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Douglas Hyde's translations of The Five Songs of Connacht and The Religious Songs of Connacht are valuable works and have greatly influenced the Irish writers. Lady Augusta Gregory. Lady Gregory, born in 1852, in Roxborough, County Galway, has made some of the best of these translations in her works, Cuchulain of Muirthemma, and Gods and Fighting Men.
Which is thus rendered into English by Winstanly; He was a man addicted both to arms and arts, in the former of which he seems to have been the greatest proficient: His first military exploit was under Robert Umsreuil, governor of Roxborough Castle, where he distinguished himself against the Scots, before which the King of Scotland was then encamped, and unfortunately lost his life.
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