Download or read book Historical Sketches of the Ancient Native Irish and Their Descendants (Classic Reprint) written by Christopher Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the Ancient Native Irish and Their Descendants Scattered throughout several countries on the western shores of Europe there are to be found various confessedly ancient tribes of our fellow-men between which there still exists a marked affinity in point of language. They are generally supposed to be the earliest waves of that tide of population which proceeded westward in Europe till stopped in their progress by the sea and most of them occupy at this moment nearly the same ground which they did in the days of Caesar. If the sources of some of those rivers with which we have been long acquainted have hitherto baffled all the enterprise of our travellers so has the origin of those primitive races the research of the learned. Their dialects being the children of one common Parent and this unquestionably a very ancient tongue these various tribes of course belong to a people correspondingly ancient; but the neglect of their dialects has, in its measure contributed to a discordance of sentiment with regard to the people since in the absence or deficiency of other data, languages may so far be regarded as the chronology of nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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."