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 # Maine—Early History of Institutions
 * 1) Colgan—Acta Sanctorum Hibernæ
 * 2) Petrie.
 * 3) 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