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| Selected Contents by Theme and Genre | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Editorial Note | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Chronology of Selected Historical Events and Irish Novels | |
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| Map of Ireland | |
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| Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788) | |
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| from An Humble Appeal to the Publick (1758) | |
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| A Proposal | |
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| The Brave Irishman: Or, Captain O�Blunder. A Farce (1759) | |
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| Frances Sheridan (1724-1766) | |
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| from The Discovery (1763) | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Ode to Patience (wr. 1764 | |
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| Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) | |
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| from The Citizen of the World (1762) | |
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| Letter XVII | |
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| from Letter XXXII | |
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| The Deserted Village (1770) | |
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| from Poems (1775) | |
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| Retaliation | |
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| Edmund Burke (1729-1797) | |
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| from A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) | |
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| From Part I | |
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| XI. SOCIETY and SOLITUDE | |
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| XIII. SYMPATHY | |
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| XIV. The effects of SYMPATHY in the distresses of others | |
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| XV. Of the effects of TRAGEDY | |
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| Of the passion caused by the SUBLIME | |
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| Terror | |
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| Obscurity | |
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| Of Beauty | |
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| The Sublime and Beautiful compared | |
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| from Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) | |
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| Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733-c.1812) | |
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| The Captive: A Comic Opera (1769) | |
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| John Leslie (fl. 1772) | |
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| Killarney: A Poem (1772) | |
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| Joseph Cooper Walker (1761-1810) and Turlough O�Carolan (1670-1738) | |
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| from Walker�s Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1786) | |
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| Bumpers, �Squire Jones (imitated from Carolan) | |
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| Carolan�s Monody on the Death of Mary Mac Guire | |
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| Charlotte Brooke (c.1740-1793) | |
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| from Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789) | |
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| from Preface | |
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| Elegy (by Edmond Ryan, or Edmond of the Hill) | |
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| Song | |
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| Elizabeth Ryves (1750-1797) | |
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| from Poems on Several Occasions (1777) | |
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| Ode to Sensibility | |
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| A Ballad, Written in June, 1775 | |
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| Song | |
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| Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) | |
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| St. Patrick�s Day; Or, the Scheming Lieutenant. A Comic Opera (1788) | |
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| from Union of Ireland with Great Britain (parliamentary speech, January 23, 1799 | |
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| Abolition of Slavery (parliamentary speech, March 17, 1807 | |
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| MARY O�BRIEN (fl. 1790) | |
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| from The Political Monitor (1790) | |
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| Ode, For the Prince of Wales�s Birth Day | |
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| Paddy�s Opinion: An Irish Ballad | |
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| James Porter (1752-1798) | |
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| from Billy Bluff and �Squire Firebrand: Or, A Sample of the Times (1796) | |
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| Northern Star, May 21, 1796 | |
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| Northern Star, July 18, 1796 | |
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| Northern Star, August 15, 1796 | |
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| Paddy�s Resource (c.1800) | |
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| The Exiled Irishman's Lamentation | |
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| The United Real Reformer | |
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| Edward | |
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| William Drennan (1754-1820) | |
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| from Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose (1815) | |
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| Erin | |
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| Wake | |
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| Lines, On Some Improvements in the Town of Belfast, Superintended by the Marchioness of D�� | |
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| Glendalloch | |
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| Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826) | |
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| from Extracts and Original Anecdotes (1794) | |
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| On Youth, Beauty, Wealth and Virtue (Addrest to a Child | |
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| Divine Odes | |
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| from Poems (1808) | |
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| The Negro (Addressed to Edmund Burke) | |
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| The Triumph of Terror | |
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| from Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry (1813) | |
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| Dialogue XVIII: Chastisement | |
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| John Corry (fl. 1797-1825) | |
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| from Odes and Elegies, Descriptive and Sentimental, with The Patriot: A Poem (1797) | |
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| Death: An Ode | |
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| Peace: An Elegy | |
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| The Patriot: A Poem, Descriptive of an Invasion of Ireland by the Danes, and their Expulsion by the Irish | |
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| from The Detector of Quackery; Or, Analyser of Medical, Philosophical, Political, Dramatic, and Literary Imposture (1802) | |
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| from Medical Empiricism | |
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| Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) and RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH (1744-1817) | |
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| from Essay on Irish Bulls (1802) | |
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| Chapter I. Vulgar Errours | |
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| Chapter VI. Little Dominick | |
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| from Popular Tales (1804) | |
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| The Limerick Gloves | |
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| James Orr (1770-1816) | |
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| from Poems, On Various Subjects (1804) | |
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| Elegy, On the Death of Mr. Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Poet | |
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| A Prayer, Written on the eve of the unfortunate 7th of June, 1798 | |
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| The Banks of Larne | |
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| Elegy, Written in the Church-yard of Templecorran | |
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| The Passengers | |
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| Mary Tighe (1772-1810) | |
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| from Psyche, With Other Poems (1811) | |
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| Written at the Eagle�s Nest, Killarney | |
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| Written at Killarney | |
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| On Leaving Killarney | |
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| The Shawl�s Petition, To Lady Asgill | |
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| Bryan Byrne, of Glenmalure | |
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| Thomas Dermody (1775-1802) | |
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| from Poems (1789) | |
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| Contemplative Verses On the Tombs in Drumcondra Church-Yard, in the Manner of Gray | |
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| from Poems, Consisting of Essays, Lyric, Elegiac, &c. (1792) | |
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| The Poet�s Pen, A Fable | |
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| To Miss Sidney and Miss Olivia Owenson | |
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| from Poems, Moral and Descriptive (1800) | |
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| The Days of Yore | |
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| Thomas Moore (1779-1852) | |
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| from Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems (1806) | |
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| Epistle II: To Miss M��e (From Norfolk, in Virginia, November, 1803 | |
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| To Mrs. Henry T�ghe, On Reading Her �Psyche� | |
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| from Intercepted Letters; Or, the Two-Penny Post-Bag (1813) | |
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| Preface | |
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| Letter I | |
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| Letter VII | |
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| from Irish Melodies (1807-1834) | |
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| Oh! Breathe Not His Name (1807) | |
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| Take Back the Virgin Page (1807) | |
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| from Letter to the Marchioness Dowager of Donegal (1810) | |
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| Oh! Blame Not the Bard (1810) | |
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| The Irish Peasant to His Mistress (1810) | |
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| The Prince�s Day (1811) | |
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| By That Lake Whose Gloomy Shore (1811) | |
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| She Is Far from the Land (1811) | |
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| The Minstrel-Boy (1813) | |
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| Shall the Harp Then Be Silent? (1821) | |
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| from Lalla Rookh (1817) | |
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| from [The Fire-Worshippers] | |
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| from Fables for the Holy Alliance (1823) | |
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| Lines on the Entry of the Austrians into Naples, 1821) | |
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| Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (c.1783-1859) | |
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| from Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies (1805) | |
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| from Preface | |
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| Ah who is that; or Emunh a Cnuic, or Ned of the Hills | |
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| When floating o�er; or Cathleen Nolan | |
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| Oh! Gracy Once I Thought Thee Mine | |
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| from Lay of an Irish Harp (1807) | |
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| Twilight (Fragment XXII | |
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| from Absenteeism, No. 1 (1824) | |
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| William Carleton (1794-1869) | |
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| from Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (1833) | |
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| Wildgoose Lodge | |
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| from Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (1843) | |
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| from Auto-biographical Introduction | |
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| Jeremiah John Callanan (1795-1829) | |
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| The Convict of Clonmel (1823) | |
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| from The Recluse of Inchidony, and Other Poems (1830) | |
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| Written to a Young Lady, On entering a Convent | |
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| Lines | |
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| Hussa Tha Measg na Realt�n More | |
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| The Outlaw of Loch Lene | |
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| John Banim (1798-1842) and MICHAEL BANIM (1796-1874) | |
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| from Chaunt of the Cholera, Songs for Ireland (1831) | |
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| Advertisement | |
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| The Irish Mother to Her Child | |
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| Song | |
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| The Irish Peasant to His Priest | |
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| from The Bit O� Writin� and Other Tales (1838) | |
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| The Church-Yard Watch | |
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| Samuel Lover (1797-1868) | |
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| from Legends and Stories of Ireland (1832) | |
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| from Preface | |
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| King O�Toole and St. Kevin: A Legend of Glendalough | |
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| O�CONNELL�S CALL AND PAT�S REPLY (Lithograph, 1843 | |
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| The Nation: The Early Years (1842-1844) | |
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| The Nation (1842) | |
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| My Grave (1842) | |
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| How to Make an Irish Story (1843) | |
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| A Voice from America (1843) | |
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| Convicted Criminals (1844) | |
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| James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) | |
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| The Philosopher and the Child (1833) | |
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| The Jacobite Relics of Ireland (1841) | |
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| Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan | |
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| from German Anthology (1845) | |
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| An Irish Lamentation (by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
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| Advice (1846) | |
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| The Warning Voice (1846) | |
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| Dark Rosaleen (1846) | |
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| A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century (1846) | |
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| The Lovely Land (1846) | |
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| Leonora (1846) | |
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| The Nameless One (1849) | |
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| from The Poets and Poetry of Munster (1849) | |
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| A Whack at the Whigs | |
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| Edmund of the Hill | |
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| from Fragment of an Unpublished Autobiography (1882) | |
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| Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886) | |
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| The Forging of the Anchor (1832) | |
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| [Thomas Davis: An Elegy] (1847) | |
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| from Lays of the Western Gael, and Other Poems (1865) | |
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| The Burial of King Cormac | |
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| Willy Gilliland: An Ulster Ballad | |
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| from Versions from the Irish | |
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| Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Timoleague | |
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| Grace Nugent | |
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| from Poems (1880) | |
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| The Morning�s Hinges | |
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| Dear Wilde: An Elegy | |
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| Aubrey Thomas De Vere (1814-1902) | |
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| from Poems (1855) | |
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| To Burns�s �Highland Mary� | |
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| The Year of Sorrow � Ireland � 1849 | |
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| from Irish Odes and Other Poems (1869) | |
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| from Preface | |
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| Ode X, An Irish �God Save the Queen� | |
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| On a Recent Volume of Poems | |
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| Joseph Sheridan Lefanu (1814-1873) | |
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| A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family (1839) | |
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| Denis Florence Maccarthy (1817-1882) | |
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| from Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics (1850) | |
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| The Pillar Towers of Ireland | |
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| The Living Land | |
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| The Voice in the Desert | |
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| Afghanistan | |
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| A Walk by the Bay of Dublin | |
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| from Underglimpses, and Other Poems (1857) | |
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| Spirit Voices | |
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| Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) | |
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| Arrah-na-Pogue; Or, the Wicklow Wedding (1864) | |
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| Lady Jane Wilde (1821-1896) | |
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| from Poems (1864) | |
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| The Famine Year | |
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| A Supplication | |
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| Ruins | |
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| La Via Dolorosa | |
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| from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland (1887) | |
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| The Midnight Ride: A Peasant�s Tale | |
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| The Bards | |
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| from St. Patrick | |
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| The Well of the Book | |
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| St. Patrick and the Serpent | |
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| St. Bridget | |
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| St. Kevin | |
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| from Notes on Men, Women, and Books (1891) | |
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| Thomas Moore | |
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| William Allingham (1824-1889) | |
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| from The Music-Master, A Love Story, and Two Series of Night and Day Songs (1855) | |
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| The Fairies: A Nursery Song | |
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| The Maids of Elfen-Mere | |
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| from Songs, Ballads, and Stories (1877) | |
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| The Winding Banks of Erne: Or, the Emigrant�s Adieu to Ballyshanny | |
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| from Evil May-Day (1882) | |
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| Sleepy | |
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| Bridget Kavanagh (c.1800-1887) and Julia Kavanagh (1824-1877) | |
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| from The Pearl Fountain and Other Fairy Tales (1876) | |
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| The Pearl Fountain | |
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| Thomas D�arcy Mcgee (1825-1868) | |
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| from Poems by Thomas D�Arcy McGee, Chiefly Written in America (1854) | |
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| Hail to the Land | |
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| Experience | |
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| St. Patrick�s of the Woods | |
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| from Canadian Ballads and Occasional Verses (1858) | |
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| Freedom�s Journey | |
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| Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) | |
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| from Poems (1881) | |
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| from Eleutheria | |
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| Sonnet to Liberty | |
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| Ave Imperatrix | |
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| To Milton | |
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| Theoretikos | |
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| from Rosa Mystica | |
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| Resquiescat | |
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| In the Gold Room: A Harmony | |
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| from The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) | |
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| The Selfish Giant | |
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| from The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue (1889) | |
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| The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) | |
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| Katharine Tynan (1861-1931) | |
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| from Ballads and Lyrics (1891) | |
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| The Wild Geese (A Lament for the Irish Jacobites | |
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| from An Isle in the Water (1895) | |
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| The Unlawful Mother | |
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| from The Cabinet of Irish Literature (1902) | |
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| from Introduction | |
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| William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) | |
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| from A Book of Irish Verse (1895) | |
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| from Introduction | |
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| Dora Sigerson (1866-1918) | |
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| from Verses (1893) | |
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| Man�s Discontent | |
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| Spring Song � To Ireland | |
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| The Flight of the Wild Geese | |
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| What We Must Do | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines of Verse | |
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| Index to Headnotes and Notes | |