Founded in 1853, prior to the Dublin Celtic Society, the Ossianic Society, with such members as John O Daly, William Elliot Hudson, John Edward Pigot, Owen Connellan, John Windele, and William Smith O Brien, played a leading role in the Celtic revival in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. The primary aim of the Society was to collect, publish, and translate the Ossian and Finnian poems in English; and during its nine-year existence it released six volumes of its Transactions, all of which are reprinted here in a facsimile format. Despite its short life, the Society s influence on later key...