Authorship, where known, has been identified in the index below. In many cases in Irish literature, particularly in the earlier periods, authorship was anonymous. Untitled poems are indicated by the poem’s first line (in italics).
A Athair Niocláis, mo chás id luí thú, 330–1
A Bhanbha is truagh do chor, 197
A bhonnáin bhuí (Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna), 355
Absalom and Achitophel (John Dryden), 177
Absentee, The (Maria Edgeworth), 413, 426
Acallam na Senórach (The Colloquy of the Ancients), 57, 58, 94, 116, 215, 634
Account of Denmark, as it was in the year 1692 (Viscount Robert Molesworth), 234
Account of the Druids (John Locke), 236
A chóicid choín Chairpri crúaid, 43
Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae (John Colgan), 211, 214
Act of Uniformity of, 1560 210, 220
Act of Union, 283, 313, 315, 407, 409–11, 439
Adamnán (Adomnán), 17–18, 54
see Betha Adamnáin, 56
Cáin Adamnáin, 22
Fís Adamnáin, 40, 54
Life of Colum Cille (Vita Columbae), 17
Addison, Joseph (co-editor of The Tatler and The Spectator), 374
Cato, 374
Adelaide; or The Emigrants (Richard Lalor Sheil), 17–18, 431
Adventure of Art son of Conn, The (Eachtra Airt Meic Chuind), 123
Adventure of Conall Gulban, The (Eachtra Chonaill Ghulban), 124
Adventure of Fergus mac Leti (Echtra Fergusa maic Leti), 22
Adventure of Tadhg son of Cian (Eachtra Thaidhg mhic Chéin), 123
Adventure of the Crop-eared Dog/Wolf, The (Eachtra an Mhadra Mhaoil), 126
Adventure of the Sons of Eochaid Mugmedón, The (Echtra mac nEchdach Mugmedóin), 44, 47, 48
Áed mac Crimthainn, 33, 36
Áed úa Raithnén, 44
Ag so beatha agus páis agus bás ar Slánaightheóra Íosa Críosd, 346–7
Ag taistiol liom fá smúit im aonar, 330
Agallamh Déanach (Late Agallamh), 116
Agallamh na Seanórach see Acallam na Senórach
Aibidil Gaoidheilge 7 Caiticiosma (Seán Ó Cearnaigh), 194
Aided Chonchobuir (The Violent Death of Conchobor), 15
Aided Crimthainn meic Fhidaig (The Death-tale of Crimthann son of Fidach), 47
Aided Muirchertaig meic Erca (The Death-tale of Muirchertach son of Erca), 50
Aighneas an Pheacaig leis an mBás (Pádraig Denn), 571
Airbertach mac Coisse Dobráin, 54
aisling (vision poem), 325, 330, 567, 571, 572, 580, 650
Aislinge Meic Con Glinne (The Dream of Mac Con Glinne), 35, 87
aithrí (repentance poem), 583
Alciphron; or the Minute Philosopher . . . (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 240–1
A leabhráin ainmnightear d’Aodh (Eoghan Ruadh Mac an Bhaird), 209
Alexander, James, 335
‘Alexander, Mrs’ see Hector, Annie
allegory, 143, 151–3, 155, 247, 413, 414
Allingham, William, 529, 531–4
Ballad Book, The, 532
Diary, 532
Fairies, The, 534
Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland: A Modern Poem, 531–4
‘Lovely Mary Donnelly’, 532
Nightingale Valley, 532
Alphabet of Piety, The (Apgitir Chrábaid), 16
alphabets, 20
see also ogam script
Altemera, see Generall, The: a Tragi-Comedy
Altus Prosator (Colum Cille), 12
A Maire, a grian ar clainde, 14
Amazonian Gift, The (Dorothea Dubois), 299
American Revolution, 264, 342, 345
A mhacalla dheas, 99
A mhic Éamoinn Ruaidh, a shadharclann an tsluaigh (Art Mac Cumhaigh), 351
‘Amhrán an Ghorta’, 587
‘Amhrán an Tae’ (Colm de Bhailís), 588
‘Amhrán na Leabhar’ (Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin), 572
Amoretti and Epithalamion (Edmund Spenser), 152
Amory, Thomas, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., 270
Amra Choluim Chille (Eulogy of Colum Cille), 18, 21
‘A Nation Once Again’ (Thomas Osborne Davis), 516
Ancients and Moderns debate, 247
‘A New Song call’d Luke Caffrey’s Gost’, 310
An gcluin tú mé, a Chathail Bhuí, tá an bás fá fhad téide dhuit (Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna), 355–6
Anglo-Normans, the, 77, 79–81, 86, 96–8, 112
chronicle of, 86, 89
and Gaelic society, 97
hibernicisation of, 88
language of, 86
patronage, 89, 117
antiquarianism, 400, 401, 408, 606, 616
Analyst, The (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 241
Ancient Ireland (periodical), 452
Ancient Laws of Ireland (John O’Donovan and Eugene O’Curry), 559
Anketell, John, 298
Poems on Several Subjects, 298
Annála Ríoghachta Éireann, 212, 213
Annálad anall uile (Gilla Cóemáin), 46
Annales Hiberniæ (John Clyn), 129
Annals of Ballitore, The (Mary Shackleton Leadbeater), 441
Annals of the Famine (Asenath Nicholson), 465
Annals of the Four Masters (John O’Donovan), 559, 617, 618
Answer to a Challenge Made by a Jesuite in Ireland, An (Archbishop James Ussher), 171
Antiphonary of Bangor, 10
Antiquities of Ireland (Edward Ledwich), 612, 613
Apgitir Chrábaid (The Alphabet of Piety), 16
Aphorismical Discovery of Treasonable Faction, An, 168–9
Apocryphal Gospel of St Thomas, 13
‘Apologia addressed to Ireland in the coming days’ see ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’ (William Butler Yeats)
Apostate, The (Richard Lalor Sheil), 432
Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men (Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Thompson), 410
Arbuckle, James, Hibernicus’s Letters, 259
Argalus and Parthenia (Francis Quarles), 162–3
Argument against Abolishing Christianity, An (Jonathan Swift), 248
Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland (Theobald Wolfe Tone), 268–9
Arianism, 243
Armagh school, 33, 56
Arnold, Matthew, 475–7
‘Incompatibles, The’, 476
‘Irish Catholicism and British Liberalism’, 476
Irish Essays, and Others, 476
On the Study of Celtic Literature, 475
‘Unregarded Irish Grievance, An’, 476
Arrah-na-Pogue (Dion Boucicault), 488
Arsaces, Prince of Betlis (Charles Johnstone), 270
Art Maguire; or, the Broken Pledge (James Duffy), 457
Ashbury, Joseph, 373
A shearc is ’annsacht gach saoi, 326
Ashton, Robert, The Battle of Aughrim: or, the Fall of Monsieur St Ruth, 395
Astrophel and Stella (Sir Philip Sidney), 147
Athenaeum, The (periodical), 480, 505
Audacht Moraind (The Testament of Morann), 22–3
Audite Omnes Amantes [attr. St Secundinus/St Sechnall], 13
Augustinians, 79
Auraicept na n-Éces (The Primer of the Poets), 20–1
autobiography, 160, 181, 255–6, 362
Autobiography (Theobald Wolfe Tone) 268
Autobiography (William Carleton), 455
Bacon, Sir Francis, ‘Certain Considerations Touching the Plantation in Ireland Presented to His Majesty, 1606’ 158
Ba haprainn nan dáil cu Artrig n-arnac, 15
Baile in Scáil (The Phantom’s Frenzy), 48
‘Bainis Pheigí Ní Eaghra’ (Mícheál Mac Suibhne), 577
Bairéad, Riocard, 577
‘Eoghan Cóir’, 577
‘Preab san Ól’, 577
Baldwin, William, 142
Marvelous Hystory Intitulede, Beware the Cat, A, 142–3
Mirror for Magistrates, A, 142
Bale, John, 143–5
Vocacyon of Johan Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossorie His Persecucions in the Same and Finall Delyveraunce, The, 143
Balfe, Michael William, The Bohemian Girl, 485
Balfour, Mary, 435
Hope: a Poetical Essay; with various other Poems, 435
Kathleen O’Neil: a Grand National Melo-drame, 428
Poems on Several Occasions, 435
Ball, William, 308
Ballad Book, The (William Allingham), 532
Ballad Poetry of Ireland (Charles Gavan Duffy), 518
ballads, 509, 518, 523, 529–30
street, 509, 523
ballad sheets, 304, 305–7
banfhili (female scholars), 53
banshenchas (women-lore), 45
Banim, John, 421–2, 486
Damon and Pythias, 429
‘Soggarth Aroon’ (poem), 514
Sylla the Dictator, 486
and Banim, Michael, Boyne Water, The, 422–3
Nowlans, The, 422
Tales of the O’Hara Family, 421
Banim, Michael, 421–3
Banquet of Dun na nGedh, The (John O’Donovan, editor), 558
barántas (warrant poem), 357, 567, 582, 645, 650–1, 661
Barber, Mary, 286, 288–9, 298
bardic poetry, 18, 81, 308, 635, 644–52, 655
conventions of
and fíanaigheacht, 94–6
political quality of, 76
professional, 74–7
translation of, 644, 649–52
Bardic Remains of Louth, The (Nioclás Ó Cearnaigh), 564
Barrett, Eaton Stannard, The Heroine; or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader, 417
Barry, Lording, Ram-Alley, or, Merrie Tricks, 159
Barry, Spranger, 381, 399
Battier, Henrietta, 299, 313
Battista, Giovanni Giraldi, Tre Dialoghi della Vita Civile, 149
Battle of Alcazar, The (George Peele), 153
Battle of Aughrim; or, the Fall of Monsieur St Ruth, The (Robert Ashton), 395
Battle of Benburb, 169
Battle of the Books, The (Jonathan Swift), 246, 247
Battle of the Boyne, 182
Battle of Kinsale, 158, 163
Battle Triumph of Cellach, The (Caithréim Chellaig), 35
Battle of Ventry, The (Cath Fionntrágha), 116–17
Bécan mac Luigdech, 13
Beacon, Richard, Solon His Follie, Or A Politique Discourse Touching the Reformation of Common-Weales Conquered, Declined or Corrupted, 155
Béaslaí, Piaras, Éigse Nua-Ghaedhilge, 569
Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill (The Life of Red Hugh O’Donnell), 216–17
‘Beauty Deas an Oileáin’ (Seán Ó Duinnshléibhe), 588
Beaux’ Strategem, The (George Farquhar), 378
Bedell, William, bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, Old Testament, translation of, 191, 196
Bee, The (periodical), 257
Belfast Literary Society, 554
Belinda (Maria Edgeworth), 412
Bellamira (Richard Lalor Sheil), 432
Bellings, Richard, 160, 181
History of the Irish Confederation and the War in Ireland, 1641–1643 181
Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, A, 160–1, 182
Belmont Castle; or, Suffering Sensibility (Theobald Wolfe Tone), 268
Bentley’s Miscellany (periodical), 460
Berkeley, George, bishop of Cloyne, 238–42
Alciphron; or the Minute Philosopher . . ., 240–1
Analyst, The, 241
De Motu, 239
Essay towards Preventing the Ruine of Great Britain, 239
New Theory of Vision, A, 238
Passive Obedience, 242
Philosophical Commentaries, 238, 239
Proposal for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, A, 240
Querist, The, 241
Siris, 242
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, 238, 239
Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 238
Bertram (Charles Robert Maturin), 433–4
‘Best Hundred Irish Books, The’ (Richard Barry O’Brien), 489, 490
Betha Adamnáin (The Life of Adamnán), 56
Betha Coluim Chille (Life of Columba by Maghnus Ó Domhnaill), 128
Beves (Bibus), 125
Bhailís, Nioclás, New Testament (translation of), 195
Bhí mé ag suírí le cailín a bhí fíneálta, geanúil (Peadar Ó Doirnín), 357
Bibus (Beves), 125
Bickerstaff, Isaac see Swift, Jonathan
Bickerstaff Papers (Jonathan Swift writing as Isaac Bickerstaff), 248
bilingualism, 20, 34, 307, 411, 548
texts, 40, 304
Bímse buan ar buairt gach ló (Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill), 337–8
Biographia Literaria (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), 433
biography, 218, 254–6, 346–9
see also hagiography and memoir
Birchensa, Ralph, 178
Discourse occasioned upon the late defeat, given to the Arch-rebels, Tyrone and Odonnell, by the right Honourable, the Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputie of Ireland, A, 178
Blackburne, E. O. (pen name of Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey), 480, 481
Heart of Erin, The: An Irish Story of Today, 480
Black Dog prison, 326
Black Prophet, The (William Carleton), 452, 463, 464
Blackwood, Frederick and Boyle, G. F., Narrative of a Journey from Oxford to Skibbereen during the Year of the Irish Famine, 464
Blackwood, Helen, Lady Dufferin, 502, 508–9
‘Lament of the Irish Emigrant’, 502
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 424, 437, 438, 454, 505, 506
Bláithfhleasg na Milseán (Pádraig Ó Néill), 560
Blathmac, son of Cú Brettan, 14–15
Ba haprann nan dáil cu Artrig n-arnac, 15
Tair cucum a Maire boíd, 14–15
Blessington, Lady, Sketches and Fragments, 425
Boate, Dr Gerald and Boate, Arnold (part co-author), Ireland’s Naturall History, 174
Bodleian Manuscript Laud Misc., 610 113, 128
Bodleian Manuscript Rawlinson B487, 117
Bodleian Manuscript Rawlinson B502, 128
Bohemian Girl, The (Michael William Balfe), 485
Bolster’s Magazine, 438
bombing campaigns, 475, 479
Bonabhentura see Ó hEodhasa, Giolla Brighde
‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ see Stuart, Prince Charles
Bookman (periodical), 491
Book of Armagh, The (Liber Ardmachanus), 10, 33, 34
Book of Ballymote, The, 81
Book of Common Order, The (translation of), see Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (John Carswell)
Book of Common Prayer, The (translation of), see Aibidil Gaoidheilge 7 Caiticiosma (Seán Ó Cearnaigh), 194
Book of Common Prayer, The (translation of, Uilliam Ó Domhnaill), 196
Book of Drumsat, The (Cín Dromma Snechtai), 24
Book of Fermoy, The, 89, 97, 112, 123, 128
Book of Hymns (Liber Hymnorum), 34, 36
Book of Invasions, The see Lebor Gabála Érenn
Book of Irish Ballads (Denis Florence MacCarthy, editor), 518
Book of Leinster, The, 33–4, 36, 41, 79, 94, 641
Book of The O’Conor Don, The (Aodh Ó Dochartaigh, transcriber), 216–17, 220
Book of O’Donnell’s Daughter, The (Leabhar na hInghine Uí Dhomhnaill), 218
Book of Pottlerath, The, 113
Book of Rights, The, or Leabhar na gCeart (John O’Donovan), 558
Book of the Boudoir, The (Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan), 449
Book of the Dean of Lismore, The (James MacGregor and Duncan MacGregor), 94, 97
Book of the Dun Cow, The (Lebor na hUidre), 33
Book of the White Earl, The, 112
Book of Uí Mhaine, 81, 112
Borlase, Edmund, The History of the Execrable Rebellion, 180
Bottle, Riot of, 1822 430
Boucicault, Dion, 487–8
Arrah-na-Pogue, 488
Colleen Bawn, The, 487
Shaughraun, The, 488
Bourke, Angela, ‘Le Soleil et le Vent’, 668–9
Boycotted Household, A (Letitia McClintock), 479–80
Boyle, John, fifth earl of Cork and Orrery, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swift, 254
Boyle Rich, Mary, countess of Warwick, Occasional Meditations Upon Sundry Subjects: With Pious Reflections Upon Several Scriptures, 181
Boyle, Roger, first earl of Orrery, 141, 178
Generall, The: a Tragi-Comedy, 178
Henry V, 179
Parthenissa, A Romance in Four Parts, 179
Treatise of the Art of War, A, 178–9
Boyne Water, The (John and Michael Banim), 422–3
Brave Irishman, The (Thomas Sheridan), 384
Bres, 49
Bretha Nemed (Judgements Concerning Privileged Persons), 19
Brew, Margaret, The Chronicles of Castle Cloyne, 466
Brían Bórama, 39
Brian Boroimhe (James Sheridan Knowles), 487
Brian Boroimhe (The Victorious) (Daniel Mara), 428
Bricriu’s Feast (Fled Bricrenn), 52
Brief Account from the most authentic Protestant Writers of the Causes, Motives and Mischiefs of the Irish Rebellion, A (John Curry) 603
Brief Discourse in Vindication of the Antiquity of Ireland, A (Hugh MacCurtin), 605
Brigit Bé Bithmaith (attr. Ultán or Brocán), 13
Brigit, St, 12, 13
British Library Additional Manuscript, 89
British Library Manuscript Harley, 913
Proverbie Comitis Desmonie, 86
Brittaine, Reverend George, 422
Hyacinth O’Gara, 460
Irish Priests and English Landlords, 460
broadsheets, 287
broadsides, 284
Brocán (attr. Brigit Bé Bithmaith), 13
Brooke, Charlotte, Reliques of Irish Poetry, 295, 299, 610
Brooke, Henry, 260, 295
Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry, Earl of Moreland, The, 271, 273, 295
Gustavus Vasa: The Deliverer of His Country, 295, 394
Jack the Giant Queller, 395
Patriot (originally titled: Gustavus Vasa: The Deliverer of His Country), The, 295, 394
‘Universal Beauty’, 295
Brooke, Stopford and Rolleston, T. W., A Treasury of Irish Poetry, 518
‘Brothers, The’ (Lady Jane Wilde), 520
Browne, Charlotte Elizabeth see Tonna, Charlotte
Browne, Frances, 473
Granny’s Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times, 474
Browne, Nicholas, ‘The North Country Wedding’, 285
Browne, Peter, bishop of Cork, A Letter in Answer to a Book entitled Christianity not Mysterious, 237
Bryskett, Lodowyck (translator), 149
Discourse of Civill Life: Containing the Ethike Part of Morall Philosophie, A, 149–50
Mourning Muse of Thestylis, The, 149–50
Bryson, Dr Samuel, 554
bubonic plague, 222
Buckstone, John Baldwin, Green Bushes; or, A Hundred Years Ago, 487
Buile Shuibne (Suibne’s Frenzy), 43
Bunbury, Selina, 460
Recollections of Ireland, 460
Tales of my Country, 460
Bunting, Edward, 434
Ancient Music, 435
Burke, Edmund, 262–7, 476, 611
Fallen Patriot, The, 400
‘Fragment of a Tract on the Popery Laws’, 264
Burke, Edmund
Letter to a Noble Lord, 266
Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, A, 265, 266
Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs, 476
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 255, 262–3, 400
Reflections on the Revolution in France, 265, 266
Speech at the Guildhall in Bristol, 264
Speech on the Nabob of Arcot’s Debts, 264
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, 264
To a Peer of Ireland on the Penal Laws, 264
Vindication of Natural Society, A, 262
as founder and editor of The Reformer, 262
Burkhead, Henry, A Tragedy of Cola’s Furie or Lirenda’s Miserie, 172–3
Burnell, Henry, Landgartha, 165–6
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 474
‘Stories from the Lost Fairy Book, Retold by the Child Who Read Them’, 474
Burns, Robert, ‘Tam O’Shanter’, 508
Busie Body, The (Susannah Centlivre), 374
Butler, MacRichard, 89
Butler, Richard, earl of Glengall, The Irish Tutor, or New Lights, 89, 430
Butler, Sarah, Irish Tales, 269
Butt, Isaac (founder and editor of the Dublin University Magazine), 472, 513
Cabinet of Irish Literature (Charles Read), 476, 490–1
Cabinet of Irish Literature (revised edition by Katharine Tynan), 490–1
‘Cadenus and Vanessa’ (Jonathan Swift) 291
Cáin Adamnáin (The Law of Adamnán), 22
‘Caiseal Mumhan’ (alternatively named ‘Clár Bog Déil’ by Edward Walsh), 513, 514
Caithréim Chellaig (The Triumphs of Cellach), 35
Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh (The Triumphs of Turlough), 129–30
Calcraft, J. W. see Cole, John William
Caldron of Poesy, The, 21
Callanan, Jeremiah Joseph, 426, 438–9, 504–7, 511
Childe Harold, 506
‘Dirge of O’Sullivan Bear, The’, 506
‘Outlaw of Loch Lene, The’, 505–7
Recluse of Inchidoney, The, 439, 505, 506
Cambrai Homily (sermon), 16
Cambrensis, Giraldus, 149
Conquest of Ireland, The (Expugnatio Hibernica), 127, 149
Campbell, Archibald, fifth earl of Argyll 193–4
Campbell, Thomas, 434, 612
‘Exile of Erin’, 434
Campion, Edmund, Two Bookes of the Histories of Ireland, 148
Can a mbunadas na nGáedel, 37, 46
caoineadh (lament poem, keen), 328, 331, 571, 572, 575, 655–62
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (The Lament for Art O’Leary), 332–4, 657–62
Captain Thomas Stukeley (Anon), 155
Cards of the Gambler (Benedict Kiely), 663
Cary, Elizabeth, 160
Cary, Henry, The Lady Faulkland Her Life 160
Carleton, William, 454–8, 472, 481, 486
Autobiography, 455
Black Prophet, The, 452, 463, 464
‘Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman’, 456
Emigrants of Ahadarra, 457
Fardorougha the Miser, 456, 458
Irish Manufacturer, or Bob MacGawley’s Project, 486
‘Lough Derg Pilgrim, The’, 457
Squanders of Castle Squander, 463–4
Tithe Proctor, The, 457
Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, 451–2, 456
Valentine M’Clutchy; The Irish Agent; or, Chronicles of Castle Cumber, 457
Willy Reilly and His Dear Colleen Bawn 457
Carlyle, Thomas, 461–2
Chartism, 461
Reminiscences of My Irish Journey, 476
‘Carmilla’ (Sheridan Le Fanu), 471
carole (love poetry), 96
Carswell, John, Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh, 193–4, 222
Casán na Gaedhilge: An Introduction to the Irish Language (George Field), 557
Case of Ireland’s being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated, The (William Molyneux), 233–4, 601
Case of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, The (Cornelius Nary), 234
Casey, Elizabeth Owens Blackburne see Blackburne, E. O.
Casey, John Keegan, ‘The Rising of the Moon’, 530
‘Cashel of Munster’ (Samuel Ferguson), 513
Castle Rackrent (Maria Edgeworth), 412
Castle Richmond (Anthony Trollope), 463, 465
catechism, 197, 198–9, 202
Catechism (Teagasg Críosdaidhe), 198
‘Cath Chéim an Fhia’ (Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire), 198, 572
Cath Fionntrágha (The Battle of Ventry), 116–17, 118, 127
dating of, 116
structure and style of, 118, 127
Cath Maige Tuired (The Battle of Mag Tuired/Moytura), 49
Cath na nDeachún ar Thráigh Rosa Móire (Dáibhí de Barra), 567
Catholic emancipation, 427, 437
Cato (Joseph Addison), 374
Cattle Raid of Cuailnge, The (Táin Bó Cúailnge), 25, 34–5, 41, 51, 52, 114, 115, 637–44
Céilidhe Iosgaide Léithe (The Visit of the Grey-hammed Lady), 126
Céitinn, Seathrún (Geoffrey Keating), 213–14, 270, 271, 604
Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, 116, 213–14, 269, 361, 552, 557, 563, 604, 607
céli Dé (servants/clients of God), 53
Celticism, 537, 638
Celtic Society, 616
‘Celts and Saxons’ (Thomas Osborne Davis), 516–17
‘Celt, The’, 638
Cenn Fáelad, 48
Centlivre, Susannah, 374
Busie Body, The, 374
Cermna (poet), 23
‘Certain Considerations Touching the Plantation in Ireland Presented to His Majesty, 1606’ (Sir Francis Bacon), 158
Chaigneau, William, The History of Jack Connor, 269
Chamberlain, Robert, 207
chapbooks, 304, 305–7
Chapters of College Romance (series in the Dublin University Magazine), 472
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions and Times (Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury), 244
Charles O’Malley, the Irish Dragoon (Charles Lever), 467
Charlotte Elizabeth see Tonna, Charlotte
Chartism (Thomas Carlyle), 461
Chatterton, Lady Henrietta Georgiana, Rambles in the South of Ireland during the Year, 1838 461
Chelsea Householder, A (Emily Lawless), 481
Chetwood, W. R., A General History of the Stage (More Particularly the Irish Theatre) From its Origin in Greece down to the present Time, 398
Children of the Abbey (Regina Maria Roche), 273, 415
Choice of Evils, A (Annie Hector), 473
Chorographical Description of West or h-Iar-Connaught (Roderick O’Flaherty, edited by James Hardiman), 576
Christian Examiner and Church of Ireland Magazine, 452, 456
Christianity not Mysterious (John Toland), 235–6
Chronicles of Castle Cloyne, The (Margaret Brew), 466
Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande (Raphael Holinshed), 147
Chronicon Scotorum (Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh), 214
Chronological Account of Nearly Four Hundred Irish Writers with a Descriptive Catalogue of their Works (Edward O’Reilly), 552
Chrysal; or the Adventures of a Guinea (Charles Johnstone), 269
Churchyard, Thomas, A generall rehearsall of warres, 76
Cín Dromma Snechtai (The Book of Drumsat), 24
Cín Lae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúilleabháin (Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin), 568, 576
Cináed úa hArtacáin, 36, 58
Cistercians, 77, 79
Citizen of the World, The (Oliver Goldsmith), 257
‘Clár Bog Déil’ (alternatively named ‘Caiseal Mumhan’), 513
Clarke, Lady Olivia (Owenson), The Irishwoman, 410, 429
Clayton, Bishop Robert, 243
Defence of an Essay on Spirit, 243
Essay on Spirit, 243
Clermont: A Tale (Regina Maria Roche), 415
Clio; or a Discourse on Taste (Archbishop James Ussher), 263
Clyn, John, Annales Hiberniæ, 129
Cnoc an áir (ballad), 206
Cocad Gáedel re Gallaib see Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh
Cock and Anchor, The (Sheridan Le Fanu), 470
Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh (The War of the Irish against the Foreigners), 39, 42, 129
Cóic ríg tríchat tríllsat róe, 46
Cole, John William (stage name ‘J. W. Calcraft’), 398, 484
‘Dramatic Writers of Ireland’, 484
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 413
Biographia Literaria, 433
Colgan, John, 211–12
Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, 211–12
Triadis thaumaturgae, 211
Collectio canonum Hibernensis (The Collection of Irish Canons), 17, 22, 23
Collection of Poems, mostly original, by several hands (Joshua Edkins), 309, 311
Colleen Bawn, The (Dion Boucicault), 487
‘Colleen Rue, The’, 306
Collegians, The (Gerald Griffin), 423–4, 487, 503
Colloquy of the Ancients, The (Acallam na Senórach), 57, 58, 94, 116, 215, 634
Colmán mac Lénéni, 19
Colmán moccu Béognae, Apgitir Chrábaid (The Alphabet of Piety), 16
Columbanus, St, 11, 16
Col(u)m Cille, St, 11, 12, 17–18, 55, 76
Altus Prosatur, 12
Sét no tíag, 18
Comedy of Errors, The (William Shakespeare), 153
Comgall, St, 11, 12
Comhrac na nGael agus na nGall le Chéile (Art Mac Bionaid), 557, 567
commonplace book, 163
Commonplace Book (Elizabeth Freke), 181
Compend (Francis Hutchinson), 245–6
Compendium of the History of Ireland from the earliest period to the reign of George I, A (John Lawless), 615
Compert Conchobuir (The Conception of Conchobor), 25
Compert Con Culainn (The Conception of Cú Chulainn), 25
Conailla Medb Míchuru (Medb Enjoined Evil Contracts), 25
Concanen, Matthew, 285
Conception of Conchobor, The (Compert Conchobuir), 25
Conception of Cú Chulainn, The (Compert Con Culainn), 25
Concerning Contempt for the World (De Contemptu Mundu), 128
Concerning the Revelation of Táin Bó Cúailnge (De Fhaillsiugud Tána Bó Cúailnge), 39
Conduct of the Allies, The (Jonathan Swift), 248
Confession and Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (St Patrick), 10, 12
‘Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman’ (William Carleton), 456
Confessions of a Young Man (George Moore), 482
Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (Charles Lever), 466–7
Congreve, William, 373
Double Dealer, 374
Incognita; or, Love and Duty, 269
Connolly, Daniel, Household Library of Ireland’s Poets with Full and Choice Selections from the Irish-American Poets, 528
Conradh na Gaeilge, 585, 636, 653
Conry, Florence see Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire
Conscious Lovers, The (Sir Richard Steele), 373, 374, 380, 383–4
Constant Couple, The (George Farquhar), 379, 391
Contention of the Bards (Iomarbhágh na bhFileadh), 220–1, 576, 645
Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, The (Jonathan Swift), 247
controversia, 23
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions and Times, 244
Coopers Hill (John Denham), 177
Copyright Act of, 1709 407
Cornhill Magazine, 475
Corraghliocas na mBan Léirmhínithe (Dáibhí de Barra), 567
Corruption and Intolerance (Thomas Moore), 436
cosmological homily, 54
Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry (Mary Shackleton Leadbeater), 426
Cotter, George Sackville, 297–8
‘Coughing Old Man, The’, 306
Cowan, Charlotte see Riddell, Charlotte (née Cowan)
Cox, Sir Richard, 224, 599
Hibernia Anglicana, 599–602
Coyne, Joseph Stirling, 487
Tipperary Legacy, The, 487
Creagh, Richard, archbishop of Armagh, Epitome officii hominis christiani, 197
Cré agus cill go bhfaighe gach bráthair (Liam Inglis), 340–1
Cré na Cille (Máirtín Ó Cadhain), 665
Critic, The (Richard Brinsley Sheridan), 389
Critical Review, 257
Croker, John Wilson, 424
Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq., on the Present State of the Irish Stage, 429
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 426
Daniel O’Rourke, 426
Researches in the South of Ireland, 426
Crommelin, May, 473
Cromwell, Oliver, 170
Cromwellian period, 222, 362
Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland (John P. Prendergast), 623
Cronán, 17
Crow Street Theatre, 399
Cúán úa Lothcháin, 44
Cú Chulainn, 50–2, 57, 110, 115, 637–44
Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court), 344–6
‘Cúirt an tSrutháin Bhuí’ (Colm de Bhailís), 588
Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann, An (The Folklore of Ireland Society), 546–7
‘Cumha na máthara fán leanbh’ (Nioclás Ó Cearnaigh), 573–4
Cúndún, Pádraig Phiarais, 571
‘Tórramh an Bharraille’, 572
Cúndún, Seán, 330, 356
Curran, John Philpot, 268, 314
Curry, John, 603, 607–9
Brief Account from the most authentic Protestant Writers of the Causes, Motives and Mischiefs of the Irish Rebellion, A, 603
Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Settlement under King William, A, 603, 615
Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion in the year, 1641 603
Curry, William, 451
Cusack, Mary Francis, An Illustrated History of Ireland, 618
Cynthia Containing Direfull Sonnets, Madrigalls and Passionate Intercourses, describing his repudiate affections expressed in Love’s Owne Language (Richard Nugent), 156
D’Alton, John, Essay on the History, Religion, Learning, Arts, and Government of Ireland, 622
Dallán Forgaill, Amra Choluim Chille (Eulogy of Colum Cille), 18
Damon and Pythias (John Banim), 429
dán díreach, 78, 650
‘Dán do Mhelissa’ (Poem for Melissa by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill), 666–7
Dancer, John, Nicomède, A Tragi-comedy Translated out of the French of Monsieur Corneille, 176
Daniel O’Rourke (Thomas Crofton Croker), 426
Daniél ua Liathaiti, 53
dánta grádha, 96–99
Dark Blue Magazine, 471
‘Dark Rosaleen’ (James Clarence Mangan), 525–6
Darley, George, 505
Nepenthe, 505
Davenels, The (Anon), 424
Davies, Sir John
A Discovery of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued and Brought Under Obedience of the Crown of England Until the Beginning of His Majesty’s Happy Reign, 158
Davis, Thomas Osborne, 501, 515–18, 521, 573
‘Celts and Saxons’, 516–17
‘Nation Once Again, A’, 516
‘West’s Asleep, The’, 516
Davys, Mary, 269, 382
‘Déan oram trócaire, a Thríonnóid’, 91
‘Dear Harp of My Country’ (Thomas Moore), 538
Death of Connlaoch, The (Oidheadh Chonnlaoich), 115
Death of the Children of Uisneach, The (Oidheadh Chloinne Uisnigh), 115
Death-tale of Crimthann son of Fidach (Aided Crimthainn meic Fhidaig), 47
Death-tale of Muirchertach son of Erca (Aided Muirchertaig meic Erca), 50
De Barra, Dáibhí, 550, 567, 582
Cath na nDeachún ar Thráigh Rosa Móire, 567
Corraghliocas na mBan Léirmhínithe (translation of Edward Ward’s Female Policy Detected, or the Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open), 567
Parlaimint na bhFíodóirí 567
De Beaumont, Gustave, Ireland: Social, Political and Religious, 462
De Bhailís, Colm, 587–8
‘Amhrán an Tae’, 588
‘Cúirt an tSrutháin Bhuí’, 588
De Búrca, Uileag, 569
Life and Times of the Most Reverend John Mac Hale, The, 569
Declaratory Act of, 1720 249, 392, 394
De Contemptu Mundi (Concerning Contempt for the World), 128
De Divisione Naturae (On the Divisions of Nature), 39
De Excidio Troiae (On the Destruction of Troy), 41
Defence of an Essay on Spirit (bishop Robert Clayton), 243
Defence of Poesy, The (Sir Philip Sidney), 161
Defence of the Ancient Historians, with a particular application of it to the History of Ireland and Great Britain, and other Northern Nations (Francis Hutchinson), 605
Defensio Curatorum (Richard Fitzralph, archbishop of Armagh), 127
De Fhaillsiugud Tána Bó Cúailnge (Concerning the Revelation of Táin Bó Cúailnge), 39
deism, 242, 244–5
Dekker, Thomas, 159
Delany, Dr Patrick, 254, 286, 289
Delany, Mary, 255
Delargy, James (Séamus Ó Duilearga), 653
Delicate Distress, The (Elizabeth Griffith), 272
De Motu (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 239
Dempster, Thomas, 210
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum, 210
Menologium Scotticum, 210–11
De Naturali Hominum Socialitate (On the Social Nature of Man), 245
Denham, John, 177
Coopers Hill, 177
Famous Battel of the Catts in the Province of Ulster, The, 177
Denina, Carlo, Discorso sopra le vicende della letteratura, 260
Denn, Pádraig, 571
Aighneas an Pheacaig leis an mBás, 571
Stiúrthóir an Pheacaig, 571
De Nógla, Séamus, 196
De origine mali (On the Origin of Evil, William King, Archbishop of Dublin), 233
De Renzy, Mathew, 221
Dermody, Thomas, 312
‘Farewell to Ireland’, 312
Derricke, John, The Image of Ireland with a Discoverie of Woodkarne, 145–7
Derry: A Tale of the Revolution (Charlotte Tonna), 459
De Sacy, Isaac-Lewis Le Maistre, 364
Descartes, Meditations (translated by William Molyneux), 233
‘Description of the Manners and Customs of the Native Irish, A’ (contribution to the Weekly Magazine by Oliver Goldsmith), 258
Deserted Village, The (Oliver Goldsmith), 258, 296
De Shuidiugud Tellaig Temro (Concerning the Settling of the Manor of Tara), 48
Desiderius (Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire), 199
Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel, The (Togail Bruidne Da Derga), 42, 48
Destruction of Dinn Ríg, The (Orgain Denna Ríg), 43
De theacht isteach air an mbeathaidh chrábhaidh (O’Reilly, Fr Philip, translator), 202
De Turrecremata (Torquemada), James see Ussher, Archbishop James, 213
De Vere, Aubrey, 529–30
English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds, 529
Inisfail: A Lyrical Chronicle of Ireland, 529–30
Sisters, The, 530
‘Year of Sorrow, The’, 529
De XII Abusivis Saeculi (On the Twelve Abuses of the World), 23
dialects, 20, 456
dialogue, 302, 348, 356
Socratic, 239, 240, 241
‘Dialogue between the Heart and Head of an Irish Protestant’ (Samuel Ferguson) 507
Diary (William Allingham), 532
diaspora of poets, 503
dictionaries, 205–6
Dícuil (monk and scholar), 38
‘Die is Cast, The’ (‘Jacta Alea Est’ by Lady Jane Wilde), 520–1
Digde of the Corcu Duibne, 53
Dillon, Wentworth, earl of Roscommon, An Essay on Translated Verse, 177
dindshenchas/dinnshenchas, 44, 58, 557, 633
Dinnshenchas Érenn, 44
Dioptrica Nova (William Molyneux), 233
‘Dirge of O’Sullivan Bear, The’ (Jeremiah Joseph Callanan), 506
Disappointment Or The Mother in Fashion, The (Thomas Southerne), 181
Discorso sopra le vicende della letteratura (Carlo Denina), 260
Discourse occasioned upon the late defeat, given to the Arch-rebels, Tyrone and Odonnell, by the right Honourable, the Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputie of Ireland, A (Ralph Birchensa), 163
Discourse of Civill Life, A: Containing the Ethike Part of Morall Philosophie (Lodowyck Bryskett), 149
Discourse of Ireland, A (Luke Gernon), 158
Discourse of the Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and the British, A (Archbishop James Ussher), 171, 601
Discourse Upon Comedy (George Farquhar), 378
Discovery of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued and Brought Under Obedience of the Crown of England Until the Beginning of His Majesty’s Happy Reign, A (Sir John Davies), 158
‘Dissertation on Italian and Irish Musick, A, with some Panegyrick on Carralan our late Irish Orpheus’ (Laurence Whyte), 293
Dissertations on the Ancient History of Ireland (Reverend Charles O’Conor), 607–8
Divine Predestination and Foreknowledge (William King, Archbishop of Dublin), 233
Dlighthear deachmhadh as an dán, 93
Dobbs, Francis, The Patriot King; or, The Irish Chief, 396–7
Doctor Kirwan’s Irish Catechism, 576, 583
Double Dealer, The (William Congreve) 374
Downing, Ellen Mary Patrick, 519
‘Old Chapel at Lismore, The’, 521
‘Dr Quicksilver’ see Lever, Charles
Drama in Muslin, A (George Moore), 479, 482, 483
Drapier’s Letters (Jonathan Swift), 250
Dream of Mac Con Glinne, The (Aislinge Meic Con Glinne), 35, 87
Drennan, William, 268, 314, 434, 435, 442
Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose, 434
‘Glendalloch’ 442
Orellana; or Letters of an Irish Helot, 268
‘Wake of William Orr, The’, 314
Drummond, William Hamilton, 512
Giant’s Causeway, The, 512
Drury Lane, 433
Dryden, John, 177
Absalom and Achitophel, 177
Duanaire Finn (The Poem Book of Fionn, transcribed by Aodh Ó Dochartaigh), 94, 215
Duanta Aneas (Pádraig Ó Miléadha), 589
Dublin, 282–3, 292–3, 313, 470
Dublin Evening Mail (newspaper), 469
Dublin Journal, 292–3
Dublin Literary Gazette (later the National Magazine), 452, 454, 456
Dublin Penny Journal, 453
Dublin Review (periodical), 453
Dublin Scuffle, The (John Dunton), 255
Dublin Society, the, 604
Dublin University Magazine, 398, 451, 453, 463, 467, 469, 472, 482, 502, 507, 576
Chapters of College Romance (series), 472
Dublin University Review and Quarterly Magazine, 452
Dubhthach moccu Lugair, 12
Dubois, Dorothea, 298–9
‘Amazonian Gift, The’, 299
Poems on Several Occasions by a Lady of Quality, 298
‘Duchess, The’ see Hungerford, Margaret
Duffy, Charles Gavan, 504, 515, 528
Ballad Poetry of Ireland, 518
Spirit of the Nation, The, 516, 517
Duffy, James, 452, 454
Art Maguire; or, the Broken Pledge, 457
‘Parlour Library of Ireland’, 452
Dunkin, William, 286, 291–2
‘Murphaeid, The’, 291
‘On the Omission of the Words Dei Gratia in the late Coinage of Half-Pence’, 292
‘Parson’s Revels, The’, 291
Dunlevy, Andrew, 583
Dunton, John, The Dublin Scuffle, 255
Eachtra Airt Meic Chuind (The Adventure of Art son of Conn), 123
Eachtra an Mhadra Mhaoil (The Adventure of the Crop-eared Dog/Wolf), 126
Eachtra Chonaill Ghulban (The Adventure of Conall Gulban), 124
Eachtra na gCuradh (Pádraig Úa Pronntaigh), 361–2
Eachtra Thaidhg mhic Chéin (The Adventure of Tadhg son of Cian), 123
Eachtra Thomáis Mhic Chaiside (Tadhg Ó Neachtain), 362–3
Echtra(e) (Otherworld experience), 26
Echtra Fergusa maic Leti (The Adventure of Fergus mac Leti), 22
Echtra mac nEchdach Mugmedóin (The Adventure of the Sons of Eochaid Mugmedón), 44, 47, 48
Echtrae Chonnlai (The Expedition of Connlae), 26
‘Eanach Dhúin’ (Antaine Raiftearaí), 590
East India Company, 606
Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion (George Petrie), 617
Ecclesiastical History of Ireland (John Lanigan), 615
Eclogues, Epitaphs and Sonnets (Barnabe Googe), 150
Edgeworth, Maria, 411–14, 425, 426–7, 555
Absentee, The, 413, 426
Belinda, 412
Castle Rackrent, 412–3
Ennui, 413
Essay on Irish Bulls, 413
Helen, 449
Letters for Literary Ladies, 411
Memoirs, 414
Ormond, 413
Patronage, 414, 426
Popular Tales, 426
Vivian, 427
Whim for Whim, 427
and Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, Practical Education, 411
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 256, 411
and Edgeworth, Maria, Practical Education, 411
Edinburgh Review, The (journal), 414
Edkins, Joshua, A Collection of Poems, mostly original, by several hands, 311
Egan, Maurice, 491
Éigse Nua-Ghaedhilge (Piaras Béaslaí), 569
Eileen Oge (Edmund Falconer), 488
Éireannach (term for Irish person), 207–9, 213, 220
Éistigh uaim, a chairde chroí (Seon Ó hUaithnín), 355
Elder, Olivia, 300–1
Elgee, Jane see Wilde, Lady Jane
Emigrants of Ahadarra (William Carleton) 457
Emmet, Robert, 314
Enchiridion (Ellis Walker), 284
English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, The (James Anthony Froude), 623–4
English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds (Aubrey de Vere), 529
English Women of Letters (Julia Kavanagh), 474
Enlightenment, the, 236, 237, 244, 258, 407
Counter Enlightenment, 237
Ennui (Maria Edgeworth), 413
Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe (Oliver Goldsmith), 258
epic, 526–34, 537
Epitome officii hominis christiani (Richard Creagh, archbishop of Armagh), 197
Erasmus (publisher), Textus Receptus, 195
Eriugena, Johannes Scottus, 38–9
Ériu óg inis na ríg, 45, 128
Esnada Tige Buchet (The Melodies of Buchet’s House), 36, 43
Essay on Human Understanding (John Locke), 234
Essay on Irish Bulls (Maria Edgeworth), 413
Essay on Spirit (Bishop Robert Clayton), 243
Essay on the Antiquity of the Irish Language, An (Charles Vallencey), 606
Essay on the History, Religion, Learning, Arts, and Government of Ireland (John D’Alton), 622
Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions, An (Francis Hutcheson), 244
Essay on Translated Verse, An (Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon), 177
Essay towards Preventing the Ruine of Great Britain (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 239
Esther Waters (George Moore), 484
‘Eulogy of Colum Cille’ (Amra Choluim Chille), 18, 21
‘Eva’ see Kelly, Mary
Evernew Tongue, The (In Tenga Bithnua) 54
Examiner (newspaper), edited by Jonathan Swift, 248, 465
Exile of Erin, The (Mrs Plunkett), 415, 416, 427
‘Exile of Erin’ (Thomas Campbell), 434
Exile of the Sons of Uisliu, The (Loinges mac nUislenn), 52, 115, 360–1
Expedition of Connlae (Echtrae Chonnlai), 26
Expugnatio Hibernica (The Conquest of Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis), 127, 149
Fable of the Bees (Mandeville), 244
Faerie Queene, The (Edmund Spenser), 141, 151–2, 177
Fáilte dár n-árd-fhlaith dár ndíon (Fr Nioclás Ó Domhnaill), 356
‘Fair Hills of Holy Ireland, The’ (Samuel Ferguson), 513
‘Fairies, The’ (William Allingham), 534
fairy legend, 663
‘Fairy Thorn, The: An Ulster Ballad’ (Samuel Ferguson), 505–6, 507–9
Falconer, Edmund (born Edmund O’Rourke), 488
Eileen Oge, 488
Fallen Patriot, The (Mary O’Brien), 400
Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq., on the Present State of the Irish Stage (John Wilson Croker), 429
famine, 149, 154, 251, 464, 488
engravings, 464
in Munster, 149, 154
see also Great Famine, the
Famine (Hubert O’Grady), 488–9
‘Famine Year, The’ (Lady Jane Wilde), 520
Famous Battel of the Catts in the Province of Ulster, The (John Denham), 177
Fanshawe, Lady Ann, The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe, 170
Faraday, Winifred, 642–3
Fardorougha the Miser (William Carleton), 456, 458
Farewell, James and Taubman, Francis [attr.], The Irish Hudibras or Fingallian Prince, 178
‘Farewell to Ireland’ (Thomas Dermody), 312
Farquhar, George, 375–9
Beaux’ Stratagem, The, 378
Constant Couple, The, 379, 391
Discourse Upon Comedy, 378
Love and a Bottle, 376, 377, 379, 385
Recruiting Officer, The, 378
Twin Rivals, The, 378
‘Fataí Bána, Na’ (Patsaí Ó Callanáin), 586
Fatal Marriage (Thomas Southerne), 374
Faulkner, George (proprietor of the Dublin Journal), 292, 607, 611
Favourite, The (Mrs Plunkett), 427
Fealsúnacht Aoidh Mhic Dhomhnaill (Aodh Mac Domhnaill), 568
fe(a)r léginn (scholar), 564, 634
Féilire Óengusso (The Martyrology of Oengus), 16, 54
Feiritéar, Piaras, 220
Feis Tige Chonáin (The Feast of Conan’s House), 121
Female Policy Detected, or the Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open (Edward Ward), 567
Fenianism, 475, 477, 478, 527, 530–1
journalism, 530–1
Fenian, rising of, 1867 620
fénnid (warrior), 57
Fenton, Sir Geoffrey (translator), 150
Historie of Guicciardin Containing the Warres of Italie, The, 150
Storia D’Italia (by Francesco Guicciardini), 150
Ferdomnach (scribe), 33
Ferguson, Samuel, 504–9, 511–15, 535, 576
‘Cashel of Munster’, 513
‘Dialogue between the Heart and Head of an Irish Protestant’, 507
‘Fair Hills of Holy Ireland, The’, 513
‘Fairy Thorn, The: An Ulster Ballad’, 505–6, 507–9
‘Lament for Thomas Davis’, 515
fían(a) 57, 58, 94, 97, 116, 193, 634
fíanaig(h)e(a)cht (fiannaíocht; literature relating to Finn mac Cumaill and the fíana), 57–9, 93–6, 116–21, 193, 215, 360, 558, 563, 566, 609, 634
ballads, 94–6
and bardic poetry, 94–6
narrative poems (laoithe), 94
prose and poetry, 116
prose literature, 95
Fíanna bátar i nEmain (Heroes who were in Emain), 36, 58
fiction, 161, 179, 269–74, 411–24, 449–84
‘condition of Ireland’, 459
domestic, 416, 479–80
‘factual’ 450, 480
historical, 418, 420, 421–3, 470–89
national, 273
semi-autobiographical, 272
sentimental, 268, 474, 479–80
‘slum’ 484
see also novels; stories
Fiction Unmasked (Walter Harris), 603
Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, The (5 vols.), 1, 546, 654
Field, George, Casán na Gaedhilge: An Introduction to the Irish Language, 557
Fielding, Anna Maria (later Mrs Anna Hall)
Groves of Blarney, 458
Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, 458
Sketches of Irish Character, 458, 459
Tales of Woman’s Trials, 459
Whiteboy, The, 458–9
file/filid (poet(s), scholars), 18–20, 21, 24, 36, 111, 546–7, 579
and clerics, 20
grades of, 19–20
and monasteries, 77
patrons of, 20
file/filid (poet(s), scholars)
role of, 20
see also ollam(h)
Filidh Éireann go haointeach, 83
filíocht (poetry), 570
filíocht bhéil (oral poetry), 587
Fine Irish Lady, The (Charles Macklin), formerly titled The True-Born Irishman, 386–7
Fingal Rónáin (Rónán’s Kinslaying), 43
Finn, bishop of Kildare, 36, 57–8
Fi(o)nn mac Cum(h)aill 193, 634, 655,
see fíanaigheacht
Finn mac Gormáin, 33
Fintan mac Bóchra, 48
Fireside Magazine, 454
fír flathemon (the ruler’s truth/justice), 23, 48
First Four Bookes of Virgil His Aeneis, The, 150
Fís Adamnáin (The Vision of Adamnán), 40, 54
Fitzball, Edward, Maritana, 485
Fitzgerald, Gerald Mór, eighth earl of Kildare, 89
Fitz Maurice, Gerald, third earl of Desmond, 89, 97
‘Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh’, 98
Fitzralph, Richard, archbishop of Armagh, Defensio Curatorum, 127
Five Sermons on the Errors of the Roman Catholic Church (Charles Robert Maturin), 419
Flanagan, Eugene, 157
Flannacán mac Cellaig, Innid scél scaílter n-airrich, 37
Flann Mainistrech mac Echthigirn, 36, 37, 46
Flatman, Thomas, Poems and Songs, 177
Fled Bricrenn (Bricriu’s Feast), 52
Fleming, Patrick, 211
‘Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor’ (May Laffan), 484
Florilegium insulae sanctorum (Thomas Messingham), 211
Flower, Robin, 78, 96
Foclóir nó Sanasán Nua (Micheál Ó Cléirigh), 205
Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (John Carswell), 193–4, 222
folklore, 420, 426, 470, 652–69
Folklore of Ireland Society, 653
folk-tales, 662–4
Fontaine, Nicholas, L’Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament, 364
Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry, Earl of Moreland, The (Henry Brooke), 271, 295
Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (Seathrún Céitinn/Geoffrey Keating), 116, 213–14, 269, 361, 552, 557, 563, 604, 607
For the Old Land (Charles Kickham), 477
‘Fragment of a Tract on the Popery Laws’ (Edmund Burke), 264
Franciscans, 88–9, 90, 91–3, 327, 351
see also Louvain
Francis, de Sales, St, Introduction à la vie dévote, 202
Francis, Sir Philip, 267
Letters of Junius, 267
Fraser’s Magazine, 509, 531
Freeman’s Journal, 254, 477, 489
free thought, 239, 240, 241, 247
Freke, Elizabeth, 181
Commonplace Book, 181
Memoir, 181
French, Nicholas, A Narrative of the Settlement and Sale of Ireland, 180
French Revolution, 265–7
Froude, James Anthony, 623–4
English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, The, 623–4
Fudge Family in Paris (Thomas Moore), 436–7
Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose (William Drennan), 434
Funeral, The (Richard Steele), 373
Furlong, Thomas, 512
‘Róisín Dubh’, 524
Gabham deachmhaidh ar ndána, 90
Gach sáir-fhear saordha séimh-ghlic soilbh súghach (Seán Ó Tuama), 354–5
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), 536
Gaelic Book of Common Prayer, 196
Gaelic Journal, The (Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge), 566, 569
Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge), 585, 636, 653
Gaelic New Testament, 194–6, 208
Gaelic New Testament, The (1602), 208
Gaelic Old Testament, 196
Gaelic Society, The, 551, 552, 616
Gael, The see An Gaodhal, periodical
Gaelic Union, 585
Gaiety Theatre, 485
Gallagher, Bishop, 583
Gallaher, Fannie (pseudonym ‘Sydney Starr’), 484
Katty the Flash. A Mould of Dublin Mud, 484
Thy Name is Truth (subtitled ‘A Social Novel’), 479
Gaodhal, An (The Gael, periodical), 536, 566
Garside, Peter, 417
Gearnon, Antoin (publisher), Parrthas an Anama, 202
genealogies, 23, 45–8, 214
General History of Ireland (Sylvester O’Halloran), 619
General History of the Christian Church (Bishop Charles Walmesley), 582
General History of the Stage (More Particularly the Irish Theatre) From its Origin in Greece down to the present Time, A (W. R. Chetwood), 398
Generall rehearsall of warres, A (Thomas Churchyard), 76, 83
Generall, The: a Tragi-Comedy (Roger Boyle, first earl of Orrery), 178
Geneva Book (John Knox) see Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (John Carswell)
Gentleman’s Religion, A, Appendix to (Edward Synge, the elder, archbishop of Tuam), 237
Geoffrey (Jofroi) of Waterford, 86, 127
Gernon, Luke, A Discourse of Ireland, 158
Gesta Romanorum, 92
‘GH’ see Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Ghéag dá dtug mé grá di, An (Peadar Ó Doirnín), 353, 357
Gheber; or the Fire-Worshippers, The, 431
Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (Sheridan Le Fanu), 470
Giant’s Causeway, The (William Hamilton Drummond), 512
Gilbert, John, 622
History of the City of Dublin, 622
Gilbert, Sir John T., An Aphorismical Discovery of Treasonable Faction (first edition), 168
‘Gile na Gile’ (Aogán Ó Rathaille), 325, 346
Gilla Cóemáin, Annálad anall uile, 46
Gisippus (Gerald Griffin), 486
Gladstone, William, Special Aspects of the Irish Question, 453, 481
Gleanings of the West of Ireland (Sidney Osborne), 465
Glenarvon (Lady Caroline Lamb), 421
‘Glendalloch’ (William Drennan), 442
Glenmasan Manuscript (NLS Adv., 72.2.3) 115
goddesses and kingship, 49
Golden Hills (Elizabeth Hely Walshe), 466
Goldsmith, Oliver, 256–62, 272, 296–7
Citizen of the World, The, 257
as contributor to The Bee, 257
as contributor to the Critical Review, 257
as contributor to the Monthly Review, 256
as contributor to the Public Ledger, 257
as contributor to the Royal Magazine, 257
‘Description of the Manners and Customs of the Native Irish, A’ (contribution to the Weekly Magazine), 258
Deserted Village, The, 258, 296
Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, 258
Good Natur’d Man, The, 389
She Stoops to Conquer, 296, 390, 485
Vicar of Wakefield, The, 272
Goldsmith’s Works (Edmond Malone), 261
Good Natur’d Man, The (Oliver Goldsmith), 389
Googe, Barnabe (translator)
Eclogues, Epitaphs and Sonnets, 150
Res Rusticae Libri Quatuor, Four Books of Husbandries (by Konrad Heresbach), 150
Gookin, Vincent, The Great Case of Transplantation in Ireland Discussed, 174–5
gothic literature, 273, 415, 418, 456, 472
Gouernance of Prynces, The (James Yonge), 127
Grammar of the Hiberno-Celtic or Irish Language (Charles Vallencey), 398
grammars, 205–6
Grana Uile, or The Island Queen (Samuel Lover), 486
Grania (Emily Lawless), 481, 482
Granny’s Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times (Frances Browne), 474
Grattan, Henry, 129
Grattan, Henry (son of Henry Grattan), The Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, 267
‘Grave of a Poetess’ (Felicia Hemans), 440
Great Case of Transplantation in Ireland Discussed, The (Vincent Gookin), 174–5
Great Famine, the, 452, 478, 587, 619
and language decline, 548–9, 585, 586
in literature, 463–6, 519–20, 523, 529, 573, 578, 586
post-famine writing, 585–91
see also famine
Great Irish Famine, The (Canon John O’Rourke), 619
Green Bushes; or, A Hundred Years Ago (John Baldwin Buckstone), 487
Greenes Newes (Barnaby Rich), 157–8
Gregory the Great, 17
Grierson, Constantia, 286, 288, 289
Griffin, Gerald, 420, 423, 514
Collegians, The, 423–4, 487, 503
Griffin, Gerald
Gisippus, 486
Holland-Tide; or, Munster Popular Tales, 423
Tales of the Munster Festivals, 420, 423
Griffith, Arthur, 515, 516
Griffith, Elizabeth, 272, 383
Delicate Distress, The, 272
Platonic Wife, The, 383
and Griffith, Richard, Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances, 272
Griffith, Richard, 383
Koran, The, 272
Triumvirate, The, 272
and Griffith, Elizabeth, Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances, 272
‘Groves of Blarney’, (song by Richard Milliken), 510
Groves of Blarney (Mrs Anna Hall, formerly Anna Maria Fielding), 458, 486
Guicciardini, Francesco, Storia D’Italia, 150
Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift), 252
Gustavus Vasa: The Deliverer of His Country (Henry Brooke), 295, 394
Gwynn, Stephen, ‘Novels of Irish Life in the Nineteenth Century’, 491
Haicéad, Pádraigín, 220
hagiography, 12, 47, 55–7, 127–8, 210–12
in Irish, 40, 55
in Latin, 12, 13, 55
Haliday, William, Uraicecht na Gaedhilge: A Grammar of the Gaelic Language, 552
Hall, Mrs Anna (formerly Anna Maria Fielding), 458, 462
Groves of Blarney, 458, 486
Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, 458
Sketches of Irish Character, 458, 459
Tales of Woman’s Trials, 459
Whiteboy, The, 458–9
and Hall, Samuel Carter, Ireland: Its Scenery and Character, 462
Hall, Samuel Carter, 458, 462
and Hall, Mrs (formerly Anna Maria Fielding), Ireland: Its Scenery and Character, 462
Hamilton, Elizabeth, 273
Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life (Samuel Lover), 460
Hardiman, James (editor), 511–15, 576, 621
History of the Town and County of Galway from the earliest period to the present time, The, 576, 621
Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland with English Poetical Translations, 511, 524, 576
as editor of Chronographical Description of West or h-Iar-Connaught (by Roderick O’Flaherty), 576
Harlequin in Waterford (John O’Keeffe) 401
Harris, Walter, Fiction Unmasked, 603
Hartley, May Laffan see Laffan, May
Hartnett, Michael, 648–52
O Bruadair, 649–50
Hastings, Adrian, 85, 208
Hay, Edward, History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford, 614
Head, Richard, Hic et Ubique; or, the Humours of Dublin, 179–80
Miss Betrayed With all Her Wheedling Arts and Circumventions, The, 180
Heart of Erin, An Irish Story of Today, The (E. O. Blackburne), 480
Hector, Annie (‘Mrs Alexander’), 473
Choice of Evils, A, 473
Kitty Costello, 473
Helen Fleetwood (Charlotte Tonna), 459
Helen (Maria Edgeworth), 449
Hemans, Felicia, ‘Grave of a Poetess’, 440
Henry V (Roger Boyle, first earl of Orrery), 179
Henry V (William Shakespeare), 153
Henry VI (William Shakespeare), 153
Herbert, Dorothea, 256
Heresbach, Konrad, Res Rusticae Libri Quatuor, Four Books of Husbandries, 150
Heroine; or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader, The (Eaton Stannard Barrett), 417
‘Hesperi-neso-graphia: or A Description of the Western Isle’ (anonymous), 297
Hewitt, John, 303
Hibernia Anglicana (Sir Richard Cox), 224, 599–602
Hibernia Freed (William Philips), 394
Hibernia Resurgens (David Rothe), 210
Hibernian Magazine, 454
Hiberniad, The (Paul Hiffernan), 259–60
Hibernicus’s Letters (James Arbuckle), 259
Hiberno-English, 88, 304–5, 311
Hiberno-Norman, 86–8
Hic et Ubique; or, the Humours of Dublin (Richard Head), 179–80
Hickson, Mary, 624
Ireland in the Seventeenth Century, or, the Irish Massacres of 1641–1642, their Causes and Results, 624
Hiffernan, Paul, 259
Hiberniad, The, 259–60
as editor of The Tickler, 259
Histoire de l’Irlande (Abbé James MacGeoghegan), 608, 619
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Scotorum (Thomas Dempster), 210
Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Settlement under King William, A (John Curry), 603
‘Historical Essay on the Irish Stage’ (Joseph Cooper Walker), 398
Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (Joseph Cooper Walker), 398, 610
Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion in the year 1641 (John Curry), 603
‘Historicus’ see O’Brien, Richard Barry
L’Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament (Nicholas Fontaine), 364
Historie of Guicciardin Containing the Warres of Italie, The (Sir Geoffrey Fenton, translator)
historiography, 148
history, 23–4, 45–8, 129–30, 147–9, 160, 211–14, 599–603
annals of, 129, 212, 622
archive-based, 621–5
of the civil war period, 180–1
county, 621
early modern, 163–4
and the Enlightenment, 611–12
and the Great Famine, 452, 478, 619
heroic, 51–2, 618
of Ireland, 24, 260–1, 567
kingship, 48–50
natural, 174
‘philosophic’ modern, 611, 612
popular, 618–21
post-Union, 614–16
revisionary, 171
scripture-based, 363
‘synthetic’ 22, 46
History of Fair Nuadu of Femin, The (Stair Nuadat Find Femin), 123
History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II (Thomas Leland), 611–12
History of Ireland from the Treaty of Limerick to the Present Time (John Mitchel), 619
History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, A (W. E. H. Lecky), 624, 625
History of Ireland (Standish James O’Grady), 618
History of Ireland (Thomas Moore), 621
History of Irish Catholics (Matthew O’Conor), 615
History of Jack Connor, The (William Chaigneau), 269
History of the City of Dublin (John Gilbert), 622
History of the Down Survey (Sir William Petty), 173–4
History of the Execrable Rebellion, The (Edmund Borlase)
History of the Four Last Years of the Queen (Jonathan Swift), 249
History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford (Edward Hay), 614
History of the Irish Confederation and the War in Ireland, 1641–1643 (Richard Bellings), 181
History of the Town and County of Galway from the earliest period to the present time, The (James Hardiman), 576, 621
Hoare, Mary Anne, 464
Shamrock Leaves, 464
‘Sketch of Famine’, 464
Hoey, Frances Cashel, 473, 474
Hogan MP (May Laffan), 484
Hogg, James, 454
Holinshed, Raphael, Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande, 147
Holland-Tide; or, Munster Popular Tales (Gerald Griffin), 423
Home Rule, 513, 535, 625
Hooker, John (translator), The Conquest of Ireland (Expugnatio Hibernica) by Giraldus Cambrensis, 148–9
Hope: a Poetical Essay; with various other Poems (Mary Balfour), 435
Hopkins, Charles, 284
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (‘GH’), 535
Hopkins, John, 284
Horation Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland, An (Andrew Marvell), 170
House by the Churchyard, The (Sheridan Le Fanu), 470
Household Library of Ireland’s Poets with Full and Choice Selections from the Irish-American Poets (Daniel Connolly), 528
Howard, Gorges Edmond, The Siege of Tamor, 396
Howitt’s Journal, 464
Hughes, Thomas, The Misfortunes of Arthur, 153
Hungerford, Margaret (‘The Duchess’), 474
Molly Bawn, 474
Hurrish (Emily Lawless), 481, 489
Hutcheson, Francis, 243–6, 259
Compend, 245
De naturali hominum Socialitate (On the Social Nature of Man), 245
Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions, An, 244
Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, 244, 262
System of Moral Philosophy, A, 245
Hutchinson, Francis, 605
Defence of the Ancient Historians, with a particular application of it to the History of Ireland and Great Britain, and other Northern Nations, 605
Hyacinth O’Gara (Reverend George Brittaine), 460
hymns, 12–16
Iberno-Celtic Society, 552, 616
identity, 118, 141, 180, 378, 409–11, 591
colonial, 545
Irish, 191, 192, 206–10, 218–24, 401, 545
national, 502
Illustrated Dublin Journal, 454
Illustrated History of Ireland, An (Mary Francis Cusack), 618
Image of Ireland with a Discoverie of Woodkarne, The (John Derricke), 145
Immathchor nAilella 7 Airt (Mutual Restitution between Ailill and Art), 23
immrama (voyage tales), 24, 44, 50, 179, 527
Immram Curaig Maíle Dúin (The Voyage of Máel Dúin’s Boat), 44
Immram Snédgusa ocus Meic Ríagla (The Voyage of Snédgus and Mac Ríagla), 44
Impartial History of Ireland (Denis Taaffe), 614–15
In a Glass Darkly (Sheridan Le Fanu), 471
In Cath Catharda (The Civil War), 41
‘In ccúala tú Fíana Finn’, 95–6
Incognita; or, Love and Duty (William Congreve), 269
‘Incompatibles, The’ (Matthew Arnold), 476
‘Independent Man, The’ (Peadar Ó Doirnín), 339–40
Inglis, Liam, 340–1
Cré agus cill go bhfaighe gach bráthair, 340–1
Inisfail: A Lyrical Chronicle of Ireland (Aubrey de Vere), 529–30
Inland Ice and Other Stories, The (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne), 664
Innid scél scaílter n-airrich, 37
Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (Francis Hutcheson), 244
Instructio pie Vivendi et Superna Meditandi (Instruction in Holy Life and Heavenly Thought), 128
Instruction in Holy Life and Heavenly Thought (Instructio pie Vivendi et Superna Meditandi), 128
Intercepted Letters: or, the Two Penny Post-Bag (Thomas Moore), 436
Intelligencer, The (periodical), 254
In the Land of Youth (James Stephens), 638
Intoxication of the Ulaid, The (Mesca Ulad), 52
Introduction à la vie dévote (St Francis de Sales)
for translation see O’Reilly, Fr Philip (translator)
Introduction to the Irish Language, An (Robert Shipboy Mac Adam), 554
Introduction to the Irish Language (Reverend William Neilson), 552
Introduction to the Study of the History and Antiquities of Ireland (Sylvester O’Halloran), 397
invasions, 22, 49, 117, 392, 393–4
‘Iomdha éagnach ag Éirinn’, 85
Iomarbhágh na bhFileadh (Contention of the Bards), 220–1, 645
Ireland, 201–2, 207, 213, 311
origins of, 45, 605–6, 612
pre-colonial period, 601, 604, 607
represented as a woman, 84, 325, 330, 356, 525
Ireland: A Tale (Harriet Martineau), 459
Ireland in the Seventeenth Century, or, the Irish Massacres of 1641–1642, their Causes and Results (Mary Hickson), 624
Ireland: Its Scenery and Character (Samuel and Anna Hall), 462
Ireland Preserv’d; or, The Siege of London-Derry (John Michelburne), 395
Ireland’s Naturall History (Dr Gerald Boate and Arnold Boate), 174
Ireland: Social, Political and Religious (Gustave de Beaumont), 462
Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger (Asenath Nicholson), 465
Irish Archaeological Society, 616
Irish Catholic Magazine, 452, 454
‘Irish Catholicism and British Liberalism’ (Matthew Arnold), 476
Irish Chronicles (Sir Richard Stanihurst, compiler), 147–8
Irish Collection of Canons, The (Collectio Canonum Hibernensis), 22
Irish Essays, and Others (Matthew Arnold), 476
Irish Fireside (periodical), 454, 490
Irish Folklore Commission, 636, 653
Irish Harp Society, 554
Irish Hospitality (Charles Shadwell), 383–4
Irish Hudibras or Fingallian Prince, The (attr. James Farewell and Francis Taubman), 178
Irish language, 9–10, 40–1, 88, 518, 550
classical Old Irish, 32
early Old Irish, 13–26
middle Irish linguistic period, 32, 38
decline of, 547, 549, 566, 585, 586
and folklore, 652–62
modern, 636, 662–9
origins of, 605, 606
study of, 19, 20–1
tradition, 3
Irish Literary Theatre, 398
Irish Manufacturer, or Bob MacGawley’s Project (William Carleton), 486
Irish Masque at Court, The (Ben Jonson), 159–60
Irish Melodies (Thomas Moore), 435–6, 503
Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland with English Poetical Translations (James Hardiman, editor), 511, 524, 576
‘Irish Mode, the’, 504–11, 518
Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature, 451, 452
Irish Monthly, The (ed. Matthew Russell), 454, 478, 502–3, 535
Irish Penny Journal (periodical), 454
Irish Penny Magazine (periodical), 453
Irish People, The (periodical), 530
Irish Poems and Legends (Thomas Caulfield Irwin), 528
Irish Popular Songs (Edward Walsh), 514
Irish Priests and English Landlords (Reverend George Brittaine), 460
Irish rebellion of, 1641 166–70, 602, 611, 623, 624
Irish rebellion of, 1798 267, 314–15, 335–7, 407, 441, 612–14
in drama, 427
in fiction, 419, 420–1
in poetry, 336, 434
Irish rebellion of, 1803 419, 426
Irish rebellion of, 1848 478
Irish Rebellion, The (Sir John Temple), 167, 602–3, 613
Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), 475, 530
Irish Sketchbook, The (William Thackeray) 462
Irish Tales (Sarah Butler), 269
Irish Tutor, or New Lights, The (Richard Butler, earl of Glengall), 430
Irish Volunteers, 342
Irishwoman, The (Lady Olivia Clarke), 410
Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge (The Gaelic Journal), 566, 569
Irwin, Thomas Caulfield, 528
Irish Poems and Legends, 528
Versicles, 528
Is doilg liom saoithe de phrímhshliocht Gaeil Ghlais, 328–9
Is dubhach liom féinig bualadh an lae úd (‘Sliabh na mBan’), 336
Is fada ag éisteacht mé leis an scéala-sa (Peadar Ó Doirnín), 358
Is gearr do bhí mé ar leabaidh im luí nuair ghlaoigh amuigh, 331
Island Queen, The, or Grana Uile (Samuel Lover), 486
Itinerary (Fynes Moryson), 163
Jack Hinton (Charles Lever), 467
Jackman, Isaac, The Milesian, 387
Jack the Giant Queller (Henry Brooke), 395
Jacobite rebellion of, 1715 250
Jacobitism, 337–42, 349, 351, 355
‘Jacta Alea Est’ (‘The Die is Cast’ by Lady Jane Wilde), 520–1
Jail Journal (John Mitchel), 463
James I (James VI, king of Scotland), Praefatio monitoria, 201
Trew Law of Free Monarchies, 200
James of Voragine, Legenda aurea, 92
Jephson, Robert, 382–3
Johnson, Esther (‘Stella’), 291
Johnstone, Charles, 269
Arsaces, Prince of Betlis, 270
Chrysal; or the Adventures of a Guinea, 269–70
Johnstone, Christian Isobel, 455, 459–60
True Tales of the Irish Peasantry; As Related by Themselves, 459
Jones, Frederick, 381
Jones, Henry, 382
Jones, Lady Katherine, viscountess of Ranelagh, 181
Jones, Richard, 465
Jonson, Ben, The Irish Masque at Court, 159–60
journalism, 259, 262, 340
see also periodicals
Journal to Stella (Jonathan Swift), 248
Joyce, James, 521
Judgements Concerning Privileged Persons (Bretha Nemed), 19
Kathleen O’Neil: a Grand National Melo-drame (Mary Balfour), 428
Katty the Flash. A Mould of Dublin Mud (Fannie Gallaher), 484
Kavanagh, Julia, 474
English Women of Letters, 474
Madeline, 474
Nathalie, 474
Kavanagh, Peter Morgan, 474
Kavanagh, Rose, 535
Keary, Anne, 478
Castle Daly: The Story of an Irish Home Thirty Years Ago, 478
Keating, Geoffrey see Seathrún Céitinn
Keegan, John, 518
Keenan, Patrick, Report of the Commissioners for National Education, 549
keen, the (see also caoineadh), 328, 331, 655–62
conventions of, 658, 659
Kelly, Hugh, 257, 382
Memoirs of a Magdalen, 272
School for Wives, 382, 387
Kelly, Mary (pseudonym ‘Eva’), 519
‘Scene for Ireland, A’, 519
‘Tipperary’ 519
Kenney, James, 430
Kickham, Charles Joseph, 454, 477–8, 530
For the Old Land, 477
Knocknagow; or The Homes of Tipperary, 477, 478
Sally Cavanagh; or the Untenanted Graves, 477
as employed on the Irish People (newspaper), 477
Kiely, Benedict, Cards of the Gambler, 663
kingship, 23, 45–50, 80
and the church, 50
‘cycles of the kings’, 23–4
divine right of kings, 200
Tara, 48, 49
King, William (1663–1712), 284
King, William, archbishop of Dublin (1650–1729), 180, 232–3
De origine mali, 233
Divine Predestination and Foreknowledge
State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James’s Government, 232–3, 602
Kinsella, Thomas, 641–4
Kitty Costello (Annie Hector), 473
Knight of Gwynne (Charles Lever), 468
Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, 125
Knowles, James Sheridan, 428, 487
Brian Boroimhe, 428, 487
Virginius, 428, 487
Knox, John, Geneva Book see Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh (John Carswell)
Kohl, Johann Georg, Travels in Ireland, 462
Koran, The (Richard Griffith), 272
Krans, Horatio, 491
Ladies Land League, 531
Lady Faulkland Her Life, The (Henry Cary)
láech (hero), 57
Laffan, May (Hartley), 484
‘Flitters, Tatters and the Counsellor’, 484
Hogan MP, 484
Lallah Rookh (Thomas Moore), 435
Lamb, George, 431, 433
Lamb, Lady Caroline, Glenarvon, 421
lament, 328, 331, 660–2
see also keen, the and caoineadh
Lament for Art O’Leary, The (Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire), 332–4, 657–62
‘Lament for Thomas Davis’ (Samuel Ferguson), 515
‘Lament of the Irish Emigrant’ (Lady Caroline Norton), 502
Land Acts, 476, 477
Landgartha (Henry Burnell), 165–6
Land League, 479, 480, 527
Land League Songs (Fanny Parnell), 531
Landleaguers, The (Anthony Trollope), 479
‘Land of Cokaygne, The’ (Anon), 87
Lane, Parr, News from the Holy Isle, 161
language, 40–1, 253, 351, 413
revival societies, 566
shift to English, 547–50
standard metrical features, 78
standard poetic, 78
standard written, 20
see also Irish language; Latin; Old Irish
Lanigan, John, Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, 615
Larcom, Thomas, 558
‘Last of the Bards of Louth, The’ see Ó Cearnaigh, Nioclás, 573
Late Agallamh (Agallamh Déanach), 116
Latin, 9–10, 17, 20, 40–1
alphabet, 20
hagiography, 12, 13
hymns, 12
Latin
manuscripts, 34
texts, 10–11
Latin – Irish Dictionary (Risteard Pluincéad), 206
Lawless, Emily, 481–2, 619
Chelsea Householder, A, 481
Grania, 481, 482
Hurrish, 481, 489
Maelcho, 482
Millionaire’s Cousin, A, 481
With Essex in Ireland, 482
Lawless, John, A Compendium of the History of Ireland from the earliest period to the reign of George I, 615
Law of Adamnán, The (Cáin Adamnáin), 22
Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland: A Modern Poem (William Allingham), 531–2
law texts, 16, 19, 22–3
Leabhar Breac (Speckled Book), 35, 128, 562
Leabhar Gabhála see Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions)
Leabhar na gCeart or The Book of Rights (John O’Donovan), 558
Leabhar na hUidhre see Lebor na hUidre
Leabhar na hInghine Uí Dhomhnaill (The Book of O’Donnell’s Daughter), 218–20
Leabhar na nGenealach (Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhsigh), 214
Leadbeater, Mary Shackleton, 256, 299, 407, 425, 441
Annals of Ballitore, The, 441
Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry, 426
Poems, 441
Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland (W. E. H. Lecky), 625
learned families, 78–9, 111, 635
Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions), 45, 49, 79, 212, 217, 220
Lebor na hUidre (The Book of the Dun Cow), 33, 50, 51, 113, 562, 639
Le ciontaibh na healta ag ar dalladh a gcluastuigse see ‘An Longbhriseadh’ (The Shipwreck)
Lecky, W. E. H., 624–5
History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, A, 624, 625
Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, 625
Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History (Eugene O’Curry), 559, 617
Ledred(e), Richard, 127
Ledwich, Edward, 612, 615
Antiquities of Ireland, 612, 613
Le Fanu, Alicia, The Sons of Erin, 428, 429
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 469–72, 481
‘Carmilla’ 471
Cock and Anchor, The, 470
editor of Dublin University Magazine, 469
Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery, 470
House by the Churchyard, The, 470
In a Glass Darkly, 471
‘Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess’, 471
Purcell Papers, The, 470
‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter’, 469
Uncle Silas, 471
Legenda aurea (James of Voragine), 92
Legends and Stories of Ireland (Samuel Lover), 460
Leigheas Coise Céin (The Healing of Cian’s Leg), 123
Léimid suas a chairde, 338
‘Leis féin moltar Mág Uidhir’, 84
Leland, Thomas, 261, 611–12
History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, 611–12
Letter in Answer to a Book entitled Christianity not Mysterious, A (Peter Browne, bishop of Cork), 237
Letter to a Noble Lord (Edmund Burke), 266
Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, A (Edmund Burke), 265, 266
Letter to the Author of the Divine Analogy and the Minute Philosopher (Philip Skelton), 242
Letters for Literary Ladies (Maria Edgeworth), 411
Letters from Ireland MDCCCXXXVII (Charlotte Tonna), 461
Letters of Junius (Sir Philip Francis), 267
Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs (Edmund Burke), 476
Lever, Charles, 417, 453, 466–9, 481–2
Charles O’Malley, the Irish Dragoon, 467
Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, 466–7
Jack Hinton, 467
Knight of Gwynne, 468
Lord Kilgobbin, 468, 478
Martins of Cro’ Martin, The, 468
Tom Burke of ‘Ours’, 467
as editor of the Dublin University Magazine, 467
Líadan (poet), 53
Liber Ardmachanus (The Book of Armagh), 33
Liber Hymnorum (Book of Hymns), 34, 36
Life and Times of the Most Reverend John Mac Hale, The (Uileag de Búrca), 569
Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, The (son), 268
Life of Adamnán, The (Betha Adamnán), 56
Life of Brigit (Bethu Brigte), 40
Life of Colum Cille (Vita Columbae by Adamnán), 17–18, 56
Life of Columba (Betha Coluim Chille by Maghnus Ó Domhnaill), 128
Life of John Buncle, Esq., The (Thomas Amory), 270
Life of Patrick (by Muirchú moccu Machthéni), 12
Life of Patrick, Tripartite, 56
Life of Red Hugh O’Donnell, The (Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill), 216–17, 218
Life of St Mary of Egypt (Uilleam Mac an Leagha), 125–6
Light and Shade (Charlotte Grace O’Brien), 479
Lights and Shades of Ireland (Asenath Nicholson), 464
Lights and Shadows of Irish Life (Mrs Anna Hall, formerly Anna Maria Fielding) 458
‘Lines Addressed to the River at Rossana, in the County of Wicklow’ (William Tighe), 441–2
‘Lines Written at Scarborough, August, 1799’ (Mary Tighe), 440
List of Absentees (Thomas Prior), 253
literacy, 9–10, 565
literary borrowing, 56
literary canon, the, 1, 7
literary criticism, 489–92, 509
literary cultures, 86–9
literary dedications, 146
literary glosses, 10
literary history
of American literature, 1
of Irish literature, 1–2
surveys, 2
literary style, 41–3, 113–15
literature
Arthurian, 126
ascetic, 53
children’s, 425
Counter Reformation, 197
of courtly love, 96, 98, 206, 217
experimental, 142–3
form, 43–5, 177, 302, 348, 456
Gothic, 273, 415, 418, 456, 472
heroic, 51–2, 178
Hiberno-English, 88, 304–5
Hiberno-Norman, 86–9
narrative, 526–34
national, 259–60, 451
Norman-French, 88
and the oral tradition, 633–7
post-famine, 585–91
religious, 17, 53–5, 127–9, 191–8, 363, 565
Restoration, 177–8, 179–80
secular, 17–26, 360–3, 566
wisdom, 22
see also fíanaigheacht; fiction; novels; poetry
Literature in Ireland (Thomas MacDonagh), 504
Little, Thomas (pseudonym) see Moore, Thomas
Lives of Máedóc, 55
Lives of the Saints see hagiography
Locke, John, 235
Account of the Druids, 236
Essay on Human Understanding, 234
Nazarenus, 236
Second Treatise on Government, 393
Loinges mac nDuíl Dermait (The Exile of the Sons of Dóel Dermait), 122
Lo(i)nges mac nUislenn (The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu), 52, 115, 360–1
London Magazine, 505
‘Longbhriseadh, An’ (Dáibhí Ó Bruadair), 223–4, 323–4, 353–4, 359, 360
‘Lord Altham’s Bull’, 310–11
Lord Kilgobbin (Charles Lever), 468, 478
‘Lough Derg Pilgrim, The’ (formerly ‘A Pilgrimage to Patrick’s Purgatory’ by William Carleton), 456, 457
Louvain, 198–9, 210–12, 214
religious texts, 191–205, 210
and secular texts, 206, 215–18
Love à la Mode (Charles Macklin), 387
Love and a Bottle (George Farquhar), 376, 377, 379, 385
‘Lovely Mary Donnelly’ (William Allingham), 532
Lover, Samuel, 460, 486
Grana Uile (or The Island Queen), 486
Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life, 460
Legends and Stories of Ireland, 460
Rory O’More, 460, 486
Loyal Brother or The Persian Prince. A Tragedy (Thomas Southerne), 181
Lucas, Charles, MP and founder of the Freeman’s Journal, 254
Luccreth moccu Chíara, 25
Conailla Medb Míchuru (Medb Enjoined Evil Contracts), 25
Lutheranism, 234
Lynch, Patrick, 561
Lysaght, Edward, 313
Mac Adam, Robert Shipboy, 553–4, 558
as editor of the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 554
Introduction to the Irish Language, An, 554
Mac Aingil, Aodh (Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil), 202, 203, 204–5, 216
Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe, 200–2
Mac an Bhaird, Aodh, 210–11
Mac an Bhaird, Eoghan Ruadh, 209, 216–17, 218
A leabhráin ainmnightear d’Aodh, 209
Mac an Bhaird, Fearghal Óg, 216, 219
Mac an Bhaird, Fearghal Mac Domhnuill Ruaidh, 217
Mac an Leagha, Uilleam, 123–5
Life of St Mary of Egypt, 125
Mac Bionaid, Art, 556–7, 574
Comhrac na nGael agus na nGall le chéile, 557, 567
‘Ollamh Úr, An t–or reflections upon Hugh Mac Donnell’s conduct for assuming the name of poet’, 575
Mac Bruaideadha, Maolín Óg, 76
Mac Bruaideadha, Tadhg mac Dáire 220–1
MacCarthy, Denis Florence, 504, 518, 527
as editor of the Book of Irish Ballads, 518
Mac Cathmhaoil, Aodh see Mac Aingil, Aodh
McClintock, Letitia, A Boycotted Household, 479–80
Mac Cnáimhín, Giolla Pádraig, 111
Mac Con Midhe, Giolla Brighde, 81, 82, 91, 645–6
‘Déan oram trócaire, a Thríonnóid’ (Holy Trinity, Have Mercy on Me), 91
Mac Cruitín, Séamus, 571
Mac Cuarta, Séamus Dall, 358
Mac Cumhaigh, Art, 351, 358, 557
A mhic Éamoinn Ruaidh, a shadharclann an tsluaigh, 352
MacCurtin, Hugh (Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín), A Brief Discourse in Vindication of the Antiquity of Ireland, 270, 605
Mac Domhnaill, Aodh, 557, 558, 568, 575
Fealsúnacht Aoidh Mhic Dhomhnaill, 568
Mac Domhnaill, Seán Clárach, 337, 356–7, 358, 609
Bímse buan ar buairt gach ló, 337–8
Mac Domhnaill, Somhairle, 215
Leabhar na hInghine Uí Dhomhnaill (The Book of O’Donnell’s Daughter), 218
MacDonagh, Thomas, Literature in Ireland, 504
Mac Donnell, Dr James, 553, 555
as founder of the Belfast Literary Society, 554
Mac Duinnshléibhe, Cormac, 129
Mac Eochaidh, Domhnall Carrach, 75
Mac Fhirbhisigh, Dubhaltach, 214
Chronicon Scotorum, 214
Leabhar na nGenealach, 214
McGee, Thomas D’Arcy, 518, 528
MacGeoghegan, Abbé James, Histoire de l’Irlande, 261, 608, 619
Mac Giolla Choille, Séamas, 575
Mac Giolla Fhiondain, Peadar, 358
Mac Giolla Ghunna, Cathal Buí, 355–6
A bhonnáin bhuí, 355
An gcluin tú mé, a Chathail Bhuí, tá an bás fá fhad téide dhuit, 355–6
MacGregor, James, and MacGregor, Duncan, Book of the Dean of Lismore, 94
Mac Grianna, Seosamh, 587
Mac Hale, Archbishop John, 569, 570, 583, 585
Mackenzie, John, A Narrative of the Siege of London-Derry, 182
Macklin, Charles, 386–7, 400
Love à la Mode, 387
New Play Criticiz’d, The, 386
True-Born Irishman, The (later re-titled The Fine Irish Lady), 386–7
Macmillan’s Magazine, 478
Mac Murchaidh, Art Mór, 575
Mac óda, Seamus, 554
Macpherson, James, 609
Mac Richard Butler, Edmund, 125
Mac Suibhne, Mícheál, 577
‘Bainis Pheigí Ní Eaghra’, 577
Madden, Samuel, 253
Madeline (Julia Kavanagh), 474
Máel Muire Mac Célechair (scribe), 33
Máel Mura Othna, 36, 37, 46
Can a mbunadas na nGáedel, 37, 46
Maelcho (Emily Lawless), 482
Mag Cochláin, Toirdhealbhach, 212
Mag Fhloinn, Pádraig, 576
Magical Chariot of Cú Chulainn, The (Síabarcharpat Con Culainn), 50
Maginiss, Edward A., 554
Maginn, William, 424, 437–8, 523
‘Some Account of the Life and Writings of Ensign and Adjutant Odoherty, late of the 99th regiment’, 437–8
Mag Uidhir, Brian, lord of Fermanagh, 212
Mag Uidhir, Cú Chonnacht, 82
Mahony, Francis Sylvester, 509–11
‘Polyglot Edition’, 510
Reliques of Fr Prout, The, 509–10
‘Shandon Bells, The’, 510
‘Maiden’s Resolution, The’, 305
‘Máire Ní Eidhin’ (Antaine Raiftearaí), 584
Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh, 98
Malone, Edmond, 261
Goldsmith’s Works, 261
Mandeville, Fable of the Bees
Mangan, James Clarence, 501, 518, 521–6
‘Dark Rosaleen’, 525–6
‘Karamanian Exile’, 526
‘O’Hussey’s Ode to the Maguire’, 526
Poets and Poetry of Munster, The (with John O’Daly), 514, 525, 571
maniac figures, 439
manuals, self-improvement, 364
Manuscript 667 (Trinity College, Dublin), 88
Manuscript Harley 913 (British Library)
Manuscript Laud Misc., 610 (Bodleian) 113, 128
Manuscript NLS Adv., 72.2.3 (Glenmasan) 115
Manuscript Rawlinson B487 (Bodleian), 117, 128
Manuscript Rawlinson B502 (Bodleian) 128
manuscripts, 24, 33–8, 112–13, 114, 320, 551, 560–4
and aesthetics, 35
authorship, 111–12
circulation and copying of, 358
contents of, 563
creators of, 36–8
dating of, 10, 38
interpretation of, 35
lack of modern editions, 37
lost, 114
monastic affiliations, 33
preservation of, 35
production of, 110, 112
and the public sphere, 590
revisions to, 36–7, 114
manuscript tradition, 567, 635, 642, 654–5
Mara, Daniel, Brian Boroimhe (The Victorious), 428
marbhnaí (elegies) 656
Marcus, of Regensburg (scholar), 39–40
Maritana (Edward Fitzball), 485
Markham, Gervase, The Newe Metamorphosis, 162
marriage, 344, 412, 413, 414
Martineau, Harriet, Ireland: A Tale, 459
Martins of Cro’ Martin, The (Charles Lever), 468
martyrdom, 17
Martyrology of Oengus, The (Féilire Óengusso), 16, 54
Marvell, Andrew, ‘An Horation Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ 170
Más libh amháin is le mic Dághda (Peadar Ó Doirnín), 358
Massachusetts Spy, The (periodical), 246
Materia Medica, 563
Maturin, Charles Robert, 418–19, 432–3
Bertram, 433–4
Five Sermons on the Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, 419
Melmoth the Wanderer, 418
Milesìan Chief, The, 419
Wild Irish Boy, The, 417
Maurice and Berghetta; or the Priest of Rahery (William Parnell), 422
Maxwell, William Hamilton, 417, 460, 467
Wild Sports of the West, with Legendary Tales and Local Sketches, 460
Meagher, Thomas Francis, 528
Mechanical Operation of the Spirit (Jonathan Swift), 247
medical writing, 129
Meditationes Vitae Christi (Meditations upon the Life of Christ) see Smaointe Beatha Chríost
Meditations (Descartes), translated by William Molyneux, 233
Mé Éba, 54
Melmoth the Wanderer (Charles Robert Maturin), 418
Melodies of Buchet’s House, The (Esnada Tige Buchet), 36, 43
melodrama, 361, 424, 432–4, 458, 487–8
memoir, 254–6
see also autobiography and succeeding entries, also biography
Memoir (Elizabeth Freke), 181
Memoirs (Laetitia Pilkington), 255
Memoirs (Maria Edgeworth), 414
Memoirs of a Magdalen (Hugh Kelly), 272
Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe, The (Lady Ann Fanshawe), 170
Memoirs of Captain Rock (Thomas Moore), 419–20
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (Frances Sheridan), 271
Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland from the Arrival of the English (Richard Musgrave), 315, 613
Menologium Scotticum (Thomas Dempster), 210
Merriman, Brian, Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court), 344–6
Merugud Uilix meic Leirtis (The Wanderings of Ulysses son of Leirtes), 41
Mesca Ulad (The Intoxication of the Ulaid) 52
Messingham, Thomas, Florilegium insulae sanctorum, 210
Michael of Kildare, friar, 87
Michelburne, John, Ireland Preserv’d; or, The Siege of London-Derry, 395
‘Midnight Court, The’ (Cúirt an Mheán Oíche by Brian Merriman), 344–6
Milesian Chief, The (Charles Maturin), 419
Milesian, The (Isaac Jackman), 387
Mill, John Stuart, 475
‘England and Ireland’, 475
Principles of Political Economy, 475
Millionaire’s Cousin, A (Emily Lawless) 481
Milton, John, Observations on Articles of the Peace with the Irish Rebels, 169–70
Mirror for Magistrates, A (William Baldwin), 142
Misfortunes of Arthur, The (Thomas Hughes), 153
Miss Betrayed With all Her Wheedling Arts and Circumventions, The (Richard Head), 180
Missionary, The (Sydney Owenson, later Lady Morgan), 416
Mitchel, John (founder of the United Irishman newspaper), 519, 521
History of Ireland from the Treaty of Limerick to the Present Time, 619
Jail Journal, 463
Mo chreach agus mo chás bhocht mar thána’ ar an saol so, 328
‘Mo Craoibhin Cno’ (Edward Walsh), 514
modernity, 247–8, 253, 501, 533–4
Modern Lover, A (George Moore), 482
Modest and True Account of the Chief Points of Controversie between Roman Catholics and Protestants (Cornelius Nary), 234
Modest Proposal, A (Jonathan Swift), 251
Mo gháir-se mo gháire is mo ghníomh (Seán Ó Tuama), 356
Molesworth, Viscount Robert, 234, 244
Account of Denmark, as it was in the year, 1692 234
Molly Bawn (Margaret Hungerford, ‘The Duchess’), 474
‘Molyneux problem’, the, 234
Molyneux, William, 233–4, 601
Case of Ireland being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated, 601
Dioptrica Nova, 233
Meditations (Descartes, translated by William Molyneux), 233
Sciothericum Telescopicum, 233
monasteries, 11–12, 77, 78, 79, 634
continental, 77, 79, 81
Monck, Mary, 298
monologues, 431, 524, 526
Monthly Review, 256
Moor, James, A Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy (translation of Compend by Francis Hutcheson), 245
Moore, George, 482–4
Confessions of a Young Man, 482
Drama in Muslin, A, 479, 482, 483
Esther Waters, 484
Modern Lover, A, 482
Mummer’s Wife, A, 482
Parnell and his Island, 453, 482
Moore, Jane Elizabeth, 313
Moore, Thomas (pseudonym ‘Thomas Little’), 313, 416, 419–20, 435, 503, 509, 538
Corruption and Intolerance, 436
‘Dear Harp of My Country’, 538
Fudge Family in Paris, 436–7
History of Ireland, 621
Intercepted Letters: or, the Two Penny Post-Bag, 436
Irish Melodies, 435–6, 503
Lallah Rookh, 435
Memoirs of Captain Rock, 419–20
National Melodies, 510
Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion, 420
Morgan, Lady see Sydney Owenson
Morgan, Sir Charles, 410
Moriuht (poet), 39
Moryson, Fynes, Itinerary, 163
Mourning Muse of Thestylis, The (Lodowyck Bryskett), 150
Muirchú moccu Machthéni (Life of Patrick), 12
Mulholland, Rosa, 534–5
‘Wanted an Irish Novelist’, 474
Mummer’s Wife, A (George Moore), 482
Munster Cottage Boy, The (Regina Maria Roche), 415
‘Munster Proverbs’ (Seanfhocail na Muimhneach by ‘An Seabhac’), 664
‘Murphaeid, The’ (William Dunkin), 291
Murphy, Arthur, 257, 382
Musgrave, Richard, 614
Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland from the Arrival of the English, 315, 613
music, 263, 501, 517, 538
Mutual Restitution between Ailill and Art (Immathchor nAilella, 7 Airt) 23
náemshenchas (lore of saints), 56
Narrative of a Journey from Oxford to Skibbereen during the Year of the Irish Famine (Frederick Blackwood and G. F. Boyle), 464
Narrative of the Settlement and Sale of Ireland, A (Nicholas French), 180
Narrative of the Siege of London-Derry, A (John Mackenzie), 182
Nary, Cornelius, 234
Case of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, The, 234
Modest and True Account of the Chief Points of Controversie between Roman Catholics and Protestants, 234–5
Nathalie (Julia Kavanagh), 474
nationalism, 140, 501, 516–17, 525, 625
cultural, 437, 438, 504, 515–16
origins of, 85
and poetry, 85
political and cultural, 550
romantic, 408
Nationalist, The (J. W. Whitbread), 488
National Magazine (formerly the Dublin Literary Gazette), 452
National Melodies (Thomas Moore), 510
Nation, The (newspaper), 454, 502, 515, 525, 527, 619
‘nativists’ 634
‘anti-nativists’ 634
Natural History of Selbourne, The (Gilbert White), 568
Navigatio Sancti Brendani (Denis Florence McCarthy), 527
Nazarenus (John Locke), 236
Neilson, Revd William, 554
Introduction to the Irish Language, 552
Nepenthe (George Darley), 505
New Description of Ireland, A (Barnaby Rich), 157
Newe Metamorphosis, The (Gervase Markham), 162
New English, the, 142
New Lights; or, Life in Galway (Mary Anne Sadlier), 466
New Miscellany of Poems and Translations, A 283
New Model Army, 170
New Play Criticiz’d, The (Charles Macklin) 386
News from the Holy Isle (Parr Lane), 161
newspapers, 313, 454, 469, 477
New Testament (translation of) see Aibidil Gaoidheilge 7 Caiticiosma (Seán Ó Cearnaigh)
New Theory of Vision, A (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 238
New Woman fiction, 482
Ní car Brigit búadach bith, 13
Nicholson, Asenath, 464–5
Annals of the Famine, 465
Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger, 465
Lights and Shades of Ireland, 464
Ní Chonaill, Eibhlín Dubh, 332, 657–60
Nicomède, A Tragi-comedy Translated out of the French of Monsieur Corneille (John Dancer), 176
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, 218, 220, 659, 666–7
‘Dán do Mhelissa’, 666–7
Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís, The Inland Ice and Other Stories, 664
Nightingale Valley (William Allingham), 532
Ní Laoghaire, Máire Bhuí, 572
‘Cath Chéim an Fhia’, 572
Ní Mhic Cailín, Isibeul, 98–9
Nine Years War, The, 155, 163–4
Ní Shúilleabháin, Muirn, Osna go cruaidh le guais na scéal so ag rith (attr), 328
Ní tarcuisne dár n-eaglais ná céim do chách, 352–3
‘North Country Wedding, The’ (Nicholas Browne), 285
Norton, Lady Caroline (née Sheridan), 459, 502
novels, 269–74, 409, 411–23, 426–8, 449–75, 478–84
early history of Irish novel, 269
famine, 463–6, 477
‘land’ 479–81
military, 417, 467–8
naval, 417
proselytising, 419
sensation, 470
see also fiction
‘Novels of Irish Life in the Nineteenth Century’ (Stephen Gwynn), 491
Nowlans, The (John and Michael Banim), 422
Nugent, Richard, Cynthia Containing Direfull Sonnets, Madrigalls and Passionate Intercourses, describing his repudiate affections expressed in Love’s Owne Language, 156
Nuinseann, Uilliam, 217, 219
Nun’s Curse (Charlotte Riddell), 472
Ó Briain, Diarmaid, 97
Ó Briain, Fr Pól, A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language, 552
O’Brien, Charlotte Grace, Light and Shade 479
O’Brien, Edward S. see Butt, Isaac
O’Brien, Mary, 299, 400
The Fallen Patriot, 400
O’Brien, Richard Barry (pen name ‘Historicus’), 489
‘Best Hundred Irish Books, The’, 489
Ó Bruacháin, Tomás Gruamdha (translator), 347
Smaointe Beatha Chríost, 347–8
Ó Bruadair, Dáibhí (Dáibhidh), 192, 222–4, 323–4, 353–4, 359, 644, 647–50, 655
‘Longbhriseadh, An’ (‘The Shipwreck’), 223–4, 324, 353–4, 359, 360
Searc na suadh, 223
O Bruadair (Michael Hartnett), 649–50
Observations on Articles of the Peace with the Irish Rebels (John Milton), 169–70
Ó Cadhain, Máirtín, 653, 662, 665–6
Cré na Cille, 665
Sraith ar Lár, An t-, 665
Ó Callanáin, Marcus, 560, 578
‘Sciolladh Mharcais Uí Challanáin’, 578
Ó Callanáin, Patsaí, 578
‘Na Fataí Bána’, 586
Ó Callanáin brothers, 560
Ó Catháin, Niall Gruama (transcriber), Agallamh na Seanórach, 215
Occasional Meditations Upon Sundry Subjects: With Pious Reflections Upon Several Scriptures (Mary Boyle Rich, countess of Warwick)
Ó Ceallaigh, Uaitéar (compiler), Stair an Bhíobla, 364
Ó Cearbhalláin, Toirialach (Turlough Carolan), 400, 552, 576
Ó Cearnaigh, Nioclás (‘The last of the Bards of Louth’), 564, 570, 573, 586
Bardic Remains of Louth, The, 564
‘Beidh Éire gan mhearbhall le feara Thír Eoghain’, 573
‘Cumha na máthara fán leanbh’, 573–4
Ó Cearnaigh, Seán, Aibidil Gaoidheilge 7 Caiticiosma, 194–5
Ó Cearnaigh, Uilliam, New Testament (translation of), 195
Ó Cianáin, Tadhg, 207, 208
Ó Cionga, Muircheartach, New Testament (translation of), 196
Ó Cléirigh, Lughaidh, 221
Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill (The Life of Red Hugh O’Donnell), 218
Ó Cléirigh, Mac Con, 99
Ó Cléirigh, Micheál, 211–3, 214
Annála Ríoghachta Éireann (Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland), 213
Foclóir nó Sanasán Nua, 205
Lebor Gabála Érenn (Book of Invasions) 212
Réim Ríoghraidh, 212
Ó Coileáin, Seán, 655
Ó Conaill, Peadar, 552
Ó Conaill, Seán, Tuireamh na hÉireann (The Lament of Ireland), 222
Ó Conaill, Tadhg, Trompa na bhFlaitheas 364
Ó Conaire, Pádraic, 637
Ó Conchubhair, Cathal (scribe), Stair an Bhíobla, 364
O’Conellite poetry, 580–2
O’Connell, Daniel, 333, 442, 453, 548, 552, 580–1
O’Connor, Arthur, The State of Ireland, 268
O’Connor, Dermod, 269, 604
O’Conor, Charles, 256, 261, 607, 611, 613, 615
Dissertations on the Ancient History of Ireland, 607–8
O’Conor, Matthew, History of Irish Catholics, 615
Ó Cuinn, Tadhg, 129
Ó Cuinn, Tomás, 88
O’Curry, Eugene, 558–60, 617
Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, 559, 617
On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 559, 617
Ó Dálaigh, Aonghus Fionn, ‘Iomdha éagnach ag Éirinn’, 85
Ó Dálaigh, Aonghus Rua, The Tribes of Ireland, 559
Ó Dálaigh, Cearbhall, ‘A mhacalla dheas’, 99
Ó Dálaigh, Donnchadh Mór, 81
‘Gabham deachmhaidh ar ndána’, 90
Ó Dálaigh, Gofraidh Fionn, Filidh Éireann go haointeach, 83
Ó Dálaigh, Muireadhach Albanach, 81, 91
O’Daly, John (publisher), 556, 570, 571
The Poets and Poetry of Munster (with James Clarence Mangan), 504, 525, 571
Reliques of Irish Jacobite Poetry, 514
‘Ode to Sensibility’ (Elizabeth Ryves), 312
Ode to the King: On his Irish Expedition and the Success of his Arms in General (Jonathan Swift), 249
Ó Dochartaigh, Aodh (scribe), 215–18
Book of The O’Conor Don, 216–18, 219
Duanaire Finn (The Poem Book of Fionn), 94, 215
Ó Doirnín, Peadar, 339–40, 357, 358
Bhí mé ag suírí le cailín a bhí fíneálta, geanúil, 357
Ghéag dá dtug mé grá di, An, 353, 357
‘Independent Man, The’, 339–40
Is fada ag éisteacht mé leis an scéala-sa, 358
Más libh amháin is le mic Dághda, 358
Ólfaidh mé sláinte an pháiste is daoire folt, 355
Ó Domhnaill, Maghnus, Betha Coluim Chille (Life of Columba), 128
Ó Domhnaill, Nioclás, Fr, 357
Fáilte dár n-árd-fhlaith dár ndíon, 356
Ó Domhnaill, Uilliam L, 195–6
Book of Common Prayer (translation of), 196
New Testament (translation of), 195–6
O’Donnell, John Francis, 527–8
O’Donnell, Manus, 98
O’Donovan, John, 425, 549, 558–9, 585, 617
Annals of the Four Masters, 559, 617, 618
Leabhar na gCeart or The Book of Rights, 558
as editor of The Banquet of Dun na nGedh, 558
as editor and translator of The Tribes of Ireland by Aonghus Rua Ó Dálaigh, 559
O’Donovan, John and O’Curry, Eugene, Ancient Laws of Ireland, 559
Ó Dubhthaigh, Eoghan, 93, 206, 209
A Bhanbha is truagh do chor, 197–8
Ó Duinnshléibhe, Seán, 588
‘Beauty Deas an Oileáin’, 588
Óengus, céli Dé, Saltair na Rann (The Psalter of the Quatrains), 54
Óengus mac Óengobann, 53
Ó Fearghail, Brian (scribe), Stair Bhíobla 364
Ó Fiannachta, Tomás (translator), 555
Casán na Gaedhilge: An Introduction to the Irish Language, 555
Forgive and Forget (Maith agus Dearmad) by Maria Edgeworth, 555
Rosanna by Maria Edgeworth, 555
O’Flaherty, Roderick, 576
Chronographical Description of West or h-Iar-Connaught, 576
Ogygia, 607
O’Flanagan, Theophilus, 552, 556
Ó Floinn, Donnchadh, 561
ogam script, 9–10, 20, 634
Ó Gealacáin, Peadar (scribe), 556, 557–8, 574, 579
Ogilby, John, 372, 379
O’Grady, Hubert, 488–9
Famine, 488–9
O’Grady, Standish Hayes, 537
O’Grady, Standish James, 618
History of Ireland, 618
Ogygia (Roderick O’Flaherty), 607
O’Hagan, John, 516, 528
O’Hagan, Thomas, 528
O’Halloran, Sylvester, 609–10
General History of Ireland, 619
Introduction to the Study of the History and Antiquities of Ireland, 397
Ó hEodhasa, Eochaidh, 216, 219
Ó hEodhasa (Eodhusa, Eoghusa), Giolla Brighde (religious name Bonabhentura), 93, 198–9, 202–6, 216
Truagh liomsa, a chompáin, do chor, 206
Teagasg Críosdaidhe (Catechism), 198
Ó hUaithnín, Seon, Éistigh uaim, a chairde chroí, 355
Ó hUiginn, Maolmhuire, archbishop of Tuam, 219
Ó hUiginn, Pilib Bocht, 92–3
‘Dlighthear deachmhadh as an dán’, 93
‘Tuar feirge foighide Dé’, 93
Ó hUiginn, Tadhg Dall, 83, 216, 218–9
‘Fearann cloidhimh críoch Bhanbha’, 85
Ó hUiginn, Tadhg Óg, 217, 644, 646–7
Oidheadh Chloinne Uisnigh (The Death of the Children of Uisneach), 115
Oidheadh Chonnlaoich (The Death of Connlaoch), 115
O’Keeffe, Adelaide, 425
O’Keeffe, John, 256, 399–402
Harlequin in Waterford, 401
Poor Soldier, The, 401–2
Recollections, 256
Shamrock, The, 399–400, 401
O’Kelly, Patrick, 442
‘Old Chapel at Lismore, The’ (Ellen Mary Patrick Downing), 521
Old English, the, 142–56, 160–1, 166, 623
and native Irish, 148–9
O’Leary, Eileen, 659
O’Leary, Ellen, 535
O’Leary, John (editor of The Irish People and The Gael), 477, 530–1, 535, 536
Ólfaidh mé sláinte an pháiste is daoire folt (Peadar Ó Doirnín), 355
ollam(h) (poet) 37
‘Ollamh Úr, An t– or reflections upon Hugh Mac Donnell’s conduct for assuming the name of poet’ (Art Mac Bionaid), 575
Ó Longáin, Mícheál Óg, 336, 561–2, 571
Ó Longáin, Peadar (brother of Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin), 561, 562
Ó Longáin, Peadar (father of Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin), 562
Ó Longáin, Pól (brother of Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin), 562
Ó Longáin, Seosamh, 561, 562
Ó Longáin, Tomás, 336
Omai (John O’ Keeffe) adapted, 400
Ó Maoilchiaráin, Fearchar, 97, 98
Ó Maolchonaire, Flaithrí (Florence Conry), 79, 198, 202, 203, 204, 206, 218
Desiderius, 199–200
El texto de la doctrina Cristiana (Jerónima de Ripalda), 198
Ó Miléadha, Pádraig, 589
Duanta Aneas, 589
Trí Glúine Gaedheal, 589
Ó Míocháin, Tomás, 357
O’Moore, Rory, 210
O’More, Rory Óg, 145–6
Ó’n Cháinte, Maoilín, Leis féin moltar Mag Uidhir, 84
Ó Neachtain, Seán, 326–7
Ó Neachtain, Tadhg, 326, 327, 348–9, 362–3
Eachtra Thomáis Mhic Chaiside, 362–3
Stair Éamoinn Uí Chléirigh, 362
Ó Neachtain circle, 258, 339, 353
On National Pride (translation of Von dem Nationalstolze by Johann Georg Zimmerman), 260
On the Divisions of Nature (De divisione naturae), 39
‘On the Free Trade of Ireland’, 342–4
On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish (Eugene O’Curry), 559, 617
‘On the Omission of the Words Dei Gratia in the late Coinage of Half-Pence’ (William Dunkin), 292
On the Social Nature of Man (De naturali hominum Socialitate), 245
On the Study of Celtic Literature (Matthew Arnold), 475
Ó Néill, Art, 553
O’Neill, Henrietta (née Boyle), 299
O’Neill, Hugh, 163–4
Ó Néill, Pádraig, 561
Bláithfhleasg na Milseán, 560
O’Neill, Shane, 145, 146
O’Neill, Owen Roe (Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill), 168
Ó Nuanáin, Seán, 552
Ophiomaches; or Deism Revealed (Philip Skelton), 242
orality, 413
oral tradition, 24, 357, 570, 633–7, 642
multiple versions of stories, 663
transcription of, 634
Orangeism, 457
Ordnance Survey, 425, 555, 558–60, 617
Ó Rathaille, Ao(dh)gán, 223, 325–6, 650–2, 655
‘Gile na Gile’, 325, 346
O’Reilly, Edward, 561
Chronological Account of Nearly Four Hundred Irish Writers with a Descriptive Catalogue of their Works, 552
Sanas Gaoidhilge/Sags-Bhéarla, 552
O’Reilly, Fr Philip (translator)
De Theacht isteach air an mBeathaidh Chrábhaidh, 202
O’Reilly, L., 308–9
Orellana; or Letters of an Irish Helot (William Drennan), 268
Orgain Denna Ríg (The Destruction of Dinn Ríg), 43
orientalism, 435, 490
Ormond (Maria Edgeworth), 413
O’Rourke, Canon John, The Great Irish Famine, 619
O’Rourke, Edmund see Edmund Falconer
Orr, James, 303, 434, 439, 441
Orthanach úa Cóelláma, 43
Osborne, Sidney, 465
Gleanings of the West of Ireland, 465
letters to the Examiner, 465
Osna go cruaidh le guais na scéal so ag rith (attr Ní Shúilleabháin, Muirn), 328, 329
Ó Séaghdha, Diarmaid na Bolgaighe, 572
Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig see ‘An Seabhac’
Ossianic Society, 616
Ossianic texts, 206, 215, 609–11
Ó Súilleabháin, Amhlaoibh, 564, 568
Cín Lae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúilleabháin, 568, 576
Ó Súilleabháin, Muircheartach Óg, 327–8, 330
death of, 327–9
poetry on, 328
Ó Súilleabháin, Tadhg Gaelach, 349–51, 565
Pious Miscellany, The, 349, 565, 571, 583
Ó Súilleabháin, Tomás Rua, 572, 579, 580–1, 584
‘Amhrán na Leabhar’ (‘The Song of the Books’), 572
Othello (William Shakespeare), 373
Otherworld, the, 26, 48, 50–1
áes síde (people of the Otherworld), 50
Ó Tuama, Seán, 354, 356, 357, 358
Gach sáir-fhear saordha séimh-ghlic soilbh súghach, 354–5
Mo gháir-se mo gháire is mo ghníomh, 356
Otway, Revd Caesar and Singer, Dr J. H. (editors), Christian Examiner and Church of Ireland Magazine, 452
‘Outlaw of Loch Lene, The’ (Jeremiah Joseph Callanan), 505–7
Owenson, Olivia, see Lady Olivia Clarke
Owenson, Robert, 415
Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan), 414–16, 417, 426, 428, 449
First Attempt, The, 428, 429
Missionary, The, 416
St Clair; or the Heiress of Desmond, 414, 415
Wild Irish Girl, The: A National Tale, 413, 414, 415
Woman and her Master: A History of the Female Sex from the Earliest Period, 459
Pacata Hibernia (Thomas Stafford), 164
Paddy’s Resource, 314
pamphlets, 167, 241, 248, 249–50, 264, 287
Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis (The Parliament of Clann Thomas), 221–2, 362, 567
Parlaimint na bhFíodóirí (Dáibhí de Barra), 567
parliamentary speeches, 264
‘Parlour Library of Ireland’ (James Duffy) 452
Parnell and his Island (George Moore), 482
Parnell, Fanny, 530, 531
Land League Songs, 531
Parnell, William, Maurice and Berghetta; or the Priest of Rahery, 422
Parrthas an Anama, 202
Parsons, James, Remains of Japhet, 605
‘Parson’s Revels, The’ (William Dunkin) 291
Parthenissa, A Romance in Four Parts (Roger Boyle, first earl of Orrery), 179
‘Parting Cup, The’ (Laurence Whyte), 293, 297
‘Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess’ (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu), 471
Passive Obedience (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 242
‘Past and Present State of Irish Literature, The’, 451
Patrick, Bishop, 39
Patrick, St, 10–11, 57
Confession and Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus, 10, 12
‘Patrick’s Breastplate’, 16
Patriot King; or, The Irish Chief, The (Francis Dobbs), 396–7
Patriot, The (Henry Brooke) originally titled: Gustavus Vasa: The Deliverer of His Country, 394
patronage, 20, 75, 81, 82, 183, 212
Anglo-Norman, 89, 117
dedications to patrons, 146
female, 218, 312
monarchical, 48
Patronage (Maria Edgeworth), 414, 426
Pearse, Patrick, 637
Peele, George, The Battle of Alcazar, 153
‘penal laws’, 327, 332, 530
penance, sacrament of, 200, 207
penny magazines, 453, 454
Percy, Thomas, Reliques of English Poetry 610
Percy, William, 99
‘What is the Fair’, 99
periodicals, 424, 451, 452–4, 458, 502, 530–1, 566
and women writers, 535
Periphyseon see De divisione naturae (On the Divisions of Nature), 39
Personal Recollections (Charlotte Tonna), 459
Petrie, George, 558, 616–17
Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion, 617
Petty, Sir William, 173
History of the Down Survey, 173–4
Political Anatomy of Ireland, 173, 233
Political Arithmetic, 233
Philips, Katherine, Pompey, A Tragoedy, 176, 183
Philips, William, 383
Hibernia Freed, 394
St Stephen’s Green, 383, 390
Philo-Philippa, ‘To the Excellent Orinda’, 177
Philosophical Commentaries (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 238, 239
Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Edmund Burke), 255, 400
Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water and Divers other Subjects connected together and arising from one another (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne) see Siris
philosophical theology, 233, 242
philosophy, 234, 236, 238–41, 242, 244, 245
‘Phoenix Park’ (James Ward), 285
Physico-Historical Society, 604
Pictorial History of Ireland, from the Landing of the Milesians to the Present Time (A M Sullivan), 619
Pigott, Richard (founder of The Shamrock), 454
Pilkington, Laetitia, 286, 288, 298
Memoirs, 255
Pilgrimage to Patrick’s Purgatory, A (later ‘The Lough Derg Pilgrim’ by William Carleton), 456
Pious Miscellany, The (Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin), 349, 565, 571, 583
‘Plan of Campaign’ agitation, 479
plays, 165–6, 172–3, 178, 372–402, 426–34, 484–9
afterpieces, 385, 387
allegorical, 172
allusions to Ireland in Shakespeare’s plays, 153
civil war, 179
comedy, 375–91, 400, 401, 486
sentimental, 380, 383, 400, 401, 415
English characters, 383, 389
Irish characters, 159, 376–7, 378, 383, 384–8, 487
‘counter-stage’ 376, 385
‘stage’ 385, 430
Irish themes in, 487, 488
liturgical, 87
and the novel, 426–8, 485–6
tragedies, 161, 389, 391–7, 431, 432
tragi-comedies, 182, 378
on the Williamite wars, 181, 395
see also theatre
‘Pleasant echo’ (A mhacalla dheas), 99
Pluincéad, Risteard, Latin: Irish Dictionary, 206
Plunkett, Elizabeth, 427
Exile of Erin, The, 415, 416, 427
Favourite, The, 427
Poem-Book of Fionn, The (Duanaire Finn), 94, 215
‘Poem of Fothad Canainne’, The (Reicne Fothad Canainne), 58
Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, 535–6
Poems and Songs (Thomas Flatman), 177
Poems by Ellen Taylor, the Irish Cottager (Ellen Taylor), 300
Poems by Speranza (Lady Jane Wilde), 520–1
Poems (Mary Shackleton Leadbeater), 441
Poems on Several Occasions by a Lady of Quality (Dorothea Dubois), 298
Poems on Several Occasions (Mary Balfour), 435
Poems on Several Subjects (John Anketell), 298
poetry, 17–22, 37, 42, 43, 46, 74–99, 151–2, 162, 175, 177, 197–8, 209, 215–24, 282–315, 321–60, 434–42, 500–38, 557–8, 561–3, 564, 569–85, 586–91, 644–52
anthologies, 216–17, 218, 311–12
bilingual, 304
burlesque, 284, 291, 297
character of, 504–5
‘courts’ 358
as craft, 354
on Cromwellian settlement, 222–3
and ecclesiastical learning, 21–2
echo poems, 99
of English settlers, 161–3
famine, 519–21, 523, 529
Fenian, 502, 530, 566
heroic, 93–6, 287
see also fíanaigheacht
humorous, 584–5
and Irish language revival, 565
love, 96–7, 99, 220, 584, 587
lyric, 33
metaphysical, 175
mock-heroic, 284–6, 287, 288, 291
mock-pastoral, 288
poetry
and morality, 87
national, 85, 501, 517, 527
and nationalism, 85
oral, 587, 589–90
in performance, 652
philosophical, 295
political, 82–5, 337, 434, 578–83
postcolonial, 505
professional, 81, 97
by public figures, 312
religious, 12–13, 54, 89–93, 583–5
revival of, 534–8
of romanticism, 434–42
rural, 293–4, 296–7, 304–9
street, 309–10
subscription, 298, 299, 311–12
and tales, 43
translated into English, 77, 511–15
Ulster, 301–3, 501, 557, 573–5, 587
urban, 294, 309–11
vision, 325, 344, 346
on the Williamite wars, 323–6
see also bardic poetry; songs; sonnets
poets, 18, 37, 76, 77, 93, 285, 286, 295
amateur, 220
bardic, 77–9, 81, 90
diaspora, 528
gatherings of, 357–8
professional, 75, 76, 77–9, 80, 81, 82, 652, 655
radical, 434–6
self-published, 297
see file (filid)
Poets and Poetry of Munster, The (James Clarence Mangan and John O’ Daly), 514, 525, 571
Political Anatomy of Ireland, The (Sir William Petty), 173–4, 233
Political Arithmetic (Sir William Petty), 233
politics, 79–81, 252, 267–8, 289–90, 337
‘Polyglot Edition’ (Francis Sylvester Mahony), 510
Pompey, A Tragoedy (Katherine Philips), 176
‘Poor Scholar, The’ (William Carleton) 456
Poor Soldier, The (John O’Keeffe), 401
Popular Tales (Maria Edgeworth), 426
Power Communicated, The (James Tyrill), 172
Practical Education (Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth), 411
Practical Grammar of the Irish Language, A (Fr Pól Ó Briain), 552
Praefatio monitoria (James I, King of Scotland), 201
praise poetry see bardic poetry
‘Preab san Ól’ (Riocard Bairéad), 577
Prendergast, John P., 623
Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 623
Presbyterianism, 244
Press, The (periodical), 268
Primer of Stipulations, The (Uraicecht na Ríar), 19
Primer of the Poets, The (Auraicept na n-Éces), 20–1
Principles of Political Economy (John Stuart Mill), 475
printers, 191–2, 283–4, 292–3, 565–6
see also publishers
Prior, Thomas, List of Absentees, 253
Proposal for the better supplying of churches in our foreign plantations, A (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 240
Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (published anonymously by Jonathan Swift), 249–50, 392
prosimetrum, 16, 43–5
Protestant Reformation, 192, 210
proverbs, 664–9
Psalter of the Quatrains, The (Saltair na Rann), 54
Psyche (Mary Tighe), 440
Public Ledger (periodical), 257
Public Records Office, 622
publishers and publishing, 273–4, 282–4, 292–3, 450, 451–4, 551
Purcell Papers, The (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu), 470
Pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne, The (Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne), 118–21
Quarles, Francis, Argalus and Parthenia, 162–3, 182
Quarterly Review, The (periodical), 424
Queen’s Royal Theatre, 485
Querist, The (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 241
Raiftearaí, Antaine, 560, 577, 579–80, 582, 583, 584, 590
‘Eanach Dhúin’, 590
‘Máire Ní Eidhin’, 584
‘Seanchas na Sceiche’, 579, 589
‘Rake’s Frolick, The, or Stauka an Varaga’, 307–8
Ram-Alley, or, Merrie Tricks (Lording Barry), 159
Rambles in the South of Ireland during the Year 1838 (Lady Henrietta Chatterton), 461
Rawlinson B487 (Bodleian), 117, 128
Rawlinson B502 (Bodleian), 128
Raymond, Anthony, 353
Read, Charles, 490
Cabinet of Irish Literature, 490–1
Recluse of Inchidoney, The (Jeremiah Joseph Callanan), 439, 505, 506
Recollections of Ireland (Selina Bunbury) 460
Recruiting Officer, The (George Farquhar) 378
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Edmund Burke), 265, 266
Reformer, The (periodical), 262
Reicne Fothad Canainne (‘The Poem of Fothad Canainne’), 58
Réim Ríoghraidh (Micheál Ó Cléirigh), 212
Reliques of English Poetry (Thomas Percy) 610
Reliques of Fr Prout, The (Francis Sylvester Mahony), 509–10
Reliques of Irish Jacobite Poetry (Edward Walshe), 514
Reliques of Irish Poetry (Charlotte Brooke), 295, 299, 610
Remains of Japhet (James Parsons), 605
Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swift (John Boyle, fifth earl of Cork and Orrery), 254
Reminiscences of an Irish Journey (Matthew Arnold), 476
remscéla (foretales), 51
Report of the Commissioners for National Education (Patrick Keenan), 549
Representative Irish Tales (W. B. Yeats), 491
Res Rusticae Libri Quatuor, Four Books of Husbandries (Konrad Heresbach), 150
Researches in the South of Ireland (Thomas Crofton Croker), 426
revolution, 265, 335
in America, 264, 342, 345
in France, 265–7
see also Irish rebellions
Ribbonism, 456–7, 530
Rich, Barnaby, 157–8
Greenes Newes, 157
New Description of Ireland, A, 157
True and a Kind Excuse, A, 157
Richard II (William Shakespeare), 153
Riddell, Charlotte (née Cowan), 472, 473
ghost stories, 472
Nun’s Curse, The, 472
Struggle for Fame, A, 473
Ripalda, Jerónima de (El texto de la doctrina Cristiana ) see Ó Maolchonaire, Flaithrí
‘Rising of the Moon, The’ (John Keegan Casey), 530
Rituale Romanum see Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe
Rivals, The (Richard Brinsley Sheridan), 388
Roche, David Mór, lord of Fermoy, Book of Fermoy, 89
Roche, Regina Maria, 273, 415
Children of the Abbey, 273, 415
Clermont: A Tale, 415
Munster Cottage Boy, The, 415
Rockites, The (Charlotte Tonna), 459
Rody the Rover; or, the Ribbonman (William Carleton), 457
‘Róisín Dubh’ (Thomas Furlong), 524
Rolleston, T. W., see Brooke, Stopford
Roman Fairy, The (An Síoguidhe Rómhánach), 222
Rómánsaíocht (Romantic tales), 110, 121–4
Romanticism, 407–9, 470, 537
Irish Romanticism, 407–43
Rónán’s Kinslaying (Fingal Rónáin), 43
Rory O’More (Samuel Lover), 460, 486
rosc(ad)/roscada (non-rhyming verse), 23, 25, 42–3, 642, 643
Rothe, David, Hibernia resurgens, 210
Rotherick O’Connor (Charles Shadwell), 393
Routledge’s Railway Library, 452
Royal Irish Academy, 613, 616
Royal Magazine, 257
Royall Master, The (James Shirley), 165
Rule of St Clare (Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh), 214
Russell, Fr Matthew (founder and editor of The Irish Monthly), 454, 490, 502, 535
Russell, Lord John, 503
Ryves, Elizabeth, ‘Ode to Sensibility’, 312
Sadlier, James, 466
Sadlier, Mary Anne (Madden), 466
New Lights; or, Life in Galway, 466
sagas, 16, 26, 35, 97, 361
St Clair; or the Heiress of Desmond (Sydney Owenson, later Lady Morgan), 414, 415
St Nicholas (New York periodical), 474
St Patrick for Ireland (James Shirley), 165, 392
St Stephen’s Green (William Philips), 384, 390
Sally Cavanagh; or the Untenanted Graves (Charles Kickham), 477
Saltair na Rann (The Psalter of the Quatrains), 54
Sanas Gaoidhilge/Sags-Bhéarla (Edward O’Reilly), 552
Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAithridhe (Aodh Mac Aingil), 200–1
Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin (The Story of Cano son of Gartnán), 43
Scéla Laí Brátha (Tidings of Doomsday), 41
Scéla Muicce Meic Dá Thó (The Story of Mac Dá Thó’s Pig), 114, 116
Scéla na hEsérgi (Tidings of the Resurrection), 41
‘Scene for Ireland, A’ (Mary Kelly), 519
scholarly societies, 550–6, 560–4, 585
in Belfast and Ulster, 553–5
in Dublin, 551, 552
members of, 551, 553–4
scholars, 9–22
native, 556–66
School for Scandal, The (Richard Brinsley Sheridan), 388–9
School for Wives (Hugh Kelly), 387
scientific writings, 173–5, 490
‘Sciolladh Mharcais Uí Challanáin’ (Marcas Ó Callanáin), 578
Sciothericum Telescopicum (William Molyneux), 233
Scott, Walter, 418, 443
Seabhac, An (Pádrag Ó Siochfhradha) Seanfhocail na Muimhneach (Munster Proverbs), 664
‘Seanchas na Sceiche’ (Antaine Raiftearaí) 579, 589
Seanfhocail na Muimhneach (Munster Proverbs by An Seabhac), 664
Searc na suadh (Dáibhí Ó Bruadair), 223
Sechnall, St (St Secundinus), ‘Audite Omnes Amantes’ [attr.], 13
Sedulius Scottus, 38
Second Treatise on Government (John Locke), 393
Secundinus, St (St Sechnall), ‘Audite Omnes Amantes’ [attr.], 13
Seddall, Revd H., 460
Select Committee on Dramatic Literature, 431
senchas (knowledge of the past/lore), 23, 56
see dindshenchas
Serglige Con Culainn (The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn), 50
Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances (Richard Griffith and Elizabeth Griffith), 272
sermons, 16, 171, 175
Sét no tíag, 18
Seven Years War, The, 340–2
Shadwell, Charles, 383, 392–3
Irish Hospitality, 383–4
Rotherick O’Connor, 393
Sham Prince, The, 390
Shakespeare, William, 153
Comedy of Errors, The, 153
Henry V, 153
Henry VI, 153
Othello, 373
Richard II, 153
Sham Prince, The (Charles Shadwell), 390
Shamrock Leaves (Mary Anne Hoare), 464
Shamrock, The (magazine), 454
Shamrock, The (Samuel Whyte), 312
Shamrock, The (play by John O’Keeffe), 399–400, 401
‘Shandon Bells, The’ (Francis Sylvester Mahony), 510
Shaughraun, The (Dion Boucicault), 488
She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith), 296, 390, 485
Sheehy, Fr Nicholas, 330
death of, 330–1, 356
poetry on, 330–1
Sheil, Richard Lalor, 431–2
Adelaide; or The Emigrants, 431
Apostate, The, 432
Bellamira, 432
Sheridan, Caroline see Norton, Lady Caroline
Sheridan, Frances, 379, 382
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, 271
Sheridan, Helen see Blackwood, Helen, Lady Dufferin
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 267, 388–9, 426
Critic, The, 389
Rivals, The, 388
School for Scandal, The, 388–9
Sheridan, Thomas (co-editor of The Intelligencer), 254, 287
Sheridan, Thomas, the younger, 261, 384–5, 390
Brave Irishman, The, 384–5
Swift’s Works, 261
Shirley, James, 165, 392
Royall Master, The, 165
St Patrick for Ireland, 165, 392
Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, A (translation of Compend by Francis Hutchinson), 245
Short View of the Present State of Ireland, A (Jonathan Swift), 251
Síabarcharpat Con Culainn (The Magical Chariot of Cú Chulainn), 50–1
síd, 22, 50
Sidney, Sir Henry, lord deputy of Ireland, 145
Sir Henry Sidney’s Book, 1582 146–7
Sidney, Sir Philip, 145, 150, 161
Astrophel and Stella, 147
Defence of Poesy, The, 161
Sidney, Viscount Henry, 372
Siege of Tamor, The (Gorges Edmond Howard), 396
Síoguidhe Rómhánach, An (The Roman Fairy), 222
Sir Henry Sidney’s Book 1582 (Sidney, Sir Henry, lord deputy of Ireland), 146–7
Siris (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne) 242
Sisters, The (Aubrey de Vere), 530
Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, A (Richard Bellings), 160, 161
Skelton, Philip, 242–3
Letter to the Author of the Divine Analogy and the Minute Philosopher, 242–3
Ophiomaches; or Deism Revealed, 242
‘Sketch of Famine’ (Mary Anne Hoare), 464
Sketches and Fragments (Lady Blessington) 425
Sketches of Irish Character (Mrs Anna Hall, formerly Anna Maria Fielding), 458
‘Sliabh Geal gCua na Féile’, 589
‘Sliabh na mBan’, 336
‘Small Primer’ (Uraicecht Becc), 19
Smaointe Beatha Chríost (Thoughts upon the Life of Christ, translated by Tomás Gruamdha Ó Bruacháin), 128, 347–8
Smith, Elizabeth Grant, 465
Smith, Sir William Cusack, 410, 417
Smock Alley Theatre, 372–3, 399
‘Smock Race at Finglas, The’ (James Ward), 285
‘social textuality’, 141, 142, 152
Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language, 585
Society of Friends, 464
socio-economic texts, 241
‘Soggarth Aroon’ (John Banim), 514
‘Soleil et le Vent, Le’ (Angela Bourke) 668–9
Solon His Follie, Or A Politique Discourse Touching the Reformation of Common-Weales Conquered, Declined or Corrupted (Richard Beacon), 155
‘Some Account of the Life and Writings of Ensign and Adjutant Odoherty, late of the 99th regiment’ (William Maginn), 437–8
‘Song of Dermot and the Earl, The’ (verse chronicle), 86
songs, 305–7, 310–11, 503, 532, 584
incendiary, 435
partisan, 313–15
as a source of identification, 314
Songs of Irish Rebellion (George Denis Zimmerman), 509
sonnets, 147, 156, 440
Sons of Erin, The (Alicia Le Fanu), 428
Southerne, Thomas, 373
Disappointment, or The Mother in Fashion, The, 181, 373
Fatal Marriage, 374
Loyal Brother or The Persian Prince. A Tragedy, The, 181
Southwell, Lady Anne (née Harris), 163
Special Aspects of the Irish Question (William Gladstone), 453, 481
Speckled Book, The (Leabhar Breac), 35
Spectator, The (periodical), 374
Joseph Addison as co-editor, 374
Sir Richard Steele as co-editor, 374
Speech at the Guildhall in Bristol (Edmund Burke), 264
Speeches of the Right Hon. John Philpot Curran, The, 268
Speech on the Nabob of Arcot’s Debts (Edmund Burke), 264
Spenser, Edmund, 76–7, 141–2, 151–2
Amoretti and Epithalamion, 152
Faerie Queene, The, 141–2, 151–3
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, 152, 182
View of the Present State of Ireland, A, 76–7, 154–5
‘Speranza’ (pseudonym) see Wilde, Lady Jane, 519
Spirit of the Nation, The (Charles Gavan Duffy), 516, 517
Springmount Bog tablets, 10
Squanders of Castle Squander (William Carleton), 463–4
Sraith ar Lár, An t- (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 665
Stafford, Thomas, Pacata Hibernia, 164
‘stage Irishman’, 376, 380, 385, 430
counter-stage, 376, 385
Stair an Bhíobla (Uaitéar Ó Ceallaigh, compiler), 363, 364
Stair Éamoinn Uí Chléirigh (Tadhg Ó Neachtain), 362
Stair Fhírcheart ar Éirinn, 365
Stair Nuadat Find Femin (The History of Fair Nuadu of Femin), 123
Stanihurst, Richard, Sir (translator), 76, 147
compiler of Irish Chronicles, 147–8
First Four Bookes of Virgil His Aeneis, The, 150
Stapleton, Theobald, 203
State of Ireland, The (Arthur O’Connor), 268
State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James’ Government, The (archbishop William King), 232, 602
state records, 621, 622
Steele, Sir Richard, 248, 373–4
Conscious Lovers, The, 373, 374, 380, 383–4
Funeral, The, 373
as co-editor of The Tatler and The Spectator, 374
Stephens, James, In the Land of Youth, 638
Sterne, Laurence, 271–2
Tristram Shandy. The Fool of Quality, 271
Stiúrthóir an Pheacaig (Pádraig Denn), 571
Stoker, Bram, 454
‘Stolen Child, The’ (William Butler Yeats), 534, 536
Storia D’Italia ( Francesco Guicciardini), 150
‘Stories from the Lost Fairy Book, Retold by the Child Who Read Them’ (Frances Hodgson Burnett), 474
Story of Cano son of Gartnán, The (Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin), 43
Story of Ireland, The (A. M. Sullivan), 619
Story of Mac Dá Thó’s Pig, The (Scéla Muicce Meic Dá Thó), 114, 116
Story of the Injured Lady, The (Jonathan Swift), 249
storytelling, 15, 111, 113, 115, 640–1
‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter’ (Sheridan Le Fanu), 469
Strange, Fr Thomas, 213
Struggle for Fame, A (Charlotte Riddell) 473
Stuart, Prince Charles (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’), 337
Stuarts, The, 181, 351
Suibne’s Frenzy (Buile Shuibne), 43
Sullivan, A. M. (editor of The Nation newspaper), 619–20
Pictorial History of Ireland, from the Landing of the Milesians to the Present Time, 619
Story of Ireland, The, 619–20
Sullivan, Timothy Daniel, 527
‘Voyage of the O’Corras, The’, 527
supernaturalism, 50, 422, 423, 470, 534
Swift, Jonathan, 232, 246–54, 258, 282, 286–93
Argument against Abolishing Christianity, An, 248
Battle of the Books, The, 246, 247
biographies of, 254–5
‘Cadenus and Vanessa’, 291
Conduct of the Allies, The, 248
Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome, The, 247
Directions to Servants, 253
Drapier’s Letters, 233, 250
Examiner, The (newspaper, as editor of), 248
Gulliver’s Travels, 252
History of the Four Last Years of the Queen, 249
Journal to Stella, 248
Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, 247
Modest Proposal, A, 251
Ode to the King: On his Irish Expedition and the Success of his Arms in General, 249, 282
poems on William Wood, 287
Polite Conversation, 253
Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue, 253
Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (published anonymously), 249–50, 392
Short View of the Present State of Ireland, A, 251
Story of the Injured Lady, The, 249, 269
Tale of a Tub, A, 247, 249
Travels through Several Remote Nations of the World, see Gulliver’s Travels
writing as Isaac Bickerstaff, Bickerstaff Papers, 248
Swift’s Works (Thomas Sheridan the younger), 261
Sylla the Dictator (John Banim), 486
Synge, Edward, the elder, archbishop of Tuam, A Gentleman’s Religion, Appendix to, 237
System of Moral Philosophy, A (Francis Hutcheson), 245
Tá scanradh ar an bhFrancach a dhóthain, 341
Tabhair mo bheannacht, a pháipéir, 326
Taaffe, Denis, Impartial History of Ireland, 614–15
Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), 25, 34–5, 41, 51, 52, 114, 115, 637–44
Táin Bó Flidais (The Driving of the Cows of Flidas), 116
Tair cucum a Maire boíd, 14
Tairnic in sel-sa ac Síl Néill, 44
Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, 455, 459
Tale of a Tub, A (Jonathan Swift), 247, 249
tales, 19, 22, 24, 33, 111–12, 218, 260
historical, 23, 24
‘national tale’, 274, 414–15, 420
of the peasantry (19th-century), 454–62
reuse of characters, 114
reworkings of, 114, 361
romantic, 121–3, 124
traditional, 19
translation of, 41
travel, 179
voyage (immrama), 50, 179
Tales of my Country (Selina Bunbury), 460
Tales of the Munster Festivals (Gerald Griffin), 420, 423
Tales of the O’Hara Family (John and Michael Banim), 421
Tales of a Woman’s Trials (Mrs Anna Hall, formerly Anna Maria Fielding), 459
‘Tam O’Shanter’ (Robert Burns), 508
Tána (tales of cattle raids), 19, 24
Tate, Nahum, 249, 269, 283
Tatler, The (periodical), 248
Joseph Addison as co-editor, 374
Sir Richard Steele as co-editor, 374
Taubman, Francis see Farewell, James
Taylor, Ellen, Poems by Ellen Taylor, the Irish Cottager, 300
Teagasg Críosdaidhe, An (Catechism by Bonabhentura), 198
Teagasg Criosdaighe, An (John Mac Hale), 583
Teagusg Críostuidhe, An (Andrew Dunlevy) 583
Teate, Faithful, 175
Temple, Sir John, The Irish Rebellion, 167, 602–3, 613
Temple, Sir William, 246, 247
Tenga Bithnua, In (The Evernew Tongue), 54
Testament of Morann, The (Audacht Moraind), 22–3
Tetradymus (John Toland), 236
Texto de la doctrina Cristiana, El (Jerónima de Ripalda) see Ó Maolchonaire, Flaithrí
Textus Receptus (Erasmus, publisher), 195
Thackeray, William, 462
Irish Sketchbook, The, 1842 462
theatre, 144, 372–402, 426–34, 484–9
conventions of, 379–80, 381, 384, 387, 392
in Dublin, 165, 372–3, 381, 429, 484–5
illegitimate, 430–1, 432–4
and Irishness, 429
Jacobean, 153, 159–60
in London, 430–4
as a marketplace, 378, 380–2
and modernity, 381
musical, 486
and the novel, 426–8, 485–6
origins of in Ireland, 398–9
playwrights, 373–5, 379, 382–3, 387, 487
political, 176–7
and political debates, 388, 391
repertoire, 487
riots, 395, 429
scenic designer, 400
spectacular, 389, 399
stagecraft, 487
stage technologies, 401–2
and women writers, 426
see also plays
Theatre Royal, 429, 484–5
Thomson, Samuel, 302–3
‘To a Hedge-hog’, 302
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (Edmund Burke), 264
Thoughts upon the Life of Christ see Smaointe Beatha Chríost
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 238, 239
Thy Name is Truth (subtitled ‘A Social Novel’ by Fannie Gallaher), 479
Tickler, The (edited by Paul Hiffernan), 259
Tighe, Henry, 439
Tighe, Mary, 312, 439–41
‘Lines Written at Scarborough, August, 1799’ 440
Psyche, 440
Tighe, William, ‘Lines Addressed to the River at Rossana, in the County of Wicklow’, 441–2
Times, The (newspaper), 465
‘Tincéírí, Na’, 589
Tipperary Legacy, The (Joseph Stirling Coyne), 487
‘Tipperary’ (Mary Kelly), 519
‘Tit for Tat, or the Rater Rated’, 301–2
Tithe Proctor, The (William Carleton)
tithes, 301
Titus or the Palme of Christian Courage, 173
‘To a Hedge-hog’ (Samuel Thomson), 302
To a Peer of Ireland on the Penal Laws (Edmund Burke), 264
Tochmarc Ailbe (The Wooing of Ailbe), 58
Tochmarc Emire (The Wooing of Emer), 122
Tochmarc Treblainne (The Wooing of Treblann), 114, 116
tochmarca (tales of wooing), 19, 24
Togail Bruidne Da Derga (The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel), 25, 42, 48
Togail na Tebe (The Destruction of Thebes), 41
togla (destruction tales), 19, 24, 41–2
‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’ (formerly ‘Apologia Addressed to Ireland in the Coming Days’ by William Butler Yeats), 503
Toland, John, 235–7
Account of the Druids, 236
Christianity not Mysterious, 235–8
Letters to Serena, 236
Nazarenus, 236
Tetradymus, 236
Tom Burke of ‘Ours’ (Charles Lever), 467
Tone, Theobald Wolfe, 268, 312, 314
Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland, 268–9
Autobiography, 268
Belmont Castle; or, Suffering Sensibility 268
Tonna, Charlotte, 459
Derry: A Tale of the Revolution, 459
Helen Fleetwood, 459, 479
Letters from Ireland MDCCCXXXVII, 461
Personal Recollections, 459
Rockites,The, 459
Wrongs of Woman,The, 459
topographical texts, 44
Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne (The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne), 118–21, 123
dating of, 118
origins of, 121
structure and style of, 120–1
‘Tórramh an Bharraille’ (Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún), 572
‘To the Excellent Orinda’ (Philo-Philippa), 177
Tragedy of Cola’s Furie or Lirenda’s Miserie, A (Henry Burkhead), 172–3
Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (William Carleton), 451–2, 456
Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the Famine in Ireland, in 1846 and, 1847 464
Transactions of the Gaelic Society, The 552
translation, 41–3, 124–7, 150–1, 641–4
Arthurian, 126
of bardic poetry, 649–52
of continental works, 88
Irish art of, 177
medieval, 124–7
of medical texts, 129
of Uilleam Mac an Leagha, 124–6
Beves, 124
Life of St Mary of Egypt, 125
Travels in Ireland (Johann Georg Kohl), 462
Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion (Thomas Moore), 420
Travels through Several Remote Nations of the World (Jonathan Swift) see Gulliver’s Travels
travel writing, 153–5, 179, 425, 458, 460–2
Treasury of Irish Poetry, A (Stopford Brooke and T. W. Rolleston), 518
Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne), 238
Treatise of the Art of War, A (Roger Boyle, first earl of Orrery), 178
Treaty of Limerick, 232, 323, 378
Trew Law of Free Monarchies (James V, King of Scotland), 200
Trí Glúine Gaedheal (Pádraig Ó Miléadha), 589
Trí Rainn is Amhrán, 574
Trí Truagha na sgéalaigheachta (The Three Sorrows of Storytelling), 115
Triadis thaumaturgae (John Colgan), 211
Tribes of Ireland, The (Aonghus Rua Ó Dálaigh, translated by John O’Donovan), 559
Tristram Shandy. The Fool of Quality (Laurence Sterne), 271
Triumphs of Turlough, The (Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh), 129–30
Triumvirate, The (Richard Griffith), 272
Trollope, Anthony
Castle Richmond, 463, 465
Landleaguers, The, 479
Trompa na bhFlaitheas (Tadhg Ó Conaill) 363–4
Trompette du Ciel, La (Antoine Yvan), 364
Truagh liomsa, a chompáin, do chor (Giolla Brighde Ó hEodhasa), 206
True Account of the Siege of Londonderry, A (George Walker), 182
True and a Kind Excuse, A (Barnaby Rich) 157
True-Born Irishman, The (Charles Macklin), later retitled The Fine Irish Lady, 386–7
True Tales of the Irish Peasantry; As Related by Themselves (Christian Isobel Johnstone), 459
Trumbull, William, 199, 208
‘Tuar feirge foighide Dé’, 93
Tuireamh na hÉireann (The Lament of Ireland), 222
Twin Rivals, The (George Farquhar), 378
Two Bookes of the Histories of Ireland (Edmund Campion), 148
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie (Edmund Spenser), 152
Tynan, Katharine, 535, 536
Cabinet of Irish Literature (revised edition), 490–1
Tyrill, James, The Power Communicated, 172
Úa Brolcháin, Máel Ísu, 40
Úa Casaide, Gilla Modutu, 45, 56
Ériu óg inis na ríg, 45
Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland), 45
Úa Pronntaigh, Pádraig, 362
Eachtra na gCuradh, 361–2
Uí Néill, 47–8, 49
Ulster Cycle of tales, 16, 25, 115–16, 360–2
circumstances of writing, 115
dating of, 115
Ulster Gaelic Society (Cuideacht Gaedhilge Uladh), 554
Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 559
Ulster Scots, 301–3, 304
Ultán’s Hymn (Brigit Bé Bithmaith), 13
Uncle Silas (Sheridan Le Fanu), 471
Union debates, 409, 426–8
United Irishman (newspaper), 502, 525
United Irishmen, 267–8, 313, 335, 434
‘Universal Beauty’ (Henry Brooke), 295
University Education (Ireland) Act, 1879 476
‘Unregarded Irish Grievance, An’ (Matthew Arnold), 476
Uraicecht Becc (Small Primer), 19
Uraicecht na Gaedhilge: A Grammar of the Gaelic Language (William Haliday), 552
Uraicecht na Ríar (The Primer of Stipulations), 19
Ussher, Archbishop James, 170–2, 213, 612
Answer to a Challenge Made by a Jesuite in Ireland, An, 171
Discourse of the Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and the British, A, 170–2, 601
Usher, James, 263
Clio; or a Discourse on Taste, 263
Valentine M’Clutchy; The Irish Agent; or, Chronicles of Castle Cumber (William Carleton), 457
Vallencey, Charles, 605–6
Essay on the Antiquity of the Irish Language, An, 606
Grammar of the Hiberno-Celtic or Irish Language, 398
vampire stories, 471
Van Homrigh, Esther (‘Vanessa’), 291
Vegio, Maffeo, Virgil’s Aeneid, 441
Verba Scáthaige (The Words of Scáthach), 25
Versicles (Thomas Caulfield Irwin), 528
Vertue Rewarded; or, the Irish Princess (Anon), 269
Vicar of Wakefield, The (Oliver Goldsmith) 272
View of the Present State of Ireland, A (Edmund Spenser), 76–7, 154–5
Vikings, 32, 49, 94
Vindication of Natural Society, A (Edmund Burke), 262
Violent Death of Conchobor, The (Aided Chonchobuir), 15
Virgil’s Aeneid (Maffeo Vegio), 441
Virginus (James Sheridan Knowles), 487
Visio Tnudgali, 39
Vision of Adamnán, The (Fís Adamnáin), 40
Visit of the Grey-hammed Lady, The (Céilidhe Iosgaide Léithe), 126
Visitatio Sepulcri, 87
Vita Columbae (Life of Colum Cille), 18, 56
Vita Tripartita, 58
Vivian (Maria Edgeworth), 427
Vocacyon of Johan Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossorie His Persecucions in the Same and Finall Delyveraunce, The (John Bale), 144
Volunteer movement of, 1779–81 313, 392, 396–7
Von dem Nationalstolze (later translated as On National Pride by Johann Georg Zimmermann)
Voyage of Máel Dúin’s Boat, The (Immram Curaig Maíle Dúin), 44
Voyage of Snédgus and Mac Ríagla, The (Immram Snédgusa ocus Meic Ríagla) 44
‘Voyage of the O’Corras, The’ (Timothy Daniel Sullivan), 527
voyage tales (immrama), 50, 179
‘Wake of William Orr, The’ (William Drennan), 314
Walker, Ellis, 284
Enchiridion, 284
Walker, George, A True Account of the Siege of Londonderry, 182
Walker, Joseph Cooper, 398, 612–13
‘Historical Essay on the Irish Stage’, 398
Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, 398, 610
Walmesley, Bishop Charles, General History of the Christian Church, 582
Walsh, Edward, 514
‘Caiseal Mumhan’ (alternatively named ‘Clár Bog Déil’), 514
Irish Popular Songs, 514
‘Mo Craoibhin Cno’, 514
Reliques of Irish Jacobite Poetry, 514
Walshe, Elizabeth Hely, Golden Hills, 466
Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, The (William Butler Yeats), 534, 537–8
‘Wanted an Irish Novelist’ (Rosa Mulholland), 474
Ward, James, 285
‘Phoenix Park’, 285
‘Smock Race at Finglas, The’, 285
Warden (newspaper), 469
Ware, Sir James (publisher), 148
War of the Austrian Succession, 340
War of the Irish with the Foreigners, The (Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh), 39, 42, 129
Ward, Edward, Female Policy Detected, or the Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open 567
Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn (Serglige Con Culainn), 50
Weekly Magazine, 258
Weldon, Bob, 589
Wellesley, Lord, lord lieutenant, 430
‘West’s Asleep, The’, (Thomas Osborne Davis), 516
‘What is the Fair’ (William Percy), 99
Wheeler, Anna Doyle and Thompson, William, Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, 410
Whim for Whim (Maria Edgeworth)
Whitbread, J. W., 488
Nationalist, The, 488
Whiteboys, the, 330, 459
Whiteboy, The (Mrs Anna Hall, formerly Anna Maria Fielding), 458–9
White, Gilbert, The Natural History of Selbourne, 568
Whyte, Laurence, 293–4, 297
‘Dissertation on Italian and Irish Musick, with some Panegyrick on Carralan our late Irish Orpheus, A’, 293
‘Parting Cup, The’, 293, 297
Whyte, Samuel, 312
Shamrock, The, 312
Wild Irish Boy, The (Charles Robert Maturin), 417
Wild Irish Girl, The: a National Tale (Sydney Owenson, later Lady Morgan), 413, 414–15
Wild Sports of the West, with Legendary Tales and Local Sketches (William Hamilton Maxwell), 460
Wilde, Lady Jane (née Jane Elgee, pseudonym ‘Speranza’), 519, 520, 521
‘Brothers, The’, 520
‘Famine Year, The’, 520
‘Jacta Alea Est’ (‘The Die is Cast’), 520–1
Poems by Sperenza, 520–1
Wilde, Oscar, 534
‘Wildgoose Lodge, The’ (William Carleton), 456
Wilks, Robert, 373, 376
Williamite wars, 181, 395, 599–600
William of Orange, 282
Williams, Richard D’Alton, 518
Willy Reilly and His Dear Colleen Bawn (William Carleton), 457
Windele, John, 555
Winstanley, James, 294
Winwood, Sir Ralph, 198–9
With Essex in Ireland (Emily Lawless), 482
‘Woe to him who speaks ill of women’ (Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh), 98
Woman and her Master: A History of the Female Sex from the Earliest Period (Sydney Owenson, later Lady Morgan), 459
women writers, 1, 45, 254, 255, 410, 415, 421, 472–4
patrons, 218
periodical writers, 454, 535
playwrights, 426, 428
poets, 288–9, 298–301, 312, 441, 518–9, 572
portrayal of in medieval Irish literature, 52–3, 75, 83–5
professional novelists, 472–5
scholars (banfhili), 53
and urban realism, 484
‘woman question’, the, 459, 483
Wood, William, poems on (Jonathan Swift), 287
‘Wood’s Halfpence’, 250–1, 287
Wooing of Ailbe, The (Tochmarc Ailbe), 58
Wooing of Emer, The (Tochmarc Emire), 122
Wooing of Treblann, The (Tochmarc Treblainne), 114, 116
Words of Scáthach, The (Verba Scáthaige), 25
Wrongs of Women, The (Charlotte Tonna), 459
Yates, Edmund, 474
‘Year of Sorrow, The’ (Aubrey de Vere), 529
Yeats, William Butler, 449, 491, 503–4, 536–8
‘Apologia Addressed to Ireland in the Coming Days’ see ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’
Representative Irish Tales, 491
Sixteen Poems, 532
‘Stolen Child, The’, 534, 536
Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, The, 534, 537–8
Yellow Book of Lecan, The, 34, 81, 639
Yonge, James, 127
Gouernance of Prynces, The, 127
Youghal friary library catalogue, 92
Young Ireland, 513, 515–21, 523, 525, 528
Yvan, Antoine, La Trompette du Ciel, 364
Zimmermann, George Denis, 509
Songs of Irish Rebellion, 509
Zimmermann, Johann Georg, 260
Von dem Nationalstolze, 260