The Life And Letters of James Macpherson Containing a Particular Account of His
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In Ireland it was not interest so much as suspicion, and even anger, that was aroused by Macpherson's work. The rumour that the poems of Ossian, an ancient Highland bard, were about to be published by a Scotchman, had, of course, reached that country. The Irish declared that the Scotchman was stealing their national heroes ; and before a line of the poems was published, there came a singular protest from Dublin, in the shape of an advertisement earnestly entreating the public to wait for a vers...ion of the deeds of Fingal which would at least be genuine. It does not appear that any THE IRISH ANGER. I6i such version was published, or that anything came of the protest, which on the face of it was only meant to be mischievous.^ The first part of Macpherson's translations was published in London in the beginning of December, 1761, ^ and a few days later in Edin- burgh. Those who are curious in such matters may be pleased to know that it was brought out ^The advertisement, inserted in Faulhier's Dublin Jour- nal for 1st December, 1761, was in the following terms : " Speedily will be published by a gentleman of this kingdom, who hath been, for some time past, employed in translating and writing Historical Notes to it, Fingal, a poem.
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