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Thread #21343 Message #741206
Posted By: MartinRyan
03-Jul-02 - 02:54 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Roisin Dubh / Dark Rosaleen
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rosin Dubh Dark Rosaleen GaelicEngli
Mangan worked from literal translations supplied by others (mostly two Gaelic scholars, O'DOnovan and O'Curry). He had little, if any, Irish himself. He did translations from several other languages on the same basis.