Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 Book

	Introduction
	Note on the Anthology
	Select Bibliography
	Chronology of Key Events
Pt. 1	Writings 1789-1890
	from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)	3
	from Letter to Richard Burke (1792)	7
	from The Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1797)	13
	Speech from the Dock (1803)	17
	Speech at Tara (1843)	23
	Letter to the Irish Felon (1848)	35
	Preface to Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789)	43
	from A Frenchman's Walk Through Ireland (1797)	47
	An Irish Wake (1826)	57
	from The Lough Derg Pilgrim (1828)	61
	from Ballad Poetry of Ireland and The History of Ireland (1845)	73
	from Castle Rackrent (1800)	79
	from The Wild Irish Girl (1806)	95
	from Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)	106
	from The House by the Church-yard (1863)	120
	from Hurrish (1886)	124
	I Am Raftery (c.1830)	130
	Elegy on the Death of Carolan (1789)	130
	Oh! breathe not his name (1807)	131
	She is far from the land (1811)	132
	Dear Harp of my Country (1815)	132
	The harp that once through Tara's halls (1807)	133
	Oft, in the stilly night (1818)	133
	The Minstrel Boy (1813)	134
	Written at the Eagle's Nest, Killarney (1800)	135
	Written at Killarney (1800)	135
	On Leaving Killarney (1800)	136
	Address to my Harp (1811)	136
	Roisin Dubh (1831)	137
	Eileen a Roon (1831)	138
	The Spirit of Irish Song (1827)	139
	To My Native Land (1832)	140
	The Women of Three Cows (1840)	142
	Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora (1841)	143
	Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan (1841)	145
	Dark Rosaleen (1846)	146
	Roisin Dubh (1849)	148
	The Nameless One (1849)	150
	The Bells of Shandon (1836)	152
	Lament for the Death of Thomas Davis (1847)	154
	Cashel of Munster (1867)	156
	The Coolun (1867)	157
	Dear Dark Head (1867)	158
	A Nation Once Again (1845)	159
	The West's Asleep (1845)	160
	The Little Black Rose (1861)	161
	Florence MacCarthy's Farewell to His English Love (1855)	161
	The Memory of the Dead (1843)	162
	The Fairies (1849)	163
	The Maids of Elfin-Mere (1850)	165
	A Dream (1850)	166
	The Winding Banks of Erne (1865)	167
	from Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland (1864)	170
	Boulavogue (1898)	173
	The Shan Van Vocht (1842)	174
	The Wearin 'o' the Green (c.1798)	176
	The Croppy Boy (c.1798)	176
	The Rising of the Moon (1866)	177
	Granuaile (c.1798)	178
Pt. 2	Writings 1890-1939
	The Famine Queen (1900)	183
	The Coming Revolution (1913)	185
	The Irish Flag (1916)	189
	from The Insurrection in Dublin (1916)	192
	Stephen's Green (1926)	199
	Speech from the Dock (1916)	203
	from Literature in Ireland (1916)	212
	from Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism (1896)	220
	from De Profundis (1905)	224
	from The Aran Islands (1907)	232
	from Hail and Farewell (1911)	240
	from On Another Man's Wound (1936)	246
	A Painful Case (1905)	252
	Lilliput (1926)	260
	The Mountain Tavern (1929)	265
	The Majesty of the Law (1935)	273
	from The Real Charlotte (1894)	282
	from Dracula (1897)	286
	from Ulysses (1922)	293
	from The Last September (1929)	314
	from Murphy (1938)	320
	from At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)	325
	Grief of a Girl's Heart (1901)	336
	Requiescat (1881)	338
	Impression du Matin (1881)	339
	Helas! (1881)	339
	The Harlot's House (1885)	340
	Sonnet. On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters (1885)	341
	Symphony in Yellow (1889)	341
	My Grief on the Sea (1893)	342
	The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1888)	343
	To Ireland in the Coming Times (1892)	343
	The Song of Wandering Aengus (1897)	345
	To a Shade (1913)	345
	September 1913 (1913)	346
	Easter 1916 (1916)	347
	The Wild Swans at Coole (1916)	349
	Meditations in Time of Civil War (1921-3)	350
	The Tower (1925)	357
	Sailing to Byzantium (1926)	362
	The Circus Animals' Desertion (1937-8)	363
	The Love-Talker (1902)	365
	The Brown Wind of Connaught (1902)	366
	Rady McCorley (1902)	367
	The Passing of the Gael (1902)	368
	Beannacht Leat (1902)	370
	By the Statute of King Charles at Charing Cross (1889)	371
	Mystic and Cavalier (1889)	372
	The Dark Angel (1893)	374
	Ninety-Eight (1893)	375
	Parnell (1893)	377
	Carrowmore (1913)	378
	The Little Waves of Breffny (1904)	379
	The Land to a Landlord (1904)	380
	Women's Rights (1906)	381
	Prelude (1909)	382
	Beg-Innish (1909)	382
	To the Oaks of Glencree (1909)	383
	A Question (1909)	383
	In Glencullen (1909)	383
	To the Liffey with the Swans (1923)	384
	John-John (1910)	384
	Of a Poet Patriot (1913)	386
	The Yellow Bittern (1913)	387
	The Night Hunt (1913)	388
	My Lagan Love (1904)	389
	The Lamplighter (1929)	390
	Geese (1939)	390
	A Rann I Made (1917)	391
	I am Ireland (1917)	391
	On the Strand of Howth (1917)	391
	The Mother (1915)	393
	Christmas 1915 (1915)	394
	The Wayfarer (1916)	394
	She Moved Through the Fair (1916)	395
	A Twilight in Middle March (1914)	395
	June (1914)	396
	August (1914)	397
	Thomas MacDonagh (1916)	397
	The Wedding Morning (1916)	398
	The Blackbirds (1916)	398
	The Herons (1916)	399
	Father and Son (1923)	399
	To My Blackthorn Stick (1923)	400
	To a Blackbird (1930)	401
	Shancoduff (1934)	402
	Inniskeen Road: July Evening (1935)	402
	To a Modern Irish Poet (1927)	403
	Easter Tuesday (1931)	403
	Mourne Mountains (1937)	404
	Belfast (1931)	405
	Snow (1935)	405
	Carrickfergus (1937)	406
	Autumn Journal XVI (1939)	407
	from The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)	412
	Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)	421
	The Rising of the Moon (1907)	432
	Riders to the Sea (1904)	442
	from Juno and the Paycock (1924)	454
	Explanatory Notes	472
	Biographies	516
	Publisher's Acknowledgements	544
	Index of Names	547