![How Sally Stannard charms the hero from his melancholia more
efficaciously than the hunting in Connemara on which he was relying
for his cure. Has all the appearances of a story dashed off carelessly
and in haste for the publishers. Nothing in it is studied or finished.
⸺ OLD ANDY. Pp. 309. (Methuen). 6s. 1914.
Peasant life in Co. Limerick.
⸺ A MIXED PACK. Pp. 296. (Methuen). 6s. 1915.
A collection of stories of very various type—hunting sketches, the
strange experience of an engine driver, the adventures of a traveller
for a firm of jewellers.
⸺ MEAVE. Pp. 336. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1915.
Here the scene is laid in England, and the characters are English,
all but a wild little Irish girl, Meave, who plays one of the chief parts.
The story is full of hunting scenes.
CONYNGHAM, Major David Power, LL.D.; “Allen H. Clington.”
Born in Killenaule, Co. Tipperary. Took part, along with his
kinsman Charles Kickham, in the rising of 1848. Fought in the
American Civil War in the ’Sixties, after which he engaged in
journalism until his death in 1883. Wrote many works on Irish
and American subjects.
⸺ FRANK O’DONNELL: a Tale of Irish life; edited by “Allen H.
Clington.” Pp. 370. (Duffy). 5s. 1861.
Tipperary in the years before (and during) the Famine of 1846.
Glimpses of Tipperary homes, both clerical and lay. Almost every
aspect of Irish life at the time is pictured—the Famine, Souperism,
an Irish agent and his victims (ch. xii.), how St. Patrick’s Day is kept,
Irish horse races (ch. ii.), &c. “I have shewn how the people are
made the catspaw of aspiring politicians [elections are described]
and needy landlords.” Author says the characters are taken from real](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-28-320.jpg)
![CRAIG, Richard Manifold, 1845-1913. Born in Dublin, and
educated there. He entered the army as surgeon, and retired
with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. His other works of fiction—A
Widow Well Left, All Trumps, A Sacrifice of Fools, &c.—do not
deal with Irish subjects.
⸺ THE WEIRD OF “THE SILKEN THOMAS.” Pp. 230. (Aberdeen:
Moran). 1900.
The story of how Lord Thomas Fitzgerald was drawn into revolt by
the treachery of a private enemy. Purports to be a narrative written
at the time by Martyn Baruch Fallon, “scrivener and cripple,” a loyal
inhabitant of Maynooth, with some account of the latter’s private
affairs. Written in quaint, antique language difficult to follow,
especially at the outset of the book. It seems of little value from an
historical point of view.
⸺ LANTY RIORDAN’S RED LIGHT.
I am not certain whether this story appeared in book form. It is
not in the B. Museum Library.
CRAIG, J. Duncan, D.D.
⸺ BRUCE REYNALL, M.A. Pp. 271. (Elliot Stock). 3s. 6d. 1898.
Author of “Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland,” and of several
learned works. A story of an Oxford man who came to Ireland as
locum tenens in the most disturbed time, and found life a good deal
more exciting than at his English curacy. The Orangemen are very
favourably represented. In the preface to the following work the
Author says of this, “The Reign of Terror which prevailed in Ireland
while the horrors of the Land League were brooding over the land,
and a picture of which I have endeavoured to delineate in Bruce
Reynall.”
⸺ REAL PICTURES OF CLERICAL LIFE IN IRELAND. Pp. 351. (Elliot
Stock). [1875]. 1900.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-32-320.jpg)
![⸺ A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Pp. 366. (Chatto & Windus). [1886.] New
edition. 1903.
A love story, beginning in the Andamans. There is a lively picture
of garrison life, including the clever portrait of the “leading lady”
(and tyrant), Mrs. Creery. The lovers are separated by the scheming
of an unsuccessful rival. The girl first lives a Cinderella life, with
disagreeable relations in London, then is a governess, and finally (p.
256) goes to a relation in Ireland. Then there are amusing studies of
Irish types—carmen (Larry Flood, with his famous “Finnigan’s
mare”), and servants, and a family of broken-down gentry. Things
come right in the end.
⸺ IN THE KINGDOM OF KERRY. (Chatto & Windus). 3s. 6d. 1896.
“Seven sketchy little stories of poor folk, written in light and merry
style.”—(Baker).
⸺ BEYOND THE PALE. (Chatto & Windus). 3s. 6d. and 6d. (N.Y.:
Fenno). 0.50. 1897.
Story of an Irish girl of good family, who is obliged to train horses
for a living, but ends successfully. Scene: a hunting county three
hours’ journey from Dublin. Much stress is laid on the feudal spirit of
the peasantry, who are viewed from the point of view of the upper
classes, but sympathetically.
⸺ TERENCE. Pp. 342. (Chatto & Windus). 6s. Six illustr. by Sidney
Paget. (N.Y.: Buckles). 1.25. 1899.
Scene: an anglers’ hotel in Waterville, Co. Kerry, and the
neighbourhood, which the Author knows and describes well. A tale
of love and foolish jealousy. The personages belong to the
Protestant upper classes. The chief interest is in the working out of
the plot, which is well sustained all through. “Contains comedy of a
broad and sometimes vulgar kind, turning on jealousy and
scandal.”—(Baker 2).
⸺ JOHANNA. Pp. 315. (Methuen). 1903.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-36-320.jpg)
![The story of a beautiful but very stupid peasant girl who, forced
by a tyrannical stepmother to fly from her home in Kerry, sets off for
Dublin. On the way she loses the address of the house she is going
to, is snapped up by the keeper of a lodging-house, and there lives
as a slavey a life of dreadful drudgery and of suffering from
unpleasant boarders.
⸺ A NINE DAYS’ WONDER. Pp. 310. (Methuen). 6s. [1905].
How Mary Foley, brought up for twenty-one years in an Irish
cabin, is suddenly claimed as his daughter by an English peer, and
becomes Lady Joseline Dene. How she gives Society a sensation by
her countrified speech and manners, and by her too truthful and
pointed remarks, but carries it by storm in the end, and marries her
early love. The writer has a good knowledge of the talk of the lower
middle classes. There is no bias in the story, which is a thoroughly
pleasant one.
⸺ LISMOYLE: an Experiment in Ireland. Pp. 384. (Hutchinson). 6s.
1914.
The six months’ visit of a young English heiress to the stately,
dilapidated mansion of Lismoyle, in the Co. Tipperary, involving a
comedy of courtship, many amusing situations, and some description
of the small social affairs of the county. No Irish “problem” is
touched upon.
The Scenes of some others of her novels are laid partly in Ireland,
e.g., TWO MASTERS (Chatto), 1890; and INTERFERENCE (Chatto),
1894.
CROKER, T. Crofton. Born in Cork, 1798; died in London, 1854.
Was one of the most celebrated of Irish antiquaries, folk-lorists,
and collectors of ancient airs. He helped to found the Camden
Society (1839), the Percy Society (1840), and the British
Archæological Association (1843). Was a Fellow of the Society
of Antiquaries, and of many Continental societies. Wrote or](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-37-320.jpg)
![edited a great number of works. His leisure hours were spent in
rambles in company with a Quaker gentleman of tastes similar
to his own. In these excursions he gained that intimate
knowledge of the people, their ideas, traditions, and tales,
which he afterwards turned to good account.
⸺ LEGENDS OF THE LAKES. [1829]. Illustr. by Maclise.
Killarney. A series of stories, similar to those in the Fairy Legends,
of fairies, ghosts, banshees, &c.
⸺ KILLARNEY LEGENDS. Pp. 294. 16mo. (London: Fisher). Some
steel engravings (quite fanciful). [1831]. Second edition, 1879.
An abbreviated ed. of Legends of the Lakes. Second ed. was
edited by Author’s son, T. F. D. Croker. Topographical Index.
⸺ FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF
IRELAND. New and complete edition. Illustr. by Maclise & Green.
1882.
First appeared 1825; often republished since. Classified under the
headings:—The Shefro; the Cluricaune; the Banshee; the Phooka;
Thierna na oge (sic); the Merrow; the Dullahan, &c. “I make no
pretension to originality, and avow at once that there is no story in
my book which has not been told by half the old women of the
district in which the scene is laid. I give them as I found them”
(Pref.). This is the first collection of Irish folk-lore apart from the
peddler’s chap-books. Dr. Douglas Hyde (Pref. to Beside the Fire)
calls this a delightful book, and speaks of Croker’s “light style, his
pleasant parallels from classics and foreign literature, and his
delightful annotations,” but says that he manipulated for the English
market, not only the form, but often the substance, of his stories.
Scott praised the book very highly in the notes to the 1830 ed. of
the Waverley Novels, as well as in his Demonology and Witchcraft.
The original ed. was trans. into German by the Bros. Grimm, 1826,
and into French by P. A. Dufour, 1828.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-38-320.jpg)
![CROKER, Mrs. T. Crofton.
⸺ BARNEY MAHONEY. [1832].
“Has for a hero an Irish peasant, who conceals under a vacant
countenance and blundering demeanour shrewdness, quick wit, and,
despite a touch of rascality, real kindness of heart.”—(Krans).
CROMARTIE, Countess of; Sibell Lilian Mackenzie,
Viscountess of Tarbat, Baroness of Castlehaven and
Macleod. Born 1878. Lives at Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, N.B.
Publ. The End of the Song, 1904, The Web of the Past, The
Golden Guard, &c.
⸺ SONS OF THE MILESIANS. Pp. 306. (Eveleigh, Nash). 1906.
Short stories, some Irish, some Highland Scotch, somewhat in the
manner of Fiona MacLeod’s beautiful Barbaric Tales. The stories deal
with various periods from the time of the Emperor Julian to the
present day, and they are vivid pictures of life and manners at these
different epochs. The standpoint is thoroughly Gaelic, and there is
much pathos and much beauty in the tales.
⸺ THE DAYS OF FIRE. Pp. 114. (Wellby). Artistic cover in white
and gold. 1908.
The scene is laid in Ireland in the days of the first Milesians, but
does not deal with historical events. Tells of the love of Heremon the
King for a beautiful slave. Full of sensuous description in a smooth,
dreamy style. Frankly pagan in spirit.
⸺ THE GOLDEN GUARD. Pp. 407. (Allen). 6s. 1912.
“A tale of ‘far off things and battles long ago,’ when King Heremon
the Beautiful, who reigned at Tara over Milesian and Phoenician ...,
fought with his Golden Guard against the Northern Barbarians. Lady
Cromartie gives fire and passion to the shadowy figures, filling her](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-39-320.jpg)
![imaginative pages with crowded hours of love and fighting, toil,
pleasure, and vigorous life.”—(T. Lit. Suppl.).
CROMIE, Robert. Born at Clough, Co. Down, the son of Dr.
Cromie. Was on the staff of Belfast Northern Whig, and died
suddenly about ten years ago.
⸺ THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. Pp. 326. (Ward & Locke). 6s.
1902.
A sympathetic study of Ulster Presbyterian life is the background
for the romance, ending in tragedy, of a young minister. Besides the
occasional dialect (well handled) there is little of Ireland in the book,
but the story is told with much skill, and never flags. Bromley, an
unbeliever, almost a cynic, but a true man and unselfish to the point
of heroism, is a remarkable study. The author has also published The
Crack of Doom, The King’s Oak, For England’s Sake, &c.
CROMMELIN, May de la Cherois. Born in Ireland. Daughter of
late S. de la Cherois Crommelin, of Carrowdore Castle, Co.
Down, a descendant of Louis Crommelin, a Huguenot refugee,
who founded the linen trade in Ulster. Educated at home. Early
life spent in Ireland; resided since in London; has travelled
much. Publ. more than thirty novels.—(Who’s Who). Queenie
was the Author’s first novel. A Jewel of a Girl deals with Ireland
and Holland.
⸺ ORANGE LILY. Two Vols., afterwards One Vol. (Hurst &
Blackett). 1879.
The story of Lily Keag, daughter of a Co. Down Orangeman, who,
to the disgust of her social circle, falls in love with her father’s
servant boy. The latter goes to America, and thence returns, a
wealthy man, to claim Lily. The scenery is well described and the
dialect well rendered. A healthy and high-toned novel.
⸺ BLACK ABBEY. Pp. 447. (Sampson, Low). [1880]. 1882.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-40-320.jpg)
![unfavourable portrait; and the hero goes through the Boyne
Campaign. Told in lively style, with plenty of incident.
CROTTIE, Julia M. Born in Lismore, Co. Waterford. Educated
privately and at the Presentation Convent, Lismore. Contributed
to the Catholic World, N.Y., and to other American Catholic
periodicals, also to the Month, the Rosary, &c. She resides in
Ramsay, Isle of Man.
⸺ NEIGHBOURS. Pp. 307. (Unwin). 6s. 1900.
Pictures of very unlovely aspects of life in a small stagnant town.
Twenty separate sketches. Wonderfully true to reality and to the
petty unpleasant sides of human nature. The gossip of the back lane
is faithfully reproduced, though without vulgarity. The stories are
told with great skill.
⸺ THE LOST LAND. Pp. 266. (Fisher Unwin). 6s. [1901]. 1907.
“A tale of a Cromwellian Irish town [in Munster]. Being the
autobiography of Miss Annita Lombard.” A picture of the pitiful failure
of the United Irishmen to raise and inspirit a people turned to mean,
timid, and crawling slaves by ages of oppression. Thad Lombard,
sacrificing fortune, home, happiness, and at last his life for the Lost
Land, is a noble figure. The book is a biting and powerful satire upon
various types of anglicized or vulgar or pharisaical Catholicism (the
author is a Catholic). The whole is a picture of unrelieved gloom.
The style, beautiful, and often poetic, but deepens the sadness.
Thad Lombard, a hundred years before the time, pursues the ideals
of the Gaelic League. Period: c. 1780-1797.
CROWE, Eyre Evans, 1799-1868. Though born in England, this
distinguished historian and journalist was of Irish origin, and
was educated at Trinity. In Blackwood he first published several
of his Irish novels. Though imperfectly acquainted with the art
of a novelist this writer is often correct and happy in his
descriptions and historical summaries. Like Banim he has](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-43-320.jpg)
![ventured on the stormy period of 1798, and has been more
minute than his great rival in sketching the circumstances of the
rebellion.—(Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English Literature).
⸺ TO-DAY IN IRELAND. Three Vols. (London: Knight). 1825.
Four stories:—1. “The Carders.” 2. “Connemara.” 3. “Old and New
Light.” 4. “The O’Toole’s Warning.” The scene of 1 is “Rathfinnan,” on
Lough Ree, not far from Athlone. It is a very dark picture of the
secret societies and of the peasants in general, but an equally
merciless picture of certain types of the Ascendancy class, notably a
Protestant curate and Papist-hunter named Crosthwaite. The hero
Arthur Dillon (a true hero of romance) is a young Catholic student of
T.C.D., who narrowly escapes being implicated in the secret
societies. He dreams of rebellion, and is nearly caught in the meshes
of a villainous-plotting Jesuit. There is a love story, with a happy
ending. 2. Is a burlesque story telling how M’Laughlin, a sort of King
of Connemara, escaped his debtors in a coffin. Some smuggling
episodes. Description of the fair of Ballinasloe, p. 196. Much about
wild feudal hospitality and lawlessness. 3. Is a satirical study of
Protestant religious life at “Ardenmore,” Co. Louth. “Sir Starcourt
Gibbs” seems obviously intended as a portrait of Sir Harcourt Lees,
an Evangelical Orange leader in Dublin in the twenties and thirties.
⸺ CONNEMARA OU UMA ELEIÇÃO NA IRLANDA: Romance
Irlandez tradusido por C[amillo] A[ureliano] da S[ilva] e S[ousa]
(Porto). 1843.
⸺ YESTERDAY IN IRELAND. Three Vols., containing two long
stories, viz.: 1. “Corramahon.” Pp. 600. Large loose print.
O’Mahon, an Irish Jacobite soldier of fortune, is the hero. The plot
consists mainly of the intertwined love stories of men and women
separated by barriers of class, creed, and nationality. Good picture of
politics at the time. Hardships of Penal days illustrated (good
description of Midnight Mass). Ulick O’More, the Rapparee, is a fine](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-44-320.jpg)
![figure. Interest sustained by exciting incidents. Scene laid near town
of Carlow.
2. “The Northerns of ’98.” Pp. 367.
Scene: Mid-Antrim. Adventures of various persons in ’98 (Winter
and Orde are the chief names). Feelings and sentiments of the times
portrayed, especially those of United Irishmen. Battle of Antrim
described. Author leans somewhat to National side.
[CRUMPE, Miss]. Daughter of Dr. Crumpe (1766-1796), a famous
physician in Limerick. According to the Madden MSS., she wrote
several other novels.
⸺ GERALDINE OF DESMOND; or, Ireland in the Reign of Queen
Elizabeth. Three Vols. (London: Colburn). 1829.
Dedicated to Thomas Moore. A story of the Desmond Rebellion
1580-2, (battle of Monaster-ni-via, the massacre of Smerwick, &c.)
with, as personages in the story, the chief historical figures of the
time:—the Desmonds and Ormonds, Fr. Allen, s.j., Sanders, Sir
Henry Sidney, Sir William Drury, Dr. Dee the Astrologer, Queen
Elizabeth herself. The Author has worked into the slight framework
of her story an elaborate and careful picture of the times, the fruit,
she tells us, of years of study and research. As a result the romance
is overlaid and well-nigh smothered with erudition, apart even from
the learned notes appended to each volume. The Author is obviously
inspired by a great love and enthusiasm for Ireland, and takes the
national side thoroughly. The book is ably written, but resembles
rather a treatise than a novel.
⸺ THE DEATH FLAG; or, The Irish Buccaneers. Three Vols.
(London). 1851.
CUNINGHAME, Richard.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-45-320.jpg)
![the creation, &c. The volume consists of twenty-four folk-lore stories
dealing chiefly with heroes of the Gaelic cycles. Not interesting in
themselves, and with much sameness in style, matter, and incident.
There is some naturalistic coarseness here and there, and the tone
in some places is vulgar. The stories were told to the Author by
Kerry, Connemara, and Donegal peasants, whose names are given in
a note on p. 549.
⸺ TALES OF THE FAIRIES AND OF THE GHOST WORLD. Pp. ix. +
198. (Nutt). 1895.
Preface by Alfred Nutt. This collection supplements the two
previous collections. It is collected from oral tradition chiefly in S.-W.
Munster. Illustrates the present-day belief of the peasantry in ghosts,
fairies, &c. There are thirty tales, many of them new. A good
number of them are, of course, grotesque and extravagant. They
contain nothing objectionable, but obviously are hardly suitable for
children.
CURTIS, Robert.
⸺ THE IRISH POLICE OFFICER. Pp. vii. + 216. (Ward, Lock).
1861.
Six short stories, reprinted from Dublin University Magazine, entitled
“The Identification,” “The Banker of Ballyfree,” “The Reprieve,” “The
Two Mullanys,” “M’Cormack’s Grudge,” “How ‘The Chief’ was
Robbed.” They deal chiefly with remarkable trials in Ireland. “They
are all founded upon facts which occurred within my own personal
knowledge; and for the accuracy of which not only I, but others, can
vouch.”—(Pref.). Author was Inspector of Police, and published
(1869) The History of the R.I.C. and The Trial of Captain Alcohol. Pp.
48. (McGlashan & Gill). 1871.
⸺ RORY OF THE HILLS. Pp. 356. Post 8vo. (Duffy). 2s. [1870].
Still in print.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-47-320.jpg)
![throughout. Tone strongly religious and Catholic, the Protestant
religion being more than once compared, to its disadvantage, with
the Catholic.
⸺ TIM O’HALLORAN’S CHOICE; or, From Killarney to New York.
Pp. 262. (London: Burns). [1877]. 1878.
“This little story gives a strong picture of the heroic faith,
sufferings, and native humour of the Irish poor.”—(Press Notice).
When Tim is dying a priest and a “Souper” contend for possession of
his boy Thade. Tim is faithful to his Church, but after his death the
boy is kidnapped by the proselytisers. He escapes, and is sheltered
by a good Catholic named O’Grady. Subsequently he finds favour
with a rich American, who takes him off to New York.
D’ARBOIS DE JUBAINVILLE, Henri. Born in Nancy, 1827. Died
1910. Educated in École des Chartes. A biographical notice of
him, followed by a bibliography of his works, will be found in the
Revue Celtique (Vol. 32, p. 456, 1911), which he edited for
many years. The list of his works contains 238 items, the
greater number of which concern Celts. Perhaps rather more
than half deal with Ireland. They include a Cours de Littérature
Celtique in 12 vols., a history of the Celts, a work on the Irish
mythological cycle, and a catalogue of the epic literature of
Ireland. That on the Irish mythological cycle has been well
translated by R. I. Best (Hodges & Figgis). 1903. Pp. xv. + 240.
D’ARCY, Hal.
⸺ A HANDFUL OF DAYS. Pp. 319. (Long). 6s. 1914.
“How John O’Grady left his irritating wife and selfish children to
revisit the home of his fathers in I. for a short time; how he met ...
Mary O’Connor ...; how he fell in love, and told her so—forgetting to
mention the irritating wife, &c.... The picture of the old Irish priest,
Mary’s uncle, is the one redeeming feature of a mawkish,](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-49-320.jpg)
![⸺ SAINTS AND SINNERS. Two Vols. aftds. One Vol. (Duffy). (N.Y.:
Pratt). 0.50. 1843, &c.
“The reader who expects in this narrative what is commonly called
the plot, or story, of a novel will, we fairly warn him, be
disappointed. Our object in becoming the historian of Howard is
merely to trace the impressions produced on his mind by the very
varied principles and notions with which he came in contact”
(beginning of chap. xiii.). The book is, besides, a very satirical study
of various types of Ulster Protestantism, and a controversial novel,
reference to Scripture and to various Catholic authorities being
frequently given in footnotes. The story, a slight one, moves slowly,
but the situations have a good deal of humour.
⸺ HUGH TALBOT. Pp. 473. (Duffy). 1846.
“A Tale of the Irish confiscations of the 17th century,” i.e., the
reign of James I. Scene varies between England, Ireland, and
Scotland. Opens in 1609. Portrait of James I. No other historical
personage. Persecution, arrest, and adventures of Father Hugh
Talbot. Chief interest lies in the picture of the times, which is
carefully drawn. The story, however, is well told, the conversations
clever and fairly natural, the character-drawing good. The Author is
strongly opposed to religious persecution. The Irish localities are not
specified.
⸺ THE GENTLEMAN IN DEBT. Pp. 339. (Cameron & Ferguson). 1s.
(N.Y.: Pratt). 1.50. [1848]. 1851, &c.
Adventures of a penniless young gentleman trying to get a
position. Depicts (after Lever), first life in Galway, among
impecunious, fox-hunting, hard-drinking, duelling squires (Blakes,
Bodkins, and O’Carrolls); then the vapid life of Castle aristocracy in
the Dublin of the time, with its place-hunting and ignoble time-
serving. Incidentally (for the author does not moralise) we have
glimpses of the working of the Penal laws. The story is an unexciting
one of rather matter-of-fact courtship and of domestic intrigue.
There are not a few amusing scenes, nothing objectionable, and](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/11914-250212020451-411fa157/85/Get-Test-Bank-for-Systems-Analysis-and-Design-9th-Edition-Shelly-Free-All-Chapters-Available-51-320.jpg)
![little bias. A striking character study is that of the Rev. Julius Blake,
who is of the tribe of Pecksniff, but with quite distinctive features.
[DEACON, W. F.].
⸺ THE EXILE OF ERIN; or, the Sorrows of a Bashful Irishman. Two
Vols. (Whittaker). 1835.
Early 19th century. Adventures of a villain of the worst type in
Ireland, England, and on the Continent. Commits almost every
conceivable crime, including bigamy and embezzlement. Acts every
part from strolling player to journalist and political partisan. Tells all
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- 6. 7. Systems analysts use a process called ____ to represent company operations and information needs. a. JAD c. RAD b. Scrum d. business process modeling ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 10 8. A business ____ is an overview that describes a company’s overall functions, processes, organization, products, services, customers, suppliers, competitors, constraints, and future direction. a. matrix c. index b. profile d. glossary ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 10 9. Which of the following is one of the main sectors of e-commerce? a. C2C c. C2B b. B2C d. BBC ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 13 10. ____ enabled computer-to-computer transfer of data between companies, usually over private telecommunications networks. a. EDI c. TCH b. ACH d. O-O ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 14 11. Transaction processing (TP) systems ____. a. provide job-related information to users at all levels of a company b. simulate human reasoning by combining a knowledge base and inference rules that determine how the knowledge is applied c. process data generated by day-to-day business operations d. include e-mail, voice mail, fax, video conferencing, word processing, automated calendars, database management, spreadsheets, and high-speed Internet access ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 15 12. Business support systems ____. a. provide job-related information support to users at all levels of a company b. simulate human reasoning by combining a knowledge base and inference rules that determine how the knowledge is applied c. process data generated by day-to-day business operations d. include e-mail, voice mail, fax, video conferencing, word processing, automated calendars, database management, spreadsheets, and high-speed Internet access ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 16 13. Knowledge management systems are called expert systems because they ____. a. provide job-related information to users at all levels of a company b. simulate human reasoning by combining a knowledge base and inference rules that determine how the knowledge is applied c. process data generated by day-to-day business operations d. include e-mail, voice mail, fax, video conferencing, word processing, automated calendars, database management, spreadsheets, and high-speed Internet access ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 16
- 7. 14. User productivity systems ____. a. provide job-related information to users at all levels of a company b. simulate human reasoning by combining a knowledge base and inference rules that determine how the knowledge is applied c. process data generated by day-to-day business operations d. include e-mail, voice mail, fax, video and Web conferencing, word processing, automated calendars, database management, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, presentation graphics, company intranets, and high-speed Internet access ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 17 15. In a typical company organizational model, top managers ____. a. develop long-range plans, called strategic plans, which define the company’s overall mission and goals b. provide direction, necessary resources, and performance feedback to supervisors and team leaders c. oversee operation employees and carry out day-to-day functions, coordinating operational tasks and people d. include users who rely on TP systems to enter and receive the data they need to perform their jobs ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 18 16. In a typical company organizational model, middle managers ____. a. develop long-range plans, called strategic plans, which define the company’s overall mission and goals b. provide direction, necessary resources, and performance feedback to supervisors and team leaders c. oversee operation employees and carry out day-to-day functions, coordinating operational tasks and people d. include users who rely on TP systems to enter and receive the data they need to perform their jobs ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 18 17. A ____, or requirements model, describes the information that a system must provide. a. process model c. business model b. data model d. network model ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 19 18. A(n) ____ describes the logic that programmers use to write code modules. a. process model c. business model b. object model d. network model ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 19 19. ____ is a systems development technique that produces a graphical representation of a concept or process that systems developers can analyze, test, and modify. a. Prototyping c. Scrum b. Rapid application development d. Modeling ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 19 20. ____ is a systems development technique that tests system concepts and provides an opportunity to examine input, output, and user interfaces before final decisions are made.
- 8. a. Scrum c. Modeling b. Prototyping d. Rapid application development ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 20 21. ____ methods include the latest trends in software development. a. Object-oriented analysis c. Structured analysis b. Agile/Adaptive d. Rapid application development ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 21 22. The ____ method of developing systems is well-suited to project management tools and techniques. a. object-oriented analysis c. structured analysis b. adaptive d. rapid application development ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 21 23. The ____ method of developing systems produces code that is modular and reusable. a. object-oriented analysis c. structured analysis b. adaptive d. rapid application development ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 21 24. The ____ method of developing systems stresses team interaction and reflects a set of community- based values. a. object-oriented analysis c. structured analysis b. agile/adaptive d. rapid application development ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 21 25. Structured analysis is a traditional systems development technique that uses a series of phases, called the ____, to plan, analyze, design, implement, and support an information system. a. O-O c. MSF b. SDLC d. RUP ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 22 26. Because it focuses on processes that transform data into useful information, structured analysis is called a(n) ____ technique. a. iterative c. inferred b. process-centered d. empowered ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 22
- 9. 27. In the ____, like that shown in the accompanying figure, the result of each phase, which is called a deliverable or end product, flows sequentially into the next phase in the SDLC. a. interactive model c. waterfall model b. requirements model d. object model ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 22 28. In the model of the SDLC shown in the accompanying figure, the ____ usually begins with a formal request to the IT department, called a systems request, which describes problems or desired changes in an information system or a business process. a. systems design phase c. systems support and security phase b. systems planning phase d. systems analysis phase ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 23 29. In the model of the SDLC shown in the accompanying figure, the purpose of the ____ is to build a logical model of the new system. a. systems analysis phase c. systems design phase b. systems implementation phase d. systems support and security phase ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 23 30. In the model of the SDLC shown in the accompanying figure, the purpose of the ____ is to create a physical model that will satisfy all documented requirements for the system. a. systems implementation phase c. systems analysis phase b. systems planning phase d. systems design phase ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 24 31. In the model of the SDLC shown in the accompanying figure, during ____, the new system is constructed.
- 10. a. systems planning c. systems design b. systems support and security d. systems implementation ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 24 32. In the model of the SDLC shown in the accompanying figure, during ____, the IT staff maintains, enhances, and protects the system. a. systems support and security c. systems analysis b. systems implementation d. systems planning ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 24 33. Whereas structured analysis treats processes and data as separate components, ____ combines data and the processes that act on the data into things called objects. a. the MSF c. RUP b. the SDLC d. O-O ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 24 34. In object-oriented programming, an object is a member of a(n) ____, which is a collection of similar objects. a. property c. message b. class d. instance ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 24 35. In object-oriented design, built-in processes called ____ can change an object’s properties. a. methods c. attributes b. functions d. features ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 25 36. Agile methods typically use a(n) ____model, which represents a series of iterations based on user feedback. a. gradual c. spiral b. extreme d. evaluative ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 26 37. When building an information system, all of the following basic guidelines should be considered except ____. a. stick to an overall development plan b. identify major milestones for project review and assessment c. provide accurate and reliable cost and benefit information d. ensure that users are not involved in the development process ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 27 38. The ____ group typically provides leadership and overall guidance, but the systems themselves are developed by teams consisting of users, managers, and IT staff members. a. Web support c. systems support b. application development d. database administration ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 28
- 11. 39. ____ provides vital protection and maintenance services for system software and hardware, including enterprise computing systems, networks, transaction processing systems, and corporate IT infrastructure. a. User support c. Systems support and security b. Database administration d. Network administration ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 29 40. A systems analyst needs ____. a. solid technical knowledge and good analytical ability b. strong oral and written communication skills c. an understanding of business operations and processes d. all of the above ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 30 MULTIPLE RESPONSE Modified Multiple Choice 1. An example of a vertical system is a(n) ____. a. inventory application c. payroll application b. medical practice application d. database for a video chain ANS: B, D PTS: 1 REF: 8 2. An example of a horizontal system is a(n) ____. a. inventory application c. payroll application b. application for a Web-based retailer d. medical practice application ANS: A, C PTS: 1 REF: 8 3. A business process describes a specific set of ____. a. transactions c. events b. employees d. results ANS: A, C, D PTS: 1 REF: 10 4. Product-oriented firms produced ____. a. retail services c. computers b. routers d. microchips ANS: B, C, D PTS: 1 REF: 11 5. Database administration involves ____. a. network administration c. data design b. user access d. backup ANS: B, C, D PTS: 1 REF: 29 MODIFIED TRUE/FALSE 1. System software consists of programs that support day-to-day business functions and provide users with the information they require. _________________________
- 12. ANS: F, Application PTS: 1 REF: 8 2. Value-added services such as consulting, financing, and technical support can be more profitable than hardware. _________________________ ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 11 3. Rational Unified Process documents the experience of Microsoft’s own software development teams. _________________________ ANS: F Microsoft Solutions Framework MSF PTS: 1 REF: 27 4. Rapid application development focuses on team-based fact-finding. _________________________ ANS: F Joint application development Joint application development (JAD) JAD JAD (joint application development) PTS: 1 REF: 27 5. User support provides users with technical information, training, and productivity support. _________________________ ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 29 TRUE/FALSE 1. Most firms give their IT budgets a low priority in bad economic times. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 4 2. A mission-critical system is one that is unimportant to a company’s operations. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 7 3. In an information system, data is information that has been transformed into output that is valuable to users. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 7 4. In an information system, information consists of basic facts that are the system’s raw material. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 7
- 13. 5. The success or failure of an information system usually is unrelated to whether users are satisfied with the system’s output and operations. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 10 6. Although the business-to-business (B2B) sector is more familiar to retail customers, the volume of business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions is many times greater. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 14 7. TP systems are inefficient because they process a set of transaction-related commands individually rather than as a group. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 16 8. In a knowledge management system, a knowledge base consists of logical rules that identify data patterns and relationships. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 17 9. A knowledge management system uses inference rules, which consist of a large database that allows users to find information by entering keywords or questions in normal English phrases. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 17 10. Most large companies require systems that combine transaction processing, business support, knowledge management, and user productivity features. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 17 11. Because they focus on a longer time frame, middle managers need less detailed information than top managers, but somewhat more than supervisors who oversee day-to-day operations. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 18-19 12. Many companies find that a trend called empowerment, which gives employees more responsibility and accountability, improves employee motivation and increases customer satisfaction. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 19 13. CASE tools provide an overall framework for systems development and support a wide variety of design methodologies, including structured analysis and object-oriented analysis. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 20 14. It is unusual for system developers to mix and match system development methods to gain a better perspective. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 22 15. In the systems planning phase, a key part of the preliminary investigation is a feasibility study that reviews anticipated costs and benefits and recommends a course of action based on operational, technical, economic, and time factors.
- 14. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 23 16. In the systems analysis phase, the first step is requirements modeling, where business processes are investigated and what the new system must do to satisfy users is documented. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 23 17. In object-oriented design, objects possess characteristics called properties, which the object inherits from its class or possesses on its own. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 24 18. A scalable design can expand to meet new business requirements and volumes. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 24 19. In object-oriented design, a message requests specific behavior or information from another object. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 25 20. Microsoft offers a development approach called Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), which documents the experience of its own software development teams. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 27 21. An IT group provides technical support, which includes application development, systems support and security, user support, database administration, network administration, and Web support. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 28 22. Network administration includes hardware and software maintenance, support, and security. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 29 23. Companies typically require that systems analysts have a college degree in information systems, computer science, business, or a closely related field, and some IT experience usually is required. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 32 24. The responsibilities of a systems analyst at a small firm are exactly the same as those at a large corporation. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 33 25. A corporate culture is the set of beliefs, rules, traditions, values, and attitudes that define a company and influence its way of doing business. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 33 COMPLETION 1. _________________________ refers to the combination of hardware, software, and services that companies use to manage, communicate, and share information.
- 15. ANS: Information technology (IT) IT PTS: 1 REF: 4 2. _________________________ is a step-by-step process for developing high-quality information systems. ANS: Systems analysis and design PTS: 1 REF: 7 3. A(n) _________________________ combines information technology, people, and data to support business requirements. ANS: information system PTS: 1 REF: 7 4. An IT department team includes _________________________ who plan, develop, and maintain information systems. ANS: systems analysts PTS: 1 REF: 7 5. A(n) _________________________ is a set of related components that produces specific results, such as routing Internet traffic, manufacturing microchips, and controlling complex entities like the Mars Rover. ANS: system PTS: 1 REF: 7 6. In the accompanying figure showing the components of an information system, _________________________ consist(s) of everything in the physical layer of the information system. ANS: hardware PTS: 1 REF: 8
- 16. 7. In the accompanying figure showing the components of an information system, _________________________ refer(s) to the programs that control the hardware and produce the desired information or results. ANS: software PTS: 1 REF: 8 8. In the accompanying figure showing the components of an information system, _________________________ is/are the raw material that an information system transforms into useful information. ANS: data PTS: 1 REF: 9 9. In the accompanying figure showing the components of an information system, _________________________ describe(s) the tasks and business functions that users, managers, and IT staff members perform to achieve specific results. ANS: processes PTS: 1 REF: 9 10. In the accompanying figure showing the components of an information system, the people, called _________________________, interact with an information system, both inside and outside the company. ANS: users end users PTS: 1 REF: 10 11. The newest category of company is the _________________________ whose primary business depends on the Internet rather than a traditional business channel. ANS: Internet-dependent firm dot-com company .com company PTS: 1 REF: 12 12. Traditional companies sometimes are called _________________________ companies because they conduct business primarily from physical locations. ANS: brick-and-mortar PTS: 1 REF: 12 13. Internet-based commerce is called _________________________ and includes two main sectors: B2C (business-to-consumer) and B2B (business-to-business).
- 17. ANS: e-commerce electronic commerce I-commerce Internet commerce PTS: 1 REF: 13 14. _________________________ technology uses high-frequency radio waves to track physical object. ANS: RFID Radio frequency identification RFID (Radio frequency identification) Radio frequency identification (RFID) PTS: 1 REF: 16 15. A truck fleet dispatcher might run a series of _________________________ scenarios to determine the impact of increased shipments or bad weather. ANS: what-if PTS: 1 REF: 16 16. _________________________ programs run on a company intranet and enable users to share data, collaborate on projects, and work in teams. ANS: Groupware PTS: 1 REF: 17 17. The systems implementation phase of the SDLC includes an assessment, called a(n) _________________________, to determine whether the system operates properly and if costs and benefits are within expectation. ANS: systems evaluation PTS: 1 REF: 24 18. A(n) _________________________ uses various symbols and shapes to represent data flow, processing, and storage. ANS: data flow diagram DFD data flow diagram (DFD) DFD (data flow diagram) PTS: 1 REF: 22 19. _________________________ design and construct Web pages, monitor traffic, manage hardware and software, and link Web-based applications to a company’s information systems.
- 18. ANS: Web support specialists PTS: 1 REF: 29 20. Many hardware and software companies offer _________________________ for IT professionals, which verifies that an individual demonstrated a certain level of knowledge and skill on a standardized test. ANS: certification PTS: 1 REF: 32 MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. a. MIS f. team leaders b. network model g. operational employees c. object model h. supply chain management d. fuzzy logic i. data model e. ERP j. prototype 1. In many large companies, these kinds of systems provide cost-effective support for users and managers throughout the company. 2. The name for new business support systems that produced valuable information, in addition to performing manual tasks; their primary users were managers. 3. A B2B site that allows buyers, sellers, distributors, and manufacturer to offer products, submit specifications, and transact business. 4. Many knowledge management systems use this technique, which allows inferences to be drawn from imprecise relationships. 5. People who oversee operational employees and carry out day-to-day functions. 6. People who rely on TP systems to enter and receive data they need to perform their jobs. 7. Describes the design and protocols of telecommunications links. 8. Describes objects, which combine data and processes. 9. Describes data structures and design. 10. An early working version of an information system. 1. ANS: E PTS: 1 REF: 15 2. ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 16 3. ANS: H PTS: 1 REF: 14 4. ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: 17 5. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 19 6. ANS: G PTS: 1 REF: 19 7. ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 19 8. ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 19 9. ANS: I PTS: 1 REF: 19 10. ANS: J PTS: 1 REF: 20 ESSAY
- 19. 1. Explain what a knowledge worker is, and why this kind of worker is required by successful companies. ANS: Knowledge workers include professional staff members such as systems analysts, programmers, accountants, researchers, trainers, and human resource specialists. Knowledge workers also use business support systems, knowledge management systems, and user productivity systems. Knowledge workers provide support for the organization's basic functions. Just as a military unit requires logistical support, a successful company needs knowledge workers to carry out its mission. PTS: 1 REF: 19 TOP: Critical Thinking 2. What are the disadvantages of each of the three system development methods? ANS: With structured analysis, changes can be costly, especially in later phases. Requirements are defined early, and can change during development. Users might not be able to describe their needs until they can see examples of features and functions. With object-oriented analysis, this somewhat newer method of development might be less familiar to development team members. Also, the interaction of objects and classes can be complex in larger systems. With agile/adaptive methods, team members need a high level of technical and communications skills. Lack of structure and documentation can introduce risk factors. Finally, the overall project might be subject to scope change as user requirements change. PTS: 1 REF: 21 TOP: Critical Thinking 3. Discuss the five basic systems development guidelines. ANS: Develop a Plan Prepare an overall project plan and stick to it. Complete the tasks in a logical sequence. Develop a clear set of ground rules and be sure that everyone on the team understands them clearly. Involve Users and Listen Carefully to Them Ensure that users are involved in the development process, especially when identifying and modeling system requirements. When you interact with users, listen closely to what they are saying. Use Project Management Tools and Techniques Try to keep the project on track and avoid surprises. Create a reasonable number of checkpoints — too many can be burdensome, but too few will not provide adequate control. Develop Accurate Cost and Benefit Information Managers need to know the cost of developing and operating a system, and the value of the benefits it will provide. You must provide accurate, realistic cost and benefit estimates, and update them as necessary. Remain Flexible Be flexible within the framework of your plan. Systems development is a dynamic process, and overlap often exists among tasks. The ability to react quickly is especially important when you are working on a system that must be developed rapidly. PTS: 1 REF: 27 TOP: Critical Thinking
- 20. CASE Critical Thinking Questions Case 1-1 Roark has just joined the company and in his role as lead analyst, he will be responsible for determining which systems development method the team uses to create the new application for a major medical supplier. 1. After Roark has spent a week getting to know the members of the team, including their strengths and weaknesses, and what has worked well (and not so well) for this particular team in the past, one theme keeps recurring: the team has particularly weak communications skills. Which of the following methods, then, is he least likely to use, given what he knows about the disadvantages of each method? a. structured analysis b. agile/adaptive methods c. object-oriented analysis d. rapid application development ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: 21 TOP: Critical Thinking 2. It is a new day at the firm. Roark has been in place for a few weeks, strengthening the communications skills of his employees, getting them to work much better together. Now, the challenge that he faces is not an internal one; it lies with the client, which is increasingly showing itself to be incapable of sticking with decisions. Roark, based on his past experience with other clients like this, is afraid that the client will throw them a curveball and want to make changes late in the game — but that they also will be unwilling to absorb the costs of those changes. For this reason, Roark eliminates which of the following methods of development? a. structured analysis b. agile/adaptive methods c. object-oriented analysis d. rapid application development ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 21 TOP: Critical Thinking Critical Thinking Questions Case 1-2 Maddy has been performing at a very high level at the firm, and so when two colleagues of hers who are currently leading other development efforts get sick or leave the company, she is asked to step in and help manage these two other efforts. 3. When Maddy sits down at the first meeting at which the first group is gathering, she hears them discussing the feasibility study in which they are currently engaged. She knows, then, in which phase of the SDLC this team currently is. Which phase is it? a. systems analysis b. systems design c. systems planning
- 21. d. systems implementation ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: 23 TOP: Critical Thinking 4. After leaving the first meeting, Maddy goes down the hall to meet with the outgoing manager of the second team. In that meeting, he shares with her the latest draft of the systems requirement document, which is nearly complete. In which phase is the second team currently? a. systems analysis b. systems design c. systems planning d. systems implementation ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: 24 TOP: Critical Thinking
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- 23. COLLINS, William. (1838-1890). A Tyrone man who emigrated to Canada and U.S.A. ⸺ DALARADIA. (N.Y.: Kenedy). 36 cents net. “A tale of the days of King Milcho,” the time of St. Patrick. COLTHURST, Miss E. “A Cork lady of marked poetical ability. She wrote also some prose works, such as The Irish Scripture Reader, The Little Ones of Innisfail, &c. Most of her works were publ. anon. She was associated with the Rev. E. Nangle’s mission to Achill” (D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland). ⸺ THE IRISH SCRIPTURE READER. ⸺ IRRELAGH: or, The Last of the Chiefs. Pp. 448. (London: Houlston & Stoneman). 1849. Dedication dated from Danesfort, Killarney. Scene: Killarney. Time: towards the close of 17th century, but there is no reference to historical events, and the tone and the atmosphere are quite modern. A Waldensian pastor comes to live in the family of the O’Donoghue, and converts that family and some of the neighbouring chieftains’ families. A great deal of Protestant doctrine is introduced; Catholic doctrines (e.g., the Rosary, p. 49) are referred to with strong disapproval. There is a slight love interest and some vague descriptions of scenery. The style is somewhat turgid. ⸺ THE LITTLE ONES OF INNISFAIL. COLUM, Padraic. Born in Longford, 1881. Has published several plays, which have been acted with success in the Abbey Theatre and elsewhere; a volume of verse; and a very interesting social study of Ireland, My Irish Year. ⸺ A BOY IN EIRINN. Pp. 255. (N.Y.: Dutton). Frontisp. in colour and four Illustr. by Jack B. Yeats. 1913. New ed. (Dent), 1915.
- 24. Third volume in “Little Schoolmate Series.” Adventures of peasant lad, Finn O’Donnell at home in the Midlands and on his way to Dublin by Tara in the time of the Land War. Charming pictures of the world as seen with the wondering eyes of a child. Finn learns Irish legend and history from stories told by his grandfather, a priest, and others. The pictures of things seen and lived in Ireland are what one might expect from the Author of My Irish Year—literal reality vividly but very simply presented. This boy is not idealised; he is very life- like and natural. The Author does not “write down” to children. N.B.—In this case at least the reader would do well to take the book before the Preface, which latter is by the general editor of the series. CONCANNON, Mrs., née Helena Walsh. Born in Maghera, Co. Derry, 1878. Educated there and at Loreto College, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin; also at Berlin, Rome, and Paris. M.A. (R.U.I.) with Honours in Mod. Lit. Besides the story mentioned below, she has published A Garden of Girls (Educational Co. of Ireland), and is about to publish a Life of St. Columbanus which won against noteworthy competitors a prize offered by Dr. Shahan of the Catholic University of America. Has contributed to Catholic magazines. Resides in Galway. Her husband is prominently connected with the Gaelic League, and she herself reads and speaks Irish. ⸺ THE SORROW OF LYCADOON. 12mo. Pp. 150. (C.T.S.I.: Iona Series), 1s. 1912. Story of the life and martyrdom (1584) of Dermot O’Hurley and of the first mission of the Jesuits to Ireland. The author has an “historic imagination” of exceptional vividness. The incidents and the colouring are both solidly based on historic fact. But erudition is never allowed to obtrude itself on the reader. The characters are flesh and blood, and the story has a pathetic human interest of its own. It is told with much charm of style.
- 25. CONDON, John A., O.S.A. Born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, in 1867. Educated locally at the Augustinian Seminary and at Castleknock College. Became an Augustinian 1883. Has studied in Rome and travelled in U.S.A. and Canada. He has resided in various parts of Ireland—New Ross, Cork, Dublin. Has held positions of special trust in his Order. ⸺ THE CRACKLING OF THORNS. Pp. 175. (Gill). 3s. 6d. Six Illustr. by M. Power O’Malley. 1915. Ten stories of various types. The majority are of the high-class magazine type and very up-to-date in subject and treatment, but here and there one comes upon bits of real life observed at first hand and pictured with genuine feeling. Several are Irish-American, and their interest turns on the sorrow and hardship of emigration. The last, “By the Way,” in which Sergeant Maguire, R.I.C., spins yarns, is full of the most genuine Irish humour (dialect perfect), and is a fine piece of story-telling. CONYERS, Dorothea. Born 1871. Daughter of Colonel J. Blood Smyth, Fedamore, Co. Limerick. Has published, besides the works here mentioned, Recollections of Sport in Ireland. Resides near Limerick. It may be said of her books in general that they are humorous, lively stories of Irish sport, full of incident, with quick perception of the surfaces and broad outlines of character. Her dramatis personæ are hunting people, garrison officers, horse dealers, and the peasantry seen more or less from their point of view. ⸺ THE THORN BIT. Pp. 332. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1900. An earlier effort, with the Author’s qualities not yet developed. Society in a small country town, days with the hounds, clever situations. ⸺ PETER’S PEDIGREE. Pp. 326. (Arnold). 6s. 1904.
- 26. Perhaps the best of the lot. Hunting, horse-dealing, and love- making in Co. Cork. ⸺ AUNT JANE AND UNCLE JAMES. Pp. 342. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1908. A sequel to the last, with the same vivid descriptions of “runs” and “deals.” A murder trial enters into the plot. ⸺ THE BOY, SOME HORSES, AND A GIRL. Pp. 307. (Arnold). 6s. 1908. Of the same type as the last and scarcely inferior. Irish peasants and servants are described with much truth as well as humour. Full of glorious hunts and pleasant hunting people. ⸺ THREE GIRLS AND A HERMIT. Pp. 328. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1908. Life in a small garrison town. Many droll situations. ⸺ THE CONVERSION OF CON CREGAN. Pp. 327. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1909. Thirteen stories, dealing mostly with horses and hunting. Full of shrewd wit and kindly humour. Shows a good knowledge of Irish life and character, and an understanding of the relations between the classes. One of the stories is a novel in itself. ⸺ THE STRAYINGS OF SANDY. Pp. 362. (Hutchinson). 6s. and 1s. 1909. The externals of Irish country life as seen by a London business man on a holiday. Study of Irish character as seen chiefly in sporting types—needy, good-natured, spendthrift—as contrasted with the Englishman, wealthy, businesslike, and miserly. Contact with Irish life softens the Englishman’s asperities. Full of genuinely humorous and amusing adventures of Sandy with race-horses and hounds, and other things. The brogue is not overdone and we are not, on the whole, caricatured. Scene: West coast.
- 27. ⸺ TWO IMPOSTORS AND TINKER. Pp. 344. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1910. One impostor is Derrick Bourke Herring who, under his namesake cousin’s name, took up the Mullenboden hounds, and the other was his sister Jo who, in man’s clothes, acted as whip. Tinker is a yellow mongrel who does many wonderful things in the course of the story. The main interest centres in the doings of these three, chiefly in the hunting field. A melodramatic element is introduced by the attempt of the father of the wealthy heiress Grania Hume to steal her jewels. Of course there are love affairs also. A breezy story, with much lively incident and pleasant humour. ⸺ SOME HAPPENINGS OF GLENDALYNE. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1911. Eve O’Neill is under the guardianship of The O’Neill, an eccentric, rapidly growing into a maniac. His mania is religious, he has a passion for horse-racing, and keeps the heir Hugh O’Neill (supposed to be dead) shut up in a deserted wing of the old mansion. Here this latter is accidentally discovered by Eve, and then there are thrilling adventures. Atmosphere throughout weird and terrifying in the manner of Lefanu. Peasantry little understood and almost caricatured.—(Press Notice). ⸺ THE ARRIVAL OF ANTONY. Pp. 348. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1912. Anthony Doyle, brought up from childhood in Germany, and with the breeding of a gentleman, comes home to help his old uncle, a horsedealer living in an old-fashioned thatched farmhouse in a remote country district in Ireland. Tells of the wholly inexperienced Antony’s adventures among horse-sharpers, of his devotion to his old uncle, and of the social barriers that for long keep him aloof from his own class and from his future wife. The backwardness and slovenliness of Irish life are a good deal exaggerated, but the story is very cleverly told, with a good deal of dry humour. The Author’s satire is not hostile. ⸺ SALLY. Pp. 307. (Methuen). 6s. 1912.
- 28. How Sally Stannard charms the hero from his melancholia more efficaciously than the hunting in Connemara on which he was relying for his cure. Has all the appearances of a story dashed off carelessly and in haste for the publishers. Nothing in it is studied or finished. ⸺ OLD ANDY. Pp. 309. (Methuen). 6s. 1914. Peasant life in Co. Limerick. ⸺ A MIXED PACK. Pp. 296. (Methuen). 6s. 1915. A collection of stories of very various type—hunting sketches, the strange experience of an engine driver, the adventures of a traveller for a firm of jewellers. ⸺ MEAVE. Pp. 336. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1915. Here the scene is laid in England, and the characters are English, all but a wild little Irish girl, Meave, who plays one of the chief parts. The story is full of hunting scenes. CONYNGHAM, Major David Power, LL.D.; “Allen H. Clington.” Born in Killenaule, Co. Tipperary. Took part, along with his kinsman Charles Kickham, in the rising of 1848. Fought in the American Civil War in the ’Sixties, after which he engaged in journalism until his death in 1883. Wrote many works on Irish and American subjects. ⸺ FRANK O’DONNELL: a Tale of Irish life; edited by “Allen H. Clington.” Pp. 370. (Duffy). 5s. 1861. Tipperary in the years before (and during) the Famine of 1846. Glimpses of Tipperary homes, both clerical and lay. Almost every aspect of Irish life at the time is pictured—the Famine, Souperism, an Irish agent and his victims (ch. xii.), how St. Patrick’s Day is kept, Irish horse races (ch. ii.), &c. “I have shewn how the people are made the catspaw of aspiring politicians [elections are described] and needy landlords.” Author says the characters are taken from real
- 29. life. They are for the most part very well drawn, e.g., Mr. Baker, “a regular Jack Falstaff,” full of boast about wonderful but wholly imaginary exploits; and Father O’Donnell. A pleasant little love-story runs through the book. The whole is racy of the soil. The dialect is good, but the conversations of the upper class are artificial and scarcely true to life. Introduces the episode of the execution of the Bros. C⸺ in N⸺.
- 30. ⸺ SARSFIELD; or, The Last Great Struggle for Ireland. (Boston: Donahue). Port. of Sarsfield. 1871. The Author calls this a historical romance, but the element of romance is very small. Ch. I. gives a backward glance over Ireland’s national struggle in the past. The nominal hero is Hugh O’Donnell and the heroine Eveleen, granddaughter of Florence McCarthy, killed on the Rhine. But Sarsfield is the central figure, and the Author contrives to give us his whole career. There is plenty of exciting incident, partly fictitious—forays of the Rapparees, captures, escapes. In spite of the schemes of the villain rival, Saunders, hero and heroine are united. The historical standpoint seems fair if not quite impartial. ⸺ THE O’DONNELLS OF GLEN COTTAGE. Pp. 498. (N.Y.: Kenedy). n.d. (1874). Still in print. Scene: Tipperary during the Famine years. The fortunes of a family in the bad times. Famine and eviction and death wreck its peace, and things are only partially righted after many years. The author, whose view-point is nationalist and Catholic, vividly describes the evils of the time—the terrible sufferings of the Famine, eviction as carried out by a heartless agent, souperism in the person of Rev. Mr. Sly, judicial murder as exemplified by the execution of the M’Cormacks. ⸺ THE O’MAHONY, CHIEF OF THE COMERAGHS. Pp. 268. (N.Y.: Sadlier). 1879. A tale of Co. Waterford in 1798, written from a strongly Irish and Catholic standpoint. Depicts the tyranny of the Protestant gentry, the savagery of the yeomanry. Typical scenes are introduced, e.g., a flogging at the cart’s tail through the streets of Clonmel, seizures for tithes, the execution of Father Sheehy (an avowed anachronism), &c. Chief historical personages: Sir Judkin Fitzgerald, the “flogging” Sheriff, and Earl Kingston. A vivid picture, though obviously partisan, and marred by some inartistic melodrama.
- 31. ⸺ ROSE PARNELL, THE FLOWER OF AVONDALE. Pp. 429. (N.Y.: Sadlier). 1883. A tale of the rebellion of ’98. COSTELLO, Mary. ⸺ PEGGY THE MILLIONAIRE. (C.T.S. of Ireland: Iona Series). 1s. 1910. The story of an Irish girl living in “Loughros,” in the West of Ireland, some fifty years ago. She is the third and plain daughter of a disappointed “fine lady,” who has married a country doctor out of pique, and rues her fate for the rest of her life, as she cannot appreciate her husband’s good heart and he cannot give her luxuries and grandeur. To this home Peggy comes from school. And the book tells us, with plenty of good fun in the telling, how she made her fortune and how she scattered happiness and blessings around her. —(Press Notice). COTTON, Rev. S. G. ⸺ THE THREE WHISPERS, AND OTHER TALES. Pp. 256. (Dublin: Robertson). c. 1850. In the title story we have two attempted suicides of parents distraught with grief, the return of a former convict, and an inheritance for the people who were dying with hunger. Dublin is the scene. The next story, “Grace Kennedy,” takes place in the Queen’s Co.: a mother murders her boy, the sister holds the corpse to the fire and “nestles beside him.” In “The Foundling” the mother drowns herself, but some charitable Protestants rescue her child and bring him up in their religion. “Ellen Seaton” tells how Ellen’s father goes off to be a priest and her mother to be a nun, and deals with the efforts made by priests and nuns to get hold of her. Finally she converts her nun jailer and both escape. In some of these stories the Author introduces very vulgar brogue, with coarse expressions.
- 32. CRAIG, Richard Manifold, 1845-1913. Born in Dublin, and educated there. He entered the army as surgeon, and retired with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. His other works of fiction—A Widow Well Left, All Trumps, A Sacrifice of Fools, &c.—do not deal with Irish subjects. ⸺ THE WEIRD OF “THE SILKEN THOMAS.” Pp. 230. (Aberdeen: Moran). 1900. The story of how Lord Thomas Fitzgerald was drawn into revolt by the treachery of a private enemy. Purports to be a narrative written at the time by Martyn Baruch Fallon, “scrivener and cripple,” a loyal inhabitant of Maynooth, with some account of the latter’s private affairs. Written in quaint, antique language difficult to follow, especially at the outset of the book. It seems of little value from an historical point of view. ⸺ LANTY RIORDAN’S RED LIGHT. I am not certain whether this story appeared in book form. It is not in the B. Museum Library. CRAIG, J. Duncan, D.D. ⸺ BRUCE REYNALL, M.A. Pp. 271. (Elliot Stock). 3s. 6d. 1898. Author of “Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland,” and of several learned works. A story of an Oxford man who came to Ireland as locum tenens in the most disturbed time, and found life a good deal more exciting than at his English curacy. The Orangemen are very favourably represented. In the preface to the following work the Author says of this, “The Reign of Terror which prevailed in Ireland while the horrors of the Land League were brooding over the land, and a picture of which I have endeavoured to delineate in Bruce Reynall.” ⸺ REAL PICTURES OF CLERICAL LIFE IN IRELAND. Pp. 351. (Elliot Stock). [1875]. 1900.
- 33. The first six chapters are autobiographical, the remaining sixty-five are a series of anecdotes and stories in which the Catholic clergy and the doctrines of the Church appear to great disadvantage. The lawlessness and brutality of the peasantry are also much insisted on, and the conversion of Ireland to Protestantism seems to obsess the writer. Some of the incidents related are improbable in the extreme, and it is not clear from the Preface to what extent the Author intended them as narratives of actual fact. At all events they are told in the form of fiction. There are also gruesome reminiscences of agrarian disturbances and of the Fenian outbreak, and a chapter against Home Rule. The Author was born in Dublin in the twenties, of Scottish parents. He went to T.C.D. in 1847. He was long Vicar of Kinsale. He was remarkable as the author of several important works on the Provençal language and literature. He died in 1909. CRANE, Stephen, and BARR, Robert. ⸺ THE O’RUDDY. (Methuen). 6s. 1904. Has been well described as a fairy story for grown-ups, with plenty of humorous incident—love affairs, duels, &c. The O’Ruddy is a reckless, rollicking, lovable character. There is little or no connexion with real life.—(The Academy). CRAWFORD, Mrs. A. ⸺ LISMORE. Three Vols. (London: Newby). 1853. A rambling and sentimental tale, the scene of which is Southern Ireland (Lismore and Ardmore) and Italy in 1659-60. It is in no sense historical, nor does the Author seem to have any knowledge of the period dealt with. The personages live in “suburbs” and ring the “breakfast-bell.” An amusing ignorance of Catholic matters is evidenced. The plot is confused and without unity. CRAWFORD, Mary S.; “Coragh Travers.”
- 34. ⸺ HAZEL GRAFTON. Pp. 350. (Long). 6s. 1911. Hazel leaves Bournemouth and her school days and two rejected suitors—both curates—to live with her adoring parents in the W. of Ireland. She and Denis Martin fall in love, but the course of love does not run smooth. The two are kept apart by their parents, who are intent on other matches. A quarrel completes the breach, but all comes right in the end by help of a divorce and a death. Trips to Dublin and to Bundoran and the performances of a genuine stage- Irishman are introduced to enliven the tale. CRAWFORD, Michael George. ⸺ LEGENDARY STORIES OF THE CARLINGFORD LOUGH DISTRICT. Pp. 201, close print. (Newry: Offices of “The Frontier Sentinel”). 1s. 1914. Thirty-four stories, embodying the legends of a district exceptionally rich in memories of old Gaelic Ireland—Cuchulain and the Red Branch—and also with great Irish-Norman families like the De Courcys and De Burgos. By a writer thoroughly acquainted with the district. CRICHTON, Mrs. F. E. Born in Belfast, 1877; educated at a private school near Richmond. Travelled much in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. Besides the three novels noted below she publ. some short stories, a little book The Precepts of Andy Saul, based on the character of an old gardener, and some books for children. ⸺ THE SOUNDLESS TIDE. Pp. 328. (Arnold). 6s. 1911. Life of country gentry and peasantry in County Down. With the latter the Author is particularly effective, bringing out their characteristics with quiet “pawky” humour. Especially, there is Mrs. M’Killop and her wise saws. But the Colonel and his wife are also very well drawn. There is pathos as well as humour. Noteworthy also are the descriptions of sea-coast scenery, and the story of the fight
- 35. on the “twalth”—(I.B.L.). It is a simple tale of lover’s misunderstandings. Religious strife is pictured with perhaps undue insistence. ⸺ TINKER’S HOLLOW. Pp. 336. (Arnold). 6s. 1912. A charming and delicately-told love story, with a background of life among the Presbyterians (both the better class, and the peasantry and servants) near a small town in Co. Antrim. Shows an intimate and sympathetic knowledge of the people that furnishes the characters of the story. The dialect is perfectly reproduced. There is a pleasant picture of the bright and sunny Sally Bruce growing from girlhood into womanhood amid the dull austerity of Coole House, in the society of her two maiden aunts and her bachelor uncle. There are pleasant gleams of Northern humour, not a few gems of rustic philosophy, and vignettes of Antrim scenery. The human interest is, however, strongest of all. ⸺ THE BLIND SIDE OF THE HEART. Pp. 299. (Maunsel). 6s. 1915. The story of Dick Sandford’s choice between his cousin Betty— English like himself—bright, charming, wholly of this world, and Ethne Blake whom he meets while on a visit to Ireland. The book is really a study, or rather an imaginative presentment of this strange, almost unearthly, figure as typifying the mystic, faery side of the Celtic temperament, and of the background of haunted Irish landscape and peasant fairy-lore, against which she moves. The vital difference in the two temperaments, Celt and Saxon, is suggested throughout. The peasantry of the remote mountain glens are pictured with sympathy and insight. CROKER, Mrs. B. M., wife of Lieut.-Col. Croker, late Royal Munster Fusiliers; daughter of Rev. W. Sheppard, Rector of Kilgefin, Co. Roscommon; educated at Rockferry, Cheshire. She spent fourteen years in the East, whence the Eastern subjects of some of her novels. These number nearly forty. She resides for the most part in London and Folkestone.
- 36. ⸺ A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Pp. 366. (Chatto & Windus). [1886.] New edition. 1903. A love story, beginning in the Andamans. There is a lively picture of garrison life, including the clever portrait of the “leading lady” (and tyrant), Mrs. Creery. The lovers are separated by the scheming of an unsuccessful rival. The girl first lives a Cinderella life, with disagreeable relations in London, then is a governess, and finally (p. 256) goes to a relation in Ireland. Then there are amusing studies of Irish types—carmen (Larry Flood, with his famous “Finnigan’s mare”), and servants, and a family of broken-down gentry. Things come right in the end. ⸺ IN THE KINGDOM OF KERRY. (Chatto & Windus). 3s. 6d. 1896. “Seven sketchy little stories of poor folk, written in light and merry style.”—(Baker). ⸺ BEYOND THE PALE. (Chatto & Windus). 3s. 6d. and 6d. (N.Y.: Fenno). 0.50. 1897. Story of an Irish girl of good family, who is obliged to train horses for a living, but ends successfully. Scene: a hunting county three hours’ journey from Dublin. Much stress is laid on the feudal spirit of the peasantry, who are viewed from the point of view of the upper classes, but sympathetically. ⸺ TERENCE. Pp. 342. (Chatto & Windus). 6s. Six illustr. by Sidney Paget. (N.Y.: Buckles). 1.25. 1899. Scene: an anglers’ hotel in Waterville, Co. Kerry, and the neighbourhood, which the Author knows and describes well. A tale of love and foolish jealousy. The personages belong to the Protestant upper classes. The chief interest is in the working out of the plot, which is well sustained all through. “Contains comedy of a broad and sometimes vulgar kind, turning on jealousy and scandal.”—(Baker 2). ⸺ JOHANNA. Pp. 315. (Methuen). 1903.
- 37. The story of a beautiful but very stupid peasant girl who, forced by a tyrannical stepmother to fly from her home in Kerry, sets off for Dublin. On the way she loses the address of the house she is going to, is snapped up by the keeper of a lodging-house, and there lives as a slavey a life of dreadful drudgery and of suffering from unpleasant boarders. ⸺ A NINE DAYS’ WONDER. Pp. 310. (Methuen). 6s. [1905]. How Mary Foley, brought up for twenty-one years in an Irish cabin, is suddenly claimed as his daughter by an English peer, and becomes Lady Joseline Dene. How she gives Society a sensation by her countrified speech and manners, and by her too truthful and pointed remarks, but carries it by storm in the end, and marries her early love. The writer has a good knowledge of the talk of the lower middle classes. There is no bias in the story, which is a thoroughly pleasant one. ⸺ LISMOYLE: an Experiment in Ireland. Pp. 384. (Hutchinson). 6s. 1914. The six months’ visit of a young English heiress to the stately, dilapidated mansion of Lismoyle, in the Co. Tipperary, involving a comedy of courtship, many amusing situations, and some description of the small social affairs of the county. No Irish “problem” is touched upon. The Scenes of some others of her novels are laid partly in Ireland, e.g., TWO MASTERS (Chatto), 1890; and INTERFERENCE (Chatto), 1894. CROKER, T. Crofton. Born in Cork, 1798; died in London, 1854. Was one of the most celebrated of Irish antiquaries, folk-lorists, and collectors of ancient airs. He helped to found the Camden Society (1839), the Percy Society (1840), and the British Archæological Association (1843). Was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and of many Continental societies. Wrote or
- 38. edited a great number of works. His leisure hours were spent in rambles in company with a Quaker gentleman of tastes similar to his own. In these excursions he gained that intimate knowledge of the people, their ideas, traditions, and tales, which he afterwards turned to good account. ⸺ LEGENDS OF THE LAKES. [1829]. Illustr. by Maclise. Killarney. A series of stories, similar to those in the Fairy Legends, of fairies, ghosts, banshees, &c. ⸺ KILLARNEY LEGENDS. Pp. 294. 16mo. (London: Fisher). Some steel engravings (quite fanciful). [1831]. Second edition, 1879. An abbreviated ed. of Legends of the Lakes. Second ed. was edited by Author’s son, T. F. D. Croker. Topographical Index. ⸺ FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. New and complete edition. Illustr. by Maclise & Green. 1882. First appeared 1825; often republished since. Classified under the headings:—The Shefro; the Cluricaune; the Banshee; the Phooka; Thierna na oge (sic); the Merrow; the Dullahan, &c. “I make no pretension to originality, and avow at once that there is no story in my book which has not been told by half the old women of the district in which the scene is laid. I give them as I found them” (Pref.). This is the first collection of Irish folk-lore apart from the peddler’s chap-books. Dr. Douglas Hyde (Pref. to Beside the Fire) calls this a delightful book, and speaks of Croker’s “light style, his pleasant parallels from classics and foreign literature, and his delightful annotations,” but says that he manipulated for the English market, not only the form, but often the substance, of his stories. Scott praised the book very highly in the notes to the 1830 ed. of the Waverley Novels, as well as in his Demonology and Witchcraft. The original ed. was trans. into German by the Bros. Grimm, 1826, and into French by P. A. Dufour, 1828.
- 39. CROKER, Mrs. T. Crofton. ⸺ BARNEY MAHONEY. [1832]. “Has for a hero an Irish peasant, who conceals under a vacant countenance and blundering demeanour shrewdness, quick wit, and, despite a touch of rascality, real kindness of heart.”—(Krans). CROMARTIE, Countess of; Sibell Lilian Mackenzie, Viscountess of Tarbat, Baroness of Castlehaven and Macleod. Born 1878. Lives at Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, N.B. Publ. The End of the Song, 1904, The Web of the Past, The Golden Guard, &c. ⸺ SONS OF THE MILESIANS. Pp. 306. (Eveleigh, Nash). 1906. Short stories, some Irish, some Highland Scotch, somewhat in the manner of Fiona MacLeod’s beautiful Barbaric Tales. The stories deal with various periods from the time of the Emperor Julian to the present day, and they are vivid pictures of life and manners at these different epochs. The standpoint is thoroughly Gaelic, and there is much pathos and much beauty in the tales. ⸺ THE DAYS OF FIRE. Pp. 114. (Wellby). Artistic cover in white and gold. 1908. The scene is laid in Ireland in the days of the first Milesians, but does not deal with historical events. Tells of the love of Heremon the King for a beautiful slave. Full of sensuous description in a smooth, dreamy style. Frankly pagan in spirit. ⸺ THE GOLDEN GUARD. Pp. 407. (Allen). 6s. 1912. “A tale of ‘far off things and battles long ago,’ when King Heremon the Beautiful, who reigned at Tara over Milesian and Phoenician ..., fought with his Golden Guard against the Northern Barbarians. Lady Cromartie gives fire and passion to the shadowy figures, filling her
- 40. imaginative pages with crowded hours of love and fighting, toil, pleasure, and vigorous life.”—(T. Lit. Suppl.). CROMIE, Robert. Born at Clough, Co. Down, the son of Dr. Cromie. Was on the staff of Belfast Northern Whig, and died suddenly about ten years ago. ⸺ THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS. Pp. 326. (Ward & Locke). 6s. 1902. A sympathetic study of Ulster Presbyterian life is the background for the romance, ending in tragedy, of a young minister. Besides the occasional dialect (well handled) there is little of Ireland in the book, but the story is told with much skill, and never flags. Bromley, an unbeliever, almost a cynic, but a true man and unselfish to the point of heroism, is a remarkable study. The author has also published The Crack of Doom, The King’s Oak, For England’s Sake, &c. CROMMELIN, May de la Cherois. Born in Ireland. Daughter of late S. de la Cherois Crommelin, of Carrowdore Castle, Co. Down, a descendant of Louis Crommelin, a Huguenot refugee, who founded the linen trade in Ulster. Educated at home. Early life spent in Ireland; resided since in London; has travelled much. Publ. more than thirty novels.—(Who’s Who). Queenie was the Author’s first novel. A Jewel of a Girl deals with Ireland and Holland. ⸺ ORANGE LILY. Two Vols., afterwards One Vol. (Hurst & Blackett). 1879. The story of Lily Keag, daughter of a Co. Down Orangeman, who, to the disgust of her social circle, falls in love with her father’s servant boy. The latter goes to America, and thence returns, a wealthy man, to claim Lily. The scenery is well described and the dialect well rendered. A healthy and high-toned novel. ⸺ BLACK ABBEY. Pp. 447. (Sampson, Low). [1880]. 1882.
- 41. We are first introduced to a delightful circle, the three children of Black Abbey (somewhere in Co. Down) and those about them, their German governess and Irish nurse and their playmate Bella, born in America, granddaughter of the old Presbyterian minister. The picture of their home-life is pleasant and life-like, with a vein of quiet humour. Then they grow up and things no longer run smoothly. Bella, by her marriage, well-nigh wrecks four lives, including her own, but things seem to be righting themselves as the story closes. The dialect of the Northern servants is very well done. The tone of the book is most wholesome though by no means “goody-goody.” ⸺ DIVIL-MAY-CARE; alias Richard Burke, sometime Adjutant of the Black Northerns. Pp. x. + 306. (F. V. White). 6s. 1899. A series of humorous and exciting episodes, forming the adventures of an officer home from India on sick leave. Most of them are located in Antrim. No religious or political bias, but a tinge of the stage Irishman. ⸺ THE GOLDEN BOW. (Holden & Hardingham). 6s. c. 1912. Story of the sorrows and suitors, from her unhappy childhood to a happy engagement, of an Irish girl, who is poor, proud, and pretty. A lovable character is Judith’s crippled sister Melissa. Scene: N. of Ireland. There is a good deal of dialect, and the ways of the peasantry are faithfully depicted. CROSBIE, Mary. Born in England. Educated privately and at various English schools. Has frequently visited and stayed in Ireland. Her first novel, Disciples, was publ. in 1907; but it was the second that was most successful, three editions being called for within a short time. ⸺ KINSMEN’S CLAY. Pp. 389. (Close print). (Methuen). 6s. First and second editions. 1910. Main theme: wife and lover waiting for invalid and impossible husband to die. The treatment of this theme and that of a minor plot
- 42. makes the book unsuited for certain classes of readers. Moreover, the tone is alien to religion. God is “perhaps the flowering of men’s ideals under the rain of their tears.” But the tone is not frankly anti- moral. The personages are all of the country Anglo-Irish gentry, except one peasant family, and this shows up badly. The types are drawn with much skill, and there is constant clever analysis of moods and emotions. The story brings out in a vague way the transmission through a family of ancestral peculiarities. ⸺ BRIDGET CONSIDINE. Pp. 347. (Bell). 6s. 1914. Bridget’s father is the son of a broken-down shopkeeper somewhere beyond the Shannon, but clings to aristocratic notions. She grows up in London along with “Lennie-next-door,” but her mind outgrows his. She goes to stay W. of the Shannon as secretary to a rich lady. There she becomes engaged to Hugh Delmege, a young landowner. All her yearnings seem fulfilled, yet somehow it is not what she had expected; a short separation from Hugh still further opens her eyes, and she returns disillusioned. This is the bare skeleton: it does not do justice to the philosophy and the style of the book, both of which are remarkable. CROSBIE, W. J. ⸺ DAVID MAXWELL. (Jarrold). 6s. 1902. ’98 from the loyalist standpoint, and adventures in Mexico and South Texas, &c. “David” is “Scotch-Irish.”—(Baker, 2). CROSFIELD, H. C. ⸺ FOR THREE KINGDOMS. Pp. 241. (Elliott Stock). 1909. “Recollections of Robert Warden, a servant of King James.” By a series of accidents the teller finds himself on board one of the ships that raises the blockade of Derry; he escapes and goes to Dublin, where he has exciting adventures. Tyrconnell is introduced—a very
- 43. unfavourable portrait; and the hero goes through the Boyne Campaign. Told in lively style, with plenty of incident. CROTTIE, Julia M. Born in Lismore, Co. Waterford. Educated privately and at the Presentation Convent, Lismore. Contributed to the Catholic World, N.Y., and to other American Catholic periodicals, also to the Month, the Rosary, &c. She resides in Ramsay, Isle of Man. ⸺ NEIGHBOURS. Pp. 307. (Unwin). 6s. 1900. Pictures of very unlovely aspects of life in a small stagnant town. Twenty separate sketches. Wonderfully true to reality and to the petty unpleasant sides of human nature. The gossip of the back lane is faithfully reproduced, though without vulgarity. The stories are told with great skill. ⸺ THE LOST LAND. Pp. 266. (Fisher Unwin). 6s. [1901]. 1907. “A tale of a Cromwellian Irish town [in Munster]. Being the autobiography of Miss Annita Lombard.” A picture of the pitiful failure of the United Irishmen to raise and inspirit a people turned to mean, timid, and crawling slaves by ages of oppression. Thad Lombard, sacrificing fortune, home, happiness, and at last his life for the Lost Land, is a noble figure. The book is a biting and powerful satire upon various types of anglicized or vulgar or pharisaical Catholicism (the author is a Catholic). The whole is a picture of unrelieved gloom. The style, beautiful, and often poetic, but deepens the sadness. Thad Lombard, a hundred years before the time, pursues the ideals of the Gaelic League. Period: c. 1780-1797. CROWE, Eyre Evans, 1799-1868. Though born in England, this distinguished historian and journalist was of Irish origin, and was educated at Trinity. In Blackwood he first published several of his Irish novels. Though imperfectly acquainted with the art of a novelist this writer is often correct and happy in his descriptions and historical summaries. Like Banim he has
- 44. ventured on the stormy period of 1798, and has been more minute than his great rival in sketching the circumstances of the rebellion.—(Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English Literature). ⸺ TO-DAY IN IRELAND. Three Vols. (London: Knight). 1825. Four stories:—1. “The Carders.” 2. “Connemara.” 3. “Old and New Light.” 4. “The O’Toole’s Warning.” The scene of 1 is “Rathfinnan,” on Lough Ree, not far from Athlone. It is a very dark picture of the secret societies and of the peasants in general, but an equally merciless picture of certain types of the Ascendancy class, notably a Protestant curate and Papist-hunter named Crosthwaite. The hero Arthur Dillon (a true hero of romance) is a young Catholic student of T.C.D., who narrowly escapes being implicated in the secret societies. He dreams of rebellion, and is nearly caught in the meshes of a villainous-plotting Jesuit. There is a love story, with a happy ending. 2. Is a burlesque story telling how M’Laughlin, a sort of King of Connemara, escaped his debtors in a coffin. Some smuggling episodes. Description of the fair of Ballinasloe, p. 196. Much about wild feudal hospitality and lawlessness. 3. Is a satirical study of Protestant religious life at “Ardenmore,” Co. Louth. “Sir Starcourt Gibbs” seems obviously intended as a portrait of Sir Harcourt Lees, an Evangelical Orange leader in Dublin in the twenties and thirties. ⸺ CONNEMARA OU UMA ELEIÇÃO NA IRLANDA: Romance Irlandez tradusido por C[amillo] A[ureliano] da S[ilva] e S[ousa] (Porto). 1843. ⸺ YESTERDAY IN IRELAND. Three Vols., containing two long stories, viz.: 1. “Corramahon.” Pp. 600. Large loose print. O’Mahon, an Irish Jacobite soldier of fortune, is the hero. The plot consists mainly of the intertwined love stories of men and women separated by barriers of class, creed, and nationality. Good picture of politics at the time. Hardships of Penal days illustrated (good description of Midnight Mass). Ulick O’More, the Rapparee, is a fine
- 45. figure. Interest sustained by exciting incidents. Scene laid near town of Carlow. 2. “The Northerns of ’98.” Pp. 367. Scene: Mid-Antrim. Adventures of various persons in ’98 (Winter and Orde are the chief names). Feelings and sentiments of the times portrayed, especially those of United Irishmen. Battle of Antrim described. Author leans somewhat to National side. [CRUMPE, Miss]. Daughter of Dr. Crumpe (1766-1796), a famous physician in Limerick. According to the Madden MSS., she wrote several other novels. ⸺ GERALDINE OF DESMOND; or, Ireland in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Three Vols. (London: Colburn). 1829. Dedicated to Thomas Moore. A story of the Desmond Rebellion 1580-2, (battle of Monaster-ni-via, the massacre of Smerwick, &c.) with, as personages in the story, the chief historical figures of the time:—the Desmonds and Ormonds, Fr. Allen, s.j., Sanders, Sir Henry Sidney, Sir William Drury, Dr. Dee the Astrologer, Queen Elizabeth herself. The Author has worked into the slight framework of her story an elaborate and careful picture of the times, the fruit, she tells us, of years of study and research. As a result the romance is overlaid and well-nigh smothered with erudition, apart even from the learned notes appended to each volume. The Author is obviously inspired by a great love and enthusiasm for Ireland, and takes the national side thoroughly. The book is ably written, but resembles rather a treatise than a novel. ⸺ THE DEATH FLAG; or, The Irish Buccaneers. Three Vols. (London). 1851. CUNINGHAME, Richard.
- 46. ⸺ THE BROKEN SWORD OF ULSTER: A brief relation of the Events of one of the most stirring and momentous eras in the Annals of Ireland. Crown 8vo. (Hodges & Figgis). 3s. 6d. 1904. Account of chief events. Not in form of fiction. Tone somewhat anti-national (cf. authorities chiefly relied on). Moral: Ireland’s crowning need is to accept the teaching of St. Paul on charity. This is “the God-provided cure for all her woes.” This Author wrote also In Bonds but Fetterless, 1875. CURTIN, Jeremiah, 1840-1916. Born in Milwaukee, educated at Harvard. A distinguished American traveller, linguist, and ethnologist. Has translated great numbers of books from the Russian and the Polish, and has published many works on the folk-lore of the Russians, Magyars, Mongols, American Aborigines, &c. Visited Ireland in 1887 and 1891. ⸺ MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND. (Sampson, Low). 9s. Etched frontispiece. 1890. “Twenty tales” says Douglas Hyde (Pref. to Beside the Fire), “told very well, and with much less cooking and flavouring than his predecessors employed.” The tales were got from Gaelic speakers through an interpreter (Mr. Curtin knowing not a word of Gaelic). Beyond this fact he does not tell us where, from whom, or how he collected the stories. Dr. Hyde says again, “From my own knowledge of Folk-lore, such as it is, I can easily recognise that Mr. Curtin has approached the fountain-head more nearly than any other.” ⸺ HERO TALES OF IRELAND, collected by. Pp. lii. + 558. (Macmillan). 7s. 6d. 1894. Learned introduction speculates on origin of myths of primitive races. Compares Gaelic myths with those of other races, especially North American Indians. Contends that the characters in the tales are personifications of natural forces and the elements, and that the tales themselves in their earliest form give man’s primitive ideas of
- 47. the creation, &c. The volume consists of twenty-four folk-lore stories dealing chiefly with heroes of the Gaelic cycles. Not interesting in themselves, and with much sameness in style, matter, and incident. There is some naturalistic coarseness here and there, and the tone in some places is vulgar. The stories were told to the Author by Kerry, Connemara, and Donegal peasants, whose names are given in a note on p. 549. ⸺ TALES OF THE FAIRIES AND OF THE GHOST WORLD. Pp. ix. + 198. (Nutt). 1895. Preface by Alfred Nutt. This collection supplements the two previous collections. It is collected from oral tradition chiefly in S.-W. Munster. Illustrates the present-day belief of the peasantry in ghosts, fairies, &c. There are thirty tales, many of them new. A good number of them are, of course, grotesque and extravagant. They contain nothing objectionable, but obviously are hardly suitable for children. CURTIS, Robert. ⸺ THE IRISH POLICE OFFICER. Pp. vii. + 216. (Ward, Lock). 1861. Six short stories, reprinted from Dublin University Magazine, entitled “The Identification,” “The Banker of Ballyfree,” “The Reprieve,” “The Two Mullanys,” “M’Cormack’s Grudge,” “How ‘The Chief’ was Robbed.” They deal chiefly with remarkable trials in Ireland. “They are all founded upon facts which occurred within my own personal knowledge; and for the accuracy of which not only I, but others, can vouch.”—(Pref.). Author was Inspector of Police, and published (1869) The History of the R.I.C. and The Trial of Captain Alcohol. Pp. 48. (McGlashan & Gill). 1871. ⸺ RORY OF THE HILLS. Pp. 356. Post 8vo. (Duffy). 2s. [1870]. Still in print.
- 48. A faithful and sympathetic picture of the peasant life and manners at the time (early nineteenth century). The Author, a police officer, has drawn on his professional experiences. The tale, founded on fact, is an edifying one despite the unrelieved villainy of Tom Murdock. The influence of religion is felt throughout, especially in the heroic charity of the heroine even towards the murderer of her lover. Peasant speech reproduced to the life. CURRAN, H. G. (1800-1876). Natural son of John Philpot Curran, and a barrister. ⸺ CONFESSIONS OF A WHITEFOOT. Pp. 306. (Bentley). (Edited by G. C. H., Esq., B.L.). 1844. The supposed teller began as a supporter of “law and order,” but the conviction of the abuses of landlordism is forced upon him by experience and observation, and he ends by joining the secret society of the Whitefeet. He makes no secret of the crimes of this body, and many of them are described in the course of the narrative. CUSACK, Mary Frances, known as “The Nun of Kenmare.” Originally a Protestant, she became a Catholic and a Poor Clare. From her convent in Kenmare she issued quite a library of books on many subjects—Irish history, general and local, Irish biography, stories, poems, works of piety and of instruction. Subsequently she left her convent, went to America, and reverted to Protestantism. Died Leamington, 1899, aged 70. She has published her autobiography. ⸺ NED RUSHEEN; or, Who Fired the First Shot? Pp. 373. (Burns & Oates. Boston: Donahoe). Four rather mediocre Illus. 1871. A murder mystery. The hero is wrongly accused, but is acquitted in the end. The real culprit (scapegrace son of the victim, Lord Elmsdale) confesses when dying. The mystery is well kept up to the end. Indeed, the explanation of it is by no means clear, even at the close. The moral purpose is kept prominently before the reader
- 49. throughout. Tone strongly religious and Catholic, the Protestant religion being more than once compared, to its disadvantage, with the Catholic. ⸺ TIM O’HALLORAN’S CHOICE; or, From Killarney to New York. Pp. 262. (London: Burns). [1877]. 1878. “This little story gives a strong picture of the heroic faith, sufferings, and native humour of the Irish poor.”—(Press Notice). When Tim is dying a priest and a “Souper” contend for possession of his boy Thade. Tim is faithful to his Church, but after his death the boy is kidnapped by the proselytisers. He escapes, and is sheltered by a good Catholic named O’Grady. Subsequently he finds favour with a rich American, who takes him off to New York. D’ARBOIS DE JUBAINVILLE, Henri. Born in Nancy, 1827. Died 1910. Educated in École des Chartes. A biographical notice of him, followed by a bibliography of his works, will be found in the Revue Celtique (Vol. 32, p. 456, 1911), which he edited for many years. The list of his works contains 238 items, the greater number of which concern Celts. Perhaps rather more than half deal with Ireland. They include a Cours de Littérature Celtique in 12 vols., a history of the Celts, a work on the Irish mythological cycle, and a catalogue of the epic literature of Ireland. That on the Irish mythological cycle has been well translated by R. I. Best (Hodges & Figgis). 1903. Pp. xv. + 240. D’ARCY, Hal. ⸺ A HANDFUL OF DAYS. Pp. 319. (Long). 6s. 1914. “How John O’Grady left his irritating wife and selfish children to revisit the home of his fathers in I. for a short time; how he met ... Mary O’Connor ...; how he fell in love, and told her so—forgetting to mention the irritating wife, &c.... The picture of the old Irish priest, Mary’s uncle, is the one redeeming feature of a mawkish,
- 50. unsatisfactory tale.”—(T. Litt. Suppl.). This fairly describes the story. Non-Catholic, but not prejudiced. Scene: Glendalough. DAMANT, Mary. The Author is a daughter of General Chesney, the Asiatic explorer. ⸺ PEGGY. Pp. 405. (Allen). 1887. Domestic life in North Antrim previous to, and during, the Rebellion of 1798. “Many of the facts of my little tale were told me in childhood by those, whose recollection of the rising was rendered vivid by desolate homes, loss of relations, &c.”—(Pref.). Eschews historical or political questions. Favourable to “poor deluded peasants.” Thinks little of United Irishmen who are “imbued with the poison of revolutionary principles.” Well and pleasantly written in autobiographical form. DAUNT, Alice O’Neill, 1848-1915. Was the only daughter of W. J. O’Neill Daunt. Contributed to The Lamp, Ireland’s Own, and other magazines. She wrote many little stories, as serials or in book form, for the most part religious (Catholic) and didactic. ⸺ EVA; or, as the Child, so the Woman. Pp. 107. 16mo. (Richardson). 1s. 1882. One of a little series of Catholic Tales for the young. A sad little story, full of piety. Scene in Ireland, but the story is not specially Irish in any way. DAUNT, W. J. O’Neill. Born in Tullamore, 1807. Son of Joseph Daunt, of Ballyneen, Cork. Became a Catholic about 1827. Was in Repeal Association from the first, and remained to the end one of O’Connell’s most loyal co-operators. Died 1894. His biography has been published under the title, A Life Spent for Ireland, 1896.
- 51. ⸺ SAINTS AND SINNERS. Two Vols. aftds. One Vol. (Duffy). (N.Y.: Pratt). 0.50. 1843, &c. “The reader who expects in this narrative what is commonly called the plot, or story, of a novel will, we fairly warn him, be disappointed. Our object in becoming the historian of Howard is merely to trace the impressions produced on his mind by the very varied principles and notions with which he came in contact” (beginning of chap. xiii.). The book is, besides, a very satirical study of various types of Ulster Protestantism, and a controversial novel, reference to Scripture and to various Catholic authorities being frequently given in footnotes. The story, a slight one, moves slowly, but the situations have a good deal of humour. ⸺ HUGH TALBOT. Pp. 473. (Duffy). 1846. “A Tale of the Irish confiscations of the 17th century,” i.e., the reign of James I. Scene varies between England, Ireland, and Scotland. Opens in 1609. Portrait of James I. No other historical personage. Persecution, arrest, and adventures of Father Hugh Talbot. Chief interest lies in the picture of the times, which is carefully drawn. The story, however, is well told, the conversations clever and fairly natural, the character-drawing good. The Author is strongly opposed to religious persecution. The Irish localities are not specified. ⸺ THE GENTLEMAN IN DEBT. Pp. 339. (Cameron & Ferguson). 1s. (N.Y.: Pratt). 1.50. [1848]. 1851, &c. Adventures of a penniless young gentleman trying to get a position. Depicts (after Lever), first life in Galway, among impecunious, fox-hunting, hard-drinking, duelling squires (Blakes, Bodkins, and O’Carrolls); then the vapid life of Castle aristocracy in the Dublin of the time, with its place-hunting and ignoble time- serving. Incidentally (for the author does not moralise) we have glimpses of the working of the Penal laws. The story is an unexciting one of rather matter-of-fact courtship and of domestic intrigue. There are not a few amusing scenes, nothing objectionable, and
- 52. little bias. A striking character study is that of the Rev. Julius Blake, who is of the tribe of Pecksniff, but with quite distinctive features. [DEACON, W. F.]. ⸺ THE EXILE OF ERIN; or, the Sorrows of a Bashful Irishman. Two Vols. (Whittaker). 1835. Early 19th century. Adventures of a villain of the worst type in Ireland, England, and on the Continent. Commits almost every conceivable crime, including bigamy and embezzlement. Acts every part from strolling player to journalist and political partisan. Tells all this in first person. Incidentally the book is a bitter satire on Ireland, Irish priests, Irish politicians. Represents the “O’Connellite rabble” as capable of any outrage and O’Connell himself (under the name of O’Cromwell) as a political adventurer. Author admits not being Irish. ⸺ ADVENTURES OF A BASHFUL IRISHMAN. (London). 1862. This is a new ed. of The Exile of Erin; or, the Sorrows of a Bashful Irishman. DEASE, Alice. Daughter of J. A. Dease, of Turbotstown, Co. Westmeath. Lives Simonstown, Coole, Co. Westmeath.—(Cath. Who’s Who). ⸺ THE BECKONING OF THE WAND. Pp. 164. (Sands). 3s. 6d.. Very tastefully bound. 1908. (N.Y.: Benziger). 1.00. Cheap edition, 1s. 6d. 1915. We are used to having depicted with painful realism all our faults, all the defects of Irish life on the material side. This little book denies none of these, but it shows another side of the Irish character, the deep-rooted, intense Catholic faith, the union with the supernatural, that brightens even the most squalid lives. The anecdotes, which are true, are related with delicate insight by one
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