The Squireen pp. 288. ~etnuen, England. M'Olure N.Y. (1903) Shan F. Bullock A study of Ulster marriage customs. Jane Fallon is pr.actically sold to the Squireen ·by her family, and a.fiter long resistance, y·ields, and marries him. Tragic consequences follow. Most of the chaTacters are Ulster Protestant peasants. "The Squireen" is a study of the old tYiPe of fox-hunting gentleman . farmer, but it is a soul-study rather than a. study of 'bygone ways. The Gap of Banmmore 3 Vols. each aJbout 335 pP. London (1848). Isaac Butt "A tale of the Irish Highl.ands and •the Revolution of 1688." Ai~ared without the author's name. An attempt to portray withoUlt partisan b~as the eveillts of the time and the heroism of ;both sides in the Wllliamite WaTs. The whole question at issue betl\Veen the colonists and tlhe na.tive Irish is well discussed in a conversation between Father M!eehan, reipresenting the latter, and ea.pt.a.in Spencer, r~preseruting the former. Every ward of it applies, as it was meant to awly, to modern times. Chapters of a College ROJRance (1870). Isaac Butt' These are a number of short, monbid stories which first appea·red in the Dulblin University Magazine shortly after its founding. They PUl'l.POrt to be founded on fact, and the scene of one of them ls laid in StranorlaT Graveyari;i. Baldearg O'Donnell: 2 Vols. Marcus Ward. ff•. Albert Stratford A Tale of 1690 noou. George Canning This O'Donnell was for a short time an im:lependent, half-:guerilla, leader on the Irish side. A.flterwards, on the promise of a pens'ion, he deserted to the English. '1He had the shallowness, thearrogance, the presumption, the want of sincerity and patriotism of too many Irish Chiefs." Glenveagh, or the Victims Boston (1870). Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy of Vengeance First ~ea.red in the "Boston Pilot"; after'Wlards in book form. Deals with the celebrated Glenveagh trials, arising f'rom difficuUies between landlord and tenant, at which the author had been pr(jsent in boyhood. Lord Ciandonnell pp. 166 Was'hlboume (1914). S. M. Christina An, ingenious and pious little story, pleasantly written With albundance of incident. The scene shifts between Donegal, Italy, Ameri~a.. and Rostrevor. Olaf the Dane ,pp. 103. John Denvir Seely Bryers, Dublin Scene: Donegal. ~traordlnary story, full of sensational incident. It turns chiefly on a prophecy made in the nint'h century aibou.t men then living, whic'h is fulfilled in their descendants of the nineteenth century. One of these later is endowed wLth SU[pernatural powers. There are some pretty faithful pictures of the peasantry. Valley of Graneen !Davies (1944). Sean Dorman The bo.ok deals with the peoipie in Ute Gortahork-F1a.lcarragh distriet, and is not com11>limerntary and is ait times disgusting. Unchronicled Heroes Ga.Hey, Deny (1888). 1/- R. W. K. Edwards A story of the Siege of Deuy. Walker and Mackenzie are introduced, the former highly lauded, the latter disparaged. Appendix (ftUing nearly half the book) gives extracts from scarce documents relating to the Siege.
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