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.]
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[ By author / anthology title ] |
Prologue. To the promised land, trans J. OMeara; 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 OBrien, 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 OCrouley, A Description of the Kingdom of New Spain, trans & ed. by Sean Galvin (Dublin: Allen Figgis 1972)
- Liam OFlaherty, Two Years (London: Jonathan Cape 1933; first publ. 1930)
- John J. OMeara, 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).
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Note: Each selection is prefaced by a biographical and critical notice; also glossary [incl. Maori and other languages] and bibliography. |
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