Anthologies of Irish Literature (up to 1997)

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I J K L M N O P
R S T U V W Y Z

[The table-of-contents of many of the ensuing titles and some others not listed here are given under Bibliography > Anthologies - as supra - and links to these have been provided wherever possible. On account of its happenstance creation it is necessarily an unsystematic list. Would not chronological listing be better?

Student of the growth of Irish anthologising might wish to see —

  • Heinz Kosok, ‘Anthologies of Anglo-Irish Literature: 1772-1986: A Checklist’, in Irish University Review, 18:2 (Autumn 1988), pp. 251-62;
  • Bruce Stewart,  ‘Anthologising Ireland: Irish Literature (1904) and Its Contexts’, in The Irish Review (Winter 1998), pp.105-26 [ISSN 0967-0882].
  • Margaret Kelleher, ‘The Cabinet of Irish Literature: A Historical Perspective on Irish Anthologies‘, in Eire-Ireland, Vol. 38:3-4 (Jan. 2003), pp.68-89.

A
  • Anthologia Hibernica, or Monthly Collections of Science, Belles-lettres, and History, 4 vols (Dublin 1793-94).

B
  • Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1911 & Edns.) [see details].
  • Barry, M. J., Songs of Ireland (Dublin: James Duffy 1845), xvi+238pp. [begun by Thomas Davis; incl. 38 anon. songs, and pieces by Banim, Callanan [see details].
  • Barry, Sebastian, Inherited Boundaries: Younger Poets of the Republic of Ireland (Dolmen 1986). [see details].
  • Bell, Louis, intro., Remembered Kisses: An Illustrated Anthology of Irish Love Poetry (Gill & Macmillan 1996). [ill. Orphen, Osbrne, Lavery, &c.].
  • Benson, Gerard, et al., eds., Poems on the Underground (London: Cassell 1992).
  • Blackstaff Book of Short Stories (Belfast: Blackstaff 1988) [no editor].
  • Bluett, Anthony, ed., Favourite Irish Stories (Mercier 1994), 127pp. [incl. Francis Macmanus, Padraic Pearse, Seamus O’Kelly, Daniel Corkery, John B Keane; also writers Eric Cross, Eamon Kelly, Kate Ahern, and Michael Dawson].
  • ——, ed., Ireland in Love (Cork: Mercier 1996), 95pp.
  • Bodley Head Book of Irish Short Stories (London: Bodley Head 1980).
  • Bolger, Dermot, ed., Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (Picador 1993; rev. 1994), 560pp. [see details].
  • Bolger, Dermot, ed., The Bright Wave/An Tonn Gheal: Poetry in Irish Now ((Dublin: Raven Arts 1986).
  • Dermot Bolger, ed. Invisible Dublin: A Journey Through the Dublin Suburbs (Dublin: Raven Arts 1991) [see details].
  • Bolster, ed. Harmonica, a collection published by Bolster of Cork in 1818 [PI 178].
  • Bolster, ed., Gems from the Cork Poets (Cork 1883).
  • Bradley, Anthony, ed., Contemporary Irish Poetry: An Anthology (Berkeley: California UP 1980; new and rev. ed. 1988). [see details].
  • Breathnach, Padraig, Songs of the Gael: A Collection of Anglo-Irish Songs and ballads [4th series] (1922) [Hylnd De. 1996].
  • Brooke, Charlotte, Reliques of Irish Poetry ((Dublin: Christie 1789).
  • Brooke, Stopford A. and T. W. Rolleston, A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue (London 1900; 1915). [see details].
  • Brophy, James & Eamon Grennan, New Irish Writing (Twayne 1989).
  • Bunting, Edward, A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music (Dublin:W. Power 1796).

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  • Carpenter, Andrew, & Peter Fallon, eds., The Writers: Sense of Ireland (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1980), 224pp. [see details].
  • Carroll, D., ed., New Poets of Ireland (Denver 1963).
  • Carson, Ciaran, ed., The Yellow Nib (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2006), q.pp.
  • Carty, Ciaran, and Dermot Bolger, eds., The Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction (New Islands 1995).
  • Casey, Daniel J., and Linda M. Casey, Stories by Contemporary Irish Women, eds. (Syracuse 1991).
  • Cashman, [John], and [?] Quin, Irish Poems for Young People (dublin: Wolfhound [q.d]).
  • Collins, Charles McCarthy, Celtic Irish Songs and Song-writers, selection with intro. and memoirs (Dublin 1885).
  • Colum, Padraic, An Anthology of Irish Verse (NY:Boni & Liveright 1922).
  • ——, ed., A Treasury of Irish Folklore (NY 1954) [see details].
  • Concanen, Matthew, Miscellaneous Poems (Lond 1724) [contains poems by Delany, Parnell, Philips, Sheridan, Smedley, Sterling, Swift, and Ward].
  • Confounded Language{ Nine Poems by Nine Irish Writers (Bloodaxe/Dufour 1992) [Dawe; Heaney, trans. Inferno III.22-52; Foley; McGuckian ‘The Difficulty Age’; Montague; Muldoon; Ní Chuilleanáin; Ormsby].
  • Connolly’s Household Library of Irish Poets (1887).
  • Cooke, John, The Dublin Book of Irish Verse (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1909; OUP 1915; rep. Hodges Figgis & Co; Lon: Humphrey Milford/OUP new. imp. 1924) [804]pp. with index of first lines.
  • Craig, Patricia, ed., The Rattle of the North: An Anthology of Ulster Prose (Blackstaff Press 1992) [0 85640 464 0 pb], 464pp. [50 authors; see details].
  • ——, ed., The Oxford Book of Ireland (Oxford: OUP 1998), 514pp.
  • ——, ed., 12 Irish Ghost Stories (Oxford: OUP 1998), 143pp.
  • ——, ed., The Belfast Anthology (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1999), xvii, 441pp.
  • Croker, T. Crofton, ed., Popular Songs of Ireland (London: H Colburn 1839).
  • ——, ed., The Historical Songs of Ireland: Illustrative of the Revolutionary Struggle between James II and William III (London: Percey Society 1841).
  • Cross, Tom Peete & Clark Harris Slover, ed., Ancient Irish Tales, (NY: Henry Holt & Co. 1936), & Do. [facs. rep. edn.] (NY: Barnes & Noble Books 1996), 609pp. [see details].
  • Crotty, Patrick, ed., Modern Irish Poetry (Belfast: Blackstaff 1995), 320pp. [1930s-1990s; see details].

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  • Davie, Donald, ed., The Late Augustans: Longer Poems of the Later Eighteenth Century (London: Heinemann 1968).
  • Davidson, Peter, ed., Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and IRISH VERSE 1625-1600 (OUP 1998), 636pp.
  • Dawe, Gerald, ed., The Younger Irish Poets (Belf: Blackstaff 1982); revised as The New Younger Irish Poets (1991) [0 85640 460 8 pb]; another ed., (Bloodaxe/Dufour 1992) [ see details].
  • Deane, J. F. [publisher/editor], Dedalus Irish Poets (Dublin:Dedalus 1992), 278pp. [see details].
  • Deane, John F., ed., Irish Poetry of Faith and Doubt: The Cold Heaven [Wolfhound Anthologies of Irish Poetry] (Dublin: Wolfhound 1990) [see details].
  • Deane, Seamus, gen. ed. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 550-1990, 3 vols. (Derry: Field Day 1991) [see details].
  • Delanty, Greg, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Jumping Off Shadows (Cork UP 1995), incl. Michael Davitt, Drucan, and other grads. of UUC.
  • Dolan, Margaret, ed., Prize-winning Radio Stories (Mercier 1995), 202pp.
  • Donovan, Katie, A Norman Jeffares, and Brendan Kennelly, eds., Ireland’s Women, Writings Past and Present (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1994),.
  • Douglas, Ronald MacDonald, The Irish Book: A Miscellany of facts and fancies, Folklore and fragments, poems and prose, to do with Ireland and her people (Dublin 1936).
  • Duffy, Charles Gavan [anon.], The Spirit of the Nation: Ballads and Songs by the writers of the Nation with Original and Ancient Music arranged for the Voice and Pianoforte (Dublin James Duffy 1843; 2nd enl. edn. Dublin & London 1882), and Do. [new ed.] (Dublin: Duffy & Son 1898), 368pp.
  • Duffy, Charles Gavan, ed., The Ballad Poetry of Ireland (Duffy 1845).
  • Duffy, Noel, & thoe Dorgan, Watching the River Flow: A Century of Irish Poetry (Dublin: Poetry Ireland/RTÉ 1999), 264pp.
  • Dunbar, Robert, ed., Enchanted Journeys: Fifty Years of Irish Writing for Children (Dublin: O’Brien Press 1997), 192pp.
  • Dunne, Sean, ed. The Cork Anthology (Cork UP 1993), xiii, 434pp.
  • Dunne, Sean, ed., The Ireland Anthology, introduction and notes by George O’Brien (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1997), xxxi, 455pp.

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  • Edkins, Joshua., ed, A Collection of Poems (1789 & eds.).
  • Ellis, Hercules, ed., Romances and Ballads of Ireland (Duffy, 1850).
  • Enright, Anne, ed., Granta Book of the Irish Short Story, ed. by (London: Granta 2010, 2011), xviii, 442pp.; 20 cm. [see details].

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  • Fallon, Peter, & Derek Mahon, eds., The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990), 462pp. [see details].
  • Fallon, Peter, & Sean Golden, eds, Soft Day: A Miscellany of Contemporary Irish Writing (Dublin: Wolfhound; Chicago: Notre Dame 1980), 320pp.
  • Farleigh, John, ed., Far from the Land: Contemporary Irish Plays [Vincent Woods, ‘At the Black Pig’s Dyke’; Daragh Carville, ‘Language Roulette’; Enda Walsh, ‘Disco Pigs’; Donal O’Kelly, ‘Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son’; Pat McCabe, ‘Frank Pig Says Hello’; Conall Morrison, ‘Hard to Believe’] (London: Methuen 1998), 340pp.
  • Flanagan, Laurence, The Darling of My Heart: 2,000 Years of Irish Love Writing (Gill & Macmillan 1994).
  • Flanagan, Laurence, Bottle, Draught and Keg: An Irish Anthology ((Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995), 249pp.
  • Fiacc, Padraic, ed., The Wearing of the Black: an Anthology of Contemporary Ulster Poetry (Blackstaff 1974).
  • Fitzmaurice, Gabriel, ed., Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices (Wolfhound 1993), 240pp [140 poems by 60 poets, Irish ones also trans.] [288pp.].
  • Fitzmaurice, Gabriel, ed., Poems I Wish I’d Written (Cló Iar-chonnachta 1996), 131pp.
  • Flood, W. H. Grattan, ed., The Spirit of the Nation (Dublin 1911).
  • Flower, Robin, Love’s Bitter Sweet [n.d.].
  • Forkner, Ben, A New Book of Dubliners (London: Minerva 1989).
  • Forkner, Ben, ed., with foreword by Anthony Burgess, Modern Irish Short Stories, ed. (London: Michael Joseph 1980), 560pp. [see details].
  • Grattan Freyer, Modern Irish Writing (Irish Humanities Centre 1979), 309pp. [see details].

  • Garritty, Devin A., ed., 44 Irish Short Stories; An Anthology of Irish Sort Fiction ... from Yeats to O’Connor (Connecticut: Devin-Adiar Co. [1954]), 500pp. [latest copryright date assigned to any story 1953; still marketing 1993; see details as details].
  • Devin A. Garrity, ed.,The Mentor Book of Irish Poetry : From AE to Yeats, including translations from the Irish, edited and with an introduction by Devin A. Garrity (NY: New American Library 1965), 432pp. [see details].
  • Devin A Garrity, The Mentor Book of Irish Poetry: From AE to Yeats (1965)
  • Gonzalez, Alexander G., ed., Short Stories from the Irish Renaissance: An Anthology (Whitston 1993).
  • Grant, David, sel. and intro., The Crack in the Emerald: New Irish Plays, Nick Hern Books (London: Nick Hern Books 1993; 2nd ed. 1994). [see details].
  • Graves, A. P., The Irish Song Book [n.d.?].
  • Graves, A. P., The Book of Irish Poetry (Talbot 1900?).
  • Robert Greacen, et. al. On The Barricades (Dublin: New Frontier Press 1944), 37pp. [see details].
  • ——, ed., Poems from Ulster (Erskine Mayne 1942).
  • ——, ed., Northern Harvest (Derrick MacCord 1944).
  • ——, ed., Irish Harvest (Dublin: New Frontiers Press 1946), 158pp. [see details].
  • ——, ed., with Valentine Iremonger, ,Contemporary Irish Poetry (London: Faber & Faber 1949), 173pp. [see details].
  • Greene, David H., ed., An Anthology of Irish Literature (New York 1954). [see details].
  • Greene, David, and Frank O’Connor, A Golden Treasure of Irish Poetry a.d. 600-1200 (London 1967; rep. Brandon 1990).

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  • Haining, Peter, ed., Great Irish Stories of the Supernatural (Souvenir 1992), 379pp.
  • ——, ed., Great Irish Tales of the Unimaginable: Stories of fantasy and Myth (Souvenir 1994), 309pp.
  • ——, ed., Great Irish Detective Stories (Pan 1995), 368pp. [hbk. Souvenir].
  • ——, ed., Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear (Souvenir 1995), 301pp.
  • ——, ed., Great Irish Stories of Childhood (London: Souvenir 1997), 271pp.
  • Hardiman, James, ed., Irish Minstrelsy; or, Bardic Remains of Ireland; with English Poetical Translations, 2 vols. (London Robins 1831; rep. New York 1971).
  • Harmon, Maurice, ed. and intro., Irish Poetry After Yeats: Seven Poets [Wolfhound Anthols. of Irish Poetry] (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1979; rep. 1997) [see details].
  • Healy, J. N. The Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads, Vol. 1 (Cork 1967);.
  • Healy, J. N., Love Songs of the Irish (Cork 1977);.
  • Henry, Sam, Songs of the People (Coleraine 1924), No. 114.
  • Hovelaque, H[enri] Anthologie de la Littérature irlandaise des Origines au XXe siècle (Paris Libraire Delagrave 1924) [professeur au Lycée Saint-Louis].
  • Hayes’ Ballads of Ireland.
  • Hercules Ellis, ed., Songs of Ireland (2nd series 1849);
  • ed., Songs of Ireland (Dublin: James Duffy 1845), xvi, 238pp.; and  Do. [rev. edn.] (1846; 1869), ‘assisted by Eugene O’Curry’ [with Gaelic typography; see details - details].
  • Hewitt, John, ed., The Rhyming Weavers, and Other Country Poets of Antrim and Down (Blackstaff 1979).
  • Hoagland, Kathleen, ed., 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry: The Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present (NY: Devin Adair 1947).
  • Hooley, Ruth, ed., The Female Line: Northern Irish women Writers (NI Women’s Rights Movt. 1985), 190pp. [see details].
  • Hull, Eleanor, Poem Book of the Gael (Chatto & Windus 1912).
  • Hyde, Douglas, Love Songs of Connaught (1893) [IUP rep. 1969].
  • Hyde, Douglas, Religious Songs of Connacht (1906) [IUP rep. 1972].
  • Harrington, John P., ed., Modern Irish Drama [Norton Critical Edition] (NY: Norton & Co. 1991), 577pp. [see details].

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  • Irish Times, Modern Irish stories (1985) [incl. McGahern, Trevor, et al.].
  • Irvine, John, ed., The Flowering Branch, an Anthology of Irish Poetry Past and Present (Belfast: MacCord 1945).

  • Jeffares A. N[orman], & Anthony Kamm, ed., Irish Childhoods: An Anthology (Collins 1987; rep. Gill & Macmillan, pbk. 1992), 384pp. [see details.]
  • Jeffares, A. N[orman], Ireland’s Love Poems (London: Kyle Cathie 2000), 240pp.
  • Jeffares, A. Norman, & Peter van de Kamp., eds., Irish Literature - The Eighteenth Century: An Annotated Anthology [foreword by Brendan Kennelly] (Irish Academic Press 2006), 402pp. [see details under Jeffares - as supra.]
  • Jeffares, A. Norman, & Peter van de Kamp., eds., Irish Literature - The Nineteenth Century: An Annotated Anthology [foreword by Terence Brown] (Irish Academic Press 2006), 2 vols. [both 534pp.; see details under Jeffares - as supra.]
  • Joyce, P. W., Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (Dublin 1909).

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  • Keane, Molly, & Sally Phibbs [dg. of], Ireland: An Anthology (HarperCollins 1993), 288pp.
  • Keefe, J., trans., Irish Poems: from Cromwell to the Famine; A Miscellany (Lewisburg and London 1977).
  • Kemmy, Jim, ed., The Limerick Anthology (Gill & Macmillan 1997) [Kate O’Brien, Richard Harris, Eamon de Valera, Mick Mackay, Gerald Griffin; and impressions of Sean O’Faolain, Christopher Isherwood, Siegfried Sasson, Harold Pinter, and Heinrich Boll.].
  • Kelly, A. A., ed., Pillars of the House: Irish Women Poets (Dublin: Wolfhound 1988).
  • Kelly, A. A., ed., Fifteen hundred years of Irish travel writing Wandering Women: Two centuries of travel out of Ireland (Wolfhound 1995). [also US: Dufour].
  • Kennedy, Patrick, Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland [q.d.];.
  • Kennelly, Brendan, The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1970), 428pp. [see details].
  • ——, intro., Landmarks of Irish Drama (Methuen 1988), xlvi, 538pp. [see details].
  • ——, ed., Between Innocence and Peace; Favourite poems of Ireland (1993).
  • Kiberd, Declan, and Gabriel Fitzmaurice, An Crann faoi Bláth/The Flowering Tree (Wolfhound 1989).
  • Kiely, Benedict, ed., The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1981), 544pp. [see details].
  • Kiely, Benedict, sel., Anthologie de Nouvelles Irlandaises, trans. under direction of Jacqueline Genet [RCP D’études Irlandaises] (Université de Caen 1987).
  • Killen, John, ed. The Irish Christmas Book (pb. 1992) [incl. Behan, Yeats,.
  • Kavanagh, Joyce, Heaney, Maeve Binchy, B. MacLaverty, et mult. al.].
  • Killen, John, ed. The Irish Christmas Book (pb. 1992) [inl. Behan, Yeats, Kavanagh, Joyce, Heaney, Maeve Binchy, B. MacLaverty, et mult. al.].
  • King, Sophia Hillan, & Sean MacMahon, eds., Hope and History: Eyewitness Accounts of life in Twentieth-Century Ulster (Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press 1996).Sophia Hillan King & Sean MacMahon, eds., Hope and History: Eyewitness Accounts of life in Twentieth-Century Ulster (Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press 1996). 266pp. [see details].
  • Kinsella, Thomas, ed., The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (OUP 1986).
  • Knott, Eleanor, Irish Syllabic Poetry 1200-1600 [2nd edn.] (Dublin 1957)

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  • Lampe, David, and Dennis Mahoney, Five Irish Poets, with preface by Thomas Kinsella (White Pine Press/Deldalus ?1990).
  • Lays for Patriots (Dublin:Samuel B. Oldham 1848) [a Protestant anthol.].
  • Lenox-Conyngham, Melosina, ed., Diaries of Ireland: An Anthology, 1590-1987 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2012), 288pp. [see details].
  • Lifelines, ed. students of Wesley College (1992; Penguin 1993), 176pp. [foreword Seamus Heaney].
  • Leatherdale, Clive, ed., The Book of Irish Weirdness : A Treasury of Classic Tales of the Supernatural, Spooky, and Strange (NY: Sterling Publ. Co. 1997).
  • Edna Longley, ed., The Bloodaxe Book of Twentieth Century Poetry from Britain and Ireland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 2001), 368pp. [incls. W. B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, Austin Clarke, John Hewitt, Patrick Kavanagh, Michael Longley, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Durcan, Ciaran Carson, Medbh McGuckian & Paul Muldoon among 59 other poets.].
  • Lucas, Angela M., Anglo-Irish Poems of the Middle Ages (Columba 1995) [trans. ad comms. on 14th c. period].
  • Lucy, Seán, Love Poems of the Irish (Cork : Mercier 1967).
  • Lyra Hibernica Sacra.
  • Lucas, Angela M. Anglo-Irish Poems of the Middle Ages (Columbia Press 1995), 208pp. [bilingual edn. of mss. in BL Harley 413].
  • Lucie-Smith, Edward, ed., & intro., British Poetry Since 1945 (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1970) , 416pp. [see details].

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  • McMahon, T., ed., Casket of Irish Pearls, (1846).
  • MacMahon, Sean, ed., 1000 Years of Poetry: A Millenial Anthology (Marino 2000), 192pp.
  • MacMahon, Seán, ed., The Derry Anthology (Belfast: Blackstaff 2002), 256pp.
  • MacMonagle, Niall, ed., Lifelines 2: Letters from Famous People about their favourite films ((Dublin: Town House 1994), 334pp.
  • Mercier, Vivian and D. Greene (eds.), 1000 Years of Irish Poetry (New York 1953).
  • Mercier, Vivian, and D. Greene (eds.), 1000 Years of Irish Prose: The Literary Revival (New York 1952; 1961).
  • Mac Anna, Ferdia, ed., An Anthology of Irish Comic Writing (Michael Joseph 1995; Penguin 1996), 411[416]pp.
  • MacDermott, Martin, ed., The New Spirit of the Nation (London: T. Fisher Unwin; New Irish Library 1894; (Dublin: Sealy 1895).
  • MacDermott, Martin, Songs and Ballads of Young Ireland (London: Downey 1896).
  • MacDonagh, Donagh, and Lennox Robinson, eds., The Oxford Book of Irish Verse: XVllth Century-XXth Century (London:Clarendon 1958).
  • MacDonagh, Steve, ed., Irish Short Stories (Dingle: Brandon [1998]), 284pp.
  • MacDonald, Iain, and Michael Collins, eds., Sruth na Maoile: modern Gaelic poetry from Scotland and Ireland (Coisceim/Canongate 1993), 228pp [trilingual].
  • Madden, R. R. Literary Remains of the United Irishman, (ed. C.P. Meehan, 1887).
  • Madden-Simpson, Janet, ed., Woman’s part: An Anthology of Short Fiction by and about Irishwomen, 1890-1960 (Dublin :Arlen House 1984).
  • Mahon, Derek, The Sphere Book of Modern Irish Poetry (Sphere 1972) [pb 0-14-058609-1];.
  • Mangan, James C. and J. O’Daly, The Poets and Poetry of Munster (Dublin 1849).
A David Marcus Tribute
  • Marcus, David, ed., Irish Poets 1924-1974 (London 1975) [see details].
  • ——, ed., The Bodley Head Book of Irish Short Stories (London 1980], rep. as Irish Short Stories (London: Sceptre 1992), 379pp. [see details].
  • ——, ed., State of the Art: An Anthology of Irish Short Stories (Sceptre 1992), 377pp. [36 authors, half of these women; incl. Emma Cooke, Anne Enright, Ita Daly, Shane Connaughton, Peter Hollywood, Brian Power, Seán MacMathuna, Clare Boylan, Aidan Mathews, Mary Leland, Rita Kelly, Mary O’Donnell, Mary Dorcey, Maeve Binchy] [0-340-57400-3].
  • ——, ed., Alternative Loves: Irish Gay and Lesbian Stories (Dublin: Martello [Mercier] 1994), 237pp.
  • ——, ed., Irish Christmas Stories (Bloomsbury 1995 [rep.]), 256pp.; other edn., 1997, 2000, &c).
  • ——, ed., Phoenix Irish Short Stories 1997 (Phoenix House 1997), 253pp. [inc. Colum McCann, Maxim Crowley, Mike McCormack, John Dunne, Sheila Barrett, Eugene McCabe, et al.]; another edn. (London: Phoenix House 1998), 237pp. [incls. Eilis Ni Dhuibne, Emma Donoghue, Blanaid McKinney, William Wall, Gillman Noonan, Kaite O’Reilly, Desmond Traynor].
  • ——, ed., Mothers and Daughters: Irish Short Stories (London: Bloomsbury 1998), 256pp. [incl. Julia O’Faolain, Michael McLaverty, Clare Boylan, Liam O’Flaherty, Mary Lavin, Mary Leland, Edna O’Brien, et al.].
    ——, ed., The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories (London: Faber & Faber 2005).
  • McCarthy, Justin, with Charles Welsh, et al., eds., Irish Literature (Philadelphia: [Notre Dame UP] 1904), 10 vols in 5. [see details].
  • McCarthy, John, ed., More Stories from the Great Irish Writers (Mercier 1995), 160pp.
  • McCormack, W. J., ed., Ferocious Humanism: A Critical Anthology of Irish Poetry from Swift to Yeats (London: J. M. Dent 1998), 352pp.
  • Donagh MacDonagh, ed. & intro., Poems From Ireland, with a preface by R. M. Smylie (Dublin: Irish Times 1944), 91pp. [see details].
  • MacDonogh, Steve, ed., Irish Short Stories (Dingle: Brandon 1998), 272pp.
  • Megaw, Arthur Stanley, ed. Patriotic Song: A Book of English Verse, Being an Anthology of the Patriotic Poetry of the British Empire from the Defeat of the Spanish Armada till the Death of Queen Victoria, (London: C. Arthur Pearson 1901) [incls. Irish section; see details].
  • Mercier, Vivian, ed., Great Irish Short Stories (1964; rep. Abacus 1sf992).
  • Meyer, Kuno, Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry (Constable 1911; 2nd ed. 1913).
  • Montague, John, ed., Bitter Harvest: An anthology of Contemporary Irish Verse (NY: Scribner’s 1989).
  • Montague, John, ed., The Faber Book of Irish Verse (London: Faber 1974, 1978); retitled The Book of Irish Verse (New York 1976).
  • Morash, Chris, The Hungry Voice (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989) [foreword Terence Brown].
  • Morgan, Kenneth, and Almut Schlepper, eds., Human rights Have no Borders (Dublin: Marino 1998), 176pp.
  • Morton, R., Folksongs in Ulster (Cork 1970).
  • Muldoon, Paul, ed., The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (London: Faber & Faber 1986), 416pp. [sel. of 10 post-war poets: Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian].
  • Murphy, G., ed., Early Irish Lyrics (Oxford 1956).
  • Murphy, Lizz, ed., Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (Oxford: Spinifex 1997), 373pp. [1 875559 51 1].

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  • Nathan, George J., ed., Five Great Modern Irish Plays (NY:Modern Library n.d.), contains Playboy, Juno, riders to the Sea, Spreading the News, Shadow and Substance. [Whelan Catl. 32].
  • Ní Dhuibhne, Eilis, Voices on the Wind: Women Poets of the Celtic Twilight (New Island Books 1995), 144pp. [poems of Katharine Tynan; Eva Gore-Booth; Susan Mitchell; Nora Chesson Hopper; Ethna Carbery; Dora Sigerson Shorter].

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  • O’Brien, Kate Cruise, with Mary Maher, ed., If Only (Dublin: Poolbeg), 314pp.
  • Ó Casaidhe, Séamus, ed., A Book of Irish and Scottish Gaelic Verse (1928) [see details].
  • O’Connor, Frank, Kings, Lords, and Commons (Macmillan 1961) [incorporates earlier collections of trans.].
  • O’Connor, Frank, The Little Monasteries: Poems translated from the Irish (Dublin 1963).
  • O’Connor, Rebecca, ed., Scéalta: Short Stories by Irish Women (www.telegrambooks.com 2006), 174pp. [incls. Julia O’Faolain, Claire Keegan, et al.].
  • O’Donoghue, D. J., ed., The Humour of Ireland (London & Newcastle: Walter Scott 1894), 432pp. [see details].
  • Ó Duill, Greagóir, ed., Filíocht Uladh 1960-1985(BAC: Coiscéim 1986), 258pp. [see details].
  • O’Grady, S. H., & G. Pertwee, eds., Reciter’s Treasury of Irish Verse and Prose, 2 vol (1892).
  • O’Leary, Philip, & Brian Ó Conchubhair, eds., Drámaíocht na Gaeilge: ón Dara Cogadh Domhanda ar Aghaidh (An Spidéal, Co. na Gaillimhe: Cló Iar-Chonnacht 2022), 302pp. see details].
  • O’Lochlainn, Colm, ed., Irish Street Ballads (3 Candles 1962).
  • O’Daly, John, trans. & ed., Reliques of Irish Jacobite Poetry (Dublin,1844).
  • O’Daly, John, trans. & ed., Fenian Poems (Dublin 1859; 2nd series, Dublin 1861).
  • Ó Faoláin, Seán, [ed.,] The Silver Branch (NY: Viking P. 1938).
  • O’Rahilly, T. F., ed., Danta Gradh (Dublin 1916).
  • O’Rahilly, T. F., ed., Measgra Danta: Miscellaneous Irish Poems (Dublin & Cork 1927).
  • O’Sullivan, Denis, ed., Songs and Ballads of the Emerald Isle [n.d.].
  • O’Sullivan, Donal, Songs of the Irish (Dublin: Browne and Nolan 1960).
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  • Ormsby, Frank, ed., Poets from the North of Ireland (Blackstaff 1979; new rev. ed. 1990) [see details].
  • Ormsby, Frank, ed., A Rage for Order: poetry of the Northern Ireland troubles (Blackstaff 1992), 361pp.
  • Ó Tuama, Seán, & T. Kinsella, eds., An Duanaire 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed (Dublin 1981).
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    Ponsonby, Arthur [author of English Diaries from the 16th to the 20th centuries, Methuen 1923], Scottish and Irish Diaries &c (1927), contains Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, and his daughter Mary Rich; Elizabeth Freke; Rowland Davies; Jonathan Swift; John Scott; Lady Arabella Denny; TW tone; John Fitzgerald; JW Croker [170-73]; Daniel O’Connell; Thomas Moore; John Mitchel [184ff.].
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  • Shields, Hugh, et al., eds., Irish Folk Music Studies 4 [1982-85] (Dublin:Folk Music Soc. of Irel. 1985).
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  • Simmons, James, ed., Soundings (Belfast:Blackstaff 1979), 89pp. [incl. Michael Foley, John Morrow, Bernard MacLaverty, Frank Ormsby, Michael Stephesn, Ewart Milne].
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  • Smyth, Ailbhe, Wildish Things: Anthology of Women’s Poems (Dublin: Attic 1989).
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  • Storey, Mark, ed., Poetry and Ireland Since 1800: A Source Book (London: Routledge 1988) [essays and intros. by Ferguson, Davis, Renan, Arnold, Gavan Duffy, Yeats, Hyde, Lionel Johnson, Eglinton, A. Gregory, James Stephens, Kavanagh, and Kinsella].
  • Stritch, A. R., ed., Lays and Lyrics of the Pan-Celtic Society (1889).
  • Sullivan, A. M., ed., Irish National Poems by Irish Priests (1911).
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  • Taylor, Geoffrey Basil, Irish Poets of the Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge & KP 1951; 1958).
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  • Webb, D. A. ed., TCD Anthology 1895-1945: Extracts in Prose and Verse from TCD; A College Miscellany (Tralee: The Kerryman [1945]), with ills. by A. N. Jeffares.
  • Welch, Charles, Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics, Vol. 2 (NY: [?]Podge Pub. Co. 1907).
  • Willougby, Bob, trans. [Irish adviser, John Cabell], Voices from Ancient Ireland: A Book of Early Irish Poetry (London: Pan Books 1981), 64pp.. ill. [photos by Willoughby].
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  • Yeats, W. B., ed., A Book of Irish Verse selected from modern writers with an introduction [‘Modern Irish Poetry’] and notes by W. B. Yeats (London: Methuen 1895; 2nd Edn. 1900, 1912, 1920 [4th edn.]).
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  • Zimmerman, G.-D, Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs 1780-1900 (Dublin:Allen Figgis 1967); in America as Songs of Irish Rebellion: Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs 1780-1900 (Penn.:Folklore Associates Inc. 1967).

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