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Excerpt from Chronicles of Eri, Vol. 1: Being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber, or the Irish People; Translated From the Original Manuscripts in the Phoenician Dialect of the Scythian Language
Were I a fatalist, assuredly I would have thought that It had been decreed, that an authentic history of Inisfail, the Isle of Destiny, was never to see the light. Having, for some time afterwards, been kept fully occupied by agents of the oligarchy of England, in defending my property and life; - liberty we wild Irish have none to lose, - I, for a while, abandoned my project, and until the arrival of Sir Francis Burdett in Ireland in 1817, meant to defer its execution when I promised to present to him, at as early a day as pos sible, an history of Ireland on the truth of which he could rely. Which promise I now fulfil. This history is a literal translation into the English tongue, (from the Phoenican dia lect of the Scythian language, ) of the ancient manuscripts which have, fortunately for the world, been preserved through so many ages, chances and vicissitudes.
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