JOURJNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL UISTORICAL SCJC!E'fY. 19 particulars about it. These are but a few references to IBaillyshannon ln Anglo-Irish •literature, and I ·can assure y-0u that \by the titme ii: have ex;ploited J. P. Dix's "Printin1g in Irish Provincial Towns" 'Ballyshannon wiU 1be first on my list with its ;publitcations of the past one hundred and sixteen years. Before J: leave iBlallyshannon in my quest .for Oo. Donegal local colour and Hterary albitlity I must not forget to mention MacAdam's admiralble "Bundoran And It's Surroundings", and it reminds me not to overlook the literature of !Loch Der•g. This literature varies ·-rrom profanity to schoiarship. I can recommend Leslie~s "St. Patrie-k's Purgatory," Oanon O'Connor's /Book, reprinted by Duffy's in 193•1, and Alice Courtayne's "Loch Derg", whi>ch is still on sale with the Talibot Press, as well as Seymour's study .of the medieval pilgrimage which was pUlblished at DundaJk in 1919. 'Most of the other literature, good and ibad, is still preserved in the libraries of !Mag·ee College, and amongst, the pamphlet sections of May1.nooth College, the British iMuseum, as well as the Halliday collection of the Royal Irish Academy. In our journey nor:filliwards, we pause before Krnbarron, which was long the cradle of a family which gave to Ireland the ".Alllnals of the Four Masters", as no student of Irish history can afford to ignore O'Donovan's full edition or O'C'<mnellan's ipart translation of that /great achievement. 'Wiith ·these I associate Father Paul Walsh's "The Foor Masters and their Work" and his "The O'Clery •F'am1ly of Tirconaill", and it is to be deplored that deatlh robbed Ireland of this noble scholar before he had completed his edition of the "Anna.ls". Kil!barron also reminds us of Father Jenning's "Michael O'Clery", a work which set seat on the controversy over the site of the convent of the Donegal Franciscans during the opening decades of the seventeenth century. It also recalls to mind the prelude to the "Measra" of the O'Clery centenary, Father Vi'ctor Sheppard's "Michael O'Cqery, O.F.M., Knight Errant of History." The vlHage of Ballintra causes us to regret that, so far, we have been unable to lay our hands on Kearney's "History of the Parish of Drumholm''. 'I'his loss is off-set by having on our shelves Eug·ene Der,went's "In the Shadow of an Irish Mountain" and his "The Freedom We Fought For". We ha.ve a'lso. in om scrapbooks, many and varied articles by a brilliant young columnist who is, l believe, now associated with that village. At St. Eman's lived John Hamilton, whose ·boolc. "On Truth and Error,_., Thoughts in Prose and Verse" was pubUs.ned at Cambrid.ge in 1866. The C:ounty Library possesses his aut;obio- ,graphy "Sixty Years Ellcperiences of an Irish Landlord", a.nd I have yet to read his novel "The Three Fenian Brothers", which he produced in 1800. I can only glance at the fugitive verse written on Donegal town. Cine example is Fatther J. C. oannan's ''Donegal Abbey", whtch appeared in "The Irish Ecdesiastic.al Revieiw" of 1889. Most of it is burled in periodicals, magazines and newspa-pers, and Mary Ainge Diver might have suffered a similar fate if an A1mer1c·an publisher, .Connolly, had not produced his "Household Lilbrary of Ireland's Poets". She was the daughter or sister of Thos. Ainge Diver, who was .born in Donegal rubout the year 1800. Dive'r, himself, claimed to be the first Young Irelander on record; by his protest on the arl;>itrary manner in which O'Connell, in his cipinion, .accounted for the disbursement of Reipeal Rents. Diver was also the author of "Tille ()dd Book of the Nineteenth Century or Chi'Valry in Modern Days." It was published in New York in 1882 and dea•ls largely with li'fe in Donegal town aJbou.t the year 1840. The literary family of Boyce needs no introduction from me, and as yet have but scanty information on the w01~ks oI Father Edward Brady or ~he poems of Henderson of Donegal. I have collected a fair amou.nt aibout John Kee, the Tyrone Poet-IJabourer, who set up the tiype and published his own volume of poems before moving to the town of Donegal, where he later founded a printing house. The ilttie village of Mountcha:rles stands high in the Annals of Anglo-Irish Literature of the County Donega•l, and time will only permit me a brief homage to the !grand old man of· the county, Seamus MacManus, and I offer a silent prayer in memory o,f his .gracious wlife, El~hna Carbery, and another for his brother, Patrick MacManus. Inver ·Bay was also the cradle of many literary men, and foremost amongs,t them wer,e Dr. Ma.guire, the historian of the diocese, and J:ames Galla.gher, a poet priest and a far-famed theologian. The Bay was, by the way, the birthpl'ace of the father of Joseph Stephen M'Groal'ty, State member to Congress. imd the orPsent poet-laurate of the State of c1ali:l1ornia-1althoug-h Glenties, the birth-place of his mother, ls the theme of many of his .sweetest songs.
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