Chapter V: Book I: has its scene on Innishrath, an island in Lough Erne (1)

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.