Chapter X: Book I: has its scene on Innishrath, an island in Lough Erne (6)

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.

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