The Essential Library for Irish Americans

by Llywelyn, Morgan

• ISBN13: 9780312869144
• ISBN10: 0312869142
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: St Martins Pr

Summary

Llywelyn, a heroine to many Irish-Americans, tells what books give the best insight on Ireland and Irish heritage in this instructive, opinionated, annotated list.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(8)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, AND MEMOIRS
Before the Dawn	19	(4)
Adams, Gerry
Borstal Boy	23	(3)
Behan, Brendan
While the Music Lasts: My Life in Politics	26	(3)
Bulger, William M.
De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow	29	(6)
Coogan, Tim Pat
Michael Collins	35	(3)
Coogan, Tim Pat
Persecuting Zeal: A Portrait of Ian Paisley	38	(4)
Cooke, Dennis
W. B. Yeats: A Life	42	(3)
Coote, Stephen
Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist	45	(3)
Cronin, Anthony
James Joyce	48	(3)
Ellmann, Richard
Oscar Wilde	51	(3)
Ellmann, Richard
The Luck of O'Reilly	54	(3)
Fallon, Ivan
Seventy Years Young: Memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall	57	(3)
Fingall, Elizabeth
As I Was Going Down Sackville Street	60	(3)
Gogarty, Oliver St. John
Bernard Shaw	63	(3)
Holroyd, Michael
Peig	66	(3)
MacMahon
Bryan
Angela's Ashes	69	(3)
McCourt, Frank
Terrible Beauty: A Life of Constance Markievicz	72	(3)
Norman, Diana
Autobiographies, Vols. One and Two	75	(3)
O'Casey, Sean
The Aran Islands	78	(3)
Synge, John Millington
100 Irish Lives	81	(2)
Wallace, Martin
The Luck of the Irish: Our Life in County Clare	83	(4)
Williams, Niall
Christine Breen
HISTORY
The Twilight Lords	87	(5)
Berleth, Richard
How the Irish Saved Civilization	92	(2)
Cahill, Thomas
The Troubles	94	(3)
Coogan, Tim Pat
Modern Ireland 1600--1972	97	(3)
Foster, R. E.
The Celts	100	(2)
Herm, Gerhard
Social History of Ancient Ireland	102	(3)
Joyce, Patrick Weston
This Great Calamity	105	(3)
Kenealy, Christine
The Irish Republic: A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict and the Partitioning of Ireland, with a Detailed Account of the Period 1916--1923	108	(3)
Macardle, Dorothy
The Story of the Irish Race	111	(2)
MacManus, Seamus
The New Gill History of Ireland, 6 Vols.	113	(5)
Pagan Celtic Ireland	118	(3)
Raftery, Barry
The Insurrection in Dublin	121	(2)
Stephens, James
The Great Hunger	123	(6)
Woodham-Smith, Cecil
HUMOR
Clocking Ninety on the Road to Cloughjordan and Other Stories	129	(2)
Cullen, Leo
The Ginger Man	131	(2)
Donleavy, J. P.
The Best of Myles	133	(6)
na gCopaleen, Myles [Brian O'Nolan]
IRELAND AND AMERICA
Real Lace: America's Irish Rich	139	(3)
Birmingham, Stephen
The Irish in America	142	(2)
Coffey
Michael
Terry Golway
The Irish Brigade	144	(3)
Conynham
Capt. D. P.
America and Ireland, 1776--1976	147	(3)
Doyle
David Noel
Owen Dudley Edwards
The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America, 1846--51	150	(3)
Laxton, Edward
Out of Ireland	153	(3)
Miller, Kerby
Paul Wagner
Shamrock and Sword	156	(2)
Miller, Robert Ryal
Models for Movers: Irish Women's Emigration to America	158	(3)
O'Carroll, Ide
Irish America and the Ulster Conflict	161	(4)
Wilson
Andrew J.
MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE
A Treasury of Irish Folklore	165	(2)
Colum, Padraic
Mythic Ireland	167	(2)
Dames, Michael
The Raid	169	(3)
Eickhoff, Randy Lee
Early Irish Myths and Sagas	172	(2)
Gantz
Jeffrey
Irish Folk History: Texts from the North	174	(2)
Glassie, Henry
Ghosts in Irish Houses	176	(3)
Reynolds, James
Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Omnibus	179	(3)
Scott, Michael
The Crock of Gold	182	(3)
Stephens, James
A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore	185	(6)
Yeats
W. B.
Lady Gregory
NOVELS
Light a Penny Candle	191	(3)
Binchy, Maeve
Across the Bitter Sea	194	(3)
Dillon, Eilis
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	197	(2)
Doyle, Roddy
Hungry Hill	199	(2)
du Maurier, Daphne
Castle Rackrent	201	(2)
Edgeworth, Maria
The Rising of the Moon	203	(3)
Ellis, Peter Beresford
The Year of the French	206	(3)
Flanagan, Thomas
The Last Rainbow	209	(2)
Godwin, Parke
Irish Gold; Irish Lace; Irish Whiskey	211	(2)
Greeley
Andrew M.
The Prisoner's Wife	213	(2)
Holland, Jack
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	215	(3)
Joyce, James
Ulysses	218	(3)
Joyce, James
1916	221	(3)
Llywelyn, Morgan
This Side of Brightness	224	(2)
McCann, Colum
Seek the Fair Land Trilogy, comprising Seek the Fair Land; The Silent People; and The Scorching Wind	226	(3)
Macken, Walter
Grace Notes	229	(2)
MacLaverty, Bernard
The Honey Spike	231	(2)
MacMahon, Bryan
A Land Not Theirs	233	(2)
Marcus, David
The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue	235	(2)
O'Brien, Edna
The Ante-Room	237	(2)
O'Brien, Kate
The Last Hurrah	239	(2)
O'Connor, Edwin
The Black Soul	241	(2)
O'Flaherty, Liam
The Bog of Stars	243	(3)
O'Grady, Standish
Strumpet City	246	(2)
Plunkett, James
Dracula	248	(2)
Stoker, Bram
Gulliver's Travels	250	(2)
Swift, Jonathan
The Picture of Dorian Gray	252	(5)
Wilde, Oscar
POETRY
Selected Poems	257	(2)
Hugh Maxton
Clarke
Austin
Oven Lane	259	(2)
Coady, Michael
Blood on the Harp: Irish Rebel History in Ballad	261	(2)
Faolain, Turlough
The Spirit Level	263	(2)
Heaney, Seamus
1,000 Years of Irish Poetry	265	(3)
Hoagland
Kathleen
Love of Ireland: Poems from the Irish	268	(2)
Kennelly
Brendan
Collected Poems of John Montague	270	(1)
Montague, John
The Midnight Court, translated by Cosslett O Cuinn	271	(2)
Merriman, Brian
The 1916 Poets: Pearse, Plunkett, MacDonagh	273	(2)
Ryan
Desmond
Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats	275	(4)
Richard T. Finneran
Yeats
William Butler
REFERENCE BOOKS
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors	279	(2)
Grenham, John
Guide to Early Irish Law	281	(3)
Kelly, Fergus
A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers	284	(2)
Kenner, Hugh
Irish Families, Their Names, Arms and Origins	286	(5)
MacLysaght, Edward
TRAVEL AND PICTURE BOOKS
Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape	291	(4)
Aalen
F. H. A.
Kevin Whelan
Matthew Stout
The Book of Kells	295	(2)
Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World	297	(3)
McNeill, Thomas
In Ruins: The Once Great Houses of Ireland	300	(2)
Marsden, Simon
Duncan McLaren
Dublin, a Grand Tour	302	(2)
O'Brien
Jacqueline
Desmond Guinness
Ancient Ireland from Prehistory to the Middle Ages	304	(3)
O'Brien Jacqueline
Peter Harbison
Father Browne's Ireland	307	(2)
O'Donnell E. E.
The Brendan Voyage	309	(2)
Severin, Tim
Suggested Sources for Irish-Interest Books	311	(2)
Index	313