[20] The Dublin Review and The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, which are older, not being, properly speaking, literary reviews.

APPENDIX D.

I.—IRISH HISTORICAL FICTION.

The following is a select list: it does not aim to include all the historical novels mentioned in the body of this work. But many novels that, as literature, are of very little value have been included in order to cover periods not otherwise dealt with in fiction.

DALARADIA. William Collins.
c. 500-1016.KINGS AND VIKINGS. Lorcan O’Byrne.
500-507.THE LAST MONARCH OF TARA. T. J. Rooney.
c. 550-597.BRANAN THE PICT. Mary Frances Outram.
c. 560-615.COLUMBANUS THE CELT. Walter T. Leahy.
c. 584-592.THE DRUIDESS. Mrs. Florence Gay.
c. 650.THE LIFE AND ACTS OF EDMOND OF ERIN. Mrs. F. Peck.
THE INVASION. Gerald Griffin.
888.KING AND VIKING. P. G. Smyth.
935.A SEA QUEEN’S SAILING. C. W. Whistler.
c. 1130-1151.THE KNIGHT OF THE CAVE. W. Lorcan O’Byrne.
1152-1172.DEARFORGIL, THE PRINCESS OF BREFFNY. C. B. Gibson.
The Invasion and After.
1169.THE FALCON KING. Lorcan O’Byrne.
1167-1198.THE COURT OF RATH CROGHAN. Miss M. L. O’Byrne.
LET ERIN REMEMBER. May Wynne.
1333.THE RETURN OF CLANEBOY. Sir Samuel Ferguson.
1373-1399.UNDER ONE SCEPTRE. Emily S. Holt.
1375-1417.ART MURROUGH O’KAVANAGH. M. L. O’Byrne.
c. 1397.THE CAPTURE OF KILLESHIN. Sir Samuel Ferguson.
c. 1410.CORBY MacGILLMORE. Sir Samuel Ferguson.
The Geraldines.
THE HEIRESS OF KILORGAN. Mrs. J. Sadlier.
Silken Thomas.
1533-7.THOMAS FITZGERALD THE LORD OF OFFALY.
1532-1537.THE WEIRD OF “THE SILKEN THOMAS.” R. Manifold-Craig.
1534-5.THE SIEGE OF MAYNOOTH.
1534-5.THE REBELLION OF SILKEN THOMAS. Sir Samuel Ferguson.
Seaghan O’Neill.
1559-1567.A PRINCE OF TYRONE. Charlotte Fennell and J. P. O’Callaghan.
The Desmond Wars.
c. 1560.THE PALE AND THE SEPTS. M. L. O’Byrne.
1565.RALPH WYNWARD. H. Elrington.
c. 1577.FOR CHURCH AND CHIEFTAIN. May Wynne.
1577-1582.MAELCHO. Emily Lawless.
1580-2.GERALDINE OF DESMOND. Miss Crumpe.
Grania Ni Mhailie (Grace O’Malley).
c. 1585-1590.A QUEEN OF MEN. William O’Brien, M.P.
c. 1579 sq.GRACE O’MALLEY, PRINCESS AND PIRATE. Robert Machray.
c. 1585. GRANIA WAILE. Fulmar Petrel.
c. 1585. THE DARK LADY OF DOONA. W. H. Maxwell.
Elizabethan Persecutions.
THE SPAEWIFE. Rev. John Boyce, D.D.
1584.THE SORROW OF LYCADOON. Mrs. T. Concannon.
Elizabethan Ireland.
1585-1590.SIR LUDAR. Talbot Baines Reed.
HIBERNIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. Sir Samuel Ferguson.
THE BOG OF STARS. Standish O’Grady.
1580-1600.THE SPANISH WINE. Frank Mathew.
The War of the Earls.
1587.FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE. Standish O’Grady.
1601-1602. ULRICK THE READY. Standish O’Grady.
EARL OR CHIEFTAIN. Patricia Dillon.
THE ADVENTURER.
THE RED HAND OF ULSTER. Mrs. Sadlier.
THE CHARMING OF ESTERCEL. Grace Rhys.
c. 1597.MacCARTHY MOR. Mrs. James Sadlier.
1599-1603. LAST EARL OF DESMOND. C. B. Gibson.
THE BROKEN SWORD OF ULSTER. Richard Cuninghame.
SIR GUY D’ESTERRE. Selina Bunbury.
1599.WITH ESSEX IN IRELAND. Emily Lawless.
Ireland under James I. and Charles I.
1608.THE LAST OF THE IRISH CHIEFS. Mrs. M. T. Pender.
1603.THE DAUGHTER OF TYRCONNELL. Mrs. James Sadlier.
1609.HUGH TALBOT. W. J. O’Neill Daunt.
1633.KATHLEEN CLARE. Dora McChesney.
1640.FRANK MAXWELL. J. H. Lepper.
The Confederation and the Parliamentary Wars.
1641-1652. THE CONFEDERATE CHIEFTAINS. Mrs. James Sadlier.
1641-1652.THE WILD ROSE OF LOUGH GILL. P. G. Smyth.
1642-1652.THE CHANCES OF WAR. Rev. T. A. Finlay, S.J.
1644.CAPTAIN HARRY. J. H. Lepper.
c. 1645.SILK AND STEEL. H. A. Hinkson.
1645.FRIENDS THOUGH DIVIDED. G. A. Henty.
1647-1654.LORD ROCHE’S DAUGHTERS OF FERMOY. M. L. O’Byrne.
THE FLIGHT FROM THE CLIFFS. James Murphy.
1649.WHEN CROMWELL CAME TO DROGHEDA. Randal M’Donnell.
1649.IN THE KING’S SERVICE. F. S. Brereton.
1649.CASTLE OMERAGH. F. Frankfort Moore.
1649.JOHN MARMADUKE. Samuel Harden Church.
c. 1649.THE SILK OF THE KINE. Miss L. MacManus.
Roundhead Rule.
1652-1660.THE KING OF CLADDAGH. T. Fitzpatrick.
1654.CAPTAIN LATYMER. F. Frankfort Moore.
1654.ETHNE. Mrs. Field.
1654.NESSA. L. MacManus.
The Williamite Wars.
1671-1748.MEMOIRS OF GERALD O’CONNOR. W. O’Connor Morris.
1680.THE FIGHT OF FAITH. Mrs. S. C. Hall.
1685-1691.THE BOYNE WATER. J. Banim.
1689.TRUE TO THE WATCHWORD. E. Pickering.
1689-1690.A MAN’S FOES. E. H. Strain.
1689.THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE ROSE. George Griffith.
1689.DERRY. Charlotte Elizabeth.
1690.IN SARSFIELD’S DAYS. Miss L. MacManus.
1690.LEIXLIP CASTLE. M. L. O’Byrne.
1689-91.THE FORTUNES OF COL. TORLOGH O’BRIEN. J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
1689-1691.MY SWORD FOR PATRICK SARSFIELD. Randal M’Donnell.
1689-1690.THE CRIMSON SIGN. S. R. Keightley.
1689-1691.ORANGE AND GREEN. G. A. Henty.
BALDEARG O’DONNELL. Hon. Albert S. Canning.
THE HOUSE OF LISRONAN. Miriam Alexander.
1689-1770.THE IRISH CHIEFTAINS. Charles Ffrench Blake-Forster.
The Eighteenth Century.
c. 1696.THE DENOUNCED. John Banim.
1696.REDMOND O’HANLON. William Carleton.
1690-1726.LUTTRELL’S DOOM. D. F. Hannigan.
c. 1698.THE COMING OF THE KING. Arthur Synan.
c. 1705-1710.THE COCK AND ANCHOR. J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
c. 1712.ESTHER VANHOMRIGH. Margaret L. Woods.
1761-1764.THE HEARTS OF STEEL. James M’Henry, M.D.
1770.ANDRÉ BESNARD.
1770.IN THE DAYS OF GOLDSMITH. M. M’D. Bodkin.
c. 1771.THE JESSAMY BRIDE. F. Frankfort Moore.
1750-1798.THE TWO CHIEFS OF DUNBOY. J. A. Froude.
1760.SARSFIELD. Dr. John Gamble.
1766.THE FATE OF FATHER SHEEHY. Mrs. James Sadlier.
The Irish Brigade.
A SWORDSMAN OF THE BRIGADE. M. O’Hannrachain.
c. 1702.MOUNTCASHEL’S BRIGADE. Brigadier-Gen. C. G. Halpine.
c. 1702.LALLY OF THE BRIGADE. Miss L. MacManus.
1703-1710.IN THE IRISH BRIGADE. G. A. Henty.
1719.CLEMENTINA. A. E. W. Mason.
SPANISH JOHN. William McLennan.
c. 1745.THE LAST RECRUIT OF CLARE’S. S. R. Keightley.
c. 1745.TREASURE TROVE. Samuel Lover.
Grattan’s Parliament and the Union.
c. 1785.THE KING’S DEPUTY. H. A. Hinkson.
1780-1797.THE LOST LAND. Julia M. Crottie.
1782-1803.MY LORDS OF STROGUE. Lewis Wingfield.
1793-1798.THE O’BRIENS AND O’FLAHERTYS. Lady Morgan.
1797-1801.ILL-WON PEERAGES. M. L. O’Byrne.
c. 1800.THE KNIGHT OF GWYNNE. Charles Lever.
Ninety-eight in the North.
THE INSURGENT CHIEF. James McHenry.
O’HARA. W. H. Maxwell.
THE NORTHERN IRON. George A. Birmingham.
THE GREEN COCKADE. Mrs. M. T. Pender.
STRONG AS DEATH. Mrs. Charles M. Clarke.
THE NORTHERNS OF ’98. Eyre Evans Crowe.
A PRISONER OF HIS WORD. Louie Bennett.
NINETY-EIGHT AND SIXTY YEARS AFTER. “Andrew James.”
BETSY GRAY. W. G. Lyttle.
THE PIKEMEN. S. R. Keightley.
Ninety-eight in Wexford.
THE FORGE OF CLOHOGE. James Murphy.
THE CROPPY. Michael Banim.
CROPPIES LIE DOWN. William Buckley.
AGNES ARNOLD. William Bernard MacCabe.
NINETY-EIGHT. “Patrick C. Faly” (John Hill).
MAUREEN MOORE. Rupert Alexander.
KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN. Randal M’Donnell.
THE IRISH WIDOW’S SON. C. O’Leary.
CORRAGEEN IN ’98. Mrs. Orpen.
ROSE PARNELL. D. P. Conyngham.
OLIVE LACY. Anna Argyle.
THE WOOD OF THE BRAMBLES. Frank Mathew.
UP FOR THE GREEN. H. A. Hinkson.
THE O’MAHONY, CHIEF OF THE COMERAGHS. D. P. Conyngham.
1798-1805.MICHAEL DWYER, THE INSURGENT CAPTAIN. Dr. Campion.
Humbert in the West.
1798.THE ROUND TOWER. Florence Scott and Alma Hodge.
1793-1809.MAURICE TIERNAY. Charles Lever.
CONNAUGHT: A TALE OF 1798. M. Archdeacon.
1798.LE BRISEUR DE FERS. Georges D’Esparbes.
THE RACE OF CASTLEBAR. Emily Lawless and Shan F. Bullock.
The United Irishmen.
TRUE TO THE CORE. C. J. Hamilton.
THE PATRIOT BROTHERS. Charles Graham Halpine.
1798.THE SHAN VAN VOCHT. James Murphy.
c. 1796.LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD. M. M’Donnell Bodkin.
1792-1798.KILGORMAN. Talbot Baines Reed.
1796.THE REBELS. M. M’Donnell Bodkin.
1796-1797.THE HOUSE IN THE RATH. James Murphy.
1797.THE O’DONOGHUE. Charles Lever.
Emmet.
1803.ROBERT EMMET. Stephen Gwynn.
TRUE MAN AND TRAITOR. M. M’D. Bodkin.
1803.RAVENSDALE. Robert Thynne.
1797-1803.THE ISLAND OF SORROW. George Gilbert.
The Nineteenth Century.
1817.THE BLACK PROPHET. William Carleton.
1829.GLENANAAR. Canon P. A. Sheehan.
1830.HUGH ROACH THE RIBBONMAN. James Murphy.
c. 1830.THE MANOR OF GLENMORE. Peter Burrowes Kelly.
1831.THE TERRY ALT. Stephen Joseph Meany.
IRISH LIFE IN COURT AND CASTLE. (Isaac Butt.)
1843.THE KELLYS AND THE O’KELLYS. Anthony Trollope.
The Famine and Young Ireland.
THE HUNGER. Andrew Merry.
1845-1848.CASTLE DALY. Miss Keary.
1846-1847.CASTLE RICHMOND. Anthony Trollope.
1848.MONONIA. Justin M’Carthy.
1848.LILY LASS. Justin Huntly M’Carthy.
1848.THE FALCON FAMILY. Marmion Savage.
1848.MAURICE RHYNHART. J. T. Listado.
Fenianism.
1865-6.THE THREE FENIAN BROTHERS. John Hamilton.
THE GRAVES AT KILMORNA. Canon P. A. Sheehan.
1866.CARROLL O’DONOGHUE. Christine Faber.
1865-1883.FITZGERALD, THE FENIAN. J. D. Maginn.
1865.WHEN WE WERE BOYS. William O’Brien, M.P.
1866.RIDGEWAY. “Scian Dubh.”
1867.THE DUNFERRY RISIN’. J. J. Moran.
1867.LIGHT AND SHADE. Charlotte Grace O’Brien.
Home Rule, &c.
1870.THE BAD TIMES. G. A. Birmingham.
c. 1870.A SON OF ERIN. Annie S. Swan.
1875-1891.HER MAJESTY’S REBELS. S. R. Lysaght.

II.—GAELIC EPIC AND ROMANTIC LITERATURE.

I have thought it well to set apart from the mass of Anglo-Irish fictional literature and to put together in a list that portion of our national fiction which draws its inspiration from ancient Gaelic sources. To do this with any sort of completeness, it would be necessary, of course, to deal with the whole body of fiction that has been written in the Irish language. Reasons have been given in the Preface stating why this task was not undertaken. A further reason presented itself some two years ago, viz., the appearance of the magnificent work published in 1913 by the National Library—Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature (price 5s.). In this scholarly work the literature of Gaelic epic, saga, and romance is scientifically classified and described with the greatest bibliographical accuracy. For me to attempt that task over again would be little better than an impertinence. It might even be thought, and not unnaturally, that the present list is wholly superfluous. Yet perhaps it may not be without its utility, owing to the fact that in the work just referred to descriptive notes are not provided. This list, then, is practically an excerpt from that work, with the addition of some notes that may be useful. The notes will be found in the body of the book.

O’Grady, Standish Hayes. SILVA GADELICA.

Faraday, Winifred, M.A. THE CATTLE RAID OF CUAILNGE.

Meyer, Kuno. THE VOYAGE OF BRAN, SON OF FERBAL, TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING.