Chapter VII: Book I: has its scene on Innishrath, an island in Lough Erne (3)

Dedication (to Colonel Arthur Lynch), and Preface (telling
about the erection of the Humbert Memorial at Ballina).
Humbert’s invasion told in impassioned and somewhat high-flown
language. Describes some of the episodes with extraordinary
vividness. Based mainly on reliable works, but not strictly
historical. The Author is a distinguished writer, and very
prolific, having produced a long series of novels, volumes of
verse, &c. Born 1863 in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne.

=DEVINE, D. C.= Is a native of Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo, where at present he is a National School Teacher. Is a man of about 45.

⸺ FAITHFUL EVER, and Other Tales. Pp. 280. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 1910.

Eleven stories of Sligo peasant life. The Author has thorough
sympathy with the aspects of life about which he writes. Three
of the tales are love stories, one is a story of ’67, others
are humorous, _e.g._, “Meehaul M’Cann’s Wooing.” We have a
glimpse of the dance, the pattern, rustic courtship, lake and
mountain scenery. The Author avoids politics, but the Catholic
atmosphere is pronounced, throughout. The literary standard is,
perhaps, not of a high order.

⸺ BEFORE THE DAWN IN ERIN. Pp. 308. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1913]. Second edition. 1914.

A story of landlord, agent, and tenant in the County Sligo,
about the eighteen thirties or forties, bringing out what a
hostile agent can do to make the lot of the peasants a very
hard one, and showing how in the end his machinations are
brought to nought thanks to Father Pat. This latter and Father
Tom are fine types of Irish priests. The Author has a good eye
for characters and a keen sense of humour.

=DILLON, Patricia.= Born in Dublin. Educated chiefly in France. Has lived most of her life in London. Has written for periodicals on historical subjects for the most part.

⸺ EARL OR CHIEFTAIN. Pp. 140. (_C.T.S. of Ireland_). 1_s._ 1910.

The opening career of Hugh O’Neill looked at on its romantic
side, including his marriage with Mabel Bagenal. Other historic
characters appear in the tale, notably Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne.

=DODGE, W. P.=

⸺ THE CRESCENT MOON. Pp. 125. (_Long_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1911.

A little love story, told skilfully enough in letters from
Sir Desmond Fitzgerald to his brother in S. Africa.—[T. LIT.
SUPPL.].

=DOLLARD, Rev. J. B.=

⸺ THE GAELS OF MOONDHARRIG. Pp. 124. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._

A collection of pleasant, breezy tales of the exploits,
especially in hurling, of the young men of Moondharrig (South
Kilkenny), showing an intimate knowledge and love of the people
of the author’s native place. An unobtrusive spirit of piety
runs through it.

=DORSEY, Anna Hanson.=[3] Born Georgetown, D.C., 1815. Received into the Catholic Church, 1840. She is a pioneer of Catholic light literature in the States. Nearly all her stories—there are more than thirty of them—have a religious purpose, but as a rule this is not too much forced on the reader. She was a Laetare medallist, described as the highest honour the Church in America can bestow. Some titles of her books are—_Tears on the Diadem_, _Dummy_, _Tangled Paths_, _Warp and Woof_, and her last _Palms_, which was by many considered her best.

[3] Her daughter, Ella Loraine Dorsey, has written even more than Mrs. A. H. Dorsey, and is one of the most prominent figures in American Catholic literature.

⸺ THE HEIRESS OF CARRIGMONA. Pp. 381. (BOSTON: _Murphy_). Third thousand. (_Washbourne_). 4_s._ 1910.

Scene: Co. Wicklow and Western U.S.A. Chiefly concerned
with the fortunes of an Irish peasant family named Travers,
especially the son, who goes to America, gets into trouble,
is rescued, and then⸺. A strong warning against emigration
is conveyed in this latter part of the story. Mrs. Dorsey’s
peasants here, as usual, are lifelike and interesting. Their
best qualities—trust in Providence, resignation under trial,
piety, self-sacrifice—are well brought out. The brogue is not
overdone. Anti-Irish characters are represented as mean and
hypocritical.

⸺ MONA THE VESTAL. Pp. 163-324. (N.Y.: _Christian Press Association Publishing Co._). _n.d._

Bound in same vol. as “Norah Brady’s Vow” and under latter
title. An endeavour to place the heroic virtues of new
Christians in contrast with the decaying Druidic paganism. The
writer claims the Abbé McGeoghegan’s authority (also that of
Mooney and Carey) for her descriptions of the Ireland of the
time. But, with the exception of the incident of Patrick’s
arrival at Tara, the story and its setting are purely imaginary
and ideal. The Druids worship in vast temples with long
corridors and fine carvings. Tara is a great city of marble
palaces.

⸺ NORA BRADY’S VOW. Pp. 160. (N.Y.: _Christian Press Association Publishing Co._). 0.50. _n.d._

Nora is only a servant girl, but is, without suspecting it,
a true heroine. But she is no saint, and has a sharp tongue
in her head. Her witty sallies are cleverly reproduced. The
author tells us that Nora was a “real and living person.” John
Halloran takes part in the rising of ’48, and is obliged to
fly to America. Nora vows not to settle down in life until the
fortunes of the Hallorans are restored. She goes to America,
works to support the family, which has been ruined by an
informer, and at length finds Halloran and reunites the family
once more. Scene: near Holy Cross Abbey on the Suir; afterwards
Boston. On the whole the tone and style are very emotional, but
with an emotion that rings true. This is relieved by not a few
gleams of pleasant humour. Irish dialect well done. Sympathy
strongly national.

⸺ THE OLD HOUSE AT GLENARAN. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.80. In print. (_Washbourne_). 4_s._

=DOTTIN, Henry Georges.= Born 1863 in France. Prof. of Greek Lit. (1905) at the University of Rennes. Has contributed to learned reviews and has published several learned works, _La religion des Celtes_, 1903; _La Bretagne et le Culte du passé_, 1903.

⸺ CONTES IRLANDAIS TRADUITS DU GAËLIQUE. Pp. 274. (_Rennes_). 1901.

Tales, thirty-five in number, collected in Connaught and
republished from the “Annales de Bretagne,” tome x.

N.B.—A book with the title of “Contes Irlandais” was published
by Messrs. Gill, of Dublin, 70 pp., 4to, 7_s._ 6_d._ It
consists of extracts from the untranslated portion of Douglas
Hyde’s “Leabhar Sgeuluigheachta” translated into French by M.
Georges Dottin, with the original Irish text in Roman letters
on the opposite page.

⸺ CONTES ET LÉGENDES D’IRLANDE. Pp. 218. (_Le Havre_). 3_fr._ 50. 1901.

See previous item. Thirty-eight tales translated from Irish
texts, published without translation in the Gaelic Journal
since 1882. Collected in all parts of Ireland, _e.g._, Les
exploits de Fion MacCumhail et de son géant Seachrin. Fion
MacCumhail et son pouce de science. Le Gobán Saor et Saint
Moling. La belle fille rusée du Gobán Saor. Le trèfle à quatre
feuilles, &c.

=DOUGLAS, James.= Born in Belfast of a Tyrone family. Is assistant editor and literary critic of the London STAR. Author of _The Man in the Pulpit_, _Adventures in London_, &c. Contributes to ATHENÆUM, BOOKMAN, &c.

⸺ THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. Pp. x + 418. 6_s._ (_Grant Richards_). 1907.

Falls into two parts. Part I. describes upbringing of a boy
in Belfast (Bigotsborough). Pictures sectarian hatred leading
to riots, in one of which, vividly described, the hero loses
a little brother. Other characters finely portrayed are “Jane
the Nailor” and the then Head Master of the Model School (“the
Castle”). In Part II. the boy has become a great preacher. All
London flocks to hear him, but he is beset with doubts and
difficulties. W. B. Yeats and Miss Maud Gonne are introduced
under thinly disguised names. The first part has been called by
editor of I. B. L. “the finest delineation of Belfast boyhood
ever penned.” The second part has been not inaptly described as
“the dream of an opium-eater.”

=DOWLING, Richard.= Born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, 1846. Educated St. Munchin’s, Limerick. Much of his life was passed in journalistic work, first for the NATION, then for London papers. He edited the short-lived comic papers ZOZIMUS and YORICK, and was a leading spirit in another, IRELAND’S EYE. In 1879 came his Irish romance, _The Mystery of Killard_; but he found that there was no public at the time for Irish novels, so he devoted himself to writing sensational stories for the English public. He published some delightful volumes of essays, _Ignorant Essays_ and _Indolent Essays_. These deal with all kinds of subjects in a quaint, humorous, fanciful vein. Other novels—_The Sport of Fate_, _Under St. Paul’s_, _The Weird Sisters_, &c., seventeen or so in all.

⸺ THE MYSTERY OF KILLARD. Pp. 357. (_Tinsley Bros._) [1879]. New edition, 1884.

A tale of the Clare coast and its fishing population (drawn
with much skill and fidelity) half a century back. The story
centres in a mysterious and romantic rock unapproachable by sea
and connected with the land by a single rope only. There is a
mysterious owner, or rather a series of them, and mysterious
gold. But the central idea of the book (one of the most
original in literature, it has been justly called) is the study
of a deaf-mute who, by brooding on his own misfortune, grows to
envy and then to hate his own child, because the child can hear
and speak.

⸺ SWEET INNISFAIL. Three Vols. (_Tinsley_). 1882.

Scene: chiefly the neighbourhood of Clonmel. The interest is
mainly in the plot, which is full of dramatic adventure and of
movement, without any very serious study of Irish character.

⸺ OLD CORCORAN’S MONEY. Pp. 310. (_Chatto & Windus_). Crown 8vo. Cloth. 3_s._ 6_d._ 1897.

Money is stolen from an old miser. The interest of the
complicated plot centres in the detection of the thief. Clever
sketches of life in a southern town. Characters carefully and
faithfully drawn, especially Head-Constable Cassidy, R.I.C.

⸺ ZOZIMUS PAPERS. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 38 cents net. 1909.

“A series of comic and sentimental tales and legends of
Ireland.” The title is most misleading. There are six pages of
an introduction dealing with Michael Moran, a famous Dublin
“character,” nicknamed Zozimus. The rest of the book consists
of a series of stories by Carleton, Lover, Lever, Barrington,
&c. The contents have nothing to do with Dowling nor with the
famous periodical ZOZIMUS.

=DOWNE, Walmer.=

⸺ BY SHAMROCK AND HEATHER. Pp. 325. (_Digby, Long_). 1898.

Scene: mainly in Ards of Down, near Strangford Lough, but
shifts to Edinburgh, London, and Capetown. Theme: an American
girl visiting her father’s native place in Ireland. Consists
largely of gossip about the characters introduced, not rising
above this level. The writer likes Ireland and the Irish,
but knows little of them. There is an air of unreality and
improbability about the whole book. Some prejudice against
Church of Ireland clergymen is displayed.

=DOWNEY, Edmund; “F. M. Allen.”= Born (1856) and educated in Waterford. Being the son of a shipbroker, he came to know well the various sea types that frequent a port. Went to London at twenty-two, and became partner in the firm of Ward and Downey. Retired in 1890, and in 1894 founded Downey & Co. Both of these firms, especially the latter, did a great deal for the publishing of Irish books. His writings are many and varied. They include humorous sketches, extravaganzas, sea stories, fairy tales, sensational stories, a biography of Lever, a volume of reminiscences, and a history of Waterford, and the two novels, _Clashmore_ and the _Merchant of Killogue_. He at present carries on a publishing business in Waterford.

⸺ IN ONE TOWN. (_Ward & Downey_). 2_s._ [1884].

A seafarer’s life ashore. Scene: a port not unlike Waterford.
Many portraits of old salts, &c., drawn from life. Some
descriptions of scenery. “By turns romantic, pathetic, and
humorous”—(Review).

⸺ ANCHOR WATCH YARNS. Pp. 315. (_Downey_). [1884]. Seventh edition. _n.d._

Yarns told in a quaint nautical lingo by old salts around the
inn fire in a seaport town. The characters of the tellers
are very cleverly brought out in the telling. Full of humour
without mere farce.

⸺ THROUGH GREEN GLASSES. (_Ward & Downey_). Various prices from 6_s._ to 6_d._ [1887]. Many editions since.

This now famous book belongs to the same class as the
_Comic History of England_, but its humour is much superior
in quality. It consists of a series of historical or
pseudo-historical episodes purporting to be related by a
humorous Waterford countryman, Dan Banim, as seen from his
point of view. Kings and princes, saints and ancient heroes,
all play their parts in the delightful comedy, and talk in the
broadest brogue. “From Portlaw to Paradise,” one of the best
known, may be taken as a type. King James’s escape after the
Boyne is also admirably done.

⸺ THE VOYAGE OF THE ARK. (_Ward & Downey_). 1_s._ [1888]. Several editions since.

The scriptural narrative of Noah and the Ark is made the basis
for a series of farcical episodes related in brogue.

⸺ FROM THE GREEN BAG. (_Ward & Downey_). 2_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ 1889.

More stories by “Dan Banim,” like those in _Through Green
Glasses_. The Pope and St. Patrick, Horatius and Julius Cæsar
figure in the stories. We cannot see that these stories are
“irreverent” in any serious sense, though they have sometimes
been taxed with irreverence.

⸺ BRAYHARD. (_Ward & Downey_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1890.

Extravaganza founded on legends of the Seven Champions of
Christendom. Full of jokes, repartees, and comic situations.

⸺ CAPTAIN LANAGAN’S LOG. (_Ward & Downey_). 2_s._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. 1891, and since.

Story of an Irish-Canadian lad who runs away to sea, and goes
through all sorts of adventures full of excitement and fun.

⸺ GREEN AS GRASS. (_Chatto & Windus_). 3_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. 1892.

More “Dan Banim” stories. The first, running to 160 pages, is
a humorous account of Dermot MacMurrough’s love affair with
Devorgilla, and his betrayal of Ireland. Another tells how the
Earl of Kildare found out that Lambert Simnel was an imposter
by the latter’s skill in cooking griddle cakes.

⸺ THE ROUND TOWER OF BABEL. (_Ward & Downey_). 1_s._ Several editions; first, 1892.

Further adventures in foreign parts of descendants of the Co.
Waterford voyagers in the Ark.

⸺ THE LAND-SMELLER. (_Ward & Downey_). [1892], and several editions since.

Yarns of sea-captains.

⸺ THE MERCHANT OF KILLOGUE: a Munster Tale. Three Vols. (_Heinemann_). 1894.

The Author’s first attempt at serious fiction, and one of his
finest works.

⸺ BALLYBEG JUNCTION. Pp. 276. (_Downey_). Very well illustr. by John F. O’Hea. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. 1895.

A comedy of southern Irish life, full of fun, without farcical
exaggeration, and true to reality.

⸺ PINCHES OF SALT. Pp. 246. (_Downey_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1895.

Nine Irish tales, mostly humorous, not told in dialect; full
of keen observation of Irish life.—(Review). “The Eviction at
Ballyhack,” and “The Viceroy’s Visit” are among the best.

⸺ GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH HISTORY. (_Downey_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by J. F. Sullivan. 1901.

Versions of episodes in English History told by “Dan Banim” in
his usual dialect.

⸺ THE LITTLE GREEN MAN. Pp. 152. (_Downey_). Illustr. very tastefully by Brinsley Lefanu.

The pranks of the Leprechaun and his dealings with his human
friend Denis. A delightful fairy-tale, told with a purpose,
which does not take anything from its interest.

⸺ CLASHMORE. Pp. 406. (WATERFORD: _Downey_). 1_s._ [1903]. New edition. 1909.

A tale of a mystery centering in the strange disappearance of
Lord Clashmore and his agent. The story is healthy in tone, and
never flags. There is a pleasant love interest. The dénouement
is of an original and unexpected kind. The scene is the
neighbourhood of Tramore and Dunmore, Co. Waterford. There is
little or no study of national problems or national life, but
some shrewd remarks about things Irish are scattered here and
there in the book. The characters are not elaborately studied,
but are well drawn.

⸺ DUNLEARY: Humours of a Munster Town. Pp. 323. (_Sampson, Low_). 6_s._ 1911.

Fourteen capital yarns told with great verve and go just for
the sake of the story. They are all humorous, just avoiding
uproarious farce. The personages of the stories are the various
queer types to be met with in a small southern port:—the
convivial spirits in the local semi-genteel club, those of
lower degree who foregather in the bar parlour of the “Dragon,”
the rival editors of the local papers, the candidates for the
harbour mastership, the skippers of the Dunleary steam-packet
company, the professional jail-bird—Micky Malowney, and
the “general play boy” Jeremiah Maguire. There is no stage
Irishism, and no politics. Dunleary is, of course, W—rf—d.

=DOYLE, J. J.=

⸺ CATHAIR CONROI, and other Tales. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._

Written for the Oireachtas, 1902, and now translated by the
Author from his own Irish original. They are for the most part
Munster folk-lore.

=“DOYLE, Lynn”; Leslie A. Montgomery.= Born Downpatrick, Co. Down. Educated at Educational Institution, Dundalk. Has written a successful play, “Love and Land.” Is a bank-manager, residing at Skerries, Co. Dublin.

⸺ BALLYGULLION. Pp. 249. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ Handsome cover. 1908. Cheap edition. 1_s._ 1915.

A dozen stories supposed to be told by one Pat Murphy, in
the humorous brogue affected by country story-tellers. Comic
character and incident in neighbourhood of Northern town.
Considerably above the usual books of comic sketches. A good
example of the humour is “The Creamery Society”—the visit of
the Department’s expert, and his failure to make butter from
whitewash, and the difficulties that arise incidentally between
Nationalists and Orangemen, followed by Father Connolly’s
famous speech. Perhaps “Father Con’s Card-table” ought to have
been omitted.

=[DOYLE, M.]; “M. E. T.”=

⸺ EXILED FROM ERIN. Pp. 266. (_Duffy_). _n.d._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.45.

A homely, pleasant tale relating the pathetic life-story of two
brothers of the peasant class. The scene of the first part of
the tale is laid in Shankill, Vale of Shanganagh, Co. Dublin,
afterwards it changes to Wales, and then to America. The Author
tells us that his story is a true one, and that his endeavour
throughout has been to draw a faithful and sympathetic picture
of the life of the humbler classes. The sorrow and misfortune
of emigration is feelingly rendered.

=“DRAKE, Miriam”=; =Mrs. Clarke=, _née_ =Marion Doak= (_q.v._). Born Dromard, Co. Down.

=DREISER, Theodore.=

⸺ JENNIE GERHART. (_Harper_). 6_s._ $1.35. 1911.

“A piece of industrial realism, inartistic and undramatic, but
thoroughly honest and full of serious thought. The fortunes
of two immigrant families, German and Irish, are contrasted.
Jennie is the daughter of the unsuccessful German, and falls
a victim to the pleasure-loving son of the enterprising
Irishman, who illustrates the dangers of our ... social
organization.”—(_Baker_ 2).

=DROHOJOWSKA, Mme. la Comtesse.=

⸺ RÉCITS DU FOYER, LÉGENDES IRLANDAISES, SCÈNES DE MŒURS. Pp. 208. (PARIS: _Josse_). 1861.

Introd. very favourable to Ireland, but based on insufficient
and not first-hand information. It dwells chiefly on Irish
religious faith; also on superstition in Ireland. Then come the
legends—King Laura Lyngsky, Glendalough (King O’Toole’s Goose),
Donaghoo (a learned schoolmaster, who found a gold mine); King
O’Donoghue (Killarney), Grace O’Malley and Queen Elizabeth,
The King of Claddagh, John O’Glyn (a fisherman who marries a
mermaid, and joins her in the sea), James Lynch, &c.

=DUFF GORDON, Lady.=

⸺ STELLA AND VANESSA. Trans. (_Ward, Lock_). [1850: _Bentley_]. 1859.

Days of Swift, _c._ 1730. From the French of Léon de Wailly.
The scene is laid entirely in Ireland. The story opens at
Laracor. Swift is, of course, one of the central figures.

=DUGGAN, Ruby M.=

⸺ ONLY A LASS. Pp. 169. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper.

A sensational story with nothing really Irish about it. The
only Irish character is almost a caricature.

=DUNBAR, Aldis.=

⸺ THE SONS O’ CORMAC; an’ Tales of other Men’s Sons. Pp. x. + 240. (_Longmans_). 6_s._ Eight illustr. by Myra Luxmoore. 1904.

“Some of the old heroic legends retold by a humorous Irishman
for children.”—(_Baker_). The stories (there are twelve) are
very clever, picturesque, and, like all good tales of faërie,
full of unconscious poetry.—_I.E.R._

=DUNN, Joseph.=

⸺ THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TALE: TÁIN BO CUALGNE, THE CUALGNE CATTLE RAID. Now for the first time done entire into English out of the Irish of the Book of Leinster and allied Manuscripts. Pp. xxxvi. + 382. Demy 8vo. (_Nutt_). 25_s._ 1914.

Pref., on Irish Epic in general, and on the Táin in particular.
The Editor calls it “the wildest and most fascinating saga
tale, not only of the entire Celtic world, but even of all
Western Europe.” The work is a scholarly one, the various MSS.
being carefully collated by means of marginal- and foot-notes.
The Irish text is not given. Index of place and personal names.
A somewhat archaic style is adopted, but this is not overdone.
“The Táin,” says the Ed. truly, “is one of the most precious
monuments of the world’s literature.” The Ed. is a professor in
the Catholic University of Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

=[DUNN, N. J.].=

⸺ VULTURES OF ERIN: a Tale of the Penal Laws. Pp. 530 (N.Y.: _Kenedy_). 1.50. One woodcut. 1884.

Edward Fitzgerald is robbed of his property by his enemy,
Templeton, who accuses him falsely of a murder instigated by
himself. Shemus M’Andrew plots and plans to save Fitzg., but
the latter is nevertheless condemned to death, and his wife
loses her reason. He escapes, however, and after many years
returns with proof of T.’s guilt. The wife recovers, and all
ends happily. Scene: between Slieve Bouchta and Lough Derg.
Religion not formally introduced, but Catholic bias very
strong. Penal laws denounced, and scripture-readers appear in
unfavourable light.

=DUNNE, Finley Peter.=

⸺ THE DOOLEY BOOKS:—

1. MR. D. IN PEACE AND WAR. (_Routledge_). Seventh edition,
1906.

2. MR. D.’S PHILOSOPHY. (_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr.
1901.

3. MR. D.’S OPINIONS. (_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1905.

4. MR. D. IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. 1909.

5. OBSERVATIONS BY MR. D. (_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._

6. DISSERTATIONS BY MR. D. (_Harper_). 6_s._

7. MR. DOOLEY SAYS. (_Heinemann_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1910.

A series of fictitious conversations purporting to take place
over the counter of his bar in Archey Road, a seedy Irish
quarter of New York, between Mr. Dooley, “traveller, historian,
social observer, saloon-keeper, economist, and philosopher,”
who has not been out of his ward for twenty-five years “but
twict,” and his friend Hennessy. From the cool heights of life
in the Archey Road Mr. Dooley muses, philosophizes, moralizes
on the events and ideas of the day. He talks in broad brogue
(perhaps overdone), but his sayings are full of dry humour,
and the laugh is always with him. Many of these sayings have
the point and brevity of epigrams. No ridicule is cast on
Irish character, with which the Author, himself an Irishman,
obviously sympathizes. The view of politics, &c., is wholly at
variance with that which comes to us from the English Press.

=DUNNE, F. W.=

⸺ THE PIRATE OF BOFINE: an historical romance. Three Vols. 12mo. (LONDON). 1832.

A strange medley of melodramatic episodes. The story jumps from
place to place in the most bewildering way, and wholly without
warning to the reader. Scene laid in various parts of the W.
of I. (Boffin, Galway, Bantry, &c.) in reign of Henry VIII.
Historical characters are introduced, but without historical
background. Style: “Know you aught of my maternal parent.”
(Vol. III., p. 15). “Fire flashed from his eyes, and death sat
upon his gleaming blade,” and soforth.

=“EBLANA,”= _see_ =ROONEY=.

=ECCLES, Charlotte O’Connor; “Hal Godfrey.”= Died 1911. Was a daughter of A. O’C. Eccles, of Ballingard Ho., Co. Roscommon. She wrote first for Irish periodicals. Later she went to London, and became a prominent lady journalist there. Her _The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore_ is a very clever and witty novel.

⸺ ALIENS OF THE WEST. Pp. 351. (_Cassell_). 6_s._ 1904.

Six stories reprinted from the AMERICAN ECCLESIASTICAL REVIEW
(Catholic), and the PALL MALL MAGAZINE. Scene: “Toomevara,” an
Irish country town of about 2,000 inhabitants, near Shannon
estuary. Life in this town is depicted in a realistic and
objective way, without moralizing, and without obtrusive
religious or political bias. Yet there are lessons—the miseries
of class distinctions and of social and religious cleavage; the
disasters of education above one’s sphere (even in a convent).
There is much pathos in the death of the peasant boy-poet, and
in the faithfulness of the servant girl to the fallen fortunes
of the family. A serious and earnest book.

=EDELSTEIN, Joseph.=

⸺ THE MONEYLENDER. Pp. 110. (DUBLIN: _Dollard_). Illustr. by Phil Blake. 1908.

A strangely realistic story of Jewish life in Dublin, told with
rude power. Written by a Jew, it gives a dreadful picture of
the life of the poor in Dublin slums, and of the misery wrought
by the Jewish moneylender, who grows rich on their misery. The
Jew, Levenstein, who is driven on in his evil course by desire
to avenge the sufferings of his persecuted race is a revolting,
yet a pathetic figure.

=EDGE, John Henry, M.A., K.C.= Born 1841. Son of late John Dallas Edge, B.L. Lives in Clyde Road, Dublin.

⸺ AN IRISH UTOPIA. Pp. 296. (_Hodges & Figgis_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Frontisp., View of Glendalough. 1906 and 1910. Fourth ed. (_Cassell_), with fine portraits and interesting autobiographical introduction, 1915.

“A Story of a Phase of the Land Problem.” Scene: Wicklow
County and Shropshire, England. A slender plot, telling of the
abortive attempt of a younger twin to oust the rightful heir
from title and property, ending with a lawsuit in which some
well known lawyers are introduced under slightly disguised
names. Father O’Toole is a very pleasant character study. The
famous “J.K.L.” Dr. Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin,
figures in the story. The standpoint is that of an Irish
Conservative, without religious bias, and sympathizing with
certain Irish grievances. Humour, pathos, and brogue are absent.

⸺ THE QUICKSANDS OF LIFE. Pp. 392. (_Milne_). 6_s._ 1908.

Scene: first half in England, portion of second half on
an estate somewhere in the South of Ireland. The interest
centres chiefly in the plot, which is complicated, a great
many of the personages passing through quite an extraordinary
number of vicissitudes. Though the Author is never prurient,
a considerable number of dishonest “love” intrigues are
introduced, treated in a matter-of-fact way as every-day
occurrences. Of Ireland there is not very much. The land
troubles furnish incidents for the story, but are not
discussed. The Irish aristocracy shows up somewhat badly in
the book. Some tributes are paid to the virtues of the Irish
peasantry.

=EDGEWORTH, Maria.= Scott, in his Preface to _Waverley_ (1829), speaks of “the extended and well-merited fame of Miss Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland.” And he continues: “Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour, the pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact, which pervade the works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted for my own country, of the same kind as that which Miss Edgeworth has so fortunately achieved for Ireland.” She came of an old County Longford family, but was born in England in 1767; her father was a landed proprietor at Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, whose life she afterwards wrote. Most of her long life was spent in Ireland. She came to know the Irish peasantry very well, though from outside, and also the country life of the nobility and gentry. She had much sympathy for Ireland, but was unable to understand that radical changes were needful if the grievances that weighed upon the country were to be removed. She died in 1849. The circulation of her books has been enormous, and they are still frequently reprinted both in these countries and in America.[4]

Uniform editions of her works: (1) Macmillan, with excellent
illustrations, 2_s._ 6_d._ and 3_s._ 6_d._ each; pocket
edition, 2_s._, and leather, 3_s._ (2) Dent, in twelve vols.,
2_s._ 6_d._ each, very tasteful binding, etched frontisp.,
ed. by W. Harvey. Messrs. Routledge also publish _Stories of
Ireland_; introduction by Professor Henry Morley; 1_s._

[4] An able and certainly not over-enthusiastic estimate of Miss Edgeworth will be found in the DUBLIN REVIEW, April, 1838, p. 495, _sq._

⸺ WORKS, collected in eighteen Vols. 1832.

⸺ TALES AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. Nine Vols. (LONDON). 1848.

These were received with a chorus of praise by critics, such
as Lord Jeffery, Lord Dudley, and Sir James Mackintosh. Scott
called them “a sort of essence of common sense.”

⸺ CASTLE RACKRENT. (_Macmillan, &c._). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.75. [1800].

A picture of the feudal gentry in the latter half of the
seventeenth century, in the form of reminiscences by an old
retainer of the glories of the family he had served. One
after another, he tells the careers of his various masters,
the wild waste and endless prodigality of one, the skinflint
exactingness of another. There is no religious bias nor
discussion of problems, the chief interest being the ingenuous
and unquestioning devotion of the old servant and his quaint
observations. The literary merits of the book are usually rated
very high.

⸺ THE ABSENTEE. (_Macmillan, &c._). (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.75. [1809].

A vivid impression of the Irish nobility trying to dazzle
London society, and to prove itself more English than the
English themselves, while the English great ladies mock at
their parvenu extravagance and outlandish ways. The fine lady
spends her days in social emulation, while her lord sinks to
the company of toadies and hangers-on, until the conscience of
the young heir is aroused by a tour in Ireland, and he brings
the family back to their estates. The peasants are drawn purely
in their relation of grateful and patient dependents.

⸺ ENNUI. [1809].

The Earl of Glenthorn, an English-bred absentee landlord, is
afflicted with _ennui_. He determines to attempt a cure by a
visit to Ireland, and the cure is effected in a very unlooked
for way. The Author draws in an amusing and vivid way the
contrast, as felt by Lord Glenthorn, between English tastes,
prejudices, and decorum and the strange Irish ways, which
surprise him at every turn.—(_Krans_).

⸺ ORMOND. Pp. 379. (_Macmillan, Dent, &c._) [1817].

Pictures of the scheming, political, extravagant gentry,
especially of a type of the Catholic country gentleman, the
good-natured, happy-go-lucky Cornelius O’Shane, known to his
worshipping tenantry as King Corny. There is also a sketch
of Paris society, to which Ormond, the attractive, impulsive
young hero, is introduced by an officer of the Irish Brigade.
Generally thought the most interesting, gayest, and most
humorous of Miss Edgeworth’s books.

⸺ TALES FROM MARIA EDGEWORTH. (_Darton_). 10_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by Hugh Thomson. 1912.

Introd. by Austin Dobson.

⸺ MISS EDGEWORTH’S IRISH STORIES (A Selection).

Ed. by Malcolm Cotter Seton, M.A., in _Every Irishman’s
Library_ (The Talbot Press). [In preparation].

=“EDWARDES, Martin”; E. L. Murphy.= Son of Mr. W. M. Murphy, of Dartry.

⸺ THE LITTLE BLACK DEVIL. Pp. 190. (_Everett_). 3_s._ 6_d._, and 1_s._ 1910.

A first novel by a new Irish writer. Scene: Bantry and London.
The story of a young Irishman who, badly treated at home by
his guardian, goes to London to make his fortune. His heart
is broken by an adventuress, but in the end he marries a true
woman. A little immature, but pleasant, and suitable for any
class of readers.

=EDWARDS, R. W. K.=

⸺ UNCHRONICLED HEROES. Pp. 119. (DERRY: _Gailey_). 1_s._ 1888.

A rather feeble story of the Siege of Derry. Walker and
Mackenzie are introduced, the former highly lauded, the latter
disparaged. Appendix (filling nearly half the book) gives
extracts from scarce documents relating to the siege.

⸺ THE MERMAID OF INISH-UIG. Pp. 248. (_Arnold_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1898.

To Inish-Uig, a western island with a primitive people, comes
a new lighthouse keeper, a scoundrel and a hypocrite, who
leads “Black Kate” astray. He tries to turn to account the
illicit stilling propensities of the people, but is foiled in
an amusing way. Father Tim and a Presbyterian minister on the
mainland are two finely drawn characters. The islanders are
well described, and their dialect well rendered.

=EGAN, Maurice Francis, M.A., LL.D.= Born Philadelphia, 1852. Educated La Salle Coll., Philadelphia and Georgetown Coll., Washington. Was Prof. of English Literature in Catholic University of Washington till his appointment as American Ambassador at Copenhagen. Has edited several periodicals, and has contributed to most of the noteworthy periodicals in the States. Has published many books on a great variety of subjects. His father was from Tipperary.

⸺ THE SUCCESS OF PATRICK DESMOND. Pp. 400. (NOTRE DAME, INDIANA: _Office of Ave Maria_). 1893.

A novel with a purpose. “The Author does not waste much space
on descriptions or impersonal reflections, nor does he trust
to sensational incidents. The development of feeling and
character, very often as revealed in natural conversation,
seems to be his strong point. He knows his own people best, but
we are sorry that he considers Miles and Nellie to be typical
of the manners and dispositions of that class of the Irish race
in the United States. The book is so cleverly written that one
might cull from its pages a very respectable collection of
epigrams.”—(_I. M._).

⸺ THE WILES OF SEXTON MAGINNIS. Pp. 380. (N.Y.: _Century Co._). Illustr. by A. J. Keller. 1909.

=[EGAN, Pierce].= (1772-1849).

⸺ REAL LIFE IN IRELAND; or, the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru, Esq., and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O’Dogherty, exhibiting a Real Picture of Characters, Manners, &c., in High and Low Life, in Dublin and various parts of Ireland, embellished with humorous coloured engravings from original designs by the most eminent Artists, “by a real Paddy.” [1821].

Messrs. Methuen in 1904 reprinted the book from the fourth ed.
which was publ. by Evans & Co. The title-p. well describes
the book. Brian and his friend were what were then called
bucks and bloods. There is much absurdity, and extreme
exaggeration. The follies and vagaries of the two heroes are
told in a facetious and roistering style. There is not a little
coarseness. But the book is interesting for its side-lights on
the period, 1820-1830. Geo. IV.’s visit is described in a vein
of burlesque. The illustrations are even more vulgar than the
text, but have a similar interest.

=EGAN, P. M.=

⸺ SCULLYDOM: an Anglo-Irish Story of To-day. Pp. 360. (_Maxwell_). 2_s._ Picture boards. 1886.

Scene: Kilkenny. Time: 1880-84. Lucifer Scully, moneylender,
by degrees becomes possessed of much land, and grinds down
the tenants. They revolt, and this gives opportunity for good
descriptions of evictions and reprisals. Fred O’Brien, a fine
character whose sweetheart is spirited away by the villainy of
Scully, goes in pursuit of her, and has many adventures and
disappointments before all ends happily. Mickey Crowe and his
love episodes supplies the comic relief. The tone is strongly
National, and the dialect well done. The Author has also
written “A History and Guide to Waterford.”

=ELIZABETH, Charlotte.= [Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, 1790-1846].

⸺ THE ROCKITE. [1832].

The Tithe War (_c._ 1820) from Protestant standpoint. Captain
Rock was a famous leader of Whiteboys during the anti-tithe
war. The _Memoirs of Captain Rock_ were published anonymously,
1824, in Paris, by Thomas Moore.

⸺ DERRY: A Tale of the Revolution. Pp. xxiv. + 317. (_Nisbet_). [1839]. Sixth edition. 1886, and since.

Story of the Siege of Derry, written from ultra-Protestant
standpoint. The proceeds of the sale of the book are to be
devoted to teaching the Protestant religion “in their own
tongue to the Irish-speaking aborigines of the land.”—(Pref.).
The Author says elsewhere that “Popery is the curse of God upon
a land.” And the expression of similar views is very frequent
in the book.

=ELRINGTON, H.=

⸺ RALPH WYNWARD. Pp. 310. (_Nelson_). 2_s._ Attractive binding. Good illustr. _n.d._ (1902).

Youghal in the days of Queen Elizabeth. A tale of adventure in
wild times, ending in the sack of Youghal during the Desmond
Wars. Without bias. Told by Ralph himself, a descendant of the
8th Earl of Desmond, who runs away from his home in England.
The 16th Earl and Sir Richard Boyle (afterwards the Great Earl
of Cork) appear in the story. Juvenile.

⸺ THE SCHOOL-BOY OUTLAWS. Pp. 266. (_Simpkin_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Six illustr. 1905.

Life at a school in the South of Ireland “for the sons of
the gentry.” Incidents of resistance to masters attempting a
reform. Two of the boys Jerry and Fitzgerald (who tells the
story, and is “the son of a well-known Dublin clergyman),” run
away, and live as outlaws. The accession of Queen Victoria
(1837) is the means of obtaining their pardon. A pleasant tale
for boys, free from religious or political bias.

=ENNIS, Alicia Margaret.=

⸺ IRELAND; or, The Montague Family.

=ENSELL, Mrs.=

⸺ THE PEARL OF LISNADOON. Pp. 126. (_Elliot Stock_). 1886.

Scene: Killarney in the time following O’Connell’s
imprisonment. Aims to prove that the landlords were extremely
ill-treated, and that the Irish are uncivilised, and more or
less savage. Strong Protestant bias. Usual pictures of agrarian
crime.

=ERVINE, St. John G.= Born Belfast, 1883. Has published four plays, three of which have been successfully acted at the Abbey Theatre. Hopes to publish a new novel, _Changing Winds_, in the near future.

⸺ EIGHT O’CLOCK, and Other Stories. Pp. 128. (_Maunsel_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1913.

Reprinted from various periodicals. Six out of the seventeen
are Irish in subject. There is the sketch of Clutie John, a
queer old North of Irelander, whose profession is “fin’in’
things.” “The Well of Youth,” a fantastic and humorous story
about the Well of St. Brigid in the Vale of Avoca—told in North
of Ireland dialect! In “The Fool,” John O’Moyle, a little
“astray in his mind,” gives an English tourist some eye-opening
facts about the condition of peasant farms (Catholic
and Protestant) in Donegal. “The Match” is a satire on
match-making. In “Discontent” a young Antrim boy on Lurigedan
tells of the hunger of the country-bred for the excitements of
town life. “The Burial” is concerned with life in Ballyshannon.
Clever and finished. The remainder deal with English life.

⸺ MRS. MARTIN’S MAN. Pp. 312. (_Maunsel_). 6_s._ 1915.

Theme: the triumph of an injured wife over a situation that
would have finally wrecked the lives of most women—her
desertion by an unfaithful husband, and, still harder to face,
his return after sixteen years, a worthless drunken lout, to
live with her again. Mrs. Martin is the book, which is both a
careful character study and a page of life-philosophy. But the
minor characters are good—the Presbyterian clergyman, verbose
and self-sufficient (a very unfavourable portrait), the canting
and narrow-minded Henry Mahaffy, and Mrs. Martin’s Man himself.
There is a somewhat drab background of lower middle-class life
in Ulster (Ballyreagh (= Donaghadee) and Belfast). A very
remarkable book that has had a deservedly great success. As for
its moral aspect, the Author is against cant, hypocrisy, and
intolerance; he is somewhat contemptuous towards religion: he
is never salacious, but there is an occasional sensuousness in
his treatment of a painful subject.

=ESLER, Mrs. Erminda Rentoul.= Daughter of Rev. Alexander Rentoul, M.D., D.D., of Manor Cunningham, Co. Donegal. Lives in London, and contributes to CORNHILL, CHAMBERS’S, QUIVER, SUNDAY AT HOME, and many other periodicals. Author of _The Way of Transgressors_ (1890), _Youth at the Prow_, _The Awakening of Helena Thorpe_.

⸺ THE WAY THEY LOVED AT GRIMPAT: Village Idylls. (_Sampson Low_). 1893.

⸺ A MAID OF THE MANSE. Pp. 315. (_Sampson, Low_). 1895.

A story of Presbyterian clerical life in Co. Donegal forty
years ago. A pleasant, readable story, with a well wrought
plot. There is both pathos and humour in the book, and as a
picture of manners it is true to life, if somewhat idyllic.

⸺ THE WARDLAWS. (_Smith_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1896.

“A grave domestic story worked out on a basis of character,
laid in an Irish rural district.”—(_Baker_).

⸺ THE TRACKLESS WAY. Pp. 465. (_Brimley Johnson_). 6_s._ 1903.

“The story of a man’s quest for God.” (Sub-t.). Scene: chiefly
“Garvaghy, Co. Innismore,” in Ulster. The book is a searching
study of the inward religious and outward social life of a
Presbyterian minister, Gideon Horville, his difficulties,
aspirations, friendships, disappointment in marriage. He is
dismissed by his Church for teaching erroneous doctrines,
begins to write, and subsequently helps his great friend
Lord Tomnitoul in his religious and socialistic schemes. The
Author’s religious attitude is equally opposed to Catholicism,
to Calvinism, and, indeed, to Christianity. The background,
Horville’s social circle, with its meannesses, spites, and
petty jealousies, is not a pleasant one. The Author writes with
thorough knowledge. There are no politics.

=“ESMOND, Henry.”=

⸺ A LIFE’S HAZARD: or, The Outlaw of Wentworth Waste. Three Vols. (_Sampson, Low_). 1878.

Scene: N. Co. Dublin. A sensational tale—abducted heir, forged
will, usurped title, jealousy, revenge, attempted murders,
perjury, &c. The outlaw, O’Grady, a T.C.D. man and a barrister,
heads a popular rising, twice escapes execution, and performs
wonderful deeds, always appearing in the nick of time to rescue
beauty in distress, or upset the schemes of the false lord.
There is much brogue—of a sort. The supernatural is frequently
introduced.

=FABER, Christine.= This is said to be a pen-name. An American Catholic writer. Other novels—_An Original Girl_ (1901), _Ambition’s Contest_, _A Fatal Resemblance_, _Reaping the Whirlwind_ (1905), _A Chivalrous Deed_, _The Guardian’s Mystery_, _A Mother’s Sacrifice_. All of these are published by P. J. Kenedy of New York.

⸺ CARROLL O’DONOGHUE; a Tale of the Irish Struggles of 1866 and of recent times. Pp. 501. Pretty cover. (_Duffy_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1903.

Scene laid chiefly in Kerry, at the time of the Fenian
movement, though it is not a narrative of the latter. A very
dramatic story finely wrought out. Full of local colour,
humour, and pathos.

=“FALY, Patrick C.”; John Hill.=

⸺ NINETY-EIGHT: being the Recollections of Cormac Cahir O’Connor Faly (late Col. in the French Service) of that awful period. Collected and edited by his grandson, Patrick C. Faly, Attorney-at-Law, Buffalo, N.Y. (_Downey_). Illustr. A. D. M’Cormick. 1897.

Cormac is heart and soul with the rebels. Life in Dublin, 1798,
described. Then we are brought all through the scenes of the
rising.

=FARADAY, Winifred, M.A.=

⸺ THE CATTLE RAID OF CUALNGE. (Táin bó Cuailnge). An ancient Irish prose epic [Grimm Library, No. 16]. Pp. xxi. + 141. (_Nutt_). 4_s._ (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 1.25. 1904.

A close student’s translation from the _Leabhar na h-Uidhri_
and the _Yellow Book of Lecan_. No notes, but interesting and
scholarly introduction.

=FENNELL, Charlotte and J. P. O’CALLAGHAN.=

⸺ A PRINCE OF TYRONE. Pp. 363. (_Blackwood_). 1897.

The amours of Seaghan O’Neill. Seems worthless from an
historical point of view. O’Neill appears as little better than
a villain of melodrama.

=FERGUSON, R. Menzies, D.D.= Author of _Rambles in the Far North_, &c.

⸺ THE OCHIL FAIRY TALES. Pp. 157. (_Nutt_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. 1913.

Most of the Tales related in this Book are founded on local
tradition: they are the echoes of that Celtic folk-lore which
is fast dying out. The western spurs of the Ochill hills and
the country lying between the Allan Water and the River Forth
form the scenes of the curious cantrips of the Wee Folk, once
so firmly believed in by the people of a former generation.
The purpose of the Author is to preserve some of those curious
tales which are still floating in the popular mind. In another
generation it will be too late.—(_Publ._).

=FERGUSON, Sir Samuel.= Born Belfast, 1810. Son of John Ferguson, of Collen House, Co. Antrim. Educated Academical Institution, Belfast, and T.C.D. Was first deputy keeper of the public records in Ireland. Was a noted antiquarian, but is best known as one of the best of our Irish poets. Most of his poetry deals with the heroic period of early Ireland. Died 1886. See _Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of his Day_, by Lady Ferguson. Besides the _Hibernian Nights_, Sir Samuel wrote also a very amusing if not very reverent sketch, “Father Tom and the Pope,” which had the unique distinction of being reprinted in BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE, 1910.

⸺ HIBERNIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. Three Vols. Pp. 146 and 184 and 278. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1_s._ each, paper; 2_s._ cloth. [1887]. Still in print.

Written by the Author in early youth. Supposed to be told in
1592 by Turlough O’Hagan, O’Neill’s bard, to Hugh Roe O’Donnell
and his companions imprisoned in Dublin Castle. They are almost
entirely fictitious, but give many details of locality and of
the contemporary manners, customs, and modes of fighting. There
is an historical introduction. Contents: “Children of Usnach,”
“The Capture of Killeshin,” “Corby MacGillmore,” “An Adventure
of Seaghan O’Neill’s,” and the “Rebellion of Silken Thomas.”
Popular in style and treatment.

⸺ THE “RETURN OF CLANEBOY.” Pp. 43-98.

Relates how Aodh Duidhe O’Néill regained (_c._ 1333) his
territory of Claneboy in Antrim on the death of William
de Burgh, Earl of Ulster. The story is rather an ordinary
one—fighting and intrigues. There is some description of men
and manners and of County Antrim scenery.

⸺ THE “CAPTURE OF KILLESHIN.” Pp. 98-146.

A tale of the struggle of the Leinster Clans—chiefly the
O’Nolans—with the English settlers. Full of stirring incidents,
including a battle most vividly described. Period: end of 14th
century.

⸺ “CORBY MACGILLMORE.” Pp. 140.

Scene: North Antrim at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
A Franciscan preaches Christianity to the MacGillmores, who had
relapsed into barbarism and paganism. There is a very warlike
and un-Christian abbot in the story. The chief interest is the
enmity between the Clan Gillmore and the Clan Savage of North
Down, and the events, dark and tragic for the most part, that
result from it.

⸺ THE “REBELLION OF SILKEN THOMAS.” Pp. 278.

The main features of the rebellion are told in form of romance.
The real hero is Sir John Talbot, who first joins Lord Thomas
but afterwards leaves him. The story of Sir John’s private
fortunes occupies a large part of the narrative. The author is,
of course, perfectly acquainted with the history of the time.

=FIELD, Mrs. E. M.= This Author (born 1856) is daughter of J. Story, J.P., D.L., of Bingfield, Co. Cavan. Besides _Ethne_, she has published several other novels, _e.g._, _At the King’s Right Hand_.

⸺ DENIS. Pp. viii. + 414. (_Macmillan_). 2_s._ [1896]. Still in print.

A story of the Famine. Interesting portrait of Young Ireland
leader. Standpoint rather anti-national. Dedicated “to my
kinsfolk and friends among the landowners of Ireland.”

⸺ ETHNE. Pp. 312. (_Wells, Gardner_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Three or four good Illustr. [1902]. Third edition. 1911.

A tale of Cromwell’s transplantation of the Irish to Connaught.
Purports to be taken partly from the diary of Ethne O’Connor,
daughter of one of the transplanted, and partly from the
“record” of Roger Standfast-on-the-Rock. The former is
converted to the religion of the latter by a single reading of
the Bible. The interest of the book is mainly religious.

=FIGGIS, Darrell.= Born Gleann-na-Smol, Co. Dublin, 1882. Was taken to India in infancy and remained there till he was ten years old. Was put into a London business house, and did not abandon this walk of life, in which his fortunes were sometimes low enough, till about 1909, the date of his first volume of poems, _A Vision of Life_. Since then he has been engaged in journalism and literature. He has taken an active part in the national movement in Ireland. For the past five years he has spent every winter in Achill, where he now lives permanently. Has, among other works, two novels, _Broken Arcs_ and _Jacob Elthorne_, and is now engaged on an Irish story.

=FILDES, H. G.=

⸺ “TRIM” AND ANTRIM’S SHORES. Pp. 312. (_Greening_). 6_s._ 1904.

Account of holiday trip, supposed to be taken by the writer (an
Englishman) and his friend, “Trim,” to the coast of Antrim,
also Lough Neagh, and a few other places. Consists mainly of
humorous incidents treated more or less in the _Three Men in a
Boat_, or rather the _Three Men on the Bümmel_ style, but much
inferior. Little or no description of Antrim.

=FINLAY, T. A., S.J., M.A.; “A. Whitelock.”= Born 1848. Educated at Cavan College, at Amiens, and at the Gregorian University, Rome. Entered Irish Province S.J., 1866. Commissioner of Intermediate Education, 1900; Vice-President of Irish Agricultural Organisation Society; Ex-Fellow of Royal Univ. of I.; Editor, THE LYCEUM and then THE NEW IRELAND REVIEW (1894-1910); President of Univ. Hall, Dublin, since 1913.—(CATH. WHO’S WHO).

⸺ THE CHANCES OF WAR. (_Gill_). [1877]. New edition, 1908, and (_Fallon_), 2_s._ 6_d._ 1911.

Aims (cf. Preface) to indicate the causes that led to failure
of Confederation of Kilkenny. Represents in the characters
introduced the aims and motives of the chief actors in the
events of the period, such as Owen Roe O’Neill, Rinuccini,
Sir Charles Coote, &c. There is a spirited description of the
first relief of Derry, the Battle of Benburb, Ireton’s siege
of Limerick. The hero is an exile returned from a continental
army. Between him and the heroine the villain Plunkett
interposes his schemes. Scene: chiefly an island in Lough Derg.
Though the main aim is historical, this fact in no way detracts
from the interest and excitement of the romance. Written in a
style above that of the majority of Irish historical novels.
Standpoint: Catholic and national, but free from violent
partisanship.

=FINN, L. A.=

⸺ BARNEY THE BOYO.[5] Pp. 180. (_Ireland’s Own Library_). 6_d._ _n.d._

How B. is, with many sighs of relief, sent forth by his native
village to found his fortune on a subscribed capital of £4
2_s._ 10_d._ How he is involved in the Castle Jewels mystery,
wins the “Ardilveagh Cup” at the Horse Show, swims the Channel,
and has many other topical adventures, succeeding always by his
native wit. Plenty of broad popular humour, somewhat in the
vein of Mick McQuaid.

[5] A Midland word for the Western “playboy” or general wag and practical joker.

=FINN, Mary Agnes.=

⸺ NORA’S MISSION. Pp. 268. (_Washbourne_). 2_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.75. [1911]. Second edition. 1914.

The mission was to bring back her uncle, who had settled in
Australia, both to his Church and to his country, and she
successfully carried it out: his wife and daughters, too,
“adapted themselves speedily to Irish manners and customs.” And
her visit to Australia unravelled some mysteries which we shall
not reveal. Scene laid in I. and most of characters Irish.
The “brogue” is avoided, but the conversation is somewhat
stilted and unnatural. The book is nicely printed and prettily
bound.—(_C.B.N._).

=FINNEY, Violet G.=

⸺ THE REVOLT OF THE YOUNG MACCORMACKS. Pp. 227. (_Ward & Downey_). Illustr. by Edith Scannell. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.50. 1896.

A story written for children and much appreciated by them. The
four young MacCormacks are very live and real children. Their
delightfully novel pranks are told in a breezy, natural style.
Many a “grown-up” will find interest in the book. Scene: partly
in Dublin, partly in West of Ireland.

⸺ A DAUGHTER OF ERIN. Pp. 224. (_Blackie_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Well illustr. by G. Demain Hammond.

A bright little story, free from “problems,” “morals,”
morbidness, and prejudice. It tells how Norah’s hostility and
dislike to her cousin, John Herrick, gradually changes to love
in spite of herself. Her old lover accepts the inevitable like
a brave man, and loses his life in trying to do a service,
for her sake, to the favoured suitor. The Irish characters
are capitally sketched—Mrs. Ryan and Judy, the Rector’s
housekeeper. Bertie, the spoilt little invalid, is drawn to the
life. So, too, is the somewhat sententious old Rector.

=FITZGERALD, John Godwin.=

⸺ RUTH WERDRESS, FATHER O’HARALAN, AND SOME NEW CHRISTIANS. Pp. 340. (_Blackwood_). 6_s._

An argument in narrative form against the celibacy of the
Catholic priesthood. Ruth W., flying from a home made unhappy
by evangelicalism, takes refuge with Fr. O’H., P.P. of
Blossomvale, who receives her into the Catholic Church. Fr.
O’H. falls madly in love with her, and there are a series of
situations, compromising and equivocal in appearance. Under
extraordinary circumstances the two are forced into a merely
formal marriage. We need not reveal the sequel. There is a
great deal about Catholic usages, priests, nuns, &c., with
which the Author shows considerable superficial acquaintance.
The Author is cautiously fair in detail, but the general
impression produced is sometimes distinctly unfavourable to
Catholicism. The New Christians are a sect of latter-day
evangelicals whom the Author satirises severely. One scene we
consider particularly offensive to Catholic feeling and highly
improbable into the bargain.

=[FITZGERALD, M. J.].=

⸺ THE MAKING OF JIM O’NEILL. Pp. 140. 16mo. (_C.T.S.I.: Iona Series_). 1910.

The story of the course of a young man’s vocation to the
priesthood, of his life at a typical Irish provincial seminary,
and of his vacations at home. The doings of the seminarians
are described frankly, not being at all idealised. The tale is
pleasantly and plainly told, without much analysis of motive or
of emotion. It is a vivid glimpse of the making of a priest.

=FITZGERALD, Rev. T. A., O.F.M.= Born Callan, Co. Kilkenny, 1862. Brought up in Thurles; ed. at Christian Bros. Schools and St. Patrick’s College. Became a Franciscan in 1879. Spent five years in Rome, and twenty in Australia. Since his return to Ireland has learned the Irish language, and has taken part in the revival movement. Witness his _Stepping Stones to Gaeldom_.

⸺ HOMESPUN YARNS: WHILE THE KETTLE AND THE CRICKET SING. Pp. 222. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. 1914.

Eighteen tales and sketches of Irish life—at home and in exile.
For the most part humorous, with genuine and spontaneous
humour. But pathos is often not far off, and edification is to
be got, though it is not thrust upon the reader. The sketches
of life in the slums and back streets of Dublin show the Author
at his best, for his errands of mercy have made him know them
thoroughly.

⸺ FITS AND STARTS. (_Gill_). 1915.