Dainty stories, healthy and pleasant in tone, not weakly

sentimental, definitely Catholic in character. Laid in various

countries—England, France, Switzerland, as well as Ireland.

Sympathetic studies of priests.

=UPTON, W. C.=

⸺ UNCLE PAT’S CABIN. Pp. vi. + 284. (_Gill_). 1882.

“Or life among the agricultural labourers of Ireland.” “All the

facts relative to the agricultural labourer in these pages can

be vouched for.”—(Pref.). Describes vividly the long struggle

of a labourer against adversity, the evils arising out of the

competition for the land. A graphic picture of the conditions

of the poor. Scene: Co. Limerick in the years from 1847 to

1880 or so. The writer was a carpenter working at Ardagh,

who afterwards went to America. The chapters relating to a

parliamentary contest are less valuable than the rest of the

book. Lecky, in his “_History of Ireland in the Eighteenth

Century_” (Vol. 3, ch. 8, pp. 413-14 in a footnote), speaks of

the book as “one of the truest and most vivid pictures of the

present condition of the Irish labourer.”

=VAIZEY, Mrs. G. de Horne.=

⸺ PIXIE O’SHAUGHNESSY.

Scene: first, a fashionable English girls’ school, afterwards a

half-ruined castle in the West of Ireland. The book is taken up

with the amusing scrapes and other adventures of a wild little

Irish girl, and with the love affairs of her sisters. Gives

a good, if somewhat overdrawn, picture of Irish character,

especially of traditional Irish hospitality.

⸺ MORE ABOUT PIXIE. (_R.T.S._). 6_d._ 1910.

⸺ THE FORTUNES OF THE FARRELLS. Pp. 190. (_Leisure Hour Library Office_).

6_d._ 1911.

=VANCE, Louis Joseph.=

⸺ TERENCE O’ROURKE, Gentleman Adventurer. Pp. 393. (_E. Grant Richards_).

1906.

Thrilling adventures of a penniless soldier, who goes about Don

Quixote-wise rescuing distressed damsels—each more beautiful

than the last—fighting duels, and so forth. A good story of its

class, and free from anything objectionable.

=VEREKER, Hon. C. S., M.A., F.G.S.=

⸺ OLD TIMES IN IRELAND. Three Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1873.

The Author was commandant of the Limerick City Artillery

Militia and son of Lord Gort. Chiefly heavy light-comedy,

with conventional characters and an air of unreality about

the whole. The humour, the dialect, the characteristics of

the various personages, all are highly exaggerated. A Lord

Lieutenant, a Duke, the absurd Mr. and Mrs. O’Rafferty, the

still more absurd love-sick schoolmaster, ruffianly Terry Alts,

figure, among many others, in the tale.

=VERNE, Jules.=

⸺ FOUNDLING MICK (P’tit Bonhomme). Pp. 303. (_Sampson, Low_). Seventy-six

good illustr. 1895.

The very varied and often exciting adventures of a poor waif.

Rescued from a travelling showman at Westport, Co. Mayo, he is

sent to a poor school in Galway, resembling the workhouse in

_Oliver Twist_. Further adventures bring him to Limerick, and

then to Tralee, and afterwards to many other parts of Ireland.

The book is written in thorough sympathy with Ireland, and in

particular with the sufferings of the poor under iniquitous

Land Laws, though at times with a little exaggeration. There

is a vivid description of an eviction. Other aspects of Irish

life are touched on, and with considerable knowledge. Dublin,

Belfast, Killarney, Bray, are some of the places described. The

spirit is Catholic: witness the kindly words on page 8 about

Irish priests.

=“WALDA, Viola.”=

⸺ MISS PEGGY O’DILLON; or, the Irish Critic. (_Gill_). 1890.

=WALSHE, Miss E. H.=

⸺ THE FOSTER BROTHERS OF DOON. Pp. 394. (_R.T.S._). Illustr. _n.d._ (_c._

1865).

The foster-brothers are Myles Furlong, a Co. Wexford blacksmith

on the rebel side in the rising of ’98, and Capt. Butler, a

loyalist. Their respective adventures amid the historic events

of the time are very well told. The Captain’s election as M.P.

for Doon is well described. Putnam McCabe, Hamilton Rowan,

Tone, Curran, and Jackson appear in the tale. Dialect good.

Leans to loyalist side. “Written from a decidedly Protestant

standpoint.”—(_Nield_).

⸺ GOLDEN HILLS. (_R.T.S._). 1865.

The Famine.

⸺ THE MANUSCRIPT MAN; or, the Bible in Ireland. Pp. 226. (_R.T.S._). 1869.

In the biographical note prefixed to this story we are told

that the Author was all her life interested and actively

engaged in evangelical work. She was born in Limerick,

1835, died 1868. The story tells how a family of Protestant

landowners succeeded in distributing among their Catholic

tenantry copies of the Bible in Irish, and thereby converted

a number of them to Protestantism. The converts afterwards

emigrate and settle in America. Scene: apparently West

Connaught. Throughout, “Romanism” and “Romish” practices are

contrasted with Protestantism, greatly to the disadvantage of

the former. The book is well and interestingly written.

=WARD, Mrs.=

⸺ WAVES ON THE OCEAN OF LIFE: a Dalriadian Tale. Pp. 322. (_Simpkin_).

1869.

Domestic life, with glimpses of religious and political strife

in Ulster at close of eighteenth century truthfully delineated.

Scene: Lough Erne and Antrim, the scenery of Dunluce and

the Causeway described, and some real incidents introduced.

Sympathetic towards the people, and does not disparage the ’98

insurgents.

=WATSON, Helen H.=

⸺ PEGGY, D.O.: the Story of the Seven O’Rourkes. Pp. 312. (_Cassell_).

3_s._ 6_d._ Four coloured plates from drawings by Gertrude Steele. 1910.

The story told by a little lame girl of fourteen of a proud

Irish family reduced to a cheap flat, and living in discomfort

and anxiety without losing their cheerfulness of heart. There

is both humour and pathos. We are introduced to some pleasant

and lovable children.

=WENTZ, Walter Yeeling Evans.=

⸺ THE FAIRY-FAITH IN CELTIC COUNTRIES: Its Psychica Origin and Nature.

(RENNES: _Imprimerie Oberthur_). 1909.

The Author is Docteur ès Lettres, France; A.M., Stanford

College, California; Member of Jesus College, Oxford; an

American, and a pupil of Sir John Rhys, _q.v._ An investigation

and discussion of “that specialised form of belief in a

subjective realm inhabited by subjective beings which

has existed from prehistoric times until now in Ireland,

Scotland, Man, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany.” The Author, a

believer in the existence of fairies, went himself through

many parts of the countries above mentioned and spoke with

and studied the peasantry. Divisions of work: I. The Living

Fairy Faith Psychically Considered. II. The Recorded Fairy

Faith Psychically Considered. III. The Cult of Gods, Spirits,

Fairies, and the Dead. IV. The Fairy Faith Reconstructed.

=[WEST, Jane].= 1758-1852. B. in London; the wife of a farmer in

Northamptonshire. Author of _A Gossip’s Story_.

⸺ THE HISTORY OF NED EVANS: A Tale of the Times. Two Vols. (_Dublin_).

[1796]. 1805.

Title-p.:—“Interspersed with moral and critical remarks;

anecdotes and characters of many persons well known in the

polite world; and incidental strictures on the present state of

Ireland.” The hero is supposed to be the son of a Welsh parson.

The story opens in 1779, and is the love story of the Lady

Cecilia, daughter of Lord Ravensdale, and the hero, who turns

out in the end to be the true Lord Ravensdale. The story is

full of incident. Ch. xxii. brings the hero to Ireland. He has

some adventures in Dublin, which is partly described; then goes

down to Ravensdale, which is seventy-six miles from Dublin. He

goes to the American war, and has many adventures with Indians,

narrow escapes, &c.; but finally returns to wed Cecilia. The

story is highly moral and sentimental, with a religious tone.

The characters are mainly of the Anglo-Irish gentry—Lord

Rivers, Lord Squanderfield, &c. The then state of Ireland is

but slightly dwelt on.

=[WESTRUP, Margaret]; Mrs. W. Sydney Stacey.= Author of _Elizabeth’s

Children_.

⸺ THE YOUNG O’BRIENS. Pp. 347. (_Lane_). 6_s._ 1906.

Doings of a family of Irish children left with an aunt in

London during their father’s absence in India. With all their

fun and pranks the children pine in London and long for the

meadows and the woods of their home in Kilbrannan.

=WEYMAN, Stanley.=

⸺ THE WILD GEESE. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ 1908. (N.Y.:

_Doubleday_). 1.50. New thin paper ed., pp. 384, 2_s._ 1911.

Story of an abortive rising in Kerry in reign of George I.,

with exciting situations and a love interest. Style clear and

vigorous. Irish characters nearly all vacillating, treacherous,

and fanatical. Generally considered as giving an unreal idea of

the times.

=WHISTLER, Rev. Charles Watts.= B. 1856. Author of a series of admirable

stories for boys.

⸺ A SEA QUEEN’S SAILING. (_Nelson_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1907.

The Vikings about A.D. 935, time of Hakon the Good. Adventures

of, among others, an Irish prince with the Vikings. Scene:

northern and Irish coasts. Juvenile.

⸺ A PRINCE ERRANT. (_Nelson_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1908.

S.W. Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland about A.D. 792. Saxon,

Briton, Norseman, and Dane. Juvenile.

=WHITE, Captain L. Esmonde.=

⸺ IRISH COAST TALES OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE. Pp. 307. (_Smith, Elder_).

1865.

Contains two tales—(1) “The Black Channel of Cloughnagawn;” (2)

“The Lovers of Ballyvookan.” Dr. Small goes to the west as a

dispensary doctor, and meets the various types of character.

The pursuit of a slave ship is well described, as are the

men who man the western hookers, and know every turn of the

dangerous Black Channel. The second deals with the wreck

of H.M.S. Wasp and the love story of Norah Flynn. Both are

exciting stories. The brogue is fairly good.

=[WHITTY, Michael James].= (1795-1873).

⸺ TALES OF IRISH LIFE. Two Vols. 12mo. (LONDON: _Robins_). Six illustr.

by Cruikshank. 1824.

“Illustrative of the manners, customs, and condition of

the people.” Contents:—“Limping Mogue,” “The Rebel,” “The

Absentee,” “The Robber,” “The Witch of Scollough’s Gap,” “The

Informer,” “The Poor Man’s Daughter,” “Poor Mary,” “North and

South, or Prejudice Removed” (showing, see especially pp.

29 _sq._, V. II., the Author’s freedom from bigotry), “The

Priest’s Niece,” “The Last Chieftain of Erin,” “Turn-coat

Watt” (Proselytism), “Protestant Bill,” &c. Intended “to

disabuse the public mind and communicate information on a

subject confessedly of importance.” Excellent stories by a

journalist very well known in his day. B. Wexford, 1795, he

came to London in 1821. In 1823 he was appointed editor of the

LONDON AND DUBLIN MAGAZINE, in which he published his work on

Robert Emmet. From 1829 till his death he lived and worked in

Liverpool. His LIVERPOOL DAILY POST, 1855, was the first penny

daily paper.—(D.N.B.). His son, E. M. Whitty (1827-1860), was a

brilliant journalist, and wrote a novel: _Friends in Bohemia_,

and _Parliamentary Portraits_.

=WHYTE-MELVILLE, Major G. J.= (1821-1878). Had Irish connections and

wrote many novels. Killed in hunting field—a death he had often described.

⸺ SATANELLA: A story of Punchestown. Pp. 307. (_Chapman and Hall_). 1873.

2_s._ other eds.

A racy story of sportsmen and soldiers. Opens in Ireland and

scene shifts to London. The talk of grooms and trainers fairly

well done. The fate of the heroine and the famous black mare,

both called “Satanella,” is tragic.

=WILDE, Lady; “Speranza.”= Well known as a poet of the NATION, one of

the most passionately patriotic of them all. B. in Wexford, 1826. D. in

London, 1896.

⸺ ANCIENT LEGENDS OF IRELAND. Pp. 350. (_Ward & Downey_). 6_s._ 1888.

A collection of fairy stories, legends, descriptions of

superstitious practices, medicals cures and charms, robber

stories, notes on holy wells, &c., taken down from the

peasantry, some in Gaelic, some in English. The legends, &c.,

are preceded by a learned essay on the origin and history of

legend, and the book concludes with chapters on Irish art and

ethnology and a lecture by Sir W. Wilde on the ancient races

of Ireland. Contains a vast amount of matter useful to the

folk-lorist, to the general reader, and even to the historian.

The stories are rather pathetic and tender than humorous. Wrote

also _Ancient Cures, Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland_,

_Driftwood from Scandinavia_, _The American Irish_, &c.

=WILLIAMS, Charles.= B. Coleraine, 1838. D. London, 1904. The celebrated

war correspondent of the DAILY CHRONICLE and STANDARD; first editor of

EVENING NEWS, and founder of the Press Club. Wrote a _Life of Sir Evelyn

Wood_.

⸺ JOHN THADDEUS MACKAY. Pp. 327. (_Burleigh_). (1889). 6_s._

In this clever novel the Author draws upon his recollections

of early days in Ulster. The hero, “a stickit minister,” goes

out to India in company with a “Howley” father, so named after

a famous Archbishop of Canterbury, and both learn charity

and brotherly love and see the narrowness of their own views

through mixing with the natives. Many real personages are

introduced under thinly disguised cognomens, thus “Rev. Thomas

Trifle” is the late Rev. Thomas Toye, of Belfast.

=WILLS, William Gorman.= B. Kilkenny, 1828. D. London, 1891. Poet,

Painter, Dramatist, and Novelist. Ed. T.C.D. Son of Rev. James Wills,

also a prolific writer. Wills is better known as a dramatist, having

written no fewer than thirty-three plays, amongst the finest of them

being _Charles I._, _Olivia_, and _Faust_. Amongst his other novels

are _Life’s Foreshadowings_, which first appeared as a serial in IRISH

METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE, 1857-8; _The Wife’s Evidence_, founded on an Irish

tragedy, where a man named McLaughlin was hanged for a murder committed

by his mother; _Old Times_, _Notice to Quit_, _David Chantry_, besides a

long poem, _Melchior_.

⸺ THE LOVE THAT KILLS. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1867.

“It [the above novel] drew striking pictures of the relations

between landlord and tenant in Ireland, the Irish Famine, and

the Rebellion of 1848: and it showed a warm glow of sympathy

with the Irish peasantry, which no one would have suspected in

a man apparently so wholly out of touch with politics.” [From

“Life of W. G. Wills” by Freeman Wills. LONDON. 1898].

=WILMOT-BUXTON, E. M.=

⸺ BRITAIN LONG AGO: Stories from Old English and Celtic Sources.

(_Harrap_: _Told through the Ages_ series).

⸺ OLD CELTIC TALES. Pp. 128, large clear type. (_Harrap_). 6_d._ 1910.

One of Harrap’s “All-Time Tales,” a series of supplementary

readers for young children. The first tale is “The Children of

Lir,” told in three-and-a-half pages. The rest are from the

Mabinogion and other Welsh sources. Six or seven moderately

good full page ill. (one col.). Neat cover. Remarkably cheap.

=WINGFIELD, Hon. Lewis Strange.= B. 1842. Son of 6th Lord Powerscourt.

Ed. Eton and Bonn. Lived a very strange life, trying as experiments

various rôles—actor, nigger minstrel, attendant in a mad-house, traveller

in Algeria and China, painter, &c., &c. Wrote many novels and books of

travel. D. 1891.

⸺ MY LORDS OF STROGUE. Three Vols. (_Bentley_). 1879.

“A Chronicle of Ireland from the Convention to the Union.”

History and romance curiously intermingled, _e.g._, Robert

Emmet’s Insurrection is purposely ante-dated by two years and

a half. “The prominence given to such unpleasant personages as

Mrs. Gillin makes the book unsuitable at least for the lending

libraries of convents.”—(I.M.). The Author is fair-minded and

not anti-national.

=WOODS, Margaret L.= B. Rugby, 1856. Dau. of late Dr. Bradley, Dean of

Westminster. Ed. at home and at Leamington. Lives in London. Author of

about a dozen volumes—novels, poems, and plays.

⸺ ESTHER VANHOMRIGH. Pp. 347. (_Murray_). 1891.

A clever and interesting psychological study of the relations

between Swift and the two Esthers, Johnson and Vanhomrigh, the

latter being the chief centre of interest. The scene: partly in

Ireland, partly in England. The political events and questions

of the time are scarcely touched upon, but the atmosphere,

language, and costume of the time have evidently been carefully

studied, and are vividly reproduced. Swift’s relations to these

two women are represented in a convincing and sympathetic

manner. There is nothing objectionable in the tone of the book.

⸺ THE KING’S REVOKE. Pp. 334. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Dutton_).

1.50. Second impression. 1905.

The strange adventures of Patrick Dillon, an officer in

the Spanish army, in the course of his attempt to set free

Ferdinand VII. of Spain, imprisoned in France by Napoleon

I. Its pictures of Catholic life in Spain are not always

flattering, though doubtless not intentionally offensive.

=[WRIGHT, E. H.].=

⸺ ANDRÉ BESNARD. (CORK). 1889.

A tale of Old Cork, giving good descriptions of its people,

buildings, &c. Period: that preceding the times of the

Volunteers. A tale of courtship and adventure. One of the chief

characters is Paul Jones, the celebrated American admiral.

Published under pen-name “G. O’C.”

=WRIGHT, John, A.M.=

⸺ THE LAST OF THE CORBES: or, The MacMahon’s Country. Pp. 342.

(_Macrone_). 1835.

Described on title-p. as “a legend connected with Irish history

in 1641.” A plain tale, devoid of description, excitement, and

historical “atmosphere,” chiefly concerned with a family named

Willoughby. The writer is anti-Puritan but not pro-Irish. He

mentions the deed of the traitor O’Connolly with approval, and

dwells much on the excesses of the insurgents. Heber Macmahon

(afterwards Bishop of Clogher), Sir Phelim O’Neill, and Roger

Moore are introduced into the story. The writer was rector of

Killeevan, Co. Monaghan.

=WRIGHT, R. H.=

⸺ A PLAIN MAN’S TALE. Pp. 192. (BELFAST: _McCaw, Stevenson & Orr_). 1904.

Adventures of a young Yorkshireman who, about the ’98 period,

sails for Ireland and lands at Island Magee, in Antrim.

Exciting episodes—love-making, smuggling, &c. Not concerned

with the rising. For boys.

⸺ THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MY FRIEND PATRICK DEMPSEY. (_Sealy,

Bryers_). 6_d._ 1910.

=WYNDHAM, Eleanor.=

⸺ THE WINE IN THE CUP. Pp. 380. (_Werner Laurie_). 6_s._ 1909.

Scene laid in Rathlin Island, but the book cannot be said to

depict the life of the place with fidelity to real conditions.

By same Author: _The Lily and the Devil_, 1908.

=WYNNE, Florence.=

⸺ THE KING’S COMING. Pp. 489. (_Skeffington_). 6_s._ 1904.

The king is “Edward VII. of England and I. of Ireland” (_sic_).

Nearly half the book is composed of minute descriptions of his

reception in various parts of Ireland. The rest is chiefly

made up of long discussions (mostly by the hero and heroine)

on religion, divorce, loyalty, Irish history, the position of

the Church of Ireland, and landlords. The Author seems to be

strongly “loyal,” a High-Church member of the C. of I., an

ardent Home-Ruler, and a Gaelic enthusiast. But no bias is

displayed _against_ any class or creed, though the Author does

not seem partial to the landlord class, unpleasant specimens

of whom are introduced. Written with obvious sincerity and

earnestness.

=“WYNNE, May”; Miss N. W. Knowles.= Writes much for magazines, and has

published some twenty books. Has much sympathy with Ireland and the

Irish. Resides in Kent.

⸺ LET ERIN REMEMBER. Pp. 312. (_Greening_). 6_s._ 1908.

A sensational romance of the Norman invasion of Ireland, very

similar in kind to the Author’s _For Church and Chieftain_,

_q.v._ The Irish are depicted as a wild, passionate people,

torn by murderous feuds, led by selfish, unscrupulous

chieftains. The Normans, who appear in the story, Strongbow in

particular, are represented as gentle and courteous knights.

⸺ FOR CHURCH AND CHIEFTAIN. Pp. 314. (_Mills & Boon_). 6_s._ 1909.

A romance of the thrilling and popular type. Full of wonderful

coincidences and the still more wonderful escapes of the

heroes from the clutches of their enemies. The story is little

concerned with historical events and persons. The Earl of

Desmond, Archbishop O’Hurley, Dowdall, and Zouch are introduced

occasionally. The tone is healthy, the standpoint Irish and

Catholic.

⸺ FOR CHARLES THE ROVER. Pp. 324. (_Greening_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Fenno_).

1.50. Third ed., 1909.

Scene: Cork city, and the neighbourhood of Kenmare. Adventures

of Hugh Graham, a Scotchman, in recruiting for the Irish

Brigade in company with Morty Oge O’Sullivan, a gay, reckless,

debonnair type of Irish chieftain. On the other side are the

brainless Whig fop, Sir Henry Morton, and O’Callaghan, a spy in

King George’s pay. The unfortunate love-story of O’Callaghan’s

beautiful sister and the happier love of the sister of Morty

are interwoven with the narrative. The Author’s sympathies are

Irish and Jacobite.

=WYNNE, George Robert, D.D.= Archdeacon of Aghadoe, Rector of St.

Michael’s, Limerick, and Canon of St. Patrick’s, Dublin. Author of a

number of religious works: _The Light of the City_, _Spiritual Life in

its Advancing Stages_, &c.

⸺ NOT PEACE BUT A SWORD. Pp. 190. (_R.T.S._). _n.d._ (1897).

Relates how Miss Sybil Marchant, a young English lady,

succeeded in converting to Protestantism some members of a

poor family of Joyces in Connemara. Is concerned chiefly with

the trials of the new converts at the hands of friends and the

clergy. Tone not bitter towards Catholicism, which however, is

regarded from the Low Church, strongly Protestant, standpoint.

The story is pleasantly told.

⸺ BALLINVALLEY; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Pp. 244. (_S.P.C.K._). 2_s._

6_d._ Two illustr. by J. Nash. 1898.

Scene: Wicklow, whose scenery is well described. Rebellion

seen from Protestant and loyalist standpoint. Rebels appear as

recklessly brave savages. Battles of New Ross and Hacketstown

described. Characters well brought out. Some aspects of the

life of the times described, notably stage-coach travelling and

illicit distilling. Brogue not well reproduced. Based, says the

Pref., chiefly on Lecky, but also on Maxwell, Musgrave, and

Hay. There is a good deal about gold-mining in Co. Wicklow.

=YEATS, William Butler.= B. 1865, at Sandymount, Co. Dublin. Son of J.

B. Yeats, R.H.A., a distinguished Irish artist. Ed. Godolphin School,

Hammersmith, and Erasmus Smith School, Dublin. Went to London in 1888,

and there, in 1889, publ. his first volume of verse. Since then many

others have appeared, and he is now known as one of the foremost poets of

the day, perhaps the only Irish poet whose name is familiar to students

of European literature outside of Ireland, and it is true to say with

Mrs. Hinkson in her _Reminiscences_, “All the world that cares about

literature knows of his work to-day.” He was for a number of years

actively interested in spiritism and magic, and there is more of this

than of genuine folk-lore in his writings. What there is of folklore in

them seems to have been gleaned during visits to his mother’s people in

Sligo. His prose is that of a poet full of changing colour and strange

rhythm and vague suggestion.

⸺ FAIRY AND FOLK-TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. Pp. 326. (_W. Scott_).

3_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ [1888]; often republ.

Introd. and notes by Ed. The Tales, sixty-four in number, are

selected from previously published collections (Croker, Lover,

Kennedy, Wilde, &c.), including several examples of poetry

about the fairies. They are classed under these heads:—The

Trooping Fairies, The Solitary Fairies, Ghosts, Witches, Tir

na-n-óg, Saints and Priests, The Devil, Giants, &c. Each

class is introduced by some general remarks. There is nothing

objectionable but it is hardly a book for children. The weird

and grotesque element largely predominates.

⸺ IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK-TALES. Twelve full page illustr. by James

Torrance. (_W. Scott_). 3_s._ 6_d._

⸺ JOHN SHERMAN, and DHOYA. Pp. 195. (_Fisher Unwin_). 1891.

_John Sherman_ is not wild and fantastic like _The Secret

Rose_, &c., but a pleasant narrative dealing with life in

Ballah (Sligo), the scene at times shifting to London. The

descriptions both of scenery and character are full of quaint

little touches of very subtle observation. The style is

remarkable for a dainty simplicity, lit up now and then by a

striking thought or a brilliant aphorism. _Dhoya_ (last 25 pp.)

is a wild Celtic phantasy.—(I.M.). Published under the pen-name

of “Ganconagh.”

⸺ IRISH FAIRY TALES. Ed. with Introd. by. Pp. 236. 16mo. (_Fisher

Unwin_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by J. B. Yeats. Third impress. 1892.

A dainty little volume, very popular with children. None of the

stories included in it are to be found in the same Author’s

_Irish Fairy and Folk-tales_.—(_W. Scott_).

⸺ THE SECRET ROSE: Irish Folk-lore. Illustr. by J. B. Yeats. Pp. 265.

(_Maunsel_). 3_s._ 1898. (N.Y.: _Dodd & Mead_). 2.00.

Wild, formless tales, altogether from the land of dreams, told

with the Author’s accustomed magic of word and expression, but

to the ordinary reader well-nigh meaningless. In one of these

tales some monks solemnly crucify a wandering gleeman because

he had dared complain of the filthy food and lodging which they

had given him. This tale may fairly be taken as typical of much

that is in the book.

⸺ THE CELTIC TWILIGHT. Pp. 235. (_A. H. Bullen_). 3_s._ [1893]. New ed.,

enlarged, 1902. (N.Y.: _Macmillan_). 1.50.

Disconnected fragments of dim beliefs in a supernatural world

of fairies, ghosts, and devils, still surviving among the

peasantry. Told in a style often beautiful, but vague and

elusive, by a latter-day “pagan,” who would fain share these

beliefs himself. The talk of half-crazy peasants, the Author

tells us, is set down as he heard it. To the ordinary reader

the book cannot but seem full of puerilities. The peasants of

whom the Author speaks are chiefly those of North-Eastern Sligo.

⸺ STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN: The Secret Rose: Rosa Alchemica. Pp. 228.

(_Bullen_). 6_s._ net. 1913.

The first ed., 1897, had the general title _The Secret Rose_,

_q.v._ In the present volume the revised ed., which appeared in

Mr. Yeats’s collected works, 1908, has been followed.

=YOUNG, Ella.= B. 1867, at Fenagh, Co. Antrim. Is a graduate of the

Royal, now the National, University. Is chiefly interested in the old

tales of the Irish MS. collections and in folk-lore gathered directly

from the people. Has published a volume of poems and many articles and

tales in the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THE IRISH REVIEW, IRISH YEAR BOOK, &c.,

and in American and New Zealand periodicals. Her writings are full of

the influence of the Celtic Revival, in which movement she numbers many

friends.

⸺ THE COMING OF LUGH. (_Maunsel_). 6_d._ net. 1909.

“A Celtic Wonder-tale Retold” for the young. A dainty little

volume in which is prettily told the story of Lugh Lamh Fada’s

sojourn in Tir-na-nOg and his return to Erin with the Sword of

Light to drive out the Fomorians. The illustrations by Madame

Gonne-MacBride are very well done.—(_Press Notice_).

⸺ CELTIC WONDER TALES. Pp. 202. (_Maunsel_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by Maud

Gonne. 1910.

Tales of the ancient days of De Danaan gods and heroes—of Angus

and Midyir and Lugh and the Gobhaun Saor. Told in rhythmic

and musical language and with much beauty of expression, but

most of the tales are altered quite out of their antique and

primitive form by a strong flavour of modern mysticism and

symbolism of the school of Yeats and A. E. “Conary Mor,” the

finest (we think) of the tales, is perhaps freest from this.

The first two or three are most influenced by it. Tales like

“A Good Action,” “The Sheepskin,” strike a different and,

as it seems to us, a discordant note, viz., broadly comical

episodes, in which the actors are gods. Includes The Children

of Lir and the Children of Turann (under title “The Eric Fine

of Lugh”), and the Coming of Lugh. Original and artistic Celtic

cover design, head-pieces, and tail-pieces. Four coloured

illustr. The first two are mystic and symbolic. Most Catholics

would consider them very much out of place here. The book is

beautifully produced.

APPENDIX A.

SOME USEFUL WORKS OF REFERENCE.

=1. IRISH LITERATURE.= Ten Vols. 4126 pp., exclusive of introductory

essays, which average over 20 pp.

Originally published by John D. Morris & Co. Afterwards taken over by the

De Bower Elliot Co., Chicago, and brought out in 1904.

Edited by Justin M’Carthy, M.P., with the help of an advisory committee,

including Stephen Gwynn, M.P., Lady Gregory, Standish O’Grady, D. J.

O’Donoghue, Douglas Hyde, LL.D., J. E. Redmond, M.P., G. W. Russell (“A.

E.”), J. J. Roche, LL.D., of the BOSTON PILOT, Prof. W. P. Trent, of

Columbia University, Prof. F. N. Robinson, of Harvard, H. S. Pancoast,

and W. P. Ryan; with Charles Welsh as Managing Director.

_Scope and Object_: To give a comprehensive, if rapid, view of the whole

development of Irish Literature from its earliest days. In the words

of the Editor, it is “an illustrated catalog of Ireland’s literary

contributions to mankind’s intellectual store.”

_The Choice of Extracts_ is determined by two canons: literary value

and human interest. The Library gives examples of “all that is best,

brightest, most attractive, readable, and amusing,” in the writings of

Irish authors. There is no dry-as-dust. The extracts comprise mythology,

legend, folklore, poems, songs, street-ballads, essays, oratory, history,

science, memoirs, fiction, travel, drama, wit, and humour. The vast

majority are chosen as being specially expressive of Irish nationality.

Choice is made both from the Gaelic and the Anglo-Irish literatures, but

the ancient Gaelic literature is given solely in translation. A volume

(the tenth) is given to _modern_ Gaelic literature, the Irish text and

English translation being given on opposite pages. This volume also

contains brief biographies of ancient Gaelic authors. The extracts are

never short and scrappy, but nearly always complete in themselves.

_Other Special Features_: Three hundred and fifty Irish authors

are represented by extracts. Of these one hundred and twenty are

contemporaries, the great modern intellectual revival being thus very

fully represented.

The extracts are given under the name of the authors, and these names are

arranged alphabetically, beginning in Vol. I. with Mrs. Alexander, and

ending with W. B. Yeats in Vol. IX.

To the extracts from each author there is prefixed a biographical

notice, including, in many cases, a literary appreciation by a competent

authority, and a fairly full bibliography.

Each volume contains an article, by a distinguished writer, on some

special department of Irish literature. Thus, the Editor-in-Chief gives

a general survey of the whole subject. W. B. Yeats writes on Irish

Poetry, Douglas Hyde on Early Irish Literature, Dr. Sigerson on Ireland’s

Influence on European Literature, Maurice Francis Egan on Irish Novels,

Charles Welsh on Fairy and Folk Tales, J. F. Taylor, K.C., on Irish

Oratory, Stephen Gwynn on the Irish Theatre, &c.

_Index_ of authors, books quoted from, titles and subjects dealt

with—exceptionally full and valuable (over 80 pp.).

_Publisher’s Work_: 1. Illustrations, over 100 (several in colour),

consisting of facsimiles of ancient Irish MSS., and of ancient prints and

street-ballads, portraits of Irish authors, views of places, objects,

scenery and incidents of Irish interest.

2. Letterpress—large and clear type.

3. Binding—cloth, and half-morocco.

4. Price—has varied a good deal since first publication.

=2. THE CABINET OF IRISH LITERATURE.= Four Vols. Super royal 8vo. Pp.

311 + 324 + 346 + 369. (_Gresham Publishing Co._). 8_s._ 6_d._ each.

Illustrations in black and white by J. H. BACON, C. M. SHELDON, W.

RAINEY, &c., and portraits. 1903.

_Editors_: Originally planned by C. A. Read, who collected matter for the

first three volumes of the original edition. Completed and edited by T.

P. O’Connor, M.P. New edition brought out by Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson.

_New edition_: The original edition (1879) was published by Blackie.

The new edition contains about the same quantity of matter, but large

portions of the original edition have been omitted to make room for new

matter, which occupies the whole of the fourth volume and a large part of

the third. A new Introduction (pp. xi.-xxxiv.) has been prefixed. It is a

general survey of Irish literature.

_Scope, arrangement, &c._: The authors are arranged chronologically.

There is first a sketch (full and carefully done) of each author’s

life and works; then follow extracts, as a rule very short, from his

works. The principle of selection is to give such extracts as would best

illustrate the author’s style, to avoid anything hackneyed, and “anything

that would offend the taste of any class or creed.”

In the original edition there was, perhaps inevitably, little of Irish

Ireland, still less of Gaelic Ireland. That has been to a certain extent

remedied in the new edition. But the old edition had the advantage of

containing a mass of information about little known writers and of

extracts from curious and rare books.

=3. BAKER, Ernest A., M.A., D.Lit., F.L.A.=

⸺ A GUIDE TO THE BEST FICTION IN ENGLISH. Sq. 4to. Pp. 813.

(_Routledge_). 21_s._ New ed., enlarged and thoroughly revised. [1902,

_Sonnenschein_]. 1913.

This new edition is a superb work, deserving the title of an Encyclopedia

of English Fiction. It gives information in descriptive notes of

between 7,000 and 8,000 works of fiction, including particulars of

publishers (both in England and in U.S.A.), prices, and date of

publication. It comprises every description of novel, translations

of important continental and even non-European fiction, and of early

stories and sagas from the Norse and from Celtic languages. The Guide is

selective—not everything in the novel line is included—but it is most

comprehensive. The _arrangement_ is first by nationalities (English,

American, Celtic, pp. 517-521, French, &c.). Each of these divisions is

subdivided according to the century in which the book was published,

and the entries under the various centuries are arranged alphabetically

according to names of authors. The _Index_, which runs to 170 pp., gives

full reference to Authors, Titles, and Subjects. Every specific subject

illustrated in the works is indexed with extraordinary accuracy and

completeness.

4. ⸺ A GUIDE TO HISTORICAL FICTION. Pp. xii. + 566. 1914.

A new ed. of the Author’s _History in Fiction_; a companion to the

preceding and uniform with it in size, publisher, and price. As in

the case of the former work, full bibliographical particulars and

descriptive notes are given. The main _arrangement_ is according to

countries. Under each country it is chronological. The Index (140 pp.)

gives information as full as in the preceding work. The standard of

selection is “the extent to which a story illustrates any given period of

history.”—(_Pref._). Ireland is not dealt with separately, the history of

the British Isles being taken as a whole.

5. ⸺ HISTORY IN FICTION. Two Vols. 16mo. Pp. 228 + 253. (Routledge).

2_s._ 6_d._ each. _n.d._ (1906).

“A kind of dictionary of historical romance from the earliest sagas

to the latest historical novel.”—(_Pref._). Aims to include “every

good work of prose fiction dealing with past times.”—(_Pref._). Full

bibliographical particulars (date, price, publisher) are given about

each book. In most cases a short descriptive note is added. The entries

average seven on a page. The titles are arranged first in order of

countries. Thus in Vol. I., pp. 1-128 deal with English History; pp.

129-154, with Scotch; pp. 155-167, with Irish, and so on. Vol. II., pp.

1-56, U.S.A.; pp. 61-117, France; pp. 118-131, Germany, and so on. The

books dealing with the history of each particular country are arranged in

order of date. A copious Author, Title, and Subject Index is appended to

each volume. We retain the note on this book as, though now in a sense

out of date, it is still in print, and its price makes it more generally

available than is the new edition.

=6. NIELD, Jonathan.=

⸺ A GUIDE TO THE BEST HISTORICAL NOVELS AND TALES. Pott 4to. Pp. xviii. +

522. (_Elkin Mathews_). 8_s._ nett. [1902, pp. viii. + 124]. Fourth ed.,

rev. and enlarged. 1911.

Introd. pp. 16 defends historical fiction. The work is in two parts—the

main body as it appeared in the third ed., and a supplement nearly as

large. Each is separately indexed. Each part is arranged in chronological

order. The titles of the books, the author and publisher, the subject

are arranged in three vertical columns. Prices are not given. On pp. 119

_sq._ there is a supplementary list of noteworthy semi-historical novels.

On p. 129 a list of fifty representative historical novels. The Author

appends suggested courses of juvenile reading and a valuable _Bibliogr._

The _Indexes_ are (1) Author and title, (2) Title only. The former give

the dates of publication of the books. The number of novels noted is

about 3,000. Ireland is, of course, not dealt with separately, as the

histories of the various countries are mingled in one chronological list.

=7. BUCKLEY, J. A., M.A., and W. T. WILLIAMS, B.A.=

⸺ A GUIDE TO BRITISH HISTORICAL FICTION. Pp. 182. (_Harrap_). 2_s._ 6_d._

1912.

Intended for teachers of Secondary and Elementary schools. Chronological

order with author- and title-indexes. Neatly arranged for ready

reference. Full notes on each novel. A good many Irish novels are

included.

=8. KRANS, Horatio Sheafe.=

⸺ IRISH LIFE IN IRISH FICTION. Pp. 338. (N.Y.: _Macmillan Co._). 6_s._

6_d._ net. 1903.

The Author is a Professor of Columbia University.

_Scope of work_: A survey and criticism of the leading Irish novelists of

the first half of the nineteenth century in so far as give us a picture

of the national life and character.

_Contents_: Chap. i. A general survey of Irish society during the period

treated by the novelists, _e.g._, 1782-1850, based on O’Neill Daunt’s

_Eighty-five Years of Irish History_, Justin M’Carthy’s _Outline_, J.

E. Walshe’s _Ireland Sixty Years Ago_, Barrington’s Reminiscences, &c.

Chap. ii. The novelists of the Gentry. Chap. iii. The novelists of the

Peasantry. Chap. iv. Types met with in the novels and typical incidents

taken from them. Chap. v. Literary estimate. Then there is a “list of the

more important stories and novels of Irish life by Irish writers whose

literary activity began before 1850.” Throughout copious quotations are

made.

_Treatment_: Wholly free from bias. Marked by broad-minded, judicial

spirit, thorough interest in and sympathy with the subject, wide

knowledge, and a remarkable gift of literary characterization. On the

whole a work which I can scarcely praise too highly.

=9.= The following book may be mentioned as possibly useful to reviewers,

teachers, and others:—

=WHITCOMB, Selden L.=

⸺ THE STUDY OF A NOVEL. (_Heath_). 1906.

It is “the result of practical experience in teaching the novel, and its

aim is primarily pedagogical.”—(_Pref._). Contents:—External Structure,

Consecutive Structure, Plot, The Settings, The Dramatis Personæ,

Characterization, Subject Matter, Style, Influence, Rhetoric, Æsthetics,

Analysis.

10. THE IRISH BOOK-LOVER. Published by Salmond & Co. Monthly. 2_s._ 6_d._

per annum, post free.

This excellent little periodical, edited by Dr. J. S. Crone, Kensal

Lodge, Kensal Green, London, N.W., is entirely devoted to Irish books

and their authors, and is the only publication of the kind. Beginning

in August, 1909, and appearing monthly since then, its six volumes are

a most valuable storehouse of Irish book lore of all kinds. As regards

fiction, it reviews most of the Irish novels that appear, has many

articles on Irish novelists past and present, and supplies a quarterly

classified bibliography of current Irish literature, in which there is a

section for fiction. The obligations of the present work towards it are

very great.

APPENDIX B.

PUBLISHERS AND SERIES.

1. The Principal Irish Publishers:—

DUBLIN: MESSRS. BROWNE & NOLAN, Nassau Street.

” JAMES DUFFY & CO., Westmoreland Street.

” THE EDUCATIONAL CO. OF IRELAND, Talbot Street.

” M. H. GILL & CO., O’Connell Street.

” HODGES & FIGGIS, Grafton Street.

” MAUNSEL & CO., Ltd., 96 Middle Abbey Street.

” SEALY, BRYERS & WALKER, Middle Abbey Street.

” ALEX. THOM & CO., Middle Abbey Street.

BELFAST: ERSKINE MAYNE.

MCCAW, STEVENSON & ORR.

CORK: GUY & CO.

NOTE.—None of these publishers, with the exception of Messrs. Maunsel,

has a London house. The London address of Messrs. Maunsel is 40 Museum

Street, W.C.

=2. IRISH NATIONAL TALES AND ROMANCES.= Nineteen Vols. (_Colburn_). 1833.

By LADY MORGAN (_O’Briens and O’Flahertys_), J. BANIM (_The

Anglo-Irish_), E. E. CROWE (_Yesterday in Ireland_), THOMAS COLLEY

GRATTAN (_Tales of Travel_), &c. This series is occasionally to be met

with on sale at second hand.

=3. DOWNEY & CO.’S IRISH NOVELISTS’ LIBRARY.= EDMUND DOWNEY, General

Editor. Biographical sketch prefixed to each volume, and portrait of

Author. Price, 2_s._ 6_d._, cloth.

Included:—

O’DONNEL. By LADY MORGAN. Biography by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.

ORMOND. By MARIA EDGEWORTH. Biography by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.

FARDOROUGHA THE MISER. By W. CARLETON. Biography by D. J.

O’Donoghue.

THE EPICUREAN. By THOMAS MOORE. Biography by E. Downey.

RORY O’MORE. By SAMUEL LOVER. Biography by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.

THE COLLEGIANS. By GERALD GRIFFIN. Biography by E. Downey.

THE O’DONOGHUE. By CHARLES LEVER. Biography by E. Downey.

TORLOGH O’BRIEN. By J. SHERIDAN LEFANU. Biography by E. Downey.

Downey & Co. issued, 1902, paper-covered, well printed, on good paper,

a Sixpenny Library of Novels, many of which were by Irish authors such

as Lever, Banim, Lady Morgan, Lover, and Carleton. Irish novels were

included in several other series published by this firm.

=4. CHEAP POPULAR FICTION= published by CAMERON & FERGUSON, of Glasgow.

The publications of this firm were taken over by MESSRS. WASHBOURNE, who

keep in print such of them as were of any value.

THE GREEN AND THE RED; or, Historical Tales and Legends of

Ireland. Picture boards, 1_s._

GERALD AND AUGUSTA; or, the Irish Aristocracy: A Novel, 1_s._

THE MISTLETOE AND THE SHAMROCK: a National Tale. 1_s._

BILLY BLUFF AND THE SQUIRE: a Picture of Ulster in 1796. 6_d._

THE IRISH GIRL; or, the True Love and the False. 6_d._

THE KNIGHTS OF THE PALE; or, Ireland 400 Years Ago. 256 pp.

6_d._

=5. SEALY, BRYERS & WALKER’S SIXPENNY LIBRARY OF FICTION.=

OWEN DONOVAN, FENIAN. By GRAVES O’MARA. A Tale of the ’67

Rising.

CAPTAIN HARRY. By J. H. LEPPER. A Tale of the Royalist Wars.

A SOWER OF THE WIND. By CAHIR HEALY. A Tale of the Land League.

OLAF THE DANE. By JOHN DENVIR. A Story of Donegal.

THE GAELS OF MOONDHARRIG. By REV. J. DOLLARD. A Tale of the

Famous Kilkenny Hurlers.

FRANK MAXWELL. By J. H. LEPPER. A Royalist Tale of 1641.

PAUL FARQUHAR’S LEGACY. By J. G. ROWE. A Thrilling Tale of

Mining Life in South Africa.

ONLY A LASS. By RUBY M. DUGGAN. A Tale of Girl School Life.

THE STRIKE. By T. J. ROONEY. A Tale of the Dublin Liberties.

BULLY HAYES, BLACKBIRDER. By J. G. ROWE. An Adventure Tale of

the South Seas.

THE ENCHANTED PORTAL. By MARY LOWRY. A Tale of the Giant’s

Causeway.

STORMY HALL. By M. L. THOMPSON. A Thrilling Tale of Adventure.

TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT. By ROBERT CROMIE. A Romance of the

Norwegian Fjords.

BY THE STREAM OF KILMEEN. By SEAMAS O’KELLY. Exquisite Sketches

of Irish Life.

THE MACHINATIONS OF CISSY. By MRS. PIERRE PATTISON. A Tale of a

Sister’s Jealousy.

WHEN STRONG WILLS CLASH. By ANNIE COLLINS. A Tale of Love and

Pride.

THE HUMOURS OF A BLUE DEVIL IN THE ISLE OF SAINTS. By ALAN

WARRENER. A Tale of the Love Escapades of a certain Captain.

THE HONOUR OF THE DESBOROUGHS. By RITA RICHMOND. Concerns the

Love Affairs of Honor Desborough, and a fight for an Estate.

THE LUCK OF THE KAVANAGHS. By C. J. HAMILTON. Relates the

extraordinary Adventures of an Emigrant Irish Boy.

THE DOCTOR’S LOCUM-TENENS. By LIZZIE C. READ.

LADY GREVILLE’S ERROR. By MRS. WATT.

SWEET NELLIE O’FLAHERTY. By T. A. BREWSTER.

=6. “IRELAND’S OWN” LIBRARY.=

This excellent popular periodical, the circulation of which in England

and abroad as well as in Ireland is very considerable, is bringing out

cheap reprints of stories and other features that have appeared in its

pages. The following is a list of the Library to date:—

RED RAPPAREE. By DESMOND LOUGH.

BARNEY THE BOYO. By L. A. FINN.

THE BLACK WING. By DESMOND LOUGH.

TRACKED. By V. O’D. POWER.

IRELAND’S OWN SONG BOOK.

THE LEAGUE OF THE RING and TORN APART. By MORROUGH O’BRIEN.

Each price 6_d._ Address:—“THE PEOPLE” PRINTING AND PUBLISHING WORKS,

Wexford; or, 11 Sackville Place, Dublin.

=7. DUFFY’S POPULAR LITERATURE.= Messrs. DUFFY publish and keep in print

very cheap editions of the standard Irish novelists.

(1) The following by Carleton: _The Black Baronet_, _The Evil Eye_,

_Valentine M’Clutchey_, _Willy Reilly_, _Art Maguire_, _Paddy-go-Easy_,

_The Poor Scholar_, _Traits and Stories_ (1_s._); _The Red Well_, _Rody

the Rover_, _Redmond Count O’Hanlon_. (2) All Griffin’s works, at 2_s._

each. (3) All Kickham’s novels. (4) Banim’s _Boyne Water_ and _The

Croppy_, at 2_s._ 6_d._ each. (5) Many stories by Lever, Mgr. O’Brien,

Mrs. Sadlier, &c., noticed in the body of this work.

Besides these, Messrs. Duffy issue seven or eight series of popular

fiction. The volumes of these series are neatly, in many cases

tastefully, bound, and very cheap. Many, however, are old-fashioned

in turn-out, and printed from old founts. The majority of the stories

are moral and religious in tendency, but by no means all. The literary

standard in some is not very high, but in many it is good. Of “Prize

Library,” Series I. (42 titles), Mrs. Sadlier’s _Daughter of Tyrconnell_

is an example; of II. (20 titles), the same author’s _Willy Burke_; of

III. (24 titles), Curtis’s _Rory of the Hills_, and Anon. _The Robber

Chieftain_. Series IV. has 16 titles, 2_s._ 6_d._ each; V., 15 titles, at

3_s._; VI., 9 titles at 3_s._ 6_d._ There is also a “Popular Library” at

6_d._, “for the instruction of youth,” and a “Juvenile Library,” with 24

stories, at 1_d._ each.

=8. MESSRS. M. H. GILL & SONS.=

This firm (originally McGlashan, then McGlashan & Gill) has behind it a

long history of publication, most of the books issued by it being Irish

in subject. At present the catalogue of its publications contains various

popular series or “libraries” at more or less uniform prices. None of

these consist exclusively of fiction. The “Green Cloth Library” is one of

them.

=9. THE CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY OF IRELAND (C.T.S.I.).=[15]

The main object of this Society is religious and moral propaganda, but it

aims also at fostering among the people an interest in their country—its

history, antiquities, ruins, scenery, &c. Cheap popular fiction is

one of the chief vehicles of this propaganda, and it has published

in the fifteen years of its existence—it was founded in 1899—upwards

of a hundred penny booklets, besides the shilling series mentioned

below. Nearly all these stories are Irish in subject. Most of them are

distinctively Catholic in tone, and a number of them aim directly or

indirectly at religious instruction. But there are a fairly considerable

number which simply tell tales of ancient Ireland in pagan as well as

in Christian times. The importance of the work of this Society may be

gathered from the fact that since its start it has distributed over seven

million copies of its publications. All that can be done here is to give

a list of the stories published by the C.T.S.I., indicating the nature of

the contents of some of them.

T. B. CRONIN.—THE COLLEEN FROM THE MOOR.

⸺ THE BOY FROM OVER THE HILL.

These are two stories of Kerry life, deservedly popular.

MARY MAHER.—THE IRISH EMIGRANT’S ORPHAN.

LADY GILBERT (ROSA MULHOLLAND).—A MOTHER OF EMIGRANTS.

NANO TOBIN.—NANCY DILLON’S CHOICE and FROM TEXAS TO INCHRUE.

A. CUNNINGHAM.—PASSAGE TICKETS.

Four emigration stories.

E. F. KELLY.—KEVIN O’CONNOR.

Religious persecutions in 17th cent. at home and in convict

settlements.

ALICIA GOLDING.—ELLEN RYAN.

Land troubles.

PATRICIA DILLON.—IN THE WAKE OF THE ARMADA.

Home life of native Irish chiefs and their intercourse with

continent, end of 16th century.

MARY T. MCKENNA.—MAUREEN DOHERTY: the Story of a Trinket.

ANNA M. MARTIN.—MAHON’S LEAP.

S. Sligo in ’98.

ALICE DEASE.—ON THE BROAD ROAD.

A Story of the White Slave Traffic.

K. M. GAUGHAN.—SHEELAH: the Story of a Mixed Marriage.

MYLES V. RONAN, C.C.—WOMAN’S INFLUENCE: a Dublin Hospital Romance.

⸺ THE HOUSE OF JULIANSTOWN; or, a Flight for the Faith.

Days of the Volunteers. Historically true.

M. SULLIVAN.—THE DESERTER AND OTHER STORIES.

Very nicely told.

MACDONAGH (MARY L.), _née_ BURROUGHS PARKER.—THREE TIPPERARY BOYS.

One of whom, a minister’s son, is converted and marries Delia.

LADY GILBERT.—AVOURNEEN.

A waif cast up by the sea on the island of Inishglas, and his

life among the islanders.

⸺ THE GHOST IN THE RATH.

⸺ MRS. BLAKE’S NEXT OF KIN.

DELIA GLEESON.—WHERE THE TURF FIRES BURN.

Others by Lucy M. Curd, Nora F. Degidon, S. A. Turk, &c., and a

series of thirteen stories entitled THE EMERALD LIBRARY.

For M. J. O’Mullane’s stories, see in the body of the book under his name.

=TEMPERANCE STORIES.=

A BATCH OF SACRIFICES. By Rev. FREDERICK C. KOLBE, D.D.

THE STRIKE; or, The Drunkard’s Fate.

THE BROKEN HEART and THE MISER’S DEATH.

DONAL’S EXTRAVAGANCE. By Rev. DAVID MCKEE, C.C.

REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. By MOLLY MALONE.

HELENA’S SON. By NORA F. DEGIDON.

THE CHILD OF HIS HEART. By MARY T. MCKENNA.

MIKE HANLON’S MOTHER-IN-LAW. By K. GAUGHAN.

MORE TEMPERANCE STORIES. By ALICE DEASE.

=THE IONA SERIES.= A new venture of the Irish Catholic Truth Society.

Consists of 16mo volumes, prettily bound in cloth, with frontispiece.

Price 1_s._

THE COMING OF THE KING. A Jacobite Romance. By ARTHUR SYNAN.

HIAWATHA’S BLACK ROBE. Father Marquette, S.J. By E. LEAHY.

PEGGY THE MILLIONAIRE. By MARY COSTELLO.

EARL OR CHIEFTAIN? The Romance of Hugh O’Neill. By PATRICIA

DILLON.

ISLE OF COLUMBCILLE. A Pilgrimage and a Sketch. By SHANE LESLIE.

THE GOLDEN LAD. A Story of Child Life. By MOLLY MALONE.

A LIFE’S AMBITION. Ven. Philippine Duchesne. By M. T. KELLY.

THE MAKING OF JIM O’NEILL. A Story of Seminary Life. By M. J. F.

NICHOLAS CARDINAL WISEMAN. By REV. JOSEPH E. CANAVAN, S.J.

THE SORROW OF LYCADOON. By MRS. THOMAS CONCANNON, M.A.

THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURELIUS. A Study in Ideals. By JOHN C. JOY,

S.J.

A GROUP OF NATION BUILDERS—O’DONOVAN, O’CURRY, PETRIE. By REV.

P. M. MACSWEENEY, M.A.

[15] O’Connell Street, Dublin.

=10. THE CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY.=

Address, 69 Southwark Bridge Rd., London, S.E. This is the original

Society, founded in 1884, on the model of which the Irish, Scottish, and

Australian bodies were founded. It has on its lists a few Irish stories.

Lady Gilbert has written a certain number for it, _e.g._, _Penal Days_,

_Nellie_. Her sister Clara Mulholland has published through it a little

shilling volume: _Some Stories_ (also in penny parts); Katharine Tynan

another shilling volume: _The Land I love best_; Alice Dease: _Some Irish

Stories_, 6_d._ (and in penny parts); and “M. E. Francis” has also some

stories.

=11. MESSENGER OFFICE.=

The Office of the little periodical THE IRISH MESSENGER OF THE S. HEART,

Gt. Denmark St., Dublin, publishes penny booklets of a kind similar to

those of the Catholic Truth Societies. Here are some of the titles:—

JOE CALLINAN. (In its 20th thousand).

No. 18 BLANK ST. (85th thousand).

THE TRAIL OF THE TRAITOR. (35th thousand). A story of

Cromwell’s sack of Wexford.

KATHLEEN’S PILGRIMAGE. (25th thousand). A tale of Lough Derg.

TEMPERANCE STORIES. By M. A. C. (15th thousand).

The fiction in the IRISH MESSENGER itself and in the MADONNA is almost

always of an Irish complexion. The circulation of the former of these is

over 170,000 a month.

=12. EVERY IRISHMAN’S LIBRARY.=

A new (Autumn, 1915) enterprise of THE TALBOT PRESS, 89 Talbot Street,

Dublin. The aim is to bring out in a cheap (2_s._ 6_d._) but worthy

form both well-known works by Irishmen about Ireland and new works. The

Editors-in-chief are Mr. Alfred Percival Graves, Prof. William Magennis,

and Dr. Douglas Hyde. It hopes to include every department of Irish

literature—poetry, fiction, oratory, sport and travel, history, wit and

humour, essays and belles lettres, politics, biography, art, music and

the drama. Each book is in the hands of a competent editor, so that none

of the books in the series are mere reprints. The volumes have been

designed, printed, and bound (cloth, Celtic design in green and gold) in

Ireland. The publication has been greatly interfered with by the war.

The first six volumes, which are as follows, do not include a work of

fiction, but Griffin’s “Collegians” and Carleton’s Stories will be in the

next batch.

Now Ready:—

THOMAS DAVIS. Selections from his Prose and Poetry. Edited by

T. W. ROLLESTON, M.A.

WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST. By W. H. MAXWELL. Edited by the EARL

OF DUNRAVEN.

LEGENDS OF SAINTS AND SINNERS. From the Irish. Edited by

DOUGLAS HYDE, LL.D.

HUMOURS OF IRISH LIFE. Edited by CHARLES L. GRAVES, M.A.

(Oxon.).

IRISH ORATORS AND ORATORY. Edited by Professor T. M. KETTLE,

National University of Ireland.

THE BOOK OF IRISH POETRY. Edited by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M.A.

=13. MAUNSEL & Co., Ltd.=

Has in course of publication two series of novels and stories by Irish

writers, viz.:—

(1). A series at 1_s._, bound in red cloth, crown 8vo size, with

excellent paper and printing. It includes the following books:—

THE NORTHERN IRON. By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM.

BALLYGULLION. By LYNN DOYLE.

THE GLADE IN THE FOREST. By STEPHEN GWYNN.

THE PRISONER OF HIS WORD. By LOUIE BENNETT.

CAMBIA CARTY. By WILLIAM BUCKLEY.

(2). A series at 2_s._, crown 8vo., cloth; equal in get-up to the average

6_s._ novel. The following is a list of the books hitherto published in

this series:—

MRS. MARTIN’S MAN. By ST. JOHN G. ERVINE.

THE BLIND SIDE OF THE HEART. By F. E. CRICHTON.

COUNTRYMEN ALL. By KATHARINE TYNAN.

THE ONE OUTSIDE. By MARY FITZPATRICK.

=14. AMERICAN PUBLISHERS OF IRISH BOOKS.=

A great many American publishers bring out books on Irish subjects: few

specialize in this line. On the whole little new fiction of an Irish

complexion is published in the States. On the other hand a large number

of Irish tales and novels which have been allowed to go out of print in

this country are still reprinted and sold on the “other side.” Many such

books will be found in the catalogues of such firms as Benziger Bros., of

New York; P. J. Kenedy, of the same city; Flynn, of Boston; John Murphy

Co., of Baltimore; McVey, of Philadelphia, &c. J. S. Pratt, of 161 6th

Ave., nr. 12th St., N.Y., publishes a catalogue containing Irish items

exclusively.

APPENDIX C.

IRISH MAGAZINE FICTION.[16]

There is a wealth of Irish fiction buried in the volumes of long extinct

Irish periodicals and others still existing. Most people will have

pleasurable recollections of stories read by them in one or other of

the magazines which they were accustomed to read in youth—recollections

which are only occasionally confirmed on a second reading in after life.

I can still recall with delight many stories of Irish and even of alien

characters which appeared in THE SHAMROCK, YOUNG IRELAND, THE LAMP,

and other periodicals—not to speak of the numerous tales, serial and

otherwise, which were a feature of the weekly editions of the ordinary

Irish newspapers. Perhaps in some future edition of “A Guide to Irish

Fiction” it may be possible to appraise some of the more notable of these

stories and their authors. Meanwhile, it is worth recalling that in the

old DUBLIN AND LONDON MAGAZINE, 1825-7, there is much admirable Irish

fiction, chiefly by Michael James Whitty and Denis Shine Lawlor. The same

may be said, in a more restricted sense, of that in THE DUBLIN PENNY

JOURNAL, THE DUBLIN JOURNAL OF TEMPERANCE, SCIENCE, AND LITERATURE, THE

IRISH PENNY JOURNAL, THE IRISH PENNY MAGAZINE, and, above all, in THE

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, which in its forty odd years of existence

added enormously to the general body of Irish literature. A good word

must also be said for Duffy’s HIBERNIAN and FIRESIDE magazines, which

carried on the work down to about the seventies. THE IRISH MONTHLY,

most valuable of all in its services to the literature of the country,

encouraged a host of clever novelists and sketch writers, though, as

in the case of THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, much of its output has

been gathered into volumes, there is still much to be gleaned. Much of

the work already referred to is partly accessible in the libraries, but

where is one to consult the stores of fiction—often charming and mostly

interesting—which appeared first (and last) in the pages of THE SHAMROCK,

YOUNG IRELAND, THE IRISH FIRESIDE, THE LAMP (especially during John

F. O’Donnell’s editorship), THE IRISH EMERALD, and other more recent

magazines? So far as I know, there are no complete sets of these in any

library. But some of our best writers began their literary career by

writing for these humble periodicals, and even authors who had arrived

did not deem it beneath their dignity to contribute their maturer work.

But it is a large question how much of this fiction is of permanent

value. I have no doubt myself that a judicious collector could make many

discoveries if an enterprising publisher could be found to give the

results to the public. But perhaps that is not even worth discussing in

these stormy days.

D. J. O’DONOGHUE.

[16] I have thought it best to insert Mr. O’Donoghue’s note as it stood,

though my doing so involved certain repetitions in the following note.

IRISH FICTION IN PERIODICALS.[17]

I.—DEFUNCT PERIODICALS.

I should have liked to include in this work the fiction, at least

the serial fiction, that lies buried in the back numbers of Irish

periodicals. I was obliged to make up my mind, regretfully enough, that

this was impossible. All that I have found practicable is to insert here

a general note giving the names and dates, with occasional remarks, of

some of the more noteworthy of Irish periodicals, omitting of course such

as contain no fiction.

Of the eighteenth century literary periodicals, such as Droz’s LITERARY

JOURNAL (1744-8) and Walker’s HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE (1771-1811), it is

unnecessary to say much, as the little fiction they contain is not of a

very Irish character. But in Watty Cox’s famous IRISH MAGAZINE, which

began in 1807 and ran to 1815, there are excellent Irish stories. To THE

DUBLIN AND LONDON MAGAZINE (1825-27) M. J. Whitty and Denis Shine Lawlor,

both noteworthy writers, contributed Irish tales of a sympathetic and

national character. Whitty collected his into a volume, which is noted in

the body of this work. A serial about Robert Emmet and another entitled

“The Orangeman” ran in this periodical. Bolster’s QUARTERLY (1826-31) and

THE DUBLIN MONTHLY MAGAZINE (1830), afterwards revived in 1842-3 as THE

CITIZEN OR DUBLIN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, call for no special comment though

they contain a certain amount of fiction. The latter, for instance, had

a story of 1641, “Lord Connor of Innisfallen,” and, in the 1842 revival,

“Gerald Kirby, a tale of ’98.” Some of Carleton’s _Traits and Stories_

first saw the light in this magazine. THE DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL (1832-6),

first edited by Philip Dixon Hardy, contains a large proportion of

Carleton’s stories, and many others signed McC., S. W., J. H. K., E. W.,

&c. In fact, it is full of matter interesting from an Irish point of view.

Then there was THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL, THE IRISH PENNY MAGAZINE, and THE

IRISH METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE, 1857 _sqq._ This last was not very Irish in

tone; its eyes were upon the ends of the earth, but an occasional Irish

story such as “Life’s Foreshadowings” is to be found in it.

Much was done for Irish periodical literature by the firm of James Duffy.

Duffy’s IRISH CATHOLIC MAGAZINE, 1847 _sq._, contains much interesting

Irish matter, but little fiction except a serial, “King Simnel and

the Palesmen,” which, however, seems to have been dropped after the

thirteenth chapter. Duffy’s HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE appeared in the early

sixties. It had many of Carleton’s stories[18] and several serials, such

as “Raymond de Burgh, or the Fortune of a Stepson, A Romance of the

Exodus,” and “Winifred’s Fortune,” a story of Dublin in the days of Queen

Anne.

Other ventures of Duffy’s were THE ILLUSTRATED DUBLIN JOURNAL (1862) and

Duffy’s FIRESIDE MAGAZINE.

In the fifties came a periodical whose title seems a faint premonition

of the Irish revival—THE CELT, 1857 _sq._ It had a curious series of

articles on Ireland’s temptations, failings, and vices. There were

sketches of the South of Ireland by Aymer Clington, and C. M. O’Keeffe’s

“Knights of the Pale” ran in it as a serial.

The sixties were, as we have seen, catered for by some of Duffy’s

ventures. In the middle of the seventies appeared THE ILLUSTRATED

MONITOR, afterwards THE MONITOR, published by Dollard, a Catholic

magazine which ran for about eight volumes. Vol. I. contains two serials,

“The Moores of Moore’s Court,” by D. F. Hannigan, and “High Treason,”

which is not of Irish interest. Other serials that ran in subsequent

volumes were “Julia Marron, a tale of Irish peasant life,” by “Celt,” and

“The False Witness; or, the martyr of Armagh,” by A. M. S.

In 1877 THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE reached its 89th volume and

became THE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, losing thereby its distinctively Irish

character. In the forty odd years of its existence this magazine

collected a great body of first-rate Irish literature.

Then there was YOUNG IRELAND, THE IRISH FIRESIDE, and THE LAMP

(especially during the editorship of John F. O’Donnell). In these and

others such some of the best of our Irish writers began their literary

careers.

As we near our own times the number of periodicals of all kinds that have

appeared and disappeared—most of them after a very brief career—becomes

bewildering. But the fact that they have run their course within our own

memory makes detailed reference to them the less necessary. It is not

many years since THE IRISH PACKET closed its career, an excellent little

popular periodical that was edited by Judge Bodkin. The Irish Literary

movement produced several periodicals, for the most part perhaps somewhat

exotic—DANA, SAMHAIN, BELTAINE, &c., &c. Their latest successor, and

to our way of thinking much the best of them—THE IRISH REVIEW—is only

just deceased. The Gaelic movement, too, has produced its periodicals,

but naturally most, if not all, of the fiction they contain is in

the national language. The two best of these, THE GAELIC JOURNAL and

GADELICA, have most unhappily come to an end, the former after quite a

considerable career, the latter after a short one.

I have said nothing of the provincial press, though there were excellent

literary periodicals in Cork and Belfast,[19] nor of the weekly editions

of the ordinary daily papers, which sometimes contain fiction of very

good quality.

It would be impossible to give here even a bird’s-eye view of the fiction

of the Irish-American press. I may, however, mention a very fine review,

the GAEL, of New York, which reached its twenty-third and last volume in

1904. It has contributions from all our leading present day Irish writers.

[17] In the compilation of this short survey I am indebted for useful

notes to Dr. J. S. Crone.

[18] _E.g._, “The Man with the Black Eye,” “The Rapparee,” and “The

Double Prophecy.”

[19] Notably a periodical of fine national spirit which was run by Miss

Alice Milligan and “Ethna Carbery,” THE SHAN VAN VOCHT (1896-1899).

II.—CURRENT PERIODICALS.

The IRISH MONTHLY may fairly, I think, claim mention in the first place

for, to the best of my knowledge, its forty-three years constitute a life

longer than that of any other still surviving Irish literary review.[20]

In it, under the sympathetic guidance and the kind encouragement of

Father Matthew Russell, its founder and for forty years its editor, many

authors well known to-day began the making of their literary reputations.

It contains many serials, not a few of which have since appeared in book

form. “The Wild Birds of Killeevy” first ran in its pages.

THE IRISH ROSARY is in its nineteenth volume. It is one of the very few

Irish periodicals that has succeeded in maintaining itself as a well

illustrated magazine, and it has done so at the exceptionally low price

of fourpence. Fiction forms a large proportion of its contents, which are

never stodgy nor yet what is called goody-goody.

THE CATHOLIC BULLETIN is comparatively a new-comer, but already quite a

number of volumes, including Fr. Fitzgerald’s two books (_q.v._), have

been reprinted from its pages. Its tone is thoroughly Irish.

Then there are innumerable little periodicals which, unlike the three

just mentioned, contain stories of an almost exclusively religious or

moral character, such as the ANNALS OF ST. ANTONY, THE MESSENGER OF THE

SACRED HEART, &c.

The excellent IRELAND’S OWN, a popular weekly on the lines of ANSWERS and

TIT-BITS, deserves a word of mention. Its library of reprints is referred

to elsewhere.

Besides these there are the weekly numbers of the daily papers already

referred to and the periodicals devoted to Gaelic literature, a list of

which will be found in the section of this Appendix, entitled Gaelic Epic

and Romantic Literature.

In America many periodicals publish Irish fiction from time to time, but

practically the only periodicals the contents of which are predominantly

Irish are of an almost exclusively political character. THE CATHOLIC

WORLD has published Irish serials, _e.g._, in the seventies, “The Home

Rule Candidate: a tale of New Ireland,” by the author of “The Little

Chapel at Monamullin.” Several of Canon Sheehan’s novels first appeared

in American periodicals.

[20] THE DUBLIN REVIEW and THE IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD, which are

older, not being, properly speaking, literary reviews.

APPENDIX D.

I.—IRISH HISTORICAL FICTION.

The following is a select list: it does not aim to include all the

historical novels mentioned in the body of this work. But many novels

that, as literature, are of very little value have been included in order

to cover periods not otherwise dealt with in fiction.

DALARADIA. WILLIAM COLLINS.

_c._ 500-1016. KINGS AND VIKINGS. LORCAN O’BYRNE.

500-507. THE LAST MONARCH OF TARA. T. J. ROONEY.

_c._ 550-597. BRANAN THE PICT. MARY FRANCES OUTRAM.

_c._ 560-615. COLUMBANUS THE CELT. WALTER T. LEAHY.

_c._ 584-592. THE DRUIDESS. MRS. FLORENCE GAY.

_c._ 650. THE LIFE AND ACTS OF EDMOND OF ERIN. MRS. F. PECK.

THE INVASION. GERALD GRIFFIN.

888. KING AND VIKING. P. G. SMYTH.

935. A SEA QUEEN’S SAILING. C. W. WHISTLER.

_c._ 1130-1151. THE KNIGHT OF THE CAVE. W. LORCAN O’BYRNE.

1152-1172. DEARFORGIL, THE PRINCESS OF BREFFNY. C. B. GIBSON.

The Invasion and After.

1169. THE FALCON KING. LORCAN O’BYRNE.

1167-1198. THE COURT OF RATH CROGHAN. MISS M. L. O’BYRNE.

LET ERIN REMEMBER. MAY WYNNE.

1333. THE RETURN OF CLANEBOY. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.

1373-1399. UNDER ONE SCEPTRE. EMILY S. HOLT.

1375-1417. ART MURROUGH O’KAVANAGH. M. L. O’BYRNE.

_c._ 1397. THE CAPTURE OF KILLESHIN. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.

_c._ 1410. CORBY MacGILLMORE. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.

The Geraldines.

THE HEIRESS OF KILORGAN. MRS. J. SADLIER.

Silken Thomas.

1533-7. THOMAS FITZGERALD THE LORD OF OFFALY.

1532-1537. THE WEIRD OF “THE SILKEN THOMAS.” R. MANIFOLD-CRAIG.

1534-5. THE SIEGE OF MAYNOOTH.

1534-5. THE REBELLION OF SILKEN THOMAS. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.

Seaghan O’Neill.

1559-1567. A PRINCE OF TYRONE. CHARLOTTE FENNELL AND J. P.

O’CALLAGHAN.

The Desmond Wars.

_c._ 1560. THE PALE AND THE SEPTS. M. L. O’BYRNE.

1565. RALPH WYNWARD. H. ELRINGTON.

_c._ 1577. FOR CHURCH AND CHIEFTAIN. MAY WYNNE.

1577-1582. MAELCHO. EMILY LAWLESS.

1580-2. GERALDINE OF DESMOND. MISS CRUMPE.

Grania Ni Mhailie (Grace O’Malley).

_c._ 1585-1590. A QUEEN OF MEN. WILLIAM O’BRIEN, M.P.

_c._ 1579 _sq._ GRACE O’MALLEY, PRINCESS AND PIRATE. ROBERT MACHRAY.

_c._ 1585. GRANIA WAILE. FULMAR PETREL.

_c._ 1585. THE DARK LADY OF DOONA. W. H. MAXWELL.

Elizabethan Persecutions.

THE SPAEWIFE. REV. JOHN BOYCE, D.D.

1584. THE SORROW OF LYCADOON. MRS. T. CONCANNON.

Elizabethan Ireland.

1585-1590. SIR LUDAR. TALBOT BAINES REED.

HIBERNIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON.

THE BOG OF STARS. STANDISH O’GRADY.

1580-1600. THE SPANISH WINE. FRANK MATHEW.

The War of the Earls.

1587. FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE. STANDISH O’GRADY.

1601-1602. ULRICK THE READY. STANDISH O’GRADY.

EARL OR CHIEFTAIN. PATRICIA DILLON.

THE ADVENTURER.

THE RED HAND OF ULSTER. MRS. SADLIER.

THE CHARMING OF ESTERCEL. GRACE RHYS.

_c._ 1597. MacCARTHY MOR. MRS. JAMES SADLIER.

1599-1603. LAST EARL OF DESMOND. C. B. GIBSON.

THE BROKEN SWORD OF ULSTER. RICHARD CUNINGHAME.

SIR GUY D’ESTERRE. SELINA BUNBURY.

1599. WITH ESSEX IN IRELAND. EMILY LAWLESS.

Ireland under James I. and Charles I.

1608. THE LAST OF THE IRISH CHIEFS. MRS. M. T. PENDER.

1603. THE DAUGHTER OF TYRCONNELL. MRS. JAMES SADLIER.

1609. HUGH TALBOT. W. J. O’NEILL DAUNT.

1633. KATHLEEN CLARE. DORA MCCHESNEY.

1640. FRANK MAXWELL. J. H. LEPPER.

The Confederation and the Parliamentary Wars.

1641-1652. THE CONFEDERATE CHIEFTAINS. MRS. JAMES SADLIER.

1641-1652. THE WILD ROSE OF LOUGH GILL. P. G. SMYTH.

1642-1652. THE CHANCES OF WAR. REV. T. A. FINLAY, S.J.

1644. CAPTAIN HARRY. J. H. LEPPER.

_c._ 1645. SILK AND STEEL. H. A. HINKSON.

1645. FRIENDS THOUGH DIVIDED. G. A. HENTY.

1647-1654. LORD ROCHE’S DAUGHTERS OF FERMOY. M. L. O’BYRNE.

THE FLIGHT FROM THE CLIFFS. JAMES MURPHY.

1649. WHEN CROMWELL CAME TO DROGHEDA. RANDAL M’DONNELL.

1649. IN THE KING’S SERVICE. F. S. BRERETON.

1649. CASTLE OMERAGH. F. FRANKFORT MOORE.

1649. JOHN MARMADUKE. SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH.

_c._ 1649. THE SILK OF THE KINE. MISS L. MACMANUS.

Roundhead Rule.

1652-1660. THE KING OF CLADDAGH. T. FITZPATRICK.

1654. CAPTAIN LATYMER. F. FRANKFORT MOORE.

1654. ETHNE. MRS. FIELD.

1654. NESSA. L. MACMANUS.

The Williamite Wars.

1671-1748. MEMOIRS OF GERALD O’CONNOR. W. O’CONNOR MORRIS.

1680. THE FIGHT OF FAITH. MRS. S. C. HALL.

1685-1691. THE BOYNE WATER. J. BANIM.

1689. TRUE TO THE WATCHWORD. E. PICKERING.

1689-1690. A MAN’S FOES. E. H. STRAIN.

1689. THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE ROSE. GEORGE GRIFFITH.

1689. DERRY. CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.

1690. IN SARSFIELD’S DAYS. MISS L. MACMANUS.

1690. LEIXLIP CASTLE. M. L. O’BYRNE.

1689-91. THE FORTUNES OF COL. TORLOGH O’BRIEN. J. SHERIDAN

LE FANU.

1689-1691. MY SWORD FOR PATRICK SARSFIELD. RANDAL M’DONNELL.

1689-1690. THE CRIMSON SIGN. S. R. KEIGHTLEY.

1689-1691. ORANGE AND GREEN. G. A. HENTY.

BALDEARG O’DONNELL. HON. ALBERT S. CANNING.

THE HOUSE OF LISRONAN. MIRIAM ALEXANDER.

1689-1770. THE IRISH CHIEFTAINS. CHARLES FFRENCH BLAKE-FORSTER.

The Eighteenth Century.

_c._ 1696. THE DENOUNCED. JOHN BANIM.

1696. REDMOND O’HANLON. WILLIAM CARLETON.

1690-1726. LUTTRELL’S DOOM. D. F. HANNIGAN.

_c._ 1698. THE COMING OF THE KING. ARTHUR SYNAN.

_c._ 1705-1710. THE COCK AND ANCHOR. J. SHERIDAN LE FANU.

_c._ 1712. ESTHER VANHOMRIGH. MARGARET L. WOODS.

1761-1764. THE HEARTS OF STEEL. JAMES M’HENRY, M.D.

1770. ANDRÉ BESNARD.

1770. IN THE DAYS OF GOLDSMITH. M. M’D. BODKIN.

_c._ 1771. THE JESSAMY BRIDE. F. FRANKFORT MOORE.

1750-1798. THE TWO CHIEFS OF DUNBOY. J. A. FROUDE.

1760. SARSFIELD. DR. JOHN GAMBLE.

1766. THE FATE OF FATHER SHEEHY. MRS. JAMES SADLIER.

The Irish Brigade.

A SWORDSMAN OF THE BRIGADE. M. O’HANNRACHAIN.

_c._ 1702. MOUNTCASHEL’S BRIGADE. BRIGADIER-GEN. C. G. HALPINE.

_c._ 1702. LALLY OF THE BRIGADE. MISS L. MACMANUS.

1703-1710. IN THE IRISH BRIGADE. G. A. HENTY.

1719. CLEMENTINA. A. E. W. MASON.

SPANISH JOHN. WILLIAM MCLENNAN.

_c._ 1745. THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE’S. S. R. KEIGHTLEY.

_c._ 1745. TREASURE TROVE. SAMUEL LOVER.

Grattan’s Parliament and the Union.

_c._ 1785. THE KING’S DEPUTY. H. A. HINKSON.

1780-1797. THE LOST LAND. JULIA M. CROTTIE.

1782-1803. MY LORDS OF STROGUE. LEWIS WINGFIELD.

1793-1798. THE O’BRIENS AND O’FLAHERTYS. LADY MORGAN.

1797-1801. ILL-WON PEERAGES. M. L. O’BYRNE.

_c._ 1800. THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. CHARLES LEVER.

Ninety-eight in the North.

THE INSURGENT CHIEF. JAMES MCHENRY.

O’HARA. W. H. MAXWELL.

THE NORTHERN IRON. GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM.

THE GREEN COCKADE. MRS. M. T. PENDER.

STRONG AS DEATH. MRS. CHARLES M. CLARKE.

THE NORTHERNS OF ’98. EYRE EVANS CROWE.

A PRISONER OF HIS WORD. LOUIE BENNETT.

NINETY-EIGHT AND SIXTY YEARS AFTER. “ANDREW JAMES.”

BETSY GRAY. W. G. LYTTLE.

THE PIKEMEN. S. R. KEIGHTLEY.

Ninety-eight in Wexford.

THE FORGE OF CLOHOGE. JAMES MURPHY.

THE CROPPY. MICHAEL BANIM.

CROPPIES LIE DOWN. WILLIAM BUCKLEY.

AGNES ARNOLD. WILLIAM BERNARD MACCABE.

NINETY-EIGHT. “PATRICK C. FALY” (JOHN HILL).

MAUREEN MOORE. RUPERT ALEXANDER.

KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN. RANDAL M’DONNELL.

THE IRISH WIDOW’S SON. C. O’LEARY.

CORRAGEEN IN ’98. MRS. ORPEN.

ROSE PARNELL. D. P. CONYNGHAM.

OLIVE LACY. ANNA ARGYLE.

THE WOOD OF THE BRAMBLES. FRANK MATHEW.

UP FOR THE GREEN. H. A. HINKSON.

THE O’MAHONY, CHIEF OF THE COMERAGHS. D. P. CONYNGHAM.

1798-1805. MICHAEL DWYER, THE INSURGENT CAPTAIN. DR. CAMPION.

Humbert in the West.

1798. THE ROUND TOWER. FLORENCE SCOTT and ALMA HODGE.

1793-1809. MAURICE TIERNAY. CHARLES LEVER.

CONNAUGHT: A TALE OF 1798. M. ARCHDEACON.

1798. LE BRISEUR DE FERS. GEORGES D’ESPARBES.

THE RACE OF CASTLEBAR. EMILY LAWLESS and SHAN

F. BULLOCK.

The United Irishmen.

TRUE TO THE CORE. C. J. HAMILTON.

THE PATRIOT BROTHERS. CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE.

1798. THE SHAN VAN VOCHT. JAMES MURPHY.

_c._ 1796. LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. M. M’DONNELL BODKIN.

1792-1798. KILGORMAN. TALBOT BAINES REED.

1796. THE REBELS. M. M’DONNELL BODKIN.

1796-1797. THE HOUSE IN THE RATH. JAMES MURPHY.

1797. THE O’DONOGHUE. CHARLES LEVER.

Emmet.

1803. ROBERT EMMET. STEPHEN GWYNN.

TRUE MAN AND TRAITOR. M. M’D. BODKIN.

1803. RAVENSDALE. ROBERT THYNNE.

1797-1803. THE ISLAND OF SORROW. GEORGE GILBERT.

The Nineteenth Century.

1817. THE BLACK PROPHET. WILLIAM CARLETON.

1829. GLENANAAR. CANON P. A. SHEEHAN.

1830. HUGH ROACH THE RIBBONMAN. JAMES MURPHY.

_c._ 1830. THE MANOR OF GLENMORE. PETER BURROWES KELLY.

1831. THE TERRY ALT. STEPHEN JOSEPH MEANY.

IRISH LIFE IN COURT AND CASTLE. (ISAAC BUTT.)

1843. THE KELLYS AND THE O’KELLYS. ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

The Famine and Young Ireland.

THE HUNGER. ANDREW MERRY.

1845-1848. CASTLE DALY. MISS KEARY.

1846-1847. CASTLE RICHMOND. ANTHONY TROLLOPE.

1848. MONONIA. JUSTIN M’CARTHY.

1848. LILY LASS. JUSTIN HUNTLY M’CARTHY.

1848. THE FALCON FAMILY. MARMION SAVAGE.

1848. MAURICE RHYNHART. J. T. LISTADO.

Fenianism.

1865-6. THE THREE FENIAN BROTHERS. JOHN HAMILTON.

THE GRAVES AT KILMORNA. CANON P. A. SHEEHAN.

1866. CARROLL O’DONOGHUE. CHRISTINE FABER.

1865-1883. FITZGERALD, THE FENIAN. J. D. MAGINN.

1865. WHEN WE WERE BOYS. WILLIAM O’BRIEN, M.P.

1866. RIDGEWAY. “SCIAN DUBH.”

1867. THE DUNFERRY RISIN’. J. J. MORAN.

1867. LIGHT AND SHADE. CHARLOTTE GRACE O’BRIEN.

Home Rule, &c.

1870. THE BAD TIMES. G. A. BIRMINGHAM.

_c._ 1870. A SON OF ERIN. ANNIE S. SWAN.

1875-1891. HER MAJESTY’S REBELS. S. R. LYSAGHT.

II.—GAELIC EPIC AND ROMANTIC LITERATURE.

I have thought it well to set apart from the mass of Anglo-Irish

fictional literature and to put together in a list that portion of our

national fiction which draws its inspiration from ancient Gaelic sources.

To do this with any sort of completeness, it would be necessary, of

course, to deal with the whole body of fiction that has been written in

the Irish language. Reasons have been given in the Preface stating why

this task was not undertaken. A further reason presented itself some

two years ago, viz., the appearance of the magnificent work published

in 1913 by the National Library—_Bibliography of Irish Philology and

of Printed Irish Literature_ (price 5_s._). In this scholarly work the

literature of Gaelic epic, saga, and romance is scientifically classified

and described with the greatest bibliographical accuracy. For me to

attempt that task over again would be little better than an impertinence.

It might even be thought, and not unnaturally, that the present list is

wholly superfluous. Yet perhaps it may not be without its utility, owing

to the fact that in the work just referred to descriptive notes are not

provided. This list, then, is practically an excerpt from that work, with

the addition of some notes that may be useful. The notes will be found in

the body of the book.

O’GRADY, STANDISH HAYES. SILVA GADELICA.

FARADAY, WINIFRED, M.A. THE CATTLE RAID OF CUAILNGE.

MEYER, KUNO. THE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FERBAL, TO THE LAND OF

THE LIVING.

⸺ LIADAIN AND CUIRITHIR.

⸺ THE VISION OF MACCONGLINNE.

JOYCE, P. W. OLD CELTIC ROMANCES.

GREGORY, LADY. CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE.

⸺ GODS AND FIGHTING MEN.

SKELLY, REV. A. M., O.P. CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE.

O’MULLANE, M. FINN MACCOOLE: His Life and Times, and other

pamphlets published by the C.T.S. of Ireland. See under name

O’Mullane.

HULL, ELEANOR. THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE.

⸺ CUCHULAIN THE HOUND OF ULSTER.

ROLLESTON, T. W. THE HIGH DEEDS OF FINN, and other Bardic

Romances of Ancient Ireland.

⸺ MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE CELTIC RACE.

RUSSELL, VIOLET. HEROES OF THE DAWN (Stories of Finn and the

Fianna).

O’GRADY, STANDISH. FINN AND HIS COMPANIONS.

⸺ THE COMING OF CUCHULAINN.

⸺ THE GATES OF THE NORTH.

⸺ HISTORY OF IRELAND: Heroic Period.

LEAHY, A. H. THE COURTSHIP OF FERB.

⸺ ANCIENT HEROIC ROMANCES OF IRELAND.

SQUIRE, CHARLES. THE BOY HERO OF ERIN.

⸺ CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND.

O’BYRNE, W. LORCAN. CHILDREN OF KINGS.

⸺ A LAND OF HEROES.

MACLEOD, FIONA. THE LAUGHTER OF PETERKIN, etc.

CARBERY, ETHNA. IN THE CELTIC PAST.

HOPPER, NORA; MRS. W. H. CHESSON. BALLADS IN PROSE.

DEASE, ALICE. OLD-TIME STORIES OF ERIN.

BUXTON, E. M. WILMOT. OLD CELTIC TALES RETOLD.

M’CALL, P. J. FENIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS.

YOUNG, ELLA. THE COMING OF LUGH.

⸺ CELTIC WONDER TALES.

SIMPSON, JOHN HAWKINS. POEMS OF OISIN, BARD OF ERIN.

CARMICHAEL, ALEXANDER. DEIRDRE AND THE LAY OF THE CHILDREN OF

UISNE.

THOMAS, EDWARD. CELTIC STORIES.

CHISHOLM, LOUEY. CELTIC TALES.

FURLONG, ALICE. TALES OF FAIRY FOLKS, QUEENS, AND HEROES.

CAMPBELL, J. F. THE CELTIC DRAGON MYTH.

HENDERSON, GEORGE. THE FEAST OF BRICRIU.

MACSWEENEY, P. M. MARTIAL CAREER OF CONGHAL CLÁIRINGHNEACH.

HYDE, DOUGLAS. ADVENTURES OF THE LAD OF THE FERULE.

⸺ ADVENTURES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KING OF NORWAY.

MACALISTER, R. A. S. TWO IRISH ARTHURIAN ROMANCES.

STOKES, WHITLEY. THE DESTRUCTION OF DÁ DERGA’S HOSTEL.

BUGGE, A. CATHREIM CELLACHAIN CAISIL.

THURNEYSEN, RUDOLF. SAGEN AUS DEM ALTEN IRLAND.

DOTTIN, GEORGES. CONTES ET LÉGENDES D’IRLANDE.

D’ARBOIS DE JUBAINVILLE. COURS DE LITTÉRATURE CELTIQUE.

⸺ TÁIN BO CUALNGE.

Owing to a mistake the note on this writer and his books will be found

partly on p. 68 and partly on p. 125.

DUNN, JOSEPH. THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC, TÁIN BO CUALNGE.

Many of our heroic legends and ancient sagas have been retold in

English verse. Though fiction in verse does not come within the scope

of the present Guide, yet it may be of interest to mention here a few

of these poetic renderings of ancient Gaelic tales. Sir Samuel Ferguson’s

_Congal_, _Conary_, _Lays of the Red Branch_, and _Lays of the Western

Gael_; Aubrey de Vere’s _Foray of Queen Maeve_; Robert Dwyer Joyce’s

_Blanid_ and _Deirdre_; John Todhunter’s _Three Irish Bardic Tales_;

Douglas Hyde’s _Three Sorrows of Story-telling_; Herbert Trench’s _The

Quest_; Katharine Tynan’s “Diarmuid and Gráinne” in her _Shamrocks_; Mrs.

Hutton’s stately blank verse translation of _The Táin_; and, last year,

Dr. Geo. Sigerson’s _The Saga of King Lir_; also _The Red Branch Crests_,

a trilogy by Charles L. Moore; _The Death of Oscar_ by Alice Sargant.

Hector MacLean has collected in the Highlands and presented in English

verse _Ultonian Hero Ballads_, which, as the title implies, are of Irish

origin. For notes and bibliographical particulars of the above see _A

Guide to Books on Ireland_, Part I. (_Hodges & Figgis_), 1912.

For an introduction to Gaelic Literature the reader may be referred to:—

DOUGLAS HYDE. STORY OF EARLY GAELIC LITERATURE.

MISS HULL. PAGAN IRELAND.

⸺ TEXT-BOOK OF IRISH LITERATURE.

MATTHEW ARNOLD. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CELTIC LITERATURE.

It may be useful to subjoin here a list of publications (periodical and

other) which contain, generally along with other matter, ancient Gaelic

tales. I can give here only a bare list, but it will serve to give an

idea of what has already been accomplished in this field.

(a) Publications of the following Societies:—

The Gaelic Society. 1808. One volume.

The Ossianic Society. Six big volumes concerned exclusively

with the Fenian Cycle. 1854-1861.

The Irish Archæological Society and the Celtic Society,

afterwards united as the Irish Archæological and Celtic

Society. Twenty-seven volumes.

The Royal Historical Archæological Association. Nine volumes.

The Irish Texts Society. Thirteen volumes; five or six more in

preparation.

The Gaelic League. Oireachtas publications, &c., &c.

The Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language.

The Celtic Society. 1847-55. Six volumes.

The Iberno Celtic Society. 1820. One volume.

The Royal Irish Academy. Transactions. 1786-1907.

” ” Proceedings, 1836-1915, in progress.

” ” Todd Lecture Series, 1889-1911.

(b) Periodicals:—

ATLANTIS.

THE GAELIC JOURNAL.

ERIU. Organ of the School of Irish Learning; in progress.

THE CELTIC REVIEW of Edinburgh. Seven volumes; in progress.

LA REVUE CELTIQUE. Collected in thirty-six volumes; in progress.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR CELTISCHE PHILOLOGIE. Collected in eight or

nine volumes; in progress.

THE CELTIC MAGAZINE. Thirteen volumes. 1876-88.

THE GAEL (N.Y.).

GADELICA. Three or four volumes.

GUTH NA MBLIADHNA (Highland Gaelic and English); in progress.

(c) Various:—

Kuno Meyer’s _Anecdota Oxoniensia_.

_Irische Texte_ of Windisch and Whitley Stokes. Five volumes,

3793 pp., exclusive of introductory matter.

O’Curry: _Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History_.

⸺ _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_ (Appendices).

De Jubainville: _L’Epopée Celtique en Irlande_.

Windisch’s great edition of the _Táin_, pp. xcii. + 1120.

Leipzig. 1905.

III.—LEGENDS AND FOLK-TALES.

CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON. FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE

SOUTH OF IRELAND.

⸺ KILLARNEY LEGENDS.

⸺ LEGENDS OF THE LAKES.

WILDE, LADY; “SPERANZA.” ANCIENT LEGENDS OF IRELAND.

KENNEDY, PATRICK. LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS.

⸺ THE FIRESIDE STORIES OF IRELAND.

⸺ FICTIONS OF OUR FOREFATHERS.

⸺ THE BARDIC STORIES OF IRELAND.

⸺ LEGENDS OF MOUNT LEINSTER.

O’HANLON, CANON JOHN; “LAGENIENSIS.” IRISH FOLK LORE:

Traditions and Superstitions of the Country, with Humorous

Tales.

⸺ IRISH LOCAL LEGENDS.

BLAKE-FORSTER, CHARLES FFRENCH. A COLLECTION OF THE OLDEST AND

MOST POPULAR LEGENDS OF THE PEASANTRY OF CLARE AND GALWAY.

JOYCE, ROBERT DWYER. LEGENDS OF THE WARS IN IRELAND.

⸺ FIRESIDE STORIES OF IRELAND.

BARDAN, PATRICK. THE DEAD-WATCHERS.

CURTIN, JEREMIAH. MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND.

⸺ HERO TALES OF IRELAND.

⸺ TALES OF THE FAIRIES AND OF THE GHOST WORLD.

HYDE, DOUGLAS. BESIDE THE FIRE. Gaelic Folk-stories.

⸺ AN SGÉALAIDHE GAEDHEALAC.

⸺ LEGENDS OF SAINTS AND SINNERS.

LARMINIE, WILLIAM. WEST IRISH FOLK-TALES AND ROMANCES.

YEATS, W. B. THE CELTIC TWILIGHT.

⸺ THE SECRET ROSE: Irish Folk-lore.

⸺ FAIRY AND FOLK-TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.

GREGORY, LADY. A BOOK OF SAINTS AND WONDERS.

DEENEY, DANIEL. PEASANT LORE FROM GAELIC IRELAND.

DUNBAR, ALDIS. THE SONS O’ CORMAC; an’ Tales of other Men’s

Sons.

M’ANALLY, D. R., Jr. IRISH WONDERS.

KENNEDY, P. J. IRISH FIRESIDE STORIES, TALES AND LEGENDS.

⸺ LEGENDS AND FAIRY TALES OF IRELAND.

O’CONNOR, BARRY. TURF FIRE STORIES AND FAIRY TALES OF IRELAND.

LOVER AND CROKER. LEGENDS AND TALES OF IRELAND.

ANON.; C. J. T., ed. FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS (IRELAND).

O’NEILL, JOHN. HANDERAHAN, THE IRISH FAIRY MAN, and LEGENDS OF

CARRICK-ON-SUIR.

BRUEYRE, LOYS. CONTES POPULAIRES DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE.

RHYS, PROF. JOHN. CELTIC FOLK-LORE, WELSH AND MANX.

WENTZ, WALTER YEELING EVANS. THE FAIRY-FAITH IN CELTIC

COUNTRIES: Its Psychical Origin and Nature.

HUNT, B. FOLK TALES FROM BREFFNI.

ANDREWS, ELIZABETH. ULSTER FOLKLORE.

CRAWFORD, M. G. LEGENDS OF THE CARLINGFORD LOUGH DISTRICT.

DOYLE, J. J. CATHAIR CONROI, &c.

HENDERSON, GEO. SURVIVALS IN BELIEF AMONG THE CELTS.

HARDY, P. DIXON. LEGENDS, TALES, AND STORIES OF IRELAND.

DROHOJOWSKA, COUNTESS. RÉCITS DU FOYER.

KEEGAN, JOHN. LEGENDS AND POEMS.

RODENBERG, JULIUS. DIE HARFE VON IRLAND.

SEYMOUR, ST. JOHN D. IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY.

⸺ TRUE IRISH GHOST STORIES.

It may be of interest to mention, as specimens, some of the chief

collections of Scottish Gaelic folk-lore, for it is, at bottom, identical

with that of Gaelic Ireland.

CAMPBELL, J. F., OF ISLAY. POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS.

WAIFS AND STRAYS OF CELTIC TRADITION. A Series initiated and

directed by Lord Archibald Campbell. It comprises four volumes:—

Vol. I.—CRAIGNISH TALES. Ed. by Rev. J. MacDougall.

Vol. II.—FOLK AND HERO TALES. Ed. by Rev. D. MacInnes.

Vol. III.—FOLK AND HERO TALES. Ed. by Rev. J. MacDougall.

Vol. IV.—THE FIANS. Ed. by John Gregorson Campbell of Tiree.

FERGUSON, R. M. THE OCHIL FAIRY TALES.

MCKAY, J. G. THE WIZARD’S GILLIE.

MACKENZIE, D. A. FINN AND HIS WARRIOR BAND.

IV.—FAIRY TALES FOR CHILDREN.

GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL. THE IRISH FAIRY BOOK.

BAYNE, MARIE. FAIRY STORIES FROM ERIN’S ISLE.

HANNON, JOHN. THE KINGS AND THE CATS: Munster Fairy Tales.

GRIERSON, ELIZABETH. THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CELTIC STORIES.

MACMANUS, SEUMAS. DONEGAL FAIRY STORIES.

⸺ IN CHIMNEY CORNERS.

LEAMY, EDMUND. THE FAIRY MINSTREL OF GLENMALURE.

⸺ IRISH FAIRY TALES.

YEATS, W. B. IRISH FAIRY TALES.

IRISH FAIRY TALES. Illustr. by Geoffrey Strahan (GIBBINGS).

DOWNEY, EDMUND; “F. M. ALLEN.” THE LITTLE GREEN MAN.

FURLONG, ALICE. TALES OF FAIRY FOLKS, QUEENS, AND HEROES.

O’NEILL, MOIRA. THE ELF ERRANT.

IRWIN, MADGE. THE DIAMOND MOUNTAIN; or, Flowers of Fairyland.

PRESTON, DOROTHEA. PADDY.

THOMSON, C. L. THE CELTIC WONDER WORLD.

JACOB, JOSEPH. CELTIC FAIRY TALES.

⸺ MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES.

V.—CATHOLIC CLERICAL LIFE.

BANIM, MICHAEL. FATHER CONNELL.

BANIM, JOHN. THE NOWLANS.

NEVILLE, E. O’REILLY. FATHER TOM OF CONNEMARA.

CARLETON, WILLIAM. THE POOR SCHOLAR, and Other Tales.

⸺ DENIS O’SHAUGHNESSY GOING TO MAYNOOTH. (In TRAITS AND

STORIES).

⸺ FATHER BUTLER.

MCCARTHY, M. J. F. GALLOWGLASS.

MOORE, GEORGE. THE LAKE.

MCNULTY, EDWARD. MISTHER O’RYAN.

⸺ MAUREEN.

HINKSON, H. A. FATHER ALPHONSUS.

BUCHANAN, ROBERT. FATHER ANTHONY.

FREMDLING, A. FATHER CLANCY.

SHEEHAN, CANON P. A. MY NEW CURATE.

⸺ LUKE DELMEGE.

⸺ THE SPOILED PRIEST, and Other Stories.

⸺ THE BLINDNESS OF DR. GRAY; or, The Final Law.

Most of Canon Sheehan’s books deal directly or indirectly with

the priestly life.

GUINAN, REV. J. SCENES AND SKETCHES IN AN IRISH PARISH; or, Priests and

People in Doon.

⸺ THE SOGGARTH AROON.

⸺ THE ISLAND PARISH.

And, in fact, practically all his books.

HICKEY, REV. P. INNISFAIL.

THURSTON, E. TEMPLE. THE APPLE OF EDEN.

O’DONOVAN, GERALD. WAITING.

⸺ FATHER RALPH.

ANON. THE PROTESTANT RECTOR.

⸺ THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.

⸺ THE IRISH PRIEST.

⸺ FATHER JOHN; or, Cromwell in Ireland.

⸺ PRIESTS AND PEOPLE.

FULLER, J. FRANKLIN. CULMSHIRE FOLK (“Father O’Flynn”).

JAY, HARRIETT. THE DARK COLLEEN.

⸺ THE PRIEST’S BLESSING.

ARCHDEACON, MATTHEW. SHAWN NA SOGGARTH.

STACPOOLE, H. DE VERE. FATHER O’FLYNN.

It would be easy to extend this list, as many novelists introduce Irish

priests, at least incidentally.

VI.—HUMOROUS BOOKS.

The word “humour” is used here in a wide sense to cover wit and

comicality or broad comedy, as well as humour in the strict sense of the

word. The present list is not a selection of the best samples of Irish

humour. It merely brings together a number of books which are entirely

or mainly of a humorous character. Humour of a greatly superior order

is often to be found here and there in books of a predominantly serious

purpose—in _My New Curate_, for instance, or in _Knocknagow_.

O’DONOGHUE, D. J. THE HUMOUR OF IRELAND.

MACDONAGH, MICHAEL. IRISH LIFE AND CHARACTER.

HARVEY, W. IRISH LIFE AND HUMOUR.

KENNEDY, PATRICK. THE BOOK OF MODERN IRISH ANECDOTES.

LEVER, CHARLES. A DAY’S RIDE.

⸺ THE DODD FAMILY ABROAD.

The rollicking novels of Lever’s earlier manner might all be

included here.

LOVER, SAMUEL. HANDY ANDY.

⸺ FURTHER STORIES OF IRELAND.

MACMANUS, SEUMAS. THE LEADIN’ ROAD TO DONEGAL.

⸺ THE HUMOURS OF DONEGAL.

⸺ ’TWAS IN DHROLL DONEGAL.

⸺ DOCTOR KILGANNON.

DOWNEY, EDMUND. THROUGH GREEN GLASSES.

⸺ GREEN AS GRASS.

⸺ FROM THE GREEN BAG.

And most of his other books; see pp. 75-77.

BODKIN, M. M’D. PAT O’ NINE TALES.

⸺ POTEEN PUNCH.

⸺ PATSY THE OMADHAUN.

“HEBLON.” STUDIES IN BLUE.

DUNNE, F. P. THE DOOLEY BOOKS.

ARCHER, PATRICK. THE HUMOURS OF SHANWALLA.

DOYLE, LYNN. BALLYGULLION.

MCILROY, ARCHIBALD. THE HUMOUR OF DRUID’S ISLAND.

MORAN, J. J. IRISH STEW.

⸺ IRISH DROLLERIES.

BIRMINGHAM, G. A. SPANISH GOLD.

⸺ THE MAJOR’S NIECE.

And those of his books that are mentioned on pp. 28 and 29.

CRANE, STEPHEN, and BARR, ROBERT. THE O’RUDDY.

O’DONOVAN, MICHAEL. MR. MULDOON.

WRIGHT, R. H. THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MY FRIEND PATRICK DEMPSEY.

GILL, M. H. & Co., Publ. IRISH PLEASANTRY AND FUN.

LYTTLE, W. G.; “ROBIN.” ROBIN’S READINGS.

MAGINN, WM. MISCELLANIES.

FITZGERALD, REV. T. A. HOMESPUN YARNS.

⸺ FITS AND STARTS.

HARKIN, HUGH. THE QUARTERCLIFT.

BLENKINSOP, A. PADDIANA.

CONYERS, DOROTHEA. Most of her sporting novels are humorous. See pp. 55

_sqq._

ROGERS, R. D. THE ADVENTURES OF ST. KEVIN.

ROCHE, HON. ALEXIS. JOURNEYINGS WITH JERRY THE JARVEY.

LANGRIDGE, ROSAMUND. IMPERIAL RICHENDA.

JEBB, HORSLEY. SPORT ON IRISH BOGS.

⸺ THE IRISH BUBBLE AND SQUEAK.

There are some humorous stories in LEFANU’S “Purcell Papers” that make

us regret that he did not give us more in the same vein. CARLETON’S

“Stories” are a miscellany containing episodes of the wildest fun

amid much that is gloomy, and scenes of pleasant and kindly humour

interspersed with traits of savagery and of fanaticism.

INDEX.

This is, in the main, an index of _titles_. Some selected subjects have

also been indexed, viz., the more important of those occurring in the

notes. Subjects dealt with in the classified lists (Appendix D) have not

been indexed here.

Abbey of Innismoyle, The; 40.

Absentee, The; 81.

Across an Irish Bog, 107.

Adventurer, The; 1.

Adventurers, The; 1.

Adventures of a Bashful Irishman, 69.

Adventures of an Irish Gentleman, 180.

Adventures of Alicia, The; 248.

Adventures of Capt. Blake, The; 175.

Adventures of Capt. O’Sullivan, The; 176.

Adventures of Count O’Connor, The; 239.

Adventures of Felix and Rosarito, The; 1.

Adventures of Hector O’Halloran, The; 176.

Adventures of Mick Callighin, M.P., 16.

Adventures of Mr. Moses Finegan, 1.

Adventures of St. Kevin, and other Irish Tales, The; 220.

Adventures of the Children of the King of Norway, 118.

Against the Pikes, 239.

Agitator von Irland, Der; 226.

Agnes Arnold, 154.

_Agrarian Agitation_, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20,

24, 26, 27, 33, 36, 37, 48, 49, 59, 67, 102, 123, 129, 136,

140, 148, 152, 154, 156, 169, 178, 194, 195, 210, 211, 212,

215, 220, 221, 227, 242, 243, 244, 245.

Aileen Alannah, 96.

Aileen Aroon, 215.

Ailey Moore, 195.

Albion and Ierne, 1.

Aliens of the West, 79.

All for Prince Charlie, 237.

All on the Irish Shore, 233.

Amazing Conspiracy, An; 110.

Ambush of Young Days, 135.

_America, Irish in_; 10, 11, 13, 40, 41, 43, 51, 55, 64, 73, 77, 79,

82, 110, 114, 144, 171, 189, 191, 196.

Amusing Irish Tales, 46.

Anchor Watch Yarns, 75.

Ancient Heroic Romances of Ireland, 137.

Ancient Irish Epic Tale, The Táin, An; 78.

Ancient Legends of Ireland, 254.

André Besnard, 256.

Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century, The; 19.

Anna Reilly, the Irish Girl; 1.

Anne Cosgrave, 46.

Another Creel of Irish Stories, 24.

_Antrim_, 6, 19, 27, 60, 63, 65, 68, 86, 87, 101, 115, 119, 150, 160,

161, 173, 184, 188, 189, 207, 210, 215, 236, 256.

Apple of Eden, The; 241.

Ardnaree, 158.

_Armagh_, 94, 127, 205.

_Arran Islands_, 20, 70, 136, 146, 233.

Arrival of Antony, The; 56.

Arthurian Romances, Two Irish; 153.

Art Maguire, 48.

Arthur O’Leary, 142.

Art MacMurrough O’Kavanagh, 198.

At the Back of the World, 177.

At the Door of the Gate, 216.

At the Rising of the Moon, 173.

Attila and his Conquerors, 52.

Auld Meetin’ Hoose Green, The; 160.

Aunt Jane and Uncle James, 56.

_Australia_, 5, 28, 43, 88, 112, 116, 129.

Autobiography of a Child, 151.

Awkward Squads, The; 38.

Bad times, The; 27.

Baldearg O’Donnell, 45.

Ballads in Prose, 116.

Ballinvalley, 257.

Ballybeg Junction, 76.

Ballyblunder, 1.

Ballygowna, 100.

Ballygullion, 77.

Ballymuckbeg, 106.

Ballyronan, 1.

Banker’s Love Story, A; 161.

Banks of the Boro, The; 128.

Banshee’s Warning and other Tales, The; 218.

Barbaric Tales, 163.

Bardic Stories of Ireland, The; 128.

Barney Mahoney, 62.

Barney the Boyo, 88.

Barrington, 145.

Barry Lyndon, Memoirs of; 240.

Barrys, The; 39.

Barrys of Beigh, The; 103.

Battle of Connemara, The; 206.

Beckoning of the Wand, The; 69.

Before the Dawn in Erin, 72.

Beggar on Horseback, A; 126.

_Belfast_, 33, 27, 74, 84, 102, 108, 119, 161, 195, 216, 218, 251.

Belfast Boy, The; 33.

Bell Barry, 132.

Bend of the Road, The; 166.

Benedict Kavanagh, 27.

Berna Boyle, 218.

Beside the Fire, 118.

Bessy Conway, 224.

Betsy Gray, 153.

Bewitched Fiddle and other Irish Tales, The; 166.

Beyond the Boundary, 107.

Beyond the Pale, 61.

Bianca, 175.

Bird of Passage, A; 61.

Bit o’ Writing, The; 21.

Bits of Blarney, 162.

Black Abbey, 63.

Black Baronet, The; 49.

Black Monday Insurrection, 1.

Black Prophet, The; 48.

Black Wing, The; 148.

Blakes and Flanagans, The; 224.

Blind Larry, 168.

Blind Maureen and other Stories, 126.

Blindness of Dr. Gray, The; 230.

Blind Side of the Heart, The; 60.

Bob Norberry, 2.

Boffin’s Find, 243.

Bog of Stars, The; 202.

Bonnie Dunraven, 213.

Book of Ballynoggin, The; 15.

Book of Gilly, The; 137.

Book of Modern Irish Anecdotes, The; 128.

Book of Saints and Wonders, A; 99.

Boycotted Household, A; 156.

Boyne Water, The; 19.

Boy Hero of Erin, The; 234.

Boy in Eirinn, A; 54.

Boy in the Country, A; 236.

Boy, Some Horses, and a Girl, The; 56.

Boys of Baltimore, The; 235.

Bracknells, The; 216.

Bramleighs of Bishop’s Folly, The; 146.

Branan the Pict, 209.

Brandons, The; 71.

Brayhard, 76.

Bridal of Dunamore, The; 219.

Brides of Ardmore, The; 232.

Bridget Considine, 64.

Bridget Sullivan, 2.

_Brigade, Irish_; 15, 31, 50, 81, 105, 112, 122, 126, 138, 149, 163,

165, 204, 215, 253, 257.

Briseur de Fers, Le; 72.

Britain Long Ago, 255.

Broken Sword of Ulster, The; 66.

“Bruce Reynall, M.A.”; 59.

Bryan O’Regan, 201.

Bunch of Shamrocks, A; 30.

Bundle of Rushes, A; 42.

Buried Lady, The; 204.

Burnt Flax, 211.

Burtons of Dunroe, The; 35.

By a Hearth in Eirinn, 205.

By Beach and Bogland, 23.

By Lone Craig Linnie Burn, 161.

Byrnes of Glengoulah, The; 2.

By Shamrock and Heather, 75.

By the Barrow River and other Stories, 138.

By the Brown Bog, 2.

By the Stream of Kilmeen, 206.

By Thrasna River, 38.

Cabin Conversations and Castle Scenes, 40.

Calling of the Weir, The; 134.

Cambia Carty and other Stories, 38.

_Cameron and Ferguson’s Publications_. Append. B., 265.

Canvassing, 172.

Candle and Crib, 213.

Captain Harry, 140.

Captain Lanagan’s Log, 76.

Captain Latymer, 181.

Captain O’Shaughnessy’s Sporting Career, 201.

“Capture of Killeshin, The”; 86.

Card Drawing, 100.

_Carlow_, 65.

Carrigaholt, 41.

Carrigmore, 129.

Carroll O’Donoghue, 85.

Carrow of Carrowduff, 129.

Castle Chapel, The; 220.

Castle Daly, 125.

Castle Omeragh, 181.