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This is the second Breathnach penny series in Irish as it was published in a single bound form in 1913. Intended for adults as well as children, it reproduces many of the songs of his Cnuasachd Bheag Amhrán series but drops its translations from English and modern poems in Irish written by such as Douglas Hyde which Breathnach had earlier set to music. They have been replaced here by some fifty traditional songs from his more recent collecting. This copy was owned by the Wexford poet P.J. McCall, a contributor of melodies and song texts to the Breathnach publications.
