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THE BEST HUNDRED IRISH BOOKS.

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  • Maine—Early History of Institutions
    1. Colgan—Acta Sanctorum Hibernæ
    2. Petrie.
    3. Ware—"Antiquities."

    ILLUSTRATIVE FICTION.

    1. Joyce—Deirdre
    2. Ferguson—Lays of the Western Gael
    3. Aubrey de Vere—Legends of St Patrick
    4. Joyce—Old Celtic Romances
    5. O’Donovan—Annals of the Four Masters

    THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD.

    1. Giraldus Cambrensis
    2. Davies—The Discovery
    3. Thierry—Norman Conquest
    4. Gilbert—Irish Viceroys
    5. Monck Mason—The Antiquity and Constitution of the Irish Parliaments

    LITERATURE ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PERIOD.

    1. Ferguson—Hibernian Knights Entertainments

    THE TUDOR PERIOD.

    1. Carew—Pacata Hibernia
    2. Froude—History of England
    3. Spenser—View
    4. Bagwell—Ireland under the Tudors
    5. Pope Hennessy—Raleigh in Ireland

    THE STUART PERIOD.

    1. Gardner—History of England
    2. Carte—Ormond
    3. Brewer—Introduction to Carew’s State Papers
    4. Russell and Prendergast—Introduction to State Papers, Ireland
    5. Prendergast—Cromwellian Settlement
    6. Macaulay—History of England
    7. Story—Impartial History of Affairs in Ireland, and a Continuation of the History of the War in Ireland
    8. The Macariæ Excidium
    9. Harris—Life of William III
    10. Carlyle—Cromwell
    11. Petty—Political Anatomy of Ireland
    12. Clogy—Life of Bedell
    13. Prendergast—Tory War in Ulster

    ILLUSTRATIVE FICTION.

    1. Lefanu—Sir Turlogh O’Brien
    2. Banim—Boyne Water

    THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

    1. Swift—Works
    2. Berkeley—Works
    3. Burke—Speeches, Correspondence, and Works
    4. Skelton—Works
    5. Boulter—Letters
    6. Molyueux—Case of Ireland Stated
    7. Hutchinson—Commercial Restraints
    8. Young—Tour
    9. Campbell—Tour
    10. Dobbs—Trade of Ireland
    11. Prior—List of Absentees
    12. Macartney—Account of Ireland
    13. Hardy—Life of Charlemont
    14. O’Connor—History of the Irish Catholics
    15. Grattan—Speeches, and Memoirs
    16. Curean—Speeches
    17. Curry Civil Wars
    18. Father O'Leary—Works
    19. Taafe—Observations on Affairs in Ireland since the Settlement of 1691
    20. Tone—Autobiography
    21. Madden—Reflections and Resolutions proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland
    22. Mountmorres—History of the Irish Parliament
    23. Parnell—Penal Laws
    24. O’CaUaghan—Irish Brigades
    25. Cornwallis—Correspondence
    26. Castlereagh—Correspondence
    27. Lecky—Leaders of Public Opinion
    28. Madden—United Irishmen
    29. Lucas—Addresses

    FROM THE UNION TO THE PRESENT TIME.

    1. Wakefield—An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political
    2. Newenham—A View of the Natural, Political, and Commercial Circumstance of Ireland, and a Statistical and Historical Inquiry into the Progress and Magnitude of the Population of Ireland
    3. Wyse—The Catholic Association
    4. Madden—Ireland and its Rulers
    5. McLennan—Memoir of Thomas Drummond
    6. Kay—Social Condition of the European People
    7. Plunket—Speeches
    8. De Beaumont—Ireland, Social, Political, and Religious
    9. Sir C Gavan Duffy—Young Ireland, and Four Years of Irish History

    GENERAL HISTORIES.

    1. Leland—History of Ireland
    2. Plowden—Historical Review of the State of Ireland
    3. M'Geoghegan—History of Ireland, with Mitchel’s Continuation
    4. Walpole—The Kingdom of Ireland

    ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIES.

    1. Lanigan—Ecclesiastical History of Ireland
    2. Mant—History of the Irish Church
    3. Reed—History of the Irish Presbyterians

    BOOKS RELATING TO THE LAND QUESTION.

    1. Sigerson—Land Tenures
    2. Cornewall Lewis—Irish Disturbances

    GENERAL SKETCH OF IRISH HISTORY.

    1. Hallam—Constitutional History of England (Chapter on Ireland)

    ILLUSTRATIVE FICTION.

    1. Aubrey de Vere—Innisfail

    GENERAL COMMENT ON IRISH HISTORY.

    1. Greville—Past and Present Policy of England towards Ireland
    2. Parnell—Apology for the Irish Catholics

    NOVELISTS.

    1. Miss Edgeworth—Ennui, The Absentee, Castle Rock Rent, Ormond
    2. Griffin—The Collegians
    3. Banim—Cromore of the Bill hook; Father Connell
    4. Carleton

    POETS.

    1. Moore
    2. Clarence Mangan
    3. Aubrey de Vere
    4. Davis—Poems
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