Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-loreBrown, Stephen J. M. (Stephen James Meredith)
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Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-lore
Brown, Stephen J. M. (Stephen James Meredith)
English fiction -- Irish authors -- Bibliography; Ireland -- In literature -- Bibliography
A reprint of a book first published many years ago. An
account of the life, exploits, and death of a Wicklow outlaw,
1798-1805. The anecdotes are for the most part given as handed
down among the Wicklow peasantry. They are not arranged in
any special order. Many of them are so wonderful as to be
scarcely credible, yet most of them are, in the main, well
authenticated. The style is turgid and highflown to the verge
of absurdity.
=CANNING, Hon. Albert S.=, D.L. for Counties Down and Derry. Born 1832,
second son of 1st Baron Garvagh. Resides in Rostrevor, Co. Down. Has
published about thirty works, chiefly on Scott, Macaulay, Dickens, and
Shakespeare. Also religious works, and two books about Ireland.
⸺ BALDEARG O’DONNELL: a Tale of 1690. Two Vols. (_Marcus Ward_). 1881.
This O’Donnell was for a short time an independent,
half-guerilla, leader on the Irish side. Afterwards, on the
promise of a pension, he deserted to the English. “He had
the shallowness, the arrogance, the presumption, the want of
sincerity and patriotism of too many Irish chiefs”—(D’Alton:
_History of Ireland_).
⸺ HEIR AND NO HEIR. Pp. 271. (_Eden Remington_). 5_s._ 1890.
The scene opens in Dalragh (Garvagh, Co. Derry), shifts to
London and back again. Time: the eve of the outbreak of
’98. The people, with their sharply divided religious and
political opinions are well described, and the northern accent
and idiom ring true. Two priests, Father O’Connor and his
curate, O’Mahony, the one imbued with loyalist principles, the
other leaning towards the United Irishmen, are naturally and
sympathetically drawn. The plot is founded on the well known
story of the disinheritance of George Canning, the father
of the Prime Minister, here called Randolph Stratford, a
good-hearted and popular scapegrace, easily led astray. It is a
pleasant, healthy, and well told tale.
=CANNON, Frances E.=
⸺ IERNE O’NEAL. Pp. 446. (_Whitcomb & Tombs_). 3_s._ 6_d._ net. 1911.
A long, gentle, and pleasing tale of an Irish girl of good
family, from her childhood with her grandfather in Ireland to
her life in London society (including a little turn as factory
girl) and her marriage.—(TIMES LIT. SUPPL.).
=“CARBERY, Ethna”; Anna Macmanus.= Mrs. Macmanus, wife of Seumas
Macmanus, was a Miss Johnston. She was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim,
in 1866. Her early death in 1902 robbed her friends of a most lovable
personality, and Ireland of one of the most promising of her poets.
Her poems in _The Four Winds of Erinn_ are full of passionate love of
Ireland. A short notice of her life will be found prefixed to the volume
just mentioned.
⸺ THE PASSIONATE HEARTS. Pp. 128. (_Gill_). 2_s._ 1903.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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