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Irish adaptation of a Latin original, was edited by the Society’s President, Douglas Hyde (later to become the first President of Ireland), from the fifteenth-century vellum manuscript, the Book of Lismore. Writing of this text, Nessa Ní Shéaghdha described it as a ‘refreshing and sensitive’ translation, made with the aim of rendering the story concise and readable by omitting long-winded and tedious passages.