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viii who for years past has directed the "Gaelic Department" of the. Mr Glynn is one of the first Irish scholars of the day, as he is certainly amongst the ablest in writing and editing Irish-Gaelic.

If the teacher of truth, preaching with eloquence and zeal from any pulpit, affects the understanding of his audience, and incites their hearts to love, the Most Rev. author of these Sermons has — speaking from every fireside in the three provinces to thousands of Irish minds and Irish hearts in the language of their race, for the past century — received from the Irish people an amount of veneration that few ecclesiastics, since the days of the Prince of Preachers and of Scholars — St. Columbkillé, — have attained.

A work so much sought after some thirty years ago in every Irish Catholic home in Ulster, Connacht, and Munster as these Sermons have been, will, it is hoped — now that they are edited with much care — be hailed by all classes of Irishmen at home and abroad who cling to the traditions o£ this Land of Saints, and cherish the saving faith preached by St. Patrick, St. Jarlath; and by St. Columbkillé and Adamnan, of Raphoe,

, M.R.I.A. President.

St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, June 1st., 1877.