Bernard Share, ed., Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing (1992)

[Details: Bernard Share, ed., Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1992), 333pp.; bibl. pp.330-31; available at COPAC - online.]

CONTENTS
[ By author / anthology title ]
Prologue. To the promised land’, trans J. O’Meara; ‘Pest’, by George A. Birmingham; ‘Brides of the Libyan sea’, by Robin Bryans; ‘The last Izmerenje’, by Hubert Butler; ‘Revolt at Red River’, by William Francis Butler; ‘The astrologer’, by Maurice Collis; ‘The natives of London’, by John Corry; ‘Letters from high latitudes’, by Lord Dufferin; ‘Weekend in Boso’, by Desmond Fennell; ‘The Irish of the Pacific’, by Robert Gibbings; ‘One man and his dog’, by Thomas Colley Grattan; ‘Night on the Wainikoro’, by Beatrice Grimshaw; ‘Hennessy's bustards’, by Maurice N. Hennessy; ‘Autumn in Cómpeta’, by Aidan Higgins; ‘A mission at Agra’, by Pamela Hinkson; ‘The throne of Charlemagne’, by Denis Johnston; ‘The diggers' revolt’, by William Kelly; ‘Guests of the sultan’, by Arthur Leared; ‘Guadeloupe’, by Anita Leslie; ‘Peasant and artisan’, by Hannah Lynch; ‘The empty cairn’, by F.M. M'Clintock; ‘The road to Mogador’, by Micheál Mac Liammóir; ‘Beef against melons’, by Frederick Edward Maning; ‘Reunion at Lake Sorel’, by John Mitchel; ‘Goddam nut-case’, by Dervla Murphy; ‘A clearance for Dublin’, by Conor O'Brien; ‘The path to Rome’, by Tadhg Ó Cianáin; ‘Remarkable curiosities’, by Pedro Alonso O'Crouley; ‘On the beach’, by Liam O'Flaherty; ‘Hearts are trumps’, by Bernard Share; ‘Visa’, by Peter Somerville-Large; ‘Vagabonding with Rostás’, by Walter Starkie; ‘From the journal of an apatriate’, by Francis Stuart; ‘Off to Philadelphia’, by Theobald Wolfe Tone; ‘Ascent of the Finsteraarhorn’, by John Tyndall; ‘An Irish peer on the continent’, by Catherine Wilmot.
[ by author / title of source work]
  • G. A. Birmingham, A Wayfarer in Hungary (London: Methuen 1925)
  • Robin Bryans, Crete (London: Faber 1969)
  • W. F. Butler, The Great Lone Land (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 1889)
  • Maurice Collis, Into Hidden Burma (London: Faber 1953)
  • John Corry, A Satirical View of London (London [Ogle, Crosby & Stuart] 1801)
  • Dufferin, Letters from High Latitudes [11th edn.] (London: Dent 1903; first pub. 1857)
  • Desmond Fennell, Mainly in Wonder (London: Hutchinson 1959)
  • Robert Gibbings, Over the Reefs (London: Dent 1948)
  • Thomas Colley Grattan, Tales of a Walking Gentleman (London: 1923)
  • Beatrice Grimshaw From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands (London: Nelson 1917)
  • Maurice N. Hennessy, Africa Under My Heart (NY: Ives Washburn, 1965)
  • Aidan Higgins, Ronda Gorge and Other Precipices (London: Secker & Warburg 1989)
  • Pamela Hinkson, Indian Harvest (London: Collins 1941)
  • Denis Johnston, Nine Rivers to Jordan (London: David Verschoyle 1953)
  • William Kelly, Life in Victoria, vol. 2 (London: Chapman and Hall 1859)
  • Arthur Leared, A visit to the Court of Morocco (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1879)
  • Anita Leslie, Love in a Nutshell (London: Hutchinson 1952)
  • F. L. McClintock, The Fate of Sir John Franklin, [5th edn.] (London: John Murray 1881; first publ. 1860)
  • Micheál MacLiammóir, Put Money in thy Purse (London: Methuen 1952)
  • Frederick Edward Manning, Old New Zealand (Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs 1949; first publ. 1863)
  • John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin: M. H. Gill 1913; first publ. 1854)
  • Dervla Murphy, Full Tilt (London: John Murray 1965)
  • Conor O’Brien, Across Three Oceans (London: Arnold 1926)
  • Tadhg Ó Cianáin, The Flight of the Earls, trans. by Fr. Paul Walsh (Dublin: M. H. Gill 1916)
  • Pedro Alonso O’Crouley, A Description of the Kingdom of New Spain, trans & ed. by Sean Galvin (Dublin: Allen Figgis 1972)
  • Liam O’Flaherty, Two Years (London: Jonathan Cape 1933; first publ. 1930)
  • John J. O’Meara, trans. Voyage of St Brendan (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1976)
  • Bernard Share, The Moon is Upside Down (Dublin: Allen Figgis 1962);
    Peter Somerville-Large, To the Naval of the World (London: Hamish Hamilton 1987)
  • Walter Starkie, Raggle Taggle (London: John Murray 1933)
  • Francis Stuart, States of Mind (Dublin: Raven Arts 1984; first pub. in Envoy, 1950);
    Theo. Wolfe Tone, Life of &c. (Washington 1826)
  • John Tyndall, The Glaciers of the Alps, new ed. (London: Longmans Green 1896; first publ. 1860)
  • Catherine Wilmot, An Irish Peer on the Continent 1810-1803, ed. Thomas U. Sadleir (London: Williams & Northgate 1920)
  • Bernard Share, The Moon is Upside Down (Dublin: Allen Figgis 1962).
 
Note: Each selection is prefaced by a biographical and critical notice; also glossary [incl. Maori and other languages] and bibliography.

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