Irish Collection: selected bibliography
This brief Bibliography, divided by topics
and personalities of note in Irish political history,
used together with the essay on the Collection,
will give some idea of what the Library can offer.
GENERAL HISTORIES
MOORE, Thomas
History of Ireland. From the Earliest Kings of the Realm Down to its Last Chief.
4 vols. Longmans, Brown, Green. London. No date.
LELAND,Thomas
The History of Ireland: From the Invasion of Henry II.
3 vols. J. Nourse. London. 1773.
GREEN, Alice, Stopford.
The Making of Ireland and its Undoing, 1200-1600.
MacMillan. London. 1908.
LECKY, William, E.H.
A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century.
5 vols. Longmans Green. London. 1892.
MITCHELL, John.
The History of Ireland from the Treaty of Limerick to the Present
Time.
Cameron and Ferguson. London. circa 1883.
THE UNITED IRISHMEN
TONE, William Theobald (Ed).
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone.
Gales and Seaton. Washington. 1826.
TONE, Theobald Wolfe.
Life and Adventures of Theobald Wolfe Tone.
Cameron and Ferguson. Glasgow. No date.
MOORE, Thomas.
The Life and Death of Lord Edward FitzGerald.
2 vols. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. London 1831.
MADDEN, Dr Richard R.
Antrim and Down in '98.
Burns, Oates and Washbourne. London. No date.
DUFFY, Charles, Gavan.
Young Ireland; a Fragment of Irish History, 1840-1850.
Cassell, Petter and Galpin. London. 1880.
MITCHELL, John.
Jail Journal.
M. H. Gill. Dublin. 1921.
GRIFFITH, Arthur (Ed.)
Meagher of the Sword: Speeches of Thomas Francis Meagher in Ireland, 1846-1848.
M. H. Gill. Dublin. 1916.
HOME RULE and ANTI-HOME RULE
O'BRIEN, R. Barry.
The Life of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846-1891.
2 vols. Smith and Elder. London. 1899.
O'CONNOR, T.P.
The Parnell Movement.
Kegan Paul, Trench . London. 1886.
O'BRIEN, R.Barry (Ed.)
Home Rule. Speeches by John Redmond M.P.
T. Fisher Unwin. London. 1910
LEECH, H. Brougham.
The Continuity of the Irish Revolutionary Movement.
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. London. circa 1913.
IRISH LOYAL AND PATRIOTIC UNION.
Published Pamphlets, 1888-1890.
Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union. Dublin.
JAMES CONNOLLY
O'BRIEN, Nora Connolly.
Portrait of a Rebel Father.
Talbot Press. Dublin. 1935.
GREAVES, C. Desmond.
The Life and Times of James Connolly.
Lawrence and Wishart. London. 1961.
CONNOLLY, James.
Labour in Ireland: Part 1, Labour in Irish History.
Part 2, The Re-Conquest of Ireland.
Maunsel. Dublin. 1920.
CONNOLLY, James.
Collected Works.
2 vols. New Books Publications. Dublin. 1987.
FOX, R. M.
James Connolly: the Forerunner.
The Kerryman. Tralee. 1946.
CIVIL WAR, 1916-1923
'THE WEEKLY IRISH TIMES"
Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916.
Fred Hanna. Dublin. 1917.
Rebel Cork's Fighting Story, 1916- 1921.Told by the Men who Made it.
Kerryman. Tralee. 1947.
O'MALLEY, Ernie.
On Another Man's Wounds.
Four Square Books. London. 1961.
EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley
Patrick Pearse: the Triumph of Failure.
Gollancz. London. 1977.
MARKIEVICZ, Constance.
Prison Letters of Constance Markievicz.
Longmans and Green. London. 1934.
THE LABOUR PARTY.
Report of the Labour Commission to Ireland.
Labour Party. London. 1921
LABOUR HISTORY
CLARKSON, J. Dunsmore
Labour and Nationalism in Ireland.
Columbia University Press. New York. 1925.
RYAN, W. P.
The Irish Labour Movement from the Twenties to Our Own Day.
Talbot Press. Dublin. No Date.
LARKIN, Emmet.
James Larkin. Irish Labour Leader 1876-1947.
Routledge, Kegan Paul. London. 1965.
BOYLE, John, W.
The Irish Labour Movement in the Nineteenth Century.
The Catholic University of America Press. Washington U.S.A. 1988.
EMIGRATION
DENVIR, John.
The Irish in Britain from the Earliest Times to the Fall and Death of Parnell.
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. London. 1894.
GALLAGHER, Thomas.
Paddy's Lament, Ireland l846-1847. Prelude to Hatred.
Ward River Press. Swords. 1985.
MAGUIRE, John, Francis.
The Irish in America.
Longmans, Green. London. 1868.
THE ARTS and LITERATURE
GREAVES, C. Desmond.
Sean O'Casey, Politics and Art.
Lawrence and Wishart. 1979.
PEARSE, Padraic, H.
Plays, Stories, Poems.
Talbot Press. Dublin. 1950.
HARE, Augustus J. C. (Ed.)
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth.
2 vols. Edward Arnold. 1894.
MANGAN, James, Clarence.
Poems.
P. M. Haverty. New York U.S.A. 1859.
CARLETON, William.
Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.
2 vols. Wilson and Hawkins. New York. U.S.A.. 1862
GORDON Rev James.
History of the Rebellion in Ireland In the Year 1798.
T. Hurst. London. 1803.
THE EMMET UPRISING
MADDEN, Dr Richard R.
The Life and Times of Robert Emmet.
James Duffy. Dublin. 1846.
A Report of the Trial of Robert Emmet.
William Ridgeway 1803.
In "Scully's Irish Catholics' Advice".
DAVIS, Thomas.
The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. John Philpot Curran. With Memoir.
James Duffy. Dublin. 1845.
CURRAN, William Henry.
Life of Rt. Hon. John Philpot Curran.
2 vols. Archibald Constable. Edinburgh. 1822.
PHILLIPS, Charles.
Curran and His Contemporaries.
William Blackwood. Edinburgh. 1851.
DANIEL O'CONNELL
O'CONNELL, Daniel.
Observations On Corn Laws, On Political Pravity and Ingratitude.
Samuel J. Machen. Dublin. 1842.
HUISH, Robert.
The Memoirs, Private and Political of Daniel O'Connell.
His Times and Contemporaries.
W. Johnston. London. 1836.
CUSACK, M.F.
The Speeches and Public Letters Of the Liberator.
McGlashan and Gill. Dublin. 1875.
O'CONNELL, John (Ed.).
The Selected Speeches of Daniel O'Connell.
2 vols. James Duffy. Dublin. 1862.
AGRICULTURAL HISTORY
GODKIN James.
The Land War in Ireland.
MacMillan. London. 1870.
FOSTER, Thomas Campbell.
Letters On the Condition of the People of Ireland.
Chapman and Hall. London. 1846.
DONNELLY, James S.
The Land and the People of Nineteenth Century Cork.
Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1975.
SOCIETY of FRIENDS
The Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends During the Famine in Ireland in 1846 and 1847.
Hodges and Smith. Dublin. 1852
THE LAND LEAGUE
DAVITT, Michael.
The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland the Story of the Land League
Revolution.
Harper. London. 1904.
DAVITT, Michael.
Leaves from a Prison Diary.
2 vols. Chapman and Hall.London. 1885.
MOODY, T.W.
David and the Irish Revolution, 1846-1882.
Clarendon Press. Oxford 1981.
McCARTHY, Michael J.F.
The Irish Revolution. Volume I: the Murdering Time. From the Land League to the First Home Rule Bill.
William Blackwood. Edinburgh. 1912
THE YOUNG IRELANDERS
"THE NATION"
The Spirit of the Nation: Political Songs and National Ballads.
James Duffy. Dublin. 1843.
DAVIS, Thomas.
National and Historical Ballads.
James Duffy. Dublin. 1876.
WOMEN'S HISTORY
McNEILL, Mary.
The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken 1770-1866.
Allen Figgis. Dublin. 1960.
FOX, R.M.
Louie Bennett. Her Life and Times.
Talbot Press. Dublin. 1957.
McDOWELL, LB.
Alice Stopford Green: a Passionate Historian.
Allen Figgis. Dublin. 1967.
FAIRWEATHER, E., McDONOUGH, B. and McFADYEAN, M.
Only the Rivers Run Free. Northern Ireland: the Women's War.
Pluto. London. 1984.