The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists, and histories of sub-genres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels. The varied perspectives and emphases by more than a dozen critics and literary historians ensure that the Irish novel receives due tribute for its colour, variety and linguistic verve. Each chapter features recommended further reading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irish novel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the present day. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceINDEX
Act of Union (1800) 8, 10, 36, 39, 46, 50, 55,
60, 63, 67, 71, 79, 98, 238
AE (George Russell) 14, 125, 126, 143
The Interpreters 14
Alexander, Eleanor 15
Allen, Walter 1, 2
Amory, Thomas 1, 22, 30, 31–2
The Life of John Buncle Esq. 30–1
An Gu´m 177, 184
Anderson, Benedict 133
Anglo-Irish 1, 6, 7, 9, 11, 46, 60, 61, 62, 72,
164, 189, 224, 228; see also Ascendancy
Arensberg, Conrad 164
Ascendancy 7–8, 9, 12, 47, 48, 60, 61, 62, 63,
64, 65, 67, 69–70, 72, 73, 77, 98, 100,
121, 122, 125, 191, 193; see also
Anglo-Irish
Austen, Jane 82, 120
Northanger Abbey 82, 84
Pride and Prejudice 121
autobiography 13, 14, 83, 223–36, 249
and Anglo-Ireland 224, 225, 233
and post-modernism 235–6
and the Irish Revival 224, 227
and the novel 223–4
Gaelic autobiography 178–80
Irish autobiography 224
Baker, Ernest A. 1, 4
Barlow, Jane 15
Barrie, J. M. 157
Banim, John 45, 50, 63, 86, 98,
148, 155–6, 238
The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century
50, 51, 52–3
The Boyne Water 50, 54, 55,
99–100, 155–6
The Fetches 87
The Nowlans 100, 101
Banim, Michael 45, 86, 88, 98,
148, 155–6, 238
Crohoore of the Bill-hook 84, 85,
88, 89
The Croppy 100
Banville, John 20, 75, 94, 272
Athena 272
Birchwood 75
Doctor Copernicus 272
Eclipse 272
Ghosts 272
Kepler 272
Mefisto 94, 272
Shroud 272
The Book of Evidence 272
The Newton Letter 75, 272
The Untouchable 272
Barrington, Jonah 87
Personal Sketches 87
Barrington, Margaret 19
Bateman, Colin 251–2, 257
Cycle of Violence 251–2
Divorcing Jack 251–2
Beckett, Samuel 17, 56, 94, 114, 205–6,
209, 210–11, 213, 216, 217,
219–20, 273
Company 234
Malone Dies 208, 211, 212–13, 214–15
Mercier et Camier 220
Molloy 208, 210, 211–12, 214–15
More Pricks than Kicks 206
Murphy 206–8, 213
The Unnamable 208, 211, 213–15
Watt 208–10
Behan, Brendan 232, 233
Borstal Boy 232
Behn, Aphra 24
Belfast 156, 158, 162–3, 229, 248,
252–3, 254Bell, Sam Hanna 94, 159
A Man Flourishing 160
Across the Narrow Seas 160
December Bride 94, 159–60
Bellamy, Liz 56
Bennett, Ronan 273
The Catastrophist 273
Bentley, Phyllis 154
Bhaba, Homi 48
big house 15, 60–1, 75n.1, 75–6n.2
and the Gothic 67–9, 70, 75, 93–4
novel of 15, 61–2, 64, 70, 73,
74, 75, 76–7, 238, 260,
261, 269
Binchy, Maeve 16
Blackwood, Caroline 94
Bodkin, M. McDonnell 18
Bolger, Dermot 265–6
A Second Life 270
The Journey Home 265–6, 267
The Valparaiso Voyage 269
Bowen, Elizabeth 19, 60, 69, 72, 73, 76–7,
189–92, 197, 228–9
AWorld of Love 73, 191–2, 193
Bowen’s Court 73, 228, 236
Pictures and Conversations 228–9
Seven Winters 228
The Heat of the Day 73, 190–1
The Last September 72–3, 190,
192–3
Boylan, Clare 19, 202
Boyle, Robert 4–5
Theodora and Didymus 4
Boyle, Roger 3–4
English Adventures 4
Parthenissa 3–4, 5
Brennan, Maeve 201–2
The Visitor 201–2
Britain (Great Britain) 32–3, 46, 47, 50, 51,
121; see also England
British empire 11, 25, 32, 63, 144
Brooke, Charlotte 54, 80
Brooke, Henry 34
The Fool of Quality 34, 36
Juliet Grenville 34
Brooke, Stopford A. 171
Browne, Frances 86
Bullock, Shan F. 158–9
By Thrasna River 159
Dan the Dollar 159
The Loughsiders 158–9
Burke, Edmund 48, 78, 82
A Philosophical Enquiry 78
Butler, Sarah 23, 24, 31
Irish Tales 23, 24–5
Butt, Isaac 88
Carleton, William 2, 13, 44–5, 63, 65,
67, 88, 101–4, 148, 161, 171, 177,
238, 240
Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman
(Wildgoose Lodge) 88
Fardorougha the Miser 101, 104
The Black Prophet 86, 89, 102–3, 104
The Emigrants of Ahadarra 103–4
‘The Poor Scholar’ 66
The Squanders of Castle Squander 66
Traits and Stories 156, 163
Valentine M’Clutchy 44–5, 66, 101–2, 104
Carson, Ciaran 234, 236
The Star Factory 234, 235, 236
Cary, Joyce 74
Castle Corner 74
Casey, Philip 267
The Fabulists 267
Catholicism 7, 9, 11, 16, 22, 28, 60, 80,
82, 90, 91, 97–8, 111, 121, 125, 137,
142, 156, 162–3, 167, 196, 220, 264,
268–9
Catholic priests 29, 101, 102, 104–5, 125,
126, 261
Catholic Emancipation 39, 52, 56, 64, 98,
101, 238
Catholics see Catholicism
Celtic Revival see Irish Literary Revival
censorship 17; see also Irish Censorship
Board
Chaigneau, William 22, 28, 36, 37n.9
The History of Jack Connor 22,
28–30, 36
Childers, Erskine 18
The Riddle of the Sands 18
civil war see Irish Civil War
Clarke, Austin 129, 130
The Bright Temptation 129
The Singing Men of Cashel 129
The Sun Dances at Easter 129
Cleary, Joe 154
Clissmann, Anne 218
Cochrane, Ian 94
A Streak of Madness 94
Colbert, Harriet 79
Collins, Michael (b. 1964) 264
The Keepers of Truth 273
The Life and Times of a Tea Boy 264
The Resurrectionists 273colonialism (colonisation) 9, 25–6, 33, 48,
51, 53, 60, 74, 171, 248, 253, 256,
274n.9; see also empire, British empire
Colum, Padraic 129, 163–4
The Flying Swans 163–4
The King of Ireland’s Son 14
Congreve, William 5, 7
Incognita 5
Conlon, Evelyn 268
Stars in the Daytime 268
Connolly, Claire 54
Conyers, Dorothea 18
Copyright Act, British (1709) 23, 79
Corbett, Mary Jean 46
Cork 164–5
Corkery, Daniel 14, 164–5, 166
The Threshold of Quiet 164–5
Costello, Mary 223, 257
Coyle, Kathleen 194–6
A Flock of Birds 194–6
Crofts, Freeman Wills 18
Sir John Magill’s Last Journey 18
Croker, B. M. 15
Cromie, Robert 18
A Plunge into Space 18
Crone, Anne 94, 200–1
Bridie Steen 94, 200–1
My Heart and I 200
This Pleasant Lea 200
Cronin, Anthony 220, 232–3
Dead as Doornails 232–3
Cusack, Ralph 20
Cadenza 20
Dampier, William 26
Davitt, Michael 121
de Blacam, Aodh 108
de Valera, Eamon 163, 261, 262
Deane, Seamus 37, 46, 55, 74, 223, 250
Reading in the Dark 248–9
Defoe, Daniel 6, 26
Robinson Crusoe 26
Deleuze, Gilles 47
detective fiction 18
Devlin, Anne 94
Donoghue, Emma 94, 270
Hood 270
Stir-Fry 270
Downey, Edmund 123
Doyle, Roddy 16, 263, 266–7
A Star Called Henry 263
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 266
The Commitments 266–7, 270
The Snapper 266–7, 270
The Van 266–7, 270
The Woman Who Walked into
Doors 269
Dublin 6, 10, 20, 23, 25, 28, 33, 199,
124, 126, 130, 135–6, 139–41,
144, 164, 265–7
Dublin Penny Journal 79, 87, 92
Dublin University Magazine 79, 87,
88, 92
Duffaud, Briege 249–50, 257
AWreath upon the Dead 249–50
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan 123
Dunsany, Lord 200
The King of Elfland’s Daughter 14
Eagleton, Terry 46, 76n.19
Easter Rising (rebellion) 1916 11, 13, 121,
166, 183, 239, 253, 263
Edgeworth, Maria 2–3, 8, 28, 31, 41,
43, 45, 54, 61–4, 65, 66, 67, 69,
70, 98, 238
Castle Rackrent 2, 31, 43, 45–9,
53, 61–2, 65, 67, 68, 71, 84,
153, 205
Ennui 47, 49, 51, 62, 67
Essay on Irish Bulls 48–9
Ormond 44, 47, 62, 65
The Absentee 47, 62–4, 66, 67, 144
Eglinton, John (W. K. Magee) 126
Eliot, T. S. 114, 138
emigration 274
empire (imperialism) 33, 40, 45, 74, 257,
258n.19 See also British empire
England 1, 22, 32, 33, 50, 52, 60 See also
Britain
English novel 1–2, 3, 17
Enlightenment 8, 9, 28, 29, 30, 31, 48,
52, 64, 97
Enright, Anne 94, 271–2
The Wig My Father Wore 271–2
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch 271–2
What Are You Like? 270
epistolary novel 34, 35, 40, 45, 50
Ervine, St John 157–8
Mrs Martin’s Man 158
The Foolish Lovers 158
The Wayward Man 158
Everett, Katherine 228
Famine see Great Irish Famine
Farrell, J. G. 75, 260
Troubles 75Farrell, M. J. see Keane, Molly
Ferguson, Kathleen 268–9
The Maid’s Tale 268–9
Ferguson, (Sir) Samuel 171
Ferris, Ina 21n.1, 42–3, 49, 50, 54
Fielding, Henry 28
First World War see Great War
Flanagan, Thomas 57n.17
Flaubert, Gustave 114, 115, 116,
134, 136, 150n.12
folk tales, 2, 13, 14
Forster, E. M. 172, 205
Foster, Aisling 262–3
Safe in the Kitchen 262–3
Foster, Roy 130
Francis, M. E. 15, 101–2, 104
French revolution 39, 46
Fuller, Anne 40
Gaelic see Irish language
Gaelic autobiography see autobiography
Gaelic culture 8, 12, 23, 24, 31, 226
Gaelic League 12, 106, 171, 177
Gaelic Revival 13, 171–2, 174–5, 238
Gebler, Carlo 260
How to Murder a Man 260
genre, history and theory of, 42
Gibbons, Luke 264
Godwin, William 39, 42
Gogarty, Oliver St John 14, 125, 129
As I Was Going Down Sackville
Street 14, 125, 223
Goldsmith, Oliver 7, 22, 35
The Good Natured Man 35
The Vicar of Wakefield 7, 35
Gothic fiction 8–9, 18, 41, 67–9, 70,
71, 75, 78–83, 84, 86, 89–90, 91,
218, 248, 250, 251, 259, 264, 271
and gender 89–91
Celtic Gothic 80
Irish Gothic 9, 79, 80–1, 83–9, 90, 91–3, 148
see also big house
Grand, Sarah 16
The Heavenly Twins 16
Great Britain see Britain
Great Irish Famine 64, 66–7,
101, 238
Great War 14, 166, 226, 253
Green, F. L. 239
Odd Man Out 239, 255
Gregory, Lady 2, 156
Cuchulain of Muirthemne 14
Gods and Fighting Men 14
Griffin, Gerald (b. 1803) 51, 86, 98, 148, 238
The Collegians 90, 97, 100–1, 104
Griffin, Gerald (b. 1889) 14
The Dead March Past 14
Guattari, Fe´lix 49
Hall, Anna Maria 41
The Whiteboy 41
Hamilton, Hugo 267
Headbanger 267
Surrogate City 273
The Last Shot 273
The Love Test 273
Harbinson, Robert 229–30, 232, 236
Hardy, Thomas 158, 159, 161
Harte, Lara 260
Wild Geese 260
Haverty, Ann 265
One Day as a Tiger 265
Head, Richard 5–7
The English Rogue 5–7
Healy, Dermot 94
A Goat’s Song 271
The Bend for Home 234–5
Heinemann, William 123
Higgins, Aidan 74, 94
Langrishe, Go Down 74
Hinkson, Pamela 19
historical novel 5, 39, 40–1, 260–3
historical tale 40–2, 50, 58n.33
History of Ned Evans, The (Anon.) 33–4,
37n.2
Hogan, Desmond 273
A Farewell to Prague 273
homosexuality 263, 270, 271, 274n.9
Hungerford, Mrs 15
Hyde, Douglas 2, 13, 141, 172
Ibsen, Henrik 134, 136
immigration 274
imperialism see empire
Irish Censorship Board (1929) 168, 197
Irish Civil War 165, 166, 193, 239, 263
Irish Free State 11, 13, 16–17, 18, 19, 129,
153, 156, 196
Irish language 13, 19, 91–3, 171–2, 174–5,
176, 186n.1, 216
Irish Literary Revival 2, 3, 12–15, 19, 106,
121, 129, 143, 145, 156, 163, 164, 178,
189, 216, 224–7; see also Gaelic Revival
Irish Monthly, The 101, 104
Irish novel 1, 3, 11
Irish Republic 11, 13, 20, 269, 270Irish Republican Army (IRA) 20, 72, 166,
180, 238, 239, 242, 246, 247, 265
Irishness 7, 22, 25, 28–30, 36–7, 224
hybridity 30, 216
Johnson, Samuel 50
Johnston, Jennifer 69, 73, 243–4, 257, 270
Fool’s Sanctuary 262
How Many Miles to Babylon 73, 74
Shadows on Our Skin 243–4
The Captains and the Kings 73
The Invisible Worm 269
The Railway Station Man 244
This is Not a Novel 267
Johnstone, Charles 32
Chrysal 32–3
The Adventures of Anthony
Varnish 32, 33
The History of Arsaces 33
The History of John Juniper 32
The Reverie 33
Jordan, Neil 94, 255–7
Angel (Danny Boy) 255–6
The Crying Game 255, 256, 257
Joyce, James 2, 11, 14, 17, 56, 98,
109–10, 114, 117, 124, 126, 128,
130, 133–50, 161, 165, 208, 210,
217, 263, 265, 273
A Portrait of the Artist 69, 98, 109–10,
117, 133–50, 134, 136, 137–8, 141,
147, 196, 197, 223
and G. Moore 144–5
and T. Moore 147–8
and Yeats 134, 135, 136, 137, 138,
143, 146, 149
as modernist 15, 114, 129, 133–4, 145
Dubliners 124–5, 138, 143–4, 145, 147–9
Finnegans Wake 128, 134, 135, 136, 137,
140–1, 142–3, 146, 148, 149
Stephen Hero 134, 135, 136, 137, 139
Ulysses 7, 116, 125, 129, 133, 134, 135,
136, 137, 138–40, 141, 143, 145–6,
148, 149, 176, 267
Kavanagh, Patrick 163, 223, 229, 230–1,
232, 233
Tarry Flynn 163, 230–1
The Green Fool 230
Keane, Molly (M. J. Farrell) 19, 69, 73,
94, 192–4
Devoted Ladies 194
Good Behaviour 73, 74
Loving and Giving 74
Mad Puppetstown 192
The Rising Tide 74, 193
Time After Time 74
Two Days in Aragon 73, 74, 192,
193–4
Kearney, Richard 255
Keating, Geoffrey 24
Kelly, Gary 42, 43, 44, 45, 46
Kelly, Hugh 35
Louisa Mildmay 35
The False Delicacy 35
Kelly, Maeve 260
Necessary Treasons 260
Kennedy, E. L. 94
Twelve in Arcady 94
Kennelly, Brendan 164
The Crooked Cross 164
Kiberd, Declan 116
Kickham, Charles 104–5, 148, 177, 238
Knocknagow 104–5, 163
Kiely, Benedict 161, 230, 236, 242–3
Drink to the Bird 230
Nothing Happens in Carmincross 161
Proxopera 242–3
Kilfeather, Siobha´n 45
Kilroy, Thomas 205, 206
Laffan, May 102–3, 104
Land Acts 15, 70, 121, 158
landed gentry see landlords
landlords 9, 46, 47–8, 60, 62, 63–4, 66, 68,
70, 73, 106, 116
Laverty, Maura 198–9, 200
Lift Up Your Gates 199
Never No More 198
Lavin, Mary 199–200
Mary O’Grady 200
The House in Clewe Street 199–200
Lawless, Emily 87
Grania 90
Le Fanu, Sheridan 67, 68, 86, 88, 94, 122
The House in the Churchyard 88, 148
Uncle Silas 68, 69, 70, 85, 86, 89
Lee, Joseph 164
Lee, Sophia 40, 80
Leerssen, Joep 58n.38
Leitch, Maurice 160–1, 240, 257
Poor Lazarus 160–1, 163, 240
Silver’s City 160, 244–5
The Liberty Lad 160
Lejeune, Philippe 223
Leland, Mary 262
The Killeen 262Lennon, Tom 271
When Loves Comes to Town 271
lesbianism 197, 202–3, 270
Leslie, Sir Shane 141, 226–7
Letts, W. M. 16
Lever, Charles 12, 44, 51, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70,
74, 148
Charles O’Malley 44
The Martins of Cro’ Martin 64–5, 68
The O’Donoghue 44
Lewis, C. S. 18
Out of the Silent Planet 18
The Pilgrim’s Regress 18
life writing see autobiography
Lingard, Joan 241
Lloyd, David 46, 49, 215
Loeber, Rolf 10, 81
London 10, 23, 25–6, 28, 33, 52–3, 79,
116, 124, 130, 168, 206
Lover, Samuel 12, 41, 86, 148
Rory O’More 41
Lynch, Arthur 123
Lynch, Hannah 15
Lynch, Thomas 94
The Undertaking 94
Mac Amhlaigh, Do´ nall 184
Deoraithe 184
Mac Annaidh, Se´amas 185, 187n.19
Cuaifeach Mo Lon Dubh Bui 185
McCabe, Eugene 260–1
Death and Nightingales 260–1
McCabe, Patrick 94, 264–5,
270, 271
Call me the Breeze 265
The Butcher Boy 94, 264–5
The Dead School 264, 265
McCann, Colum 273
Songdogs 273
This Side of Brightness 273
Mac Co´ il, Liam 185
An Claı´omh Solais 185
An Dr A´ thas 185
McCormack, William J. 47, 68, 91
McCourt, Frank 230, 233–4, 236
Angela’s Ashes 233–4
McCrory, Moy 94
MacDonagh, Oliver 66
McGahern, John 20, 168–9, 262
Amongst Women 169, 261, 262
That They May Face the Rising Sun 265
The Barracks 169
The Dark 17, 168–9
MacGill, Patrick 14, 108, 176
McGinley, Patrick 94, 271
Bogmail 271
Goosefoot 271
The Trick of the Ga Bolga 271
Mac Giolla Iasachta, E´ amonn (Edward
McLysaght) 178
Cu´ rsai Thoma´ is 178
Toil De´ 178
Mac Grianna, Seosamh 178–9
An Druma Mo´ r 179
Da´ mBı´odh Ruball ar an E´ an 179
Mo Bhealach Fe´in 178–9
McHenry, James 155–6
McIlroy, Archibald 157
MacLaverty, Bernard 244–5
Cal 244–7, 251, 256
McLaverty, Michael 94, 161–2, 165,
240, 245
Call My Brother Back 240
In This Thy Day 94
Lost Fields 161
School for Hope 162
Truth in the Night 162
MacLysaght, Edward 108
MacMahon, Bryan 164
Children of the Rainbow 164
MacMahon, Ella 16
MacNamara, Brinsley 14, 108, 163
The Clanking of Chains 163
The Valley of the Squinting
Windows 163
McNamee, Eoin 250–1
Resurrection Man 250–1
MacNeice, Louis 229
The Strings are False 229
McNeill, Janet 200, 202–3
Talk to Me 202–3
Tea at Four O’Clock 200
The Maiden Dinosaur 202–3
The Small Widow 202–3
Macpherson, James 79–80
Madden, Deirdre 94, 247–8
Authenticity 267
Hidden Symptoms 247–8
Remembering Light and Stone 273
Maginn, William 88
Malleson, Constance 19, 228
Mangan, James Clarence 85, 89, 92–5,
146–7, 171
marriage 43–4, 54–5, 73, 74
Marshall, W. F. 157
Martin, Augustine 17, 164Martin, Emer 273
Breakfast in Babylon 273
More Bread or I’ll Appear 273
Martyn, Edward 124
Mason, Arthur 14
Wide Seas and Many Lands 14
Maturin, Charles Robert 41, 63, 67, 80, 86,
87, 90
Fatal Revenge 85
Melmoth the Wanderer 67–8, 69, 81, 84,
85, 86, 87, 88, 90–1
The Milesian Chief 9, 55
The Wild Irish Boy 49–50
Meade, L.T. 15
Megaw, W. R. 157
Mercier, Vivian 141
Middlemarch (Eliot) 71
Mills, Lia 268
Another Alice 268, 269
Modernism 15, 113–14, 116, 118, 121, 189,
208, 244
Irish Modernism 114, 120, 121, 122–3,
129–30
Moore, Brian 162–3, 240, 245
Judith Hearne 19, 162
Lies of Silence 247
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 162, 240
The Feast of Lupercal 19, 162–3
Moore, George 5, 11, 13, 14, 17, 61, 69, 73,
109, 114–17, 121, 122, 123, 124–5, 126,
128–9, 130, 165, 197, 225–6, 227, 236
A Drama in Muslin 69–70, 72, 116, 194
A Modern Lover 115–16, 123
A Mummer’s Wife 115–16
A Storyteller’s Holiday 128
‘Albert Nobbs’ 226
and Joyce 144–5
and Stephens 126, 128
as modernist 15, 114, 130
Celibates 145
Confessions of a Young Man 116–17, 225
Esther Waters 122
Hail and Farewell 125, 223, 225, 226
Memoirs of My Dead Life 225
Mike Fletcher 123
The Brook Kerith 109
The Lake 109, 125, 126, 226
The Untilled Field 109, 124–5, 144–5
Ulick and Soracha 128
Moore, Thomas 83, 86
Morgan, Lady see Owenson, Sydney
Morrissy, Mary 270
Mother of Pearl 270
Moynahan, Julian 44, 48
Mulholland, Rosa (Lady Gilbert) 15,
103–4
Marcella Grace 103–4
na gCopaleen, Myles (Flann O’Brien)
179–80, 219
An Be´al Bocht 179–80, 219
national identity see Irishness
national tale 8, 11, 15, 19, 39–40, 41, 42–7,
49–56, 62, 98
nationalism (Irish) 8, 61, 133, 156, 165, 167,
224, 246, 253, 261, 267–8
new woman novel 16
Nı´ Dhuibhne, E´ ilı´s 186
Cailı´nı´ Beaga 186
The Bray House 271
Nolan, Christopher 265
The Banyan Tree 265
Northern Ireland 11, 16, 18, 19–20, 153,
156, 162, 200, 224, 229, 247
novel see autobiography, big house novel,
English novel, epistolary novel, Gothic
fiction, historical novel, Irish novel, new
woman novel, novel in Irish, picaresque
novel, regional novel, Troubles novel,
Ulster novel
novel in Irish 13, 171–3, 184–6, 187n.22
O’Brien, Attie 101, 104
O’Brien, Edna 19, 168
Girls in their Married Bliss 168
The Country Girls 168, 270
The Lonely Girl 168
O’Brien, Flann (Brian O’Nolan) 17, 127, 128,
167, 215–16, 271, 273
At Swim-Two-Birds 127, 167, 215, 216,
217–18, 220
The Dalkey Archive 221n.15
The Hard Life 221n.15
The Poor Mouth (An Be´al Bocht) 215–16,
219–20
The Third Policeman 127, 167, 215, 216,
218–19, 220
See also na gCopaleen, Myles
O’Brien, George 234–5
O’Brien, Kate 196–8, 199
As Music and Splendour 197
Mary Lavelle 197
The Ante-Room 196
The Land of Spices 196–7
The Last of Summer 196, 197, 201
Without My Cloak 196O’Brien, William 106
When We Were Boys 106
O´
Cadhain, Ma´ irtı´n 93, 180–2
An Eochair 182
Athnuachan 182
Barbed Wire 182
Cre´ na Cille 93, 180–2
O’Casey, Sean 243–4, 263, 265
O´
Cı´obha´ in, Pa´draig 185
O´
Conaire, Pa´draic 92, 173–4, 175
Deoraı´ocht 92–3, 174
O’Connell, Daniel 64, 65, 98
O’Connor, Frank 17, 19, 164, 166, 176, 178,
229, 230, 231, 236, 239
An Only Child 231, 232
Dutch Interior 17
O’Connor, Joseph 263, 267
Cowboys and Indians 272
Star of the Sea 263
The Salesman 267
O´
Criomhthain, Toma´ s (Toma´s O´ Crohan)
178, 180
An tOilea´nach (The Islandman) 178, 179,
187n.10, 219
O´
Doibhlin, Breanda´n 182
Ne´al Maidne agus Tine Oı´che 182
O’Donovan, Gerald 11, 14, 98, 107–8, 109,
126, 129, 165
Father Ralph 98, 107, 108, 110
Vocations 108, 126, 165
Waiting 107–8
O’Duffy, Eimar 108, 127, 129, 167
King Goshawk and the Birds 167
The Spacious Adventures 167
O’Faolain, Julia 19
O’Faolain, Nuala 234, 236
Almost There 234
Are You Somebody? 234
O’Faolain, Sean 17, 19, 164, 165,
166–7, 176, 178, 229, 230, 231,
233, 236, 239
A Nest of Simple Folk 166
Bird Alone 17, 166
Come Back to Erin 166–7
Vive Moi! 231–2
O’Flaherty, Liam 165–6, 178
Black Soul 166
The Informer 166, 239, 245–6, 255
The Puritan 168
Thy Neighbour’s Wife 165
O’Flanagan, Sheila 267
O’Grady, Standish James 2, 5,
123, 171
O ´
Grianna, Se´amas 175–7, 179
Caislea´in O´ ir 176, 177
Mo Dha´ Ro´ isı´n 176
O´
hEithir, Breanda´n 184
Lig Sinn I gCathu´ 184
Sionnach ar mo Dhua´n 184
O’Kelly, Seumas 108, 145
O’Leary, Peter 92, 172, 173–4, 175
Se´adna 92, 172
O´
Neachtain, Sea´n 173
O’Neill, Jamie 263
At Swim, Two Boys 263
O´
Sa´ndair, Cathal 184
O´
Se´, Maidhc 185
O´
Su´ ileabha´ in, Aomhlaith 92
O´
Su´ illeabha´ in, Diarmaid 182
An Uain Bheo 182
Caoin Tu´ Fe´in 182
Dianmhuilte De´ 182, 183
O´
Su´ illeabha´ in, Muiris (Maurice
O’Sullivan) 178
Fiche Blian ag Fa´ s (Twenty Years
A-Growing) 178
O´
Tuairisc, Eoghan 182, 183
De´ Luain 183
l’Attaque 183
Olney, James 235
Oriental tale (exotic tale) 40, 49
Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan) 8, 41, 42,
62, 63, 79, 80, 86, 98, 161, 238
Florence Macarthy 49, 54
Patriotic Sketches 58n.37
The Wild Irish Girl 42, 49, 51, 53–4, 55,
63, 83, 84, 155
Palmer, John 41
Paris 19, 114, 115, 129, 130, 134, 137, 210
Parnell, Charles Stewart 12, 98, 121, 122,
166, 238
Parsons, Julie 267
The Courtship Gift 267
Pater, Walter 117–18, 119, 120
Patterson, Glenn 252–3, 254, 257
Fat Lad 252–3
Pearse, Patrick 121, 239, 241
picaresque novel 3, 4, 5, 7, 36
post-colonialism 215–16, 249, 256, 257,
259, 274
post-modernism 212, 214, 216, 218,
235–6, 240, 245, 248, 249, 250–5,
252–3, 263
Pound, Ezra 113, 114, 130, 131,
133–4, 136Power, Arthur 141–2
Presbyterians 156–7
Protestantism 6, 16, 19, 22, 29, 60, 66, 97,
135, 137, 142, 156, 226, 257, 258n.19
and the Gothic 67
Church of Ireland (Anglican) 9, 11, 30,
156, 229
Incorporated Society for Protestant
Schools 29
Non-conformists 7–8, 9
Protestant values, 23
see also Presbyterians
Protestants see Protestantism
Pykett, Lyn 89–90
Radcliffe, Ann 80, 88
Read, Charles A. 3
Read, Thomas 41
realism 7, 25, 83, 137, 138, 143, 144, 160,
167, 208, 228, 234, 245, 255, 259, 263,
266, 271–2
regional novel 45, 51, 56, 153–4
regionalism 153–4, 175; see also regional
novel, Ulster regionalism
Reid, Forrest 157
Peter Waring 157
Young Tom 157
Republic of Ireland see Irish Republic
Richardson, Samuel 34, 35
Clarissa Harlowe 34
Rickard, Mrs Victor 15
Riddell, Mrs J. H. (Charlotte) 15, 85, 94
Ridgway, Keith 267
The Long Falling 271
The Parts 267, 271
Roche, Regina Maria 41, 79, 80, 86
Children of the Abbey 41, 85, 89
romance 3–5, 8, 13, 15, 19, 23, 24, 25, 34,
36, 239, 241
Christian romance 4–5
Gothic romance 83, 84, 92; see also
Gothic fiction
heroic romance 3
national romance 43
scientific romance 18
see also Gothic fiction, national tale
Romanticism 39–40, 46, 50, 53,
133, 143
Ross, Martin (Violet Martin) see Somerville
and Ross
Ross, Ian Campbell 37n.2
Russell, Matthew 104
Ryan, James 272
Home from England 272
Ryan, W. P. 108, 109, 123, 126
The Plough and the Cross 108, 126
The Pope’s Green Island 126
sagas, Irish 2, 30, 31, 216
Saintsbury, George 6
satire 3, 26
sectarianism 19, 240, 248
Scanlan, Patricia 267
science 26
science fiction 18
Scotland 153, 155, 157, 175
Scott, Sir Walter 39, 41, 100, 155
Shaw, George Bernard 114, 116,
121, 122, 158
Sheehan, Canon 11, 14, 105–6, 177
Geoffrey Austin 105
Luke Delmege 106
My New Curate 105–6
The Blindness of Dr Gray 106
The Graves of Kilmorna 106
The Triumph of Failure 105
Shelley, Mary 91
Sheridan, Frances 22, 34, 35
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 34–5
The History of Nourjahad 35
Smollett, Tobias 28, 37n.2
Roderick Random 28
Smyth, Gerry 259
Somerville (Edith) and (Martin) Ross (Violet
Martin) 12, 61, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71,
73, 114, 120–1, 123
An Irish Cousin 70
Mount Music 71
Some Experiences of an Irish RM 123
The Big House of Inver 71–2, 73, 123
The Real Charlotte 71, 72, 120–1,
123, 144
Standu´ n, Pa´draig 185
Su´ il le Breith 185
Starkie, Enid 228
Stephens, James 14, 114, 126–8, 129,
130, 271
A Charwoman’s Daughter 126
and G. Moore 126, 128
Here are Ladies 126, 127
The Crock of Gold 127–8
Sterne, Laurence 7, 31–2, 214
Tristram Shandy 7
Stevenson, Lionel 1, 2, 5Stewart, Susan 50
Stoker, Bram 2, 67, 68, 93, 114, 121, 122,
123, 130
Dracula 3, 9, 16, 18, 69, 82, 83, 85, 86,
122, 131, 131n.13
Stouthamer-Loeber, Magda see Loeber, Rolf
Stuart, Francis 242, 260
A Hole in the Head 242
Swift, Jonathan 7, 8, 25–6, 27–8, 29, 30, 214
A Tale of a Tub 26
Gulliver’s Travels 18, 25–7, 35, 36
The Battle of the Books 26
The Drapier’s Letters 25, 143
Synge, J. M. 117, 226, 227, 229
‘tales of the times’ 41–2, 49, 50, 51, 55
Thackeray, W. M. 142
Thurston, Katherine Cecil 15
John Chilcote, MP 16
Titley, Alan 185
An Fear Da´na 185
To´ ibin, Colm 261–2
The Blackwater Lightship 271
The Heather Blazing 261–2
The South 273
Tomelty, Joseph 161, 162
Red is the Port Light 161
Tone, Theobald Wolfe 41, 161
Tracy, Robert 46
travel 3, 25, 28, 35, 52, 53
Trevor, William 73, 94
Excursions in the Real World 233
Felicia’s Journey 272
Fools of Fortune 74
The Silence in the Garden 74
The Story of Lucy Gault 74, 261
Trinity College Dublin 3, 5, 30, 33, 147, 206
Triumph of Prudence over Passion, The
(Anon.) 35–6
Trollope, Anthony 51
The Kellys and the O’Kellys 51
Troubles (1919–22) 192
Troubles (1969–98) 19–20, 238, 240
Troubles novel 20, 238, 255
and film 20, 255–7
and post-modernism 240, 245,
248, 250–5
and romance 241
as thriller 239, 241, 245, 255
women authors 243–4
Trumpener, Katie 31, 42–3, 50–1
Tynan, Katharine 3, 15, 16, 102, 104
Ua Laoghaire, Peadar see O’Leary, Peter
Ua Maoileoin, Pa´draig 185
Ulster 9, 158–9, 251; see also Northern
Ireland
Ulster novel 155, 156–63, 240; see also
Troubles novel
Ulster regionalism 154–5, 156
Unionism (Irish) 61, 66
Unionism (Ulster) 158, 229, 252–3
Unwin, T. Fisher 123–4
Vance, Norman 45
Vertue Rewarded (Anon.) 23–4, 25
Waddell, Helen 5, 19
Wall, Mervyn 167–8
No Trophies Raise 168
The Return of Fursey 167–8
The Unfortunate Fursey 167–8
Walpole, Horace 78–9
The Castle of Otranto 9, 79, 80
Walsh, Maurice 164
Green Rushes 164
Thomasheen James 164
Watson, Nicola 42, 43–4, 45, 46
Watt, Ian 1, 2, 10
Wells, H. G. 18, 158
West, Jane 41
Whelan, Kevin 75n.2
White, Agnes Romilly 156
Wilde, Lady 123
Wilde, Oscar 2, 85, 114, 116, 117, 121, 122,
129, 130, 145
The Picture of Dorian Gray 3, 16, 85,
90–1, 118–19, 130–1n.6
William III, 23, 25, 28, 50, 99
Williamite Wars see William III
Wills, James 88
Wilson, Robert McLiam 253–5, 257
Eureka Street 253, 254–5
Ripley Bogle 253–4
Wollstonecraft, Mary 39
women and the novel 186, 187–8n.23,
189–203, 243–4, 262, 267–9
women in Ireland 189, 202, 203, 268, 269
Yeats, W. B. 2, 3, 12, 13, 15, 61, 65, 68, 70,
71, 114, 117, 119–20, 121, 123, 124,
126, 129, 130, 133, 138, 145, 154, 157,
158, 227, 229, 232, 238, 239
A Vision 227
and Carleton 13Yeats, W. B. (cont.)
and Catholicism 16
and Joyce 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 143,
146, 149
and the novel 13–14
Autobiography 227
Fairy and Folk Tales 13
Irish Fairy Tales 13
John Sherman 13
Rosa Alchemica 119
The Adoration of the Magi 119
‘The Crucifixion of the Outcast’ 119–20
The Secret Rose 119
The Speckled Bird 14
The Tables of the Law 119
Young, Arthur 48, 50, 51, 52, 63, 75