Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-lore

Published in 1916, at the height of the Irish Literary Revival, this monumental bibliographic guide traces the full arc of Ireland's fictional imagination. Stephen J. M. Brown catalogs hundreds of Irish novels, folk tales, romances, and collections of mythology, organizing them by author and by the thematic currents that defined Irish storytelling: the land, the parish, the revolutionary impulse, the oral tradition of the countryside. What emerges is not merely a list but a portrait of a nation telling itself stories, from the Anglo-Irish Gothic romances of the eighteenth century to the Gaelic League's resurrection of Irish-language folktales in Brown's own era. The guide illuminates how Irish fiction diverged from English models, developing its own obsession with ghosts, peasants, priests, and the haunted beauty of the landscape. For scholars, students, or anyone curious about the roots of Joyce, Yeats, and the Irish literary tradition, this book is the essential key: a carefully annotated map of a literature that was still, in 1916, defining itself in real time.