Anthology of Irish Literature
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I: Early Irish Lyrics
TRANSLATIONS
FROM THE GAELIC
The
Viking Terror
A
Pet Crane
A
Son of the King of Moy
The
Wife of Aed mae Ainmirech, King of
Ireland, Laments
for Her Husband
A
Love Song
The
Drowning of Conaing
The
Deer’s Cry
In
Praise of Aed
The
Scribe
The
Miserly Patron
Pangur
Ban
The
Vision of Ita
He
That Never Read A Line
On
A Dead Scholar
The
Church Bell in the Night
Starry
Sky
The
Desire for Hermitage
The
Wish of Manchin of Liath
The
Pilgrim at Rome
Winter
Has Come
The
Ivy Crest
Summer
is Gone
May
A
Song of Winter
To
Crinog
The
Old Woman of Beare
I
Should Like to Have a Great Pool of Ale
St.
Columcille the Scribe
A
Storm at Sea
The
Praises of God
The
Blackbird
St.
Columcille’s Island Hermitage
Part II: Myth, Saga, and Romance
TRANSLATIONS
FROM THE GAELIC
The
Dream of Oenghus
The
Boyhood Deeds of Cuchulain
The
Tragic Death of Connla
Fand
Yields Cuchulain to Emer
Cuchulain’s
Lament for Ferdiad
The
Death of Cuchulain
The
Story of Deirdre
The
Colloquy of the Old Men
The
Fianna
The
Headless Phantoms
The
Bathing of Oisin’s Head
Goll’s
Parting With His Wife
MICHAEL
COMYN:
Oisin
in the Land of Youth
The
Voyage of Bran
Mad
Sweeney
Part III: The Bardic Tradition
COURT
POETRY TRANSLATED FROM THE GAELIC
Lamentation
of Mac Liag for Kincora
DONNCHADH MOR
O'DALA
At Saint
Patrick's Purgatory
ANGUS O'GILLAN
The
Dead at Clonmacnois
TADHG
O'G O'HUIGINN
On
the Breaking-up of a School
The
Student
EOCHY O'HUSSEY
Hugh
Maguire
LAOISEACH MAC AN
BHAIRD
Civil
Irish and Wild Irish
TADHG DALL
O'HUIGINN
Maelmora
MacSweeney
The First Vision
The
Second Vision.
The Good Tradition
The Flight of the
Earls
PEADAR O'MULCONRY
Were
Not the Gael Fallen
MAHON O'IIEFFERNAN
Who
Will Buy a Peom?
GEOFFREY KEATING
From the History of Ireland
How Emain Macha
Got Its Name
Loingseach's
Horse Ears
The Death of
Curaoi
Mochua's Riches
St. Columkille
Brian Boru
Part IV: Modern Irish Poetry
TRANSLATIONS
FROM THE GAELIC
GERALD, EARL OF DESMOND
Against Blame of
Women
Do Not Torment Me, Woman
Reconciliation
He Praises Her Hair
No Sufferer for Her Love
Of Women No More Evil
He Praises His Wife When She Has Left
Him
Dark Rosaleen
Death's Warning to Beauty
PIERCE FERRITER
He Charges Her to
Lay Aside Her Weapons
The Harper
The Woman of Three Cows
EGAN O'RAHILLY
The Reverie
The Geraldine's
Daughter
A Sleepless Night
A Grey Eye Weeping
Egan O'Rahilly and the Minister
EILEEN O'LEARY
The Lament for Art
O'Leary
Tara is Grass
The Convict of Clonmel
BRIAN MERRIMAN
The
Midnight Court
ANTHONY
RAFTERY
I
Am Raftery
The
County Mayo
The
Brow of Nephin
My
Grief on the Sea
Ringleted Youth of My Love
I
Shall Not Die For Thee
Part V: Irish Literature in English
The Irish Dancer
A Rhyme-beginning
Fragment
Cokaygne
An
Anglo-Irishman's Complaint
JONATHAN
SWIFT
A
Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children
of
Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Adventure in Cork
The Shan Van Vocht
The Wearin' o' the Green
The Croppy Boy
THOMAS MOORE
Oh, Breathe Not
His Name
The Harp That Once
Through Tara's Halls
The Meeting of the
Waters
The Song of
Fionnuala
She is Far from
the Land
The Minstrel Boy
Dear Harp of My
Country
WILLIAM
CARLETON
The
Hedge School
JAMES
CLARENCE MANGAN
A
Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century
To
My Native Land
CHARLES
LEVER
The
Hunt
SAMUEL
FERGUSON
The
Abdication of Fergus MacRoy
The
Burial of King Cormac
AUBREY
DE VERE
The
Wedding of the Clans
WILLIAM
ALLINGHAM
The
Fairies
JOHN
TODHUNTER
Aghadoe
The Peeler and the Goat
WILLIAM
LARMINIE
The
Nameless Dun
GEORGE MOORE
The
Murrigan
LADY GREGORY
The
Rising of the Moon
T.
W. ROLLESTON
The
Grave of Rury
EDITH OENONE SOMERVILLE AND MARTIN
ROSS
Poisson
d'Avril
GEORGE
BERNARD SHAW
Preface
to John Bull's Other Island
W. B. YEATS
Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
The Folly of Being
Comforted
To A Shade
In Memory of Major
Robert Gregory
Sailing to
Byzantium
Leda and the Swan
Among School
Children
The Wild Old
Wicked Man.
The Statues
AE
Truth
The
Twilight of Earth
On
Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition
A
Prisoner
NORA HOPPER
The King of
Ireland's Son
J.
M. SYNGE
Act
III from Deirdre of the Sorrows
OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY
The
Crab Tree
Ringsend
Exorcism
To
the Liffey with the Swans
Per
Iter Tenebricosum
Verse
To
the Maids Not to Walk In the Wind
To W B. Yeats, Who
Says That His Castle of Ballylee Is His Monument
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The Old Age
Pensioner
The Unfrocked
Priest
I Am the Mountainy
Singer
I Am the Gilly of
Christ
As I Came Over the
Grey, Grey Hills
I Will Go With My
Father A-Ploughing
The Herb-Leech
SEAN O'CASEY
The
Raid
PADRAIC
COLUM
A Drover
A Poor Scholar of
the 'Forties
JAMES STEPHENS
The Wind
The College of
Surgeons
Check
The Crest Jewel
JAMES JOYCE
Ivy
Day in the Committee Room
AUSTIN CLARKE
Night and Morning
Tenebrae
The Straying
Student
F. R. HIGGINS
An Old Air
Song for the
Clatter-Bones
LIAM O'FLAHERTY
The
Wild Sow
KATE O'BRIEN
A Difficult
Question
SEAN O'FAOLAIN
My
Grander
FRANK O'CONNOR
In
the Train
PATRICK KAVANAGH
Father Mat
A Christmas
Childhood
If Ever You Go to
Dublin Town
LOUIS MACNEICE
Valediction
Carrickfergus
From Autumn
Journal
W. R. RODGERS
The Raider
Lent
Christ Walking on
the Water The Net
Spring
Bibliography
Index of Authors, Translators, and Titles
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