Excerpt from Dunboy, and Other PoemsIT may be well to inform the reader, in this place that the incidents in the poem of Dunboy are historical, not imaginary. The poem is written chie¿y from the account of the siege given in the Pacata Hibernia, than which no fuller or more detailed account is extant. To found on the fortunes of Donal O'sullivan and his family an interesting historical romance, would be a noble and a patriotic work - one which has been suggested in one of his speeches by the illustrious o'connell-but the writer of the following poem has not attempted to do more than versify an existing authentic narrative, adding merely such minor details as may be supposed to have aecom.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.