_Page 96. The Félire na Naomh Nerennach_ (so spelt, more phonetically than correctly) is an invaluable early "Chronicle of Irish Saints." Uladh--or Ulla--is the Gaelic for Ulster, though the ancient boundaries were not the same as those of the modern province; and at periods Uladh stood for all North Ireland. Tara in the south was first the capital of a kingdom, and later the federal capital. Thus, at the beginning of the Christian era, Concobar mac Nessa was both King of the Ultonians (the clans of Uladh) and Ard-Righ or High-King of Ireland, a nominal suzerainty. The name of Mochaoi's abbacy, _n' Aondruim_, was in time anglicised to Antrim. The characteristic Gaelic passage quoted in English at p. 98 is not from the _Félire na Naomh Nerennach_, but from a Hebridean source: excerpted from one of the many treasures-troves rescued from extant or recently extant Gaelic lore by Mr. Alexander Carmichael, all soon to be published (the outcome of a long life of unselfish devotion) under the title _Or agus Ob_, though we may be sure that there will be little "dross" and much "gold." _Page 101._ The allusion is to the story or sketch called "The Book of the Opal" in _The Dominion of Dreams_: a sketch true in essentials, but having at its close an arbitrary interpolation of external symbolism which I now regret as superfluous. I have since realised that the only living and convincing symbol is that which is conceived of the spirit and not imagined by the mind. My friend's life, and end, were strange enough--and significant enough--without the effort to bring home to other minds by an arbitrary formula what should have been implicit.