Irish Literature The Nineteenth Century Volume I An Annotated Anthology

by Jeffares, A. Norman; Kamp, Peter Van De

• ISBN13: 9780716528005
• ISBN10: 0716528002
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

Since the very successful four-volume Cabinet of Irish Literature, published in 1912 and long out of print, there has been no publication which demonstrates the growth, variety and achievement of Irish writing in the nineteenth century. There are no anthologies available which are suitable for students, senior school children, and general readers. The proposed volume remedies this situation. Taking in prose, poetry, and drama, this volume not only contains work by major authors but also includes less obvious material gleaned from sources such as letters, diaries, court reports, newspapers, and journals. This accessible anthology, introduced and annotated by two leading scholars of Irish literature, is destined to become standard reading for a generation of students and general readers. This, the first of three volumes, spans the first third of the nineteenth century. It documents Ireland's significant literary contribution to an age of invention, with Thomas Moore's romantic Melodies, Maria Edgeworth's regional fiction, and Charles Maturin's voyeuristic Gothic stories. It witnesses the rise of a quest for authenticity-mapping and transmuting the Gaelic past (in Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy, Petrie's essay on the round towers, and O'Curry's research into Irish manuscripts) and faithfully depicting the real Ireland (in the first-hand accounts of Mary Leadbeater, William Hamilton Maxwell, Asenath Nicholson, the peasant fiction of William Carleton, and the Catholic fiction of the Banim brothers). In Jonah Barrington's Sketches, it records the demise of the rollicking squirearchy, while in the stories of Lover, it portrays the rise of the stage Irishman. But it also offers a selection from political documents and speeches, and from popular writings which were imprinted on the Irish consciousness. These are contextualised by historical documents, and by Irish forays into European Romanticism.

Table of Contents

Appreciation of A. N. Jeffares	xvii
Foreword	xix
Terence Brown
Acknowledgements	xxii
Introduction	1	(42)
Further Reading	43	(8)
Anonymous	51	(12)
The Curragh of Kildare	51	(1)
The Palatine's Daughter	52	(1)
I Know Where I'm Going	53	(1)
Kate Kearney	54	(1)
Castle Hyde	55	(1)
The Rakes Of Mallow	56	(1)
If I Was A Blackbird	57	(1)
Finnegan's Wake	58	(1)
The Croppy Boy	59	(1)
The Shan Van Vocht	60	(2)
The Wearing of the Green	62	(1)
Mary Leadbeater (1758--1826)	63	(17)
From Annals of Ballitore	63	(17)
Sir Jonah Barrington	80	(14)
From Personal Sketches and Recollections of His Own Times	80	(10)
Irish Beauties	80	(5)
Patricians and Plebeians	85	(5)
From The Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation	90	(4)
Prefatory Observations	90	(1)
Chapter xxvii	91	(3)
Sir Vere Hunt (1761--1818)	94	(2)
From His Diaries	94	(2)
Richard Alfred Milliken (1767--1815)	96	(3)
The Groves of Blarney	96	(3)
Maria Edgeworth (1767--1849)	99	(40)
From Castle Rackrent	100	(12)
From The Absentee	112	(17)
From Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth	129	(10)
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769--1852)	139	(3)
From A Speech in the House of Lords, 27 June 1850	140	(2)
Mary Tighe (1775--1810)	142	(6)
From Psyche, or the Legend of Love	142	(6)
Daniel O'Connell (1775--1847)	148	(17)
From His Letters	149	(5)
To His Wife	149	(1)
To Richard Barrett	150	(2)
To the Editor, Northampton Mercury	152	(2)
Speech at Tara (15 August 1843)	154	(11)
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1776--1859)	165	(19)
From The Wild Irish Girl	166	(17)
From The Lay of an Irish Harp	183	(1)
To Him Who Said, `You Live Only for the World'	183	(1)
The Rev. Patrick Bronte (1777--1861)	184	(2)
Tweed's Letter to his Mistress	185	(1)
Robert Emmet (1778--1803)	186	(9)
Arbor Hill	187	(1)
Speech from the Dock, 19 September 1803	188	(7)
William Hamilton Drummond (1778--1865)	195	(6)
From Bruce's Invasion of Ireland: A Poem	195	(6)
Preface	195	(2)
The Rising Of Erin -- And Albyn's Retreat	197	(4)
Thomas Moore (1779--1852)	201	(18)
Preface to The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore	203	(1)
The Kiss	204	(1)
To	204	(1)
From Irish Melodies	205	(10)
Oh! Breathe Not His Name	205	(1)
When He, Who Adores Thee	205	(1)
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls	206	(1)
The Meeting of the Waters	206	(1)
Let Erin Remember The Days Of Old	207	(1)
The Song of Fionnuala	208	(1)
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms	208	(1)
Before The Battle	209	(1)
After The Battle	210	(1)
`Tis The Last Rose O'Summer	210	(1)
The Young May Moon	211	(1)
The Minstrel-Boy	211	(1)
The Time I've Lost in Wooing	212	(1)
Dear Harp of My Country!	213	(1)
As Slow Our Ship	213	(1)
Remember Thee	214	(1)
From National Airs	215	(1)
Oft, in the Stilly Night	215	(1)
From Ballads, Songs, Miscellaneous Poems, etc	216	(1)
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name	216	(1)
From Miscellaneous Poems	216	(1)
To My Mother	216	(1)
From Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and other Matters	217	(1)
Dialogue Between A Sovereign And A One-Pound Note	217	(1)
From Satirical and Humorous Poems	218	(1)
Paddy's Metamorphosis	218	(1)
Charles Robert Maturin (1780--1824)	219	(24)
From Women; or, Pour et Contre	220	(19)
From Melmoth the Wanderer	239	(4)
James Hardiman (1782--1855)	243	(13)
From Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland	243	(13)
James Warren Doyle (1786--1834)	256	(7)
From Vindication of the Principles of the Irish Catholics	256	(2)
From Letters on the State of Ireland	258	(5)
Sir Aubrey De Vere Hunt (1788--1846)	263	(2)
From The Lamentation of Ireland and Other Poems	263	(1)
Lismore	263	(1)
From A Song of Faith	263	(2)
My Early Life	263	(1)
The Family Picture	263	(1)
From Petrarch	264	(1)
Canzonet	265	(1)
Marguerite Power, Countess of Blessington (1789--1849)	265	(7)
From Sketches and Fragments	266	(6)
From Journal of a Week of a Lady of Fashion	266	(6)
George Petrie (1789--1866)	272	(7)
The Pearl of the White Breast	273	(1)
Do You Remember That Night?	274	(1)
From The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland	275	(1)
Dedication	275	(1)
An Inquiry into the Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland	276	(3)
Charles Wolfe (1791--1823)	279	(1)
The Burial of Sir John Moore	279	(1)
John Machale (1791--1881)	280	(6)
Letter from the Place of His Birth	281	(5)
William Hamilton Maxwell (1792--1850)	286	(5)
From Wild Sports of the West of Ireland	286	(5)
Asenath Nicholson (1792--1855)	291	(12)
From Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger	292	(2)
From Annals of the Famine in Ireland	294	(9)
John D'alton (1792--1867)	303	(4)
Eileen A Roon	304	(1)
Oh! Erin!	305	(1)
Carroll O'Daly and Echo	305	(2)
William Maginn (1793--1842)	307	(2)
From The Odoherty Papers	308	(1)
If a Lover Sweet Creature Should Foolishly Seek	308	(1)
Confusion Seize Your Lowsy Sowl, Ye Nasty Dirty Varment	308	(1)
From Moore-ish Melodies	308	(1)
`Tis the Last Glass of Claret	308	(1)
Thomas Furlong (1794--1827)	309	(6)
From Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy or Bardic Remains of Ireland	310	(5)
Gracey Nugent	310	(1)
Cashel of Munster, or the `Clar Bog Deal'	310	(1)
Molly A Store	311	(1)
Roisin Dubh	312	(1)
Eileen A Roon	313	(1)
In This Calm Sheltered Villa	314	(1)
William Carleton (1794--1869)	315	(18)
From Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry	315	(18)
From The Party Fight and Funeral	315	(11)
From The Hedge School	326	(7)
George Darley (1795--1846)	333	(7)
On the Death of A Recluse	333	(1)
Robin's Cross	334	(1)
From Nepenthe	334	(6)
From Canto I	334	(5)
From Canto II	339	(1)
From Syren Songs	340	(1)
The Sea Ritual	340	(1)
James (Jeremiah) J. Callanan (1795--1829)	340	(7)
Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear	341	(2)
The Girl I Love	343	(1)
The Convict of Clonmel	344	(1)
O Say, My Brown Drimin	345	(1)
The Outlaw of Loch Lene	346	(1)
James Tighe (1795--1869)	347	(1)
The Boreen Side	347	(1)
Eugene O'Curry (1796--1862)	348	(16)
From On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish	349	(15)
From Introduction	349	(6)
Druids and Druidism	355	(9)
Samuel Lover (1797--1868)	364	(8)
From Handy Andy	364	(5)
From Songs and Ballads	369	(3)
Rory O'More; Or, Good Omens	369	(1)
St. Kevin: A Legend of Glendalough	370	(2)
John Banim (1798--1842)	372	(15)
From The Nowlans	372	(15)
Index of First Lines	387	(1)
General Index	388