l. 1. _Tara’s halls._ The hill of Tara, in Meath, was the meeting-place for the election of the kings of Ireland; but most writers on Irish antiquities are of opinion that there was no royal dwelling there. It would seem, therefore, that ‘Tara’s halls’ never existed but in the imagination of poets. As to the fifth, Robert Emmet (1778-1803), United Irishman, the leader of ‘Emmet’s Rising’ (1803), was arrested by Major Sirr (the capturer of Lord Edward Fitzgerald), tried September 19, and hanged next day (1803). He was engaged to be married to Sarah Curran, daughter of the great lawyer, and it was to this lady Moore addressed his famous poem. The lady subsequently (November 24, 1805) married Major Sturgeon of the Royal Staff Corps. CLXX _Minor Poems of Charlotte Elizabeth_ (1848). Published in the author’s lifetime over the signature ‘Charlotte Elizabeth.’ CLXXI-CLXXII Mangan’s poems appeared in Dublin magazines and journals--_The Dublin University Magazine_, _The Nation_, and _The Dublin Penny Journal_. There is no complete edition of his works. As to the second, ‘Dark Rosaleen,’ is, of course, a mystical name for Ireland. CLXXIII-CLXXIV _Songs, Poems, and Verses_ (John Murray, 1884). By permission of the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. The second is dated 1845. CLXXV-CLXXVI _Dublin University Magazine_ (1834). As to the first, Fiagh MacHugh O’Byrne, one of the most powerful Irish chieftains in the sixteenth century, was killed in a skirmish with the forces of the Lord Deputy (1597). _Gall_ (l. 17)=‘foreigners.’ The second is the first two stanzas of a very close translation, in the original metre, of an Irish song of unknown authorship, dating from the seventeenth century. The refrain has never been satisfactorily translated. CLXXVII-CLXXVIII _The Poems of Thomas Davis, now first collected_ (Dublin: James Duffy, 1846). These poems made their first appearance in _The Nation_. The second is a ‘Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O’Neill,’ commonly called Owen Roe O’Neill (1590?-1649), patriot and general, who led the Irish against the Scotch and Parliamentary forces in Ireland (1642-1649). The Author’s Note is as follows:--‘_Time._--November 10, 1649. _Scene._--Ormond’s camp, county Waterford. _Speakers._--A veteran of Eoghan O’Neill’s clan, and one of the horsemen, just arrived with an account of his death.’ l. 2. _Poison._ There is no truth in the assertion that O’Neill was poisoned. He died a natural death. 7. SACSANACH. Saxon, English. 8. _Cloc Uachtar._ Clough Oughter, in county Cavan, where the O’Reillys had a stronghold. 19. _Beinn Burb._ Benburb, on the Blackwater, where O’Neill defeated the Scotch army under Monro (June 5, 1646). CLXXIX _Innisfail and Other Poems_ (Macmillan & Co., 1877), and _Poetical Works_, six vols. (Macmillan & Co., 1884). By permission of author and publishers.