The portable Irish reader

Introduction / Diarmuid Russell Ireland / Dora Sigerson Shorter. Letters, essays, and speeches: Letter to Robert Bryanton / 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. Plays: Spreading the news / Lady Gregory

A night at an inn / Lord Dunsany

Riders to the sea / John M. Synge. Political economy: Questions from The Querist / George Berkeley

The house at work / James Bryce

Thoughts from The national being / A. E. Fiction: Another temple gone / C. E. Montague

Trinket s colt / 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

School fellows / James Stephens

Look at all those roses / Elizabeth Bowen

Lord Arthur Savile's crime / Oscar Wilde.

Autobiography: Mount Venus (from Hail and Farewell) / George Moore

History:

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. Poetry: 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)

Lamnetfor the death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill / Thomas Osborne Davis

Clonmacnoise / T. W. Rolleston (from the Irish of Angus O'Gillan)

The County Mayo / James Stephens (from the Irish 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 poor scholar of the forties / Padraic Colum

The village school master / 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 Congreve

False though she be / William Congreve

The woman of three cows / James Clarence Mangan (from the Irish)

"Ballyvourney" / Thomas Boyd

Meeting / W. B. Yeats

My grief on the sea / Douglas Hyde (from the Irish)

Dear dark head / Sir Samuel Ferguson (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

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.