Although on many of our subjects little more remains to be said than what appears in the text, yet the treatment on the whole does not claim to be exhaustive, and therefore each writer has, at our request, appended to his contribution a short and carefully selected bibliography, so that those who are interested may have a guide for further reading. For our part, we consider these lists of works of reference to be a highly useful feature. It is a glorious thing for us, who are proud, one of us of his Irish descent and the other of his Irish birth, to think that the sons and daughters of mother Erin have so conspicuously distinguished themselves in such varied spheres of activity in every age and in so many lands, and that we were privileged to make public the record of their achievements in a form never before attempted. We have other works in contemplation, and some actually in preparation, which will go far to strengthen the claims put forward in this book. In the meantime, we trust that the reception accorded to it will be such as to encourage us to persevere in making still better known the Glories of Ireland. JOSEPH DUNN P.J. LENNOX _Catholic University of America_, _Washington, D.C._ November, 1914 CONTENTS THE ROMANCE OF IRISH HISTORY Sir Roger Casement, C.M.G. THE ISLAND OF SAINTS AND SCHOLARS Very Rev. Canon D'Alton, M.R.I.A., LL.D. IRISH MONKS IN EUROPE Rev. Columba Edmonds, O.S.B. THE IRISH AND THE SEA William H. Babcock, LL.B. IRISH LOVE OF LEARNING Rev. P.S. Dinneen, M.A., R.U.I. IRISH MEN OF SCIENCE Sir Bertram C.A. Windle, Sc.D., M.D. LAW IN IRELAND Laurence Ginnell, B.L., M.P. IRISH MUSIC W.H. Grattan Flood, Mus.D. IRISH METAL WORK Diarmid Coffey IRISH MANUSCRIPTS Louis Ely O'Carroll, B.A., B.L. THE RUINS OF IRELAND Francis J. Bigger, M.R.I.A. MODERN IRISH ART D.J. O'Donoghue IRELAND AT PLAY Thomas E. Healy THE FIGHTING RACE Joseph I.C. Clarke THE SORROWS OF IRELAND John Jerome Rooney, A.M., LL.D. IRISH LEADERS Shane Leslie IRISH HEROINES Alice Milligan IRISH NATIONALITY Lord Ashbourne FAMOUS IRISH SOCIETIES John O'Dea THE IRISH IN THE UNITED STATES Michael J. O'Brien THE IRISH IN CANADA James J. Walsh, M.D. THE IRISH IN SOUTH AMERICA Marion Mulhall THE IRISH IN AUSTRALASIA Brother Leo, F.S.C., M.A. THE IRISH IN SOUTH AFRICA A. Hilliard Atteridge THE IRISH LANGUAGE AND LETTERS Douglas Hyde, LL.D. NATIVE IRISH POETRY Georges Dottin IRISH HEROIC SAGAS Eleanor Hull IRISH PRECURSORS OF DANTE Sidney Gunn, M.A. IRISH INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH LITERATURE Edmund C. Quiggin, M.A. IRISH FOLK LORE Alfred Perceval Graves IRISH WIT AND HUMOR Charles L. Graves THE IRISH THEATRE Joseph Holloway IRISH JOURNALISTS Michael MacDonagh THE IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL Horatio S. Krans, Ph.D.