Part I

. “The Gods” (Tuatha De Danaan, Lugh, The Coming of the Gael, Angus Og, the Dagda, Fate of Children of Lir, &c.); II. “The Fianna” (Finn, Oisin, Diarmuid, and Grania). The Finn Cycle is treated as being wholly legendary.

⸺ A BOOK OF SAINTS AND WONDERS. (_Murray_). 5_s._ 1907.

A series of very short (half page or so) and disconnected stories of fragmentary anecdotes. Told in language which is a literal translation from the Irish, and in the manner of illiterate peasants. First, there are stories of the saints, all quite fanciful, of course, and usually devoid of definite meaning. Then there is the Voyage of Maeldune, a strange piece of fantastic imagination often degenerating into extravagance and silliness. The book is not suitable for certain readers owing to naturalistic expressions.

⸺ THE KILTARTAN WONDER-BOOK. Pp. 103. 9 in. + 7. (_Maunsel_). 3_s._ 6_d._ net. Illustr. by Margaret Gregory. Linen cover. 1910.

Sixteen typical folk-tales collected in Kiltartan, a barony in Galway, on the borders of Clare, from the lips of old peasants. “I have not changed a word in these stories as they were told to me.”—(Note at end). But some transpositions of parts have been made. It does not appear whether the stories were told to Lady Gregory in Irish or in English. Nothing unsuited to children. All the tales are distinctly _modern_ in tone if not in origin. The illustrations are quaint and original, with their crude figures vividly coloured in flat tints.

=GRIERSON, Elizabeth.=

⸺ THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CELTIC STORIES. Pp. 324. (_Black_). 6_s._ Twelve very good illustrations in colour from drawings by Allan Stewart. 1908.

Sixteen fairy, folk, and hero-tales, partly Irish, partly Scotch, dealing, among other things, with wonderful talking animals that prove to be human beings transformed, adventures of king’s sons amid all kinds of wonders, &c. One is “The Fate of the Children of Lir,” and there are five or six about Fin. There is little or no comicality. The style is simple and refined, free from the usual defects of folk-lore. The book is beautifully and attractively produced.

⸺ THE SCOTTISH FAIRY BOOK. Pp. 384. (_Fisher Unwin_). 6_s._ 100 Ill. by M. M. Williams. 1910.

Same series as Mr. A. P. Graves’s _Irish Fairy Book_, _q.v._ Illustr. in a similar way. Not all of these tales will be new to Irish children.

=GRIERSON, Rev. Robert.= Resides at 41 Ormond Road, Rathmines. His two books are long out of print. I have been unable to obtain information about them. They are not in the British Museum Library.

⸺ THE INVASION OF CROMLEIGH: a Story of the Times.

⸺ BALLYGOWNA. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1898.

=GRIFFIN, Gerald.= Is one of our foremost novelists of the old school. Born 1803, died 1840. Brought up on the banks of the Shannon, twenty-eight miles from Limerick, at twenty he went to London, where all his writing was done. Two years before his death he became a Christian Brother. “He was the first,” says Dr. Sigerson, “to present several of our folk customs, tales, and ancient legends in English prose.” P. J. Kenedy, of New York, publishes an edition of his works in seven volumes, and Messrs. Duffy have an edition in ten vols. at 2_s._ each.

⸺ HOLLAND TIDE. Pp. 378. (_Simpkin & Marshall_). 1827.

First series of _Tales of the Munster Festivals_, _q.v._ Often published separately.

⸺ THE COLLEGIANS; or, The Colleen Bawn. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1828]. Still reprinted. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75. A new ed. forthcoming (_Talbot Press_). 2_s._ 6_d._

Pronounced the best Irish novel by Aubrey de Vere, Gavan Duffy, and Justin M’Carthy. Its main interest lies in its being a tragedy of human passion. The character of Hardress Cregan, the chief actor, is powerfully and pitilessly analysed. Eily O’Connor is one of the most lovable characters in fiction. Danny Man, with his dog-like fidelity; Myles, the mountainy man, simple yet shrewd; Fighting Poll of the Reeks; Hardress Cregan’s mother, are characters that live in the mind, like the memories of real persons. There are pictures, too, of the life of the day, the drunken, duelling squireen, the respectable middle-class Dalys, the manners and ways of the peasantry, whose quaint, humorous, anecdotal talk is perfectly reproduced, but who are shown merely from without. The scene is laid partly in Limerick and partly in Killarney. Dion Boucicault’s drama “The Colleen Bawn” is founded on this story, which itself is founded on a real murder-trial in which O’Connell defended the prisoner and which Griffin reported for the press.

⸺ CARD-DRAWING, &c. 1829.

Second series of _Tales of the Munster Festivals_, _q.v._

⸺ THE CHRISTIAN PHYSIOLOGIST. Tales illustrative of the Five Senses. Pp. xxvi. + 376. (_Bull_). 1830.

The tales are:—1. _The Kelp Gatherers_; 2. _The Day of Trial_; 3. _The Voluptuary Cured_; 4. _The Self Consumed_; and, 5. _The Selfish Crotarie_. All are clever little stories of ancient and modern Ireland, several of which have been reprinted separately.

⸺ THE INVASION. Very long. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1832]. Still reprinted. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.75.

Scene: chiefly the territory of the O’Haedha sept on Bantry Bay. The story deals chiefly with the fortunes of the O’Haedhas, but there are many digressions. The innumerable ancient Irish names give the book a forbidding aspect to one unacquainted with the language. The narrative interest is almost wanting, the chief interest being the laborious and careful picture of the life and civilization of the time, the eve of the Danish Invasions. The archæology occasionally lacks accuracy and authority, but these qualities are partly supplied in the notes, which are by Eugene O’Curry. The invasion referred to is an early incursion on the coasts of West Munster by a Danish chief named Gurmund. Some of the characters are finely drawn, _e.g._, the hero, Elim, and his mother and Duach, the faithful kerne.

⸺ THE RIVALS. 1832.

Third series of _Tales of the Munster Festivals_, _q.v._

⸺ TALES OF THE MUNSTER FESTIVALS. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.50.

Scene: the wild cliffs and crags of Kerry and West Clare. Theme: the play of passions as wild and terrible as the scenes; yet there are glimpses of peasant home-life and hospitality, and many touches of humour. The tales appeared in three series, 1827, 1829, and 1832. The first (Holland Tide) contained the _Aylmers of Ballyaylmer_, a story about a family of small gentry on the Kerry coast, with many details of smuggling; _The Hand and Word_, _The Barber of Bantry_, with its picture of the Moynahans, a typical middle-class family, like the Dalys in _The Collegians_, and several shorter tales. The second series contains _Card-drawing_, _The Half-Sir_, and _Suil Dhuv the Coiner_, which deals with the “Palatines” of Limerick. The third series contains _The Rivals_ and _Tracy’s Ambition_. These are sensational stories. The first has an interesting picture of a hedge-school, the second brings out the people’s sufferings at the hands of “loyalists” and government officials. They contain several instances of seduction and of elopement. Perhaps the best of these is _Suil Dhuv the Coiner_. The characters of the robbers who compose the coiner’s gang are admirably discriminated, and the passion of remorse in _Suil Dhuv_ is pictured with a power almost equal to that of _The Collegians_.

⸺ TALES OF MY NEIGHBOURHOOD. Three Vols. (_Saunders & Otley_). 1835.

Vol. 1 contains _The Barber of Bantry_. Vol. 2. Three sketches and the dramatic ballad _The Nightwalker_. Vol. 3. Eight short sketches and the poems _Shanid Castle_ and _Orange and Green_.

⸺ THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. Pp. 423. (_Maxwell_). 1842.

A clever historical novel, dealing with this unfortunate nobleman and the battle of Sedgmoor. Two Irish soldiers, Morty and Shemus Delany, supply the comic relief. The fine ballad, _The Bridal of Malahide_, first appears here, and the song, “A Soldier, A Soldier.”

⸺ TALES OF A JURY ROOM. Pp. 463. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ [1842]. Still reprinted.

The scenes of three of these tales are in foreign lands—Poland, the East, France in the days of Bayard. The remaining ten are Irish. Among them are fairy tales, tales of humble life, an episode of Clontarf, a story of the days of Hugh O’Neill, and several, including the Swans of Lir, that deal with pre-Christian times. All are well worth reading, especially “Antrim Jack”—Macalister, who died to save Michael Dwyer.

=GRIFFITH, George.=

⸺ THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE ROSE. Pp. 311. (_J. F. Shaw_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Several good illustr. by Hal Hurst. 1908.

The adventures of three young soldiers, an Englishman (the hero), an Irishman, and a Scotchman, in a Royalist crack regiment. Lively descriptions of fighting before Derry and at the Boyne. Good outline of the campaign but little historical detail or description. Told in pleasant style with plenty of go. For boys.

=GRIMSHAW, Beatrice.= An Irish Authoress, born in Cloona, Co. Antrim. Hitherto her novels do not deal directly with Ireland, but some of her chief characters are Irish. Thus Hugh Lynch, a Co. Clare man, is the hero of her _When the Red Gods Call_ (Mills & Boon), 1910, and Geo. Scott, a typical Belfastman, plays a prominent part in _Guinea Gold_ (Mills & Boon), 1912. These novels deal with New Guinea life.

=GRINDON, Maurice.=

⸺ KATHLEEN O’LEOVAN: a Fantasy. Pp. 107. Two illustr. (_Simpkin, Marshall_). 1896.

Levan, grandson of an O’Leovan who had settled in England, visits the home of his ancestors, Castle Columba, Kilronan, and meets the heroine.

=GUINAN, Rev. Joseph.= Father Guinan is P.P. of Dromod, in Co. Longford. Before his appointment to an Irish parish he passed five years in Liverpool. This gave him “the fresh eye,” the power to see things which, had he remained in Ireland, he might never have observed. His books deal with two things—the life of the poorest classes in the Midlands and the life of the priests. Of both he has intimate personal knowledge, and for both unbounded admiration. He writes simply and earnestly. To the critic used only to English literature, his work may seem wanting in artistic restraint, for he gives free vein to emotion. But this is more than atoned for by its obvious sincerity.

⸺ SCENES AND SKETCHES IN AN IRISH PARISH; or, Priests and People in Doon. (_Gill_). 2_s._ Fourth edition. 1906.

A faithful picture of typical things in Irish life: the Station, the Sunday Mass, the grinding of landlordism, the agrarian crime, the eviction, the emigration-wake. See especially the chapter “Sunday in Doon.” This is the Author’s first novel and is somewhat immature.

⸺ THE SOGGARTH AROON. (_Gill & Duffy_). 2_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.00. Second edition, 1907. Third, 1908.

Pathetic experiences of a country curate in an out-of-the-way parish, where the people’s faith is strong and their lives supernaturally beautiful. The Soggarth shares the few joys and the many sorrows of their lives.

⸺ THE MOORES OF GLYNN. Pp. 354. (_Washbourne_). 3_s._ 6_d._ (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 2.00. [1907]. Third edition. 1915.

The fortunes of a family of four children whose mother is a beautiful and lovable character. The book is full of pictures of many phases of Irish life, the relations between landlord and tenant, priests and people, evictions, emigration, a “spoiled priest.” A typical description is the realistic picture of the pig fair. Full of true pathos, with an occasional touch of kindly humour.

⸺ THE ISLAND PARISH. Pp. 331. (_Gill_). 1908.

The work of an ideal young priest in Ballyvora, a kind of Sleepy Hollow where all is stagnation, poverty, and decay. The picture of these squalid conditions of life is one of photographic and unsparing exactness. Yet with loving insight the Author shows the peasant’s quiet happiness, beauty of soul, and downright holiness of life in the midst of all this. There is no plot, the book is a series of pictures loosely strung together. There is a chapter on Lisdoonvarna.

⸺ DONAL KENNY. (_Washbourne_). 1910. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 1.10.

Donal tells his own story—his mother’s early death, followed by his father’s rapid fall into habits of drink; his own early struggles; his love for Norah Kenny; his search for traces of her real identity; and the happy ending of it all. Displays all the Author’s knowledge of Irish life in sketches of priests and people. Especially good is the character study of the faithful old nurse, Nancy, with her quaint sayings.—(_Press Notice_).

⸺ THE CURATE OF KILCLOON. Pp. 282. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1913.

Labours, sorrows, and consolations of a young priest in a very out of the way country parish. He had been very distinguished at Maynooth and seemed thrown away on such a place as Kilcloon, but he finds that there is work there worth his doing—temperance to be promoted, the Gaelic League to be established, industries to be fostered. The story has the same qualities as the Author’s former books, and in fact differs little from them.

=GWYNN, Stephen.= Born in Donegal, 1864. Eldest son of Rev. John Gwynn of T.C.D. Is a grandson of William Smith O’Brien. Educated St. Columba’s College, Rathfarnham, and Oxford, where he read a very distinguished course. Since 1890 he has published a great deal—literary criticism, translations, Irish topography, journalism, novels, politics. Has been Nationalist M.P. for Galway City since 1906, and is one of the most

## active members of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

⸺ THE OLD KNOWLEDGE. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ 1901.

A book quite unique in conception. Into the romance are woven fishing episodes and cycling episodes and adventures among flowers. There are exquisite glimpses, too, of Irish home life, and the very spirit of the mists and loughs and mountains of Donegal is called up before the reader. But above all there is the mystic conception of Conroy, the Donegal schoolmaster, whose soul lives with visions, and communes with the spirits of eld, the nature gods of pagan Ireland.

⸺ JOHN MAXWELL’S MARRIAGE. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ 1903.

Scene: chiefly Donegal, _c._ 1761-1779. A strong and intense story. Interesting not only for its powerful plot, but for the admirably painted background of scenery and manners, and for its studies of character. It depicts in strong colours the tyranny of Protestant colonists and the hate which it produces in the outcast Catholics. One of the main motives of the story is a forced marriage of a peculiarly odious kind. In connexion with this marriage there is one scene in the book that is drawn with a realism which, we think, makes the book unsuitable for certain classes of readers. The hero fights on the American side in the war of Independence, and takes a share in Nationalist schemes at home.

⸺ THE GLADE IN THE FOREST. Pp. 224. (_Maunsel_). 1_s._ Cloth. 1907.

Seven short stories, chiefly about Donegal, five of them dealing with peasant life, of which the Author writes with intimate and kindly knowledge. “The Grip of the Land” describes the struggles of a small farmer and the love of his bleak fields that found no counterpart in his eldest boy, who has his heart set on emigration. Compare Bazin’s _La Terre qui Meurt_. All the stories had previously appeared in such magazines as the CORNHILL and BLACKWOOD’S.

⸺ ROBERT EMMET. (_Macmillan_). 6_s._ Map of Dublin in 1803. 1909.

An account of the Emmet rising related with scrupulous fidelity to fact and in minute detail. The Author introduces no reflections of his own, leaving the facts to speak. His narrative is graphic and vivid, the style of high literary value. The minor actors in the drama—Quigley, Russell, Hamilton, Dwyer—are carefully drawn. Though he gives a prominent place in the story to Emmet’s romantic love for Sarah Curran, Mr. Gwynn has sought rather to draw a vivid picture of the event by which the young patriot is known to history than to reconstruct his personality.

=HALL, E.=

⸺ THE BARRYS OF BEIGH. Pp. 394. (_M’Glashan & Gill_). [1875.]

Scene: banks of Shannon twenty miles below Limerick. Story opens about 1775.

=HALL, Mrs. S. C.= Born in Dublin, 1800. Brought by her mother (who was of French Huguenot descent) to Wexford in 1806. Here she lived, mixing a good deal with the peasantry, until the age of fifteen, when she was taken away to London, and did not again return to Wexford. Wrote nine novels, and many short stories and sketches. Besides the works noticed here, she and her husband produced between them a very large number of volumes. See his _Reminiscences of a Long Life_. Two vols. London. 1883. A reviewer in BLACKWOOD’S describes her work as “bright with an animated and warm nationality, apologetic and defensive.” She died in 1881.

⸺ SKETCHES OF IRISH CHARACTER. Pp. 443. (_Chatto & Windus_). 7_s._ 6_d._ With Sixty-one Illustrations by Maclise, Gilbert, Harvey, George Cruikshank, &c. [1829]. 1854 (5th), 1892, &c., &c.

Mrs. Hall intends in these sketches to do for her village of Bannow, in Wexford, what Miss Mitford did for her English village. This district, she says, “possesses to a very remarkable extent all the moral, social, and natural advantages, which are to be found throughout the country.” The author proclaims (cf. Introduction) her intention “so to picture the Irish character as to make it more justly appreciated ... and more respected in England.” She applies to the peasantry the saying “their virtues are their own; but their vices have been forced upon them.” Again she says, “the characters here are all portraits.” Yet it must be confessed that the standpoint is, after all, alien, and something strangely like the traditional stage Irishman appears occasionally in these pages. There is, however, not a shadow of religious bias. The “Rambling Introduction” makes very pleasant reading.

⸺ LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF IRISH LIFE. Three vols. (long). (_Colburn_). 1838.

In five parts:—1. “The Groves of Blarney” (whole of Vol. I.). 2. “Sketches on Irish Highways during the Autumn of 1834” (whole of Vol. II.). 3. “Illustrations of Irish Pride” (two stories). 4. “The Dispensation.” 5. “Old Granny.” No. 1 “derives its title from an occurrence ... in ... Blarney ... about the year 1812.”—(_Pref._). It is a thoroughly good story, telling how Connor in order to win the fair widow Margaret, his early love, takes an oath against drinking, flirting, and faction-fighting for a year, and how a vengeful old tramp woman makes him break it on the very last day. Amusingly satirical portrait of the little Cockney, Peter Swan. Author’s sympathies thoroughly Irish. Contents of Vol. II.:—“The Jaunting Car,” “Beggars,” “Naturals,” “Servants,” “Ruins” [or stories told _a propos_ of them], &c. The dialect is very well done, full of humour and flavour. Characters all drawn from peasant class.

⸺ STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. Pp. 302, (close print). (_Chambers_). [1840]. 1851, &c.

Aims to reconcile landlords and peasantry. To this end tries to show each to what their enmity is due and how they may remedy the evil. The stories are to show the peasantry that their present condition is due to defects in the national character and in the prevailing national habits—chiefly drink, early marriages, laziness, conservatism, superstition. The Authoress has a good grasp of the ways of the people, but her reasoning is peculiar. When a peasant, driven to desperation by a cruel eviction, swears vengeance, this is put down to innate lawlessness, sinfulness, and a murderous disposition. Twenty stories in all, some melodramatic, some pastoral.

⸺ THE WHITEBOY. (_Ward, Lock, Routledge_). 2_s._, and 6_d._ [1845]. Several eds. since. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 0.50.

In the height of the Whiteboy disturbances, which are luridly described, a young Englishman comes to Ireland with the intention of uplifting the peasantry and bettering their lot. After some terrible experiences he at length succeeds to a wonderful extent in his benevolent purposes. The book is of a didactic type.—(_Krans_).

⸺ THE FIGHT OF FAITH: a Story of Ireland. Two Vols. (_Chapman & Hall_). [1862]. 1869.

Opens at Havre in 1680 with a Huguenot family about to fly from persecution. Their ship is wrecked off the Isle of Wight, where the little girl Pauline is rescued and adopted by an old sea-captain. The scene then changes to Carrickfergus, then held by Schomberg. Geo. Walker is introduced, and the story ends with the battle of the Boyne (the fight of faith). View-point strongly Protestant.

⸺ NELLY NOWLAN, and Other Stories. Popular Tales of Irish Life and Character. Seventh edition, with numerous Illustr. Demy 8vo. (LONDON). 1865.

Contains twenty-five delightful tales of Irish life, with numerous illustrations by Maclise, Franklin, Brooke, Herbert, Harvey, Nichol, and Weigall; “Sweet Lilly O’Brian,” “Mary Ryan’s Daughter,” “The Bannow Postman,” “Father Mike,” and twenty-one other tales. As a graphic delineator of Irish life and character, no other writer has dealt with the subject so delightfully and truly as Mrs. Hall. She wrote many volumes on the subject, of which this is the best.

⸺ TALES OF IRISH LIFE AND CHARACTER. (_T. N. Foulis_). 5_s._ With Sixteen Illustr. in colour from the famous Irish paintings of Erskine Nichol, R.S.A. 1909.

=HALPINE, Charles Graham; “Private Myles O’Reilly.”= Born in Oldcastle, Co. Meath, 1829. Son of Rev. N. J. Halpin (_sic_). Ed. T.C.D. Took up journalism and went first to London, where he came to know some of the young Irelanders, and thence to America. Became a well-known journalist. Fought through the Civil War. His songs became very well-known throughout the Union. D. 1868. Publ. also a series of prose sketches, _Baked Meats of the Funeral_, and a vol. of reminiscences.

⸺ MOUNTCASHEL’S BRIGADE; or, The Rescue of Cremona. Pp. 151 (close print). (DUBLIN: _T. D. Sullivan_). Fifth ed., 1882.

Episodes in the story of the Irish Brigade in the service of France. The narrative is enlivened with love affairs, duels, and exciting adventures very well told.

⸺ THE PATRIOT BROTHERS; or, The Willows of the Golden Vale. (DUBLIN). Sixth ed. 1884. One ed., pp. 173 (small print), _n.d._, was publ. by A. M. Sullivan.

Sub-title: A page from Ireland’s Martyrology. A finely written romance dealing with the fate of the brothers Sheares, executed in 1798. Their story is followed with practically historical exactitude, a thread of romance being woven in. A good account of the politics of the time, especially of the elaborate spy-system then flourishing, is given, but not so as to interfere with the interest of the tale. There are fine descriptions of the scenery of Wicklow, in which the action chiefly takes place, and especially of the Golden Vale between Bray and Delgany.

=HAMILTON, Catherine J.= Born in Somerset of Irish parents, her father being from Strabane and her mother from Queen’s Co. Ed. chiefly by her father, a vicar of the Ch. of England. At his death, in 1859, removed to Ireland and lived there more than thirty years. Publ. at twenty-five her first story, _Hedged with Thorns_. Wrote verse for the ARGOSY and Irish stories for the GRAPHIC; contributed regularly to WEEKLY IRISH TIMES and IRELAND’S OWN, including several serials. At present resides in London. Author of _Notable Irishwomen_ (1904), _Women Writers, their Works and Ways_ (1892), &c.

⸺ MARRIAGE BONDS; or, Christian Hazell’s Married Life. Pp. 439. (_Ward, Lock_). _n.d._ (1878).

First appeared in THE ENGLISHWOMAN’S DOMESTIC MAGAZINE. An unhappy marriage of a sweet, loving, sensitive nature to a man of a hard, selfish character, who treats his wife with studied neglect and discourtesy. Christian comes from her native English manor house to live with Alick Hazell in an ugly, ill-managed Irish country house, among disagreeable neighbours somewhere on the S.E. coast of Ireland. He hates the people, and is a bad landlord. She has no friend until the arrival of his brother Eustace, whose mother was Irish and who loves Ireland. Almost unawares they fall in love, but E. is a man of honour, and C. is faithful to her husband to the very end. The author is on Ireland’s side, though somewhat apologetically and vaguely. Good picture of bitterly anti-Irish narrow-minded type of minor country gentry.

⸺ THE FLYNNS OF FLYNNVILLE. Pp. 250. (_Ward, Lock_). 1879.

A story of the sensational kind, founded on the murder of a bank-manager by a constabulary officer called Montgomery, and the subsequent trial, which many years ago excited considerable interest. Scene: S. of Ireland.

⸺ TRUE TO THE CORE: a Romance of ’98. Two Vols. (_F. V. White_). 1884.

The story of the love of a Kerry peasant girl for the ill-fated John Sheares. The interest is that of plot, history being quite of minor importance, and centres in the scheming of his various enemies to compass the destruction of John Sheares in spite of all the efforts of his guardian angel, Norah Nagle. There is not one really sympathetic character. Sheares is a mere dreamer; Norah is generous and faithful, but lies and “barges” on occasion; almost all the rest, except Norah’s peasant lover, are fools or villains of the blackest sort. Disagreeable picture of the Dublin of the day. The story is told with considerable verve and carries one along. The Author is not at all hostile, but seems unstirred to any feeling of enthusiasm for the cause of Ireland.

⸺ DR. BELTON’S DAUGHTERS. Pp. 169. (_Ward, Lock_). 1890.

Alice the second marries a curate in the W. of Ireland and struggles to keep up on small means a good appearance. Her husband is an incurable optimist.

⸺ THE LUCK OF THE KAVANAGHS. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ 1910.

Strange adventures of an emigrant Irish boy.

=HAMILTON, Edwin, M.A., B.L., M.R.I.A.= Born 1849. Resides at Donaghadee, Co. Down. Author of _Dublin Doggerels_ (1880), _The Moderate Man_ (1888, _Downey_). The two following books are not in the British Museum Library.

⸺ BALLYMUCKBEG. 1885.

Political satire.

⸺ WAGGISH TALES. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 1897.

=HAMILTON, John, of St. Ernan’s. “An Irishman” [N.M.].=

⸺ THE THREE FENIAN BROTHERS. (_Macmillan_). 18mo. 1866. 1_s._

Paul, Mark, and Ned Ryan, sons of a well-to-do farmer, were enticed into joining the Brotherhood, the two former by Patrick Mahoney, the village schoolmaster. Ned had served in the Federal Army (U.S.A.), and was sent back to Ireland as a captain. “The characters and careers of the brothers are vividly depicted in an interesting tale, the dialogue is pointed, often witty.... In the unfolding of the story much light is incidentally thrown on the state of feeling in Ireland in 1865-6.” The Author has told his life-story in _Sixty Years’ Experience as an Irish Landlord_, and given his views in _Thoughts on Ireland by an Irish Landlord_ (1886).

=“HAMILTON, M.”; Mrs. Churchill-Luck=, _née_ =Spottiswoode-Ashe=. Is a native of Co. Derry. Publ. also _The Freedom of Harry Meredith_, _M’Leod of the Camerons_, _A Self-denying Ordinance_, _Mrs. Brett_, _The Woman who Looked Back_, &c.

⸺ ON AN ULSTER FARM. Pp. 143. (_Everett_).

A realistic sketch of the life of a workhouse child sent out to service to a particularly unlovable set of hard Scotch Ulster folk. Interesting as a study of character and as an exposure of the misery attendant on the working of certain parts of the workhouse system. This subject is also treated in Rosa Mulholland’s _Nanno_, _q.v._

⸺ ACROSS AN IRISH BOG. (_Heinemann_). 1896.

An ugly, but very powerful, tale of seduction in Irish peasant life. The study of the ignominious aspirations of the seducer, a Protestant clergyman, after social elevation forms the pith of the book. The difficulty of his position, technically on a level with the gentry, though he is wholly unequal to them in breeding, is brought out.

⸺ BEYOND THE BOUNDARY. Pp. 306. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1902.

Scene: first in London, afterwards among Ulster peasantry (dialect cleverly reproduced). Theme: a curiously ill-assorted marriage. Brian Lindsay, son of Presbyterian Ulster peasants, had during a panic deserted his men in action. Afterwards he had been decorated mistakenly, instead of the man who had died to save him. In London he meets this man’s sister, a solitary working girl, but a lady. They are married, and he takes her home. Disillusionment on the wife’s part follows, and Brian is threatened with the discovery of his secret. What came of it all is told in a beautiful and convincing story. Not gloomy nor morbid. Running through the main plot is the story of poor little French Pipette, deserted by the foolish, selfish, mother, whom she adores. Old Lindsay, dour and godly, is very well done. An element of humour is found in the characters of Miss Arnold of the venomous tongue; fat little Mr. Leslie, who loves his dinners; and Maggie, the Lindsay’s maid-of-all-work.

=HANNAY, Rev. James Owen=, _see_ =“GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM.”=

=HANNIGAN, D. F.= Was born at Dungarvan, 1855. Ed. at St. John’s, Waterford, and Queen’s College, Cork. Called to Irish bar, and formerly a journalist in Dublin; is now in America. Contributed a long serial, _The Moores of Moore’s Court_, to the MONITOR, 1879, and other stories to the Dublin press.

⸺ LUTTRELL’S DOOM. Pp. 76. (ABERDEEN: _Moran_). 1_s._ 1896.

Purports to be extracts from an Irish gentlewoman’s diary kept between 1690 and 1726.

=HANNON, John.= Born at Isleworth, 1870. Son of John Hannon, of Kildorrery, Co. Cork. Ed. at St. Edmunds, England. For long engaged in educational work, he afterwards took up journalism. He resides in Isleworth.—(CATH. WHO’S WHO).

⸺ THE KINGS AND THE CATS: Munster Fairy Tales. Pp. 78. Size 6¾ × 9¾ (_Burns & Oates_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Thirteen illustr. by Louis Wain. 1908.

Handsomely produced. Preface by Father M. Russell, S.J. Introductory verse by Katharine Tynan. Stories gleaned from old Irish peasants in England. Full of quaint, amusing turns of expression.

=HANRAHAN, P. R.=

⸺ EVA; or, the Buried City of Bannow.

Mentioned in the notice of this Author in O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_.

=[HARDY, Miss].=

⸺ MICHAEL CASSIDY; or, The Cottage Gardener: a tale for small beginners. (_Seeley_). [1840]. 1845.

By the Author of “The Confessor: a Jesuit tale of the times founded on fact” [viz., Miss Hardy]. Cushing. The 1845 ed. has a Pref. by C. B. Tayler. It is an attempt to urge people to small allotments, green crops, rotation, economy, and hard work.

=HARDY, Philip Dixon.= _c._ 1794-1875. Was a bookseller and editor of various Dublin periodicals. Publ. several volumes of verse, some books on Irish topography, and some religious works of a strongly anti-Catholic character.

⸺ LEGENDS, TALES, AND STORIES OF IRELAND. Pp. 328. (DUBLIN: _John Cumming_). 1837.

Dedicated to Sir W. Betham. Hardy was the first editor of the DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL. His tales of Irish life deal with fairies, faction-fights, smugglers, and burlesque or tragic adventures in a manner by no means without vivacity and cleverness, though the trail of the “stage-Irishman” is over most of his work. This edition was illustrated in a somewhat coarse and stage-Irish fashion. Other works of this Author were:—_Essays and Sketches of Irish Life and Character_; _Ireland in 1846-7, considered in reference to the rapid growth of Popery_, and several works on Irish topography.

=HARKIN, Hugh= (1791-1854). For good account of this writer supplied by his son, see O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_.

⸺ THE QUARTERCLIFT: or, the Adventures of Hudy McGuiggen. (BELFAST), _c._ 1841. In shilling monthly parts. Illustrated.

An amusing story founded on the old Co. Derry folk tale of a “gommeral” named Hudy McGuiggin, who didn’t see why he couldn’t fly. So he made himself wings out of the feathers of a goose. Arrayed in these, he jumped off a high mountain (still shown by the peasantry), and of course came to grief. Strange to say, he recovered and lived to be an old man. This and other incidents are related with great verve and truth, and many well pourtrayed characters are introduced. See GREER, Tom.

=[HARRIS, Miss S. M.]; “Athene.”= Fourth daughter of a Co. Down farmer, the late William Harris, of Ballynafern, Banbridge. The family has been long resident in Belfast.

⸺ IN THE VALLEYS OF SOUTH DOWN. Pp. viii. + 155. (BELFAST: _M’Caw, Stevenson, & Orr_). 1898.

Rupert Stanwell is kept apart from Mabel Mervyn, for his parents want him to marry a rich American heiress; but the two are joined in the end, and all is well. Conventional and unobjectionable, without any special local colour.

⸺ GRACE WARDWOOD. Pp. 269. (_Duffy_). 2_s._ 6_d._ Tasteful binding. 1900.

A domestic tale of middle class folk in Co. Down. Several love stories intertwined. Gracefully written but “feminine,” and not very mature in style. Contains little that is characteristically Irish, except some legends introduced incidentally.

⸺ DUST OF THE WORLD. Pp. vi. + 293. (_Allen_). 6_s._ 1913.

Sub-t.: “An historical romance of Belfast in the 17th century.” Introduces the Earl of Donegall, the lord of the soil; Lady Donegall who, to the annoyance of Bp. Jeremy Taylor, has hankerings after Presbyterianism; George Macartney, the Sovereign or Mayor; and other Belfast townsfolk of the day. Swift is an anachronism in this story, and there are no grounds in history for the portrait given of Patrick Adair, an early Presbyterian minister. Lord Donegall is made to talk with a brogue, while a butcher’s wife talks in the best of English.

=HARTLEY, Mrs.=, _née_ =May Laffan=. Born in Dublin. Widow of the late W. N. Hartley, F.R.S. Her brother William Laffan was at the head of Laffan’s Agency. For some considerable time past she has done no literary work.

⸺ HOGAN, M.P. Pp. 491. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1876]. New ed. 1882.

Picture of Dublin society, showing how Catholics are handicapped by their want of education and good breeding, due, in the Author’s view, to wholly wrong system of Catholic education. Discursive and garrulous. Full of social manœuvres, petty intrigues, gossip, and scandal. Convent education from within.

⸺ THE HON. MISS FERRARD. [1877]. (_Macmillan_). 1882. 3_s._ 6_d._

The Hon. Miss F. is the only daughter of the ancient and broken-down house of the Darraghmores. The father squanders his income faster than he gets it, and has to keep moving from place to place, living chiefly on credit. Miss F. is brought up in this inconsequent, semi-gipsy family, with wild harum-scarum brothers. The Author does not blink the consequent shortcomings of the heroine. Amusing things happen when she goes to live with her maiden aunts at Bath—an unsuccessful experiment. Her choice between her Irish farmer lover and the admirable English Mr. Satterthwaite—we shall not reveal. Good minor characters—Cawth, the old servant of the family; Mr. Perry, the family lawyer. “The Author represents the interiors of all Irish households of the middle classes as repulsive in the extreme.... There is in them an innate vulgarity of thought, with an atmosphere of transparent pretension.”—(SATURDAY REV., xliv., 403).

⸺ FLITTERS, TATTERS, AND THE COUNSELLOR. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1879]. New ed., 1883.

Four stories: (1) Three little Dublin street arabs, nicknamed as in title. Lively and realistic portraits. Poignant and sympathetic picture of slum misery and degradation. (2) Deals with the same subject. (3) Glasgow slum life. (4) Lurid and revolting story of conspiracy and murder in a country district. There are those who consider No. 1 quite the most perfect thing that has been written about Dublin life.

⸺ THE GAME HEN. (DUBLIN). 1880.

⸺ CHRISTY CAREW. Pp. 429. (_Macmillan_). 2_s._ [1880]. New ed., 1883; still in print.

Written in spirit of revolt against Catholic discouragement of mixed marriages, showing the social disabilities which it draws upon Catholics. Several portraits of priests, _e.g._, a collector of old books and a model priest. Studies of various aspects of Catholic life.

⸺ ISMAY’S CHILDREN. (_Macmillan_). 2_s._ [1887].

Tale of Fenian times, little concerned with political aims, but rather with personal fortunes of the lads who are drawn into the midnight drillings. Little political bias, but sympathies with “the quality.” Close studies of Irish middle-class domestic life. Scene: Co. Cork. The ATHENÆUM pronounced this novel to be “the most valuable and dispassionate contribution towards the solution of that problem [the Irish character] which has been put forth in this generation in the domain of fiction.”

=HATTON, Joseph.=

⸺ JOHN NEEDHAM’S DOUBLE. Pp. 208. 16mo. (_Maxwell_). 1_s._ Paper. _n.d._ (1885)

“A story founded on fact,” viz., John Sadleir’s career, his fraud on the Tipperary Bank, &c. An exciting and melodramatic story. Needham poisons his “double,” Joseph Norbury, and deposits his body on Hampstead Heath, then escapes to America, is tracked and arrested, but dramatically takes poison when under arrest. Told with considerable verve. Thirty of this Author’s books are enumerated by Allibone.

=HARVEY, W.=

⸺ IRISH LIFE AND HUMOUR. Pp. 221. (STIRLING: _Eneas Mackey_). 2_s._ 6_d._ 1906.

A collection of short, witty anecdotes and jokes, four or five to a page. Source: not indicated, but they are obviously culled from periodicals, or from previous collections of the kind. A few seem to be taken from serious biographies. They are given without comment, exactly as he found them, says the Author (Pref.). They exhibit no religious nor racial bias (witness the last chapter on Priest and People), but throughout you have the “Paddy” of the comic paper, and in many places the traditional Stage-Irishman whirls his shillelagh and “hurroos for ould Oireland” in a wholly impossible brogue. The stories are classified under various heads, but for convenience only. They do not illustrate national traits nor phases of national life. The above is an abridgment of a larger work [1st ed., 1904, without illustr.] with the same title, of which a new edition, pp. 488, twelve illustrations in colour, 5_s._ net, has been issued (August, 1909) by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. More recently a cheap ed. has been issued at 1_s._, pp. 206, paper covers, with some poor illustr.

=“HASLETTE, John.”=

⸺ DESMOND ROURKE: Irishman. (_Sampson, Low_). 6_s._ 1911.

Scene: South America. The hero is intended to be typically Irish. The story is described as racy and dashing, and has received high praise from the Press. We understand that the Author’s real name is Vahey, and that he lives at the Knock, near Belfast (1911); see I. B. L., Vol. IV., p. 73. He had before this novel already published two others. He is of Huguenot descent, but was b. and ed. in Ireland.

=HAYENS, Herbert.=

⸺ AN AMAZING CONSPIRACY. Pp. 247. (S.P.C.K.). 2_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. by Adolf Thiede. _n.d._ (1914).

An exciting boys’ adventure story, opening in an island of the W. coast of Ireland, where mysterious events take place, but passing chiefly in Guatemala, where the hero goes through thrilling adventures in various revolutions.

=HEALY, Cahir.=

⸺ A SOWER OF THE WIND. Pp. 168. (_Sealy, Bryers_). 6_d._ Paper. _c._ 1910.

Scene: the Donegal coast. A sensational and romantic story. Local Land League doings described. The author writes of the people with knowledge and sympathy.

⸺ THE ESCAPADES OF CONDY CORRIGAN. (N.Y.: _Benziger_). 0.50 net.

=[HEMPHILL, Barbara].=

⸺ THE PRIEST’S NIECE. Three Vols. (_Hurst & Blackett_). 1855.

In the first two volumes there is nothing about Ireland. In the third the scene shifts to Cashel, and there are some attempts to picture Irish life. The Author is not anti-Catholic nor anti-Irish: she is amusingly ignorant of Catholic matters and is not interested in Ireland. P. 37—a scene of Irish lawlessness (capture of a private still). P. 40—unpleasant description of a wake. The plot hinges mainly on the strife in the hero’s mind between his love for Ellen, the penniless peasant girl, to whom he owes several rescues from the Shanavests, and the heiress to marry whom would be to save his father from ruin.

=HENDERSON, George.=

⸺ THE FEAST OF BRICRIU: an Early Gaelic Saga. (_Irish Texts Society_). 6_s._ 1899.

Belongs to Cuchullin cycle. C. contends in a series of competitive feats with Conall and Loigare for the championship of Ulster ... the origin of the contest being the desire of B. to stir up strife among his guests. Introd. and notes.

⸺ SURVIVALS IN BELIEF AMONG THE CELTS. Pp. 340. Demy 8vo. (EDINBURGH: _MacLehose_). 10_s._ net. 1911.

The Author is Lecturer in Celtic language and literature in the University of Glasgow. The book consists of the substance of a series of lectures on Folk Psychology. It is a study in Celtic “psychical anthropology”—practically a study of magic, superstitions, and other survivals of primitive paganism. Deals chiefly with the Scottish Highlands, but there are frequent allusions to Irish folklore and legend. Highly technical in conception and language.

=[HENDERSON, Rev. Henry]; “Ulster Scot.”= Was for many years a Presbyterian minister in Holywood, Co. Down, and wrote for BELFAST WEEKLY NEWS _Woodleigh Hall, a Tale of the Fenians_, and _The Moutrays of Clonkeen_.

⸺ THE TRUE HEIR OF BALLYMORE. Pp. 80. Demy 8vo. (BELFAST). 1_s._ Wrappers. 1859.

Sub-t.:—“Passages from the history of a Belfast Ribbon Lodge.” Frontisp.—the insignia of Ribbonism. An anti-Ribbon pamphlet in the form of a story. Relates the machinations of a certain Ribbon lodge for the destruction of Protestantism, and, in

## particular, the scheme whereby a Catholic widow is made to

inveigle Col. Obrey into marriage. The latter drives out his sister and nephew, and Ballymore is invaded by a low-class drinking set of Catholics, who finally bring the poor Colonel to his grave. Subsequently it transpires that Mrs. Connor’s husband was alive all the time, and the Colonel’s nephew comes into his own. The book is full of the awful crimes of Ribbonism, and closes thus:—“No statesmanship, no good government will ever deliver our land from Ribbon disloyalty, outrages, and savage assassinations until Romanism is extirpated from the country. Ribbonism is the offspring of Romanism.”

⸺ THE DARK MONK OF FEOLA: Adventures of a Ribbon Pedlar. (_Office of_ BELFAST NEWS LETTER). c. 1859.

“The first part contains a very affecting episode illustrative of the evils which are certain to follow the union of Protestant women with men who belong to the Roman Catholic faith. To all Protestants the story cannot fail to be interesting; and Orangemen, especially, will peruse it with peculiar pleasure.”—(DOWNSHIRE PROTESTANT).

⸺ THE SANDY ROW CONVERT.

=HENRY-RUFFIN, Mrs. M. E.=

⸺ THE NORTH STAR. Pp. 356. (BOSTON: _Little, Brown_). $1.50 net. Six good Ill. by Wilbur D. Hamilton. [1904]. 1908.

Scene: Norway and Ireland. The story of how Olaf Trygvesson, the exiled king of Norway, returned as a Christian champion, and overthrew his pagan rival. The wild brutal paganism of the time is depicted with realism. There is an interesting account of a great gathering in Dublin, and a sketch of Olaf’s life in exile amid his Irish hosts. There is also a love interest. Mrs. Henry-Ruffin is the only daughter of the late Thomas Henry, of Mobile, Alabama.

=HENTY, G. A.= Born 1832, in Cambridgeshire. He spent some time in Belfast in his capacity of Purveyor to the Forces. D. 1902. One of the greatest, perhaps quite the greatest, of writers for boys. His eighty-six or more published stories deal with almost all countries and every period of history. All his stories are sane and healthy and told in the manner that boys love. Their historical side is carefully worked out.

⸺ FRIENDS THOUGH DIVIDED. (_Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton_). 3_s._ 6_d._ Excellent coloured Illustr. Attractive binding and general get-up. (N.Y.: _Burt_). 1.00. [1883]. New eds.

A fine boys’ adventure-story of the Civil War. Scene: mainly Great Britain, but at end shifts to Ireland for the Siege of Drogheda, which is well described. Good account of Cromwell, the two Charles, Argyll. Sympathies of writer clearly royalist. Ireland represented to be in state of semi-barbarism. Juvenile.

⸺ ORANGE AND GREEN. (_Blackie_). 5_s._ Handsome binding; eight Illustr. by Gordon Browne. (N.Y.: _Burt_). 1.00. [1887]. 1907.

Adventures of two boys (one a Protestant, the other a Catholic) in the Williamite Wars. Battles of Boyne, Aughrim, sieges of Athlone, Cork, and Limerick, described. Impartial. Williamite excesses condemned. Sarsfield’s action after Limerick severely dealt with.

⸺ IN THE IRISH BRIGADE. Pp. 384. (_Blackie_). 6_s._ Twelve excellent illustr. by Chas. M. Sheldon. (N.Y.: _Scribner_). 1.50. 1901.

Adventures of Desmond Kennedy, officer of the Irish Brigade, in the service of France, during the War of the Spanish Succession—chiefly in Flanders and Spain. The facts are based on O’Callaghan’s _History of the Irish Brigade_ and Boyer’s _Annals of the Reign of Queen Anne_. No Irish Nationalist could quarrel with the views expressed in the Author’s Preface.

=HEYGATE, W. E.=

⸺ WILD SCENES AMONG THE CELTS. Pp. 114. (_Parker_). 6_d._ 1859.

One of a series “Tales for Young Men and Women” (Church of England). This volume contains the two following tales:—

THE PENITENT.—How Shossag, a prince of S. Leinster, was accessory to his brother’s murder. How punishment overtook him, and how he ended his life as a penitent at the feet of St. Piran of Cornwall. Period _c._ 410 A.D.

THE FUGITIVE.—A story of crime, and its punishment in the person of a Pictish chief. St. Columba has a prominent place in the story. Of him a sympathetic and appreciative picture is drawn. Scene: Scottish mainland, Iona, and N. Connaught, _c._ 590-597. This Author has written a dozen other historical stories. See NIELD. The two above noted are quite suitable for Catholic children.

=HICKEY, Rev. P.=

⸺ INNISFAIL. Pp. 284. (_Gill_). 3_s._ 6_d._ [1906]. (N.Y.: _Pratt_). 1.75. Third ed. 1907.

Life-story of a young priest from early youth to departure for Australia, largely told in letters from college, with verse interspersed. Sketches of life in Tipperary (fox-hunt, school scenes, &c.).

=HINKSON, H. A.= Born in Dublin, 1865. Married Katharine Tynan, 1893 (_q.v._). Ed. Dublin High School, T.C.D., and in Germany. Called to the English Bar, 1902. Until the last few years he has resided in England. He now lives in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, for which county he is R.M.

⸺ GOLDEN LADS AND GIRLS. Pp. 312. (_Downey_). 1895.

A love story of the upper middle classes. Pictures of western (Galway) county family life, and of student life in Trinity, both strongly reminiscent of Lever. Good portraits of Irish types, the country doctor, the unpopular agent, the reforming landlord (English and a convert to Catholicism); the Protestant country clergyman, &c. This latter portrait is rather satirical. The tone on the whole is nationalist and Catholic.

⸺ FATHER ALPHONSUS. Pp. 282. (_Unwin_). 1898.

The life-story of two young seminarians. One of these, finding he has no vocation, leaves before ordination, and has no reason to repent the step. The other, ignoring uneasy feelings that trouble may come of it later, becomes a priest. Afterwards he meets with a certain lady, a recent convert from Protestantism. A mutual attachment springs up, and eventually they are married. The circumstances, as arranged by the novelist, are so strange as almost to seem to palliate this sin, were it not for his omission of one factor, viz., that particular form of divine help towards the doing of duty which Catholics call the _gratia status_. The erring priest ends his life in a Carthusian monastery. The tone throughout is almost faultless from a Catholic standpoint. Indeed, though there are several passionate scenes, rendering the book unfitted for certain readers, the moral tone is high. Some of the characteristics of Irish social life are admirably portrayed.

⸺ UP FOR THE GREEN. Pp. 327. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ 1898.

“For several of the incidents related in this story, the Author is indebted to the narrative of Samuel Riley, a yeoman [Quaker] of Cork, who was captured by the rebels, while on his way to Dublin, in September, 1798.” This worthy man discovers the rebels to be very different from what he had taken them to be. A healthy, breezy tale with more adventure than history. Standpoint: thoroughly national. There is quiet humour in the quaintly told narrative of the Quaker. Castlereagh, Major Sirr, Grattan, Lord Enniskillen figure in the story.

⸺ WHEN LOVE IS KIND. Pp. 320. (_Long_). 1898.

A wholesome Irish love-story of the present day. The hero, Rupert Standish, is a soldier and a soldier’s son. The story brings out the comradeship which may exist between father and son. The page-boy, Peter, with his gruesome tales, is a curious study. There are many passages descriptive of scenes and incidents in Ireland.

⸺ THE KING’S DEPUTY. Pp. 236. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _M’Clurg_). 1.25. 1899.

Period: the days of Grattan’s Parliament, of which a vivid picture is drawn, and of the viceroyalty of the Duke of Rutland. The interest is divided between a love story and the story of a plot of the Protestant aristocracy to establish an independent Irish Republic on the Venetian model. Grattan, Curran, Napper Tandy, Sir John Parnell, Sir Boyle Roche, Father Arthur O’Leary, &c., are introduced. Descriptions (historically accurate) of the Hell-Fire Club and the Funny Club.

⸺ SIR PHELIM’S TREASURE. Pp. 255. (S.P.C.K.) 1_s._ 6_d._ Illustr. W. S. Stacey. _n.d._ (1901).

A boy’s adventure-story of search for treasure. No “moral” or lesson. Good description of Crusoe-life on a little island off the Irish coast. Pleasant style; no tediousness nor dullness.

⸺ THE POINT OF HONOUR. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ (CHICAGO: _M’Clurg_). 1.50. 1901.

“Stories about the quarrelsome, bottle-loving, duelling gentry of the eighteenth century.”—(_Baker_).

⸺ SILK AND STEEL. Pp. 336. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ Picture cover. 1902.

Adventures of an Irish soldier of fortune at the Court of Charles I., in the Netherlands, and in Ireland. Brisk and picturesque in style. Sketch of Owen Roe and description of Benburb. The hero is Daniel O’Neill, a nephew of Owen Roe. Full of historical incidents and personages, _e.g._, the Earl of Essex, Father Boethius Egan, Lord Antrim. Point of view: national.

⸺ FAN FITZGERALD. Pp. 340. (_Chatto & Windus_). 6_s._ 1902.

Young Dick Burke, brought up in England, feels the call of the Celt, and returns to his inherited estates with intent to be a model landlord. We are told in a lively and amusing style how he succeeds or fails. The Author is nationalist, but by no means a bitter partisan.

⸺ THE WINE OF LOVE. 1904.

Deals mainly with the upper classes in the West of Ireland. Abuses of landlordism not spared. Picture of horse-dealing, fox-hunting, and card-playing lives. Also picture of typically good landlords. Standpoint on the whole national and even Catholic. Style: breezy and vigorous. Good knowledge shown of inner lives and feelings of all classes.

⸺ THE SPLENDID KNIGHT. Pp. 262. (_Sealy, Bryers_). Illustr. by Lawson Wood. 1905.

Adventures of an Irish boy in Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition up the Orinoco. A brisk and entertaining narrative.

⸺ GOLDEN MORN. Pp. 303. (_Cassell_). Frontisp. 1907.

Tells the strange adventures in Ireland, London, and France of Captain O’Grady. At Leopardstown Races his mare breaks her neck, just at the finish; the Captain loses a fortune, and is fain to depart on his travels—but “all is well that ends well,” and it is so with Captain O’Grady.

⸺ O’GRADY OF TRINITY. (_Lawrence & Bullen_). 6_s._ Re-issued by C. H. White at 6_d._ 1909.

Fun, frolic, and love in a student’s career. A gay and wholesome novel. Sympathetic picture of Trinity College life. Highly praised by Lionel Johnston.

⸺ THE CONSIDINE LUCK. Pp. 300. (_Swift_). 6_s._ 1912.

It was popularly believed that the estate could not pass from Considine hands. Sir Hugh C. dies, and lo! the estate is found to be mortgaged to Mr. Smith, of London. Mr. Smith arrives, and brings with him his English notions which he proceeds to carry out to the disgust of the locality. He refuses all attempts to buy him out, but the Considine luck comes to the rescue, and the estate falls once more into the hands of a Considine. Pleasant, light style.

=HOARE, Mrs.=

⸺ SHAMROCK LEAVES; or, Tales and Sketches of Ireland. Pp. 237. (_M’Glashan_). 1851.

If one could abstract from the bits of gossipy anecdote intended as links to the principal stories, this book consists of several studies, touching and true to the reality, of the lives of the poor, and in particular of their sufferings during and after the Famine years. Written with much sympathy for the lowly, and a vivid sense of actuality. Most of the tales have a moral, but it does not spoil the story.

=HOBHOUSE, Violet.= Born 1864. Eldest daughter of Edmund McNeill, D.L., of Craigdunn, Co. Antrim. Married Rev. Walter Hobhouse, second son of Bishop Hobhouse. She was devoted to Irish traditions, folklore, &c., and could speak Irish, but was a keen Unionist, and in 1887 and the following years spoke much against Home Rule on English platforms. After her death in 1902 a small volume of poems, serious and deeply religious, _Speculum Animae_ was printed for private circulation.

⸺ AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY. Pp. 382. (_Downey_). 6_s._ 1898.

⸺ WARP AND WEFT. (_Skeffington_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1899.

“A conscientious rendering of homely aspects of life in Co. Antrim.”—(_Baker_).

=HOCKING, Rev. Joseph.=

⸺ ROSALEEN O’HARA. Pp. 352. (_Hodder & Stoughton_). 3_s._ 6_d._ and 1_s._ Two illustr. 1913.

A product of the Home Rule controversy. The Author is a noted anti-Catholic writer, but he is also a Liberal, and desirous of defending Liberalism from the charge of seeking to establish Rome Rule in Ireland. Home Rule, so reads the story, would mean Rome Rule for some years, but would ultimately lead to the emancipation of the Irish from the thralldom of priestcraft and dogma. The story tells of Denis who unexpectedly discovers that he is heir to an Irish estate, and neighbour of Elenore Tyrone, whom he had seen and loved. A quarrel and the attractions of the beautiful “Fenian,” Rosaleen, separate the two for a time. The Author clearly knows little or nothing of Ireland, but he would like to be benevolent in tone to “dear old beautiful Erin.” By the same Author: _Follow the Gleam_, _The Wilderness_, _The Jesuit_, _The Scarlet Woman_, and some thirty other novels.

=HOEY, Mrs. Cashel=, _née_ =Sarah Johnston.= Born at Bushy Park, Co. Dublin, 1830. Wife of the well-known Irish journalist, John Cashel Hoey (d. 1892). Has published more than twenty-seven volumes, _e.g._, _The Question of Cain_ (1882), _The Lover’s Creed_, _No Sign_ (1876), _The Queen’s Token_, _A Stern Chase_, &c., &c. She became a Catholic in 1858. D. 1908.

=HOLLAND, Denis.= A well-known Irish journalist. Born in Cork about 1826. He founded THE IRISHMAN, 1858. _See_ Pigot’s _Recollections of an Irish Journalist_, and D. J. O’Donoghue’s _Poets of Ireland_.

⸺ DONAL DUN O’BYRNE: A Tale of the Rising in Wexford in 1798. Pp. 224. (_Gill_). 1_s._ _n.d._

The story of the rising (including Oulart, Tubberneering, Gorey, and Ross, and the guerilla warfare after Vinegar Hill) from an insurgent’s point of view. The book is full of scenes of blood, and breathes a spirit of vengeance. The narrative is not remarkable. Some of the scenes border on indelicacy.

⸺ ULICK O’DONNELL: an Irish Peasant’s Progress. 1860.

A romantic and pleasant story. Adventures in Liverpool and elsewhere in England of a clever peasant lad from Newry. He wins his way by his sterling qualities, and returns prosperous to his native Co. Down. Author tries to bring out contrasting characteristics of English and Irish.

=HOLT, Emily S.=

⸺ UNDER ONE SCEPTRE; or, Mortimer’s Mission. (_Shaw_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1884.

Career of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster (1374-98) in Monmouthshire, Ireland, and London. He was lieutenant of Ulster, Connaught, and Meath. Richard II. declared him heir to the throne, but later grew jealous of his popularity. He was slain at Kells in battle with Art McMurrough Kavanagh. Juvenile.

=HOPKINS, Tighe.= Born 1856. Son of Rev. W. R. Hopkins, Vicar of Moulton, Cheshire. Besides the work mentioned here this Author ed. Carleton’s _Traits and Stories_ in the “Red Letter Library,” and wrote _Kilmainham Memories_, several novels, and various other works. Resides at Herne Bay. Has written many other novels:—_For Freedom_, _The Silent Gate_, _Tozer’s_, _’Twixt Love and Duty_, &c.

⸺ THE NUGENTS OF CARRICONNA. Three Vols., afterwards one Vol. (_Ward & Downey_). 1890.

Main theme: an old impoverished family suddenly enriched by Australian legacy. Interwoven there is an interesting love-story. Anthony Nugent, eccentric, of astronomical tastes, has on his housetop a telescope which plays a prominent part in the story. Brogue well done. The dramatic interest centred in an Inspector of Police, a type probably very rare in Irish fiction.

=HOPPER, Nora; Mrs. W. H. Chesson.=

⸺ BALLADS IN PROSE. Pp. 186. (_Lane_). 5_s._ Beautifully bound and printed. 1894.

Strange, wayward tales of far-off pagan days in which one moves as in a mist of dreams. Soaked with Gaelic fairy and legendary lore. The prose pieces, all very short, are interspersed with little poems, that are slight and frail as wreaths of vapour. Some of the stories are symbolical. They are told in simple and graceful prose.

=HUDSON, Frank.= This Author, after many years’ work for Dublin periodicals, went to London early in the ’eighties. He wrote a few Irish sporting novels of a light and humorous kind.

⸺ THE ORIGIN OF PLUM PUDDING, and other Irish Fairy Tales. Illustr. by Gordon Browne. 1888.

Only one of these five stories is genuinely Irish—“Shaun Murray’s Challenge,” the scene of which is Dalkey. The title-story tells how a drunken man one evening threw his sack of groceries into a pot on the fire, and in the morning found a plum-pudding.

⸺ THE LAST HURDLE: a Story of Sporting and Courting. Pp. 304. (_Ward & Downey_). 1888.

Life in an Irish county family of the old stock, with sympathy for the poor around them. Good idea of refined Irish country life and its easy-going ways. A story full of sport, gaiety, and dramatic incidents, turning mainly on the winning of the heroine by the hero in spite of the plots of the rival. Good and bad landlords are contrasted. An eviction

## scene is described, with full sympathy for the victims.

Shamus-the-Trout, a poacher, is a very picturesque figure.

⸺ RUNNING DOUBLE: a Story of Stage and Stable. Two Vols. (_Ward & Downey_). 1890.

Scene: varies between England, Dublin, and “Ennisbeg.” There are remarks on Irish life, scenery, and customs, but the chief interest is sporting—fishing, racing, betting. The stage part is in England. There is very little plot. All ends in a double wedding.

=HUGHES, Mrs. Kate Duval.=

⸺ THE FAIR MAID OF CONNAUGHT: and other Tales for Catholic Youth. Pp. 178. (N.Y.: _Kenedy_ and _Benziger_). 1.25, 0.60, 0.30. 1889.

=HULL, Eleanor.= Born in Ireland of a Co. Down family. Daughter of Prof. Edward Hull, the eminent geologist, long Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland. Ed. at Alexandra Coll., Dublin, and in Brussels. Has written much—chiefly on Irish literature, folk-lore, and history—for various periodicals. Is the Author of eight important books on Irish subjects:—_Pagan Ireland_, _Early Christian Ireland_, _A Text-Book of Irish_ [Gaelic] _Literature_, _The Poem-Book of the Gael_. Has for many years studied Old Irish under the best professors, and it is her chief pleasure and interest. Founded in 1899 the Irish Texts Society, and has been its Hon. Secretary ever since. Is President of Irish Literary Society in London.

⸺ THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE. Pp. lxxx. + 316. (_Nutt_). 1898.

A collection of fourteen stories relating to Cuchulin, translated from the Irish by various scholars (Meyer, O’Curry, Stokes, Windisch, O’Grady, Duvan, &c.). A more valuable work, says Fiona MacLeod (in substance), for students of Gaelic legend and literature than the more recent works by Lady Gregory. The book is not cast in an artistic mould. It merely contains the rude materials from which epic and lyric inspiration may be drawn. Important and valuable Introduction deals with literary qualities of the Saga, its historical aspects and its mythology. Map of Ireland to illustrate Cuchulin Saga. Appendix contains chart of Cuchulin Saga. Notes pp. 289-297.

⸺ CUCHULAIN, THE HOUND OF ULSTER. Pp. 279. (_Harrap_). 5_s._ net. Illustr. in colour by Stephen Reid. [1909].

Intended for young, but not very young readers. Told in modern language, free from Gaelicisms, archaisms, and difficult names. The story is continuous, not told in detached episodes. The style, though without the strange wild grandeur of Standish O’Grady, is on the whole beautiful. The story itself is full of the spirit of heroism and chivalry. It is selected and adapted from many sources (indicated in Appendix), and the epic narrative is not mixed with puerile or absurd episodes. Some of the illustrations are excellent, others tend, perhaps, too much to quaintness.

=HUME, Martin.=

⸺ TRUE STORIES OF THE PAST. Pp. xi. + 226. (_Eveleigh Nash_). 5_s._ net. 1911.

Ed. with introd. by R. B. Cunningham Grahame. Eight stories from History. i. “How Rizzio was Avenged;” ii. “A Rebellious Love-match;” iii. “Prince and Pastry Cook;” iv. “The Revenge of John Hawkins;” v. “The Scapegoat;” vi. “Sir Walter [Raleigh]’s Homecoming;” vii. “Cloth of Gold and Frieze.” Some of these treat of the amours of great personages. Their standpoint is, of course, English and Protestant. viii. “The Last Stand of the O’Sullivans” is told with much spirit, and with sympathy for the Irish cause. It does not include the famous retreat of the O’Sullivans.

=HUNGERFORD, Mrs.= Born 1855. Daughter of Canon Hamilton, Rector of Ross, Co. Cork. Ed. in Ireland. Her early home was St. Brenda’s, Co. Cork. Wrote upwards of forty-six novels dealing with the more frivolous aspects of modern society. They had a great vogue in their day. The most popular of all was, perhaps, _Molly Bawn_ (1878). Most of her books appeared Anon. Her plots are poor and conventional, but she possessed the faculty of reproducing faithfully the tone of contemporary society. She died at Bandon 1897.—(D.N.B.).

⸺ MOLLY BAWN. (_Smith, Elder_). 6_s._ and 2_s._ (BOSTON: _Caldwell_). 0.75. [1878].

“A love tale of a tender, but frivolous and petulant Irish girl, who flirts and arouses her lover’s jealousy, and who offends against the conventions in all innocence. A gay and witty story spiced with slang, and touched with pathos.”—(_Baker_).

⸺ A LITTLE IRISH GIRL; and other Stories. (LONDON: _Whitefriars Libr._). 1891.

⸺ THE O’CONNORS OF BALLYNAHINCH. Pp. 261. (_Heinemann_). 1_s._ 6_d._ 1896.

A domestic story of love and marriage in the Author’s lightest vein. The characters belong chiefly to the landlord class, a local carman being the only peasant introduced. There is no expression of political views. The scene is laid in Cork.

⸺ NORA CREINA. Pp. 328. (_Chatto & Windus_). 1903.

A love-story from start to finish, without pretence of the study of character. The story of how Norah is won from dislike to love is pleasantly told. No politics. Peasants hardly mentioned. Scene not specified.

=HUNT, B.=

⸺ FOLK TALES OF BREFFNY. Pp. viii. + 197. (_Macmillan_). 3_s._ 6_d._ 1913.

Breffny, _i.e._, Cavan and Leitrim. Many of these stories—there are twenty-six of them, all very short—“were told by an old man, who said he had more and better learning nor the scholars,” and are a curious mixture of literary language, and a very peculiar and picturesque peasant dialect. They are somewhat off the ordinary lines of folk-lore stories, and are told in a quaint drily-humorous vein.

=HYDE, Dr. Douglas, LL.D., D.Litt.; “An Craobhin Aoibhinn.”= Son of late Rev. Arthur Hyde, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon. Ed. T.C.D. Has been President of the Gaelic League since its foundation in 1893. Is Professor of Modern Irish in the National University of Ireland.

⸺ BESIDE THE FIRE. Gaelic Folk-stories. Collected, ed. (Irish text facing English), and trans. by D. H. With Introd., Notes on Irish text, and Notes on tales, by Ed. and Alfred Nutt. Pp. lviii. + 204. (_Nutt_). 7_s._ 6_d._ 1891.

Extremely interesting and valuable Preface (50 pages) by the Author, in which he reviews what had been hitherto done for Irish folk-lore, remarks on the genesis of the folk-tale, its affinities with the Scotch folk-tale, and tells us where and from whom and in what circumstances he got his stories, ending by some explanations of the style of his translations. The preface is followed by some critical remarks on it by Alfred Nutt. The English of the translations is that of the peasants. This is the first really scientific treatment of Irish folk-lore.

⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF THE LAD OF THE FERULE.

⸺ THE ADVENTURES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KING OF NORWAY. (_Irish Texts Society_). 1899.

Two Irish romantic tales of the 16th and 17th centuries, ed. and transl. for the first time with introd., notes, and glossary. The “Lad” is a mysterious being who appears to Murough, son of Brian Boru, and carrying home for him the spoils of a miraculous hunting, demands as reward a certain ferule that lies at the bottom of a lake. Murough slays a serpent, and delivers the land of the Ever Young, which lies at the bottom of the lake. The second is a long story of enchantment and marvellous adventures.—(_Baker_, 2).

⸺ An Sgéalaidhe Gaedhealach: Connaught Folk Tales. Three Parts. With French Trans. by Georges Dottin. (_Rennes_). Parts 1 and 2, 10_s._;