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Brown - -Release Date: October 31, 2021 [eBook #66638] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at - https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - generously made available by The Internet Archive/American - Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IRELAND IN FICTION *** - - - - - -IRELAND IN FICTION. - - - - - IRELAND IN FICTION - - _A GUIDE TO_ - IRISH NOVELS, TALES, ROMANCES, - AND FOLK-LORE - - BY - STEPHEN J. BROWN, S.J. - - _Author of A Reader’s Guide to Irish Fiction, - A Guide to Books on Ireland, etc._ - - Do chum glóire Dé agus Onóra na h-Éireann. - - MAUNSEL AND COMPANY, LIMITED, - DUBLIN AND LONDON. - 1916. - - - - -CONTENTS. - - - PAGE - - PREFACE vii. - - PREFACE TO _A Reader’s Guide to Irish Fiction_ (1910) x. - - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiv. - - SIGNS, ABBREVIATIONS, ETC. xvii. - - IRISH FICTION UNDER NAMES OF AUTHORS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY 1 - - APPENDIX: - - A.—SOME USEFUL WORKS OF REFERENCE 261 - - B.—PUBLISHERS AND SERIES 264 - - C.—IRISH FICTION IN PERIODICALS 270 - - D.—CLASSIFIED LISTS: - - I.—HISTORICAL FICTION 273 - - II.—GAELIC EPIC AND ROMANTIC LITERATURE 279 - - III.—FOLK-LORE AND LEGEND 282 - - IV.—FAIRY TALES FOR CHILDREN 283 - - V.—CATHOLIC CLERICAL LIFE 284 - - VI.—HUMOROUS BOOKS 285 - - INDEX OF TITLES AND SUBJECTS 287 - - - - -PREFACE. - - -It may be well to state at the outset in what respects the present work -differs from _A Reader’s Guide to Irish Fiction_ published in 1910, and -now out of print. The differences may be reduced to four:— - -(1). The number of books dealt with is almost double that of the earlier -work. - -(2). The arrangement is quite new. In the former work the books were -classified according to subject matter: in this they are arranged under -the names of the Authors, these names being arranged alphabetically. -Some lists are appended in which the books are classified as historical -novels, Folk-lore, Gaelic Epic and Romantic Literature, &c. - -(3). A combined title and subject index has been provided, both of -which were lacking in the earlier book. Some new matter is given in the -Appendix, in particular some notes on fiction in Irish periodicals. - -(4). In _A Reader’s Guide_, &c., a few notes on Authors were added at the -end. In the present work biographical notes on a large proportion of the -Authors are given immediately before the notes on their books. - -Apart from these differences, the two works have the same scope and aim. -In both, the scope includes all works of fiction published in volume -form, and dealing with Ireland or with the Irish abroad, and such works -only. The present book, therefore, is not, any more than was the earlier -book, a guide to the works of Irish novelists—else, Goldsmith, for -instance, might surely claim a place. Neither is it, properly speaking, -a book of advice as to what is best to read. The aim has been to provide -descriptive notes of an _objective_ nature, to record facts, not to set -forth personal views and predilections. This is a book of reference pure -and simple; it neither condemns nor recommends. In this respect it -differs from several other guides to fiction which at first sight it -seems to resemble. The Abbé Bethléem’s most valuable _Romans à lire et -romans à proscrire_ has been mentioned in the former preface. Its title -proclaims its character. Of a similar nature are some works by members of -my own Order that have since come to my knowledge. It will be useful to -record their titles: - - 1. P. Gerardo Decorme, S.J.—Lecturas recomendables. (Barcelona: - Luis Gili). 1908. - - 2. P. Pablo Ladron de Guevara, S.J.—Novelistas malos y buenos. - Pp. 523. (Bilbao). 1910. - - 3. Was soll ich lesen? Ein Ratgeber [advice giver] für - Studierende (Trier), 1912. - - 4. Guide de Lecture. (Brussels). Second ed., 1912. A - magnificent 4to volume of 1032 pp., compiled by a Belgian - Jesuit, Fr. Schmidt, and constituting the catalogue of his - great Bibliothèque Choisie of 200,000 volumes. - -No. 1 devotes only a chapter to fiction. No. 2 contains a critical -examination from a moral point of view of 413 Spanish writers, 1,220 -French, 150 English, 98 German, as well as Russian, Belgian, &c. No. 3 -devotes a section to _Schöne Literatur_ giving notes and bibliographical -details. Symbols are used to indicate the suitability of the books to -readers of various ages. The same plan is followed in No. 4, but to a -much fuller extent, and the whole work is on a larger scale. - -Enough has been said, I think, in the former preface as to the object -aimed at in the notes. I have tried to make that object clear: I am far -from thinking that it has always been attained, even in this revised -work. Some of the excuses for incompleteness that held good for the first -steps into an almost untrodden field have no doubt ceased to have the -same force. I have had time to explore new ground, and to survey anew -that already occupied. On the other hand the years that have slipped away -since the former book have been filled by many duties that left little -time for literary work. Yet, though I am unable to say with confidence -that this work is bibliographically exhaustive, I trust that, for -practical purposes, for the purposes for which it is intended, it may be -found reasonably complete. For the achievement of even this result I can -by no means claim all the credit. My obligations to my numerous helpers -are very great indeed, as will appear from the Acknowledgements. - -One further point needs to be dwelt upon—the non-inclusion of works -of fiction written in the Irish language. I cannot do better in this -connection than quote from the preface to a former work[1] in which this -same point came up for explanation:—“I have not included books in the -Irish language. My reasons for this are threefold. In the first place -my own knowledge of Irish is not yet sufficient to enable me even to -edit satisfactorily notes of books in Irish.... In the second place I do -not think that a bibliography of works in Irish should be made a mere -appendage or sub-section, as it would inevitably be, of a work such as -the present. Lastly, it may well be doubted whether the time be yet come -for doing this work in the way that it deserves to be done.” This last -reason is partly based on the fact of the great mass of Irish literature -still remaining in MS., a quantity probably much greater than what has -been printed and published. The publication of the National Library’s -bibliography is mentioned in the Appendix on Gaelic literature as an -additional reason for my omission of books in Irish. - -Nevertheless, the omission of books in the Irish language from a Guide to -Irish Fiction remains an anomaly, one of the many anomalies produced by -the historic causes that have all but destroyed the Irish language as the -living speech of Ireland. - - DUBLIN, _September_, 1915. - -[1] _A Guide to Books on Ireland_, Part I. (Hodges & Figgis), 1912. - - - - -PREFACE TO A READERS GUIDE TO IRISH FICTION (1910). - - -The present GUIDE TO IRISH FICTION is intended by the Author as the first -part of a work in which it is hoped to furnish notes on books of all -kinds dealing with Irish subjects. - -Before explaining the scope of this section of the work it may be well, -in order to forestall wrong impressions, to say at once what it is _not_. -In the first place, then, it does not lay claim to be a bibliography. By -this I do not mean that I am content to be inaccurate or haphazard, but -simply that I do not aim at exhaustive completeness. In the second place, -it is not a catalogue of books _by Irish writers_. Lastly, it does not -deal exclusively with books printed or published in Ireland. - -The Author’s aim has been to get together and to print in a convenient -form a classified list of novels, tales, &c. (whether by Irish or by -foreign writers), bearing on Ireland—that is, depicting some phase of -Irish life or some episode of Irish history—and to append to each title a -short descriptive note. - -Two things here call for some explanation, viz., the list of titles and -the descriptive notes. - -As to the former, I have, with some trifling exceptions, included -everything that I have been able to discover, provided it came within -the scope of the work, as indicated above. It has been thought well to -do this, because a vast amount of fiction that, from an artistic or from -any other point of view, is defective in itself may yet be valuable -as a storehouse of suggestion, fact, and fancy for later and better -writers. For was it not worthless old tales and scraps of half-mythical -history that held the germs of “Hamlet” and “Macbeth,” “King Lear” and -“Othello”? There remains, indeed a large class of novels and tales that, -so far as one may judge, can serve no useful purpose. It may be thought -that with such books the best course to pursue is to allow them to -pass into merited oblivion. But it must be remembered that booksellers -and publishers will naturally continue to push such books because it -is their business to do so, and the public will continue to buy them -because it has ordinarily no other means of knowing their contents than -the publisher’s announcement, the title, or—the cover. A “Guide” would, -therefore, surely shirk an important portion of its task if it excluded -worthless books, and thereby failed to put readers on their guard. - -Next, as regards the descriptive notes: there are three points which -I should wish to make clear—the source of the information contained -in these notes; their scope, that is, the nature and extent of the -information with which they purpose to furnish the reader; and, thirdly, -the tone aimed at throughout the work. - -Information about the books has been obtained in various ways. A -considerable number have been read by the Author. Indeed, there are few -writers of note included in the Guide about whose works he cannot speak -from first-hand knowledge. Of the books that remain the great majority -have been specially read for this work by friends, and a full account of -the same written by them according to a formula drawn up for the purpose. -In all cases, except in a very few—and these have been indicated—the -wording of the final note is mine. In the few cases referred to, printed -reviews or notices of the books have been drawn upon, the source of the -note being mentioned in each instance. - -A word about the _scope_ of the notes. My chief object in undertaking -this work was to help the student of things Irish. This object determined -the character of the notes. A few years ago there appeared in France -an excellent work, entitled _Romans à lire et Romans à proscrire_ -(Cambrai: Masson), by the Abbé Bethléem, which has since passed through -many editions. In this work novels are classed _au point de vue moral_. -In the rare cases in which the books included in my list contain -matter objectionable from a moral or a religious standpoint, I have not -hesitated to remark the fact in the note. This was, however, but a small -part of the task. It will be clear likewise, from what has been said that -my object is not to attempt _literary_ criticisms of Irish fiction. Such -literary appreciations are to be found in other works already published, -accounts of several of which will be found in the Appendix. True, a -certain amount of criticism is often needed lest the account given of a -book should be misleading, but it has been avoided wherever it did not -seem to further the main purpose. This purpose, let me repeat, is, above -all, to give _information_ to intending readers. I have, therefore, -endeavoured, as well as might be, in the small space available, simply -to give a clear idea of the contents of the books. In a good many cases -I have further attempted an appreciation, or rather a characterization, -of the book in question, but this was not always possible nor, indeed, -necessary. - -Of the tone adopted in these notes little need be said. I did not -consider that it would further my purpose to aim at that literary flavour -and epigrammatic turn of phrase affected, and with reason, by reviewers -in many periodicals. Moreover, to do so would have been inconsistent with -brevity. Then, I must disclaim all intention of saying “clever” things -at the expense of any book, however low it may deserve to be rated. I -have endeavoured to avoid, too, the technicalities of criticism. Lastly, -I trust the little work has not been rendered suspect to any class of -Irishmen by the undue intrusion of religious or political bias. - -Apology might well be made here for the defects of the work. They will, -I fear, be but too evident. But it should be borne in mind that, with -the exception of Mr. Baker’s works, to which I cannot sufficiently -acknowledge my indebtedness, I have had no guide upon the way, since no -writer, so far as I am aware, has hitherto dealt in this way with Irish -fiction as a whole. - -It may be asked, for whom especially this book is meant? In the first -place, I hope it may be useful to the general reader who wishes to -study Ireland. Next, it may help in the important and not easy task -of selection those who have to buy books for any purpose, such as the -giving of presents, the conferring of prizes in school or out of it, the -stocking of shops and libraries—in other words, booksellers, library -committees, heads of schools and colleges, librarians, pastors, and many -others. Again, it may be of some service to lecturers and to popular -entertainers. I have some hopes, too, that coming writers of Irish -fiction, from seeing what has been done and what has not yet been done, -may get from it some suggestions for future work. It may even help in a -small way towards the realization of a great work not yet attempted, the -writing of a history of Anglo-Irish literature. - - - - -ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - -(_Reader’s Guide, etc._) - - -My best thanks are due, in the first place, to the authorities of -Clongowes Wood College, without whose constant aid and encouragement my -task would have been impossible. - -Next, I wish to thank those publishers who courteously sent me copies -of a number of their books, viz., the Irish publishers, Messrs. Gill; -Duffy; Sealy, Bryers and Walker; Maunsel; and Blackie: and the London -publishers, Messrs. Macmillan; Nelson; Methuen; Dent; Chatto and Windus; -Burns and Oates; Sands; Blackwood; Nutt; Elliot Stock; and Smith, Elder. -I should like to give greater prominence to the publications of these -firms. The plan of this book prevents me from doing so but I may say that -this little work, which will, I hope, help to make known their books, -could not have appeared but for their generosity. - -To those who, as already mentioned, have aided in the work by reading -books, and supplying information about them, my sincerest thanks are -hereby tendered. I should be glad, if it were possible, to express here -my obligations to each individually, but I must, for obvious reasons, -limit myself to this general acknowledgment. There are, however, some -whom, on account of special obligations on my part, I shall have the -pleasant task of thanking by name. To Mr. E. A. Baker, M.A., D.LITT., -Librarian of the Woolwich Public Library, I am indebted both for kind -permission to quote from his books and for constant advice and suggestion -given with the greatest cordiality. To Dr. Conor Maguire, of Claremorris, -I owe most of my notes of books on Irish Folk-lore, and to Mr. Edmund -Downey, the well-known author and publisher, notes on Lever’s books, -together with many useful suggestions. Mr. Francis J. Bigger, M.R.I.A., -of Belfast, the always ready and enthusiastic helper of every Irish -enterprise, has aided me with valuable advice and no less valuable -encouragement. Mr. J. P. Whelan, Librarian of the Kevin Street Public -Library, Dublin, has rendered me every assistance in his power. Dr. J. -S. Crone of London, Editor of the _Irish Book Lover_, has on several -occasions kindly opened to me the pages of his periodical. Lastly, I must -acknowledge here, with sincere thanks, much help of various kinds given -me by many members of my own Order, and notably, Rev. M. Russell, S.J.; -Rev. M. Corbett, S.J.; Rev. P. J. Connolly, S.J., and the Rev. J. F. X. -O’Brien, S.J.—the last of whom very kindly undertook the tedious labour -of revising my proofs.[2] - - -[_Additional (Present Work)._] - -My obligations to my various kind helpers in the present work are even -greater than in the case of the former book, and I am at a loss for an -adequate expression of them. My thanks have, of course, been privately -conveyed, but there are some collaborators who have had so large a -share in the making of this book that I cannot but place on record its -indebtedness towards them. - -For valuable work in the British Museum Library extending over a -considerable length of time I have to thank Mrs. Pearde Beaufort, Miss -C. J. Hamilton, and Miss G. B. Ryan. For much tedious labour in the -rearrangement of the matter contained in the earlier book, I am indebted -to the Misses Chenevix Trench (who also supplied many notes), and to Mrs. -O’Neill, of Dundalk. To Dr. Crone, whose readiness to help when any Irish -literary enterprise is afoot is inexhaustible, I owe many corrections, -suggestions, and additions, and the laborious task of revising my MS. -and correcting my proofs. Mr. Edmund Downey, of Waterford, has kindly -read part of the proofs. Many books have been read for me and notes -supplied by Lady Gilbert; Mrs. Concannon, of Galway; Mrs. L. M. Stacpoole -Kenny, of Limerick; Miss J. F. Walsh, of Derry; Miss R. Young, of -Galgorm Castle, Co. Antrim; Mrs. Macken, of the National University; -Fr. MacDwyer, of Killybegs; and, perhaps most of all, Fr. J. Rabbitte, -S.J., of St. Ignatius College, Galway. Mr. D. J. O’Donoghue, Librarian of -the National University, has given me many suggestions, as well as some -useful notes on fiction in Irish periodicals. Mr. Frank Macdonagh also -has been very helpful with notes and corrections. I owe likewise a debt -of gratitude to the authorities and the staff of the National Library -for their courtesy and helpfulness. Nor must I omit a word of thanks to -the publishers (including all the Irish publishers, and Messrs. Flynn, -of Boston), who, as on a former occasion, made my task much lighter by -supplying me with review copies of their books. - -Lastly to all the others, and they are many, who have in various ways -given me help my very sincere thanks are hereby tendered. - -For the matter contained in my notes on the Authors, I am much indebted -to Mr. D. J. O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_, and to the pages of the -IRISH BOOK LOVER. - -[2] Through an unfortunate oversight the earlier work contained no -mention of much kind help rendered me by several students of St. -Patrick’s College, Maynooth, notably by Rev. J. Henaghan and Rev. J. -Pinkman, at present priests on the mission. I now gratefully acknowledge -this help. - - - - -SIGNS, ABBREVIATIONS, ETC. - - - b. = born. - c. (before dates) = approximately. - d. = died, daughter. - ed. = edition, edited, editor, educated. - q.v. = which may be referred to. - n.d. = no date printed in the book referred to. - _sqq._ = and following (years or pages). - =C.B.N.= = Catholic Book Notes. - =D.R.= = The Dublin Review. - =I.B.L.= = The Irish Book Lover. - =I.E.R.= = The Irish Ecclesiastical Record. - =I.M.= = The Irish Monthly. - =N.I.R.= = The New Ireland Review. - =T. Lit. Suppl.= = The Times Literary Supplement. - =C.T.S.I.= = Catholic Truth Society of Ireland. - =S.P.C.K.= = Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge. - =R.T.S.= = Religious Tract Society. - =Allibone= = Allibone’s _Critical Dictionary of English - Literature_. - =Baker= = Baker’s Guides (_see_ Appendix A) a 2 indicates - that the new ed. has been used. - =Krans= = Krans’s _Irish Life in Irish fiction_. (Appendix - A). - =Read= = _The Cabinet of Irish Literature._ (Appendix A). - =I. Lit.= = _Irish Literature_ in twelve Vols. (Appendix A). - =N.Y.= = New York. - -The _place of publication_ has been mentioned in the case of books not -published in Dublin or in London. A list of the Irish publishers will be -found in Appendix B. - -The _price_ of most new novels on first publication is 6_s._, not -net. When new fiction is issued at a lower price than that this price -is usually net. I have not thought it useful to insert the prices of -books no longer to be had otherwise than from second-hand booksellers: -second-hand prices are constantly varying. The publication _Book-Prices -Current_ might be usefully consulted in some reference library. The price -I have given is usually the latest price mentioned in the Publishers’ -catalogue. - -_Dates_ in square brackets, thus [1829], indicate dates of first -publication. Besides these I have mentioned the date of the latest -edition I am aware of. - -The names of an Author placed within square brackets is an indication -that the name in question did not appear on the title page of the book to -which it is now affixed, the book having been published anonymously, or -under a pen-name. - -Inverted commas are used thus “M. E. Francis” to indicate a _pen-name_. -The writers’ works are entered under the name most familiar to the -public, under Katharine Tynan and Rosa Mulholland rather than under Mrs. -Hinkson and Lady Gilbert. However, in the case of old books I have not -thought it useful to place the book under the literary disguise. I have -entered them under the real name, with a cross-reference. I fear that -perfect uniformity and consistency has not been secured, but hope that -the book’s usefulness—utility, and not scientific precision, has been the -aim—is not thus impaired. - -The _publishers_ mentioned are, so far as I have succeeded in discovering -them, the publishers not of the first, but of the latest edition. - -Books published under a pseudonym which obviously could not be a real -name, I have entered as anonymous, except where I have come to know the -real name, in which case it will be found under the real name, with a -cross reference from the pseudonym. - -When the note depends mainly or exclusively on a single already published -authority or source, this authority or source is indicated at the end of -the note. - - - - -IRISH FICTION UNDER NAMES OF AUTHORS, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY. - - -=ANONYMOUS.= - -⸺ ADVENTURER, THE. - - In Mitchel’s _Life of Hugh O’Neill_ there is a note in - reference to his wooing of Sir Henry Bagenal’s sister, stating - that a novel was published founded on this story, and entitled - _The Adventurer_. (Query in I.B.L., vol. iv., p. 161.) This - book does not seem to be in the British Museum Library, but - I have found in an old catalogue a book with the title “The - Adventurers; or, Scenes in Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth, - 1825.” This is probably the book referred to by Mitchel. - -⸺ ADVENTURES OF FELIX AND ROSARITO, THE; or, The Triumph of Love and -Friendship. Pp. 58. (Title-p. missing). 1802. - - The hero is one Felix Dillon. Though the story begins and ends - in Dublin, its scene is chiefly France, and afterwards Spain. - -⸺ ADVENTURES OF MR. MOSES FINEGAN, AN IRISH PERVERT. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). -$0.30. - -⸺ ALBION AND IERNE: A Political Romance; by “An Officer.” Pp. 192. -(_Marcus Ward_). 1886. - - An allegory in which the personages stand for countries and - institutions. Ierne is of course Ireland, Albion is England. - Then there are minor characters, such as Dash, Dupe, Plan, - Sacrifice. Under this form the relations between the two - countries and the possible results of separation are exhibited. - Ends with the happy marriage of Albion with Kathleen, Ierne’s - sister, and the burial of the hereditary feud. - -⸺ ANNA REILLY, THE IRISH GIRL. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). $1.50. - -⸺ BALLYBLUNDER: an Irish story. Pp. 291. (LONDON: _Parker_). 1860. - - Scene: the N.E. coast of Ireland, with its rugged rocks - and lofty cliffs. The plot concerns the kindly family - of “Ballyblunder,” on whose estate sheep are constantly - being killed. A priest instigates to the crime, and - encourages the perpetrators. Mr. Kindly’s son goes out to - track the sheep-killers; a friend of his is murdered, and - Brady, the murderer, falls off a cliff and is killed. The - Kindlys eventually sell the estate. Some social scenes are - interspersed. Written in a spirit of religious intolerance. - -⸺ BALLYRONAN. - - “A wonderfully interesting story, written in an easy, rattling - style, with cleverly conceived plot, abundant humour, and no - lack of incident. There is an unmistakably Irish atmosphere - about it, and it bespeaks an intimate personal knowledge of the - people, not only in regard to their speech, but also as to many - of their characteristic ways and customs.”—(_Press Notices_). - -⸺ BLACK MONDAY INSURRECTION. Pp. 135-328. - - Bound up with “The Puritan,” _q.v._ The story opens at Bandon - with the rescue of two of the principal characters who had - been kidnapped by Rapparees. Then follows the taking of Bandon - by McCarthy More. The battles of the Boyne and Aughrim, the - sieges of Athlone and Limerick are also dealt with, the two - latter being described in detail. Standpoint: Williamite. The - Irish are “barbarians,” “brave and savage bacchanalians;” the - Rapparees are “infernal banditti,” &c., but on the whole the - tone is not violent. Through it all runs an interesting and - curious story of the private fortunes of several persons. See - _The Last of the O’Mahonys_. - -⸺ BOB NORBERRY; or, Sketches from the Note Book of an Irish Reporter; ed. -by “Captain Prout.” Pp. 360. Eighteen good illustr. by Henry MacManus, -A.R.H.A., and others. Dedicated to C. Bianconi. (_Duffy_). 1844. - - The Author (Pref.) tells us that he has written the book to - vindicate the character of his countrymen, and to show Irish - affairs to Englishmen in their true light. Accordingly we - have, not so much a novel, as a series of crowded canvases - depicting nearly every phase of life in Ireland from a period - before the Union to the date of this book. It begins with - the marriage of the hero’s grandparents in Dublin at the - end of the 18th century (1780). We have a glimpse of penal - laws at work and of agrarian disturbances, but the Author is - especially at pains all through the book to set forth how the - law works in Ireland. There are swindling attorneys, bribed - and perjured jurors, packed benches, partisan judges, endless - proceedings in Chancery, and so on. Young Bob is sent first - to a private school, then to Stonyhurst (an account is given - of the Jesuits). He is first intended for the priesthood and - goes to Louvain, but finally becomes a reporter on a Dublin - paper. Here we have a picture of low journalism. Bob shows - up several frauds of self-styled philanthropists, describes - trial at Assizes of Lord Strangeways’ evicted tenants. This - brings in much about the agrarian question. The book ends with - his elopement to the Continent and marriage with Lady Mary - Belmullet. There are innumerable minor episodes and pictures. - There is no literary refinement in the style, and the colours - of the picture are laid on thickly. - -⸺ BRIDGET SULLIVAN; or, The Cup without a Handle. A Tale. 1854. - -⸺ BY THE BROWN BOG; by “Owen Roe and Honor Urse.” Pp. 296. (_Longmans_). -Illustr. by silhouettes. 1913. - - An imitation of the Somerville and Ross stories, but with their - leading features exaggerated. For Flurry we have Fossy, for - Slipper Tinsy Conroy. Instead of by an R.M. the stories are - told by a young D.I. There is the same background of comic - and filthy peasants, the same general Irish slovenliness and - happy-go-luckiness, and universal drunkenness. The brogue is - made the most of. Moonlighters of a very sinister kind appear - once or twice. The incidents are such as hunting, racing, the - local horseshow, country petty sessions, &c. They are very well - told, with a jaunty style, and in a vein of broad comedy. There - is a chapter purporting to relate experiences in “The Black - North,” but for the most part the scene is West Cork. Some of - these sketches appeared in the BADMINTON MAGAZINE. - -⸺ BYRNES OF GLENGOULAH, THE. Pp. 362. (U.S.A.) - - “The incidents related in this tale really and truly occurred, - though not in the consecutive order in which they are placed” - ... viz., “the trial and execution, in February, 1846, at the - town of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, of Bryan Seery for the murder - of Sir Francis Hopkins, Bart.” “The characters introduced are - all real.” (Pref.) A sad and touching story of the heartless - treatment of the Irish peasantry by certain of the landlords, - picturing the deep religious faith of the former, and their - patient resignation in their sufferings. The plot, which is - vigorously worked out, centres in the execution of Bryan Seery - for the attempted murder of Sir Francis Hopkins, a crime of - which he was innocent. - -⸺ CAVERN IN THE WICKLOW MOUNTAINS, THE; or, Fate of the O’Brien Family. -Two Vols. 12mo. (Dublin, _printed for the Author_). 1821. - - Told in letters between “Augustus Tranton” and “Sir Edward - Elbe.” Said on title-p. to be “a tale founded on facts.” Seems - to be a re-issue in a slightly altered form of THE UNITED - IRISHMAN, _q.v._ The story is related to “Aug. Tranton” by a - gentleman (O’Brien) who had been a U.I., and as a result had - lost all, and was then in hiding in a cave near the Dargle - river. - -⸺ CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH. 16mo. Pp. 288. -(HALIFAX). 1849. - - A reprint of an earlier publication by Philip Dixon Hardy, - the fourth edition of which appeared in 1842. Contents: I. - By Carleton:—“The Horse Stealers,” “Owen McCarthy,” “Squire - Warnock,” “The Abduction,” “Sir Turlough.” II. By Lover:—“A - Legend of Clanmacnoise” (_sic_), “Ballads and Ballad Singers,” - “Paddy Mullowney’s Travels in France.” III. By Mrs. Hall:—“The - Irish Agent,” “Philip Garraty.” - -⸺ CHARLES MOWBRAY; or, Duelling, a tale founded on fact. Pp. 82. (CORK). -1847. - - By the author of “The Widow O’Leary.” Dr. B., whose parents - live at Y. (probably Youghal), has a practice in England. He is - challenged to fight a duel by Sir J. C. He is killed, and his - parents both die from the shock. A dull little book, with much - moralising. - -⸺ COLONEL ORMSBY; or, the genuine history of an Irish nobleman in the -French service. Two Vols. (DUBLIN). 1781. - - In form of letters between the Colonel and Lady Beaumont, - couched in the most amatory terms. There is no reference to - Ireland and little to the history of the gallant Colonel: the - correspondence is all about the private love affairs of the - writers. - -⸺ DUNSANY: an Irish Story. Two Vols. 12mo. Pp. 278 + 308. (LONDON.) 1818. - - The principal character and a few of the others, _e.g._, Mrs. - Shady O’Blarney (!), happen to be born in Ireland, and there is - talk of the usual tumbled-down castle somewhere in Ireland, but - at this the Irishism of the story stops. The scene is England, - the persons wholly English in sympathy and education. A - sentimental and insipid story dealing chiefly with the marrying - off of impecunious sons and daughters. Interesting as giving a - picture, seen from an English standpoint, of the Irish society - of the day. No politics. - -⸺ EARLY GAELIC ERIN; or, Old Gaelic Stories of People and Places. -(DUBLIN). 1901. - -⸺ EDMOND OF LATERAGH: a novel founded on facts. Two vols. (DUBLIN). 1806. - - Two lovers kept apart by cruel circumstances and villainous - plots meet at last and are happy. This thread serves to connect - many minor plots, which bring us from Ireland (near Killarney) - to England and then the continent and back again, and introduce - a great variety of personages. These latter are nearly all of - the Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry—Wharton, Wandesford, Peyton, - Ulverton, Blackwood, Elton—no Irish name is mentioned. Great - profusion of incident, but not very interestingly told. No - historical or social background. Relates rather a large number - of instances of misconduct. Speaks of “paraphernalia of Popish - doctrine,” yet one of the best characters is Father Issidore - (_sic_). - -⸺ EDMUND O’HARA: an Irish Tale. Pp. 358. (DUBLIN: _Curry_). 1828. - - By the author of “Ellmer Castle.” A controversial story of - an anti-Catholic kind. The hero goes to Spain to be educated - for the priesthood. He meets Hamilton, who indoctrinates him - with Protestantism. They are wrecked off the Irish coast. A - priest refuses them the money to take them home to the North of - Ireland, while the Protestants generously give it. He falls in - love with Miss Williams, who insists on a year’s probation so - that he may be sufficiently “adorned with Christian graces.” - But he dies, and she marries Hamilton. - -⸺ ELLMER CASTLE. Pp. 320. (DUBLIN: _Curry_). 1827. - - By the author of “Edmund O’Hara,” _q.v._ Henry Ellmer travels, - and comes back converted to convert his family. He causes only - anger and disturbance. They turn him out, and he departs with - a blessing. But after some adventures returns to his father’s - deathbed. Contains much controversial matter. - -⸺ EMERALD GEMS. (BOSTON). 1879. - - “A Chaplet of Irish Fireside Tales, Historic, Domestic, and - Legendary. Compiled from approved sources.” - -⸺ FATHER BUTLER; or, Sketches of Irish Manners. 16mo. (PHILADELPHIA). -1834. - - I am not sure whether this is the American edition of a little - Souper tract by Carleton (_q.v._) published by Curry in 1829, - in which Father Butler finally is convinced of the falsity of - his religion and becomes a Protestant. - -⸺ FATHER JOHN; or, Cromwell in Ireland (1649); by “S. E. A.” Pp. 477. -(_Whittaker_, later _Gill_). Still reprinted. [1842]. - - A well told story, with a love interest and a mystery admirably - sustained to the end. The plot largely turns on the misfortunes - and sufferings brought about by Father John’s fidelity to - the secrecy of the confessional, a fidelity which the author - strongly condemns. The hero is a young Irish Protestant, who - before the close of the story has converted to his faith such - of the Catholic personages of the tale as do not rank as - villains. The moral of the story is the iniquity and falseness - of the Catholic religion, for which the author throughout - displays a very genuine horror. The author’s political - sympathies are Ormondist, but Owen Roe O’Neill is favourably - described. The massacres of Drogheda and Wexford are described. - It is “by the Author of ‘The Luddite’s Sister,’ ‘Richard of - York,’” &c. - -⸺ FAVOURITE CHILD, THE; or, Mary Ann O’Halloran, an Irish tale: by a -retired priest. (DUBLIN). 1851. - -⸺ FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS (Ireland); edited by “C. J. T.” 16mo. Pp. 192. -(_Gibbings_). 1889. - - A volume of a good popular series which includes vols. on - Oriental, English, German, American, and other folk-lores. - Thirty-three tales chosen from published collections, chiefly - Croker’s. A good selection. Humorous and extravagant element - not too prominent. Some in dialect. Some titles:—“Fuin” - (_sic_), “MacCumhal and the Salmon of Knowledge,” “Flory - Cantillon’s Funeral,” “Saint Brandon” (_sic_), and “Donagha,” - “Larry Hayes,” and “The Enchanted Man,” “The Brewery of - Egg-shells,” “The Field of Boliauns,” &c. - -⸺ FORD FAMILY IN IRELAND, THE. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Newby_). 1845. - - Ford, an English merchant comes to the west coast of Ireland - to pursue a business speculation in grain, and brings his - family. He is imprisoned owing to a misunderstanding, and his - daughter marries an officer, Macalbert, who becomes chief of - the pikemen, and eventually dies on the scaffold. Period: ’98, - soon after the landing of French at Killala. Point of view: - very sympathetic towards Ireland and anti-Orange. No religious - bias. A pathetic and a dramatic story. - -⸺ FRANK O’MEARA; or, The Artist of Collingwood; by “T. M.” Pp. 320. -(DUBLIN: _McGlashan & Gill_). 1876. - - Frank, of the tenant class, falls in love with the landlord’s - daughter, Fanny. Their love is discovered, and Frank finds - it best to emigrate to Australia. Here he has various - adventures—bush-rangers, gold-diggings, and so on. A comic - element is afforded by the sayings and doings of his man, - Jerry Doolin. Meanwhile F’s father and his friend, another - widower, contend for the favours of the widow Daly—rather broad - comedy—while Fanny, without losing her place in society, is - running a bookshop while waiting for Frank. All is well in the - end. A very pleasant story in every respect. “Collingwood” is a - village near Melbourne. Part of the story takes place at Bray. - -⸺ GERALD AND AUGUSTA; or, The Irish Aristocracy. Pp. 320. (_Cameron & -Ferguson_). 6_d._ paper. - - How Gerald, orphan son of Lord Clangore, is brought up in - London to be anti-Irish, while his sister is brought up by a - Mr. Knightly (a stay-at-home Irish squire absorbed in Ireland) - to love Ireland. How chance brings Gerald to Ireland where he - is quite won over to her cause. This chance is a wreck off the - W. coast of Ireland resulting in Gerald’s falling temporarily - into the hands of “Captain Rock.” Many amusing adventures and - situations follow. The author’s sympathies are all for Ireland, - but they are not blind or unreasoned sympathies. Very ably - written both in style and construction. - -⸺ HAMPER OF HUMOUR, A; by Liam. Pp. 176. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 1913. - - A series of character and _genre_ studies—the shy man, the - drunken driver who wakes to find himself in a hearse and thinks - it is his own funeral, the returned American, the magistrates - who do a good turn for their friends. In this last and in - several other sketches (notably in the two concerned with Cork - railways) there is a note of satire. There is plenty of genuine - humour to justify the title. The Cork accent is cleverly hit - off; practically all the sketches are more or less Corkonian. - -⸺ HARRY O’BRIEN: a Tale for Boys. (N.Y.: _Benziger_. 0.25 net. _Burns and -Lambert_). 1859. - - By the author of “Thomas Martin.” A little pious and moral - Catholic story. The scene is laid in London. - -⸺ HERMITE EN IRLANDE, L’. Two Vols. 12mo. (PARIS: _Pillet Ainé_). 1826. - - “Ou observations sur les mœurs et usages des irlandais au - commencement du xix siècle.” Interspersed with stories, - occupying a large part of the book. Titles:—“Le Cunnemara,” - “Le naufrage,” “Mogue le Boiteux,” “Le rebelle,” “La sorcière - de Scollough’s Gap,” “Les bonnes gens,” “Les cluricaunes,” - “Bill le Protestant,” “Turncoat Watt ou l’apostat,” “Le double - vengeance,” “Le retour de l’absent,” etc. These are obviously - taken for the most part from Whitty’s book, _q.v._ - -⸺ HONOR O’MORE’S THREE HOMES. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.25 net. - -⸺ HUGH BRYAN: The Autobiography of an Irish Rebel. (BELFAST). Pp. 478. -1866. - - Scene: Valley of Blackwater, Lismore. Time: end of eighteenth - century (1798) and beginning of nineteenth century. May be - described as a Souper story. Purports to be a moving picture - of the last struggle of the Gael against the English Planter, - ending in failure, and resulting, in the hero’s case, in - conversion to Protestantism. He finally marries an escaped nun - whom he meets in an English town while engaged in slum-work. - -⸺ IRISH BUBBLE AND SQUEAK, THE. Pp. 160. (LONDON: _Clarke & Beeton_). -1854. - - “A selection [thirty-five in all] of the most popular Irish - tales, anecdotes, wit, and humour, illustrative of the manners - and customs of the Irish peasantry.” There is many a hearty - laugh in these stories, especially for ourselves, for in them - the Irishman always comes out on top. Some of the titles - are:—“Serving a writ in Ireland,” “Anecdotes of Curran,” “Irish - Bulls,” “Paddy Doyle’s Trip to Cork,” “Lending a Congregation,” - &c. &c. - -⸺ IRISH COQUETTE, THE: a novel. Vol. I. 1844. - - No more published. Scene: an old Castle in the South of Ireland. - -⸺ IRISH EXCURSION, THE; or, I Fear to Tell You. Four Vols. Pp. 1205. -(DUBLIN: _Lane_). 1801. - - How Mrs. M’Gralahan and family came to London and what they - heard and saw and did there. The Irish are represented as - dishonest, extravagant, and many other things, but all this - and more is to be remedied by the great panacea—the Union—and - the last of the four volumes closes with, “Bless the Beloved - Monarch of the Union.” Full of political discussions and of - lectures delivered to Ireland. What the Author “fears to tell” - us is not clear. - -⸺ IRISH FAIRY TALES. Illustrated by Geoffry Strahan. (_Gibbings_). 2_s._ -6_d._ - - A neat little volume, prettily illustrated, suitable as a - present for children. - -⸺ IRISH FIRESIDE STORIES, TALES AND LEGENDS. Pp. 400. (N. Y.: _Kenedy_). -63 cents. net. Illustr. 1910. - - “It brings out very well the true Irish wit, for which that - race is famous.”—(_Publ._). - -⸺ IRISH GIRL, THE: a Religious Tale. Pp. 102. (LONDON: _Walker_). One -engraving by Parris. 1814. Second ed. same year. - - By the Author of “Coelebs Married.” The girl begins life in a - mud hut in the filthiest and most disgusting conditions. She - is found in a barn and taken in by kindly English people, and - after a little management becomes a Protestant at the age of - fourteen, and indeed quite a theologian in her way. A visit - to a church in Cork and to Ardman, near Youghal, where the - dust of St. Dillon is sold by the bushel for miracle purposes, - completes her conversion. The book is full of the vilest - slanders against the Catholic Church. The Irish are represented - as murderers and savages driven on by their priests. - -⸺ IRISH GUARDIAN, THE: a Pathetic Story; by “A Lady.” Two Vols. (DUBLIN). -1776. - - Told in a series of letters to Miss Julia Nesbitt, Dublin, from - Sophia Nesbitt, of “Brandon Castle,” in Co. Antrim, and from - Sabina Bruce, of “Edenvale,” Co. Antrim. The two Miss Nesbitts - fall in love, and the course of their love affairs forms the - chief subject of the letters. These are dated 1771. There is - some vague description of Irish places, but feminine matters, - chiefly, absorb the writers. To be found in Marsh’s Library, - Dublin. - -⸺ IRISH LOVE TALES. (N. Y.: _Pratt_). $1.50. - -⸺ IRISHMAN AT HOME, THE. Pp. 302. (_McGlashan & Orr_). Five Woodcuts by -Geo. Measom. 1849. - - “Characteristic Sketches of the Irish Peasantry.” In part - reprinted from the DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL. “The Whiteboy” (1828) - Cahill, a _scullogue_, hanged an innocent man, for which the - Whiteboys cut out his tongue. “The Rockite” is a man who - took the oath of the secret society when drunk and had to go - through with the business. “The Wrestler,” description of the - Bog of Allen and of a wake. “The False Step,” a pathetic story - of an Irish girl’s ruin, her broken heart, and her mother’s - death. “The Fatal Meeting” (1397). How a Palmer meets Raymond - de Perrilleaux at St. Patrick’s Purgatory in Lough Derg, and - what came of the meeting. They nearly all depict wild times. - There is no religious bias, an absence of humour, and much - description of scenery. - -⸺ IRISHMAN, THE; or, The Favourite of Fortune. Two Vols. (LONDON). 1772. - -⸺ IRISHMEN, THE: a Military-Political Novel; by “A Native Officer.” Two -Vols. 12mo. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1810. - - Title-page:—“Wherein the idiom of each character is carefully - preserved and the utmost precaution constantly taken to - render the ebullitionary phrases peculiar to the sons of Erin - inoffensive as well as entertaining.” Told in letters between - Major O’Grady and Major-General O’Lara, Miss Harriet O’Grady, - and Lady Arabella Fitzosborne. The letters are full of italics - and of the trifling gossip of fashionable or domestic life. The - personages all live in England. Letters from Patrick O’Rourke - to Taddy McLenna—heavy humour. Seem to contain no politics save - a passing reference to the war then (1808) in progress. - -⸺ IRISH PEARL, THE: a Tale of the Time of Queen Anne. Pp. 98. (DUBLIN: -_Oldham_). 1850. - - Reprinted from the CHRISTIAN LADIES’ MAGAZINE for 1847 and - published for charitable purposes. A religious tale of a - strongly Evangelical and anti-Roman character, in which Father - Eustace, the hermit of Gougane Barra, relates to Lady Glengeary - his own conversion to Protestantism and that of her mother. - Lady G., in her turn, relates her conversion to Lady Ormond, - who tells the story to Queen Anne. - -⸺ IRISH PLEASANTRY AND FUN. Pp. 380. 9¼ + 7 in. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 16 -illustr. by J. F. O’Hea. [1892] 1910. - - Still reprinted without change, and is as popular as ever. - Seventy-two stories, fourteen anonymous, the bulk of the - remainder by Carleton, Lover, and Lever. Maginn, Maxwell, and - M. J. Barry are represented by two each; Irwin, Lefanu, Lynam, - Coyne, Sullivan by one each. Practically all the tales are - of the Lover (_Handy Andy_, _q.v._) type, genuinely funny in - their way, but broadly comic, farcical, and full of brogue. The - illustrations are some of them clever, but inartistic and of - the most pronouncedly Stage-Irish kind. - -⸺ IRISH PRIEST, THE; or, What for Ireland? Pp. 171. 16mo. (_Longman, -Brown, Green, &c._). 1847. - - “This sees the light with the earnest hope that it may - conciliate prejudice, disarm opposition....” The Author speaks - of his “intensest sympathy for a despoiled, neglected, ill-used - people.” Supposed to be a MS. given to a doctor in the W. of - Ireland by a doctor on his deathbed. Sentimental and emotional - in style. A rambling series of incidents in priest’s life, - with much moralising of a non-Catholic tone. Incidents of - land agitation given, without explanation of their causes. - Suggestions to make Ireland an ideal place, &c. - -⸺ IRISH WIDOW, THE; or, A Picture from life of Erin and her Children; by -author of “Poor Paddy’s Cabin.” Pp. 205. 12mo. (LONDON: _Wertheim and -Macintosh_). 1855. - - Like the Author’s former work, this deals with the religious - question in Ireland from a Protestant (Evangelical) standpoint. - But in this case the personages are drawn from the middle - classes, the causes of their enslavement to Rome being set - forth. It is full of religious controversy. See ch. xvi. “The - Fruits of an Irish Church Missions sermon,” and ch. xviii., - “Priest and Landlords.” - -⸺ JIM EAGAN. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). $1.00. - -⸺ KATE KAVANAGH. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.45 net. - -⸺ LAST DROP OF ’68, THE: a Picture of Real Life with Imaginary -Characters; by “An Irish Bramwellian.” Pp. 127. (_Hodges Figgis_). 1_s._ -1885. - - Begins in Dublin, the teller being a Dublin lawyer, but nearly - all the incidents take place out of Ireland. All the personages - are more or less disreputable, including the teller, but - especially the hero, Helgate, who is a thorough blackguard. The - story consists chiefly in the doings of this latter, a drunken, - swindling wretch, who deceives foolish people and lives on - them. The writer does not seem to adopt any definite moral - attitude. ’68 refers to the _vintage_ of that year. - -⸺ LAST OF THE O’MAHONYS, THE; and other historical tales of the English -settlers in Munster. Three Vols. (_Bentley_). 1843. - - Contents:—1. “The Title-story.” 2. “The Physician’s Daughter.” - 3. “The Apprentice.” 4. “Emma Cavendish.” 5. “The Puritan.” - 6. “Black Monday.” Scene: Co. Cork and chiefly around Bandon. - All deal with troublous times of 17th century as seen from the - settlers’ point of view, with which the Author is in sympathy. - The Irish are painted in no flattering colours. Useful - historical notes are appended. Longer notices of Nos. 5 and 6 - are given as specimens of the whole. - -⸺ LEGENDS AND FAIRY TALES OF IRELAND. With 50 wood engravings. Large -12mo. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 63 cents net. - - Being a complete collection of all the Fairy Tales published - by Crofton Croker and embodying the entire volumes of Kenedy’s - _Fictions of the Irish Celts_. - -⸺ LIFE IN THE IRISH MILITIA; or, Tales of the Barrack Room. Pp. 255. -(LONDON: _Ridgway_). 1847. - - The dedication (to O’Connell) is dated 1834, and the first - words of the book are “In the summer of 1833....” A very - eccentric book, intended by the Author (a lady) as a satire - on the “fashionable depravities of the times,” with intent - to “exhibit folly and vice to public scorn and reproach.” - (Pref.). She is out against proselytism, bigotry, hypocrisy, - aristocracy, race-hatred between Ireland and England, and all - abuses that bear heavily on the people. This book consists of - various parts:—I. “The Sojourner in Dublin”—a young Englishman - who lives in lodgings and tells what he sees and hears. II. - “The Modern Pharisees of the city of Shim-Sham in Ireland,” - in the form of a story. III. “Life in the Irish Militia”—a - fierce attack on the militia, especially a Northern and a Kerry - regiment. IV. “A Visit to Killarney.” V. An Allegorical Tale. - -⸺ MAD MINSTREL, THE; or, The Irish Exile. (_Murray_). 1812. - -⸺ MICK TRACY, THE IRISH SCRIPTURE READER; or, The Martyred Convert and -the Priest; by “W. A. C.” (_Partridge_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr., but -without reference to the story. _n.d._ - - The hero is “a day labourer reared in the R.C. communion but - through mercy enabled to see its delusions and to escape from - them.” He is denounced by the priest and assaulted by the - parishioners. These are prosecuted, but the only result is - moonlighting, murder, and the kidnapping of converts. Yet the - converts multiply. The reproduction of the brogue is ludicrous. - See _Tim Doolin_. - -⸺ MISTLETOE AND THE SHAMROCK, THE; or, The Chief of the North. (GLASGOW: -_Cameron & Ferguson_). 6_d._ - - In C. & F.’s “Sensation Series of Sixpenny Novels.” - -⸺ MY OWN STORY: a Tale of Old Times. Pp. 168. (_Curry_). One illustr. by -Geo. Petrie, engraved by Kirkwood. 1829. - - James O’Donnell is sworn in by a priest and joins the rebels, - but later he is made a “Bible Christian,” turns traitor, and is - eventually hanged. Period: some time in reign of George III. - The country about Fort nan Gall and the woods of Coolmore are - described. - -⸺ NATIONAL FEELING; or, The History of Fitzsimon: a Novel, with -Historical and Political Remarks; by “An Irishman.” Two Vols. (_Dublin_). -1821. - - A straggling story of the adventures in Ireland (Co. Mayo - and Dublin) and abroad of Edward F. Tells of the progress of - his wooing of Matilda, which is much interfered with by the - machinations of a wicked lord. There are also some minor love - affairs. Pp. 103 _sqq._ of Vol. I. contain some pictures of - Dublin life at the time, introducing public personages such - as the Duke of Leinster, Lady Rossmore, Mr. Justice Fletcher, - Alderman M’Kenny, &c. The hero goes to the U.S. and then to S. - America. The title of the tale seems to be due to his meeting - various peoples—Greeks, Argentiners, Chilians, &c.—fighting for - their national independence. See pp. 206, 217, 222. I failed to - come across Vol. II. Preface shows Author to be Nationalist in - his Irish views. - -⸺ NICE DISTINCTIONS: a Tale. Pp. 330. (_Hibernia Press Offices_). 1820. - - Scene: Co. Wicklow. The Courtneys of Glendalough Abbey have - a tutor named Charles Delacour, who makes friends with the - clergyman’s family—Mr. Vernon and his wife, son, and daughters. - Presented ultimately with a living, he marries Maria Vernon. - Many subordinate characters of no importance are introduced - into this invertebrate tale, the style of which is stilted and - unnatural. - -⸺ OLD COUNTRY, THE: a Christmas Annual. Pp. 200. Demy 8vo. (_Sealy, -Bryers_). 1_s._ 1893. - - Irish Stories (and Poems) by Katherine Tynan, F. Langbridge, - Dick Donovan, Edwin Hamilton, W. B. Yeats, Edmund Downey, Nora - Wynne, &c., &c. - -⸺ OUTCAST, THE: a Story of the Modern Reformation. Pp. 172. (_Curry_). -1831. - - The “Outcast” was educated for the priesthood, read Voltaire - and Rousseau, but did not finally awake to the error of the - Roman “system” until he had read _Italy_, by Lady Morgan. He - ceases to believe in Catholicism; is turned out by his father, - while his mother dies of a broken heart. There is a description - of the Slaney. Contains much that would be extremely offensive - to Catholics and some remarks about Confession and Mass that - would appear to them blasphemous. - -⸺ PASSION AND PEDANTRY: a Novel illustrative of Dublin Life. Three Vols. -(LONDON: _Newby_). 1853. - - A somewhat ordinary tale of the fortunes of young Charles - Desmond, an army officer, is made the vehicle for a careful and - detailed picture of manners and customs at the period, and for - a presentation of the Author’s views on things Irish, though - with little reference to politics or to religion. The plot, - such as it is, turns chiefly on the question whether Charles - will come in for his old uncle’s money and will, in spite of - whispering tongues, marry the lady—both of which he does. The - conversation of some of the personages is full of pedantry and - of quotations in various languages. Dublin life well portrayed - by a keen observer. - -⸺ PEAS-BLOSSOM; by the Author of “Honour Bright.” (_Wells, Gardner_). -3_s._ 6_d._ 30 illustr. by Helen Miles. C. 1911. - - “‘Peas-blossom’ may be described as a rollicking, respectable - Irish story, the names of the juvenile pair of heroes being Pat - and Paddy.... An exceptionally readable volume.”—(TIMES). - -⸺ PHILIP O’HARA’S ADVENTURES [and other tales]. Pp. 144. (_Chambers_). -1885. - - A young man’s adventures in the American Civil War. Only the - first story has the slightest connection with Ireland. - -⸺ POOR PADDY’S CABIN; or, Slavery in Ireland. By “An Irishman.” Pp. xii. -+ 242. 12mo. (LONDON: _Wertheimer & Macintosh_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Second -edition. 1854. - - “A true representation of facts and characters,” names of - persons and places being disguised. “His [the Author’s] aim has - been, along with a matter-of-fact representation of the real - state of things in Ireland, to exhibit in a parable ... a just - and true view of what the gracious dealings of the Almighty - always are.” (Pref.). A pamphlet in story form written against - the Catholic Church in Ireland and in support of the “Irish - Reformation Movement.” Appendix, giving with entire approval a - bitterly anti-Catholic article from the TIMES of November 29th, - 1853 (?), and others of like nature from the MORNING ADVERTISER - (Oct. 22nd, 1853). The characters are drawn from the peasant - class. - -⸺ POPULAR TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. Pp. 404. (DUBLIN: _W. -F. Wakeman_). Illustr. by Samuel Lover. 1834. - - Fifteen stories, including two by Carleton and one by Mrs. S. - C. Hall. Five are by Denis O’Donoho, three by J. L. L., and - one each by J. M. L. and B. A. P. Titles:—“Charley Fraser,” - “The Whiteboy’s revenge,” “Laying a ghost,” “The wife of two - husbands,” “Mick Delany,” “The lost one,” “The dance,” “The - Fetch,” “The 3 devils,” “The Rebel Chief, 1799,” &c., &c. - -⸺ PRIESTS AND PEOPLE: a No-rent Romance; by the Author of “Lotus,” etc. -Three Vols. (LONDON: _Eden, Remington_). 1891. - - “Lotus” is by I. M. O. A book inspired by the bitterest dislike - and contempt for Ireland. The views expressed by the young - English soldier (p. 101) seem throughout to be those of the - author. The interest turns almost entirely on the relations - between landlord, tenant, and League, and no effort is spared - to represent the two latter in the most odious light. It is the - work of a practised writer, and the descriptions are distinctly - good and the story well told. The brogue is painfully - travestied. The author is ignorant of Catholic matters. - -⸺ PROTESTANT RECTOR, THE. Pp. 216. (_Nesbit_). 1830. - - At the hospitable Protestant rectory even the priest is - received. This priest “performed several masses on Sundays”: - he is frequently drunk. He goes to Rome and, at the “fearful - sight” of the Pope treated as God, he recoils in disgust, - and is converted. On his return he is again welcomed at the - Rectory, where he converts many and dies a holy death. - -⸺ PURITAN, THE. Pp. 134. - - The interest of this story turns chiefly on the religious - differences of the times. The author is for “the calm and - rational service of the Church of England” as against the new - fanaticism of the Parliamentarians. The characters, such as - those of Obadiah Thoroughgood and Lovegrace, are well-drawn. - There is but little local colour and no description of scenery. - The scene is laid at Bandon, Co. Cork. Bound up in one vol. - with “Black Monday Insurrection,” _q.v._, being Vol. III. of - _The Last of The O’Mahonys_. - -⸺ RIDGEWAY; by “Scian Dubh.” Pp. xx. + 262 (close print). (BUFFALO: -_McCarroll_). 1868. - - “An historical romance of the Fenian invasion of Canada,” June, - 1866. Introd. (pp. xx. close print) gives a view of Irish - history and politics from a bitterly anti-English point of - view. England has been “a traitor, a perjurer, a robber, and an - assassin throughout the whole of her infamous career.” Append. - gives in 5 pp. an “Authentic Report” of the invasion of Canada, - Fenianism is fully discussed, especially in ch. vi. Career of - Gen. O’Neill, ch. vii. A love story of an ordinary kind is used - as a medium for politics and historical narrative. - -⸺ ROBBER CHIEFTAIN, THE. Pp. 342. Post 8vo. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1863]. -Still in Print. - - Scene chiefly Dublin Castle. Cromwellian cruelties under Ludlow - depicted, and early years of Restoration. The Robber Chieftain - is Redmond O’Hanlon, the Rapparee. The Ven. Oliver Plunket is - also one of the characters. Some incidents suggest Catholic - standpoint, but in places the book reads like a non-Catholic - (though not anti-Catholic) tract. The hero and heroine are - Protestant. Full of sensational incidents, duels, waylayings - by robber bands, law court scenes, tavern brawls. Also many - repulsive scenes of drunkenness among the native Irish, and - of murder, wild vengeance, and villainy of all kinds. Hardly - suitable for young people. - -⸺ ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, THE. Pp. 298. (_Curry_). One illustr. by -Kirkwood. 1827. - - A Catholic boy, Doyle, risks his life and saves a Protestant - boy from drowning. The boy’s father out of gratitude offers to - send Doyle to T.C.D., guaranteeing that “he will not have to - make even a temporary renunciation of his religion.” But the - priest refuses, and soon Doyle becomes a Protestant. - -⸺ SAINT PATRICK: a National Tale of the Fifth Century; by “An Antiquary.” -Three Vols. (EDIN.: _Constable_). 1819. - - A romance of love and vengeance and druidical mysteries into - which St. Patrick enters as one of the _dramatis personæ_. - There are plenty of exciting incidents, some fine scenes, and - a very good picture of druidism in the fifth century. Very - well written but for the unfortunate introduction of modern - Irish brogue and Scotch dialect. The religious point of view - is Church of Ireland, and there is an effort to represent the - Christianity of those days as essentially different from the - Catholicism of these. Scene: chiefly Tara, Dunluce, the Giant’s - Causeway, the Bann. - -⸺ SEPARATIST, THE; by “A New Writer.” Pp. 323. (_Pitman_). 6_s._ 1902. - - The love story of Stella Mertoun, who is a Royalist, and Philip - Venn, who is on the Parliamentary side in the Civil War. Only - a small portion of the action takes place in Ireland. The - author’s sympathies are with the Puritans, but the bias is not - pronounced. - -⸺ SIEGE OF MAYNOOTH, THE; or, Romance in Ireland. Two Vols. (CHELSEA: -_Ridgeway_). 1832. - - A very long novel with a rather confused plot, but containing - good scenes. Purports to be a MS. given to her descendant by - the old Countess of Desmond, who has fallen on evil days, and - relating stirring incidents of the Desmond wars and of the - rebellion of Silken Thomas, including the attack on Desmond - castle by the Butlers, the defeat and capture of Lord Grey in - Glendalough, the escape of Lord Thomas Fitzgerald from the - Black Castle of Wicklow, and the siege and betrayal of the - Castle of Maynooth. Written on the whole from the Irish point - of view. - -⸺ SIR ROGER DELANEY OF MEATH; by “Hal.” Pp. 228. (_Simpkin, Marshall_). -6_s._ 1908. - - The Sir Roger of the story (he is “10th baron Navan”) is an - elderly married man, blustering, cursing, lying, cheating, - but described in such a way that one does not see whether the - author means him for a hero or not. He falls in love with Lady - Kitty, who is in love with somebody else. Sir Roger tries to - get the latter into disreputable situations. They fight a duel, - and the curtain falls on Sir Roger mortally wounded. The book - is quite devoid of seriousness. - -⸺ SMITH OF THE SHAMROCK GUARDS; by “An Officer.” (_Stanley Paul_). - -⸺ STORIES OF IRISH LIFE, PAST AND PRESENT; by “Slieve Foy.” Pp. 160. -(_Lynwood_), 1_s._ 1912. - - Ten stories, amusing and pathetic, some of which have appeared - in the WEEKLY FREEMAN and the IRISH EMERALD. - -⸺ STORY OF NELLY DILLON, THE; by the author of “Myself and my Relatives.” -Two Vols. (LONDON: _Newby_). 1866. - - Nelly Dillon, daughter of a Tipperary farmer, is abducted in - suspicious circumstances by a former lover, who is a Ribbonman - and illicit distiller. She is disowned by her parents but - befriended and sheltered by Bet Fagan, a fine character. The - latter prevails upon the abductor, when under sentence of - death, to clear Nelly Dillon’s character in presence of the - parish priest, who afterwards tells the facts from the altar. - The parents wish to receive Nelly back, but she rejects their - advances and dies. A sad story, well told, and with a healthy - moral. - -⸺ TALES AND LEGENDS OF IRELAND. Two Vols. (CORK: _Bolster_). 1831. - - “Illustrative of society, history, antiquities, manners, and - literature, with translations from the Irish, biographical - notices, essays, etc.” - -⸺ THOMAS FITZGERALD THE LORD OF OFFALEY; by “Mac Erin O’Tara, the last of -the Seanachies.” Three Vols. (LONDON). 1836. - - “The first of a projected series illustrative of the history - of I.” (Title-p.). See also Introd. (pp. xxx.) containing some - interesting remarks about Irish historical fiction. Claims to - “give the history as it really occurred.” The book is a quite - good attempt to relate the rebellion of Silken Thomas in a - romantic vein (though with no love interest) and to picture - the times. The conversations, though somewhat long-drawn-out, - are in very creditable Elizabethan English, redolent of - Shakespeare. Opens with a description of Christmas in Dublin in - 1533. The Author is not enthusiastically Nationalist, but is - quite fair to the Irish side. - -⸺ TIM DOOLIN, THE IRISH EMIGRANT. Pp. 360 (close print). (_Partridge_). -3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. Third ed., 1869. - - By the Author of “Mick Tracy” (_q.v._). Tim, son of a - small farmer in Co. Cork, as a result of his conversion to - Protestantism, has his house burned down and his cattle killed. - He emigrates to U.S.A., but soon passes to Canada, and helps to - repel the Fenian raid. He is joined by his family, and all live - happily at Castle Doolin. Less offensive than “Mick Tracy” in - its allusions to religious controversies. - -⸺ UNITED IRISHMAN, THE; or, The Fatal Effects of Credulity. Two Vols. -(DUBLIN). 1819. - - A United Irishman who had escaped from Dublin Castle by - the heroism of a sister, tells the tale of his woes to an - Englishman, who meets him by accident. The latter in turn tells - his story, equally woeful. The writer seems to be a Catholic - and to sympathize more or less with the United Irishman. The - book contains material for a good story, but it is told in a - rambling manner, without art, and is full of sentimentality. No - attempt to picture events or life of the times. - -⸺ VERTUE REWARDED; or, The Irish Princess. A New Novel. Pp. 184. 16mo. -(LONDON: _Bentley_). 1893. - - This is No. III. in Vol. xii. of “Modern Novels,” printed for - R. Bentley, 1892-3. Dedicatory Epist. “To the Incomparable - Marinda.” (Pref.) “To the ill-natured reader.” A petty foreign - prince in the train of William III. falls in love with an Irish - beauty whom he sees in a window when passing through Clonmel. - The story tells of the vicissitudes of his love suit. It is - eked out by several minor incidents. Nothing historical except - the mention of the siege of Limerick. - -⸺ VEUVE IRLANDAISE ET SON FILS, LA; Histoire véritable. Pp. 36. (PARIS: -_Delay_). 1847. - - A little Protestant religious tract telling how a poor Irish - widow was brought round to Protestant ideas by means of Bible - readings. - -⸺ WEIRD TALES. Irish. 256 pp. 18mo. (_Paterson_). [1890]. - - Eleven tales selected from Carleton (“The Lianhan Shee”), Lover - (“The Burial of O’Grady”), Lever, Croker (“The Banshee”), Mrs. - Hall, and J. B. O’Meara, together with some anonymous items. - -⸺ WILLIAM AND JAMES; or, The Revolution of 1689; by “A Lady.” Pp. xiv. + -354. (DUBLIN). 1857. - - “An Historical Tale, in which the leading events of that ... - period of our history ... are faithfully and truly narrated.” - Introduces William III., James II., Tyrconnell, Sarsfield, - Richard Hamilton, &c. Describes Boyne and Aughrim. Scene - chiefly Co. Fermanagh. Tone strongly Protestant (there are - digressions on religious matters), but without offensiveness to - the other side. It is a rather rambling, ill-connected story, - the work of a prentice hand. The initials of the author seem to - be J. M. M. K. - - -=[ABRAHAM, J. Johnstone]=, a native of Coleraine. B.A., 1898; M.D., -T.C.D., 1908; a consulting Surgeon in London; now serving in R.A.M.C. -Author of _The Surgeon’s Log_. - -⸺ THE NIGHT NURSE. Pp. 318. (_Chapman & Hall_). 6_s._ Fifth edition. -1913. 2_s._ - - Life in a Dublin hospital, carefully observed. Sex problem of - “the greater and the lesser love,” studied in a distinctly - “biological” way. As foil to the main characters, who are - of the respectable Protestant classes, we have “R.C.’s” of - a most undesirable type, and, in the background, the wholly - disreputable Irishry of a western town. The four plagues of - Ireland are Priests, Politicians, Pawnbrokers, and Publicans, - according to one of the personages. The medical interest is - prominent throughout. By the same Author: _The Surgeon’s Log_. - - -=ADAMS, Joseph.= - -⸺ UNCONVENTIONAL MOLLY. Pp. 320. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1913. - - The young heir of the old rackrenting absentee comes (from - Cambridge) incognito among his tenantry in the West and lives - their life. He meets the heroine who gives its title to the - book—with the expected result. The rest is a series of little - episodes—fishing in a western mountain-stream, a day’s shooting - on a moor, a sail on Clew Bay, a petty sessions court, a - matchmaking, a fair, &c., &c., all with a splendid setting of - Western scenery. Might be written by a sympathetic and kindly - visitor who had enjoyed his holiday. - - -=ALEXANDER, Eleanor.= Born at Strabane, daughter of the late Dr. -Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1911), and of Mrs. Cecilia Frances -Alexander, both of them well known as poets. Educated at home. Has -written verse for the SPECTATOR and for other periodicals. At the -outbreak of war was preparing for publication a collection of Ulster -stories illustrative of the peculiar humour of the North. Her _Lady -Anne’s Walk_, a miscellany of historical reminiscence woven round a place -and one who walked there long ago, contains an excellent bit of Ulster -dialect—the talk of the old gardener. - -⸺ THE RAMBLING RECTOR. Pp. 344. (_Arnold_). Third impression, 1904. -(N.Y.: _Longmans_). 1.50. - - A story of love, marriage, and social intercourse among - various classes of Church of Ireland people in Ulster. Draws - a sympathetic picture of clerical life, the hero being a - clergyman. Every character, and there are very many interesting - types, is drawn with sure and distinct traits. There are no - mere lay figures. John Robert is a curious and amusing study - of a certain type of servant. Full of shrewd observation and - knowledge of human nature, at least in all its outward aspects. - Very well written. By the same author: _Lady Anne’s Walk_, _The - Lady of the Well_, &c. - - -=ALEXANDER, Evelyn.= - -⸺ THE HEART OF A MONK. Pp. 318. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1910. - - The love story of Ivor Jermyn, who for reasons connected with - an hereditary family curse is induced by his mother to become a - Benedictine. During a vacation five years after his profession - he meets his former love at a country house, and a liaison - is formed. Taxed with this by his rival, the shock makes - him see the family “ghost”—the “old man of horror.” A fatal - illness results, and he leaves the field to his rival. Written - pleasantly and lightly. Shows little knowledge of Catholic ways - and doctrines. - -⸺ THE ESSENCE OF LIFE. Pp. 320. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Youth is “the Essence of Life,” as exemplified in the heroine’s - crowded moments in the social life of Dublin and London, - closing with her marriage with Lord Portstow, but shadowed by - the tragedy of a beautiful actress, who turns out to be her - mother. The novel does not rise above the commonplace.—[TIMES - LIT. SUPPL.]. - - -=ALEXANDER, L. C.= - -⸺ THE BOOK OF BALLYNOGGIN. Pp. 315. (_Grant, Richards_). 6_s._ 1902. - - Stories of a miscellaneous kind, mostly humorous, told in a - pleasant and readable style. Shows little knowledge of Irish - life. The peasantry are treated somewhat contemptuously. The - interest at times turns on the absurdities of Irish politics - and of Irish legal proceedings. - - -=ALEXANDER, Miriam (Mrs. Stokes).= Born at Birkenhead. Educated at home, -except for a short period at Alexandra College, Dublin. Has almost -finished another novel, dealing this time with modern Irish life. Was -much interested in the Gaelic League till alienated from it by recent -events. - -⸺ THE HOUSE OF LISRONAN. Pp. 312. (_Melrose_). 6_s._ 1912. - - A tale of the Williamite wars. Dermot Lisronan vows vengeance - on the brutal Dutchman who has driven him from his ancestral - home and been the death of his mother. The book is the story - of that vengeance. Dermot by a strange fatality marries the - daughter of this Dutchman, and some fine psychological and - human interest is afforded by the struggle in her mind between - love (the love of Dermot’s once bosom friend Fitz Ulick) - and wifely duty. The book is full of exciting and dramatic - incidents and situations, and never flags from the lurid - beginning to the tragic close. The characters are clearly drawn - and they are worth drawing:—Bartley, the Hedge-schoolmaster; - Taaffe, the besotted coward, sorry product of Williamite rule; - Father Talbot, the devoted priest of penal days; Barry Fitz - Ulick, a kind of Sir Launcelot, and the rest. William III. - is painted in darkest colours, and the penal days that he - inaugurated are shown in their full horror, though as an offset - to this we have a picture of the persecution of Huguenots in - France. - - N.B.—This novel gained a 250 guinea prize by the unanimous - award of three competent judges. Six editions were sold in less - than two months. - -⸺ PORT OF DREAMS, THE. Pp. 351. (_Melrose_). 6_s._ 1912. - - Dedication: To Caitlín ni Houlihan. A stirring and vivid - romance of Jacobite days (18th century) in Ireland, containing - some intensely dramatic episodes, _e.g._, the escape of Prince - Charles Edward. There are many threads in the narrative, - but the chief interest, perhaps, centres in a Jacobite who, - having served the cause well for twenty years, finds himself - confronted with the spectre of physical cowardice. To save - the cause from disgrace, his cousin Denis takes his place on - the scaffold. The girl marries Clavering for the same reason, - not for love. The author interrupts her narrative at times to - express her views on Celticism (for which she is enthusiastic), - religious persecution, and modern degeneracy. - -⸺ RIPPLE, THE. Pp. 367. (_Melrose_). 6_s._ 1913. - - Opens in Mayo (Achill scenery described), but soon shifts to - Poland and then to France. Adventures of Deirdre van Kaarew - (daughter of a recreant Irishman who has Dutchified his name - and turned Protestant), who has followed her brother to rescue - him from the designs of a hated kinsman. She falls in love - with Maurice de Saxe (of whom a careful and vivid portrait is - drawn), and the story of this “friendship” takes up much of - the book. She refuses him in the end, and marries the hated - kinsman. A fine plot, full of dramatic incidents. - -⸺ MISS O’CORRA, M.F.H. (_Melrose_). 6_s._ 1915. - - Miss O’Corra, who has become a rich heiress, leaves her - English home and comes to hunt in Ireland. She is quite - ignorant of equine matters, and various amusing difficulties - beset her. She meets her fate in the person of a young Irish - sportsman.—(_Press_). - - -=ALEXANDER, Rupert.= - -⸺ MAUREEN MOORE: a Romance of ’98. Pp. viii. + 355. (_Burleigh_). 6_s._ -1899. - - A well told story, introducing Lord Edward and the other - leaders. Maureen, an American, is the niece of John Moore, who - is driven into rebellion by the persecution of the “Yeos.” - His two sons, one a captain in the army, the other a priest, - also join the rebel ranks. A love interest with cross purposes - pervades the story. Larry Farrell is a great character, - performing wonderful deeds of bravery and having equally - wonderful escapes. The book leans entirely to the rebel side. - The fight at New Ross and the atrocities of Wexford are vividly - described. - - -=ALGER, Horatio.= Author of over fifty books for Boys. - -⸺ ONLY AN IRISH BOY. (N.Y.: _Burt_). $0.75. 1904. - - -=ANCKETILL, W. R.= - -⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF MICK CALLIGHIN, M.P.: A Story of Home Rule; and THE -DE BURGHOS: A Romance. Pp. 243. (_Tinsley_). Seven rather rough illustr. -1874. Second ed., Belfast, 1875. 1_s._ - - 1. Mick Callighin leaves Ballypooreen, somewhere near the - Galtees, of which there is a fine description, for Dublin and - then London. He meets his future wife in Kensington Gardens. - The plot is slight, but there is a good deal of pleasant wit, - many political hits, and much satire, not of Home Rule but of - Home Rulers. - - 2. Arthur Mervyn meets Col. de Burgho and his daughter, home - from Italy. An Italian count, who is also a pirate, carries off - Nora, but she is rescued and married to Arthur. A pretty story, - with some good descriptions of life among the better classes in - the West of Ireland. - - -=ANDREWS, Elizabeth, F.R.I.A.= - -⸺ ULSTER FOLKLORE. Pp. 121. (_Stock_). 5_s._ net. Fourteen illustr., -mainly from photos. 1914. - - A series of papers read before local learned societies or - contributed to archæological journals. An endeavour to deal - with the folk belief in fairies from an archæological point of - view. The conclusion is that the “souterrains” were originally - the abode of a primitive pigmy race. Imbedded in these pages - (the outcome of much personal research) are many good fairy and - folk stories. - - -=ANDREWS, Marion.= - -⸺ COUSIN ISABEL. Pp. 147. (_Wells Gardner, Darton_). 1_s._ 6_d._ Two -illustr. 1903. - - A tale, for young people, of the Siege of Londonderry, the - hardships of the defenders, and their brave patience. Isabel, - a veritable angel of mercy for her uncle and cousins is - a pleasant study. Another fine character is old Geoffrey - Lambrick, drawn from a quiet life and his tulips into the smoke - of battle. - - -=[ARCHDEACON, Matthew].= - -⸺ LEGENDS OF CONNAUGHT, TALES, &c. Pp. 406. (DUBLIN: _John Cumming_). -1829. - - Seven stories:—“Fitzgerald,” “The Banshee,” “The Election,” - “Alice Thomson,” “M’Mahon,” “The Rebel’s Grave,” “The - Ribbonman.” “Almost every incident in each tale is founded on - fact.” (Pref.). The first story (165 pp.) depicts Connaught “in - a wild and stormy state of society” towards the close of the - eighteenth century, and records the wild deeds and memorable - exit of the very widely known individual who is its hero. - -⸺ CONNAUGHT: a Tale of 1798. Pp. 394. (DUBLIN: _printed for M. -Archdeacon_). 1830. - - The Author was “from infancy in the habit of hearing details - of ‘the time of the Frinch’” ... and has “had an opportunity - of frequently hearing the insurrectionary scenes described by - some of the Actors themselves.” (Pref.) The Author is loyalist, - but not bitterly hostile to the rebels. The rebellion is not - painted in roseate colours, but it is not misrepresented. - Humbert’s campaign is vividly described, but history does not - absorb all the interest. The love story (the lovers are on - the rebel side) is told with zest, and there is abundance of - exciting incident. Quite well written. - -⸺ SHAWN NA SAGGARTH, THE PRIESTHUNTER. (_Duffy_). 6_s._ 1843. - - A tale of the Penal times. - - -=ARCHER, Patrick, “MacFinegall.”= Born at Oldtown, North County Dublin, -about fifty years ago. Lives in Dublin, where he is a Customs Official. - -⸺ THE HUMOURS OF SHANWALLA. Pp. 162. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Frontisp. -photo of Author. [1906]. New edition, 1_s._ 6_d._ 1913. - - A series of sketches exhibiting the humorous side of village - life in the North County Dublin district, or thereabouts. - Quite free from caricature; in fact tending to set the - people described in a favourable light, and to make them - more appreciated. There is a portrait of a priest, earnest, - persevering, and wholly taken up with his people’s good. - Thoroughly hearty, wholesome humour. - - -=ARGYLE, Anna.= - -⸺ OLIVE LACY. Pp. 365. (PHILADELPHIA: _Lippincott_). 1874, and earlier -editions. - - Scene: Wicklow during rebellion. Story told in first person - by Olive Lacy, a peasant’s daughter, adopted into a country - gentleman’s family. Castlereagh and Curran are introduced. A - good specimen of the latter’s table talk is given. Olive’s - father becomes a United Irishman, is betrayed by a foreign - monk (who goes about in a habit and cowl!), escapes, is - rearrested, and finally is shot. A general description of - the rising is given. Tone, healthy. Story well told, but for - some improbabilities. Wrote also: _Cecilia; or, The Force of - Circumstances_. N.Y.: 1866; _Cupid’s Album_; _The General’s - Daughter_. - - -=ARTHUR, F. B.= - -⸺ THE DUCHESS. (_Nelson_). - - Scene: mainly in Donegal. Standpoint: Protestant and English. - Not unfair to peasantry. A pleasantly told little story. The - hero implicated in Fenian movement, and arrested, escapes from - prison through the cleverness of his little daughter, “the - Duchess.” - - -=[ASHWORTH, John H.]= Author of _The Saxon in Ireland_. - -⸺ RATHLYNN. Three Vols. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1864. - - A young Englishman, son of “Admiral Wyville,” takes up and - works a property in a remote district in Ireland. Told in first - person. The chief interest seems to lie in jealousies and - consequent intrigues arising out of love affairs. - - -=“ATHENE”= _see_ =HARRIS=. - - -=AUSTIN, Stella.= - -⸺ PAT: A Story for Boys and Girls. (_Wells Gardner_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. - - “One of the prettiest stories of child life. Even the - adult reader will take a great liking to the lively Irish - Boy”—(CHRISTIAN WORLD). By the same Author: _Stumps_, - _Somebody_, _Tib and Sib_, _For Old Sake’s Sake_, &c., &c. - - -=“AYSCOUGH, John” [Mgr. Bickerstaffe Drew].= The Author is a Catholic -priest (a convert), now (August, 1915) acting as a chaplain in the -British Army in France. He is one of the best-known writers of the day. - -⸺ DROMINA. Pp. 437. (_Arrowsmith_). 6_s._ 1909. - - The Author brings together in a queer old castle on the - Western coast the M’Morrogh, descendant of a long line of - Celtic princes, his children by an Italian wife, his French - sister-in-law, a band of gypsies of a higher type, whose king - is Louis XVII. of France, rescued from his persecutors of the - Terror and half-ignorant of his origin. These are some of the - personages of the tale. It is noteworthy that not one of the - characters has a drop of English blood. I shall not give the - plot of the story. The last portion is full of the highest - moral beauty. The lad Enrique or Mudo, son of Henry M’Morrogh - (whose mother was an Italian) and of a Spanish gypsy princess, - is a wonderful conception. When the Author speaks, as he does - constantly, of things Catholic (notably the religious life and - the Blessed Sacrament) he does so not only correctly but in a - reverential and understanding spirit. The one exception is the - character of Father O’Herlihy, which is offensive to Catholic - feeling, and unnatural. The moral tone throughout is high. One - of the episodes is the seduction of a peasant girl, but it is - dealt with delicately and without suggestiveness. - - -=BANIM, John and Michael “The O’Hara Family.”= John Banim (1798-1842) and -Michael Banim (1796-1876) worked together, and bear a close resemblance -to one another in style and in the treatment of their material; but the -work of John is often gloomy and tragic; that of Michael has more humour, -and is brighter. They have both a tendency to be melodramatic, and can -picture well savage and turbulent passion. They have little lightness of -humour or literary delicacy of touch, but they often write with vigour -and great realistic power. The object with which the “O’Hara” Tales were -written is thus stated by Michael Banim: “To insinuate, through fiction, -the causes of Irish discontent and insinuate also that if crime were -consequent on discontent, it was no great wonder; the conclusion to be -arrived at by the reader, not by insisting on it on the part of the -Author, but from sympathy with the criminals.” - - P. J. Kenedy, of New York, publishes an edition of the Banims’ - works in ten volumes at seven dollars the set. - - -=BANIM, John.= - -⸺ JOHN DOE; or, The Peep o’ Day. 1825. - - The story of a young man who, for revenge, joins the - Shanavests, a secret society, terrible alike to landlord, - tithe-proctor, and even priest. The first of the _Tales by the - O’Hara Family_, republished separately by _Simms & M’Intyre_, - 1853; and _Routledge_, _n.d._ - -⸺ THE FETCHES. (_Duffy_). [1825]. - - A gloomy story, turning on the influence of superstitious - imaginations on two nervous and high-strung minds. The fetch is - the spirit of a person about to die said to appear to friends. - The story is somewhat lightened by the introduction of two - farcical characters. - -⸺ THE NOWLANS. Pp. 256 (close print). [1826], 1853, &c. - - The temptation and fall of a young priest, resulting in misery - which leads to repentance. Contains some of Banim’s most - powerful scenes. - -⸺ PETER OF THE CASTLE. Pp. 191. (_Duffy_). [1826]. - - A sensational and romantic tale. The opening chapters (by - Michael Banim) give a detailed description of country - matchmaking and marriage festivities at the time, c. 1770. - -⸺ THE BOYNE WATER. Pp. 564. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1826]. Many editions since. - - In this great novel, which is closely modelled on Scott, scene - after scene of the great drama of the Williamite Wars passes - before the reader. Every detail of scenery and costume is - carefully reproduced. Great historical personages mingle in the - action. The two rival kings with all their chief generals are - represented with remarkable vividness. Then there are Sarsfield - and Rev. George Walker, Galloping O’Hogan the Rapparee, Carolan - the bard, and many others. The politics and other burning - questions of the day are thrashed out in the conversations. - The intervals of the great historical events are filled by the - adventures of the fictitious characters, exciting to the verge - of sensationalism, finely told, though the _deus ex machina_ - is rather frequently called in, and the dialogue is somewhat - old-fashioned. The wild scenery of the Antrim coast is very - fully described, also the scenes through which Sarsfield passed - on his famous ride. The standpoint is Catholic and Jacobite, - but great efforts are made to secure historical fairness. The - book ends with the Treaty of Limerick. - -⸺ THE ANGLO-IRISH OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Three Vols. (_Colburn_). -[1828]. Republ. in one volume by Duffy in 1865 under title _Lord -Clangore_. - - Opens in London. Several members of Anglo-Irish Society are - introduced—the Minister (Castlereagh) and the Secretary (Wilson - Croker). There are long disquisitions on Emancipation, the - conversion of the peasantry, &c. Gerald Blount, younger son of - an Irish peer, has all the anti-Irish bias of this set. Flying - after a duel he reaches Ireland, where he has many exciting - adventures with the Rockites. Finally he succeeds to the title - and settles down. The “double” (or mistaken identity) plays - a part in this story, as in so many of Banim’s. A meeting of - the Catholic Association with O’Connell and Shiel debating is - finely described, also a Dublin dinner-party, at which Scott’s - son appears. The early part is somewhat tedious, but the later - scenes are powerful. - -⸺ THE CONFORMISTS. Pp. 202. (_Duffy_). [1829]. - - Period: reign of George II. A very singular story, whose - interest centres in the denial under the Penal Laws of the - right of education to Catholics. A young man, crossed in love, - resolves to become a “conformist” or pervert, and thus at once - disgrace his family, and oust his father from the property. - -⸺ THE DENOUNCED; or, The Last Baron of Crana. Pp. 235. (_Duffy_). [1826]. -(_Colburn_). 1830. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75. - - Deals with the fortunes of two Catholic families in the period - immediately following the Treaty of Limerick. Depicts their - struggles to practise their religion, and the vexations they - had to undergo at the hands of hostile Protestants. The tale - abounds in incident, often sensational. There is a good deal in - the story about the Rapparees. - -⸺ THE CHANGELING. Three Vols. Pp. 315 + 350 + 414. (LONDON). 1848. - - Published anonymously. Preface tells us it was written some - few years before date of publication. Scene: City of Galway - and Connemara (including Aran). The main plot is concerned - with the mystery surrounding the heir of Ballymagawley, got - out of the way in early childhood by the present owner, Mr. - Whaley, but returning in disguise to claim his rights. The - interest is threefold:—First, Mr. Whaley’s awful secret unknown - to the daughter, whom he loves with his whole soul, and who - returns his love, and the desperate efforts he makes to avert - the revelation; 2nd, the study of character: Clara Whaley, - high-souled, intellectual, unworldly, scorning fashion and - flirtation, the astute worldly intellectual Hon. Augustus - Foster, the empty-headed Miss Fosters and so on; 3rd, a series - of quite admirable and amusing vignettes of the _petite - bourgeoisie_ of Galway—the vulgar and showy Mrs. Heffernan - with her absurd accent, the match-making Mrs. Flanagan (an - inimitable portrait), the mischief-making Peter Harry Joe, - Considine the Butler, the consequential Captain O’Connor, and - the endless flirtations of the marriageable young ladies. The - peasantry are well drawn, but it is quite an outside view - of their life. The conversations are clever, but sometimes - tediously long, as are also the Author’s reflections. - - -=BANIM, Michael.= - -⸺ CROHOORE OF THE BILLHOOK. (_Duffy_). [1825]. - - Has been a very popular book. The action lies in one of the - darkest periods of Irish history, when the peasantry, crushed - under tithe-proctor, middleman, and Penal laws, retorted by the - savage outrages of the secret societies. One of these latter - was the “Whiteboys,” with the doings of which this book largely - deals. The Author does not justify outrage, but explains it by - a picture of the conditions of which it was an outcome. A dark - and terrible story. The scene is Kilkenny and neighbourhood. It - must be added that most of the characters savour strongly of - what is now known as the “stage Irishman.” - -⸺ THE CROPPY. Pp. 420. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ Still reprinted. [1828]. - - Opens with a long and serious historical introduction. There - follow many pages of a love story of the better classes which - is, perhaps, not very convincing. Samples of the outrages by - which the people were driven to revolt are given. Then there - are many scenes from the heart of the rebellion itself, some - of them acquired from conversation with eye-witnesses. The - attitude is that of a mild Nationalist, or rather Liberal, - contemplating with sorrow not unmixed with contempt the savage - excesses of his misguided countrymen. The rebellion is shown - in its vulgarest and least romantic aspect, and there are - harrowing descriptions of rebel outrages on Vinegar Hill and - elsewhere. The one noble or even respectable character in the - book, Sir Thomas Hartley, is represented as in sympathy with - constitutional agitation, but utterly abhorring rebellion. The - other chief actors in the story are unattractive. They have - no sympathy with the insurgents, and the parts they play are - connected merely accidentally with the rebellion. There is much - movement and spirit in the descriptive portions. - -⸺ THE MAYOR OF WINDGAP. Pp. 190. (_Duffy_). [1834]. - - Romantic and sensational—attempted murders, abductions, &c. Not - suitable for the young. Interest and mystery well sustained. - Scene: Kilkenny in 1779. There was a Paris edition, 1835. - -⸺ THE BIT O’ WRITING. - - This is the title-story of a volume of stories. First published - in London, 1838. It may be taken as typical of Michael Banim’s - humour at his best. It is a gem of story-telling, and, besides, - a very close study of the ways and the talk of the peasantry. - The “ould admiral,” with his sailor’s lingo, is most amusing. - It was republished along with another story, _The Ace of - Clubs_, by Gill, in a little volume of the O’Connell Press - Series, pp. 144, cloth, 6_d._, 1886. The original volume, with - twenty stories, is still published by Kenedy, New York. - -⸺ FATHER CONNELL. Pp. 358. [1840]. - - The scene is Kilkenny. The hero is an Irish country priest. The - character, modelled strictly (see Pref.) on that of a priest - well known to the author, is one of the noblest in fiction. - He is the ideal Irish priest, almost childlike in simplicity, - pious, lavishly charitable, meek and long-suffering, but - terrible when circumstances roused him to action. Interwoven - with his life-story is that of Neddy Fennell, his orphan - protégé, brave, honest, generous, loyal. Father Connell is - his ministering angel, warding off suffering and disaster, - saving him also from himself. The last scene, where, to save - his protégé from an unjust judicial sentence, Father Connell - goes before the Viceroy, and dies at his feet, is a piece of - exquisite pathos. There is an element of the sombre and the - terrible. But the greater part of the book sparkles with a - humour at once so kindly, so homely, and so delicate, that - the reader comes to love the Author so revealed. The episodes - depict many aspects of Irish life. The character-drawing is - masterly, as the best critics have acknowledged. There is Mrs. - Molloy, Father Connell’s redoubtable housekeeper; Costigan, - the murderer and robber; Mary Cooney, the poor outcast and her - mother, the potato-beggar; and many more. The Author faithfully - reproduces the talk of the peasants, and enters into their - point of view. Acknowledged to be the most pleasing of the - Banims’ novels. - -⸺ THE GHOST HUNTER AND HIS FAMILY. (_Simms & M’Intyre_). [1833]. 1852. - - Still published by P. J. Kenedy, New York: 75 cents. An - intricate plot skilfully worked out, never flagging, and with a - mystery admirably sustained to the end. Gives curious glimpses - of the life of the times (early nineteenth century), as seen - in a provincial town (Kilkenny). But the style often offends - against modern taste. The book soon turns to rather crude, if - exciting, melodrama. Moreover, though the Author is always on - the side of morality, there is too much about abduction, &c., - and too many references to the loose morals of the day to make - it suitable reading for certain classes. - -⸺ THE TOWN OF THE CASCADES. Two Vols. Pp. 283 + 283. (_Chapman & Hall_). -1864. - - Scene: sea-board town in West. A powerful story in which the - chief interest is a tragedy brought about by drink. The town - seems to be Ennistymon, Co. Clare. The characters belong to the - peasant class, and of course are drawn with thorough knowledge. - The work could easily go in one not very large volume. - - -=“BAPTIST, Father”= _see_ =Mgr. R. B. O’BRIEN=. - - -=BARBOUR, M. F.= - -⸺ THE IRISH ORPHAN BOY IN A SCOTTISH HOME. Pp. 87. (LONDON). [1866]. 1872. - - “A sequel to ‘The Way Home,’ &c.” A little religious tract - (Protestant) in story form. - - -=BARDAN, Patrick.= - -⸺ THE DEAD-WATCHERS. Pp. 83. (MULLINGAR: _Office of_ WESTMEATH GUARDIAN). -1891. - - “And other Folk-lore Tales of Westmeath.” The author is a - member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. Intended as a - contribution to folk-lore. But the title-story (54 pp.) is a - fantastic story told in melodramatic modern English, and has - little or no connexion with folk-lore. The remainder consists - of ghost stories, spirit-warnings, superstitions, chiefly of - local interest. Appended are a few explanatory notes of some - value. - - -=BARLOW, Jane.= - -⸺ IRISH IDYLLS. Pp. 284. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ [1892]. Ninth ed. -(N.Y.: _Dodd & Mead_). 2.00. 1908. - - Doings at Lisconnell, a poverty-stricken little hamlet, lost - amidst a waste of unlovely bogland. These sketches have been - well described as “saturated with the pathos of elementary - tragedy.” Yet there is humour, too, and even fun, as in the - story of how the shebeeners tricked the police. The illustrated - edition contains about thirty exceptionally good reproductions - of photographs of Western life and scenery. - -⸺ KERRIGAN’S QUALITY. Pp. 254. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ Eight -Illustr. [1893]. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. Second edition. - - In this story the peasants only appear incidentally. The main - characters are Martin Kerrigan, a returned Irish-Australian; - the invalid Lady O’Connor; her son, Sir Ben; and her niece, - Merle. The story is one of intense, almost hopeless, sadness, - yet it is ennobling in a high degree. It is full of exquisite - scraps of description. - -⸺ STRANGERS AT LISCONNELL. Pp. 341. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ [1895]. -(N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. - - A second series of Irish Idylls, showing the Author’s - qualities in perhaps a higher degree even than the first. A - more exquisite story than “A Good Turn” it would be hard to - find. Throughout there is the most thorough sympathy with the - poor folk. The peasant dialect is never rendered so as to - appear vulgar or absurd. It is full of an endless variety of - picturesqueness and quaint turns. No problems are discussed, - yet the all but impossibility of life under landlordism is - brought out (see p. 15). There are studies of many types - familiar in Irish country life—the tinkers; Mr. Polymathers, - the pedagogue (a most pathetic figure); Mad Bell, the crazy - tramp; and Con the “Quare One.” It should be noted that, though - there is in Miss Barlow’s stories much pathos, there is an - entire absence of emotional gush. - -⸺ MAUREEN’S FAIRING. Pp. 191. (_Dent_). Six Illustr., of no great value. -[1895]. (N.Y.: _Macmillan_). 0.75. - - Eight little stories reprinted from various magazines in a very - dainty little volume. Like all of Jane Barlow’s stories, they - tell of the “tear and the smile” in lowly peasant lives, with - graceful humour or simple, tender pathos. The stories are very - varied in kind. - -⸺ MRS. MARTIN’S COMPANY. (_Dent_). Uniform with _Maureen’s Fairing_. -[1896]. (N.Y.: _Macmillan_). 0.75. - - “Seven stories, chiefly of a light and humorous kind, very - tender in their portrayal of the hearts of the poor. There - is a touching sketch of child-life and a police-court - comedy.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ FROM THE EAST UNTO THE WEST. Pp. 342. (_Methuen_). 1_s._ 8vo. Cloth. -First ed., 1898; new ed., 1905. - - The first six of this collection of fifteen stories are tales - of foreign lands—Arabia, Greece, and others. The remainder deal - with Irish peasant life. They tell of the romance and pathos - that is hidden in lives that seem most commonplace. “The Field - of the Frightful Beasts” is a pretty little story of childish - fancies. “An Advance Sheet” is weird and has a tragic ending. - -⸺ FROM THE LAND OF THE SHAMROCK. Pp. 318. (_Methuen_). 5_s._ (N.Y.: -_Pratt_). 1.75. 1900. (N.Y.: _Dodd & Mead_). 1.50. - - Fourteen stories, some humorous, some pathetic, including some - of the author’s best work. There is the usual sympathetic - insight into the eccentricities and queernesses of the minds - of the peasant class, but little about the higher spiritual - qualities of the people, for that is not the author’s province. - Among the most amusing of the sketches is that which tells the - doings of a young harum-scarum, the terror of his elders. - -⸺ THE FOUNDING OF FORTUNES. Pp. 335. (_Methuen_). 1_s._ Cloth. 8vo. -[1902]. New ed. 1906. - - The tale of how Timothy Galvin, a ragged urchin living in - a mud cabin and remarkable only for general dishonesty and - shrewd selfishness, is given a start in life by an ill-gotten - purse, and rises by his mother wit to wealth. The study of the - despicable character of the parvenu is clever and unsparing. - Other types are introduced, the landlord of the old type, - and two reforming landlords, who appear also in _Kerrigan’s - Quality_. The book displays Jane Barlow’s qualities to the full. - -⸺ BY BEACH AND BOGLAND. Pp. 301. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ One Illustr. -1905. - - Seventeen stories up to the level of the author’s best, the - usual vein of quiet humour, the pathos that is never mawkish, - the perfect accuracy of the conversations, and the faithful - portrayal of characteristics. The study in “A Money-crop - at Lisconnell,” of the struggle between the Widow M’Gurk’s - deep-rooted Celtic pride and her kind heart, is most amusing. - As usual, there are delightful portraits of children. - -⸺ IRISH NEIGHBOURS. Pp. 342. (_Hutchinson_). 1907. - - Seventeen stories of Irish life, chiefly among the peasantry. - They have all Miss Barlow’s wonted sympathy and insight, her - quiet humour and cheerful outlook. - -⸺ IRISH WAYS. Pp. 262. (_George Allen_). 15_s._ Sq. demy 8vo. Sixteen -Illustr. in colour. Headpieces to chapters. 1909. - - Chapter I., “Ourselves and Our Island,” gives the author’s - thoughts about Ireland, its outward aspect, the peculiarities - of its social life, its soul. It includes an exquisite - pen-picture of Irish landscape beauty. The remaining fourteen - sketches are “chapters from the history of some Irish country - folk,” whom she describes as “social, pleasure-loving, - keen-witted,” but “prone to melancholy and mysticism.” The last - sketch is a picture, almost photographic in its fidelity, of - a little out-of-the-way country town and its neighbourhood. - The illustrations are pretty, and the artist, who, unlike many - illustrators of Irish books, has evidently been in Ireland, has - made a great effort to include in his pictures as much local - colour as possible. Yet it seems to us that un-Irish traits - often intrude themselves despite him. - -⸺ FLAWS. Pp. 344. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Embroidered upon an exceptionally involved plot—four times we - are introduced to a wholly new set of characters—we have the - author’s usual qualities, minute observation and depiction of - curious aspects of character, snatches of clever picturesque - conversation, an occasional vivid glimpse of nature. But in - this case the caste is made up of spiteful, petty, small-minded - and generally disagreeable personages. They are nearly all - drawn from the middle and upper classes in the South of - Ireland, Protestant and Anglicized. The snobbishness, petty - jealousies, selfishness of some of these people is set forth - in a vein of satire. The incidents include an unusually tragic - suicide. - -⸺ MAC’S ADVENTURES. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Eight stories in which Mac, or rather Macartney Valentine - O’Neill Barry, who is four years old in the first and six in - the last, plays a leading part. Indeed he is quite a little - _deus ex machina_, or rather a good fairy in the affairs of his - elders. Mac is neither a paragon nor a youthful prodigy. He - is just a natural child, with a child’s love of mischief and - “grubbiness,” and full of quaint sayings. Bright and genial in - tone.—(_Press Notices_). - -⸺ DOINGS AND DEALINGS. Pp. 314. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1913. - - Thirteen stories, all but one (the longest) dealing with - peasant life in the author’s wonted manner. Perhaps scarcely so - good as some of her earlier collections. - -⸺ A CREEL OF IRISH STORIES. (_Methuen_). 1_s._ Cloth. 8vo. (N.Y.: _Dodd & -Mead_). 1.25. - - The first of these, “The Keys of the Chest,” is a curious - and original conception, showing with what strange notions a - child grew up in a lonely mansion by the sea. The story of the - suicide is a gem of story-telling. “Three Pint Measures” is a - comic sketch of low Dublin life. - -⸺ ANOTHER CREEL OF IRISH STORIES. Published, I believe, in U.S.A. (On -sale by _Pratt_: N.Y.). 1.75. - - -=[BARRETT, J. G.], “Erigena.”= - -⸺ EVELYN CLARE; or, The Wrecked Homesteads. Pp. viii. + 274. (DERBY: -_Richardson_). 1870. - - “An Irish story of love and landlordism.” Crude melodrama with - all the usual accessories—a landlord, “Lord Ironhoof,” and an - agent, “Gore”—eviction, agrarian murders, a disguised priest, - and secret Mass, a poteen still, an elopement, a changeling - brought up in wealth, a lover supposed drowned, and an innocent - man unjustly convicted. No sense of reality. Scene: West of - Ireland, _c._ 1850. Several anachronisms. - - -=BARRINGTON, F. Clinton.= - -⸺ FITZ-HERN; or, The Irish Patriot Chief. Pp. 122. (GLASGOW: _Cameron & -Ferguson_). _n.d._ - - Scene: Galway Bay. Crude melodrama, without historical - significance. Wicked married bishops, scheming foreign monks, - and coarse fat friars are the villains of the piece. But - the hero, a smuggler of noble birth, always escapes from - their clutches, and finally marries the heroine. Specimen of - dialect:—“Arrah, gorrah, avic, father John, it’s the Pope o’ - Rome ye bate, out and out.” (p. 13). - - -=BARRON, Percy.= - -⸺ THE HATE FLAME. Pp. 382. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ 1908. - - The story of a noble life wrecked by racial hatred. The hero, - a young Englishman, Jack Bullen, fights a duel, in Heidelberg, - with an Irish student, and kills him. This deed comes in after - years between him and the Irish girl (cousin of the slain - student, and pledged against her will to vengeance by his - father) whom he was to marry—and this through the plotting of - her rejected lover and a priest. Bullen had, for the upraising - of the Irish people, started a great peat factory in Ireland, - and it had prospered. This work is wrecked by the same agency - that ruins his private happiness. Throughout the book the - Author attacks all the cherished ideas of Irish Nationalism and - of the present Irish revival, and sets over against them the - ideals of England and his personal views. Much bitterness is - shown against the priests of Ireland. The scene-painting and - the handling of situation and of narrative are very clever. - There is nothing objectionable from a moral point of view. - - -=BARRY, Canon William, D.D.= Born in London, 1849. Educated at -Oscott and Rome. He is a man of very wide learning, a theologian and -a man-of-letters, known in literature both by his novels (_The New -Antigone_, &c.) and by important historical and religious works. Is now -Rector of St. Peter’s, Leamington. - -⸺ THE WIZARD’S KNOT. Pp. 376. (_Unwin_). 6_s._ Second ed. (N.Y.: -_Pratt_). 3.00. 1900. - - Dedicated to Douglas Hyde and Standish Hayes O’Grady. Scene: - coast of South-west Cork during famine times, of which some - glimpses are shown. There is a slight embroidery of Irish - legend and a good deal about superstition, but the incidents, - characters, and conversations have little, if any, relation - to real life in Ireland. It is mainly a study of primitive - passions. It might be described as a dream of a peculiarly - “creepy” and morbid kind. It is wholly unlike the Author’s _New - Antigone_. - - -=BAYNE, Marie.= - -⸺ FAIRY STORIES FROM ERIN’S ISLE. Pp. 131. (_Sands_). 2_s._ 6_d._ net. -Illustr. by Mabel Dawson and John Petts. 1908. - - Pretty and attractive picture-cover. Six little stories told - in pretty, poetic style, one about a fairy changeling, another - about the mermaids. The “Luck of the Griddle Darner” is in - pleasant swinging verse. So is the “Sleep of Earl Garrett.” - Though intended for small children, none of the stories are - silly. - - -=BENNETT, Louie.= Born in Dublin, educated there by private tuition and -in London. Has done some journalistic work, but is chiefly interested -in social questions, in particular the woman’s movement and pacifism. -Resides near Bray, Co. Wicklow. - -⸺ THE PROVING OF PRISCILLA. Pp. 303. (_Harper_). 1902. - - Scene: varies between Mayo and Dublin. Story of an ill-assorted - marriage. The wife, daughter of a Protestant rector, is a - Puritan of the best type, simple, religious, and sincere. The - husband is a fast man of fashion, who cannot understand her - “prejudices.” After much bickering they part. Troubles fall on - both. In the end his illness brings them together again—each - grown more tolerant. Quiet and simply but well written, with - nothing objectionable in the treatment. - -⸺ PRISONER OF HIS WORD, A. Pp. 240. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ Handsome cover. -1908. New edition. 1s. 1914. - - “A tale of real happenings” (sub-title). Opens at Ballynahinch, - Co. Down, in June, 1797. A pleasant, exciting romance, written - in vigorous and nervous style. A young Englishman joins - the Northern rebellion. He pledges himself to avenge his - friend taken after the fight at Ballynahinch, and hanged as - a rebel. The story tells how he carries out the pledge. The - only historical character introduced is Thomas Russell. His - pitiful failure in 1803 to raise another rebellion in Ulster is - related. The little heroine, Kate Maxwell, is finely drawn. - - -=BERENS, Mrs. E. M.= - -⸺ STEADFAST UNTO DEATH. Pp. 275. (_Remington_). Frontisp. by Fairfield. -1880. - - “A tale of the Irish famine of to-day.” Period: 1879-80. Place: - Ballinaveen, not far from Cork. Black Hugh, a kind of outlaw - of the mountains is the hero. He had loved Mrs. Sullivan - before she married the drunken, worthless Pat. He promises her - when she is on her deathbed to care for the children she is - leaving, and the worthless husband. Hugh takes the blame of the - latter’s crime, and is hanged in Dublin. The family is rescued - by benevolent English people. A well-told, but very sad story. - The people’s miseries are feelingly depicted. Standpoint of a - kind-hearted Englishwoman who pities, but does not in the least - understand Ireland. - - -=BERTHET, Elie.= - -⸺ DERNIER IRLANDAIS, LE. Three Vols. 16mo. (BRUXELLES: _Meline_). 1851. - - Ireland in the eighteen forties. Abortive rising under one of - the O’Byrnes of Wicklow (_Le dernier Irlandais_). O’Connell - looms in the background as the opponent of all this. The - rebellion, which at once fizzles out, is the result of an - insult to O’Byrne’s sister by a _roué_ named Clinton. O’B. - flies to Cunnemara (_sic_) with Nelly Avondale, daughter of the - landlord of Glendalough, is besieged there in a fortress. Nelly - returns to marry the above-mentioned _roué_ and O’B. flies. - The Author is evidently not consciously hostile to Ireland, - but he is totally ignorant of it. The peasants are travestied. - They are all drunkards, slovenly, sly, mean, lawless. Some - descriptions of scenery in Wicklow and Connemara. - - -=BERTHOLDS, Mrs. W. M.= - -⸺ CONNOR D’ARCY’S STRUGGLES. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 2_s._ 1914. - - -=BESTE, Henry Digby, 1768-1836.= Son of the prebendary of Lincoln. Became -a Catholic 1798. An interesting biographical sketch of him (largely -autobiographical) is prefixed to the novel here noticed. It includes a -full account of his conversion. - -⸺ POVERTY AND THE BARONET’S FAMILY: An Irish Catholic Novel. Pp. xxxii. + -415. (LONDON: _Jones_). 1845. - - Bryan O’Meara, son of a poor Irish migratory labourer, is - educated as a gentleman by Sir Cecil Foxglove, of Denham, - near Grantham, in gratitude for the rescue of his child by - Bryan’s father. Coming to man’s estate, and being refused by - the Baronet’s daughter he returns to his father’s people at - Athlone, where for some time he plays at being a farmer’s - lad—and at rebellion. But a fortunate chance puts great - wealth into his hands, and he returns to marry the Baronet’s - daughter. Interesting glimpses of Catholic life in penal days - (the story opens in 1805) when Catholicism was at the lowest - ebb in England. The DUBLIN REVIEW says (1848, Vol. xxiv., p. - 239): “The hero is a pious pedant, a truculent fellow, and a - self-conceited proser. The story itself is purposeless; bitter - in sentiment, and swamped in never-ending small-talk.” The - “small-talk,” however is, if anything, over-serious and moral. - - -=“BIRMINGHAM, George A.”= Rev. James Owen Hannay, M.A., Canon of St. -Patrick’s Cathedral (1912). Born 1865, son of Rev. Robert Hannay, vicar -of Belfast. Educated at Temple Grove, East Sheen; Haileybury; T.C.D. -Curate of Delgany, Co. Wicklow. Rector of Westport, 1892-1913. Has -resigned this cure in order to devote himself to literature. Is a member -of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland. He has shown himself -equally at home in political satire, humorous fiction and historical -fiction. He is in sympathy with the ideals of the Gaelic League, and -has actively shown this sympathy. He seems on the whole Nationalist in -his views, but has nothing in common with the Parliamentary Party. His -earlier books showed strong aversion for the Catholic Church, but, except -perhaps in _Hyacinth_, he has never striven to represent it in an odious -light, and he is an enemy of all intolerance. - -⸺ THE SEETHING POT. Pp. 299. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Main theme: the apparently hopeless embroilment of politics - and ideas in Ireland. Many aspects of Irish questions and - conditions of life are dealt with. Many of the characters are - types of contemporary Irish life, some are thinly disguised - portraits of contemporary Irishmen, _e.g._, Dennis Browne, - poet, æsthete, egoist; Desmond O’Hara, journalistic freelance - (said to be modelled on Standish O’Grady); Sir Gerald - Geoghegan, nationalist landlord; John O’Neill, the Irish - leader, who is deserted by his party and ruined by clerical - influence; and many others. All this is woven into a romance - with a love interest and a good deal of incident. - -⸺ HYACINTH. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1906. - - An account, conveyed by means of a slight plot, of contemporary - movements and personages in Ireland. Most of these are - satirized and even caricatured, especially “Robeen” Convent, by - which seemed to be meant Foxford Mills, directed by the Sisters - of Charity (see NEW IRELAND REVIEW, March, 1906). A grasping, - unscrupulous selfishness is represented to be one of the chief - characteristics of the Catholic Church in Ireland. - -⸺ THE BAD TIMES. Pp. 312. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1907]. New edition, 1_s._ -1914. - - Period: chiefly Isaac Butt’s Home Rule movement. Stephen - Butler, representative of a landlord family of strong - Nationalist sympathies, determines to work for Ireland. He - joins the Home Rule Party, but he hates agrarian outrage, and - so, through the Land League, becomes unpopular in his district - in spite of all he has done. The author introduces types of - nearly every class of men then influential in Ireland: a priest - who favours and a priest who opposes the new agrarian movement, - an incurably narrow-minded English R.M., an old Fenian, and so - on. The impression one draws from the whole is much the same - as that of the _Seething Pot_. The Author’s views are strongly - National, and there is no bitter word against any class of - Irishmen, _except_ the present Parliamentary Party. - -⸺ BENEDICT KAVANAGH. Pp. 324. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1907. - - Dedication in Irish. Foreword in which the Author states that - by “Robeen” Convent he did not intend Foxford (cf. _Hyacinth_). - A criticism of Irish political life, free from rancour, and - from injustice to any particular class of Irishmen, showing - strong sympathy for the Gaelic League, and all it stands for. - The hero is left at the parting of the ways, with the choice - before him of “respectability” and ease, or work for Ireland. - The book should set people asking why is it that Irishmen—no - matter what their creed or politics—cannot work together for - their common country? - -⸺ THE NORTHERN IRON. Pp. 320. (_Maunsel_). Bound in Irish linen. 1907. -New ed. at 1_s._, 1909. Cheap ed. (_Everett_), 7_d._, 1912. - - Scene: Antrim; a few incidents of the rising woven into a - thrilling and powerful romance. Splendid portraits—the United - Irishmen James Hope, Felix Matier, and Micah Ward, the loyal - Lord Dunseverick, chivalrous and fearless, Finlay the Informer, - and others. Vivid presentment of the feelings and ideas of - the time, without undue bias, yet enlisting all the reader’s - sympathies on the side of Ireland. - -⸺ SPANISH GOLD. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1908. Cheap ed., 1_s._ (N.Y.: -_Doran_). 1.20. - - A comedy of Irish life, full of the most amusing situations. - Scene: a lonely island off the coast of Connaught, in which - treasure is hidden. The action consists of the adventures of - various people who come to the island—an Irish chief secretary, - a retired colonel, a baronet, a librarian, a Catholic priest, - and a Protestant curate. This last, the Rev. J. J. Meldon, is - a most original creation. There are touches of social satire - throughout, but without bitterness or offensiveness. - -⸺ THE SEARCH PARTY. Pp. 316. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1909. (N.Y.: _Doran_). -1.20. - - “How a mad Anarchist made bombs in a lonely house on the west - coast of Ireland, and imprisoned the local doctor for fear lest - he should reveal the secret. Mr. Birmingham’s irresponsible - gaiety and the knowledge of Irish character revealed in - his more serious fiction carry the farce along at a fine - pace.”—(TIMES LIT. SUPPL.). - -⸺ LALAGE’S LOVERS. Pp. 312. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Doran_). 1.20. -1911. - - The main idea—in so far as the book is serious—may be stated - thus:—How much can one young person (aetat 14 _sqq._) of - perfect candour and fearlessness do to upset the peace of - comfortable people, who are jogging along in the ruts of - convention and compromise. Lalage begins with her governess, - then tries the bench of bishops, but causes most consternation - by disturbing an election with her Association for the - Suppression of Public Lying. The whole is full of fun and - laughter. L. has been well described as “an especially - enterprising and slangy schoolboy in skirts.” - -⸺ THE MAJOR’S NIECE. Pp. 302. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Rev. J. J. Meldon in new situations. Major Kent expects from - Australia a grown-up niece, who turns out to be a naughty - little girl of ten. Mr. Meldon had made innumerable plans for - the reception and treatment of the young lady. How does he face - the new situation? There are capital minor characters—Doyle the - hotel keeper, and Father MacCormack, and the housekeeper, Mrs. - O’Halloran. - -⸺ THE SIMPKINS PLOT. Pp. 384. (_Nelson_). 2_s._ net. (N.Y.: _Doran_). -1.20. 1911. - - Scene: “Ballymoy.” Problem: how to get rid of Simpkins, a - meddlesome busybody. The interest of the plot mainly turns - on the amusing manœuvres of Rev. J. J. Meldon (the hero of - _Spanish Gold_) to marry Simpkins to a mysterious “Miss King,” - a lady supposed to be identical with a Mrs. Lorimer, recently - acquitted, against the opinion of the Judge, of the murder - of her husband. Full throughout of fun, clever talk, and - deftly sketched character study. Sabina Gallagher, Sir Gilbert - Hawksby, and Major Kent are all well done, and there is no - mistaking the nationalities. - -⸺ THE INVIOLABLE SANCTUARY. Pp. 370. (_Nelson_). 2_s._ 1912. - - How Frank Mannix comes for vacation to Rosnacree (in the - wildest west of Ireland) in all the glory and dignity of a - Haileybury prefect. How, owing to a sprained ankle, he is - obliged to spend the time sailing in the bay with Priscilla, - his fifteen-year-old madcap cousin. How various exciting - adventures follow, including the finding, in most unexpected - and comical circumstances, by a Cabinet Minister of his - daughter, who had eloped with a clergyman, and how Frank and - Priscilla were responsible for the reconciliation. Told with - all the Author’s sense of fun and _flair_ for comic situations. - But why must _all_ Irish peasants appear as liars? - -⸺ THE RED HAND OF ULSTER. Pp. 318. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ Cheap ed., -6_d._ 1912. - - How an Irish-American millionaire runs a revolution in Ireland, - sweeping into his plans the rabid Orangemen, who are in deadly - earnest, the Tory M.P. who only meant to bluff, and members of - the Irish Tory aristocracy who meant nothing in particular. - Of this class is poor Lord Kilmore, who tells the story, and - was an unwilling actor in the whole business. The book is a - mixture of shrewd satire (_e.g._, Babberley, M.P., the Dean, - and McConkey) in which all parties receive their share, and of - Gilbertian extravaganza. The _dénouement_ is both amusing and - unexpected. - -⸺ DOCTOR WHITTY. Pp. 320. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1913. - - Types and humours of a west Connaught village—the P.P., the - Protestant Rector, Colonel Beresford, Thady Glynn, proprietor - of “The Imperial Hotel,” chairman of the League, and popular - demagogue, J.P., general philosopher, and “ipse dixit” of the - village, and then the Doctor himself, genial, sociable, “all - things to all men” to an extent that gets him into fixes, and - that is not easily reconcilable with the moral order. There are - broadly comical situations from which the Doctor extricates - himself, and emerges radiant as ever. The seamy side of Irish - life is depicted in the Author’s usual vein of satire. - -⸺ GENERAL JOHN REGAN. Pp. 324. (_Hodder & Stoughton_) 6_s._ Second ed., -1913. - - A very slight plot, centering in the erection of a statue to - an imaginary native of Ballymoy. The real interest lies in the - Author’s satirical pictures of Irish life, and in his humorous - delineations of such types as Dr. O’Grady, Doyle the dishonest - hotel-keeper, Major Kent, whom we have met in _Spanish Gold_, - Thady Gallagher, the editor of the local paper, and a rather - undignified and not wholly honest P.P. The thesis, if there - be any, would seem to be that the Irishman is so clever and - humorous that he will allow himself to be gulled, and will even - gull himself for the pleasure of gulling others. - -⸺ MINNIE’S BISHOP, and Other Stories of Ireland. Pp. 320. (_Hodder & -Stoughton_). 6_s._ 1915. - - Not all of these stories deal with Ireland, and those that do - are very varied in character. Some are in the Author’s most - humorous vein, others are more serious in tone. In several he - pokes fun at Government methods in the West, and some show the - comic side of gun-running, despatch-riding, and other Volunteer - activities. In the background, at times, is a vision of the - hopeless poverty of the Western peasant’s lot. - - -=BLACK, William.= Born in Glasgow, 1841. One of the foremost of -English nineteenth century novelists. Published his first novel 1864; -thirty-three others appeared before his death in 1898, at Brighton, where -he had long resided. - -⸺ SHANDON BELLS. Pp. 428. (_Sampson, Low_). 2_s._ 6_d._ [1883]. (N.Y.: -_Harper_). 0.80. New and revised ed. 1893. - - Scene: partly in London, partly in city and county of Cork. A - young Irishman goes to London to make his fortune. Disappointed - in his first love, he turns to love of nature. The book has all - the fine qualities of W. Black’s work. Sympathetic references - to Irish life and beautiful descriptions of Irish scenery in - Cork. Willy Fitzgerald, the hero, had for prototype William - Barry, a brilliant young Corkman and a London journalist. - - -=“BLACKBURNE, E. Owens.”= Elizabeth O. B. Casey, 1848-1894. Born at -Slane, near the Boyne. Lived the first twenty-five years of her life -in Ireland; then went to London to take up journalistic work. In 1869 -her first story was accepted, and in the early seventies her _In at -the Death_ (afterwards published as _A Woman Scorned_) appeared in THE -NATION. To the end she used the pen-name “E. Owens Blackburne.” Other -works of hers were _A Modern Parrhasius_, _The Quest of the Heir_, -_Philosopher Push_, _Dean Swift’s Chest_, _The Love that Loves alway_. -“Her stories are mostly occupied with descriptions of Irish peasant life, -in which she was so thoroughly at home that she has been compared to -Carleton. They are for the most part dramatic and picturesque; and she -understood well the art of weaving a plot which should hold the reader’s -interest.”—(_Irish Lit._). - -⸺ A WOMAN SCORNED. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). [1876]. Also one Vol. -(_Moxon_). 1878. - - Out-at-elbows Irish household—upper class—brother, sister, and - young step-sister (the heroine) Katherine. Captain Fitzgerald - falls in love with Katherine. The elder sister (the woman - scorned) filled with jealousy plots to marry K. to a rich - elderly suitor. The plot miscarries, and she dies a miserable - death. Scene: near the Boyne. Some good descriptions of river - scenery. - -⸺ THE WAY WOMEN LOVE. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1877. - - Hugh O’Neill, a Donegal man, after an unsuccessful career as - an artist in London, settles near Weirford (Waterford). He has - two daughters—Moira, handsome, proud of her ancient lineage and - a poet, and Honor, plain and domestic. The story is concerned - with the loves of these two. Local society cleverly hit off. - Local newspapers and their editors come in for a good deal - of banter; several real characters, thinly disguised, being - introduced. Brogue very well done. - -⸺ A BUNCH OF SHAMROCKS. Pp. 306. (N.Y.: _Munro_: “_Seaside Library_”). -[1879]. 1883. - - A collection of tales and sketches, illustrating for the most - part the gloomier side of the national character, viewed, - apparently, from a Protestant standpoint. In one, “The Priest’s - Boy,” there is much pathos. - -⸺ MOLLY CAREW. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). _n.d._ (1879). - - A tale of the unrequited love of an Irish girl of talent, but - of humble origin, for a selfish and ruffianly English author - named Eugene Wolfe. She falls in love with him as a child and - then, in young womanhood, falls still more deeply in love with - the ideal of him which she forms from his books. Nothing can - kill or even daunt this love, and for its sake she undergoes - the supremest sacrifices, but all in vain. The two chief - characters are carefully and consistently drawn, and there are - some dramatic scenes. The action passes chiefly in London, - whither Molly Carew had followed her ideal. - -⸺ THE GLEN OF SILVER BIRCHES. Two Vols. (_Remington_). 1880. (N.Y.: -_Harper_). 1881. - - Nuala O’Donnell’s extravagant father has mortgaged his estate - in the Donegal Highlands, near Glenvich (The Glen of Silver - Birches). A scheming attorney tries to get the family into his - toils, and to marry N. The scheme is defeated, and N. marries - Thorburn, an English landlord, who has bought the neighbouring - estate. Some good characters, _e.g._, kindly old Aunt Nancy and - N.’s nationalist poet cousin. - -⸺ THE HEART OF ERIN: An Irish story of To-day. Three Vols. (N.Y.: -_Munro_: “_Seaside Library_”). [1882]. 1883. - - Standish Clinton, a clever speechmaker, raises himself to a - foremost position in Parliament. Getting into higher social - circles he breaks with his faithful Mary Shields. The mystery - of his birth is cleared up in the end, and he succeeds as - lawful heir to the family mansion of the Hardinges. The - campaign of the Land League, with which the Author is in - sympathy, forms the background. The famous letter of Dr. Nulty, - of Meath, is cited as an argument for land reform. Interesting - picture of the peasantry. - - -=BLAKE-FORSTER, Charles Ffrench.= - -⸺ A COLLECTION OF THE OLDEST AND MOST POPULAR LEGENDS OF THE PEASANTRY OF -CLARE AND GALWAY. - -⸺ THE IRISH CHIEFTAINS; or, A Struggle for the Crown. Pp. 728, demy 8vo. -(_M’Glashan & Gill_). 1872. - - An account, in the form of a tale, of the Williamite Wars, from - the landing of James II. at Kinsale to the surrender of Galway, - with all the battles and sieges (except Derry). Into this is - woven large sections of the family history of the O’Shaughnessy - and Blake-Forster clans of Co. Galway. This latter story - is carried past the Treaty of Limerick down to the final - dispossession of the O’Shaughnessys in 1770. It includes many - episodes in the history of the Irish Brigade in France and of - the history of the period at home (including the Penal Laws and - the doings of the Rapparees). A surprising amount of erudition - drawn from public and private documents is included in the - volume. The notes occupy from p. 429 to 573. An Appendix, - pp. 574 to end, contains many valuable documents, relating - largely to family history, but also to political history. The - standpoint is Jacobite and national. - - -=“BLAYNEY, Owen,” Robert White.= - -⸺ THE MACMAHON; or, The Story of the Seven Johns. Pp. x + 351. -(_Constable_). 6_s._ 1898. - - Founded on a County Monaghan tradition. Colonel MacMahon - escaping from the defeat at the Boyne entrusts his infant son - to John M’Kinley, a settler. The boy grows up, falls in love - with M’Kinley’s daughter, and after unsuccessfully pleading - his cause with the father, abducts her. M’Kinley calls to - his aid six other settlers of the name of John, pursues the - fugitives, seizes them, and hangs MacMahon on the windmill at - Carrickmacross. A powerful story giving a faithful picture of - the times. Ulster dialect good. - - -=[BLENKINSOP, A.]= - -⸺ PADDIANA; or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Past and Present. Two -Vols. (_Bentley_). [1847]. Second ed. 1848. - - By the Author (an Englishman, _see_ p. 2) of _A Hot Water - Cure_. Contents:—1. “Mr. Smith’s Irish Love.” 2. “Mick Doolan’s - Head.” 3. “Still-Hunting.” 4. “A Mystery among the Mountains.” - 5. “The Adventure of Tim Daley.” 6. “Mrs. Fogarty’s Tea - Party.” 7. “A Quiet Day at Farrellstown.” 8. “A Duel.” 9. - “Mr. H⸺.” 10. “The Old Head of Kinsale.” 11. “Barney O’Hay.” - 12. “Headbreaking.” 13. “Cads, Fools, and Beggars.” 14. “The - Mendicity Association.” 15. “The Dog-Fancier.” 16. “Dublin - Carmen.” 17. “Horses.” 18. “Priests: Catholic and Others.” - 19. “An Irish Stew.” Vol. II.—1. “Executions.” 2. “Ronayne’s - Ghost.” 3. “The Last Pigtail.” 4. “The Green Traveller.” 5. - “Larry Lynch.” 6. “Potatoes.” Then (pp. 142-275) follows “Irish - History”—scraps from various Irish annals and histories, told - in a facetious and anti-Irish spirit. All the old calumnies are - raked up and set down here. The Author concludes that the Irish - are an uncivilized people, and that their national character - is “a jumble of contradictions.” The stories are told with - considerable verve. - - -=BLESSINGTON, Countess of.= Marguerite Power, born near Clonmel, 1789, -daughter of Edmund Power and Ellen Sheehy. In 1818 she married the Earl -of Blessington, and became a leader of society in London, afterwards in -Paris, and then again in London. Wrote upwards of thirty books—novels, -travel, reminiscences, &c. Died 1849. - -⸺ THE REPEALERS; or, Grace Cassidy. (LONDON). [1833]. - - “Contains scarcely any plot and few delineations of character, - the greater part being filled with dialogues, criticisms, and - reflections. Her ladyship is sometimes sarcastic, sometimes - moral, and more frequently personal. One female sketch, that of - Grace Cassidy, a young Irish wife, shows that the Author was - most at home among the scenes of her early days.”—(_Chambers’_ - CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE). - -⸺ COUNTRY QUARTERS. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Shoberl_). [1850]. Port. Second -ed. 1852. - - In Vol. I., pp. iii.-xxiii., memoir of Author by M. A. - P. Scene: South of Ireland (descriptions of Glanmire and - references to Waterford and to the Blackwater), among county - and garrison people. There is a great deal about their - courtships and marriages, much small talk and pages of - reflections. Grace, the heroine, is loved by two officers, - friendly rivals. Mordaunt makes Vernon propose. V. is refused, - but M. is too poor to marry. However, after many vicissitudes, - Grace is united to M. Full of sentimentality. - - -=BLOOD SMITH, Miss=, _see_ =“DOROTHEA CONYERS.”= - - -=BODKIN, M. M’Donnell, K.C.=; County Court Judge of Clare since 1907. -Born 1850. Son of Dr. Bodkin, of Tuam, Co. Galway. Educated at Tullabeg -Jesuit College; Catholic University. Was for some years Nationalist -M.P. for North Roscommon. Besides works of fiction, has published an -historical work on Grattan’s Parliament. Resides in Dublin.—(WHO’S WHO). - -⸺ POTEEN PUNCH. (_Gill_). 1_s._ 1890. - - “After-dinner stories of love-making, fun, and fighting,” - supposed to be told in presence of Lord Carlisle, one of the - Viceroys, in a house at Cong, whither he had been obliged to - go, having been refused a lodging at Maam by order of Lord - Leitrim. The stories are of a very strong nationalist flavour, - some humorous, some pathetic. - -⸺ PAT O’ NINE TALES. (_Gill_). 1894. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.90. - - Stories of various kinds, all pleasantly told. The first - and longest is a pathetic tale, introducing an eviction - scene vividly described. Among other stories there is “The - Leprachaun,” humorous, and told in dialect; a “ghost” story; a - story of unlooked for evidence at a trial; a tale of Fontenoy, - &c. The last, “The Prodigal Daughter,” is, from its subject, - hardly suitable for certain classes of readers. - -⸺ LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. Pp. 415. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1896. - - The story of the earlier years of Lord Edward is woven into the - love-story of one Maurice Blake. Pictures Irish social life - at the time in a lively, vivid way. Hepenstal, the “walking - gallows,” Beresford and his riding school, the infamous - yeomanry and their doings, these are prominent in the book. The - standpoint is strongly national. “History supplies the most - romantic part of this historical romance. The main incidents - of Lord Edward’s marvellous career, even his adoption into - the Indian tribe of the Great Bear, are absolutely true. Some - liberties have, however, been taken with dates.”—(Pref.). - -⸺ THE REBELS. Pp. 358. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1899]. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. -1908. - - Sequel to _Lord Edward_. Later years of Lord Edward’s life. - Shows Castlereagh and Clare planning the rebellion. Shows us - Government bribery and dealings with informers. Some glimpses - of the fighting under Father John Murphy, also of Humbert’s - invasion and the Races of Castlebar. A stirring and vigorous - tale, strongly nationalist. - -⸺ SHILLELAGH AND SHAMROCK. (_Chatto_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1902. - - Short stories dealing mainly with the wild scenes of old - election days. Pictures of evictions and the old-time - fox-hunting, whiskey-drinking landlord. Always on the peasants’ - side. Tales full of voluble humour and “go.” The peasants’ talk - is faithfully and vividly reproduced. - -⸺ IN THE DAYS OF GOLDSMITH. Pp. 309. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1903. - - A panegyric of Goldsmith, dealing with the part of his - life spent in England. Conversations introducing Reynolds, - Beauclerk, Johnson, etc., the latter’s talk recorded with - Boswellian fidelity. A picture, too, of the life and manners of - the day drawn with such frankness as to render the book unfit - for the perusal of certain classes of readers. - -⸺ PATSY THE OMADHAUN. Pp. 260. (_Chatto_). 3_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 0.60. 1904. - - A dozen short stories, in which the village tailor recounts the - exploits of Patsy, who proves to be by no means the fool he - seems, and extricates himself and his friends from all kinds - of comical situations. All told in broadest brogue. Somewhat - farcical comicality. - -⸺ TRUE MAN AND TRAITOR. (_Duffy_). 1910. - - The career of Robert Emmet from his Trinity days to his tragic - end, told in the Author’s usual spirited fashion. Emmet is - represented as an able and practical organizer, but the story - of his love for Sarah Curran is not neglected. The historical - facts are thoroughly leavened with romance—Emmet’s perilous - voyage to France in a fishing-hooker, the detailed accounts of - his interviews with Napoleon, the character of Malachi Neelin, - the traitor: these and many other things are blended with the - narrative of real events. - - -=[BOLES, Agnes], “J. A. P.”= - -⸺ THE BELFAST BOY. Pp. 464. (_Nutt_). 5_s._ 1912. - - Opens in Belfast during the great riots of twenty-five years - ago. The hero, falsely accused of murder, flees to South - Africa, where he becomes a millionaire, and is known as “The - Belfast Boy.” The heroine, when she is going out to marry him, - omits to mention that she is leaving a son and his father (the - villain) in Belfast. These are conveniently got rid of, one by - lightning, the other by lightning-like small-pox. Several real - persons are introduced as personages in the story. Many of the - incidents are sensational, there is much dialect, and the style - in places is far from refined. An intense love for Belfast and - its surroundings pervades the book.—(_Press Notices_). - - -=BOVET, Madame.= - -⸺ TERRE D’EMERAUDE. - - -=BOWLES, Emily.= - -⸺ IRISH DIAMONDS: A Chronicle of Peterstown. Pp. 219. (_Richardson_). -1864. - - A story of landlord and tenant, of illicit distilling, and - of proselytising. A Bible reader, an agent, and the sister - of a landlord are the villains of the piece. Tone strongly - Catholic and anti-Protestant. There is a love interest and a - certain amount of adventure, which are not made subordinate - to the pictures of Souperism. In 1878 a writer in the DUBLIN - REVIEW said of it: “It has not been surpassed since it was - written.... The characters are so well drawn that even those - in barest outline are interesting and individual.... Told in - the brightest, most natural, and most quietly humorous way.” - Miss B. published more than a dozen other books, largely - translations. - - -=BOYCE, Rev. John, D.D.= [From _Inishowen and Tirconnell_, by W. J. -Doherty]. Born in Donegal, 1810. Ordained, Maynooth, 1837. Emigrated to -U.S.A., 1845. Died 1864. Besides the three novels mentioned in the body -of this work, he published lectures on the Influence of Catholicity on -the Arts and Sciences, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth, Charles -Dickens, Henry Grattan, &c. - -⸺ SHANDY MAGUIRE; or, Tricks upon Travellers. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. -[1848]. Also (_Richardson_) 1855, and _Warren_, Kilmainham, _n.d._ - - “First appeared in a Boston periodical, with the pen-name of - Paul Peppergrass. It attracted at once the attention of Bishop - Fenwick of Boston. Dr. Brownson, in his QUARTERLY REVIEW, - pronounced upon the book the highest eulogium, and assigned - to the writer a place equal if not superior to any writers of - Irish romance. _Shandy Maguire_ was recognised by the London - Press and the DUBLIN REVIEW as a work of great merit. It has - been successfully dramatized and translated into German” (from - _Inishowen and Tirconnell_, by W. J. Doherty). - -⸺ THE SPAEWIFE: or, The Queen’s Secret. [1853]. Still in print. (BOSTON: -_Marlier_). 1.50. - - Begins at Hampton Court. The facility with which Father Boyce - makes Nell Gower, the Scotch Spaewife (a woman gifted with - second sight), discourse in broad Scotch dialect, in contrast - with the stately and imperious language of Elizabeth, displays - an unusual power of transition. No finer character could - be depicted than Alice Wentworth, daughter of Sir Geoffrey - Wentworth, the representative of an old English Catholic - baronetage, who suffered persecution under Elizabeth; whilst - Roger O’Brien, attached to the Court of Mary Queen of Scots, - affords an opportunity of presenting the high-spirited and - brave qualities that ought to belong to an Irish gentleman. - Elizabeth appears in anything but a favourable light. - -⸺ MARY LEE; or, The Yankee in Ireland. (U.S.A.). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. -(BALTIMORE: _Kelly & Piet_). 1864. Pp. 391. Frontisp. by J. Harley. - - The last story written by this Author, for whom see General - Note. It is considered to display an intimate knowledge of - Irish character and to contain an excellent description of the - typical Yankee. The scene is Donegal. Time 185-. - - -=BOYLE, William.= Born in Dromiskin, Co. Louth, 1853; educated St. Mary’s -College, Dundalk. Has written many poems, songs, and plays, including -some of the best of modern Irish comedies. The atmosphere of his stories -is thoroughly Irish and their humour and pathos are genuine. - -⸺ A KISH OF BROGUES. (_O’Donoghue_). Pp. 252. 2_s._ 6_d._ 1899. - - The humour and pathos of country life, Co. Louth. The Author - knows the people thoroughly, and understands them. There is - much very faithful character-drawing of many Irish peasant - types and a few good poems. - - -=BOYSE, E. C.= - -⸺ THAT MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY. Three Vols. (_F. V. White_). 1886. - - A tale of love and marriage. Scene: first in Wexford, opening - with pleasant pictures of country-house life and merry-making. - Then there is an account of some minor incidents of the - rebellion, viewed from loyalist standpoint, with insistence on - savage cruelty of rebels. Then the scene shifts to London, and - thence to Dublin, where we have pictures of life in military - society. Finally, the scene is transferred to Tuam, where word - is brought of Humbert’s campaign in the West. Pleasant style, - but the conversations, full of chaff and nonsense, are long - drawn out. Author says in preface that the incidents are taken - from private letters or accounts of eye-witnesses. - - -=BRAY, Lady.= - -⸺ EVE’S PARADISE. (_Wells, Gardner_). 6_s._ Etched frontispiece and -title-page. - - “Lady B.’s descriptions of child life are admirable, - well-observed, and cleverly done.”—(PALL MALL GAZETTE). - -⸺ A TROUBLESOME TRIO; or, Grandfather’s Wife. (_Wells, Gardner_). 2_s._ -6_d._ Second ed. - - -=BRERETON, F. S.= - -⸺ IN THE KING’S SERVICE. Pp. 352. (_Blackie_). Attractive cover. Eight -Illustr. by Stanley L. Wood. (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 1.50. _n.d._ (1901). - - Exciting adventures, abounding in dramatic climaxes, of an - English cavalier during Cromwell’s Irish campaign. Chief scenes - of latter described from English cavalier standpoint. Burlesque - brogue. Juvenile. - - -=BREW, Margaret W.= Wrote much for the IRISH MONTHLY and other Irish -periodicals. - -⸺ THE BURTONS OF DUNROE. Three Vols. Pp. 934. (_Tinsley_). 1880. - - Scene: Munster _c._ 1810, also Dublin and (in third vol.) - Spain, when the hero, William Burton, takes part in the - Peninsular War. Robert marries beneath him, and is disinherited - by disappointed father, who had meant him for his cousin - Isabella. Rose, Robert’s wife dies. Robert goes to the wars, - and returns covered with glory to marry Isabel and settle down - in respectable prosperity. Conventional and a little dull. Much - brogue as comic relief to the prevailing appeal to the tender - feelings. - -⸺ CHRONICLES OF CASTLE CLOYNE. Three Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1886. - - Highly praised by the TIMES, the STANDARD, the MORNING POST, - the SCOTSMAN, &c., &c. The IRISH MONTHLY says: “It is an - excellent Irish tale, full of truth and sympathy, without - any harsh caricaturing on the one hand, or any patronizing - sentimentality on the other. The heroine, Oonagh M’Dermott, the - Dillons, Pat Flanagan, and Father Rafferty are the principal - personages, all excellent portraits in their way; and some of - the minor characters are very happily drawn. The conversation - of the humbler people is full of wit and common sense; and - the changes of the story give room for pathos sometimes - as a contrast to the humour which predominates. Miss Brew - understands well the Irish heart and language; and altogether - her “Pictures of Munster Life” (for this is the second title - of the tale) is one of the most satisfactory additions to the - store of Irish fiction from _Castle Rackrent_ to _Marcella - Grace_.” - - -=[BRITTAINE, Rev. George].= Was Rector of Kilcormack, Diocese of Ardagh. -Died in Dublin, 1847. The ATHENÆUM of December 14, 1839, said of the -first three works mentioned below: “The sad trash which is here put -forward as a portraiture of the social condition of the Irish peasantry -needs no refutation; in his ardour to calumniate, the Author has -forgotten that there are limits to possibility, and that when they are -overstepped the intended effect of the libel is lost in its absurdity.” -All this writer’s books seem to have appeared anonymously. - -⸺ CONFESSIONS OF HONOR DELANY. Pp. 86. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 1_s._ 6_d._ -[1830]. Third ed., 1839. - - She admits getting a pension as a reward for “turning.” - -⸺ IRISH PRIESTS AND ENGLISH LANDLORDS. Pp. 249. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). [1830]. -Second ed., 1839; others 1871, 1879. - - “By the author of _Hyacinth O’Gara_.” A priest has authority - from a bishop to marry a girl to a man against her will. She - refuses, and subsequently dies—a martyr for the Protestant - faith. - -⸺ RECOLLECTIONS OF HYACINTH O’GARA. Pp. 64. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 6_d_. Fifth -ed., 1839. - - The above three books were originally written by Rev. Geo. - Brittaine, Rector of Kilcormack, Co. Limerick. They were - “re-written and completely revised” by Rev. H. Seddall, Vicar - of Dunany, Co. Louth, and published by Hunt, London, 1871. - They are frankly proselytising tales designed “to give a - true picture of the Irish peasantry, and how priestcraft has - wound itself into all their concerns.” (Pref.) The peasantry - are represented as exceedingly debased, the priesthood as - conscienceless and selfish tyrants. Religion is practically the - sole theme throughout. There is practically no reference to - contemporary questions. One reviewer says: “There is nothing - more graphic in all the pages of _The Absentee_, or _Castle - Rackrent_ than the account of Kit M’Royster’s disclosures to - his brother, the Popish Bishop, about the heretical purity - of their niece; or the description of Priest Moloney’s - oratory about the offerings at the funeral of old Mrs. - O’Brien.”—CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. - -⸺ IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN. Pp. 219. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 1831. - -⸺ JOHNNY DERRIVAN’S TRAVELS. Pp. 36. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 6_d._ [1833]. -Second ed., 1839. - - Not religious in subject. Deals with Irish amusements, - drinking, &c. - -⸺ MOTHERS AND SONS. Pp. 297. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 1833. - - A lady turns Methodist at the age of 44. The Author thereby - takes occasion to condemn dyed hair and wigs, and many other - things. The story includes a murder of which a Curate is the - victim. The murderer dies howling for the priest. - -⸺ NURSE M’VOURNEEN. Pp. 33. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). Second ed., _c._ 1839. - -⸺ THE ELECTION. Pp. 331. (DUBLIN: _Tims_). 1840. - - Election manœuvres described. There is a murder in the story. - Tone very anti-Catholic. - - -=[BRONTE, Rev. Patrick, B.A.].= 1777-1861. A county Down man, father of -the famous novelists. - -⸺ THE MAID OF KILLARNEY; or, Albion and Flora. Pp. 166. (_Baldwin_). -[1818]. 1898. - - Albion, an Englishman, visits Killarney, and falls in love with - Flora Loughlean. The tale exhibits the anti-Catholic bias of - the time. - - -=BROOKE, Richard Sinclair, D.D.= (1802-1882). Incumbent of Mariners’ -Church, Kingstown, afterwards Rector of Eyton. Published several volumes -of verse and prose. Father of Stopford Brooke. - -⸺ THE STORY OF PARSON ANNALY. Pp. 429. (_Drought_). 1870. - - A long, rather involved story, in part reprinted from DUBLIN - UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. It contains some excellent descriptions of - Donegal scenery—Glenveagh and Barnesmore. - - -=BROPHY, Michael=, ex-Sergeant, R.I.C. - -⸺ TALES OF THE ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY. Pp. xx. + 192. (DUBLIN: _Bernard -Doyle_). 2_s._ [1888]. 1896. - - Intended as the first volume of a series. Introduction gives - a condensed history of the Force. This is followed by a long - story founded on facts—“The Lord of Kilrush, Fate of Marion, - and Last Vicissitudes of Lord Edward Fitzgerald’s Estate.” This - tells how Sub-Constable Butler, a real “character,” bought in - the Encumbered Estates Court the property of Lord Edward near - the Curragh of Kildare, but was subsequently dispossessed—a - curious tale, containing much out-of-the-way information, - including an enquiry into the parentage of Pamela. Then follow - “Episodes of ’48” (Ballingarry, &c.), and “The Story of a - Sword,” (8 pp.) Sub-Constable Butler and Sub-Inspector Tom - Trant are amusing personages. - - -=BROWN, Rev. J. Irwin.= Minister of the Scottish Church in Rotterdam, and -son of Rev. Dr. Brown, of Drumachose, Derry, in his time a well-known -public speaker, and a defender of the Irish tenant farmers. - -⸺ IRELAND: Its Humour and Pathos. (ROTTERDAM: _J. M. Bredee_). 1910. - - The book contains some racy stories, and is bright and readable - throughout.—I.B.L. - - -=BRUEYRE, Loys.= Born in Paris, 1835. A French folk-lorist, -Vice-President of the _Société des Traditions Populaires_. A frequent -contributor to French folk-lore periodicals. - -⸺ CONTES POPULAIRES DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE. Pp. 382. (PARIS: _Hachette_). - - Contains 100 tales. A very few are English (chiefly Cornish), - none are Welsh. The majority are Scotch (largely from - Campbell’s collection) but there are a good many Irish, taken - from Croker and Kennedy. The book is entirely in French. - - -=BUCHANAN, Robert=, 1841-1901. Born in Staffordshire, son of Robert -B., “Socialist, Missionary, and Journalist.” Educated at Glasgow. -Published many volumes of poetry and several plays, among others a -dramatised version of Harriett Jay’s _Queen of Connaught_ (_q.v._). In -1876 published his first novel—_The Shadow of the Sword_. Many others -followed. In 1874 he settled at Rosspoint, Co. Mayo, but left Ireland in -1877. _Father Anthony_ was written during this period, but not published -till later. _See_ the notice in D.N.B., and the LIFE, published in 1903, -by Harriet Jay, his adopted daughter. - -⸺ FATHER ANTHONY. (_Long_). 6_s._ Sixteen illustr. Many editions. 1903. -New edition, 6_d._ 1911. - - Scene: a country village in the West of Ireland. Father Anthony - is a young priest, who for his brother’s sake has sacrificed - a career in the world to devote himself to God’s poor. He - finds himself called upon in virtue of his sacred office to - keep the secret of the confessional when by a word he could - save his brother from the hangman’s hands. The pathos of the - young priest’s agony of mind is depicted with great power and - sympathy. The other priest, Father John, is drawn as the true - parish priest of the old type, blood and bone of the people, - jovial, homely, lovable and beloved. The Author, though alien - in faith and race, tells us that he knew intimately and loved - both priests and people during his stay in Ireland. - -⸺ THE PEEP-O’-DAY BOY: A Romance of ’98. (_Dicks_). 6_d._ _n.d._ - - A conventional sensational tale, little above the “shilling - shocker,” with oath-bound societies meeting in under-ground - caverns, abductions, informers, an absentee landlord, the - Earl of Dromore, whose daughter loves the expatriated owner, - The O’Connormore, and soforth. The three chapters on the - insurrection are from Cassell’s _History of Ireland_. The story - is scarcely worthy of this Author. - - -=BUCKLEY, William.= Born in Cork, and educated there at St. Vincent’s -Seminary and the Queen’s College. His first literary work appeared in -MACMILLAN’S MAGAZINE. Resides in Dublin. - -⸺ CROPPIES LIE DOWN. Pp. 511. (_Duckworth_). 6_s._ 1903. - - Scene: Wexford, the year of the rising. The Author banishes - all romance and artistic glamour, and deals with the horrors - of the time in a spirit of relentless realism. Quite apart - from historical interest, the book is thrilling as a story of - adventure. The tone is impartial, but the writer clearly means - the events and scenes described to tell for the Irish side. - The NEW IRELAND REVIEW says that “it sketches the origin - and course of the Wexford insurrection with a conscientious - accuracy which would do credit to a professed historian”; and - it praises the Author’s “exceptional literary ability” and the - “intense reality of his characters.” “Rather more than justice - is done to the English authorities (_e.g._, Castlereagh), - to the Irish Protestants, and even to the government - spies.”—(_Baker_, 2). - -⸺ CAMBIA CARTY AND OTHER STORIES. Pp. 230. (_Maunsel_). 1_s._ 1907. - - Close descriptions of lower and middle classes in modern - Youghal. In places will be unpleasant reading for the people - of Youghal. Picture of Cork snobbery decidedly unfavourable to - Cork people, and on the whole disagreeable and sordid. - - -=BUGGE, Alexander=, Professor in University of Christiania, ed. - -⸺ CATHREIM CELLACHAIN CAISIL: The Victorious Career of Cellachain of -Cashel. Pp. xix. + 171. (_Christiania_). 1905. - - The original Irish text, from the Book of Lismore, is edited in - a scholarly way and accompanied with an English translation, - notes, and index. There is an interesting introduction. It is a - story of the struggles of Cellachan and the Danes in the tenth - century. - - -=BULLOCK, Shan F.= Born Co. Fermanagh, 1865. Son of a Protestant -landowner on Lough Erne. Depicts with vigour and truth the country -where the Protestant North meets the Catholic and almost Irish-speaking -West. There is at times a curious dreariness in his outlook which mars -his popularity. But his work is “extraordinarily sincere, and at times -touched with a singular pathos and beauty.... He writes always with -evident passion for the beauty of his country, and an almost pathetic -desire to assimilate, as it were, national ideals, of which one yet -perceives him a little incredulous.”—(_Stephen Gwynn_). - -⸺ THE AWKWARD SQUADS. (_Cassell_). 5_s._ 1893. - - The Author’s first book. Has all the qualities for which his - subsequent books are remarkable. It is a study of the people - of his native country—the borders of Cavan and Fermanagh—their - political ideas, general outlook, humours and failings, - their peculiar dialect and turns of thought. Four stories in - all:—“The title story,” “The White Terror,” “A State Official,” - “One of the Unfortunates.” - -⸺ BY THRASNA RIVER. Pp. 403. (_Ward, Lock)_. 6_s._ Illustr. 1895. - - The experiences of two lads on an Ulster farm in the district - where the Author lays nearly all his scenes. There are many - clever studies of peasant types. The hero is an Englishman, an - amusing character. The story of his unsuccessful love-affair - with the “Poppy Charmer” is told by one of the lads familiar - to us as Jan Farmer. There is no approach to anything - objectionable in the book. Chapter XXI., “Our Distressful - Country,” is good reading. - -⸺ RING O’ RUSHES. Pp. 195. (_Ward, Lock_). 1_s._ 6_d._ (CHICAGO: -_Stone_). 1.00. 1896. - - A cycle of eleven stories dealing with various aspects of - Ulster life in the neighbourhood of Lough Erne. In “His - Magnificence” an enriched peasant returns to his native - village and tries to show off his grandeur. “Her Soger Boy” - recounts a mother’s innocent fraud and her soldier lad’s savage - retaliation.—(_Baker_, 2). - -⸺ THE BARRYS. Pp. 422. (_Methuen_). 1_s._ Full-sized cloth. 1899. (N.Y.: -_Doubleday_). 1.25. - - Book I. has its scene on Innishrath, an island in Lough Erne. - Frank Barry, on a visit from London to his uncle, betrays a - peasant girl named Nan. In Book II. we find Nan in London. She - discovers Frank’s treachery. So does Frank’s wife, and the - nemesis of his deeds overtakes him. But Nan finds consolation - with her still faithful lover, Ted. A study in temperaments. - -⸺ IRISH PASTORALS. Pp. 308. (_Grant Richards_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _McClure_). -1.50. 1901. - - A series of pictures—the Planters, the Turf-cutters, the - Mowers, the Haymakers, the Reapers, the Diggers, &c.—forming - an almost complete view of life among the rural classes in - Co. Cavan. These pictures are the setting for country idylls, - humorous, pathetic, or tragic. In all there is the actuality, - the minute fidelity that can be attained only by one who has - lived the life he describes and has the closest personal - sympathy with the people. The descriptions of natural scenes, - the weather, &c., are admirable. - -⸺ THE SQUIREEN. Pp. 288. (_Methuen_). 1_s._ Cloth, full-sized. (N.Y.: -_McClure_). 1.50. 1903. - - A study of Ulster marriage customs. Jane Fallon is practically - sold to the Squireen by her family, and, after long resistance, - yields, and marries him. Tragic consequences follow. Most of - the characters are Ulster Protestant peasants. “The Squireen” - is a study of the old type of fox-hunting gentleman-farmer. - -⸺ THE RED LEAGUERS. Pp. 315. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.75. -1904. - - Scenes from an imaginary rebellion in Ireland, purporting to - be related by a Protestant who has sided with the rebels and - captains the men of Armoy, a barony a little to the north of - the Woodford River (the Thrasna of the story), which enters - Lough Erne about two miles to the west of where the River Erne - flows into the same. England having left Ireland almost without - a garrison, the Protestants are all (except in a few places) - killed or taken, the Irish Republic triumphs. Then the country - gives itself up to an orgy of thoughtless rejoicing and more - or less drunken revelling. In “a handful of weeks” the “land - is hungry, wasted, lawless, disorganized, an Ireland gone - to wrack.” The story closes with the news of English troops - landing in Cork and Derry and Dublin. The author does not write - simply from the standpoint of the dominant class, much less is - he merely anti-Catholic and anti-Irish. He merely lacks faith - in the wisdom and staying power of Irish character. He tries to - show the actualities of the rebellion in their naked realism, - eschewing all romance. He succeeds in being strangely vivid and - realistic without apparent effort. Of the leaders on the Irish - side one is a coward and a swaggerer, another is bloodthirsty, - all are selfish and vulgar. The heroes are in the opposite camp. - - N.B.—The scene of this story is also the scene of the Author’s - other North of Ireland studies and sketches. - -⸺ THE CUBS. Pp. 349. (_Werner Laurie_). 6_s._ 1906. - - A story of life in an Irish school, recognized by old - schoolfellows of the Author as bearing a strong resemblance - to the Author’s old school of Farra, near Mullingar. It is - naturally thought to be partly autobiographical. It is the - history of a great friendship. It includes also some scenes of - home life. - -⸺ DAN THE DOLLAR. (_Maunsel_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1906]. New edition. 1908. - - A study of national character and of human nature in which - the touch is delicate, sure, and true. The whole study is - concentrated on five persons. First there is the picture of - the neglected farm of the happy, easy-going Felix. His wife - is a contrast with him in all, yet they agree perfectly. - Then there is Mary Troy, a Catholic girl living with them, a - beautifully-drawn character, and Felim, the dreamer of dreams. - Into their lives suddenly comes Dan, who after years of hard, - sordid striving in the States, has made his pile. He brings his - hard, practical American materialism to bear on the improvement - of “this God-forsaken country,” with what result the reader - will see. There is a love story of an exceptional kind, handled - with much subtlety and knowledge of human nature. There is much - pathos and moral beauty in the story. - -⸺ MASTER JOHN. Pp. 281. (_Werner, Laurie_). 6_s._ 1909. - - Master John is a strong man, who makes his way in the world - and returns wealthy to settle in Fermanagh. The place he buys - has a curse upon it, and strange things happen. The story is - told by an old retainer—now a car-driver—whose verbosity and - ramblingness are very quaint and amusing. - -⸺ HETTY: The Story of an Ulster Family. Pp. 322. (_Laurie_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Essentially what the sub-title suggests, a domestic story, with - careful delineation of character for its chief interest. Old - Dell is perhaps the central figure, an old Northern farmer, - reserved, silent, conservative, with his love of the land and - his unwillingness to part with his authority, even to the end. - Then there is the contrast between Hetty, quiet, retiring, - peace-loving, and her wilful, wayward younger sister Rhona, - lively, quick of tongue, and beautiful. The coming of Rhona - makes shipwreck of poor Hetty’s happiness and well-nigh brings - tragedy into the family life. A quiet, slow-moving story, - intensely faithful to reality. “Problems” are in the background - but are not wearisomely worked out. There is an occasional - gleam of humour, but there is much true pathos. - - -=BUNBURY, Selina.= Daughter of Rev. Henry Bunbury. Born about 1804, -probably in Kilsaran House, County Louth, and lived at Beaulieu. First -work published in 1821, and for fifty years she was a prolific author, -her last appearing in 1870. After the death of her parents, she began to -travel, and visited every country in Europe except Turkey, recording her -adventures in many volumes. Her most successful work was _Coombe Abbey_: -an Historical Tale of the Days of James 1st. (_Curry_, Dublin, 1843). She -died at Cheltenham sometime in “the seventies,” and some of her works are -still reprinted. - -⸺ CABIN CONVERSATIONS AND CASTLE SCENES. Pp. 173. (_Nisbet_). One -illustr. 1827. - - Period 1815, but public events are not dealt with. - -⸺ MY FOSTER BROTHER. Pp. 134. (_Tims_). [1827]. Second edition, 1833. - - Alick, foster-brother to Mr. Redmond’s boy, converts the - latter, Bible in hand. The boy dies a pious death. - -⸺ THE ABBEY OF INNISMOYLE: A Tale of another Century. Pp. 336. (_Curry_). -[1828]. Second edition, 1829. Engraved frontisp. - - Consists largely of the history of the Abbey from its - foundation in the twelfth century. The story is very rambling - and obscure. Introduces, incidentally, a “cold, ambitious - plotting Jesuit,” and inveighs against the “monstrous creed - of Jesuitism.” The Abbey is in “an unfrequented part of the - north-western coast of Ireland.” We take leave of it in - Protestant hands. - -⸺ TALES OF MY COUNTRY. Pp. 301. (_Curry_). 1833. - - Viz. 1. “A visit to Clairville Park, and the Story of Rose - Mulroon.” 2. “An Arrival at Moneyhaigue, and the Doctor’s - Story of Eveleen O’Connor.” 3. “A Tale of Monan-a-gleena.” 4. - “Six Weeks at the Rectory.” In 3 the Irish are represented - as cherishing a diabolical thirst for vengeance. 4 is a long - lecture. 1 is a ’98 story. - -⸺ SIR GUY D’ESTERRE. Two Vols. (_Routledge_). 1858. - - Sir Guy is a young soldier in the train first of Sir Philip - Sidney, then of Essex. Before the latter he comes to - Ireland—“the cursedest of all lands,” in his opinion—where he - is captured, and taken to the Castle of the O’Connors. Here - he falls in love, and here begin his troubles. Enemies plot - his ruin. He is thrown into the Tower, but is released by - Essex, and goes with him to Ireland on his fatal campaign. - Careful and vivid portraits of Elizabeth, Essex, Hugh O’Neill, - and other historical characters. A vigorously-written and - interesting historical novel, not Nationalist, but fair and - even sympathetic to Ireland. No religious bias. Essex meeting - with O’Neill, V. II., p. 151. - - -=BURKE, Edmund.= - -⸺ A CLUSTER OF SHAMROCKS. Pp. 312. (_Lynwood_). 6_s._ 1912. - - “Very pleasing and human tales of humble life, Swiss, Breton, - Norwegian, English, &c.; some of them rather in the school of - Hans Anderson.”—(T. LIT. SUPPL.). “Pleasantly-written short - stories drawn from many sources, home and Continental. There is - a purity of feeling about them which renders them exceptionally - suitable for young people.”—I.B.L. The Author shows himself a - lover of flowers and of nature generally. Press notices speak - of him as Mr. E. Burke, of Liverpool, an M.A. of T.C.D. - - -=BURKE, John.= - -⸺ CARRIGAHOLT: a Tale of Eighty Years ago. Pp. 77. (_Hodges Figgis_), -1_s._ 1885. - - A story of Ireland (S.W.) in early days of 19th century. Shows - us the goodnatured spendthrift landlord, the gombeenman, the - nice young ladies whose education has been “finished” in - Belgium, the young men of property whose objects in life are - sport and attentions to the young ladies; and the scapegrace - youth, who narrowly escapes being hanged for forgery. - - -=BURROW, Charles Kennett.= - -⸺ PATRICIA OF THE HILLS. Pp. 330. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ 1902. - - A love story of which the incidents take place during the - Famine years and the Young Ireland movement. With the latter - the hero, who tells the story, is clearly in sympathy, - though no controversial matter is introduced. The characters - (exceptionally well drawn) are types, but also very live - personalities. Locality not indicated. An interesting and - uncommon tale. By same author: _The Lifted Shadow_, _The Way of - the Wind_, &c. - - -=BURTON, J. Bloundelle.= - -⸺ THE LAND OF BONDAGE. (_F. V. White_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Ireland and England in 1727; then the colony of Virginia, - adventures with Indians, &c. The last pages bring us to - 1748.—(_Nield_). - - -=BUTLER, A.= - -⸺ SHAMROCK LEAVES. (_Sealy, Bryers_). Pp. 84. 1_s._ 1886. - - “The (five) stories are founded—not upon unreliable, secondhand - information—but _bona fide_ facts.”—(_Preface_). “A kindly - Irish spirit runs through these Tales.”—NATION. - - -=BUTLER, Mary E.= Mrs. O’Nowlan. Daughter of Peter Lambert Butler, -and granddaughter of William Butler, of Bunnahow, Co. Clare. Educated -privately, and at Alexandra College, Dublin. Married (1907) the late -Thomas O’Nowlan, Professor of Classics and Irish in University College, -and at Maynooth. Lives in Dublin.—(CATH. WHO’S WHO). - -⸺ A BUNDLE OF RUSHES. Pp. 150. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ 1899. - - A little volume of short stories, pleasantly written; Irish - in tone and poetic. Well received by the Press, and by the - public—(_Press Notice_). Fifteen stories in all. Six are prose - idyls of ancient Celtic inspiration, nine are lively little - modern sketches in which he and she get happily married in the - end.—(_I.M._). - -⸺ THE RING OF DAY. Pp. 360. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1906. - - A romance the interest of which centres in the aspirations - of the Irish Ireland movement. Highly idealized, but full of - intense earnestness and conviction. The characters are types - and talk as such. Eoin, however, is a strong personality. - - -=BUTT, Isaac.= Born in Glenfin, Co. Donegal, 1813. Son of Rev. Robert -Butt, Rector of Stranorlar. Educated Royal School, Raphoe, and T.C.D. -Helped to found the DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, 1833, and was editor from -1834-38. Was called to the Bar and distinguished himself there. Opposed -O’Connell and Repeal. Defended Smith O’Brien, 1848, and the Fenian -prisoners in 1865-9. Became a Home Ruler, practically founded the party -in 1870, and worked strenuously for it. Died 1879. Wrote important works -on many subjects, Irish and other. - -⸺ IRISH LIFE IN COURT AND CASTLE. Three Vols. (LONDON). 1840. - - Story of a young barrister named Tarleton, who while studying - in London forms a firm friendship with Gerald MacCullagh - (really O’Donnell), who becomes a nationalist leader. The - latter, in spite of himself, sees the national movement drift - into one of incendiarism and robbery, resulting, among other - things, in a night attack (fully described) on Merton Castle, - somewhere in Co. Clare. Tarleton refusing to give up his friend - is disowned by his father, and comes to live in a Dublin - boarding house. There are good pictures of Dublin life, the - amusing foibles of a peculiar section of the upper classes - being well hit off. The Author gives his views on the various - questions of the day. Shows how the Bar was injured by the - prevalent jobbery. There are a good many incidents, but perhaps - they scarcely rescue the book from being dull. - -⸺ THE GAP OF BARNESMORE. Three Vols, each about 335 pp. (LONDON). 1848. - - “A tale of the Irish Highlands and the Revolution of 1688.” - Appeared without the author’s name. An attempt to portray, - without partisan bias, the events of the time and the heroism - of both sides in the Williamite Wars. The whole question at - issue between the colonists and the native Irish is well - discussed in a conversation between Father Meehan, representing - the latter, and Captain Spencer, representing the former. Every - word of it applies, as it was meant to apply, to modern times. - -⸺ CHAPTERS OF COLLEGE ROMANCE. Pp. 344. (LONDON). 1863. - - A reprint of stories that first appeared in the DUBLIN - UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, some of them as far back as 1834. The - purpose and character of these stories is well described in - Preface:—“When I say that these pages are the romance of truth, - I mean that they are true.... I am very sure that if I succeed - in simply bringing before the reader’s eyes the life and the - death of many whom I myself remember gay and light-hearted.... - I shall have done something towards impressing on his mind the - lesson, ‘remember thy Creator.’” He tells us also, “I was much, - very much longer an inmate of Alma Mater than falls to the - average of her sons.” Five Stories, tragic for the most part, - viz. I. “The Billiard Table” (ruinous results of gambling.) II. - “Reading for Honours” (a harrowing story of the fatal results - of jealousy). III. “The Mariner’s Son.” IV. “The Murdered - Fellow; an incident of 1734.” V. “The Sizar,” “a story of a - young heart broken in the struggle for distinction.” - -⸺ CHILDREN OF SORROW. - - An obituary notice in, I think, the IRISH TIMES describes this - as Butt’s first essay in fiction, but the book is not in the - British Museum Library, and I have been unable to trace it. - - -=BUXTON, E. M. Wilmot-=, _see_ =WILMOT-BUXTON=. - - -=[BYRNE, E. J.].= Author of _Without a God_. - -⸺ AN IRISH LOVER. Pp. 271. (_Kegan Paul_). 6_s._ 1914. - - A melodrama full of plot and murder and hair-breadth escape, - in which the hero wins his way to the heroine through unheard - of perils from swindlers, assassins, jealous rivals, and all - the other _dramatis personæ_ of melodrama. Yet the hero and - heroine start with a peaceful youth in Tipperary as members - of the small farmer class. Parents oppose the match, and the - hero goes to Dublin, where he falls into the hands of a gang - of desperadoes. Then the scene shifts to America, to return - to Ireland only for the wedding bells of the close. The Irish - peasant at home is appreciatively described, his intense spirit - of faith being dwelt on. - - -=CADDELL, Cecilia Mary=, 1814-1877. - -⸺ NELLIE NETTERVILLE; or, One of the Transplanted. (N.Y.: _Catholic -Publication Co._). 1878. - - “A tale of Ireland in the time of Cromwell.” - - -=CALLWELL, J. M.= Mrs. Callwell, a member of the famous family, the -Martins of Ross, Galway, is a frequent contributor to BLACKWOOD’S -MAGAZINE, and Author of _Old Irish Life_, 1912. - -⸺ A LITTLE IRISH GIRL. Pp. 240. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Four good -pictures by Harold Copping. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.25. 1908. - - Scene: West of Ireland. The doings and adventures of a lot of - very natural and “human” children, particularly the bright, - wild little heroine, and Manus, a typical English-reared - schoolboy. Peasants seen in relation to better class, but - treated with sympathy and understanding. No moralizing. - - -=CAMPBELL, Frances.= A county Antrim woman. - -⸺ LOVE, THE ATONEMENT. Pp. 345. (_Digby, Long_). 6_s._ Second edition. -1902. - - A very pretty and highly idealized little romance of marriage, - with a serious lesson of life somewhere in the background all - the while. It opens—and closes—in an old baronial mansion - somewhere in the West of Ireland, but the chief part of the - action passes amid vice-regal society in Australia. Two quaint - Australian children furnish delightful interludes. - - -=CAMPBELL, J[Iain] F., of Islay.= - -⸺ POPULAR TALES OF THE WEST HIGHLANDS. Four Vols., containing in all -cxxxi. + 1743 pp. (PAISLEY: _Gardner_). [1861]. New edition, an exact -reprint of first, 1890. Handsome binding. - - Ranks among the world’s greatest collections of folk-lore. Of - great scientific value to the folk-lorist, for each tale is - “given as it was gathered in the rough.” (Preface). Moreover, - the table of contents gives, besides title of story, name of - teller and of collector, date and place of telling. Most, if - not all of the stories are in origin Irish. The Gaelic text - is given along with translation. Exceptionally interesting - Introduction—untechnical, pleasantly written, and full of - curious information. - - -=CAMPBELL, J. F.= - -⸺ THE CELTIC DRAGON MYTH. Pp. li. + 172. (EDINBURGH: _Grant_). 6_s._ net. -Good illustr. in colour by Miss R. A. Grant-Duff. 1911. - - The Author set down the whole Celtic Dragon legend—perhaps - the most important and widespread of myths, and the basis of - the state-myth of England, Russia, and Japan—in English, on - the authority of many oral sources accessible between 1862 - and 1884. To this is here added “The Geste of Fraoch and the - Dragon” in Gaelic, with translation by G. Henderson, Lecturer - in Celtic at Glasgow University. Also Gaelic text of “The Three - Ways,” and “The Fisherman.” Introduction, 40 pp., and Notes. - Full of Irish names, references, and incidents. The English of - the translation is simple and pleasant. The whole book is very - well turned out. - - -=CAMPBELL, John Gregorson, of Tiree.= - -⸺ THE FIANS. Pp. xxxviii. + 292. (_Nutt_). 7_s._ 6_d._ net. One illustr. -by E. Griset. 1891. - - Introduction by A. Nutt treats of nature and antiquity of - Gaelic folk-tales, theories about the Fenian cycle, and - the classification of texts composing it, and makes some - interesting remarks about its value and import. His notes - at the end chiefly consist of references to D’Arbois de - Jubainville’s _List of Irish Sources_, and to Campbell of - Islay’s _Leabhar na Féinne_. The book collects a mass of - floating and fragmentary oral tradition about the Fians. - Sources entirely oral, many of the translators knowing no - word of English. Through the greater part of the book the - collector gives the substance of what he heard, but he gives - also verbatim in Gaelic, with an English translation, many - tales, poems, ballads. Nature-myth, God-myth, folk-fancy and - hero tale, prose and poetry, are mingled. Naturally the quality - varies a good deal. Some of the tales are extravagant and even - silly. Many are so corrupted in oral transmission as no longer - to be intelligible. Some are very archaic, some modern. A - few are noble heroic legends in verse, but the literal prose - translation makes them somewhat obscure. Index. - - -=CAMPION, Dr. J. T.= Born in Kilkenny, 1814. Contributed much verse -and some prose stories to National papers, such as THE NATION, UNITED -IRISHMAN, THE IRISH FELON, IRISH PEOPLE, SHAMROCK, &c., &c. - -⸺ THE LAST STRUGGLES OF THE IRISH SEA SMUGGLERS. Pp. 119. (GLASGOW: -_Cameron & Ferguson_). 1869. - - Scene: Wicklow coast, around Bray head, “about 50 years ago.” - Struggles between smugglers and Government officials, with a - love interest, and a moral. Has the elements of a very good - story, but is long drawn out, and is told in a turgid style - repugnant to modern taste. - -⸺ MICHAEL DWYER, THE INSURGENT CAPTAIN. Pp. 128. (_Gill_). 1_s._ 6_d._ -Very cheap paper and print. _n.d._ - - A reprint of a book first published many years ago. An - account of the life, exploits, and death of a Wicklow outlaw, - 1798-1805. The anecdotes are for the most part given as handed - down among the Wicklow peasantry. They are not arranged in - any special order. Many of them are so wonderful as to be - scarcely credible, yet most of them are, in the main, well - authenticated. The style is turgid and highflown to the verge - of absurdity. - - -=CANNING, Hon. Albert S.=, D.L. for Counties Down and Derry. Born 1832, -second son of 1st Baron Garvagh. Resides in Rostrevor, Co. Down. Has -published about thirty works, chiefly on Scott, Macaulay, Dickens, and -Shakespeare. Also religious works, and two books about Ireland. - -⸺ BALDEARG O’DONNELL: a Tale of 1690. Two Vols. (_Marcus Ward_). 1881. - - This O’Donnell was for a short time an independent, - half-guerilla, leader on the Irish side. Afterwards, on the - promise of a pension, he deserted to the English. “He had - the shallowness, the arrogance, the presumption, the want of - sincerity and patriotism of too many Irish chiefs”—(D’Alton: - _History of Ireland_). - -⸺ HEIR AND NO HEIR. Pp. 271. (_Eden Remington_). 5_s._ 1890. - - The scene opens in Dalragh (Garvagh, Co. Derry), shifts to - London and back again. Time: the eve of the outbreak of - ’98. The people, with their sharply divided religious and - political opinions are well described, and the northern accent - and idiom ring true. Two priests, Father O’Connor and his - curate, O’Mahony, the one imbued with loyalist principles, the - other leaning towards the United Irishmen, are naturally and - sympathetically drawn. The plot is founded on the well known - story of the disinheritance of George Canning, the father - of the Prime Minister, here called Randolph Stratford, a - good-hearted and popular scapegrace, easily led astray. It is a - pleasant, healthy, and well told tale. - - -=CANNON, Frances E.= - -⸺ IERNE O’NEAL. Pp. 446. (_Whitcomb & Tombs_). 3_s._ 6_d._ net. 1911. - - A long, gentle, and pleasing tale of an Irish girl of good - family, from her childhood with her grandfather in Ireland to - her life in London society (including a little turn as factory - girl) and her marriage.—(TIMES LIT. SUPPL.). - - -=“CARBERY, Ethna”; Anna Macmanus.= Mrs. Macmanus, wife of Seumas -Macmanus, was a Miss Johnston. She was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, -in 1866. Her early death in 1902 robbed her friends of a most lovable -personality, and Ireland of one of the most promising of her poets. -Her poems in _The Four Winds of Erinn_ are full of passionate love of -Ireland. A short notice of her life will be found prefixed to the volume -just mentioned. - -⸺ THE PASSIONATE HEARTS. Pp. 128. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 1903. - - Studies of the heart, tender, passionate, and deep, told in - language of refined beauty. No one else has written, or perhaps - ever will write, like this, of pure love in the heart of a pure - peasant girl. These are prose poems, as perfect in artistic - construction as a sonnet. They are full too of the love of - nature, as seen in the glens and coasts of Donegal. They are - all intensely sad, but without morbidness and pessimism. - -⸺ IN THE CELTIC PAST. Pp. 120. (_Gill_). 1904. - - Contents: “The Sorrowing of Conal Cearnach”; “The Travelling - Scholars;” “Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne;” “The Death of - Diarmuid O’Dubhine;” “The Shearing of the Fairy Fleeces;” “How - Oisin convinced Patric the Cleric,” &c. Told in refined and - poetic language. - - -=CAREY, Mrs. Stanley.= - -⸺ GERALD MARSDALE: a Tale of the Penal Times. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.50, -0.30, 0.63. - - Sub-title:—or, “The Out-Quarters of St. Andrew’s Priory: a Tale - of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.” This story was announced for - serial publication in DUFFY’S HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE, 1861, and ran - through the Vols. for 1862-63 under its sub-title. - - -=CARLETON, William.= Born in Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone, 1794. His -father, a tenant farmer, who supported fourteen children on as many -acres, was remarkable for his extraordinary memory and had a thorough -acquaintance with Irish folk-lore. The family was bilingual. Carleton -was chiefly educated at hedge-schools and at a small classical school -at Donagh (Co. Monaghan). Somewhere about 1814 Carleton made the Lough -Derg Pilgrimage, afterwards described in a story with that title written -for the CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. About the same period he seems to have -gradually lost his faith, and subsequently he became a Protestant, but -for most of his life was indifferent to all forms of religion. After many -vicissitudes he came to Dublin, where he had very varied and painful -experiences in the effort to make a living. He wrote for the CHRISTIAN -EXAMINER, the FAMILY MAGAZINE, the DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, &c. He -also wrote for the NATION, though, as Mr. O’Donoghue says, “Carleton -never was a Nationalist, and was quite incapable of adopting the -principles of the Young Irelanders.” What he wrote from the Nationalist -standpoint was written through the need of earning his bread. For, though -famous long before his death, he never freed himself from money troubles. -Died 1869. _See_ D. J. O’Donoghue’s _Life of Carleton_, two vols., which -includes Carleton’s Autobiography. - -⸺ AMUSING IRISH TALES. Two Series in One. Fourth edition. 256 pp. -(Published 5_s._). - - Not to be confounded with _Traits and Stories of the Irish - Peasantry_, by the same Author. This is an entirely different - work. Contains:—“Buckram Back, the Country Dancing Master”; - “Mary Murray, the Irish Matchmaker”; “Bob Pentland, the Irish - Smuggler”; “Tom Gressley, the Irish Sennachie”; “Barney - M’Haigney, the Irish Prophecy Man,” and ten others. - -⸺ ANNE COSGRAVE. - - “A vigorous attempt to exhibit the manners and customs, and - especially the religious feelings, of the Ulster people. Some - of the chapters are very graphic, and there is no lack of - Carleton’s peculiar humour.”—(_O’Donoghue_). - -⸺ FATHER BUTLER AND THE LOUGH DERG PILGRIM: Sketches of Irish Manners. -Pp. 302. (_Curry_). 1829. - - Published anonymously. Two of Carleton’s most virulently - anti-Catholic writings. The second, in particular, contains - passages which, for Catholics, are blasphemous. - -⸺ THE POOR SCHOLAR; and other Tales. Pp. 252. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ Still in -print. [1830]. - - Selections, comprising some of Carleton’s best work, and - quite free from religious and political rancour. _The - Poor Scholar_ is full of human interest. Carleton works - powerfully upon all our best feelings in turn. Particularly - touching is his picture of the depth and tenderness of family - affections (he was himself a doting father). The pictures of - the hedge-schoolmaster’s brutalities, and of the days of the - pestilence are vivid. He is in this story altogether on the - side of the peasant. This little volume contains also eight - other stories, humorous for the most part, all excellent. - -⸺ TALES OF IRELAND. [1834]. - - Contains: “The Death of a Devotee;” “The Priest’s Funeral;” - “Lachlin Murray and the Blessed Candle;” “Neal Malone;” “The - Dream of a Broken Heart,” &c. This last has been described as - one of the purest and noblest stories in our literature; but - the remainder are among Carleton’s feeblest efforts, and are - full of rank bigotry. - -⸺ FARDOROUGHA THE MISER. Pp. 280. (_Downey_). [1839]. _n.d._ (N.Y.: -_Haverty_). 0.50. - - Prefaces by the Author and by D. J. O’Donoghue. A powerful - novel, full of strong character study, and of deep and tragic - pathos, relieved by humorous scenes. Carleton tells us that all - the characters save one are drawn from originals well known to - himself. The original of the miser’s wife, a perfect type of - the Catholic Irish mother, was his own mother. Una O’Brien is - one of the loveliest of Carleton’s heroines. Honor O’Donovan - is scarcely less admirable. The mental struggles of the miser, - torn between the love of his son and the love of his money, are - finely depicted. - -⸺ THE FAWN OF SPRINGVALE; THE CLARIONET, AND OTHER TALES. Two Vols. 1841. - -⸺ PADDY GO EASY AND HIS WIFE NANCY. (_Duffy_), 1_s._ [1845]. Still -reprinted. - - Racy sketch of humorous and good-natured but lazy, thriftless, - good-for-nothing Irishman, drawn with much humour and with the - faithfulness of a keen observer. But the book leaves on the - reader the absurd impression that this character is typical of - the average peasant. The story is a prototype of the famous - _Adventures of Mick M’Quaid_. The first title of this book was - originally _Parra Sastha_. - -⸺ VALENTINE M’CLUTCHY. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1845]. Numerous editions since. -Still reprinted. (N.Y.: _Sadleir_). 1.50. - - A detailed study of the character and career of an Irish - land agent of the worst type. It puts the reader on intimate - terms with the prejudices, feelings, aims, and manners of - the Orangemen of the day, and bitterly satirizes them. - It gives vivid pictures of both Anglican and Dissenting - proselytizing efforts. Written from a strongly national - and even Catholic standpoint. Contains several remarkable - character studies. There is Solomon M’Slime, “the religious - attorney,” sanctimonious, canting, hypocritical; Darby O’Drive, - M’Clutchy’s ruffianly bailiff, a converted Papist; the Rev. Mr. - Lucre, a very superior absentee clergyman of the Establishment, - and an ardent proselytizer; the old priest, Father Roche, very - sympathetically drawn. The bias throughout is very strong and - undisguised. There are some grotesquely and irresistibly comic - scenes, but there are also fine scenes of tragic interest. - “Nothing in literature,” says Mr. O’Donoghue, “could be more - terrible than some of the scenes in this book.” He calls it - “one of Carleton’s most amazing efforts.” Of the book as a - whole, Mr. Krans says: “It is one of the most daring pictures - of Irish country life ever executed.” And Mr. G. Barnett Smith - speaks of the eviction scene as “unexampled for its sadness and - pathos.” - -⸺ RODY THE ROVER. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ [1845]. Still in print. - - Study of the origin of Ribbonism, and of its effects upon - countryside. The hero is an emissary of the Society. The - latter is represented as organized and worked by a set of - self-interested rascals who deluded the peasantry with hopes - of removing grievances, whilst they themselves pursued their - personal ends, and were often at the same time in the pay of - the Castle. The Government spy system is denounced. - -⸺ DENIS O’SHAUGHNESSY GOING TO MAYNOOTH. Pp. 200. (_Routledge_). 1845. -Illustrated by W. H. Brooke. - -⸺ ART MAGUIRE. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ [1847]. Still reprinted. (N.Y.: -_Sadleir_). 0.15. - - The story of a man ruined by drink. Conventional and obviously - written for a purpose, yet enlivened by scenes of humour and - pathos, written in Carleton’s best vein. Dedicated in very - flattering terms to Father Theobald Mathew, and irreproachable - from a Catholic point of view. Incidentally there is an - interesting picture of one of Father Mathew’s meetings. Father - Mathew himself thought highly of the book. - -⸺ THE BLACK PROPHET. Pp. 408. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). [1847]. Introd. by -D. J. O’Donoghue, and Illustr. by J. B. Yeats. 1899. (N.Y.: _Sadleir_). -1.50. - - The plot centres in a rural murder mystery, but there are many - threads in the narrative. As a background there is the Famine - and typhus-plague of 1817, described with appalling power and - realism. Of this the Author himself was a witness, and he - assures us that he has in no wise exaggerated the horrors. All - through there are passages of true and heart-rending pathos, - lit up by the humorous passages of arms between Jemmy Branigan - and his master, the middleman, Dick o’ the Grange. Many - peculiar types of that day appear: Skinadre the rural miser, - Donnell Dhu the Prophecyman. There is not a word in the book - that could hurt Catholic or national feeling. - -⸺ THE EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA. [1847]. (_Routledge_). 1_s._ (N.Y.: -_Sadleir_). 1.50. - - A story of rural life, depicting with much beauty and pathos - the sadness of emigration. The book is first and foremost a - love story and has no didactic object. It contains one of - Carleton’s most exquisite portraits of an Irish peasant girl. - The struggle between her love and her stern and uncompromising - zeal for the faith is finely drawn. O’Finigan, with his - half-tipsy grandiloquence, is also cleverly done. A kindly - spirit pervades the book, and it is almost entirely free from - the bad taste, coarseness, and rancour which show themselves at - times in Carleton. - -⸺ THE TITHE-PROCTOR. (BELFAST: _Simms & M’Intyre_). [1849]. - - Founded on real events, the murder of the Bolands, a terrible - agrarian crime. Written in a mood of savage resentment against - his countrymen. D. J. O’Donoghue says of this book: “It is - a vicious picture of the worst passions of the people, a - rancorous description of the just war of the peasantry against - tithes, and some of the vilest types of the race are there - held up to odium, not as rare instances of villainy, but as - specimens of humanity quite commonly to be met with.” Yet there - are good portraits and good scenes. Among the former are Mogue - Moylan, the Cannie Soogah, Dare-devil O’Driscoll, Buck English, - and the Proctor himself. The latter, hated of the people, is - painted in dark colours. “As a study of villainy,” says Mr. - O’Donoghue, “the book is convincing. There is one touching and - fine scene—that in which the priest stealthily carries a sack - of oats to the starving Protestant minister and his family.” - “As a study of Irish life,” says Mr. O’Donoghue again, “even - in the anti-tithe war time it is a perversion of facts, and a - grotesque accumulation of melodramatic horrors.” - -⸺ JANE SINCLAIR; or, The Fawn of Springvale. [1849]. - - A melancholy story of middle-class life, with many truthful - touches, but overcharged with a sentiment that to modern taste - appears somewhat strained and somewhat insipid. Contains a - highly eulogistic portrait of a dissenting minister, John - Sinclair—Calvinistic, didactic, but warm-hearted and truly - charitable. - -⸺ TALES AND SKETCHES OF IRISH LIFE AND CHARACTER. (DUBLIN). Plates by -Phiz. 1845. This is the original 1_s._ edition of the following and -_Amusing Irish Tales_, _ante_. - -⸺ TALES AND SKETCHES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. 1851. - - Is as good as the _Traits_, and has, moreover, little that is - objectionable. - -⸺ THE SQUANDERS OF CASTLE SQUANDER. [1852]. Two Vols. Pp. 326 + 311. -Illustr. - - An attempt to present the life of the gentry, a task for which - Carleton was imperfectly qualified. “It reminds one,” says Mr. - O’Donoghue, “at a superficial examination, of Lever, but is far - inferior to any of that writer’s works. It is full of rancour - and rage, and makes painful and exasperating reading: the best - that can be said for it is that there are pages here and there - not unworthy of the Author’s better self. The latter part of - the book is an acrid political argument.” There is an amusing - story of a trick played upon a gauger. - -⸺ WILLY REILLY AND HIS DEAR COLLEEN BAWN. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1855]. 1908. - - Introduction by E. A. Baker, M.A., LL.D., who included this in - his series, “Half-Forgotten Books.” (_Routledge_). 2_s._ 1904. - The most popular of Carleton’s works, having passed through - more than fifty large editions. A pleasant, readable romantic - melodrama, founded on the famous ballad, “Now rise up, Willy - Reilly,” which refers to an episode of the Penal days, _c._ - 1745-52. It is practically free from political and religious - bias, but is greatly inferior to his earlier works. - -⸺ THE BLACK BARONET. Pp. 476, close print. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1856]. Still -reprinted. - - A tragedy of upper-class society life. The interest lies - chiefly in the intricate plot, which, however, is distinctly - melodramatic. There is little attempt to portray the manners of - the society about which the book treats, and there is little - character-drawing. The tragedy is relieved by humorous scenes - from peasant life. In the Preface the Author tells us that the - circumstances related in the story really happened. Contains a - touching picture of an evicted tenant, who leaves the hut in - which his wife lies dead and his children fever-stricken to - seek subsistence by a life of crime. “There is nothing,” says - G. Barnett Smith in THE XIXTH. CENTURY (Author of notice of C. - in D.N.B.), “more dramatic in the whole of Carleton’s works - than the closing scene of this novel.” And he rates it very - high. - -⸺ THE EVIL EYE; or, the Black Spectre. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1860]. Still -reprinted. - - “Probably the weakest of his works.” Perilously near the - ridiculous in style and plot. - -⸺ REDMOND O’HANLON. Pp. 199. 16mo. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ [1862]. Still -reprinted. - - The exploits of a daring Rapparee. A fine subject feebly - treated. From National point of view the book is not inspiring. - Very slight plot, consisting mainly in the rescue by O’Hanlon - of a girl who had been abducted. Moral tone good. An appendix - (32 pages) by T. C. Luby gives the historical facts connected - with the hero. - -⸺ THE RED-HAIRED MAN’S WIFE. Pp. viii. + 274. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1889. - - Exploits of one Leeam O’Connor, a notorious “lady-killer.” - One of the chief characters Hugh O’Donnell is implicated in - the Fenian movement. Father Moran and Rev. Mr. Bayley, the - priest and the rector, bosom friends, are finely portrayed. - There are flashes here and there of Carleton’s old powers. - Mr. O’Donoghue (_Life of Carleton_, ii., p. 321) states that - part of the original MS. was destroyed in a fire, and that the - missing portions were supplied after Carleton’s death by a Mr. - MacDermott and published, first in the CARLOW COLLEGE MAGAZINE - (1870), then in book form as above. - -⸺ TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. Many editions, _e.g._ -(_Routledge_). One Vol. 3_s._ 6_d._ N.Y.: (_Dutton_). 1.50. - - Perhaps the best is that edited in four volumes, 3_s._ 6_d._ - net each, by D. J. O’Donoghue, and published in 1896 by Dent. - Its special features are: handsome binding, print, and general - get-up; reproduction of original illustrations by Phiz; - portraits of Carleton; inclusion of Carleton’s Introduction; - biography and critical introduction by Editor. The original - edition first appeared in 1830-33. Contents: (1) “Ned M’Keown;” - (2) “Three Tasks;” (3) “Shane Fadh’s Wedding;” (4) “Larry - M’Farland’s Wake;” (5) “The Station;” (6) “An Essay on Irish - Swearing;” (7) “The Battle of the Factions;” (8) “The Midnight - Mass;” (9) “The Party Fight and Funeral;” (10) “The Hedge - School;” (11) “The Lough Derg Pilgrim;” (12) “The Donagh, or - the Horse Stealers;” (13) “Phil Purcel, the Pig Driver;” (14) - “The Leanhan Shee;” (15) “The Geography of an Irish Oath;” (16) - “The Poor Scholar;” (17) “Wildgoose Lodge;” (18) “Tubber Derg;” - (19) “Dennis O’Shaughnessy going to Maynooth;” (20) “Phelim - O’Toole’s Courtship;” (21) “Neal Malone.” - - This work constitutes the completest and most authentic picture - ever given to us of the life of the peasantry in the first - quarter of the last century. It is the more interesting in that - it depicts an Ireland wholly different from the Ireland of our - days, a state of things that has quite passed away. Speaking - of the _Traits_, Mr. D. J. O’Donoghue says that, “taken as a - whole, there is nothing in Irish literature within reasonable - distance of them for completeness, variety, character-drawing, - humour, pathos and dramatic power.” And most Irishmen would - be at one with him. About the absolute life-like reality of - his peasants there can be no doubt. But reserves must be made - as to his fairness and impartiality. To the edition of 1854 - he prefixed an introduction, in which he states his intention - “to aid in removing many absurd prejudices ... against his - countrymen,” and in particular the conception of the “stage - Irishman.” He then enters into a vindication and a eulogy of - the national character which is fully in accord with national - sentiment. But many of the stories were originally written for - a violently anti-national and anti-Catholic periodical. Some of - the _Traits_ were consequently marred by offensive passages, - some of which the author himself afterwards regretted. He - frequently betrays the rancour he felt against the religion - which he had abandoned. The Catholic clergy in particular he - never treated fairly, and in some of the _Traits_ ridicule is - showered upon them, _e.g._, in “The Station.” Yet in others, - _e.g._, “The Poor Scholar,” things Catholic are treated with - perfect propriety. In 1845 Thomas Davis wrote for the NATION - a very appreciative article on Carleton. The illustrations by - Phiz are very clever, but many of them are simply caricatures - of the Irish peasantry. - -⸺ STORIES FROM CARLETON, with an Introduction by W. B. Yeats. Pp. xvii. + -302. (_Walter Scott_), 1_s._ _n.d._ - - Contains: “The Poor Scholar;” “Tubber Derg;” “Wildgoose Lodge;” - “Shane Fadh’s Wedding;” “The Hedge School.” Mr. Yeats says of - Carleton: “He is the greatest novelist of Ireland, by right of - the most Celtic eyes that ever gazed from under the brows of - storyteller.” - - -=CARMICHAEL, Alexander.= - -⸺ DEIRDRE AND THE LAY OF THE CHILDREN OF UISNE. Pp. 146. (_Gill_, &c.). -1905. - - Orally collected in 1867 from the recital of John MacNeill - (aged 83), of the Island of Barra. Scotch-Gaelic and English - on opposite pages. Differs from the average Irish version in - numerous details. - - -=CARROLL, Rev. P. J.= - -⸺ ROUND ABOUT HOME: Irish Scenes and Memories. Pp. 234. (U.S.A.: _Notre -Dame, Ind._). $1. 1915. - - Idylls of Irish country life (West Limerick), told with - simplicity and genuine sympathy in language charged with - feeling, and often of much beauty. Memory has no doubt cast - a golden haze over the scenes and persons, idealizing them - somewhat, yet they are very real for all that. They are nearly - all in the form of stories, and are told with zest. Some - are sad enough, but with a sadness that is softened by the - kindly genial spirit of the teller. The writer is of course in - complete sympathy with the people. Many queer types (Micky the - Fenian, the bell-man, Mad Matt the tramp, the polite beggar, - the believer in ghosts, &c.) are studied in these sketches. - “There is not one of the twenty-six sketches that is not in its - way a masterpiece.”—(C.B.N.). - - -=CASEY, W. F.= - -⸺ ZOE: a Portrait. Pp. 376. (_Herbert & Daniel_). 6_s._ 1911. - - A study from the life of an exceedingly unpleasant Dublin - girl, an inveterate society flirt. The plot is chiefly - concerned with her treatment of her various suitors, including - a loveless marriage, contracted with one of them in order to - spite another. Incidentally there are other clever character - studies—Major Delaney, Barry Conway, Maurice Daly. Some are - doubtless studies from life. Incidentally there is a clever and - accurate picture of the Dublin middle-class, with its golf, its - bridge, and its theatres. The Author has written successful - plays for the Abbey Theatre.—(_Press Notices_). - - -=CASSIDY, Patrick Sarsfield.= - -⸺ GLENVEAGH; or, The Victims of Vengeance. (BOSTON). 1870. - - First appeared in the BOSTON PILOT; afterwards in book form. - The Author was born at Dunkineely, Co. Donegal, 1852. In 1869 - or so he emigrated to America, where he became a journalist. - Deals with the celebrated Glenveagh trials, arising from - difficulties between landlord and tenant, at which the author - had been present in boyhood. He wrote also _The Borrowed - Bride_: a Fairy Love Legend of Donegal. Pp. 255. (N.Y.: - _Holt_). 1892. A long story in verse. - - -=CAWLEY, Rev. Thomas.= - -⸺ AN IRISH PARISH, ITS SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS. Pp. 189. (BOSTON: _Angel -Guardian Press_). 1911. - - Stories collected from magazines in which they first appeared - (“Irish Rosary,” “C.Y.M.,” “Irish Packet”). Giving pictures - drawn with knowledge and skill, and considerable humour of - local celebrities and their political careers. Satirises the - shady side of local politics, and depicts the ruin wrought by - drink. But the moral is not too much obtruded. Father Cawley is - a curate in Galway City. - -⸺ LEADING LIGHTS ALL: a Contentious Volume. Pp. 129. (GALWAY: _The -Connaught Tribune_). 6_d._ 1913. - - Reprinted from “An Irish Parish,” _q.v._ - - -=[CHAIGNEAU, William].= - -⸺ THE HISTORY OF JACK CONNOR. Two Vols. 12mo. (DUBLIN). Plates. [1751]. -Fourth edition. 1766. - - Dedicated to Lord Holland (then Henry Fox). A series of - adventures of Jack Connor alias Conyers. Born 1720, son of - a Williamite soldier. Though affecting to be on the side - of morality, the writer describes minutely a long series - of scandalous adventures in Dublin, London, Paris, &c., - of the hero. The intervals between these are filled up by - disquisitions of various kinds, _e.g._, the schemes of - benevolent landlords, &c. Facetious tone affected throughout. - No real description of contemporary manners or of politics. - The foreword to this edition gives us to understand that the - previous edition contained still more objectionable matter. - Gives fairly accurately the average Protestant’s views of - priests and “popery” at the time. - - -=CHARLES, Mrs. Rundle.= - -⸺ ATTILA AND HIS CONQUERORS. Pp. 327. (S.P.C.K.). 2_s._ - - Episodes of the inroad of the Huns and their contact with - Christianity, chiefly in the person of St. Leo, from whose - writings much of the matter is borrowed. Two young Irish - converts of St. Patrick are carried off by British pirates. - The story tells of their adventures on the Continent. St. - Patrick’s historical Epistle to Coroticus is introduced. The - story is somewhat in the conventional Sunday School manner, - being obviously intended solely for the conveyance of moral - instruction. Has no denominational bias. - - -=CHISHOLM, Louey.= - -⸺ CELTIC TALES. Pp. 113. 12mo. (_Jack_). 1_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Dutton_). -Eight coloured pictures by K. Cameron. [1905]. 1911, &c. - - In “Told to the Children” series. Three tales:—“The Star-eyed - Deirdre,” “The Four White Swans,” “Dermat and Grauna.” - Moderately well told. - - -=CHRISTINA, Sister M.=, a native of Youghal, and now a member of the -Community of Loreto Convent, Fermoy, Co. Cork. Her only published volume -hitherto is the book noted below, but she has written serials both in -French and in English for various periodicals, “Kilvara,” “The Forbidden -Flame,” “A Modern Cinderella,” “Sir Rupert’s Wife,” “A Steel King” (all -Irish in subject), “Yolanda,” “A Royal Exile,” “Une gerbe de lis,” “Mis -à l’épreuve,” are some of the titles. She is an enthusiast in the cause -of a literature which, while genuinely Irish, should be also Catholic in -spirit. - -⸺ LORD CLANDONNELL. Pp. 166. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 1914. - - An ingenious and pious little story, pleasantly written, with - abundance of incident (secret marriage, lost papers, rightful - heir restored to his own in wonderful manner), and many - characters. The scene shifts between Donegal, Italy, America, - and Rostrevor. The Clandonnell family, in spite of the bigoted - old Lord, is brought back into the Catholic Church.—(I.B.L. and - C.B.N.). - - -=CHURCH, Samuel Harden.= - -⸺ JOHN MARMADUKE. (_Putnam_). 6_s._ 0.50. [1889]. Fifth edition, 1898. - - Opens 1649 at Arklow. Captain M., who tells the story, is an - officer under the Cromwellian General Ireton. Closes shortly - after massacre of Drogheda. The author says in his _Oliver - Cromwell, a History_ (p. 487): “He (Cromwell) had overthrown a - bloody rebellion in Ireland, and transformed the environment - of that mad people into industry and peace.” Elsewhere he - speaks of Cromwell’s “pure patriotism, his sacrifice to duty, - his public wisdom, his endeavour for the right course in every - difficulty.” The novel is written in the spirit of the history, - a panegyric of Cromwell. It is full of battles, sieges, and - exciting adventures. The Author tells us that he “went to - Ireland, traced again the line of the Cromwell Invasion, and - gave some studious attention to the language and literature of - the country” (Pref.). Anti-Catholic in tone. - - -=CLARK, Jackson C.= - -⸺ KNOCKINSCREEN DAYS. Pp. 308. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ Illustr. 1913. - - Episodes in a Lough Neagh-side village conceived in a vein of - broad comedy, in which Mr. Peter Carmichael, a young squire - on the look-out for amusement and his irresponsible—and - resourceful—friend Billy Devine are the chief characters. How - the two of them defeated the Nationalist candidate for the - dispensary, and how two members of the Force arrested the - County Inspector on a charge of Sunday drinking. The local - colour and the dialect are perfect, and the local types well - sketched. - - -=CLARKE, Mrs. Charles M.; “Miriam Drake.”= - -⸺ STRONG AS DEATH. Pp. 538. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 6_s._ - - The scene is laid in Ulster: the personages are Irish - Presbyterians. The Author’s sympathies are with the rebels, - but she does justice to the men on the loyalist side. The book - contains many stirring adventures, but is far removed from mere - sensationalism (Publ.). - - -=CLERY, Arthur E.; “A. Synan.”= Born in Dublin, 1879. Educated at -Clongowes Wood College, Catholic University School. Professor of Law in -University College, N.U.I., since 1910. Author of _The Idea of a Nation_, -and of some books on law. Usual pen-name “Chanel.” - -⸺ THE COMING OF THE KING: a Jacobite Romance. Pp. 143. (_C.T.S. of -Ireland_). 1_s._ Pretty binding. 1909. - - Deals with an imaginary landing of James II. to head a rising - in Ireland. Scene: first on shores of Bantry Bay, then in - Celbridge. A plot to seize Dublin Castle, in which the - King is aided by Swift, fails through divisions caused by - sectarian hatred. A rapidly moving story with many exciting - situations. Though no elaborate picture of the times is - attempted, innumerable small touches show the Author’s thorough - acquaintance with their history and literature. The style is - pleasant, and the conversations seldom jar by being too modern - in tone. - - -=COATES, H. J.= - -⸺ THE WEIRD WOMAN OF THE WRAAGH; or, Burton and Le Moore. Four Vols. Pp. -1224. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1830. - - Wild adventures in 1783 _sqq._ The Wraagh is a cave near - Baltinglass. The scene frequently shifts from one part of - Ireland to another—Cork, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Cashel (historical - sketch given), &c. Kidnappings, hairbreadth escapes from - robbers, a duel, love story of Walter (whose identity is long - a mystery) with Lena Fitzgerald, and their final marriage. - Several long stories are sandwiched in here and there. Tone - quite patriotic. Well-written on the whole. - -⸺ LUCIUS CAREY; or, The Mysterious Female of Mora’s Dell. Four Vols. Pp. -1007. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1831. - - Dedicated to O’Connell. Lucius goes over to England with his - followers, fights in the Royalist cause, and finally returns - to Ireland. Sympathies: Royalist, and Irish. But the noble - characters are for the most part English, some of the Irish - characters being little better than buffoons. The book is full - of Astrology. There are some interesting allusions to Irish - heroic legend. - -⸺ THE WATER QUEEN; or, The Mermaid of Loch Lene, and other Tales. Three -Vols. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1832. - - A very romantic story of Killarney in the days of Elizabeth’s - wars with Hugh O’Neill. Sir Bertram Fitzroy, a gallant young - Englishman, comes over with Essex, and is sent down to - Killarney. He becomes friendly with the Irish and falls in love - with the “Mermaid” Eva, a young lady who chose this disguise - for greater safety. She wins him to love Ireland. They are kept - apart by the schemes of the villain O’Fergus, standard bearer - to O’Neill. But, after a scene of considerable dramatic power - in which O’Fergus is slain, they are united again. There are - many adventures, and much fighting. Killarney well described. - In sympathy with Ireland. No religious bias. - - -=COGAN, J. J.= - -⸺ OLD IRISH HEARTS AND HOMES: A Romance of Real Life. Pp. 271. -(MELBOURNE: _Linehan_). 3_s._ [_n.d._]. New edition, 1908. - - A series of episodes, somewhat idealised by memory, from the - annals of an Irish Catholic family of the well-to-do farmer - class. There is not much literary skill, but this is made up - for by the evident faithfulness and the intrinsic interest of - the pictures. Old de Prendergast is admirably drawn. Brings - out well how thoroughly penetrated with religious spirit many - such families in I. are. A sad little boy-and-girl love story - runs through the book. Scene: Dublin (election of Alderman well - described) and West Wicklow. - - -=COLLINS, William.= (1838-1890). A Tyrone man who emigrated to Canada and -U.S.A. - -⸺ DALARADIA. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 36 cents net. - - “A tale of the days of King Milcho,” the time of St. Patrick. - - -=COLTHURST, Miss E.= “A Cork lady of marked poetical ability. She -wrote also some prose works, such as _The Irish Scripture Reader_, -_The Little Ones of Innisfail_, &c. Most of her works were publ. anon. -She was associated with the Rev. E. Nangle’s mission to Achill” (D. J. -O’Donoghue, _Poets of Ireland_). - -⸺ THE IRISH SCRIPTURE READER. - -⸺ IRRELAGH: or, The Last of the Chiefs. Pp. 448. (LONDON: _Houlston & -Stoneman_). 1849. - - Dedication dated from Danesfort, Killarney. Scene: Killarney. - Time: towards the close of 17th century, but there is no - reference to historical events, and the tone and the atmosphere - are quite modern. A Waldensian pastor comes to live in the - family of the O’Donoghue, and converts that family and some - of the neighbouring chieftains’ families. A great deal of - Protestant doctrine is introduced; Catholic doctrines (_e.g._, - the Rosary, p. 49) are referred to with strong disapproval. - There is a slight love interest and some vague descriptions of - scenery. The style is somewhat turgid. - -⸺ THE LITTLE ONES OF INNISFAIL. - - -=COLUM, Padraic.= Born in Longford, 1881. Has published several plays, -which have been acted with success in the Abbey Theatre and elsewhere; -a volume of verse; and a very interesting social study of Ireland, _My -Irish Year_. - -⸺ A BOY IN EIRINN. Pp. 255. (N.Y.: _Dutton_). Frontisp. in colour and -four Illustr. by Jack B. Yeats. 1913. New ed. (_Dent_), 1915. - - Third volume in “Little Schoolmate Series.” Adventures of - peasant lad, Finn O’Donnell at home in the Midlands and on his - way to Dublin by Tara in the time of the Land War. Charming - pictures of the world as seen with the wondering eyes of a - child. Finn learns Irish legend and history from stories told - by his grandfather, a priest, and others. The pictures of - things seen and lived in Ireland are what one might expect - from the Author of _My Irish Year_—literal reality vividly but - very simply presented. This boy is not idealised; he is very - life-like and natural. The Author does not “write down” to - children. - - N.B.—In this case at least the reader would do well to take - the book _before_ the Preface, which latter is by the general - editor of the series. - - -=CONCANNON, Mrs., _née_ Helena Walsh.= Born in Maghera, Co. Derry, 1878. -Educated there and at Loreto College, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin; -also at Berlin, Rome, and Paris. M.A. (R.U.I.) with Honours in Mod. -Lit. Besides the story mentioned below, she has published _A Garden of -Girls_ (Educational Co. of Ireland), and is about to publish a Life of -St. Columbanus which won against noteworthy competitors a prize offered -by Dr. Shahan of the Catholic University of America. Has contributed -to Catholic magazines. Resides in Galway. Her husband is prominently -connected with the Gaelic League, and she herself reads and speaks Irish. - -⸺ THE SORROW OF LYCADOON. 12mo. Pp. 150. (C.T.S.I.: _Iona Series_), 1_s._ -1912. - - Story of the life and martyrdom (1584) of Dermot O’Hurley and - of the first mission of the Jesuits to Ireland. The author - has an “historic imagination” of exceptional vividness. The - incidents and the colouring are both solidly based on historic - fact. But erudition is never allowed to obtrude itself on the - reader. The characters are flesh and blood, and the story has a - pathetic human interest of its own. It is told with much charm - of style. - - -=CONDON, John A., O.S.A.= Born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, in 1867. -Educated locally at the Augustinian Seminary and at Castleknock College. -Became an Augustinian 1883. Has studied in Rome and travelled in U.S.A. -and Canada. He has resided in various parts of Ireland—New Ross, Cork, -Dublin. Has held positions of special trust in his Order. - -⸺ THE CRACKLING OF THORNS. Pp. 175. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Six Illustr. by -M. Power O’Malley. 1915. - - Ten stories of various types. The majority are of the - high-class magazine type and very up-to-date in subject and - treatment, but here and there one comes upon bits of real life - observed at first hand and pictured with genuine feeling. - Several are Irish-American, and their interest turns on the - sorrow and hardship of emigration. The last, “By the Way,” in - which Sergeant Maguire, R.I.C., spins yarns, is full of the - most genuine Irish humour (dialect perfect), and is a fine - piece of story-telling. - - -=CONYERS, Dorothea.= Born 1871. Daughter of Colonel J. Blood Smyth, -Fedamore, Co. Limerick. Has published, besides the works here mentioned, -_Recollections of Sport in Ireland_. Resides near Limerick. It may be -said of her books in general that they are humorous, lively stories of -Irish sport, full of incident, with quick perception of the surfaces and -broad outlines of character. Her _dramatis personæ_ are hunting people, -garrison officers, horse dealers, and the peasantry seen more or less -from their point of view. - -⸺ THE THORN BIT. Pp. 332. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1900. - - An earlier effort, with the Author’s qualities not yet - developed. Society in a small country town, days with the - hounds, clever situations. - -⸺ PETER’S PEDIGREE. Pp. 326. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Perhaps the best of the lot. Hunting, horse-dealing, and - love-making in Co. Cork. - -⸺ AUNT JANE AND UNCLE JAMES. Pp. 342. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1908. - - A sequel to the last, with the same vivid descriptions of - “runs” and “deals.” A murder trial enters into the plot. - -⸺ THE BOY, SOME HORSES, AND A GIRL. Pp. 307. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1908. - - Of the same type as the last and scarcely inferior. Irish - peasants and servants are described with much truth as well as - humour. Full of glorious hunts and pleasant hunting people. - -⸺ THREE GIRLS AND A HERMIT. Pp. 328. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1908. - - Life in a small garrison town. Many droll situations. - -⸺ THE CONVERSION OF CON CREGAN. Pp. 327. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1909. - - Thirteen stories, dealing mostly with horses and hunting. Full - of shrewd wit and kindly humour. Shows a good knowledge of - Irish life and character, and an understanding of the relations - between the classes. One of the stories is a novel in itself. - -⸺ THE STRAYINGS OF SANDY. Pp. 362. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ and 1_s._ 1909. - - The externals of Irish country life as seen by a London - business man on a holiday. Study of Irish character as seen - chiefly in sporting types—needy, good-natured, spendthrift—as - contrasted with the Englishman, wealthy, businesslike, and - miserly. Contact with Irish life softens the Englishman’s - asperities. Full of genuinely humorous and amusing adventures - of Sandy with race-horses and hounds, and other things. - The brogue is not overdone and we are not, on the whole, - caricatured. Scene: West coast. - -⸺ TWO IMPOSTORS AND TINKER. Pp. 344. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1910. - - One impostor is Derrick Bourke Herring who, under his namesake - cousin’s name, took up the Mullenboden hounds, and the other - was his sister Jo who, in man’s clothes, acted as whip. Tinker - is a yellow mongrel who does many wonderful things in the - course of the story. The main interest centres in the doings - of these three, chiefly in the hunting field. A melodramatic - element is introduced by the attempt of the father of the - wealthy heiress Grania Hume to steal her jewels. Of course - there are love affairs also. A breezy story, with much lively - incident and pleasant humour. - -⸺ SOME HAPPENINGS OF GLENDALYNE. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Eve O’Neill is under the guardianship of The O’Neill, an - eccentric, rapidly growing into a maniac. His mania is - religious, he has a passion for horse-racing, and keeps - the heir Hugh O’Neill (supposed to be dead) shut up in - a deserted wing of the old mansion. Here this latter is - accidentally discovered by Eve, and then there are thrilling - adventures. Atmosphere throughout weird and terrifying in - the manner of Lefanu. Peasantry little understood and almost - caricatured.—(_Press Notice_). - -⸺ THE ARRIVAL OF ANTONY. Pp. 348. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1912. - - Anthony Doyle, brought up from childhood in Germany, and with - the breeding of a gentleman, comes home to help his old uncle, - a horsedealer living in an old-fashioned thatched farmhouse - in a remote country district in Ireland. Tells of the wholly - inexperienced Antony’s adventures among horse-sharpers, of his - devotion to his old uncle, and of the social barriers that for - long keep him aloof from his own class and from his future - wife. The backwardness and slovenliness of Irish life are a - good deal exaggerated, but the story is very cleverly told, - with a good deal of dry humour. The Author’s satire is not - hostile. - -⸺ SALLY. Pp. 307. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1912. - - How Sally Stannard charms the hero from his melancholia more - efficaciously than the hunting in Connemara on which he was - relying for his cure. Has all the appearances of a story dashed - off carelessly and in haste for the publishers. Nothing in it - is studied or finished. - -⸺ OLD ANDY. Pp. 309. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1914. - - Peasant life in Co. Limerick. - -⸺ A MIXED PACK. Pp. 296. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1915. - - A collection of stories of very various type—hunting sketches, - the strange experience of an engine driver, the adventures of a - traveller for a firm of jewellers. - -⸺ MEAVE. Pp. 336. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1915. - - Here the scene is laid in England, and the characters are - English, all but a wild little Irish girl, Meave, who plays one - of the chief parts. The story is full of hunting scenes. - - -=CONYNGHAM, Major David Power, LL.D.; “Allen H. Clington.”= Born in -Killenaule, Co. Tipperary. Took part, along with his kinsman Charles -Kickham, in the rising of 1848. Fought in the American Civil War in the -’Sixties, after which he engaged in journalism until his death in 1883. -Wrote many works on Irish and American subjects. - -⸺ FRANK O’DONNELL: a Tale of Irish life; edited by “Allen H. Clington.” -Pp. 370. (_Duffy_). 5_s._ 1861. - - Tipperary in the years before (and during) the Famine of 1846. - Glimpses of Tipperary homes, both clerical and lay. Almost - every aspect of Irish life at the time is pictured—the Famine, - Souperism, an Irish agent and his victims (ch. xii.), how St. - Patrick’s Day is kept, Irish horse races (ch. ii.), &c. “I - have shewn how the people are made the catspaw of aspiring - politicians [elections are described] and needy landlords.” - Author says the characters are taken from real life. They - are for the most part very well drawn, _e.g._, Mr. Baker, “a - regular Jack Falstaff,” full of boast about wonderful but - wholly imaginary exploits; and Father O’Donnell. A pleasant - little love-story runs through the book. The whole is racy - of the soil. The dialect is good, but the conversations of - the upper class are artificial and scarcely true to life. - Introduces the episode of the execution of the Bros. C⸺ in N⸺. - -⸺ SARSFIELD; or, The Last Great Struggle for Ireland. (BOSTON: -_Donahue_). Port. of Sarsfield. 1871. - - The Author calls this a historical romance, but the element - of romance is very small. Ch. I. gives a backward glance over - Ireland’s national struggle in the past. The nominal hero - is Hugh O’Donnell and the heroine Eveleen, granddaughter of - Florence McCarthy, killed on the Rhine. But Sarsfield is - the central figure, and the Author contrives to give us his - whole career. There is plenty of exciting incident, partly - fictitious—forays of the Rapparees, captures, escapes. In spite - of the schemes of the villain rival, Saunders, hero and heroine - are united. The historical standpoint seems fair if not quite - impartial. - -⸺ THE O’DONNELLS OF GLEN COTTAGE. Pp. 498. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). _n.d._ -(1874). Still in print. - - Scene: Tipperary during the Famine years. The fortunes of - a family in the bad times. Famine and eviction and death - wreck its peace, and things are only partially righted after - many years. The author, whose view-point is nationalist - and Catholic, vividly describes the evils of the time—the - terrible sufferings of the Famine, eviction as carried out - by a heartless agent, souperism in the person of Rev. Mr. - Sly, judicial murder as exemplified by the execution of the - M’Cormacks. - -⸺ THE O’MAHONY, CHIEF OF THE COMERAGHS. Pp. 268. (N.Y.: _Sadlier_). 1879. - - A tale of Co. Waterford in 1798, written from a strongly Irish - and Catholic standpoint. Depicts the tyranny of the Protestant - gentry, the savagery of the yeomanry. Typical scenes are - introduced, _e.g._, a flogging at the cart’s tail through the - streets of Clonmel, seizures for tithes, the execution of - Father Sheehy (an avowed anachronism), &c. Chief historical - personages: Sir Judkin Fitzgerald, the “flogging” Sheriff, and - Earl Kingston. A vivid picture, though obviously partisan, and - marred by some inartistic melodrama. - -⸺ ROSE PARNELL, THE FLOWER OF AVONDALE. Pp. 429. (N.Y.: _Sadlier_). 1883. - - A tale of the rebellion of ’98. - - -=COSTELLO, Mary.= - -⸺ PEGGY THE MILLIONAIRE. (_C.T.S. of Ireland: Iona Series_). 1_s._ 1910. - - The story of an Irish girl living in “Loughros,” in the West - of Ireland, some fifty years ago. She is the third and plain - daughter of a disappointed “fine lady,” who has married a - country doctor out of pique, and rues her fate for the rest of - her life, as she cannot appreciate her husband’s good heart - and he cannot give her luxuries and grandeur. To this home - Peggy comes from school. And the book tells us, with plenty of - good fun in the telling, how she made her fortune and how she - scattered happiness and blessings around her.—(_Press Notice_). - - -=COTTON, Rev. S. G.= - -⸺ THE THREE WHISPERS, AND OTHER TALES. Pp. 256. (DUBLIN: _Robertson_). -_c._ 1850. - - In the title story we have two attempted suicides of parents - distraught with grief, the return of a former convict, and an - inheritance for the people who were dying with hunger. Dublin - is the scene. The next story, “Grace Kennedy,” takes place in - the Queen’s Co.: a mother murders her boy, the sister holds the - corpse to the fire and “nestles beside him.” In “The Foundling” - the mother drowns herself, but some charitable Protestants - rescue her child and bring him up in their religion. “Ellen - Seaton” tells how Ellen’s father goes off to be a priest and - her mother to be a nun, and deals with the efforts made by - priests and nuns to get hold of her. Finally she converts her - nun jailer and both escape. In some of these stories the Author - introduces very vulgar brogue, with coarse expressions. - - -=CRAIG, Richard Manifold=, 1845-1913. Born in Dublin, and educated -there. He entered the army as surgeon, and retired with the rank of -Lieut.-Colonel. His other works of fiction—_A Widow Well Left_, _All -Trumps_, _A Sacrifice of Fools_, &c.—do not deal with Irish subjects. - -⸺ THE WEIRD OF “THE SILKEN THOMAS.” Pp. 230. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1900. - - The story of how Lord Thomas Fitzgerald was drawn into revolt - by the treachery of a private enemy. Purports to be a narrative - written at the time by Martyn Baruch Fallon, “scrivener and - cripple,” a loyal inhabitant of Maynooth, with some account - of the latter’s private affairs. Written in quaint, antique - language difficult to follow, especially at the outset of the - book. It seems of little value from an historical point of view. - -⸺ LANTY RIORDAN’S RED LIGHT. - - I am not certain whether this story appeared in book form. It - is not in the B. Museum Library. - - -=CRAIG, J. Duncan, D.D.= - -⸺ BRUCE REYNALL, M.A. Pp. 271. (_Elliot Stock_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1898. - - Author of “Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland,” and of - several learned works. A story of an Oxford man who came to - Ireland as _locum tenens_ in the most disturbed time, and found - life a good deal more exciting than at his English curacy. - The Orangemen are very favourably represented. In the preface - to the following work the Author says of this, “The Reign of - Terror which prevailed in Ireland while the horrors of the Land - League were brooding over the land, and a picture of which I - have endeavoured to delineate in _Bruce Reynall_.” - -⸺ REAL PICTURES OF CLERICAL LIFE IN IRELAND. Pp. 351. (_Elliot Stock_). -[1875]. 1900. - - The first six chapters are autobiographical, the remaining - sixty-five are a series of anecdotes and stories in which - the Catholic clergy and the doctrines of the Church appear - to great disadvantage. The lawlessness and brutality of the - peasantry are also much insisted on, and the conversion of - Ireland to Protestantism seems to obsess the writer. Some of - the incidents related are improbable in the extreme, and it is - not clear from the Preface to what extent the Author intended - them as narratives of actual fact. At all events they are told - in the form of fiction. There are also gruesome reminiscences - of agrarian disturbances and of the Fenian outbreak, and a - chapter against Home Rule. The Author was born in Dublin in - the twenties, of Scottish parents. He went to T.C.D. in 1847. - He was long Vicar of Kinsale. He was remarkable as the author - of several important works on the Provençal language and - literature. He died in 1909. - - -=CRANE, Stephen, and BARR, Robert.= - -⸺ THE O’RUDDY. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Has been well described as a fairy story for grown-ups, with - plenty of humorous incident—love affairs, duels, &c. The - O’Ruddy is a reckless, rollicking, lovable character. There is - little or no connexion with real life.—(THE ACADEMY). - - -=CRAWFORD, Mrs. A.= - -⸺ LISMORE. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Newby_). 1853. - - A rambling and sentimental tale, the scene of which is Southern - Ireland (Lismore and Ardmore) and Italy in 1659-60. It is in - no sense historical, nor does the Author seem to have any - knowledge of the period dealt with. The personages live in - “suburbs” and ring the “breakfast-bell.” An amusing ignorance - of Catholic matters is evidenced. The plot is confused and - without unity. - - -=CRAWFORD, Mary S.; “Coragh Travers.”= - -⸺ HAZEL GRAFTON. Pp. 350. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Hazel leaves Bournemouth and her school days and two rejected - suitors—both curates—to live with her adoring parents in the - W. of Ireland. She and Denis Martin fall in love, but the - course of love does not run smooth. The two are kept apart - by their parents, who are intent on other matches. A quarrel - completes the breach, but all comes right in the end by help - of a divorce and a death. Trips to Dublin and to Bundoran and - the performances of a genuine stage-Irishman are introduced to - enliven the tale. - - -=CRAWFORD, Michael George.= - -⸺ LEGENDARY STORIES OF THE CARLINGFORD LOUGH DISTRICT. Pp. 201, close -print. (NEWRY: _Offices of “The Frontier Sentinel”_). 1_s._ 1914. - - Thirty-four stories, embodying the legends of a district - exceptionally rich in memories of old Gaelic Ireland—Cuchulain - and the Red Branch—and also with great Irish-Norman families - like the De Courcys and De Burgos. By a writer thoroughly - acquainted with the district. - - -=CRICHTON, Mrs. F. E.= Born in Belfast, 1877; educated at a private -school near Richmond. Travelled much in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. -Besides the three novels noted below she publ. some short stories, a -little book _The Precepts of Andy Saul_, based on the character of an old -gardener, and some books for children. - -⸺ THE SOUNDLESS TIDE. Pp. 328. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Life of country gentry and peasantry in County Down. With the - latter the Author is particularly effective, bringing out their - characteristics with quiet “pawky” humour. Especially, there is - Mrs. M’Killop and her wise saws. But the Colonel and his wife - are also very well drawn. There is pathos as well as humour. - Noteworthy also are the descriptions of sea-coast scenery, and - the story of the fight on the “twalth”—(I.B.L.). It is a simple - tale of lover’s misunderstandings. Religious strife is pictured - with perhaps undue insistence. - -⸺ TINKER’S HOLLOW. Pp. 336. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1912. - - A charming and delicately-told love story, with a background - of life among the Presbyterians (both the better class, and - the peasantry and servants) near a small town in Co. Antrim. - Shows an intimate and sympathetic knowledge of the people that - furnishes the characters of the story. The dialect is perfectly - reproduced. There is a pleasant picture of the bright and - sunny Sally Bruce growing from girlhood into womanhood amid - the dull austerity of Coole House, in the society of her two - maiden aunts and her bachelor uncle. There are pleasant gleams - of Northern humour, not a few gems of rustic philosophy, and - vignettes of Antrim scenery. The human interest is, however, - strongest of all. - -⸺ THE BLIND SIDE OF THE HEART. Pp. 299. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ 1915. - - The story of Dick Sandford’s choice between his cousin - Betty—English like himself—bright, charming, wholly of this - world, and Ethne Blake whom he meets while on a visit to - Ireland. The book is really a study, or rather an imaginative - presentment of this strange, almost unearthly, figure as - typifying the mystic, faery side of the Celtic temperament, - and of the background of haunted Irish landscape and peasant - fairy-lore, against which she moves. The vital difference in - the two temperaments, Celt and Saxon, is suggested throughout. - The peasantry of the remote mountain glens are pictured with - sympathy and insight. - - -=CROKER, Mrs. B. M.=, wife of Lieut.-Col. Croker, late Royal Munster -Fusiliers; daughter of Rev. W. Sheppard, Rector of Kilgefin, Co. -Roscommon; educated at Rockferry, Cheshire. She spent fourteen years in -the East, whence the Eastern subjects of some of her novels. These number -nearly forty. She resides for the most part in London and Folkestone. - -⸺ A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Pp. 366. (_Chatto & Windus_). [1886.] New edition. -1903. - - A love story, beginning in the Andamans. There is a lively - picture of garrison life, including the clever portrait of - the “leading lady” (and tyrant), Mrs. Creery. The lovers are - separated by the scheming of an unsuccessful rival. The girl - first lives a Cinderella life, with disagreeable relations in - London, then is a governess, and finally (p. 256) goes to a - relation in Ireland. Then there are amusing studies of Irish - types—carmen (Larry Flood, with his famous “Finnigan’s mare”), - and servants, and a family of broken-down gentry. Things come - right in the end. - -⸺ IN THE KINGDOM OF KERRY. (_Chatto & Windus_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1896. - - “Seven sketchy little stories of poor folk, written in light - and merry style.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ BEYOND THE PALE. (_Chatto & Windus_). 3_s._ 6_d._ and 6_d._ (N.Y.: -_Fenno_). 0.50. 1897. - - Story of an Irish girl of good family, who is obliged to train - horses for a living, but ends successfully. Scene: a hunting - county three hours’ journey from Dublin. Much stress is laid - on the feudal spirit of the peasantry, who are viewed from the - point of view of the upper classes, but sympathetically. - -⸺ TERENCE. Pp. 342. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ Six illustr. by Sidney -Paget. (N.Y.: _Buckles_). 1.25. 1899. - - Scene: an anglers’ hotel in Waterville, Co. Kerry, and the - neighbourhood, which the Author knows and describes well. A - tale of love and foolish jealousy. The personages belong to - the Protestant upper classes. The chief interest is in the - working out of the plot, which is well sustained all through. - “Contains comedy of a broad and sometimes vulgar kind, turning - on jealousy and scandal.”—(_Baker_ 2). - -⸺ JOHANNA. Pp. 315. (_Methuen_). 1903. - - The story of a beautiful but very stupid peasant girl who, - forced by a tyrannical stepmother to fly from her home in - Kerry, sets off for Dublin. On the way she loses the address - of the house she is going to, is snapped up by the keeper of a - lodging-house, and there lives as a slavey a life of dreadful - drudgery and of suffering from unpleasant boarders. - -⸺ A NINE DAYS’ WONDER. Pp. 310. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1905]. - - How Mary Foley, brought up for twenty-one years in an Irish - cabin, is suddenly claimed as his daughter by an English - peer, and becomes Lady Joseline Dene. How she gives Society a - sensation by her countrified speech and manners, and by her - too truthful and pointed remarks, but carries it by storm in - the end, and marries her early love. The writer has a good - knowledge of the talk of the lower middle classes. There is no - bias in the story, which is a thoroughly pleasant one. - -⸺ LISMOYLE: an Experiment in Ireland. Pp. 384. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1914. - - The six months’ visit of a young English heiress to the - stately, dilapidated mansion of Lismoyle, in the Co. Tipperary, - involving a comedy of courtship, many amusing situations, and - some description of the small social affairs of the county. No - Irish “problem” is touched upon. - - The Scenes of some others of her novels are laid partly in - Ireland, _e.g._, TWO MASTERS (_Chatto_), 1890; and INTERFERENCE - (_Chatto_), 1894. - - -=CROKER, T. Crofton.= Born in Cork, 1798; died in London, 1854. Was one -of the most celebrated of Irish antiquaries, folk-lorists, and collectors -of ancient airs. He helped to found the Camden Society (1839), the Percy -Society (1840), and the British Archæological Association (1843). Was a -Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and of many Continental societies. -Wrote or edited a great number of works. His leisure hours were spent -in rambles in company with a Quaker gentleman of tastes similar to his -own. In these excursions he gained that intimate knowledge of the people, -their ideas, traditions, and tales, which he afterwards turned to good -account. - -⸺ LEGENDS OF THE LAKES. [1829]. Illustr. by Maclise. - - Killarney. A series of stories, similar to those in the _Fairy - Legends_, of fairies, ghosts, banshees, &c. - -⸺ KILLARNEY LEGENDS. Pp. 294. 16mo. (LONDON: _Fisher_). Some steel -engravings (quite fanciful). [1831]. Second edition, 1879. - - An abbreviated ed. of _Legends of the Lakes_. Second ed. was - edited by Author’s son, T. F. D. Croker. Topographical Index. - -⸺ FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. New and complete -edition. Illustr. by Maclise & Green. 1882. - - First appeared 1825; often republished since. Classified under - the headings:—The Shefro; the Cluricaune; the Banshee; the - Phooka; Thierna na oge (_sic_); the Merrow; the Dullahan, - &c. “I make no pretension to originality, and avow at once - that there is no story in my book which has not been told - by half the old women of the district in which the scene - is laid. I give them as I found them” (Pref.). This is the - first collection of Irish folk-lore apart from the peddler’s - chap-books. Dr. Douglas Hyde (Pref. to _Beside the Fire_) calls - this a delightful book, and speaks of Croker’s “light style, - his pleasant parallels from classics and foreign literature, - and his delightful annotations,” but says that he manipulated - for the English market, not only the form, but often the - substance, of his stories. Scott praised the book very highly - in the notes to the 1830 ed. of the _Waverley Novels_, as well - as in his _Demonology and Witchcraft_. The original ed. was - trans. into German by the Bros. Grimm, 1826, and into French by - P. A. Dufour, 1828. - - -=CROKER, Mrs. T. Crofton.= - -⸺ BARNEY MAHONEY. [1832]. - - “Has for a hero an Irish peasant, who conceals under a vacant - countenance and blundering demeanour shrewdness, quick - wit, and, despite a touch of rascality, real kindness of - heart.”—(_Krans_). - - -=CROMARTIE, Countess of; Sibell Lilian Mackenzie, Viscountess of Tarbat, -Baroness of Castlehaven and Macleod.= Born 1878. Lives at Castle Leod, -Strathpeffer, N.B. Publ. _The End of the Song_, 1904, _The Web of the -Past_, _The Golden Guard_, &c. - -⸺ SONS OF THE MILESIANS. Pp. 306. (_Eveleigh, Nash_). 1906. - - Short stories, some Irish, some Highland Scotch, somewhat in - the manner of Fiona MacLeod’s beautiful _Barbaric Tales_. The - stories deal with various periods from the time of the Emperor - Julian to the present day, and they are vivid pictures of - life and manners at these different epochs. The standpoint is - thoroughly Gaelic, and there is much pathos and much beauty in - the tales. - -⸺ THE DAYS OF FIRE. Pp. 114. (_Wellby_). Artistic cover in white and -gold. 1908. - - The scene is laid in Ireland in the days of the first - Milesians, but does not deal with historical events. Tells of - the love of Heremon the King for a beautiful slave. Full of - sensuous description in a smooth, dreamy style. Frankly pagan - in spirit. - -⸺ THE GOLDEN GUARD. Pp. 407. (_Allen_). 6_s._ 1912. - - “A tale of ‘far off things and battles long ago,’ when King - Heremon the Beautiful, who reigned at Tara over Milesian and - Phoenician ..., fought with his Golden Guard against the - Northern Barbarians. Lady Cromartie gives fire and passion to - the shadowy figures, filling her imaginative pages with crowded - hours of love and fighting, toil, pleasure, and vigorous - life.”—(T. LIT. SUPPL.). - - -=CROMIE, Robert.= Born at Clough, Co. Down, the son of Dr. Cromie. Was on -the staff of Belfast NORTHERN WHIG, and died suddenly about ten years ago. - -⸺ THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. Pp. 326. (_Ward & Locke_). 6_s._ 1902. - - A sympathetic study of Ulster Presbyterian life is the - background for the romance, ending in tragedy, of a young - minister. Besides the occasional dialect (well handled) there - is little of Ireland in the book, but the story is told with - much skill, and never flags. Bromley, an unbeliever, almost a - cynic, but a true man and unselfish to the point of heroism, is - a remarkable study. The author has also published _The Crack of - Doom_, _The King’s Oak_, _For England’s Sake_, &c. - - -=CROMMELIN, May de la Cherois.= Born in Ireland. Daughter of late S. -de la Cherois Crommelin, of Carrowdore Castle, Co. Down, a descendant -of Louis Crommelin, a Huguenot refugee, who founded the linen trade in -Ulster. Educated at home. Early life spent in Ireland; resided since in -London; has travelled much. Publ. more than thirty novels.—(WHO’S WHO). -_Queenie_ was the Author’s first novel. _A Jewel of a Girl_ deals with -Ireland and Holland. - -⸺ ORANGE LILY. Two Vols., afterwards One Vol. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1879. - - The story of Lily Keag, daughter of a Co. Down Orangeman, - who, to the disgust of her social circle, falls in love with - her father’s servant boy. The latter goes to America, and - thence returns, a wealthy man, to claim Lily. The scenery is - well described and the dialect well rendered. A healthy and - high-toned novel. - -⸺ BLACK ABBEY. Pp. 447. (_Sampson, Low_). [1880]. 1882. - - We are first introduced to a delightful circle, the three - children of Black Abbey (somewhere in Co. Down) and those about - them, their German governess and Irish nurse and their playmate - Bella, born in America, granddaughter of the old Presbyterian - minister. The picture of their home-life is pleasant and - life-like, with a vein of quiet humour. Then they grow up - and things no longer run smoothly. Bella, by her marriage, - well-nigh wrecks four lives, including her own, but things seem - to be righting themselves as the story closes. The dialect of - the Northern servants is very well done. The tone of the book - is most wholesome though by no means “goody-goody.” - -⸺ DIVIL-MAY-CARE; alias Richard Burke, sometime Adjutant of the Black -Northerns. Pp. x. + 306. (_F. V. White_). 6_s._ 1899. - - A series of humorous and exciting episodes, forming the - adventures of an officer home from India on sick leave. Most of - them are located in Antrim. No religious or political bias, but - a tinge of the stage Irishman. - -⸺ THE GOLDEN BOW. (_Holden & Hardingham_). 6_s._ _c._ 1912. - - Story of the sorrows and suitors, from her unhappy childhood - to a happy engagement, of an Irish girl, who is poor, proud, - and pretty. A lovable character is Judith’s crippled sister - Melissa. Scene: N. of Ireland. There is a good deal of dialect, - and the ways of the peasantry are faithfully depicted. - - -=CROSBIE, Mary.= Born in England. Educated privately and at various -English schools. Has frequently visited and stayed in Ireland. Her first -novel, _Disciples_, was publ. in 1907; but it was the second that was -most successful, three editions being called for within a short time. - -⸺ KINSMEN’S CLAY. Pp. 389. (Close print). (_Methuen_). 6_s._ First and -second editions. 1910. - - Main theme: wife and lover waiting for invalid and impossible - husband to die. The treatment of this theme and that of a minor - plot makes the book unsuited for certain classes of readers. - Moreover, the tone is alien to religion. God is “perhaps the - flowering of men’s ideals under the rain of their tears.” But - the tone is not frankly anti-moral. The personages are all of - the country Anglo-Irish gentry, except one peasant family, and - this shows up badly. The types are drawn with much skill, and - there is constant clever analysis of moods and emotions. The - story brings out in a vague way the transmission through a - family of ancestral peculiarities. - -⸺ BRIDGET CONSIDINE. Pp. 347. (_Bell_). 6_s._ 1914. - - Bridget’s father is the son of a broken-down shopkeeper - somewhere beyond the Shannon, but clings to aristocratic - notions. She grows up in London along with “Lennie-next-door,” - but her mind outgrows his. She goes to stay W. of the Shannon - as secretary to a rich lady. There she becomes engaged to Hugh - Delmege, a young landowner. All her yearnings seem fulfilled, - yet somehow it is not what she had expected; a short separation - from Hugh still further opens her eyes, and she returns - disillusioned. This is the bare skeleton: it does not do - justice to the philosophy and the style of the book, both of - which are remarkable. - - -=CROSBIE, W. J.= - -⸺ DAVID MAXWELL. (_Jarrold_). 6_s._ 1902. - - ’98 from the loyalist standpoint, and adventures in Mexico and - South Texas, &c. “David” is “Scotch-Irish.”—(_Baker_, 2). - - -=CROSFIELD, H. C.= - -⸺ FOR THREE KINGDOMS. Pp. 241. (_Elliott Stock_). 1909. - - “Recollections of Robert Warden, a servant of King James.” By - a series of accidents the teller finds himself on board one of - the ships that raises the blockade of Derry; he escapes and - goes to Dublin, where he has exciting adventures. Tyrconnell - is introduced—a very unfavourable portrait; and the hero goes - through the Boyne Campaign. Told in lively style, with plenty - of incident. - - -=CROTTIE, Julia M.= Born in Lismore, Co. Waterford. Educated privately -and at the Presentation Convent, Lismore. Contributed to the CATHOLIC -WORLD, N.Y., and to other American Catholic periodicals, also to the -MONTH, the ROSARY, &c. She resides in Ramsay, Isle of Man. - -⸺ NEIGHBOURS. Pp. 307. (_Unwin_). 6_s._ 1900. - - Pictures of very unlovely aspects of life in a small stagnant - town. Twenty separate sketches. Wonderfully true to reality - and to the petty unpleasant sides of human nature. The gossip - of the back lane is faithfully reproduced, though without - vulgarity. The stories are told with great skill. - -⸺ THE LOST LAND. Pp. 266. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ [1901]. 1907. - - “A tale of a Cromwellian Irish town [in Munster]. Being the - autobiography of Miss Annita Lombard.” A picture of the - pitiful failure of the United Irishmen to raise and inspirit a - people turned to mean, timid, and crawling slaves by ages of - oppression. Thad Lombard, sacrificing fortune, home, happiness, - and at last his life for the Lost Land, is a noble figure. The - book is a biting and powerful satire upon various types of - anglicized or vulgar or pharisaical Catholicism (the author is - a Catholic). The whole is a picture of unrelieved gloom. The - style, beautiful, and often poetic, but deepens the sadness. - Thad Lombard, a hundred years before the time, pursues the - ideals of the Gaelic League. Period: _c._ 1780-1797. - - -=CROWE, Eyre Evans=, 1799-1868. Though born in England, this -distinguished historian and journalist was of Irish origin, and was -educated at Trinity. In BLACKWOOD he first published several of his Irish -novels. Though imperfectly acquainted with the art of a novelist this -writer is often correct and happy in his descriptions and historical -summaries. Like Banim he has ventured on the stormy period of 1798, and -has been more minute than his great rival in sketching the circumstances -of the rebellion.—(Chambers’s _Cyclopædia of English Literature_). - -⸺ TO-DAY IN IRELAND. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Knight_). 1825. - - Four stories:—1. “The Carders.” 2. “Connemara.” 3. “Old and - New Light.” 4. “The O’Toole’s Warning.” The scene of 1 is - “Rathfinnan,” on Lough Ree, not far from Athlone. It is a very - dark picture of the secret societies and of the peasants in - general, but an equally merciless picture of certain types - of the Ascendancy class, notably a Protestant curate and - Papist-hunter named Crosthwaite. The hero Arthur Dillon (a true - hero of romance) is a young Catholic student of T.C.D., who - narrowly escapes being implicated in the secret societies. He - dreams of rebellion, and is nearly caught in the meshes of a - villainous-plotting Jesuit. There is a love story, with a happy - ending. 2. Is a burlesque story telling how M’Laughlin, a sort - of King of Connemara, escaped his debtors in a coffin. Some - smuggling episodes. Description of the fair of Ballinasloe, p. - 196. Much about wild feudal hospitality and lawlessness. 3. Is - a satirical study of Protestant religious life at “Ardenmore,” - Co. Louth. “Sir Starcourt Gibbs” seems obviously intended as a - portrait of Sir Harcourt Lees, an Evangelical Orange leader in - Dublin in the twenties and thirties. - -⸺ CONNEMARA OU UMA ELEIÇÃO NA IRLANDA: Romance Irlandez tradusido por -C[amillo] A[ureliano] da S[ilva] e S[ousa] (PORTO). 1843. - -⸺ YESTERDAY IN IRELAND. Three Vols., containing two long stories, viz.: -1. “Corramahon.” Pp. 600. Large loose print. - - O’Mahon, an Irish Jacobite soldier of fortune, is the hero. The - plot consists mainly of the intertwined love stories of men and - women separated by barriers of class, creed, and nationality. - Good picture of politics at the time. Hardships of Penal days - illustrated (good description of Midnight Mass). Ulick O’More, - the Rapparee, is a fine figure. Interest sustained by exciting - incidents. Scene laid near town of Carlow. - -2. “The Northerns of ’98.” Pp. 367. - - Scene: Mid-Antrim. Adventures of various persons in ’98 (Winter - and Orde are the chief names). Feelings and sentiments of the - times portrayed, especially those of United Irishmen. Battle of - Antrim described. Author leans somewhat to National side. - - -=[CRUMPE, Miss].= Daughter of Dr. Crumpe (1766-1796), a famous physician -in Limerick. According to the Madden MSS., she wrote several other novels. - -⸺ GERALDINE OF DESMOND; or, Ireland in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. -Three Vols. (LONDON: _Colburn_). 1829. - - Dedicated to Thomas Moore. A story of the Desmond Rebellion - 1580-2, (battle of Monaster-ni-via, the massacre of Smerwick, - &c.) with, as personages in the story, the chief historical - figures of the time:—the Desmonds and Ormonds, Fr. Allen, - S.J., Sanders, Sir Henry Sidney, Sir William Drury, Dr. - Dee the Astrologer, Queen Elizabeth herself. The Author has - worked into the slight framework of her story an elaborate and - careful picture of the times, the fruit, she tells us, of years - of study and research. As a result the romance is overlaid - and well-nigh smothered with erudition, apart even from the - learned notes appended to each volume. The Author is obviously - inspired by a great love and enthusiasm for Ireland, and takes - the national side thoroughly. The book is ably written, but - resembles rather a treatise than a novel. - -⸺ THE DEATH FLAG; or, The Irish Buccaneers. Three Vols. (LONDON). 1851. - - -=CUNINGHAME, Richard.= - -⸺ THE BROKEN SWORD OF ULSTER: A brief relation of the Events of one of -the most stirring and momentous eras in the Annals of Ireland. Crown 8vo. -(_Hodges & Figgis_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1904. - - Account of chief events. Not in form of fiction. Tone somewhat - anti-national (_cf._ authorities chiefly relied on). Moral: - Ireland’s crowning need is to accept the teaching of St. Paul - on charity. This is “the God-provided cure for all her woes.” - This Author wrote also _In Bonds but Fetterless_, 1875. - - -=CURTIN, Jeremiah=, 1840-1916. Born in Milwaukee, educated at Harvard. -A distinguished American traveller, linguist, and ethnologist. Has -translated great numbers of books from the Russian and the Polish, and -has published many works on the folk-lore of the Russians, Magyars, -Mongols, American Aborigines, &c. Visited Ireland in 1887 and 1891. - -⸺ MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND. (_Sampson, Low_). 9_s._ Etched -frontispiece. 1890. - - “Twenty tales” says Douglas Hyde (Pref. to _Beside the Fire_), - “told very well, and with much less cooking and flavouring - than his predecessors employed.” The tales were got from - Gaelic speakers through an interpreter (Mr. Curtin knowing - not a word of Gaelic). Beyond this fact he does not tell us - where, from whom, or how he collected the stories. Dr. Hyde - says again, “From my own knowledge of Folk-lore, such as it - is, I can easily recognise that Mr. Curtin has approached the - fountain-head more nearly than any other.” - -⸺ HERO TALES OF IRELAND, collected by. Pp. lii. + 558. (_Macmillan_). -7_s._ 6_d._ 1894. - - Learned introduction speculates on origin of myths of primitive - races. Compares Gaelic myths with those of other races, - especially North American Indians. Contends that the characters - in the tales are personifications of natural forces and the - elements, and that the tales themselves in their earliest form - give man’s primitive ideas of the creation, &c. The volume - consists of twenty-four folk-lore stories dealing chiefly with - heroes of the Gaelic cycles. Not interesting in themselves, and - with much sameness in style, matter, and incident. There is - some naturalistic coarseness here and there, and the tone in - some places is vulgar. The stories were told to the Author by - Kerry, Connemara, and Donegal peasants, whose names are given - in a note on p. 549. - -⸺ TALES OF THE FAIRIES AND OF THE GHOST WORLD. Pp. ix. + 198. (_Nutt_). -1895. - - Preface by Alfred Nutt. This collection supplements the two - previous collections. It is collected from oral tradition - chiefly in S.-W. Munster. Illustrates the present-day belief - of the peasantry in ghosts, fairies, &c. There are thirty - tales, many of them new. A good number of them are, of course, - grotesque and extravagant. They contain nothing objectionable, - but obviously are hardly suitable for children. - - -=CURTIS, Robert.= - -⸺ THE IRISH POLICE OFFICER. Pp. vii. + 216. (_Ward, Lock_). 1861. - - Six short stories, reprinted from DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, - entitled “The Identification,” “The Banker of Ballyfree,” “The - Reprieve,” “The Two Mullanys,” “M’Cormack’s Grudge,” “How ‘The - Chief’ was Robbed.” They deal chiefly with remarkable trials in - Ireland. “They are all founded upon facts which occurred within - my own personal knowledge; and for the accuracy of which not - only I, but others, can vouch.”—(Pref.). Author was Inspector - of Police, and published (1869) _The History of the R.I.C._ and - _The Trial of Captain Alcohol_. Pp. 48. (_McGlashan & Gill_). - 1871. - -⸺ RORY OF THE HILLS. Pp. 356. Post 8vo. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1870]. Still in -print. - - A faithful and sympathetic picture of the peasant life and - manners at the time (early nineteenth century). The Author, - a police officer, has drawn on his professional experiences. - The tale, founded on fact, is an edifying one despite the - unrelieved villainy of Tom Murdock. The influence of religion - is felt throughout, especially in the heroic charity of the - heroine even towards the murderer of her lover. Peasant speech - reproduced to the life. - - -=CURRAN, H. G.= (1800-1876). Natural son of John Philpot Curran, and a -barrister. - -⸺ CONFESSIONS OF A WHITEFOOT. Pp. 306. (_Bentley_). (Edited by G. C. H., -Esq., B.L.). 1844. - - The supposed teller began as a supporter of “law and order,” - but the conviction of the abuses of landlordism is forced upon - him by experience and observation, and he ends by joining the - secret society of the Whitefeet. He makes no secret of the - crimes of this body, and many of them are described in the - course of the narrative. - - -=CUSACK, Mary Frances=, known as “The Nun of Kenmare.” Originally a -Protestant, she became a Catholic and a Poor Clare. From her convent -in Kenmare she issued quite a library of books on many subjects—Irish -history, general and local, Irish biography, stories, poems, works of -piety and of instruction. Subsequently she left her convent, went to -America, and reverted to Protestantism. Died Leamington, 1899, aged 70. -She has published her autobiography. - -⸺ NED RUSHEEN; or, Who Fired the First Shot? Pp. 373. (_Burns & Oates._ -BOSTON: _Donahoe_). Four rather mediocre Illus. 1871. - - A murder mystery. The hero is wrongly accused, but is acquitted - in the end. The real culprit (scapegrace son of the victim, - Lord Elmsdale) confesses when dying. The mystery is well kept - up to the end. Indeed, the explanation of it is by no means - clear, even at the close. The moral purpose is kept prominently - before the reader throughout. Tone strongly religious and - Catholic, the Protestant religion being more than once - compared, to its disadvantage, with the Catholic. - -⸺ TIM O’HALLORAN’S CHOICE; or, From Killarney to New York. Pp. 262. -(LONDON: _Burns_). [1877]. 1878. - - “This little story gives a strong picture of the heroic faith, - sufferings, and native humour of the Irish poor.”—(_Press - Notice_). When Tim is dying a priest and a “Souper” contend for - possession of his boy Thade. Tim is faithful to his Church, - but after his death the boy is kidnapped by the proselytisers. - He escapes, and is sheltered by a good Catholic named O’Grady. - Subsequently he finds favour with a rich American, who takes - him off to New York. - - -=D’ARBOIS DE JUBAINVILLE, Henri.= Born in Nancy, 1827. Died 1910. -Educated in École des Chartes. A biographical notice of him, followed -by a bibliography of his works, will be found in the _Revue Celtique_ -(Vol. 32, p. 456, 1911), which he edited for many years. The list of his -works contains 238 items, the greater number of which concern Celts. -Perhaps rather more than half deal with Ireland. They include a _Cours -de Littérature Celtique_ in 12 vols., a history of the Celts, a work on -the Irish mythological cycle, and a catalogue of the epic literature of -Ireland. That on the Irish mythological cycle has been well translated by -R. I. Best (_Hodges & Figgis_). 1903. Pp. xv. + 240. - - -=D’ARCY, Hal.= - -⸺ A HANDFUL OF DAYS. Pp. 319. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1914. - - “How John O’Grady left his irritating wife and selfish children - to revisit the home of his fathers in I. for a short time; - how he met ... Mary O’Connor ...; how he fell in love, and - told her so—forgetting to mention the irritating wife, &c.... - The picture of the old Irish priest, Mary’s uncle, is the one - redeeming feature of a mawkish, unsatisfactory tale.”—(T. LITT. - SUPPL.). This fairly describes the story. Non-Catholic, but not - prejudiced. Scene: Glendalough. - - -=DAMANT, Mary.= The Author is a daughter of General Chesney, the Asiatic -explorer. - -⸺ PEGGY. Pp. 405. (_Allen_). 1887. - - _Domestic_ life in North Antrim previous to, and during, the - Rebellion of 1798. “Many of the facts of my little tale were - told me in childhood by those, whose recollection of the rising - was rendered vivid by desolate homes, loss of relations, - &c.”—(Pref.). Eschews historical or political questions. - Favourable to “poor deluded peasants.” Thinks little of United - Irishmen who are “imbued with the poison of revolutionary - principles.” Well and pleasantly written in autobiographical - form. - - -=DAUNT, Alice O’Neill=, 1848-1915. Was the only daughter of W. J. O’Neill -Daunt. Contributed to THE LAMP, IRELAND’S OWN, and other magazines. She -wrote many little stories, as serials or in book form, for the most part -religious (Catholic) and didactic. - -⸺ EVA; or, as the Child, so the Woman. Pp. 107. 16mo. (_Richardson_). -1_s._ 1882. - - One of a little series of Catholic Tales for the young. A sad - little story, full of piety. Scene in Ireland, but the story is - not specially Irish in any way. - - -=DAUNT, W. J. O’Neill.= Born in Tullamore, 1807. Son of Joseph Daunt, of -Ballyneen, Cork. Became a Catholic about 1827. Was in Repeal Association -from the first, and remained to the end one of O’Connell’s most loyal -co-operators. Died 1894. His biography has been published under the -title, _A Life Spent for Ireland_, 1896. - -⸺ SAINTS AND SINNERS. Two Vols. aftds. One Vol. (_Duffy_). (N.Y.: -_Pratt_). 0.50. 1843, &c. - - “The reader who expects in this narrative what is commonly - called the plot, or story, of a novel will, we fairly warn - him, be disappointed. Our object in becoming the historian of - Howard is merely to trace the impressions produced on his mind - by the very varied principles and notions with which he came in - contact” (beginning of chap. xiii.). The book is, besides, a - very satirical study of various types of Ulster Protestantism, - and a controversial novel, reference to Scripture and to - various Catholic authorities being frequently given in - footnotes. The story, a slight one, moves slowly, but the - situations have a good deal of humour. - -⸺ HUGH TALBOT. Pp. 473. (_Duffy_). 1846. - - “A Tale of the Irish confiscations of the 17th century,” - _i.e._, the reign of James I. Scene varies between England, - Ireland, and Scotland. Opens in 1609. Portrait of James I. No - other historical personage. Persecution, arrest, and adventures - of Father Hugh Talbot. Chief interest lies in the picture of - the times, which is carefully drawn. The story, however, is - well told, the conversations clever and fairly natural, the - character-drawing good. The Author is strongly opposed to - religious persecution. The Irish localities are not specified. - -⸺ THE GENTLEMAN IN DEBT. Pp. 339. (_Cameron & Ferguson_). 1_s._ (N.Y.: -_Pratt_). 1.50. [1848]. 1851, &c. - - Adventures of a penniless young gentleman trying to get a - position. Depicts (after Lever), first life in Galway, among - impecunious, fox-hunting, hard-drinking, duelling squires - (Blakes, Bodkins, and O’Carrolls); then the vapid life of - Castle aristocracy in the Dublin of the time, with its - place-hunting and ignoble time-serving. Incidentally (for the - author does not moralise) we have glimpses of the working - of the Penal laws. The story is an unexciting one of rather - matter-of-fact courtship and of domestic intrigue. There are - not a few amusing scenes, nothing objectionable, and little - bias. A striking character study is that of the Rev. Julius - Blake, who is of the tribe of Pecksniff, but with quite - distinctive features. - - -=[DEACON, W. F.].= - -⸺ THE EXILE OF ERIN; or, the Sorrows of a Bashful Irishman. Two Vols. -(_Whittaker_). 1835. - - Early 19th century. Adventures of a villain of the worst type - in Ireland, England, and on the Continent. Commits almost every - conceivable crime, including bigamy and embezzlement. Acts - every part from strolling player to journalist and political - partisan. Tells all this in first person. Incidentally the - book is a bitter satire on Ireland, Irish priests, Irish - politicians. Represents the “O’Connellite rabble” as capable - of any outrage and O’Connell himself (under the name of - O’Cromwell) as a political adventurer. Author admits not being - Irish. - -⸺ ADVENTURES OF A BASHFUL IRISHMAN. (LONDON). 1862. - - This is a new ed. of _The Exile of Erin; or, the Sorrows of a - Bashful Irishman_. - - -=DEASE, Alice.= Daughter of J. A. Dease, of Turbotstown, Co. Westmeath. -Lives Simonstown, Coole, Co. Westmeath.—(CATH. WHO’S WHO). - -⸺ THE BECKONING OF THE WAND. Pp. 164. (_Sands_). 3_s._ 6_d._. Very -tastefully bound. 1908. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.00. Cheap edition, 1_s._ -6_d._ 1915. - - We are used to having depicted with painful realism all our - faults, all the defects of Irish life on the material side. - This little book denies none of these, but it shows another - side of the Irish character, the deep-rooted, intense Catholic - faith, the union with the supernatural, that brightens even the - most squalid lives. The anecdotes, which are true, are related - with delicate insight by one who knows and loves the people. - There is a vivid sketch of a Lough Derg pilgrimage. - -⸺ OLD-TIME STORIES OF ERIN. Pp. 215. (_Browne & Nolan_). 2_s._ Illustr. -by C. A. Mills. 1908. - - Sixteen old Gaelic hero legends retold in simple, lucid style - for children. Most of them are well known: “The Wise Judgment - of Cormac Mac Art;” “The Neck Pin of Queen Macha;” “The - Chivalry of Goll Mac Morna,” &c. - -⸺ GOOD MEN OF ERIN. (_Browne & Nolan_). 2_s._ Six Illustr. 1910. - - Stories of a quaint legendary kind connected with nine Irish - Saints. Prettily told. - -⸺ THE MARRYING OF BRYAN; and Other Stories. Pp. 83. (_Sands_). 7_d._ -Coloured frontisp. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.50. Second edition. 1911. - - Six little tales, slight in theme, but delicately wrought. They - are the poetry of real life, mostly Irish peasant life. A moral - may be gleaned from each, but there is no irritating insistence - on it. One tells how, through his love for birds and his fear - of frightening them, a good old P.P. loses his chance of a - canonry. Another tells of the beautiful neighbourly charity of - the Irish peasant. Four are love stories. They are perfect of - their kind. - -⸺ SOME IRISH STORIES. Pp. 96. (_C.T.S._). 6_d._ Stiff wrapper. 1912. - - Eight little stories similar in character and qualities to - _Down West_, _q.v._ - -⸺ THE LADY OF MYSTERY. Pp. 159. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 1913. - - Better class Catholic family life somewhere in the - West—O’Malleys, Dillons, Burkes. Two interwoven love-stories, - a mystery of identity, and the story of a philanthropic - enterprise, the Drinagh Mills. Thoroughly Catholic atmosphere - and moral purpose. - -⸺ DOWN WEST, and Other Sketches of Irish Life. Pp. 119. (ROEHAMPTON: _The -Catholic Library_). 1_s._ Preface by Sir H. Bellingham. 1914. - - Glimpses of real life in Connemara and Aran (described p. 48 - _sq._), dealing less with outward incidents than with the - beauty of the people’s faith, the hardness of their lot, the - joys and sorrows of their lives. Told with a very delicate - suggestiveness, full of touches of humour and of feeling, - without preaching or moralising, by one in thorough sympathy - with the people, and alive, too, to all the influences of - nature. The dialect is reproduced with great fidelity. - - -=DEASE, Charlotte.= - -⸺ CHILDREN OF THE GAEL. Pp. 196. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 0.75. 1911. - - Eight little studies—vignettes—of Irish peasant types, - evidently drawn direct from real life. They are in narrative - form, but in most the incident is slight. They give curiously - vivid glimpses of the life of the poor, of which the Author - has intimate knowledge. The tone is Catholic and “Gaelic.” The - Author avoids phonetic renderings of peasant dialect. - - -=DEBENHAM, Mary H.= - -⸺ CONAN THE WONDER WORKER. Pp. 302. (_National Society_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -Four or five illustr. (N.Y.: _Whittaker_). 1902. - - Norway, _c._ 912-3. Conan is a Christian Scot (_i.e._, - Irishman) who is captured by a Viking, and brought to Norway. - In time he converts the Viking and his family. A good story for - children and even for grown-ups. - -⸺ THE SHEPHERD PRIOR; and other Stories for Sunday Evenings. Pp. 252. -(_National Society_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Four illustr. by Violet M. Smith. -(N.Y.: _Whittaker_). 1907. - - Written for children in a religious vein, with a moral - attached. Only one story deals with Ireland, “The Great - Handwriting.” In it the conversion of the King’s daughters by - St. Patrick is prettily told. Protestant, but not unsuited to - Catholic children. - - -=DEENEY, Daniel.= - -⸺ PEASANT LORE FROM GAELIC IRELAND. Second edition. Pp. 80. (_Nutt_). -1_s._ Stiff wrapper. 1901. - - Relates to the Donegal Highlands and Connemara, in the latter - of which (at Spiddal, I believe) the writer taught Irish. - Consists of illustrations of the peasants’ belief in the - preternatural world of spirits and fairies and influences, - with examples of common superstitious practices. The writer, - if he does not share these beliefs, at least is very far from - despising them. “The majority of them [the items included] - were related to me in the broken English of a Western - peasant”—(Introd.). The book is chiefly interesting to - folk-lorists. - - The same Author’s _Tales and Superstitions of the Connaught - Peasants_. (_Nutt_), 1_s._, 1901, is a collection similar to - the preceding. - - -=DENANCE, L. V.= - -⸺ O’SULLIVAN, DERNIÈRE INSURRECTION DE L’IRLANDE. Pp. 130. (LIMOGES: -_Ardant et Thibant_). 1874? - - Historical introd. very favourable to Ireland. Scene of story: - Cork. Relates incidents of ’98, including French expedition. - Told by O’S. himself, part of whose adventures take place in - Africa. The last page brings him back to Ireland. - - -=DENNY, Madge E.= - -⸺ IRISH TOWN AND COUNTRY TALES. Pp. 232. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ An ugly -cover. - - Pleasant little tales, some of them humorous, written in a - light, breezy style. Many of them deal with love and courtship, - and are sentimental enough, but not in the least objectionable. - - -=DENVIR, John.= Born 1834. Lived nearly all his life in England -(Liverpool, London, and Birmingham). Throughout his long career has never -ceased to work for Ireland. Conducted for some years the CATHOLIC TIMES. -Publ. _The Irish in England_ and his own autobiography, _The Life Story -of an Old Rebel_ (1910), new ed., 1914. He is still living in London. He -has publ. there a considerable number of popular books about Ireland, -including “Denver’s Irish Library,” booklets at a penny each. - -⸺ THE BRANDONS: a Story of Irish life in England. Pp. 153. (_Denver’s -Irish Library_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Paper 1_s._ 1903. - - An Italian carbonaro tragedy that by a strange combination of - circumstances comes into a peaceful back water of Liverpool, - Homer’s Gardens, and mingles with the lives of its Irish - inhabitants. A romantic interest is added by the love of - Hugh and Jack Brandon for Rose Aylmer. Jack’s self-sacrifice - is rewarded in the end. There are several pleasant Irish - characters besides Hugh and Jack—Father MacMahon, genial, - generous, and fatherly; Mick Muldowney and his wife, rough - customers enough, but always cheery, and willing to share their - last crust with anyone in need. - -⸺ OLAF THE DANE. Pp. 103. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. - - Scene: Donegal. Extraordinary story, full of sensational - incidents. It turns chiefly on a prophecy made in the ninth - century about men then living, which is fulfilled in their - descendants of the nineteenth century. One of these latter - is endowed with supernatural powers. There are some pretty - faithful pictures of the peasantry. - - -=[DERENZY, M. G.].= - -⸺ THE OLD IRISH KNIGHT: a Milesian Tale of the Fifth Century. Pp. 186. -(LONDON: _Poole & Edwards_). 1828. - - By the Author of _A Whisper to a Newly-married Pair_, - _Parnassian Geography_, &c. In spite of an apparent effort to - be archæologically correct the book is full of rather absurd - anachronisms. There are already in Ireland abbeys with long - lines of arches, there is talk of the finest organ in Europe - being purchased for one of them, and so on. The story does not - hang together. It is merely a string of disjointed incidents, - most of them wholly improbable. - - -=D’ESPARBÈS, Georges.= - -⸺ LE BRISEUR DE FERS. Pp. 316. (PARIS: _Louis-Michaud_). 3_fr._10. -[1908]. New edition, 1911. - - Dedication (to Colonel Arthur Lynch), and Preface (telling - about the erection of the Humbert Memorial at Ballina). - Humbert’s invasion told in impassioned and somewhat high-flown - language. Describes some of the episodes with extraordinary - vividness. Based mainly on reliable works, but not strictly - historical. The Author is a distinguished writer, and very - prolific, having produced a long series of novels, volumes of - verse, &c. Born 1863 in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne. - - -=DEVINE, D. C.= Is a native of Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, where at present -he is a National School Teacher. Is a man of about 45. - -⸺ FAITHFUL EVER, and Other Tales. Pp. 280. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 1910. - - Eleven stories of Sligo peasant life. The Author has thorough - sympathy with the aspects of life about which he writes. Three - of the tales are love stories, one is a story of ’67, others - are humorous, _e.g._, “Meehaul M’Cann’s Wooing.” We have a - glimpse of the dance, the pattern, rustic courtship, lake and - mountain scenery. The Author avoids politics, but the Catholic - atmosphere is pronounced, throughout. The literary standard is, - perhaps, not of a high order. - -⸺ BEFORE THE DAWN IN ERIN. Pp. 308. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1913]. Second -edition. 1914. - - A story of landlord, agent, and tenant in the County Sligo, - about the eighteen thirties or forties, bringing out what a - hostile agent can do to make the lot of the peasants a very - hard one, and showing how in the end his machinations are - brought to nought thanks to Father Pat. This latter and Father - Tom are fine types of Irish priests. The Author has a good eye - for characters and a keen sense of humour. - - -=DILLON, Patricia.= Born in Dublin. Educated chiefly in France. Has lived -most of her life in London. Has written for periodicals on historical -subjects for the most part. - -⸺ EARL OR CHIEFTAIN. Pp. 140. (_C.T.S. of Ireland_). 1_s._ 1910. - - The opening career of Hugh O’Neill looked at on its romantic - side, including his marriage with Mabel Bagenal. Other historic - characters appear in the tale, notably Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne. - - -=DODGE, W. P.= - -⸺ THE CRESCENT MOON. Pp. 125. (_Long_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1911. - - A little love story, told skilfully enough in letters from - Sir Desmond Fitzgerald to his brother in S. Africa.—[T. LIT. - SUPPL.]. - - -=DOLLARD, Rev. J. B.= - -⸺ THE GAELS OF MOONDHARRIG. Pp. 124. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ - - A collection of pleasant, breezy tales of the exploits, - especially in hurling, of the young men of Moondharrig (South - Kilkenny), showing an intimate knowledge and love of the people - of the author’s native place. An unobtrusive spirit of piety - runs through it. - - -=DORSEY, Anna Hanson.=[3] Born Georgetown, D.C., 1815. Received into the -Catholic Church, 1840. She is a pioneer of Catholic light literature -in the States. Nearly all her stories—there are more than thirty of -them—have a religious purpose, but as a rule this is not too much forced -on the reader. She was a Laetare medallist, described as the highest -honour the Church in America can bestow. Some titles of her books -are—_Tears on the Diadem_, _Dummy_, _Tangled Paths_, _Warp and Woof_, and -her last _Palms_, which was by many considered her best. - -[3] Her daughter, Ella Loraine Dorsey, has written even more than Mrs. A. -H. Dorsey, and is one of the most prominent figures in American Catholic -literature. - -⸺ THE HEIRESS OF CARRIGMONA. Pp. 381. (BOSTON: _Murphy_). Third thousand. -(_Washbourne_). 4_s._ 1910. - - Scene: Co. Wicklow and Western U.S.A. Chiefly concerned - with the fortunes of an Irish peasant family named Travers, - especially the son, who goes to America, gets into trouble, - is rescued, and then⸺. A strong warning against emigration - is conveyed in this latter part of the story. Mrs. Dorsey’s - peasants here, as usual, are lifelike and interesting. Their - best qualities—trust in Providence, resignation under trial, - piety, self-sacrifice—are well brought out. The brogue is not - overdone. Anti-Irish characters are represented as mean and - hypocritical. - -⸺ MONA THE VESTAL. Pp. 163-324. (N.Y.: _Christian Press Association -Publishing Co._). _n.d._ - - Bound in same vol. as “Norah Brady’s Vow” and under latter - title. An endeavour to place the heroic virtues of new - Christians in contrast with the decaying Druidic paganism. The - writer claims the Abbé McGeoghegan’s authority (also that of - Mooney and Carey) for her descriptions of the Ireland of the - time. But, with the exception of the incident of Patrick’s - arrival at Tara, the story and its setting are purely imaginary - and ideal. The Druids worship in vast temples with long - corridors and fine carvings. Tara is a great city of marble - palaces. - -⸺ NORA BRADY’S VOW. Pp. 160. (N.Y.: _Christian Press Association -Publishing Co._). 0.50. _n.d._ - - Nora is only a servant girl, but is, without suspecting it, - a true heroine. But she is no saint, and has a sharp tongue - in her head. Her witty sallies are cleverly reproduced. The - author tells us that Nora was a “real and living person.” John - Halloran takes part in the rising of ’48, and is obliged to - fly to America. Nora vows not to settle down in life until the - fortunes of the Hallorans are restored. She goes to America, - works to support the family, which has been ruined by an - informer, and at length finds Halloran and reunites the family - once more. Scene: near Holy Cross Abbey on the Suir; afterwards - Boston. On the whole the tone and style are very emotional, but - with an emotion that rings true. This is relieved by not a few - gleams of pleasant humour. Irish dialect well done. Sympathy - strongly national. - -⸺ THE OLD HOUSE AT GLENARAN. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.80. In print. -(_Washbourne_). 4_s._ - - -=DOTTIN, Henry Georges.= Born 1863 in France. Prof. of Greek Lit. (1905) -at the University of Rennes. Has contributed to learned reviews and has -published several learned works, _La religion des Celtes_, 1903; _La -Bretagne et le Culte du passé_, 1903. - -⸺ CONTES IRLANDAIS TRADUITS DU GAËLIQUE. Pp. 274. (_Rennes_). 1901. - - Tales, thirty-five in number, collected in Connaught and - republished from the “Annales de Bretagne,” tome x. - - N.B.—A book with the title of “Contes Irlandais” was published - by Messrs. Gill, of Dublin, 70 pp., 4to, 7_s._ 6_d._ It - consists of extracts from the untranslated portion of Douglas - Hyde’s “Leabhar Sgeuluigheachta” translated into French by M. - Georges Dottin, with the original Irish text in Roman letters - on the opposite page. - -⸺ CONTES ET LÉGENDES D’IRLANDE. Pp. 218. (_Le Havre_). 3_fr._ 50. 1901. - - See previous item. Thirty-eight tales translated from Irish - texts, published without translation in the Gaelic Journal - since 1882. Collected in all parts of Ireland, _e.g._, Les - exploits de Fion MacCumhail et de son géant Seachrin. Fion - MacCumhail et son pouce de science. Le Gobán Saor et Saint - Moling. La belle fille rusée du Gobán Saor. Le trèfle à quatre - feuilles, &c. - - -=DOUGLAS, James.= Born in Belfast of a Tyrone family. Is assistant -editor and literary critic of the London STAR. Author of _The Man in the -Pulpit_, _Adventures in London_, &c. Contributes to ATHENÆUM, BOOKMAN, &c. - -⸺ THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. Pp. x + 418. 6_s._ (_Grant Richards_). 1907. - - Falls into two parts. Part I. describes upbringing of a boy - in Belfast (Bigotsborough). Pictures sectarian hatred leading - to riots, in one of which, vividly described, the hero loses - a little brother. Other characters finely portrayed are “Jane - the Nailor” and the then Head Master of the Model School (“the - Castle”). In Part II. the boy has become a great preacher. All - London flocks to hear him, but he is beset with doubts and - difficulties. W. B. Yeats and Miss Maud Gonne are introduced - under thinly disguised names. The first part has been called by - editor of I. B. L. “the finest delineation of Belfast boyhood - ever penned.” The second part has been not inaptly described as - “the dream of an opium-eater.” - - -=DOWLING, Richard.= Born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, 1846. Educated St. -Munchin’s, Limerick. Much of his life was passed in journalistic work, -first for the NATION, then for London papers. He edited the short-lived -comic papers ZOZIMUS and YORICK, and was a leading spirit in another, -IRELAND’S EYE. In 1879 came his Irish romance, _The Mystery of Killard_; -but he found that there was no public at the time for Irish novels, so he -devoted himself to writing sensational stories for the English public. -He published some delightful volumes of essays, _Ignorant Essays_ and -_Indolent Essays_. These deal with all kinds of subjects in a quaint, -humorous, fanciful vein. Other novels—_The Sport of Fate_, _Under St. -Paul’s_, _The Weird Sisters_, &c., seventeen or so in all. - -⸺ THE MYSTERY OF KILLARD. Pp. 357. (_Tinsley Bros._) [1879]. New edition, -1884. - - A tale of the Clare coast and its fishing population (drawn - with much skill and fidelity) half a century back. The story - centres in a mysterious and romantic rock unapproachable by sea - and connected with the land by a single rope only. There is a - mysterious owner, or rather a series of them, and mysterious - gold. But the central idea of the book (one of the most - original in literature, it has been justly called) is the study - of a deaf-mute who, by brooding on his own misfortune, grows to - envy and then to hate his own child, because the child can hear - and speak. - -⸺ SWEET INNISFAIL. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1882. - - Scene: chiefly the neighbourhood of Clonmel. The interest is - mainly in the plot, which is full of dramatic adventure and of - movement, without any very serious study of Irish character. - -⸺ OLD CORCORAN’S MONEY. Pp. 310. (_Chatto & Windus_). Crown 8vo. Cloth. -3_s._ 6_d._ 1897. - - Money is stolen from an old miser. The interest of the - complicated plot centres in the detection of the thief. Clever - sketches of life in a southern town. Characters carefully and - faithfully drawn, especially Head-Constable Cassidy, R.I.C. - -⸺ ZOZIMUS PAPERS. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 38 cents net. 1909. - - “A series of comic and sentimental tales and legends of - Ireland.” The title is most misleading. There are six pages of - an introduction dealing with Michael Moran, a famous Dublin - “character,” nicknamed Zozimus. The rest of the book consists - of a series of stories by Carleton, Lover, Lever, Barrington, - &c. The contents have nothing to do with Dowling nor with the - famous periodical ZOZIMUS. - - -=DOWNE, Walmer.= - -⸺ BY SHAMROCK AND HEATHER. Pp. 325. (_Digby, Long_). 1898. - - Scene: mainly in Ards of Down, near Strangford Lough, but - shifts to Edinburgh, London, and Capetown. Theme: an American - girl visiting her father’s native place in Ireland. Consists - largely of gossip about the characters introduced, not rising - above this level. The writer likes Ireland and the Irish, - but knows little of them. There is an air of unreality and - improbability about the whole book. Some prejudice against - Church of Ireland clergymen is displayed. - - -=DOWNEY, Edmund; “F. M. Allen.”= Born (1856) and educated in Waterford. -Being the son of a shipbroker, he came to know well the various sea types -that frequent a port. Went to London at twenty-two, and became partner -in the firm of Ward and Downey. Retired in 1890, and in 1894 founded -Downey & Co. Both of these firms, especially the latter, did a great deal -for the publishing of Irish books. His writings are many and varied. -They include humorous sketches, extravaganzas, sea stories, fairy tales, -sensational stories, a biography of Lever, a volume of reminiscences, and -a history of Waterford, and the two novels, _Clashmore_ and the _Merchant -of Killogue_. He at present carries on a publishing business in Waterford. - -⸺ IN ONE TOWN. (_Ward & Downey_). 2_s._ [1884]. - - A seafarer’s life ashore. Scene: a port not unlike Waterford. - Many portraits of old salts, &c., drawn from life. Some - descriptions of scenery. “By turns romantic, pathetic, and - humorous”—(Review). - -⸺ ANCHOR WATCH YARNS. Pp. 315. (_Downey_). [1884]. Seventh edition. _n.d._ - - Yarns told in a quaint nautical lingo by old salts around the - inn fire in a seaport town. The characters of the tellers - are very cleverly brought out in the telling. Full of humour - without mere farce. - -⸺ THROUGH GREEN GLASSES. (_Ward & Downey_). Various prices from 6_s._ to -6_d._ [1887]. Many editions since. - - This now famous book belongs to the same class as the - _Comic History of England_, but its humour is much superior - in quality. It consists of a series of historical or - pseudo-historical episodes purporting to be related by a - humorous Waterford countryman, Dan Banim, as seen from his - point of view. Kings and princes, saints and ancient heroes, - all play their parts in the delightful comedy, and talk in the - broadest brogue. “From Portlaw to Paradise,” one of the best - known, may be taken as a type. King James’s escape after the - Boyne is also admirably done. - -⸺ THE VOYAGE OF THE ARK. (_Ward & Downey_). 1_s._ [1888]. Several -editions since. - - The scriptural narrative of Noah and the Ark is made the basis - for a series of farcical episodes related in brogue. - -⸺ FROM THE GREEN BAG. (_Ward & Downey_). 2_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ 1889. - - More stories by “Dan Banim,” like those in _Through Green - Glasses_. The Pope and St. Patrick, Horatius and Julius Cæsar - figure in the stories. We cannot see that these stories are - “irreverent” in any serious sense, though they have sometimes - been taxed with irreverence. - -⸺ BRAYHARD. (_Ward & Downey_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1890. - - Extravaganza founded on legends of the Seven Champions of - Christendom. Full of jokes, repartees, and comic situations. - -⸺ CAPTAIN LANAGAN’S LOG. (_Ward & Downey_). 2_s._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. -1891, and since. - - Story of an Irish-Canadian lad who runs away to sea, and goes - through all sorts of adventures full of excitement and fun. - -⸺ GREEN AS GRASS. (_Chatto & Windus_). 3_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. -1892. - - More “Dan Banim” stories. The first, running to 160 pages, is - a humorous account of Dermot MacMurrough’s love affair with - Devorgilla, and his betrayal of Ireland. Another tells how the - Earl of Kildare found out that Lambert Simnel was an imposter - by the latter’s skill in cooking griddle cakes. - -⸺ THE ROUND TOWER OF BABEL. (_Ward & Downey_). 1_s._ Several editions; -first, 1892. - - Further adventures in foreign parts of descendants of the Co. - Waterford voyagers in the Ark. - -⸺ THE LAND-SMELLER. (_Ward & Downey_). [1892], and several editions since. - - Yarns of sea-captains. - -⸺ THE MERCHANT OF KILLOGUE: a Munster Tale. Three Vols. (_Heinemann_). -1894. - - The Author’s first attempt at serious fiction, and one of his - finest works. - -⸺ BALLYBEG JUNCTION. Pp. 276. (_Downey_). Very well illustr. by John F. -O’Hea. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. 1895. - - A comedy of southern Irish life, full of fun, without farcical - exaggeration, and true to reality. - -⸺ PINCHES OF SALT. Pp. 246. (_Downey_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1895. - - Nine Irish tales, mostly humorous, not told in dialect; full - of keen observation of Irish life.—(Review). “The Eviction at - Ballyhack,” and “The Viceroy’s Visit” are among the best. - -⸺ GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH HISTORY. (_Downey_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by J. F. -Sullivan. 1901. - - Versions of episodes in English History told by “Dan Banim” in - his usual dialect. - -⸺ THE LITTLE GREEN MAN. Pp. 152. (_Downey_). Illustr. very tastefully by -Brinsley Lefanu. - - The pranks of the Leprechaun and his dealings with his human - friend Denis. A delightful fairy-tale, told with a purpose, - which does not take anything from its interest. - -⸺ CLASHMORE. Pp. 406. (WATERFORD: _Downey_). 1_s._ [1903]. New edition. -1909. - - A tale of a mystery centering in the strange disappearance of - Lord Clashmore and his agent. The story is healthy in tone, and - never flags. There is a pleasant love interest. The dénouement - is of an original and unexpected kind. The scene is the - neighbourhood of Tramore and Dunmore, Co. Waterford. There is - little or no study of national problems or national life, but - some shrewd remarks about things Irish are scattered here and - there in the book. The characters are not elaborately studied, - but are well drawn. - -⸺ DUNLEARY: Humours of a Munster Town. Pp. 323. (_Sampson, Low_). 6_s._ -1911. - - Fourteen capital yarns told with great verve and go just for - the sake of the story. They are all humorous, just avoiding - uproarious farce. The personages of the stories are the various - queer types to be met with in a small southern port:—the - convivial spirits in the local semi-genteel club, those of - lower degree who foregather in the bar parlour of the “Dragon,” - the rival editors of the local papers, the candidates for the - harbour mastership, the skippers of the Dunleary steam-packet - company, the professional jail-bird—Micky Malowney, and - the “general play boy” Jeremiah Maguire. There is no stage - Irishism, and no politics. Dunleary is, of course, W—rf—d. - - -=DOYLE, J. J.= - -⸺ CATHAIR CONROI, and other Tales. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ - - Written for the Oireachtas, 1902, and now translated by the - Author from his own Irish original. They are for the most part - Munster folk-lore. - - -=“DOYLE, Lynn”; Leslie A. Montgomery.= Born Downpatrick, Co. Down. -Educated at Educational Institution, Dundalk. Has written a successful -play, “Love and Land.” Is a bank-manager, residing at Skerries, Co. -Dublin. - -⸺ BALLYGULLION. Pp. 249. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ Handsome cover. 1908. Cheap -edition. 1_s._ 1915. - - A dozen stories supposed to be told by one Pat Murphy, in - the humorous brogue affected by country story-tellers. Comic - character and incident in neighbourhood of Northern town. - Considerably above the usual books of comic sketches. A good - example of the humour is “The Creamery Society”—the visit of - the Department’s expert, and his failure to make butter from - whitewash, and the difficulties that arise incidentally between - Nationalists and Orangemen, followed by Father Connolly’s - famous speech. Perhaps “Father Con’s Card-table” ought to have - been omitted. - - -=[DOYLE, M.]; “M. E. T.”= - -⸺ EXILED FROM ERIN. Pp. 266. (_Duffy_). _n.d._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.45. - - A homely, pleasant tale relating the pathetic life-story of two - brothers of the peasant class. The scene of the first part of - the tale is laid in Shankill, Vale of Shanganagh, Co. Dublin, - afterwards it changes to Wales, and then to America. The Author - tells us that his story is a true one, and that his endeavour - throughout has been to draw a faithful and sympathetic picture - of the life of the humbler classes. The sorrow and misfortune - of emigration is feelingly rendered. - - -=“DRAKE, Miriam”=; =Mrs. Clarke=, _née_ =Marion Doak= (_q.v._). Born -Dromard, Co. Down. - - -=DREISER, Theodore.= - -⸺ JENNIE GERHART. (_Harper_). 6_s._ $1.35. 1911. - - “A piece of industrial realism, inartistic and undramatic, but - thoroughly honest and full of serious thought. The fortunes - of two immigrant families, German and Irish, are contrasted. - Jennie is the daughter of the unsuccessful German, and falls - a victim to the pleasure-loving son of the enterprising - Irishman, who illustrates the dangers of our ... social - organization.”—(_Baker_ 2). - - -=DROHOJOWSKA, Mme. la Comtesse.= - -⸺ RÉCITS DU FOYER, LÉGENDES IRLANDAISES, SCÈNES DE MŒURS. Pp. 208. -(PARIS: _Josse_). 1861. - - Introd. very favourable to Ireland, but based on insufficient - and not first-hand information. It dwells chiefly on Irish - religious faith; also on superstition in Ireland. Then come the - legends—King Laura Lyngsky, Glendalough (King O’Toole’s Goose), - Donaghoo (a learned schoolmaster, who found a gold mine); King - O’Donoghue (Killarney), Grace O’Malley and Queen Elizabeth, - The King of Claddagh, John O’Glyn (a fisherman who marries a - mermaid, and joins her in the sea), James Lynch, &c. - - -=DUFF GORDON, Lady.= - -⸺ STELLA AND VANESSA. Trans. (_Ward, Lock_). [1850: _Bentley_]. 1859. - - Days of Swift, _c._ 1730. From the French of Léon de Wailly. - The scene is laid entirely in Ireland. The story opens at - Laracor. Swift is, of course, one of the central figures. - - -=DUGGAN, Ruby M.= - -⸺ ONLY A LASS. Pp. 169. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. - - A sensational story with nothing really Irish about it. The - only Irish character is almost a caricature. - - -=DUNBAR, Aldis.= - -⸺ THE SONS O’ CORMAC; an’ Tales of other Men’s Sons. Pp. x. + 240. -(_Longmans_). 6_s._ Eight illustr. by Myra Luxmoore. 1904. - - “Some of the old heroic legends retold by a humorous Irishman - for children.”—(_Baker_). The stories (there are twelve) are - very clever, picturesque, and, like all good tales of faërie, - full of unconscious poetry.—_I.E.R._ - - -=DUNN, Joseph.= - -⸺ THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TALE: TÁIN BO CUALGNE, THE CUALGNE CATTLE RAID. -Now for the first time done entire into English out of the Irish of the -Book of Leinster and allied Manuscripts. Pp. xxxvi. + 382. Demy 8vo. -(_Nutt_). 25_s._ 1914. - - Pref., on Irish Epic in general, and on the Táin in particular. - The Editor calls it “the wildest and most fascinating saga - tale, not only of the entire Celtic world, but even of all - Western Europe.” The work is a scholarly one, the various MSS. - being carefully collated by means of marginal- and foot-notes. - The Irish text is not given. Index of place and personal names. - A somewhat archaic style is adopted, but this is not overdone. - “The Táin,” says the Ed. truly, “is one of the most precious - monuments of the world’s literature.” The Ed. is a professor in - the Catholic University of Washington, D.C., U.S.A. - - -=[DUNN, N. J.].= - -⸺ VULTURES OF ERIN: a Tale of the Penal Laws. Pp. 530 (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). -1.50. One woodcut. 1884. - - Edward Fitzgerald is robbed of his property by his enemy, - Templeton, who accuses him falsely of a murder instigated by - himself. Shemus M’Andrew plots and plans to save Fitzg., but - the latter is nevertheless condemned to death, and his wife - loses her reason. He escapes, however, and after many years - returns with proof of T.’s guilt. The wife recovers, and all - ends happily. Scene: between Slieve Bouchta and Lough Derg. - Religion not formally introduced, but Catholic bias very - strong. Penal laws denounced, and scripture-readers appear in - unfavourable light. - - -=DUNNE, Finley Peter.= - -⸺ THE DOOLEY BOOKS:— - - 1. MR. D. IN PEACE AND WAR. (_Routledge_). Seventh edition, - 1906. - - 2. MR. D.’S PHILOSOPHY. (_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. - 1901. - - 3. MR. D.’S OPINIONS. (_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1905. - - 4. MR. D. IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. 1909. - - 5. OBSERVATIONS BY MR. D. (_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._ - - 6. DISSERTATIONS BY MR. D. (_Harper_). 6_s._ - - 7. MR. DOOLEY SAYS. (_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1910. - - A series of fictitious conversations purporting to take place - over the counter of his bar in Archey Road, a seedy Irish - quarter of New York, between Mr. Dooley, “traveller, historian, - social observer, saloon-keeper, economist, and philosopher,” - who has not been out of his ward for twenty-five years “but - twict,” and his friend Hennessy. From the cool heights of life - in the Archey Road Mr. Dooley muses, philosophizes, moralizes - on the events and ideas of the day. He talks in broad brogue - (perhaps overdone), but his sayings are full of dry humour, - and the laugh is always with him. Many of these sayings have - the point and brevity of epigrams. No ridicule is cast on - Irish character, with which the Author, himself an Irishman, - obviously sympathizes. The view of politics, &c., is wholly at - variance with that which comes to us from the English Press. - - -=DUNNE, F. W.= - -⸺ THE PIRATE OF BOFINE: an historical romance. Three Vols. 12mo. -(LONDON). 1832. - - A strange medley of melodramatic episodes. The story jumps from - place to place in the most bewildering way, and wholly without - warning to the reader. Scene laid in various parts of the W. - of I. (Boffin, Galway, Bantry, &c.) in reign of Henry VIII. - Historical characters are introduced, but without historical - background. Style: “Know you aught of my maternal parent.” - (Vol. III., p. 15). “Fire flashed from his eyes, and death sat - upon his gleaming blade,” and soforth. - - -=“EBLANA,”= _see_ =ROONEY=. - - -=ECCLES, Charlotte O’Connor; “Hal Godfrey.”= Died 1911. Was a daughter -of A. O’C. Eccles, of Ballingard Ho., Co. Roscommon. She wrote first for -Irish periodicals. Later she went to London, and became a prominent lady -journalist there. Her _The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore_ is a very -clever and witty novel. - -⸺ ALIENS OF THE WEST. Pp. 351. (_Cassell_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Six stories reprinted from the AMERICAN ECCLESIASTICAL REVIEW - (Catholic), and the PALL MALL MAGAZINE. Scene: “Toomevara,” an - Irish country town of about 2,000 inhabitants, near Shannon - estuary. Life in this town is depicted in a realistic and - objective way, without moralizing, and without obtrusive - religious or political bias. Yet there are lessons—the miseries - of class distinctions and of social and religious cleavage; the - disasters of education above one’s sphere (even in a convent). - There is much pathos in the death of the peasant boy-poet, and - in the faithfulness of the servant girl to the fallen fortunes - of the family. A serious and earnest book. - - -=EDELSTEIN, Joseph.= - -⸺ THE MONEYLENDER. Pp. 110. (DUBLIN: _Dollard_). Illustr. by Phil Blake. -1908. - - A strangely realistic story of Jewish life in Dublin, told with - rude power. Written by a Jew, it gives a dreadful picture of - the life of the poor in Dublin slums, and of the misery wrought - by the Jewish moneylender, who grows rich on their misery. The - Jew, Levenstein, who is driven on in his evil course by desire - to avenge the sufferings of his persecuted race is a revolting, - yet a pathetic figure. - - -=EDGE, John Henry, M.A., K.C.= Born 1841. Son of late John Dallas Edge, -B.L. Lives in Clyde Road, Dublin. - -⸺ AN IRISH UTOPIA. Pp. 296. (_Hodges & Figgis_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Frontisp., -View of Glendalough. 1906 and 1910. Fourth ed. (_Cassell_), with fine -portraits and interesting autobiographical introduction, 1915. - - “A Story of a Phase of the Land Problem.” Scene: Wicklow - County and Shropshire, England. A slender plot, telling of the - abortive attempt of a younger twin to oust the rightful heir - from title and property, ending with a lawsuit in which some - well known lawyers are introduced under slightly disguised - names. Father O’Toole is a very pleasant character study. The - famous “J.K.L.” Dr. Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, - figures in the story. The standpoint is that of an Irish - Conservative, without religious bias, and sympathizing with - certain Irish grievances. Humour, pathos, and brogue are absent. - -⸺ THE QUICKSANDS OF LIFE. Pp. 392. (_Milne_). 6_s._ 1908. - - Scene: first half in England, portion of second half on - an estate somewhere in the South of Ireland. The interest - centres chiefly in the plot, which is complicated, a great - many of the personages passing through quite an extraordinary - number of vicissitudes. Though the Author is never prurient, - a considerable number of dishonest “love” intrigues are - introduced, treated in a matter-of-fact way as every-day - occurrences. Of Ireland there is not very much. The land - troubles furnish incidents for the story, but are not - discussed. The Irish aristocracy shows up somewhat badly in - the book. Some tributes are paid to the virtues of the Irish - peasantry. - - -=EDGEWORTH, Maria.= Scott, in his Preface to _Waverley_ (1829), speaks -of “the extended and well-merited fame of Miss Edgeworth, whose Irish -characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the -character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland.” And he -continues: “Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich -humour, the pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact, which pervade the -works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted -for my own country, of the same kind as that which Miss Edgeworth has so -fortunately achieved for Ireland.” She came of an old County Longford -family, but was born in England in 1767; her father was a landed -proprietor at Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, whose life she afterwards -wrote. Most of her long life was spent in Ireland. She came to know the -Irish peasantry very well, though from outside, and also the country life -of the nobility and gentry. She had much sympathy for Ireland, but was -unable to understand that radical changes were needful if the grievances -that weighed upon the country were to be removed. She died in 1849. The -circulation of her books has been enormous, and they are still frequently -reprinted both in these countries and in America.[4] - - Uniform editions of her works: (1) Macmillan, with excellent - illustrations, 2_s._ 6_d._ and 3_s._ 6_d._ each; pocket - edition, 2_s._, and leather, 3_s._ (2) Dent, in twelve vols., - 2_s._ 6_d._ each, very tasteful binding, etched frontisp., - ed. by W. Harvey. Messrs. Routledge also publish _Stories of - Ireland_; introduction by Professor Henry Morley; 1_s._ - -[4] An able and certainly not over-enthusiastic estimate of Miss -Edgeworth will be found in the DUBLIN REVIEW, April, 1838, p. 495, _sq._ - -⸺ WORKS, collected in eighteen Vols. 1832. - -⸺ TALES AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. Nine Vols. (LONDON). 1848. - - These were received with a chorus of praise by critics, such - as Lord Jeffery, Lord Dudley, and Sir James Mackintosh. Scott - called them “a sort of essence of common sense.” - -⸺ CASTLE RACKRENT. (_Macmillan, &c._). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.75. [1800]. - - A picture of the feudal gentry in the latter half of the - seventeenth century, in the form of reminiscences by an old - retainer of the glories of the family he had served. One - after another, he tells the careers of his various masters, - the wild waste and endless prodigality of one, the skinflint - exactingness of another. There is no religious bias nor - discussion of problems, the chief interest being the ingenuous - and unquestioning devotion of the old servant and his quaint - observations. The literary merits of the book are usually rated - very high. - -⸺ THE ABSENTEE. (_Macmillan, &c._). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.75. [1809]. - - A vivid impression of the Irish nobility trying to dazzle - London society, and to prove itself more English than the - English themselves, while the English great ladies mock at - their parvenu extravagance and outlandish ways. The fine lady - spends her days in social emulation, while her lord sinks to - the company of toadies and hangers-on, until the conscience of - the young heir is aroused by a tour in Ireland, and he brings - the family back to their estates. The peasants are drawn purely - in their relation of grateful and patient dependents. - -⸺ ENNUI. [1809]. - - The Earl of Glenthorn, an English-bred absentee landlord, is - afflicted with _ennui_. He determines to attempt a cure by a - visit to Ireland, and the cure is effected in a very unlooked - for way. The Author draws in an amusing and vivid way the - contrast, as felt by Lord Glenthorn, between English tastes, - prejudices, and decorum and the strange Irish ways, which - surprise him at every turn.—(_Krans_). - -⸺ ORMOND. Pp. 379. (_Macmillan, Dent, &c._) [1817]. - - Pictures of the scheming, political, extravagant gentry, - especially of a type of the Catholic country gentleman, the - good-natured, happy-go-lucky Cornelius O’Shane, known to his - worshipping tenantry as King Corny. There is also a sketch - of Paris society, to which Ormond, the attractive, impulsive - young hero, is introduced by an officer of the Irish Brigade. - Generally thought the most interesting, gayest, and most - humorous of Miss Edgeworth’s books. - -⸺ TALES FROM MARIA EDGEWORTH. (_Darton_). 10_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by Hugh -Thomson. 1912. - - Introd. by Austin Dobson. - -⸺ MISS EDGEWORTH’S IRISH STORIES (A Selection). - - Ed. by Malcolm Cotter Seton, M.A., in _Every Irishman’s - Library_ (The Talbot Press). [In preparation]. - - -=“EDWARDES, Martin”; E. L. Murphy.= Son of Mr. W. M. Murphy, of Dartry. - -⸺ THE LITTLE BLACK DEVIL. Pp. 190. (_Everett_). 3_s._ 6_d._, and 1_s._ -1910. - - A first novel by a new Irish writer. Scene: Bantry and London. - The story of a young Irishman who, badly treated at home by - his guardian, goes to London to make his fortune. His heart - is broken by an adventuress, but in the end he marries a true - woman. A little immature, but pleasant, and suitable for any - class of readers. - - -=EDWARDS, R. W. K.= - -⸺ UNCHRONICLED HEROES. Pp. 119. (DERRY: _Gailey_). 1_s._ 1888. - - A rather feeble story of the Siege of Derry. Walker and - Mackenzie are introduced, the former highly lauded, the latter - disparaged. Appendix (filling nearly half the book) gives - extracts from scarce documents relating to the siege. - -⸺ THE MERMAID OF INISH-UIG. Pp. 248. (_Arnold_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1898. - - To Inish-Uig, a western island with a primitive people, comes - a new lighthouse keeper, a scoundrel and a hypocrite, who - leads “Black Kate” astray. He tries to turn to account the - illicit stilling propensities of the people, but is foiled in - an amusing way. Father Tim and a Presbyterian minister on the - mainland are two finely drawn characters. The islanders are - well described, and their dialect well rendered. - - -=EGAN, Maurice Francis, M.A., LL.D.= Born Philadelphia, 1852. Educated -La Salle Coll., Philadelphia and Georgetown Coll., Washington. Was Prof. -of English Literature in Catholic University of Washington till his -appointment as American Ambassador at Copenhagen. Has edited several -periodicals, and has contributed to most of the noteworthy periodicals in -the States. Has published many books on a great variety of subjects. His -father was from Tipperary. - -⸺ THE SUCCESS OF PATRICK DESMOND. Pp. 400. (NOTRE DAME, INDIANA: _Office -of Ave Maria_). 1893. - - A novel with a purpose. “The Author does not waste much space - on descriptions or impersonal reflections, nor does he trust - to sensational incidents. The development of feeling and - character, very often as revealed in natural conversation, - seems to be his strong point. He knows his own people best, but - we are sorry that he considers Miles and Nellie to be typical - of the manners and dispositions of that class of the Irish race - in the United States. The book is so cleverly written that one - might cull from its pages a very respectable collection of - epigrams.”—(_I. M._). - -⸺ THE WILES OF SEXTON MAGINNIS. Pp. 380. (N.Y.: _Century Co._). Illustr. -by A. J. Keller. 1909. - - -=[EGAN, Pierce].= (1772-1849). - -⸺ REAL LIFE IN IRELAND; or, the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, -and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru, -Esq., and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O’Dogherty, exhibiting a Real -Picture of Characters, Manners, &c., in High and Low Life, in Dublin and -various parts of Ireland, embellished with humorous coloured engravings -from original designs by the most eminent Artists, “by a real Paddy.” -[1821]. - - Messrs. Methuen in 1904 reprinted the book from the fourth ed. - which was publ. by Evans & Co. The title-p. well describes - the book. Brian and his friend were what were then called - bucks and bloods. There is much absurdity, and extreme - exaggeration. The follies and vagaries of the two heroes are - told in a facetious and roistering style. There is not a little - coarseness. But the book is interesting for its side-lights on - the period, 1820-1830. Geo. IV.’s visit is described in a vein - of burlesque. The illustrations are even more vulgar than the - text, but have a similar interest. - - -=EGAN, P. M.= - -⸺ SCULLYDOM: an Anglo-Irish Story of To-day. Pp. 360. (_Maxwell_). 2_s._ -Picture boards. 1886. - - Scene: Kilkenny. Time: 1880-84. Lucifer Scully, moneylender, - by degrees becomes possessed of much land, and grinds down - the tenants. They revolt, and this gives opportunity for good - descriptions of evictions and reprisals. Fred O’Brien, a fine - character whose sweetheart is spirited away by the villainy of - Scully, goes in pursuit of her, and has many adventures and - disappointments before all ends happily. Mickey Crowe and his - love episodes supplies the comic relief. The tone is strongly - National, and the dialect well done. The Author has also - written “A History and Guide to Waterford.” - - -=ELIZABETH, Charlotte.= [Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, 1790-1846]. - -⸺ THE ROCKITE. [1832]. - - The Tithe War (_c._ 1820) from Protestant standpoint. Captain - Rock was a famous leader of Whiteboys during the anti-tithe - war. The _Memoirs of Captain Rock_ were published anonymously, - 1824, in Paris, by Thomas Moore. - -⸺ DERRY: A Tale of the Revolution. Pp. xxiv. + 317. (_Nisbet_). [1839]. -Sixth edition. 1886, and since. - - Story of the Siege of Derry, written from ultra-Protestant - standpoint. The proceeds of the sale of the book are to be - devoted to teaching the Protestant religion “in their own - tongue to the Irish-speaking aborigines of the land.”—(Pref.). - The Author says elsewhere that “Popery is the curse of God upon - a land.” And the expression of similar views is very frequent - in the book. - - -=ELRINGTON, H.= - -⸺ RALPH WYNWARD. Pp. 310. (_Nelson_). 2_s._ Attractive binding. Good -illustr. _n.d._ (1902). - - Youghal in the days of Queen Elizabeth. A tale of adventure in - wild times, ending in the sack of Youghal during the Desmond - Wars. Without bias. Told by Ralph himself, a descendant of the - 8th Earl of Desmond, who runs away from his home in England. - The 16th Earl and Sir Richard Boyle (afterwards the Great Earl - of Cork) appear in the story. Juvenile. - -⸺ THE SCHOOL-BOY OUTLAWS. Pp. 266. (_Simpkin_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Six illustr. -1905. - - Life at a school in the South of Ireland “for the sons of - the gentry.” Incidents of resistance to masters attempting a - reform. Two of the boys Jerry and Fitzgerald (who tells the - story, and is “the son of a well-known Dublin clergyman),” run - away, and live as outlaws. The accession of Queen Victoria - (1837) is the means of obtaining their pardon. A pleasant tale - for boys, free from religious or political bias. - - -=ENNIS, Alicia Margaret.= - -⸺ IRELAND; or, The Montague Family. - - -=ENSELL, Mrs.= - -⸺ THE PEARL OF LISNADOON. Pp. 126. (_Elliot Stock_). 1886. - - Scene: Killarney in the time following O’Connell’s - imprisonment. Aims to prove that the landlords were extremely - ill-treated, and that the Irish are uncivilised, and more or - less savage. Strong Protestant bias. Usual pictures of agrarian - crime. - - -=ERVINE, St. John G.= Born Belfast, 1883. Has published four plays, three -of which have been successfully acted at the Abbey Theatre. Hopes to -publish a new novel, _Changing Winds_, in the near future. - -⸺ EIGHT O’CLOCK, and Other Stories. Pp. 128. (_Maunsel_). 2_s._ 6_d._ -1913. - - Reprinted from various periodicals. Six out of the seventeen - are Irish in subject. There is the sketch of Clutie John, a - queer old North of Irelander, whose profession is “fin’in’ - things.” “The Well of Youth,” a fantastic and humorous story - about the Well of St. Brigid in the Vale of Avoca—told in North - of Ireland dialect! In “The Fool,” John O’Moyle, a little - “astray in his mind,” gives an English tourist some eye-opening - facts about the condition of peasant farms (Catholic - and Protestant) in Donegal. “The Match” is a satire on - match-making. In “Discontent” a young Antrim boy on Lurigedan - tells of the hunger of the country-bred for the excitements of - town life. “The Burial” is concerned with life in Ballyshannon. - Clever and finished. The remainder deal with English life. - -⸺ MRS. MARTIN’S MAN. Pp. 312. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ 1915. - - Theme: the triumph of an injured wife over a situation that - would have finally wrecked the lives of most women—her - desertion by an unfaithful husband, and, still harder to face, - his return after sixteen years, a worthless drunken lout, to - live with her again. Mrs. Martin is the book, which is both a - careful character study and a page of life-philosophy. But the - minor characters are good—the Presbyterian clergyman, verbose - and self-sufficient (a very unfavourable portrait), the canting - and narrow-minded Henry Mahaffy, and Mrs. Martin’s Man himself. - There is a somewhat drab background of lower middle-class life - in Ulster (Ballyreagh (= Donaghadee) and Belfast). A very - remarkable book that has had a deservedly great success. As for - its moral aspect, the Author is against cant, hypocrisy, and - intolerance; he is somewhat contemptuous towards religion: he - is never salacious, but there is an occasional sensuousness in - his treatment of a painful subject. - - -=ESLER, Mrs. Erminda Rentoul.= Daughter of Rev. Alexander Rentoul, M.D., -D.D., of Manor Cunningham, Co. Donegal. Lives in London, and contributes -to CORNHILL, CHAMBERS’S, QUIVER, SUNDAY AT HOME, and many other -periodicals. Author of _The Way of Transgressors_ (1890), _Youth at the -Prow_, _The Awakening of Helena Thorpe_. - -⸺ THE WAY THEY LOVED AT GRIMPAT: Village Idylls. (_Sampson Low_). 1893. - -⸺ A MAID OF THE MANSE. Pp. 315. (_Sampson, Low_). 1895. - - A story of Presbyterian clerical life in Co. Donegal forty - years ago. A pleasant, readable story, with a well wrought - plot. There is both pathos and humour in the book, and as a - picture of manners it is true to life, if somewhat idyllic. - -⸺ THE WARDLAWS. (_Smith_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1896. - - “A grave domestic story worked out on a basis of character, - laid in an Irish rural district.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ THE TRACKLESS WAY. Pp. 465. (_Brimley Johnson_). 6_s._ 1903. - - “The story of a man’s quest for God.” (Sub-t.). Scene: chiefly - “Garvaghy, Co. Innismore,” in Ulster. The book is a searching - study of the inward religious and outward social life of a - Presbyterian minister, Gideon Horville, his difficulties, - aspirations, friendships, disappointment in marriage. He is - dismissed by his Church for teaching erroneous doctrines, - begins to write, and subsequently helps his great friend - Lord Tomnitoul in his religious and socialistic schemes. The - Author’s religious attitude is equally opposed to Catholicism, - to Calvinism, and, indeed, to Christianity. The background, - Horville’s social circle, with its meannesses, spites, and - petty jealousies, is not a pleasant one. The Author writes with - thorough knowledge. There are no politics. - - -=“ESMOND, Henry.”= - -⸺ A LIFE’S HAZARD: or, The Outlaw of Wentworth Waste. Three Vols. -(_Sampson, Low_). 1878. - - Scene: N. Co. Dublin. A sensational tale—abducted heir, forged - will, usurped title, jealousy, revenge, attempted murders, - perjury, &c. The outlaw, O’Grady, a T.C.D. man and a barrister, - heads a popular rising, twice escapes execution, and performs - wonderful deeds, always appearing in the nick of time to rescue - beauty in distress, or upset the schemes of the false lord. - There is much brogue—of a sort. The supernatural is frequently - introduced. - - -=FABER, Christine.= This is said to be a pen-name. An American Catholic -writer. Other novels—_An Original Girl_ (1901), _Ambition’s Contest_, -_A Fatal Resemblance_, _Reaping the Whirlwind_ (1905), _A Chivalrous -Deed_, _The Guardian’s Mystery_, _A Mother’s Sacrifice_. All of these are -published by P. J. Kenedy of New York. - -⸺ CARROLL O’DONOGHUE; a Tale of the Irish Struggles of 1866 and of recent -times. Pp. 501. Pretty cover. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1903. - - Scene laid chiefly in Kerry, at the time of the Fenian - movement, though it is not a narrative of the latter. A very - dramatic story finely wrought out. Full of local colour, - humour, and pathos. - - -=“FALY, Patrick C.”; John Hill.= - -⸺ NINETY-EIGHT: being the Recollections of Cormac Cahir O’Connor Faly -(late Col. in the French Service) of that awful period. Collected and -edited by his grandson, Patrick C. Faly, Attorney-at-Law, Buffalo, N.Y. -(_Downey_). Illustr. A. D. M’Cormick. 1897. - - Cormac is heart and soul with the rebels. Life in Dublin, 1798, - described. Then we are brought all through the scenes of the - rising. - - -=FARADAY, Winifred, M.A.= - -⸺ THE CATTLE RAID OF CUALNGE. (Táin bó Cuailnge). An ancient Irish prose -epic [Grimm Library, No. 16]. Pp. xxi. + 141. (_Nutt_). 4_s._ (N.Y.: -_Scribner_). 1.25. 1904. - - A close student’s translation from the _Leabhar na h-Uidhri_ - and the _Yellow Book of Lecan_. No notes, but interesting and - scholarly introduction. - - -=FENNELL, Charlotte and J. P. O’CALLAGHAN.= - -⸺ A PRINCE OF TYRONE. Pp. 363. (_Blackwood_). 1897. - - The amours of Seaghan O’Neill. Seems worthless from an - historical point of view. O’Neill appears as little better than - a villain of melodrama. - - -=FERGUSON, R. Menzies, D.D.= Author of _Rambles in the Far North_, &c. - -⸺ THE OCHIL FAIRY TALES. Pp. 157. (_Nutt_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. 1913. - - Most of the Tales related in this Book are founded on local - tradition: they are the echoes of that Celtic folk-lore which - is fast dying out. The western spurs of the Ochill hills and - the country lying between the Allan Water and the River Forth - form the scenes of the curious cantrips of the Wee Folk, once - so firmly believed in by the people of a former generation. - The purpose of the Author is to preserve some of those curious - tales which are still floating in the popular mind. In another - generation it will be too late.—(_Publ._). - - -=FERGUSON, Sir Samuel.= Born Belfast, 1810. Son of John Ferguson, of -Collen House, Co. Antrim. Educated Academical Institution, Belfast, and -T.C.D. Was first deputy keeper of the public records in Ireland. Was a -noted antiquarian, but is best known as one of the best of our Irish -poets. Most of his poetry deals with the heroic period of early Ireland. -Died 1886. See _Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of his Day_, by Lady -Ferguson. Besides the _Hibernian Nights_, Sir Samuel wrote also a very -amusing if not very reverent sketch, “Father Tom and the Pope,” which had -the unique distinction of being reprinted in BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE, 1910. - -⸺ HIBERNIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. Three Vols. Pp. 146 and 184 and 278. -(_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ each, paper; 2_s._ cloth. [1887]. Still in print. - - Written by the Author in early youth. Supposed to be told in - 1592 by Turlough O’Hagan, O’Neill’s bard, to Hugh Roe O’Donnell - and his companions imprisoned in Dublin Castle. They are almost - entirely fictitious, but give many details of locality and of - the contemporary manners, customs, and modes of fighting. There - is an historical introduction. Contents: “Children of Usnach,” - “The Capture of Killeshin,” “Corby MacGillmore,” “An Adventure - of Seaghan O’Neill’s,” and the “Rebellion of Silken Thomas.” - Popular in style and treatment. - -⸺ THE “RETURN OF CLANEBOY.” Pp. 43-98. - - Relates how Aodh Duidhe O’Néill regained (_c._ 1333) his - territory of Claneboy in Antrim on the death of William - de Burgh, Earl of Ulster. The story is rather an ordinary - one—fighting and intrigues. There is some description of men - and manners and of County Antrim scenery. - -⸺ THE “CAPTURE OF KILLESHIN.” Pp. 98-146. - - A tale of the struggle of the Leinster Clans—chiefly the - O’Nolans—with the English settlers. Full of stirring incidents, - including a battle most vividly described. Period: end of 14th - century. - -⸺ “CORBY MACGILLMORE.” Pp. 140. - - Scene: North Antrim at the beginning of the fifteenth century. - A Franciscan preaches Christianity to the MacGillmores, who had - relapsed into barbarism and paganism. There is a very warlike - and un-Christian abbot in the story. The chief interest is the - enmity between the Clan Gillmore and the Clan Savage of North - Down, and the events, dark and tragic for the most part, that - result from it. - -⸺ THE “REBELLION OF SILKEN THOMAS.” Pp. 278. - - The main features of the rebellion are told in form of romance. - The real hero is Sir John Talbot, who first joins Lord Thomas - but afterwards leaves him. The story of Sir John’s private - fortunes occupies a large part of the narrative. The author is, - of course, perfectly acquainted with the history of the time. - - -=FIELD, Mrs. E. M.= This Author (born 1856) is daughter of J. Story, -J.P., D.L., of Bingfield, Co. Cavan. Besides _Ethne_, she has published -several other novels, _e.g._, _At the King’s Right Hand_. - -⸺ DENIS. Pp. viii. + 414. (_Macmillan_). 2_s._ [1896]. Still in print. - - A story of the Famine. Interesting portrait of Young Ireland - leader. Standpoint rather anti-national. Dedicated “to my - kinsfolk and friends among the landowners of Ireland.” - -⸺ ETHNE. Pp. 312. (_Wells, Gardner_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Three or four good -Illustr. [1902]. Third edition. 1911. - - A tale of Cromwell’s transplantation of the Irish to Connaught. - Purports to be taken partly from the diary of Ethne O’Connor, - daughter of one of the transplanted, and partly from the - “record” of Roger Standfast-on-the-Rock. The former is - converted to the religion of the latter by a single reading of - the Bible. The interest of the book is mainly religious. - - -=FIGGIS, Darrell.= Born Gleann-na-Smol, Co. Dublin, 1882. Was taken to -India in infancy and remained there till he was ten years old. Was put -into a London business house, and did not abandon this walk of life, in -which his fortunes were sometimes low enough, till about 1909, the date -of his first volume of poems, _A Vision of Life_. Since then he has been -engaged in journalism and literature. He has taken an active part in the -national movement in Ireland. For the past five years he has spent every -winter in Achill, where he now lives permanently. Has, among other works, -two novels, _Broken Arcs_ and _Jacob Elthorne_, and is now engaged on an -Irish story. - - -=FILDES, H. G.= - -⸺ “TRIM” AND ANTRIM’S SHORES. Pp. 312. (_Greening_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Account of holiday trip, supposed to be taken by the writer (an - Englishman) and his friend, “Trim,” to the coast of Antrim, - also Lough Neagh, and a few other places. Consists mainly of - humorous incidents treated more or less in the _Three Men in a - Boat_, or rather the _Three Men on the Bümmel_ style, but much - inferior. Little or no description of Antrim. - - -=FINLAY, T. A., S.J., M.A.; “A. Whitelock.”= Born 1848. Educated at -Cavan College, at Amiens, and at the Gregorian University, Rome. Entered -Irish Province S.J., 1866. Commissioner of Intermediate Education, 1900; -Vice-President of Irish Agricultural Organisation Society; Ex-Fellow of -Royal Univ. of I.; Editor, THE LYCEUM and then THE NEW IRELAND REVIEW -(1894-1910); President of Univ. Hall, Dublin, since 1913.—(CATH. WHO’S -WHO). - -⸺ THE CHANCES OF WAR. (_Gill_). [1877]. New edition, 1908, and -(_Fallon_), 2_s._ 6_d._ 1911. - - Aims (cf. Preface) to indicate the causes that led to failure - of Confederation of Kilkenny. Represents in the characters - introduced the aims and motives of the chief actors in the - events of the period, such as Owen Roe O’Neill, Rinuccini, - Sir Charles Coote, &c. There is a spirited description of the - first relief of Derry, the Battle of Benburb, Ireton’s siege - of Limerick. The hero is an exile returned from a continental - army. Between him and the heroine the villain Plunkett - interposes his schemes. Scene: chiefly an island in Lough Derg. - Though the main aim is historical, this fact in no way detracts - from the interest and excitement of the romance. Written in a - style above that of the majority of Irish historical novels. - Standpoint: Catholic and national, but free from violent - partisanship. - - -=FINN, L. A.= - -⸺ BARNEY THE BOYO.[5] Pp. 180. (_Ireland’s Own Library_). 6_d._ _n.d._ - - How B. is, with many sighs of relief, sent forth by his native - village to found his fortune on a subscribed capital of £4 - 2_s._ 10_d._ How he is involved in the Castle Jewels mystery, - wins the “Ardilveagh Cup” at the Horse Show, swims the Channel, - and has many other topical adventures, succeeding always by his - native wit. Plenty of broad popular humour, somewhat in the - vein of Mick McQuaid. - -[5] A Midland word for the Western “playboy” or general wag and practical -joker. - - -=FINN, Mary Agnes.= - -⸺ NORA’S MISSION. Pp. 268. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 1.75. [1911]. Second edition. 1914. - - The mission was to bring back her uncle, who had settled in - Australia, both to his Church and to his country, and she - successfully carried it out: his wife and daughters, too, - “adapted themselves speedily to Irish manners and customs.” And - her visit to Australia unravelled some mysteries which we shall - not reveal. Scene laid in I. and most of characters Irish. - The “brogue” is avoided, but the conversation is somewhat - stilted and unnatural. The book is nicely printed and prettily - bound.—(_C.B.N._). - - -=FINNEY, Violet G.= - -⸺ THE REVOLT OF THE YOUNG MACCORMACKS. Pp. 227. (_Ward & Downey_). -Illustr. by Edith Scannell. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. 1896. - - A story written for children and much appreciated by them. The - four young MacCormacks are very live and real children. Their - delightfully novel pranks are told in a breezy, natural style. - Many a “grown-up” will find interest in the book. Scene: partly - in Dublin, partly in West of Ireland. - -⸺ A DAUGHTER OF ERIN. Pp. 224. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Well illustr. by -G. Demain Hammond. - - A bright little story, free from “problems,” “morals,” - morbidness, and prejudice. It tells how Norah’s hostility and - dislike to her cousin, John Herrick, gradually changes to love - in spite of herself. Her old lover accepts the inevitable like - a brave man, and loses his life in trying to do a service, - for her sake, to the favoured suitor. The Irish characters - are capitally sketched—Mrs. Ryan and Judy, the Rector’s - housekeeper. Bertie, the spoilt little invalid, is drawn to the - life. So, too, is the somewhat sententious old Rector. - - -=FITZGERALD, John Godwin.= - -⸺ RUTH WERDRESS, FATHER O’HARALAN, AND SOME NEW CHRISTIANS. Pp. 340. -(_Blackwood_). 6_s._ - - An argument in narrative form against the celibacy of the - Catholic priesthood. Ruth W., flying from a home made unhappy - by evangelicalism, takes refuge with Fr. O’H., P.P. of - Blossomvale, who receives her into the Catholic Church. Fr. - O’H. falls madly in love with her, and there are a series of - situations, compromising and equivocal in appearance. Under - extraordinary circumstances the two are forced into a merely - formal marriage. We need not reveal the sequel. There is a - great deal about Catholic usages, priests, nuns, &c., with - which the Author shows considerable superficial acquaintance. - The Author is cautiously fair in detail, but the general - impression produced is sometimes distinctly unfavourable to - Catholicism. The New Christians are a sect of latter-day - evangelicals whom the Author satirises severely. One scene we - consider particularly offensive to Catholic feeling and highly - improbable into the bargain. - - -=[FITZGERALD, M. J.].= - -⸺ THE MAKING OF JIM O’NEILL. Pp. 140. 16mo. (_C.T.S.I.: Iona Series_). -1910. - - The story of the course of a young man’s vocation to the - priesthood, of his life at a typical Irish provincial seminary, - and of his vacations at home. The doings of the seminarians - are described frankly, not being at all idealised. The tale is - pleasantly and plainly told, without much analysis of motive or - of emotion. It is a vivid glimpse of the making of a priest. - - -=FITZGERALD, Rev. T. A., O.F.M.= Born Callan, Co. Kilkenny, 1862. Brought -up in Thurles; ed. at Christian Bros. Schools and St. Patrick’s College. -Became a Franciscan in 1879. Spent five years in Rome, and twenty in -Australia. Since his return to Ireland has learned the Irish language, -and has taken part in the revival movement. Witness his _Stepping Stones -to Gaeldom_. - -⸺ HOMESPUN YARNS: WHILE THE KETTLE AND THE CRICKET SING. Pp. 222. -(_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. 1914. - - Eighteen tales and sketches of Irish life—at home and in exile. - For the most part humorous, with genuine and spontaneous - humour. But pathos is often not far off, and edification is to - be got, though it is not thrust upon the reader. The sketches - of life in the slums and back streets of Dublin show the Author - at his best, for his errands of mercy have made him know them - thoroughly. - -⸺ FITS AND STARTS. (_Gill_). 1915. - - Another series of sketches similar to the previous, but - here, besides making the acquaintance of Cook Street, Great - Britain Street, and Chancery Lane, we have glimpses of Dalkey, - Kingstown, Rathmines, and even Lower Leeson Street. “The - Adventures of Black Pudden” is an exceptionally comic story. - - -=FITZPATRICK, Kathleen.= - -⸺ THE WEANS AT ROWALLAN, Pp. 234. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ Illustr. Second -edition. 1905. - - “We think it is one of the best books about children published - since the days of Mrs. Ewing.”—(_Speaker_). “Amusing and - pleasant. Some of the fun is tinged with the unconscious pathos - of child-life, and the mixed mirth and melancholy of the Irish - peasantry.”—(_Athenæum_). - - -=FITZPATRICK, Mary; Mrs. W. C. Sullivan.= Born in Barony of Farney, Co. -Monaghan, but belongs to the Fitzpatricks of Ossory. Educated in Dublin -and Paris. In 1894 married Dr. W. C. Sullivan, son of the late Dr. W. K. -Sullivan, President of the Queen’s College, Cork. Has contributed a good -deal to periodicals in Ireland and in America. Her writings are marked by -love for Ireland, and faith in Her future. - -⸺ THE ONE OUTSIDE. Pp. 245. (_Maunsel_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1914. - - Eight stories, six of which are Irish in subject. Seven of - the stories are tragedies. “The Doctor’s Joke” is the only - comedy. The title story tells how the father, after sixteen - years of absence, bread-winning in England, comes home to - find that the wife and children of the reality are far other - than what his dreams had pictured, and his wife has a similar - disillusionment. He is an outsider, and he realises it - bitterly. Painful tragedy is the outcome. The 2nd is a tragedy - of blighted hopes. The 3rd a lighter story laid in Fenian - times. 4. W. of Ireland. Love’s young dream destroyed by the - plotting of an ambitious and masterful old woman. Atmosphere - of loneliness and terror given to the whole. 5. A London slum - tragedy, with Irish characters. 6. A study in character, and - a peasant love-tale. All are told in beautiful and refined - language, often charged with pathos. The situations are - dramatic. The whole manner, the atmosphere, and the sentiment - are Irish. - - -=FITZPATRICK, T., LL.D.= Born, 1845, in Co. Down. Became a teacher in -early life. He was attached successively to Blackrock Coll., Dublin; St. -Malachy’s, Belfast; Athenry, Galway, and Birr schools. Of the last he was -headmaster in 1876. Was author of a serious historical work—_The Bloody -Bridge and other Studies of 1641._ Died 1912 in Dublin. - -⸺ JABEZ MURDOCK, by “Banna Borka.” Two Vols. Pp. 300 + 335. (_Duffy_). -1_s._ 6_d._ (Two vols. in one). [1887]. 1888 still in print. - - Scene: South Co. Down. The central figure is a rascally Scotch - settler who dabbles in poetry, and attains to wealth as “ajint” - by unscrupulous means. Between the episodes of his life are - interlarded scenes illustrating nearly every aspect of peasant - life at the time, all minutely and vividly described, and - conversations in which the problems of the times are discussed. - A good deal of humorous incident and character. The Author - evidently writes from first-hand knowledge. He is on the - Catholic and popular side. Period: first quarter of nineteenth - century. - -⸺ THE KING OF CLADDAGH. Pp. 249. (_Sands_). Frontisp. ancient map of -Galway in 1651. 1899. - - Galway City and County during Cromwellian period. Atrocities of - the eight years’ rule of the Roundheads. Forcible and vivid. - Point of view: National and Catholic. - - -=FITZSIMON, Miss E. A.= - -⸺ THE JOINT VENTURE: A Tale in Two Lands. Pp. 327. (N.Y.: _Sheehy_). 1878. - - Scene: opens in a valley of the Knockmealdowns, passes to - U.S.A. in ch. 7 (p. 109). Was a first novel, and so somewhat - immature. High moral and Catholic tone (perhaps somewhat - aggressive at times). Attacks Protestant divorce laws. One of - the best incidents, perhaps, is Mrs. Ned O’Leary’s conversion - to Catholicism.—(_Press Notices_). This was republ. in 1881 - under title _Gerald Barry; or, The Joint Venture_. - - -=“FLOREDICE, W. H.”= - -⸺ MEMORIES OF A MONTH AMONG THE “MERE IRISH.” Pp. xxix. + 321. (_Keegan, -Paul_). [1881]. Second edition, 1886. - - A record of conversations held and things seen, but especially - of legends, stories, and anecdotes heard from the peasantry - during a stay made by the Author when a youth at Doe Castle, - near the head of Sheephaven, Co. Donegal. Owen Gregallah - (Gallagher?), an old water-bailiff, with whom the Author - used to go fishing, tells many of these latter, in the local - dialect, which is faithfully reproduced. The stories are - interesting in themselves, and very well told. Dr. Mahaffy - referred in the _Academy_ to one of them as the funniest Irish - story in print. There is no condescension in the Author’s - tone. He likes and respects, as well as enjoys, his peasant - companions. He seems to be an American. The Preface to the - second ed. gives a humorous account of the difficulties of - travel in Donegal in those days. N.B.—The title on the cover is - “‘Mere Irish’ Stories.” - -⸺ DERRYREEL. Pp. vi. + 184. (LONDON: _Hamilton, Adams_). 1886. - - “A collection of stories from N.W. Donegal.” This writer - published also a volume entitled _Floredice Stories_. - - -=FLYNN, T. M.= Was living at Carrick-on-Shannon at the time of writing -these sketches. - -⸺ A CELTIC FIRESIDE: Tales of Irish Rural Life. (_Sealy Bryers_). 1_s._ -1907. - - Nine little tales—tragedies and comedies—of Irish life in - country and city. Many little touches show how well the Author - knows Irish life. He has a power, too, of making the truth of - his pictures go home to our hearts.—(_N.I.R._). - - -=FOREMAN, Stephen.= - -⸺ THE OVERFLOWING SCOURGE, Pp. 335. (_Alston Rivers_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Career of an unprincipled lawyer, who gains judgeship by a - series of crimes and keeps it by crimes even more heinous. A - greatly overdrawn picture of a dark and unpleasant side of - life. Such incidents as a packed jury condemning unjustly the - presiding judge’s son (with the judge’s own approbation) to - penal servitude seem wholly improbable. The parson and his - wife afford a gleam of humour. Although some of the worst of - the characters are Protestants, there are several apparent - sneers at things Catholic. “It is not written virginibus - puerisque.”—(_I.B.L._). The career of Blanco Hamilton seems - to be founded on that of Judge Keogh, and the incidental - references are to the latter’s times. Other novels of this - writer, a Corkman, living in Cork, are _The Errors of the - Comedy_, _The Fen Dogs_, _The Terrible Choice_. - - -=FORSTER, C. F. Blake-=, _see_ =BLAKE-FORSTER=. - - -=FRANCILLON, Robert E.= - -⸺ UNDER SLIEVE BÁN: a Yarn in Seven Knots. Pp. 275. (N.Y.: _Holt_). 1881. -It originally appeared as a Christmas Annual with Coloured Illustrations. -Pp. 128. (_Grant_). 1_s._ - - A story of faithful love laid (at least its opening and closing - scenes) in Wexford (“Dunmoyle”). Period about 1798. Michael - and Phil both love Kate Callan. Kate loves P. best, and M. - goes away. Returning after three years, he finds Kate mourning - P., said to be lost at sea. M. and Kate are married, but on - the evening of the marriage M. meets P. M. “disappears,” but - in foreign parts meets P.’s French wife. The two couples are - united again. Kate is shot in the rebellion, but survives to - discover that M. was the best man after all. Dialect natural - but refined. - - -=“FRANCIS, M. E.”; Mrs. Blundell.= Born at Killiney Park, near Dublin. -Is the daughter of Mr. Sweetman, of Lamberton Park, Queen’s County; and -was educated there and in Belgium. In 1879 she married the late Francis -Blundell, of Liverpool. This home of her married life is the background -of many of her stories—(_Ir. Lit._). Among her books are: _Whither_ -(1892), _In a North Country Village_, _A Daughter of the Soil_, _Among -Untrodden Ways_, _Maimie o’ the Corner_, _Pastorals of Dorset_, _The -Manor Farm_, _The Tender Passion_ (1910), and several others, besides -those noticed in this book—about thirty in all. All Mrs. Blundell’s -writings are noted for their delicacy of sentiment, deftness of touch, -pleasantness of atmosphere. They are saved from excessive idealism by -close observation of character and manners. Her Irish stories show -sympathy and even admiration for the peasantry. - -⸺ THE STORY OF DAN, (LONDON: _Osgood, M’Ilvaine_). (BOSTON: _Houghton_). -0.50. 1894. - - “A brief tale, told with directness and tragic simplicity - of a magnanimous peasant, who adores with infatuation a - worthless girl, and sacrifices himself uselessly and blindly. - Friendly portraits of Irish country people are among the minor - characters.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ FRIEZE AND FUSTIAN. (_Osgood_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1896. - - The book is in two parts—the first a reflection or picture - of the mind and soul of the Irish peasant, the second of - that of the English peasant. The comparison or contrast is - not elaborated nor insisted upon. The pictures are there, - the reader judges. A series of short stories or studies form - the traits of the pictures, bringing out such points as the - kindness of the poor to one another, a mother’s love, a - mother’s pride in her son become priest, a servant’s fidelity, - and various stories of love. All told with delicate feeling and - insight. The Author has lived among both peoples. There is a - good deal of dialect. - -⸺ MISS ERIN. Pp. 357. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1898]. Included in Benziger’s -(N.Y.) series of Standard Catholic Novels at 2_s._; also $1.00. - - The story of a girl who, brought up as a peasant, afterwards - becomes a landowner. She tries to do her best for her tenants, - and her difficulties in the task are well depicted, the Author - fully sympathizing with Irish grievances. There are some - sensational scenes—among them an eviction. The love interest is - well sustained, and the character-drawing very clever. - -⸺ NORTH, SOUTH, AND OVER THE SEA. Pp. 347. (_Country Life, and Newnes_). -Charming Illustr. by H. M. Brock. 1902. - - Somewhat on the plan of _Frieze and Fustian_ by the same - Author, _q.v._ Three parts, each containing five stories or - sketches. The first part deals with North of England life, the - second with South of England, the third with Ireland. Humble - life depicted in all. In last part the subject of the first - sketch (an amusing one) is a rustic courtship of a curious - kind; 2, an old woman dying in the workhouse; 4 and 5, a - rural love-story. Studies rather of the minds and hearts of - poor Irish folk than of their outward ways. The author has - reproduced almost perfectly that brogue which is not merely - English mispronounced, but practically a different idiom - expressing a wholly different type of mind. - -⸺ THE STORY OF MARY DUNNE. Pp. 312. (_Murray_). 6_s._ 1913. - - The love story of Mat, “the priest’s boy,” for Mary, beginning - as a sweet and tender idyll in the home in Glenmalure, ending - in the tragedy of a law-court scene, where the hero is on trial - for murder and Mary faces worse than death in telling the story - of her wrongs—she has been an innocent victim of the white - slave traffic. Full of exquisite scenes, with touches of humour - as well as pathos. But in the main the book is a tragedy. - Its purpose seems clearly to be a warning and an appeal. The - poignant consequences of Mary’s undoing are not suitable for - every class of reader, but there is nothing approaching to - prurient description. - -⸺ DARK ROSALEEN. Pp. 392. (_Cassell_). 6_s._ 1915. - - The story of a “mixed marriage” between Norah, a Connemara - peasant girl, and Hector, a young engineer of Belfast origin. - They go to live at Derry. Bitterness and misunderstanding come - to blight their love, and the end is tragedy. The two points of - view, Protestant and Catholic, are put with impartiality.—(T. - LIT. SUPPL.). - - -=FREDERIC, Harold.= - -⸺ THE RETURN OF THE O’MAHONEY: a Romantic Fantasy. Pp. 279. -(_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Three Illustr. 1893. - - Scene: South-west Cork in Fenian times. The O’M., who comes - to Muirisc is not the real O’M. at all, but a Mr. Tisdale, - who has managed to secure the papers of the real O’M., who is - not aware of his own origin and real name. T. becomes a model - landlord, and is beloved of all. Tries his hand at Fenianism, - but soon abandons it and goes abroad to foreign wars. O’Daly, - left as manager, thrusts himself into his master’s place. But - a young American engineer (the real O’M. of course) turns up - and spoils his plans, but does not reveal his own identity till - after Tisdale’s death. Besides this there are numerous exciting - incidents and several mysteries. The characters are well drawn. - The Author is distinctly favourable to Ireland, and seems to - have a good knowledge of the country. - - -=FREMDLING, A.= - -⸺ FATHER CLANCY. Pp. 358. (_Duckworth_). 1904. - - Father Clancy is an unselfish devoted country parish priest, - beloved of his people, unworldly and simple to a fault. His - virtue serves to throw into deeper shadow the character of - his curate, Father O’Keeffe, who is an abandoned and vicious - ruffian. The purpose of the book is not at all clear to the - average reader. - - -=FROST, W. H.= - -⸺ FAIRIES AND FOLK OF IRELAND. Pp. xvi. + 290. (N.Y.: _Scribner’s_). Ill. -by Sidney Richmond Burleigh. 1900. - - -=FROUDE, James Anthony.= 1818-1894. This celebrated writer had already -published his _History of England_ when, in 1869, he came to live (for -the summer) at Derreen, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, where he began his _The -English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century_ (first vol. appeared 1872). -Like most of F.’s books, it provoked numerous answers, among others that -of Father Thomas Burke, O.P., _Froude on Ireland_. The novel mentioned -below embodies his chief ideas on Ireland. - -⸺ THE TWO CHIEFS OF DUNBOY, Pp. 456. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1889]. -Several editions since. - - Scene: the O’Sullivan’s country in south-west Cork. Period: - 1750-98. The ideas expressed in the Author’s _The English in - Ireland_ put into the form of fiction. Thesis: if the English - had from the first striven to replace the hopeless Celt by - Anglo-Saxon and Protestant colonists she would have avoided her - subsequent troubles in Ireland, and all would have been well. - The English character (Colonel Goring) is throughout contrasted - with the Irish (Morty Sullivan), the whole forming a powerful - indictment of Ireland and the Irish as seen by Froude. - - -=FULLER, J. Franklin; “Ignotus.”= Born 1835. Is a native of Derryquin, -near Sneem, Co. Kerry. In his young days he was a close friend of the -priest (Fr. Walsh) who was the original of A. P. Graves’s “Father -O’Flynn.” As architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and to the -Church Representative Body he has travelled extensively through Ireland -and has lived in various parts of it—North, South, East, and West—always -on friendly terms with his Catholic neighbours. He resides in Dublin. - -⸺ CULMSHIRE FOLK. Pp. 384. (_Cassell_). [1873]. Third edition, _n.d._ - - The plot is concerned with Sidney Bateman, heir of a family - that has come down in the world, his struggles against - misfortune, and his eventual attainment of fortune and - happiness. But the chief interest is the kindly, thoughtful - study of character and motive, of human nature in fact, also - in the picture of the ways of the little society (largely - clerical, _e.g._, the egregious Mr. M’Gosh) of Culmshire. - Lady Culmshire, woman of the world, but with a warm and true - heart within, is the central figure and is a very pleasant, - happily drawn portrait. The Irish interest is (1) the excellent - description of the homecoming of Sidney Bateman to the - ancestral castle of Rathvarney, in the wilds of Kerry, which - are well described; (2) the doings of Tim Conroy, a sort of - Mickey Free, and the Leveresque stories told of him by Capt. - Howley; (3) the portrait of the old P.P. of Rathvarney, Fr. - Walsh (the original of Graves’s “Father O’Flynn”). - -⸺ JOHN ORLEBAR, CLERK. Pp. 293. (_Cassell_). [1878]. Second edition, -_n.d._ - - The plot of a villainous attorney, Joe Twinch, and his clerk, - an absconding Fenian, to cheat the rightful heiress out of - the Arderne estates. Dr. Packenham, a personal friend of - Orlebar, who had married the heiress, suspects foul play and - comes to Kerry, where the first Lady Arderne had for some - time resided, to make enquiries. He puts up at Rathvarney - (see _Culmshire Folk_), meets Tim and Fr. Walsh (who helps to - unravel the mystery), and sees something of Ireland in the - sixties (pp. 240-274). This something, it must be confessed, - is chiefly squalor, described, however, in a humorous and not - unsympathetic way. - - -=FURLONG, Alice.= - -⸺ TALES OF FAIRY FOLKS, QUEENS, AND HEROES. Pp. 212. (_Browne & Nolan_). -2_s._ Four or five Illustr. by F. Rigney. Pretty cover. 1909. - - Stories from ancient Gaelic Literature simply and pleasantly - told. Contents:—“Illan Bwee and the Mouse;” “Country under - Wave;” “The Step Mother;” “The Fortunes of the Shepherd’s Son;” - “The Golden Necklet;” “The Harp of the Dagda Mor;” “The Child - that went into the Earth;” and several others. - - -=GALLAHER, Miss Fannie; “Sydney Starr.”= Daughter of Frederick Gallaher, -one time Ed. of FREEMAN’S JOURNAL. - -⸺ KATTY THE FLASH. (_Gill_). 1880. - - Very low life in Dublin, with no attempt to idealise the rags - and filth and squalor; but clever and realistic.—(_I.M._). - -⸺ THY NAME IS TRUTH. Three Vols. (_Maxwell_). 1884. - - Incidentally describes the Hospice for the Dying, Harold’s - Cross, and the inner working of a daily newspaper office. - Cleverly written. The conversations are natural, and the human - interest strong. The politics of the time (1881) are discussed, - but they are not the main interest. - - -=GAMBLE, Dr. John.= I take the following account of this writer from -a note on him contributed by Mr. A. A. Campbell, of Belfast, to the -IRISH BOOK LOVER (September, 1909): Dr. Gamble was born in Strabane, -Co. Tyrone, in the early ’seventies of the eighteenth century. He was -educated in Edinburgh. He devoted most of his life to a study of the -people and characteristics of Ulster. He used to make frequent journeys -on foot, or by coach, through the country, chatting with everyone he -met, picking up story and legend and jest, and noting incidents. All his -writings were imbued with a deep sympathy for his fellow-countrymen. As a -vivid picture of the Ulster of his day his books are invaluable. They did -much to produce in England a kindly feeling for his countrymen. He died -in 1831. - -⸺ SARSFIELD. Three Vols. 12mo. (LONDON). 1814. - - The hero is a young Irishman who, under the name of Glisson, is - a French prisoner of war at Strabane. Aided by the daughter of - the postmaster he escapes, and wanders all over Ulster, where - the wildest excitement about the threatened French invasion - prevailed. Thence he goes to Scotland, England, and abroad. - He fights with Thurot at the Siege of Carrickfergus, and - eventually returns to Strabane, where he meets with a tragic - ending. The Author embodies in the story many local traditions - and much of his own observation and experience. Well worthy of - republication. - -⸺ HOWARD. Two Vols. 12mo. (LONDON). 1815. - - “The subject of the following tale was born in a remote part - of Ireland ... my principal character is not altogether an - imaginary one.” The hero of this autobiography is Irish. The - scene is London. The central incident is his seduction of a - young lady who after attempting suicide dies of remorse and - chagrin. - -⸺ NORTHERN IRISH TALES. Two Vols. 8vo. (LONDON). 1818. - - “Stanley,” the first tale tells the adventures of a young - profligate, son of a Derry Alderman, chiefly in Dublin. After - life of debauch he gets married, but goes bankrupt. His wife - dies, he attempts suicide, is rescued, and plunges once more - into vice. The rest of the story tells of his determined - pursuit of a young lady, ending in a murder for which he is - tried and hanged. It is founded on a romantic episode well - known in Ulster, the courtship and murder of Miss Knox, - of Prehen, near Derry, by Macnaughton, and his subsequent - execution for the crime. “Nelson” is a story of the American - Revolutionary War. Vol. II. contains only one tale, “Lesley.” - The hero is a North of Ireland man, whose travels and love - adventures on the Continent and at home are described. The - Author indulges in a good deal of moralizing. - -⸺ CHARLTON; or, Scenes in the North of Ireland. Three Vols. 12mo. -(LONDON). [1823]. New edition, 1827. - - Depicts, with sympathy for the views of the United Irishmen, - the state of Ireland during the years that immediately preceded - the rebellion. The hero is a young surgeon in a N. of Ireland - town who is tricked into becoming a United Irishman, and leads - the rebels at Ballynahinch. Under the name of Dimond the Rev. - James Porter is introduced, and many quotations are made from - his satire “Billy Bluff.” Northern dialect very well done. - - -=GAUGHAN, Jessie.= Born in Shropshire; one parent Irish, the other -Scotch. Educated in Paisley and in Ursuline Convent, Sligo. Besides -the book here mentioned she has publ. serially in I.M. _The Brooch of -Lindisfarne_, and has in preparation a story dealing with Ireton’s days -in Limerick. - -⸺ THE PLUCKING OF THE LILY. Pp. 220. (_Washbourne_). 1912. - - Reprinted from I.M. 1911-2. A charming little story of - Elizabethan times in Ireland (_c._ 1589-94), telling the - love-story of Eileen daughter of Earl Clancarthy and Florence - M’Carthy. Their love is crossed by the policy of Elizabeth, - who, for State purposes, wants an English husband for Eileen, - and not till the end are the two lovers united again. The - historical setting and colouring are accurate, but never - interfere with the story. The tone is Catholic, but not - obtrusively so. Good portrait of Elizabeth. Burleigh (in a - favourable light), Sir Warham St. Leger, and other historical - personages appear. - - -=GAY, Mrs. Florence, _née_ Smith.= Born in Molong, N.S.W., Australia. Is -an ardent imperialist, but proud of the strain of Celtic blood in her -family, and sympathetic towards Ireland. Resides in Surrey. - -⸺ DRUIDESS, THE. Pp. 195. (_Ouseley_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1908. - - Cormac, a youth of Pictish royal blood, has a mission from - his dying father to rescue from the Saxons the mother of his - intended bride. His adventures in carrying out this mission - bring him from Damnonia (between the Yeo and the Axe) to - Ireland (Glendalough, Tailltenn, Donegal). He is present at - the half-pagan festival of Beltaine, and at the Convention - of Drumceat. At the latter he meets St. Columba, who is - sympathetically described. The story deals largely with the - lingerings of Paganism in Ireland. Several battles between - Saxons and Britons are described. The savage manners of the - time are pictured with realistic vividness. The wild scenes - of adventure follow one another without a pause. Intended for - “boys and others.” - - -=[GETTY, Edmund].= - -⸺ THE LAST KING OF ULSTER. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Madden_). 1841. - - Ostensibly a tale, in reality a kind of historical miscellany - of Elizabethan times, containing memoirs, anecdotes, family - history, &c., of the O’Neills, O’Donnells, and other Irish - chiefs. The Author was one of the best of our Northern - antiquaries. - - -=GIBBON, Charles.= - -⸺ IN CUPID’S WARS. Three Vols. (_F. V. White_). 1884. - - The scene is laid in Kilkenny in 1798 or thereabouts, but - both the topographical and historical settings are of the - vaguest—there is very little local colour, and practically no - depiction of historical events, though there is much about - rebellion and secret societies. The story is thoroughly - melodramatic: it has no serious purpose, but the tone is - wholesome. The characters of the story are all represented as - Catholics. This Author wrote upwards of thirty other novels. - - -=[GIBSON, Rev. Charles Bernard].= (1808-1885). Was chaplain at Spike -Island, and sometime minister of the Independent congregation at Mallow, -Co. Cork, but afterwards joined the Church of England. He was made -M.R.I.A. in 1854. He wrote a _History of Cork City and County_ (1861), -and five or six other works, including _Historical Portraits of Irish -Chieftains and Anglo-Norman Knights_, 1871. - -⸺ THE LAST EARL OF DESMOND. Two Vols. (_Hodges & Smith_). 1854. - - Extensive pref., introd. (summarising history of Earls of - Desmond), and notes. Scene: Mallow, various parts of Munster, - and the Tower of London. All the great personages of the time, - English and Irish, figure in the story, but several fictitious - characters are introduced, and many fictitious episodes are - throughout the story mingled with the facts of history. The - main plot turns on the Sugán Earl’s love for, and marriage - with, Ellen Spenser (an imaginary daughter of the poet). The - bias is strongly anti-Catholic. Fr. Archer, S.J., is the - villain of the piece, stopping at no crime to gain his ends. - It is also, though not to the same extent, anti-Irish. He - relies for his facts entirely on _Pacata Hibernia_ (point of - view wholly English). The Irish chiefs are made to speak in - vulgar modern-Irish dialect (“iligant,” “crattur,” “yr sowls - to blazes,” &c., &c.). The humour is distinctly vulgar, as in - the case of the Author’s other novel. Raleigh is one of the - personages. - -⸺ DEARFORGIL, THE PRINCESS OF BREFFNY. Pp. 287. (LONDON: _Hope_). [1857]. -Second edition (_Longmans_). 1884. Pp. xxiv. + 284. - - Story of Diarmuid MacMurrough’s abduction of the wife of - O’Ruairc of Breffni, and subsequent events, including an - account of the Norman Invasion. The tone throughout is - anti-National and most offensive to Catholic feeling. The - frequent humorous passages are nearly always vulgar, and in - some instances coarse. There are many absurdities in the course - of the narrative. - - -=GIBSON, Jennie Browne.= - -⸺ AILEEN ALANNAH. Pp. 86. (_Stockwell_). 1_s._ net. One good illustr. -1911. - - Desmond Fitzgerald and Aileen have been sweethearts - from childhood, D. has to go to America. Percy Gerrard - intercepts their letters, and tries to marry Aileen. She is - broken-hearted, and goes as nurse to a London hospital. Percy - at the point of death confesses his wickedness, and No. 27 in - one of the wards turns out to be⸺. Scene: at first Donegal. A - very pleasant story, full of kindly Irish people, entirely free - from bigotry, and with an excellent though unobtruded moral - purpose. - - -=“GILBERT, George;” Miss Arthur.= Has written also _In the Shadow of the -Purple_ (1902), and _The Bâton Sinister_ (1903). - -⸺ THE ISLAND OF SORROW. Pp. 384. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1903. - - Deals, in considerable detail, with political and social life - in the Ireland of the time. The circles of Lord Edward and - Pamela Fitzgerald (centering in Leinster House), of the Emmet - family (at the Casino, Milltown), and of the Curran family - (at the Priory, Rathfarnham) are fully portrayed and neatly - interlinked in private life. The whole romance of Emmet and - Sarah Curran is related. There are many portraits—Charles James - Fox, Curran (depicted as a domestic monster), many men of - the Government party, above all, Emmet. This portrait is not - lacking in sympathy, though the theatrical and inconsiderate - character of his aims is insisted on. The whole work shows - considerable power of _dramatizing_ history, and is made - distinctly interesting. “The author,” says Mr. Baker, “tries to - be impartial, but cannot divest himself of an Englishman’s lack - of sympathy with Ireland.” The book is preceded by a valuable - list of authorities and sources. - - -=GILL, E. A. Wharton.= - -⸺ AN IRISHMAN’S LUCK. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ 1914. - - “A domestic tale of young folk in a British settlement in - Manitoba, and of the Canadian contingent in the Boer War.”—(T. - LIT. SUPPL.). - - -=GODFREY, Hal=, _see_ =CHARLOTTE O’C. ECCLES=. - - -=GOODRICH, Samuel Griswold; “Peter Parley.”= Born 1793 in Connecticut. -Author of 170 volumes, the list of them, with notes, occupying 7½ columns -of Allibone, of which 116 appeared under pseud. “Peter Parley.” Seven -millions had, according to the Author, been sold at date of Allibone. - -⸺ TALES ABOUT IRELAND AND THE IRISH. 16mo. Pp. 300. (LONDON: _Berger_). -[1834]. 1836, 1852, 1856. _n.d._ _c._ 1865. - - In Ch. I. there is a short account of the physical features, - climate, etc., of I. Pages 20-140 give a popular account of - Irish history from the English point of view, but on the whole - not unfair to Ireland. At p. 150 commences a pleasant little - description of a tour round I., with some little account of - antiquities seen on the way; also occasional legends and - stories connected with places. Illustrated by a number of small - nondescript woodcuts of no value. The above work seems to be - a portion of the Author’s _Tales about Great Britain_. First - publ. Baltimore, 1834. - - -=GRANT, John O’Brien; “Denis Ignatius Moriarty.”= The former of these two -names is signed to a dedication in _The Wife Hunter_, one of the “Tales -by the Moriarty Family.” I am not sure that it is not as fictitious as -the second. - -⸺ THE HUSBAND HUNTER. Three Vols. 1839. - - A society novel. Scene: Kerry, _c._ 1830. There is very little - plot, and the matrimonial complications (a Russian prince and - a German baron are involved) of the lady who gives to the - story its title form by no means the central episode. The - conversations are rather artificial and the humour a little - insipid. Pleasant portrait of a priest of the old sporting - type. Nothing objectionable. - -⸺ INNISFOYLE ABBEY. Three Vols. (LONDON). 1840. - - A story dealing with the religious question in Ireland, as seen - from a Catholic standpoint. It is full of able controversy - and shows keen observation. The hero Howard’s Protestant - and anti-Irish prejudices are made to give way as the real - situation of things is forced in on him. The restoration of - Innisfoyle Abbey is one of the main incidents. Some of the - incidents are taken from facts, _e.g._, the Rathcormac tithe - massacre. These incidents are related with energy and pathos. - But in general the story is of a lighter character, full of - broad Irish humour, and placing the sayings and doings of our - Orange fellow-countrymen in a point of view as ludicrous as it - is horrible. “A rambling, spirited, and racy tale, eccentric - and even absurd sometimes, but very original and entertaining.” - “This writer is known as the author of several amusing and - clever novels.”—(_D. R._). - - -=GRAVES, Alfred Perceval.= Born in Dublin, 1846, but his family resided -in Kerry. Son of late Dr. Graves, Bp. of Limerick. Educated at Windermere -Coll. and T.C.D. Was Inspector of Schools from 1875-1910. For eight years -Hon. Sec. of Irish Literary Society. Publ. upwards of seventeen books, -nearly all on Irish subjects—poems, songs (including the famous “Father -O’Flynn”), translations from the Irish, essays. Resides in Wimbledon. - -⸺ THE IRISH FAIRY BOOK. (_Fisher Unwin_). Illustr. by George Denham. -1909. A new ed. at 3_s._ 6_d._, with fresh introd., is forthcoming. - - A collection of fairy, folk, and hero-tales, nearly all - selected from books already published, together with poems by - Mangan, Tennyson, Nora Hopper, &c. Also tales from Standish - H. O’Grady, Brian O’Looney, Thomas Boyd, Mrs. M’Clintock, - Mrs. Ewing, Douglas Hyde, O’Kearney, &c. All are inspired by - Gaelic originals. “The book is one to delight children for its - simple, direct narratives of wonder and mystery,” while the - fairy mythology will interest the student of the early life - of man. The illustrations are as fanciful and elusive as the - beings whose doings are told in the tales. Mr. Graves’s Preface - is a popular review of the origin and character of fairy - lore.—(_Press Notice_). - - -=GREER, James.= - -⸺ THREE WEE ULSTER LASSIES; or, News from our Irish Cousins. (_Cassell_), -1_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by old blocks. 1883. - - The three lassies are Bessie Strong, the Ulster-Saxon, a - landlord’s daughter; Jennie Scott, the Ulster-Scot, a farmer’s - daughter; and Nelly Nolan, the Ulster-Kelt, a peasant girl. - The Author insists throughout on the vast superiority of the - English and Scotch elements of the population—“the grave, - grim, hardy, sturdy race.” Interlarded with texts and hymns. - In the end Nelly, after an encounter with the priest and - stormy interviews with the neighbours, is converted and goes - to America. The Author died in Derry in 1913 at an advanced - age. He edited a _Guide to Londonderry and the Highlands of - Donegal_, 1885, which went through several editions. - - -=GREER, Tom.= Was born at Anahilt, Co. Down, a member of a well known -Ulster family. Ed. at Queen’s College, Belfast. M.A. and M.D., Queen’s -University, and practised in Cambridge. Unsuccessfully contested North -Derry as a Liberal Home Ruler, 1892, and died a few years afterwards. The -central idea of this tale was suggested by the old Co. Derry folk tale of -Hudy McGuiggen. See HARKIN, Hugh. - -⸺ A MODERN DÆDALUS. Pp. 261. (LONDON: _Griffith, Farran_, &c.). 1885. - - The introd. is signed John O’Halloran, Dublin, 30th Feb., - 1887! A curious story, told in first person, of a Donegal - lad who learned the secret of aerial flight by watching the - sea-birds. He flies over to London. Is in the House of Commons - for a debate. Parnell is well described. The way Parliament - and the Government and the Press dealt with the new invention - is cleverly and amusingly told. Jack, the hero, is imprisoned - but escapes, and on his return there is a successful rising in - Ireland, who establishes her independence by her air fleet. - The book is full of politics (Nationalist point of view). - An eviction scene in Donegal—“The Battle of Killynure”—is - described. Shrewd strokes of satire are aimed at the Tories - throughout. - - -=GREGORY, Lady.= Daughter of Dudley Persse, D.L., of Roxborough, Co. -Galway. She has identified herself with the modern Irish literary -movement. Besides the books here noted she has written a great many plays -for the Abbey Theatre. Her home is Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway. - -⸺ CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE. Pp. 360. (_Murray_). 6_s._ Pref. by W. B. -Yeats. (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 2.00. 1902. - - The Cuchulain legends woven into an ordered narrative. The - translation for the most part is taken from texts already - published. Lady Gregory has made her own translation from them, - comparing it with translations already published. “I have fused - different versions together and condensed many passages, and I - have left out many.” The narrative is not told in dialect, but - in the idiom of the peasant who speaks in English and thinks - in Gaelic. “I have thought it more natural to tell the stories - in the manner of thatched houses, where I have heard so many - legends of Finn, &c. ... than in the manner of the slated - houses where I have not heard them.” The matter also is often - such as the peasant Seanchuidhe might choose; the clear epic - flow being clogged with garbage of the Jack-the-Giant-killer - type. Fiona MacLeod says very well of the style that it is - “over cold in its strange sameness of emotion, a little chill - with the chill of studious handicraft,” and speaks elsewhere of - its “monotonous passionlessness” and its “lack of virility.” - Yet to the book as a whole he gives high, if qualified, praise. - W. B. Yeats, in his enthusiastic Preface, speaks of it as - perhaps the best book that has ever come out of Ireland. All - these remarks apply also to the following work. - -⸺ GODS AND FIGHTING MEN. Pp. 476. (_Murray_). 6_s._ Pref. by W. B. Yeats. -(N.Y.: _Scribner_). 2.00. 1906. - - Treats of: Part I. “The Gods” (Tuatha De Danaan, Lugh, The - Coming of the Gael, Angus Og, the Dagda, Fate of Children - of Lir, &c.); II. “The Fianna” (Finn, Oisin, Diarmuid, and - Grania). The Finn Cycle is treated as being wholly legendary. - -⸺ A BOOK OF SAINTS AND WONDERS. (_Murray_). 5_s._ 1907. - - A series of very short (half page or so) and disconnected - stories of fragmentary anecdotes. Told in language which is - a literal translation from the Irish, and in the manner of - illiterate peasants. First, there are stories of the saints, - all quite fanciful, of course, and usually devoid of definite - meaning. Then there is the Voyage of Maeldune, a strange piece - of fantastic imagination often degenerating into extravagance - and silliness. The book is not suitable for certain readers - owing to naturalistic expressions. - -⸺ THE KILTARTAN WONDER-BOOK. Pp. 103. 9 in. + 7. (_Maunsel_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -net. Illustr. by Margaret Gregory. Linen cover. 1910. - - Sixteen typical folk-tales collected in Kiltartan, a barony in - Galway, on the borders of Clare, from the lips of old peasants. - “I have not changed a word in these stories as they were told - to me.”—(Note at end). But some transpositions of parts have - been made. It does not appear whether the stories were told - to Lady Gregory in Irish or in English. Nothing unsuited to - children. All the tales are distinctly _modern_ in tone if not - in origin. The illustrations are quaint and original, with - their crude figures vividly coloured in flat tints. - - -=GRIERSON, Elizabeth.= - -⸺ THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CELTIC STORIES. Pp. 324. (_Black_). 6_s._ Twelve -very good illustrations in colour from drawings by Allan Stewart. 1908. - - Sixteen fairy, folk, and hero-tales, partly Irish, partly - Scotch, dealing, among other things, with wonderful talking - animals that prove to be human beings transformed, adventures - of king’s sons amid all kinds of wonders, &c. One is “The Fate - of the Children of Lir,” and there are five or six about Fin. - There is little or no comicality. The style is simple and - refined, free from the usual defects of folk-lore. The book is - beautifully and attractively produced. - -⸺ THE SCOTTISH FAIRY BOOK. Pp. 384. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ 100 Ill. by -M. M. Williams. 1910. - - Same series as Mr. A. P. Graves’s _Irish Fairy Book_, _q.v._ - Illustr. in a similar way. Not all of these tales will be new - to Irish children. - - -=GRIERSON, Rev. Robert.= Resides at 41 Ormond Road, Rathmines. His two -books are long out of print. I have been unable to obtain information -about them. They are not in the British Museum Library. - -⸺ THE INVASION OF CROMLEIGH: a Story of the Times. - -⸺ BALLYGOWNA. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1898. - - -=GRIFFIN, Gerald.= Is one of our foremost novelists of the old -school. Born 1803, died 1840. Brought up on the banks of the Shannon, -twenty-eight miles from Limerick, at twenty he went to London, where all -his writing was done. Two years before his death he became a Christian -Brother. “He was the first,” says Dr. Sigerson, “to present several of -our folk customs, tales, and ancient legends in English prose.” P. J. -Kenedy, of New York, publishes an edition of his works in seven volumes, -and Messrs. Duffy have an edition in ten vols. at 2_s._ each. - -⸺ HOLLAND TIDE. Pp. 378. (_Simpkin & Marshall_). 1827. - - First series of _Tales of the Munster Festivals_, _q.v._ Often - published separately. - -⸺ THE COLLEGIANS; or, The Colleen Bawn. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1828]. Still -reprinted. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75. A new ed. forthcoming (_Talbot -Press_). 2_s._ 6_d._ - - Pronounced the best Irish novel by Aubrey de Vere, Gavan Duffy, - and Justin M’Carthy. Its main interest lies in its being a - tragedy of human passion. The character of Hardress Cregan, - the chief actor, is powerfully and pitilessly analysed. Eily - O’Connor is one of the most lovable characters in fiction. - Danny Man, with his dog-like fidelity; Myles, the mountainy - man, simple yet shrewd; Fighting Poll of the Reeks; Hardress - Cregan’s mother, are characters that live in the mind, like the - memories of real persons. There are pictures, too, of the life - of the day, the drunken, duelling squireen, the respectable - middle-class Dalys, the manners and ways of the peasantry, - whose quaint, humorous, anecdotal talk is perfectly reproduced, - but who are shown merely from without. The scene is laid partly - in Limerick and partly in Killarney. Dion Boucicault’s drama - “The Colleen Bawn” is founded on this story, which itself is - founded on a real murder-trial in which O’Connell defended the - prisoner and which Griffin reported for the press. - -⸺ CARD-DRAWING, &c. 1829. - - Second series of _Tales of the Munster Festivals_, _q.v._ - -⸺ THE CHRISTIAN PHYSIOLOGIST. Tales illustrative of the Five Senses. Pp. -xxvi. + 376. (_Bull_). 1830. - - The tales are:—1. _The Kelp Gatherers_; 2. _The Day of Trial_; - 3. _The Voluptuary Cured_; 4. _The Self Consumed_; and, 5. _The - Selfish Crotarie_. All are clever little stories of ancient and - modern Ireland, several of which have been reprinted separately. - -⸺ THE INVASION. Very long. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1832]. Still reprinted. -(N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75. - - Scene: chiefly the territory of the O’Haedha sept on Bantry - Bay. The story deals chiefly with the fortunes of the - O’Haedhas, but there are many digressions. The innumerable - ancient Irish names give the book a forbidding aspect to one - unacquainted with the language. The narrative interest is - almost wanting, the chief interest being the laborious and - careful picture of the life and civilization of the time, the - eve of the Danish Invasions. The archæology occasionally lacks - accuracy and authority, but these qualities are partly supplied - in the notes, which are by Eugene O’Curry. The invasion - referred to is an early incursion on the coasts of West Munster - by a Danish chief named Gurmund. Some of the characters are - finely drawn, _e.g._, the hero, Elim, and his mother and Duach, - the faithful kerne. - -⸺ THE RIVALS. 1832. - - Third series of _Tales of the Munster Festivals_, _q.v._ - -⸺ TALES OF THE MUNSTER FESTIVALS. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.50. - - Scene: the wild cliffs and crags of Kerry and West Clare. - Theme: the play of passions as wild and terrible as the scenes; - yet there are glimpses of peasant home-life and hospitality, - and many touches of humour. The tales appeared in three series, - 1827, 1829, and 1832. The first (Holland Tide) contained the - _Aylmers of Ballyaylmer_, a story about a family of small - gentry on the Kerry coast, with many details of smuggling; _The - Hand and Word_, _The Barber of Bantry_, with its picture of - the Moynahans, a typical middle-class family, like the Dalys - in _The Collegians_, and several shorter tales. The second - series contains _Card-drawing_, _The Half-Sir_, and _Suil Dhuv - the Coiner_, which deals with the “Palatines” of Limerick. The - third series contains _The Rivals_ and _Tracy’s Ambition_. - These are sensational stories. The first has an interesting - picture of a hedge-school, the second brings out the people’s - sufferings at the hands of “loyalists” and government - officials. They contain several instances of seduction and of - elopement. Perhaps the best of these is _Suil Dhuv the Coiner_. - The characters of the robbers who compose the coiner’s gang are - admirably discriminated, and the passion of remorse in _Suil - Dhuv_ is pictured with a power almost equal to that of _The - Collegians_. - -⸺ TALES OF MY NEIGHBOURHOOD. Three Vols. (_Saunders & Otley_). 1835. - - Vol. 1 contains _The Barber of Bantry_. Vol. 2. Three sketches - and the dramatic ballad _The Nightwalker_. Vol. 3. Eight short - sketches and the poems _Shanid Castle_ and _Orange and Green_. - -⸺ THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. Pp. 423. (_Maxwell_). 1842. - - A clever historical novel, dealing with this unfortunate - nobleman and the battle of Sedgmoor. Two Irish soldiers, Morty - and Shemus Delany, supply the comic relief. The fine ballad, - _The Bridal of Malahide_, first appears here, and the song, “A - Soldier, A Soldier.” - -⸺ TALES OF A JURY ROOM. Pp. 463. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1842]. Still reprinted. - - The scenes of three of these tales are in foreign lands—Poland, - the East, France in the days of Bayard. The remaining ten - are Irish. Among them are fairy tales, tales of humble life, - an episode of Clontarf, a story of the days of Hugh O’Neill, - and several, including the Swans of Lir, that deal with - pre-Christian times. All are well worth reading, especially - “Antrim Jack”—Macalister, who died to save Michael Dwyer. - - -=GRIFFITH, George.= - -⸺ THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE ROSE. Pp. 311. (_J. F. Shaw_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -Several good illustr. by Hal Hurst. 1908. - - The adventures of three young soldiers, an Englishman (the - hero), an Irishman, and a Scotchman, in a Royalist crack - regiment. Lively descriptions of fighting before Derry and at - the Boyne. Good outline of the campaign but little historical - detail or description. Told in pleasant style with plenty of - go. For boys. - - -=GRIMSHAW, Beatrice.= An Irish Authoress, born in Cloona, Co. Antrim. -Hitherto her novels do not deal directly with Ireland, but some of her -chief characters are Irish. Thus Hugh Lynch, a Co. Clare man, is the hero -of her _When the Red Gods Call_ (Mills & Boon), 1910, and Geo. Scott, -a typical Belfastman, plays a prominent part in _Guinea Gold_ (Mills & -Boon), 1912. These novels deal with New Guinea life. - - -=GRINDON, Maurice.= - -⸺ KATHLEEN O’LEOVAN: a Fantasy. Pp. 107. Two illustr. (_Simpkin, -Marshall_). 1896. - - Levan, grandson of an O’Leovan who had settled in England, - visits the home of his ancestors, Castle Columba, Kilronan, and - meets the heroine. - - -=GUINAN, Rev. Joseph.= Father Guinan is P.P. of Dromod, in Co. Longford. -Before his appointment to an Irish parish he passed five years in -Liverpool. This gave him “the fresh eye,” the power to see things which, -had he remained in Ireland, he might never have observed. His books deal -with two things—the life of the poorest classes in the Midlands and the -life of the priests. Of both he has intimate personal knowledge, and for -both unbounded admiration. He writes simply and earnestly. To the critic -used only to English literature, his work may seem wanting in artistic -restraint, for he gives free vein to emotion. But this is more than -atoned for by its obvious sincerity. - -⸺ SCENES AND SKETCHES IN AN IRISH PARISH; or, Priests and People in Doon. -(_Gill_). 2_s._ Fourth edition. 1906. - - A faithful picture of typical things in Irish life: the - Station, the Sunday Mass, the grinding of landlordism, the - agrarian crime, the eviction, the emigration-wake. See - especially the chapter “Sunday in Doon.” This is the Author’s - first novel and is somewhat immature. - -⸺ THE SOGGARTH AROON. (_Gill & Duffy_). 2_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). -1.00. Second edition, 1907. Third, 1908. - - Pathetic experiences of a country curate in an out-of-the-way - parish, where the people’s faith is strong and their lives - supernaturally beautiful. The Soggarth shares the few joys and - the many sorrows of their lives. - -⸺ THE MOORES OF GLYNN. Pp. 354. (_Washbourne_). 3_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: -_Pratt_). 2.00. [1907]. Third edition. 1915. - - The fortunes of a family of four children whose mother is a - beautiful and lovable character. The book is full of pictures - of many phases of Irish life, the relations between landlord - and tenant, priests and people, evictions, emigration, a - “spoiled priest.” A typical description is the realistic - picture of the pig fair. Full of true pathos, with an - occasional touch of kindly humour. - -⸺ THE ISLAND PARISH. Pp. 331. (_Gill_). 1908. - - The work of an ideal young priest in Ballyvora, a kind of - Sleepy Hollow where all is stagnation, poverty, and decay. - The picture of these squalid conditions of life is one of - photographic and unsparing exactness. Yet with loving insight - the Author shows the peasant’s quiet happiness, beauty of soul, - and downright holiness of life in the midst of all this. There - is no plot, the book is a series of pictures loosely strung - together. There is a chapter on Lisdoonvarna. - -⸺ DONAL KENNY. (_Washbourne_). 1910. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.10. - - Donal tells his own story—his mother’s early death, followed - by his father’s rapid fall into habits of drink; his own early - struggles; his love for Norah Kenny; his search for traces of - her real identity; and the happy ending of it all. Displays all - the Author’s knowledge of Irish life in sketches of priests and - people. Especially good is the character study of the faithful - old nurse, Nancy, with her quaint sayings.—(_Press Notice_). - -⸺ THE CURATE OF KILCLOON. Pp. 282. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1913. - - Labours, sorrows, and consolations of a young priest in - a very out of the way country parish. He had been very - distinguished at Maynooth and seemed thrown away on such a - place as Kilcloon, but he finds that there is work there worth - his doing—temperance to be promoted, the Gaelic League to be - established, industries to be fostered. The story has the same - qualities as the Author’s former books, and in fact differs - little from them. - - -=GWYNN, Stephen.= Born in Donegal, 1864. Eldest son of Rev. John Gwynn -of T.C.D. Is a grandson of William Smith O’Brien. Educated St. Columba’s -College, Rathfarnham, and Oxford, where he read a very distinguished -course. Since 1890 he has published a great deal—literary criticism, -translations, Irish topography, journalism, novels, politics. Has been -Nationalist M.P. for Galway City since 1906, and is one of the most -active members of the Irish Parliamentary Party. - -⸺ THE OLD KNOWLEDGE. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ 1901. - - A book quite unique in conception. Into the romance are woven - fishing episodes and cycling episodes and adventures among - flowers. There are exquisite glimpses, too, of Irish home life, - and the very spirit of the mists and loughs and mountains of - Donegal is called up before the reader. But above all there - is the mystic conception of Conroy, the Donegal schoolmaster, - whose soul lives with visions, and communes with the spirits of - eld, the nature gods of pagan Ireland. - -⸺ JOHN MAXWELL’S MARRIAGE. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ 1903. - - Scene: chiefly Donegal, _c._ 1761-1779. A strong and intense - story. Interesting not only for its powerful plot, but for - the admirably painted background of scenery and manners, and - for its studies of character. It depicts in strong colours - the tyranny of Protestant colonists and the hate which it - produces in the outcast Catholics. One of the main motives of - the story is a forced marriage of a peculiarly odious kind. In - connexion with this marriage there is one scene in the book - that is drawn with a realism which, we think, makes the book - unsuitable for certain classes of readers. The hero fights on - the American side in the war of Independence, and takes a share - in Nationalist schemes at home. - -⸺ THE GLADE IN THE FOREST. Pp. 224. (_Maunsel_). 1_s._ Cloth. 1907. - - Seven short stories, chiefly about Donegal, five of them - dealing with peasant life, of which the Author writes with - intimate and kindly knowledge. “The Grip of the Land” describes - the struggles of a small farmer and the love of his bleak - fields that found no counterpart in his eldest boy, who has his - heart set on emigration. Compare Bazin’s _La Terre qui Meurt_. - All the stories had previously appeared in such magazines as - the CORNHILL and BLACKWOOD’S. - -⸺ ROBERT EMMET. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ Map of Dublin in 1803. 1909. - - An account of the Emmet rising related with scrupulous - fidelity to fact and in minute detail. The Author introduces - no reflections of his own, leaving the facts to speak. His - narrative is graphic and vivid, the style of high literary - value. The minor actors in the drama—Quigley, Russell, - Hamilton, Dwyer—are carefully drawn. Though he gives a - prominent place in the story to Emmet’s romantic love for Sarah - Curran, Mr. Gwynn has sought rather to draw a vivid picture of - the event by which the young patriot is known to history than - to reconstruct his personality. - - -=HALL, E.= - -⸺ THE BARRYS OF BEIGH. Pp. 394. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). [1875.] - - Scene: banks of Shannon twenty miles below Limerick. Story - opens about 1775. - - -=HALL, Mrs. S. C.= Born in Dublin, 1800. Brought by her mother (who was -of French Huguenot descent) to Wexford in 1806. Here she lived, mixing -a good deal with the peasantry, until the age of fifteen, when she was -taken away to London, and did not again return to Wexford. Wrote nine -novels, and many short stories and sketches. Besides the works noticed -here, she and her husband produced between them a very large number of -volumes. See his _Reminiscences of a Long Life_. Two vols. London. 1883. -A reviewer in BLACKWOOD’S describes her work as “bright with an animated -and warm nationality, apologetic and defensive.” She died in 1881. - -⸺ SKETCHES OF IRISH CHARACTER. Pp. 443. (_Chatto & Windus_). 7_s._ -6_d._ With Sixty-one Illustrations by Maclise, Gilbert, Harvey, George -Cruikshank, &c. [1829]. 1854 (5th), 1892, &c., &c. - - Mrs. Hall intends in these sketches to do for her village - of Bannow, in Wexford, what Miss Mitford did for her - English village. This district, she says, “possesses to a - very remarkable extent all the moral, social, and natural - advantages, which are to be found throughout the country.” - The author proclaims (cf. Introduction) her intention “so - to picture the Irish character as to make it more justly - appreciated ... and more respected in England.” She applies - to the peasantry the saying “their virtues are their own; - but their vices have been forced upon them.” Again she - says, “the characters here are all portraits.” Yet it must - be confessed that the standpoint is, after all, alien, and - something strangely like the traditional stage Irishman appears - occasionally in these pages. There is, however, not a shadow of - religious bias. The “Rambling Introduction” makes very pleasant - reading. - -⸺ LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF IRISH LIFE. Three vols. (long). (_Colburn_). 1838. - - In five parts:—1. “The Groves of Blarney” (whole of Vol. - I.). 2. “Sketches on Irish Highways during the Autumn of - 1834” (whole of Vol. II.). 3. “Illustrations of Irish Pride” - (two stories). 4. “The Dispensation.” 5. “Old Granny.” No. 1 - “derives its title from an occurrence ... in ... Blarney ... - about the year 1812.”—(_Pref._). It is a thoroughly good story, - telling how Connor in order to win the fair widow Margaret, - his early love, takes an oath against drinking, flirting, and - faction-fighting for a year, and how a vengeful old tramp woman - makes him break it on the very last day. Amusingly satirical - portrait of the little Cockney, Peter Swan. Author’s sympathies - thoroughly Irish. Contents of Vol. II.:—“The Jaunting Car,” - “Beggars,” “Naturals,” “Servants,” “Ruins” [or stories told _a - propos_ of them], &c. The dialect is very well done, full of - humour and flavour. Characters all drawn from peasant class. - -⸺ STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. Pp. 302, (close print). (_Chambers_). -[1840]. 1851, &c. - - Aims to reconcile landlords and peasantry. To this end tries - to show each to what their enmity is due and how they may - remedy the evil. The stories are to show the peasantry that - their present condition is due to defects in the national - character and in the prevailing national habits—chiefly drink, - early marriages, laziness, conservatism, superstition. The - Authoress has a good grasp of the ways of the people, but her - reasoning is peculiar. When a peasant, driven to desperation by - a cruel eviction, swears vengeance, this is put down to innate - lawlessness, sinfulness, and a murderous disposition. Twenty - stories in all, some melodramatic, some pastoral. - -⸺ THE WHITEBOY. (_Ward, Lock, Routledge_). 2_s._, and 6_d._ [1845]. -Several eds. since. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.50. - - In the height of the Whiteboy disturbances, which are luridly - described, a young Englishman comes to Ireland with the - intention of uplifting the peasantry and bettering their lot. - After some terrible experiences he at length succeeds to a - wonderful extent in his benevolent purposes. The book is of a - didactic type.—(_Krans_). - -⸺ THE FIGHT OF FAITH: a Story of Ireland. Two Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). -[1862]. 1869. - - Opens at Havre in 1680 with a Huguenot family about to fly - from persecution. Their ship is wrecked off the Isle of Wight, - where the little girl Pauline is rescued and adopted by an old - sea-captain. The scene then changes to Carrickfergus, then held - by Schomberg. Geo. Walker is introduced, and the story ends - with the battle of the Boyne (the fight of faith). View-point - strongly Protestant. - -⸺ NELLY NOWLAN, and Other Stories. Popular Tales of Irish Life and -Character. Seventh edition, with numerous Illustr. Demy 8vo. (LONDON). -1865. - - Contains twenty-five delightful tales of Irish life, with - numerous illustrations by Maclise, Franklin, Brooke, Herbert, - Harvey, Nichol, and Weigall; “Sweet Lilly O’Brian,” “Mary - Ryan’s Daughter,” “The Bannow Postman,” “Father Mike,” and - twenty-one other tales. As a graphic delineator of Irish life - and character, no other writer has dealt with the subject so - delightfully and truly as Mrs. Hall. She wrote many volumes on - the subject, of which this is the best. - -⸺ TALES OF IRISH LIFE AND CHARACTER. (_T. N. Foulis_). 5_s._ With Sixteen -Illustr. in colour from the famous Irish paintings of Erskine Nichol, -R.S.A. 1909. - - -=HALPINE, Charles Graham; “Private Myles O’Reilly.”= Born in Oldcastle, -Co. Meath, 1829. Son of Rev. N. J. Halpin (_sic_). Ed. T.C.D. Took up -journalism and went first to London, where he came to know some of the -young Irelanders, and thence to America. Became a well-known journalist. -Fought through the Civil War. His songs became very well-known throughout -the Union. D. 1868. Publ. also a series of prose sketches, _Baked Meats -of the Funeral_, and a vol. of reminiscences. - -⸺ MOUNTCASHEL’S BRIGADE; or, The Rescue of Cremona. Pp. 151 (close -print). (DUBLIN: _T. D. Sullivan_). Fifth ed., 1882. - - Episodes in the story of the Irish Brigade in the service of - France. The narrative is enlivened with love affairs, duels, - and exciting adventures very well told. - -⸺ THE PATRIOT BROTHERS; or, The Willows of the Golden Vale. (DUBLIN). -Sixth ed. 1884. One ed., pp. 173 (small print), _n.d._, was publ. by A. -M. Sullivan. - - Sub-title: A page from Ireland’s Martyrology. A finely written - romance dealing with the fate of the brothers Sheares, - executed in 1798. Their story is followed with practically - historical exactitude, a thread of romance being woven in. A - good account of the politics of the time, especially of the - elaborate spy-system then flourishing, is given, but not so - as to interfere with the interest of the tale. There are fine - descriptions of the scenery of Wicklow, in which the action - chiefly takes place, and especially of the Golden Vale between - Bray and Delgany. - - -=HAMILTON, Catherine J.= Born in Somerset of Irish parents, her father -being from Strabane and her mother from Queen’s Co. Ed. chiefly by her -father, a vicar of the Ch. of England. At his death, in 1859, removed to -Ireland and lived there more than thirty years. Publ. at twenty-five her -first story, _Hedged with Thorns_. Wrote verse for the ARGOSY and Irish -stories for the GRAPHIC; contributed regularly to WEEKLY IRISH TIMES and -IRELAND’S OWN, including several serials. At present resides in London. -Author of _Notable Irishwomen_ (1904), _Women Writers, their Works and -Ways_ (1892), &c. - -⸺ MARRIAGE BONDS; or, Christian Hazell’s Married Life. Pp. 439. (_Ward, -Lock_). _n.d._ (1878). - - First appeared in THE ENGLISHWOMAN’S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE. An - unhappy marriage of a sweet, loving, sensitive nature to a man - of a hard, selfish character, who treats his wife with studied - neglect and discourtesy. Christian comes from her native - English manor house to live with Alick Hazell in an ugly, - ill-managed Irish country house, among disagreeable neighbours - somewhere on the S.E. coast of Ireland. He hates the people, - and is a bad landlord. She has no friend until the arrival - of his brother Eustace, whose mother was Irish and who loves - Ireland. Almost unawares they fall in love, but E. is a man of - honour, and C. is faithful to her husband to the very end. The - author is on Ireland’s side, though somewhat apologetically and - vaguely. Good picture of bitterly anti-Irish narrow-minded type - of minor country gentry. - -⸺ THE FLYNNS OF FLYNNVILLE. Pp. 250. (_Ward, Lock_). 1879. - - A story of the sensational kind, founded on the murder of a - bank-manager by a constabulary officer called Montgomery, and - the subsequent trial, which many years ago excited considerable - interest. Scene: S. of Ireland. - -⸺ TRUE TO THE CORE: a Romance of ’98. Two Vols. (_F. V. White_). 1884. - - The story of the love of a Kerry peasant girl for the ill-fated - John Sheares. The interest is that of plot, history being quite - of minor importance, and centres in the scheming of his various - enemies to compass the destruction of John Sheares in spite - of all the efforts of his guardian angel, Norah Nagle. There - is not one really sympathetic character. Sheares is a mere - dreamer; Norah is generous and faithful, but lies and “barges” - on occasion; almost all the rest, except Norah’s peasant lover, - are fools or villains of the blackest sort. Disagreeable - picture of the Dublin of the day. The story is told with - considerable verve and carries one along. The Author is not at - all hostile, but seems unstirred to any feeling of enthusiasm - for the cause of Ireland. - -⸺ DR. BELTON’S DAUGHTERS. Pp. 169. (_Ward, Lock_). 1890. - - Alice the second marries a curate in the W. of Ireland and - struggles to keep up on small means a good appearance. Her - husband is an incurable optimist. - -⸺ THE LUCK OF THE KAVANAGHS. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ 1910. - - Strange adventures of an emigrant Irish boy. - - -=HAMILTON, Edwin, M.A., B.L., M.R.I.A.= Born 1849. Resides at Donaghadee, -Co. Down. Author of _Dublin Doggerels_ (1880), _The Moderate Man_ (1888, -_Downey_). The two following books are not in the British Museum Library. - -⸺ BALLYMUCKBEG. 1885. - - Political satire. - -⸺ WAGGISH TALES. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1897. - - -=HAMILTON, John, of St. Ernan’s. “An Irishman” [N.M.].= - -⸺ THE THREE FENIAN BROTHERS. (_Macmillan_). 18mo. 1866. 1_s._ - - Paul, Mark, and Ned Ryan, sons of a well-to-do farmer, were - enticed into joining the Brotherhood, the two former by - Patrick Mahoney, the village schoolmaster. Ned had served - in the Federal Army (U.S.A.), and was sent back to Ireland - as a captain. “The characters and careers of the brothers - are vividly depicted in an interesting tale, the dialogue is - pointed, often witty.... In the unfolding of the story much - light is incidentally thrown on the state of feeling in Ireland - in 1865-6.” The Author has told his life-story in _Sixty Years’ - Experience as an Irish Landlord_, and given his views in - _Thoughts on Ireland by an Irish Landlord_ (1886). - - -=“HAMILTON, M.”; Mrs. Churchill-Luck=, _née_ =Spottiswoode-Ashe=. Is a -native of Co. Derry. Publ. also _The Freedom of Harry Meredith_, _M’Leod -of the Camerons_, _A Self-denying Ordinance_, _Mrs. Brett_, _The Woman -who Looked Back_, &c. - -⸺ ON AN ULSTER FARM. Pp. 143. (_Everett_). - - A realistic sketch of the life of a workhouse child sent out to - service to a particularly unlovable set of hard Scotch Ulster - folk. Interesting as a study of character and as an exposure - of the misery attendant on the working of certain parts of - the workhouse system. This subject is also treated in Rosa - Mulholland’s _Nanno_, _q.v._ - -⸺ ACROSS AN IRISH BOG. (_Heinemann_). 1896. - - An ugly, but very powerful, tale of seduction in Irish peasant - life. The study of the ignominious aspirations of the seducer, - a Protestant clergyman, after social elevation forms the pith - of the book. The difficulty of his position, technically on a - level with the gentry, though he is wholly unequal to them in - breeding, is brought out. - -⸺ BEYOND THE BOUNDARY. Pp. 306. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1902. - - Scene: first in London, afterwards among Ulster peasantry - (dialect cleverly reproduced). Theme: a curiously ill-assorted - marriage. Brian Lindsay, son of Presbyterian Ulster peasants, - had during a panic deserted his men in action. Afterwards he - had been decorated mistakenly, instead of the man who had died - to save him. In London he meets this man’s sister, a solitary - working girl, but a lady. They are married, and he takes her - home. Disillusionment on the wife’s part follows, and Brian is - threatened with the discovery of his secret. What came of it - all is told in a beautiful and convincing story. Not gloomy - nor morbid. Running through the main plot is the story of - poor little French Pipette, deserted by the foolish, selfish, - mother, whom she adores. Old Lindsay, dour and godly, is very - well done. An element of humour is found in the characters of - Miss Arnold of the venomous tongue; fat little Mr. Leslie, who - loves his dinners; and Maggie, the Lindsay’s maid-of-all-work. - - -=HANNAY, Rev. James Owen=, _see_ =“GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM.”= - - -=HANNIGAN, D. F.= Was born at Dungarvan, 1855. Ed. at St. John’s, -Waterford, and Queen’s College, Cork. Called to Irish bar, and formerly a -journalist in Dublin; is now in America. Contributed a long serial, _The -Moores of Moore’s Court_, to the MONITOR, 1879, and other stories to the -Dublin press. - -⸺ LUTTRELL’S DOOM. Pp. 76. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1_s._ 1896. - - Purports to be extracts from an Irish gentlewoman’s diary kept - between 1690 and 1726. - - -=HANNON, John.= Born at Isleworth, 1870. Son of John Hannon, of -Kildorrery, Co. Cork. Ed. at St. Edmunds, England. For long engaged -in educational work, he afterwards took up journalism. He resides in -Isleworth.—(CATH. WHO’S WHO). - -⸺ THE KINGS AND THE CATS: Munster Fairy Tales. Pp. 78. Size 6¾ × 9¾ -(_Burns & Oates_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Thirteen illustr. by Louis Wain. 1908. - - Handsomely produced. Preface by Father M. Russell, S.J. - Introductory verse by Katharine Tynan. Stories gleaned from old - Irish peasants in England. Full of quaint, amusing turns of - expression. - - -=HANRAHAN, P. R.= - -⸺ EVA; or, the Buried City of Bannow. - - Mentioned in the notice of this Author in O’Donoghue’s _Poets - of Ireland_. - - -=[HARDY, Miss].= - -⸺ MICHAEL CASSIDY; or, The Cottage Gardener: a tale for small beginners. -(_Seeley_). [1840]. 1845. - - By the Author of “The Confessor: a Jesuit tale of the times - founded on fact” [viz., Miss Hardy]. Cushing. The 1845 ed. has - a Pref. by C. B. Tayler. It is an attempt to urge people to - small allotments, green crops, rotation, economy, and hard work. - - -=HARDY, Philip Dixon.= _c._ 1794-1875. Was a bookseller and editor of -various Dublin periodicals. Publ. several volumes of verse, some books on -Irish topography, and some religious works of a strongly anti-Catholic -character. - -⸺ LEGENDS, TALES, AND STORIES OF IRELAND. Pp. 328. (DUBLIN: _John -Cumming_). 1837. - - Dedicated to Sir W. Betham. Hardy was the first editor of - the DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL. His tales of Irish life deal with - fairies, faction-fights, smugglers, and burlesque or tragic - adventures in a manner by no means without vivacity and - cleverness, though the trail of the “stage-Irishman” is over - most of his work. This edition was illustrated in a somewhat - coarse and stage-Irish fashion. Other works of this Author - were:—_Essays and Sketches of Irish Life and Character_; - _Ireland in 1846-7, considered in reference to the rapid growth - of Popery_, and several works on Irish topography. - - -=HARKIN, Hugh= (1791-1854). For good account of this writer supplied by -his son, see O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_. - -⸺ THE QUARTERCLIFT: or, the Adventures of Hudy McGuiggen. (BELFAST), _c._ -1841. In shilling monthly parts. Illustrated. - - An amusing story founded on the old Co. Derry folk tale of a - “gommeral” named Hudy McGuiggin, who didn’t see why he couldn’t - fly. So he made himself wings out of the feathers of a goose. - Arrayed in these, he jumped off a high mountain (still shown - by the peasantry), and of course came to grief. Strange to - say, he recovered and lived to be an old man. This and other - incidents are related with great verve and truth, and many well - pourtrayed characters are introduced. See GREER, Tom. - - -=[HARRIS, Miss S. M.]; “Athene.”= Fourth daughter of a Co. Down farmer, -the late William Harris, of Ballynafern, Banbridge. The family has been -long resident in Belfast. - -⸺ IN THE VALLEYS OF SOUTH DOWN. Pp. viii. + 155. (BELFAST: _M’Caw, -Stevenson, & Orr_). 1898. - - Rupert Stanwell is kept apart from Mabel Mervyn, for his - parents want him to marry a rich American heiress; but the - two are joined in the end, and all is well. Conventional and - unobjectionable, without any special local colour. - -⸺ GRACE WARDWOOD. Pp. 269. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Tasteful binding. 1900. - - A domestic tale of middle class folk in Co. Down. Several - love stories intertwined. Gracefully written but “feminine,” - and not very mature in style. Contains little that is - characteristically Irish, except some legends introduced - incidentally. - -⸺ DUST OF THE WORLD. Pp. vi. + 293. (_Allen_). 6_s._ 1913. - - Sub-t.: “An historical romance of Belfast in the 17th century.” - Introduces the Earl of Donegall, the lord of the soil; Lady - Donegall who, to the annoyance of Bp. Jeremy Taylor, has - hankerings after Presbyterianism; George Macartney, the - Sovereign or Mayor; and other Belfast townsfolk of the day. - Swift is an anachronism in this story, and there are no grounds - in history for the portrait given of Patrick Adair, an early - Presbyterian minister. Lord Donegall is made to talk with a - brogue, while a butcher’s wife talks in the best of English. - - -=HARTLEY, Mrs.=, _née_ =May Laffan=. Born in Dublin. Widow of the late W. -N. Hartley, F.R.S. Her brother William Laffan was at the head of Laffan’s -Agency. For some considerable time past she has done no literary work. - -⸺ HOGAN, M.P. Pp. 491. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1876]. New ed. 1882. - - Picture of Dublin society, showing how Catholics are - handicapped by their want of education and good breeding, - due, in the Author’s view, to wholly wrong system of Catholic - education. Discursive and garrulous. Full of social manœuvres, - petty intrigues, gossip, and scandal. Convent education from - within. - -⸺ THE HON. MISS FERRARD. [1877]. (_Macmillan_). 1882. 3_s._ 6_d._ - - The Hon. Miss F. is the only daughter of the ancient and - broken-down house of the Darraghmores. The father squanders - his income faster than he gets it, and has to keep moving from - place to place, living chiefly on credit. Miss F. is brought up - in this inconsequent, semi-gipsy family, with wild harum-scarum - brothers. The Author does not blink the consequent shortcomings - of the heroine. Amusing things happen when she goes to live - with her maiden aunts at Bath—an unsuccessful experiment. - Her choice between her Irish farmer lover and the admirable - English Mr. Satterthwaite—we shall not reveal. Good minor - characters—Cawth, the old servant of the family; Mr. Perry, - the family lawyer. “The Author represents the interiors of all - Irish households of the middle classes as repulsive in the - extreme.... There is in them an innate vulgarity of thought, - with an atmosphere of transparent pretension.”—(SATURDAY REV., - xliv., 403). - -⸺ FLITTERS, TATTERS, AND THE COUNSELLOR. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -[1879]. New ed., 1883. - - Four stories: (1) Three little Dublin street arabs, nicknamed - as in title. Lively and realistic portraits. Poignant and - sympathetic picture of slum misery and degradation. (2) Deals - with the same subject. (3) Glasgow slum life. (4) Lurid and - revolting story of conspiracy and murder in a country district. - There are those who consider No. 1 quite the most perfect thing - that has been written about Dublin life. - -⸺ THE GAME HEN. (DUBLIN). 1880. - -⸺ CHRISTY CAREW. Pp. 429. (_Macmillan_). 2_s._ [1880]. New ed., 1883; -still in print. - - Written in spirit of revolt against Catholic discouragement - of mixed marriages, showing the social disabilities which it - draws upon Catholics. Several portraits of priests, _e.g._, a - collector of old books and a model priest. Studies of various - aspects of Catholic life. - -⸺ ISMAY’S CHILDREN. (_Macmillan_). 2_s._ [1887]. - - Tale of Fenian times, little concerned with political aims, but - rather with personal fortunes of the lads who are drawn into - the midnight drillings. Little political bias, but sympathies - with “the quality.” Close studies of Irish middle-class - domestic life. Scene: Co. Cork. The ATHENÆUM pronounced this - novel to be “the most valuable and dispassionate contribution - towards the solution of that problem [the Irish character] - which has been put forth in this generation in the domain of - fiction.” - - -=HATTON, Joseph.= - -⸺ JOHN NEEDHAM’S DOUBLE. Pp. 208. 16mo. (_Maxwell_). 1_s._ Paper. _n.d._ -(1885) - - “A story founded on fact,” viz., John Sadleir’s career, his - fraud on the Tipperary Bank, &c. An exciting and melodramatic - story. Needham poisons his “double,” Joseph Norbury, and - deposits his body on Hampstead Heath, then escapes to America, - is tracked and arrested, but dramatically takes poison when - under arrest. Told with considerable verve. Thirty of this - Author’s books are enumerated by Allibone. - - -=HARVEY, W.= - -⸺ IRISH LIFE AND HUMOUR. Pp. 221. (STIRLING: _Eneas Mackey_). 2_s._ 6_d._ -1906. - - A collection of short, witty anecdotes and jokes, four or five - to a page. Source: not indicated, but they are obviously culled - from periodicals, or from previous collections of the kind. A - few seem to be taken from serious biographies. They are given - without comment, exactly as he found them, says the Author - (Pref.). They exhibit no religious nor racial bias (witness the - last chapter on Priest and People), but throughout you have the - “Paddy” of the comic paper, and in many places the traditional - Stage-Irishman whirls his shillelagh and “hurroos for ould - Oireland” in a wholly impossible brogue. The stories are - classified under various heads, but for convenience only. They - do not illustrate national traits nor phases of national life. - The above is an abridgment of a larger work [1st ed., 1904, - without illustr.] with the same title, of which a new edition, - pp. 488, twelve illustrations in colour, 5_s._ net, has been - issued (August, 1909) by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. More recently - a cheap ed. has been issued at 1_s._, pp. 206, paper covers, - with some poor illustr. - - -=“HASLETTE, John.”= - -⸺ DESMOND ROURKE: Irishman. (_Sampson, Low_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Scene: South America. The hero is intended to be typically - Irish. The story is described as racy and dashing, and has - received high praise from the Press. We understand that the - Author’s real name is Vahey, and that he lives at the Knock, - near Belfast (1911); see I. B. L., Vol. IV., p. 73. He had - before this novel already published two others. He is of - Huguenot descent, but was b. and ed. in Ireland. - - -=HAYENS, Herbert.= - -⸺ AN AMAZING CONSPIRACY. Pp. 247. (S.P.C.K.). 2_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by -Adolf Thiede. _n.d._ (1914). - - An exciting boys’ adventure story, opening in an island of - the W. coast of Ireland, where mysterious events take place, - but passing chiefly in Guatemala, where the hero goes through - thrilling adventures in various revolutions. - - -=HEALY, Cahir.= - -⸺ A SOWER OF THE WIND. Pp. 168. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. _c._ 1910. - - Scene: the Donegal coast. A sensational and romantic story. - Local Land League doings described. The author writes of the - people with knowledge and sympathy. - -⸺ THE ESCAPADES OF CONDY CORRIGAN. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.50 net. - - -=[HEMPHILL, Barbara].= - -⸺ THE PRIEST’S NIECE. Three Vols. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1855. - - In the first two volumes there is nothing about Ireland. In the - third the scene shifts to Cashel, and there are some attempts - to picture Irish life. The Author is not anti-Catholic nor - anti-Irish: she is amusingly ignorant of Catholic matters - and is not interested in Ireland. P. 37—a scene of Irish - lawlessness (capture of a private still). P. 40—unpleasant - description of a wake. The plot hinges mainly on the strife - in the hero’s mind between his love for Ellen, the penniless - peasant girl, to whom he owes several rescues from the - Shanavests, and the heiress to marry whom would be to save his - father from ruin. - - -=HENDERSON, George.= - -⸺ THE FEAST OF BRICRIU: an Early Gaelic Saga. (_Irish Texts Society_). -6_s._ 1899. - - Belongs to Cuchullin cycle. C. contends in a series of - competitive feats with Conall and Loigare for the championship - of Ulster ... the origin of the contest being the desire of B. - to stir up strife among his guests. Introd. and notes. - -⸺ SURVIVALS IN BELIEF AMONG THE CELTS. Pp. 340. Demy 8vo. (EDINBURGH: -_MacLehose_). 10_s._ net. 1911. - - The Author is Lecturer in Celtic language and literature in - the University of Glasgow. The book consists of the substance - of a series of lectures on Folk Psychology. It is a study in - Celtic “psychical anthropology”—practically a study of magic, - superstitions, and other survivals of primitive paganism. Deals - chiefly with the Scottish Highlands, but there are frequent - allusions to Irish folklore and legend. Highly technical in - conception and language. - - -=[HENDERSON, Rev. Henry]; “Ulster Scot.”= Was for many years a -Presbyterian minister in Holywood, Co. Down, and wrote for BELFAST WEEKLY -NEWS _Woodleigh Hall, a Tale of the Fenians_, and _The Moutrays of -Clonkeen_. - -⸺ THE TRUE HEIR OF BALLYMORE. Pp. 80. Demy 8vo. (BELFAST). 1_s._ -Wrappers. 1859. - - Sub-t.:—“Passages from the history of a Belfast Ribbon Lodge.” - Frontisp.—the insignia of Ribbonism. An anti-Ribbon pamphlet - in the form of a story. Relates the machinations of a certain - Ribbon lodge for the destruction of Protestantism, and, in - particular, the scheme whereby a Catholic widow is made to - inveigle Col. Obrey into marriage. The latter drives out his - sister and nephew, and Ballymore is invaded by a low-class - drinking set of Catholics, who finally bring the poor Colonel - to his grave. Subsequently it transpires that Mrs. Connor’s - husband was alive all the time, and the Colonel’s nephew - comes into his own. The book is full of the awful crimes - of Ribbonism, and closes thus:—“No statesmanship, no good - government will ever deliver our land from Ribbon disloyalty, - outrages, and savage assassinations until Romanism is - extirpated from the country. Ribbonism is the offspring of - Romanism.” - -⸺ THE DARK MONK OF FEOLA: Adventures of a Ribbon Pedlar. (_Office of_ -BELFAST NEWS LETTER). c. 1859. - - “The first part contains a very affecting episode illustrative - of the evils which are certain to follow the union of - Protestant women with men who belong to the Roman Catholic - faith. To all Protestants the story cannot fail to be - interesting; and Orangemen, especially, will peruse it with - peculiar pleasure.”—(DOWNSHIRE PROTESTANT). - -⸺ THE SANDY ROW CONVERT. - - -=HENRY-RUFFIN, Mrs. M. E.= - -⸺ THE NORTH STAR. Pp. 356. (BOSTON: _Little, Brown_). $1.50 net. Six good -Ill. by Wilbur D. Hamilton. [1904]. 1908. - - Scene: Norway and Ireland. The story of how Olaf Trygvesson, - the exiled king of Norway, returned as a Christian champion, - and overthrew his pagan rival. The wild brutal paganism of the - time is depicted with realism. There is an interesting account - of a great gathering in Dublin, and a sketch of Olaf’s life in - exile amid his Irish hosts. There is also a love interest. Mrs. - Henry-Ruffin is the only daughter of the late Thomas Henry, of - Mobile, Alabama. - - -=HENTY, G. A.= Born 1832, in Cambridgeshire. He spent some time in -Belfast in his capacity of Purveyor to the Forces. D. 1902. One of the -greatest, perhaps quite the greatest, of writers for boys. His eighty-six -or more published stories deal with almost all countries and every period -of history. All his stories are sane and healthy and told in the manner -that boys love. Their historical side is carefully worked out. - -⸺ FRIENDS THOUGH DIVIDED. (_Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -Excellent coloured Illustr. Attractive binding and general get-up. (N.Y.: -_Burt_). 1.00. [1883]. New eds. - - A fine boys’ adventure-story of the Civil War. Scene: mainly - Great Britain, but at end shifts to Ireland for the Siege of - Drogheda, which is well described. Good account of Cromwell, - the two Charles, Argyll. Sympathies of writer clearly royalist. - Ireland represented to be in state of semi-barbarism. Juvenile. - -⸺ ORANGE AND GREEN. (_Blackie_). 5_s._ Handsome binding; eight Illustr. -by Gordon Browne. (N.Y.: _Burt_). 1.00. [1887]. 1907. - - Adventures of two boys (one a Protestant, the other a Catholic) - in the Williamite Wars. Battles of Boyne, Aughrim, sieges of - Athlone, Cork, and Limerick, described. Impartial. Williamite - excesses condemned. Sarsfield’s action after Limerick severely - dealt with. - -⸺ IN THE IRISH BRIGADE. Pp. 384. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ Twelve excellent -illustr. by Chas. M. Sheldon. (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 1.50. 1901. - - Adventures of Desmond Kennedy, officer of the Irish Brigade, - in the service of France, during the War of the Spanish - Succession—chiefly in Flanders and Spain. The facts are based - on O’Callaghan’s _History of the Irish Brigade_ and Boyer’s - _Annals of the Reign of Queen Anne_. No Irish Nationalist could - quarrel with the views expressed in the Author’s Preface. - - -=HEYGATE, W. E.= - -⸺ WILD SCENES AMONG THE CELTS. Pp. 114. (_Parker_). 6_d._ 1859. - - One of a series “Tales for Young Men and Women” (Church of - England). This volume contains the two following tales:— - - THE PENITENT.—How Shossag, a prince of S. Leinster, was - accessory to his brother’s murder. How punishment overtook him, - and how he ended his life as a penitent at the feet of St. - Piran of Cornwall. Period _c._ 410 A.D. - - THE FUGITIVE.—A story of crime, and its punishment in the - person of a Pictish chief. St. Columba has a prominent place - in the story. Of him a sympathetic and appreciative picture - is drawn. Scene: Scottish mainland, Iona, and N. Connaught, - _c._ 590-597. This Author has written a dozen other historical - stories. See NIELD. The two above noted are quite suitable for - Catholic children. - - -=HICKEY, Rev. P.= - -⸺ INNISFAIL. Pp. 284. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1906]. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). -1.75. Third ed. 1907. - - Life-story of a young priest from early youth to departure for - Australia, largely told in letters from college, with verse - interspersed. Sketches of life in Tipperary (fox-hunt, school - scenes, &c.). - - -=HINKSON, H. A.= Born in Dublin, 1865. Married Katharine Tynan, 1893 -(_q.v._). Ed. Dublin High School, T.C.D., and in Germany. Called to the -English Bar, 1902. Until the last few years he has resided in England. He -now lives in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, for which county he is R.M. - -⸺ GOLDEN LADS AND GIRLS. Pp. 312. (_Downey_). 1895. - - A love story of the upper middle classes. Pictures of western - (Galway) county family life, and of student life in Trinity, - both strongly reminiscent of Lever. Good portraits of Irish - types, the country doctor, the unpopular agent, the reforming - landlord (English and a convert to Catholicism); the Protestant - country clergyman, &c. This latter portrait is rather - satirical. The tone on the whole is nationalist and Catholic. - -⸺ FATHER ALPHONSUS. Pp. 282. (_Unwin_). 1898. - - The life-story of two young seminarians. One of these, finding - he has no vocation, leaves before ordination, and has no reason - to repent the step. The other, ignoring uneasy feelings that - trouble may come of it later, becomes a priest. Afterwards he - meets with a certain lady, a recent convert from Protestantism. - A mutual attachment springs up, and eventually they are - married. The circumstances, as arranged by the novelist, are - so strange as almost to seem to palliate this sin, were it not - for his omission of one factor, viz., that particular form of - divine help towards the doing of duty which Catholics call - the _gratia status_. The erring priest ends his life in a - Carthusian monastery. The tone throughout is almost faultless - from a Catholic standpoint. Indeed, though there are several - passionate scenes, rendering the book unfitted for certain - readers, the moral tone is high. Some of the characteristics of - Irish social life are admirably portrayed. - -⸺ UP FOR THE GREEN. Pp. 327. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ 1898. - - “For several of the incidents related in this story, the Author - is indebted to the narrative of Samuel Riley, a yeoman [Quaker] - of Cork, who was captured by the rebels, while on his way to - Dublin, in September, 1798.” This worthy man discovers the - rebels to be very different from what he had taken them to - be. A healthy, breezy tale with more adventure than history. - Standpoint: thoroughly national. There is quiet humour in the - quaintly told narrative of the Quaker. Castlereagh, Major Sirr, - Grattan, Lord Enniskillen figure in the story. - -⸺ WHEN LOVE IS KIND. Pp. 320. (_Long_). 1898. - - A wholesome Irish love-story of the present day. The hero, - Rupert Standish, is a soldier and a soldier’s son. The story - brings out the comradeship which may exist between father and - son. The page-boy, Peter, with his gruesome tales, is a curious - study. There are many passages descriptive of scenes and - incidents in Ireland. - -⸺ THE KING’S DEPUTY. Pp. 236. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: -_M’Clurg_). 1.25. 1899. - - Period: the days of Grattan’s Parliament, of which a vivid - picture is drawn, and of the viceroyalty of the Duke of - Rutland. The interest is divided between a love story and the - story of a plot of the Protestant aristocracy to establish an - independent Irish Republic on the Venetian model. Grattan, - Curran, Napper Tandy, Sir John Parnell, Sir Boyle Roche, Father - Arthur O’Leary, &c., are introduced. Descriptions (historically - accurate) of the Hell-Fire Club and the Funny Club. - -⸺ SIR PHELIM’S TREASURE. Pp. 255. (S.P.C.K.) 1_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. W. S. -Stacey. _n.d._ (1901). - - A boy’s adventure-story of search for treasure. No “moral” or - lesson. Good description of Crusoe-life on a little island off - the Irish coast. Pleasant style; no tediousness nor dullness. - -⸺ THE POINT OF HONOUR. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _M’Clurg_). -1.50. 1901. - - “Stories about the quarrelsome, bottle-loving, duelling gentry - of the eighteenth century.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ SILK AND STEEL. Pp. 336. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ Picture cover. 1902. - - Adventures of an Irish soldier of fortune at the Court of - Charles I., in the Netherlands, and in Ireland. Brisk and - picturesque in style. Sketch of Owen Roe and description of - Benburb. The hero is Daniel O’Neill, a nephew of Owen Roe. - Full of historical incidents and personages, _e.g._, the Earl - of Essex, Father Boethius Egan, Lord Antrim. Point of view: - national. - -⸺ FAN FITZGERALD. Pp. 340. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ 1902. - - Young Dick Burke, brought up in England, feels the call of the - Celt, and returns to his inherited estates with intent to be - a model landlord. We are told in a lively and amusing style - how he succeeds or fails. The Author is nationalist, but by no - means a bitter partisan. - -⸺ THE WINE OF LOVE. 1904. - - Deals mainly with the upper classes in the West of Ireland. - Abuses of landlordism not spared. Picture of horse-dealing, - fox-hunting, and card-playing lives. Also picture of typically - good landlords. Standpoint on the whole national and even - Catholic. Style: breezy and vigorous. Good knowledge shown of - inner lives and feelings of all classes. - -⸺ THE SPLENDID KNIGHT. Pp. 262. (_Sealy, Bryers_). Illustr. by Lawson -Wood. 1905. - - Adventures of an Irish boy in Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition - up the Orinoco. A brisk and entertaining narrative. - -⸺ GOLDEN MORN. Pp. 303. (_Cassell_). Frontisp. 1907. - - Tells the strange adventures in Ireland, London, and France - of Captain O’Grady. At Leopardstown Races his mare breaks her - neck, just at the finish; the Captain loses a fortune, and is - fain to depart on his travels—but “all is well that ends well,” - and it is so with Captain O’Grady. - -⸺ O’GRADY OF TRINITY. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ Re-issued by C. H. -White at 6_d._ 1909. - - Fun, frolic, and love in a student’s career. A gay and - wholesome novel. Sympathetic picture of Trinity College life. - Highly praised by Lionel Johnston. - -⸺ THE CONSIDINE LUCK. Pp. 300. (_Swift_). 6_s._ 1912. - - It was popularly believed that the estate could not pass from - Considine hands. Sir Hugh C. dies, and lo! the estate is found - to be mortgaged to Mr. Smith, of London. Mr. Smith arrives, and - brings with him his English notions which he proceeds to carry - out to the disgust of the locality. He refuses all attempts - to buy him out, but the Considine luck comes to the rescue, - and the estate falls once more into the hands of a Considine. - Pleasant, light style. - - -=HOARE, Mrs.= - -⸺ SHAMROCK LEAVES; or, Tales and Sketches of Ireland. Pp. 237. -(_M’Glashan_). 1851. - - If one could abstract from the bits of gossipy anecdote - intended as links to the principal stories, this book consists - of several studies, touching and true to the reality, of the - lives of the poor, and in particular of their sufferings during - and after the Famine years. Written with much sympathy for the - lowly, and a vivid sense of actuality. Most of the tales have a - moral, but it does not spoil the story. - - -=HOBHOUSE, Violet.= Born 1864. Eldest daughter of Edmund McNeill, D.L., -of Craigdunn, Co. Antrim. Married Rev. Walter Hobhouse, second son of -Bishop Hobhouse. She was devoted to Irish traditions, folklore, &c., and -could speak Irish, but was a keen Unionist, and in 1887 and the following -years spoke much against Home Rule on English platforms. After her death -in 1902 a small volume of poems, serious and deeply religious, _Speculum -Animae_ was printed for private circulation. - -⸺ AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY. Pp. 382. (_Downey_). 6_s._ 1898. - -⸺ WARP AND WEFT. (_Skeffington_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1899. - - “A conscientious rendering of homely aspects of life in Co. - Antrim.”—(_Baker_). - - -=HOCKING, Rev. Joseph.= - -⸺ ROSALEEN O’HARA. Pp. 352. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 3_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ -Two illustr. 1913. - - A product of the Home Rule controversy. The Author is a noted - anti-Catholic writer, but he is also a Liberal, and desirous of - defending Liberalism from the charge of seeking to establish - Rome Rule in Ireland. Home Rule, so reads the story, would mean - Rome Rule for some years, but would ultimately lead to the - emancipation of the Irish from the thralldom of priestcraft and - dogma. The story tells of Denis who unexpectedly discovers that - he is heir to an Irish estate, and neighbour of Elenore Tyrone, - whom he had seen and loved. A quarrel and the attractions - of the beautiful “Fenian,” Rosaleen, separate the two for a - time. The Author clearly knows little or nothing of Ireland, - but he would like to be benevolent in tone to “dear old - beautiful Erin.” By the same Author: _Follow the Gleam_, _The - Wilderness_, _The Jesuit_, _The Scarlet Woman_, and some thirty - other novels. - - -=HOEY, Mrs. Cashel=, _née_ =Sarah Johnston.= Born at Bushy Park, Co. -Dublin, 1830. Wife of the well-known Irish journalist, John Cashel Hoey -(d. 1892). Has published more than twenty-seven volumes, _e.g._, _The -Question of Cain_ (1882), _The Lover’s Creed_, _No Sign_ (1876), _The -Queen’s Token_, _A Stern Chase_, &c., &c. She became a Catholic in 1858. -D. 1908. - - -=HOLLAND, Denis.= A well-known Irish journalist. Born in Cork about 1826. -He founded THE IRISHMAN, 1858. _See_ Pigot’s _Recollections of an Irish -Journalist_, and D. J. O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_. - -⸺ DONAL DUN O’BYRNE: A Tale of the Rising in Wexford in 1798. Pp. 224. -(_Gill_). 1_s._ _n.d._ - - The story of the rising (including Oulart, Tubberneering, - Gorey, and Ross, and the guerilla warfare after Vinegar Hill) - from an insurgent’s point of view. The book is full of scenes - of blood, and breathes a spirit of vengeance. The narrative is - not remarkable. Some of the scenes border on indelicacy. - -⸺ ULICK O’DONNELL: an Irish Peasant’s Progress. 1860. - - A romantic and pleasant story. Adventures in Liverpool and - elsewhere in England of a clever peasant lad from Newry. He - wins his way by his sterling qualities, and returns prosperous - to his native Co. Down. Author tries to bring out contrasting - characteristics of English and Irish. - - -=HOLT, Emily S.= - -⸺ UNDER ONE SCEPTRE; or, Mortimer’s Mission. (_Shaw_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1884. - - Career of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster (1374-98) - in Monmouthshire, Ireland, and London. He was lieutenant of - Ulster, Connaught, and Meath. Richard II. declared him heir to - the throne, but later grew jealous of his popularity. He was - slain at Kells in battle with Art McMurrough Kavanagh. Juvenile. - - -=HOPKINS, Tighe.= Born 1856. Son of Rev. W. R. Hopkins, Vicar of Moulton, -Cheshire. Besides the work mentioned here this Author ed. Carleton’s -_Traits and Stories_ in the “Red Letter Library,” and wrote _Kilmainham -Memories_, several novels, and various other works. Resides at Herne -Bay. Has written many other novels:—_For Freedom_, _The Silent Gate_, -_Tozer’s_, _’Twixt Love and Duty_, &c. - -⸺ THE NUGENTS OF CARRICONNA. Three Vols., afterwards one Vol. (_Ward & -Downey_). 1890. - - Main theme: an old impoverished family suddenly enriched - by Australian legacy. Interwoven there is an interesting - love-story. Anthony Nugent, eccentric, of astronomical tastes, - has on his housetop a telescope which plays a prominent part - in the story. Brogue well done. The dramatic interest centred - in an Inspector of Police, a type probably very rare in Irish - fiction. - - -=HOPPER, Nora; Mrs. W. H. Chesson.= - -⸺ BALLADS IN PROSE. Pp. 186. (_Lane_). 5_s._ Beautifully bound and -printed. 1894. - - Strange, wayward tales of far-off pagan days in which one moves - as in a mist of dreams. Soaked with Gaelic fairy and legendary - lore. The prose pieces, all very short, are interspersed with - little poems, that are slight and frail as wreaths of vapour. - Some of the stories are symbolical. They are told in simple and - graceful prose. - - -=HUDSON, Frank.= This Author, after many years’ work for Dublin -periodicals, went to London early in the ’eighties. He wrote a few Irish -sporting novels of a light and humorous kind. - -⸺ THE ORIGIN OF PLUM PUDDING, and other Irish Fairy Tales. Illustr. by -Gordon Browne. 1888. - - Only one of these five stories is genuinely Irish—“Shaun - Murray’s Challenge,” the scene of which is Dalkey. The - title-story tells how a drunken man one evening threw his sack - of groceries into a pot on the fire, and in the morning found a - plum-pudding. - -⸺ THE LAST HURDLE: a Story of Sporting and Courting. Pp. 304. (_Ward & -Downey_). 1888. - - Life in an Irish county family of the old stock, with - sympathy for the poor around them. Good idea of refined - Irish country life and its easy-going ways. A story full of - sport, gaiety, and dramatic incidents, turning mainly on the - winning of the heroine by the hero in spite of the plots of - the rival. Good and bad landlords are contrasted. An eviction - scene is described, with full sympathy for the victims. - Shamus-the-Trout, a poacher, is a very picturesque figure. - -⸺ RUNNING DOUBLE: a Story of Stage and Stable. Two Vols. (_Ward & -Downey_). 1890. - - Scene: varies between England, Dublin, and “Ennisbeg.” There - are remarks on Irish life, scenery, and customs, but the chief - interest is sporting—fishing, racing, betting. The stage part - is in England. There is very little plot. All ends in a double - wedding. - - -=HUGHES, Mrs. Kate Duval.= - -⸺ THE FAIR MAID OF CONNAUGHT: and other Tales for Catholic Youth. Pp. -178. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_ and _Benziger_). 1.25, 0.60, 0.30. 1889. - - -=HULL, Eleanor.= Born in Ireland of a Co. Down family. Daughter of Prof. -Edward Hull, the eminent geologist, long Director of the Geological -Survey of Ireland. Ed. at Alexandra Coll., Dublin, and in Brussels. Has -written much—chiefly on Irish literature, folk-lore, and history—for -various periodicals. Is the Author of eight important books on Irish -subjects:—_Pagan Ireland_, _Early Christian Ireland_, _A Text-Book of -Irish_ [Gaelic] _Literature_, _The Poem-Book of the Gael_. Has for many -years studied Old Irish under the best professors, and it is her chief -pleasure and interest. Founded in 1899 the Irish Texts Society, and -has been its Hon. Secretary ever since. Is President of Irish Literary -Society in London. - -⸺ THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE. Pp. lxxx. + 316. (_Nutt_). 1898. - - A collection of fourteen stories relating to Cuchulin, - translated from the Irish by various scholars (Meyer, O’Curry, - Stokes, Windisch, O’Grady, Duvan, &c.). A more valuable - work, says Fiona MacLeod (in substance), for students of - Gaelic legend and literature than the more recent works by - Lady Gregory. The book is not cast in an artistic mould. It - merely contains the rude materials from which epic and lyric - inspiration may be drawn. Important and valuable Introduction - deals with literary qualities of the Saga, its historical - aspects and its mythology. Map of Ireland to illustrate - Cuchulin Saga. Appendix contains chart of Cuchulin Saga. Notes - pp. 289-297. - -⸺ CUCHULAIN, THE HOUND OF ULSTER. Pp. 279. (_Harrap_). 5_s._ net. -Illustr. in colour by Stephen Reid. [1909]. - - Intended for young, but not very young readers. Told in modern - language, free from Gaelicisms, archaisms, and difficult names. - The story is continuous, not told in detached episodes. The - style, though without the strange wild grandeur of Standish - O’Grady, is on the whole beautiful. The story itself is full - of the spirit of heroism and chivalry. It is selected and - adapted from many sources (indicated in Appendix), and the epic - narrative is not mixed with puerile or absurd episodes. Some of - the illustrations are excellent, others tend, perhaps, too much - to quaintness. - - -=HUME, Martin.= - -⸺ TRUE STORIES OF THE PAST. Pp. xi. + 226. (_Eveleigh Nash_). 5_s._ net. -1911. - - Ed. with introd. by R. B. Cunningham Grahame. Eight stories - from History. i. “How Rizzio was Avenged;” ii. “A Rebellious - Love-match;” iii. “Prince and Pastry Cook;” iv. “The Revenge of - John Hawkins;” v. “The Scapegoat;” vi. “Sir Walter [Raleigh]’s - Homecoming;” vii. “Cloth of Gold and Frieze.” Some of these - treat of the amours of great personages. Their standpoint is, - of course, English and Protestant. viii. “The Last Stand of the - O’Sullivans” is told with much spirit, and with sympathy for - the Irish cause. It does not include the famous retreat of the - O’Sullivans. - - -=HUNGERFORD, Mrs.= Born 1855. Daughter of Canon Hamilton, Rector of Ross, -Co. Cork. Ed. in Ireland. Her early home was St. Brenda’s, Co. Cork. -Wrote upwards of forty-six novels dealing with the more frivolous aspects -of modern society. They had a great vogue in their day. The most popular -of all was, perhaps, _Molly Bawn_ (1878). Most of her books appeared -Anon. Her plots are poor and conventional, but she possessed the faculty -of reproducing faithfully the tone of contemporary society. She died at -Bandon 1897.—(D.N.B.). - -⸺ MOLLY BAWN. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ and 2_s._ (BOSTON: _Caldwell_). -0.75. [1878]. - - “A love tale of a tender, but frivolous and petulant Irish - girl, who flirts and arouses her lover’s jealousy, and - who offends against the conventions in all innocence. A - gay and witty story spiced with slang, and touched with - pathos.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ A LITTLE IRISH GIRL; and other Stories. (LONDON: _Whitefriars Libr._). -1891. - -⸺ THE O’CONNORS OF BALLYNAHINCH. Pp. 261. (_Heinemann_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1896. - - A domestic story of love and marriage in the Author’s lightest - vein. The characters belong chiefly to the landlord class, a - local carman being the only peasant introduced. There is no - expression of political views. The scene is laid in Cork. - -⸺ NORA CREINA. Pp. 328. (_Chatto & Windus_). 1903. - - A love-story from start to finish, without pretence of the - study of character. The story of how Norah is won from dislike - to love is pleasantly told. No politics. Peasants hardly - mentioned. Scene not specified. - - -=HUNT, B.= - -⸺ FOLK TALES OF BREFFNY. Pp. viii. + 197. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1913. - - Breffny, _i.e._, Cavan and Leitrim. Many of these stories—there - are twenty-six of them, all very short—“were told by an - old man, who said he had more and better learning nor the - scholars,” and are a curious mixture of literary language, - and a very peculiar and picturesque peasant dialect. They are - somewhat off the ordinary lines of folk-lore stories, and are - told in a quaint drily-humorous vein. - - -=HYDE, Dr. Douglas, LL.D., D.Litt.; “An Craobhin Aoibhinn.”= Son of -late Rev. Arthur Hyde, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon. Ed. T.C.D. Has been -President of the Gaelic League since its foundation in 1893. Is Professor -of Modern Irish in the National University of Ireland. - -⸺ BESIDE THE FIRE. Gaelic Folk-stories. Collected, ed. (Irish text facing -English), and trans. by D. H. With Introd., Notes on Irish text, and -Notes on tales, by Ed. and Alfred Nutt. Pp. lviii. + 204. (_Nutt_). 7_s._ -6_d._ 1891. - - Extremely interesting and valuable Preface (50 pages) by the - Author, in which he reviews what had been hitherto done for - Irish folk-lore, remarks on the genesis of the folk-tale, its - affinities with the Scotch folk-tale, and tells us where and - from whom and in what circumstances he got his stories, ending - by some explanations of the style of his translations. The - preface is followed by some critical remarks on it by Alfred - Nutt. The English of the translations is that of the peasants. - This is the first really scientific treatment of Irish - folk-lore. - -⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF THE LAD OF THE FERULE. - -⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KING OF NORWAY. (_Irish Texts -Society_). 1899. - - Two Irish romantic tales of the 16th and 17th centuries, - ed. and transl. for the first time with introd., notes, and - glossary. The “Lad” is a mysterious being who appears to - Murough, son of Brian Boru, and carrying home for him the - spoils of a miraculous hunting, demands as reward a certain - ferule that lies at the bottom of a lake. Murough slays a - serpent, and delivers the land of the Ever Young, which lies - at the bottom of the lake. The second is a long story of - enchantment and marvellous adventures.—(_Baker_, 2). - -⸺ An Sgéalaidhe Gaedhealach: Connaught Folk Tales. Three Parts. With -French Trans. by Georges Dottin. (_Rennes_). Parts 1 and 2, 10_s._; Part -3, 2_s._ 1901. - -⸺ LEGENDS OF SAINTS AND SINNERS. Pp. xiv. + 295. (_Talbot Press: Every -Irishman’s Library_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1915. - - Forty-six stories described by the Author as Christian - folk-lore, all translated for the first time from the Irish, - and for the most part gathered from the lips of the people - by the Author himself, who has been gathering folklore for - twenty-five years. Each tale is preceded by a preface giving - all the details of its collection, origin, character, &c., that - are of interest to the folk-lorist as well as to the general - reader. The tales are compared with similar tales occurring in - foreign countries. - - -=INGELOW, Jean. 1820-1897.= - -⸺ OFF THE SKELLIGS. Three Vols. (_Keegan Paul._ BOSTON: _Roberts_). -[1872]. Second ed., _c._ 1881. - - Has no other connection with Ireland than the episode of the - picking up near the Skellig Island, off Waterville, Co. Kerry, - of a boat’s crew that had escaped from a burning ship. - - -=IRVINE, Alexander.= B. in town of Antrim of very poor parents. Was a -newsboy in Antrim, a coal-miner in Glasgow, a Marine. Began again at -the bottom in N.Y. 1888, and went through extraordinary experiences. Is -a Socialist. Lives in Peekskill, N.Y. See his autobiography _From the -Bottom Up_. (_Heinemann_). 1910. - -⸺ MY LADY OF THE CHIMNEY CORNER. Pp. 224. (_Nash_). 3_s._ 6_d._ net. -Eight eds. in three or four months. 1914. - - Sub-t.:—“A story of love and poverty in Irish peasant life.” - The central figure—almost the only figure in the book—is Anna - Gilmore, a poor woman living in Pogue’s Entry, in the town of - Antrim. Brought up as a pious Catholic by Catholic parents, - she marries a Protestant against their wish. Henceforth she - has renounced Catholicism, having chosen, as she says, love - instead of religion. To show that her choice was of the better - part seems to be the purpose of the Author. The book is a - lovingly-drawn portrait, with slight incidents, and the many - wise sayings of Anna as traits. There is a strong evangelical - religious atmosphere throughout. The story is largely in - dialect. It is laid in Famine times; yet there are several - mention of Fenians, which seems to spell Catholic. The book - would be better understood by a reading of the Author’s - autobiography, _From the Bottom Up_. - - -=IRVINE, G. Marshall, B.A., M.B.= - -⸺ THE LION’S WHELP. Pp. 406. (_Simpkin_). 6_s._ 1910. - - Introd. (by J. Campbell, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S., LL.D. (_Hon. - Causa_)) says, “In writing _The Lion’s Whelp_ Dr. Irvine has - set before himself two main objects. He desires to inculcate - on the medical profession the necessity which exists for the - education of the public in all that pertains to the maintenance - of health ... and he wishes to impress upon the public all - that is summed up in the time-worn adage—‘Prevention is better - than cure.’” Incidentally, the book is also a satire against - professional make-believe. Scene varies between Belfast, the - North of England, and Denver City, U.S.A. The hero, Dan Nevin, - starts his career as a doctor, with high ideals—too high, - as he discovers, for real life. The story is concerned with - his love-affair and various other adventures. A fine plot, - well worked out, with several striking characters. Moral tone - high. Religion scarcely touched upon. There are interesting - descriptions of Co. Down scenery and of life in Queen’s - College, Belfast. The Author is a doctor, practising in Co. - Armagh. - - -=IRWIN, Madge.= - -⸺ THE DIAMOND MOUNTAIN; or, Flowers of Fairyland. (DUNDALK: _The -Dundalgan Press_). 1_s._ Illustr. by A. Donnelly. 1908. Cover in white -and gold. - - -=IRWIN, Thomas Caulfield.= 1823-1892. Is better known as a poet than as -a prose-writer. Yet he wrote one hundred and thirty tales of various -length, essays on many subjects, and an historical romance “From Cæsar to -Christ.” He was of unsound mind for a number of years before his death. - -⸺ WINTER AND SUMMER STORIES AND SLIDES OF FANCY’S LANTERN. Pp. 252. Close -print. (_Gill_). 1879. - - Contents: 1. “Old Christmas Hall;” 2. “The First Ring”; 3. - “An Irish Fairy Sketch”; 4. “The Miser’s Cottage”; 5. “By - Moonlight”; 6. “By Gaslight”; 7. “A Visit to a Great Artist”; - 8. “Falstaff’s Wake”; 9. “A Scene in Macbeth’s Castle”; 10. - “Julio”; 11. “A Death”; 12. “Visions of an Old Voyage from Rome - to Asia”; 13. “The Shores of Greece”; 14. “Theocritus”; 15. “A - Glimpse of Arcadia”; 16. “A Ballad of Old Dublin” (verse); 17. - “Corney McClusky” (verse); 18. “Ethel Maccara”; 19. “Pausias - and Glycera”; 20. “Manon and her Spirit Lover”; 21. “An Ancient - Aryan Legend”; 22. “A Florentine Fortune”; 23. “Insielle’s - Dimple and Fan.” - - Miscellaneous sketches and stories. Several are literary - _jeux-desprit_ (_e.g._, 8, 9, 10). Others slight studies of - curious little aspects of life, rather imaginary than real. - For the most part, however, they are peculiar, weird tales, - several touching the preternatural, but not morbid. The prose - is poetic, imaginative, and of high literary qualities—at times - comparable with those of de Quincey, _e.g._, in No. 4, p. 72, - _sq._ Here and there are exquisite pen-pictures. Several of the - tales have Irish settings. No. 4 has curious pictures of old - Dublin, _c._ 1770. - - -=JACOBS, Joseph.= - -⸺ CELTIC FAIRY TALES. Pp. xvi. + 274. (_Nutt_). 6_s._ Complete edition. -[1891]. Third, 1902. - - Eight full-page plates and numerous illustrations in the text - by J. D. Batten. The pictures are exquisite, and could scarcely - be more appropriate. Interesting and valuable Notes and - References at end, about 30 pages, giving the source of each - tale and parallels. The tales are drawn mainly from previous - printed collections. The twenty-six tales include some Scotch - and Welsh. Some are hero-tales, as “Deirdre,” and “The Children - of Lir”; some folk-tales; some drolls, _i.e._, comic anecdotes - of feats of stupidity or cunning. There are practically no - fairy-tales properly so called. The tales are admirably - selected, and are told in simple, straightforward language. - -⸺ MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES. Pp. xvi. + 234. (_Nutt_). 6_s._ Complete -edition. - - All that has been said of the first series can be applied to - the second, which is in every way worthy of its predecessor. - Twenty stories. The two volumes may fairly be said to - constitute the most representative and attractive collection of - Celtic tales ever issued. - -⸺ CELTIC FAIRY TALES. By Joseph Jacobs and J. D. Batten. (_Nutt_). 3_s._ -6_d._ - -⸺ MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES. By the same Authors. (_Nutt_). 3_s._ 6_d._ - - The above are children’s editions of these well-known books. - The text is practically the same as in the complete edition, - but there are two or three illustrations omitted, as well as - the Introduction and Notes. The tales are well known to be - admirably suited to children. - - N.B.—The same writers have edited _English Fairy Tales_, _More - English Fairy Tales_, _Indian Fairy Tales_, and _The Book of - Wonder Voyages_, which includes the voyage of Maelduin. - - -=“JAMES, Andrew”; James Andrew Strahan, LL.D.=, a Belfast man, Prof. of -Jurisprudence in the Queen’s Univ. there. - -⸺ NINETY-EIGHT AND SIXTY YEARS AFTER. (_Blackwood_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1911. - - In two parts. Part I. (four short stories) is told in dialect - (correctly rendered) by an old schoolmaster, and relates - incidents of the rebellion in Presbyterian Ulster, in which - the narrator’s father had played a part on the loyalist side. - Shows thorough understanding of the political and social - conditions of the time, and is written in evident sympathy with - the rebels, though with no blind partisanship. Part II. (four - chapters of a longer story) introduces the supernatural, ghosts - of ’98 returning to influence events sixty years after. A book - of much power and truth. - - -=JARROLD, Ernest.= - -⸺ MICKEY FINN IDYLLS. Pp. 281. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1899. Introd. by Charles -A. Dana (N.Y. _Sun_). - - Reprinted from the SUNDAY SUN, LESLIE’S WEEKLY, &c. Micky is a - youngster of 9 or 10, born of Irish parents, settled at Coney - Island, where the scene of the idylls is laid. A good deal of - humour and some pathos. A goat figures largely in the sketches. - -⸺ MICKY FINN’S NEW IRISH YARNS. N.Y. 1902. - - -=JAY, Harriett.= A sister-in-law and adopted daughter of the late Robert -Buchanan, Scottish poet and novelist. She lived for some years in Mayo, -and the result of her observations was two good novels. She wrote also -_Madge Dunraven_, and some other novels. - -⸺ THE QUEEN OF CONNAUGHT. (_Chatto & Windus_). Picture boards. 2_s._ -_n.d._ (1875). - - How an Englishman, John Bermingham, fell in love with and - married the descendant of an old western family. How he - tried, but failed, to reform with English ideas the Connaught - peasantry. Told with considerable power and insight. Note - especially the description of a police hunt over the mountains - in the snow. Has been dramatised. - -⸺ THE DARK COLLEEN. Three Vols. (_Bentley_). 1876. - - Scene: an island off the W. coast. Morna Dunroon finds a French - sailor, survivor of a shipwreck. She afterwards marries him, - but he abandons her and goes back to France. She follows him, - and passes through strange adventures, but he is still false - to her. Nemesis follows in the end. Father Moy is a fine - portrait of a priest. The dialect and the scenery are both true - to the reality, the description of the storm at the close is - particularly well done. - -⸺ THE PRIEST’S BLESSING; or, Poor Patrick’s progress from this world to a -better. Pp. 308. (_F. V. White_). Two eds. 1881. - - A most objectionable book from a Catholic point of view. Very - hostile picture of priesthood of Ireland who keep the people - in “bovine ignorance.” The two specimens that appear in the - story are villains of the worst type. One is 25, and has been - seven years a priest! He drinks heavily, and works miracles. By - another a respectable peasant is incited to murder. The views - of politics can only be described as “Orange.” - -⸺ MY CONNAUGHT COUSINS. Three Vols. (_F. V. White_). 1883. - - Jack Kenmare goes to his uncle’s place in Connaught, and has a - pleasant time in company with his cousins. He becomes engaged - to one of them, who writes stories. Several of these are given. - An excellent moral tale, and a glimpse of happy Irish life in a - country house. The political point of view is not Nationalist: - neither is it hostile to Ireland. - - -=JEBB, Horsley.= - -⸺ SPORT ON IRISH BOGS. Pp. 192. (_Everett_). 1_s._ Paper. 1910. - - Farcical Irish stories by a Londoner who occasionally shoots - and fishes in Ireland. Peasants made grotesque, but Author has - no hostile intentions. Nondescript dialect. “A Home in Calery” - is quite different, and makes very pleasant reading. “Sister - Eugenia” is an agreeable, melodramatic story. - - -=JESSOP, George H.= B. in Ireland; ed. at Trinity. Went to U.S.A., 1873. -Edited JUDGE (1884), and contributed to other humorous papers. Wrote -some very successful plays. He died in 1915 at Hampstead. Another of his -novels is _The Emergency Men_, a novel in which he pictures the land -troubles in Ireland from the anti-popular point of view. - -⸺ GERALD FRENCH’S FRIENDS. Pp. 240. (_Longmans_). Well illustr. 1889. - - Six stories reprinted from the CENTURY MAGAZINE, 1888. Gerald, - a spendthrift son of good family, takes to journalism, and - goes to San Francisco. There he meets various types of his - fellow-countrymen, and the stories are about these. “All the - incidents related in this book are based on fact, and several - of them are mere transcripts from actual life.... The purpose - is to depict a few of the most characteristic types of the - native Celt of the original stock, as yet unmixed in blood, but - modified by new surroundings and a different civilization.” An - excellent work, and perhaps the Author’s best. - -⸺ WHERE THE SHAMROCK GROWS. (_Murray & Evenden_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1911. - - A rather commonplace story. The characters are mostly of the - squireen class, notably the drunken Mat O’Hara. There are two - love stories, both having happy conclusions, to which the - racehorse Liscarrick largely contributes. “The paper is poor - and the binding tawdry.”—(I.B.L.) “The writer has only put on - record that part of his experience which can be reconciled with - conceptions derived from Lever.”—(IRISH TIMES). - -⸺ DESMOND O’CONNOR. Pp. 320. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1914. - - The “Wild Geese” in Flanders. Desmond is the “Lion of the Irish - Brigade.” A love story that moves through camps and courts, - siege, battle, adventure, misunderstanding, to a happy ending, - under the aegis of the _Grand Monarque_. Told with spirit and - verve. - - -=JOHNSTON, Miss.= - -⸺ ELLEN: A Tale of Ireland. Pp. 139. 16mo. (LONDON). 1843. - - A curious and rather meaningless little story. Ellen O’Rorick, - daughter of a drunken tavern keeper, of Leixlip, goes to - England, and mixes in high society. Forgotten and looked down - upon by her childhood’s friend, whom she loves, she marries - in succession two elderly, rich men, and then settles in - Ireland to a life of philanthropy, having meanwhile become a - Protestant. A good deal of moralising. - - -=JOHNSTON, M. L.= - -⸺ MAVOURNEEN; or, The Children of the Storm. Pp. 233. (_Walter Scott_). -1904. - - Kitty O’Neill on her way to her aunt at Lostwin, in England, - is saved from a wreck by Ralph Whitteridge, of that place. - Kitty grows up, and has several suitors, but meets Ralph again, - and marries him in spite of the aunt who wishes her to marry - Edward, the Squire. Some of the action takes place at Malhay, - in the S. of Ireland, Kitty’s native place. Kitty dies, and - Ralph takes to drink, but is rescued by a former rival, and on - the voyage out to S. Africa proves his sterling worth, but is - drowned in a storm along with his little boy, Curly. Author’s - knowledge of Ireland very slight. Brogue poor. No anti-Catholic - bias. - - -=JOHNSTON, William=, of Ballykilbeg, 1829-1902. Was in his day one of -the most strenuous opponents of Home Rule, a leader of Orangemen, and -Unionist M.P. for Belfast during many years. His novels reflect his -political opinions. - -⸺ NIGHTSHADE. (BELFAST: _Aicken_). 2_s._ Portrait. [_c._ 1870]. Many -editions; the last _c._ 1902. - - The hero, Charles Annandale, a young Ulster landlord and an - Oxfordman, returns to Ireland in the thick of the agrarian - agitation. His agent is shot by Ribbonmen, who had been - previously absolved by the priest. He is an unsuccessful - candidate for Parliament. The election is well described, the - Author probably drawing on his experiences at Downpatrick in - 1857. Among the characters is Rev. Mr. Werd (Dr. Drew, of - Belfast). The sister of Charles’s betrothed is entrapped by - a Jesuit, who poses as her guardian, and immured in a Paris - convent, but is released after a lawsuit. There is much - denunciation of “prowling Jesuits,” “Liberal Protestants,” and - “Puseyite Traitors.” - -⸺ UNDER WHICH KING. Pp. 308. (_Tinsley_). 1873. - - A plain historical narrative, with little plot, and no - character drawing of the various events of 1688-91—Derry, the - Boyne, &c. Very strong Williamite bias. - - -=JONES, T. Mason.= - -⸺ OLD TRINITY: a Tale of real life. Three Vols. 1867. - - Period, _c._ 1850. Scene: T.C.D., Ossory, and Co. Limerick. - Career, told by himself of a brilliant young Trinity man, - including a love story. A fine piece of narrative. But the - chief source of interest, perhaps, is the account of the land - troubles of the day, as the very sympathetic picture of the - sufferings of the peasantry during and after the Famine years. - It includes portraits, drawn with feeling and admiration, - of an Ossory P.P., and of a dissenting minister. There are - pointed criticisms of educational methods and a study, none too - favourable, of life in T.C.D. The Author ran THE TRIBUNE in - Dublin in the fifties, and was afterwards well-known in England - as a lecturer of the Reform League. - - -=JOYCE, James A.= B. of Galway parentage about thirty years ago. Was -a student of Clongowes Wood College and of University Coll., Dublin. -Published some years ago a small book of verse that has been much -admired, entitled _Chamber Music_. Is at present in Trieste. - -⸺ DUBLINERS. Pp. 278. (_Grant, Richards_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1914. - - Seventeen _genre_ studies in the form of stories picturing - life among the Dublin lower-middle and lower classes, but - from one aspect only, viz., the dark and squalid aspect. This - is depicted with almost brutal realism, and though there is - an occasional gleam of humour, on the whole we move, as we - read, in the midst of painful scenes of vice and poverty. His - characters seem to interest the author in so far as they are - wrecks or failures in one way or another. He writes as one who - knows his subject well. - - -=JOYCE, Patrick Weston, M.A., LL.D.= 1827-1914. B. at Ballyorgan, Co. -Limerick. Ed. at private schools; graduated at T.C.D. In 1845 he entered -the service of the Commissioners of National Education. He rose to be -principal of the Marlborough Street Training Schools, Dublin. Elected -M.R.I.A., 1863; President of Royal Society of Antiquaries. Wrote several -histories of Ireland, of one of which 86,000 copies were sold. Publ. -works on Irish place-names, Irish music, a grammar of the Irish language, -a social history of Ancient Ireland, &c., &c. D. Jan., 1914. He was -writing practically up to the day of his death. - -⸺ OLD CELTIC ROMANCES. Pp. xx. + 474. (_Longmans_). [1879]. Third ed., -revised and enlarged. 1907. - - Thirteen tales, selected and translated from the manuscripts of - Trinity College and of the Royal Irish Academy. Some had been - already published, but in a form inaccessible to the public, - and in _literal_ translations made chiefly for linguistic - purposes. The author justly claims that this is “the first - collection of the old Gaelic prose romances that has ever - been published in fair English translation.”—(_Pref._). The - translations are, as the Author says, in “simple, plain, homely - English.” He has made little or no attempt to invest them with - the glamour of poetry. The text is preceded by some particulars - concerning these tales and their origin, and followed by notes - and a list of proper names. The tales are: “The Fates of the - Children of Lir, Tuireann and Usnach”; “The Voyages of Mailduin - and of the Sons of O’Corra”; “The Pursuit of the Gilla Dacker - and of Dermat and Grania”; “Connla of the Golden Hair”; “Oisin - in Tir-na-nOge,” &c. “I would bring out,” said Dr. Richard - Garnett, Librarian of the British Museum “Joyce’s _Irish - Romances_ in the cheapest possible form and place them in the - hands of every boy and girl in the country.” - - -=JOYCE, Robert Dwyer.= Brother of the preceding. B. Glenosheen, Co. -Limerick, 1830. Graduated in Queen’s Coll., Cork. Went to U.S.A. in 1866, -where he was very successful as a doctor. Returned to Ireland, 1883, and -died the same year. He is perhaps better known as a poet than as a prose -writer. - -⸺ LEGENDS OF THE WARS IN IRELAND. Pp. 352. (BOSTON: _Campbell_). 1868. - - Thirteen historical and semi-historical legends, told by - a thoroughly good story-teller, with plenty of colour and - exciting incident and without clogging erudition. “A Batch of - Legends” includes the story of the monks of Kilmacluth and - the wonderful bird, a story of love in the ’45 (Culloden, - &c.), a legend about Murrough of the Burnings, _c._ 1663, how - Patrick saved the life of his servant Duan, Black Hugh Condon’s - vengeance on the English, _c._ 1601; and another, “The Master - of Lisfinry,” the takings and retakings of Youghal during the - Desmond rebellion, story of a lost child found. “The Fair - Maid of Killarney”—the taking of Ross Castle by Ludlow during - Cromwellian wars. “An Eye for an Eye”—knightly combats during - the Bruce invasion, 1315. “The Rose of Drimnagh”—abduction - of Eleanora de Barneval of Drimnagh (near Inchicore) by the - O’Byrnes. “The House of Lisbloom,” a legend of Sarsfield and - the Rapparees, an exciting story. “The Whitethorn Tree,” a - strange tale of Rapparees and Puritans, abductions and rescues - and fights. “The First and Last Lords of Fermoy,” 1216 and 1660 - (the faithless Charles II.) “The Little Battle of Bottle Hill” - is another Rapparee story. “The Bridal Ring,” a story of Cahir - Castle. “Rosaleen; or, the White Lady of Barna”—end of 18th - century. - - P.S.—Some of these Legends were publ. without the name of the - Author in cheap paper ed. by Cameron & Ferguson, of Glasgow, - under title, _Galloping O’Hogan, and other tales_, _n.d._ - -⸺ IRISH FIRESIDE TALES. Pp. 376. (_Boston_). 1871. - - Sixteen stories, some historical (or pseudo-historical), some - legendary, some serious, some comic. The scenes are laid in - various parts of Ireland, and at various periods. Told in - very pleasant if somewhat old-fashioned style. Contents—“The - Geraldine and his Bride Fair Ellen”; “The Pearl Necklace” - (a love story of Kilmallock); “The Building of Mourne” - (Cork—Legend); “A Little Bit of Sport” (four comic stories); - “Madeline’s Vow” (modern); “The Golden Butterfly” (Co. Clare); - “Creevan, the Brown Haired”; “Mun Carberry and the Phooka”; “a - story of Dublin life in the days of Queen Ann,” &c. Very little - dialect. - - -=JUBAINVILLE, H. d’Arbois de.= - -⸺ TÁIN BO CUALNGE. ENLÈVEMENT DU TAUREAU DIVIN ET DES VACHES DE COOLEY. -Pp. 190. (PARIS: _Champion_). En livraisons. 1907-9. - - “La plus ancienne épopée de l’Europe occidentale traduite - par H. d’A. de J., Membre de l’Institut, Prof. au College de - France, avec la collaboration de MM. Alexandre Smirnoff et - Eugène Bibart.” - - -=KAVANAGH, Rev. M.= - -⸺ SHEMUS DHU; the Black Pedlar of Galway. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [LONDON: -1867]. Very many editions. Still in print. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. - - Life in and about Galway during Penal times. The peasantry are - portrayed as well as the citizens and the upper classes. The - plot is somewhat rambling, yet the book is interesting. In - Allibone this is said to be by Maurice Dennis Kavanagh, LL.D., - called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1866. - - -=KEARY, Miss Annie.= B. at Bilton Rectory, nr. Wetherby, Yorkshire, -1825. Her father, a Galway man, was rector of the parish. She wrote -many novels, _Early Egyptian History_, _The Nations Around_, _Heroes -of Asgard_, &c. She had very little personal knowledge of Ireland. D. -1879.—(D.N.B.). _See_ Memoir of Annie Keary, by her sister, 1882. - -⸺ CASTLE DALY: The Story of an Irish House thirty years ago. Pp. 576. -(_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1875]; often reprinted. Fourth ed., 1889. -(PHILADELPHIA: _Porter_). 1.00. - - Period: the Famine years and Smith O’Brien rising. The - sufferings of the people sympathetically described. The Young - Ireland movement dwelt on both from an English and an Irish - standpoint. All through the book constant contrast between - English and Irish characters, showing their incompatibility, - and on the whole the superiority of the English; yet the book - shows sympathies with Home Rule, to which one of the chief - characters is converted. There are some descriptions of scenery - in Connemara. - - -=KEEGAN, John.= - -⸺ LEGENDS AND POEMS. Pp. 552. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1907. - - Memoir of Author by D. J. O’Donoghue, pp. v.-xxxiii. He was a - self-educated Midlands peasant, who lived in the first half of - the last century. This miscellany consists of (_a_) Six tales - of the Rockites, the brutal doings of a secret society that - flourished about 1830; (_b_) Legends and tales of the peasantry - of Queen’s County and North Munster; (_c_) Pp. 289-446, - “Gleanings in the Green Isle,” a series of letters written in - 1846 to DOLMAN’S, a London Catholic magazine, which deals with - Irish country life, and are interspersed with stories; (_d_) - Pp. 493-552, Poems. - - -=KEIGHTLEY, Sir Samuel R.= B. Belfast, 1859. Son of S. Keightley, of -Bangor, Co. Down. Ed. Queen’s Coll., Belfast. Contested Antrim as Indep. -Unionist (1903), and S. Derry as Liberal (1910). Member of Senate of -Queen’s Univ. Resides in Lisburn, Co. Antrim. Other works:—_A King’s -Daughter_, _The Cavaliers_, _Heronford_, &c. - -⸺ THE CRIMSON SIGN. Pp. 189. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._, and 6_d._ (N.Y.: -_Harper_). 1.50. [1894]. - - Adventures of a Mr. Gervase Orme, “sometime lieutenant in - Mountjoy’s (Williamite) regiment of foot,” previous to and - during the siege of Derry. The story is told with great verve, - and is full of romantic and exciting adventure. There is little - or no discussion of politics, and no bitter partisan feeling. - -⸺ THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE’S. (_Hutchinson_). (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1.50. -[1897]. 1908. - - A stirring and exciting story of the Irish Brigade in Jacobite - days, told in bold, dashing style. Strong pro-Jacobite feeling. - Part of the story takes place at Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, - the rest on the Continent—Tournay, Fontenoy, &c. Madame de - Pompadour is one of the historical personages. - -⸺ THE PIKEMEN. Pp. viii + 311. Well illustrated. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ -1903. - - The supposed “narrative of Rev. Patrick Stirling, M.A., of - Drenton, Sangamon Co., Ill., U.S.A., formerly of Ardkeen, Co. - Down,” telling his experiences in the Ards of Down (district - between Strangford Lough and the sea) during the rising. - Presbyterian-Nationalist bias. Strong character study. Faithful - descriptions of scenery. The study of the Government spy is - especially noteworthy. - -⸺ A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Pp. 319. (_Long_). 1906. - - A swaggering young bravo—a faint imitation of Barry - Lyndon—tells his adventures in Dublin and on the Continent in - the days of the drinking, gambling, out-at-elbows squireens - (end of eighteenth century). The hero is thus described:—“I - should like to have seen the man who at cards, drinking punch, - riding or selling a horse, deludhering a woman, or winging his - man had any advantage of Rody Blake” (p. 12). A facetious, - swashbuckler tone is adopted throughout. - -⸺ RODY BLAKE. - - The preceding book seems to have been publ. also under this - title, or possibly this is a sequel, but I failed to come - across it, in spite of much research. - - -=KELLY, Eleanor F.= Resides in Dublin. She is a constant contributor to -Catholic periodicals here and in the States. - -⸺ BLIND MAUREEN; and other Stories. Pp. 160. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ _n.d._ -(1913). - - Ten short stories reprinted from THE CATHOLIC FIRESIDE, and - other Catholic magazines. High moral tone, characterisation - good, dialogue (often in dialect) natural. St. Antony plays a - prominent part. “The Fate of the Priest Hunter” is a tale of - 18th century persecution in Ireland. - -⸺ OUR LADY INTERCEDES. Pp. 210. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1913. - - Twelve stories, several of which are Irish, devoted to showing - the care of the Blessed Virgin for those who invoke her. One - relates to Cromwellian times, but for the most part the stories - relate to the present time. - -⸺ THE THREE REQUESTS; and other Stories. Pp. 192. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -1914. - - Twelve little stories, Irish in subject. The interest of the - story is always quite subordinate to the religious and moral - interest. The tales deal with answers to prayer (two of them - are about prayers to St. Antony), the evils of emigration, - and of proselytism, the reward of charity, &c., one is a - ghost-story. They are told with great simplicity. - - -=KELLY, Peter Burrowes.= 1811-1883. B. Stradbally, Queen’s Co. Took an -active part in politics, and was a noted speaker. Died in Dublin. - -⸺ THE MANOR OF GLENMORE; or, The Irish Peasant. Three Vols. (LONDON: _Ed. -Bull_). 1839. - - Scene: Stradbally, in the Queen’s County. Most of the - personages of the tale and many of its incidents are real. - The country is very well described; the book has many - interesting incidents; peasant life is pictured with knowledge - and sympathy. The last year of the agitation for Catholic - Emancipation is the period dealt with. The famous Clare - election is described, and there is a character sketch of - Dr. Doyle (“J.K.L.”). It criticised strongly the Protestant - ascendancy and landlord party, dwells upon the doings of - Orangemen and of Whiteboys, and the attempts to reconcile the - two factions. - - -=KELLY, William Patrick.= B. 1848. Son of John Kelly, of Mount Brandon, -Graigue, Co. Kilkenny. Ed. Clongowes Wood College and R.M.A. Woolwich. -Late R. Artillery. Lives in Harrogate. Has written seven or eight other -stories, chiefly semi-historical adventure stories. - -⸺ SCHOOLBOYS THREE. Pp. 320. (_Routledge_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Eight illustr. -(good). [1895]. Several new eds. - - A story of school-boy life at Clongowes Wood College in the - early ’sixties, told in a pleasant and picturesque style, and, - almost all through, with frank fidelity to reality. It is full - of lively incident. Was highly praised by the leading literary - reviews. - - -=[KEMBLE, Ann]; “Ann of Swansea.”= - -⸺ GERALD FITZGERALD; an Irish Tale. Five Vols (!). (LONDON: _Newman_). -1831. - - Gerald, whose Catholic wife has deserted him, lives in an - old half-ruined family castle, near Armagh. The book is - an interminable (1698 pp.) series of petty scandals and - flirtations, gossip, and matchmaking among the titled persons - living in “Doneraile Castle,” and “Lisburn Abbey.” The insipid - affairs of an out-of-date _beau monde_. This Author also wrote - _Uncle Peregrine’s Heiress_, _Conviction_, _Guilty or not - Guilty_, and many other stories. - - -=KENNEDY, Patrick; “Harry Whitney.”= Born in Co. Wexford, 1801. In -1823 he removed to Dublin, and for the greater part of his life he -kept a bookshop in Anglesea Street. His sketches of Irish rural -life as he had known it are told with spirit, and with a kind of -photographic literalness and exactness. They are very free from anything -objectionable. Dr. Douglas Hyde, speaking of his folk-lore, says that -“many of his stories appear to be the detritus of genuine Gaelic -folk-stories filtered through an English idiom and much impaired and -stunted in the process. He appears, however, not to have adulterated them -very much.” In the Pref. to _Evenings in the Duffrey_ he says (and the -remarks apply to his other books), “On all other points [viz., than the -matrimonial fortunes of his hero and heroine] there is not a fictitious -character, nor incident in the mere narrative, nor legend related, nor -ballad sung, which was not current in the country half a century since. -The fireside discussions were really held, and the extraordinary fishing -and hunting adventures detailed, as here set down.” He died in 1873. - -⸺ LEGENDS OF MOUNT LEINSTER. Pp. 283. 16mo. (_Dublin_). 1855. - - Title of a miscellany published under pseudonym of “Harry - Whitney.” Contains: “Three Months in Kildare Place,” “Bantry - and Duffrey Traditions,” “The Library in Patrick Street”; in - all nine sketches, four of which are stories supposed to be - told at fireside of Wexford farm-house. Careful picture of - manners and customs. No. 1 is a story of the time of Brian, - _c._ 1001 A.D. 3. A love-tale of the days of Sarsfield. 6. - Penal days, a hunted priest. - -⸺ FICTIONS OF OUR FOREFATHERS. 1859. - -⸺ LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS. (_Macmillan_). [1866]. Several -eds. since. - - Over 100 stories, given, for the most part, “as they were - received from the story-tellers with whom our youth was - familiar.” They are derived from the English-speaking peasantry - of County Wexford. They include “Household Stories” (wild and - wonderful adventures), “Legends of the Good People” or fairies, - witchcraft, sorcery, ghosts and fetches, Ossianic, &c., - legends, and “Legends of the Celtic Saints.” All these are in - this book published for the first time. All through there is an - interesting running comment, introductory and connective. The - book is hardly suitable for children. - -⸺ THE BANKS OF THE BORO. Pp. 362. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). 2_s._ [1867]. New -ed., 1875, &c. - - Into the tissue of a pleasant and touching story of quiet - country life in North-west Wexford the Author has woven a - collection of tales, ballads, and legends, some of which are - of high merit. They contain a wealth of information on local - customs and traditions. Incidentally, Irish peasant character - is truthfully painted in all its phases—grave, gay, humorous, - and grotesque. The moral standard is very high throughout. - There are many vivid descriptions of scenery. The whole is told - in a simple, pleasant, genial style. The Author tells us that - the chief incidents, circumstances, and fireside conferences - mentioned in the book really occurred. - -⸺ EVENINGS IN THE DUFFREY. Pp. 396. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). 2_s._ 1869. - - A kind of sequel to the _Banks of the Boro_. The adventures - of the hero, Edward O’Brien, are continued, the story being, - as before, interspersed with legends and ballads. It has the - same good qualities as the earlier book, the tone being again - thoroughly healthy. - -⸺ THE FIRESIDE STORIES OF IRELAND. Pp. 162. 32mo. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). -1_s._ 6_d._ 1870. - - “A good book” (Douglas Hyde in _Beside the Fire_). Fifty tales, - chiefly fairy and folk-lore, but of very varied types, full of - local colour and interest. Many of them are of the kind found - in the folk-tales of all nations, but have an unmistakably - Irish (not stage-Irish) savour. Moreover, they are told with - vivacity, quaintness, and sly humour. A good selection, - suitable for readers of any age or class. - -⸺ THE BARDIC STORIES OF IRELAND. Pp. 227. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). 2_s._ -[1871]. - - Fifty-eight stories, founded, some on pagan myth, others on - historical traditions of great families. All were originally - found in poetic form, and many of them retain much of their - poetic qualities. Many are told with a singular humorous - naïveté. In all the language is simple but very adequate and - dignified. They are free from anything that would make them - unsuitable for the young. - -⸺ THE BOOK OF MODERN IRISH ANECDOTES. Pp. 192. 12mo. New ed. (_Gill_). -6_d._ Has passed through several editions and is still in print. 1913. - - “Has no higher ambition than that of agreeably occupying a - leisure hour.”—(_Pref._). “It has entered into the present - writer’s purpose to draw the attention of his readers to the - principal events in the history of his country since the - Revolution of 1691.”—(_Pref._). Anecdotes of Swift, Sheridan, - Curran, Moore, O’Connell, &c. Stories of duelling, gaming, - hunting, shooting, acting, electioneering, drinking. Taken - from such Authors as R. R. Madden, W. J. Fitzpatrick, Sir John - Gilbert, Sir Jonah Barrington, Hon. Edward Walsh, &c., &c. Free - from coarseness, and practically free from the Stage-Irishman. - In the new ed. there are about 200 proverbs transl. from the - Irish and an Index. - - -=KENNEDY, Rev. John J.= - -⸺ CARRIGMORE; or, Light and Shade in West Kerry. Pp. 128. (_Office of -Chronicle_: WANGARATTA). 1909. - - -=KENNY, Mrs. Stacpoole.= D. of J. R. Dunne, of Ennistymon, Co. Clare, and -wife of T. H. Kenny, of Limerick, near which city she resides. - -⸺ JACQUETTA. Pp. 227. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). -0.75. 1910. - - Scene: Kilrush, Co. Clare, and London. The story of an - Irish-Australian girl who comes to live in Ireland with her - uncle, Dr. Desmond. She had contracted an unhappy marriage, but - believed her husband dead. The story tells how she finds him, - and the fate that overtakes him. There is also the love-story - of Dr. Desmond. In the end all is well with uncle and niece. - -⸺ LOVE IS LIFE. Pp. 317. (_Greening_). 6_s._ 1910. - - The heroine, Iseult Dymphna Macnamara, whose mother was French, - lives at the Court of Louis XIV. at the time when James II. - held his exiled Court at St. Germain. She loves the son of - Sarsfield, but is forced by circumstances into a loveless - marriage with a noble and chivalrous Frenchman, St. Amand, whom - the king had chosen for her. St. Amand goes off to the wars - (Steenkirk and Landen), and meantime the king pursues Iseult - with amorous attentions. To avoid them she flies to Ireland. - Here we get a glimpse of the Penal days in Co. Clare. All comes - right when Iseult comes to love her husband. Brightly and - entertainingly told. - -⸺ CARROW OF CARROWDUFF. Pp. 331. (_Greening_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Scene: West County (obviously Clare). The hero, son of an - unpopular landlord, whose cattle have been houghed and - otherwise maimed, goes, in spite of warnings, to a wake among - the tenantry. This wake is described as a scene of savagery. - On his return he is “shot at” and wounded, and there comes - to nurse him a young nun with whom, before her entrance into - religious life, he had fallen in love. It turns out that - she had entered the convent in a moment of pique. The hero - accordingly proposes, and they are married by the death-bed of - his father, who has fallen a victim to the League. - -⸺ THE KING’S KISS. Pp. 288. (_Digby, Long_). 6_s._ 1912. - - A kind of sequel to _Love is Life_. How Iseult, who tells the - story, buys the life of her cousin Harry Macnamara by a kiss - given to Louis XIV. This, though innocent on her part, was the - beginning of her troubles. Her enraged husband rides post-haste - to Versailles to tell Louis what he thinks of him. St. Armand - disappears, and Iseult almost dies of fever; but through - a whole series of plots and court intrigues and exciting - adventures things right themselves at last. James II., the - Duchess of Tyrconnell, and many other historical persons play a - part in the romance. - -⸺ OUR OWN COUNTRY. Pp. 142. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 1913. - - Sequel to _Carrow of Carrowduff_, with same personages. Several - interwoven love stories—in particular that of an English - Protestant gentleman (converted in the course of the tale) - with Mrs. Monsel, a widow, mother-in-law to Corona Carrow, who - tells part of the story. The _dénouement_ has a deep religious - interest, which indeed is the chief interest of the whole book. - -⸺ DAFFODIL’S LOVE AFFAIRS. Pp. 320. (_Holden & Hardingham_). 6_s._ 1913. - - A story of life among gentlefolk. Scene: near Carlingford and - in London. D.’s mother, of a good but impoverished family, has - five daughters on her hands, and the way in which these are - married off, partly owing to her matchmaking exertions, forms - the burden of the story. For the most part it is a light and - vivacious story of social life and flirtations, but an element - of tragedy is introduced in one of the subsidiary love-stories, - that of D.’s sister Kit, who was thus punished for a flirtation - carried on with Sir Dermot de Courcy while his wife was still - alive. - -⸺ MARY: A Romance of West County. Pp. 273. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ -1915. - - On leaving her convent school in Dublin, Mary goes home to - realise for the first time that her father not only cares - little for her but dislikes her (her birth had cost her - mother’s life). But in the long run she wins his love. There - is a double love story—her own and that of her madcap, slangy, - tomboy cousin Benigna. The Author is persistently vivacious and - sprightly (calling in slang to her assistance) in a way that - might irritate. There is no repose or quiet beauty about the - style. - - -=KENNY, Louise.= - -⸺ THE RED-HAIRED WOMAN: Her Autobiography. Pp. 400. (_Murray_). 6_s._ -1905. - - The interest centres in an old county family of Thomond, the - O’Currys. Characters typical of various conditions of life in - Ireland: an unpopular, police-protected landlord, a landowner - with an encumbered estate, an upstart usurer, faithful - retainers, evicted tenants, etc. (_N.I.R._, Dec., 1905). - - -=KENNY, M. L.= - -⸺ THE FORTUNES OF MAURICE CRONIN. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1875. - - A very long novel with a very complicated plot and without a - trace of brightness or of humour. The plot turns chiefly on - a case of mistaken identity. Maurice returns from soldiering - in India to find that he is really heir to the estates of the - Grace family, and can marry Mary Grace, his cousin, whom his - putative mother had thought to be his sister. No national - interest. Date 184-. Places such as Deverell’s Chase, Desmond’s - Tower, Rathcroghan, are mentioned. - - -=KERR, Eliza.= - -⸺ SLIEVE BLOOM. Pp. 153. (_Wesleyan Conference Office_). Three illustr. -1881. - - A little non-controversial Methodist story for young people. - Tells (in the present tense throughout) how May and Willie - lived a very poor life with their maternal grandmother, but - by the coming of their father’s mother were raised to better - circumstances. Nice descriptions of Mountmellick, the Bog of - Allen, and Slieve Bloom. - -⸺ KILKEE. Pp. 193. (_Wesleyan Methodist School Union_). Third ed. 1885. - - A moral and religious (but not controversial) tale. Adventures - of two boys near the Pollock Hole Rocks, Kilkee, the scenery - around which is well described. On all occasions the boys quote - Scripture texts, and the piety of the personages concerned is - constantly insisted on. - -⸺ KEENA KARMODY, &c.: A Tale. Pp. 192. (_Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School -Union_). 1887. - - Also _The Golden City_, _Hazel Haldene_, and four or five - others. - - -=KETTLE, Rosa Mackenzie.= - -⸺ ROSE, SHAMROCK, AND THISTLE. Pp. 286. (_Fisher, Unwin_). 6_s._ 1893. - - “A Story of two Border Towers.” Rhoda Carysfort, an Irish girl, - comes to live with her English cousins, and eventually marries - a Scotch laird. Except for the heroine’s nationality there is - nothing Irish about the story, though the Author’s sympathies - are with Ireland. The tone is very “respectable” and somewhat - prim. It seems intended as a book of instruction for girls. - - -=KICKHAM, Charles J.= B. Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary, 1828. Began early -to write for nationalist papers—THE NATION, THE CELT, THE IRISHMAN, THE -IRISH PEOPLE. Most of his contributions were verse, but to THE SHAMROCK -he contributed his chief novels. He threw himself into the Fenian -movement, was arrested along with John O’Leary, and sentenced to fourteen -years’ penal servitude. His health never recovered from this period of -prison. He died in 1882 at Blackrock, near Dublin. See the short _Life_ -by J. J. Healy, publ. 1915 by Messrs. Duffy. Besides the novels mentioned -below, Kickham wrote the following short stories:—“Poor Mary Maher” (a -sad tale of ’98); “Never Give Up,” “Annie O’Brien,” “Joe Lonergan’s Trip -to the Lower Regions” (Irish life in the fifties, dealing largely with -land troubles); “White Humphrey of the Grange: A Glimpse of Tipperary -fifty years ago”; “Elsie Dhuv” (a story of ’98, full of incident, much -of it humorous). These tales have been collected for publication in the -near future by Mr. William Murphy, of Blackrock. K. knew thoroughly and -loved intensely his own place and people. He had wonderful powers of -observation and a great fund of quiet humour. - -⸺ SALLY CAVANAGH. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1869]. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75. New -ed. 1902. - - Kickham’s first story. Contains in germ all the great qualities - of _Knocknagow_. We feel all through that it is the work of a - man of warm, tender, homely heart—a man born and bred one of - the people about whom he writes. It is a simple and natural - tale of love among the small farmer class. Sally Cavanagh’s - tragedy is due to the combined evils of landlordism and - emigration. Some of the saddest aspects of the latter are dwelt - upon. The book is quite free from declamation and moralizing, - the events being left to tell their own sad tale. Perhaps the - noblest characters in the book are the Protestant Mr. and Mrs. - Hazlitt. There is no trace of religious bigotry. There are - touches of humour, too—for example, the love affairs of Mr. - Mooney and the inimitable scene between Shawn Gow and his wife. - -⸺ KNOCKNAGOW. Pp. 628. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1879]. Upwards of 14 eds. -since. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.25. - - One of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all Irish novels. - Yet it is not so much a novel as a series of pictures of life - in a Tipperary village. We are introduced to every one of its - inhabitants, and learn to love them nearly all before the end. - Everything in the book had been not only seen from without - but _lived_ by the Author. It is full of exquisite little - humorous and pathetic traits. The description of the details - of peasant life is quite photographic in fidelity, yet not - wearisome. There is the closest observation of human nature - and of individual peculiarities. It is realism of the best - kind. The incidents related and some of the discussions throw - much light on the Land Question. The Author does not, however, - lecture or rant on the subject. Occasionally there are tracts - of middle-class conversation that would, I believe, be dull for - most readers. - -⸺ FOR THE OLD LAND. Pp. 384. (_Gill_). 2_s._ [1886]. New ed. 1914. (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 0.75. - - Main theme: the fortunes and the sufferings of an Irish family - of small farmers under the old land system. The peasant’s love - of home and the bitter sadness of emigration are brought out in - the unfolding of the tale. All through there runs a love-tale - told with the Author’s usual restraint, simplicity, and - delicate analysis of motive. There is a humorous element, too, - amusing bailiffs and policemen furnishing much of it. Constable - Sproule driving home the pigs is capitally done. Rody Flynn is - a grand old character, evidently sketched from life. - -⸺ THE PIG-DRIVING PEELERS. - - Appears in one of the “Knickerbocker Nuggets,” entitled - “Representative Irish Tales.” Compiled, with Introd. and notes - by W. B. Yeats. (N.Y.: _Putnam_). Two Vols. _n.d._ - - -=KING, Richard Ashe; “Basil,” “Desmond O’Brien.”= The Author is (1914) -Staff Extension Lecturer of Oxford and London Universities. Has -contributed a good deal to the CORNHILL and to the PALL MALL GAZETTE, and -is reviewer for TRUTH. Has written, besides the books noticed here, _Love -the Debt_, _A Drawn Game_, _A Coquette’s Conquest_, and many others. -Also a life of Swift. B. Co. Clare. Ed. at Ennis Coll. and T.C.D. He -gave up in the eighties his living in the Church of England and began -contributing to FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, TRUTH, &c. “He is,” says W. P. Ryan in -his _The Irish Literary Revival_, “intensely Celtic, but too candid to -overlook the Celt’s failings.” For some time in the eighties he lived in -Blackrock, Co. Dublin. See Mrs. Hinkson’s _Reminiscences of Twenty-five -Years_, pp. 282-3. - -⸺ THE WEARING OF THE GREEN. Pp. 299. (_Chatto & Windus_). 2_s._ 6_d._ -1886. - - A story of the course of true love, in which the lovers are - long kept apart by many untoward happenings. The writer’s - sympathies and the characters of his story are Protestant, - yet there is no hostility to Catholics, and one of the - pleasantest characters in the book is Father Mac. One of the - minor incidents of the story is connected with the Fenian - conspiracy. The chief interest of the book lies, perhaps, in - the drawing of the lesser characters. In his delineation of all - the English personages the Author is unsparingly caustic. The - book is brightly written; the conversation particularly good; - there is a vein of sarcasm throughout, and plenty of incident. - The author evidently sympathises with Irish grievances, and is - proud of his country. - -⸺ BELL BARRY. (_Chatto_). 2_s._ 1891. - - “An exciting story, laid in I., then in Liverpool, and in part - aboard a liner. The Irish servants and other minor characters - ... provide a good deal of humorous talk.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ A GERALDINE. Two Vols. 1893. (_Ward & Downey_). - - A story of almost contemporary life, largely concerned with - land troubles in Ireland. The heroine, a very attractive - character and a woman of great resourcefulness, is the daughter - of a rack-renting squireen, and is a contrast to the remainder - of the family, which is weak, idle, and selfish. Other - unpleasant characters are a villainous attorney and a bigoted - and pedantic clergyman. Some of the duties which the R.I.C. - have to perform are severely commented upon. The Author takes - the popular side. The incidents are related with spirit and - humour. - - -=KING, Toler.= - -⸺ ROSE O’CONNOR: A Story of the Day. Pp. 173. (CHICAGO: _Sumner_). Second -ed. 1881. - - Rose O’C. and Tim Brady love each other. Tim has to go to - America. Meanwhile the famine years come in Ireland. Rose’s - family is reduced to extremities, and she is compelled to - promise marriage to Tim’s rival in order to save it. But Tim - returns in the nick of time. Locality not indicated. Purpose, - to contrast the tyranny of landlordism with the refinement and - gentleness of the Irish peasantry. The tone is Catholic, but - not aggressively so. - - -=KINGSTON, W. H. G.= - -⸺ PETER THE WHALER. Pp. 252. (_Blackie: Library of Famous Books_). 1_s._ -Full size. Cloth. One Illustr. At present in print. - - Peter associates with low company in his Irish home and gets - into such scrapes that he has to be sent to sea. The rest is a - fine series of adventures such as boys love. Here and there a - good moral lesson is slipped in, not too obtrusively. K. was a - great writer for boys. Allibone enumerates 161 of his works. - - -=KNOWLES, Richard Brinsley.= 1820-1882. B. Glasgow. Son of the dramatist, -James Sheridan Knowles, a Cork man who ended as a Baptist preacher. Was -at first a barrister, but took up journalism as a profession. In 1849 -he became a Catholic. In 1853 _sq._ ed. of ILLUSTRATED LONDON MAGAZINE. -_Glencoonoge_ originally appeared as a serial in the MONTH. - -⸺ GLENCOONOGE. Three Vols. (_Blackwood_). 1891. - - Three threads of romance skilfully intertwined, the chief of - which is the love story of an English girl of gentle birth - and a splendid young Irish peasant. The scene is an inn in - a valley somewhere on the South-west coast. The valley as - described bears a strong resemblance to Glengarriff. The story - is eminently sane and natural, reading like a record of real - events. It is full of human interest, and is written in a - style unaffected yet charmingly literary. There are some good - portraits—the Protestant Rector, the lovable Father John, - Conn Houlahan, the hero, Old Mr. Jardine, the O’Doherty. The - description of an Irish Sunday is one of the most beautiful - in fiction. The book shows understanding sympathy for Irish - characteristics and ideals. - - -=[KNOX, Rev. J. Spencer]; “An Irish Clergyman.”= - -⸺ PASTORAL ANNALS. Pp. 397. (LONDON: _Seeley_). [1840]. Second ed., 1841. - - Contents:—“The Sick Parish,” “The First Death,” “The Sermon,” - “The Warning,” “The Private Still,” “The Pluralist,” “The Inn,” - “The School,” “Ribbonism” (a very unfavourable picture of - bailiffs, process-servers. Very fair towards Catholics); “The - Night,” “The Starving Family,” “The Birth,” “The Soup Shop” - (Famine of 1817), “Death by Starvation,” “The Confessional” - (a plea for private confession), “Family Worship,” “Tithe - Setting,” “Lough Derg” (facetious in tone. Lough D. pilgrimage - = “a scene of mockery and dissoluteness”). A series of - studies—for the most part careful and sympathetic—of peasant - life as seen by a liberal-minded and kindly Protestant Rector. - The part of Ireland dealt with would appear to be Donegal. - - -=“LAFFAN, May,”= _see_ =HARTLEY=. - - -=LALOR, Desmond.= - -⸺ LOUGHBAR. Pp. 252. (_Stockwell_). 6_s._ 1914. - - Adventures, not of a very remarkable kind, of a young doctor in - the W. of Ireland, locality indefinite. He is presented with a - practice, and a furnished house. There is a ghost, but he is - not a real one, and rather commonplace. The whole thing is very - _couleur de rose_, everybody being nicely married off, and the - descriptions do not give the impression of things seen. - - -=LANE, Elinor Macartney.= - -⸺ KATRINE. (_Harper_). 6_s._ 1909. - - “An Irish-American love-story with scenes of planters’ life - in South Carolina. The Authoress has a keen appreciation of - the psychology of the Irish character, and in her portrayal - of Dermott MacDermott and Katrine Dulany, she successfully - indicates the lights and shades of that puzzling combination of - mysticism and practicality.”—(IRISH TIMES). - - -=LANGBRIDGE, Rev. Frederick.= Rector of St. John’s, Limerick. Chaplain -district asylum. B. Birmingham, 1849. Ed. there, and at Oxford. D.Litt., -T.C.D., 1907. Has publ. many volumes of poetry, and some plays.—(WHO’S -WHO). - -⸺ MISS HONORIA. Pp. 216. (WARNE: _Tavistock Library_). 1894. - - Sub-t.: “A tale of a remote corner of Ireland,” viz., - “Carrowkeel,” a seaside village. Miss Honoria, a woman of 32, - full of piety and zeal, the prop of the parish, has never - known love till she meets Sebert, to whom she becomes engaged, - Sebert writes beautiful letters from London. Miss H. goes there - to find Sebert making love to her niece “Daisy.” H. stands - aside, and S. marries Daisy. They return to Ireland, where - S. makes love to a poor girl. She is drowned. H. dies, and - S. becomes an East End missionary. There is much sentiment. - Some pretty descriptions of scenery, and some good minor - characters—“Kevin Kennedy” and “Corney the Post.” - -⸺ THE CALLING OF THE WEIR. Pp. 304. (Large print). (_Digby, Long_). 1902. - - A love story of Protestant middle classes. Scene: near the - Shannon Weir and Falls of Donass, Co. Limerick. Two girls - become engaged to two men rather through force of circumstances - than for love. Problem: are the circumstances such as to - justify Mary in marrying the man she does not love. In a - strange way it comes about that each girl marries the other’s - fiancé, and finds happiness. Not without improbabilities, but - lively and piquant in style. Irish flavour and humour provided - by Mrs. Mack, the housekeeper, and Constable Keogh. By same - Author: _The Dreams of Dania_, _Love has no Pity_, &c. - -⸺ MACK THE MISER. Pp. 125. (_Elliott Stock_). 1907. - - A tale of middle class Protestant life in Limerick, turning on - the vindication of the supposed miser’s character by a young - girl. The tendency of the book is moral and religious. - - -=LANGBRIDGE, Rosamond.= Dau. of preceding. B. Glenalla, Donegal. Brought -up and ed. privately in Limerick. Has contributed short stories and -articles to the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN and to other periodicals. Her -attitude towards Ireland has been expressed in a fine passage worthy to -be quoted. “Nationalist by sympathy and inclination, but not by contact -or association, and belonging to no particular party or clique she -[the Author] believes in Ireland as the Land of Spiritual Happiness; -as the Land which has kept itself innocent, religious, and vividly -individualistic, in face of the wave of undistinguishable sameness which -is engulfing all national idiosyncrasy, and tends towards becoming the -Esperanto of the soul. Ireland she believes in as the Child-Soul amongst -nations, not to be deceived or bought, but perceiving and desiring with -incorruptible ingenuousness those things which alone make individual, as -well as national life worth while: Faith and Freedom before Subordination -and Sophistication, and the Traffic of the Heart to the Traffic of the -Mart.” Their necessary brevity must give to the following notes an -impression of want of sympathy. They scarcely do full justice to all the -qualities of the books. - -⸺ THE FLAME AND FLOOD. Pp. xii. + 339. (_Fisher, Unwin_; _First Novel -Library_). 1903. - - A love-story. The lovers marry other people _not_ for love. - It is only the presence of a child that prevents the heroine - from leaving her husband for her lover. There are accordingly - curious situations, but nothing positively immoral in the tone. - The story is well constructed. Scene: partly in Ireland, partly - in England. - -⸺ THE THIRD EXPERIMENT. Pp. 300. (_Fisher, Unwin_). 1904. - - The scene is laid amid very low class society in an Irish town. - The interest centres in a young girl who is reared on charity, - but finally marries a fairly respectable tradesman. The - personages of the story seem to be Protestants, but religion is - scarcely touched on. The brogue is very thick, but the stage - Irishman humour is absent. There is a persistent attempt to - study types and characters. - -⸺ AMBUSH OF YOUNG DAYS. Pp. vii. + 344. (_Duckworth_). 1906. - - The scene is laid in a temperance hotel. The central character - is a young girl, daughter of proprietor, who is given to - telling out the truth in a most unnecessary and inconvenient - manner. The lodgers come prominently into the story, and the - heroine ends by marrying one of them. - -⸺ THE STARS BEYOND. Pp. vii. + 375. (_Nash_). 1907. - - A problem novel dealing with an ill-assorted marriage—the - wife’s name (symbolic) is “Vérité,” the husband’s “Virtue”; - hence the clash. Religion enters largely into the book. Types - of Irish Protestant clergy. The writer’s sympathy seems to - waver between Catholicism and Protestantism, but the heroine - rejects both. The servants’ talk in conventional brogue. - -⸺ IMPERIAL RICHENDA. Pp. 313. (_Alston Rivers_). 6_s._ 1908. - - Scene: a small watering-place near Dublin. A fantastic comedy, - somewhat vulgar in places, but on the whole amusing, abounding - as it does in bright dialogue, and in absurdly comical - situations. Some shrewd strokes of satire are aimed at Dublin - Society, and there are piquant sayings on other subjects. - The central figure is a young lady who takes a situation as - waitress in a small hotel. Her character is so equivocal that - the book cannot be recommended for general reading. - - -=LARMINIE, William. B.= 1849, in Co. Mayo. D. at Bray, 1900. Was many -years in the Civil Service. He is better known as a poet, Author of -_Glanlua_ and _Fand_, than as a folk-lorist. - -⸺ WEST IRISH FOLK-TALES AND ROMANCES. Pp. xxvi. + 258. (_Elliot Stock_). -3_s._ 6_d._ 1898. - - Taken down, by the editor, between 1884 and 1898, word for word - in Irish from peasants in Galway (Renvyle), Mayo (Achill), - and Donegal (Glencolumbkille and Malinmore), and translated - literally. Interesting introduction on the origin and sources - of folk-lore. At the end are some remarks on phonetics, - which do not show a deep knowledge of the Irish system of - orthography, and specimens of the tales in Irish written - phonetically. The book is primarily for folk-lorists and some - naturalistic expressions render it unsuitable reading for the - young. There are eighteen stories in all. - - N.B.—The Author tells us (introduction) that besides the - tales in this book, he has in his possession many others not - yet published. This collection, a large one, is preserved in - safety, but still awaits publication. - - -=“LAUDERDALE, E. M.”; Mrs. Moore.= - -⸺ TIVOLI. Pp. 278. (CORK: _Guy_). 1886. - - A family story (landlord class) laid first at Deer Park, near - Cork, afterwards in England, whither the family retires to be - out of the Land League agitation. This last is referred to - with evident aversion. The interest turns largely on a mystery - of identity. The Author knows the Cork district well, and - describes localities accurately. Her sympathies are clearly not - nationalist. The religious attitude is one of tolerance. - - -=LAWLESS, Hon. Emily.= B. in Ireland, 1845. Eldest d. of Lord Cloncurry. -Came to know the W. of Ireland through her associations with the home of -her mother’s family. Her mother was a Miss Kirwan, of Castle Hackett, Co. -Galway. _See_ Miss Lawless’s _Traits and Confidences_ for some memories -of her childhood. She went a good deal among the people in her natural -history excursions. She had wide knowledge of Irish history, as her -volume on _Ireland_ in the History of the Nations Series bears witness. -She wrote several books besides those here noted. D. 1913. For a good -article on her _see_ NINETEENTH CENTURY, July, 1914. - -⸺ HURRISH. Pp. 342. (_Methuen_). [1886]. 1902. - - Scene: a wild and poverty-stricken district in Clare. A view of - the bad days of the ’eighties by one to whom the Land League - stands for “lawlessness and crime.” The people are depicted as - half-savage. The story is a gloomy one, full of assassinations - and the other dark doings of the Land League. The picture it - gives of an Irish mother will jar harshly on the feelings of - most Irishmen. The Irish dialect is all but a caricature. Yet - the story met with an immediate and extraordinary success. In - a vol. publ. by Mr. Gladstone in 1892, _Special Aspects of the - Irish Question_, he says of _Hurrish_, “She has made present to - her readers, not as an abstract proposition, but as a living - reality, the estrangement of the people of Ireland from the - law.... As to the why of this alienation, also, she has her - answer (p. 309 of first ed.), ‘The old long-repented sin of the - stronger country was the culprit.’ She thinks there was a sin, - a deep sin, and (so I construe her) an inveterate sin, but a - sin now purged by repentance.” - -⸺ WITH ESSEX IN IRELAND. Pp. 298. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1890]. New ed., -1902. - - A narrative of Essex’s Irish expedition, 1599, purporting to - be related by his private secretary. Pictures Elizabethan - barbarity in warfare. It has a strange element of the uncanny - and supernatural. Hints at the spell that Ireland casts over - her conquerors. Written in quaint Elizabethan English which - never lapses into modernness. - -⸺ GRANIA: the Story of an Island. (_Smith, Elder_). 3_s._ 6_d._, and -2_s._ 6_d._ [1892]. - - A sympathetic picture of life in the Aran Islands, where - existence is a struggle against the elements. There are typical - characters, such as Honor, the saintly and patient, with her - eyes on the life beyond, and Grania, young and impetuous, and - longing for joy as she battles with the endless privations of - her stern lot, and the lover, Irish alike in his goodness and - in his vices. The success of this book exceeded even that of - _Hurrish_. Swinburne thought it “just one of the most exquisite - and perfect works of genius in the language” (in a letter). - -⸺ MAELCHO. Pp. 418. (_Methuen_). 1_s._ (N.Y.: _Appleton_). 1.50. [1895]. -1905. - - Gloomy picture of misery and devastation during the Desmond - rebellion. An English boy escaping from a night attack - finds refuge in a Connemara glen among the native Irish - (O’Flaherties), hideous wretches of savage appearance - and uncouth tongue. Then comes a confused account of the - melodramatic struggles of Fitzmaurice and his wild followers - against the English, noble, steady, and civilized. There is a - vague impression throughout of an Irish race without ideals or - religion, inevitably losing ground, moved by no impulse but - love of strife and cringing superstition. But the cruelties of - the English at the time are not in any way slurred over. - -⸺ TRAITS AND CONFIDENCES. Pp. 272. (_Methuen_) 6_s._ 1897. - - A volume of stories and sketches, founded for the most part - on fact. Some are autobiographical episodes of childhood. - There is an incident of ’98, an incident of the Land War, - and two episodes of Irish history, the story of Geroit Mor, - Earl of Kildare, and that of Art Macmurrough, told in vivid, - romantic style without political bias. Again, there are - extremely interesting “memories” of the Famine of 1846-7. - On pages 142-150 is a remarkable description of Connemara. - The story-telling is full of vivacity and picturesqueness, - reminding one of French storytellers, such as Daudet. The book - is filled from first to last with Ireland. - -⸺ THE BOOK OF GILLY. Pp. 285. (_Smith, Elder_). Four illustr. by Leslie -Brooke. 1906. - - Scene: a small island in Kenmare Bay. Gilly is an - eight-year-old boy sent to Inishbeg for a few months by his - father, Lord Magillicuddy, who is in India. The book makes - a marvellous pen-picture of life and scenery in this remote - corner of Ireland. - - -=LAWLESS, Emily, and Shan F. BULLOCK.= - -⸺ THE RACE OF CASTLEBAR. Pp. 364. (_Murray_). 6_s._ 1914. - - The story of Humbert’s invasion of Ireland in 1798, as seen - by the narrator, an Englishman named Bunbury, fresh come - to Ireland. B. is represented as an honest, unprejudiced, - if somewhat phlegmatic personage. The historic events are - presented with great vividness and vigour. The Authors aim at - painstaking objectivity. On the one side the sufferings of the - Catholics and the harsh treatment of the rebels are painted in - strong colours. The portraits both of the rebel leaders and of - the Orangemen are far from flattering. The narrative is largely - based on that written at the time by Dr. Stock, the excellent - Protestant Bishop of Killala. Bunbury is made to spend some - weeks at his palace. - - -=LEAHY, A. H.= B. in Kerry in 1857. Is a Fellow of Pembroke Coll., -Cambridge. - -⸺ THE COURTSHIP OF FERB. Square 16mo. Pp. xxix. + 100. (_Nutt_). 2_s._ -Two illustr. by Caroline Watts. 1902. - - Vol. I. of Irish Saga Library. Elegantly produced in every way. - An English version of Professor Windisch’s German translation - of an old Irish romance from the _Book of Leinster_ (twelfth - century). The verse of the original is translated here into - English verse, the prose into prose. “In the verse-translations - endeavour has been made to add nothing to a literal rendering - except scansion and rhyme.”—(Pref.). The tale itself is a kind - of preface to the great Tàin. It is not of very striking merit, - but is told in simple, dignified language. The translation - reads very well. A literal translation of all the poetry is - given at the end. - -⸺ ANCIENT HEROIC ROMANCES OF IRELAND. Two Vols. Small 4to. Vol. I., pp. -xxv. + 197. Vol. II. pp. ix. + 161. (_Nutt_). 8_s._ net. 1905. - - Contents: Vol. I. “The Courtship of Etain”; “MacDatho’s Boar”; - “The Death of the Sons of Usnach” (Leinster Version); “The - Sick Bed of Cuchulainn”; “The Combat at the Ford” (Leinster - Version). Vol. II. “The Courtship of Fraech”; “The Cattle Spoil - of Flidias”; “The Cattle Spoil of Dartaid”; “The Cattle Spoil - of Regamon.” The Preface deals with Irish Saga literature in - general and in particular with the sagas here translated. Each - piece is preceded by a special Introduction dealing with its - sources and character. At the end of Vol. I. (pp. 163-197) - are copious notes explaining difficulties and giving literal - translations. At the end of Vol. II. is a portion of the Text - of “The Courtship of Etain,” with interlinear translation. - Elsewhere the Text is not inserted. The book is “an attempt to - give to English readers some of the oldest romances, in English - literary forms, that seem to correspond to the literary forms - which were used in Irish to produce the same effect.”—(Pref.). - The translation is partly in prose, partly in verse. The former - is dignified and fully worthy of the subject, literal and yet - in literary English. The verse does not seem to us to reach as - high a level. It is very varied as to metre, yet the poetic - spirit seems to be wanting. - - N.B.—The theme of “The Courtship of Etain,” though not coarse - or prurient, is such as to render it unfit for the young. - - -=LEAHY, Walter T.= - -⸺ COLUMBANUS THE CELT. Pp. 455. (PHILADELPHIA: _Kilner_). $1.50. 1913. - - The eventful career of the great St. Columbanus (d. 615) in - the form of fiction. Father Leahy bases his story on the - narrative of Jonas, a monk of Bobbio, who wrote the founder’s - life about the middle of the seventh century. But some of the - incidents (notably the incipient love story) are unhistorical. - The Author does little to reproduce the colour and “atmosphere” - of these distant times. He even falls into somewhat glaring - anachronisms. Yet much is done to make the story interesting. - - -=LEAMY, Edmund.= B. Waterford, 1848, and educated there. Was for many -years in Parliament as M.P. for Waterford and afterwards for Kildare. Was -a kindly man and a delightful story-teller, beloved of children. He died -in 1904. - -⸺ IRISH FAIRY TALES. Pp. xix. + 155. [1889]. New ed. (_Gill_). 2_s._ -6_d._ With Introd. by Mr. John E. Redmond, M.P., and Note by T. P. G. -Delightful Illustr. by George Fagan. Cr. 8vo. Handsome art linen binding. -1906. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.90. - - Sources of inspiration: O’Curry and Joyce. Child audience aimed - at throughout. Hence naïveté in style. At times there is a - simple, sweet beauty of language, and some passages, especially - in the last tale, of true prose poetry. Some useful notes at - end. - -⸺ THE FAIRY MINSTREL OF GLENMALURE. Pp. 48. 4to. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ Cover -design and many very pretty illustrations by C. A. Mills. - - Adventures of Irish children in an Irish fairyland of giants - and little old men and little old women. Told in refined - and graceful style, quite free from brogue, for very little - children, with here and there an unobtrusive moral. - -⸺ BY THE BARROW RIVER, and Other Stories. Pp. 281. (_Sealy, Bryers_). -3_s._ 6_d._ Portrait. 1907. - - Twenty dramatic, exciting stories, including several good ghost - stories, tales of the exploits of the Irish Brigade, of early - Ireland, of tragedy, and of comedy. By a capital story-teller. - The book would make an excellent present or prize. - -⸺ GOLDEN SPEARS, and other Fairy Tales. (N.Y.: _Fitzgerald_). Cover -design in colours by Corinne Turner. 1911. - - This is simply a new American ed. of _Irish Fairy Tales_. - - -=LEE, Aubrey.= - -⸺ A GENTLEMAN’S WIFE. Pp. 328. (EDINBURGH: _Morton_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Part I. tells how a peasant girl is, after a week’s - acquaintance, enticed from her home by a man who, it - transpires, is already married. In Part II. their daughter, - adopted by a saintly English clergyman, learns her parentage - on the morrow of her engagement. She releases her betrothed; - but a year afterwards marries a charming elderly baronet (the - “gentleman” of the story). The first part is rather coarse. The - book is witty, the plot well worked out, some of the characters - most amusing; the end unexpected. By the same Author: _John - Darker_. - - -=LEFANU, J. Sheridan.= B. in Dublin, 1814. Ed. T.C.D. Contributed largely -to DUBL. UNIV. MAGAZINE, of which he became ed. and owner, as well as of -the DUBLIN EVENING PACKET and EVENING MAIL. D. 1873. His chief power was -in describing scenes of a mysterious or grotesque character, and in the -manipulation of the weird and the supernatural. - - This Author also wrote _Uncle Silas_, _In a Glass Darkly_, _The - Tenants of Malory_, _Willing to Die_, _The Rose and Key_, _The - Evil Guest_, _The Room in the Dragon Volant_, _A Chronicle of - Golden Friars_, _Checkmate_, _The Watcher_, _Wylder’s Hand_, - _All in the Dark_, _Guy Deverel_, _Wyvern Mystery_, &c. Nearly - all published by Downey & Co. Messrs. Duffy publ. a set of - eight of his novels at 3_s._ 6_d._ each. - -⸺ THE COCK AND ANCHOR: A Tale of Old Dublin. Pp. 358. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ -6_d._ [1845]. 1909. - - A dreadful story of the conspiracy of a number of - preternaturally wicked and inhuman villains to ruin a young - spendthrift baronet, and to compel his sister to marry one - of themselves. The threads of the story are woven with - considerable skill. The tale, a gloomy one throughout, reaches - its climax in a scene of intense and concentrated excitement. - The time is the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Wharton, the story - ending in 1710, but, except for the incidental introduction - in one scene of Addison, Swift, and the Viceroy himself, the - events or personages of the time are not touched upon. There - are some slight pictures of the life of the people of the - period, but of Ireland there is nothing unless it be the talk - of some comic Irish servants. - -⸺ THE FORTUNES OF COL. TORLOGH O’BRIEN. Pp. 342. (_Routledge_). 3_s._ -6_d._ Twenty-two Plates by Phiz. [_Anon._: 1847]. Several other eds. 1904. - - Reckoned among the three or four best Irish historical novels. - Main theme: the efforts of the hero, an officer in the Jacobite - army, to regain possession of his estates in Tipperary, which - are held by the Williamite, Sir Hugh Willoughby, whose daughter - O’Brien loves. There are many minor plots and subordinate - issues, among them the unscrupulous and nearly successful - conspiracy against Sir Hugh. The history is not the main - interest, but there is an account of the causes of Jacobite - downfall, descriptions of James’s Court at Dublin, and a - fine description of Aughrim. There are excellent pictures - of scenery, and some skilful though roughly drawn character - sketches. The action closes shortly after the Treaty of - Limerick. - -⸺ THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1863]. - - “A sensational story with a mystery plot based on a murder. - Black Dillon, a sinister and ingenious ruffian, is a grim - figure of melodramatic stamp. The setting gives scenes of - social life in a colony of officers and their families near - Dublin.”—(_Baker_, 2).—Chapelizod. - -⸺ THE PURCELL PAPERS. Three Vols. (_Bentley_). 1880. - - Short stories collected and ed. by Mr. A. P. Graves, with - short memoir of the Author prefixed. For the most part they - are either rollicking comic stories, told in broad brogue, or - tales of mystery and terror in the vein of this Author’s longer - novels. Examples of the former are:—“Billy Malowney’s taste of - love and glory” and “The Quare Gander.” These are not meant as - “stage-Irish” ridicule, but as pure fun. Examples of the latter - type:—“Passages in the Secret History of an Irish Countess” - and “A Chapter in the history of a Tyrone family.” There are - also pure adventure stories, such as:—“An Adventure of Hardress - Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain.” All are admirably told. All - but one are of Irish interest. They were originally contributed - to the DUBLIN UNIV. MAGAZINE. - - -=LENIHAN, D. M.= - -⸺ THE RED SPY: A Story of Land League Days. Pp. 236. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ -6_d._ _n.d._ (in print). - - Appears to be largely autobiographical. A story of Land - League days, full of incident. The interest chiefly turns - on the interplay of plot and counterplot, in which the - various parties—the moonlighters, the Castle, and Parnell’s - followers—figure. The centre of all the plots is McGowan, the - “Red Spy,” a secret service agent of the Castle. The scene - shifts from America to Ireland—Dublin, Kildare, the Kerry - border (good description), Lisdoonvarna. Types well studied—the - genial landlord Col. O’Hara; the sporting squire Sir Thady - Monroe; the weak-minded oppressor Sir Richard A⸺; the American - journalist, &c. The “Red Spy” in real life was “Red Jim” - McDermott. - - -=LEPPER, J. H.= - -⸺ CAPTAIN HARRY. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ 1908. - - “Tale of Parliamentary Wars, introducing the principal - characters who took part on the Royalist and the Parliamentary - sides.” - -⸺ FRANK MAXWELL. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. - - Adventures of an Irish Puritan planter’s son, who by an unlucky - series of accidents finds himself on the royalist and Irish - side just before the rebellion of 1641. The central incident - of the story is the journey of one Hugh O’Donnell to Glasgow, - where he meets Charles secretly, and is returning as Viceroy - when he is wrecked, and Frank Maxwell along with him, on the - coast of Antrim. The Irish are, on the whole, represented as - rather bloodthirsty and barbaric, especially “Hugh O’Donnell.” - A good “adventure” book. - - -=LESTER, Edward.= - -⸺ THE SIEGE OF BODIKE: A Prophecy of Ireland’s Future. Pp. 140. (LONDON: -_Heywood_). 1886. - - A political skit written from a strongly Tory standpoint, in - which the Author tells us how _he_ would deal with the Irish - question. The time is 188-, yet an imaginary Fenian rebellion - is described. Kilkenny falls into the hands of the enemy, - and a bomb is dropped from a balloon on Bodike, a village in - Kilkenny. The whole is wildly improbable, but it is probably - meant to be so. - - -=LETTS, W. M.= A granddaughter of Alexander Ferrier, Esq., of Knockmaroon -Park, Co. Dublin, where she spent many summers. She resides in Blackrock, -Co. Dublin. Ed. at St. Anne’s, Abbots Bromley, and Alexandra College, -Dublin. Has written _Diana Dethroned_, _Christina’s Son_, _The Rough -Way_ (Wells, Gardner), short Irish stories for children in the MONTH and -other periodicals. She is coming to be very well known as a poet, and has -written some plays for the Abbey Theatre. - -⸺ THE MIGHTY ARMY. Pp. 128. (_Wells, Gardner_). 5_s._ net. Ill. by -Stephen Reid. 1912. - - Stories from the lives of saints, including St. Columba. - - -=LEVER, Charles.= Born (1806) in Dublin, of English parentage; graduated -at T.C.D. Wrote much for the NATIONAL MAGAZINE, the D.U. MAGAZINE, -BLACKWOOD’S, the CORNHILL, &c. Consul in Spezzia, 1858, and at Trieste, -1867. Here he died in 1872. Is by far the greatest of that group of -writers who, by education and sympathies, are identified with the English -element in Ireland. He was untouched by the Gaelic spirit, was a Tory in -politics, and a Protestant. “His imagination,” says Mr. Krans, “did not -enable him to see with the eyes of the Catholic gentry or the peasantry. -He knew only one class of peasants well—servants and retainers, and he -only knew them on the side they turned out to their masters. Most of his -peasants are more than half stage-Irishmen.” He had no sympathy with the -religious aspirations of Catholics, and his pictures of their religious -life are sometimes offensive. These are his limitations. On the other -hand, his books are invariably clean and fresh, free from vulgarity, -morbidness, and mere sensationalism. His first four books overflow with -animal spirits, reckless gaiety, and fun. It has been well remarked -by his biographer, W. J. Fitzpatrick, that his genius was much more -French than English. After _Hinton_ he is more serious, more attentive -to plot-weaving, and to careful character-drawing. His books give a -wonderful series of pictures of Irish life from the days of Grattan’s -Parliament to the Famine of 1846. Many of these pictures, though true to -certain aspects of Irish life, create a false impression by directing -the eye almost exclusively to what is grotesque and whimsical. Lever’s -portrait gallery is one of the finest in fiction. It includes the -dashing young soldiers of the earlier books; the comic characters, an -endless series; diplomatists, doctors, lawyers, politicians, usurers, -valetudinarians, aristocrats, typical Irish squires, adventurers, -braggarts, spendthrifts, nearly all definite and convincing. See Art, -in BLACKWOOD, Apr., 1862, and in DUBL. REV., 1872, Vol. 70, p. 379. -Also Edmund Downey’s book, _Charles Lever: his Life and Letters_. Many -of Lever’s novels were originally published in shilling monthly parts, -with two illustrations by “Phiz” (Hablot K. Browne), and had as great -a vogue as those of Dickens. There have been many editions since by -_Routledge_ (3_s._ 6_d._) and _Chapman & Hall_ (2_s._), with and without -illustrations, but the finest ever issued is:— - -⸺ COMPLETE NOVELS. Edited by the Novelist’s Daughter. Thirty-seven Vols. -(_Downey_). Publ. £19 18_s._ Cloth. 1897-9. - - The only complete and uniform ed. of Lever. Contains all - the original steel engravings and etchings by “Phiz” and - Cruikshank, and many ill. by Luke Fildes and other artists. - Ed. and annotated by means of unpublished memoranda found - among Author’s papers. Lever’s prefaces are printed, and - bibliographical notes appended to each story. - -⸺ HARRY LORREQUER. Pp. 380. (N.Y.: _Dutton_). 1.00. [1839]. - - The first of Lever’s rollicking military novels. The hero is - a dashing young English officer, who comes to Cork with his - regiment, and there passes through what the Author calls “a - mass of incongruous adventures. Such was our life in Cork, - dining, drinking, riding steeplechases, pigeon-shooting, and - tandem-driving.” The book abounds in humorous incidents, and - is packed with good stories and anecdotes. All sorts of Irish - characters are introduced. There are sketches of Catholic - clerical life in a vein of burlesque. The latter part of the - story takes the reader to the Continent (various parts of - France and Germany), where we meet Arthur O’Leary, afterwards - made the hero of another story. Mr. Baker describes the book - well as “very Irish in the stagey sense, very unreal.” - -⸺ CHARLES O’MALLEY. Pp. 632, close print. (N.Y.: _Putnam_). 1.00. [1841]. - - From electioneering, hunting, and duelling with the Galway - country gentry, the scene changes to Trinity, where the hero - goes in for roistering, larking, and general fast living with - the wildest scamps in town. Then he gets a commission in the - dragoons, and goes to the Peninsula (p. 147). There he goes - through the whole campaign, and ends by viewing Waterloo from - the French camp. Throughout, the narrative is enlivened by the - raciest and spiciest stories. The native Irish, where they - appear, are drawn in broad caricature. “Major Monsoon” was the - portrait of a real personage, and so was the tomboy Miss “Baby - Blake.” “Mickey Free” is the best known of Lever’s farcical - Irish characters. - -⸺ JACK HINTON. Pp. 402. (BOSTON: _Little, Brown_). 5.00. [1843]. - - Adventures of a young English officer who arrives in Ireland - during the Viceroyalty of the Duke of Grafton. The hero’s Irish - experiences include steeplechasing, fox-hunting, “high life” - in Dublin, a glimpse of society life in the Castle, love, - duelling, and murder. But Lever wrote the book to show how - Irish character and Irish ways differed wholly from English, - and he represents Hinton as constantly having his prejudiced - English eyes opened with a vengeance. This novel contains some - of Lever’s most famous characters: Corny Delaney, Hinton’s - body servant; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rooney, parvenu leaders of - Dublin society; Father Tom Loftus, Lever’s idea of the jolly - Irish priest; Bob Mahon, the devil-may-care impecunious Irish - gentleman; most of all Tipperary Joe. “For these,” says the - Author (Pref.,) “I had not to call upon imagination.” Tipperary - Joe was a real personage. For the last 100 pages the scene - shifts to Spain, France, and Italy. Throughout, event succeeds - event at reckless speed. There are some scenes of Connaught - life, and a fine description of a meeting of “The Monks of the - Screw.” - -⸺ TOM BURKE OF “OURS.” Pp. 660. (N.Y.: _Dutton_). [1844]. - - The early scenes (150 pp.) of Tom’s life (told throughout in - the first person) take place in Ireland. Lever tells us (Pref.) - that he tried to make Tom intensely Irish before launching - him into French life. Tom enlists, but in consequence of a - quarrel with a fatal ending has to fly the country. He goes - to France, then under the First Consul, and joins the army. - Military, civil, and political life at Paris is described with - wonderful vividness and knowledge. These form a background to - the exciting and dramatic adventures and love affairs of the - hero. Then there is the Austerlitz campaign fully described; - then life at Paris in 1806. Then the campaign of Jena. Finally, - we have a description of the last campaign that ended with - the abdication at Fontainebleau. The portrait of Napoleon is - lifelike and convincing. Lever throws himself thoroughly into - his French scenes. A pathetic episode is the love of Minette, - the Vivandière, for Tom, and her heroic death at the Bridge - of Montereau. Darby the Blast is a character of the class of - Mickey Free and Tipperary Joe, yet quite distinct and original. - The scene near the close where Darby is in the witness-box is - a companion picture to Sam Weller in court, and is one of the - best things of its kind in fiction. - -⸺ ARTHUR O’LEARY. Pp. 435. (N.Y.: _Dutton_). 1.00. [1844]. - - Rather a collection of stories of adventure than a novel. Lever - has worked into it many of his own experiences in Canada, and - also at Göttingen. There is a good deal about Student life in - Germany. Many stories (of the Napoleonic wars chiefly) are - told by the various characters all through the book. Some - contemporary critics thought this the best of Lever’s books. - -⸺ ST. PATRICK’S EVE. Pp. 203. (_Chapman & Hall_). illustr. by “Phiz.” -(N.Y.: _Harper_). [1845]. - - A short and somewhat gloomy tale of a period that Lever knew - well—the pestilence of 1832. Scene: borders of Lough Corrib. - The life described is that of the small farmer and the peasant - struggling to make ends meet. Faction-fighting is dealt with in - the opening of the tale, and the relations between landlord and - agent and tenantry, at the period, are described with insight. - “When I wrote it, I desired to inculcate the truth that - prosperity has as many duties as adversity has sorrows.” It is - far the most national of Lever’s stories, and there is a depth - of feeling and of sympathy in it that would surprise those - acquainted only with _Charles O’Malley_ and _Harry Lorrequer_. - -⸺ THE O’DONOGHUE. Pp. 369. (_Routledge_). [1845]. - - Scene: Glenflesk (between Macroom and Bantry) and Killarney. - Period: from just before to just after the French expedition to - Bantry. The O’Donoghue, poor and proud, is intended as a type - of the decaying Catholic gentry of ancient lineage, living - in a feudal, half-barbaric splendour, beset by creditors and - bailiffs whom fear of the retainer’s blunderbuss alone kept - at a distance. Mark O’Donoghue, proud, gloomy, passionate, - filled with hatred of the English invader, wears a frieze - coat like the peasants, sells horses, hunts and fishes for a - livelihood. He joins the United Irishmen, who are represented - as making an ignoble traffic of conspiracy, and takes part - in Hoche’s attempted invasion. Other characters are: Kate - O’Donoghue, educated abroad; Lanty Lawler, horse-dealer, who - supplies plenty of humour; in particular Sir Marmaduke Travers, - a well-meaning but self-sufficient Englishman, who, knowing - nothing of Ireland, makes ludicrous attempts to better his - tenants’ condition. “I was not sorry to show,” says Lever - (Pref.), “that any real and effective good to Ireland must have - its base in the confidence of the people.” For this book Lever - was bitterly accused of Repeal tendencies. - -⸺ THE MARTINS OF CRO’ MARTIN. Pp. 625. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1856. [1847]. - - Scene: chiefly Connemara; the novel opening with a fine picture - of the old-time splendours of Ballynahinch Castle, the seat of - the “Martins.” For awhile the scene shifts to Paris during the - Revolution of 1830. The story illustrates the practical working - of the Emancipation Act. Martin is a type of the ease-loving - Irish landlord, “shirking the cares of his estates, with an - immense self-esteem, narrow, obstinate, weak, without ideas, - and with a boundless faith in his own dignity, elegance, and - divine right to rule his tenants” (Krans). Rejected by his - tenantry at an election he quits the country in disgust, - leaving them to the mercies of a Scotch agent. Lever pictures - vividly the sufferings of the people both from this evil - and from the cholera, drawing for the latter upon his own - experiences when ministering to cholera patients in Clare. He - says of the people that “no words of his could do justice to - the splendid heroism they showed each other in misfortune.” - Mary Martin is one of Lever’s most admirable heroines. There - is a fine study, also, of a young man of the people, son of a - small shopkeeper in Oughterard, who, by his sterling worth, - raises himself to the highest positions. - -⸺ THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. (PHILADELPHIA: _Peterson_). 1847. - - A close study, based on considerable knowledge, of the ways - and means adopted by the English Government to destroy the - Irish Parliament. Castlereagh figures in no flattering - fashion. Con Heffernan is a type of his unscrupulous tools. - The Knight himself is an engaging portrait of a lovable old - Irish gentleman, frank, high-spirited, courteous, chivalrous. - At first placed in ideal circumstances for the display of - all his best qualities, he shows himself no less noble in - meeting adversity. Other notable characters are Bagenal Daly - (a portrait of Beauchamp Bagenal), the villainous attorney - Hickman, and Mr. Dempsey, the story-telling innkeeper. In - describing the coasts of Antrim and Derry and the country about - Castlebar and Westport, Lever draws upon his own experiences. - -⸺ ROLAND CASHEL. Pp. 612. [1850]. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1849. - - Opens with wonderfully vivid and picturesque description of - life in the Republic of Columbia. A harum-scarum young Irish - soldier of fortune almost promises marriage to the daughter - of a Columbian adventurer. Then he learns he is heir to a - large property in Ireland, and he immediately returns there. - In Dublin the daughters of his lawyer, Mr. Kennyfeck, and - others try to capture the young heir, but instead he falls - in love with a penniless girl. Then there are exciting and - romantic adventures. The villain, Tom Linton, with the - intention of ruining Roland, introduces him to fast society, - nearly implicates him with the young wife of Lord Kilgoff; - the Columbian adventurer turns up to claim him; he is charged - with murder; but eventually all is well. Lady Kilgoff is an - admirably drawn character, as also is the Dean of Drumcondra, - a portrait of Archbishop Whately. In the last chapter there - is a passage which seems to show how Lever realized that the - anglicized society of the Pale is far from being the true - Ireland. Incidentally, too, the evils of landlordism are - touched upon. - -⸺ THE DALTONS; or, Three Roads in Life. Pp. 700. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. -[1852]. - - The longest and most elaborate of Lever’s novels. Subject: the - careers of Peter Dalton, an absentee Irish landlord—needy, - feckless, selfish, Micawberish—and his children, on the - Continent in Germany, Austria, and Italy. Some of the leading - characters are involved in the Austro-Italian campaign of 1848, - and in the Tuscan Revolution. There is a study—a flattering - one—to Austrian military life, and lively, amusing pictures of - Anglo-Italian life in Florence. A noteworthy character is the - Irish Abbé d’Esmonde, who towards the close of the book takes - part in some dramatic incidents during a visit to Ireland, - undertaken in the cause of the Church. There is in the book a - good deal about “priest-craft.” - -⸺ MAURICE TIERNAY. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1.00. [1852]. - - Adventures of a young Jacobite exile in many lands, 1793-1809. - Opens with vivid description of “The Terror.” Later Maurice - joins the Army of the Rhine, and then Humbert’s expedition to - Ireland. The latter is fully related, and also the capture and - death of Wolfe Tone. After some adventures in America, the hero - returns to Europe, and is in Genoa during its siege by the - Austrians. Taken prisoner by the latter, he escapes and joins - Napoleon, of whose Austrian campaign a brilliant description is - given. Napoleon and some of his great marshals loom large in - the story, and the military life of the period on the Continent - is described. But perhaps the best part of the book is the - account of Humbert’s invasion of Ireland. - -⸺ CON CREGAN. Pp. 496. (PHILADELPHIA: _Peterson_). [1854]. - - Lever describes his hero as the “Irish Gil Blas.” Born on the - borders of Meath, Cregan goes to Dublin, where he has some - exciting experiences, ending in his being carried off in the - yacht of an eccentric baronet. He is wrecked on an island off - the coast of North America. Here he meets a runaway negro - slave, Menelaus Crick, one of the most striking characters - in the book. There follow experiences (tragic and comic) in - Quebec, and afterwards in Texas and Mexico, life in which is - described with remarkable vividness and wealth of colour. At - last Cregan returns to Ireland, and marries a Spanish lady whom - he had met in Mexico. - -⸺ SIR JASPER CAREW. Pp. 490. (N.Y.: _Harper_). [1855]. - - The early part (152 pages) deals with the career of the hero’s - father, a wealthy Irish gentleman of Cromwellian stock, who has - estates and copper and lead mines in Wicklow. He goes to Paris, - allies himself by a secret marriage with the party of the Duke - of Orleans, then returns to Ireland, where he kills a Castle - official in a duel, receiving himself a mortal wound. His widow - is deprived of the property, and left in poverty. She retires - to Mayo, with her son, Jaspar. In this part there are elaborate - pictures of politics in the early days of the Irish Parliament, - and of the wild, extravagant social life of the period. Jasper - goes to France, is involved in revolutionary plots, is sent to - London as secret agent, and there has interviews with Pitt and - Fox. Finally he returns to Ireland to claim his birthright. - The story is told in the first person, and Lever intended the - narrative to reveal the intimate character of the teller. The - book is crammed with adventure. It was a favourite with the - Author. - -⸺ THE FORTUNES OF GLENCORE. Pp. 395. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. [1857]. - - Intended (_see_ Pref.) as an experiment to bear out (or the - contrary) his conviction that “any skill I possess lies in the - delineation of character and the unravelment of that tangled - skein that makes up human motives.” The scene at first is in - a castle on the shores of the Killaries, between Mayo and - Galway; afterwards it is on the Continent. Lord Glencore is a - passionate, proud, soured man, misanthropical and suffering - from disease. A scandal connected with his wife has filled - him with hatred and bitterness. He determines to disown his - son, who, after a terrible scene, runs away from home. The - book is largely taken up with the adventures in Italy and - elsewhere of Sir Horace Upton, a distinguished diplomatist - and a valetudinarian, together with the doings and sayings - of his follower, Billy Traynor, formerly poor scholar, - hedge-schoolmaster, fiddler, journalist, now unqualified - medical practitioner—a strange character drawn from a real - personage. Many of the characters are cosmopolitan political - intriguers. In the end Lady Glencore’s innocence is established. - -⸺ DAVENPORT DUNN. (PHILADELPHIA: _Peterson_). 1859. - - The astonishing histories of two adventurers. Dunn is an - ambitious, clever man who by shady means lifts himself into - a high position as a financier and launches into immense - financial schemes. This character was drawn from John Sadlier, - Junior Lord of the Treasury, who was the associate of Judge - Keogh in “The Pope’s Brass Band,” (so-called) and closed - an extraordinary career by committing suicide on Hampstead - Heath. Grog David, a blackleg, rivals Dunn in another sphere, - his sporting cheats being as vast as the other’s financial - swindles. Davis’ high-hearted daughter, Lizzie, is a - finely-drawn character. - -⸺ ONE OF THEM. Pp. 420. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 0.50. (1861). - - Scene varies between Florence and the North of Ireland, many of - the incidents described being real experiences of his own gone - through in each of these places. Lever having been asked which - of his novels he deemed best suited for the stage, replied - that if a sensation drama were required, he thought _One of - Them_ a good subject. Deals largely with the adventures on the - Continent of a queer type of Irish M.P.; but its outstanding - character is Quackinboss, a droll specimen of Yankee. - -⸺ BARRINGTON. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.50. [1862]. - - A novel of social and domestic life in the middle classes. - Scene: a queer little inn, “the Fisherman’s Home,” on the banks - of the Nore, Co. Kilkenny. Here the Barringtons live. Among - the striking characters are the fire-eating Major M’Cormack; - Dr. Dill, an excellent study of a country medical man, and - his lively daughter, Polly. The interest largely turns on - the disgrace and subsequent vindication of Barrington’s son, - George. In this Lever portrays his own son and his career. - -⸺ A DAY’S RIDE. Pp. 396. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. [1863]. - - The whimsical adventures of Algernon Sydney Potts, only son - of a Dublin apothecary. An extravaganza in the vein of _Don - Quixote_, and quite unlike Lever’s other works. Potts’s - experiences begin in Ireland, but most of them take place on - the Continent. - -⸺ THE DODD FAMILY ABROAD. Pp. 565. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.50. [1863-65.] - - Humorous adventures on the Continent of an Anglo-Irish family - filled with preposterously false ideas about the manners and - customs of the countries they visit. Told in a series of - letters in which the chief personages are made the unconscious - exponents of their own characters, follies, and foibles, each - character being so contrived as to evoke in the most humorous - form the peculiarities of all the others. There are many acute - reflections on Irish life, especially in the letters of Kenny - Dodd to his friend in Bruff (Co. Limerick). Kenny Dodd is a - careful and thoughtful character-study. The Author considered - Kate Dodd to be the true type of Irishwoman. Biddy Cobb, - servant of the Dodds, is one of Lever’s most humorous women - characters. Lever held that he had never written anything equal - to “The Dodds.” - -⸺ LUTTRELL OF ARRAN. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. [1865]. - - Opens in Innishmore, Aran Islands, off the coast of Galway. - Luttrell, a proud, morbid man of broken fortunes arrives there - with his wife, the daughter of an Aran peasant. The latter - dies, leaving an only son, Harry. Shortly afterwards Sir - Gervais Vyner, a wealthy Englishman, calls at the island in his - yacht, and renews acquaintance with Luttrell. Vyner then goes - to Donegal, where he meets with and adopts a beautiful peasant - girl. The interest turns largely on the success of Vyner’s - experiment in making a fine lady out of the girl. She is one - of Lever’s most charming heroines. After many vicissitudes she - comes to Innishmore. Here she meets Harry, who had returned - from an adventurous career at sea, and they are married. Tom - O’Rorke, who keeps an inn in a wild part of Donegal, provides - a good deal of the humour. His inveterate hatred of everything - English, his wit and his audacity (not always commendable), - mark him out for special mention. There is also an amusing - American skipper. - -⸺ TONY BUTLER. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. [1865]. - - Scene: partly in North of Ireland, partly on the Continent. - Tony gets a post in the diplomatic service, and has many - adventures, strange, humorous, or stirring. Diplomatic life - (Lever was a British Consul abroad for most of his days) is - described with a cunning hand. Some of Tony’s experiences take - place during the Garibaldian war. The most striking figure in - the book is Major M’Caskey, the noisy, swaggering, impudent - soldier of fortune. Skeff Damer, the young diplomat, is also - interesting, and Dolly Stewart is a most pleasing study. - -⸺ SIR BROOKE FOSBROOKE. [1866]. (_Routledge, &c._). 3_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: -_Harper_). 0.50. - - “Reproduces much of the humour and frolic of his earlier tales, - the mess-room scene in the officers’ quarters at Dublin, with - which the drama opens, recalling the sprightly comedy of Harry - Lorrequer. The vigorous story that follows contains much more - serious characterization and portraiture of real life than the - earlier books.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ THE BRAMLEIGHS OF BISHOP’S FOLLY. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 0.50. [1868]. - - Scene of first portion: North of Ireland, near Coleraine, Co. - Londonderry; afterwards Italy. Deals with the experiences of a - rich English banker and his family, who come to Ireland, but - the central figure is the selfish old peer, Viscount Culduff, - a neighbouring landowner, on whose estate coal is found. Much - of the novel deals with the exploiting of the Culduff mine. Tom - Cutbill, a bluff, vulgar, humorous engineer, who comes to work - this mine, provides most of the fun, which is scattered through - the story. All the characters are vividly drawn, among others - that of a young Irish Protestant clergyman, the only one that - appears prominently in Lever’s pages. The mystery that runs - through the book is kept veiled with great cleverness to the - very end. Finally, the book is packed with witty epigrammatic - talk. - -⸺ LORD KILGOBBIN. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 1.00. [1872]. - - Lever’s last novel. It pictures social and political conditions - in Ireland about 1865, the days of the Fenians. The book is - marked by almost nationalist sympathies, one of the finest - characters being Daniel Donogan, Fenian Head-Centre and - Trinity College student, who while “on his keeping” is elected - M.P. for King’s County. Matthew Kearney, styled locally Lord - Kilgobbin, is a shrewd, good-natured, old-fashioned type of - broken-down Catholic gentility, living in an old castle in - King’s County. His daughter Kate, is a high-spirited, clever, - and amiable girl, but the real heroine is the brilliant Nina - Kostalergi, of mixed parentage (the mother Irish, the father a - Greek prince and adventurer), who bewitches in turn Fenians, - soldiers, politicians, and Viceregal officials. A remarkable - creation is Joe Atlee, a kind of Bohemian student of Trinity, - cynical, indolent, but miraculously clever and versatile. It - teems with witty talk and dramatic situations. Throughout there - is food for thought about the affairs of Ireland. Has been - illustr. by Luke Fildes (Macmillan). 3_s._ 6_d._ - -⸺ GERALD FITZGERALD. (N.Y.: _Harper_). 0.40. [First ed. in book form, -1899]. - - The hero is a legitimate son of the Young Pretender, - offspring of a secret marriage with an Irish lady. Recounts - his surprising adventures and his relations with Mirabeau - (whose death is powerfully described), the poet Alfieri, - Madame Roland, the Pretender himself, whose court at Rome is - described, &c., &c. There is little humour, the book being a - sober historical or quasi-historical romance. There are some - passages offensive to Catholic feeling. - - Lever also wrote:—_A Rent in a Cloud_; _That Boy of Norcott’s_; - _Paul Goslett’s Confessions_; _Nuts and Nutcrackers_, 1845; - _Tales of the Trains_, 1845; _Horace Templeton_, 1848; - _Cornelius O’Dowd_, 1873. - - -=LIPSETT, Caldwell.= - -⸺ WHERE THE ATLANTIC MEETS THE LAND. Pp. 268. (_Lane_). 3_s._ 6_d._ net. -1896. - - Sixteen stories, many of them artistically constructed, and - told with literary grace and finish. The Irish character is - viewed from an unsympathetic and, at times, hostile standpoint. - Only a few of the stories deal with the peasants or have any - special bearing on Irish life. Two or three deal with seduction - in rather a light manner. - - -=LIPSETT, E. R.= - -⸺ DIDY. Pp. 301. (_Duckworth_). 6_s._ $1.30. Eight full-page Illustr. by -Joseph Damon. 1912. - - Published in U.S.A. by the John Lane Co., N.Y., under the title - of _The House of a Thousand Welcomes_ (price 1.50), this being - the name of a boarding house in New York opened by Mr. and - Mrs. Dunleary and their daughter Didy, who have emigrated from - Cork. The story is chiefly concerned with the lodgers in this - house—the eccentric Dr. O’Dowd, a journalist, and the son of - a big landlord in Ireland—all of whom fall in love with Didy. - The last named is successful, and he makes the journalist, a - Protestant named Healy (the remainder of the personages are - Catholics), editor of the principal Irish Unionist paper, - which he owns, in order “to make it a message of peace to all - Ireland.” The author avoids religious or political bias, and - tells a merry, good-humoured story. - - -=“LISTADO, J. T.”= - -⸺ MAURICE RHYNHART. Two Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1871. - - “Or, A few passages in the life of an Irish rebel.” The hero, - descended from a Williamite soldier, “in every respect the very - model of a respectable young Protestant,” is a clerk in Selskar - (Wexford) and in love with Miss Rowan, socially much above him. - An ardent young Irelander, he joins the local branch and works - might and main for the movement. Soon he is “on his keeping,” - but escapes to London. There he marries Miss Rowan. After many - hardships they go to Australia, where he rises to be Premier - and is knighted. Returns, and is made M.P. for Selskar. Reminds - one of the career of Sir C. Gavan Duffy. Splendidly told, the - interest never flagging. Protestant dissenting tea-parties hit - off cleverly. The whole atmosphere of the critical summer of - ’48 is reproduced with vividness and fidelity. Dialogue good - and characterisation life-like. - - -=LOCHHEAD, A.= - -⸺ SPRIGS OF SHILLELAH. Pp. 158. (DUNDEE: _Leng_). 1907. 6_d._ - - Sixteen humorous sketches, “founded on fact—more or less,” - reprinted from the PEOPLE’S FRIEND. - - -=LOGAN, J.= - -⸺ THE McCLUSKY TWINS. Pp. 112. (_Drane_). 1912. 1_s._ - - A tale of twin tomboys, who provide gossip for an Ulster - countryside. Dialect well handled.—(I.B.L.). - - -=LOUGH, Desmond.= - -⸺ THE BLACK WING. (_“Ireland’s Own” Library_). 6_d._ _n.d._ (1914). - - A story of secret societies and of revenge. Scene: Kerry and - Corsica. Unconvincing, but unobjectionable. - -⸺ RED RAPPAREE. Pp. 179. (_“Ireland’s Own” Library_). 6_d._ _n.d._ - - Thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes of Cahir Ronayne, - who has taken to the road in revenge for his father’s - execution. A fair lady is involved, also a dissolute lord, and - there are plenty of plots and counter plots, duels and combats. - - -=LOUGHNAN, Edmond Brenan.= - -⸺ THE FOSTER SISTERS. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1871. - - Opens in Sligo, near Lough Arrow. Largely concerned with an - intricate family history and mysteries of identity. Scene soon - shifts to Paris, where many of the personages have gone and - where most of the action takes place. The chief interest is a - very melodramatic murder in the secret room of the _Chat Noir_, - and the subsequent tracing of the crime to the murderer, a - typical stage villain. The story is pretty well told, but the - conversations are most artificial. - - -=LOVER, Samuel.= B. in Dublin, 1797. Was not only a novelist but a -musician, a painter, and a song-writer (he wrote some 300 songs, and -composed the music for most of them). He ed. the DUBLIN NATIONAL MAGAZINE -and the SATURDAY MAGAZINE. D. 1868. _See_ “Lives” by J. A. Symington and -Bayle Bernard. “Lover,” says Mr. D. J. O’Donoghue, “is first and last -an Irish humourist.” Readers should bear this fact in mind. His humour -is of the gay, careless, rollicking type. He is sometimes coarse, but -never merely dull. He does not caricature the Irish character, for his -sympathies were strongly Irish; but wrote to amuse his readers, not to -depict Irish life. He was often accused by his friends of exaggerating -the virtues of his countrymen, and it may be admitted that he sometimes -did so. “The chief defect of his novels,” says Maurice Francis Egan, -_q.v._, “is that they were written with an eye on what the English reader -would expect the Irish characters to do.” - -⸺ RORY O’MORE. Pp. 452. (_Constable_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1837]. (N.Y.: -_Dutton_). 1.00. 1897. - - Introduction and notes by D. J. O’Donoghue, who considers this - to be Lover’s best long story. A tale of adventure in 1798, - with a slight historical background. National in sentiment, - without being unfairly biased. Contains some of Lover’s best - humour, especially the endless drollery and whimsicalities of - the hero, Rory. Some of the types are very true to life. There - are passages of genuine pathos. Tries to prove that the more - heinous atrocities in ’98 were due to a few desperadoes. - -⸺ HANDY ANDY. Pp. 460. (_Constable_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Portrait of Lover. -[1842]. 1898. Critical Introd. and Notes by D. J. O’Donoghue. (N.Y.: -_Dutton_). 1.00. - - A series of side-splitting misadventures of a comic, blundering - Irishman. Does not pretend to be a picture of real Irish life, - yet, though exaggerated, it is not without truth. Besides - Andy’s adventures there are scenes from the life of the - harum-scarum gentry, uproarious dinners, a contested election, - practical jokes. The characters include peasants, duellists, - hedge-priests, hedge-schoolmasters, beggars, and poteen - distillers. There is a good deal of vulgarity. - -⸺ TREASURE TROVE; or, He Would be a Gentleman. Pp. 469. (_Constable_). -3_s._ 6_d._ [1844]. Many since. (BOSTON: _Little, Brown_). 1.00. 1899. - - Critical introduction by D. J. O’Donoghue. Adventures of a - somewhat stagey hero, Ned Corkery, with the Irish Brigade in - the service of France and of the Young Pretender. Fontenoy, - and the ’45 in Scotland, are introduced. The novel, says - the editor, can only be called pseudo-historical. The - writer had but imperfectly mastered the history, and treats - it unconvincingly. The humour is below the author’s usual - standard, but the interest is well sustained. It is coarse and - vulgar in parts. - -⸺ LEGENDS AND STORIES OF IRELAND. Two Vols. Pp. xix. + 240, and xvi + -274. (_Constable_). 3_s._ 6_d._ each. [1832 and 1834; many editions -since]. 1899. (N.Y.: _Sadlier_). 1.50. - - Introductions by the Author and by the editor, D. J. - O’Donoghue. A miscellany consisting chiefly of humorous stories - with regular plots. It contains also some old legends told - in comic vein, yarns told by guides and boatmen, and several - serious stories. There is nothing to offend Catholic feeling. - There is a most sympathetic sketch of a priest and a story - about the secret of the confessional that any Catholic might - have written. The peasantry are seen only from outside, though - the author mixed much among them. They are not caricatured, - though chiefly comic types are selected. There is plenty of - brogue, faithfully rendered on the whole. The first volume - contains a humorous essay on Street Ballads, with specimens. - Lover is at his best in uproariously laughable stories such us - “The Gridiron” and “Paddy the Sport.” - -⸺ FURTHER STORIES OF IRELAND. Pp. 220. (_Constable_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1899. -Critical and biographical introduction (pp. xxviii.) by D. J. O’Donoghue. - - Chiefly very short, humorous sketches. Some are stories written - around various national proverbs. - -⸺ IRISH HEIRS: A Novel. Pp. 173. (N.Y.: _Dick & Fitzgerald_). Illustr. -187-. - - Mentioned in catal. of N. Y. Library. _Treasure Trove_ bore on - original title-page the announcement that it was “the first of - a series of accounts of Irish Heirs.” - - -=LOVER and CROKER.= - -⸺ LEGENDS AND TALES OF IRELAND. Pp. 436. (_Simpkin, Marshall_, &c.). -_n.d._ Now in print. - - Contains:—Lover’s _Legends and Tales of Ireland_ (twenty-four - in all), and Croker’s _Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland_. - “Croker and Lover,” says W. B. Yeats, “full of the ideas of - harum-scarum Irish gentility, saw everything humourized. The - impulse of the Irish literature of their time came from a class - that did not—mainly for political reasons—take the people - seriously, and imagined the country as a humorist’s Arcadia; - its passion, its gloom, its tragedy they knew nothing of. - What they did was not wholly false; they merely magnified an - irresponsible type, found oftenest among boatmen, carmen, and - gentlemen’s servants, into the type of a whole nation, and - created the Stage-Irishman.”—(Introd. to _Fairy and Folk-tales - of the Irish Peasantry_). - - -=LOWRY, Frank M.= - -⸺ THE DUBLIN STATUES “AT HOME”: A New Year’s Tale. 4to. (_Sealy, -Bryers_). Illustr. with Seven Cartoons. 1912. - - -=LOWRY, Mary.= - -⸺ THE ENCHANTED PORTAL. Pp. 142. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. _c._ -1910. - - Scene: Antrim coast, whose scenery is vividly pictured. A novel - of romance, intrigue, and adventure, pleasant and healthy in - tone, but fanciful and somewhat unreal. - - Author has also written _The Clans of Ireland_, _Old Irish Laws - and Customs_, and _The Story of Belfast_. - - -=“LYALL, Edna”; Ada Ellen Bayley.= Was born and educated at Brighton, -and resided there and at Eastbourne. Her first story, _Won by Waiting_, -appeared in 1879. Titles of eighteen of her books are to be found in -Mudie’s LIST. - -⸺ DOREEN. Pp. 490. (_Longmans_). Various prices from 6_d._ to 6_s._ -[1894]. 1902. - - Doreen, daughter of an old ’48 man and Fenian, and herself an - ardent Nationalist, is a professional singer, but helps the - Home Rule cause by her singing. The chief interest is a love - story, but in the background there is the national struggle - and a vivid picture is drawn of the feelings of those engaged - on both sides. The author is on the nationalist side, and the - most striking figure in the book is Donal Moore, a Nationalist - member. The first ed. was dedicated to Gladstone. - - -=LYNAM, Col. William F.= Belonged to the 5th Royal Lancashire Militia. -Lived at Churchtown Ho., Dundrum, 1863-87, and then at Clontarf till his -death in 1894. He was a Catholic and a man of much piety. He lived a very -retired life. - -⸺ MICK McQUAID. - - Magazine stories that have never been published in a volume - do not come within the scope of this work. But I think an - exception must be made in this case. The serial or series of - serials centering in the character of Mick McQuaid has made a - record in literature. It began in the pages of the SHAMROCK on - Jan. 19th, 1867. With short interruptions it has been running - ever since in the pages of that periodical, and is running - still, though the Author died in 1894. The following are some - of the series that appeared:—1. “M. McQ.’s Conversion,” 1867; - 2. “M. McQ., the Evangeliser,” 1868-9; 3. “M. McQ. Under - Agent,” 52 chapters, 1869-70; 4. “M. McQ., M.D.,” 28 ch., 1872; - 5. “M. McQ., M.P.,” 51 ch., 1872-3; 6. “M. McQ., Solicitor,” 43 - ch., 1873-4; 7. “M. McQ.’s Spa,” 91 ch., 1876-8; 8. “M. McQ., - Alderman,” 61 ch., 1879-80; 9. “M. McQ., Moneylender,” 47 ch., - 1880-1; 10. “M. McQ., Gombeen Man,” 48 ch., 1881-2; 11. “M. - McQ.’s Story,” 1884; 12. “M. McQ., Workhouse Master,” 1885; 13. - “M. McQ., Sub-Sheriff,” pt. 1, 47 ch., 1888-9; 14. “M. McQ., - Sub-Sheriff,” pt. 2, 1889; 15. “M. McQ., Stockbroker,” 61 ch., - 1889-90; 16. “M. McQ., Removable,” 1890. - - The Author himself tired of Mick McQuaid, and tried to put - other creations in the field:—“Dan Donovan,” “Corney Cluskey,” - “Japhet Screw,” “Sir Timothy Mulligan,” and so on. But after a - few chapters the readers invariably demanded “Mick” again, and, - if the Author had not new adventures ready, he had to reproduce - the already published adventures. More than once editors tried - to drop the series, but the circulation which was 60,000 fell - at once, and “Mick” had to appear again. Apart from their issue - in the SHAMROCK many of “Mick’s” adventures were reproduced - in penny numbers, and sold far and wide. After the Author’s - death the editors simply reproduced the series over again. - Harry Furniss began his artistic career by illustrating _Mick - McQuaid_. Besides _Mick McQ._ another humorous series, _Darby - Darken, P.L.G._, ran in the IRISH EMERALD. - - -=LYNCH, E. M.= - -⸺ KILBOYLAN BANK; or, Every Man his own Banker. Pp. 240. (_Kegan Paul_). -3_s._ 6_d._ 1896. - - Father O’Callaghan returning from Italy greatly impressed by - what he has seen of the Raffeisen Banking System at work, tries - to start a similar system in Kilboylan. The book is the story - of his efforts, difficulties, and final success. The local - types—landlord, strong farmer, miller, publican, schoolmaster, - “pote,” and “chaney merchant” are cleverly hit off, and their - conversation rings true. The book is primarily a lesson in - economics, but the characters are well brought out, and a - little love-story runs through the whole. Miss Lynch also wrote - for Sir Charles Gavan Duffy’s “New Irish Library” a story - adapted from the French—_A Parish Providence_. It was intended - to teach certain economic lessons to Irishmen. - - -=LYNCH, Hannah.= B. in Dublin. Lived much in Spain, in Greece, and in -France, publishing various articles and books about them, notably a -book on Toledo and _French Life in Town and Country_. Among her novels -are _Prince of the Glades_, _Dr. Vermont’s Fantasy_, _Daughters of -Men_, _Jimmy Blake_, _Clare Monroe_. She was associated with Miss Anna -Parnell in the Ladies’ Land League in the eighties. When UNITED IRELAND -was suppressed she carried the type to Paris, and the paper was issued -there. Mrs. Hinkson says of her,[6] “She was one of the few people I have -known who eat, drink, and dream books, and not many can have given to -literature a more passionate delight and devotion.” - -[6] _Reminiscences_, p. 76-7. - -⸺ THROUGH TROUBLED WATERS. Pp. 460. (_Ward, Lock_). 1885. - - Scene: chiefly Carantrila House, Dunmore (“Cardene”) near - Tuam, Co. Galway. Opens with an impending lawsuit about the - inheritance of “Cardene.” It is settled by Mrs. St. Leger - giving it up to her brother-in-law for a large sum. Henceforth - she plots to get it back for her son. In later years he comes - on a visit to the place. He falls in love with Nora Dillon, but - carries on an innocent flirtation with a peasant girl. He is - accused of seduction, the real culprit being Nora’s brother, - and denounced from the altar. This latter scene is well done. - But the truth comes out, and all is well with Hartley and Nora. - The portrait drawn of one of the two priests introduced is - rather satirical, but the tone is Catholic throughout. - -⸺ AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHILD. Publ. Anon. Pp. 306. (_Blackwood_). 6_s._ -1899. - - Clearly genuine autobiography. Begins in little village in - Kildare, but at five or six the child is taken to Dublin. - Story of an unhappy childhood, for she was treated with great - harshness by sisters and mother. Had some friends, however, - among them an old gentleman, who believed himself to be - Hamlet and O’Donovan Rossa, then a young lad. (_See_ p. 609 - in BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE, vol. 164, where the story appeared - serially). Her unhappiness was continued at the convent school, - near Birmingham, where she was educated. Everything is set - down, including a flogging she received and an account of her - first confession. A very curious book, very well written. - - -=LYON, Capt. E. D.= Late 68th Durham Light Infantry. - -⸺ IRELAND’S DREAM: a Romance of the Future. Two Vols. (_Sonnenschein_). -1888. - - A forecast of Ireland under Home Rule. Contains much about - relations of Orangemen and Catholics, the National League, - secret societies, emigration, and so on. Represents an Ireland - hopelessly “gone to the dogs”—no security for life or property, - murder rife, prosperity gone, &c. Written in flippant style, - betraying bitter contempt for Irish nationalism. - - -=LYSAGHT, Mrs.= - -⸺ REX SINGLETON; or, The Pathway of Life. (_Wells, Gardner_). 2_s._ -Illustr. Third ed., _c._ 1911. - - Thoroughly a boy’s book, full of the adventures and pranks of - an Irish boy.—(Publ.). - - -=LYSAGHT, Sidney Royse.= Eldest son of T. R. Lysaght, of Mintinna, Co. -Cork. Has published three volumes of verse between 1886 and 1911. Lives -in Somerset. - -⸺ HER MAJESTY’S REBELS. Pp. 488. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ 1907. - - In a prefatory note the Author tells us that though the career - of his hero resembles that of Charles Stewart Parnell, Connor - Desmond is not intended as a portrait of Parnell. “There is - an historical basis for the structure of the story—not for - the persons.” A political novel, written mainly about the - course of national life in Ireland, 1875-1891. The central - figure most obviously reproduces the career and even the - personal characteristics of Parnell, who is well and even - sympathetically portrayed. The writer’s view-point is free, - on the whole, from party bias. He is convinced that a Royal - residence in Ireland would be a sure antidote to seditious - tendencies. There is a strong love interest. The Author - depicts many scenes of Irish life among various classes. - The hero is “involved in flagitious relations with several - women.”—(_Baker_, 2). - - -=LYTTLE, Wesley Guard; “Robin.”= Born, 1844, at Newtownards, Co. Down. -Was successively a junior reporter, a school teacher, a lecturer on -Dr. Corry’s _Irish Diorama_, a teacher of shorthand, an accountant, an -editor. Started, in 1880, THE NORTH DOWN AND BANGOR GAZETTE, a strong -Liberal and Home Rule paper. Afterwards owned and edited THE NORTH DOWN -HERALD. Died 1896. - -⸺ ROBIN’S READINGS. Eight Vols. - - Series of humorous stories, poems, and sketches in the dialect - of a Co. Down farmer, of which he had a thorough mastery. - Some verse as well as prose. The Author gave several thousand - recitals in various parts of the three kingdoms. The success of - the above books was immediate and remarkable. They have enjoyed - great popularity ever since. The character of these readings - may be seen from the following titles:—V. I. “Adventures of - Paddy McQuillan”—“a simple country fellow”—“his trip tae - Glesco”—“his courtships”—“his wee Paddy”—“his twins”—“his tay - perty.” V. II. “The adventures of Robin Gordon”—“Peggy and - how I courted her”—“Wee Wully”—“the fechtin’ dugs”—“Robin - on the ice”—“dipplemassy.” V. III. “Life in Ballycuddy, Co. - Down”—“my brither Wully”—“kirk music”—“the General Assembly of - 1879” (exciting scenes, Robin’s oration)—“the royal visit to - Ireland”—“the Ballycuddy Meinister”—“wee Paddy’s bumps,” &c., - &c. - -⸺ SONS OF THE SOD: a Tale of County Down. (BANGOR). 1_s._ Paper. 1886. - - A racy story dealing with the peasantry of North Down which the - Author knew well, and could depict admirably. The tale gives a - picture of their merry-makings, courtships, humours, joys, and - sorrows—wakes, weddings, evictions, &c., &c. - -⸺ BETSY GRAY. Pp. 116. (BANGOR). 1_s._ 3_d._ [1888]. New ed. (BELFAST: -_Carswell_). Revised by F. J. Bigger. 1913. - - Betsy Gray, the heroine (founded on a real personage) takes - part in the rebellion, and fights at Ballynahinch. A story of - thrilling interest. Relates events that preceded rebellion, - dwelling much on the atrocities of the yeomanry, then describes - in full the chief incidents of the rebellion. Introduces Wm. - Steele Dickson, William Orr, H. Joy McCracken, Henry Munro, - and Mick Maginn—the informer. “The Author has gone over every - inch of the ground, and has hunted up old documents and old - traditions indefatigably.” In entire sympathy with rebels. - There is a good deal of local dialect, and much local colour. - -⸺ THE SMUGGLERS OF STRANGFORD LOUGH. - - “A melodramatic romance of an old-fashioned type, founded on - facts. What with murder, robbery, abduction, smuggling, secret - societies, and underground caverns, the reader is carried - breathlessly along from start to finish. The local dialect is - well conveyed.”—(I.B.L.). The headquarters of the smugglers - was Killinchy, and the period of the story the end of the - eighteenth century. - -⸺ DAFT EDDIE. Pp. 162. (BELFAST: _Carswell_). 6_d._ 1914. - - A re-issue of _The Smugglers of Strangford Lough_. - - -=MACALISTER, R. A. Stewart, M.A., F.S.A.= B. Dublin, 1870. At present -Professor of Irish Archæology in the National University. Author of -a series of learned works on Palestine exploration, the Philistines, -Ecclesiastical Vestments, Irish Epigraphy and Archæology, &c. - -⸺ TWO IRISH ARTHURIAN ROMANCES. Pp. ix. + 207. (_Nutt, for Irish Texts -Society_). 10_s._ 6_d._ net. 1908. - - Text and transl. on opposite pages. Contains two stories:—The - Story of the Crop-eared Dog and The Story of Eagle-Boy. They - are of the Wonder-voyage type. Arthur plays a secondary part. - “The dreamland of _gruagachs_ and monstrous nightmare shapes is - here as typically a creation of Irish fancy as in any of the - stories of the Finn cycle.”... “Eagle-Boy is a striking story, - displaying ... no small constructive ingenuity and literary - feeling.”—(_Introd._). - - -=M’ANALLY, D. R., Jr.= - -⸺ IRISH WONDERS. Pp. 218. (_Ward, Lock_). Illustr. (pen and ink), H. R. -Heaton. 1888. - - “The ghosts, giants, pookas, demons, leprechawns, banshees, - fairies, witches, widows, old maids, and other marvels of - the Emerald Isle. Popular tales as told by the people. - Collected during a recent lengthy visit, in the course of - which every county in the Island was traversed from end to - end.”—(_Title-page and Pref._). Very broad brogue. Somewhat - “Stage-Irish” in tone. - - -=“MACARTHUR, Alexander”; Mrs. Nicchia=, _née_ =Lily MacArthur=. At -present residing in New York. - -⸺ IRISH REBELS. Pp. 219. (_Digby, Long_). 3_s._ 6_d._ _n.d._ (1893). - - “O’Donoghue,” the hero, a young Catholic T.C.D. student, - is deputed by the secret societies to shoot a landlord. He - escapes at the time, and has a successful career at the bar, in - parliament, and also in love, for he marries the girl of his - choice, a daughter of “Judge Kavanagh,” a bitter Orangeman. - But years afterwards his crime becomes known to some of his - friends, and the discovery kills his wife. The Author is - entirely favourable to the national cause. Parnell is mentioned - several times. The central figure is not O’D., but “Lowry,” a - remarkable portrait, probably drawn from life. - - -=M’AULIFFE, E. F.= - -⸺ GRACE O’DONNELL: A Tale of the 18th Cent. Pp. 220. (CORK: _Guy & Co._). -1891. - - Ireland in Penal times, middle of 18th century (Fontenoy, 1745, - is introduced). Period fairly well illustrated—sufferings - of Catholics, tithe-proctors, hedge-schools, etc. Scene - varies between Galway, Madrid, London, Dublin, and Paris. The - characters all belong to the better class, and the tone of the - story may be described as “genteel”: there is nothing specially - national about it. Author wishes to show “how many claims - each [Catholic and Protestant] has on the other for love and - admiration.” Some poems are included. - - -=MACCABE, William Bernard.= B. in Dublin, 1801. Was a journalist for the -greater part of his life, first in Dublin, then for fifteen years in -London, and again in Dublin from 1852-57. Wrote many Catholic works. Died -at Donnybrook, 1891. - -⸺ AGNES ARNOLD. Three Vols. (LOND.: _Newby_). 1861. - - A well constructed plot, with many fine dramatic scenes and - much truthful character drawing. Shows the courses by which the - people were driven into rebellion in 1798. The Author tells us - that much of the materials were gleaned from his conversations - in his boyhood with Wm. Putnam MacCabe, one of the insurgent - leaders. Scene: Wexford. - - -=M’CALL, Patrick J.= B. in Dublin, 1861, and ed. at Catholic University -School, Leeson Street. Much better known as a poet by his _Irish -Noinins_, _Songs of Erin_, _Irish Fireside Songs_, and _Pulse of the -Bards_ than as a prose writer. Resides in Patrick Street, Dublin. - -⸺ FENIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS. Pp. 132. (DUBLIN: _T. G. O’Donoghue_). -[1895]. - - Twelve evenings of story-telling at a Wexford fireside. The - stories are mostly Ossianic legends, but there are a few fairy - tales. They purport to be told by a farmer with all the arts - of the shanachie—the quaintness, the directness, the pithy - sayings, the delightful digressions, and the gay humour. They - are, of course, in dialect. - - -=M’CALLUM, Hugh and John.= Ed. an original collection of the poems of -Ossian, Orrann, Ullin, and other bards who flourished in the same age. -(_Montrose_). 1816. - - -=M’CARTHY, Justin.= B. in Cork, 1830, and ed. there. Began there his -literary career of over sixty years. In 1853 he went to Liverpool, and -thence to London in 1860. From that time till his death in 1912 he lived -almost exclusively in England. But he never lost touch with Ireland. -For many years he was a Nationalist M.P., and from 1890-96 was Chairman -of the Party. His works number over forty, many of them dealing with -Ireland—novels, history, biography, reminiscences, &c. - -⸺ A FAIR SAXON. Pp. 386. (_Chatto & Windus_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1873]; several -since. New ed. about 1907. - - Main theme: the love of an English girl for Maurice FitzHugh - Tyrone, an Irish M.P., famous in the House as a clever and - insuppressible opponent of the Government. Much of the story - (a complicated one) is concerned with the efforts of another - lover of the Fair Saxon to supplant Tyrone, and also to get - him to violate the conditions of a legacy. The latter are (1) - that Tyrone shall not marry before forty; (2) that he shall - not join the Fenians; (3) that he shall not fight a duel. His - efforts meet with a wonderful succession of alternate success - and failure. Incidentally we have glimpses of Fenian plotting, - the Fenian movement being portrayed with little sympathy. The - characters are nearly all insipid or vicious worldlings, drawn - in a satirical and sometimes cynical vein. Such is Mrs. Lorn, - the rich American widow, of fast life. The heroine, and to a - certain extent the hero, are exceptions. The precocious young - American, Theodore, is one of the best things in the book. - -⸺ MAURICE TYRONE. (_Benziger_). 0.75. The American ed. of _A Fair Saxon_. - -⸺ MONONIA. Pp. 383. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ [1901]. New edition, 1902. - - Scene: a large Munster town, presumably Cork. Time: the - attempted rising in 1848. The chief interest is the unfolding - in action of the various characters. Some of these are - strikingly and distinctively portrayed. The treatment of - the love element is original, the course of true love being - smooth from the start. Here and there are pleasant bits of - description. The standpoint is Catholic and nationalist, but - without anti-English feeling, several of the principal and most - admirable characters being English. A happy love story runs - through the book. - - -=M’CARTHY, Justin Huntley.= S. of preceding. B. 1860. Ed. University -College School, London. Began writing 1881. Nationalist M.P. 1884-1892, -during which period he was an ardent politician. Publ. _England under -Gladstone_ (1884), and in the same year a successful play, “The -Candidate.” Then followed _Hours with Great Irishmen_, _Ireland since -the Union_, _The Case for Home Rule_, &c., and a number of books, poems, -tales, &c., on Oriental subjects. His knowledge of our myth and legend -has been described as comprehensive and exhaustive. He has publ. many -other novels and plays and volumes of verse. But of late years the -theatrical world has claimed him wholly. - -⸺ LILY LASS. Pp. 150. (_Chatto & Windus_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1889. - - Picture from nationalist point of view of Young Ireland - movement, especially in Cork. Full of sensational incidents, - told with much verve. - -⸺ THE ILLUSTRIOUS O’HAGAN. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1905. (N.Y.: _Harper_). -1.50, &c. - - Melodramatic adventures of two cosmopolitan adventurers of - Irish origin, in various parts of Europe and, in particular, - among the courts of the petty German princes, where very fast - living prevails. The picture we are given of these latter is - frank enough. The colouring is brilliant, the style bright and - swift. Copyrighted for the stage. - -⸺ THE O’FLYNN. Pp. 352. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1_s._ (N.Y.: _Harper_). -1.50. 1910. - - O’Flynn is a swashbucklering, swaggering soldier of fortune, - who has seen service in the Austrian army. The story tells of - the varying fortunes of O’F. and of Lord Sedgemouth in their - rivalry for the hand of the Lady Benedetta Mountmichael. Both - suitors are in the service of King James, and the scene varies - between Dublin Castle and Knockmore, a castle “in the heart of - the Wicklow hills.” Full of more or less burlesque plots and - stratagems and surprises. Written in a pleasant but reckless - and rattling style. Smacks strongly of the stage throughout, - indeed it was originally a successful play before appearing in - book form. Incidents not historical. _Not for young people._ - -⸺ THE FAIR IRISH MAID. Pp. 344. (_Mills & Boon_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Harper_). -1.30. 1911. - - Ireland a few years after the Union; but not political. Mr. - McC., in his usual vein of gay romanticism, takes his beautiful - maiden from Kerry to London, where in the modish days of the - Dandies she is for a time the reigning toast. But she is - true to her Kerry lover, whom she finds in London lost and - ruined, and whom she rescues and enables to produce his Irish - play. Other characters are Lord Cloyne, the Irish ascendancy - landlord, Mr. Rubie, the English M.P. who has come to visit - and improve Ireland, and an antiquary who wants to buy a round - tower and provides many amusing situations.—(_Press notices_). - - -=M’CARTHY, Michael J. F.= B. Midleton, Co. Cork. Ed. Vincentian Coll., -Cork; Midleton College, Cork; T.C.D. After the appearance of _Five Years -in Ireland_ in 1901, “has written and spoken against the power exercised -by the Roman Catholic Church in politics and in education. Started and -conducted Christian Defence Effort in opposition to Home Rule, 1911-14.” -Author of _Priests and People in Ireland_, _Rome in Ireland_, &c.—(WHO’S -WHO). - -⸺ GALLOWGLASS. Pp. 540. (_Simpkin, Marshall_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Purports to portray the social and political life of various - classes in a typical South of Ireland town (“Gallowglass”). - Written in a vein of bitter satire. Peasant, shopkeeper, - politician, and especially priest, are held up to unmeasured - scorn. Aspersions are cast upon Catholic teachings and - practices. Eviction scenes, the workings of a secret society, - political meetings, a scene in Parliament, serve the writer for - his purpose in various ways. - - -=M’CHESNEY, Dora.= - -⸺ KATHLEEN CLARE. Pp. 286. (_Blackwood_). Six Illustr. by J. A. Shearman. -1895. - - Story of Wentworth, Earl of Strafford’s Viceroyalty in Ireland, - told in form of diary purporting to be written by a kinswoman - of Strafford’s, who sees him in his home life and acquires - extraordinary love and reverence for him. The tale of his - execution is pathetically told. Quaint Elizabethan English. - Pretty Elizabethan love-songs interspersed. - - -=M’CLINTOCK, Letitia.= - -⸺ A BOYCOTTED HOUSEHOLD. Pp. 319. (_Smith, Elder_). 1881. - - Period, _c._ 1880. Mr. Hamilton is a model as a man and - landlord. His family is in very reduced circumstances owing to - “No-Rent Campaign.” Then we have various incidents of the land - war—threatening letters, burning of hay, and finally the eldest - son is brutally murdered by tenants on whom favours had been - heaped. The beautiful home life, sympathetic love affairs, &c., - of the Hamiltons are dwelt upon as pointing the contrast with - the wickedness of the League and the meaningless ingratitude - of the peasantry. Sympathies of Author wholly with landlords. - The Hamilton boys were all educated at Rugby, and the general - outlook of the family is English. Scene: King’s Co. and Donegal - alternately. - - -=M’CLINTOCK, Major H. S.= - -⸺ RANDOM STORIES; chiefly Irish. Pp. 147. (BELFAST: _Marcus Ward_). -Illustr. _n.d._ _c._ 1885. - - A collection of unobjectionable smoke-room yarns, more or less - original, and more or less humorous. Illustr. somewhat crude. - - -=M’CRAITH, L. M.= Mrs. L. M. M’Craith Blakeney, of Loughloher, Cahir, Co. -Tipperary. B. 1870. Ed. in Ireland and at Cheltenham. Has written also -_The Suir from its Source to the Sea_, _The Romance of Irish Heroines_, -_The Romance of Irish Heroes_, &c. In these and other writings her aim -has been to popularise Irish local history and antiquities in the hopes -of fostering a love of country, especially in the young. - -⸺ A GREEN TREE. Pp. 221. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1908. - - A pleasant family story with a sympathetically, though somewhat - dimly-sketched, Irish background. All through there is the - contrast between English and Irish ideals. One or two peculiar - Irish types are well drawn. - - -=MACDERMOTT, S.= - -⸺ LEIGH OF LARA: a Novel of Co. Wicklow. (_Gill?_). 1_s._ 6_d._ - - A slight but pleasant tale, told in straightforward manner, - without character-study, scene-painting, problems, or politics. - Deals with the false and misunderstood position of a man who - has been entrusted with the charge of his sister-in-law, while - his brother is abroad “on his keeping,” and the complications - that arise from this position. - - -=MACDERMOTT, W. R.= - -⸺ FOUGHILOTRA: A Forbye Story. Pp. 326. (_Sealy, Bryers_). _c._ 1906. - - Sub-t.:—A memorial of the Ulster handloom weavers. A - sociological study, in form of novel, of the history and - development of a family. Scene: shore of Lough Neagh. Time: - present day, though the family history goes back two hundred - years. The forceful and pungent dialect in which it is written - is quite natural and true to life. An unusual and noteworthy - book—interesting alike for its plot, its clever character-study - and the thoughtfulness that pervades it. Has considerable - humour, and nothing in the least objectionable. This author - also has published, under the pen name of “A. P. O’Gara,” _The - Green Republic_. - - -=MACDONAGH, Michael.= B. Limerick, 1862. Ed. Christian Bros.’ Schools. -At twenty-two joined the staff of FREEMAN’S JOURNAL. From 1894 to the -present has been on staff of TIMES, and he lives in London. His father, -Michael O’Doherty MacDonagh, was a Donegal man, a printer and poet. -Has been writing about Ireland all his life in an immense variety of -periodicals, and has published about a dozen books, many of them relating -to Parliament, of great historic value. - -⸺ IRISH LIFE AND CHARACTER. Pp. 382. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 6_s._ Many -editions, the 5th being in 1905. - - Object: “To give a clear, full, and faithful picture of - Irish life and character, illustrated by anecdotes and by - my own experience during a twelve years’ connexion with - Irish journalism.” “I have admitted into my collection only - anecdotes that are truly genuine, really humorous, and - certainly characteristic of the Irish people.” “The face of - Ireland as seen in these pages is always puckered with a - smile.”—(_Pref._). May be described as anecdotes, chiefly - comic, classified and accompanied by a running commentary. - Chapters: The Old Irish Squire; Duelling; Faction Fighting; - Some Delusions about Ireland (_e.g._, “Stage-Irishman”); Bulls; - In the Law Courts; “Agin the Government”; Irish Repartee and - Sarcasm; Love-making in Ireland (its matter-of-factness, &c.); - Humours of Politics In and Out of Parliament; The Ulster - Irishman; The Jarvey; The Beggar; Sunniness of Irish Life, &c. - It is to be observed that the laugh is often against the Irish - throughout, and perhaps our national failings are rather more - prominent here than our national virtues, the serious side of - Irish life being scarcely touched on at all. - - -=M’DONNELL, Randal William.= B. in Dublin, 1870. Son of Randal M’Donnell, -Q.C. Ed. Armagh Royal School. B.A., T.C.D. Was for a time assistant -librarian in Marsh’s Library, and now a L.G.B. inspector. Has published -also three volumes of verse. - -⸺ KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN. Pp. 270. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 2_s._ Frontisp. 1898. - - Pictures first the causes and events that led to the rebellion, - Tone’s visit to America, his schemes, the French invasion. Then - vivid description of the outbreak in Wicklow, the fight at - Tubberneering, the battle of New Ross, the capture and death of - Lord Edward Fitzgerald. - -⸺ WHEN CROMWELL CAME TO DROGHEDA. Pp. 147. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Map of -Drogheda and map of Ireland in time of Cromwell. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). -0.90. 1906. - - “Edited from the record of Clarence Stranger,” an officer in - the army of Owen Roe O’Neill. Covers principal events from - Cromwell’s landing to the Plantation, including defence of - Clonmel. - -⸺ MY SWORD FOR PATRICK SARSFIELD. Pp. 201. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1907. - - Adventures of Phelim O’Hara (character well drawn), a colonel - in Sarsfield’s horse, who witnesses siege of Derry, battle of - the Boyne, two sieges of Limerick. Much history, varied by - startling adventures. - -⸺ ARDNAREE. Pp. 227. (_Gill_). 1911. - - “The story of an English girl in Connaught, told by herself.” - Mainly a record of social life (tea-parties, military balls, - &c.), with a good deal of fairly mild love-making. The ’98 - insurrection (landing of French at Killala, &c.) forms a kind - of background but is little spoken of. The Author hits off - cleverly enough the outlook and language of a narrator such as - the heroine. - - -=MACDOUGALL, Rev. J.= - -⸺ CRAIGNISH TALES, collected by. Notes on the War Dress of the Celts by -Lord A. Campbell. Pp. xvi. + 98. (_Nutt_). 5_s._ 20 plates. 1889. - -⸺ FOLK AND HERO TALES. Pp. xxx. + 311. Demy 8vo. (_Nutt_). 7_s._ 6_d._ -net. Three Illustr. by E. Griset. 1891. - - Introduction by A. Nutt deals with aims of study of folk-lore, - and various theories of the origin of this latter, and the - value of Celtic folk-lore. - - Ten tales collected in district of Duror (Argyllshire) between - Summer of 1889 and Spring of 1890, obtained from a labouring - man named Cameron, who had them in his boyhood from Donald - MacPhie and others. As folk-lore they are thoroughly reliable - and genuine, the Gaelic text given after each story being - written at the narrator’s dictation with painstaking accuracy. - The stories are typical folk-tales—a string of marvellous - adventures of some hero with giants and enchanted castles and - witches, &c., &c.—often grotesque and extravagant and devoid - of moral or other significance beyond the mere narrative.... - Free from coarseness. Finn is the hero in several of these - tales. Good Index. 50 pp. of Notes, devoted chiefly to variant - versions of the tales, explanations of terms and comparisons - with other tales. - - -=M’DOWELL, Lalla.= - -⸺ THE EARL OF EFFINGHAM. Pp. 280. (_Tinsley_). 1877. - - Time: the forties, in Ballyquin, Co. Galway. It is a kind of - appeal in story form to the Irish landlords to stay at home - and “right Ireland’s wrongs.” The good points in the Irish - character are well brought out, the brogue is well reproduced, - and there is much humour. There are some glimpses of Dublin - society. The bias is somewhat Protestant. - - -=“MACEIRE, Fergus.”= - -⸺ THE SONS OF EIRE. Three vols. (LOND.: _Newby_). 1872. - - Author styles himself “The last of the Sons of Eire,” an old - broken-down Irish family living in Hampshire (Vol. II. brings - them back to Ireland). A long autobiography, with a multitude - of rather trifling incidents, much conversation, and a good - deal of moralising. The portrait of the writer’s mother is - interesting and curious. The Author seems Catholic and Irish in - sympathies. In the end the teller marries the betrothed of his - brother Brian, the real hero, who has been killed in a skating - accident. - - -=MACGILL, Patrick.= “The Navvy Poet.” B. Glenties, Co. Donegal, 1891. Ed. -at National school until he was twelve. At fourteen began to write verse -for the DERRY JOURNAL. Soon after set out for Greenock with 10_s._ in his -pocket. “Since then I have done all sorts of things, digging, draining, -farming, and navvying.” In 1912 was a plate-layer on the Caledonian -Railway.—(I.B.L., III., p. 71). His poems are _Songs of a Navvy_, -_Gleanings from a Navvy’s Scrap Book_, and _Songs of the Dead End_. Is -now a soldier in the London Irish Rifles, and has written a good account -of military life in _The Amateur Army_. A series of sketches from the -firing line, entitled _The Red Horizon_, is in preparation. - -⸺ CHILDREN OF THE DEAD END. Pp. 305. (_Herbert Jenkins_). 6_s._ 1914. - - “Most of my story is autobiographical.”—(_Foreword_). It opens - in the Glenties with a faithful picture of the people and their - hard life. The scene then shifts to Scotland and depicts the - toils and temptations that beset the men, and especially the - girls, in their sordid and insanitary surroundings. The hero - goes on tramp with “Moleskin Joe,” a philosophic vagabond, - finely described; and the shifts they are put to and the scenes - they come through all bear the mark of truth, as does the wild - life led by the navvies at Kinlochleven. The description of - these scenes in a London newspaper led to his employment on the - press. The hero’s love for Norah Ryan is purely and touchingly - delineated, and, save for one unhappy gibe at the P.P., the - book is unobjectionable. - -⸺ THE RAT PIT. Pp. 308. (_Jenkins_). 1915. - - The story of Norah Ryan, the heroine of _The Children of the - Dead End_, from her childhood in Western Donegal to her death, - a woman of the streets, in a Glasgow slum. A heartrending - story from start to finish, with scarcely a gleam of cheer. - The Author has exceptional powers of observation and gifts - of description, and the book is extraordinarily realistic. - But the realism and the sombreness being exclusive, the - effect is exaggerated even to falseness. Farley McKeown is - impossibly villainous, the picture of the wake revolting - because undiscerning, Norah’s innocence overdrawn. Yet on the - whole the Author’s claim that it is a transcript from life, - life seen and lived by him, is doubtless well sustained. There - are several needless sneers at the priests, _e.g._, p. 286, - which is wantonly unpleasant. The Author is not prurient, but - he describes plainly and vividly scenes in Glasgow brothels. - Good picture of the conditions of life of the Irish migratory - labourers. - - -=[M’GOVERN, Rev. J. B.]; “J. B. S.”= Of St. Stephen’s Rectory, -Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. An enthusiast for Irish archæology and a -frequent contributor on his favourite subject to N. & Q., CORK ARCHAEOL. -JOURNAL, the ANTIQUARY, &c. - -⸺ IMELDA, or Retribution: a Romance of Kilkee. (_Tinsley_). 7_s._ 6_d._ -1883. - - Scene: varies between Kilkee and Meenahela on the one hand - and Italy on the other. The story is concerned with the - faithlessness of Imelda Lestrange, an Irish girl, to her - affianced Florentine lover, Gasper Bicchieri, whom she had - met at Kilkee, and the Nemesis that befalls her in the - faithlessness of her new lover—and husband—Monckton, who - deserts her for his cousin, Teresa Dempsey. Most of this - happens at Kilkee. The end is tragedy. Forty years later Gasper - returns to Kilkee to brood in the scene of the catastrophe of - his life. There is little or no characterisation or study of - motive. The story opens in 1829. - - -=M’HENRY, James, M.D.= B. Larne, Co. Antrim, 1785. Ed. Dublin and -Glasgow. Lived 1817-1842 in U.S.A. From 1842 till his death in 1845 he -was U.S. consul at Derry. Publ. several volumes of verse (Mr. O’Donoghue -enumerates nine) and several novels besides those mentioned below. - -⸺ THE INSURGENT CHIEF. Pp. 128, very close print. (_Gill_). Bound up with -HEARTS OF STEEL. _n.d._ - - Adventures of a young loyalist during the rebellion in the - North, pleasantly told, but with improbabilities and a good - deal of the _deus ex machina_. Gives the very best description - of the scenes in Belfast and Larne leading up to the Battle - of Antrim and the consequent defeat of the “United men,” many - of whom were personally known to the Author. The leaders are - referred to by name, and the heroic death of Willy Neilson - pathetically described. The famous rebel ballad of “Blaris - Moor” is put into the mouth of a ballad singer in Belfast, and - the northern dialect is excellently rendered. - - The original title of this was _O’Halloran; or, The Insurgent - Chief_, [1824], Philadelphia, three vols., and in same year - London, one vol. Republ. frequently in Glasgow (_Cameron & - Ferguson_) and Belfast (_Henderson_). - -⸺ THE HEARTS OF STEEL. (_Gill_). 6_d._ [1825]. Still in print. - - A story full of sensational adventure. There is a good deal - about the Oak Boys and Steel Boys, Ulster Protestant secret - societies which indulged in agrarian outrages as a protest - against various abuses. The writer praises the Presbyterian - religion somewhat at the expense of the Catholic. Some of - the incidents related are rather coarse. Includes legends of - Carrickfergus, also a good deal of verse. - - -=MACHRAY, Robert.= B. 1857. Formerly Prof. of Ecclesiastical History in -St. John’s University College, Manitoba. War editor, DAILY MAIL, 1904-05. -Between 1898 and 1914 has publ. a dozen novels, besides other works. - -⸺ GRACE O’MALLEY, Princess and Pirate. Pp. viii. + 338. (_Cassell_). -6_s._ 1898. - - Purporting to be “Told by Ruari Macdonald, Redshank and Rebel, - The same set forth in the Tongue of the English.” Scene: - various points on the west coast from Achill to Limerick. To a - dual love story—of Grace (= Grania Waile) and Richard Burke, - Ruari (the hero) and Eva, Grace’s foster-sister—are added - many stirring descriptions of sea-fights and escapes, sieges - and hostings. Historical personages, such as Sir Nicholas - Malbie, the Earl of Desmond, and Stephen Lynch of Galway, are - introduced. The moral tone is entirely good. The point of view - is Grace O’Malley’s. - - -=M’ILROY, Archibald.= B. Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, 1860. Entered first the -banking and then the insurance business. Took part in public life in his -native county and in Co. Down. For the last three years of his life, -which was ended in the Lusitania disaster, 1915, he lived in Canada. - -⸺ THE AULD MEETIN’ HOOSE GREEN. Pp. 260. (BELFAST: _M’Caw, Stevenson & -Orr_). 1898. - - Stories of the Co. Antrim peasantry. Time: thirty or forty - years ago. Imitative of the “Kailyard” school in England. An - intimate picture of Ulster Presbyterianism and its ways of - thought. Has both humour and pathos. Is offensive to no creed - or class. Ulster-Scot dialect true to life. Titles of some of - the stories:—“Two Little Green Graves,” “At Jesus’ Feet,” “The - Old Precentor Crosses the Bar.” - -⸺ WHEN LINT WAS IN THE BELL. (_Unwin_). 1898. - -⸺ BY LONE CRAIG LINNIE BURN. Pp. 153. (_Unwin_). 1900. - - “Two series of local stories of the Scoto-Irish folk of Ulster, - the chat of village gossips, character-sketches of doctor, - minister, agent, and inn-keeper: quaint blends of Scottish and - Irish traits. Most of the tales of idyllic kind.”—(_Baker_). - The reviewer in the IRISH MONTHLY says of the second of the - above: “It is a wonderfully realistic picture of various grades - of social life in a little country town in the North ... giving - amusing glimpses of the working of practical Presbyterian - theology in the rustic middle class.... Leaves on the reader - a very remarkable impression of truthfulness and reality.” - In this second novel there is some humour and a good deal of - pathos. The same remarks apply here as to _The Auld Meetin’ - Hoose Green_. - -⸺ A BANKER’S LOVE STORY. Pp. 247. (_Fisher Unwin_). 1901. - - The story opens in “the Union Bank, Spindleton” (the Ulster - Bank, Belfast), the various types of bank directors and - clerks being cleverly described—the mischief-making Blake, - the jolly Harry Burke, &c. The scene shifts to “Craig Linnie” - (Ballyclare), where George Dixon’s love story begins. He - is transferred to Ballinasloe (good description of the big - fair). Through no fault of his own he comes under a cloud, but - eventually matters clear up and all ends happily. The Author - knows his Ulster types thoroughly. - -⸺ THE HUMOUR OF DRUID’S ISLAND. Pp. 127. (_Hodges, Figgis_; and _Mullan_, -BELFAST). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1902. - - Scene: “Druid’s Island” is Islandmagee, Co. Antrim. A series of - very short anecdotes told to one another by the Presbyterian - country people, in their peculiar Scoto-Irish dialect, and full - of the dry, “pawky” humour of the North. Gives glimpses of the - manners and life of the place. - - -=MACINNES, Rev. D.= - -⸺ FOLK AND HERO TALES. Collected, ed. (in Gaelic), and trans. by; with -a Study on the Development of the Ossianic or Finn Saga, and copious -Notes by Alfred Nutt. Pp. xxiv. + 497. (_Nutt_). 15_s._ net. Portrait of -Campbell of Islay and two Illustr. by E. Griset. 1890. - - Gaelic and English throughout on opposite pages. The tales - were taken down at intervals during 1881-2, chiefly from the - dictation of A. MacTavish, a shoemaker of seventy-four, a - native of Mull. The tales are typical folk-tales, full of - giants, monsters, and other mythic and magic beings. They - are often quaint, imaginative and picturesque, but abound in - extravagance and absurdity. In Mr. Nutt’s notes (pp. 443 to - end) he studies chiefly—(1) What relation, if any, obtains - between the folk-tales current in Scotland and the older Gaelic - literature; (2) what traces of early Celtic belief and customs - do these tales reveal. They are very elaborate and scholarly. - Good Index. - - -=M’INTOSH, Sophie.= Born at Kinsale, where she resided for many years, -until her marriage with Rev. H. M’Intosh, of Methodist College, Belfast. -In her sketches she describes faithfully and vividly the people of her -native town.—(IRISH LIT.). - -⸺ THE LAST FORWARD, and Other Stories. Pp. 152. (_Brimley Johnson_). Five -Illustr. by Jack B. Yeats. 1902. - - Ten Irish school and football stories, with plenty of schoolboy - language and slang, told in lively, stirring style, never dull. - - -=McKAY, J. G.= - -⸺ THE WIZARD’S GILLIE; or, Gille A’Bhuidseir and Other Tales. Ed. and -transl. by J. G. McKay. (_St. Catherine’s Press_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1915. - - A selection from the MS. collection of the tales gathered by - the late J. F. Campbell, of Islay (_q.v._), and preserved - in the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh. The Gaelic and the - translation are given on opposite pages. Some of the titles are - “Donald Caol Cameron,” “The Carpenter MacPheigh,” “The Sept of - the Three Score Fools.” - - -=MACKAY, William.= - -⸺ PRO PATRIA: the Autobiography of a Conspirator. Two Vols. -(_Remington_). 1883. - - The narrator, Ptolemy Daly, is a weak, conceited youth, - given to hysterics and poetry. Full of visions of Robert - Emmet, he joins the staff of “The Sunburst,” the organ of - an insurrectionary movement led by Phil Gallagher, a fine - character, evidently modelled on T. C. Luby. At the critical - moment Daly plays the traitor and decamps to England. Isaac - Butt and John Rea are introduced, under thinly disguised - names. Scene: Dublin and Wicklow. Written in ironical vein: - Daly’s only “Speech from the Dock” was on a charge of drunk - and disorderly. The Author was one of three brothers, all - well-known London journalists. He was born in Belfast in 1846. - Wrote also _A Popular Idol_ and _Beside Still Waters_. - - -=MACKENZIE, Donald A.= - -⸺ FINN AND HIS WARRIOR BAND; or, Tales of Old Alban. Pp. 248. -(_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1910. - - Stories, arranged in a connected series, of the Fenian cycle, - adapted for children from twelve to fourteen or thereabouts. - Told in picturesque language, but perfectly simple and - direct. For the most part folklore, full of magic and wonder, - nine-headed giants and fire-breathing dogs. But here and - there the antique hero-tale appears, as in the Battle of - Gavra and the death of Dermaid. Localities mostly Scotch. The - illustrations (6 coloured, 34 in black and white) are charming - in every way. Picture cover. - - -=MACKENZIE, R. Shelton.= - -⸺ BITS OF BLARNEY. (N.Y.: _Redfield_). [1854]. (N.Y.: _Alden_). 1884. - - “A series of Irish stories and legends collected from the - peasantry,” familiar to the Author in youth (see pref.). It is - a volume of miscellanies. Includes three stories of Blarney - Castle told in serio-comic manner by a schoolmaster; some - local legends of Finn McCool, &c.; eccentric characters (the - bard O’Kelly, Father Prout, Irish dancing masters, Charley - Crofts, Buck English); Irish publicists; sketches of Grattan - and O’Connell (the former enthusiastic, the latter not wholly - favourable—O’C. “the greatest professor of Blarney these latter - days have seen or heard”). He speaks of O’C. from personal - knowledge. On the whole thoroughly nationalist in tone. The - Author, b. in Co. Limerick, 1809, educated Cork and Fermoy, - was a journalist in London, afterwards in New York, and wrote - or edited many valuable works, historical and biographical. D. - 1880. - - -=M’KEON, J. F.= - -⸺ ORMOND IDYLLS. Pp. 144. (_Nutt_). 1_s._ Paper. 1901. - - Scene: Co. Kilkenny. Eight little sketches of peasant life, - pathetic and sad. In one a glimpse is given with knowledge and - sympathy of the work of a country priest. - - -=M’LENNAN, William.= - -⸺ SPANISH JOHN. Pp. 270. (_Harper_). 6_s._ Eighteen v. g. Illustr. by F. -de Myrbach. 1898. - - Adventures of Col. John McDonnell from the Highlands, when a - lieutenant in the regiment Irlandia, in the service of the K. - of Spain, operating in Italy (1744-6). At the Scots College in - Rome, whither he had been sent to be made a priest, he had met - a young student, a Mr. O’Rourke. This latter, now a chaplain in - the Irish Brigade, saves McD.’s life on the field of Villetri. - Subsequently the two are sent by the Duke of York to Scotland - on a mission to Prince Charlie. They find that all is lost. - Characters admirably drawn, notably the humorous, warm-hearted, - heroic Father O’Rourke. - - -=“MACLEOD, Fiona”; William Sharp.= B. Paisley, 1856. Ed. Glasgow Univ. -Spent his boyhood in the West Highlands and Islands and became imbued -with love for things Celtic. Even as late as 1899 it was positively -stated that, in spite of conjectures to the contrary, William Sharp and -Fiona MacLeod were not the same person, and Mrs. Hinkson says in her -_Twenty-five Years’ Reminiscences_ that she is not yet convinced that -they were. - -⸺ THE LAUGHTER OF PETERKIN. Pp. 288. (_Constable_). Four Drawings by S. -Rollenson. 1897. - - “A re-telling of old tales of the Celtic Wonder-World. - Contains: ‘The Laughter of Peterkin’; ‘the Four White Swans - (Sons of Lir)’; ‘the Fate of the Sons of Tuireann’; ‘Darthool - and the Sons of Usnach.’” Told in language of great beauty and - simplicity. - -⸺ SPIRITUAL TALES. (EDINB.: _Geddes_). 1897. - -⸺ TRAGIC ROMANCES. (EDINB.: _Geddes_). 1897. - -⸺ BARBARIC TALES. (EDINB.: _Geddes_). 1897. - -⸺ THE DOMINION OF DREAMS. (_Constable_). 1899. - -⸺ THE SIN-EATER, and Other Tales. (_Constable_). 1899. - -⸺ THE WASHER OF THE FORD, and Other Tales. (_Constable_). 1899. - -⸺ The collected works written under the above pen-name (between 1894 and -1905). Ed. by his widow, and publ. by _Heinemann_ in seven Vols., 5_s._ -net each. Three Vols. have appeared, viz.:—I. _Pharais; The Mountain -Lovers_. II. _The Sin Eater; The Washer of the Ford_ (April). Pp. 450. -III. _The Dominion of Dreams; Under the Dark Star_ (April). Pp. 438. The -following are announced:—IV. _The Divine Adventure; Iona_, &c. V. _The -Winged Destiny._ VI. _The Silence of Amor; Where the Forest Murmurs._ -VII. _Poems and Dramas._ - - Some titles of the stories in these three vols.:—“Morag of the - Glen,” “The Dan-nan-Ron,” “The Sin-Eater,” “The Flight of the - Culdees,” “The Harping of Cravetheen,” “Silk o’ the Kine,” - “Cathal of the Woods,” “St. Bride of the Isles,” “The Awakening - of Angus Ogue,” “Three Marvels of Iona,” &c. - - These books of Fiona Macleod’s are, for the most part, shadowy, - elusive dream-poems in prose, wrought into a form of beauty - from fragments of old Gaelic tales heard in the Western isles - (where the Author lived for years) from fishermen and crofters. - They are full of the magic of words subtly woven, of vague - mystery, and of nature—wind and sea and sky. He strives to - infuse into his stories the sadder and more mystic aspects of - the Gaelic spirit, as he conceives it. “I have not striven to - depict the blither Irish Celt.” But many of his stories are - simply Irish legends, _e.g._, _The Harping of Cravetheen_. The - Author thus describes his work: “In certain sections are tales - of the old Gaelic and Celtic Scandinavian life and mythology; - in others there is a blending of paganism and Christianity; in - others again are tales of the dreaming imagination having their - base in old mythology, or in a kindred mythopæic source.... - Many of these tales are of the grey wandering wave of the - West, and through each goes the wind of the Gaelic spirit which - turns to the dim enchantment of dreams.” On the other hand, - some of these stories deal with life in modern Gaelic Scotland, - _e.g._, _The Mountain Lovers_, which, however poetically told, - is after all a tale of seduction. _The Winged Destiny_, amid - much matter of a different nature, contains several tales of - Gaelic inspiration. - - -=MACLEOD and THOMSON.= - -⸺ SONGS AND TALES OF ST. COLUMBA AND HIS AGE. By Fiona Macleod and -J. Arthur Thomson. Third edition. Large paper 4to. (EDINB.: _Patrick -Geddes_). 6_d._ nett. - - -=M’MAHON, Ella.= Dau. of late Rev. J. H. MacMahon, Chaplain to the -Lord-Lieutenant. Ed.: home. Has written much for various magazines and -periodicals, and particularly on historical and archæological subjects. -Has publ. about seventeen novels. Now resides in Chelsea.—(WHO’S WHO). - -⸺ FANCY O’BRIEN. (_Chapman & Hall_). 6_s._ 1909. - - A tragedy of city life centering in the betrayal and desertion - of Bridgie Doyle by Fancy O’Brien. Full of human interest, - careful and skilful study of character and motive. Catholic - in sympathy. “In its minor details the book is true to life, - photographic in its realism.” The story is of high dramatic - and literary excellence. In the account of the Easter Monday - excursion to Bray “the story of Bridgie’s undoing is told with - a rare combination of poetry, force, and restraint.”—(N.I.R., - Aug., 1909). - -⸺ THE JOB. Pp. 383. (_Nisbet_). 6_s._ 1914. - - Sir Thady, a Cromwellian-Irish baronet, grows interested - in his Irish surroundings on his estate of Ballymaclashin. - He ceases to haunt the Bath Club, Piccadilly, and takes to - starting carpet factories (_The Job_). Many of the incidents - are furnished by the difficulties that beset the task owing to - the amateurish innocence of the baronet and the stupidity of - his local helpers. And besides there are the love affairs of - Sir Thady and the English Miss Devereux. The point of view is - Anglo-Irish, the “mere” Irish being regarded _de haut en bas_ - as rather impossible, thriftless, poor people, in short, as a - problem to be dealt with philanthropically. The style is easy - and pleasant. - - -=MACMANUS, Miss L.= Holds a distinct place among Irish authors of -to-day as being one of the very few writers of Irish historical -fiction who write from a thoroughly national standpoint. Her books are -straightforward, stirring tales, enthusiastically Irish, free from -tedious disquisitions, but based on considerable historical research. -She is a worker in the ranks of the Gaelic League, and in her Co. Mayo -(Kiltimagh) home does much for the cause of Irish Ireland. She is -interested in folklore, and some of the tales she has collected have -recently been publ. in the FOLKLORE JOURNAL. Some of her stories in the -Dublin weeklies deal in the weird and the mysterious. The following have -been publ. by The Educational Co. of Ireland as penny pamphlets:—_In the -High King’s Camp_, _A Battle Champion_, _Felim the Harper_, _The Prince -of Breffny’s Son_, _How Enda went to the Iceland_, _The Leathern Cloaks_. -She has publ. two serials in SINN FEIN: _The Professor in Erin_ and _One -Generation Passeth_. - -⸺ THE SILK OF THE KINE. Pp. 282. (_Fisher Unwin_). 3_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: -_Harper_). 1.00. 1896. - - Scene: chiefly Connaught and south-west Ulster during the - Parliamentary Wars. The heroine is a daughter of the Maguire of - Fermanagh. Her capture by the Roundheads, her rescue from the - man-hunters by a Parliamentarian officer, her condemnation to - slavery in St. Kitt’s, and her escape, are told in vivid and - thrilling style. It is a story for young readers especially. - -⸺ LALLY OF THE BRIGADE. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 1_s._ (BOSTON: _Page_). 25_c._ -1899. - - Adventures, during the War of the Spanish Succession, of a - Colonel of the Brigade, who, after many thrilling experiences, - distinguishes himself at Cremona, and marries a girl whom he - had met during the war under romantic circumstances. The tale - is lively and interesting, and makes one realize somewhat - of the intrigues and dangers of war.... Young readers may - derive a great deal of amusement and instruction from the - book.—(N.I.R.). Lally is a young captain in the regiment of - Dillon. “James III.,” Louis XIV., Prince Eugène, Marshall - Villeroy, and General O’Mahony all appear in the story. - -⸺ NESSA. Pp. 147. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 2_s._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. -_n.d._ (1904). - - A tale of the Cromwellian Plantation, characterized by a simple - unpretentious style and considerable power of description, both - of character and scenery.—(_Press notices_). The little book - was highly praised by the ACADEMY and by the IRISH TIMES. It - is, of course, strongly national in sentiment. Scene: an old - castle near Lough Conn, Co. Mayo. - -⸺ IN SARSFIELD’S DAYS. Pp. 306. (_Gill_). Illustr. 1907. - - “A Passage from the Memoirs of Brigadier Niall MacGuinness - of Iveagh, sometime captain in Sarsfield’s Horse.” Scene: - Limerick during Siege. Includes account of Sarsfield’s Ride and - of the repulse of William’s assault. The plot hinges on the - disappearance of Balldearg O’Donnell’s cross, which Iveagh is - suspected of having stolen. The central figure is perhaps the - wayward and imperious Ethna Ni Briain. The story moves rapidly, - unencumbered by descriptions or digressions. The scenes are - vivid and dramatic. The Author’s play, “O’Donnell’s Cross,” is - founded on this novel. Publ. in U.S.A. (N.Y.: _Buckles_), 1.50, - under title _The Wager_. - -⸺ NUALA. Pp. 322. (_Browne & Nolan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Four Illustr. by Oswald -Cunningham. 1908. - - Tells how the only child, aged fifteen, of the head of the - O’Donnells, then in the service of the Austrian Government, is - entrusted by her father just before his death with the mission - of obtaining the Cathach, or battle-book of the O’Donnells, - from the monks at Louvain. On the way she passes through - exciting adventures, being captured by some of Napoleon’s - soldiers. Gen. Hoche figures in the story. Juvenile. - - -=MACMANUS, Seumas.= B. Mountcharles, Co. Donegal, 1870. Son of a peasant -farmer. Was for some years a National School teacher, but subsequently -turned entirely to journalism. Has written for most of the Irish papers -and magazines and for many English and American periodicals. Is well -known in the States, where he frequently goes on lecturing tours. - -⸺ SHUILERS FROM HEATHY HILLS. Pp. 102. (MOUNTCHARLES: _G. Kirke_). 1893. - - The Author’s earliest poems and three prose sketches:—“Micky - Maguire” (the last of the hedge schoolmasters), “How you bathe - at Bundoran,” and “A Trip with Phil M’Goldrick.” - -⸺ THE LEADIN’ ROAD TO DONEGAL. Pp. 246. (_Digby, Long_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -(N.Y.: _Pratt_). 2.00. [1896]. Second ed., 1908; others since. - - Twelve short stories of the Donegal peasantry, full of very - genuine, if somewhat broad, humour and drollery. They are not - meant as pictures of peasant life. The dialect is exaggerated - for humorous purposes, and at times the fun goes perilously - near “Stage-Irishism.” But they are never coarse or vulgar. - -⸺ ’TWAS IN DHROLL DONEGAL. (_Gill_). 1_s._ Third ed., 1897. - - Eight tales dealing with the humorous side of the home-life of - Donegal peasants. A few, however, are folk-tales of the Jack - the Giant-killer type. Told with verve and piquancy and with - unflagging humour, but the skill in story-telling is naturally - not as developed in this as in the Author’s later work, drawing - a good deal upon humorous padding to aid the intrinsic humour - of the incidents. - -⸺ THE BEND OF THE ROAD. (_Gill, Duffy_). 2_s._, 3_s._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). -1.75. [1897]. - - This is a sequel to _A Lad of the O’Friels_,[7] but consists - of detached sketches, and is not told in the first person. - Most of the sketches are humorous, notably “Father Dan and - Fiddlers Four”; but there is pathos, too, as in “The Widow’s - Mary,” a scene at a wake before an eviction. The Introduction - is an admirable summing up of the peculiarities, emotions, and - vicissitudes of life in an out-of-the-way Donegal countryside. - -[7] Yet seems to have been publ. before it. I give the dates as they are -given (doubtless by the Author) in the _Literary Year Book_. - -⸺ THE HUMOURS OF DONEGAL. (_Unwin_). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. [1898]. - - Seven stories admirably told, and full of the richest and most - rollicking humour. In the first only, viz., “When Barney’s - Thrunk Comes Home,” is there a touch of the pathetic. It would - be hard to beat “Shan Martin’s Ghost,” and “Why Tómas Dubh - Walked,” and “How Paddy M’Garrity did not get to be Gauger.” - “One St. Patrick’s Day” gives the humorous side of Orange and - Green rivalry. - -⸺ THROUGH THE TURF SMOKE. (_Fisher Unwin_). 2_s._ (N.Y.: _Doubleday_. -TORONTO: _Morang_). 2.00. [1899]. 1901. - - Simple tales of the Donegal peasantry. There is both pathos - and humour—the former deep, and at times poignant; the latter - always rich and often farcical. The Author writes with all the - vividness of one who has lived all he writes about. He has full - command of every device of the story-teller, yet never allows - his personality to show except, as it should, through the - medium of the actors. - -⸺ IN CHIMNEY CORNERS. Pp. 281. (N.Y.: _Harper_). Illustr. by Pamela -Colman Smith. 1899. - - “Subtle, merry tales of Irish Folk-lore.”—(_Pref._). The - stories are very similar in kind to the same Author’s _Donegal - Fairy Tales_. There is the same quaint, humorous, peasant - language, the same extravagances and impossibilities. The - illustrations are very numerous. They are very brightly - coloured, but for the most part extremely bizarre. - -⸺ THE BEWITCHED FIDDLE, and Other Irish Tales. Pp. ix. + 240. (N.Y.: -_Doubleday and McClure_). 1900. - - Ten short stories, humorous for the most part, but one, “The - Cadger Boy’s Last Journey,” moving and pathetic. They are - an exact reproduction in dialect and phraseology of stories - actually heard by the Author at Donegal firesides, and the - fidelity of the reproduction is perfect. - -⸺ DONEGAL FAIRY STORIES. Pp. 255. (_Isbister_). 1902. (N.Y.: _McClure_). - - Dedication in Irish and English. Thirty-four full-page pen - and ink drawings, signed “Verbeek.” These latter are quaint - and amusingly grotesque. The stories are folk-tales, told - just as the peasantry tell them, without brogue, but with all - the repetitions, humorous extravagances and naïveté of the - folk-tale. They are just the thing for children, and are quite - free from coarseness and vulgarity. - -⸺ THE RED POACHER. (N.Y.: _Funk & Wagnalls_). 0.75. 1903. - -⸺ A LAD OF THE O’FRIELS. Pp. 318. (_Gill_; _Duffy_). 2_s._, 2_s._ 6_d._, -3_s._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 2.00. [1903]. Third ed., 1906. - - In this book one actually seems to have been living among the - childlike and quaint yet deep-natured, true, and altogether - lovable little circle of Knocknagar, and to have shared - its joys and sorrows. Every character described stands out - altogether distinct, old Toal a’Gallagher the sententious; - his wife, Susie of the sharp tongue; their son, Toal the - “Vagabone,” with his wild pranks; the grandiloquent “Masther,” - and all the rest. Through it all runs the simple love story of - Dinny O’Friel and Nuala Gildea, companions from childhood. The - book is full of deep, but quiet and restrained, feeling. The - description of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg has much beauty. - -⸺ DOCTOR KILGANNON. (_Gill_). 1_s._ (Wrapper). Well illustr. 1907. - - A string of loosely-connected after-dinner stories chiefly - about comic duelling and electioneering. Told with pleasant - drollery. - -⸺ YOURSELF AND THE NEIGHBOURS. Pp. 304. (N.Y.: _Devin Adair Co._). Five -Illustr. by T. Fogarty. 1914. - - A picture by one who has lived it of the life of the Donegal - peasant—not their outward life merely, but their most intimate - thoughts and beliefs, hopes and joys, their whole outlook on - things. The Author is discerning and sympathetic in a high - degree. “Yourself and Herself” gives a Donegal man’s life - story from “the barefoot time” through love and marriage to - “evening’s quiet end.” Some of the remaining stories show - the Author’s humour at its best—the Homeric struggles of - the “priest’s boy” with the New Curate and the Tartar of a - postmistress, the “come home Yankee,” and so on. - - -=M’NALLY, Mrs.=[8] - -⸺ ECCENTRICITY. Three Vols. (over 1,000 pp.). (DUBL.: _Cumming_). 1820. - - An endless series of love affairs between charming ladies and - wealthy gentlemen, all of the upper classes, very proper, very - stilted, and dull. The eccentricity is on the part of an old - soldier who is a misanthrope and a hermit, but resolves to - return to normal life and renew acquaintance with his daughter. - He descends upon the friend’s family in which he has left her, - carries off another by mistake, &c. The plot never really moves - on. - -[8] So the name is given on the title-page, and it seems improbable -that this Author is the same as the Author of the following item, first -because there is a difference of thirty-four years between the dates, -and secondly because the two books are wholly unlike. But the B. Museum -Catal. assigns both to the same person. - - -=M’NALLY, Louisa.= - -⸺ THE PIRATE’S FORT. Pp. 210. (_Hodges & Smith_). 1854. - - The fort is Dunalong, on Inisherkin, in Baltimore Bay, a - stronghold of the O’Driscoll’s towards close of 16th cent. - English ship captured. O’D.’s natural son, a ferocious pirate, - falls in love with captain’s daughter. She is true to her - English officer. The beautiful daughter of O’D. saves her - from his fury. Vengeance of the English—destruction of the - fort—double wedding of the two fair maids to two English - officers. A prominent rôle is assigned to money-grabbing, idle, - besotted Franciscan friar. - - -=MACNAMARA, Lewis.= - -⸺ BLIND LARRY: Irish Idylls. (_Jarrold_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1897. - - “Artless records of life among the very poor in West of - Ireland, the fruit of kindly observation, and, obviously, - essays in the _Thrums_ style. Larry is a poor blind fiddler, - whose one joy in life is his son, and he turns out a reproach - to his father. “Katty’s Wedding” is a very Irish bit of farce, - and “Mulligan’s Revenge” expresses the vindictive passions of - the Celt, an episode of jealousy and crime, alleviated at the - close by repentance and reconciliation.”—(_Baker_). - - -=MACNAMARA, Rachel Swete.= - -⸺ SPINNERS IN SILENCE. Pp. 317. (_Blackwood_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Fingal and Lutie are lovers somewhere in the wilds of Ireland. - Enter an Interloper (a danseuse of doubtful reputation), - who falls genuinely in love with F., and tries to win him. - She fails, and exit. The atmosphere is very ideal and the - language, especially the conversations, somewhat high-flown. - Author writes well, and is clearly sympathetic to Ireland. The - housekeeper cousin of “county family” status, with her genteel - notions, is well sketched. - - -=M’NULTY, Edward.= B. 1856, Randalstown, Co. Antrim. Ed. in the -Incorporated Society’s School, Aungier St., Dublin, where he was -a schoolmate and intimate of G. B. Shaw. Contributes to various -periodicals—IRISH SOCIETY, THE OCCULT REVIEW, &c., and has written a -play, “The Lord Mayor,” for the Abbey Theatre. Satirizes Irish failings, -but is proud of being an Irishman himself. Resides in Ranelagh, Dublin. - -⸺ MISTHER O’RYAN. Pp. 271. (_Arnold_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1894. - - A priest, squat, red-faced, whiskey-loving, unspeakably vulgar, - and a ruffian to whom he is disgracefully related, organize a - branch of the “Lague,” and boycott a farmer who will not join. - The latter’s daughter dies tragically in consequence. The - typical “pesint” is introduced as cringeing, priest-ridden, and - wholly degraded. Impossible brogue throughout. - -⸺ SON OF A PEASANT. Pp. 342. (_Arnold_). 1897. - - A great advance on _Misther O’Ryan_, _q.v._ A tragic-comedy - of life among lower middle class people in a small provincial - town. The “son of a peasant” is Clarence Maguire, an obscure - young schoolmaster, who in the end comes in for great wealth - and all but wins the daughter of Sir Herbert O’Hara, an - impoverished gentleman. A sub-plot is furnished by the love - affairs of Constable Kerrigan and his determined efforts after - promotion. The plot affords the Author scope for many genuinely - humorous scenes, especially those in the Flanagan family, which - are admirably done, and for the clever portrayal of some of - the meaner aspects of human nature—class pride, servility, the - worship of the moneyed man, time serving, &c. The plot largely - turns on an absurd superstition about changelings. This leads - to the hideous tragedy of the close. The book is marred by a - travesty of the brogue. Otherwise it is not anti-national. - -⸺ MAUREEN. Pp. 343. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Of the same type as _Misther O’Ryan_. One of the priests - introduced trades with a miraculous statue on the superstition - of the people; the other is a sleek, smooth fop, thoroughly and - heartlessly vicious. There is little else besides this in the - book. - -⸺ MRS. MULLIGAN’S MILLIONS. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 6_s._ 1908. - - A broad farce, with Irish people (of the worst stage-Irish - type) as actors, and a small, vulgar Irish town for scene. - Mrs. Mulligan is a very low species of tramp. She is supposed - suddenly to come in for a fortune, and her relations tumble - over one another in efforts to gain her favour—until the bubble - bursts. There is much caricature of Irish traits and manners. - Local journalism is specially ridiculed.—(_News cuttings_). - - -=M’SPARRAN, Archibald.= - -⸺ THE LEGEND OF M’DONNELL AND THE NORMAN DE BORGOS. Pp. 213, close print. -16mo. (_Gill_). 1_s._ [BELFAST, 1829]. Still in print. - - Writer (1795-1850?) was a school-master in Derry, who emigrated - to America in 1830, where he published _Tales and Stories of - the Alleghenys_ and _The Hermit of the Rocky Mountains_. A - tale of the struggles between O’Neills, O’Donnells, O’Cahans, - M’Quillans, M’Donnells, and other Ulster septs. Scene: - northern portions of Antrim, Derry, and Donegal. The work of a - half-educated man. A rambling story marked by frequent lapses - from literary good taste and numerous grammatical mistakes. - The peasantry talk in broad modern brogue, full of “arrah,” - “musha,” “tare-an-ouns,” &c. Shows a considerable though - undigested knowledge of Irish history and topography. The book - had considerable vogue both here and in U.S.A. - - -=MACSWEENEY, Rev. Patrick M., M.A.= One of the most erudite of Irish -priests. Was Chancellor’s Gold Medallist in the Royal University. Was -afterwards Professor of Mod. Lit. in Holy Cross College, Clonliffe. Is at -present editor of the IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD. - -⸺ THE MARTIAL CAREER OF CONGHAL CLÁIRINGHNEACH. Pp. lxvii. + 225. (_Nutt, -for Irish Texts Society_). 1904. - - Ed. for the first time with all the apparatus of - scholarship—critical study of the Tale or Saga, literary study - of the text, grammatical study, notes, glossary, and index. The - story belongs to the pre-Cuchulainn stage of the Red Branch - Cycle. Conghal is supposed to have reigned from 177 to 162 B.C. - - -=MACWALTER, J. G., F.R.S.L., &c.= - -⸺ TALES OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH. Pp. 224. (_Farquhar Shaw_). 1854. - - Wrote also _The Irish Reformation Movement_, 1852; _Modern - Mystery_, 1854, &c. The object of these three stories is to - point out the wickedness and the evil influence, especially in - Ireland, of the Catholic Church. In “Betty Bryan’s Fortune,” - Thady becomes a Protestant, and all goes well with him: the - sign of the Cross is called a charm; and there is a description - of Beltaine superstitions. In “The Terry Alt,” a girl is seized - just after marriage and immured in a convent for life: the - conspirators are a monk, a priest, and “Blackboys.” - - -=MADDEN, M. S.= - -⸺ THE FITZGERALD FAMILY. (R.T.S.). 2_s._ Three cold. ill. by Victor -Prout. 1910. - - The family is left very poor on death of father, a C. of I. - clergyman. Rich and vulgar relations adopt Barry and Moya, the - former of whom becomes an unbearable bounder, the latter a - heartless flirt. The rest of the family remains very poor, very - good, and rather dull. There is an occasional mention of Irish - peasants and the Irish language. Apart from this, the persons, - their doings, and the atmosphere are wholly un-Irish. The story - has a moral purpose that is good and not too obtrusive. - - -=MAGENNIS, Peter.= A retired National School teacher. B. near -Derrygonnelly, Co. Fermanagh, in 1817, the son of a farmer. D. 1910, aged -93, at his birth-place. - -⸺ THE RIBBON INFORMER: a Tale of Lough Erne. Pp. 158. (LONDON). 1874. - - An unskilfully constructed, rambling narrative, interspersed - with indifferent verse. The Author says in his Preface: “This - novel is founded on fact, almost every incident in it actually - occurred, and many of them within the recollection of the - writer. It contains local traditions and legendary lore. It - treats of highway robbery, illicit distilling, rural manners, - party feeling, and a rather disorganized state of society.” - -⸺ TULLY CASTLE: a Tale of 1641. Pp. 266. (ENNISKILLEN: _Trimble_). 1877. - - A very crude, rambling tale, bringing in a few incidents of - the Confederate War and several historic characters, but - mainly taken up with private love affairs, abductions, &c. No - character study and no real portrayal of the times. Occasional - vulgarity. Scene: chiefly the shores of Lough Erne. - - -=MAGINN, J. D.= - -⸺ FITZGERALD, THE FENIAN. Two Vols. Pp. 576. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1889. - - Deals with Fenian and Land League movements. The Author is - unacquainted with the history and organization of Fenianism. - The land agitation he represents as forced upon an unwilling - peasantry by a kind of murder-club in America. Scene: mainly - Co. Sligo. Parnell and Biggar are brought in under assumed - names, and are broadly caricatured. The portrayal of Butt - is truer to reality and less marred by bias. The Author is - uninformed and, on the whole, uncomprehending: hence some - absurd statements about things Irish, some objectionable (but - evidently unintentionally so) references to the Catholic - Church, and a quite impossible Irish brogue. But he is on the - whole not unfriendly to Ireland. - - -=MAGINN, William.= B. Cork, 1793. Ed. T.C.D. Began early to write for the -magazines (BLACKWOOD’S, &c.), chiefly parodies and other _jeux d’esprit_. -Went to London, 1823, where, in 1830, he established FRASER’S MAGAZINE, -which with Carlyle, Thackeray, Maclise, Prout as contributors, for some -years was at the head of English periodical literature. He fell more and -more into habits of drunkenness, and engaged in disreputable journalism. -Writing to the end, he died in 1842. Thackeray drew a portrait of him as -Captain Shandon in _Pendennis_. Many memoirs of him have been written. -His “Bob Burke’s Duel with Ensign Brady” is said to be the raciest Irish -story ever written. - -⸺ MISCELLANIES: Prose and Verse. (LONDON). [First collection, 1840]. -Selections ed. by “R. W. Montagu.” 1885. (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 9.60. - - Contains “Bob Burke’s Duel,” “The Story without a Tail,” and - other Irish stories, published in magazines between 1823 and - 1842. These stories are told mostly in a vein of broad comedy. - Their characters are roysterers and swaggerers. Maginn was a - man of brilliant gifts. The fantastic humour and wild gaiety of - his stories give them an original flavour. Maginn was a high - Tory and an Orangeman.—(_Krans_). Dr. Mackenzie edited, in - 1857, _The Miscellanies of William Maginn_ (5 vols.), published - in America. Contents:—Vols. I. and II. “The O’Doherty Papers.” - III. “The Shakespeare Papers.” IV. “Homeric Ballads.” V. “The - Fraserian Papers,” with a life of the Author. - - -=MAHONY, Martin Francis; “Matthew Stradling.”= B., Co. Cork, 1831. D. -1885. Was a nephew of “Father Prout.” Also wrote _Cheap John’s Auction_. - -⸺ THE IRISH BAR SINISTER. Pp. 136. LONDON. 1872. - - “New ed. in four chapters.” The original was publ. by Gill, - Dublin, 1871. Really a pamphlet showing up the place-hunting - whiggery that prevailed in the Irish Bar at that time, - and giving a picture of Irish politics after the Fenian - insurrection, and at the outset of the Home Rule movement. - -⸺ THE MISADVENTURES OF MR. CATLYNE, Q.C. An Autobiography. Two Vols. -(_Tinsley_). 1873. - - Elaborates the idea of the above-mentioned work. Depicts, under - assumed names, well-known Irish lawyers of the day. Intrigues - of the candidate for a small Irish borough, and his difficulty - in placating all parties well described. This originally - appeared in FRASER’S MAGAZINE. There is little plot, and no - romantic interest. - -⸺ JERPOINT. An ungarnished Story of the Time. Three Vols. (_Chapman & -Hall_). 1875. - - A satirical study of parvenus, snobs, and various curious - types, very cleverly characterised. The story is chiefly - concerned with the Courtneys, risen from the publichouse to - county-family importance. P. 49 _sq._ gives an excellent - picture of a meet, with a study of the personages present. Full - of close observation and excellent descriptions. Among the best - portraits are those of the Hanlon family, always shabby and - out-at-elbows, yet ever struggling with fortune. We are not - told the situation of “the Cathedral City of Jerpoint on the - Sea.” - - -=MALONE, Molly.= A Dublin lady, married to a Mr. Riordan, living in -Carlow. - -⸺ THE GOLDEN LAD. 16mo. (_C.T.S. of Ireland: Iona Series_). 1_s._ 1910. - - A study of Dublin slum-children, told with humour, insight, and - sympathy, by one who thoroughly knows their ways. The dialect - is faithfully rendered. - - -=MANNERS, T. Hartley.= - -⸺ PEG O’ MY HEART. Pp. 320. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 1913. - - “Novelized” from a popular play. Peg is daughter of an Irish - agitator of the eighties who goes to America in the troubled - times. On the death of Peg’s mother her father returns to - Ireland, and lives there for many years, till bright prospects - call him back to America. But the main part of the action is - taken up with Peg’s visit of a month to her English relations - in Scarborough. The Author rather overdraws the contrast - between English and Irish types. There is much clever dialogue. - Ends with passing of second reading of Home Rule Bill, and the - glorification of the one-time agitator. - - -=MANNIX, Mary E.= - -⸺ MICHAEL O’DONNELL; or, The Fortunes of a Little Emigrant. (BOSTON: -_Flynn_). 0.60. [1900]. In print, 1910. - - “Michael, an honest, industrious youngster, not too good to - use his fists when attacked by other boys, comes to the U.S., - and steps into an excellent situation after three months - of walking across the Continent. By a series of innocent - misunderstandings, combined with hostile malice, he is made to - appear guilty of theft; but the truth is soon manifest.... Told - with much animation and liveliness.”—(AMERICAN ECCLES. REV.) - Juvenile. - -⸺ PILGRIM FROM IRELAND. (BOSTON: _Flynn_). 0.36. In print, 1910. - - -=MAPOTHER, Mary J.= - -⸺ THE DONALDS: an Irish Story (_Gill_). 6_s._ _c._ 1879. - - Not in British Museum Library. - - -=MARSH, Mrs.= - -⸺ THE NEVILLES OF GARRETSTOWN. Three Vols. (_Saunders & Otley_). 1860. - - The main plot is a somewhat slight story of a lost heir - returning to claim his inheritance, which had been usurped - by an intruder. But the chief interest lies in the numerous - side incidents and digressions which are designed to portray - various phases of the life of the times. Opens and closes at - Clonmel, but the scene shifts to Dublin, Bantry, Paris, and - other places. Introduces Jacobite conspiracies, street-rioting, - hedge schools, city entertainments, political discussions, the - working of the Penal laws, and historical personages, such - as Primate Stone, Thurot, Prince Charles Edward, Archbishop - Dillon, and many others. Is more or less on the side of the - English colony, but is not unfair to any party. Has little or - no character study, and not much human interest, but abounds in - incident. - - -=MARTIN, Miss H. L.= - -⸺ CANVASSING. (_Duffy_). Still in print. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). [1832]. - - Published as one of the O’Hara’s tales. An elaborate tale of - matchmaking and marriage among the upper classes, written with - a moral purpose. Incidentally there is a good picture of an - election contest in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. - - -=MARTINEAU, Harriet.= - -⸺ IRELAND: a Tale. Pp. 136. (LONDON: _Fox_). 1832. - - Appeared in a series of illustrations of political economy. - Written in the cause of the Irish poor, aiming to show “how - long a series of evils may befal individuals in a society - conducted like that of Ireland, and by what a repetition - of grievances its members are driven into disaffection and - violence.” Shows three sources of evils—thriftlessness in - tenants, rapacity in landlords, misplaced benevolence. - - -=MASON, Miss.= - -⸺ KATE GEARY; or, Irish Life in London. (LONDON: _Dolman_). 1853. - - “A Tale of 1849.” “The specific object of this work is to - exemplify the various ways in which the poor are placed at a - disadvantage, and the misery and, almost of necessity, the - crime that ensue from their present crowded condition.” “Miss - M. describes the life of one who might be called a Sister - of Charity living in the world.... She tells us she has - witnessed the incidents of her tale, which are described with - vivacity.... The Author has entangled her heroine in a love - affair, which, in itself, is very frigid and tedious.”—(D.R.). - - -=MASON, A. E. W.= - -⸺ CLEMENTINA. (_Methuen_). 2_s._ Eight illustr. by Bernard Partridge. -[1901]. Second ed., 1903. (_Nelson_). New ed., 7_d._ 1911. - - The story of the romantic escape in 1720 of the Princess - Clementina Sobieski from Austria, and how she was conducted to - Rome to be married to the Pretender by the Chevalier Charles - Wogan, member of an Anglo-Irish family of Clongowes Wood, in - the County Kildare. Some glimpses of the Irish Brigade. A - lively narrative. Mr. Baker calls it “a particularly close - imitation of Dumas.” - -⸺ THE FOUR FEATHERS. Pp. 338. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (_Nelson_). 7_d._ -[1903]. 1912. - - Scene varies between London, Devonshire, the Soudan, and - Donegal (Ramelton and Glenalla), the scenery of which latter - is finely described. The theme is original and striking. The - hero, an English soldier, is all his life haunted by the fear - of showing “the white feather” at a critical moment. He resigns - his commission rather than risk in a campaign his reputation - for courage. This action brings on him the dreaded imputation - of cowardice. How he redeems his honour is finely told. A - delicate soul-study. The heroic self-sacrifice of Jack Durance - still further raises the moral worth of the book. - - -=MASON JONES=, _see_ =JONES=. - - -=MATHEW, Frank.= A grand-nephew of Father Mathew, the Apostle of -Temperance. B. 1865; ed. Beaumont, King’s College School, and London -University. The writer of the Preface to the New Ed. of the _Cabinet of -Irish Literature_ says: “A good many people of excellent judgment look -upon Mr. Mathew as the Irish novelist we have been so long awaiting.... -He does not write merely from the point of view of a sympathetic -outsider. He has the true Celtic temperament, with the advantage of -education, inherited and otherwise, over the peasants of genius who have -so long represented the Irish spirit.” Wrote also _Father Mathew, his -Life and Times_, _One Queen Triumphant_, _The Royal Sisters_, &c. Resides -in London. - -⸺ AT THE RISING OF THE MOON. Pp. 240. (_M’Clure_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -Twenty-seven good Illustr. (N.Y.: _M’Clure_). 1.50. 1893. - - Twenty tales (memories of the old days, says the Author), - picturing many phases of peasant life on the West coast: - incidents of the moonlighting days, faction fights, the joke - of the potheen-makers, the attachment of priests and people, - the hardships of the poor, the days of sorrow, the love of home - and country. Told with sympathy in simple but literary style. - Dialogue clever and full of bright snatches of Celtic humour. - -⸺ THE WOOD OF THE BRAMBLES. (_Lane_). 6_s._ 1896. - - Gives a grotesque picture, intended for vivid realism, of - the rebellion. The rebels are comic savages, their leaders - (the priests included) little better than buffoons. It is - a burlesque ’98. It is well, however, to add the following - estimate from the prefatory essay to the new edition of _The - Cabinet of Irish Literature_: “A born critic here and there - will find out that Mr. Frank Mathew’s _Wood of the Brambles_ is - as full of wit, wisdom, observation, and knowledge as genius - can make it; but to the ordinary reader it is deliberately and - offensively topsy-turvy, and there’s an end of it.” - -⸺ THE SPANISH WINE. Pp. 180. (_Lane_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1898. - - A tale of Dunluce Castle, Co. Antrim, in the days when the - MacDonnells from Scotland were Lords of Antrim, and Perrott was - Elizabeth’s deputy. The story is told in form of reminiscence, - the actual movement of the plot occupying only a few hours. - Little attempt at description of scenes or times. The Author’s - sympathies are with the MacDonnells, who were on the English - side at the time. The book has been greatly admired, especially - for the vividness of its historical atmosphere and its poetic - and romantic glamour. - -⸺ LOVE OF COMRADES. (_Lane_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1900. - - “Ultra romantic. The sprightly daughter of a Wicklow squire, - bosom friend of Lord Strafford (then Lord Lieutenant - of Ireland), goes on a perilous journey disguised as a - gallant, with a message of life or death to Strafford at - Dublin.”—(_Baker_, 2). - - -=MATURIN, Charles Robert.= 1782-1824. Born in Dublin, and educated at -Trinity College. Was a clergyman of the Church of Ireland, and all -his life the sworn enemy of Catholicism and of Presbyterianism, both -of which, especially the latter, he treats unsparingly in some of his -books. Besides his novels he wrote tragedies, such as “Bertram,” and -bloodcurdling melodramas, such as “Fredolpho.” In his way of life he -was somewhat of an oddity—the madness of genius, his admirers said—and -this is reflected in his works. “His romances attracted Scott and -Byron, and many critics have given them great though qualified praise. -Bombastic extravagance of language, tangled plots, and impossible -incidents characterize them all. A remarkable eloquence in descriptions -of turbulent passion is his strong point.” Besides the novels mentioned -below, he wrote _Melmoth, the Wanderer_, generally considered his -masterpiece, and “_The Albigenses_, his last and best (1824), which was -pronounced by BLACKWOOD to be ‘four volumes of vigour, extravagance, -absurdity, and splendour’” (compiled from Krans and Read). It should be -noted that this writer sometimes violates good morals by indecency. Mr. -N. Idman, of Lotsgotan, Helsingfors, Finland, is at present engaged on -a study of M. which he intends to publish. The 1892 ed. of _Melmoth_ -contains an introductory memoir of M., a bibliography, and a criticism of -each of his works. - -⸺ THE WILD IRISH BOY. Three Vols. 12mo. (LONDON). [1808]. 1814, 1839. - - Republ. in “The Romancists’ and Novelists’ Library,” two vols. - (_Clements_), 1839. The original ed. was anon.—by the Author - of “Montorio” [_i.e._, “Dennis Jasper Murphy”]. Intended as - an exposition of the unhappy condition of Ireland and as a - picture of the life and manners of the time. The former is - soon lost sight of, but the latter is well carried out. The - hero is a strong Nationalist who works wholly for Ireland’s - cause. Apart from this graver purpose, interest is sustained - by a succession of exciting incidents and by good character - drawing. There is little plot, a great deal of sentiment, - and a great many disreputable intrigues, without, however, - objectionable details. The scene varies between Dublin and the - W. of Ireland—life in the family of a Protestant landowner and - in that of a Catholic feudal chief. Period, _c._ 1806-8. The - society depicted is that of the aristocratic classes. Author’s - standpoint full of sympathy and even admiration for Ireland, - strongly Protestant (Ch. of I.) and anti-“Roman.” - -⸺ LE JEUNE IRLANDAIS. Four Vols. (PARIS). 1828. - - Traduction per Madame la Comtesse de Molé. - -⸺ THE MILESIAN CHIEF. Four Vols. 12mo. (LONDON). 1812. - - “Was generally well received by the critics. Even Talfourd, - who had been rather hard on his first novel (_The Fatal - Revenge_), said of this: ‘There is a bleak and misty grandeur - about it which, in spite of all its glaring defects, sustains - for it an abiding place in the soul.’”—(C. A. Read). Deals - with the “prehistoric” Milesian invasion. Gustave Planche - in his critique on M. says of this book, “C’est un livre où - étincellent ça et là des pages magnifiques.” - -⸺ CONNAL OU LES MILESIENS. Traduit de l’anglais par Madame la Comtesse -[de Molé]. Four tom. (PARIS). 1828. - -⸺ WOMEN; or, Pour et Contre. Three Vols. [1818]. - - Young de Courcy rescues Eva, who had been carried off to be - made a Catholic of by a fanatical grandmother, and he falls in - love. This brings him into Calvinistic Methodist circles in - Dublin. These the Author describes minutely and with satire. - The Methodist gloom and coldness drive the hero to the company - of a brilliant actress (really Zaira, Eva’s mother). He is long - torn between the two, but finally goes to Paris with Zaira. - There he deserts her for another. There is a fine description - of Z.’s despair. Eva dies of decline, and de Courcy, repentant, - soon follows. “A moral and interesting tale.” “The full praise - both of invention and of execution must be allowed to Mr. M.’s - sketch of Eva.” As regards Methodism, Mr. M. “has used the - scalpel, not, we think, unfairly but with professional rigour - and dexterity.”—(From a review by Sir Walter Scott in the - EDINB. REV., xxx., 234). - -⸺ EVA; ou, Amour et Religion. Traduit de l’anglais sur la 2e éd. par M. 4 -tom. (PARIS). 1818. - - -=MATURIN, Edward.= Son of the preceding. - -⸺ THE IRISH CHIEFTAIN; or, The Isles of Life and Death. Pp. 316, v. close -print. 16mo. (GLASGOW: _Griffin_). 1848. - - A wild story, in which historical names (O’Ruarc of Breffny, - Dermod MacMurrough, Strongbow, Eva, Devorgilla) are given to - the personages, but which has no foundation in history. The - incidents are supposed to take place some short time after the - Norman invasion, but the book bristles with anachronisms. It is - a series of thrilling adventures, fighting, revenge, murders, - hairbreadth escapes, and so forth. Highly melodramatic, - sentimental, and extravagant. - -⸺ BIANCA: a Tale of Erin and Italy. Two Vols. 660 pp. (N.Y.: _Harper_). -1852. - - An outlandish sort of story, full of murders, perhaps a dozen, - if not more. Nearly all the characters have some terrible - secret connected with their past; hardly any of them are - legitimate children. A duel between two brothers, and banshees, - and mysterious ladies with dark prophesyings, etc., and all the - fee-faw-fum of the times when all this was popular. - - -=MAXWELL, W. Hamilton.= 1792-1850. He was a clergyman of the Church of -Ireland, with a parish at Ballagh, in the wilds of Connaught, but was -largely relieved of pastoral duties by the absence of a flock. He divided -his leisure between field sports of all kinds and the writing of books. -_Wild Sports of the West_, _Stories of Waterloo_, and _The Bivouac_ were -the most successful of these; they are still much read. He tells a story -capitally, with verve and spirit, and his situations are as exciting as -those of any modern novelist. Maxwell was the first writer of military -novels: he is the forerunner and even the inspirer of Lever. Mr. Baker -describes his _Stories of Waterloo_ as “A farrago of Irish stories, -sensational, with a dash of Hibernian character and local colouring.” -This book is still to be had (Routledge, 2_s._), and a new ed. publ. by -The Talbot Press, Dublin (Every Irishman’s Library), and ed. by Lord -Dunraven, has recently (Sept., 1915) appeared of his _Wild Sports_. - -⸺ O’HARA. Two Vols. (_Andrews_). [1825]. - - A Protestant landowner casts in his lot with the United - Irishmen. The Government attaints him of treason; he is tried - by a jury of drunken bigots, and hanged as a traitor. His - son, the hero of the tale, then throws himself heart and soul - into the rebellion. The interest centres in the accounts - of the fighting in the North. The hero is a leader at the - battle of Antrim. Some light is thrown on the nature of the - friction between the Catholic and the Protestant commanders, - which constantly threatens the disruption of the rebel - forces.—(_Krans_). Publ. anon. - -⸺ THE DARK LADY OF DOONA. [1836]. Also (_Smith, Elder_) 1837. Pp. 306. -(BELFAST) 1846. (LOND.) 1854. (_Warne_). 6_d._ 1891. - - “A weak historical novel, in Scott’s manner, which attempts - a picture of sixteenth-century life.”—(_Krans_). The heroine - is Grace O’Malley. The story opens in 1601, but there is a - retrospective portion going back to tell the early life of the - heroine. A tale of love and wild vengeance. In the story figure - the heir of the Geraldines (who marries Grace’s granddaughter), - Hugh O’Neill, and Sir Richard Bingham. Grace joins the latter - against O’Neill. Well written on the whole. - -⸺ LA DAME NOIRE DE DOONA. Roman historique traduit par Pâquis. Two tom. -(PARIS). 1834(!). - -⸺ ADVENTURES OF CAPT. BLAKE; or, My Life. (_Routledge_). 6_d._ -[_Bentley_, 1835]. 1838. Third ed., 1882. - - Really two practically independent stories, that of Major Blake - and that of his son, the Captain. The former is far the more - interesting, giving a good account of Gen. Humbert’s invasion - and of the manners of the peasantry at the time (especially - their open-hearted hospitality and kindliness), and some nice - descriptions of Connaught scenery. But for an absurd scene of - confession in a courthouse no religious bias is displayed. The - remaining two volumes are a rambling series of miscellaneous - adventures in Portugal, Paris, and London, consisting largely - of amorous episodes not edifying, to say the least, and told in - a facetious and somewhat vulgar strain. - -⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF HECTOR O’HALLORAN AND HIS MAN, MARK ANTONY O’TOOLE. -(_Warne_). 6_d._ Paper. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.30. [1842]. _n.d._ (recently -reprinted). - - The hero is the son of a landlord and ex-soldier living in the - South of Ireland. Beginning with an attack on the castle by - local malcontents, Hector and his man pass through a series - of adventures (some of which are described with considerable - “go”), first in Dublin, then in London, and finally in the - Peninsular War under Wellington. Most of the incidents take - place amid the lowest society, and some of them are distinctly - coarse. There is no character-drawing and little or no attempt - to picture the life of the period. The military experiences in - Spain form, perhaps, the best part of the book. There is no - sympathy for Ireland, and there are some gibes at Catholicism. - -⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF CAPT. O’SULLIVAN. Three Vols. (_Colburn_). [1848]. -1855. - - “Or adventures civil, military, and matrimonial of a gentleman - on half-pay.” Some of these take place near “Ballysallagh,” in - Connaught, where the hero is stationed, his duties being mainly - to keep down the Ribbonmen and to hunt for illicit stills. - Attitude towards the former somewhat bloodthirsty. The two - chief houses belong to the priest and the tithe-proctor, the - task of the latter being described as the grinding of money - “out of the wretched serfs.” Little plot, long and tedious - conversations. - -⸺ ERIN GO BRAGH; or, Irish Life Pictures. Two Vols. (_Bentley_). -Portrait. 1859. - - A posthumous collection of short stories originally contributed - to BENTLEY’S MISCELLANY and other magazines. Written in the - light, rollicking, high-spirited vein characteristic of - Maxwell. Many of them are recollections of actual experience. - Prefaced by biographical sketch by Dr. Maginn. - -⸺ LUCK IS EVERYTHING; or, The Adventures of Brian O’Linn. Pp. 440. -(_Routledge_). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 3.00. 1860. - - An infant, child of a dying mother who had been abducted, is - landed on Innisturk. He is adopted by the head man there, grows - up, goes to England, and after many exciting adventures, love - episodes, and hair-breadth escapes, finds out his own origin - and succeeds to ancestral estates. Originally appeared as - serial (with illustrations on steel by John Leech) under the - title of _Brian O’Linn_ in BENTLEY’S MISCELLANY. - - -=MAYNE, Thomas Ekenhead.= Son of a well-known bookseller of Belfast, was -fast earning for himself a considerable literary reputation, but died at -32, 1899. - -⸺ THE HEART O’ THE PEAT: Irish Fireside and Wayside Sketches. Pp. 214. -(BELFAST: _W. Erskine Mayne_). 1_s._ Paper. 1899. - - “These are all Irish stories, written on the spot, with a - faithfulness that can be felt in every line. There is no - attempt at meretricious workmanship, no maudlin sentimentality, - no mock heroics. They are simple tales, simply told; but - occasionally the restraint, which is everywhere discernible, is - relaxed for a moment, and the fire of the poet glows in half a - dozen lines, as a landscape or a sea-piece is enthusiastically - drawn, or some incident touches the gentle human heart of the - writer.”—(James H. Cousins, in SINN FEIN). - - -=“MEADE, L. T.”; Elizabeth Thomasina Toulmin Smith.= She was a daughter -of Rev. R. T. Meade, of Nohoval, Co. Cork. She was b. at Bandon. She -lived in England from 1874 till her death in 1915. Mudie’s catalogue -enumerates 185 of her novels, many of which were stories for school -girls. Of these novels several, no doubt, besides those here mentioned, -relate to Ireland. - -⸺ THE O’DONNELLS OF INCHFAWN. (_Hatchards_). 6_s._ 1887. - -⸺ THE WILD IRISH GIRL. Pp. 444. (_Chambers_). 6_s._ Eight coloured -Illustr. by the well-known PUNCH artist, Lewis Baumer. 1910. - - Warm-hearted, impulsive Patricia has been allowed to run wild - at her own sweet will in Ireland. She is brought to London, - finds the conventional restraints of society too narrow for - her, and as a consequence gets into many amusing and harmless - scrapes, and out of them again.—(_Press Notices_). - -⸺ DESBOROUGH’S WIFE. Pp. 319. (_Digby, Long_). 6_s._ One Illustr. 1911. - - Scene: near Tralee, in Kerry. Patrick D. contracts a runaway - marriage with a beautiful peasant girl. He falls heavily in - debt, finds that his mother, on whom he had relied, is even - more heavily involved, and that the only way out is a marriage - with a rich heiress. Patrick basely yields, and the poor wife - consents to “disappear,” but in a strange way, connected with a - certain “silent room” in the D. mansion, whose secret we shall - not divulge, things right themselves at last. Peter Maloney, - Patrick’s faithful foster-brother, is curiously similar to - Griffin’s Danny Mann. The moral tone is high. - -⸺ PEGGY FROM KERRY. Pp. 330. (_Chambers_). 6_s._ Pretty cover and eight -coloured Illustr. by Miss A. Anderson. 1912. - - Peggy is the daughter of a poor Irish peasant and of an - officer. She is now an orphan, but has been adopted by an - English friend of her father’s and sent to an English boarding - school. The story is made up of plots and petty jealousies - amongst the schoolgirls. Peggy, though much ridiculed for - her dreadful brogue, triumphs over her special enemy and the - latter’s followers and ends by being popular and happy. - -⸺ KITTY O’DONOVAN. Pp. 330. (_Chambers_). 5_s._ Six good coloured -Illustr. by J. Finnemore. 1912. - - Doings in a select English boarding school, where the pretty - heroine from Kerry comes scatheless through the spiteful plots - of her jealous rivals, and is crowned Queen of the May. There - is a pretty description of Kerry scenery, but most of the - action takes place outside of Ireland. - -⸺ THE PASSION OF KATHLEEN DUVEEN. Pp. 284. (_Stanley Paul_). 6_s._ 1913. - - “A tale of the novelette class about a young Irishman forced - into crime and faithlessness to his young wife by his family’s - need of money.”—[TIMES LIT. SUPPL.]. Another “Colleen Bawn” - story. Brilliant young officer marries penniless girl. - Financial straits. Murder; and nemesis. - -⸺ AT THE BACK OF THE WORLD. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 6_s._ _n.d._ - - Scene: “Arranmore,” on the sea coast of Cork. Sheila O’Connor - is long sundered from her lover by the suspicion, shared by - herself, that he is the murderer of her father, the Squire. - Whether they are ever united again we leave the reader to - discover. There are many scenes that show us the life of the - peasantry, in particular their religious customs. The book - seems free from bias, and the brogue is not exaggerated. - - -=[MEANY, Mary L.].= - -⸺ CONFESSORS OF CONNAUGHT; or, The Tenants of a Lord Bishop. Pp. viii. + -319. (PHILADELPHIA: _Cunningham_). [1864]. _n.d._ (still in print). - - Hardly a story: rather a relation of real incidents in - which the names are thinly disguised. Turns chiefly on the - proselytising efforts of Lord Plunkett, Protestant Archb. of - Tuam, resulting in the Partry evictions. Archb. MacHale, - Father Patrick Lavelle, Mgr. Dupanloup, and J. F. Maguire play - parts in the tale. Written with strong Catholic bias, but among - the chief characters are a Protestant minister and his wife, - who are represented as estimable in every way. Style lively, - and at times humorous. Dialogue good and natural. The Author is - a great admirer of William Smith O’Brien. She has also publ. - _Grace Morton; or, The Inheritance_. _A Catholic Tale._ - - -=MEANY, Stephen Joseph.= B. nr. Ennis, Co. Clare, 1825. A noted -journalist, first in his native Clare, then in Dublin. In 1848 he was -imprisoned for some months. Then he went to Liverpool, where he founded -the first English Catholic paper outside London—THE LANCASHIRE FREE -PRESS. Went to U.S.A., 1860. Returned to England, and was arrested on a -charge of Fenianism, 1867, and sentenced to 15 years. D. N.Y., 1888. His -“Life” has been written by John Augustus O’Shea. - -⸺ THE TERRY ALT: a Tale of 1831. Three Vols. 1841. - - The “Terry Alts” was a name adopted by the secret agrarian - agitators in Munster, previously known as “Whiteboys.” Not in - British Museum Library. - - -=[MEIKLE, James.]= - -⸺ KILLINCHY; or, The Days of Livingston. Pp. 156. 12mo. (BELFAST: -_McComb_). 1839. - - Description of Presbyterian life in Ulster immediately after - the Scottish Plantation, with biographical details concerning - Rev. John Livingston, a Scot from Kilsyth, who was minister of - Killinchy, Co. Down, from 1630-5. Story element slight. The - Author was a schoolmaster in the district. - - -=MELVILLE, Theodore.= - -⸺ THE IRISH CHIEFTAIN AND HIS FAMILY. Four Vols. Pp. 910. (LONDON: _Lane, -Newman_). 1809. - - The chieftain is The O’Donoghue of Killarney, dispossessed for - loyalty to the Stuarts. His family, that of Lord Roskerrin, a - Williamite, rewarded with an estate, and an exiled Venetian - are the _dramatis personæ_. Scene: chiefly Killarney. Period, - only vaguely indicated, 18th century. Conrad O’D. the hero, - falls in love with the daughter of the hated Lord R. There are - kidnappings and highly sensational adventures of all kinds, - told in a romantic manner, among others how Conrad helps to - reinstate the exiled Venetian grandee. Author’s sympathies - thoroughly on the Irish side, but does not seem unfair to the - English. He wrote also _The White Knight_, _The Benevolent - Monk_, &c. Good descriptions of Killarney. - - -=MEREDITH, George.= B. Portsmouth, 1828. He had, as he used to boast, -both Welsh (from his father) and Irish blood (from his mother) in his -veins. Ed. chiefly in Germany. The writer of his life in the ENCYCLOPEDIA -BRITTANICA says of him, “In Meredith went the writer who had raised the -creative art of the novel, as a vehicle of character and constructive -philosophy, to its highest point.... The estimate of his genius formed -by “an honourable minority,” who would place him in the highest rank of -all, by Shakespeare, has yet to be confirmed by the wider suffrage of -posterity.” He died in 1909. - -⸺ CELT AND SAXON. Pp. 300. (_Constable_). 6_s._ 1910. - - Left unfinished, like Dickens’s _Edwin Drood_. The plot has - hardly begun to work out. The chief interest lies in the - purpose which was—the author tells us—to contrast English, - as typified in John Bull, to the description of whose - characteristics a whole chapter is devoted, with Celtic - character and ideals. This purpose is manifest throughout the - book. There is a set of Irish and a set of English characters, - and within these two sets are types differing widely from - one another. One of the most pronounced types of Irishman is - married to a lady of peculiarly English characteristics, and - the resulting ménage affords the author scope for much dry - humour. A romantic episode is just beginning to develop. The - highly-wrought Meredithian style is as distinctive as in his - former books, and there are stray glimpses of the Meredithian - philosophy. - - -=“MERRY, Andrew”; Mrs. Mildred H. G. Darby=, _née_ =Gordon-Dill=. B. -1869, in Sussex, d. of a North of Irelander, a cousin of Sir Samuel Dill, -and of an English mother. Ed. at home. Married in 1889 J. C. Darby, Esq., -D.L. Her writings are noted for their impartial standpoint as regards -Irish questions, and for their virile style. Never in the criticisms of -her literary work has it been suggested that the pen-name hid a woman. - -⸺ THE GREEN COUNTRY. Pp. viii. + 378. (_Grant, Richards_). 1902. - - Little studies, humorous or pathetic, of the Irish people of - to-day. Both the landlord class and the peasantry, Catholics - as well as Protestants, figure in the tale. The Author makes - (_c.f._ Pref.) her characters responsible for the views they - express. She applies herself with insight and sympathy and - without bias to a careful presentation of various aspects of - the national character, its shadows no less than its lights. - But there is no preaching. The story entitled “The love of God - or Men” is full of true religious feeling. - -⸺ PADDY RISKY; or, Irish Realities of To-day. Pp. 367. (_Grant, -Richards_). 1903. - - Seven stories dealing with aspects of Irish life from the - landlord and Unionist point of view, yet tone not anti-Irish, - nor unjust to any class. The spirit is that of Davis’ “Celt and - Saxon,” quoted at outset:— - - “What matter that at different times - Your fathers won this sod? - In fortune and in name we’re bound - By stronger links than steel,” &c. - - One story shows the hardship of compulsory sale of grass lands. - Another deals (delicately) with seduction in peasant life. Most - of the characters in the stories are peasants of the Midlands. - Charming descriptions of Irish scenery. - -⸺ THE HUNGER: Being Realities of the Famine Years in Ireland, 1845-1848. -Pp. 436. (_Melrose_). 6_s._ 1910. - - This is, in the form of fiction, a narrative of happenings in - one district, with a plot and personal drama and talk proper - to the novel, and all of these show the gifts of a practised - and able novelist; but “every incident,” the writer assures - us, “is fact, not fiction.” His matter is mainly derived from - oral statements, helped and verified from books, records, and - trustworthy private sources; and in an introduction Mr. Merry - deals with the causes and characteristics of the famine, the - horrors of which were such that even many of the incidents - here selected had to be modified in their details to become - publishable.—(TIMES LIT. SUPPL.). - - -=MEYER, Kuno.= B. Hamburg, 1858. Ed. Hamburg and Leipzig. Lecturer in -Teutonic Languages at Univ. Coll., Liverpool, 1884; Professor, 1895. -Founded the ZEITSCHRIFT FUR CELTISCHE PHILOLOGIE, 1895, and, along with -Whitley Stokes, the ARCHIV. FUR CELTISCHE LEXICOGRAPHIE, 1898; founded -the School of Irish Learning in Dublin, 1903; Prof. of Celtic in Univ. -of Berlin since 1911. Has publ. a long series of most valuable works on -Celtic-Irish subjects. - -⸺ THE VISION OF MACCONGLINNE: a Twelfth Century Irish Wonder-Tale. -(_Nutt_). 7_s._ 6_d._ net. 1892. - - “Transl. by K. Meyer, literary introd. by W. Woolner. A - primitive tale combining two elements—satire of the Abbot - and Monks of Cork, and the vision of the Lake of Milk, which - reveals to the gleeman MacConglinne how King Cathal may be - delivered from the demon of gluttony that has been the bane of - his land. Full of extravagance and comic fancy.”—(_Baker_, 2). - -⸺ THE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FERBAL, TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING. An old -Irish saga, now first edited, with translation. Notes and Glossary by -Kuno Meyer. With an Essay upon the Irish Vision of the Happy Otherworld, -and the Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth by Alfred Nutt. [Grimm Library, Vols. -4 and 6]. - - Vol. I. “The Happy Otherworld.” Pp. xviii. + 331. 1895. - - Vol. II. “The Celtic Doctrine of Rebirth.” Pp. xii. + 352. - 1897. (_Nutt_). 10_s._ 6_d._ each. - -⸺ LIADAIN AND CUIRITHIR. (_Nutt_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1902. - - An Irish love-story of the ninth century, partly in prose, - partly in verse. Old Irish text and English translation. - Introduction by Editor. Interesting chiefly to the student of - Old Irish and the folk-lorist. - - -=MILLIGAN, Alice and W. H.= - -⸺ SONS OF THE SEA KINGS. Pp. 404. (_Gill_). 6_s._ Ten illustr. by J. -Carey. 1914. - - Based on the Scandinavian sagas—the Burnt Njal, Snorri - Sturleson’s Saga of Olaf, Tryggvesons, the Heimskringla, - &c. Iceland is the centre of these sagas, but Ireland looms - in the background, for the hero, Kiartain, comes of famous - Irish-Danish stock. The Authors have vividly realised and - vividly pictured these far times (end of 10th century). The - tone and “atmosphere” of the sagas has been preserved with - great fidelity, and the tale, told in language of much dignity - and beauty, is of high dramatic force and interest. Miss - Milligan is well known as poetess, journalist, and lecturer on - Irish subjects. Resides in Bangor, Co. Down. - - -=[MILLINGEN, John Gideon].= B. Westminster, 1782. Son of a Dutch -merchant. Served as Surgeon in Peninsular War under Wellington, -1809-1814. Wrote many plays, a history of duelling, and other works. D. -1862. (Boase). - -⸺ ADVENTURES OF AN IRISH GENTLEMAN. Three Vols. (_Colburn & Bentley_). -1830. - - A very unpleasant book. Only the opening and closing scenes - are in Ireland (neighbourhood of Bantry Bay, Skibbereen, and - Tralee), the interval being filled by adventures in Portugal - (where the Inquisition is held up to obloquy), and in Paris - (where Freemasonry is praised and convents vilified). These - adventures are, for the most part, more or less scandalous - “love” affairs. At the outset there is a good deal about Irish - disaffection and lawlessness. The Author seizes every occasion - to drag in the confessional, the Pope, &c., and to inveigh - against them. - - -=MONTGOMERY, J. W.= - -⸺ MERVYN GRAY; or, Life in the R.I.C. (EDINBURGH: _Cameron & Ferguson_). -1_s._ _c._ 1875. - - The Author was a native of Virginia, Co. Cavan. He was - a zealous antiquary, and wrote on antiquarian subjects. - Published, besides the above, two volumes of verse and one of - prose sketches. D. Bangor, Co. Down, 1911. - - -=MOORE, F. Frankfort.= B. in Limerick, 1855, but brought up and ed. in -Belfast. Began to write at 16. For sixteen years worked on staff of -BELFAST NEWS-LETTER. See his _Journalist’s Note Book_, 1894. All this -time he was turning out at least one book a year. In 1893 he scored a -great success with his _I Forbid the Banns_. Since then his output has -been very large. He resides at Lewes. - -⸺ THE JESSAMY BRIDE. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Fenno_). 50c. 1897. - - The story of the last years and death of Goldsmith, told with - all the Author’s well-known verve. Full of dialogue, witty - and lively, yet not merely flashy, in which Johnson, Burke, - Garrick, and other wits and worthies of the day take part. The - central theme is Goldsmith’s attachment to the beautiful Mary - Horneck, called the Jessamy Bride. There is much true pathos in - the story, and not a word that could offend susceptibilities. - -⸺ CASTLE OMERAGH. (_Constable_). 2_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Appleton_). 1.50. -1903. - - Scene: the West of Ireland (Co. Clare) during Cromwell’s - invasion. The central figures are the Fawcetts, a Protestant - planter family, whose sympathies have become Irish. The eldest - son is an officer in the army of O’Neill. The second, the hero, - is literary and unwarlike, and inclined to Quakerism. A Jesuit - friend of the family figures prominently in the story, and is - presented in a very favourable light. The Drogheda massacre and - Cromwell’s repulse at Clonmel are included. - -⸺ THE ORIGINAL WOMAN. Pp. 343. (_Hutchinson_). 1904. - - Thesis: whatever culture may have done for the modern woman, - she reverts to the instincts of the original woman in the - crisis of a life-decision. Scene: first, country house in - Galway. The heroine is a typical modern girl of the best kind. - The hero, who is also the villain, is a singularly attractive - personality, the complicated workings of whose mind the Author - delights to analyse. Later the scene changes to Martinique. - Here an element of the supernatural and uncanny enters the - story. The style is witty, the character-drawing very clever. - -⸺ CAPTAIN LATYMER. (_Cassell_). 6_s._ Also 6_d._ ed. 1908. - - A sequel to _Castle Omeragh_. The eldest Fawcett is condemned - by Cromwell to the West Indies, but escapes along with the - daughter of Hugh O’Neill, nephew of Owen Roe. There are - exciting adventures. The book, as does _Castle Omeragh_, gives - a faithful picture of the times. - -⸺ THE ULSTERMAN: a Story of To-day. Pp. 323. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1914. - - A very candid, plainspoken, and judicious picture of life in - North-East Ulster. Pictures what the TIMES LIT. SUPPL. calls - “the unsympathetic materialism, the drab ugliness of a life - which finds its chief recreation in religious strife, and - much of its consolation in strong drink.” But dwells upon the - sterling good qualities that go to counterbalance these others. - Opens in a mid-Antrim town on the eve of “the 12th.” Story of - a bigoted Ulster mill-owner whose sons eventually marry into - Catholic families of a lower class. Not political. - -⸺ THE LADY OF THE REEF. Pp. 348. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ 1915. - - A young English artist in Paris suddenly inherits a - property in North Co. Down, and arrives to find himself in - a puzzling environment. Cleverly sketched characters are - introduced—MacGowan, the pushful attorney, the excellent parson - Gilliland, and the dipsomaniac captain. Then there is a wreck, - a rescue, and enter the “Lady of the Reef.” The sequel tells - whether she accepts the artist or not.—(I.B.L. and T. LIT. - SUPPL.). - - -=MOORE, George.= A distinguished poet, novelist, dramatist, and art -critic. Was born in Ireland, 1857, of a Catholic family of Co. Mayo, many -of whose members were distinguished nationalists. He has produced some -twenty books. Much of Mr. Moore’s education has been acquired in France, -with the result that, as Dr. William Barry says, “he is excessively, -provokingly un-English.” At the same time he has little but scorn for -things Irish. He has, as he tells us in _Confessions of a Young Man_, -abandoned the Catholic Church. He may be said to be at war with all -prevailing types of religion and current codes of morality. His books -bear abundant evidence of the fact. Many of them treat of most unsavoury -topics, and that with naturalistic freedom and absence of reserve. -They were consequently excluded from lending libraries such as Mudie’s -and Smith’s. Many critics rank Mr. Moore very high as a psychologist -and as a critic. An interesting article on him will be found in G. K. -Chesterton’s _Heretics_. His non-Irish stories include _Evelyn Innes_, -_Sister Theresa_, _Esther Waters_, _A Mummer’s Wife_, _Celibates_, _Vain -Fortune_, _A Mere Accident_, &c. Within the last two or three years he -has published at intervals three vols. of reminiscences entitled _Ave, -Salve, Vale_, in which no privacies are respected and which in other -respects resemble his novels. - -⸺ A DRAMA IN MUSLIN. Pp. 329. (_Vizetelly_). 1886. - - Period: just before and just after the Phœnix Park murders. - Some attention is given to Land League tyranny before, and - coercion after. The interest centres in a party of girls - educated at a convent school at St. Leonard’s, and their - subsequent adventures in Irish society looking for husbands, - and all eventually going to the bad, with two exceptions. Of - these latter, one is a mad missionary and a Protestant, who - becomes a Catholic and a nun, the other is a free-thinker and - an authoress, a combination which the Author considers natural. - For the Irish peasant the Author has only disgust. The picture - of a Mass in an Irish chapel (pp. 70-72) would be offensive and - painful to a Catholic. Re-issued as _Muslin_, 1915. - -⸺ THE UNTILLED FIELD. (_Unwin_). 6_s._ (PHILADELPHIA: _Lippincott_). -1.50. [1903]. New ed. (_Heinemann_). 1914. - - A series of unconnected sketches of Irish country life, most - of which deal with relations between priests and people—evil - effects of religion on the latter, banishing joy, producing - superstition, killing art. In some of the stories priests are - depicted favourably. In the first the subject of the nude in - artist’s models is treated with complete frankness. Another - contains warnings against emigration. Some of the sketches are - exquisite; most of them, religious bias apart, true to life. - Has been transl. into Irish under title _An t-Ur Gort_ by P. - O’Sullivan. - -⸺ THE LAKE. Pp. 340. (_Heinemann_). 6_s._ 1905. (N.Y.: _Appleton_). 1.50. - - “A vague and inchoate novel with some passionate and delightful - descriptions of Nature. The theme, very indecisively worked - out, is that of a young priest’s rebellion against celibacy, - stimulated by the attractions of a girl whom he drove from the - parish because she had gone wrong.”—(_Baker_). Scene: Connaught - and Kilronan Abbey. The story seems meant to uphold the purely - Hedonistic view of life. - - -=MOORE, Sidney O.= - -⸺ THE FAMILY OF GLENCARRA: a Tale of the Irish Rebellion. Pp. 154. -(_Bath_). Six illustr. of little value. _n.d._ (1858). - - Ninety-eight (Humbert’s Invasion) seen from the standpoint - of the “Irish Society” (a proselytising organisation). The - book is intended to set forth “the ignorance and degradation - peculiar to the Romish districts of Ireland,” and tells how - Aileen who was engaged to one of the rebels (a murderer) is - converted, and endeavours to convert others, with varying - success. The book is full of calumnies against, and grotesque - misrepresentations of, the Catholic Church. It closes with an - appeal to the “Daughters of England” for funds for the Irish - Society. - - -=MORAN, D. P.= Editor since its inception of the LEADER (Dublin). A -Waterford man. - -⸺ TOM O’KELLY. Pp. 232. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1905. - - An ugly picture of lower middle class life in a small Irish - provincial town. It depicts the vulgarity and shoneenism - of this class, its drunkenness, its efforts to imitate the - well-to-do Protestant better classes, &c., &c. Unsparing - ridicule is showered upon Nationalist politics and politicians. - The unpleasantness of the picture is somewhat relieved by the - doings of Tom O’Kelly and the juvenile Ballytowners. Very - slight plot. - - -=MORAN, J. J.= - -⸺ THE DUNFERRY RISIN’. (_Digby, Long_). 1894. - - A study of the Fenian movement. The EVENING SUN of London - devoted a two-column review to the book, written by an old - participator in the Fenian movement (we understand that the - writer was the late J. F. X. O’Brien, M.P.), in which the story - was described as one of the most vivid pictures of the Irish - Republican Brotherhood and their movement that had yet been - written. - -⸺ IRISH STEW. (_Digby, Long_). 1895. - - A collection of humorous stories. “Jack Arnold’s Tour,” the - longest story, may be taken as typical. It relates the comical - adventures of an English visitor at Bundoran. The stories are - remarkable for their spirited and racy dialogue. - -⸺ STORIES OF THE IRISH REBELLION. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1_s._ 6_d._ - - Short stories, noteworthy for vividness and dramatic power (for - example, the story of Leonie Guiscard and Teeling). Humour and - pathos alternate. Neither is overdone.—(Publ.). - -⸺ TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN GREEN. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 6_s._ 1898. - - Land League story—extreme popular point of view; gives vivid - idea of feelings of people during hottest years of the - agitation. Introduces amiable Englishman who sees justice done - for his tenants. Clear and pleasant style.—(IRISH MONTHLY). - -⸺ IRISH DROLLERIES. (_Drane_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1909. - - Ten comic stories such as “Pat Mulligan’s Love-making,” - a bashful young man “proposing” by proxy; “Miss Mullan’s - Mistake,” story of an elderly spinster who answers a - matrimonial advertisement with amusing results. Others are: - “Torsney’s Ghost,” “O’Hagan’s Golden Weddin’,” “Tim Mannion the - Hero,” “The Wake at Mrs. Doyle’s,” and so on.—(_Press Notice_). - “Mr. Moran has done much good work as a publisher of Irish - books in Aberdeen. In his humorous sketches of Irish life he - has ever striven to eschew the ‘Stage-Irishman’ type of vulgar - comicality. He writes much for various papers. Besides the - books noted here, he has published _A Deformed Idol_, &c.” - - - =MORGAN, Lady.= She was the daughter of a poor Dublin actor, - named Owenson, and was born in 1777. Her self-reliance, gaiety, - and accomplishments won her a prominent place in the literary - and social life of Dublin. She married Sir T. C. Morgan, - physician to the Lord Lieutenant. She protests energetically - in her books against the religious and political grievances - of Ireland. “Her books are a sign of the growth of a broader - spirit of Irish nationality and reflect the growing interest in - Irish history and antiquities.”—(_Krans_). She is said to have - published more than seventy volumes. Her satires of the higher - social life of Dublin are spirited and readable even to-day, - but their tone is often sharp and bad-tempered. She caught - well the outward drolleries of the lower classes: postillions, - innkeepers, Dublin porters, &c.; but she seldom looks beneath - the surface. It has been well said that her novels are - “thoroughly Irish in matter, in character, in their dry humour, - and cutting sarcasm; no less than in their vehemence and - impetuosity of feeling.” Twenty-two of her works are mentioned - by Allibone. She died in 1859. - -⸺ ST. CLAIR; or, the Heiress of Desmond. [1803]. 1807, 1812. - - “_St. Clair_, in sentiment and situation a weak imitation of - Werter, introduces an Irish antiquary, who discourses upon - local legends and traditions, ancient Irish MSS., and Celtic - history, poetry, and music.”—(_Krans_). Aims at upsetting the - notion of the possibility of platonic love between the sexes - without any approach to real attachment. Into the description - of places and scenes the Authoress worked much of her Connaught - experience. - -⸺ ST. CLAIR EN OLIVIA ... MET PLATEN. Dutch trans. by F. van Teutem. -(AMSTERDAM). 1816. - -⸺ THE WILD IRISH GIRL. [1806]. (N.Y.: _Haverty_). 1.50. (_Routledge_). -_n.d._ 6_d._ - - A love story of almost gushing sentiment. The scene is the - barony of Tirerragh, in Sligo (where the book was actually - written). Here the “Prince” of Inismore, though fallen on evil - days, still keeps up all the old customs of the chieftains, his - ancestors. He wears the old dress, uses the old salutations, - has his harper and his shanachie, &c. His daughter, Glorvina, - is the almost ethereal heroine. The personages of the book - frequently converse about ancient Irish history, legend, - music, ornaments, weapons, and costumes. There is much acute - political discussion and argument in the book. It is fervently - on the side of Irish nationality. “Father John” is a fine - character modelled on the then Dean of Sligo. It contains - many other portraits drawn from real life. Its success at - the time was enormous. In two years it passed through seven - editions.—(Fitzpatrick, Krans, &c.). - -⸺ O’DONNEL. Pp. 288. (_Downey_). 2_s._ 6_d._ [1814]. 1895. - - The central figure of this tale is a scion of the O’Donnells - of Tyrconnell, proud, courteous, travelled, who has fought - in the armies of Austria and of France, and finally that of - England. He is a type of the old Catholic nobility, and his - story is made to illustrate the working of the Penal laws. - Nearly all the personages of the story are people of fashion, - mostly titled. There is much elaborate character-study, and not - a little social satire. The native Irish of the lower orders - appear in the person of M’Rory alone, a humorous faithful old - retainer, whose conversation is full of bulls. Lady Singleton, - the meddling, showy, flippantly talkative woman of fashion, - and Mr. Dexter, the obsequious, a West Briton of those days, - are well drawn. The main purpose of the book, says the Author, - was to exhibit Catholic disabilities. There are interesting - descriptions of scenery along the Antrim coast and in Donegal. - As fiction it is slow reading, yet Sir Walter Scott speaks - highly of it. - -⸺ FLORENCE MACARTHY. (N.Y.: _Sadlier_). 1.50. 1816. - - Combines, as so many of Lady Morgan’s books do, political - satire with a romantic love tale. A kidnapped heir asserts - his claim to a peerage and estates and unwittingly woos the - romantic Florence, to whom he had been betrothed in his youth. - Mr. Fitzpatrick calls the book “an exceedingly interesting - and erudite novel,” and tells us how, before attempting - it, she had “saturated her memory with a large amount of - reading which bore upon the subject of it.” The character of - Counsellor Con Crawley constitutes a bitter attack on Lady - Morgan’s unscrupulous enemy, John Wilson Croker. The half-mad - schoolmaster, Terence Oge O’Leary, is a curious type. - -⸺ THE O’BRIENS AND O’FLAHERTYS. Three eds. in one year. [1827]. (N.Y.: -_Haverty_). - - May be said to have for its object Catholic Emancipation, yet - the author was no admirer of O’Connell, and in this book keen - strokes of satire are aimed at the Jesuits, and even at the - Pope. Mr. Fitzpatrick says that “though professedly a fiction - it is really a work of some historical importance, and may - be safely consulted in many of the details by statistic or - historic writers.” He tells us also that it “contains a few - coarse expressions; and, in common with its predecessors, - exhibits a somewhat inconsistent love for republicanism and - aristocracy.” The novel is the story of a young patriot who, - expelled from Trinity College along with Robert Emmet and - others, becomes a volunteer and a United Irishman, and is - admitted to the councils of Tone, Napper Tandy, Rowan, and - the rest. After ’98 (which is not described in detail) he - goes to France, where he rises to be a General, and marries - the heroine. The book depicts with vividness and fidelity the - manners of the time (hence the occasional coarseness). There - are lively descriptions of Castle society in the days of the - Duke of Rutland. Lord Walter Fitzgerald was the original of - “Lord Walter Fitzwalter.” - -⸺ LES O’BRIEN ET LES O’FLAHERTY OU L’IRLANDE EN 1793 is the title of a -French translation of the preceding by J. Cohen. Three Vols. (PARIS: _C. -Gosselin_). 1828. - -⸺ DRAMATIC SCENES FROM REAL LIFE. Two Vols. (_Saunder’s & Otley_). [1833]. - - Contains a piece entitled “Mount Sackville.” “It possesses a - great deal of her peculiar power, has much truth, and much good - feeling, alloyed with some angry prejudice. There are some - scenes inimitable for their racy humour, and the characters - of Gallagher, the orange-agent, his ally the housekeeper, and - Father Phil, are worthy the hand that sketched M’Rory and the - Crawley family.... The Whiteboy scenes, though forcibly drawn, - are perhaps too melodramatic. Shows much bitterness against the - Repealers.”—(DUBL. REV.). - - -=MORIARTY, Denis Ignatius.= Ed. by. - -⸺ THE WIFE HUNTER AND FLORA DOUGLAS. Three Vols.[9] (_Bentley_). 1838. - - Prefatory notice signed by “John O’Brien Grant,” of Kilnaflesk, - the teller of the story. K. is “situated in a remote corner - of the kingdom,” near Bandon (vol. II., p. 186); it is - an old rambling family mansion, dating from 1713. We are - introduced to a set of hard-drinking, Orange squireens. The - hero, refused by his nurse’s daughter Mary, has a “go” at a - rich heiress, merely to better himself. He also, in company - with Morrough O’Driscoll, a “restless, blustering, dexterous, - successful, ambitious, amusing and farcical genius,” throws - himself into politics. Then there are a number of burlesque - electioneering scenes. Duly elected, the hero goes to Dublin, - meets Charlemont, &c., in high society. Hero marries Mary - after all; then, on her death, rescues an heiress and marries - her.... A third matrimonial venture is unsuccessful. There is - no seriousness in the book. - -[9] The first two (pp. 342 + 332) are taken up by _The Wife Hunter_. - - -=MORRIS, E. O’Connor.= - -⸺ KILLEEN: a Study of Girlhood. Pp. 348. (_Elliot Stock_). 1895. - - Scene: “Killeen Castle,” Queen’s County. The plot turns on - misunderstandings that keep lovers apart. The characters are - of the Anglo-Irish and English upper classes. The book is - religious and moral in tone, the standpoint Protestant. Peasant - character sympathetically treated. - -⸺ CLARE NUGENT. Pp. 324. (_Digby, Long_). 1902. - - A rather sentimental tale of an Irish girl who goes to work - in England, in order to retrieve the fallen fortunes of the - family. This a particularly successful marriage enables her to - do, and all ends most ideally. An ordinary plot, somewhat long - drawn out. One or two charming descriptions of Irish scenery. - -⸺ FINOLA. Pp. 304. (_Digby, Long_). 6_s._ 1910. - - Scene: chiefly Dublin at the present day. Murrough O’Brien is - to get a great inheritance on condition of marrying Finola - de Burgh. He gives his consent. Then he is ordered off to - S. Africa. On his return he falls in love with a certain - Kathleen Burke, and is resolved to lose his inheritance for - her sake. The situation has been planned by the romantic Lady - Mary Eustace. Her plans nearly turn out in an unforeseen way. - The interest then settles on the identity of Kathleen Burke. - Several of the characters are well sketched. Notably, Eleanor - Butler, a sharp and amusing spinster. - - -=MORRIS, W. O’Connor.= B. 1824 at Kilkenny. Son of B. Morris, Rector of -Rincurran, near Kinsale. Ed. in England. Became a County Court Judge. He -devoted himself largely to politics; was a Liberal Unionist, strongly -opposed to Home Rule, and especially to the land agitation. Was himself -a good landlord, and an estimable man. D. 1904. _See_ his reminiscences, -_Memories and Thoughts of a Life_. - -⸺ MEMOIRS OF GERALD O’CONNOR. Pp. 311. (_Digby, Long_). 1903. - - Reminiscences (told in the first person) of one Gerald - O’Connor, an ancestor of the Author. “Compiled partly from - old documents and papers in my possession, partly from - reminiscences handed down from father to son during five - generations, and partly from my own researches.”—(Pref.). - But the Author has freely filled in gaps in the authentic - records and supplied colouring, though there is practically - no dialogue. O’Connor served in the Williamite Wars, 1689-91, - emigrated to France with Sarsfield, and joined the staff of - Marshal Villars. Was in all the great battles of the War of the - Spanish Succession. The Author describes effects on Ireland of - conquest and confiscation from point of view of O’Connor, but - admits in Preface that he himself looks at modern Ireland from - the landlord’s standpoint. - - -=MULHOLLAND, Clara.= Is a sister of Lady Gilbert. Was born in Belfast, -but left it at an early age, and was educated at convents in England -and Belgium. The style of her stories is simple and bright, their tone -thoroughly wholesome. Even when there is nothing directly about religion, -they breathe an atmosphere of Catholicism. All of them can safely and -with profit be given to the young. Many of them are specially meant -for young readers. Some of her non-Irish stories are _The Miser of -Kingscourt_, _A Striking Contrast_. - -⸺ PERCY’S REVENGE. (_Gill_). 1887. - - Irish and Catholic. - -⸺ LITTLE MERRY FACE AND HIS CROWN OF CONTENT. (_Burns & Oates_). 1889. - - Stories for children. Irish and Catholic. - -⸺ LITTLE SNOWDROP AND OTHER STORIES. Pp. 192. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ -Illustr. 1889. - - The scene of the principal story, a great favourite with - children, is laid in Killiney, near Dublin. It tells of a child - kidnapped by gypsies. - -⸺ THE LITTLE BOGTROTTERS. Pp. 188. (BELFAST: _Ward_; BALTIMORE, U.S.A.: -_John Murphy_). Illustr. _n.d._ - - The child heroine actually loves her prospective step-mother, - and is delighted at the approaching marriage. During the - honeymoon Elise visits her cousins the Sullivans in Ireland—a - pleasant houseful of harum-scarum boys and girls, with whom - Elsie has many adventures. “Father John” is a fine type of - Irish priest. - -⸺ DIMPLING’S SUCCESS. Pp. 150. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). _n.d._ - - Reminds one of _Little Lord Fauntleroy_, but Dimpling O’Connor - not only wins her stern old grandfather’s heart, but wins him - to the Catholic Church. There are plenty of adventures and a - good deal of piety, not of the goody-goody description. - -⸺ KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN. Pp. 143. (BALTIMORE: _Murphy_). 1890. - - A cruel Donegal landlord fearing that his son is becoming - attached to Kathleen Burke, daughter of a poor tenant of one - of his farms, evicts Mrs. Burke. This blow kills her. Kathleen - goes as a governess to London, and there the lovers meet again. - But the hero has seen the error of his father’s ways, and - goes into Parliament. In the end he and his father too become - Catholics, and all ends well. For young people. - -⸺ LINDA’S MISFORTUNES, AND LITTLE BRIAN’S TRIP TO DUBLIN. (_Gill_). -(N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.70 net. [_c._ 1892]. Still in print. - - Two stories, the first and longer not being concerned with - Ireland. The second is a delightful little children’s story. - -⸺ IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY. Pp. 224. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1908. - - Main theme: a plot to defraud an orphan girl of inherited - property, which in a strange manner fails, and all is well - again. Scene: first, London, then Donegal, of the scenery of - which the Author gives vivid descriptions. The life of the - peasants and their relations with their priests are depicted - with sympathy and feeling. - -⸺ TERENCE O’NEILL’S HEIRESS. Pp. 358. (_Browne & Nolan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -Illustr. by C. A. Mills. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.35. 1909. - - A pleasant story of a young girl left an unprovided orphan, who - is cared for by generous relatives, whom in their hour of need - she strives to repay. Suspected of a theft, she is vindicated - only after much sorrow and heart-burning. The heroine is a - noble and beautiful character. Refined and sensitive, loving - music and art, she is obliged to take service as a governess in - an English family. There she meets the great trial of her life, - but also the final crown of her happiness. - -⸺ SWEET DOREEN. (_Washbourne_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1915. - - Poverty and misery in Ballygorst have reached a climax. At the - suggestion of the Agent, Father Ryan goes to Dublin to get - the Landlord to do something. The latter is respectful, but - will do nothing. Just as Father Ryan is going the Landlord’s - daughter and her American friend Laura come in. They will go to - Ballygorst, and Papa is persuaded to be of the party. The story - tells how they came, met “Sweet Doreen” and her brothers and - sister, and met with many adventures, pleasant and unpleasant, - in the effort to do good. - - -=MULHOLLAND, Rosa; Lady Gilbert.= Born in Belfast, about 1855. She spent -some years in a remote mountainous part of the West of Ireland. Of the -rest of her life most has been passed in Ireland, where she still lives. -In her early literary life she received much help and encouragement from -Dickens, who highly valued her work. She has written much poetry of -high literary quality and “marked by a thought and diction peculiar to -herself.”—(IRISH LIT.). Her novels are intensely Catholic, though without -anti-Protestant feeling, and intensely national. But their most striking -quality is a literary style of singular purity and grace, and a quiet -beauty very different from the flash and rattle of much recent writing. -She has publ. several vols. of verse. Among her non-Irish novels may be -mentioned _The Late Miss Hollingford_, _The Squire’s Granddaughter_, _The -Haunted Organist_. Lady Gilbert has also written many children’s stories -full of originality and playful fancy. - -⸺ DUNMARA. By “Ruth Murray.” Three Vols. (_Smith, Elder_). 1864. - - Wrecked on the coast Ellen, of mysterious antecedents, is taken - into the family of Mr. Aungier, or Dunmara Castle, in the - West. Strange household—the half-witted Miss Rowena, the dark, - vindictive Miss Elswitha, with unpleasant family history in - the background. A will is discovered making Ellen heiress of - Dunmara, but revealing to her that she is the daughter of a man - formerly slain by Mr. Aungier, who had asked her in marriage. - This long keeps the two apart, but they are married in the end. - Little Irish colour. Written in somewhat strained style and at - times over-emotional. - -⸺ HESTER’S HISTORY. Pp. 237. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1869. - - Pastoral life in the Glens of Antrim at the time of the - Union, the main theme being a love story. Humour and tragedy - alternate. Incidents of the rebellion of ’98, including an - attack on a castle in the Glens by the English soldiery. Some - historical characters are introduced. During part of the action - the scene shifts to London. The story was written at the - request of Charles Dickens, and he thought highly of it. - -⸺ ELDERGOWAN; and Other Tales (three). (_Marcus Ward_). Illustr. 1874. - - “Eldergowan” is a very careful and clever study of a girl’s - varying moods. “It is an excellent example of artistic work - and perfect in its way.” “Mrs. Archie” is a comedy in which - the chief actors are the antiquated family of the MacArthurs, - dwelling in the glens of Antrim. The third story, “Little Peg - O’Shaughnessy” is written in a lively style, with plenty of - interest of a healthy “real” kind.—(I.M.). - -⸺ THE WILD BIRDS OF KILLEEVY. Pp. 311. (_Burns & Oates_). (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 1.10. [1883]. - - An exquisite little tale, not of the realistic sort, but sweet - and ideal. Kevin and Fanchea are little peasant playmates - together in Killeevy. Kevin is dull at his books, but full - of the love of nature. Fanchea is a fairy with a bird-like - voice. One day she is stolen by gipsies, then by strange - fortune gets into the upper stratum of society. Kevin goes - out into the world to look for her. He gets education and - becomes a poet. After long years they meet again and all is - well. Killeevy is an Irish-speaking district where the people - treasure religiously their Irish MSS. Here and there there - are pen-pictures of much beauty. It is not of course a mere - children’s book. It has been well said of the book: “It is our - own world after all, seen through the crystal of pure language, - artistic sense, and joyous perception of natural beauty.” - -⸺ THE WALKING TREES; and Other Tales. Pp. 256. (_Gill_). 1885. - - Contains “The Girl from under the Lake,” an Irish fairy tale, - occupying about one-third of the book. It is charmingly told. - -⸺ MARCELLA GRACE: an Irish Novel. (_Kegan, Paul_). 6_s._ 1886. - - A story with an elaborate plot, full of dramatic incident. - Incidentally the evils of landlordism and Fenianism are dwelt - upon, the former in the picture drawn of the hovels, the - starved land, and the meek misery of the people—and here the - author is at her best. The minor characters are clearly and - sympathetically drawn, evidently from life. There is much - sadness and even tragedy in the story. The Phœnix Park Murders - are touched upon. - -⸺ A FAIR EMIGRANT. Pp. 370. (_Kegan, Paul_). 2_s._, &c. [1889]. New ed., -1896, &c. - - Period: about the ’seventies. Scene: at first in America - (farming life), then in Ireland, north coast of Antrim. A love - story. The heroine, one of those whom all must love, is an only - daughter, whose mission in life is to clear her dead father’s - reputation. Full of romantic incident. There is a picture of - the landlord class of the time, and there are many good things - about the vexed economic and social questions of the day. The - book has the Author’s usual grace of diction, sincerity of - thought, and fine descriptions of scenery. It was very highly - praised in Irish, English, and Scotch literary journals. - -⸺ NANNO. Pp. 287. (_Grant Richards_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1899. - - A rural love-story. Scene: Dublin and Youghal and Ardmore. The - heroine is a girl born in the workhouse, who is saved from - its dangerous and degrading atmosphere, and raised, by true - affection and by living among good country people, to high - moral feeling and purpose and to the heights of self-sacrifice. - The most realistic and the strongest of Lady Gilbert’s works. - Esteemed by the literary critics and by herself to be the best - of her novels. It is based on facts, and it occasioned the - reform of certain abuses in workhouses. - -⸺ ONORA. Pp. 354. (_Grant Richards_). 1900. - - A story of country life in Waterford in the days of the - Land League. Eviction scenes. Life in Land League huts on - the Ponsonby Estate. Has a strong emotional interest, with - much study of the family affections and of the interplay of - character. Many touches of humour. Highly praised in English - literary reviews. Incidentally there are glimpses of Mount - Melleray and of the scenery on the Blackwater. The sterling - goodness of obscure people is rendered with womanly sympathy. - Interwoven with the main story is that of Norah’s little lame - poet brother Deelan, a pathetic episode. Also folk-tales and - ballads. - -⸺ TERRY. Pp. 112. (_Blackie_). Thirteen good illustr. by E. A. Cabitt. -1902. - - Scene: West of Ireland. A story for children, about a girl and - boy of an adventurous turn, relating their doings while living - with their grandmother and their nurse, their parents being - away in Africa. - -⸺ THE TRAGEDY OF CHRIS: The Story of a Dublin Flower-Girl. (_Sands_). -[1903]. Second ed., 2_s._ 6_d._ 1914. - - Sheelia, the little workhouse girl, is boarded out with Mary - Ellen Brady, and lives a happy life with her in her cottage in - the fold of the hills. But Mary Ellen dies, and Sheelia, to - escape dependence on the worthless cousins of her dead “Mammy,” - runs away to Dublin. Here she is friendless and penniless - till she becomes a flower-girl under the tutorship of Chris. - Tragedy comes when Chris disappears (she had been decoyed away - to London and made a “white slave”), and Sheelia makes it her - life work to find her again. She does so, but in the saddest - circumstances. The pitiful story is told with perfect delicacy. - Scene: Dublin, various other parts of Ireland, and London. - -⸺ THE STORY OF ELLEN. Pp. 434. (_Burns & Oates_). 5_s._ 1907. - - This is a reprint of an earlier story entitled _Dunmara_ - (Smith, Elder), _q.v._ - -⸺ OUR SISTER MAISIE. Pp. 383. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ Illustr. by G. Demain -Hammond, R.I. 1907. - - Maisie, aged eighteen, comes from Rome to take charge of a - whole family of step-brothers and sisters. She owns an island - off the West coast. The family goes there. The children, after - many vicissitudes, turn out clever, develope special aptitudes, - and put these to use in helping the poor islanders in various - ways. There is a pretty love-story towards the close. - -⸺ COUSIN SARA. Pp. 399. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ Eight fine illustr. by Frances -Ewan. 1908. - - An ideal love-story woven into a strong plot. There is tragedy - and humour with touches of heroism. High ideals are set forth. - The scene varies between the North of Ireland, Italy, and - London. The central idea of the story is this: Sara’s father, a - retired soldier, has a talent for the invention of machinery. - One of his inventions is stolen, and then patented by one whom - he had trusted. Then Sara shows her true worth. - -⸺ A GIRL’S IDEAL. Pp. 399. (_Blackie_). Bound in solid gift-book style; -cover attractive though not in perfect taste; many illustr. 1908. - - Tells how an Irish-American girl comes to Ireland to spend a - huge fortune to the greatest advantage of her country. There - is also a love interest. Incidentally there is a description - of the Dublin Horse Show; a number of folklore tales are - told by Duncie, and there are good descriptions of Connaught - scenery. The book is rather crowded with somewhat characterless - personages, and there are improbabilities not a few. - -⸺ THE GIRLS OF BANSHEE CASTLE. Pp. 384. (_Blackie_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. -by John Bacon. _n.d._ - - Three girls, brought up in poverty by a governess in London, - migrate to Galway to occupy the castle, pending the discovery - of the missing heir. The latter turns up, but is not what he - was thought to be, and there are complications. The girls hear - a great deal of folk-lore and legend from the servants and from - the peasantry. - -⸺ CYNTHIA’S BONNET SHOP. (_Blackie_). 5_s._ Eight illustr. by G. Demain -Hammond, R.I. - - “Cynthia, daughter of an impoverished Connaught family, wants - to support a delicate mother. She and her star-struck sister - go to London, where Cynthia opens a bonnet shop. How they - find new interests in life is told with mingled humour and - pathos.”—(_Publ._). - -⸺ GIANNETTA: A Girl’s Story of Herself. (_Blackie_). 3_s._ Six full-page -illustr. by Lockhart Bogle. - - “The story of a changeling who is suddenly transferred to - the position of a rich English heiress. She develops into - a good and accomplished woman, and has gained too much - love and devotion to be a sufferer by the surrender of her - estates.”—(_Publ._). - -⸺ THE RETURN OF MARY O’MURROUGH. Pp. 282. (_Sands_). 2_s._ (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 0.75. [1908]. Cheap ed., 1915. - - Illustrated by twelve exceptionally good photos of Irish - scenery and types. Scene: near Killarney. The girl comes back - from the States to find her lover in jail, into which he had - been thrown owing to the perjury and treachery of some of the - police. We shall not reveal the sequel. The story is told with - a simplicity and restraint which render the pathos all the - more telling. It is faithful to reality, deeply Catholic, and - wholly on the side of the peasantry, of whose situation under - iniquitous laws a picture is drawn which can only be described - as exasperating. - -⸺ THE WICKED WOODS. Pp. 373. (_Burns & Oates_). New ed. 1909. - - The hero is a scion of a family in which a curse, uttered - against one of its founders by poor peasants whom he had - dispossessed, had worked ruin for many generations. He is - wholly unlike his ancestors, yet he, too, in a strange and - tragic manner, falls under the influence of the curse—for - a time. The story tells how he escapes from the terrible - trial. Incidentally the best qualities of the peasantry are - beautifully shown forth, especially the charity of the poor to - one another. - -⸺ THE O’SHAUGHNESSY GIRLS. Pp. 383. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ Eight pleasant -half-tone ill. by G. Demain Hammond. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.50. 1910. - - Scene: partly in London, partly by the Blackwater, in Munster, - where live Lady Sibyl O’Shaughnessy and her two unmarried - daughters. Of these latter, Lavender lives at home, takes an - interest in things Gaelic, and has fireside ceilidhes. The - other, Bell, runs away and goes on the stage. The search for - Bell and the discovery of the identity of a mysterious boy on - the O’S. farm constitute the main incidents of a delightful - story. There is a love interest. The moral of the whole (not - too obtrusive) is “Do the work that’s nearest, though it’s dull - at times.” - -⸺ FATHER TIM. Pp. 314 (large print). (_Sands_). 2_s._ 6_d._ net. One -coloured illustr. (_Benziger_). 0.90. 1910. Still in print. - - Father T. is a zealous curate, first in a Dublin mountain - parish, afterwards in a parish among the Dublin slums. The - interest centres in his influence and work among upper and - lower classes alike. The story tells, too, of the varying - fortunes of other people that come into his life. Harrowing - pictures are drawn of the Dublin slums. Written with the - Author’s habitual literary charm. The plot is slight, but the - incidents follow one another rapidly and the interest does not - flag. - -⸺ FAIR NOREEN: the Story of a Girl of Character. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ -Illustr. by G. Demain Hammond. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.50. 1911. - -⸺ TWIN SISTERS: An Irish Tale. Pp. 392. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ 1912. - -⸺ NORAH OF WATERFORD. Pp. 251. (_Sands_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1915. - - A republication of _Onora_. - - -=MURPHY, Con. T.= - -⸺ THE MILLER OF GLANMIRE: an Irish Story. Pp. 227. (CHICAGO: _Baker_). -Illustr. 1895. - - -=MURPHY, James.= B. Glynn, Co. Carlow, 1839. Ed. locally. He entered -the teaching profession, and was for some years Principal of the -Public Schools at Bray, Co. Wicklow, being appointed in 1860. He was -successively Town Clerk of Bray and Prof. of Mathematics in Cath. Univ. -and in Blackrock Coll. He resides in Kingstown. He has written more than -twenty-five novels, eleven of which have been published. Others he hopes -to publish in the near future. - -⸺ THE HAUNTED CHURCH. (LOND.: _Spencer Blackett_). 4 eds. - - The story of a treasure buried by buccaneers in an old - graveyard near Dublin, telling how the chief characters of the - tale, after many exciting adventures in Peru at the time of the - revolution there, eventually find the treasure and also the - heir to the earldom of Glenholme. - -⸺ THE SHAN VAN VOCHT: a Tale of ’98. Pp. 347. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 6_d._ -_n.d._ [1883]. Several since. - - A melodramatic story, full of hairbreadth escapes, related with - a good deal of dash, and at times of power. Tells of Tone’s - negotiations in Paris leading to the various attempted French - invasions of Ireland, with a detailed and vivid account of - that in which Admiral Bompart was defeated in Lough Swilly and - Tone himself captured, also details of the latter’s trial and - execution. - -⸺ THE FORGE OF CLOHOGUE. Pp. 332. (_Sealy, Bryers, and Gill_). [1885]. -5th ed., 1912. - - The story opens on Christmas Eve, 1797, and ends with the - battle of Ross, including very stirring descriptions of the - battle there and at Oulart. As is usual with this Author, the - plot is somewhat loose, there are improbabilities, and the love - interest is of a stereotyped kind; yet the reader is carried - along by the quick succession of exciting incident. Of course - the standpoint is national. A good idea is given of the state - of the country at the time. - -⸺ THE HOUSE IN THE RATH. Pp. 291. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 2_s._ [1886]. Fifth -ed., 1909. - - Has the usual qualities of this Author’s stories: plenty of - exciting and dramatic incident, and stirring descriptions—among - the latter the battle of Camperdown. Deals with Wolfe Tone’s - efforts to obtain aid from France for the United Irishmen and - with the plans of the latter at home. Lord Edward Fitzgerald - and Oliver Bond appear. There are pictures, too, of the - atrocities of the yeomanry. Interwoven with these events there - is a romance of private life centering in the cleverly drawn - characters of Teague, the Fiddler, and Kate Hatchman. As usual, - the Author makes much use of “the long arm of coincidence.” - -⸺ CONVICT No. 25; or, The Clearances of Westmeath. Pp. 324. (_Duffy_). -3_s._ 6_d._ [1886]. Fifth ed., 1913. - - Depicts landlordism in its worst days and at its worst—about - forty or fifty years ago. A complicated and somewhat - melodramatic plot in which probability is a good deal strained. - A slight love story runs through the book. - -⸺ THE FORTUNES OF MAURICE O’DONNELL. 1887, and two others since. - -⸺ HUGH ROACH, THE RIBBONMAN. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ [_c._ 1887]. Fourth ed., -1909. - - One of the most popular of the author’s stories. The - leading incidents are founded on occurrences of the time. - Full of thrilling and dramatic situations and historical - pictures.—(FREEMAN). - -⸺ LUKE TALBOT. Pp. 278. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ 1890. Sixth ed. in -preparation. - - A sensational story, filled, without any interval of dullness, - with exciting adventures—sea battles, wrecks, hairbreadth - escapes, fighting under Wellington in Spain, &c., &c. The - main theme is a murder committed by a wicked land agent in - Ireland—Malcolm M’Nab—and of which Luke is suspected on strong - circumstantial evidence. All through the book, until just the - end, M’Nab is on top, but right finally triumphs. There is no - attempt at character drawing and very little probability. - -⸺ THE FLIGHT FROM THE CLIFFS. Pp. 266. (_Duffy_). 1911. - - Author’s avowed intention—to present Irish and Catholic view - of the Confederation War. With the political and military - events of the time in mingled the romance of Walter Butler - (the hero), who is on the Confederate side, and the daughter - of Inchiquin. Owen Roe and Father Luke Wadding are prominent - in the tale. Careful description of Benburb. Scene laid in - many parts of Ireland (Dublin, Wicklow, Cork, Donegal, &c.), - and in Spain and Rome. Full of exciting adventures, battles, - sieges, &c. Illustr. very numerous. They are crude, but serve - to enliven the narrative. - -⸺ LAYS AND LEGENDS OF IRELAND. (_Duffy_). 1912. - - Twelve in prose and five in verse. Includes two of Author’s - best short stories—“Maureen’s Sorrow” and “At Noon by the - Ravine,” as well as several of his best known ballads. - -⸺ THE INSIDE PASSENGER. (_Duffy_). 1913. - - The mail coach from Limerick is overtaken by a snow-storm - near the old castle of Bullock, near Dalkey, and held up by - a snowdrift. Passengers have to get out and shelter in the - castle. To while away the time they tell stories each more - weird and wonderful than the preceding, and all referring - indirectly to the Inside Passenger. Towards morning the I. P., - the coachman, and the six brass-bound boxes are found to have - disappeared. The story tells what befell on the head of this - and how the mystery was finally solved. - - -=MURPHY, Nicholas P.= D. 1914. Ed. Clongowes Wood College. Was a member -of the English Bar. - -⸺ A CORNER IN BALLYBEG. Pp. 256. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1902. - - A collection of short, humorous sketches of life in a midland - village in Ireland at the present day. The dialect is well - done. The book is not written in a spirit of caricature. - - -=MURRAY, John Fisher.= B. Belfast, 1811. Ed. there and T.C.D. Wrote much -for Irish and English periodicals, including the NATION and the UNITED -IRISHMAN. D. Dublin, 1865. - -⸺ THE VICEROY. Three Vols. (LOND.). 1841. - - Deals with Dublin official life, satirizing it unmercifully. - First appeared in BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE. The Author was born in - Belfast in 1811; died 1865. Wrote for the NATION, the UNITED - IRISHMAN (1848), the DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, &c. Graduated - M.A. in T.C.D., 1832. - - -=NAUGHTON, William.= - -⸺ THE PRIEST’S BOY: a Story of Irish Rural Life. (DUBLIN: _Hunter_). -1_s._ 1914. - - -=NEVILLE, Elizabeth O’Reilly.= - -⸺ FATHER TOM OF CONNEMARA. (N.Y.: _Rand, McNally Co._). $1.50. Illustr. -[1902]. 1903. - - Rural life in W. of Ireland. - - -=NEVILLE, Ralph.= - -⸺ LLOYD PENNANT: a Tale of the West. Two Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1864. - - First ran as a serial in “Duffy’s Hibernian Magazine,” 1863. - Well-written and exciting melodrama, with a good plot, but very - quiet and plain in style. The hero, who bears an assumed name, - and is really heir of an old Anglo-Irish family, joins the - British navy. He is unjustly accused of disloyalty and intimacy - with Lord Edward Fitzgerald. But all ends well, including his - love affair with Kate Blake, daughter of a family that plays a - principal part in the story. The Humbert invasion is touched - upon, especially the Castlebar “Races.” There is a good deal - about the ways of gombeen men and middlemen in the West. - Sympathies national. Wrote also _The Squire’s Heir_, 1881. - - -=NEWCOMEN, George.= - -⸺ A LEFT-HANDED SWORDSMAN: a Romance of the Eighteenth Century. Pp. 239. -(_Smithers_). 6_s._ 1900. - - The life and doings of Cicely Grattan and of her adopted son - Victor La Roche, a noble and generous youth, brave and skilled - in sword-play—examples respectively of womanly virtue and manly - character. The interest centres chiefly in Cicely’s wrecked - love affairs and in Victor’s successful ones. Abundance of - incident sustains the interest throughout, and the book gives a - fairly good picture of society in the Dublin of the day, with - not a little reference to its loose morals. - - -=NEWTON, W. Douglas.= - -⸺ THE NORTH AFIRE. Pp. 204. (_Methuen_). 2_s._ 1914. - - Sub-t.: “A non-political story of Ulster’s war.” By a Catholic - Conservative. - - -=NOBLE, Mrs. Nicholas; [Madge Irwin].= - -⸺ DRUIDEAN THE MYSTIC, and Other Irish Stories. Pp. 93. Sq. 12mo. -(DUNDALK: _W. Tempest_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1913. - - Three little stories, only the last of which has a definite - plot, and a poem. They deal with peasant life. They are told - in a dialect which is not very sure of itself nor very true to - reality. The nine little illustrations by J. E. Corr and the - excellent printing and general get-up make the book very dainty. - - -=NOBLE, E.= - -⸺ AN IRISH DECADE. Pp. 110. (_Digby, Long_). _n.d._ (1891). - - Three stories:—1. “The O’Donol (_sic_) Rent,” 1879-80; 2. - “Rosie,” 1885; 3. “By Kerry Moonlight,” 1889. 1. How a - thriftless young farmer went in for anti-rent agitation and - brought ruin on himself and his young wife. 2. Story of a - resisted eviction ending in tragedy. 3. The “moonlighter” phase - of the land war. All three stories are written to show the - wickedness and the uncalled for nature of the land agitation. - They are nicely written and constitute a clever piece of - special pleading. In 2, the priest is represented as “heartily - sympathetic with the Cause but utterly unsympathetic with - gratuitous demonstrations of mass violence.” - - -=O’BRIEN, Charlotte Grace.= B. 1845. A dau. of William Smith O’Brien, the -Young Ireland leader who in 1848 was condemned to death for high treason, -a sentence afterwards commuted to transportation. Lived nearly all her -life in Co. Limerick. Worked strenuously on behalf of Irish emigrants. -Took active part in Nationalist politics and in the Gaelic League. Became -a Catholic towards the end of her life. D. 1905. See _Charlotte Grace -O’Brien, Selections from her Writings and Correspondence_, with a memoir -by Stephen Gwynn [her nephew]. (_Maunsel_). 1909. - -⸺ DOMINICK’S TRIALS: an Irish Story. Pp. 120. (_Gall & Inglis_). _n.d._ -(1870). - - A little tract in story form, telling how Dominick was - converted by his Bible, lost his job as farmer’s scarecrow, - converts his sister Judy, and is sent with her to a Protestant - orphanage in England, after which “they never lost an - opportunity of turning any poor benighted Roman Catholic to the - light of God’s truth.” - -⸺ LIGHT AND SHADE. Two Vols. Pp. 287, 256. (_Kegan, Paul_). 1878. - - A tale of the Fenian rising by the daughter of William Smith - O’Brien. A double love story runs through the book. The - descriptions of the scenery of the Shannon and neighbouring - districts are derived from livelong observations. Tone pure and - healthy, dialect perfect. Of this story Stephen Gwynn says: - “Violent, even melodramatic, in incident, it lacks the power of - characterisation, but it has many passages of beauty.... She - worked largely upon material gathered from the lips of men who - had been actors in the Fenian rising.” - - -=O’BRIEN, Dillon.= B. 1817, at Kilmore, Co. Roscommon. Ed. at St. -Stanislaus Coll., Tullabeg. Went to U.S.A. and settled in St. Paul, Minn. -Wrote a good deal of verse and several novels of Irish-American life. D. -1882. His serial _Dead Broke_, in the IRISH MONTHLY of 1882, is a good -example of his pleasant, gay manner of telling a story. - -⸺ THE DALYS OF DALYSTOWN. (U.S.A., ST. PAUL). 1866. - -⸺ FRANK BLAKE. (U.S.A., ST. PAUL). 1876. - - -=O’BRIEN, FitzJames.= - -⸺ THE POEMS AND STORIES OF FITZJAMES O’BRIEN. Pp. lxii. + 485. (BOSTON: -_Osgood_). 1881. - - Coll. and ed., with sketch of Author, by W. Winter. FitzJames - O’Brien was one of the most distinguished of Irish-American - writers. B. Limerick, 1838. Ed. T.C.D. D. 1862. He is a master - of the weird and eerie, after the manner of Lefanu (_q.v._) - and Poe. His prose works are little if at all concerned with - Ireland. - -⸺ THE DIAMOND LENS, and Other Stories. (LOND.). 1887. - - Sketch of Author prefixed. Contains no Irish stories. - - -=O’BRIEN, Hon. Georgina.= Eldest dau. of the late Lord O’Brien of -Kilfenora, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. - -⸺ THE HEART OF THE PEASANT, and Other Stories. Pp. 277. (_Sisley_). 6_s._ -1908. - - Twelve stories of various types. Some have a slight meaning - behind the mere tale. Four or five do not concern Ireland, and - several others do not touch peasant life. The tone is on the - whole sympathetic towards the external aspects of Catholicism. - The stories do not deal in politics or in problems. They are - chiefly little aspects of life and feeling. The last and - longest is a very modern story of the love affair of Rev. Mark - Dibbs and a certain Lady Glynn. - -⸺ A TWENTIETH CENTURY HERO. Pp. 308. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ 1913. - - The scene and most of the characters of this story are - English. Some Irish interest, however, is afforded by Mr. and - Mrs. Flanagan, the latter bright, thrifty, busy; the former - of the happy-go-lucky type, content to let his wife do the - bread-winning. - - -=O’BRIEN, Morrough.= - -⸺ THE LEAGUE OF THE RING and TORN APART. (_Ireland’s Own Library_). 6_d._ -_n.d._ (1914). - - Exciting stories of mysteries unravelled by the great Irish - detective, Dermod O’Donovan. Villainy is defeated and - couples are happily married. Quite healthy in tone, but very - sensational. The scene is Belfast and neighbourhood. - - -=O’BRIEN, Mgr. Richard Baptist; “Father Baptist.”= B. at Carrick-on-Suir, -1809. D. 1885. A distinguished priest, who was Dean of Limerick. Was -well-known in religious and philanthropic works. He wrote poems for the -NATION under the pen-name of “Baptist.” - -⸺ AILEY MOORE. Pp. 311. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1856]. Fifth ed. _n.d._ -(N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. - - Period: the years before and after ’48. Plot pleasant, but - main interest abundance of side incidents, character studies - and details of Irish life, introduced chiefly to picture the - evils of misgovernment prevailing at the time. The style is - agreeable, though there are rather lengthy moralizings. It was - advertised by Dolman as “showing how Eviction, Murder, and such - like pastimes are managed and Justice administered in Ireland.” - -⸺ JACK HAZLITT, A.M. Pp. 380. (_Duffy_). Third ed. _n.d._ Still in print. -(N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. [1875]. - - The Preface tells us that Jack Hazlitt, whose fortunes are - followed in this book, was a real person known to the Author, - and that many of the adventures recorded are true. Scene: - first, banks of Shannon (King’s County or Westmeath), then - America. Story of sensational kind, but with many moral - lessons, often verging on homilies, directed chiefly against - free-thought and undenominational education. - -⸺ THE D’ALTONS OF CRAG. Pp. 283. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 1882. (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 0.60. [1882]. - - A tale laid in a time of helplessness and hopelessness, in - which the Author gives “many illustrations of the beautiful and - devoted love that has ever bound together the people and the - priests of Ireland.”—(_Pref._). The Author tells us that every - one of the main incidents is based on fact, and that many of - the characters are portraits of real persons. The story is told - with great vigour, and is full of diversified incident of no - humdrum or commonplace character.—(IRISH MONTHLY). - - -=O’BRIEN, William.= B. Mallow, Co. Cork, 1852. Ed. Cloyne diocesan -seminary and Queen’s Coll., Cork. Early engaged in journalism. He long -edited UNITED IRELAND, to which he contributed much prose and verse. He -is one of the best known and most remarkable of modern Irish politicians. -He has been prosecuted nine times for political offences, and spent more -than two years in prison, where _When We Were Boys_ was written. Has been -Member of Parliament, except for short intervals, since 1883. - -⸺ WHEN WE WERE BOYS. Pp. 550. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ 1890. Frequently -republished. - - One of the most remarkable of Irish novels. A tale of Ireland - in Fenian times. Scene: Glengarriff, Co. Cork. A very brilliant - book, sparkling with epigram and metaphor. Full of criticism, - argument, thought and dream about Ireland. The story itself is - strong in romantic and human interest. The characterization is - full of life and reality, yet many of the characters are types. - In the course of the tale many aspects of Irish life, among - all classes, pass in review. There are many touches of satire. - Over all the characters and scenes the author’s exuberant - imagination has cast a glare as of the footlights, making them - stand out in vivid colours and clear outlines. Yet there is - little or no distortion or misrepresentation. The Author’s - sympathies are strongly nationalist and Catholic, yet national - failings are not blinked, and some of the portraits of priests - are distinctly satirical. The central interest, perhaps, is the - romantic excitement, enthusiasm, and exaltation of an impending - rising. - -⸺ A QUEEN OF MEN. Pp. 321. (_Unwin_). [1898]. Third ed., 1899. There is a -cheap ed. in paper covers. - - Scene: Galway City, Clare Island, and the opposite coast, just - before the great War of the Earls. A very highly-coloured - romance, full of flashy and dramatic sensation, told with an - exuberance of language that sometimes exceeds, but at times - is very effective. Some of the descriptive pieces are quite - above the common and attain remarkable vividness. The book was - written in the midst of the scenes described. An effective - device to secure colour is the frequent interjection of Gaelic - phrases phonetically spelt. The heroine of the tale is the - famous Gránia Ni Mháille, who appears not only as dauntless - sea-queen of the O’Malleys, but above all in her womanly - character. Fitzwilliam, Bingham, and Perrott also appear, - the last as a hero. Though many of the incidents are quite - fictitious and few happened exactly as narrated, yet some of - those which might seem most incredible to anyone unacquainted - with the State Papers could be paralleled by real happenings. - Some of the incidents narrated are: the Composition of - Connaught, the disgrace of Perrott, the wrecking of the Armada - on the Connaught coast, Gránia’s visit to Elizabeth. With - Gránia’s love story is entwined another, that of Cahal O’Malley - and Nuala O’Donnell. - - -=O’BRIEN, Mrs. W.= Wife of preceding; _née_ Sophie, dau. of Herman -Raffalovich, of Paris. She is a convert to Catholicism, and a thoroughly -naturalised Irishwoman for many years past. She has written also a book -of reminiscences, _Under Croagh Patrick_. I have also seen mentioned as -by her a book entitled _Amidst Mayo Bogs_. - -⸺ ROSETTE: a Tale of Dublin and Paris. Pp. 266. (_Burns & Oates_). 1907. - - Diary of Rosette, only child of a Parisian bourgeois family. - Deals chiefly with the life of this family in Paris, and - afterwards in Dublin. There is no sensationalism. Rosette’s - religious development is thoughtfully worked out, and there is - good character-drawing (_e.g._, Rosette’s artistically inclined - mother and the old servant, Mélanie). The point of view is, of - course, distinctly feminine. The style is pretty and graceful. - - -=O’BYRNE, Dermot.= - -⸺ CHILDREN OF THE HILLS. Pp. 148. (_Maunsel_). 2_s._ 6_d._ _n.d._ [1913]. - - Seven stories reprinted from THE IRISH REVIEW and ORPHEUS - (an art periodical). They belong to the literary movement - associated with the Abbey Theatre. They have the weird - imaginativeness and the flavour of the occult and uncanny of - Yeats’s prose stories, together with the vivid word-painting - of “Fiona McLeod.” The Author delights in the portrayal of - primitive and savage passions on the one hand, and on the other - in the suggestion of the wild landscapes, rock-strewn and - mist-shrouded, of Western Donegal (_e.g._, Glencolumbcille, in - “Ancient Dominions”). These stories of pure fancy are strangely - interwoven with settings of extreme realism—drunken tinkers, - peasants, &c. Only here and there have we remarks like the - following (p. 123):—“But those who are intimate with the soul - of the Gaelic peasant know that the God of the Christian is - only one amongst a Pantheon of hidden dominations lovely and - terrible, though the priest at the altar may thunder anathemas - from a fettered intelligence,” &c. The reviewer in the TIMES - LIT. SUPPL. pointed out the real defect of these stories—they - are wanting in heart. - - -=O’BYRNE, D.= - -⸺ THE SISTERS AND GREEN MAGIC. Pp. 76. (_Daniel_). 2_s._ 6_d._ net. 1912. - - -=O’BYRNE, M. L.= - -⸺ THE PALE AND THE SEPTS. Two Vols. (_Gill_). [1876]. - - The design is to illustrate, in all its cruelty, treachery, - greed, and unscrupulousness, the steady advance of the English - settlement. Yet by no means all the English are painted as - villains. We are shown the forces of government at work at - home in the Castle. Careful portraits of Archbishop Loftus - and the old Earl of Kildare. Descriptions of battle of - Glenmalure, Hungerford’s massacre at Baltinglass, the capture - and recapture of Glenchree, &c., &c. Fine description of - scenery, _e.g._, Gougane Barra. The religious persecutions - are vividly portrayed. Highly praised by the ATHENÆUM. The - original sub-title was “Or, The Baron of Belgard and the Chiefs - of Glenmalure. A Romance of the 16th Century, by Emelobie de - Celtis.” - -⸺ LEIXLIP CASTLE. Pp. 649. (_Gill_). [1883]. Others since. - - Period: years 1690 _sqq._ Deals with battle of Boyne, flight - of James II., sieges of Limerick and Athlone, the battle of - Aughrim—all fully and vividly described. Standpoint: strongly - national and Catholic. Gives pleasant insight into the - private lives of some Catholic families at the time and their - difficulties with Protestant neighbours. Narrative somewhat - tedious and slow-moving. - -⸺ ILL-WON PEERAGES; or, An Unhallowed Union. Pp. 716. (_Gill_). 1884. - - At the outset of this book we are introduced in a series of - pictures to the homes of representative people of various - parties, and long, imaginary political conversations between - the prominent men of the time are given. Then there is a full - account of the rebellion from the battle of Kilcullen to - Vinegar Hill. Practically every noteworthy personage of the - time is described in private and in public life. The romantic - interest is entirely subservient to the historical, yet there - is plenty of adventure. The bias is ultra-nationalist. The - style, and especially the descriptions, were highly praised by - a reviewer in the TABLET. - -⸺ ART MACMURROUGH O’KAVANAGH. Pp. 706. (_Gill_). [1885]. - - A full account of the life and exploits of Art MacMurrough, - with many adventures of fictitious characters, and much - description of the manners and life of the times within and - without the Pale. In the conversations the Author attempts to - reproduce the spoken English of the time, with a lamentable - result. They are full of _yclept_, _eftsoons_, _by my halidom_, - _marry_, &c., &c., so as to be unintelligible at times. The - speech of the Irish characters is nearly as full of Gaelic - expressions. “Many of the events narrated in this story are - supplied from tradition,” says the Author. But she has been at - much pains to utilize undoubtedly authentic sources. The style, - on the whole, is pleasant. - -⸺ THE COURT OF RATH CROGHAN. Pp. 465. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1887. - - The story of the Norman Invasion of Ireland, together with the - series of events that led to it, and the consequences that - followed, the central idea being that it was the treachery and - disunion of her own princes that wrought the ruin of Ireland. - All the chief men connected with the events narrated play - prominent parts in the story. St. Laurence O’Toole is finely - drawn. The last Ard Righ, Roderick, is shown weak and unfit to - rule in perilous times. Strongbow is a leading character; his - death is vividly described. Art MacMurrough is, of course, the - villain. The style is somewhat highflown and often loaded with - antiquated phrases and latinized expressions. Yet the story, - apart from its historical value, which is considerable, has a - strong interest of its own. - -⸺ LORD ROCHE’S DAUGHTERS OF FERMOY. Pp. 344. (_Sealy, Bryers_). (N.Y.: -_Pratt_). 1.50. 1892. - - In the course of this romance the whole history of the Wars of - the Confederation of Kilkenny and of the Cromwellian Invasion - is related. The story is described by the Author as “a very - encyclopædia of tragedies.” The Author is strongly on the side - of Owen Roe O’Neill as against the Confederate Catholics of the - Pale, and, of course, the Puritans. A fine series of adventures - and of historical pictures, but spoiled by frequent lapses from - literary good taste. - - -=O’BYRNE, W. Lorcan.= B. in Dublin, 1845. Son of Christopher O’Byrne, of -Ballinacor, Co. Wicklow. Delighted from earliest youth in Irish lore of -all kinds. Held a position in the Education Office during the greater -part of his life. D. 1913. His books, though popular in style, were the -result of much patient research. - -⸺ A LAND OF HEROES. Pp. 224. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Well illustr. by J. -H. Bacon. (N.Y.: _Scribners_). 1.25. 1899. - - “Intended to reach the level of children.” Very interesting - Introduction. The book is a series of Irish hero tales from - various cycles, including the best-known (Sons of Tuirean, Lir, - Usnach, &c.), and the Romance of the early kings very much as - in Miss Hull’s _Pagan Ireland_. The book contains a larger - number of tales than any other except the most expensive. The - bare story is told without any attempt to work up the materials - into poetic or dramatic form. - -⸺ KINGS AND VIKINGS. Pp. 240. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Six illustr. by -Paul Hardy. _n.d._ (1900). (N.Y.: _Scribners_). 1.25. - - Drawn from published translations of Gaelic MSS., _e.g._, - Standish H. O’Grady’s _Silva Gadelica_; Dr. Todd’s edition - of the _Wars of the Gael and Gall_; Dr. O’Donovan’s _Battle - of Magh Rath_, &c. Contents: stories of early Christian - times, chiefly from the lives of St. Patrick, St. Brigid, St. - Columbkille, and St. Brendan; the trial of the Bards; the - battles of Dunbolg, Moira, &c.; stories of the Danish invasions - and in particular of Brian Borumha. Full of good information, - but not strong in narrative interest. - -⸺ CHILDREN OF KINGS. Pp. 240. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by Paul -Hardy. 1904. - - “The aim of this book is to present tales from Three Cycles of - Romance, viz., the Cuchulain, the Ossianic, and the Arthurian, - interwoven after the manner of a Celtic design” (Introduction). - The chief characters of the three cycles appear in various - stories (there are thirty-one in all). A truly wonderful - knowledge of the period embraced by these tales is displayed in - the book, but the glamour of romance and the magic of words are - wanting. - -⸺ THE KNIGHT OF THE CAVE; or, The Quest of the Pallium. Pp. 248. -(_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Six illustr. by Paul Hardy. 1906. - - A thin thread of narrative connecting much interesting and - valuable information about historical events and about the life - of the people at the period. The hero passes from England, then - laid waste by the wars of Stephen’s reign, to Ireland, where - we are shown in great detail the civil and ecclesiastical life - of the day. Thence he accompanies St. Malachi to Clairvaux on - a visit to St. Bernard. Then he visits Italy—Tivoli, Horace’s - Sabine Farm, and Rome, whose antiquities are described at - length. Finally, he returns to Ireland, whose state is again - dwelt upon. The narrative is relieved by exciting adventures - and by stories told incidentally. The Author’s erudition is - extensive and accurate. The title refers to St. Patrick’s - Purgatory, Lough Derg. - -⸺ THE FALCON KING. Pp. 240. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Six illustr. by Paul -Hardy. Picture Cover. 1907. - - “A series of historical episodes (beginning in Wales, 1146), - vignettes of contemporary life, and stories from Celtic - and Icelandic sagas and Norman French _chansons de geste_, - illustrating events, manners, and religion.... Shows Henry II. - and his barons engaged in the conquest of Ireland, and gives - a good account of Dermot MacMurrough, and also of life in - Dublin.”—(_Baker_, 2). - - -=[O’CONNELL, Mrs. K. E.]=, of Leenane, Co. Galway; =“Aroon.”= - -⸺ NOREEN DHAS. Pp. 62. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ 1902. - - A pretty love-story of Connemara (the Killaries). The Author is - for the language movement, and strongly opposed to the bargain - marriages of the West. - -⸺ WHITE HEATHER. Pp. 62. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ 1903. - - Three tales of Connemara. The first is a graceful little fairy - story, the third a story of faithful love. - - -=O’CONNOR, Barry.= - -⸺ TURF-FIRE STORIES, and Fairy Tales of Ireland. Pp. 405. (N.Y.: -_Kenedy_). 0.63. Illustr. with woodcuts. 1890. - - “The greater number of the following sketches are original; - the others have been transcribed, and in most cases materially - altered, from the musty pages of some ‘Quaint and curious - volumes of forgotten lore.’” (Pref.) Most of the stories - are comic. The persons and incidents are mostly drawn from - peasant life. Most of them are capitally told. A few are - somewhat journalistic and hurriedly written. There is no - caricaturing nor “Stage Irishism.” Some are legends of places, - others typical fairy or folk tales. There are a large number - of woodcuts, which, however, have no connection with the - letter-press. - - -=[O’CONNOR, Joseph K.]; “Heblon.”= - -⸺ STUDIES IN BLUE. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 2_s._ Illustr. by C. A. Mills. -_n.d._ (_c._ 1903). - - Sketches, true to life, and cleverly told, of the most - disreputable side of Dublin slum-life, as seen, chiefly, in the - Police Courts. Amusing, but at times verging on vulgarity. - - -=O’DONNELL, Lucy.= - -⸺ ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL. Pp. 86. (DUBLIN: _Curry_). 1855. - - The fortunes of the house of Desmond in the 16th century, - and chiefly those of Lord James Fitzgerald (son of the great - Earl) who became a Protestant, and was therefore rejected - by his people and retired to England. The story opens with - a Protestant service in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1581. It - contains interesting allusions to Glendalough, Dublin, and - Adare. Author’s viewpoint Protestant. - - -=O’DONOGHUE, ⸺.= - -⸺ THE PRINCE OF KILLARNEY. (LONDON). - - -=O’DONOVAN, Gerald.= - -⸺ FATHER RALPH. Pp. 494. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ Six impressions within a -few months. 1914. - - An anti-clerical and modernist novel by an Author with inside - knowledge of the Catholic Church in Ireland. It is the story - of a young priest from his birth until we take leave of him - (_défroqué_) on board a ship leaving Ireland. In the course - of the narrative there is presented a general view of Irish - life as seen from the standpoint of such writers as M. J. - F. M’Carthy, W. P. O’Ryan, and “Pat,” but clerical life - is depicted with far more minute knowledge than by any of - these. Sensational features such as the amours of priests, - nuns, &c., are avoided, though much innuendo is indulged in. - All the estimable characters in the book are represented - as either Modernists, or else voteens and people who avoid - thinking on serious problems. The Bishop, Father Molloy, and - Ralph’s mother, as depicted by the Author, are revolting in - the extreme. Except in rare instances all the outward details - of Irish life are true to reality, but seen with jaundiced - eyes. It may fairly be said that there is scarcely a page - of this book that does not appeal in one form or another to - non-Catholic prejudice. - -⸺ WAITING. Pp. 387. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ 1914. - - Maurice Blake is a young National Schoolmaster, an ideal - teacher, an enthusiast for Irish Ireland and for industrial - revival. He falls foul of Father Mahon, the P.P., who is made - as odious as possible. Maurice cannot get a dispensation to - marry Alice Barton, a Protestant, and is compelled to marry her - in a registry office. Maurice is selected as candidate by his - constituency but, through the agency of Fr. Mahon, is set aside - in favour of a worthless drunkard, and a mission is preached - by “Seraphists.” Ch. XXIII., describing this mission, is most - offensive and vulgar. Minor characters are Driscoll, the - former Master; Breslin, editor and free-thinker; Fr. Malone, - a lovable character; Dr. Hannigan with his “diffident, humble - manner covering the pride of Lucifer”; Fr. Cafferley, fond of - tea parties in publicans’ back parlours, &c. THE CHURCH TIMES - says of the book, “It is much more angry and malevolent than - its predecessor,” and the TIMES LIT. SUPPL., in an article - obviously written by a non-Catholic, “It is a bitter and, - if true, a deadly attack on the priesthood, and an almost - rancorous indictment of the practice and influence of the Roman - Catholic Church in Ireland.” - - -=O’DONOVAN, Michael.= - -⸺ MR. MULDOON. Pp. 328. (_Greening_). 6_s._ - - Scene: Dublin and suburbs. A book for an idle hour, recounting - the whimsical adventures of the hero and his experiments with - professions of all kinds. Humour broad, but not vulgar. - - -=O’DONOVAN ROSSA=, _see_ =ROSSA=. - - -=O’FLANAGAN, James Roderick, B.L., M.R.I.A.= - -⸺ BRYAN O’REGAN. 1866. - - The Author was b. at Fermoy in 1814, and wrote some important - works on Irish biography and topography, such as _The - Blackwater in Munster_; _The History of Dundalk_ (with John - Dalton); _Lives of the Lord Chancellors of Ireland_; _The - Munster Circuit_; _The Irish Bar_. Founded the FERMOY JOURNAL, - and published his autobiography, _An Octogenarian Literary - Life_, Cork, 1896. - -⸺ CAPTAIN O’SHAUGHNESSY’S SPORTING CAREER. Two Vols. 1872. - -⸺ GENTLE BLOOD. - - A novel founded on the remarkable Yelverton Marriage Case at - Killowen, Co. Down, mentioned in the Author’s Autobiography. - - -=[O’FLANAGAN, T.]; “Samoth.”= - -⸺ NED M’COOL AND HIS FOSTER BROTHER. Pp. 281. (DERRY: printed at Offices -of DERRY JOURNAL). 1871. - - Sub-t., “An Irish tale founded on facts.” The Author was a - native of Castlefin, Co. Donegal. He wrote also _Strabane and - Lifford_, _The Consequences of a Refusal_, &c. - - -=OGLE, Thomas Acres.= - -⸺ THE IRISH MILITIA OFFICER. Pp. 314. 12mo. (DUBLIN: no name of publ.). -1873. - - “The tale embraces the services of the old Wexford Regiment - from 1810 to its disbandment in 1816, and is a true picture - of the rollicking and free life of that half-disciplined - soldiery.” (Pref.). Full of stories, good, bad, and - indifferent, told with considerable spirit. One chapter goes - back to ’98, and gives some interesting personal reminiscences. - There are a good many love affairs. The Author is a firm - loyalist, and something of an Orangeman, but displays little - bias. The scene is laid in various parts of Ireland. - - -=O’GRADY, Standish.= B. 1846, at Castletown Berehaven, on Bantry Bay, -Co. Cork, of which his father was rector. Ed. at home and in Tipperary, -and at T.C.D. Was called to the Bar, but his main occupations have -been literary. Besides the works here mentioned he has written much -on literary, political, and economic subjects, and is one of the most -distinguished of living Irish writers. - -⸺ HISTORY OF IRELAND. The Heroic Period.[10] Two Vols. Pp. xxii. + 267 + -348. (_Sampson, Low_). 1878. - - Described by the Author (Pref.) as “the reduction to its - artistic elements of the whole of that heroic history taken - together, viewing it always in the light shed by modern - archæologians, frequently using the actual language of the - bards, and as much as possible their style and general - character of expression.”... “Through the loose chaotic mass - ... I have endeavoured to trace the mental and physical - personality of the heroes and heroines, and to discover the - true order of events.” The chapter headings read like those of - a novel—“Only a Name,” “Perfidy,” “In Vain,” “Swift Succour.” - Vol. I. deals with the Fianna, Cuchulain, the Cattle-raid of - Cuailgne. Vol. II. is entirely taken up (all but the first 88 - pp.) with the Cuchulain cycle. The above work is carefully - to be distinguished from the Author’s _History of Ireland, - Critical and Philosophical_. Vol. I. (all publ.) pp. 468 - (Sampson, Low), 1881. In the Pref. to this latter he says, “The - books already published by me on this subject are portions of a - work in which I propose to tell the History of Ireland through - the medium of tales, epic or romantic.” - -[10] This is not a work of fiction. But it seems well to mention it here -for it is really an elaborate re-telling of the ancient Irish hero-myths -and romances. - -⸺ RED HUGH’S CAPTIVITY. 1889. - - An early ed. of _The Flight of the Eagle_, _q.v._ - -⸺ FINN AND HIS COMPANIONS. Pp. 182. Size, 4 × 6½. (_Unwin, Children’s -Library_). Illustr. by J. B. Yeats. 1892. - - Delightful tales of the heroic age of the Fianna told in poetic - but very simple language. Will appeal not to children only but - to all. Part IV., “The Coming of Finn,” is particularly fine. - “Most of these tales are, I think, quite new.”—(Preface). - -⸺ THE BOG OF STARS. Pp. 179. (_Fisher Unwin, New Irish Library_). 2_s._ -1893. - - Stories and pictures, nine in number, of Ireland in the - days of Elizabeth “not so much founded on fact as in fact - true.”—(Pref.). (1) How a drummer-boy saved Clan Ranal from - destruction by the Deputy; (2) A sketch of Philip O’Sullivan, - historian, soldier, and poet; (3) The destruction of the - O’Falveys by Mac an Earla of the Clan M’Carthy; (4) The - vengeance of the O’Hagans on Phelim O’Neill; (5) A sketch - of Sir Richard Bingham, the infamous but mighty Captain of - Connaught; (6) How the English surprised by treachery Rory Og - O’More and his people; (7) The story of Brian of the Ramparts - O’Rourke; (8) Don Juan del Aquila, the heroic defender of - Kinsale; (9) Detailed and vivid description of the battle - of the Curlew Mountains from the Irish point of view. These - have all the great qualities of the _Flight of the Eagle_, - and indicate the same views of history—the selfishness and - frequent savagery of some of the Irish chieftains, their hatred - of one another, their constant readiness to submit to the - Queen’s grace when it suited—all this is brought out. Yet the - Author is on the side of Ireland: he dwells on what is heroic - in our history, he paints the Elizabethan deputies and their - subordinates in dark colours. - -⸺ COMING OF CUCHULAINN. Pp. 160. (_Methuen_). Six good illustrations by -D. Murray Smith. 1894. - - The story of the hero’s boyhood told in epic language, full - of antique colour and simile, and rising at times to wild - grandeur. The great shadows of ancient De Danaan gods are never - far from the mortal heroes who figure in the saga. - -⸺ THE GATES OF THE NORTH. New ed. Pp. 151. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -1908. - - A sequel to the preceding, telling the heroic tale of how - Cuchulainn held the fords of Ulster alone against the hosts of - Maeve. It is even fuller than is the first book of the myth - and lore of the primitive Gael. There is a very interesting - introduction by the Author. - -⸺ LOST ON DHU CORRIG. Pp. 284. (_Cassell_). Nine good illustr. 1894. - - Strange adventures among the caves and cliffs of the west - coast, with a touch of the uncanny, and some interesting and - curious things about seals. - -⸺ THE CHAIN OF GOLD. Pp. 304. (_Fisher Unwin_). Sixteen good illustr. -Nice cover. 1895. - - A story of adventure on the wild west coast of Ireland. Curious - and original plot, with an element of the supernatural. - -⸺ ULRICK THE READY. New ed. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1896]. 1908. - - Period: last years of Elizabeth’s reign. Scene: the country of - O’Sullivan Beare, the south-west corner of Cork. Weaves the - battle of Kinsale and the siege of Dunboy into the story of the - young O’Sullivan, Ulrick. Full of vividly presented details - of the public and private life of the time, and of novel and - suggestive presentments of its political and social ideals. - These it brings home to the reader as no history could do. Yet - the story is not neglected. Standpoint: impartial, on the whole. - -⸺ IN THE WAKE OF KING JAMES. Pp. 242. (_Dent_). 4_s._ 6_d._ 1896. - - A wild and nightmare-like tale. Scene: a lonely castle on - the west coast inhabited by a gang of Jacobite desperadoes. - Contains no historical incidents. - -⸺ FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE. Pp. 298. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [_Lawrence -& Bullen_, 1897]. New ed., 1908. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.10. - - The historical episode of the kidnapping of Hugh Roe O’Donnell - and his escape from Dublin Castle evoked in a narrative - of extraordinary dramatic power and vividness. The Author - has breathed a spirit into the dry bones of innumerable - contemporary documents and State Papers, so that the men of - Elizabethan Ireland seem to live and move before us. The - effect is greatly strengthened by the vigour and rush of the - style, which reminds one of that of Carlyle in his _French - Revolution_. The Author has peculiar and decided views about - Elizabethan Irish politics. “The authorities for the story,” - he tells us in his Preface, “are the _Annals of the Four - Masters_, the _Historia Hiberniæ_ of Don Philip O’Sullivan - Beare, O’Clery’s _Life of Hugh Roe_, and the _Calendar of State - Papers, Ireland_, from 1587 forward.” - - -=O’GRADY, Standish Hayes.= B. 1832, Co. Limerick. Was a fluent Irish -speaker, and his knowledge of the language and of Irish traditions was, -according to those who knew him, unrivalled. Evidence of this will be -found in his _Catalogue of the Irish MSS. in the British Museum_, never -finished, but, as far as it goes, a mine of Gaelic lore. Was one of the -founders of the Ossianic Society. D. 16th October, 1915. - -⸺ SILVA GADELICA. Two Vols. Demy 8vo. (_Williams & Norgate_). 1892. - - Vol. I., pp. 416, contains Irish text (Roman letters); Vol. - II., pp. xxxii. + 604, contains Preface, Translation, and - Notes. Thirty-one tales and other pieces, all taken from - ancient MSS., such as the _Book of Leinster_, the _Leabhar - Breac_, &c. Fifteen are from MSS. in the British Museum. Out of - the thirty-one, only six or seven had been published before. - Ranged under four heads—(I.) Hagiology, or Stories of early - Irish saints; (II.) Legend, historical or romantic; (III.) - Ossianic lore; (IV.) Fiction, some of which is humorous. - The Irish text is presented in a difficult and archaic - dialect, much as if, says a critic, _Robinson Crusoe_ and the - _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ were to be printed in the dialect of - Chaucer. The Author in his Preface discusses and describes his - sources most minutely. Forty years of study intervened between - the Author’s previous publication, _Diarmaid and Grainne_, - for the Ossianic Society (1853), and this. The English of his - translation, though sometimes affected, is vigorous, rich, - varied, often picturesque and on the whole thoroughly worthy - of the subject. Twenty-eight pages of notes and corrections. - Indexes: A, of personal and tribal names; B, of place-names. - - -=O’HANLON, Canon John; “Lageniensis.”= B. Stradbally, 1821. From -1842-1857 he was in U.S.A., where he was ordained. He published eighteen -important works dealing with Irish history, archæology, and especially -hagiography, his great _Lives of the Irish Saints_, nine vols. of which -appeared, being a lasting monument to his research. He died in 1905. - -⸺ IRISH FOLK-LORE: Traditions and Superstitions of the Country: with -Humorous Tales. (_Cameron & Ferguson_). Pp. viii. + 312. 2_s._ 1870. - - A miscellany containing folk-lore proper, studies in popular - superstition viewed as remnants of paganism, historical - episodes, tales, &c., gathered from ancient MSS., with a great - store of antiquarian and historical information about all - periods of our annals and very many parts of Ireland. Much of - all this is drawn from rare and not easily accessible sources. - Contains chapters on Druidism, Legendary Voyages, Dungal the - Recluse. A type of the humorous stories is the capital “Mr. - Patrick O’Byrne in the Devil’s Glen.” The book is intended for - the general public rather than for folklorists. It is pleasant - and chatty in style. The source of the stories is not, as a - rule, indicated by the Author. - -⸺ THE BURIED LADY: a Legend of Kilronan. (DUBLIN). 1877. - -⸺ IRISH LOCAL LEGENDS. Pp. 133. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ First publ. 1896; still -in print. - - A collection of thirty stories picked up by the Author - during holidays in various parts of Ireland, and “received, - mostly, from accidental and familiar intercourse with the - peasantry.”—(Pref.). The place with which the legend is - connected is indicated in each case. The legends are of a - very miscellaneous nature, local incidents, fairy stories, - ghost stories, old hero stories, &c. A considerable number of - counties are represented by one or more stories. - - -=O h-ANNRACHAIN, Michea.= B. New Ross, Co. Wexford. Ed. Christian Bros.’ -Schools and Collegiate Academy, Carlow. Has written a good deal for the -press. Is an ardent worker in the Language Movement. - -⸺ A SWORDSMAN OF THE BRIGADE. Pp. 231. (_Sands_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1914. - - A fine stirring adventure story of the doings of one of the - “Wild Geese” in Sheldon’s division of the Irish Brigade in the - service of France. Scene: Flanders, Bavaria, Italy, and Dublin. - _c._ 1703. Told in a breezy way and thoroughly Irish in spirit. - - -=O’HARE, Hardress.= - -⸺ CONQUERED AT LAST: from Records of Dhu Hall and its Inmates. A Novel. -Three Vols. 1874. - - -=O’HIGGINS, Brian; “Brian na Banban.”= B. Kilskyre (Cill Scire), Co. -Meath, 1882; ed. there. Came to Dublin about twelve years ago and threw -himself into the work of the Gaelic League, for which he became a -travelling teacher (múinteoir taistil) in Cavan and Meath. Has publ. two -books in Irish. Has for years past been a frequent contributor to the -Catholic and Irish press at home and in America and Australia. His songs -are popular at Irish-Ireland concerts all over the country. - -⸺ BY A HEARTH IN EIRINN. (_Gill_), 1_s._ 1908. - - The gay and humorous side of the language movement seen from a - League point of view—the Seonín, the Feis, the Gaelic Christmas - hearth. One sketch gives a glimpse of the early years of John - Boyle O’Reilly. - -⸺ GLIMPSES OF GLEN-NA-MONA. Pp. 115. (_Duffy_). 6_d._ Paper. 1908. - - Sketches of peasant life in a remote glen (place not - indicated). Almost wholly taken up with the sadness and the - miseries of emigration. Simple, pathetic, and religious. - -⸺ FUN O’ THE FORGE. (DUBLIN: _Whelan_). 1915. - - A collection of humorous stories. - - -=O’Kane, Rev. W. M.= B. 1872, at Millisle, Co. Down. Son of Capt. Francis -O’Kane, of Weymouth and Millisle. Ed. Royal Academical Institution, -Belfast, and at Queen’s Coll., Belfast; B.A. and LL.B., R.U.I. Was Curate -in Banbridge and Belfast and is at Present Incumbent of Ashbourne, -Derbyshire. Author of _The King’s Luck_ and _Guppy Guyson_. - -⸺ WITH POISON AND SWORD. Pp. 402. (_Mills & Boon_). 6_s._ 1910. - - Love story and adventures in 1561 or thereabouts of Cormac - O’Hagan, follower and friend of Shane O’Neill, his escape from - the Tower, his rescue of Marjorie Drayton, his share in the - battle of Armagh where Shane defeats the Deputy, his going with - Shane to visit Elizabeth, and many sensational adventures in - consequence. He finally gives up Ireland altogether, settles - in England, and he and his descendants ever after are good - Englishmen. One of the chief characters is the ever resourceful - Dickie Toogood. - - -=O’KEARNEY, Nicholas.= Trans. - -⸺ THE STORY OF CONN-EDA; or, The Golden Apples of Loch Erne, from the -Irish. Pp. 17. (LONDON: _J. R. Smith_). 1855. - - Reprinted from the Proceedings of the “Cambrian Archæological - Association.” - - -=O’KEEFFE, Christopher M.= - -⸺ THE KNIGHTS OF THE PALE. Pp. viii. + 263. (GLASGOW: _Cameron & -Ferguson_). 1857 and 1870. - - Sub-title, “Ireland 400 Years Ago.” First appeared in _The - Celt_. The Author was sentenced about 1866 to penal servitude - for Fenianism, was released about 1877, went to U.S.A., and - died in Brooklyn about 1889. Wrote also a Life of O’Connell in - two vols. “The object of the story is to give the impression - which a prolonged study of Irish antiquities has produced on - the Author’s mind.”—(Pref.). Interspersed with the narrative - are several pieces of verse, some original, some translated by - the Author from the Gaelic. The period is the middle of the - 15th century. - - -=O’KELLY, Seumas.= - -⸺ BY THE STREAM OF KILMEEN. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. _c._ 1910. - - Ten short sketches of the little tragedies and comedies of - the lives of the humbler classes. They are simple, true, and - sincere. The scene is Clare or Galway. - - -=O’KENNEDY, Father Richard.= P.P. of Fedamore, Co. Limerick. - -⸺ COTTAGE LIFE IN IRELAND. - - “Father O’Kennedy was born in 1850, was educated in Limerick - and in Maynooth. Has been for a long time contributor to - various Irish and American magazines, notably the IRISH - MONTHLY. He knows his people intimately, and knows how to - interest us in the simple pains and pleasures of the poor.... - His style is charming. He has an eye for the simplicities of - life.”—(IRISH LIT.). His stories and sketches are known and - appreciated in the U.S. even more than at home in Ireland. - - -=O’LEARY, C.= - -⸺ THE IRISH WIDOW’S SON; or, The Pikemen of ’98. (BOSTON). 1869. - - Wrote also _The Last Rosary_ (BOSTON), 1869. - - -=O’MAHONY, Nora Tynan.= A sister of Katharine Tynan, _q.v._ Dau. of the -late Andrew C. Tynan, of Whitehall, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin. Married John -O’Mahony (d. 1904), a brilliant Irish barrister. She has written much for -Irish and American periodicals and has just published a vol. of poems -which has been highly praised. Her work is simple, gentle, with many -touches of beauty. The atmosphere is always Irish and Catholic. - -⸺ UNA’S ENTERPRISE. Pp. 241. (_Gill_). Neat binding. 1907. - - Struggles of a young girl of good social position to maintain - her widowed mother and little brother and sister. She - eventually does this by means of poultry farming, of which much - is said. There is little distinctively Irish in the story. The - style is graceful and pleasing. - -⸺ MRS. DESMOND’S FOSTER CHILD. (_Browne & Nolan_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1912. - - -=O’MEARA, Graves.= - -⸺ OWEN DONOVAN, Fenian. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. 1909. - - Adventures of a Fenian in England, and of his lady-love, a - _prima donna_ at Covent Garden. Plenty of sensation, of a crude - and improbable type. A “time-slayer,” as the Author calls it. - - -=O’MEARA, Kathleen; “Grace Ramsay.”= B. Dublin, 1839. Dau. of Dennis -O’Meara, of Tipperary, and granddaughter of Barry O’M., Napoleon’s -surgeon. She went with her parents to Paris at an early age, and it -is doubtful whether she afterwards visited her native land. D. N. B. -enumerates fifteen of her works, six of which were novels. D. 1888. - -⸺ THE BATTLE OF CONNEMARA. (_Washbourne_). 1878. - - A story of priests and people in Connaught in the days of - the Soupers by an Author distinguished in other fields of - literature. The scene is laid partly in Paris. Noteworthy - characters are Mr. Ringwood, an English convert clergyman, - and Father Fallon, an Irish country priest. The plot turns - mainly on the conversion of an English lady who had married an - Irishman and settled in Connaught. Controversy is avoided. - - -=O’MULLANE, M. J., M.A.= B. 1889 in Sligo. Gained an honours diploma -in education in the National University. Is Principal of the National -Examining Institute of Ireland, Professor of Mod. Languages in Christian -Schools, Westland Row, and of Irish in Spiddal Summer Irish College, -Galway. He has contributed serials on Irish historical subjects to OUR -BOYS. He has done much to spread among the people knowledge of and -interest in the heroic period of early Gaelic Ireland by means of his -excellent penny C.T.S.I. pamphlets, soon, we hope, to be given a more -permanent form. The following are the titles:— - -_Craobh Ruadh; or, the Red Branch Knights._ Two parts. 1910. - - This is partly a serious study of the subject, partly a - retelling of the old sagas. - -_The Tuatha de Danaan; or, the Children of Dana._ Two parts. - -_Links with the Past._ Containing “Lug-na-Gall” (a legend of 1642), -“Green are the Distant Hills,” “The Origin of Lough Gill,” “Melcha,” “The -Wooing of Eithne.” - -_The Coming of the Children of Miledh._ - -_Finn MacCoole._ - -_Biroge of the Mountain_, and Other Tales, viz.:—“The Recovery of the -Táin Bo Cuailgne,” “The First Water-Mill in Ireland,” “The Wooing of -Moriath,”—all tales of early Ireland. - -_The Return of the Red Hand._ A story of Dunamase, fortress of the -O’Moores in the year 1200. - - These nine pamphlets are very well but not pretentiously - written. They are written with good knowledge of the period - referred to, but are not overloaded with archæology. In - footnotes the pronunciation of the Gaelic names is given - phonetically. The first eight of these booklets, together - with Fr. Skelly’s _Cuchulainn of Muirthemne_ (_q.v._) form an - excellent introduction to Ireland’s Heroic Period and to our - saga literature. - - -=O’NEILL, John.= - -⸺ HANDRAHAN, the Irish Fairy Man; and Legends of Carrick[-on-Suir]. -Edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall and publ. 1854. (LONDON: _Tweedie_). Pp. 187. - - The Author was born in Waterford, 1777. Lived the last years - of his chequered life in poverty in London. Published several - volumes of verse, chiefly on Temperance subjects, and a drama - entitled _Alva_. D. _c._ 1860. The above is a very good and - original story. Handrahan is a kind of herb-doctor skilled in - potions and in charms against the fairies. - -⸺ MARY OF AVONMORE; or, The Foundling of the Beach. Three Vols. - - N.B.—This is not in the British Museum Library or elsewhere - that I know of, but is given a prominent mention in all his - biographies. - - -=“O’NEILL, Moira,” Mrs. Skrine=, _née_ =Nesta Higginson=. Author of -the well-known _Songs of the Glens of Antrim_. Her home was long in -Cushendun, Co. Antrim. She has also published _An Easter Vacation_, 1893. -The scene laid in an English watering place. A frequent contributor to -BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE. - -⸺ THE ELF ERRANT. Pp. 109. (_A. H. Bullen_). Seven illustr. by W. E. F. -Britten. New ed., 1902. - - An excursion into Fairyland. A fanciful tale, told in exquisite - and simple language, with elves and fairies for characters. - All through there is a subtle comparison, which only the grown - and thoughtful children will notice, of English and Irish - character. This latter by no means interferes with the interest - of the book for children, but makes it well worth reading by - the grown-ups. - - Republished, Christmas, 1909, by _Sidgwick & Jackson_. 3_s._ - 6_d._ - - -=O’REILLY, Gertrude M.= - -⸺ JUST STORIES. Pp. 233. (N.Y.: _Devin-Adair Co._). $1.00. 1915. - - The Author came to America from Ireland in 1907. Agnes Repplier - says of the book: “These Irish stories are as good as good can - be; gay, sad, amusing, pathetic, human. I like the stories - themselves; I like the way they are told. They don’t suggest - ‘plot,’ but bits of real life.” In the Pref. the Author says: - “Thoughts go back to the long restful days beside Galway Bay, - to the still evenings in the Cork hills.... These little - stories are the fruit of these moments of retrospection.” There - is much dialect, well reproduced. - - -=“O’REILLY, Private Myles,”= _see_ =HALPINE=. - - -=ORPEN, Mrs.= - -⸺ CORRAGEEN IN ’98. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _New Amsterdam Book Co._). -Pp. 325. 1.50. 1898. - - “Written with sympathy for the loyalists. A realistic - description of the more horrible features.”—(_Baker_). - - -=O’RYAN, Julia and Edmund.= - -⸺ _IN RE_ GARLAND. (_Richardson_). 1873. - - Time: after Famine of 1846, when the Encumbered Estates Court - was in full swing. Cleverly written, and showing intimate - knowledge of Munster ways of speech and thought among the - farming and lower classes. Good taste and strong faith in the - people and in the people’s faith are everywhere discernible. - The writers eschew all moralizing and also all description of - scenery.—(IRISH MONTHLY). - - -=O’RYAN, W. P.; “Kevin Kennedy.”= B. near Templemore, Co. Tipperary, -1867. Lived for several years in London, where he took an active share -in the activities of the Southwark Irish Literary Club and the Irish -Literary Society: he has written a history of their beginnings. Was -editor of THE PEASANT and of its successors, THE IRISH PEASANT and THE -IRISH NATION. In these he mingled anti-clericalism with much excellent -writing strongly national in tone. _The Plough and the Cross_ is largely -autobiographical. Publ. 1912, _The Pope’s Green Island_. - -⸺ THE PLOUGH AND THE CROSS. Pp. 378. (_The Irish Nation_). 1_s._ 1910. - - A story, how much of which is fact we do not learn, woven round - certain real events of recent date, and in particular the - stopping of a paper of which the Author was editor. Many of the - characters may be recognised as portraits of real personages, - among others the Author himself, Mr. T. P. O’Connor, Geo. - Moore, Mr. James McCann, Mr. Edward Martyn, and Mr. Sweetman. - The book is largely taken up with conversations in which - the Author gives expression to his peculiar views on many - subjects. Many of these belong to the class of ideas known - collectively to Catholics as Modernism. Throughout the book - there is constant criticism of the Irish clergy, much of this - criticism being put into the mouths of “progressive” priests. - The personages and the series of events dealt with are highly - idealized. Distinctly well written, but somewhat “exalté” in - style. Scene: Dublin and the Boyne Valley. - - _See_ =RYAN, W. P.= - - -=O’SHAUGHNESSY, Tom.= - -⸺ TERENCE O’DOWD; or, Romanism To-day. Pp. 350. (PHILADELPHIA: -_Presbyterian Board of Publication_). _n.d._ - - “An Irish story founded on facts.” Scene near Mt. Nephin and - the Deel, Co. Mayo. A long diatribe against the Catholic - Church, representing it in the most odious light, in order, - says the Introd., to warn Protestants that it is the same - monstrously wicked system as ever. Ignorance, squalour, - rudeness, and brutality are the terms constantly used to - describe the Irish peasantry. The tone is often facetious and - sarcastic. The peasants, including “Father McNavigan,” speak an - extraordinary jargon. Appendices give extracts from Kirwan’s - letter to Bishop Hughes. - - -=O’SHEA, James.= - -⸺ FELIX O’FLANAGAN, an Irish-American. Pp. 206. (CORK: _Flynn_). 1902. - - The story of an Irish peasant lad, first in Ireland as clerk - in a shop and commercial traveller in a small way, then in - America as labourer, soldier, and business man. Good picture of - farming and provincial town life in Ireland of the day. Point - of view Catholic and strongly nationalist. The book almost a - sermon against drink and emigration. Style and handling of plot - somewhat immature. - - -=O’SHEA, John Augustus; “The Irish Bohemian.”= 1840-1905. B. Nenagh. -Ed. Catholic Univ. Went to London, 1859. Was war correspondent and -writer on THE STANDARD for twenty-five years. Was a man of extraordinary -versatility—journalist, writer on continental politics, lecturer, -dramatist, Irish politician. He was a member of the Southwark Irish -Literary Club, 1885, _sqq._ Mr. W. P. Ryan speaks of him as drawing upon -his own experiences of “merry and dashing life” in Tipperary for his -stories—“Conal O’Rafferty” and others. See his _Leaves from the Life of a -Special Correspondent_ and _Random Recollections_. - -⸺ MILITARY MOSAICS: a Set of Tales, &c. Pp. viii. + 303. (_Allen_). 1888. - - -=[O’SULLIVAN, Rev. P. P.]; “An Ulster Clergyman.”= - -⸺ THE DOWNFALL OF GRABBUM. Pp. 148. (BELFAST: _Carswell_). 6_d._ Illustr. -1913. - - A political skit on the then situation in Ulster. Grabbum = - the English Garrison in Ireland; Drudge, his devoted dupe = - Orangeism. Farmer John Bull sends Grabbum over to Pat to help - him, and is amazed at the result. The moral is the beneficial - effects (including an Anglo-American alliance) of Home Rule. - Irish public men—F. J. Bigger, Sir Roger Casement, Douglas - Hyde, &c., are introduced under thin disguises. The tone is, of - course, light and facetious. - - -=OUTRAM, Mary Frances.= - -⸺ BRANAN THE PICT. Pp. 356. (_R.T.S._). 2_s._ 6_d._ Coloured frontisp. -1913. - - “An exceedingly well-written tale of the times of St. Columba, - based on the ‘life’ by Adamnan. The hero and his associates are - fictitious, but the setting of the story is worked out with - remarkable care.”—(C.B.N.). _In the Van of the Vikings_ is by - the same Author. - - -=“PARLEY, Peter,”= _see_ =GOODRICH=. - - -=[PARNELL, William, M.P.].= Wrote also _An Historical Apology for the -Irish Catholics_ (1807). He was knight of the shire for Wicklow and -brother of Lord Congleton. He died 1821. (See Moore’s Memoirs, vii., -109). Charles Stewart Parnell came of the same family. - -⸺ MAURICE AND BERGHETTA; or, the Priest of Rahery. Pp. xxiv. + 213. -(BOSTON and LONDON). [1819]. Second ed., 1825. - - “Dedicated to the Catholic priesthood of Ireland.” “The - character of Maurice is drawn from a person who not many years - ago was a ploughman. The Author’s object is not to write a - novel but to place his observations on the manners of the - Irish peasantry in a less formal shape than that of a regular - dissertation.”—(Introd.). Related by Father O’Brien. The love - of Maurice O’Neal for Berghetta Tual, their marriage and - subsequent fortunes, misfortunes, and romantic adventures, till - they rise to be grandees of Spain. The coincidences are rather - far-fetched and improbable and the characters not very real. - Many moral lessons are inculcated. - - -=[PATRICK, Mrs. F. C.].= - -⸺ THE IRISH HEIRESS. (LONDON). 18—. - - -=PAUL, Major Norris.= - -⸺ MOONLIGHT BY THE SHANNON SHORE. Pp. 312. (_Jarrold_). [1888]. - - An anti-Land League novel, describing the terrorism of that - organisation and the sufferings it entailed. The plot is the - love-story of John Seebright, an Englishman, for the Irish - Eveline Wellwood, who is persecuted by the League. Devoid of - humour and almost of romance. The dialect is well handled, - and the writer clearly knew well his Limerick and Clare. But - the tone of the book is on the whole bitter and somewhat - narrow-minded. - -⸺ EVELINE WELLWOOD. (_Jarrold_). 1892. - - This is simply another ed. of _Moonlight by the Shannon Shore_. - - -=PECK, Mrs. F.= - -⸺ THE LIFE AND ACTS OF THE RENOWNED AND CHIVALROUS EDMUND OF ERIN, -commonly called Emun ac Knuck or Ned of the Hills, &c. Two Vols. Pp. 345, -300. (DUBLIN: _Tegg_). Other eds., 1841. Ten good illustr. by B. Clayton. - - Sub-title: “An Irish Historical Romance of the Seventh - Century founded on facts and blended with a brief and pithy - epitome of the origin, antiquity, and history of Ireland.” An - extraordinary and rather eccentric production, written in a - strain of exaggerated enthusiasm for Ireland. The facts are - supposed to be taken mainly “from some very ancient documents - found amongst the papers of the late Dr. Andrews, Provost - of T.C.D.,” whose grandniece the Author was. To the novel - she appends “a Circular Letter,” relating her matrimonial - differences with her husband, Capt. P. She also wrote _Tales - for the British People_, and became a Catholic. - - -=PELHAM, Gordon.= - -⸺ SHEILA DONOVAN, a Priest’s Love-Story. Pp. 295. (_Lynwood_). 1911. - - “Stephen Glynn loves Sheila D., and there is never the smallest - reason why he should not marry her. Both are represented - as sweet and good, and he is a clergyman. After their sin - Stephen’s whole mind is set on religious atonement: he joins a - religious order, leaving Sheila to struggle on alone with her - child. He breaks his vows, and all is apparently to end happily - when, acting under a misapprehension, he drowns himself.”—(T. - LIT. SUPPL.) - - -=PENDER, Mrs. M. T.=, _née_ =O’Doherty=. B. Co. Antrim. Ed. at home, at -Ballyrobin National School and Convent of Mercy, Crumlin Road, Belfast. -Has contributed much prose and verse to various Irish periodicals. - -⸺ THE GREEN COCKADE. Pp. 380, close print. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ - - A love story, the scene of which is laid in Ulster during the - rebellion. Full of romantic adventures. Historical characters - introduced: Lord Edward Putnam M’Cabe, and especially Henry - Joy M’Cracken. Battle of Antrim described, but remainder - of incidents almost entirely fictitious. No attempt at - impartiality. The Government side is painted in the darkest - colours. - -⸺ THE LAST OF THE IRISH CHIEFS.[11] - - A sensational romance of the time of Sir Cahir O’Doherty’s - rising and the governorship of Paulett in Derry. _c._ 1608. - -[11] I have not been able to ascertain whether this novel was ever -reprinted in volume form from the periodical in which it appeared as a -serial. - - -=PENROSE, Mrs. H. H.=, _née_ =Lewis=. B. Kinsale. Ed. at Rochelle -School, Cork. Took honours in T.C.D. in German and English Literature. -In addition to her novels she has written innumerable stories for the -magazines, _e.g._, TEMPLE BAR and the WINDSOR. Resides in Surrey. Besides -the novels mentioned below, _As Dust in the Balance_ and _An Unequal -Yoke_ are partly concerned with Ireland. - -⸺ DENIS TRENCH. Pp. 432. (_Alston Rivers_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Denis and his sister on their mother’s death are left in doubt - about the character and identity of their father, whom they - had seen only in their infancy, and who, as a matter of fact, - had left his wife in order to become a Roman Catholic priest. - This priest acts as a kind of providence to his two children, - and reveals himself only on his death bed. The Authoress seems - quite unacquainted with Catholic practice, but does not depict - it in a hostile spirit. The scene is partly in Ireland, but the - only trace of Irish interest is an occasional reference to a - mysterious quality in the Celtic blood of the hero and heroine, - and the character of the poor girl Stella Delaney, whom Denis - marries. - -⸺ A FAERY LAND FORLORN. Pp. 312. (_Alston Rivers_). 6_s._ 1912. - - Life among better-class Protestant folk in a little seaside - town in the S. of Ireland. The main interest is furnished - by the sad love story of Evelyn Eyre. Mr. Eyre, gentle and - bookloving, and Capt. Donovan, given to drink and a tyrant - in his family, are neighbours and close friends till a - misunderstanding brings estrangement and leads to a tragedy, - resulting in the separation—for ever, as it proves—of Evelyn - and her lover Terence Donovan. The story is wholesome and human - and free from religious or other bias. Aunt Kitty, a lovable - old maid, provides an element of humour. - -⸺ BURNT FLAX. Pp. 319. (_Mills & Boon_). 6_s._ 1914. - - The Land League agitation from landlord standpoint. Excellent - but over-firm landlord, hired agitator, attempt on landlord’s - life. The rent-payers are brutally murdered by leaguers, who - are represented as drunken and credulous. There is some good - character drawing: Tinsy O’Halloran the half-witted boy, is - original: Father O’Riordan is represented as a good sensible - priest. The brogue is travestied. - - -=[PERCIVAL, Mrs. Margaret].= - -⸺ THE IRISH DOVE; or, Faults on Both Sides. Pp. 206. (DUBLIN: -_Robertson_). 1849. - - By the Author of _Rosa, the Work Girl_. Helen Wilson, whose - mother was Irish, inherits an estate in Kerry. After years of - residence in India and then in England, she comes to live in - Ireland, grows to love the people, and spends what is left of - her failing life in teaching the natives the New Testament in - Irish. The interest of the book lies in its picture of and - apology for, the attempt made (chiefly by “The Irish Society”) - in the first half of the 19th century to convert the Irish to - Protestantism through the medium of the Irish language. The - witness it gives to the bitterly anti-Irish feeling prevailing - in England at the time is interesting. The peasantry is - represented as debased and priest-ridden, but their condition - is ascribed in part to English hostility and to absenteeism. - - -=PETREL, Fulmar.= - -⸺ GRANIA WAILE. Pp. 285, large print. (_Unwin_). Frontispiece and map. -1895. - - A fanciful story written around the early life and after-career - of the O’Malley Sea-queen. Her robbing, when only a young girl, - of the eagle’s nest, her desperate sea-fights, and her many - other adventures make pleasant reading. The atmosphere of the - period is well brought out. But few of the incidents narrated - are historical facts. - - -=PICKERING, Edgar.= - -⸺ TRUE TO THE WATCHWORD. Pp. 299. (_Warne_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Eight illustr. -1902. - - A spirited account of the siege of Derry from the point of view - of the besieged. Full of hairbreadth escapes and of desperate - encounters with the Irishry, who are spoken of throughout as - ferocious savages. Apart from this last point there is no - noteworthy falsification of history. For boys. - - -=POLLARD, Eliza F.= - -⸺ THE KING’S SIGNET. (_Blackie_, and U.S.A.: _Scribner_). - - France in the days of Madame de Maintenon, and Ireland during - Williamite wars. B. of the Boyne described. Juvenile. - - -=POLSON, Thomas R. J.= - -⸺ THE FORTUNE TELLER’S INTRIGUE. Three Vols. (DUBLIN: _McGlashan_). 1847. - - “Or, Life in Ireland before the Union, a tale of agrarian - outrage.” An unusually objectionable and absurd libel on the - priests and people of Ireland. The latter are represented - as slavishly submissive to the former, who are spoken of as - “walking divinities.” The priests attend their dupes at their - execution for agrarian crimes, telling them that they are - martyrs for the faith. The scene is Co. Clare. - - The Author, an Englishman, and originally a private soldier, - owned and edited the FERMANAGH MAIL for about forty years. - - -=PORTER, Anna Maria.= Born, 1780, in Durham. Died 1832. Was daughter of -a surgeon of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, of Ulster extraction, and a -sister of Jane Porter, author of _The Scottish Chiefs_, &c. She published -more than nineteen books. - -⸺ HONOR O’HARA. Three Vols. (_Longmans_). [1826]. American ed., _Harper_, -1827. Two Vols. - - The scene is laid in the N. of England, and the book has no - relation to Ireland except that the heroine is supposed to be - of Irish origin. - -⸺ THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY. Pp. 350. (LONDON). New ed., 1839. - - Described by the Author as “a harmless romance, which, without - aiming to inculcate any great moral lesson, still endeavours to - draw amiable portraits of virtue.”—(Pref.). An old-fashioned - novel in the early Victorian sentimental manner. The plot is - laid chiefly in Killarney (of which there is some description) - and Dublin, at the time of the earlier Napoleonic wars, when - Dublin had its parliament and was the centre of fashion. The - plot is intricate, but turns chiefly on the mischances and - misunderstandings that keep apart the hero, Felix Charlemont, - and the heroine, Rose de Blaquière. This latter name was the - title of later editions of this book, _e.g._ (LONDON: _C. H. - Clare_), 1856. - - -=POWER, Marguerite A.= - -⸺ NELLY CAREW. Two Vols. (_Saunders & Otley_). Engraved frontisp. 1859. - - The heroine, daughter of an Irish landlord, is driven by the - scheming of a crafty French stepmother (once her governess) - into marriage with an Irish roué, and leads a life of bitter - humiliation. But her honour is stainless through it all, and - there is a happy ending. Characters (_e.g._, Larry McSwiggan) - are for the most part capitally drawn. The moral is good. The - brogue is well done. This Author, a niece of the Countess of - Blessington, wrote also _Evelyn Forrester_, 1856, and _The - Foresters_, 1857. - - -=POWER, V. O’D.= - -⸺ BONNIE DUNRAVEN: a Story of Kilcarrick. Two Vols. (589 pp.). -(_Remington_). 1881. - - A very sympathetic and pleasant love story of modern life in - Co. Cork. The characters are thoroughly natural and human, and, - moreover, thoroughly Irish. Conversations good. But perhaps - the chief merit of the story is its faithful reproduction of - South of Ireland “atmosphere,” especially by word-pictures of - Southern scenes—the coasts, the Blackwater, Mount Mellaray. - Was highly praised by THE ATHENÆUM, THE ACADEMY, and by the - Catholic Press.—(I.M.). - -⸺ THE HEIR OF LISCARRAGH. (_Art and Book Co._). 1892. - - A story in which the romantic elements are very strong. - -⸺ TRACKED. (_“Ireland’s Own” Library_). 6_d._ Paper covers. 1914. - - A wholesome and pleasant story of unrequited love and of - jealousy. Scene: Innishowen (Co. Donegal). A well-worked out - plot, with good descriptions of scenery. Peasants depicted with - sympathy and understanding. - - -=PRESTON, Dorothea.= - -⸺ PADDY. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ Twenty coloured illustrs. - - Paddy’s dreams and adventures in Celtic Fairyland. - - -=PREVOST, Antoine Francois=; called =Prevost d’Exiles=, 1697-1763. - -⸺ LE DOYEN DE KELLERINE. Histoire morale composée sur les mémoires d’une -illustre famille d’Irlande; et ornée de tout ce qui peut rendre une -lecture utile et agréable. (LA HAYE: _P. Poppy_). 1744. - - A trans. of this under title _The Dean of Coleraine_. _A Moral - History founded on the Memoirs of an Illustrious Family in - Ireland_, was printed in London (Vol. I.) and Dubl. (Vols. II. - and III.) in 1742; another ed. 1780. The work was originally - publ. in Paris, 1735, and there were further editions in 1750, - 1821 (six vols.), &c. The Author was a French abbé, and a very - voluminous author, having published upwards of 200 vols. There - is a selection of his works in 39 vols. in the Library of - T.C.D. His chief title to fame is the romance _Manon Lescaut_. - The present is a well written, though very long, story, showing - how the teller of the tale, the Dean or P.P. of Coleraine, in - Antrim, watched with more than a father’s anxious care over the - fortunes of his two half-brothers and sister. Their several - characters appear admirably in the telling, especially that of - the poor good Dean, unworldly, unselfish, deeply affectionate, - but over anxious and almost over conscientious. His efforts - to keep his wayward charges in the straight path amid the - allurements of Paris are very well told. There is nothing in - the least objectionable. There is an air of reality about the - whole, though the style is old-fashioned. Towards the close the - Dean acts as a Jacobite agent in Ireland. - - -=PURDON, K. F.= B. in Enfield, Co. Meath, and has always resided there. -Ed. at home, in England, and at Alexandra College, Dublin. Has written -much for Irish and English periodicals, her first encouragement coming -from the IRISH HOMESTEAD. She also owes much to the helpfulness of -Richard Whiteing, the well-known writer. - -⸺ CANDLE AND CRIB. Pp. 42. 12mo. (_Maunsel_). 1_s._ Christmas, 1914. - - Quietly but tastefully bound. Four good illustr. in colour by - Beatrice Elvery. An exquisite little Christmas idyll telling - of the strange way Art Moloney brought his new wife home to - Ardenoo for Christmas. - -⸺ THE FOLK OF FURRY FARM. Pp. 315. (_Nisbet_). 6_s._ 1914. - - A story of life at Ardenoo, somewhere in the Midlands, - depicting in the most intimate way the conversation, manners, - humours, kindliness of the people. Told as if by one of - themselves with the strange phraseology, the unexpected turns, - the often poetic figurativeness of the best shanachies. Miss - Purdon writes as one with close and accurate knowledge of the - home-life, at least in its outward aspects, of the small farmer - class to which the chief characters belong. The matrimonial - affairs of Michael Heffernan and his sharp-tongued sister Julia - are humorously told, and the Author is almost a specialist in - tramps. Pref. by “Geo. Birmingham,” giving a sketch of the - Irish Literary movement. - - -=QUIGLEY, Rev. Hugh; “A Missionary Priest.”= 1818-1883. B. in Co. Clare, -studied in Rome, and was there ordained for the American Mission. Was -Rector of the University of St. Mary, Chicago, but resigned and laboured -among the Chippewa Indians and among miners in California. Died in Troy, -N.Y. - -⸺ THE CROSS AND SHAMROCK. Pp. 240. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). -0.60. Still in print. [1853]. - - Religious and moral instruction conveyed in the form of a story - of the trials and sufferings (amounting at times to martyrdom) - of a family of orphan children at the hands of various types - of proselytisers. A harsh and satirical tone is adopted - in speaking of American Protestantism. Incidentally there - are sidelights on several phases of American life, notably - rail-road construction. Full sub-t.:—“Or, how to defend the - faith, an Irish-American Catholic tale of real life descriptive - of the temptations, trials, sufferings, and triumphs of the - children of St. Patrick in the great republic of Washington.” - -⸺ THE PROPHET OF THE RUINED ABBEY; or, A Glance of the Future of Ireland. -Pp. 247. (_Duffy_). 1863. - - “A narrative founded on the ancient ‘Prophecies of Culmkill’ - and on other predictions and popular traditions among the - Irish.”—(Title p.). To keep alive these traditions is the - Author’s first aim, his second “to keep alive and kindle in the - bosoms of the Irish Catholic people of this republic genuine - sentiments both of patriotism and religion.”—(Pref.). Fr. Senan - O’Donnell, under sentence of death in town of Cloughmore, - Co. Waterford, at the hands of the British Government, is - rescued by his brother. In the first part of the book there is - abundance of stirring incident, thrilling escapes, &c., but the - latter part becomes more wildly improbable and unreal as it - proceeds. Fr. Senan is wrecked off coast of Clare and lives for - years in a cave in cliffs of Moher with a little boy, rescued - from the eagles. Time: about 1750-1798. Bitterly anti-English - sentiment throughout. Only by an incident in the last few pages - are the title and sub-titles justified. - -⸺ PROFIT AND LOSS; or, the Life of a Genteel Irish-American. Pp. 458. -(N.Y.: _T. O’Kane_). 1873. - - Purpose: to teach Catholic piety and to guard youth from - danger. The genteel Irish-American is Michael Mulrooney, who - was driven out of Ireland by the tyranny of the landlord class. - The first twenty-five pp. tell us of his troubles in Ireland. - - -=QUINLAN, May.= - -⸺ IN THE DEVIL’S ALLEY. Pp. 262. (_Art and Book Co._). 3_s._ 6_d._ -Illustr. very cleverly and humorously by the Author. 1907. - - Sketches of the lowest life in the East End of London, chiefly - among the poorest Irish. Told with sympathy, close observation, - and quiet humour. There is pathos too, but the Author never - strains it nor forces the note. _Sunt lachrimae rerum._ - The Author is the dau. of Judge Quinlan, late of Victoria, - Australia. - - -=READ, Charles Anderson.= 1841-1878. Born near Sligo. Was for some -years a merchant in Rathfriland, Co. Down. Went to London, 1863. Was an -industrious and able writer, and a man full of enthusiastic admiration -for Ireland, its people, and its literature. Produced numerous sketches, -poems, short tales, and nine novels, the most notable of the latter being -_Love’s Service_; but better known are his _Aileen Aroon_ and _Savourneen -Dheelish_, of which the LONDON REVIEW said: “We are presented with a view -of agrarian crime in its most revolting aspect, and there is no false -glamour thrown around any of the characters. Many of the incidents are -highly dramatic, while the dialogue is bright and forcible.” The above -notice is taken from an article by Mr. Charles Gibbon in the _Cabinet of -Irish Literature_, edited by Mr. Read himself. - -⸺ SAVOURNEEN DHEELISH; or, One True Heart. 16mo. (LONDON: _Henderson_), -1_s._ [1869]. 1874, 7th ed. - - First appeared in THE WEEKLY BUDGET. A melodramatic but finely - told story. The principal incident is the historic tragedy - utilised by Carleton in his “Wild Goose Lodge.” Especially - thrilling is the scene where Kate Costelloe gives the evidence - which she knows will bring her brother and her lover to the - gallows. Barney Fegan, a jovial pedlar, plays a conspicuous - part. The usual devices of evictions, murders, Whiteboys, - traitors, trials, secret caves, &c. Scenery well described: - brogue well done. The fair at Keady is a noteworthy piece of - description. Scene: the district round Dundalk. - -⸺ AILEEN AROON; or, The Pride of Clonmore. (LONDON: _Henderson_). 1_s._ -[1870.]. Sixth ed. _n.d._ - - First appeared in THE WEEKLY BUDGET. Garratt O’Neill is - falsely accused of murder. His sweetheart Aileen on her way to - Downpatrick to defend him is abducted by his enemy. Suspected - of infidelity, she is driven from her home, but is befriended - by Father Nugent, an unfrocked priest, and his Fenian band, who - lurk in the Mourne Mountains. After many thrilling episodes and - hairbreadth escapes the lovers are united at last. Sensational - but well-told, and containing some good descriptions. - - -=READE, Amos.= - -⸺ NORAH MORIARTY; or, Revelations of Irish Life. (_Blackwood_). Two Vols. -1886. - - “A romance bound up with the story of the Land League, its - rise ... in 1880, its development, and the outrages and bitter - sufferings endured by the victims.”—(_Baker_). - - -=READE, Mrs. R. H.= - -⸺ PUCK’S HALL. Pp. 254. (BELFAST: _Charles W. Olley_). 1889. - - Scene: Newcastle, Co. Down. A pleasant story, told in a - straightforward way, with good characterisation. By the same - Author:—_Milly Davidson_, _Dora_, _Silver Mill_, &c. - - -=REED, Talbot Baines.= - -⸺ SIR LUDAR. Pp. 343. (_R.T.S._). Seven illustr. by Alfred Pearse. -[1889]. Cheap reprints (_“Leisure Hour” Office_), 6_d._, 1910, and -(_Boys’ Own Paper_). 1913. - - Adventures of an English ’prentice boy in company with Sir - Ludar, who is a son of Sorley Boy MacDonnell of Dunluce - Castle, Co. Antrim. There is a constant succession of exciting - incidents. The retaking of Dunluce from the English is the - most noteworthy. The heroes are on board the Armada during - its fight with the English. The tone is not anti-Irish, but - occasionally unfair to Catholics. It is a book for boys. - - The Author (1852-1893) was a son of Sir Chas. Reed, M.P., - F.S.A., Deputy Governor of the Irish Society, and nephew of - John Anderson, the Belfast bibliographer. He had a great love - for Ireland and her people, and always delighted in visiting - her shores. - -⸺ KILGORMAN. Pp. 420. (_Nelson_). Six illustr. (good). 1906. - - Scene: mainly in Donegal. Relates adventures of Donegal - fisherboy, first at home, then in Paris during Reign of - Terror, then at battle of Camperdown, then in Dublin, where he - frequents meetings of United Irishmen and meets Lord Edward. - Standpoint: not anti-Irish, but hostile to aims of United - Irishmen. Full of exciting adventure. Juv. - - -=REID, Forrest.= - -⸺ THE BRACKNELS: a Family Chronicle. Pp. 304. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1911. - - This unpleasant and, we hope, abnormal family is that - of a self-made Belfast merchant. The book is a study in - temperaments; Mr. Bracknel himself, a harsh man, with little - humanness, without affection, except a certain regard for an - illegitimate child of past days; the daughter Amy, in love with - Rusk, the tutor, and ready to go to any lengths to win him; the - wilful, selfish, elder son; above all, Denis, the youngest, - morbid, dreamy, the victim of delusions, engaging in strange - pagan worship, yet with amiable traits. There is not a trace of - religion in the chronicle of this family. - -⸺ FOLLOWING DARKNESS. Pp. 320. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1912. - - A soul study in form of autobiography. The hero is a son of - a Co. Down schoolmaster. He is brought up amid uncongenial - people and in uncongenial circumstances, first amid the Mourne - Mountains, then in sordid Cromac St., Belfast. His soul - sickens with the dreariness of the education, and especially - of the religion that is imposed on him, and the father, a - hard, unresponsive man, is perversely blind to the genius (an - artistic and somewhat moody temperament) and aspirations of the - young man—with consequences almost fatal. He is thrown back on - himself. Hence intense introspection and then an outlet sought - in occult sciences. There is a love story, too, but it is of - minor importance. The book is but a fragment, and has no real - conclusion. The style is exceptionally good. - -⸺ AT THE DOOR OF THE GATE. Pp. 332. (_Arnold_). 6_s._ 1915. - - “One needs no knowledge of Belfast and its people to appreciate - nine-tenths of what Mr. Reid here describes; there can be - no question that his characters are true to life: the small - family at the combined post office and lending library; the - hardworking, clean, and grim Mrs. Seawright, her two sons - Martin and Richard, her adopted daughter Grace ... all this one - thoroughly appreciates as one admires the sustained skill with - which in a succession of small strokes Mr. Reid builds up his - admirable story.”—(TIMES LIT. SUPPL.). - - -=RHYS, Grace.= “Mrs. Rhys (_née_ Little) was born at Knockadoo, Boyle, -Co. Roscommon, 1865. She is youngest daughter of J. Bennett Little, and -married, in 1891, Ernest Rhys, the poet.... Her novels deal with Irish -life, which she knows well, and are written with sympathetic insight, -tenderness, and tragic power.”—(IRISH LIT.). - -⸺ MARY DOMINIC. Pp. 296. (_Dent_). 1898. - - The main theme is the seduction of a young peasant girl by the - son of the landlord, and the nemesis that overtook the seducer - after many years. The story is told with exceptional power and - pathos. There is no prurient description, unless one half-page - might be objected to on this score. The peasants are natural - and life-like, but there is something strangely repellant - in the pictures of the upper classes. There are incidents - bringing out the darker aspects of the land-war. There is no - anti-religious bias. - -⸺ THE WOOING OF SHEILA. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ [1901]. Second ed., 1908. -(N.Y.: _Holt_). 1.50. - - A gentleman, from unnatural motives, deliberately brings up - his son as a common labourer. The boy falls in love with and - marries a peasant girl, whom he had saved from the pursuit of a - rascally young squire. On her marriage morning she learns that - her husband has killed her unworthy lover. She at once leaves - her husband, but a priest induces her to return, and the crime - is hushed up in a rather improbable manner. As in the Author’s - other books, there is a subtle charm of style, delicate - analysis of character, and fair knowledge of peasant life. - -⸺ THE PRINCE OF LISNOVER. (_Methuen_). 1904. - - Ireland in the early ’sixties. Has same qualities as _Mary - Dominic_. Devotion of the people to the old and dispossessed - “lord of the soil” is touchingly brought out. A pretty - girl-and-boy love story runs through the whole. - -⸺ THE CHARMING OF ESTERCEL. Pp. 318. (_Dent_). 6_s._ 1913. - - A love story of Ireland in the days of O’Neill and Essex. The - main interest lies in the story of how Estercel is brought to - love his cousin Sabia, and in the adventures of the former, - an O’Neill and the envoy of the great Hugh, in Dublin and in - Ulster. But the historical background is well painted and the - historical personages carefully studied. The hero’s wonderful - horse, Tamburlaine, is a strange and original “character” - in the piece, and there is a splendid description of how he - carried his master from Dublin home to the North. The Author - writes with sympathy for Ireland. The charm of the style - is enhanced by her sympathy with wild nature and delicate - perception of its sights and sounds. - - -=RHYS, Rt. Hon. Sir John, M.A., D.Litt.= B. Cardiganshire, 1840. Ed. -Bangor and Oxford. Also at the Sorbonne, College de France, Heidelberg, -Leipsic, and Göttingen. Prof. of Celtic at Oxford since 1877. Member of -innumerable learned societies and royal commissions. He has read many -valuable papers on Celtic subjects before the R.I.A. Publ. a long series -of works on Celtic subjects, _e.g._, _Celtic Heathendom_, 1886. - -⸺ CELTIC FOLK-LORE, Welsh and Manx. Two Vols. Pp. xlvi. + 718. (OXFORD: -_Clarendon Press_). 10_s._ 1901. - - Stories gathered partly by letter, partly _viva voce_, - classified and critically discussed. The group of ideas, he - concludes, connected with the fairies is drawn partly from - history and fact, partly from the world of imagination and - myth, the former part representing vague traditions of earlier - races. Many subsidiary questions are raised, _e.g._, magic, the - origin of druidism, certain aspects of the Arthurian legends, - &c. Ch. x. deals with Difficulties of the Folk-lorist; Ch. xi. - with Folk-lore Philosophy; Ch. xii. with Race in Folk-lore and - Myth. Throughout constant references are made to and frequent - parallels drawn with Irish folk-lore, _e.g._, the Cuchulainn - cycle. - - -=RIDDELL, Mrs.= _née_ =Charlotte E. Cowan=. Born at Carrickfergus, -1832. Published her first book 1858, since when she has written nearly -forty novels. All of these are remarkably clever, and some have been -very popular. They deal chiefly with social and domestic life among -the Protestant upper and middle classes. The scene is laid in London, -Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Scotland, &c. Few deal with Ireland. We may -mention _George Geith of Fen Court_ (1864), _City and Suburb_ (1861), -_A Life’s Assize_ (1870), _Above Suspicion_ (1875), _Too Much Alone_, -_Susan Drummond_, _Race for Wealth_, _Head of the Firm_. Her books are -noteworthy for the intimate knowledge of the proceedings of law and the -business world of London which they display. D. 1906. - -⸺ MAXWELL DREWITT. [1865]. New illustr. ed., 1869. (_Arnold_). - - A rather lengthy but well-told tale of adventures in Connemara, - including an old-fashioned election (time, 1854) and a - well-described trial for robbery on the Drogheda and Dundalk - Railway. The plot is well constructed and the characters, - mainly of the landlord class, sympathetically depicted. The - peasantry are faithfully, if somewhat humorously, delineated. - Dr. Sheen, the dispensary doctor, and his patients are well - pourtrayed. - -⸺ A STRUGGLE FOR FAME. 1883. Several eds. - - Partly autobiographical. Describes a young girl and her father - sailing from Belfast with her MS. to win her way in London. Her - experiences of publishers and love affairs. - -⸺ BERNA BOYLE. Pp. 443. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ [1884]. 1900, &c. - - A love story of the Co. Down about fifty years ago. Deals - mainly with the trials of a young lady, who suffers much from - suitors with disagreeable relatives. The characters are mainly - drawn from a rather uninspiring and unsympathetic type of - Ulster folk. Perhaps the most striking feature is the character - of Berna’s mother, a vulgar, pushful, foolish woman. There is - humour not a little in the situations and characters. The story - suffers from its great length. - -⸺ THE BANSHEE’S WARNING, and Other Tales. (LONDON: _Macqueen_). 6_d._ -Paper. 1903. - - Six stories, four having some concern with Ireland. The first - tells how the Banshee goes to London to warn the scapegrace - son of an Irish family, who is a clever surgeon, yet always - plunged in debt. It is a study of a strange personality. “A - Vagrant Digestion” humorously relates the journeyings of the - hypochondriacal Vicar of Rathdundrum in search of health. - “Mr. Mabbot’s Fright” and “So Near, or the Pity of It” both - illustrate the honesty and the proper pride of the Irish. The - latter is pathetic. The former is humorous, is full of life and - movement, and contains fine descriptions of the coast-drive - from Belfast to Larne in the old days, and of an exciting - run-away. - - -=RIDDALL, Walter.= - -⸺ HUSBAND AND LOVER. Pp. 304. (_Swift_). 6_s._ 1913. - - The love affairs of a London journalist who comes to Ireland, - marries Doris, and makes love to Laura.—(T. LIT. SUPPL.). The - Author, who was the second son of the late Dean Riddall of - Belfast, died in 1913, at the age of forty. - - -=“RITA”; Mrs. Desmond Humphreys.= Author of a great many novels: Mudie’s -list enumerates 58, amongst them _Peg the Rake_ and _Kitty the Rag_, -both introducing Irish elements, and _The Masqueraders_ describing the -wanderings and social experiences of two Irish singers. - -⸺ THE SIN OF JASPER STANDISH. Pp. 342. (_Constable_). 1901. - - Scene: one of the midland counties. The story is founded on - the Newtonstewart, Co. Tyrone, tragedy, where a scoundrelly - inspector of police murders the local bank-manager, then - himself conducts the investigation, but is unmasked and brought - to justice by the English heroine and her housekeeper. A - morbid and sensational type of book, with not a few traces - of religious and national bias. The English characters are - belauded, the Irish for the most part represented as fools. - There is much “stage-Irish” dialogue. - -⸺ A GREY LIFE. Pp. 347. (_Stanley Paul_). 6_s._ 1913. - - Scene: a boarding-house in Bath kept by three reduced ladies, - with whom Rosaleen O’Hara passes (in the later 1870’s) the - three or four years covered by the story. The central figure is - the Chevalier Theophrastus O’Shaughnessy, a charming, scholarly - man, with sad stories of his past to tell. - - -=ROBINSON, F. Mabel.= - -⸺ THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. Two Vols. (_Vizetelly_). 1888. - - Scene: Dublin, except for a chapter at Dromore and a visit to - London. Deals with the famous agrarian “Plan of Campaign” in - the eighties, viewed with Nationalist sympathies. Religion - is not discussed. A number of men and women of the educated - classes meet to talk politics. They go to see evictions, and - vivid but heartrending pictures of these are drawn. A bad - landlord is killed by a gentleman named Considine. The latter’s - friend, Talbot, helps him to escape, but his daughter Stella - dies of grief. Considine, who is an unbeliever, shoots himself. - The story is a good one and skilfully worked out. - - -=ROCHE, Hon. Alexis.= - -⸺ JOURNEYINGS WITH JERRY THE JARVEY. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ 1915. - - Two of these sketches first appeared in the CORNHILL. “One - of the most mirth-provoking collection of sketches that has - appeared for many a long day. There is a laugh in every page - and a roar in every chapter. Yet it is all pure comedy: - only once does the Author descend to farce.... a delightful - book.”—(I.B.L.). The Author, son of 1st Baron Fermoy, was born - in 1853, and died in 1915. - - -=ROCHE, Regina Maria.= 1765-1845. A once celebrated novelist. For many -years before her death she lived in retirement at Waterford. Wrote also -_The Vicar of Lansdowne_ (1793), _Maid of the Hamlet_, _The Monastery of -St. Columba_, &c., &c. - -⸺ THE CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY. Four Vols. 12 mo. [1798]. (_Mason_). Twelfth -ed., 1835; others 1863, 1867. - - A sentimental story of a very old-fashioned type. The - personages are chiefly earls and marquises, the heroines have - names like Amanda, Malvina, &c. Though in this novel Irish - places (Enniskillen, Dublin, Bray) are mentioned, the book does - not seem to picture any reality of Irish life. This is still - on Mudie’s list. It was republ. in U.S.A. at Hartford, Exeter, - Philadelphia, and N.Y. - -⸺ THE MUNSTER COTTAGE BOY. Four Vols. Pp. 1195. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1820. - - A little girl, Fidelia, grows up without knowing who her - parents are. Bad people try to exploit her: a servant named - Connolly tries to save her, but she falls from one misfortune - into another, till finally she meets her father, and finds - herself an heiress. Interminable conversations and intricacies - of episode. A multitude of characters, who are for the most - part English in Ireland. No humour, nor style. - -⸺ THE BRIDAL OF DUNAMORE. Pp. 888. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1823. - - A character study of Rosalind Glenmorlie, beautiful but haughty - and ambitious, and of the misery she caused to many and finally - to herself. It is tragedy almost all through. The scene in - “Dunamore,” on E. coast of Ireland. The character of the - heroine is overdrawn and exaggerated, like most of the Author’s - _dramatis personæ_. - -⸺ THE TRADITION OF THE CASTLE; or, Scenes in the Emerald Isle. Four Vols. -Pp. 1414. 1824. - - A very long story, with a multitude of characters. The aim - seems to be to plead that Irishmen should reside in their - own country and work for its welfare. Scenery of Howth, - Artoir-na-Greine, a place near Dublin, and Killarney. Dialect - good. No discussion of religious matters, but a good deal - of politics. The story opens during last session of Irish - Parliament, and, in a discussion between husband and wife, the - Author’s nationalist sentiments appear. Donoghue O’Brien, the - hero, is long kept apart from his Eveleen Erin, but they are - united in the end. - -⸺ THE CASTLE CHAPEL. Three Vols. Pp. 963. (LONDON: _Newman_). 1825. - - A story of a family of O’Neills of St. Doulagh’s Castle, - somewhere in Ulster, early nineteenth century. Eugene falls - in love with Rose Cormack, his sister’s companion, and they - make vows of marriage in the chapel by moonlight. Eugene, - who dabbles in phrenology and seems somewhat of a fool, goes - away. On his return he is told that Rose has been killed in an - accident. In reality she has been taken away by her father, - a Mr. Mordaunt, former owner of the castle, who has poisoned - his wife. Rose becomes an heiress, dies abroad, and leaves her - fortune to the O’Neills, and an apology for her duplicity. A - queer, outlandish sort of story. - - -=ROCHFORT, Edith.= - -⸺ THE LLOYDS OF BALLYMORE. Two Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1890. - - A domestic story, told with simplicity and feeling. The Lloyds - belong to the Protestant landlord class, as do most of the - personages in the tale. Period: 1881: the Land League days. - Scene: the Midlands and afterwards Dublin. The first part of - the plot turns on the agrarian murder of Mr. Lloyd, the trial, - and execution of the murderer; the second on Tom Lloyd’s being - suspected of a bank-robbery when the Lloyds are living in very - straitened circumstances. All through runs a delicately told - and very sympathetic love story. The land question is viewed - from the landlord standpoint, but discussed without excessive - bitterness. Conversations natural and peasant dialect good. - - -=RODENBERG, Julius.= - -⸺ DIE HARFE VON IRLAND: Märchen und dichtung in Irland. Pp. 299. 16mo. -(LEIPZIG: _Grunow_). 1861. - - Contains:—I. Thirteen Irish melodies, with music. II. Tales. - III. Poems and songs transl. into German verse. At the end - are useful notes, and at p. 283 a list of sources. These are - chiefly the DUBLIN AND LONDON MAGAZINE for 1825-7. Two are - given as “mündlich” (gathered orally). Titles such as:—The - land in the sea, the wizard of Crunnaan, two stories of the - Leprechaun, the land of the ever young (Tír na n-óg), the fairy - handkerchief of the Phuka, the fair Nora, &c. - - -=ROGERS, R. D.= - -⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF ST. KEVIN, and Other Irish Tales. (_Swan -Sonnenschein_). Pp. 266. [1897]. 1907. - - A dozen humorous sketches, well told, giving the old legends - in a modern comic setting, much in the vein of Edmund Downey’s - _Through Green Glasses_. The brogue is faithfully rendered. - - -=ROLLESTON, T. W.= B. 1857, at Shinrone, King’s Co. His father was County -Court Judge for Tipperary. Ed. St. Columba’s, Rathfarnham, and T.C.D. -Lived some years on the Continent, but has since lived alternately in -London and in Dublin. Has written much verse. Also several literary, -philosophical, and biographical works. Was the first secretary of the -Irish Literary Society, London. - -⸺ MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE CELTIC RACE. Pp. ix. + 457. (_Harrap_). 7_s._ -6_d._ Sixty-four full-page illustr. by Stephen Reid—excellent. (N.Y.: -_Crowell_). 2.50. 1911. - - A very handsome volume, beautifully printed and bound. - Contents:—1. The Celts in ancient history. 2. The religion of - the Celts. 3. The Irish invasion myths. 4. The early Milesian - kings. 5. Tales of the Ultonian cycle. 6. Tales of the Ossianic - cycle. 7. The voyage of Maeldun. 8. Myths and Tales of the - Cymry. Elaborate Glossary and Index. From about p. 106 onwards - the legends, sagas, &c., are not simply discussed but told as - stories. The résumé of early Celtic history, with the customs, - art, religion, and influence of the race, is very valuable; but - the main interest lies in his complete survey of the cycles of - Irish myth and legend. The editor claims that he has “avoided - any adaptation of the material for the popular taste.” Some - very unfortunate (to say the least) remarks about religion (see - pp. 47 and 66) might well have been omitted. - -⸺ THE HIGH DEEDS OF FINN, and Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland. -Pp. lv. + 214. (_Harrap_). 5_s._ Sixteen illustr. by Stephen Reid. (N.Y.: -_Crowell_). 1.50. 1910. - - Introduction long, but very interesting, by the well-known man - of letters (author of nearly thirty volumes), Rev. Stopford - Brooke. Deals with the relationships and contrasts between the - various cycles of Irish bardic literature and their several - characteristics—and this in a style full of literary charm. The - stories told by Mr. Rolleston (than whom few more competent - could be found for the work) are re-tellings in a style - graceful and poetic, but simple and direct, of ancient Gaelic - romances, some already told in English elsewhere, others now - first appearing in an English dress. They are drawn from all - three cycles above mentioned. Source for each mentioned at end - of book. Some of these tales are already well known, such as - Oisin in the Land of Youth, and the Children of Lir. The style, - it may be added, has not the fire and the dramatic force of - Standish O’Grady, but it has good qualities of its own. - - -=ROONEY, Miss Teresa J.; “Eblana.”= B. 1840. D. in 1911. - -⸺ THE LAST MONARCH OF TARA. Pp. 311. (_Gill_). 2_s._ [1880]. (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 0.80. 1889, &c. - - Period: reigns of Tuathal and Diarmaid O Cearbhail. Scene: - chiefly the district around Tara. Aims to present a detailed - picture of the daily life and civilization of Ireland at - the time. Chief events: the murder of Tuathal, the judgment - of Diarmaid against Columbkille, followed by the battle - of Cooldrevne, and finally the Cursing and Abandonment of - Tara. The story is slight and moves slowly; there is no love - interest. The historical events are not all, perhaps, very - certain, but the author has brought very great industry and - erudition (from the best sources) to the portrayal of the life - of the time. The edition (of 1889) was revised and corrected by - Canon U. J. Bourke, M.R.I.A., and is admirably produced. - -⸺ EILY O’HARTIGAN, an Irish-American Tale. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 2_s._ 1889. - - Time of the Volunteers. Chief incidents in tale: Battle of - Bunker’s Hill, and Irish Declaration of Independence in 1782. - A disagreeable person of the name of Buck Fox (the name under - which the story originally appeared) takes up quite too large - a space in this book; and he and his friends, with their - _soi-disant_ English accents, are most decided bores. The point - of view is strongly national.—(I.M.). - -⸺ THE STRIKE. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ 1909. - - “A stirring tale of Dublin in the eighteenth century, when - Ireland stood well ahead in industrial activity, and the Dublin - Liberties were the hub of Irish Industrialism.” - - -=RORISON, E. S.= - -⸺ A TASTE OF QUALITY. Pp. 319. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1904. - - Family life among Protestant upper middle class folk in a - country district—very pleasant and refined society. A kindly, - human story, eminently true to life, without bias of any - kind. One becomes quite familiar with the cleverly-drawn - characters—the kindly, cultured Archdeacon and his sister; - patient, crippled Larry, with his cheery slang; devoted Auntie - Nell, bringing comfort and brightness where she goes; the - Austrian countess; and the twins. - - -=ROSSA, Jeremiah O’Donovan.= - -⸺ EDWARD O’DONNELL: a Story of Ireland of Our Day. Pp. 300. (N.Y.: -_Green_). 1884. - - Scene somewhere near Fethard, Co. Tipperary, during Land League - agitation. The Author’s sympathies are against the L.L. and for - the physical force party, often called dynamiters at the time. - The book is full of the agrarian question, viewed with bitterly - anti-landlord bias. Eviction scenes, boycotting, midnight - conspiracy. Satirical portrait of the pious landlord—Catholic - attorney who battens on the miseries of the poor; also of - various landlord types. In the case of “Father Tim” the - portraits shows all the weak spots, but without bitterness - or disrespect. See ch. 18, Fr. Tim’s sermon against the - dynamiters. Good picture of a dispensary doctor’s life and - difficulties. Well written, but rather a pamphlet than a story. - It is believed in many quarters that Rossa did not write a word - of this story;[12] the edition I examined has on the title-page - what purports to be a facsimile of Rossa’s signature. Rossa - was b. in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, 1831. Died in U.S.A., 1915, - and was given a public funeral in Dublin. He was a well known - Fenian leader, was condemned for treason-felony in 1865, and - sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, but was subsequently - released and went to New York, where he edited THE UNITED - IRISHMAN. - -[12] In a contribution to I.B.L. for Sept., 1915, Mr. Edmund Downey -unhesitatingly assigns the book to the late Edward Moran, brother of the -present Ed. of THE LEADER. - - -=RUFFIN, Mrs. M. E. HENRY-=, _see_ =HENRY-RUFFIN=. - - -=RUSSELL, Maud M.= - -⸺ SPRIGS OF SHAMROCK; or, Irish Sketches and Legends. Pp. 134. (_Browne & -Nolan_). 6_d._ 1900. - - “The little books show how full of charm and fascination the - holiday resorts of Ireland really are.”—(LADY’S PICTORIAL). - - -=RUSSELL, T. O’Neill; “Reginald Tierney.”= B. near Moate, Co. Westmeath, -1828. Son of Joseph Russell, a Quaker. Was devoted from about 1858 till -the end of his life to the revival of the Irish language. During the -Fenian movement he was an object of suspicion. He emigrated, and spent -thirty years in U.S.A. Returning in 1895, he threw himself heart and soul -into the Gaelic Revival. D. 1908. - -⸺ TRUE HEART’S TRIALS. (_Gill_). 1_s._ and 1_s._ 6_d._ Still in print, -1910. - - A rather rambling tale of the troubles of a pair of lovers. - Scene: first, the Lake district of Cavan and Westmeath, where - we have a glimpse of squireen life. Afterwards the backwoods - north of Albany, U.S.A. Both light and shade of American - colonist life depicted. There are many laughable episodes in - the book. - -⸺ DICK MASSEY. Pp. 300. (_Gill_). 1_s._ 1860. New ed., poor print, 1908. - - Famine in 1814 and following years, as background for a story - full of incident, humour, and pathos, with faithful pictures - of many sides of Irish life—the emigrant ship, a wedding, - relations of good and bad landlords with tenants. Altogether on - the side of the peasant. Original title:—_The Struggles of Dick - Massey; or, the battles of a boy_, by “Reginald Tierney.” - - -=RUSSELL, Violet.= Is the wife of George Russell, “A.E.,” Ed. of the -IRISH HOMESTEAD and a well-known poet. - -⸺ HEROES OF THE DAWN. Pp. 251. (_Maunsel_). 5_s._ Sixteen black and white -drawings and four coloured illustr. by Beatrice Elvery. _n.d._ [1913]. - - Stories of the Fionn cycle, drawn from Standish O’Grady’s - _Silva Gadelica_ and from the _Transactions of the Ossianic - Society_, and retold, with a pleasant simplicity and - directness, for children. “I would have you see in them,” says - the dedication, “a record of some qualities which the heroes - of ancient times held to be of far greater worth than anything - else—an absolute truthfulness and courtesy in thought and - speech and action; a nobility and chivalry of mind, &c....” But - the Author leaves the reader to draw his own moral and does not - force it on him. The illustrations are charming, and the whole - book is produced with great artistic taste. - - -=RYAN, W. P.=, _see also_ =O’RYAN, W. P.= - -⸺ THE HEART OF TIPPERARY. Pp. 256. (_Ward & Downey_). 1893. - - A romance of the Land League, but not too much taken up with - politics. Nationalist. Introd. by William O’Brien, M.P. - -⸺ STARLIGHT THROUGH THE ROOF. Pp. 240. (_Downey_). 1895. Under pseudonym -“Kevin Kennedy.” - - Scene: an inland village of Munster (presumably in Co. - Tipperary). A tale of peasant life—Utopian reforms realized by - a returned emigrant, opposed by land agents and a landlord’s - priest; partial conversion of the latter to the people’s side; - arrest of reformer on false charge of murder; breaking open of - prison, and rescue, &c. An early and crude effort in fiction. - Pleasant, emotional style. Very strong Nationalist bias. - - -=“RATHKYLE, M. A.”= - -⸺ FAREWELL TO GARRYMORE. Pp. 127. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ net. 1912. - - A simple little tale of life in an Irish village, showing - knowledge of the country-folk and of their ways of thought and - speech; also a thorough understanding of children. The Author - is Miss M. Younge, of Upper Oldtown, Rathdowney. - - -=SADLIER, Mrs. James=,[13] _née_ =Madden=. Born at Cootehill, 1820. D. -1903. In 1844 she went to Canada, where the rest of her life was spent. -Between 1847 and 1874 she wrote frequently for the principal Catholic -papers in America. In 1895 she received the Laetare Medal. “Each of her -works of fiction had a special object in view, bearing on the moral -and religious well-being of her fellow Irish Catholics.” She says: “It -is needless to say that all my writings are dedicated to the one grand -object: the illustration of our holy Faith by means of tales or stories.” -Her sympathies are strongly nationalist. Besides the books here noticed, -she also published _The Red Hand of Ulster_, and a large number of -religious works. Flynn of Boston publishes a uniform ed. of her works at -0.60 each vol. Many of them were, naturally, originally published by the -firm of her husband, James Sadlier. - -[13] _i.e._, Mary A. Sadlier, to be carefully distinguished from Anna T. -Sadlier, her daughter, born in Montreal. The latter has written nearly as -much as her mother, but her works are not concerned with Ireland. - -⸺ THE FATE OF FATHER SHEEHY. Pp. 178 + appendix 76. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ -6_d._ Still in print. [_c._ 1845]. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. - - The story (true, though told in form of fiction) of how the - heroic patriot-priest was judicially murdered at Clonmel in - 1766 by the ascendancy faction, backed by the Government. - Appendix by Dr. R. R. Madden, giving full details of the trial, - depositions of witnesses, &c. - -⸺ WILLY BURKE. Pp. 224. (_Duffy_). 1_s._ 6_d._ [_c._ 1850]. In print, -1909. - - Story of two Irish emigrant boys left orphans in the States, - and their struggles with temptations against their Faith. One - is a model boy; the other goes off the track, but is brought - back again. A moral and religious story, full of Catholic faith - and feeling. It might, however, be not unreasonably considered - somewhat “goody-goody.” - -⸺ NEW LIGHTS; or, Life in Galway. Pp. 443. (N.Y.: _Sadlier_). [1853]. - - Peasant life in Famine times. Written with a strong sympathy - for the sufferings of the people, and with admiration for - their virtues. There is a good deal about the proselytism - or “souperism” that was rife at the time. The evils of - landlordism, resulting in evictions, &c., are depicted. There - is no love interest. - -⸺ THE BLAKES AND FLANAGANS. Pp. 391. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 60 cents. net; and -(_Duffy_) 2_s._ 6_d._ [1855]. 1909. - - Life among lower middle class Irish in New York, showing - in a somewhat satirical way, evil effects of public school - education. The moral purpose, though fairly evident, does not - detract from the naturalness of the story. The conversation is - particularly lifelike. - -⸺ THE CONFEDERATE CHIEFTAINS. Pp. 384. Demy 8vo. (_Gill_). 4_s._ Many -editions. [1859]. Still in print. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60 net. - - A romance of a popular kind, without great literary - pretensions, giving a good picture of the events of the time, - written from a Catholic standpoint, and sympathising with - the Old Irish party led by O’Neill, who is the hero of the - tale. All the chief men of the various parties figure in the - narrative. Full expression is given to the Author’s sympathies - and dislikes, yet without, we believe, historic unfairness. - -⸺ BESSY CONWAY; or, The Irish Girl in America. Pp. 316. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). -60 cents. net. Print rather poor. _n.d._ [1861]. - - Theme of story: influence of religion on character. Object - (as stated in Pref.): to point out to Irish girls in America - (especially servants) “the true and never-failing path to - success in this life, and happiness in the next.” Bessy, - daughter of Tipperary farmer, leaves for America. She finds - when on board that Henry Herbert, son of her father’s landlord, - a Protestant, is without encouragement from her, following her - through love. The story tells how a change came over the wild - young man, how he became a Catholic, and married Bessy; how - the two of them made their fortunes in N. Y., and how Bessy - came home just in time to stop the eviction of her father in - the Famine year. Readable, with touches both of humour and of - pathos. Highly moral and religious in tone. - -⸺ THE RED HAND OF ULSTER; or, the Fortunes of Hugh O’Neill. (LONDON and -DUBLIN), _c._ 1862. - - Mentioned in most lists of this Author’s works, but not in - British Museum Library. - -⸺ THE HERMIT OF THE ROCK. Pp. 320. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 6_d._ _n.d._ [1863]. -In print. - - Story of Irish society in the ’sixties. The “hermit,” who - tends the graves and monuments on the Rock of Cashel, is a - sort of Irish “Old Mortality,” and is a storehouse of legend - and tradition. The story is by no means a tame one: there is - a murder mystery, and sensation, though the latter does not - degenerate into melodrama. - -⸺ THE DAUGHTER OF TYRCONNELL: a Tale of the Reign of James I. Pp. 160. -(_Duffy_), 1_s._ (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 60 cents, net. [1863]. Still in print. - - Sufferings of Mary O’Donnell, daughter of the exiled Earl of - Tyrconnell, at the hands of James I., who adopted her and - wished her to marry a Protestant. She dresses as a man and - escapes to the Continent, where she enters a convent. Founded - on a tradition recorded in MacGeoghegan’s _History of Ireland_. - James is painted in very dark colours; Mary is almost too good - for real life. - -⸺ CON O’REGAN; or, Emigrant Life. Pp. 405. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 60 cents. -[1864]. 1909. - - A powerful anti-emigration novel, depicting the hardships of - Irish emigrants in the New England states in the ’forties. - Thoroughly Catholic and sympathetic to the Irish, but does not - conceal their faults. - -⸺ THE OLD HOUSE BY THE BOYNE. Pp. 319. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 6_d._ [1865]; also -(LONDON) 1888. New ed., 1904. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60. - - Scene: Drogheda. Many descriptions of old historic spots, and - much legendary lore. There is a love interest, also, but the - book is hardly up to the Author’s usual standard. At the outset - of the book Drogheda is well described. - -⸺ THE HEIRESS OF KILORGAN. Pp. vi. + 420. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 60 cents. -[1867]. New ed., 1909. - - “A slight and very simple thread of fiction connects throughout - the series of historical sketches constituting these ‘Evenings - with the old Geraldines.’”—(Pref.). The plan is similar to - that of _Hibernian Nights Entertainments_ (Ferguson), _q.v._ - At Kilorgan, near the Maigue, in Co. Limerick, dwell a poor - family of descendants of the Geraldines. They are visited by - an Englishman, who has (without their knowledge) bought the - old place in the courts. Every night of his stay a story is - told, the intervals being filled in by somewhat insipid love - episodes, long poems (by Mrs. Hernans, Longfellow, Gerald - Griffin, &c.), and songs. The stories are a series of episodes - from Geraldine history from Gerald FitzWalter in Wales to - the Sugán Earl, _c._ 1598, together with a few miscellaneous - romantic stories. They are simply and interestingly told. Some - are hardly for children. An Appendix gives some Geraldine - documents. - -⸺ MACCARTHY MÓR. Pp. 277. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). [1868]. At present in print. -_n.d._ - - Life and character of Florence MacCarthy Mór based on his _Life - and Letters_ by Daniel M’Carthy. M’Carthy is said by the Author - (Pref.) almost to merit the name of the Munster Machiavelli. - The book presents a striking picture of the struggles of the - great families of the day to preserve faith and property amid - the petty persecutions of the government and the intrigues of - rivals. Chief events introduced: battles of Pass of Plumes, - Curlew Mountains, and Bealanathabuidhe. Elizabeth, Cecil, - Burleigh, the Northern Earls, the “Sugán” Earl, Sir Henry - Power, &c., appear incidentally. The scene varies between - the Killarney district, West Carbery, the Council Chamber of - Elizabeth, and the Tower. The episode of the marriage of the - daughter of MacCarthy Mór to Florence MacCarthy Reagh forms the - theme of Miss Gaughan’s _The Plucking of the Lily_, _q.v._ - -⸺ MAUREEN DHU. Pp. 391. (N.Y.: _Sadlier_). [1869]. - - A tale of the Claddagh, the famous fishing village beside - Galway city. Its manners and ways are described in detail and - with fidelity. Tells how the beautiful daughter of the chief - fisherman is wooed and won from all competitors by a wealthy - young merchant of the city. The plot is well sustained and - interesting, though somewhat complicated and hampered by - digressions. - - -=SANBORN, Alvan Francis.= - -⸺ MEG McINTYRE’S RAFFLE, and Other Stories. Two Vols. (BOSTON: _Small & -Maynard_). $1.25 each. 1896. - - “Studies of the poorest classes in a great city, the pathos - often ghastly in its intensity. The title-story is an Irish - idyll.”—(_Baker_, 2). - - -=SAVAGE, Marmion W.= 1805-1872. B. Dublin. Ed. T.C.D. He was a government -official in Dublin for some years, and at that time wrote for DUBL. -UNIV. MAGAZINE. In 1856 he went to London, and there edited several -periodicals. He was a witty and clever novelist, very popular in his -day. Wrote also _Bachelor of the Albany_, _My Uncle the Curate_, _Reuben -Medlicott_, _A Woman of Business_. - -⸺ THE FALCON FAMILY. (_Chapman & Hall_). [1845]. (_Ward, Lock_). New ed., -1854. - - “The best known and choicest of the author’s numerous - stories. It is intended as a satire on the leaders of the - Young Ireland Party; and some of the satire is very keen - and amusing, but as political pictures his sketches are no - better than caricatures.”—(_Read_). John Mitchel, reviewing - it (THE NATION, 13th Decr., 1845), calls it “another of those - pamphlet-novels that infest the literary world ... though - too obviously the production of an Irishman, is as obviously - intended and calculated for the English market.... We have had - some opportunities of acquaintance with the men the writer - attempts to satirize, and do unfeignedly declare that we have - never met (them).... In short, this book is a very paltry and - ill-conditioned performance.” - - -=SAVILE, Mrs. Helen.= - -⸺ LOVE THE PLAYER. (_Sonnenschein_). 6_s._ 1899. - - “A tragic plot, with sketches of Irish life, and unpleasant - specimens of humanity in the rector and rector’s wife in the - Protestant community of Tuleen. Old Micky Hogan, the sexton, is - depicted with humour.”—(_Baker_, 2). By the same Author: _The - Wings of the Morning_. - -⸺ MICKY MOONEY, M.P. Pp. 250. (BRISTOL: _Arrowsmith_). Illustr. by Nancy -Ruxton. 1902. - - Career of the hero from bog-trotter to M.P. As a background, a - vulgar and absurd caricature of Irish life. Humour throughout - of a very broad kind. Characters speak in an impossible brogue. - - -=SCHLICHTTRULL, Aline Von.= - -⸺ DER AGITATOR VON IRLAND. Pp. 1043. (BERLIN: _Otto Janke_). 1859. - - O’Connell is the hero, but there are a multitude of characters, - chiefly of the ruling classes. Politics are much discussed, the - Author’s sympathies being pretty clearly on the Catholic and - Nationalist side. Scene partly in Ireland, partly in England, - where the reader listens to speeches in the House of Lords. - - -=SCHOFIELD, Lily.= - -⸺ ELIZABETH, BETSY, AND BESS. (_Duckworth_). 6_s._ 1912. - - “The purport of the Author is to reveal the varied charm and - grace of a delightful Irish girl’s character between the - ages of thirteen and eighteen or so.... A vital, significant - portrait.”—(T. LITT. SUPPL.). Scene: partly at “Castlemorne,” - partly in a big English school near Liverpool. - - -=SCOTT, Florence, and HODGE, Alma.= - -⸺ THE ROUND TOWER. Pp. 229. (_Nelson_). 1_s._ 6_d._ Pretty picture cover. -1906. - - A very slight story centering in the landing of the French - at Killala in 1798. Adventures of two small English boys. An - interesting but one-sided glimpse of some of the episodes of - the time. For boys. - - -=SENIOR, Dorothy.= - -⸺ THE CLUTCH OF CIRCUMSTANCES; or, The Gates of Dawn. Pp. 333. (_Black_). -Frontisp. 1908. - - An Arthurian romance, with Finola, daughter of Cormac, King - of Leinster, as heroine. She is married to a brutal husband, - but in the end is united to her true love. Not, however, - without passing through a long series of adventures, rescues by - knights errant, escapes, &c. Has all the usual elements of the - romantic _chanson de geste_—tourneys, rose-gardens, adventures - in the green-wood. Told in highly romantic manner, but with - the romance is blended a curious element of the modern problem - novel. - - -=SEYMOUR, St. John D.= - -⸺ IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY. Pp. 256. (_Hodges & Figgis_). 5_s._ -net. 1914. - - A very competent piece of work from a scientific point of view. - From the point of view of fiction it is full of weird and - uncanny stories, gleaned from all sorts of sources. - - -=SEYMOUR, St. John D., B.D., and HARRY L. NELIGAN, D.I., R.I.C.= - -⸺ TRUE IRISH GHOST STORIES. (_Hodges & Figgis_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1914. - - Author says in Pref.: “For myself I cannot guarantee the - genuineness of a single incident in this book—how could I, as - none of them are my own personal experience. This at least - I _can_ vouch for, that the majority of the stories were - sent to me as first or second-hand experiences by ladies and - gentlemen whose statement on an ordinary matter of fact would - be accepted without question.” The names of some contributors - are mentioned. The stories are classified partly according to - locality, partly according to the type of ghost in question. A - final chapter gives a kind of Apologia for the book. Index of - place names. The telling is, perhaps, a little monotonous and - dull. - - -=SHAND, Alexander Innes.= 1832-1907. A Scotchman who interested himself -in the Irish land question and wrote _Letters from the West of Ireland, -1884_. Other novels of his were _Against Time_ and _Shooting the Rapids_. - -⸺ KILCARRA. Three Vols. (_Blackwood_). 1891. - - The influence of a good and sweet-natured woman on selfish men, - with the Land League agitation in Co. Galway for a background. - The peasantry are depicted as wild and lawless and mere tools - of the Land League, but as capable of much good. The shooting - of landlords is sheer barbarism, no attempt being made by - the Author to set forth its causes. The plot is furnished by - the efforts of the hero, Capt. Martin Neville, to trace the - murderer of a previous owner of the Kilcarra estate, and also - by the story of his love for his cousin Ida, or rather hers for - him. There is much about the relations between landlord and - tenant. - - -=SHARP, William=, _see_ =“FIONA MACLEOD.”= - - -=SHEEHAN, M. F.= - -⸺ NEATH SUNNY SKIES: Stories of the Co. Waterford. Pp. 123. (_Waterford -News_). 6_d._ 1912. - - A series of simple tales well told and true to life. - - -=SHEEHAN, Canon Patrick A., D.D.= B. 1852. Educated at St. Colman’s, -Fermoy, and Maynooth. Spent two years (1875-77) on English mission in -Devonshire. Parish Priest of Doneraile from 1895 till his death in -1913. His books deal chiefly with Catholic clerical life in Ireland—a -subject which he was the first to deal with from within. He brought to -bear on the features and problems of Irish life a deeply thoughtful and -cultured mind. He did not indulge in thoughtless panegyric of Irish -virtues, but touched firmly, though sympathetically, upon our national -shortcomings and failings. His ideals are of the loftiest, yet never of -an unsubstantial and airy, kind. His style is influenced too much perhaps -in his earlier books by his very wide reading in many literatures, but -particularly in Greek, German, Italian, and English. Besides the novels -mentioned here, he has published two books of studies and reflections, -viz., _Under the Cedars and the Stars_, and _Parerga_; also a book of -poems, _Cithara Mea_, and a selection of _Early Essays and Lectures_. - -⸺ GEOFFREY AUSTIN, STUDENT. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Fifth ed., 1908. - - Story of life in a secondary school, near Dublin, nominally - controlled by the clergy, but in reality left to the care of - a grinder of more than doubtful character. A most uncatholic - worldliness prevails at Mayfield, and the standards of conduct - and of religion are very low. Geoffrey’s faith is weakened and - well-nigh ruined. The curtain falls upon him as he goes out to - face the world, and we are left to conjecture his fate. Has - been transl. into French under title _Geoffroy_. - -⸺ THE TRIUMPH OF FAILURE. Pp. 383. (_Burns & Oates_). [1899]. - - A sequel to the preceding. It is a close and sympathetic - soul-study. Geoffrey loses all his worldly hopes and falls - low indeed. He suffers the shipwreck of his faith. But in - this valley of humiliation he learns strength to rise and - conceives far different hopes, and we leave him on the heights - of atonement and of regeneration. The book is philosophic in - tone, and is enriched with many elevating thoughts from German, - French, and English moralists. It is said to have been the - Author’s favourite. It has been translated into many languages, - _e.g._, French, under title _Le succès dans l’échec_ (1906), - and German as _Der Erfolg des Misserfolgs_ (_Press of the - Missionaries of Steyl_), M. 6. - -⸺ MY NEW CURATE. Pp. 480. (_Art and Book Co._). 6_s._ Eighteenth ed. -Eighteen rather poor illustr. [1899]. New ed. (_Longmans_), 2_s._ 6_d._ -1914. (BOSTON: _Marlier_). 1.50. - - Into a sleepy, backward, out-of-the-way parish comes a splendid - young priest, cultured, energetic, zealous, up-to-date. He - succeeds in many reforms, but the moral of the whole would seem - to be, “Nothing on earth can cure the inertia of Ireland,” or - rather, perhaps, “You cannot undo in a day the operations of - 300 years.” The old parish priest tells the story. There is - in the book intimate sympathy with, and love of, the people, - their humours, and foibles, and virtues. There is plenty of - very humorous incident. Delightful moralizings, like those - in the Author’s _Under the Cedars and the Stars_. It is - full of undidactic lessons for both priests and people. The - religious life of the people is, of course, much dwelt on, - and a good deal of light is thrown on the private life of the - priests. Transl. into French (_Mon nouveau vicaire_), Dutch - (_Mijn nieuwe kapelaan_, by M. van Beek, 1904), German (_Mein - neuer Kaplan_, Bachem, M. 6.), Italian, Spanish (_Mi nuevo - coadjutor_, Herder), Hungarian, Slovene, Ruthenian. - -⸺ LUKE DELMEGE. Pp. 580. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ 1901. - - The life-story of a priest. The main theme of this great novel - is the setting forth of the spiritual ideals of the race and of - the heights of moral beauty and heroism to which these ideals - can lead. A strong contrast is drawn between the ideals which - the hero sees at work around him during his stay in England, - and those which he finds at work at home. Many phases and - incidents of Irish life are shown—the home-life of the priest, - the eviction, the funeral, scenes in Dublin churches, the - beauty of Irish landscape. One of the best, if not the best, - of Irish novels. Yet as a “problem” novel it is strangely - inconclusive. Luke seems to die with his life-questions - unanswered. Trans. into French, _Luke Delmege, âmes celtiques - et âmes saxonnes_; German, _Lukas Delmege_, trans. Ant. Lohr. - (_Habbel_), M. 6, 1906, sixth ed.; and Hungarian. Canon Sheehan - used to say of this book that its central idea was the doctrine - of vicarious atonement. - -⸺ GLENANAAR. Pp. 321. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ [1905]. New ed., 1915. 2_s._ -6_d._ - - “Tainted blood, inherited shame, is a terrible thing amongst a - people who attach supreme importance to these things.” This is, - perhaps, the central theme of the story. The narrative opens - in 1829 with the famous Doneraile Conspiracy trial in Cork, - when O’Connell, summoned in hot haste from Derrynane, was just - in time to save the lives of the innocent prisoners. The story - traces to the third generation the strange fortunes of the - descendants of one of the informers in this trial. There are - glimpses of the famine of ’48 and of the spirit of the men of - ’67. The story of Nodlag is a touching and beautiful one, and - the episode of the returned American is very well done. Trans. - into German, _Das Christtagskind_ (STEYL: _Mission Press_), M. - 2.50. - -⸺ THE SPOILED PRIEST, and Other Stories. Pp. 213. (_Gill_ and _Burns & -Oates_). 5_s._ Nine illustr. by M. Healy. 1905. - - Eight stories. The title-story gives a glimpse of the workings - of an ecclesiastical seminary, and also of the Irish peasants’ - attitude towards a student who has been refused ordination. - “Remanded” is the story, founded on fact, of a hero-priest of - Cork. “The Monks of Trabolgan” is a curious, fanciful story of - Ireland at some future period. The remaining tales, “Rita, the - Street Singer,” “A Thorough Gentleman,” and “Frank Forest’s - Mince-Pie,” &c., do not deal with Ireland. Has been transl. - into German and Dutch. - -⸺ LOST ANGEL OF A RUINED PARADISE. Pp. vi. + 168. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ -6_d._ - - Three schoolgirls on leaving college take part in tableau as - _Parcae_ or Fates. They announce in make-believe the fates - of their companions. A mysterious voice from the audience - announces their own. The story tells how their fates worked - out. The first part of the drama takes place in Dublin, but - after a time the scene shifts to London. Transl. into French as - _Ange égaré d’un paradis ruiné_. - -⸺ LISHEEN; or, the Test of the Spirits. Pp. 454. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ -1907. New ed., 1914, 2_s._ 6_d._ - - The conception is that of Tolstoi’s _Resurrection_, with the - scene transferred to Kerry. It is the story of how a young - man of the Irish landlord class determines to put to the test - of practise his ideals of altruism. To this end he abandons - the society of his equals and lives the life of a labourer. - He finds how full of pain and heartburning and disappointment - is the way of the reformer. There are many reflections on the - national character and its defects are not whittled down. The - book has two main themes—the greed and callousness of Irish - landlords, and the inability of the Englishman to understand - Irish character. - -⸺ THE BLINDNESS OF DR. GRAY; or, The Final Law. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ 1909. -New ed., 1914. 2_s._ 6_d._ - - The interest of this novel centres partly in its pictures of - clerical life, partly in a charming love story of an uncommon - type. The central figure is drawn with care and thoroughness. - He is a strict disciplinarian, a rigid moralist, who worships - the law with Jansenistic narrowness and hardness. But as the - story goes on we discover beneath this hard surface unsuspected - depths of human kindness. He himself finds out before the end - that it is love, not law, that rules the world. The story - contains many beautiful and touching scenes, and some fine - description, notably in the South African portion of the book. - There is some incidental criticism of various features of Irish - life—popular politics, religious divisions, the Gaelic League, - the change in the mentality of the people, and there is in it - food for thought about some of our besetting faults. Considered - by many to be the Author’s most finished and most powerful - work. Transl. into German, _Von Dr. Grays Blindheit_, with - introductory sketch (EINSIEDELN: _Benziger_). M. 6. 1911. - -⸺ MIRIAM LUCAS. Pp. 470. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ [1912]. New ed., 1914. 2_s._ -6_d._ - - Miriam is the daughter of wealthy Protestant parents in - Glendarragh, in the W. of Ireland. Her mother, on becoming a - Catholic, is driven by domestic persecution into evil ways, - and subsequently disappears. Society ostracizes Miriam, who, - in revolt against it, goes to Dublin, where, in alliance with - a young visionary Trinity student, she flings herself into the - Socialist movement. Her efforts end in a disastrous strike. - For a time she staves off crime and tragedy, but it comes at - last. Book III. brings her to New York in search of her mother, - whom she discovers sunk to the lowest moral depths. The story - hinges partly, too, on the lifting of the curse of Glendarragh - by Miriam and the hero, who makes her happy in the end. There - are not a few fine dramatic situations, but the plot does not - hang together. The book is meant to deal with Irish social - and religious problems and to picture certain phases of Irish - life. The life pictured is chiefly that of the Protestant - upper classes, of whom a severe and satirical portrait is - drawn. There are just a few glimpses of peasant life. The - Author raises more problems than he solves, and the prevailing - impression left upon the reader is one of gloom. Has been - transl. into German. - -⸺ THE GRAVES AT KILMORNA. Pp. 373. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ 1915. - - An attempt to set forth the spirit of the Fenian movement of - 1867, and even to contrast it with subsequent movements, to - the great disadvantage of the latter; for the Author thought - that the fire of Nationality has burned very low since ’67. - The heroes are James Halpin (apparently intended for Peter - O’Neill Crowley, who fell in ’67) and Miles Cogan, Fenians and - unselfish patriots. There is some good character drawing, but - the interest of plot and incident is slight, the chief interest - being the vein of very ideal philosophy which runs through the - book. The Author is gloomy and pessimistic about modern Ireland. - - -=SHERLOCK, J.= - -⸺ THE MAD LORD OF DRUMKEEL. Pp. 199. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1909. - - “An unexciting chronicle of the solitary Lord Barnabweel, - his quaint experiments with his Irish property and tenantry, - and the story of his son who left him, married in a Dublin - lodging-house, and became a famous musician.”—(TIMES’ LIT. - SUPPL.). - - -=SIDGWICK, Ethel.= - -⸺ HERSELF. (_Sidgwick & Jackson_). 1912. - - The story of an Irish girl in Paris and of her life and love - affairs there. Pleasantly written, and giving a kindly account - of the Irish character. (_Press Notice_). - - -=SIGERSON, Hester.= - -⸺ A RUINED RACE; or, the Last Macmanus of Drumroosk. (_Ward & Downey_). -6_s._ 1890. - - A very gloomy view of Ireland. The Author displays intimate - knowledge of Irish scenes, idioms, and characteristics. - Period: middle of nineteenth century. Pictures with painful - fidelity and much power the misfortunes of a once happy and - prosperous couple belonging to the well-to-do peasant class. - Misery seems to dog their steps from one end of the book to - the other. The girl dies in the workhouse, the man takes to - drink and is killed in an accident. Seems to aim at picturing - the difficulties and sufferings of the peasantry, especially - under the old land system. The Author was the wife of Dr. Geo. - Sigerson. - - -=SIME, William.= B. Wick, Caithness, 1851. D. Calcutta, 1895. Author -of several other works of fiction—_King Capital_, _To and Fro_, -_Boulderstone_. - -⸺ THE RED ROUTE; or, Saving a Nation. Three Vols. (_Sonnenschein_). 1884. - - Scene: West and South of Ireland, beginning with Galway, where - the hero, Finn O’Brien, goes to college and suffers much both - from collegians and peasantry. Finn becomes a Fenian, but falls - in love with an English widow who had become a Catholic to - escape the pursuit of bishops and parsons of her own Church. - The heroine is a Claddagh girl, whose love for an English - captain, Jeffrey, is crossed by the fact that she is a Fenian. - One of the love affairs ends happily, the other tragically. The - Author is not anti-Irish, but knows little about Ireland. He - drags in priests “smelling strongly of whiskey” and nuns who - have broken their vows. - - -=SIMPSON, John Hawkins.= - -⸺ POEMS OF OISIN, Bard of Erin. Pp. 280. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). 1857. - - Translated into English prose from Irish by the Author with - help of native speakers. Contents: Oisin, Bard of Erin - (introductory by the Author); Deardra; Conloch Son of Cuthullin - (_sic_); The Fenii of Erin and Fionn MacCumhal; Dialogue - between Oisin and St. Patrick (pp. 61-184); Mayo Mythology - (various Fenian Tales); The Battle of Ventry. - - -=SKELLY, Rev. A. M., O.P.= - -⸺ CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE. Pp. 48. (C.T.S.I.). 1_d._ 1908. - - A paper read before the Catholic Literary Society, Tralee. The - Cuchulain epic briefly but admirably related. Passages of verse - from Ferguson and De Vere are skilfully interwoven. Excellent - notes at the end explain difficulties and references. - - -=SMART, Hawley.= - -⸺ THE MASTER OF RATHKELLY. (_F. V. White_). Fifth ed. 1890. - - A stirring story of love and sport in “Co. Blarney” in “the - eighties.” Mr. Eyre, one of the “ould stock,” gets into - difficulties with his tenants, who stop the “Harkhallow” - hounds and boycott him. Written from the English and landlord - standpoint. The dialect is wonderfully good and the “horsey” - scenes well done. The Author was a well-known sporting - novelist; 1833-1893. - - -=SMITH, Agnes; Mrs. Lewis.= - -⸺ THE BRIDES OF ARDMORE: A Story of Irish Life. Pp. 393. (_Elliott, -Stock_). Frontisp.—view of Ardmore. 1880. - - Ardmore, Co. Waterford, in twelfth century. A few descriptions - of scenery, but little local colour, and almost no historical - _mise-en-scène_. The chief object of the story appears to be - to picture forth a “primitive” Irish Church, unconnected with - Rome, and resembling the modern Church of Ireland in many - of its features. The priests are all married. Indeed their - matrimonial affairs and the cruel interruption of these by - decrees from Rome provide the greater part of the incidents. - The tone is not bitter towards Catholicism, but innocently - patronising and didactic. - - -=[SMITH, John].= - -⸺ IRISH DIAMONDS. Pp. 183. 16mo. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1847. (_Gibbings_). -Five Illus. by “Phiz.” 1890. - - Chapters:—On the Road, Young Ireland, Irish Wit, Irish Life, - Irish Traits, The Latter End. Humorous Irish anecdotes, rather - above the average “pigs, poteen, and praties” type, frankly - meant to amuse, but showing not a little knowledge of and - sympathy with Irish traits. When the book was written the - Author was “one of the editors of the LIVERPOOL MERCURY.” - - -=SMYTH, Patrick G.= B. Ballina, Co. Mayo, about 1856. Was in early years -a National School teacher. Besides his novels, he wrote verse for several -Irish periodicals between 1876-1885. For some time he was engaged on a -Chicago paper. - -⸺ THE WILD ROSE OF LOUGH GILL. Pp. 306. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 6_d._ [1883]. -Fifth ed., 1904. (_Benziger_). 0.85. - - Though nominally not the heroes, Owen Roe O’Neill and Miles - the Slasher are the chief figures in this fine novel of the - Wars of the Confederation. A love-story is interwoven with the - historical events. The view-point is thoroughly national. The - style abounds in imagery and fine descriptive passages. The - novel is one of the most popular ever issued in Ireland. The - story ends shortly after the fall of Galway in 1652. The scene - is laid partly in Co. Sligo, where (near Lough Gill) one of the - most thrilling episodes, founded on a still living tradition, - takes place. - -⸺ KING AND VIKING; or, The Ravens of Lochlan. Pp. 200. (_Sealy, Bryers_). -1_s._ _n.d._ (1889). - - Tireragh (Co. Sligo) in 888, the date assigned by the Four - Masters to a great battle fought between the men of Connaught - and the Danes. The wars between Danes and Irish furnish the - chief interest of the book, but there is also the story of - the feud between Ceallach the tanist of Hy Fiachrach and - Dungallach, a rival. Much information, drawn from reliable - sources, is given regarding the Irish clans, their customs, and - their territories. - - -=SOMERVILLE, Edith Œnone, and “MARTIN, Ross.”= Miss Violet Martin, of -Ross, Co. Galway. Miss Somerville is dau. of the late Col. Somerville, of -Drishane, Skibbereen, Co. Cork. Both Authors are granddaughters of Chief -Justice Charles Kendal Bushe. Amongst their other works are _Naboth’s -Vineyard_, _Beggars on Horseback_, and _Through Connemara in a Governess’ -Cart_ (illust.). - -⸺ AN IRISH COUSIN. Pp. iv. + 306. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [First ed., -1889]; new ed., quite re-written, 1903. Ten illustr. by E. Œ. Somerville. - - Modern country-house life in Co. Cork. A serious study of the - slow awakening of a young man to the realization that there are - things in life more real to him than horses and dogs. His love - for a clever cousin returned from Canada has a tragic ending. - The characters of the tale are drawn from Protestant county - society. Clever description of Durrus, the ramshackle home of - the Sarsfields. Miss Jackson-Croly’s “At Home” and the run with - the Moycullen hounds are said to be worthy of Lever. - -⸺ THE REAL CHARLOTTE. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1894]. Three Vols. -(_Ward & Downey_). - - A dark tale of a world “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.” - An unscrupulous woman works the ruin of a sweet-natured, - ill-trained girl. Scene: Irish country neighbourhood. - Characters, land agents, farmers, great ladies, drawn with - impartial and relentless truth. Pronounced by many critics to - be worthy of Balzac. - -⸺ THE SILVER FOX. Pp. 195. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1898]. (_Lawrence -and Bullen_). - - The chief interest of this story lies in some sporting scenes - in the West of Ireland. The peasantry are seen from an - uncomprehending standpoint, and the chief figures are people - of fashion, of no particular nationality. “Broadly speaking, - the novel may be said to exhibit in a dramatic form the - extraordinary hold which superstition still possesses on the - minds of the Irish peasantry.”—(_Spectator_). - -⸺ SOME EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M. Pp. iv. + 310. Thirty-second -thousand. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Thirty-one illustr. (pen and ink -sketches) by E. Œ. Somerville. 1899. - - Racy, humorous sketches of hunting and other episodes in the - south and west. The Author’s most successful work originally - appeared in THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE. - -⸺ ALL ON THE IRISH SHORE. Pp. iv. + 274. Eighteenth thousand. -(_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Ten illustr. by E. Œ. Somerville. 1903. - - Sketches of fox-hunting, horse-dealing, racing, trials for - assault between neighbours, petty boycotting, rural larking, - full of sprightly and rollicking humour. Chief characters, the - petty county gentry. The peasantry are drawn in caricature, - usually friendly, and are shown in relation to their social - superiors, not in their own life and reality. If these sketches - were taken seriously, the peasantry would appear as drunken, - quarrelsome, lying, dirty, unconsciously comical—with scarcely - a single redeeming trait. The scene is south-western Cork. - - _All on the Irish Shore_ has been described (IRISH MONTHLY) as - “a blend of Lover and Lever (in his coarser rollicking days) - refined by some of the literary flavour of Jane Barlow, but - with none of the insight and sympathy of _Irish Idylls_. The - same may be said of the _Experiences of an Irish R.M._, which - moreover, contains here and there passages needlessly offensive - to national feeling.” Titles of some chapters:—Fanny Fitz’s - Gamble, A Grand Filly, High Tea at McKeown’s, A Nineteenth - Century Miracle, &c. - - N.B.—Messrs. Longmans have (April, 1910) issued a new uniform - edition of the works of Somerville and Ross, at 3_s._ 6_d._ per - volume. - -⸺ FURTHER EXPERIENCES OF AN IRISH R.M. Pp. 315. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -1908. - -⸺ SOME IRISH YESTERDAYS. Eleventh thousand. (_Longmans_). 3_s._ 6_d._ -Fifty-one illustr. by E. Œ. Somerville. 1908. - - Admirable illustrations of Connemara scenery, clever sketches - of “natives” (usually of the lowest type). Light magazine - sketches written in clever, racy style. Subjects: Holidays - in Aran and Connemara and Carbery, picnics, country house - anecdotes, superficial studies of peasants in Connemara and - Cork. “In Sickness and in Health” pays a tribute to the - strength of the marriage bond in Ireland. - -⸺ DAN RUSSELL, THE FOX. Pp. 340. (_Methuen_). 6_s._ 1911. - - Miss Rowan comes over to Ireland and takes “Lake View,” in - the midst of a hunting district in S. Munster. She falls in - love—for the time—with John Michael, handsome, and the most - valiant of huntsmen, but a child of nature whose whole mind - is absorbed in hounds and horses. Hence complications. The - Author’s usual pictures of hunting scenes and happy-go-lucky - country gentry. Mrs. Delanty, the sharp and devious widow, is - a curious portrait. Dan Russell is scarcely more than a minor - character in the piece. It is a story about which we cannot - speak favourably. - -⸺ IN MR. KNOX’S COUNTRY. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ Eight full-page illustr. in -chalk. 1915. - - Eleven sketches of the same type as the _Experiences of an - Irish R.M._, with some new _dramatis personæ_ in the old - localities. - - -=SQUIRE, Charles.= - -⸺ THE BOY HERO OF ERIN. Pp. 240. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Handsome cover. -Four good illustr. by A. A. Dixon. 1907. - - The Cuchulainn Saga told in simple and clear, but somewhat - unemotional and matter-of-fact, style. Sources: Miss Hull’s - _Cuchulainn Saga_ and Miss Winifred Faraday’s _Cattle Raid of - Cuailgne_ (_q.v._). The Author holds Cuchulainn to be a hero - “not less brave and far more chivalrous than any Greek or - Trojan” (Pref.), and thinks that the ancient Gael “invented the - noble system of conduct which we call courtesy.” - -⸺ CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND, Poetry and Romance. Pp. 450. (_Gresham -Publishing Co._). Four Plates in colour by J. H. F. Bacon; fourteen in -monochrome by the same and others, and a few photos, _n.d._ - - A kind of digest of the chief published translations of ancient - Irish and Welsh saga and romance, preceded by four short - essays on the interest of Celtic mythology, and the sources - of our knowledge of it, the origin of the Britons and their - religion (44 pp. in all). Pp. 47-248 are a summary of Gaelic - myth, &c., and pp. 250-395 of British ditto. Then there is an - essay on survivals of Celtic paganisms, and an Append. giving - brief bibliogr. Index. The myths and romances are not related - as a tale is told; they are merely placed on record, almost - stripped of their poetry, along with all the extravagances - and absurdities that disfigure them, chiefly through modern - corruptions. Of little or no interest for young people. - - -=STACE, Henry.= - -⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF COUNT O’CONNOR in the Dominions of the Great Mogul. -Pp. 343. (_Alston Rivers_). 1_s._ [1907]. 1909. - - A string of impossible situations and thrilling escapes, - purporting to be the adventures of an Irish soldier of fortune - in India about 1670, related by himself. The Count frequently - discourses of the honour of an Irish gentleman, and never acts - up to it. His character is that of a thorough rascal. The book - contains many disreputable adventures in harems. - - -=STACPOOLE KENNY, Mrs.= _see_ =KENNY=. - - -=STACPOOLE, H. de Vere.= Son of Rev. William Church Stacpoole, D.D., of -Kingstown, Co. Dublin. Ed. Malvern College, and St. Mary’s Hospital, -London. Is a qualified medical man, but does not practise. Has travelled -much. Resides near Chelmsford. Has publ. about twenty-two novels.—(WHO’S -WHO). Some of these have been very successful, _e.g._, _The Blue Lagoon_. - -⸺ PATSY. Pp. 362. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ 1908. - - A gay and humorous story of a house-party in a country - mansion somewhere in “Mid-Meath.” Full of amusing characters, - cleverly sketched, _e.g._, the Englishman, Mr. Fanshawe, and - the naughty and natural children. Above all there is Patsy, - the page-boy, an odd mixture of soft-hearted simplicity and - preternatural cuteness. He is the _deus ex machina_ of the - piece, causes all sorts of entanglements, and unravels them - again in the strangest way. There is just a little study of - national characteristics, but no politics nor problems. - -⸺ GARRYOWEN: The Romance of a Racehorse. Pp. 352. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ -1910. - - “A rattling good story ... Moriarty the trainer is a gem—Mickey - Free redivivus, as full of tricks as a bag of weasels. The - Author knows his Irish peasantry inside and out, and the only - blot on an exceptional book is a needless disquisition on the - rights and wrongs of ‘cattle-driving.’”—(I.B.L.). - -⸺ FATHER O’FLYNN. Pp. 245. (_Hutchinson_). 1_s._ 1914. - - The idea of the book, which is dedicated to Sir E. Carson and - Mr. Redmond, is (see Pref.) to show the Catholic priest as the - chief factor in present-day Irish life. The priest in question - is represented in a favourable and friendly spirit, though - perhaps hardly “at his best,” as the Author suggests. The - chief interest is perhaps a love affair, conducted chiefly on - horseback, which is told in a lively and spirited way. - - -=STAVERT, A. A. B.= - -⸺ THE BOYS OF BALTIMORE. Pp. 212. (_Burns & Oates_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1907. - - A splendid boy’s story. Rich in the vein of adventure, of sport - and fight by land, of war by sea, of captivity and slavery. - With this there is a solid, but not too obtrusive, lesson of - the value of faith and piety in a boy’s life. The piety of - the young heroes has nothing mawkish about it. The tone is - Catholic. The brogue is very badly imitated.—(N.I.R.). Scene - changes from Cork to Africa, and thence to London. Strafford, - Wentworth, Laud, and Charles I. appear in the story. - - -=STEPHENS, James.= B. Dublin, 1884. Worked for some years in a -solicitor’s office, but has definitely taken to literature. His first -published volume was _Insurrections_, since which two other volumes -of verse have appeared, and a fourth is about to appear. Has resided -principally in Paris for the past two years, but is now living in Dublin, -where he holds the position of Registrar at the National Gallery of -Ireland. His writings have met with an enthusiastic reception from the -critics. - -⸺ THE CHARWOMAN’S DAUGHTER. Pp. 228. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1912. -Publ. in U.S.A. under title _Mary, Mary_. - - A study of the soul of a simple girl of the people and its - development amid the surroundings of a Dublin tenement house - and of the Dublin streets—her girlhood, her dreams for the - future, her love affairs. The incidents are quite subordinate - to the psychological interest. The atmosphere of the reality is - carefully reproduced if somewhat idealised. There is nothing - morbid nor sensational in the book. This, the Author’s first - published novel, and many think his best, first appeared in THE - IRISH REVIEW. - -⸺ THE CROCK OF GOLD. Pp. 312. (_Macmillan_). Many reprints. 1912. - - Described, accurately enough, by THE TIMES as “this delicious, - fantastical, amorphous, inspired medley of topsy-turveydom.” - A fantasy in which human beings with Irish names, Irish gods - and fairies, and the god Pan are mingled to bewilderment. And - the whole is leavened with what may or may not be the Author’s - philosophy. “Love is unclean and holy” ... “Virtue is the - performance of pleasant actions.” “Philosophy would lead to - the great sin of sterility.” These sentences are isolated from - the context, but they seem to indicate the general trend—the - philosophy of Pan. However, there is much besides this in the - torrent of wayward thought and fancy that is here let loose. - The pictures of nature are finely and delicately touched. And - there is humour of a strange kind not easy to define. - -⸺ HERE ARE LADIES. Pp. 349. (_Macmillan_). 5_s._ 1913. - - Fragments of the Author’s peculiar philosophy of life conveyed - in odds and ends of stories and sketches. Some are pure fancy, - some are very closely observed bits of real life; some are - humorous, with a kind of sardonic humour; some whimsical, - some border on pathos. Many deal with various phases of - married life. Little poems are sandwiched between the tales. - The book is full of aphorisms, indeed the style is a riot - of curious metaphor, flights of fancy, unexpected turns of - phrase. The last piece (pp. 277-348) consists of a series of - disquisitions by an old gentleman in the style of the Autocrat - of the Breakfast Table. An Irish flavour is noticeable at - frequent intervals. The idiom (not the brogue) of Anglo-Irish - conversation is well reproduced. - -⸺ THE DEMI-GODS. Pp. 280. (_Macmillan_). 5_s._ 1914. - - The travels through Ireland of Patsy McCann, tinker and general - rascal, and his daughter Mary, in company with three angels, - become tinkers for the nonce. Patsy is a very human and a very - real tinker, an ugly specimen of a disreputable class. The - wanderings of this strange company form a thin thread on which - is strung a medley of strange fancies, wayward comments, scraps - of very excellent description, and glimpses of low life in - its most sordid aspects (_e.g._, the drab Eileen Cooley, who - appears at intervals). There is an effort to picture not only - the outward doings, experiences, and sensations of the tramps, - but also their outlook, such as it is, upon life, their makings - of a philosophy, and the morality of the roads. - - -=STEUART, John A.= Author (born 1861) of _A Millionaire’s Daughter_, -_Self Exiled_, _In the Day of Battle_, _The Minister of State_, _Wine -on the Lees_, _The Eternal Quest_, _A Son of Gad_, _The Rebel Wooing_, -&c., &c. Was born in Perthshire; lived in Ireland, America, and England. -Edited PUBLISHERS’ CIRCULAR, 1896-1900. - -⸺ KILGROOM. Pp. 228. (_Low_). 6_s._ and 2_s._ 6_d._ [1890]. 1900. - - The interest of the story turns on incidents of the Land War - in a southern county. The Author takes the popular side, and - paints the evils of landlordism in the darkest colours. Most of - the characters are humble folk, including an amusing Scotchman, - Sandy M’Tear. The story tells how a thirst for vengeance, - engendered by oppression, takes possession of the young - peasant, Ned Blake, almost stifling his love for his betrothed - and ruining his life. - - -=STEVENSON, JOHN.= Is a member of the printing and publishing firm of -McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, of Belfast. He made his first hit with _Pat -McCarty, Farmer of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting_ (1903), in part -reprinted from THE PEN, a magazine run by the employes of his company. - -⸺ A BOY IN THE COUNTRY. Pp. 312. (_Arnold_). 5_s._ Illustr. by W. Arthur -Fry. 1913. - - A lad sent for his health to the care of an aunt in Co. Antrim - tells his experiences and observations, his thoughts and - dreams, and he tells them charmingly. Stories and anecdotes of - the lives of the folk among whom he lives, told with insight - and sympathy. - - -=STEWART, Agnes M.= - -⸺ GRACE O’HALLORAN. (_Gill._ N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60 net. [1857]. 1884, -&c. - - Sub-title: “Ireland and Its Peasantry.” “Another of A. - Stewart’s pious little stories.... The reader will fail to - discover much originality or force; but in these days it is no - small praise to say there is nothing to condemn.”—(D.R.). Miss - S. wrote a great number of stories between 1846 and 1887. All - are highly moral in aim and tone, a series of them having for - titles the various moral virtues. - -⸺ FLORENCE O’NEILL; or, The Siege of Limerick. 1871. - - Also publ. under title _Florence O’Neill_, or, The Rose of - Saint Germain. - -⸺ THE LIMERICK VETERAN; or, The Foster Sisters. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.60 -net. 1873. - - -=STEWART, Miss E. M.= - -⸺ ALL FOR PRINCE CHARLIE; or, The Irish Cavalier. Pp. 270. (_Duffy_). -1_s._ Very cheap paper and print. _n.d._ - - The ’45 from a strongly Catholic and Jacobite standpoint. - The story opens in an old castle in Bantry Bay, where the - hero and heroine meet before the former goes off to fight for - Prince Charlie. Various adventures during the raid on England - and the retreat, and a complicated plot turning on the close - resemblance between the hero and a twin brother, supposed dead, - but who plays the traitor and the spy. All is well in the end. - Some glimpses of penal laws at work. A little comic relief is - afforded by the talk of Paddy O’Rafferty. Dialect poor. - - -=STEWART, Rev. J.= - -⸺ THE KILLARNEY POOR SCHOLAR. Pp. 164. 16mo. (LONDON). [1845]. Third ed., -1846. New ed., 1866. - - Sub-t.:—“Comprising the most remarkable features of the - enchanting scenery of the Irish lakes, interspersed with - sketches of real character.” In pref. Author claims thorough - knowledge of places and people described. His object is to - impress a high moral tone upon the mind. “A moral is deduced - from every incident: a moral established by every dialogue.” - This aim is fully carried out in the little story, which is - merely a peg whereon to hang a moral, and is very sentimental. - - -=STOKER, Bram.= 1847-1912. B. in Dublin. Ed. T.C.D., where he had a -distinguished career. Entered Civil Service and was called to the -Bar, but subsequently for twenty-seven years secretary to Sir Henry -Irving. Wrote also _Dracula_, _Miss Betty_, _The Mystery of the Sea_, -_Snowbound_, &c., &c. - -⸺ THE SNAKE’S PASS. Pp. 372. (_Collier_). 1_s._ New ed. [1891]. (N.Y.: -_Harper_). 0.40. 1909. - - A tale written around the strange phenomenon of a moving bog. - Scene: the Mayo coast, which is finely described. Hidden - treasure, prophetic dreams, attempted murder, and much love and - sentiment are bound up with the story. The sentiment is pure - and even lofty. There is no bigotry nor bias, and no vulgar - stage-Irishism. Andy Sullivan, the carman, is drawn with much - humour and kindliness, but we cannot consider “Father Pether” a - true type of Irish priest. - - -=STOKES, Whitley.= Ed. - -⸺ THE DESTRUCTION OF DÁ DERGA’S HOSTEL. (PARIS: _Bouillon_). 1902. - - “Conary becomes king on condition that he abide by certain - bonds (_geasa_) imposed on him by his fairy kinsfolk. Having - transgressed these conditions, he comes to his death in a - great affray with outlaws, who attack the hostel. Portents - and marvels are characteristic of the story from beginning to - end.”—(_Baker_, 2). - - -=“STRADLING, Matthew,”= _see_ =MAHONY, Martin F.= - - -=STRAHAN, Samuel A. K., M.D.= - -⸺ THE RESIDENT MAGISTRATE. (LONDON: _Alexander & Shepherd_). 1_s._ 1888. - - A tale of the “Jubilee Coercion days.” The leading character is - founded on Captain Plunket of “Don’t hesitate to shoot” fame. - With the doings of this personage (which look like clippings - from the STAR newspaper of those days) is mingled the story - of a persecuted heroine suffering from an uncommon form of - mania (in which the Author was a specialist). Dr. Strahan was - a Belfast man. The materials of the story are handled, we - think, with but little skill. Another of his stories, _Dead yet - Speaketh_ (Arrowsmith), was founded on the sudden death in his - chambers in the Temple of an Irish fellow-student of the Author. - - -=STRAIN, E. H.= - -⸺ A MAN’S FOES. Pp. 467. (_Ward, Lock_). 6_s._ Illustr. by A. Forestier. -(N.Y.: _New Amsterdam Book Co._). 0.50. [1895.] Three Vols. - - A strongly conceived and vigorously written historical tale - of the siege of Derry. Point of view aggressively English and - Protestant. The personages in the story often express bitterly - anti-Catholic sentiments, but only such as may reasonably - be supposed to have been freely expressed at the period. - The Author, a Scottish lady resident in Ayrshire, has also - published four other works of fiction. - - -=“SWAN, Annie S.”; Mrs. Burnett Smith.= B. Mountskip, Goresbridge, N.B. -Ed. Edinburgh. Has written a great many novels. Resides in England or at -Kinghorn, Scotland.—(WHO’S WHO). - -⸺ A SON OF ERIN. Pp. 344. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._ Six illustr. 1899 and -1907. - - Scene: first Edinburgh, then chiefly Co. Wicklow. Period: just - before retirement of Butt and rise of Parnell, who is one of - the personages of the tale. The interest turns on the discovery - of the identity of a child abandoned in Edinburgh when an - infant. No love interest. Titles of over sixty of her novels - will be found in Mudie’s list. - - -=SYKES, Jessica S. C.= - -⸺ THE M’DONNELLS. Pp. 299. (_Heinemann_). 6_s._ 1905. - - Aims at presenting picture of early Victorian manners and - morals as seen in the life of this (rather unattractive) - family, of Irish origin, but living in England, and in their - surroundings. It was a period lacking in ideals and unstirred - by new ideas, artistic, literary, or other. The Author paints - it stupid, gross, and material, and seems to sum it up as - “humbug” (from a review in the ATHENÆUM). - - Lord Charles Beresford, in a letter to the writer (see Pref.), - acknowledges the book as “a true picture of English and Irish - life in the upper circles of society five and forty years - ago,” and that “it explains the idiocrasies (_sic_) of the - Irish people, both Nationalist and Orange, and gives a clear - explanation of the real causes of the unceasing discontent and - strife existing in our sister isle.” “I have tried to give - a description of the condition ... to which English females - of position were reduced by a wave of Evangelical cant and - exaggerated morality....”—(Pref.). Has written also _Algernon - Casterton_ and _Mark Alston_. - - -=“SYNAN, A.,”= _see_ =CLERY, A. E.= - - -=TAUNTON, M.= - -⸺ THE LAST OF THE CATHOLIC O’MALLEYS. (_Washbourne._ N.Y.: _Kenedy_). - - Scene: Western Mayo, about 1798, but no historical events are - introduced. An unpretentious little story, telling how Grace - is married at fifteen against her will to a disreputable young - man. He grows fond of her, and dies penitent three years after. - Their child is stolen by a too fond nurse. The child grows up - and joins the navy. Years after, Grace, who has married a naval - officer, gets her sailor son back. - - -=TAYLOR, Mary Imlay.= - -⸺ MY LADY CLANCARTY. Pp. 298. (_Gay & Bird_). Illus. by A. B. Stephens. -1905. - - “Being the true story of the Earl of Clancarty and Lady - Elizabeth Spencer.” Donough McCarthy, a Jacobite nobleman, - married in childhood to wealthy heiress of English Whig family, - does not meet his bride again till many years later, and then - in strange circumstances. Scene: England in days of William - III., with glimpses of Ireland in the background. Appears to be - founded on Tom Taylor’s play, _Clancarty_. - - -=TEMPLETON, Herminie.= - -⸺ DARBY O’GILL AND THE GOOD PEOPLE. (N.Y.: _McClure_). 1.50. 1903. - - -=TENCH, Mary F. A.= Resides in London, and writes a good deal for the -periodicals. - -⸺ AGAINST THE PIKES. Pp. 357. (_Russell_). _n.d._ (1903). - - How the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to - the third and fourth generation. Phil O’Brien, returning to - Ireland after long years of sin and suffering in Australia, - finds his first love unchanged in heart—only to see her taken - from him by death. He foregoes for her sake revenge on the man - who had wrecked his life, and dies to save his enemy. Though - the characters are Irish, there is little about Irish life - (nothing about pikes). The whole book is very sad, the pathos - of the close is painful, “_navrant_.” By the same Author: - _Where the Surf Breaks_, _A Prince from the Great Never-Never_, - &c. - - -=THACKERAY, William Makepeace.= The great novelist paid only one visit -to Ireland (1842), the immediate outcome of which was his _Irish Sketch -Book_ (1843). The tone of this book gave great offence to Irishmen -generally. Sir Samuel Ferguson severed his connection with the DUBLIN -UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE because Lever, then editor, accepted Thackeray’s -dedication. He could speak of the Young Irelanders only in terms of -ridicule—witness his ballad “The Battle of Limerick”—though he was a -personal friend of Gavan Duffy. He derived some of the incidents of -_Barry Lyndon_ from the chap-book, _Life of Freney_, which he read one -night in Galway. Many of the characters in his greater novels are Irish, -_e.g._, “The O’Mulligan,” said to be founded on W. J. O’Connell; “Capt. -Shandon,” whose original was Dr. Maginn; “Capt. Costigan” and his famous -daughter, “the Fotheringay,” said to be suggested by the dramatic triumph -of Miss O’Neill, afterwards Lady Becher. “Ye hate us, Mr. Thackeray, ye -hate the Irish,” said to him Anthony Trollope’s old Irish coachman. “Hate -you? God help me, when all I ever loved on earth was Irish!” and his eyes -filled with tears.—(_Trollope_). His wife was Irish. - -⸺ THE MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON, ESQ. [1844]. Many editions in all styles. - - The autobiography of a blackguard and a cad, a compound of - every vice—meanness, mendacity, licentiousness, heartless - selfishness. Add to these swagger, vulgarity, and a fire-eating - audacity, which, however, is always on the safe side, and you - have the portrait of the hero as painted by himself. All the - characters are vicious or contemptible or both, the English - and other foreigners no better than the Irish. Lyndon (real - name Redmond Barry) belongs to an ancient and decayed family, - once aristocratic. The story tells how he fights a duel at - home in Ballybarry, falls in with swindlers in Dublin, deserts - from the army, serves under Frederick the Great in the Seven - Years’ War, becomes a professional but aristocratic gamester, - marries (after a desperate struggle) the rich Lady Lyndon, - blazes through a brief season in Dublin (1771), worries his - wife into her grave, and finally runs through all his wealth. - There is some humour in places, but it is grim and sardonic, - and does not relieve the picture. Moral (see footnote near the - close)—“Do not as many rogues succeed in life as honest men? - More fools than men of talent?” Founded in part on the strange - marriage of Andrew Bowes and the Countess of Strathmore at end - of eighteenth century. - - -=THOMAS, Edward.= - -⸺ CELTIC STORIES. Pp. 128. (OXFORD: _The Clarendon Press_). 1911. - - “The Boyhood of Cuhoolin,” “Father and Son,” “The Battle of the - Companions” (C. and Ferdia), “The Death of C.,” “Deirdre and - Naisi,” “The Palace of the Quicken Trees,” “The Land of Youth.” - The rest (pp. 82-end) are Welsh tales. Told very plainly - and briefly, yet not dully. The diction is quite modern and - prosaic. The grotesquer folk-lore elements are not excluded. - The Author has also publ. _Norse Stories_ and many other works - on a variety of subjects. - - -=THOMPSON, E. Skeffington.= Was a granddaughter of John Foster, last -Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. She was an ardent Nationalist. -About 1889 she and her sister Mrs. Rae founded the Southwark Junior Irish -Literary Society. - -⸺ MOY O’BRIEN. Pp. 300. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1887]. New ed., 1914. - - Deals with the politics of the day, but not to the neglect of - the story, which shows considerable literary power, though - containing but little incident. Strongly patriotic in tone. - There is no religious bias. Treats of social and political life - in Ireland thirty or forty years ago. Ends with many happy - marriages. First appeared in U.S.A. in HARPER’S (IRISH MONTHLY). - - -=THOMSON, C. L.= - -⸺ THE CELTIC WONDER WORLD. Pp. 155. (_Horace Marshall_). 1902. - - No. 2 of the _Romance Readers_. Irish, Welsh, and Breton - stories edited for children. Very pretty and imaginative - illustr. by E. Connor. The tales are taken from good - sources—Whitley Stokes, Standish O’Grady, Crofton Croker, - “Atlantis,” O’Curry, the Mabinogion, &c. Contains “Deirdre,” - “Ossian in the Land of Youth,” Cuchulainn stories, &c., told in - simple but not childish language. - - -=THURNEYSEN, Rudolf.= - -⸺ SAGEN AUS DEM ALTEN IRLAND. Pp. 152. Demy 8vo. (BERLIN: _Wiegandt & -Grieben_). 1901. - - Short introd., then very briefly (in German, of course) the - chief Irish sagas—the Courtships of Etain and of Fraoch, - Mesgedra, Bricriu, episodes from the Cuchulainn cycle, the - birth of Conachar, the Vision of MacConglinne, &c. - - -=THURSTON, E. Temple.= His novels are for the most part a series of -studies or rather pamphlets on the action and influence of the Catholic -Church on human nature. His conclusions are usually hostile to that -Church. His writings give constant evidence of misconception of Catholic -doctrine. Incidentally Irish types and scenes are introduced, and the -writer is fond of comments on Irish life and character. Moreover, his -first four books aim at “brutal” realism, or naturalism. His recent book, -_The City of Beautiful Nonsense_, is a reaction to Idealism. Besides -his Irish novels, noticed below, he has written _Sally Bishop_, _The -Evolution of Katherine_, _The Realist_, and other tales (more or less -anti-Christian in tendency), and _Mirage_. - -⸺ THE APPLE OF EDEN. Pp. 323. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1905. - - An argument against the celibacy of the clergy, conveyed in - the story of a young priest—his childhood, inexperience, life - at Maynooth, first experiences in confessional. Here he meets - the woman whom he had loved. He tells her that, but for the - fact that she is married, he would break all ties for her sake. - There is much study of Irish life (in Waterford), but the - Author has nothing good to say about anything Irish, country - doctors and priests being especially attacked. - -⸺ TRAFFIC. Pp. 452. (_Duckworth_). 1906. - - Scene: Waterford and London. Has been well described by the - ATHENÆUM as a pamphlet in guise of a story, the thesis being - that the refusal of the right of divorce in the Catholic Church - may lead in practice to results disastrous to morality. This is - conveyed in the story of a girl who leaves an unworthy Irish - husband, and goes to London, where, being obliged to refuse - an offer of marriage from an honourable Protestant, she takes - to the streets. Contains strange misconceptions of Catholic - doctrine and morality. - -⸺ THE GARDEN OF RESURRECTION. Pp. 307. (_Chapman & Hall_). 6_s._ [1911]. -1912. - - Sub-t.: “Being the love story of an ugly man”—viz., Bellairs, - a confirmed bachelor, who tells his own story. Overhears in - restaurant conversation of a young man, from which he learns - that the latter is about to marry a young West Indian girl - named Clarissa, but cares only for her money. Bellairs is - struck with pity for her, and determines to tell Clarissa of - the worthlessness of Harry. He goes to the W. of Ireland, where - Harry had left her in charge of two maiden aunts. She will not - believe him, and goes to London with Harry. He betrays and - deserts her: she comes back forlorn to Bellairs, and they are - married. The writer has a keen feeling for nature, and there - is much description. The character study is careful and the - style is full of pleasant whimsicalities. The “Cruikshank” and - “Bellwattle” of _The Patchwork Papers_ reappear here. - -⸺ THIRTEEN. Pp. 279. (_Chapman & Hall_). 1912. - - Short stories reproduced from magazines. Three of the thirteen - are little bits of Irish—Wexford—life:—“The Little Sisters of - Mercy,” “An Idyll of Science,” and “Holy Ann.” The rest deal - with London. There is sentimentality and mannerism, but the - literary craftsmanship is very good. - -⸺ THE PASSIONATE CRIME: a Tale of the Faerie. Pp. 311. 6_s._ (_Chapman & -Hall_). 1915. - - “The story of a strange murder—the murderer a poet—solitary - among the romantic atmosphere of the lonely Irish - hills.”—(TIMES LIT. SUP.). - - -=THURSTON, Katherine Cecil.= B. Cork in 1875. Dau. of Paul Madden, a -friend of Parnell, and at one time nationalist mayor of Cork. She began -to write only in 1903, and married E. Temple Thurston, _q.v._ Died at -Cork, 1911. In this short period appeared six or seven novels. Of _John -Chilcote, M.P._, her greatest success, it is estimated that 200,000 -copies were sold in America alone. - -⸺ THE GAMBLER. (_Hutchinson_). 6_s._, and 6_d._ _n.d._ (1906). (N.Y.: -_Harper_). 1.50. - - A psychological study of an Irish woman’s character. Treats of - Protestant upper middle class society, but questions of creed - do not enter into the book. The scene for about the first third - of the book is laid in Ireland, in an out-of-the-way country - district. Then it shifts to Venice, and afterwards to London. - In both places the heroine moves in a smart set, whose empty - life and petty follies are well drawn. There is a problem of - pathetic interest centering in two ill-assorted marriages. The - part about Irish life, showing the foolish pride of some of the - Irish gentry, is skilfully and sympathetically done. - -⸺ THE FLY ON THE WHEEL. Pp. 327. (_Blackwood_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Dodd & -Mead_). 1.50. 1908. - - Middle class Catholic society in Waterford, pictured, without - satire, in its exterior aspects by one quite familiar with - them. The heroine is an impulsive, self-willed girl in revolt - against conventionality. With her Stephen Carey, a middle-aged - man, conventionally married, falls in love and is loved in - return. The theme on the whole is treated with restraint, - yet there are passionate scenes. The complication is ended - by the intervention of a priest, whose character is very - sympathetically drawn. The end of all is the suicide of the - girl. - - -=THYNNE, Robert.= - -⸺ RAVENSDALE. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1873. - - An attempt to represent the men and motives of the Emmet - insurrection. Point of view Unionist. Free from caricature, - vulgarity, patois, and conventional local colour. Scene at - first in England, but mainly Dublin and Co. Wicklow. Deals with - fortunes of a family named Featherstone—loyalists, with one - exception, Leslie, who is a friend of Emmet. Michael Dwyer, - Emmet, Lord Kilwarden, &c., figure in the tale. Love, hatred, - murder, incidents of 1803, Emmet’s trial, escape of Leslie and - his ultimate restoration keep up the interest to the end, when - the real murderer confesses. - -⸺ TOM DELANY. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). [1873]. 1876. - - Begins with sale, in Encumbered Estates Court, of Mrs. - Delany’s property in the West. The family then emigrate to - Melbourne, where the rest of the story takes place. Most of - the characters, however, are Irish, from Sergeant Doolan to - Mr. Brabazon. There are various love-affairs, ending some - brightly, others sadly; and there are pictures of life in the - gold-diggings. Eventually the estate is restored, and the - family comes back to Ireland. - -⸺ STORY OF A CAMPAIGN ESTATE. Pp. 429. (_Long_). 6_s._ Several editions. -1899. - - A tale of the Land League and the Plan of Campaign, written - from the landlord’s point of view. The estate is placed near - the Curragh of Kildare. The chief characters are nearly all - drawn from the Protestant middle and upper classes. There is - also a fanatical Land League priest, and a peacemaking one, of - whom a favourable portrait is drawn. “More cruel,” says the - hero, “more selfish, more destructive than our fathers’ loins - is the little finger of this unwritten law of the land—this - juggernaut before which the people bow, and are crushed.” The - question is ably argued out in many places in the book. The - Author seems to identify the Land League with the worst secret - societies, such as the Invincibles. The tone is not violent; - there is no caricaturing, and no brogue. - -⸺ IRISH HOLIDAYS. Pp. 317. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1898, 1906, &c. - - Story of an Englishman who goes down to spend his holidays - with the Rev. John Good, Curate of Coolgreany, somewhere in - the Bog of Allen, six miles from Birr and six from Banagher. - Chiefly concerned, apart from a few sporting incidents, with - aspects of agrarian agitation. Traditional English Conservative - standpoint, accentuated by ignorance of Irish history and - present conditions, and by ludicrous misconceptions. Fanciful - descriptions of moonlighting, in which the peasantry appear as - a mixture of fools and ruffians. But little humour, and that - unconscious. No objectionable matter from religious or moral - standpoint. - -⸺ BOFFIN’S FIND. Pp. 324. (_Long_). 6_s._ 1899 and 1906. - - An exciting tale of Australian life in the fifties. One of the - characters is a stage-Irishman of the earlier Lever type, who - in one chapter relates his experiences with the Ribbonmen. - -⸺ JOHN TOWNLEY. Pp. 346. (_Drane_). 1901. - - A political novel, “the last of a trilogy of Irish - disaffection.”—(Pref.). J. T. is an Anglican clergyman who - becomes a Catholic and, later, a priest. He comes to Ireland, - where he finds the priests immersed in politics and using - the confessional for political purposes. He is involved - in circumstances of a tragic kind, and to escape from a - disagreeable situation he goes to S. Africa, where he reverts - to Protestantism. Dwells much on boycotting, moonlighting and - murder. Describes the Phœnix Park murders, the subsequent - trial, and the murder of the informer. The interest is - exclusively political. - - -=TOTTENHAM, G. L.= - -⸺ TERENCE McGOWAN, the Irish Tenant. Two Vols. (_Smith, Elder_). 1870. - - Depicts, from the landlord’s point of view, the land struggle - in the sixties. This view-point is, in general, that “poor - backward, barbarous, benighted Ireland” owed whatever good it - possessed to the landlord class: the influence of the priest - was evil: and Ireland’s troubles due mainly to the lawlessness - and unreasonableness of the people and the weakness of the - government. But the writer is not without knowledge of the - people, and his pictures of life are probably true enough - in the main. The story is well told, and the love story of - Terence and Kathleen O’Hara and their sad fate is feelingly - related. The book brings out well the evil results of the rule - of a thoroughly unsympathetic landlord in the person of the - English Mr. Majoribanks. An idea is given of how elections were - conducted at the time. This Author wrote also _Harry Egerton_, - _Harcourt_, and other novels. - - -=TOWNSHEND, Dorothea.= - -⸺ THE CHILDREN OF NUGENTSTOWN and their Dealings with the Sidhe.[14] Pp. -176. (_Nutt_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Eight good illustr. by Ruth Cobb. 1911. - - The young Nugents, two boys and a girl, go to visit their Aunt - in her tumbledown old family place near Cork. The children get - into touch with the fairies, and as a result family papers are - recovered and fortune smiles once more on the Nugents. - -[14] i.e., Fairies. - - -=“TRAVERS, Coragh,”= _see_ =CRAWFORD, Mary S.= - - -=TRENCH, W. Stewart.= 1808-1872. Was land agent in Ireland to the -Marquess of Lansdowne, the Marquess of Bath, and Lord Digby. Owing to -his very admirable character he came to be respected by the people. His -opinion of Irish character was very high. His views will be found set -forth more fully in his _Realities of Irish Life_. - -⸺ IERNE. (_Longmans_). Two Vols. 1871. - - “A study of agrarian crime ... in which the Author used - material collected for a history of Ireland, which he refrained - from publishing owing to the feeling occasioned by the - controversy over the Irish Land Bill. He endeavours ... to - show the causes of the obstinate resistance by the Irish to - measures undertaken for their benefit, and to show the method - of cure.”—(_Baker_). - - -=TROLLOPE, Anthony.= 1815-1882. Lived in Ireland, 1841-1859, at -Banagher and at Clonmel. Finished in Ireland his first two novels, _The -MacDermotts_ (1844), and _The Kellys and O’Kellys_ (1848), both failures -with the public. He claims to have known the people, and was sympathetic -but anti-nationalist. It would be out of place here to dwell on the place -in English literature of the Author of _Barchester Towers_ and _The -Warden_ and _Orley Farm_, and the rest. An admirable contemporary article -on his novels will be found in DUBLIN REVIEW, 1872, Vol. 71, p. 393. -The following deserves quotation: “This Englishman, keenly observant, -painstaking, absolutely sincere and unprejudiced, with a lynx-like -clearness of vision, and a power of literal reproduction of which his -clerical and domestic novels, remarkable as they exhibit it, do not -furnish such striking examples, writes a story as true to the saddest -and heaviest truths of Irish life, as racy of the soil, as rich with the -peculiar humour, the moral features, the social oddities, the subtle -individuality of the far west of Ireland as George Eliot’s novels are -true to the truths of English life.” - -⸺ THE MACDERMOTTS OF BALLYCLORAN. (_Lane_). 1_s._ [1844]. 1909. - - Scene: Co. Leitrim. Chief characters: the members of a - broken-down Catholic county family. Miss MacDermott is engaged - to a Sub-Inspector of police. This latter, because of certain - difficulties that stand in the way of their marriage, attempts - to elope with her. Her brother comes on the scene, and there - is an affray, in which the Sub-Inspector is killed. Young - MacDermott is tried and publicly hanged. This is the mere - outline. More interesting is the background of Irish rural - life, seen in its comic and quaint aspect, by an observant and - not wholly unsympathetic Englishman. The portrait of the grand - old Father John M’Grath is most life-like and engaging, but - the pictures of low life in the village and among the illicit - stills is vulgar in tone and the humour somewhat coarse. The - book is spoken of by a competent critic, Sir G. O. Trevelyan, - as in some respects the Author’s best. The Author himself - considers this his best plot. It has been spoken of as “one of - the most melancholy books ever written.” - -⸺ THE KELLYS AND THE O’KELLYS. (_Chapman & Hall_). [1848]. New ed., 1907. -(_Lane_). 1_s._ - - Scene: Dunmore, Co. Galway, at the time of O’Connell’s trial, - 1844. Mainly a love story of the upper classes. Some clever - portraits, _e.g._, Martin Kelly, the Widow Kelly, and the - hero, Frank O’Kelly, Lord Ballindine. Picture of hard-riding, - hard-drinking, landlord class. A much more cheerful story than - the preceding. It is fresh and genuinely humorous, and the - human interest is very strong. The seventh London ed. appeared - in 1867. - -⸺ CASTLE RICHMOND. Pp. 474. (_Harper, Ward, Lock_). 2_s._ [1860]. Fifth -London ed., 1867. Still in print. - - Scene: Co. Cork during the Famine years, 1847, and following, - with which it deals fully. Tale of two old Irish families. - The plot is commonplace enough but redeemed by great skill in - the treatment, by admirable delineation of character, and by - the drawing of the background. Absolutely cool and free from - partisanship, he yet draws such a picture of those dreadful - times as, in days to come, it will be difficult to accept as - free from exaggeration. It is a graphic and terrible picture. - The noble character of Owen Fitzgerald is finely drawn. There - are touches of pleasant humour and of satire. - -⸺ PHINEAS FINN, the Irish Member. (_Bell_). 1866. - -⸺ PHINEAS REDUX. (_Bell_). 1874. - - A study of political personalities. The scene is London, and - the story is little, if at all, concerned with Ireland. - -⸺ THE LAND LEAGUERS. Three Vols. (_Chatto & Windus_). 1883. - - Story of an English Protestant family who buy a property - and settle in Galway. The book was never finished, and has, - perhaps, little interest as a novel. But the life and incidents - of the period are well rendered, notably the trials of people - who are boycotted. Much sympathy with the people is displayed - by the Author, and, on the whole, fair views of the faults and - misunderstandings on both sides are expressed. The plot turns - on the enmity of a peasant towards his landlord, whom he tries - to injure in every way. The landlord’s little son is the only - witness against the peasant. The child is murdered for telling - what he knows. There is some harsh criticism of Catholic - priests. - - -=TROTTER, John Bernard.= 1775-1818. Of a Co. Down family, and brother of -E. S. Ruthven, M.P. for Dublin. Ed. T.C.D.; B.A., 1795. Barrister, and -private secretary to Charles James Fox. Died in great poverty in Cork. -His _Walks in Ireland_ is his best known work, though he wrote many other -works, literary and political. - -⸺ STORIES FOR CALUMNIATORS. Two Vols. (DUBLIN: _Fitzpatrick_). 1809. - - “Interspersed with remarks on the disadvantages, misfortunes, - and habits of the Irish.” Dedicated to Lord Holland. A - remarkable book in many ways. Through the medium of three - stories, largely based on fact, the Author sets forth instances - of the sad aftermath of the rebellion, illustrating the tragic - consequences that may ensue if those in authority listen to - the voice of slander and condemn on suspicion. The stories - are told to a Mr. Fitzmaurice by persons related to the - victims, and Mr. F.’s own romance is interwoven with the tale. - Incidentally the Author gives his own views on Irish politics, - views full of the most kindly tolerance and of true patriotic - feeling without _ráiméis_. He seems not a Catholic, but is most - friendly towards Catholics. He is strongly in favour of the - Irish language, of land reform, and of the higher education of - women—astonishing views considering the period. - - -=TURK, S. A.= - -⸺ THE SECRET OF CARRICFEARNAGH CASTLE. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ [1912]. -Second ed., 1915. - - “It has a somewhat sensational plot; but it certainly displays - the deep piety, patriotism, and Christian charity of Erin’s - sons and daughters.”—(Publ.). - - -=TYNAN, Katherine; Mrs. H. A. Hinkson.= Born in Dublin, 1861, ed. -Dominican Convent, Drogheda. Lived for many years in England, but now -resides in Co. Mayo. Her stories aim at the purely romantic. As they are -not concerned with the seamy side of life, their atmosphere is almost -entirely happy and ideal. They are never morbid nor depressing. They do -not preach, and are not of the goody-goody type. The style is pleasant -and chatty, with plenty of colour, often full of the poet’s vivid sense -impressions. The tone is thoroughly Catholic, the sentiment Irish. -Mrs. Hinkson is a very prolific writer. Besides the novels mentioned, -and several volumes of poems, she has written several novels which are -not concerned with Ireland, _e.g._, _A Red Red Rose_, _The Luck of the -Fairfaxes_, _Dick Pentreath_, _For Maisie_, _Mary Gray_, &c. In choice of -subject she has made a speciality of broken-down gentlefolk, and often -introduces Quakers into her stories. - -⸺ A CLUSTER OF NUTS. Pp. 242. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 1894. - - Seventeen short sketches written for English periodicals. - Subject: daily life of the peasantry—the village “characters,” - a spoilt priest, the migrating harvesters, and a pathetic - picture of a poor old village priest. Charming descriptions of - scenery, not too long drawn out. Much tender and unaffected - pathos. - -⸺ AN ISLE IN THE WATER. Pp. 221. (_Black_). 1895. - - Fifteen short pieces collected out of various English - periodicals. The scene of about half of them is an unnamed - island off the West coast. The scene of the other is Achill. - The title does not cover the rest. Sketches chiefly of - peasant life, in which narrative (sometimes told in dialogue) - predominates. The stories are very varied. There are pathetic - sketches of young girls: “Mauryeen,” “Katie,” “How Mary came - Home”; tales of the supernatural, such as “The Death Spancel”; - “A Rich Woman,” a racy story of legacy hunting; while heroic - self-sacrifice is depicted in “The Man who was hanged” and “A - Solitary.” The last two pieces in the book are not stories: - they are musings or subjective impressions. - -⸺ THE WAY OF A MAID. Pp. 300. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 1895. - - Domestic and social life in Coolevara, a typical Irish country - town, chiefly among Catholic middle class folk. It is a simple - and pleasant story of love and marriage with a happy ending. - -⸺ A LAND OF MIST AND MOUNTAIN. Pp. 195. (_Catholic Truth Society_). 1895. - - Short sketches of Irish life written with the Author’s - accustomed tenderness and simple pathos. Noteworthy are the - tales that contain Jimmy, the Wicklow peasant lad, who loves - all animals; the prodigal who returns after twenty years, and - the exiles Giuseppe and Beppo, in their queer little Dublin - shop. Real persons—Rose Kavanagh, Ellen O’Leary, and Sarah - Atkinson—are introduced in a fictitious setting. - - _The Land I Love Best_ is another series of eight tales issued - by the same publishers about 1898. 200 pages. - -⸺ THE DEAR IRISH GIRL. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). 1.50. - - Motherless, and an only child, Biddy O’Connor brings herself - up in a big, lonely Dublin house. Dr. O’Connor lives amid his - memories and his books. Biddy is a winsome girl, and keeps - the reader’s heart from the time we first meet her with the - homeless dogs of Dublin as her favourite companions to the day - when she weds the master of Coolbawn. The chief charm of the - book lies in the picture of life amid the splendid scenery - of Connaught. The book has a pleasant atmosphere of bright - simplicity and quick mirthfulness. The SPECTATOR calls it - “fresh, unconventional, and poetic.” - -⸺ SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. Pp. 310. (_Smith, Elder_). (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). -1.50. 1899. - - Three delightful girls of a class which the Author delights to - picture—impoverished gentry and their love affairs. The minor - characters, servants, village people, &c., are very humorous - and true to life. In this story the course of true love is by - no means smooth, but all is well at the last. The scene varies - between “Carrickmoyle” and London. - -⸺ A GIRL OF GALWAY. (_Blackie_). 5_s._ Handsome gift-book binding. 1900. - - She stays with her grandfather, a miserly old recluse living - in the wilds of Connemara, seeing nobody but his agent, an - unscrupulous fellow, in whom he has perfect confidence. A love - affair is soon introduced. It seems hopeless at first, but - turns out all right owing to a strange unlooked for event. - Pleasant and faithful picture of Connemara life. - -⸺ THREE FAIR MAIDS. Pp. 381. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ [1900]. (N.Y.: -_Scribner_). 1.50. Twelve illustr. by G. Demain Hammond. 1909. - - The three daughters of Sir Jasper Burke are of the reduced - county family class, about which the Author loves to write. The - expedient of receiving paying guests results in matrimony for - the three girls. With this simple plot there are all the things - that go to make Katharine Tynan’s works delightful reading: - insight into character, impressions of Irish life, lovable - personalities of many types. - -⸺ A DAUGHTER OF THE FIELDS. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). -1900. - - “Another gracious Irish girl. Well educated, and brought - up to a refined and easy life, she applies herself to the - drudgery of farm work rather than desert her toiling mother; - but the novelist finds her a husband and a more fortunate - lot.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ A UNION OF HEARTS. Pp. 296. (_Nisbet_). 2_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ 6_d._ -_n.d._ [1900]. - - A typical example of Mrs. Hinkson’s stories. The main plot is - a simple, idyllic love-story. The hero, much idealized, is - an Englishman who tries to do good to his Irish tenants in - his own way, and hence incurs their hatred, for a time. The - heroine is an heiress come of a good old stock. Several of the - characters are cleverly sketched: old Miss Lucy Considine and - her antiquarian brother, in particular. Scenes of peasant life - act as interludes to the main action, which lies in county - family society. All the chief persons are Protestants, but the - religious element is quite eliminated from the book. - -⸺ THAT SWEET ENEMY. (_Constable_). 6_s._ (PHILADELPHIA: _Lippincott_). -1.50. 1901. - - “A sentimental story of two Irish girls, children of a decayed - house; their love affairs, the hindrance to their happiness, - and the matrimonial _dénouement_.”—(_Baker_). - -⸺ A KING’S WOMAN. Pp. 155. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 6_d._ [1902]. 1905. - - Told by Penelope Fayle, a young Quaker gentlewoman, a loyalist - or King’s woman, but sympathetic to the Irish. Scene: a - Leinster country house in 1798. No descriptions of the - fighting, but glimpses of the cruelty of Ancient Britons, - yeomanry, &c., and of the dark passions of the time. Racy, - picturesque style, with exciting incidents and dramatic - situations. - -⸺ THE HANDSOME QUAKER. Pp. 252. (_A. H. Bullen_). 1902. - - Eighteen exquisite little stories and sketches dealing, nearly - all, with the lives of the poorest peasantry. They have all the - Author’s best qualities. - -⸺ LOVE OF SISTERS. Pp. 344. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ [1902]. Third ed. -1908. - - The scene varies between the West of Ireland and Dublin. - A love-story, in which the central figures are Phillippa - Featherstonhaugh and her sister, Colombe: a contrast in - character, but each lovable in her own way. The plot turns on - the unselfish devotion of the former, who, believing that her - lover has transferred his affections to her sister, heroically - stands aside. We shall not reveal the _dénouement_. The minor - characters are capital, all evidently closely copied from life. - There are the elderly spinsters, Miss Finola and Miss Peggy, - and quite a number of charming old ladies, the country priest - and the sisters’ bustling, philanthropic mother, always in a - whirl of correspondence about her charities, and others equally - interesting. - -⸺ A DAUGHTER OF KINGS. (_Nash_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.25. 1903. - - The daughter of a broken-down aristocratic county family is - obliged to take service as chaperon in an English family. - Careful study of girl’s lovable character. Contrast between the - pride and poverty of Witches’ Castle, Co. Donegal, and opulence - of English home. - -⸺ THE HONOURABLE MOLLY. Pp. 312. (_Smith, Elder_). Second impression, -1903. - - The Honourable Molly is of mixed Anglo-Irish aristocratic (her - father was a Creggs de la Poer) and Scoto-Irish middle class - origin (her mother’s people were O’Neills and Sinclairs). - She has two suitors, one is from her mother’s people, the - other is the heir to Castle Creggs and the title. Both are - eminently worthy of her hand. She finally chooses one, - after having accepted the other. Has all the sweetness and - femininity of Katherine Tynan’s work. Is frankly romantic but - not mawkish. There is no approach to a villain. There is some - quiet and good-natured satire of old-fashioned aristocratic - class-notions. The portraits of the two old maiden aunts are - very clever. - -⸺ JULIA. Pp. 322. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ Second impression, 1904. - - How a baseless slander nearly ruined the life of Julia, the - Cinderella of her family, how she was nearly lost to her lover, - and by what strange turns of fortune she was restored. The - chief characters belong to two branches of a Kerry family, - whose history is that of many another in Ireland. Julia’s - mother is a splendid type of the old-fashioned Irish matron. - There is touching pathos in the picture of the Grace family - (minor personages of the tale)—a mother’s absolute devotedness - to a pair of thankless and worthless daughters. The old parish - priest, too, is well drawn. - -⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF ALICIA. (_White_). 6_s._ 1906. - - “A characteristically winning story of a poor young Irish - girl, who had to serve English employers, but, in spite of - all temptations, remained true to her Irish lover.”—(_Press - Notice_). - -⸺ THE STORY OF BAWN. Pp. 312. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: -_McClurg_). 1.50. 1906. - - One of the Author’s prettiest stories. Family of high standing - falls into the meshes of money-lender. The daughter consents to - marry him—but the plot need not be revealed. The scene appears - to be Co. Kerry in the early ’sixties, but there seem to be - some anachronisms. - -⸺ HER LADYSHIP. Pp. 305. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _McClurg_). -1.25. Second impression, 1907. - - Lady Anne Chute is mistress of a vast estate in Co. Kerry. From - the moment of her succession to the property she resolves to - act the part of Providence in her people’s lives. She sets - about improving their condition, founding industries, &c., and - with full success. This is the background to a love-story. - Old Miss Chenevix, once a “lady,” but now living almost on - the verge of starvation in an obscure quarter of Dublin, is - a pathetic figure. Pathetic also is the devotion of her old - servant to the fallen fortunes of the family. Then there is the - picture, drawn with exquisite sympathy, of the poor girl dying - of consumption, and of how her religion exalted and brightened - her last days. The descriptions or rather impressions of nature - which brighten the story are peculiarly vivid. - -⸺ THE HOUSE OF THE CRICKETS. (_Smith, Elder_). 1908. - - A story of Irish peasant farmer life. The heroine lives, with - her brothers and sisters, a life of abject slavery, ruled by a - tyrannical and puritanical father. In this wretched home she - and her brother, Richard, develop noble qualities of character - and mind. The members of the family are very life-like - portraits, and the picture of Irish life is drawn with much - care and skill. - -⸺ MEN AND MAIDS. Pp. 294. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by -Dorothea Preston. 1908. - - A collection of short stories, chiefly thoroughly romantic - love-stories. “A Big Lie” is, however, of a different - character, and the Author has hardly ever written a more - delightful story. - -⸺ PEGGY THE DAUGHTER. Pp. 335. (_Cassell_). 1909. - - A romance of Ireland in early Victorian days. A young - spendthrift nobleman, a widower, runs away with Priscilla, a - Quakeress, and also an heiress. The description of the pursuit - is exciting and dramatic. The penalty of his deed is a long - imprisonment, from which he issues a sadder and wiser man. - Priscilla’s care of his little daughter, Peggy, in the meantime - is a pathetic story. The plot suggested by the attempted - abduction by Sir H. B. Hayes of the Quakeress, Miss Pike, of - Cork. - -⸺ COUSINS AND OTHERS. Pp. 319. (_Laurie_). 1909. - - Eleven stories. The title story, the longest (there are nine - chapters) tells how a shabby branch of an old Irish family - finally won recognition by means of a marriage with the - supposed heir and by the finding of certain old family papers. - Contains some goodnatured satire on the snobbishness of Irish - county society. One of the remaining stories is Irish in - subject. All show the Author’s best qualities—freshness, charm, - and cheerful optimism. - -⸺ THE HANDSOME BRANDONS. (_Blackie_). 3_s._ 6_d._ New ed. Illustr. by G. -Demain Hammond. - - How a marriage between scions of two ancient Irish houses heals - a long-standing feud. - -⸺ THE HOUSE OF THE SECRET. Pp. 314. (_James Clarke_). 6_s._ 1910. - - The story of Maeve Standish’s self-sacrifice in the - sorrow-shadowed home of her father’s old friend, Miss Henrietta - O’Neill, of her ultimate good fortune, and finally of her happy - marriage. The setting is entirely Irish.—(_Press Notice_). - -⸺ HEART O’ GOLD; or, The Little Princess. Pp. 344. (_Partridge_). 3_s._ -6_d._ - - Story of how Cushla MacSweeney and her sister, left as orphans, - are carried off from their tumbled-down Irish home and brought - up at Tunbridge Wells. How Cushla returns at twenty-one full - of dreams for the improvement of Ireland, and is aided in her - plans by a young man whom she afterwards marries. Full of the - Author’s interesting character-studies. - -⸺ THE STORY OF CECILIA. Pp. 304. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ (N.Y.: -_Benziger_). 1.00. 1911. - - Scene: Kerry and Dublin. Two stories, of mother and daughter, - Ciss and Cecilia, interwoven. Ciss’s fiancé is reported killed. - She loses her reason and persuades herself that a Dr. Grace, - who is of peasant extraction, is her lover come back. To save - her from the asylum Lord Dromore, her cousin and guardian, - has to consent unwillingly to the marriage. The absent - lover returns, but she does not meet him for twenty years. - Meanwhile Ciss’s mésalliance is causing trouble in the course - of Cecilia’s love for Lord Kilrush. But all ends happily. The - characters are mainly drawn from the denationalised Irish upper - classes. The story is told with much charm. - -⸺ PRINCESS KATHARINE. Pp. 320. (_Ward_). 6_s._ 1912. - - A girl educated much above her mother’s condition in life and - mixing in upper class society. - -⸺ ROSE OF THE GARDEN. Pp. 312. (_Constable_). 1912. - - The story of Lady Sarah Lennox (1745-1826) in the form of - fiction. A good many Irish members of the _beau monde_ appear - in the tale. It is not for young readers. See _The Life and - Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox_, edited by the Countess of - Ilchester and Lord Stavordale. Two vols. (_Murray_). - -⸺ A SHAMEFUL INHERITANCE. Pp. 324. (_Cassell_). 6_s._ 1914. - - “Katharine Tynan, in her gentle way, puts before us the growing - up of the boy Pat in ignorance of the disgrace (a jewel - robbery) of his mother and the suicide of his father, and the - effect upon him of the disclosure. A lovable and spiritual - Father Peter plays a leading part in it all.”—(T. LITT. - SUPPL.). Pat finds his mother in time to comfort her deathbed, - and in the end marries an old friend. Somewhat vague, and not - free from inconsistencies. - -⸺ COUNTRYMEN ALL. Pp. 238. (_Maunsel_). 2_s._ 1915. - - A volume of stories and sketches, very varied in its contents, - from well-told but rather unconvincing little melodramas like - “The Fox Hunter” and “John ’a Dreams” to very vivid glimpses - of life, _choses vues et vécues_. These show various sides - of Irish life and character; an unpleasant side in “The - Ruling Passion” (a woman discussing her own funeral with - her daughter), as well as the pleasant and lovable aspects. - “The Mother” and “The Mother of Jesus” are little studies of - exquisite tenderness. Several of the sketches are humorous, - for instance the weird episode, “Per istam sanctam unctionem,” - related by a priest. The scene of several seems to be the - neighbourhood of Dublin. - -⸺ THE HOUSE OF THE FOXES. Pp. 307. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ 1915. - - The Turloughmores are overshadowed by a curse made long ago by - an old woman wounded to death by the hounds of a former Lord - T. when hunting. According to the curse, every head of the - house must die a violent death, in forewarning of which foxes - will be seen in twos and threes about the house for some time - before. The actual Lord T. is expected home from his yachting - cruise, his wife ever in dread of the doom. He is wrecked - and apparently lost, but Meg Hildebrand, who is staying at - the castle, discovers the almost dying lord in mysterious - circumstances. He dies in his bed, his heir is married into a - lucky house, and the curse is said to be lifted. Founded on - a legend (still current) of a well-known Irish family. Many - threads of various interest are woven into the tale. - -⸺ MEN, NOT ANGELS, and Other Tales told to Girls. (_Burns & Oates_). -3_s._ 6_d._ Many full-p. illustr. 1915. - - 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. - - Castle Rackrent, 81. - - Castle Richmond, 244. - - Cathair Conroi, 77. - - _Catholic Truth Societies._ Append. B. - - Cathreim Cellachain Caisil, 38. - - Cattle Raid of Cualnge, The; 85. - - _Cavan_, 38, 39, 118. - - Cavern in the Wicklow Mountains, The; 3. - - Celt and Saxon, 178. - - Celtic Dragon Myth, The; 44. - - Celtic Fairy Tales, 120. - - Celtic Fireside, A; 90. - - Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx, 217. - - Celtic Stories, 240. - - Celtic Tales, 52. - - Celtic Myth and Legend Poetry and Romance, 234. - - Celtic Twilight, The; 258. - - Celtic Wonder Tales, 259. - - Celtic Wonder World, The; 240. - - Chain of Gold, The; 203. - - Chances of War, The; 87. - - Changeling, The; 20. - - Chapters of College Romance, 42. - - Characteristic Sketches of Ireland and the Irish, 3. - - Charles Mowbray, 3. - - Charles O’Malley, 141. - - Charlton, 95. - - Charming of Estercel, The; 217. - - Charwoman’s daughter, The; 235. - - Children of Kings, 199. - - Children of Nugentstown, The; 243. - - Children of Sorrow, 43. - - Children of the Abbey, The; 219. - - Children of the Dead end, 159. - - Children of the Gael, 70. - - Children of the Hills, 197. - - Children’s Book of Celtic Stories, The; 99. - - Christian Physiologist, The; 100. - - Christy Carew, 109. - - Chronicles of Castle Cloyne, 35. - - _Clare_, 21, 74, 99, 101, 124, 129, 136, 181, 196, 206. - - Clare Nugent, 186. - - Clashmore, 77. - - Clementina, 172. - - _Clongowes Wood College_, 53, 123, 127, 172. - - Cluster of Nuts, A; 246. - - Cluster of Shamrocks, A; 41. - - Clutch of Circumstances, The; 227. - - Cock and Anchor, The; 139. - - Collection of the Oldest and Most Popular Legends of the Peasantry of - Clare and Galway, A; 31. - - Collegians, The; 100. - - Colonel Ormsby, 3. - - Columbanus the Celt, 138. - - Coming of Cuchulainn, 203. - - Coming of Lugh, The; 259. - - Coming of the King, The; 53. - - Conan the Wonderworker, 70. - - Con Cregan, 144. - - Confederate Chieftains, The; 224. - - Confessions of a Whitefoot, 67. - - Confessions of Con Cregan, 144. - - Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, 141. - - Confessions of Honor Delany, 35. - - Confessors of Connaught, 177. - - Conformists, The; 19. - - Connal ou les Milesiens, 174. - - Connaught, A Tale of 1798; 17. - - Connemara, 65. - - _Connemara_, 5, 20, 26, 57, 70, 71, 92, 125, 136, 143, 193, 200, 218, - 233, 247. - - Connor D’Arcy’s Struggles, 26. - - Con O’Regan, 225. - - Conquered at Last, 205. - - Considine Luck, The; 114. - - Contes et Légendes d’Irlande, 74. - - Contes Irlandais traduits du Gaëlique, 73. - - Contes Populaires de la Grande Bretagne, 37. - - Conversion of Con Cregan, The; 56. - - Convict No. 25, 192. - - Corby MacGillmore, 86. - - _Cork_, 1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 13, 16, 20, 25, 26, 29, 31, 32, 38, 56, 71, - 92, 93, 100, 104, 113, 118, 124, 135, 141, 155, 177, 180, 191, - 196, 198, 203, 113, 229, 232, 233, 243, 244, 249, 256, 257. - - Corner in Ballybeg, A; 193. - - Corrageen in ’98, 208. - - Cottage Life in Ireland, 206. - - Countrymen All, 250. - - Country Quarters, 32. - - Court of Rath Croghan, The; 198. - - Courtship of Ferb, The; 137. - - Cousin Isabel, 16. - - Cousins and Others, 249. - - Cousin Sara, 190. - - Crackling of Thorns, The; 55. - - Craignish Tales, 158. - - Creel of Irish Stories, A; 24. - - Crescent Moon, The; 72. - - Crimson Sign, The; 125. - - Crock of Gold, The; 235. - - Crohoore of the Billhook, 20. - - Croppies Lie Down, 37. - - Croppy, The; 20. - - Cross and Shamrock, The; 214. - - Cubs, The; 39. - - Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Gregory), 99. - - Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Skelly), 231. - - Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature, 117. - - Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, 117. - - Culmshire Folk, 93. - - Curate of Kilcloon, The; 102. - - Cynthia’s Bonnet Shop, 190. - - - Daffodil’s Love Affairs, 129. - - Daft Eddie, 153. - - Dalaradia, 54. - - D’Altons of Crag, The; 196. - - Daltons, The; 144. - - Dalys of Dalystown, The; 195. - - Dame Noire de Doona, La; 175. - - Dan Russell, the Fox, 234. - - Dan the Dollar, 40. - - Darby O’Gill and the good people, 239. - - Dark Colleen, The; 121. - - Dark Lady of Doona, The; 175. - - Dark Monk of Feola, The; 111. - - Dark Rosaleen, 92. - - Daughter of Erin, A; 88. - - Daughter of Kings, A; 248. - - Daughter of the Fields, A; 247. - - Daughter of Tyrconnell, The; 225. - - Davenport Dunn, 145. - - David Maxwell, 64. - - Days of Fire, The; 62. - - Day’s Ride, A; 145. - - Dead-Watchers, The; 22. - - Dearforgil, the Princess of Breffny, 96. - - Dear Irish Girl, The; 246. - - Death Flag, The; 66. - - Deirdre and the Lay of the Children of Uisne, 51. - - Demi-Gods, The; 236. - - Denis, 87. - - Denis O’Shaughnessy going to Maynooth, 48. - - Denis Trench, 211. - - Denounced, The; 19. - - Dernier Irlandais, Le; 26. - - _Derry_, 39, 45, 82, 83, 87, 92, 101, 108, 128, 125, 143, 158, 212, - 238. - - Derry, 83. - - Derryreel, 90. - - Desborough’s Wife, 177. - - Desmond O’Connor, 122. - - Desmond Rourke, 110. - - Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel, The; 237. - - Diamond Lens and other Stories, The; 195. - - Diamond Mountain, The; 119. - - Dick Massey, 223. - - Didy, 147. - - Dimpling’s Success, 187. - - Divil-May-Care, 63. - - Doctor Kilgannon, 167. - - Doctor Whitty, 29. - - Dodd Family Abroad, The; 145. - - Doings and Dealings, 24. - - Dominick’s Trials, 194. - - Dominion of Dreams, The; 163. - - Donalds, The; 171. - - Donal Dun O’Byrne, 115. - - Donal Kenny, 182. - - _Donegal_, 17, 30, 34, 36, 45, 51, 66, 74, 85, 90, 98, 103, 110, 133, - 146, 159, 165, 166, 167, 172, 184, 187, 193, 213, 216, 248. - - Donegal Fairy Stories, 166. - - Dooley Books, 79. - - Doreen, 150. - - _Down_, 25, 60, 63, 86, 90, 108, 115, 119, 126, 152, 153, 181, 201, - 215, 218. - - Downey & Co. Appendix, 265. - - Downfall of Grabbum, The; 209. - - Down West, and other sketches of Irish Life, 70. - - Doyen de Kellerine, Le; 213. - - Drama in Muslin, A; 182. - - Dramatic Scenes from Real Life, 185. - - Dr. Belton’s Daughters, 106. - - _Drink_ (see Temperance), 8, 11, 21, 48, 181. - - Dromina, 18. - - Druidean the Mystic and other Irish Stories, 194. - - Druidess, The; 95. - - _Dublin_, 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 24, 34, 42, 51, 54, 61, 69, - 75, 85, 89, 95, 106, 109, 116, 118, 123, 124, 126, 139, 144, - 146, 156, 171, 173, 190, 191, 193, 194, 197, 201, 208, 219, - 222, 235, 242, 246, 248, 250. - - Dublin Statues “At Home,” The; 150. - - _Dublin University_, see _Trinity College_. - - Dubliners, 123. - - Duchess, The; 17. - - _Duffy and Sons._ Appendix, 266. - - Duke of Monmouth, The; 101. - - Dunferry Risin’, The; 183. - - Dunleary, 77. - - Dunmara (Mulholland), 188. - - Dunmore, 244. - - Dunsany, 3. - - Dust of the World, 108. - - - Earl of Effingham, The; 158. - - Earl or Chieftain, 72. - - Early Gaelic Erin, 3. - - Eccentricity, 167. - - Edmond of Lateragh, 3. - - Edmund O’Hara, 4. - - Edward O’Donnell, 222. - - Eight O’Clock and other stories, 84. - - Eily O’Hartigan, 221. - - Eldergowan and other Tales, 188. - - Election, The; 36. - - Elf Errant, The; 207. - - Elizabeth, Betsy, and Bess, 227. - - Ellen, 122. - - Ellmer Castle, 4. - - _England, Irish in_; 12, 30, 33, 34, 57, 80, 92, 107, 114, 115, 116, - 119, 122, 134, 171, 177, 186, 206, 227. - - Emerald Gems, 4. - - Emergency Men, The; 122 (Jessop). - - Emigrants of Ahadarra, The; 48. - - Enchanted Portal, The; 150. - - Enlèvement du taureau divin, 125. - - Ennui, 81. - - Erin-go-bragh, 176. - - Escapades of Condy Corrigan, The; 110. - - Essence of Life, The; 14. - - Esther Vanhomrigh, 255. - - Ethne, 87. - - Eva, or Buried City of Bannow, 107. - - Eva. Daunt (Alice O’Neill), 68. - - Eva. Maturin (C.R.), 174. - - Eveline Wellwood, 210. - - Evelyn Clare, 24. - - Evenings in the Duffrey, 128. - - Eve’s Paradise, 35. - - Evil Eye, The; 49. - - Exiled from Erin. Doyle (M.), 77. - - Exile of Erin, The; 68. - - - Faery Land Forlorn, A; 211. - - Fair Emigrant, A; 189. - - Fairies and Folk of Ireland, 93. - - Fair Irish Maid, The; 156. - - Fair Maid of Connaught, 116. - - Fair Noreen, 191. - - Fair Saxon, A; 155. - - Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 258. - - Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, The; 252. - - Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, 62. - - Fairy Minstrel of Glenmalure, The; 138. - - Fairy Stories from Erin’s Isle, 25. - - _Fairy Tales._ Append. D. IV. - - Faithful Ever and other Tales, 72. - - Falcon Family, The; 226. - - Falcon King, The; 199. - - Family of Glencarra, The; 182. - - Fancy O’Brien, 164. - - Fan Fitzgerald, 114. - - Fardorougha the Miser, 47. - - Farewell to Garrymore, 223. - - Fate of Father Sheehy, The; 224. - - Father Alphonsus, 113. - - Father Anthony, 37. - - Father Butler, 4, 46. - - Father Clancy, 93. - - Father Connell, 21. - - Father John, 4. - - Father O’Flynn, 235. - - Father Ralph, 200. - - Father Tim, 191. - - Father Tom of Connemara, 193. - - Favourite Child, The; 4. - - Fawn of Springvale, etc., 47. - - Feast of Bricriu, The; 111. - - Felix O’Flanagan, an Irish-American, 209. - - Fenian Nights’ Entertainments, 154. - - _Fenians_, 11, 13, 27, 50, 51, 59, 89, 92, 106, 109, 115, 119, 132, - 146, 150, 154, 155, 162, 170, 183, 189, 194, 196, 206, 215, - 230, 231. - - _Fermanagh_, 13, 38, 40, 164, 169, 212. - - Fetches, The; 18. - - Fians, The; 44, 94. - - Fictions of our Forefathers, 127. - - Fight of Faith, The; 105. - - Finn and His Companions, 202. - - Finn and His Warrior Band, 162. - - Finn MacCoole, 207. - - Finola, 186. - - Fireside Stories of Ireland, The; 128. - - Fits and Starts, 89. - - Fitzgerald Family, The; 169. - - Fitzgerald, The Fenian; 170. - - Fitz-Hern, 24. - - Flame and Flood, The; 134. - - Flaws, 23. - - Flight from the Cliffs, The; 192. - - Flight of the Eagle, 203. - - Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor, 109. - - Florence Macarthy, 184. - - Florence O’Neill, 237. - - Flynns of Flynnville, The; 106. - - Fly on the Wheel, The; 242. - - _Folk-Lore and Legends._ Append. D. III. - - Folk of Furry Farm, The; 214. - - _Folk Tales_, see Folk-Lore. - - Folk and Hero Tales (Macdougall), 94, 158. - - Folk and Hero Tales (MacInnes), 161. - - Folk Tales of Breffny, 118. - - Following Darkness, 216. - - For Charles the Rover, 257. - - For Church and Chieftain, 257. - - Ford Family in Ireland, 4. - - Forge of Clohogue, The; 192. - - For the Old Land, 131. - - For Charles the Rover, 257. - - For Three Kingdoms, 64. - - Fortunes of Col. Torlogh O’Brien, The; 139. - - Fortunes of Glencore, The; 145. - - Fortunes of Maurice Cronin, The; 130. - - Fortunes of Maurice O’Donnell, The; 192. - - Fortunes of the Farrells, The; 251. - - Fortune-Teller’s Intrigue, The; 212. - - Foster Brothers of Doon, The; 252. - - Foster Sisters, The; 148. - - Founding of Fortunes, The; 23. - - Foundling Mick, 251. - - Foughilotra, 157. - - Four Feathers, The; 172. - - Frank Blake, 195. - - Frank Maxwell, 140. - - Frank O’Donnell, 57 (Conyngham). - - Frank O’Meara, 5. - - Frieze and Fustian, 91. - - Friends though Divided, 112. - - From the East unto the West, 23. - - From the Green Bag, 76. - - From the Land of the Shamrock, 23. - - Fugitive, The; _see_ Wild Scenes among the Celts. - - Fun o’ the Forge, 205. - - Further Experiences of an Irish R.M., 233. - - Further Stories of Ireland, 149. - - - Gaels of Moondharrig, The; 72. - - Galloping O’Hogan, 19. - - Gallowglass, 156. - - _Galway_, 20, 24, 31, 51, 69, 90, 112, 125, 141, 146, 151, 158, 159, - 160, 190, 196, 226, 227, 231, 232, 244, 245. - - Gambler, The; 242. - - Game Hen, The; 109. - - Gap of Barnesmore, The; 42. - - Garden of Resurrection, The; 241. - - Garryowen, 235. - - Gates of the North, The; 203. - - General John Regan, 29. - - Gentle Blood, 201. - - Gentleman in Debt, The; 69. - - Gentleman’s Wife, A; 138. - - Geoffrey, Austin, Student, 228. - - Gerald and Augusta, 5. - - Gerald Fitzgerald. (Kemble), 127. - - Gerald Fitzgerald. (Lever), 147. - - Gerald Ffrench’s Friends, 122. - - Geraldine, A; 132. - - Gerald Marsdale, 46. - - Geraldine of Desmond, 65. - - _Ghost Stories, Irish_; 14, 16, 153, 166, 227. - - Ghost Hunter and his Family, The; 21. - - Giannetta: Girl’s Story of Herself, A; 190. - - Girl of Galway, A; 247. - - Girl’s Ideal, A; 190. - - Girls of Banshee Castle, The; 190. - - Glade in the Forest, The; 103. - - Glenanaar, 229. - - Glencoonoge, 133. - - Glen of Silver Birches, The; 30. - - Glenveagh, 51. - - Glimpses of English History, 76. - - Glimpses of Glen-na-Mona, 205. - - Gods and Fighting Men, 99. - - Golden Bow, The; 63. - - Golden Guard, The; 63. - - Golden Hills, 252. - - Golden Lad, The; 171. - - Golden Lads and Girls, 112. - - Golden Morn, 114. - - Golden Spears and other Fairy Tales, 138. - - Good Men of Erin, 70. - - Grace O’Donnell, 154. - - Grace O’Halloran, 236. - - Grace O’Malley, Princess and Pirate, 160. - - Grace Wardwood, 108. - - Grania, 136. - - Grania Waile, 211. - - Graves at Kilmorna, The; 230. - - Green as Grass, 76. - - Green Cockade, The; 210. - - Green Country, The; 179. - - Green Tree, A; 157. - - Grey Life, A; 219. - - Guide to British Historical Fiction, A; 263. - - - Hamper of Humour, A; 5. - - Handrahan, The Irish Fairy Man, 94, 207. - - Handful of Days, A; 68. - - Handsome Brandons, The; 249. - - Handsome Quaker, The; 247. - - Handy Andy, 149. - - Harfe von Erin, Die; 220. - - Harry Lorrequer, 141, 144. - - Harry O’Brien, 5. - - Hate Flame, The; 24. - - Haunted Church, The; 191. - - Hazel Grafton, 60. - - Heart of the Peasant and other Stories, The; 195. - - Heart of Erin, The; 31. - - Heart of a Monk, The; 14. - - Heart o’ Gold, 249. - - Heart o’ the Peat, The; 176. - - Hearts of Steel, The; 160. - - Heart of Tipperary, The; 223. - - Heiress of Carrigmona, The; 75. - - Heiress of Kilorgan, The; 225. - - Heir and no Heir, 45. - - Heir of Liscarragh, The; 213. - - Here are Ladies, 236. - - Her Ladyship, 248. - - Her Majesty’s Rebels, 152. - - Hermite en Irland, L’; 5. - - Hermit of the Rock, The; 225. - - Heroes of the Dawn, 223. - - _Hero Tales._ Append. D. II. - - Hero Tales of Ireland, 66. - - Herself, 231. - - Hester’s History, 188. - - Hetty, 40. - - Hibernian Nights’ Entertainments, 86. - - High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland, - The; 221. - - History in Fiction, 87. - - History of Ireland, Heroic Period, 202. - - History of Jack Connor, The; 52. - - History of Ned Evans, The; 253. - - Hogan, M.P., 109. - - Holland-Tide, 100. - - Homespun Yarns, 89. - - Honor O’Hara, 212. - - Hon. Miss Ferrard, The; 109. - - Honor O’More’s Three Homes, 5. - - Honourable Molly, The; 248. - - Honour of the Desboroughs, The. Appendix B. - - House by the Churchyard, The; 139. - - House in the Rath, The; 192. - - House of a Thousand Welcomes, The. _See_ Didy, 147. - - House of Lisronan, The; 15. - - House of the Crickets, The; 249. - - House of the Foxes, The; 250. - - House of the Secret, The; 249. - - Howard, 94. - - Hugh Bryan, 5. - - Hugh Roach the Ribbonman, 192. - - Hugh Talbot, 69. - - _Humour, Irish._ Append. D. VI. - - Humour of Druids Island, The; 161. - - Humours of Donegal, The; 166. - - Humours of Shanwalla, The; 17. - - Hunger, The; 179. - - Hurrish, 136. - - Husband and Lover, 218. - - Husband Hunter, The; 97. - - Hyacinth, 27. - - - Ierne, 244. - - Ierne O’Neal, 45. - - Island of Sorrow, The; 97. - - Island Parish, The; 102. - - Illustrious O’Hagan, The; 155. - - Ill-won Peerages, 198. - - Imperial Richenda, 135. - - In a Glass Darkly, 139. - - In Chimney Corners, 166. - - Imelda, 159. - - In a Roundabout Way, 187. - - In Cupid’s Wars, 96. - - In Mr. Knox’s Country, 234. - - Innisfail, 112. - - Innisfoyle Abbey, 97. - - In one Town, 75. - - _In Re_ Garland, 208. - - In Sarsfield’s Days, 165. - - Inside Passenger, The; 193. - - Interference, 61. - - In the Celtic Past, 46. - - In the Days of Goldsmith, 33. - - In the Devil’s Alley, 214. - - In the Irish Brigade, 112. - - In the Kingdom of Kerry, 61. - - In the King’s Service, 35. - - In the Valleys of South Down, 108. - - In the Wake of King James, 203. - - Inside Passenger, The; 193. - - Insurgent Chief, The; 160. - - Invasion, The; 100. - - Invasion of Cromleigh, The; 100. - - Inviolable Sanctuary, The; 28. - - Ireland: Its Humour and Pathos, 37. - - Ireland, a Tale, 172. - - Ireland; or, The Montague Family, 84. - - Ireland’s Dream, 152. - - _Ireland’s Own Library_, 68, 88, 105, 148, 195, 213. - - Irish Bar Sinister, The; 170. - - Irish Bubble and Squeak, 6. - - Irish Coast Tales, 253. - - Irish Chieftain, The; 174. - - Irish Chieftain and his family, The; 178. - - Irish Chieftains, The; 31. - - Irish Coquette, The; 6. - - Irish Cousin, An; 232. - - Irish Decade, An; 194. - - Irish Diamonds. (Smith, John), 232. - - Irish Diamonds. (Bowles, Emily), 33. - - Irish Dove, The; 211. - - Irish Drolleries, 183. - - Irish Excursion, The; 6. - - Irish Fairy Book, The; 98. - - Irish Fairy Tales. (Yeats), 258. - - Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, 258. - - Irish Fairy Tales. (Strahan), 6. - - Irish Fairy Tales. (Leamy), 138. - - Irish Fireside Stories, Tales and Legends, 6. - - Irish Fireside Tales, 124. - - Irish Folk-lore, 204. - - Irish Girl, The; 6. - - Irish Guardian, The; 6. - - Irish Heirs, 149. - - Irish Heiress, The; 210. - - Irish Holidays, 243. - - Irish Idylls, 22. - - Irish Life and Character, 157. - - Irish Life in Irish Fiction, 87. - - Irish Life in Court and Castle, 42. - - Irish Life and Humour, 110. - - Irish Local Legends, 204. - - Irish Lover, An; 43. - - Irish Love Tales, 6. - - Irishman at Home, The; 7. - - Irishman, The; 7. - - Irishman’s Luck, An; 97. - - Irishmen and Irish Women, 36. - - Irishmen, The; 7. - - Irish Militia Officer, The; 201. - - Irish National Tales and Romances, 264. - - Irish Neighbours, 23. - - Irish Orphan Boy in a Scottish Home, The; 21. - - Irish Parish, its Sunshine and Shadows, An; 57. - - Irish Pastorals, 39. - - Irish Pearl, The; 7. - - Irish Police Officer, The; 67. - - Irish Pleasantry and Fun, 7. - - Irish Priest, The; 7. - - Irish Priests and English Landlords, 35. - - Irish Rebels, 154. - - Irish Scripture Reader, The; 54. - - Irish Stew, 183. - - Irish Town and Country Tales, 71. - - Irish Utopia, An; 80. - - Irish Ways, 23. - - Irish Widow, The; 8. - - Irish Widow’s son, The; 206. - - Irish Witchcraft and Demonology, 227. - - Irish Wonders, 153. - - Irrelagh, 54. - - Island of Sorrow, The; 97. - - Island Parish, The; 102. - - Isle in the Water, An; 246. - - Ismay’s Children, 109. - - - Jabez Murdock, 90. - - Jack Hazlitt, 195. - - Jack Hinton, 141. - - Jacquetta, 129. - - Jane Sinclair, 49. - - Jennie Gerhart, 78. - - Jerpoint, 171. - - Jessamy Bride, The; 181. - - Jeune Irlandais, Le; 174. - - Jim Eagan, 8. - - Job, The; 164. - - Johanna, 61. - - John Doe, 18. - - John Marmaduke, 52. - - John Maxwell’s Marriage, 103. - - John Needham’s Double, 109. - - John Thaddeus Mackay, 254. - - Johnny Derrivan’s Travels, 36. - - John Orlebar, Clk.; 93. - - John Sherman, and Dhoya, 258. - - John Townley, 243. - - Joint Venture, The; 90. - - Journeyings with Jerry the Jarvey, 219. - - Jubainville, D’Arbois de, 44, 68. - - Julia, 248. - - Just Stories, 208. - - - Kate Geary, 172. - - Kate Kavanagh, 8. - - Kathleen Clare, 156. - - Kathleen Mavourneen. (Mulholland), 187. - - Kathleen Mavourneen. (M’Donnell, Randal William), 158. - - Katrine, 133. - - Katty the Flash, 94. - - Keena Karmody, 130. - - Kellys and the O’Kellys, The; 244. - - Kerrigan’s Quality, 22. - - _Kerry_, 8, 61, 85, 94, 97, 101, 106, 129, 148, 156, 177, 211, 229, - 248, 250. - - Kilboylan Bank, 151. - - Kilcarra, 227. - - _Kildare_, 12, 53, 59, 136, 140, 151, 172, 197, 242. [Tynan (K.), - _passim_]. - - Kilgorman, 216. - - Kilgroom, 236. - - Kilkee, 130. - - _Kilkenny_, 18-21, 72, 83, 96, 140, 162. - - _Killarney_, 3, 8, 36, 54, 78, 84, 100, 124, 178, 212. - - Killarney Legends, 62. - - Killarney Poor Scholar, The; 237. - - Killeen, 186. - - Killinchy, 178. - - Kiltartan Wonder-Book, The; 99. - - King of Claddagh, The; 90. - - Kings and the Cats, The; 107. - - Kings and Vikings, 199. - - King and Viking, 232. - - King’s Coming, The; 256. - - _King’s Co._, 156. - - King’s Deputy, The; 113. - - King’s Kiss, The; 129. - - King’s Revoke, The; 256. - - King’s Signet, The; 212. - - King’s Woman, A; 247. - - Kinsmen’s Clay, 64. - - Kish of Brogues, A; 34. - - Kitty O’Donovan, 177. - - Knight of Gwynne, The; 143. - - Knight of the Cave, The; 199. - - Knights of the Pale, The; 205. - - Knights of the White Rose, The; 101. - - Knockinscreen Days, 53. - - Knocknagow, 130. - - - Lad of the Ferule, The; 118. - - Lad of the O’Friels, A; 167. - - Lady of Mystery, The; 70. - - Lady of the Reef, The; 181. - - Lake, The; 182. - - Lake of Killarney, The; 212. - - Lalage’s Lovers, 28. - - Lally of the Brigade, 165. - - Land I love best, The; 242 (Tynan). - - _Land League_, 10, 27, 31, 59, 110, 112, 135, 136, 139, 170, 182, - 183, 189, 210, 211, 215, 220, 222, 223, 227, 242. - - Land Leaguers, The; 245. - - Land of Bondage, The; 41. - - Land of Heroes, A; 199. - - Land of Mist and Mountain, A; 246. - - Land-Smeller, The; 76. - - Lanty Riordan’s Red Light, 59. - - Last Drop of ’68, The; 8. - - Last Earl of Desmond, The; 96. - - Last Forward, The; 161. - - Last Hurdle, The; 116. - - Last King of Ulster, The; 96. - - Last Monarch of Tara, The; 221. - - Last of the Catholic O’Malleys, The; 239. - - Last of the Corbes, 256. - - Last of the Irish Chiefs, 210. - - Last of the O’Mahonys, The; 8. - - Last Recruit of Clare’s, The; 126. - - Last Struggles of the Irish Sea Smugglers, The; 44. - - Laughter of Peterkin, The; 163. - - Lays and Legends of Ireland, 193. - - Leading Lights All, 51. - - Leadin’ Road to Donegal, The; 165. - - League of the Ring, The; 195. - - Le Briseur de Fers, 72. - - Left-handed Swordsman, A; 194. - - Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, 128. - - Legendary Stories of the Carlingford Lough District, 60. - - Légendes irlandaises, 78. - - Legend of M’Donnell and the Norman de Borgos, The; 169. - - Legends and Poems, 125. - - Legends and Stories of Ireland, 149. - - Legends and Fairy Tales of Ireland, 8. - - Legends and Tales of Ireland, 150. - - Legends of Connaught, 16. - - Legends of Mount Leinster, 127. - - Legends of Saints and Sinners, 119. - - Legends of the Lakes, 62. - - Legends of the Wars in Ireland, 124. - - Legends, Tales and Stories of Ireland, 108. - - _Leitrim_, 118, 244. - - Leigh of Lara, 157. - - Leixlip Castle, 198. - - Let Erin Remember, 257. - - Liadain and Cuirithir, 180. - - Life and Acts of the Renowned and Chivalrous Edmund of Erin, The; - 210. - - Life in the Irish Militia, 8. - - Life’s Hazard, A; 85. - - Light and Shade, 194. - - Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, 104. - - Lily Lass, 155. - - _Limerick_, 1, 2, 13, 19, 31, 51, 57, 87, 100, 101, 112, 126, 134, - 139, 158, 165, 193, 198, 210, 215, 251. - - Limerick Veteran, 237. - - Linda’s Misfortunes and Little Brian’s Trip to Dublin, 187. - - Lion’s Whelp, The; 119. - - Lisheen, 229. - - Lismore, 59. - - Lismoyle, 61. - - Little Black Devil, The; 82. - - Little Bogtrotters, The; 187. - - Little Green Man, The; 76. - - Little Irish Girl, A; 43 (Callwell). - - Little Irish Girl, 118 (Hungerford). - - Little Merry Face and his Crown of Content, 186. - - Little ones of Innisfail, The; 54. - - Little Snowdrop and other Stories, 187. - - Lloyd Pennant, 193. - - Lloyds of Ballymore, The; 220. - - _London, Irish in_; 5, 19, 29, 30, 39, 42, 75, 81, 82, 89, 98, 107, - 129, 134, 148, 154, 156, 172, 175, 176, 187, 191, 218, 229, - 242, 245. - - _Longford_, 54. - - Lord Clandonnell, 52. - - Lord Clangore, _see_ The Anglo-Irish, 5. - - Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 32. - - Lord Kilgobbin, 146. - - Lord Roche’s Daughters of Fermoy, 198. - - Lost Angel of a Ruined Paradise, 229. - - Lost Land, The; 64. - - Lost on Dhu Corrig, 203. - - Loughbar, 133. - - _Louth_, 34, 65. - - Love is Life, 129. - - Love of Comrades, 173. - - Love of Sisters, 248. - - Love that Kills, The; 255. - - Love, the Atonement, 43. - - Love, the Player, 226. - - Lucius Carey, 53. - - Luck is everything, 176. - - Luck of the Kavanaghs, 106. - - Luke Delmege, 229. - - Luke Talbot, 192. - - Luttrell of Arran, 146. - - Luttrell’s Doom, 107. - - - Mack the-Miser, 134. - - MacCarthy Mor, 225. - - McCluskey Twins, The; 148. - - MacDermotts of Ballycloran, The; 244. - - M’Donnells, The; 238. - - Macmahon, The; 31. - - Macmahon’s Country; _see_ Last of the Corbes. - - Mac’s Adventures, 24. - - Mad Lord of Drumkeel, The; 230. - - Mad Minstrel, The; 8. - - Maelcho, 136. - - Maid of the Manse, A; 85. - - Maid of Killarney, The; 36. - - Major’s Niece, The; 28. - - Making of Jim O’Neill, The; 89. - - Manor of Glenmore, The; 126. - - Man’s Foes, A; 238. - - Manuscript Man, The; 252. - - Marcella Grace, 189. - - Marriage Bonds, 106. - - Marrying of Bryan, and other Stories, The; 70. - - Mary, 130. - - Mary Dominic, 216. - - Mary Lee, 34. - - Mary, Mary; _see_ The Charwoman’s Daughter (Stephens). - - Mary of Avonmore, 207. - - Martial Career of Conghal Cláiringhneach, 169. - - Martins of Cro’ Martin, 143. - - Master John, 40. - - Master of Rathkelly, The; 231. - - Maureen, 168. - - Maureen Dhu, 226. - - Maureen Moore, 16. - - Maureen’s Fairing, 22. - - Maurice and Berghetta, 209. - - Maurice Rhynhart, 147. - - Maurice Tiernay, 144. - - Maurice Tyrone, _see_ A Fair Saxon, 155. - - Mavourneen, 122. - - Maxwell Drewitt, 218. - - _Maynooth_, 12, 102, 206, 241. - - _Mayo_, 9, 15, 25, 135, 165, 251. - - Mayor of Windgap, The; 20. - - _Meath_, 31. - - Meave, 57. - - Meg McIntyre’s Raffle, 226. - - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq., The; 240. - - Memoirs of Gerald O’Connor, 186. - - Memories of a Month among the “Mere Irish,” 90. - - Men and Maids, 249. - - Men, Not Angels, 250. - - Merchant of Killogue, The; 76. - - Mermaid of Inish-uig, The; 82. - - Mermaid of Loch Lene (sub-t. of _The Water Queen_, _q.v._), 54. - - Mervyn Gray, 180. - - _Methodists_, 130, 161, 174. - - Michael Cassidy, 108. - - Michael Dwyer, The Insurgent Captain, 45. - - Michael O’Donnell, 171. - - Mickey Finn Idylls, 121. - - Mick McQuaid, 150. - - Mick Tracy, 9. - - Micky Mooney, M.P., 226. - - _Midlands_, 179, 214, 218, 220. - - Mighty Army, The; 140. - - _Migratory Labourers_, 159 (The Rat Pit), 26 (Poverty, &c.). - - Milesian Chief, The; 174. - - Military Mosaics, 209. - - Miller of Glanmire, The; 191. - - Minnie’s Bishop, 29. - - Miriam Lucas, 230. - - Miscellanies, 170. - - Misadventures of Mr. Catlyne, Q.C., 170. - - Miss Erin, 92. - - Miss Honoria, 133. - - Miss O’Corra, M.F.H., 15. - - Miss Peggy O’Dillon, 252. - - Misther O’Ryan, 168. - - Mistletoe and the Shamrock, The; 9. - - Mixed Pack, A; 57. - - Modern Daedalus, A; 98. - - Molly Bawn, 117. - - Molly Carew, 30. - - _Monaghan_, 31, 89. - - Mona the Vestal, 73. - - Moneylender, The; 80. - - Mononia, 155. - - Moonlight by the Shannon Shore, 210. - - Moores of Glynn, The; 102. - - More about Pixie, 251. - - Mothers and Sons, 36. - - Mountcashel’s Brigade, 105. - - Moy O’Brien, 240. - - _Mr. Dooley_, 79. - - Mr. Dooley says, 79. - - Mr. Muldoon, 201. - - Mrs. Desmond’s Foster Child, 206. - - Mrs. Martin’s Company, 22. - - Mrs. Martin’s Man, 84. - - Mrs. Mulligan’s Millions, 168. - - Munster Cottage Boy, The; 219. - - My Connaught Cousins, 12. - - My Foster Brother, 40. - - My Lady Clancarty, 239. - - My Lady of the Chimney Corner, 119. - - My Lords of Strogue, 255. - - My New Curate, 228. - - My Own Story, 9. - - Mystery of Killard, The; 74. - - My Sword for Patrick Sarsfield, 158. - - Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland, 66. - - Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race, 221. - - - Nanno, 189. - - National Feeling, 9. - - Neath Sunny Skies in Waterford, 228. - - Ned McCool and his Foster Brother, 201. - - Ned Rusheen, 67. - - Neighbours, 64. - - Nellie Carew, 212. - - Nelly Netterville, 43. - - Nelly Nowlan, and other Stories, 105. - - Nessa, 165. - - Nevilles of Garretstown, The; 171. - - New Lights, 224. - - Nice Distinctions, 9. - - Night Nurse, The; 14. - - Nightshade, 123. - - Nine Days’ Wonder, A; 61. - - Ninety-Eight, 85. - - Ninety-Eight and Sixty Years after, 121. - - Nora Creina, 118. - - Nora Brady’s Vow, 73. - - Nora Moriarty, 215. - - Norah of Waterford, 191. - - Nora’s Mission, 88. - - Noreen Dhas, 200. - - North Afire, The; 194. - - Northern Irish Tales, 95. - - Northern Iron, The; 27. - - Northerns of ’98, The; 65. - - North, South and over the Sea, 92. - - North Star, The; 111. - - Not Peace but a Sword, 257. - - Nowlans, The; 19. - - Nuala, 165. - - Nugents of Carriconna, The; 116. - - Nurse M’Vourneen, 36. - - - O’Briens and O’Flahertys, The; 184. - - Ochil Fairy Tales, The; 86. - - O’Connors of Ballynahinch, The; 118. - - O’Donel, 184. - - O’Donnells of Glen Cottage, The; 58. - - O’Donnells of Inchfawn, The; 177. - - O’Donoghue, The; 142. - - Off the Skelligs, 119. - - O’Flynn, The; 155. - - O’Grady of Trinity, 114. - - O’Hara, 175. - - Olaf the Dane, 71. - - Old Andy, 57. - - Old Celtic Romances, 123. - - Old Celtic Tales, 255. - - Old Celtic Tales Retold, 255. - - Old Corcoran’s Money, 75. - - Old Country, The; 9. - - Old House at Glenaran, The; 73. - - Old House by the Boyne, The; 225. - - Old Irish Hearts and Homes, 54. - - Old Irish Knight, The; 72. - - Old Knowledge, The; 103. - - Old Times in Ireland, 251. - - Old-Time Stories of Erin, 69. - - Old Trinity, 123. - - Olive Lacy, 17. - - O’Mahony, The; 58. - - On an Ulster Farm, 107. - - One of Them, 145. - - One Outside, The; 89. - - Only a Lass, 78. - - Only an Irish Boy, 16. - - Onora, 189. - - Orange and Green, 112. - - Orange Lily, 63. - - _Orangemen_, 4, 29, 47, 59, 63, 65, 77, 111, 123, 127, 152, 154, 166, - 185, 209. - - Original Woman, The; 181. - - Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orann, Ullin, An; 154. - - Origin of Plum Pudding, The; 116. - - Ormond, 81. - - Ormond Idylls, 162. - - O’Ruddy, The; 59. - - O’Shaughnessy Girls, The; 191. - - O’Sullivan, dernière insurrection, etc., 71. - - Our Lady Intercedes, 126. - - Our Own Country, 129. - - Our Sister Maisie, 190. - - Outcast, The; _see_ Wild Scenes among the Celts. - - Overflowing Scourge, The; 91. - - Owen Donovan, 206. - - - Paddiana, 31. - - Paddy, 213. - - Paddy go Easy and his Wife Nancy, 47. - - Paddy Risky, 179. - - Pale and the Septs, The; 197. - - Parish Providence, A; 151. - - Parra Sastha, _see_ Paddy-go-Easy, 47. - - Passion and Pedantry, 10. - - Passionate Crime, 241. - - Passionate Hearts, The; 45. - - Passion of Kathleen Duveen, The; 177. - - Pastoral Annals, 133. - - Pat, 18. - - Pat o’ Nine Tales, 32. - - Patricia of the Hills, 41. - - Patriot Brothers, The; 105. - - Patsy, 234. - - Patsy the Omadhaun, 33. - - Pearl of Lisnadoon, The; 84. - - Peasant Lore from Gaelic Ireland, 71. - - Peas-Blossom, 10. - - Peep-o’-Day Boy, The; 37. - - Peggy, 68. - - Peggy, D.O., 252. - - Peggy from Kerry, 177. - - Peggy the Daughter, 249. - - Peggy the Millionaire, 58. - - Peg o’ my Heart, 171. - - _Penal Laws_, 31, 65, 125, 127, 129, 171, 184, 237. - - Penitent, The; _see_ Wild Scenes among the Celts. - - Percy’s Revenge, 186. - - Peter of the Castle, 19. - - Peter’s Pedigree, 56. - - Peter the Whaler, 132. - - Philip O’Hara’s Adventures, 10. - - Phineas Finn, 245. - - Pig-Driving Peelers, The; 131. - - Pikemen, The; 126. - - Pilgrim from Ireland, 171. - - Pinches of Salt, 76. - - Pirate of Bofine, The; 79. - - Pirate’s Fort, The; 167. - - Pixie O’Shaughnessy, 251. - - Plain Man’s Tale, A; 256. - - Plan of Campaign, The; 219. - - Plough and the Cross, The; 208. - - Plucking of the Lily, The; 95. - - Poems and Stories of FitzJames O’Brien, 195. - - Poems of Oisin, Bard of Erin, 231. - - Point of Honour, The; 113. - - Poor Paddy’s Cabin, 10. - - Poor Scholar and other Tales, The; 46. - - Popular Tales of the West Highlands, 44. - - Popular Tales and Legends of the Irish Peasantry, 10. - - Port of Dreams, The; 15. - - Poteen Punch, 32. - - Poverty and the Baronet’s Family, 26. - - _Presbyterian Peasantry_, 39, 60, 63, 84, 107, 160, 161, 209. - - _Priests, Irish._ Append. D. V. - - Priests and People, 10. - - Priest’s Blessing, The; 121. - - Priest’s Boy, The; 193. - - Priest’s Niece, The; 110. - - Prince Errant, A; 253. - - Prince of Killarney, The; 200. - - Prince of Lisnover, The; 217. - - Prince of Tyrone, A; 86. - - Princess Katharine, 250. - - Prisoner of his Word, A; 25. - - Profit and Loss, 214. - - Pro Patria, 162. - - Prophet of the Ruined Abbey, The; 214. - - _Proselytism_, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 26, 33, 35, 40, 47, 54, 70, 87, 177, - 254. - - Protestant Rector, The; 11. - - Proving of Priscilla, The; 25. - - P’tit Bonhomme (_see_ Foundling Mick), 251. - - Puck’s Hall, 215. - - Purcell Papers, The; 139. - - Puritan, The; 11. - - - Quarterclift, The; 108. - - Queen of Connaught, The; 121. - - Queen of Men, A; 196. - - _Queen’s County_, 58, 126, 186. - - Quicksands of Life, The; 80. - - - Race of Castlebar, The; 137. - - Ralph Wynward, 83. - - Rambling Rector, The; 14. - - Random Stories, 157. - - _Rathlin Island_, 256. - - Rathlynn, 17. - - Rat-Pit, The; 159. - - Ravensdale, 242. - - Real Charlotte, The; 232. - - Real Life in Ireland, 83. - - Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland, 59. - - Rebellion of Silken Thomas, The; 86. - - Rebels, The; 32. - - Récits du Foyer, 78. - - Recollections of Hyacinth O’Gara, 36. - - Red-Haired Man’s Wife, The; 50. - - Red-haired Woman, The; 130. - - Red Hand of Ulster, The (Birmingham), 29. - - Red Hand of Ulster, The (Sadlier), 224. - - Red Hugh’s Captivity, 202. - - Red Leaguers, The; 39. - - Redmond O’Hanlon, 49. - - Red Poacher, The; 167. - - Red Rapparee, 148. - - Red Route, The; 231. - - Red Spy, The; 139. - - Repealers, The; 32. - - Resident Magistrate, The; 238. - - Return of Claneboy, The; 86. - - Return of Mary O’Murrough, The; 190. - - Return of the O’Mahoney, The; 92. - - Revolt of the Young MacCormacks, The; 88. - - Rex Singleton, 152. - - Ribbon Informer, The; 169. - - Ridgeway, 11. - - Ring of Day, The; 42. - - Ring O’ Rushes, 38. - - Ripple, The; 15. - - Rivals, The; 101. - - Robber Chieftain, The; 11. - - Robert Emmet, 103. - - Robin’s Readings, 152. - - Rockite, The; 83. - - Rody Blake, 126. - - Rody the Rover, 48. - - Roland Cashel, 143. - - Roman Catholic Priest, The; 11. - - Rory of the Hills, 67. - - Rory O’More, 149. - - Rosaleen O’Hara, 115. - - _Roscommon_, 195, 216. - - Rose de Blaquière; _see_ The Lake of Killarney (Porter). - - Rose O’Connor, 132. - - Rose of the Garden, 250. - - Rose Parnell, 58. - - Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle, 130. - - Rosette, 197. - - Round about Home, 51. - - Round Tower, The; 227. - - Round Tower of Babel, The; 76. - - Ruined Race, A; 231. - - Running Double, 116. - - Ruth Werdress, 88. - - - Sagen aus dem alten Irland, 240. - - Saint Patrick, 11. - - Saints and Sinners, 68. - - Sally, 57. - - Sally Cavanagh, 131. - - Sandy Row Convert, The; 111. - - Sarsfield (Gamble), 94. - - Sarsfield (Conyngham), 57. - - Satanella, 254. - - Savourneen Dheelish, 215. - - Scenes and Sketches in an Irish Parish, 102. - - Schoolboys Three, 127. - - School-Boy Outlaws, The; 84. - - _Scotland, Irish in_; 21, 64, 94, 159. - - Scottish Fairy Book, The; 100. - - Scullydom, 83. - - Sea Queen’s Sailing, A; 253. - - Search Party, The; 28. - - Sea Stories; _see_ Downey, 75-77. - - Secret of Carrickfearnagh Castle, The; 245. - - Secret Rose, The; 258. - - Seething Pot, The; 27. - - Separatist, The; 12. - - Sgéalaidhe Gaedhealach, An; 118 (Hyde). - - Shadow of the Cross, The; 63. - - Shameful Inheritance, A; 250. - - Shamrock Leaves (Butler), 41. - - Shamrock Leaves (Hoare), 114. - - Shandon Bells, 29. - - Shandy Maguire, 34. - - Shan Van Vocht, The; 192. - - Shawn na Saggarth, 17. - - Sheila Donovan, 210. - - Shemus Dhu, 125. - - Shepherd Prior, The; 70. - - She Walks in Beauty, 246. - - Shillelagh and Shamrock, 33. - - Shuilers from Heathy Hills, 165. - - Siege of Bodike, The; 140. - - Siege of Maynooth, The; 12. - - Silk and Steel, 114. - - Silk of the Kine, The; 164. - - Silva Gadelica, 204. - - Silver Fox, The; 233. - - Simpkins Plot, The; 28. - - Sin of Jasper Standish, The; 218. - - Sin-Eater, The; 163. - - Sir Brooke Fosbrooke, 146. - - Sir Guy d’Esterre, 41. - - Sir Jasper Carew, 144. - - Sir Ludar, 215. - - Sir Phelim’s Treasure, 113. - - Sir Roger Delaney of Meath, 12. - - Sisters and Green Magic, The; 197. - - Sketches of Irish Character, 104. - - Slieve Bloom, 130. - - _Sligo_, 72, 232, 258. - - Smith of the Shamrock Guards, 12. - - Smugglers of Strangford Lough, The; 153. - - Snake’s Pass, The; 237. - - Soggarth Aroon, The; 102. - - Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., 233. - - Some Happenings of Glendalyne, 56. - - Some Irish Stories, 70. - - Some Irish Yesterdays, 233. - - Songs and Tales of St. Columba and his Age, 164. - - Son of a Peasant, 168. - - Son of Erin, A; 238. - - Sons o’ Cormac, The; 78. - - Sons of Eire, 159. - - Sons of the Milesians, 62. - - Sons of the Sea Kings, 180. - - Sons of the Sod, 153. - - Sorrow of Lycadoon, The; 55. - - Soundless Tide, The; 60. - - _Soupers_, 4, 5, 33, 57, 133, 167, 206, 224. - - Sower of the Wind, A; 110. - - Spaewife, The; 34. - - Spanish Gold, 28. - - Spanish John, 163. - - Spanish Wine, The; 173. - - Spinners in Silence, 168. - - Spiritual Tales, 163. - - Splendid Knight, The; 114. - - Spoiled Priest, The; 229. - - _Sporting Novels_, 56, 57, 61, 69, 88, 114, 116, 141, 146, 161, 231, - 233, 235, 254. - - Sport on Irish Bogs, 122. - - Sprigs of Shamrock, 222. - - Sprigs of Shillelagh, 148. - - Squanders of Castle Squander, The; 49. - - Squireen, The; 39. - - Starlight through the Roof, 223. - - Stars Beyond, The; 135. - - Steadfast unto Death, 26. - - Stella and Vanessa, 78. - - Stories for Calumniators, 245. - - Stories from Carleton, 50. - - Stories of Irish Life, Past and Present, 12. - - Stories of Red Hanrahan, 258. - - Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 104. - - Stories of the Irish Rebellion, 183. - - Story of a Campaign Estate, 242. - - Story of Bawn, The; 248. - - Story of Cecilia, The; 250. - - Story of Conn-Eda, The; 205. - - Story of Dan, The; 91. - - Story of Ellen, The; 189. - - Story of Mary Dunne, The; 92. - - Story of Nellie Dillon, The; 12. - - Story of Parson Annaly, 36. - - St. Clair, 184. - - St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 200. - - St. Patrick’s Eve, 142. - - Strangers at Lisconnell, 22. - - Strayings of Sandy, The; 56. - - Strike, The; 222. - - Strong as Death, 53. - - Struggle for Fame, A; 218. - - Studies in Blue, 200. - - Success of Patrick Desmond, The; 82. - - Surprising Adventures of my Friend Patrick Dempsey, The; 256. - - Survivals in Belief among the Celts, 111. - - Sweet Doreen, 187. - - Sweet Innisfail, 74. - - Swordsman of the Brigade, A; 204. - - - Táin Bo Cualgne (de Jubainville), 125. - - Do., (Windisch). Append. D. II. - - Tales about Great Britain. _See_ Tales about Ireland and the Irish, - 97. - - Tales and Legends of Ireland, 12. - - Tales and Sketches of the Irish Peasantry, 49. - - Tales and Superstitions of the Connaught Peasants, 71. - - Tales from Maria Edgeworth, 81. - - Tales of a Jury Room, 101. - - Tales of Fairy Folk, Queens and Heroes, 94. - - Tales of my Country, 41. - - Tales of Ireland, 47. - - Tales of Ireland and the Irish (MacWalter), 169. - - Tales about Ireland and the Irish, 97 (Goodrich). - - Tales of Irish Life (Whitty), 254. - - Tales of Irish Life and Character, 105. - - Tales and Sketches of Irish Life and Character, 49. - - Tales of the Royal Irish Constabulary, 36. - - Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World, 66. - - Tales of my Neighbourhood, 101. - - Tales of the Munster Festivals, 101. - - Taste of Quality, A; 222. - - _Temperance_ (_see_ Drink), 8, 11, 21, 48, 121. - - Terence, 61. - - Terence McGowan, the Irish Tenant, 243. - - Terence O’Dowd, 208. - - Terence O’Neill’s Heiress, 187. - - Terence O’Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer, 251. - - Terre d’Emeraude, 33. - - Terry, 189. - - Terry Alt, The; 178. - - That Most Distressful Country, 34. - - That Sweet Enemy, 247. - - Third Experiment, The; 134. - - Thirteen, 241. - - Thomas Fitzgerald, the Lord of Offaley, 12. - - Thorn Bit, The; 55. - - _Tipperary_, 57, 58, 61, 109, 131, 222, 223, 224. - - Tivoli, 135. - - Three Fair Maids, 247. - - Three Fenian Brothers, The; 106. - - Three Girls and a Hermit, 56. - - Three Requests, The; 126. - - Three Wee Ulster Lassies, 98. - - Three Whispers, The; 58. - - Through Green Glasses, 75. - - Through the Turf Smoke, 166. - - Through Troubled Waters, 151. - - Thy Name is Truth, 94. - - Tim Doolin, 13. - - Tim O’Halloran’s Choice, 67. - - Tinker’s Hollow, 60. - - Tithe-Proctor, The; 48. - - To-day in Ireland, 65. - - Tom Burke of “Ours,” 142. - - Tom Delaney, 242. - - Tom O’Kelly, 183. - - Tony Butler, 146. - - Torn Apart, 195. - - Town of the Cascades, The; 21. - - Tracked, 213. - - Trackless Way, The; 85. - - Tradition of the Castle, The; 220. - - Through Troubled Waters, 151. - - Traffic, 241. - - Tragedy of Chris, The; 189. - - Tragic Romances, 163. - - Traits and Confidences, 136. - - Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 50. - - Treasure Trove, 149. - - “Trim” and Antrim’s Shores, 87. - - _Trinity College_, 33, 112, 114, 123, 141, 146, 147, 154, 185, 230. - - Triumph of Failure, The; 208. - - Troublesome Trio, A; 35. - - True Heart’s Trials, 222. - - True Heir of Ballymore, The; 111. - - True Irish Ghost Stories, 227. - - True Man and Traitor, 33. - - True Stories of the Past, 117. - - True to the Core, 106. - - True to the Watchword, 212. - - Tully Castle, 170. - - Turf-Fire Stories and Fairy Tales of Ireland, 200. - - ’Twas in Dhroll Donegal, 166. - - Twentieth Century Hero, A; 195. - - Twin Sisters, 191. - - Two Chiefs of Dunboy, The; 93. - - Two Impostors and Tinker, 56. - - Two Irish Arthurian Romances, 153. - - Two Little Girls in Green, 183. - - Two Masters, 61. - - _Tyrone_, 46, 54, 86, 139, 155, 218. - - - Ulick O’Donnell, 115. - - Ulrick the Ready, 203. - - Ulster Folklore, 16, 94. - - Ulsterman, The; 181. - - Una’s Enterprise, 206. - - Unchronicled Heroes, 82. - - Uncle Pat’s Cabin, 251. - - Uncle Silas, 139. - - Unconventional Molly, 14. - - Under one Sceptre, 115. - - Under Slieve Ban, 91. - - Under Which King? 123. - - Union of Hearts, A; 247. - - United Irishman, The; 13. - - _United States, Irish in_; 10, 13, 119, 121, 133, 143, 144, 147, 207, - 214, 221, 223, 224, 225, 253. - - Unknown Quantity, An; 115. - - Unpardonable Sin, The; 74. - - Untilled Field, The; 182. - - Up for the Green, 113. - - - Valentine M’Clutchy, 47. - - Vertue Rewarded, 13. - - Veuve Irlandaise, La; 13. - - Viceroy, The; 193. - - Victorious Career of Cellachain of Cashel, The; 38. - - Vision of MacConglinne, The; 180. - - Voyage of Bran, Son of Ferbal, to the Land of the Living, The; 180. - - Voyage of the Ark, The; 76. - - Vultures of Erin, 79. - - - Wager, The; _see_ In Sarsfield’s Days (MacManus). - - Waggish Tales, 106. - - Waiting, 201. - - Walking Trees, The; 188. - - Wardlaws, The; 85. - - Warp and Weft, 115. - - Washer of the Ford, 163. - - _Waterford_, 32, 58, 75, 76, 83, 177, 189, 207, 214, 228, 241, 242. - - Water Queen, The; 54. - - Waves on the Ocean of Life, 252. - - Way of a Maid, The; 246. - - Way they loved at Grimpat, The; 84. - - Way Women Love, The; 30. - - Weans at Rowallan, The; 89. - - Wearing of the Green, The; 132. - - Weird of “The Silken Thomas,” The; 59. - - Weird Tales, 13. - - Weird Woman of the Wraagh, 53. - - West Irish Folk-tales and Romances, 135. - - _West Meath_, 2, 22, 192, 222. - - _Wexford_, 4, 16, 34, 37, 91, 104, 115, 128, 147, 154, 241, 252. - - When Cromwell came to Drogheda, 158. - - When Lint was in the Bell, 161. - - When Love is Kind, 113. - - When we were Boys, 196. - - Where the Atlantic meets the Land, 147. - - Where the Shamrock Grows, 122. - - Whiteboy, The; 104. - - White Heather, 200. - - Whitethorn Tree, The; 124. - - Wicked Woods, The; 191. - - _Wicklow_, 3, 9, 17, 26, 44, 45, 53, 73, 80, 105, 144, 156, 157, 162, - 173, 209, 242. - - Wife Hunter, The; 185. - - Wild Birds of Killeevy, The; 188. - - Wild Geese, The; 253. - - Wild Irish Boy, The; 174. - - Wild Irish Girl, The; (“Meade”), 177. - - Wild Irish Girl, The; (Morgan), 184. - - Wild Rose of Lough Gill, The; 232. - - Wild Scenes among the Celts, 112. - - Wiles of Sexton Maginnis, The; 82. - - William and James, 13. - - Willy Burke, 224. - - Willy Reilly and his Dear Colleen Bawn, 49. - - Wine in the Cup, The; 256. - - Wine of Love, The; 114. - - Winter and Summer Stories, and Slides of Fancy’s Lantern, 120. - - With Essex in Ireland, 136. - - With Poison and Sword, 205. - - Wizard’s Gillie, The; 162. - - Wizard’s Knot, The; 25. - - Woman Scorned, A; 30. - - Women, 174. - - Wood of the Brambles, The; 173. - - Wooing of Sheila, The; 217. - - - Young O’Briens, The; 253. - - Yourself and the Neighbours, 167. - - Yesterday in Ireland, 65. - - - Zoe: A Portrait, 51. - - Zozimus Papers, 75. - - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IRELAND IN FICTION *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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