Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature

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English-Language Authors

William Allingham (1824-1889)

• Poems (1850)
• Day and Night Songs (1854)
• The Music Master (1855)
• Nightingale Valley (1860)
• Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland (1864)
• The Ballad Book (1864)
• Fifty Modern Poems (1865)
• Rambles (1873)
• Songs, Ballads and Stories (1877)
• Evil May-Day (1882)
• Ashby Manor (1883)
• Blackberries (1884)
• Irish Songs and Poems (1887)
• Life and Phantasy (1889)
• A Diary (1907)
• By the Way (1912)

Edmund John Armstrong (1841-1865)

• Poems by the Late Edmund John Armstrong (1865)

George Francis Armstrong (1845-1906) a.k.a. George Francis Savage-Armstrong

• Poems (1869)
• Ugone:  A Tragedy (1870)
• The Tragedy of Israel:  King Saul (1872); King David (1874); King Solomon (1876)
• (ed.) Life and Letters of Edmund J. Armstrong (1877)
• (ed.) Poetical Works of Edmund J. Armstrong (1877)
• (ed.) Essays and Sketches of Edmund J. Armstrong (1877)
• Garland from Greece (1882)
• Stories of Wicklow (1886)
• Victoria Regina et Imperatrix: A Jubilee Song from Ireland, 1887 (1887)
• (ed.) The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards (1888)
• Mephistopheles in Broadcloth:  A Satire (1888)
• One in the Infinite (1891)
• Queen-Empress and Empire, 1837-1897 (1897)
• Ballads of Down (1901)

John Banim & Michael Banim (John [1798-1842] and Michael [1796-1874]) Note:  Much of the Banims' work was collaborative, often under the name, "the O'Hara Family," so distinguishing who wrote what is often difficult, especially given the varying degrees of collaboration.  Usual attributions are given below in parentheses.  The matter is further complicated by the republishing of some texts, or fragments of texts, under different titles.  Many of the novels were reissued in later years with notes and introductions by Michael Banim.

• The Celt's Paradise (1821, John)
• Damon and Pythias: A Tragedy, in Five Acts (1821, John)
• A Letter to the Committee appointed to appropriate a fund for a national testimonial, commemorative of His Majesty's first visit to Ireland (1822)
• Revelations of the Dead Alive (1824, John); reissued in 1845 as London and its Eccentricities in the Year 2023, or Revelations of the Dead Alive
• The Tales of the O'Hara Family (John and Michael):  First series (1825); Second series (1827)
• The Nowlans (1825)
• The Boyne Water (1826, John)
• The Croppy, a Tale of 1798 (1828, Michael)
• The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century. A novel (1828, John)
• The Denounced; or, the Last Baron of Crana (1830, John)
• The Smuggler (1831, John)
• Chaunt of the Cholera:  Songs for Ireland (1831, John and Michael)
• The Ghost-Hunter and His Family (1833, Michael)
• The Mayor of Wind-Gap and Canvassing (1835, Michael and Harriet Letitia Martin [see below])
• The Bit O' Writin' and Other Tales (1838, John and Michael)
• Father Connell (1842, Michael)
• The Loaded Dice (1844, John)
• The Sergeant's Wife: A Drama in Two Acts . . . Taken from the Author's Tales of the "O'Hara Family" (1855, John)
• Town of the Cascades (1864, Michael)

Michael John Barry (1817-1889)

• A Treatise on the Practice of the High Court of Chancery of Ireland   (1840; with William N. Keogh)
• Ireland as she was, as she is, and as she shall be (1845)
• The Songs of Ireland (1845)
• A Waterloo Commemoration for 1854 (1854)
• Lays of the War, and Miscellaneous Lyrics (1855)
• The Pope and the Romagna (1860)
• Heinrich and Leonore, an Alpine story. Coreggio: and some miscellaneous verse, original and translated (1886)

Isaac Bickerstaffe (1735-1812) (variant spelling: Bickerstaff)

• Leucothoe, a Dramatic Poem (1756)
• Judith, a Sacred Drama (1761)
• Thomas and Sally, or the Sailor's Return; a Musical Entertainment (1761)
• Love in a Village, a Comic Opera (1763)
• Daphne and Amintor, a Comic Opera in One Act (1765)
• Maid of the Mill, a Comic Opera (1765)
• The Plain Dealer, a Comedy (1766)
• Love in the City, a Comic Opera (1767)
• The Padlock, a Comic Opera (1768)
• The Absent Man, a Farce (1768)
• Lionel and Clarissa, or the School for Fathers; a Comic Opera (1768)
• The Royal Garland, a New Occasional Interlude, in Honour of his Danish Majesty (1768)
• The Captive, a Comic Opera (1769)
• Doctor Last in His Chariot, a Comedy (1769)
• The Ephesian Matron, a Comic Serenata (1769)
• The Hypocrite, a Comedy in Five Acts (1769)
• 'Tis Well It's No Worse, a Comedy (1770)
• The Recruiting Serjeant, a Musical Entertainment (1770)
• He Wou'd if He Cou'd; or, An Old Fool Worse than Any; a Burletta (1771)
• A Select Collection of Vocal Music Serious and Comic (c. 1770)
• School for Fathers, a Comic Opera ("Altered from Lionel and Clarissa") (1781)
• Life, Strange Voyages and Uncommon Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett . . . the lame beggar who for a long time swept the way at the Mews-Gate, Charing Cross (1782)
• The Romp, a Comic Opera ("Altered from Love in the City") (1786)
• The Sultan, or a Peep into the Seraglio; A Farce, in Two Acts (1787)
• The Pannel, an Entertainment of Three Acts ("Altered from the Comedy of 'Tis Well It's No Worse") (1789)
• The Spoil'd Child, a Farce in Two Acts (1792)
• various publications of songs from the musical works

Dionysius Lardner Boucicault (previously Bourcicault) (1820-1890)  Note:  Dion Boucicault wrote about 200 plays, many of which were reworked versions or selections from previous plays; the list here is limited to plays first published during his lifetime.  For more information about his plays and their production, see, for instance, the Victorian Web's List of Dion Boucicault's Major Works.

• London Assurance:  A Comedy in Five Acts (1841)
• The Irish Heiress:  A Comedy in Five Acts (1842)
• Alma Mater: Or, a Cure for Coquettes:  An Original Comedy in Three Acts (1842)
• Curiosities of Literature: An Original Farce in One Act (1842)
• (with Benjamin Nottingham Webster) Caesar de Bazan: Or, Love and Honour! A Drama in Three Acts (1844)
• (with Benjamin Nottingham Webster) The Fox and the Goose; Or, the Widow's Husband: A Comic Operetta in One Act (1844)
• A Lover by Proxy:  A Comedietta in One Act (1845)
• Old Heads and Young Hearts:  A Comedy in Five Acts (1845)
• The School for Scheming:  A Comedy in Five Acts (1847)
• Used Up; A Petit Comedy in Two Acts (1848)
• Love in a Maze:  A Comedy in Five Acts (1851)
• A Romance in the Life of Sixtus the Fifth, Entitled, The Broken Vow:   In Five Acts and Seven Tableaux (1851)
• The Queen of Spades; Or the Gambler's Secret (1851)
• The Corsican Brothers:  Or the Vendetta (1852)
• The Prima Donna:  A Comedy in Two Acts (1852)
• Faust and Marguerite (1854)
• Andy Blake or the Irish Diamond:  A Comedy in Two Acts (1856)
• The Phantom:  A Drama in Two Acts (1856)
• The Willow Copse:  A Drama in Five Acts (1856)
• The Poor of New York:  A Drama in Five Acts (1857)
• Jessie Brown; Or, The Relief of Lucknow:  A Drama in Three Acts (1858)
• Pauvrette:  A Drama in Five Acts (1858)
• Arrah-na-Pogue; Or, The Wicklow Wedding (1862)
• (with John Oxenford) The Lily of Killarney:  A Grand Romantic Opera in Three Acts (1863)
• Grimaldi; Or, The Life of an Actress: A Drama, in Five Acts (1864)
• The Colleen Bawn; Or, The Brides of Garryowen: A Domestic Drama, in Three Acts (1865)
• The Octoroon; Or, Life in Lousiana:  A Play, in Four Acts (1866)
• (with Charles Reade) Foul Play:  A Novel (1868)
• The Knight of Arva:  A Comic Drama in Two Acts (1868)
• How She Loves Him! A Comedy in Five Acts (1868)
• A Scrap from a Comedy (1868)
• (with Charles Reade) Foul Play:  A Drama (1870)
• Led Astray:  A Comedy in Five Acts (1873)
• Forbidden Fruit:  A Comedy (1876)
• The Story of Ireland (1881)
• The Shaughraun:  An Original Drama in Three Acts (1883)

George Brittaine (1790-1847)

• A Sermon Preached by the Rev. George Brittaine . . . (1819)
• Recollections of Hyacinth O'Gara (c. 1828)
• Confessions of Honor Delany (1829)
• Irishmen and Irishwomen (1830)
• Irish Priests and English Landlords (1830)
• Johnny Derrivan's Travels (1833)
• Mothers and Sons (1833)
• The Election (1840)

Patrick Brontë (1777-1861)

• Winter-Evening Thoughts. A Miscellaneous Poem (1810)
• Cottage Poems (1811):  "Winter-Night Meditations"
• The Rural Minstrel:  A Miscellany of Descriptive Poems (1813):  "The Harper of Erin"
• The Maid of Killarney; or Albion and Flora.  A Modern Tale, in which are interwoven some cursory remarks on religion and politics (1818)
• The Cottage in the Wood; or, the Art of becoming Rich and Happy (1815)

Charlotte Brooke (1740-1793)

• Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789); includes her poem, Mäon:  An Irish Tale
• School for Christians (1791)
• Emma, or, the Foundling of the Wood (1803)

William Carleton (1794-1869)

• Father Butler. The Lough Dearg pilgrim. Being Sketches of Irish Manners (1829)
• The Hedge School (1830): Text (Michael Sundermeier's "Irish Literary Sources and Resources")
• The Little Chimney Sweep (1831)
• Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (collected in five volumes, 1830-1833)
• Tales of Ireland (1834)
• Fardorougha the Miser; or, the Convicts of Lisnamona (1839)
• Characteristic Sketches of Ireland and the Irish/Tales and Stories of Ireland, by Carleton et al. (1840)
• The Fawn of Springvale, The Clarionet, and Other Tales (1841)
• Art Maguire or the Broken Pledge (1845)
• The Battle of the Factions and other Tales of Ireland (1845)
• Denis O'Shaughnessy Going to Maynooth (1845)
• Parra Sastha or the History of Paddy-Go-Easy and His Wife Nancy (1845)
• Phelim O'Toole's Courtship and The Poor Scholar (1845)
• Phil Purcel, and other Tales of Ireland (1845)
• Roddy the Rover or the Ribbonman (1845)
• Tales and Sketches Illustrating the Character, Usages, Traditions, Sports, and Pastimes of the Irish Peasantry (1845)
• Valentine M'Clutchy the Irish Agent or the Chronicles of the Castle Cumber Property (1845)
• The Black Prophet, a Tale of Irish Famine (1847)
• The Emigrants of Ahadarra (1848)
• The Tithe Proctor, a Novel: Being a Tale of the Tithe Rebellion in Ireland (1849)
• Red Hall or the Baronet's Daughter/The Black Baronet (1852)
• The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852)
• Willy Reilly and his Dear Coleen Bawn (1855)
• Alley Sheridan and Other Stories (1857)
• The Evil Eye or the Black Spectre (1860)
• The Double Prophecy, or, Tales of the Heart (1862)
• Redmond Count O'Hanlon, the Irish Rapparee (1862)
• The Silver Acre and Other Tales (1862)
• The Fair of Emyvale (1870)
• The Red-Haired Man's Wife (1889)

Lady Clarke (Olivia Owenson, sister of Lady Morgan; c. 1785-1845)

• The Irishwoman:  A Comedy, in Five Acts (1819)

John Corry (c. 1770-c. 1830)

• The Adventures of Felix and Rosarito, Or the Triumph of Love and Friendship (1782)
• Odes and Elegies, Descriptive & Sentimental: with "The patriot, a poem" (1797)
• The Life of George Washington (1800)
• The Gardener's Daughter of Worcester; Or, the Miseries of Seduction (1800)
• The Detector of Quackery; or, Analyser of Medical, Philosophical, Political, Dramatic, and Literary Imposture (1801) (new edition:  Quack Doctors Detected [1810]
• A Satirical View of London (1801)
• Edwy and Bertha, or the Force of Connubial Love (1802)
• Memoirs of Alfred Berkeley (1802)
• Tales for the Amusement of Young Persons (1802)
• The Life of William Cowper (1803)
• Memoirs of Edward Thornton; or, A sketch of Modern Dissipation in London (1803)
• The Swiss Revolution; or, The Fall of Albert (1803)
• The Unfortunate Daughter: or, The Danger of the Modern System of Female Education (1803)
• The Life of Joseph Priestley (1804)
• Memoirs of Francis Goodwin, or the Delusion of Pride (c. 1805)
• Sebastian and Zeila, Or the Captive Liberated by Female Generosity (1805)
• The Suicide; or, the Progress of Error (1805)
• The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer (1808)
• The Elopement, or the Imprudent Connexion (c. 1810)
• Strictures on the Expedience of the Addingtonian Extinguisher (1811)
• Narratives, Illustrative of the Passions and Affections of the Human Mind (1815)
• Vol. 1 of History of Bristol (1816); vol. 2 by Rev. John Evans
• History of Macclesfield (1817)
• The English Metropolis; or, London in the year 1820 (1820)
• The Beauties of Cowper (1820)
• Memoir of John Collier ('Tim Bobbin') (1820); prefixed to an edition of his Works
• History of Lancashire (1825)

Thomas Osborne Davis (1814-1845)

• Speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, with a Memoir (1844)
• Poems (1845)
• Literary and Historical Essays (1846):   "Influences of Education"; "The History of To-Day"

Thomas Dermody (1775-1802)

• Poems (1789)
• Poems, Consisting of Essays, Lyric, Elegiac, &c. (1792): "An Epistle Nugatory, or, (As Some Write It,) Newgate-ry"; "Sonnet, To Miss Brooke"
• Poems, Moral and Descriptive (1800): "Sonnet, to the Author of the Monk"
• Peace (1801)
• The Histrionade: Or, Theatric Tribunal (1802)
• Poems, On Various Subjects (1802): "My Own Character, To a Lady"
• The Harp of Erin (collected poems, 1807)

Aubrey De Vere (1788-1846)

• Julian the Apostate, a Dramatic Poem (1822)
• The Duke of Mercia, an Historical Drama, the Lamentations of Ireland, and other Poems (1823)
• The Song of Faith, Devout Exercises and Sonnets (1842)
• Mary Tudor, an Historical Drama (1847)

Aubrey Thomas De Vere (1814-1902)

• The Waldenses, or the Fall of Rora:  A Lyrical Sketch, With Other Poems (1842)
• The Search after Proserpine, Recollections of Greece, and Other Poems (1843)
• English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds (1848)
• Picturesque Sketches of Greece and Turkey (1850)
• Heroines of Charity (1854)
• Poems (1855)
• May Carols (1857); enlarged edition in 1870
• (ed.) Select Specimens of the English Poets, with Biographical Notices (1858)
• The Sisters, Inisfail, and Other Poems (1861)
• Inisfail, a Lyrical Chronicle of Ireland (1863)
• The Infant Bridal, and Other Poems (1864); enlarged edition in 1876
• The Church Settlement of Ireland, or, Hibernia Pacanda (1866)
• The Church Establishment in Ireland (1867)
• Ireland's Church Property, and the Right Use of It (1867)
• Pleas for Secularization (1867)
• Reply to Certain Strictures by Myles O'Reilly, Esq., Being a Postscript to Pleas for Secularization (1868)
• Ireland's Church Question (1868)
• Irish Odes and other Poems (1869)
• The Legends of Saint Patrick (1872)
• Alexander the Great (1874)
• Saint Thomas of Canterbury, a Dramatic Poem (1876)
• Antar and Zara: An Eastern Romance (1877)
• The Fall of Rora, the Search after Proserpine, and other poems, meditative and lyrical (1877)
• Legends of the Saxon Saints (1879)
• Constitutional and Unconditional Political Action (1881)
• The Foray of Queen Meave, and Other Legends of Ireland's Heroic Age (1882)
• St. Francis and Perfect Joy, from the Fioretti di S. Francesco (1882)
• "Characteristics of Spenser's Poetry" in Vol. 1 of The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser (1882-84)
• The Search after Proserpine and other Poems (1884)
• Ireland and Proportional Representation (1885)
• Legends and Records of the Church and the Empire (1887)
• Essays, Chiefly on Poetry (1887)
• Saint Peter's Chains; or, Rome and the Italian Revolution (a series of sonnets) (1888)
• Essays, Chiefly Literary and Ethical (1889):  "Some Remarks on Literature in its Social Aspects"
• Legends of St. Patrick (1892)
• Mediaeval Records and Sonnets (1893)
• Religious Problems of the Nineteenth Century (1893)
• (ed.) The Household Poetry Book:  An Anthology of English-Speaking poets from Chaucer to Faber (1893)
• Selections from the Poems of Aubrey de Vere (1894)
• Recollections (1897)
• Poems from the Works of Aubrey de Vere (1904)
• Introductory material in, for instance, Seeds and Sheaves (1892) and Sown in Tears (1906) by Alice Mary Fraser (Baroness Lovat), the republication of his father's Sonnets (1875) and Mary Tudor (1884), and The Irish Apostle and His Critics (1881) by William Bullen Morris.

Kenelm Henry Digby (1800-1880)

• The Broadstone of Honour, or Rules for the Gentlemen of England (1822); later divided into Godefridus (1829), Tancredus (1828), Morus (1826), and Orlandus (1829); and then revised as The Broad Stone of Honour: Or, the True Sense and Practice of Chivalry (1844-48)
• Mores Catholici; or Ages of Faith (1831-42; 11 books)
• Compitum; or The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church (1848-54; 7 books)
• The Lover's Seat. Kathemérina; or Common Things in relation to Beauty, Virtue, and Faith (1856)
• The Children's Bower; or What you like (1858)
• Evenings on the Thames; or Serene Hours, and what they require (1860)
• The Chapel of St. John; or a Life of Faith in the Nineteenth Century (1861)
• Short Poems (1865)
• A Day on the Muses' Hill (1867)
• Hours with the First Falling Leaves (1868)
• Little Low Bushes: Poems (1869)
• Halcyon Hours: Poems (1870)
• Ouranogaia, A Poem in Twenty Cantos (1871)
• Last Year's Leaves (1873)
• The Temple of Memory (1874)
• The Epilogue to Previous Works in Prose and Verse:   In Six Cantos (1876)

William Drennan (1754-1820)

• Letters of Orellana, an Irish Helot, to the Seven Northern Counties not represented in the National Assembly of Delegates, held at Dublin, October, 1784, for obtaining a more equal representation of the People in the Parliament of Ireland (1785)
• A Letter to his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant, &c. of Ireland (1795)
• A Philosophical Essay on the Moral and Political State of Ireland: In a Letter to Earl Fitzwilliam (1797)
• A Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt (1799)
• A Second Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt (1799)
• A Letter to the Right Honourable C. J. Fox (1806)
• Fugitive Pieces in Verse and Prose (1815): "Hymn II"; "Hymn VI"
• Glendalloch, and other Poems (with verses by J. S. Drennan and W. Drennan) (1859)

William Hamilton Drummond (1778-1865)

• Juvenile Poems: By a Student of the University of Glasgow (1795)
• Hibernia. A Poem. Part the First (1797)
• The Man of Age (1797)
• The Battle of Trafalgar, a Heroic Poem (1806):  Preface and excerpt from Book I
• The First Book of T. Lucretius Carus on the Nature of Things, Translated into English Verse (1808)
• The Giant's Causeway, a Poem (1811)
• An Elegiac Ballad on the Funeral of the Princess Charlotte (1817)
• Who are the Happy? (1818)
• Clontarf, a Poem (1822)
• Bruce's Invasion of Ireland (1826)
• The Doctrine of the Trinity founded neither on Scripture, nor on reason and common sense, but on tradition and the infallible Church, an essay occasioned by a late controversy between the Rev. Richard T. P. Pope, and the Rev. Thomas Maguire (1827)
• Unitarian Christianity the Religion of the Gospel; and the New Reformation a chimera; in five letters to the Earl of Mountcashell (1828)
• Unitarianism No Feeble and Conceited Heresy, Demonstrated in Two Letters to the Archbishop of Dublin (1829)
• Reason the Handmaid to Religion, A Sermon (1829)
• Charge to the Rev. J. Martineau and the Congregation of Eustace-Street Meeting-house (1829)
• Essay on the subject proposed by the Royal Irish Academy, viz. to investigate the authenticity of the Poems of Ossian, etc. (1830)
• Humanity to Animals the Christian's Duty, a Discourse (1830)
• The Unitarian Christian's Faith, A Discourse (1830)
• One is your Master--Even Christ:  A Discourse Containing a Refutation of Certain High-Church Principles held by E. Burke, and C. R. Elrington (1831)
• (contributor) Irish Minstrelsy; or, Bardic Remains of Ireland, etc., ed. James Hardiman (1831)
• Original Sin an Irrational and Unscriptural Fiction, Dishonouring God, and Demoralizing Man: An Essay (1832)
• The Paternal Character of God; and Truth the Parent of Liberty.   Two Discourses (1833)
• A Learned Indian in Search of Religion:  A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Rajah Ram Mohun Roy (1833)
• The Union and Reciprocal Influences of Science and Religion, A Discourse (1835)
• The Pleasures of Benevolence, A Poem (1835)
• The Rights of Animals, and Man's Obligation to Treat Them with Humanity (1838)
• Funeral Sermon for James Armstrong, D. D. (1840)
• (ed.) Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, with additions (1840)
• An Explanation and Defence of the Principles of Protestant Dissent (1842)
• Channing. A Discourse occasioned by the death of W. E. Channing, etc. (1843)
• The Right and Duty of Free and Unshackled Inquiry in Religion, A Discourse (1843)
• The Life of Michael Servetus, Who was Entrapped, Imprisoned and Burned by John Calvin (1848)
• Ancient Irish Minstrelsy (1852)

Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)

• Letters for Literary Ladies (1795)
• The Parent's Assistant: or Stories for Children (1796, 1800)
• Castle Rackrent (1800) (Michael Sundermeier's "Irish Literary Sources and Resources")
• Moral Tales for Young People (1801)
• Belinda (1801)
• Early Lessons (1801-02)
• Popular Tales (1804)
• The Modern Griselda: A Tale (1805)
• Leonora (1806)
• Tales of Fashionable Life: First Series (1809); Second Series (1812), including The Absentee   (Project Gutenberg)
• Patronage (1814)
• Continuation of Early Lessons (1814)
• Comic Dramas in Three Acts (1817)
• Harrington, a Tale; and Ormond, a Tale(1817)
• Rosamond: A Sequel to Early Lessons (1821)
• Frank: A Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons (1822)
• Harry and Lucy Concluded: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons (1825)
• Little Plays for Children (1827)
• Helen, a Tale (1834)
• Orlandino (1848)

With her father, R. L. Edgeworth (1744-1817):

• Practical Education (1798), later republished as Essays on Practical Education (1801)
• Essay on Irish Bulls (1802)
• Essays on Professional Education (1809)
• Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq.: Begun by Himself and Concluded by his Daughter, Maria Edgeworth (1820)

Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886)

• Lays of the Western Gael, and other Poems (1864)
• The Cromlech on Howth; a Poem (1864)
• Our Architecture (1864)
• Congal; a Poem in Five Books (1872)
• Poems (1880)
• The Forging of the Anchor, a Poem (1883)
• Hibernian Nights Entertainments (1887)
• Remains of Saint Patrick (1887)
• Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (1887)

Anna Maria Fielding (1800-1881) a.k.a. Mrs. S. C. Hall or Anna Maria Hall

• Sketches of Irish Character (1829; 2nd series, 1831)
• Chronicles of a School Room (1830)
• The Buccaneer (1831)
• The Outlaw, an Historical Romance (1831)
• Tales of Woman's Trials (1835)
• The Groves of Blarney:  A Drama in Three Acts (1836)
• Mabel's Curse:  A Musical Drama in Two Acts (1837)
• St. Pierre, the Refugee:  A Burletta in Two Acts (1837)
• Uncle Horace (1837)
• Lights and Shadows of Irish Life (1838)
• The Book of Royalty (1839)
• The Hartopp Jubilee; Or, Profit from Play (1840)
• Marian; Or, a Young Maid's Fortunes (1840)
• The Juvenile Budget; Or, Stories for Little Readers (1840)
• Little Chatterbox:  A Tale (1844)
• Number One:  A Tale (1844)
• The Whiteboy:  A Story of Ireland in 1822 (1845)
• The Forlorn Hope:  A Story of Old Chelsea (1846)
• (with Mrs. Jonathan Foster) Stories and Studies from the Chronicles and History of England (1847)
• Grandmamma's Pockets (1848)
• Midsummer Eve:  A Fairy Tale of Love (1848)
• A Pilgrimage to the Tomb of John Kyrle (1849)
• Pilgrimages to English Shrines (1850; 2nd series, 1853)
• The Swan's Egg (1851)
• Stories of the Governess (1852)
• Chertsey and Its Neighbourhood (1853)
• The Worn Thimble:  A Story of Woman's Duty and Woman's Influence (1853)
• The Drunkard's Bible (1854)
• Popular Tales and Sketches (1856)
• The Two Friends (1856)
• The Lucky Penny and Other Tales (1857)
• A Woman's Story (1857)
• In The Miniature Library of Fiction (1858):  The Governess (vol. 1); All is Not Gold that Glitters (vol. 2); The Private Purse and Tattle (vol. 3); There is No Hurry, and Deeds Not Words (vol. 4); Turns of Fortune (vol. 5); Cleverness (vol. 6); Wives and Husbands (vol. 9); The Unjust Judge (vol. 13)
• Daddy Dacre's School:  A Story for the Young (1858)
• The Dispensation (1859)
• Fanny's Fancies (1860)
• Can Wrong Be Right? (1862)
• The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not (1862)
• The Village Garland:  Tales and Sketches (1862)
• Nelly Nowlan and Other Stories (1863)
• The Cabman's Cat (1865)
• Ronald's Reason; Or, the Little Cripple (1865)
• God Save the Green!  An Address to the Irish People (1866)
• The Playfellow and Other Stories (1866)
• The Way of the World and Other Stories (1866)
• The Prince of the Fair Family:  A Fairy Tale (1867)
• Alice Stanley and Other Stories (1868)
• Animal Sagacity (1868)
• The Fight of Faith (1869)
• Digging a Grave with a Wine Glass (1871)
• Boons and Blessings: Stories and Sketches to Illustrate the Advantages of Temperance (1875)
• Chronicles of Cosy Nook:  A Book for the Young (1875)
• Annie Leslie and Other Stories (1877)
• with Samuel Carter Hall (her husband): Ireland:  Its Scenery, Character, etc. (1841-43); A Week at Killarney (1843); Handbooks for Ireland (1853); The Book of the Thames (1859); Tenby:  Its History, Antiquities, Scenery, Traditions and Customs (1860); The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast (1861); A Companion to Killarney (1878)

Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) (sister of Constance Gore-Booth, Countess Markievicz)

• Poems (1898)
• Unseen Kings (1904)
• The One and the Many (1904)
• The Three Resurrections and The Triumph of Maeve (1905)
• The Egyptian Pillar (1907)
• The Sorrowful Princess (1907)
• The Agate Lamp (1912)
• Whence come wars? A speech delivered at a meeting of the National Industrial and Professional Women's Suffrage Society, in London, December 12th, 1914 (1914)
• Religious Aspects of Non-Resistance (1915)
• The Perilous Light (1915)
• The Death of Fionavar from The Triumph of Maeve, decorated by Constance Gore-Booth (Countess Markievicz) (1916)
• Rhythms of Art (1917)
• The Tribunal (1917)
• Broken Glory (1918)
• The Sword of Justice, a Play (1918)
• The Psychological and Poetic Approach to the Study of Christ in the Fourth Gospel (1923)
• The Shepherd of Eternity, and other Poems (1925)
• The House of Three Windows (1926)
• The Inner Kingdom (1926)
• The World's Pilgrim (1927)
• The Buried Life of Deirdre (1930)

Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931)

• Songs of Killarney (1873)
• Irish Songs and Ballads (1880)
• (with C. V. Stanford) Songs of Old Ireland (1882)
• (ed.) Songs of Irish Wit and Humor (1884)
• Father O'Flynn, and Other Irish Lyrics (1889)
• (with C. V. Stanford) Songs of Erin (1892)
• (ed.) The Irish Song Book, with Original Irish Airs (1894)
• (ed.) The Poems of J. S. Lefanu (1896)
• The Postbag:  A Lesson in Irish (1902)
• Lyrics from "The Absentee," an Irish Play in Two Acts (1908)
• The Irish Poems of Alfred Perceval Graves (1908)
• The Irish Fairy Book (1909)
• (ed.) The National Poetry Books (1910)
• Poems for Infants and Juniors (1910)
• (ed.) The Poetry Readers (1911)
• (ed.) The Golden Dawn Readers in 10 parts (1911-1917)
• Welsh Poetry Old & New in English Verse (1912)
• Irish Literary and Musical Studies (1913)
• (ed.) The Book of Irish Poetry (1914)
• (co-ed.) Every Irishman's Library in 12 vols. (1914-1918)
• (co-ed.) The Reciter's Treasury of Irish Verse and Prose (1915)
• A Celtic Psaltery: Being Mainly Renderings in English Verse from Irish and Welsh Poetry (1917)
• Songs of the Gael (1925)
• (trans.) English Verse Translations of the Welsh Poems of Ceiriog Hughes (1926)
• Irish Doric in Song and Story (1926)
• (ed.) The Celtic Song Book (1928)
• The Progenitors; or, Our First Parents (1929)
• To Return to All That:  An Autobiography (1930)
• (ed.) Selected Poems of William Alexander and Cecil Frances Alexander (1930)
• Lives of the British and Irish Saints (1934)

Gerald Griffin (1803-1840)

• Holland-Tide (1827)
• Tales of the Munster Festivals (1827); second series (1832)
• The Collegians (1829)
• The Rivals and Tracy's Ambition (1829)
• The Christian Physiologist (1830)
• The Invasion (1832)
• Tales of My Neighbourhood (1835)
• The Bishop's Island (1835)
• The Duke of Monmouth (1836)
• Gisippus, or the Forgotten Friend (1842)
• Talis Qualis or Tales of the Jury Room (1842)
• Life and Works of Gerald Griffin (1842-43)
• Adventures of an Irish Giant (1854)
• The Offering of Friendship (1854)
• Card Drawing, The Halfsir, and Suil Dhuv, the coiner (1857)

Lawrence Hynes Halloran (1766-1831)

• A Collection of Odes, Poems, and Translations (1789)
• An ode (attempted in Sapphic verse) occasioned by the proposed visit of Their Majesties to the city of Exeter (1789)
• Poems on Various Occasions (1791)
• A Sermon for the 19^th day of December, 1787, being the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving . . . for the . . . victories obtained . . . in three . . . naval engagements, etc. (1797)
• On the Observance of the Sabbath: a Sermon . . . To which is added, a form of morning and evening prayer for the use of schools (1800)
• Lachrymae Hibernicae, or the Genius of Erin's Complaint, a ballad; with a prefatory address to the Right Honorable the Earl of Hardwicke, reported viceroy elect of Ireland (1801)
• The Female Volunteer; Or, the Dawning of Peace; a Drama in Three Acts (1801)
• The Battle of Trafalgar, a poem; To which is added a selection of fugitive pieces (1806)

Elizabeth Hardy (1794-1854)

• Michael Cassidy, or the Cottage Gardener (1845)
• Owen Glendower, or the Prince in Wales (1849)
• The Confessor, a Jesuit Tale of the Times (1854)

Julia Kavanagh (1824-1877)

• The Three Paths (1847)
• Madeleine (1848)
• Nathalie: a Tale (1850)
• Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century (1850)
• Women of Christianity, Exemplary for Acts of Piety and Charity (1852)
• Daisy Burns (1853)
• Grace Lee (1855)
• Rachel Gray, a tale founded on fact (1856)
• A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies (1858)
• Adèle (1858)
• Seven Years, and Other Tales (1860)
• Beatrice (1862)
• French Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (1862)
• English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (1862):  Chapters X-XI (on Lady Morgan), edited by Jeremy DeVito
• Queen Mab (1863)
• Sybil's Second Love (1867)
• Dora (1868)
• Silvia (1870)
• Bessie (1872)
• John Dorrien (1875)
• The Pearl Fountain, and other Fairy Tales (1876; co-written with Bridget Kavanagh)
• Two Lilies (1877)
• Forget-me-nots (1878)

Charles Kickham (1826-1882)

• Sally Cavanagh, or the Untenanted Graves (1869)
• Poems, Sketches, and Narratives Illustrative of Irish Life (1870)
• Knocknagow; or, The Homes of Tipperary (1879)
• For the Old Land, a Tale of Twenty Years Ago (1886)

Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826)

• Poems (1808)
• Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry (1811)
• The Landlord's Friend (1813)
• (with Elizabeth Shackleton) Tales for Cottagers, Accommodated to the Present Condition of the Irish Peasantry (1814)
• Cottage Biography, Being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry (1822)
• Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends, Who Were Resident in Ireland (1823)

Alicia Lefanu ("Mrs."; 1753-1817)

• Lucy Osmond (1803)
• The Sons of Erin; or, Modern Sentiment: A Comedy in Five Acts (1812)

Alicia Lefanu ("Miss"; 1791- ?); the niece of "Mrs." Alicia Lefanu and daughter of Elizabeth Lefanu

• The Flowers; Or, the Sylphid Queen: A Fairy Tale in Verse (1809)
• Rosara's Chain: or, the Choice of Life. A Poem, etc. (1812)
• Strathallan (1816)
• Helen Monteagle (1818)
• Leolin Abbey: A Novel (1819)
• Tales of a Tourist, containing The Outlaw and Fashionable Connexions (1823)
• Don Juan de las Sierras, or El Empecinado: A Romance (1823)
• Memoirs of the Life and Writing of Mrs. F. Sheridan (1824)
• Henry the Fourth of France: A Romance (1826): "Guiomar and Ottilia"

Elizabeth Lefanu (1758-1837)

• The India Voyage (1804)
• The Sister:  A Tale in Two Volumes (1810)

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)

• The Cock and Anchor (1845)
• The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien (1847)
• Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery (1851)
• The House by the Churchyard (1863)
• Uncle Silas (1864)
• Wylder's Hand (1864)
• Guy Deverell (1865)
• The Tenants of Malory (1867)
• Haunted Lives (1868)
• Chronicles of Golden Friars (1871)
• The Rose and the Key (1871)
• In a Glass Darkly (1872)

Rev. Philip Lefanu (1735-1795)

• Letters of certain Jews to Monsieur de Voltaire (1777) (Translation of Abbé Guenée's Lettres de quelques Juifs portugais et allemands à M. de Voltaire)
• An Abridgment of the History of the Council of Constance (1780)

Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

• Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, with Illustrations by Phiz (1839)
• Horace Templeton, an Autobiography (1840?)
• Our Mess:  vol. 1, Hinton the Guardsman; vol. 2-3, Tom Burke of "Ours" (1843-1844)
• Arthur O'Leary, His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands (1844)
• St. Patrick's Eve, with Illustrations by Phiz (1845)
• Nuts and Nutcrackers, with Illustrations by Phiz (1845)
• The O'Donoghue; a Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago, with Illustrations by H. K. Browne [Phiz] (1845) (later retitled as The O'Donoghue, A Tale of Irish Rebellion [1898])
• Tales of the Trains:  Being Some Chapters of Railroad Romance (1845)
• The Knight of Gwynne, a Tale of the Time of Union, with Illustrations by Phiz (1847)
• Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon (1841)
• Confessions of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas (1849)
• Roland Cashel, with Illustrations by Phiz (1850)
• The Daltons; or, Three Roads in Life, with Illustrations by Phiz (1852)
• The Dodd Family Abroad, with Illustrations by Phiz (1854)
• Sir Jasper Carew, His Life and Experiences (1855)
• Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune (c. 1855)
• The Martins of Cro' Martin, with Illustrations by Phiz (1856)
• The Fortunes of Glencore (1857)
• Davenport Dunn; Or, the Man of the Day, with Illustrations by Phiz (1859)
• One of Them (1860)
• Barrington, with Illustrations by Phiz (1863)
• A Day's Ride:  A Life's Romance (1864)
• Cornelius O'Dowd upon Men and Women and Other Things in General (1864-65)
• Tony Butler (1865)
• A Campaigner at Home (1865)
• Luttrell of Arran, with Illustrations by Phiz (1865)
• Sir Brook Fossbrooke (1866)
• The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly (1868)
• Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and the Civil Service (1868)
• That Boy of Norcott's (1869)
• Lord Kilgobbin, A Tale of Ireland in Our Own Time (1872)

Samuel Lover (1797-1868)

• The Parson's Horn-book, by Samuel Lover et al. (1831)
• The Valentine Post-Bag, Containing Letters to Public Characters, by the editors of The Parson's Horn-book (1831)
• Legends and Stories of Ireland (1832; second series, 1834) 
• Popular Tales and Legends of the Irish Peasantry (1834) 
• The Happy Man:  An Extravaganza in One Act (1837)
• Rory O'More:  A Comic Drama in Three Acts (1837) 
• Rory O'More, a National Romance (1837) 
• The White Horse of the Peppers; a Comic Drama in Two Acts (1838) 
• The Hall Porter, a Comic Drama (1839) 
• Songs and Ballads (1839) 
• The Greek Boy, a Musical Drama in Two Acts (c. 1840) 
• Characteristic Sketches of Ireland, by Samuel Lover et al. (1840)
•  Il Paddy Whack in Italia; an operetta in one act (1841) 
• Handy Andy, a Tale of Irish Life (1842) 
• Ireland Illustrated (1843) 
• Treasure Trove: the first of a series of accounts of Irish heirs: being a romantic Irish tale of the last century (1844) (later re-published as He would be a Gentleman: or, Treasure-Trove [1856])
• MacCarthy More; or, Possession Nine Points of the Law:  A Comic Drama, in Two Acts (1850) 
• (ed.) Lyrics of Ireland (1858)
• (ed.) Poems of Ireland (1858)
• Metrical Tales, and Other Poems (1859) 
• Rival Rhymes in Honour of Burns (1859) 
• Original songs for the Rifle Volunteers, by Lover et al. (1861)
• Poetical Works (1880)
•  numerous short stories and songs (the latter of which were frequently published individually or in collections)

Edward Lysaght (1763-1811)

• Poems (1811):  "Grattan and Freedom"; "Fragment, to Miss Owenson"; "Lines"; "The Maid of Merrion"; "The Man, Who Led the Van of Irish Volunteers"; "Addenda"

Denis Florence MacCarthy (or M'Carthy) (1817-1882)

• Vol. 1 of The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland. With an introduction on the early religion and literature of the Irish people (1846)
• (ed.) The Book of Irish Ballads (1846)
• Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics (1850)
• The Bell-Founder, and Other Poems (1857)
• Underglimpses and Other Poems (1857):  "Sonnet"; "Moore:   An Elegaic Ode"
• Memoires de la cour d'Espagne sous le regne de Charles II ... Par le marquis de Villars. Being a collation of the various editions and manuscripts of these memoirs ... with some inquiry as to their alleged author. A paper read before the Royal Irish Academy (1863)
• Shelley's Early Life from Original Sources (1872)
• The Centenary of Moore (1880)
• Poems (1882)
• Translations of Calderon:  Justina; a Play (1848); Dramas of Calderon (1853); Love, the Greatest Enchantment (1861); Mysteries of Corpus Christi (1867); The Two Lovers of Heaven:  Chrysanthus and Daria (with MacCarthy's dedicatory sonnets) (1870); Calderon's Dramas (1873).

John MacCreery (1768-1832)

• The Press; a Poem, published as a Specimen of Typography (Part I: 1803; Part II: 1827):  "To Dr. Drennan" and Drennan's reply, "To Mr. John M'Creery"; "To the Memory of Robert Emmett"; "The Paper Nautilus"; from Part I of The Press

James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)

• German Anthology (1845)
• The Poets and Poetry of Munster (1849)
• Romances and Ballads of Ireland (1850; contributor)
• The Tribes of Ireland, a satire by Aengus O'Daly with poetical translation by J. C. M. (1852)
• Poems by James Clarence Mangan (1859)
• Essays in Prose and Verse (1884)
• Irish and Other Poems (1886)

Harriet Letitia Martin (1801-1891)

• The Mayor of Wind-Gap and Canvassing (1835, Michael Banim and Harriet Letitia Martin)
• The Changeling (1848)

Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824); often used the pseudonym, "Dennis Jasper Murphy"

• The Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio (1807)
• The Wild Irish Boy (1808)
• The Milesian Chief (1812)
• Bertram; or, the Castle of Aldobrand; A Tragedy in Five Acts (1816)
• Manuel; A Tragedy (1817)
• Women; or, Pour et Contre (1818)
• Fredolfo; A Tragedy in Five Acts (1819)
• Sermons (1819)
• Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
• The Albigenses (1824)
• Five Sermons on the Errors of the Roman Catholic Church (1824)

Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868)

• Eva MacDonald, a Tale of the United Irishmen and their Times (1844)
• "The Priest Hunter:   A Tale of the Irish Penal Laws" (c. 1844) (Early Canadiana Online)
• Historical Sketches of O'Connell and his Friends, including Rt. Rev. Drs. Doyle and Milner, Thomas Moore, John Lawless, Thomas Furlong, Richard Lalor Shiel, Thomas Steel, Counsellor Bric, Thomas Addis Emmet, William Corbett, Sir Michael O'Loghlen, etc., etc. with a Glance at the Future Destiny of Ireland (1845):   "A Glance at the Future Destiny of Ireland"
• The Irish Writers of the Seventeenth Century (1846)
• The Lives of the Irish Writers of the Seventeenth Century; and, The Life and Reign of Art M'Murrogh, King of Leinster (1848)
• A History of the Irish Settlers in North America. From the Earliest Period to the Census of 1850 (1851)
• The Part taken by Catholics in the American Revolution; a Lecture Delivered in Townsend Hall, Buffalo, July 7, 1852 (c. 1852)
• The Political Causes and Consequences of the Protestant "Reformation". A Lecture (1853)
• A History of the Attempts to Establish the Protestant Reformation in Ireland, and the Successful resistance of that People (1853)
• The Catholic history of North America. Five Discourses, to which Are Added Two Discourses on the Relations of Ireland and America (1855)
• A Life of the Rt. Rev. Edward Maginn, Coadjutor Bishop of Derry. With Selections from his Correspondence (1857)
• Canadian Ballads and Occasional Verses (1858) (Early Canadiana Online)
• Sebastian, or, The Roman Martyr: A Drama, Founded on Cardinal Wiseman's Celebrated Tale of Fabiola (1861)
• Emigration and Colonization in Canada. A speech Delivered in the House of Assembly, Quebec, 25th April, 1862 (1862)
• The Present American Revolution (1863)
• Hon. Mr. McGee's Speech at the Hustings (1863)
• A Popular History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics (1863)
• The Internal Condition of the American Democracy. Considered in a Letter from the Hon. Thomas d'Arcy M'Gee, M.P., President of the Executive Council of the Province of Canada to the Hon. Charles Gavan Duffy, M.P., Minister of Public Lands of the Colony of Victoria (1863)
• The Crown and the Confederation. Three Letters to the Hon. John Alexander McDonald, Attorney General for Upper Canada. By a Backwoodsman (1864)
• Two Speeches on the Union of the Provinces (1865)
• Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union (1865)
• Notes on Federal Governments, Past and Present (1865)
• The Irish Position in British and in Republican North America. A Letter to the Editors of the Irish Press Irrespective of Party (1866)
• Poems of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1869) (Early Canadiana Online)

Thomas Moore (1779-1852); used a variety of pseudonyms, esp. "Thomas Brown the Younger"

• "Poem in Imitation of Ossian" (1797)
• "Letter To Students of Trinity College" (1797)
• Odes of Anacreon (1800)
• The Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little (1801)
• Epistles, Odes and Other Poems (1806)
• Irish Melodies (1807-1834)
• Corruption and Intolerance:  Two Poems by an Irishman (1808)
• The Sceptic:  A Philosophical Satire (1809)
• A Letter to the Roman Catholics of Dublin (1810)
• M.P., or The Blue-Stocking (1811)
• Intercepted Letters, or The Two-Penny Post-Bag (1813)
• Sacred Songs (1816, 1824)
• Lalla Rookh (1817)
• The Fudge Family in Paris (1818)
• National Airs (1818-1827)
• Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (1819)
• Fables for the Holy Alliance (1823)
• The Loves of the Angels (1823)
• Memoirs of Captain Rock (1824)
• Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan (1825)
• Evenings in Greece (1825)
• The Epicurean (1827)
• Legendary Ballads (1828)
• Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters (1828)
• The Summer Fete (1831)
• Letters and Journals of Lord Byron:  With Notices of his Life (1830)
• The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831)
• Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of Religion (1833)
• The Fudges in England (1835)
• History of Ireland (1835-1846)
• The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Collected by himself (1840)
• Thomas Moore:  Selected Poetry (University of Toronto)

Lady Morgan (see Sydney Owenson)

Caroline Norton (1808-1877) a.k.a. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan

• The Sorrows of Rosalie, A Tale with Other Poems (1829)
• The Undying One, and Other Poems (1830): Text (Indiana University)
• Poems (1833)
• The Wife, and Woman's Reward (1835)
• A Voice from the Factories:  In Serious Verse (1836): Text (Indiana University)
• The Separation of Mother and Child by the Law of "Custody of Infants", Considered (1838)
• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill (1839): Text (Indiana University)
• The Dream and Other Poems (1840)
• The Child of the Islands (1845):  "Opening" (text prepared by Meagan Timney)
• Aunt Carry's Ballads for Children (1847)
• Letters to the Mob, by "Libertas" (1848)
• Stuart of Dunleath (1851)
• The Lady of La Garaye (1861)
• Lost and Saved (1863)
• Old Sir Douglas (1867)

Adelaide O'Keeffe (1776-1855)

• Patriarchal Times, or the Land of Canaan (1811)
• Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (1814)
• National Characters Exhibited in Forty Geographical Poems (1818)
• Dudley (1819)
• A Trip to the Coast (1819)
• Poems for Young Children (c. 1849)
• The Broken Sword:  Or, A Soldier's Honour (1854)

John O'Keeffe (1747-1833; various printings of individual songs, collections of airs from his plays, etc. not included)

• The Wicklow Gold Mines, or the Lads of the Hills (1814)
• The Positive Man (1800)
• Lie of a Day (1800)
• Life's Vagaries (1795)
• The Irish Mimic, or Blunders at Brighton (1795)
• Oatlands, or the Transfer of the Laurel:  A Poem (1795)
• Sprigs of Laurel (1793)
• The London Hermit, or Rambles in Dorsetshire (1793)
• The World in a Village (1793)
• Modern Antiques, or the Merry Mourners (1792)
• Wild Oats, or the Strolling Gentlemen (1791)
• The Little Hunch-Back, or a Frolic in Bagdad (1789)
• The Highland Reel (1789)
• The Prisoner at Large (1788)
• The Young Quaker (1788)
• The Farmer (1788)
• Patrick in Prussia, or Love in a Camp (1786)
• The Agreeable Surprise (1786)
• Peeping Tom of Coventry (1785)
• Fontainbleu (1785)
• The Poor Soldier (1784)
• The Son-in-Law (1783)
• The Dead Alive (1783)
• The Castle of Andalusia (1783)
• The Birth-Day, or the Prince of Aragon (1783)
• Tony Lumpkin in Town (1780)
• The She-Gallant, or Square-Toes Outwitted (1767)

James Orr (1770-1816)

• Poems on Various Subjects (1804):  "Elegy, on the Death of A. M'Cracken"; "Elegy, on the Death of Hugh Blair"

Sydney Owenson (1783-1859) a.k.a. Sidney Owenson, Lady Morgan, Sydney Morgan, and Sidney, Lady Morgan

• Poems (1801):  "Retrospection"
• St. Clair:  or, the Heiress of Desmond (1803)
• A Few Reflections, Occasioned by the Perusal of a Work, Entitled, "Familiar Epistles, to Frederick J----s Esq., On the Present State of the Irish Stage" (1804)
• The Novice of St. Dominick (1805)
• Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies, with English words (music by J. Hook) (1805)
• The Wild Irish Girl (1806)
• The First Attempt; Or, the Whim of a Moment, a Comic Opera (music by Thomas Simpson Cooke) (1807)
• The Lay of an Irish Harp; Or, Metrical Fragments (1807):   The Irish Harp" (Fragment I); "To Mrs. Lefanue" (Fragment III)
• Patriotic Sketches (1807)
• Woman: or, Ida of Athens (1809)
• The Missionary:  An Indian Tale (1811)
• O'Donnell:  A National Tale (1814)
• France (1817)
• Florence Macarthy:  An Irish Tale (1818)
• Italy (1821, with notes and appendix by Sir Charles Morgan)
• A Letter to the Reviewers of "Italy," including an answer to a pamphlet entitled, "Observations upon the calumnies and misrepresentations in Lady Morgan's Italy" (1821)
• The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa (1824):  Review of The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa from Edinburgh Review
• Absenteeism (1825)
• The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys (1827)
• The Book of the Boudoir (1829)
• Dramatic Scenes from Real Life (1833)
• The Princess, Or the Beguine (1835)
• Woman and her Master (1840)
• The Book Without a Name (1841, with Sir Charles Morgan)
• Letter to Cardinal Wiseman, in answer to his "Remarks on Lady Morgan's statements regarding St. Peter's Chair" (1851)
• Passages from my Autobiography (1859)
• Luxima, the Prophetess:  A Tale of India (1859) (a heavily revised version of The Missionary)

Paddy's Resource, Being a Select Collection of Original Patriotic Songs for the Use of the People of Ireland (1796)

Rev. James Porter (1753-1798); Porter typically published anonymously: how much of his work has yet to be attributed to him, and how much has been incorrectly attributed to him, remain questions.

• Billy Bluff and the 'Squire; Or, A Sketch of the Times (1796; letters from "R," first published serially in the Northern Star)
• Letters to Downshire (1796-97; signed "Sydney")
• Wind and Weather, a Sermon (1797; Porter's name is on the title page)
• various contributions to United Irishmen publications in the 1790s, including some of the lyrics in Paddy's Resource

Marguerite Power, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849)

• Journal of a Tour through the Netherlands to Paris in 1821 (1822)
• Sketches and Fragments (1822)
• The Magic Lantern (1823)
• Rambles in Waltham Forest (1827)
• Journal of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington (1832)
• Grace Cassidy, or the Repealers (1833)
• The Two Friends (1835)
• Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman (1836)
• Flowers of Loveliness (1836)
• Gems of Beauty (1836)
• The Victims of Society (1837)
• Confessions of an Elderly Lady (1838)
• Desultory Thoughts and Reflections (1839)
• The Governess (1839)
• The Idler in Italy (1839)
• The Belle of a Season (1840)
• The Idler in France (1841)
• The Lottery of Life (1842)
• Meredith (1843)
• Strathern: or, Life at Home and Abroad (1845)
• The Memoirs of a Femme de Chambre (1846)
• Marmaduke Herbert; or the Fatal Error (1847)
• Country Quarters, with a memoir by Marguerite A. Power (the Countess of Blessington's niece, who sometimes published under the name "Honoria") (1850)

Regina Maria Roche (1764-1845) a.k.a. Regina M. Dalton

• The Vicar of Lansdowne; or, Country Quarters.  A Tale (1789)
• The Children of the Abbey (1796)
• Clermont (1798)
• The Nocturnal Visit (1800)
• The Maid of the Hamlet (1802)
• The Discarded Son; or, Haunt of the Banditti. A tale (1807)
• The Houses of Osma and Almeria; or, Convent of St. Ildefonso. A Tale (1810)
• The Monastery of St. Columb; or, The Atonement (1813)
• Trecothick Bower: or, the Lady of the West Country. A Tale (1814)
• London Tales; or, Reflective Portraits (1814):  "Introduction"; "The Mental Physician"; "Hold your Religion Sacred"; "The Vacant Novel Reader"
• The Munster Cottage Boy (1820)
• Bridal of Dunamore; and Lost and Won. Two Tales (1823)
• The Tradition of the Castle; or, Scenes in the Emerald Isle (1824)
• The Castle Chapel (1825)
• Contrast (1828)
• The Nun's Picture. A Tale (1836)

Elizabeth Ryves (1750-1797)

• Poems on Several Occasions (1777):   "Two Elegies"
• Ode to the Rev. Mr. Mason (1780)
• Dialogue in the Elysian Fields between Caesar and Cato (1784)
• An Epistle to the Rt. Hon. Lord John Cavendish, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1784)
• The Hastiniad; an heroick poem (1785)
• Ode to . . . Lord Milton, infant son of Earl Fitzwilliam (1787)
• The Hermit of Snowden; or, Memoirs of Albert and Lavinia (1789)
• A Review of the Constitutions of the Principal States of Europe (trans. of Jacques Vincent Delacroix) (1792)

Francis Barry Boyle Saint Leger (1799-1829)

• Remorse; and other Poems (1821)
• Some Account of the Life of the late Gilbert Earle, Esq. (1824)
• Mr. Blount=s MSS., being selections from the papers of a Man of the World (1826)
• Tales of Passion (1829)
• Froissart and his Times (1832)

Marmion W. Savage (1803-1872)

• The Falcon Family; or, Young Ireland (1845)
• The Bachelor of Albany (1848)
• My Uncle the Curate (1849)
• Reuben Medlicott; or, the Coming Man (1852)
• Clover Cottage, or I Can't Get In (1856)
• The Woman of Business, or the Lady and the Lawyer (1870)

Dora Sigerson (1866-1918) a.k.a. Dora Sigerson Shorter

• Verses (1893)
• The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems (1897)
• Ballads and Poems (1899)
• The Father Confessor (1900)
• The Woman who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics (1902):  "The Woman Who Went to Hell"
• The Country-House Party (1905)
• The Story and Song of Black Roderick (1906)
• Through Wintry Terrors (1907)
• The Troubadour, and Other Poems (1910)
• New Poems (1912)
• Do-Well and Do-Little:  A Fairy Tale (1913)
• Madge Linsey, and Other Poems (1913)
• Comfort the Women:  A Prayer in Time of War (1915)
• Love of Ireland, with which is incorporated Poems of the Irish Rebellion, 1916 (1916)
• The Sad Years, and Other Poems (with intro. by Katharine Tynan) (1918)
• A Legend of Glendalough, and Other Ballads (1919)

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) (note:   Stoker's work was frequently re-issued in abridged and revised forms; only first publications are listed here)

• Under the Sunset (1882)
• A Glimpse of America (1886)
• The Snake's Pass (1890)
• Dracula (1897)
• Miss Betty (1898)
• The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
• The Jewel of the Seven Stars (1903)
• The Man (1905)
• Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906)
• Lady Athlyne (1908)
• The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
• Famous Imposters (1910)
• The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

Mary Tighe (1772-1810)

• Psyche, or the Legend of Love (1805)
• Psyche, With Other Poems (1811)
• Psyche (Harriet Kramer Linkin)

Katharine Tynan (1861-1931) a.k.a. Katharine Hinkson or Mrs. H. A. Hinkson

• Louise de la Vallière and Other Poems (1885)
• The Land I Love Best (1890)
• Ballads and Lyrics (1891)
• Irish Love-Songs, selected by Katharine Tynan (1892)
• A Cluster of Nuts, Being Sketches Among My Own People (1894)
• Cuckoo Songs (1894)
• An Isle in the Water (1895)
• The Land of Mist and Mountain (1895)
• A Lover's Breast-Knot (1896)
• The Wind in the Trees (1898)
• The Handsome Brandons:  A Story for Girls (1898)
• The Dear Irish Girl (1899)
• Led by a Dream, and Other Stories (1899)
• The Adventures of Carlo (1900)
• A Daughter of the Fields (1900)
• A Girl of Galway (1901)
• The Cabinet of Irish Literature, greatly revised and expanded by K. T. Hinkson (1902)
• A King's Woman. Being the narrative of Miss Penelope Fayle, now Mistress Frobisher, concerning the late troublous times in Ireland (1902)
• Love of Sisters (1902)
• The Handsome Quaker and Other Stories (1903)
• The Honourable Molly (1903)
• The French Wife (1904)
• Judy's Lovers (1904)
• Julia (1904)
• A Daughter of Kings (1905)
• Dick Pentreath (1905)
• Fortune's Favourite (1905)
• Innocencies:  A Book of Verse (1905)
• Luck of the Fairfaxes: A Story for Girls (1905)
• The Adventures of Alicia (1906)
• A Little Book for John O'Mahony's Friends (1906)
• A Little Book for Mary Gill's Friends (1906)
• A Little Book of Courtesies (1906)
• For Maisie:  A Love Story (1906)
• Her Ladyship (1907)
• Experiences (1908)
• Father Mathew (1908)
• The House of the Crickets (1908)
• The Lost Angel (1908)
• Mary Gray (1908)
• Cousins and Others (1909)
• The Book of Flowers (1909)
• Her Mother's Daughter (1909)
• Kitty Aubrey (1909)
• The House of the Secret (1910)
• Betty Carew (1910)
• Freda (1910)
• Heart O' Gold; Or, the Little Princess (1912)
• Honey, My Honey (1912)
• The Daughter of the Manor (1913)
• Irish Poems (1913)
• John Bulteel's Daughters (1914)
• A Little Radiant Girl (1914)
• Lover's Meetings (1914)
• The Flower of Peace: A Collection of the Devotional Poetry of Katharine Tynan (1914)
• Countrymen All (1915)
• The House of the Foxes (1915)
• Margery Dawe (1915)
• Flower of Youth:  Poems in War Time (1915)
• The Holy War (1916)
• Lord Edward:  A Study in Romance (1916)
• John-A-Dreams (1916)
• Kit (1917)
• Late Songs (1917)
• Herb o' Grace:  Poems in War Time (1918)
• Katharine Tynan's Book of Irish History (1918)
• Love of Brothers (1919)
• The Man from Australia (1919)
• Denys the Dreamer (1920)
• The House (1920)
• Bitha's Wonderful Year (1921)
• Even Song (1922)
• The House on the Bogs (1922)
• A Mad Marriage (1922)
• Mary Beaudesert (1923)
• The Golden Rose (1924)
• The House of Doom (1924)
• Dear Lady Bountiful (1925)
• Life in the Occupied Area (1925)
• The Briar Bush Maid (1926)
• The Heiress of Wyke (1926)
• The Infatuation of Peter (1926)
• A Dog Book (1926)
• The Face in the Picture (1927)
• Haroun of London (1927)
• Castle Perilous (1928)
• Lover of Women (1928)
• The House in the Forest (1928)
• A Fine Gentleman (1929)
• Denise the Daughter (1930)
• Grayson's Girl (1930)
• Della's Orchard (1931)
• A Lonely Maid (1931)
• The Forbidden Way (1931)
• An International Marriage (1933)
• The House of Dreams (1934)
• A Lad was Born (1934)

Lady Jane Wilde (1821-1896) a.k.a. Speranza

• Sidonia the Sorceress (trans.) (1849)
• Ugo Bassi: A Tale of the Italian Revolution (1857)
• The First Temptation; or, "Eritis sicut Deus" (trans.) (1863)
• Poems by Speranza (1864)
• Memoir of Gabriel Beranger (1880; with Sir William Wilde)
• Driftwood From Scandinavia (1884)
• Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland (1887)
• Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland: Contributions to Irish Lore (1890)
• Notes on Men, Women, and Books (1891)
• Social Studies (1893)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

• Ravenna (1878)
• Vera, or The Nihilists (1880)
• Poems (1881)
• The Duchess of Padua: A Tragedy of the XVI Century Written in Paris in the XIX Century (wr. 1883)
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
• Intentions (1891)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
• A House of Pomegranates (1891)
• Salomé: Drama en un acte (1893; French version)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1893)
• Salomé (1894; English version)
• The Sphinx (1894)
• A Woman of No Importance (1894)
• The Soul of Man (1895)
• Oscariana (1895)
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
• The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (1899)
• An Ideal Husband (1899)
• De Profundis (1905)

Irish-language Authors

N.B.  Much Irish-language work of the period, for various cultural as well as economic reasons, circulated orally or in manuscript form, and so cannot be decisively dated.  Common anglicizations of names are given parenthetically; the Irish form of Merriman's name is not known, and is in dispute.

Brian Merriman  (c. 1749-1805)

• Cúirt an Mhean-Oíche (The Midnight Court)

Eibhlín Dhubh ní Chonaill (Eileen O'Connell; c. 1745-?)

Antoine Ó Reachtabhra (Anthony Raftery, 1784-1835)

• See Songs ascribed to Raftery, Being the fifth chapter of the Songs of Connacht, collected, edited and translated by Douglas Hyde (1903)

Contexts:

Bibliography of Scholarship on Nineteenth-Century Ireland (ongoing)

The Act of Union between Ireland and Great Britain (1800)

Contemporary Responses:

• William Drennan, A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt
• William Drennan, "A Protest Against an Union Between Great Britain and Ireland"

On the Repeal of the Act of Union in the 1840s:

• Thomas Davis, "The History of To-Day"
• Thomas F. Meagher, "Speech at the Galway Election, Feb. 1847"
• Count Cavour, Considerations on the Present State and Future Prospects of Ireland

Non-Fiction Prose on Colonialism and Related Issues outside of Ireland:

• R. B. Sheridan, "Speech on the fourth charge; viz. the Resumption of the Jaghires and the Confiscation of the Treasures of the Princesses of Oude" (7 February 1787) (parliamentary speech during the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings)

Last updated on 17 November 2009 by Julia M. Wright.                                             

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