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THE BEST HUNDRED IRISH BOOKS.
  1. Maine—Early History of Institutions
  2. Colgan—Acta Sanctorum Hibernæ
  3. Petrie.
  4. Ware—"Antiquities."

ILLUSTRATIVE FICTION.

  1. Joyce—Deirdre
  2. Ferguson—Lays of the Western Gael
  3. Aubrey de Vere—Legends of St Patrick
  4. Joyce—Old Celtic Romances
  5. O’Donovan—Annals of the Four Masters

THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD.

  1. Giraldus Cambrensis
  2. Davies—The Discovery
  3. Thierry—Norman Conquest
  4. Gilbert—Irish Viceroys
  5. Monck Mason—The Antiquity and Constitution of the Irish Parliaments

LITERATURE ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PERIOD.

  1. Ferguson—Hibernian Knights Entertainments

THE TUDOR PERIOD.

  1. Carew—Pacata Hibernia
  2. Froude—History of England
  3. Spenser—View
  4. Bagwell—Ireland under the Tudors
  5. Pope Hennessy—Raleigh in Ireland

THE STUART PERIOD.

  1. Gardner—History of England
  2. Carte—Ormond
  3. Brewer—Introduction to Carew’s State Papers
  4. Russell and Prendergast—Introduction to State Papers, Ireland
  5. Prendergast—Cromwellian Settlement
  6. Macaulay—History of England
  7. Story—Impartial History of Affairs in Ireland, and a Continuation of the History of the War in Ireland
  8. The Macariæ Excidium
  9. Harris—Life of William III
  10. Carlyle—Cromwell
  11. Petty—Political Anatomy of Ireland
  12. Clogy—Life of Bedell
  13. Prendergast—Tory War in Ulster

ILLUSTRATIVE FICTION.

  1. Lefanu—Sir Turlogh O’Brien
  2. Banim—Boyne Water

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

  1. Swift—Works
  2. Berkeley—Works
  3. Burke—Speeches, Correspondence, and Works
  4. Skelton—Works
  5. Boulter—Letters
  6. Molyueux—Case of Ireland Stated
  7. Hutchinson—Commercial Restraints
  8. Young—Tour
  9. Campbell—Tour
  10. Dobbs—Trade of Ireland
  11. Prior—List of Absentees
  12. Macartney—Account of Ireland
  13. Hardy—Life of Charlemont
  14. O’Connor—History of the Irish Catholics
  15. Grattan—Speeches, and Memoirs
  16. Curean—Speeches
  17. Curry Civil Wars
  18. Father O'Leary—Works
  19. Taafe—Observations on Affairs in Ireland since the Settlement of 1691
  20. Tone—Autobiography
  21. Madden—Reflections and Resolutions proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland
  22. Mountmorres—History of the Irish Parliament
  23. Parnell—Penal Laws
  24. O’CaUaghan—Irish Brigades
  25. Cornwallis—Correspondence
  26. Castlereagh—Correspondence
  27. Lecky—Leaders of Public Opinion
  28. Madden—United Irishmen
  29. Lucas—Addresses

FROM THE UNION TO THE PRESENT TIME.

  1. Wakefield—An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political
  2. Newenham—A View of the Natural, Political, and Commercial Circumstance of Ireland, and a Statistical and Historical Inquiry into the Progress and Magnitude of the Population of Ireland
  3. Wyse—The Catholic Association
  4. Madden—Ireland and its Rulers
  5. McLennan—Memoir of Thomas Drummond
  6. Kay—Social Condition of the European People
  7. Plunket—Speeches
  8. De Beaumont—Ireland, Social, Political, and Religious
  9. Sir C Gavan Duffy—Young Ireland, and Four Years of Irish History

GENERAL HISTORIES.

  1. Leland—History of Ireland
  2. Plowden—Historical Review of the State of Ireland
  3. M'Geoghegan—History of Ireland, with Mitchel’s Continuation
  4. Walpole—The Kingdom of Ireland

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIES.

  1. Lanigan—Ecclesiastical History of Ireland
  2. Mant—History of the Irish Church
  3. Reed—History of the Irish Presbyterians

BOOKS RELATING TO THE LAND QUESTION.

  1. Sigerson—Land Tenures
  2. Cornewall Lewis—Irish Disturbances

GENERAL SKETCH OF IRISH HISTORY.

  1. Hallam—Constitutional History of England (Chapter on Ireland)

ILLUSTRATIVE FICTION.

  1. Aubrey de Vere—Innisfail

GENERAL COMMENT ON IRISH HISTORY.

  1. Greville—Past and Present Policy of England towards Ireland
  2. Parnell—Apology for the Irish Catholics

NOVELISTS.

  1. Miss Edgeworth—Ennui, The Absentee, Castle Rock Rent, Ormond
  2. Griffin—The Collegians
  3. Banim—Cromore of the Bill hook; Father Connell
  4. Carleton

POETS.

  1. Moore
  2. Clarence Mangan
  3. Aubrey de Vere
  4. Davis—Poems