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