LIST OF 20 BEST BOOKS FOR STUDENTS DESIROUS OF MAKING A SPECIAL STUDY OF IRISH HISTORY.

1. Maine—Early History of Institutions
2. Sullivan—Introduction to O’Curry’s Manners and Customs of Ancient Irish (which ought to be published in a separate form)
3. Todd—Life of St Patrck
4. Richey—Lectures on Irish History
5. Thierry—Norman Conquest
6. Gilbert—Irish Viceroys
7. Davies—Discovery
8. Froude—History of England
9. Gardiner—History of England
10. Prendergast—Cromwellian Settlement
11. Macaulay—History of England
12. O’Conor—History of Irish Catholics
13. Madden—United Irishmen
14. Parnell—Penal Laws
15. Burke—Correspondence, Speeches, Works, and Memoir by John Morley
16. Grattain—Memoirs
17. Swift—Works
18. History of England in XVIII Century
19. Cornwall Lewis—Irish Disturbances
20. Leland—History of Ireland

LIST OF BEST 20 BOOKS FOR STUDENTS WHO PURPOSE WRITING IRISH HISTORY.

1. Annals of the Four Masters
2. O’Curry—MS materials for Irish History
3. O’Curry—Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, with Sullivan’s introduction
4. Adamnan—St Columba
5. Confessions of St Patrick
6. Harris Ware—Antiq Bishops, writers
7. Giraldus Cambrensis
8. Carew—Pacata Hibernia
9. Pynnar—Survey of Ulster
10. Carte—Ormond
11. Gilbert—Confederation of Kilkenny
12. Gilbert—Historie and Municipal Documents
13. Story—Impartial History of Affairs in Ireland, and a Continuation of the History of the War in Ireland
14. The Macariiæ Excidium
15. Curry—Civil Wars
16. Tone—Autobiography
17. Cornwallis Correspondence
18. Castlereagh Correspondence
19. Report and Evidence before Secret Committee of the Irish House of Lords in 1798 respecting the United Irishmen
20. Calendar of State Paper from 1172 to 1762

LIST OF 20 BEST BOOKS FOR GENERAL STUDENT.

1. Walpole—Kingdom of Ireland
2. Leckey—Leaders of Public Opinion
3. Mitchel—History of Ireland
4. Mathew Arnold—Burke on Irish Affairs
5. Greville—Past and present policy of England towards Ireland
6. Goldwin Smith—Irish History and Irish Character
7. Sigerson—Irish Land Tenures
8. O’Callaghan—Irish Brigades
9. Gavan Duffy—Young Ireland
10. Four Years of Irish History
11. Grattan—Speeches
12. Curran—Speeches
13. Plunket—Speeches
14. Mr. Bright—Speeches
15. Bagwell— The Tudors in Ireland
16. Pope Henessey—Raleigh in Ireland
17. Sigerson—Modern Ireland
18. Prendergast—Tory War in Ulster
19. Webb—Compendium of Irish Biography
20. Read—Cabinet of Irish Literature

LIST OF BEST 20 BOOKS FOR GENERAL PUBLIC IN IRELAND.

1. Gavan Duffy—Bird’s eye View of Ireland
2. D’Arcy M‘Gee—Art M‘Murrough
3. ⁠„⁠—History of Ireland
4. Mitchel—Hugh O’Neil
5. Davis—Essay and Poems
6. De Beaumont—Ireland, Social, &c
7. Moore—Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
8. O’Conor—Military History of the Irish Nation
9. D’Arcy M‘Gee—Irish Writers to the 17th Century
10. Wyse—Catholic Association
11. Father Meehan—Confederation of Kilkenny
12. Torrens M'Cullagh—Life of Shell
13. D’Arcy M'Gee—Irish Settlers in America
14. The Spirit of the Nation
15. Aubrey De Vere—Inisfail
16. Joyce—Old Celtic Romances
17. Hayes—Ballads of Ireland
18. Clarence Mangan—Poems
19. Carleton—Traits, &c
20. Moore—Melodies

I have in framing these four lists avoided placing the same book in any two; but I would suggest to the general Irish reader to work his way through the whole four, and thus he may obtain a fairly accurate idea of the history of his country.