Irish History and Literature

This Irish CD contains the full text of 176 books, both history and literature. The literature includes ancient tales plus such authors as Oliver Goldsmith, Lady Gregory, Le Fanu, George Moore, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Synge, and Oscar Wilde. It also includes the CIA World Factbook.

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Table of Contents

Context of the contemporary world

• The 2007 CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

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History of Ireland

• About Ireland by E. Lynn Linton, 1890
• Against Home Rul;e by Arthur Balfour et al., 1912
• Boulogne-Sur-Mer, St. Patrick's native Town by Willam Canon Fleming
• Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times by Edward Anwyl
• Disturbed Ireland: Being Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-1881 by Bernard Benson
• The Dock and the Scaffold by Anonymous
• England's Case Against Home Rule by A.V. Dicey, 1886
• The Felon's Track or History of the Attempted Outbreak in Ireland (1843-1848) by michael Doheny
• The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childes, 1911
• The Glories of Ireland edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lenox
• Handbook of Home Rule by W.E. Gladstone et al., 1887
• The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 by Rev. John O'Rourke
• Home Rule by Harold Spenser, 1912
• An Illustrated History of Ireland from 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack, 1868
• The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens
• Irish Wonders by D.R. McAnally, Jr.
• Ireland Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston, 1902
• Ireland Under Coercion: the Diary of an American by William Henry Hurlbert, 1888
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Ireland and the Home Rule Movement by Michael McDonnell, 1908
• Ireland in the New Century by Sir Horace Plunkett, 1904
• Ireland Since Parnell by Captain Sheehan, 1921
• The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Rev. Aug. J. Thebaud
• The Latin and Irish Lives of Ciaran, from Translations of Christian Literature, Series 5, Lives of the Celtic Saints, by R.A. Stewart Macalister
• Is Ulster Right? by an Irishman, 1913
• The Land-War in Ireland by James Godkin, 1870
• The Life of St. Declan, translated from the Irish by P. Power
• A Popular History of Ireland by Thomas D'Arcy McGee
• The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J.A. Macculloch, 1911
• Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent, Being Those of S.M. Hussey, compiled by Home Gordon
• Speeches from the Dock, Part 1, by many
• The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawlers
• Troublous Times in Canada, a history of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by Captain John A. MacDonald
• Ulster's Stand for Union by Ronald McNeill
• The Wearing of the Green by A.M. Sullivan
• What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell, 1920

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Irish Literature

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• The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge, The Cualnge Cattle-Riad by Joseph Dunn
• Bog-Myrtle and Peat: Tales Chiefly of Galloway, gathered 1889-1895 by S.R. Crockett
• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, Irish prose epic translated by L. Winifred Garaday
• A Celtic Psaltery edited by Alfred Percival Graves
• The Destruction of Da Derge's Hostel, translated by Whitley Stokes
• Early Bardic Literature of Ireland by Stanish O'Grady
• Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost (1863-1902)
• Heroic Romances of Ireland by A.H. Leahy
• High Deeds of Finn and Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by T.W. Rolleston
• Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt
• Irish Wit and Humor, anecdote biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary, and O'Connell
• True Irish Ghost Stories compiled by St. John Seymour

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William Carleton (1794-1869) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Black Baron
• The Black Propet: a Tale of the Irish Famine
• The Dead Boxer
• Ellen Duncan and the Proctor's Daughter
• The Emigrants of Ahadana
• The Evil Eye
• Fardorougha the Miser
• Jane Sinclair
• Lha Dhu
• The Tithe Proctor
• Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
• Phelim O'Tole's Courthsip and Other Stories
• The Station and Other Stories
• Ned M'Keown and Other Stories
• The Hede School and Other Stories
• Phil Purcel and Other Stories
• Going to Maynooth and Other Stories
• The Poor Scholar and Other Stories
• Valentine M'Clutchy
• Will Reilly

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Thomas Davis (1814-1845) brief bio at Wikipedia

• Thomas Davis, selections from his prose and poetry

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William Henry Drummond (1854-1909) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Voyageur and Other Poems

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George Farquhar (1678-1707) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Beaux-Stratagem

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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Idler in France

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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) brief bio at Wikipedia

• Complete Poetical Works
• The Deserted Village (short poem)
• She Stoops to Conquer
• The Vicar of Wakefield
• about Oliver Goldsmith
• Oliver Goldsmith, a biography by Washington Irving

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Lady Augusta Gregory (1859-1932) brief bio at Wikipedia

• Gods and Fighting Men: the Story of the Tuatha and of the Fianna of Ireland, translated and edited by Lady Gregory
• The Kilkartan Poetry Book, prose translation from the Irish by Lady Gregory
• New Irish Comedies
• Poets and Dreamers, Studies and Translations from the Irish
• Three Wonder Plays

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Edward Newenham Hoare

• A Child of the Glens or Elsie's Fortunes

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Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855-1897), brief bio in Wikipedia

• April's Lady

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Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860)

• The Diary of an Ennuyee

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) brief bio at Wikipedia

• Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• Carmilla (1872)
• The Evil Guest (1895)
• Green Tea (1871) and Mr. Justice Harbottle (1872)
• The House by the Church-Yard
• Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
• The Purcell Papers
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• The Room in the Dragon Volant
• Two Ghostly Mysteries (A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family and The Mrudered Cousin)
• Uncle Silas
• Wylder's Hand (1864)

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Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall (1826-1898)

• Letters of Norah on Her Tour Through Ireland

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George Moore (1852-1933) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Brook Kerith, 1916
• Mike Fletcher
• Muslin
• Sister Teresa

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Seumas O'Brien

• Duty and Other Irish Comedies, 1916

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Standish O'Grady (1846-1928)

• The Coming of Cuculain

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Seumas O'Kelly (1875-1918)

• Waysiders, Stories of Connacht

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Hugh Quigley (1819-1883)

• The Cross and the Shamrock, or How to Defend the Faith, an Irish-American Catholic Tale

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Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893) brief bio at Wikipedia

• Kilgorman, a story of Ireland in 1798

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Captain Mayne Reid (1818-1883) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Boy Hunters, adventures in search of a white buffalo
• The Bush Boys, history and adventures of a Cape farmer and his family
• The Castaways
• The Cliff Climbers, a sequel to The Plant Hunters
• The Lone Ranche, a tale of the Staked Plain
• The Rifle Rangers, adventures in South Mexico

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George William Russell (AKA A.E.) (1867-1935) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Nuts of Knowledge, Lyrical Poems
• Still Waters, Lyrical Poems

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P.A. Sheehan

• My New Curate

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Bram Stoker (1847-1912) brief bio at Wikipedia

• Dracula
• Dracula's Guest
• The Jewel of the Seven Stars
• The Lady of the Shroud
• The Lair of the White Worm
• The Man

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
• The Battle of the Books
• A Meditation upon a Broomstick
• Predictions for the Year 1708
• The Accomplishment of the First Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions
• Baucis and Philemon
• The Logicians Refuted
• The Puppet Show
• Cadenus and Vanessa
• Stella's Birthdays
• To Stella
• The First He Wrote Oct. 17, 1727
• The Second Prayer Ws Written Nov. 6, 1727
• The Beasts' Confession (1732)
• Abolishing Christianity
• Hints Toward an Essay on Converation
• Thoughts on Various Subjects
• The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers (article)
• Gulliver's Travels
• The Journal to Stella
• A Modest Proposal (article)
• Poems of Jonathan Swift
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Prose Works of Jonathan Swift
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 6
• volume 9
• volume 10
• A Tale of a Tub
• Three Sermons, Three Prayers (short)

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J.M. Synge (1871-1909) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Aran Islands
• Deirdre of the Sorrows
• In the Shadow of the Glen
• In Wicklow and West Kerry
• Playboy of the Western World
• Riders to the Sea
• The Tinker's Wedding
• The Well of the Saints
• About Synge
• John Synge: a few personal recollections by John Masefield

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Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Mystics

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Katharine Tynan (1861-1931)

• The Story of Bawn

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) brief bio at Wikipedia

• The Canterville Ghost
• De Profundis
• The Duchess of Padua
• Essays and Lectures
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales
• A House of Pomegranates
• An Ideal Husband
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Lady Windermere's Fan
• Intentions
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
• Miscellanies
• Miscellaneous
• A Florentine Tragedy--A Fragment
• La Sainte Courtisane--A Fragment
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Reviews
• Salome
• Selected Prose
• Shorter Prose Pieces
• The Soul of Man
• A Woman of No Importance

Poetry

• The Ballad of Reading Gaol
• Charmides and Other Poems
• Poems
• Selected Poems

About Oscar Wilde

• Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessios -- His Life and Confessions by Frank Harris
• volume 1
• volume 2