An Irish-English dictionary - National Library of Scotland

THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
Intlie course of the Dictionary some words will be found difierently spelled, as Fan, a bird;
ScriobJiadúír, a writer, etc. ; which again occur at Eun and Sgríohhadóir. This is unnecessary to
those who are acquainted with Irish books, but to learners it cannot fail to be useful.
Those that are acquainted with the press, will be inclined to excuse a few typographical errors
which do not materially affect the sense, and of which description are, I hope, the most of the
errors to be foimd uncorrected in my work. If it shall be found that I have omitted much, let
it be remembered that I have added a great deal ; and if my work is not so fuU or perfect as was
expected, still it contains upwards of twenty- thousand words more than are contained in former
Irish lexicons, and consequently so much the nearer to perfection.
In what I have done, ray principal design was to render a service to my country, by giving
facility to the study of our primeval history, and to the learning of a language, venerable for its
antiquity, necessary to the philologer of every nation, and dear to every genuine Irishman.