The Spirit of the Nation (Hibernia: Literature & Nation in Victorian Ireland S.) - Tapa dura

This immensely popular and influential anthology of ballads and poems contributed to the Nation was originally issued in two parts in 1843. It was hailed on its publication as 'the first bud of a new season, when manhood, union and nationality, would replace submission, hatred, and provincialism', and Arthur Griffith spoke for his generation when he asserted in 1901 that 'the tradition of Irish Nationality has been preserved in the country principally through the ballad literature called into existence by the starting of the Nation'. This edition is a facsimile of the 1845 de luxe version with music and indexes to names, places and Irish words and phrases.