The Portable Irish Reader

by Diarmuid Russell (Editor)

Stories, plays, essays, letters, poems, and speeches by Irish writers.

Contents:
Letter to Robert Brayanton / Oliver Goldsmith --
Good manners--a letter / Jonathan Swift --
Adventures in Connemara--a letter / Maria Edgeworth --
On bicycles--a speech / T.M. Healy --
On the Boer war--a speech / T.M. Healy --
The beginnings of Joyce / John Eglinton --
On never going to the British Museum / Robert Lynd --
Spreading the news / Lady Gregory --
A night at an inn / Lord Dunsany --
Riders to the sea / John M Synge --
Questions from the Querist / George Berkeley --
The House at work / James Bryce --
Thoughts from the national being / A.E. --
Another temple gone / C.E. Montague --
Trinket's colt / C.E. Somerville and Martin Ross --
The priest's supper (from Harry Lorrequer) / Charles Lever --
The tramp / Liam O'Flaherty --
Lilacs / Mary Lavin --
A born genius / Sean O'Faolain --
The weaver's grave / Seumas O'Kelly --
Song without words / Frank O'Connor --
Mr. Bloom takes a walk (from Ulysses) / James Joyce --
Mrs. Johnson / Norah Hoult --
Schoolfellows / James Setphens --
Look at all those roses / Elizabeth Bowen --
Lord Arthur Savalle's crime / Oscar Wilds --
Mount Venus (from Hail and farewell) / George Moore --
Bricriu's feast / anonymous (translated from the Irish by George Henderson) --
The cattle-raid of cooley / anonymous (translated from the Irish by Dr. Joseph Dunn) --
The outlawed chieftain / Standish O'Grady --
Dark Rosaleen / James Clarence Mangan (from the Irish of Costello) --
Easter 1916 / W.B. Yeats --
By memory inspired / anonymous --
The memory of the dead / John Kells Ingram / Aghadoe / John Todhunter --
O'Hussey's ode to the Maguire / James Clarence Mangan (from the Irish of O'Hussey) --
Lament of O'Sullivan bear Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (from the Irish) --
Lament for the death of Eoghan Rudah O'Neill / Thomas Osborne Davis --
Clonmacnoise / T.W. Rolleston (from the Irish of Angus O'Gillian) --
The county Mayo / James Stephens (from the Ifish of Raftery) --
Adieu to Belashanny / William Allingham --
Corrymeela / Moira O'Neill --
The nameless doon / William Larminie --
The crab tree / Oliver St. John Gogarty --
Pangur ban / Robin Flower (from the Irish) --
A poorscholar of the forties / Parraic Colum --
The villiage schoolmaster / Oliver Goldsmith --
The village preacher / Oliver Goldsmith --
On a curate's complaint of hard duty / Jonathan Swift --
The rakes of mallow / anonymous --
Galway races / anonymous --
A glass of beer / James Stephens --
The outlaw of Lough Lene / Jeremiah Joseph Callanan (from the Irish) --
I shall not die for thee / Douglas Hyde (from the Irish) --
Song / William Cosgreve --
False though she be / William Cosgreve --
The woman of three cows / James Clarence Mangan (from the Irish) --
"Ballyourney" / Thomas Boyd --
Meeting / W.B. Yeats --
My grief on the sea / Douglas Hyde (from the Irish) --
My hope, my love / Edward Walsh (from the Irish) --
The sheep / Seumas O'Sullivan --
Four ducks on a pond / William Allingham --
The Meditation of the old fisherman / W.B. Yeats --
Ode / Arthur O'Shaughnessy --
I saw from the beach / Thomas Moore --
Outcast / A.E. --
She comes not when noon is on the roses / Herbert Trench --
The old woman / Joseph Campbell --
Promise / A.E. --
A cradle song / Padraic Colum --

Genres: Ireland

670 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1946

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