Irish writing : an anthology of Irish literature in English 1789-1939
This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late 18th century to the early years of political independence
English literature Irish authors
lxiv, 549 pages ; 20 cm.
9780192840387, 019284038X
53393730
Part One: Writings 1789-1890
1. Political Writings and Speeches
from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790); from Letter to Richard Burke (1792) / Edmund Burke
from The life of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1797) / Wolfe Tone
Speech from the dock (1803) / Robert Emmet
Speech at Tara (1843) / Daniel O'Connell
Letter to the Irish Felon (1848) / James Fintan Lalor
2. Reflections on Irish culture
Preface to Reliques of Irish poetry (1789) / Charlotte Brooke
from A Frenchman's walk through Ireland (1797) / Le Chevalier de la Tocnaye
An Irish wake (1826) / John Gamble
from The lough derg pilgrim (1828) / William Carleton
from Ballad poetry of Ireland and The history of Ireland (1845) / Thomas Davis
3. Fiction
from Castle Rackrent (1800) / Maria Edgeworth
from The wild Irish girl (1806) / Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)
from Melmoth the wanderer (1820) / Charles Robert Maturin
from The house by the church-yard(1863) / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
from Hurrish (1886) / Emily Lawless. 4. Poetry
I am Raftery (c.1830) / Antoine Raftery
Elegy on the death of Carolan (1789) / Charlotte Brooke
Oh! breathe not his name (1807)
She is far from the land (1811)
Dear harp of my country (1815)
The harp that once through Tara's halls (1807)
Oft, in the stilly night (1818)
The minstrel boy (1813) / Thomas Moore
Written at the eagle's nest, Killarney (1800)
Written at Killarney (1800)
On leaving Killarney (1800)
Address to my harp (1811) / Mary Tighe
Roisin Dubh (1831)
Eileen a Roon (1831)
The spirit of the Irish song (1827) / Thomas Furlong
To my native land (1832)
The woman of three cows (1840)
Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora (1841)
Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan (1841)
Dark Rosaleen (1846)
Roisin Dubh (1849)
The nameless one (1849) / James Clarence Mangan
The bells of Shandon (1836) / Francis Sylvester Mahony
Lament for the death of Thomas Davis (1847)
Cashel of Munster (1867)
The coolun (1867)
Dear dark head (1867) / Samuel Ferguson
A nation once again (1845)
The West's asleep (1845) / Thomas Davis
The little black rose (1861)
Florence McCarthy's farewell to his English love (1855) / Aubrey de Vere
The memory of the dead (1843) / John Kells Ingram
The fairies (1849)
The maids of Elfin-Mere (1850)
A dream (1850)
The winding banks of Erne (1865)
from Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland (1864) / William Allingham
5. Popular Songs and Ballads
Boulavogue (1898)
The Shan Van Vocht (1842)
The Wearin' o' the Green (c.1798)
The Croppy Boy (c.1798)
The Rising of the Moon (1866)
Granuaile (c.1798). Part 2: Writings 1890-1939
1. Nationalist Writings and the Easter Rising
The famine queen (1900) / Maud Gonne
The coming revolution (1913) / Patrick Pearse
The Irish flag (1916) / James Connolly
from The insurrection in Dublin (1916) / James Stephens
Stephen's Green (1926) / Constance Markiewicz
Spreech from the dock (1916) / Roger Casement
from Literature in Ireland (1916) / Thomas Macdonagh
2. Memoirs and Autobiographies
from Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism (1896) / John O'Leary
from De profundis (1905) / Oscar Wilde
from The Aran Islands (1907) / M. Synge
from Hail and farewell (1911) / George Moore
from On another man's wound (1936) / Earnán O'Malley. 3. Short Fiction
A painful case (1905) / James Joyce
Lilliput (1926) / Seán O'Faoláin
The mountain tavern (1929) / Liam O'Flaherty
The majesty of the law (1935) / Frank O'Connor
4. Fiction
from The real Charlotte (1894) / Somerville and Ross
from Dracula (1897) / Bram Stoker
from Ulysses (1922) / James Joyce
from The last September (1929) / Elizabeth Bowen
from Murphy (1938) / Samuel Beckett
from At swim-two-birds (1939) / Flann O'Brien. 5. Poetry
Grief of a girl's heart (1901) / Augusta Gregory
Requiescat (1881)
Impression du matin (1881)
Helas! (1881)
The harlot's house (1885)
Sonnet. On the sale by auction of Keats' love letters (1885)
Symphony in yellow (1889) / Oscar Wilde
My grief on the sea (1893) / Douglas Hyde
The lake isle of Innisfree (1888)
To Ireland in the coming times (1892)
The song of wandering Aengus (1897)
To a shade (1913)
September 1913 (1913)
Easter 1916 (1916)
The wild swans at Coole (1916)
Meditations in time of civil war (1921-3)
The tower (1925)
Sailing to Byzantium (1926)
The circus animals' desertion (1937-8) / W.B. Yeats
The love-talker (1902)
The brown wind of Connaught (1902)
Rody McCorley (1902)
The passing of the gael (1902)
Beannacht Leat (1902) / Ethna Carbery
By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (1889)
Mystic and cavalier (1889)
The dark angel (1893)
Ninety-eight (1893)
Parnell (1893) / Lionel Johnson
Carrowmore (1913) / George Russell (AE)
The little waves of Breffny (1904)
The land to a landlord (1904)
Women's rights (1906) / Eva Gore-Booth
Prelude (1909)
Beg-Innish (1909)
To the oaks of Glencree (1909)
A question (1909)
In Glencullen (1909) / J.M. Synge
To the liffey and the swans (1923) / Oliver St John Gogarty
John-John (1910)
Of a poet patriot (1913)
The yellow bittern (1913)
The night hunt (1913) / Thomas Macdonagh
My lagan love (1904) / Joseph Campbell
The lamplighter (1929)
Geese (1939) / Seumas O'Sullivan
A rann I made (1917)
I am Ireland (1917)
On the strand of Howth (1917)
The mother (1915)
Christmas 1915 (1915)
The wayfarer (1916) / Patrick Pearse
She moved through the fair (1916) / Padraic Colum
A twilight in middle March (1914)
June (1914)
August (1914)
Thomas MacDonagh (1916)
The wedding morning (1916)
The blackbirds (1916)
The herons (1916) / Francis Ledwidge
Father and son (1923)
To my blackthorn stick (1923) / F.R. Higgins
To a blackbird (1930)
Shancoduff (1934)
Inniskeen Road: July evening (1935) / Patrick Kavanagh
To a modern Irish poet (1927)
Easter Tuesday (1931)
Mourne Mountains (1937) / John Hewitt
Belfast (1931)
Snow (1935)
Carrickfergus (1937)
Autumn Journal XVI (1939) / Louise macNeice
6. Drama
from The importance of being Earnest (1895) / Oscar Wilde
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) / W.B. Yeats and Augusta Gregory
The rising of the moon (1907) / Augusta Gregory
Riders to the sea (1904) / J.M. Synge
from Juno and the paycock (1924) / Seán O'Casey
Includes biographies of the authors