Contents

1. Political Writings and Speeches. from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790); from Letter to Richard Burke (1792), by Edmund Burke: from The life of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1797), by Wolfe Tone: Speech from the dock (1803), by Robert Emmet: Speech at Tara (1843), by Daniel O'Connell: Letter to the Irish Felon (1848), by James Fintan Lalor. --

2. Reflections on Irish culture.: Preface to Reliques of Irish poetry (1789), by Charlotte Brooke: from A Frenchmans walk through Ireland (1797), by Le Chevalier de la Tocnaye: An Irish wake (1826), by John Gamble: from The Lough Derg pilgrim (1828), by William Carleton: from Ballad poetry of Ireland and The history of Ireland (1845), by Thomas Davis.

3. Fiction.: from Castle Rackrent (1800), by Maria Edgeworth: from The wild Irish girl (1806), by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan): from Melmoth the wanderer (1820), by Charles Robert Maturin: from The house by the church-yard(1863), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: from Hurrish (1886), by Emily Lawless.

4. Poetry. I am Raftery (c.1830), by Antoine Raftery: Elegy on the death of Carolan (1789), by Charlotte Brooke: Oh! breathe not his name (1807): She is far from the land (1811): Dear harp of my country (1815): The harp that once through Tara's halls (1807): Oft, in the stilly night (1818): The minstrel boy (1813), by Thomas Moore: Written at the eagle's nest, Killarney (1800): Written at Killarney (1800): On leaving Killarney (1800): Address to my harp (1811), by Mary Tighe: Roisin Dubh (1831): Eileen a Roon (1831): The spirit of the Irish song (1827), by Thomas Furlong: To my native land (1832): The woman of three cows (1840): Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora (1841): Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan (1841): Dark Rosaleen (1846): Roisin Dubh (1849): The nameless one (1849), by James Clarence Mangan --The bells of Shandon (1836), by Francis Sylvester Mahony: Lament for the death of Thomas Davis (1847): Cashel of Munster (1867): The coolun (1867): Dear dark head (1867), by Samuel Ferguson: A nation once again (1845): The West's asleep (1845), by Thomas Davis: The little black rose (1861): Florence McCarthy's farewell to his English love (1855), by Aubrey de Vere: The memory of the dead (1843), by John Kells Ingram: The fairies (1849): The maids of Elfin-Mere (1850): A dream (1850): The winding banks of Erne (1865): from Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland (1864), by William Allingham.: 5. Popular Songs and Ballads.: Boulavogue (1898): The Shan Van Vocht (1842): The Wearin' o' the Green (c.1798): The Croppy Boy (c.1798): The Rising of the Moon (1866): Granuaile (c.1798).

1. Nationalist Writings and the Easter Rising.: The famine queen (1900), by Maud Gonne: The coming revolution (1913), by Patrick Pearse: The Irish flag (1916), by James Connolly: from The insurrection in Dublin (1916), by James Stephens: Stephen's Green (1926), by Constance Markiewicz: Spreech from the dock (1916), by Roger Casement: from Literature in Ireland (1916), by Thomas Macdonagh.

2. Memoirs and Autobiographies.: from Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism (1896), by John O'Leary: from De profundis (1905), by Oscar Wilde: from The Aran Islands (1907), by M. Synge: from Hail and farewell (1911), by George Moore: from On another man's wound (1936), by Earnán O'Malley.

3. Short Fiction.: A painful case (1905), by James Joyce: Lilliput (1926), by Seán O'Faoláin: The mountain tavern (1929), by Liam O'Flaherty: The majesty of the law (1935), by Frank O'Connor. --

4. Fiction.: from The real Charlotte (1894), by Somerville and Ross: from Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker: from Ulysses (1922), by James Joyce: from The last September (1929), by Elizabeth Bowen: from Murphy (1938), by Samuel Beckett: from At swim-two-birds (1939), by Flann O'Brien.

5. Poetry.: Grief of a girl's heart (1901), by Augusta Gregory: Requiescat (1881): Impression du matin (1881): Helas! (1881): The harlot's house (1885): Sonnet. On the sale by auction of Keats' love letters (1885): Symphony in yellow (1889), by Oscar Wilde: My grief on the sea (1893), by Douglas Hyde: The lake isle of Innisfree (1888): To Ireland in the coming times (1892): The song of wandering Aengus (1897): To a shade (1913): September 1913 (1913): Easter 1916 (1916): The wild swans at Coole (1916): Meditations in time of civil war (1921-3): The tower (1925): Sailing to Byzantium (1926): The circus animals' desertion (1937-8), by W.B. Yeats: The love-talker (1902): The brown wind of Connaught (1902): Rody McCorley (1902): The passing of the gael (1902): Beannacht Leat (1902), by Ethna Carbery: By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (1889): Mystic and cavalier (1889): The dark angel (1893): Ninety-eight (1893): Parnell (1893), by Lionel Johnson: Carrowmore (1913), by George Russell (AE) --The little waves of Breffny (1904): The land to a landlord (1904): Women's rights (1906), by Eva Gore-Booth: Prelude (1909): Beg-Innish (1909): To the oaks of Glencree (1909): A question (1909): In Glencullen (1909), by J.M. Synge: To the liffey and the swans (1923), by Oliver St John Gogarty: John-John (1910): Of a poet patriot (1913): The yellow bittern (1913): The night hunt (1913), by Thomas Macdonagh: My lagan love (1904), by Joseph Campbell: The lamplighter (1929): Geese (1939), by Seumas O'Sullivan: A rann I made (1917): I am Ireland (1917): On the strand of Howth (1917): The mother (1915): Christmas 1915 (1915): The wayfarer (1916), by Patrick Pearse: She moved through the fair (1916), by Padraic Colum: A twilight in middle March (1914): June (1914): August (1914): Thomas MacDonagh (1916): The wedding morning (1916): The blackbirds (1916): The herons (1916), by Francis Ledwidge-- Father and son (1923): To my blackthorn stick (1923), by F.R. Higgins: To a blackbird (1930): Shancoduff (1934): Inniskeen Road: July evening (1935), by Patrick Kavanagh: To a modern Irish poet (1927): Easter Tuesday (1931): Mourne Mountains (1937), by John Hewitt: Belfast (1931): Snow (1935): Carrickfergus (1937): Autumn Journal XVI (1939), by Louise macNeice.: 6. Drama.: from The importance of being Earnest (1895), by Oscar Wilde: Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), by W.B. Yeats and Augusta Gregory: The rising of the moon (1907), by Augusta Gregory: Riders to the sea (1904), by J.M. Synge: from Juno and the paycock (1924), by Seán O'Casey.