was edited by Mr S.H.

O'Grady, apparently had not the clue to the real meaning of his material, and after going on brilliantly up to the point where Dermot plunges into the magic well, he becomes incoherent, and the rest of the tale is merely a string of episodes having no particular connexion with each other or with the central theme.

The latter I have here endeavoured to restore to view.

The _Gilla Dacar_ is given from another Gaelic version by Dr P.W.Joyce in his invaluable book, OLD CELTIC ROMANCES.
_The Birth of Oisin_ I have found in Patrick Kennedy's LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS.

I do not know the Gaelic original.
_Oisin in the Land of Youth_ is based, as regards the outlines of this remarkable story, on the LAOI OISIN AR TIR NA N-OG, written by Michael Comyn about 1750, and edited with a translation by Thomas Flannery in 1896 (Gill & Son, Dublin).