Excerpt from The Contention of the Bards, Vol. 1 Irish Scholars and Irish Historians have been long wishing for a critical edition of the Contention of the Bards. They felt it a shame and a loss that no considerable body of Bardic poetry should exist in print, and they thought it especially desirable that the Contention, which caused such a stir in the Ireland of the early 17th century, should be rescued from the precarious keeping of manuscripts. 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.