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 LIST OF 20 BEST BOOKS FOR STUDENTS DESIROUS OF MAKING A SPECIAL STUDY OF IRISH HISTORY.
 * 1) Maine—Early History of Institutions
 * 2) Sullivan—Introduction to O’Curry’s Manners and Customs of Ancient Irish (which ought to be published in a separate form)
 * 3) Todd—Life of St Patrck
 * 4) Richey—Lectures on Irish History
 * 5) Thierry—Norman Conquest
 * 6) Gilbert—Irish Viceroys
 * 7) Davies—Discovery
 * 8) Froude—History of England
 * 9) Gardiner—History of England
 * 10) Prendergast—Cromwellian Settlement
 * 11) Macaulay—History of England
 * 12) O’Conor—History of Irish Catholics
 * 13) Madden—United Irishmen
 * 14) Parnell—Penal Laws
 * 15) Burke—Correspondence, Speeches, Works, and Memoir by John Morley
 * 16) Grattain—Memoirs
 * 17) Swift—Works
 * 18) History of England in XVIII Century
 * 19) Cornwall Lewis—Irish Disturbances
 * 20) Leland—History of Ireland

LIST OF BEST 20 BOOKS FOR STUDENTS WHO PURPOSE WRITING IRISH HISTORY.
 * 1) Annals of the Four Masters
 * 2) O’Curry—MS materials for Irish History
 * 3) O’Curry—Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, with Sullivan’s introduction
 * 4) Adamnan—St Columba
 * 5) Confessions of St Patrick
 * 6) Harris Ware—Antiq Bishops, writers
 * 7) Giraldus Cambrensis
 * 8) Carew—Pacata Hibernia
 * 9) Pynnar—Survey of Ulster
 * 10) Carte—Ormond
 * 11) Gilbert—Confederation of Kilkenny
 * 12) Gilbert—Historie and Municipal Documents
 * 13) Story—Impartial History of Affairs in Ireland, and a Continuation of the History of the War in Ireland
 * 14) The Macariiæ Excidium
 * 15) Curry—Civil Wars
 * 16) Tone—Autobiography
 * 17) Cornwallis Correspondence
 * 18) Castlereagh Correspondence
 * 19) Report and Evidence before Secret Committee of the Irish House of Lords in 1798 respecting the United Irishmen
 * 20) Calendar of State Paper from 1172 to 1762

LIST OF 20 BEST BOOKS FOR GENERAL STUDENT.
 * 1) Walpole—Kingdom of Ireland
 * 2) Leckey—Leaders of Public Opinion
 * 3) Mitchel—History of Ireland
 * 4) Mathew Arnold—Burke on Irish Affairs
 * 5) Greville—Past and present policy of England towards Ireland
 * 6) Goldwin Smith—Irish History and Irish Character
 * 7) Sigerson—Irish Land Tenures
 * 8) O’Callaghan—Irish Brigades
 * 9) Gavan Duffy—Young Ireland
 * 10) Four Years of Irish History
 * 11) Grattan—Speeches
 * 12) Curran—Speeches
 * 13) Plunket—Speeches
 * 14) Mr. Bright—Speeches
 * 15) Bagwell— The Tudors in Ireland
 * 16) Pope Henessey—Raleigh in Ireland
 * 17) Sigerson—Modern Ireland
 * 18) Prendergast—Tory War in Ulster
 * 19) Webb—Compendium of Irish Biography
 * 20) Read—Cabinet of Irish Literature

LIST OF BEST 20 BOOKS FOR GENERAL PUBLIC IN IRELAND.
 * 1) Gavan Duffy—Bird’s eye View of Ireland
 * 2) D’Arcy M‘Gee—Art M‘Murrough
 * 3) „—History of Ireland
 * 4) Mitchel—Hugh O’Neil
 * 5) Davis—Essay and Poems
 * 6) De Beaumont—Ireland, Social, &c
 * 7) Moore—Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
 * 8) O’Conor—Military History of the Irish Nation
 * 9) D’Arcy M‘Gee—Irish Writers to the 17th Century
 * 10) Wyse—Catholic Association
 * 11) Father Meehan—Confederation of Kilkenny
 * 12) Torrens M'Cullagh—Life of Shell
 * 13) D’Arcy M'Gee—Irish Settlers in America
 * 14) The Spirit of the Nation
 * 15) Aubrey De Vere—Inisfail
 * 16) Joyce—Old Celtic Romances
 * 17) Hayes—Ballads of Ireland
 * 18) Clarence Mangan—Poems
 * 19) Carleton—Traits, &c
 * 20) Moore—Melodies

I have in framing these four lists avoided placing the same book in any two; but I would suggest to the general Irish reader to work his way through the whole four, and thus he may obtain a fairly accurate idea of the history of his country.