In this, the first of an eight volume series of William Carleton's Traits and Stories we are given four works which display his genius in all its versatility and variety. In The Lough Derg Pilgrim he recalls his adventures at Lough Derg when, as a future candidate for holy orders, he first made that famous pilgrimage.Ned M'Keown, the one totally comic tale of the four, immortalizes in seemingly artless dialogue the travails of Irish marriage and the consolation offered by the visitations of mysterious strangers to the hearth.In The Lianhan Shee and Wildgoose Lodge the tone becomes progressively darker, shading perceptibly from ironic observation to tragic participation. In the first of these Carleton holds a mirror up to the Irish nature, reflecting in this tale the deeply superstitious Mary O'Sullivan and her confrontation with the tormented figure alienated from church and community, the Lianhan Shee. In Wildgoose Lodge, Carleton gives an intensely moving account of another aspect of Irish life and tells a nightmare tale, very much in the manner of Poe.

Wildgoose Lodge and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

William, Carleton

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Mercier Press

In Phelim O'Tooie's Courtship Carleton re-creates and recaptures for us the rich and varied life of the Ireland he knew as a child and which vanished with the famine. In Phclim one finds the ideal traditional folk hero, his parents' pride and product of his upbringing. Untrammelled by social convention of an urban sense of values he is a creature as free and as audacious as Gil Bias for whom deception and intrigue are the indispensable conditions of a life lived to the full. The tale, amid all the gaiety and. ty of incident, testifies to a way of living as irresponsible as that set forth by Maria Edgeworth in Castle Rackrent, at the other end of the social scale. But the manner of Carleton's recreation of it, his blending of folk-tale, fantasy and personal reminiscence into an incomparable tale make it possible for one to feel nostalgia for a world one never knew. The Three Tasks, as Professor Harmon tells us in his introduction, derives more directly from the oral tradition, from Tyrone fairytale which in turn belongs to the international folktale. In An Essay on Irish Swearing the tone sharpens and deepens to a caustic satire on 'the writers of the Black-woods school who professed to find Paddy' a compound of wit and murder, too innocent in his violence to deserve full moral censure.

Phelim O'Toole's Courtship and Other Stories

Mercier Press

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry is considered William Carleton's greatest work. No other work of the first half of the nineteenth century conveys so well the rural life of the period. Apart from being immensely entertaining, these stories are essential reading for the literary and history student of the period. These two volumes reprint the Definitive Edition of 1842-44 and include a wealth of illustrations by famous illustrators of the time.

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry: v. 1

Colin Smythe Ltd.

Fardorougha, the miser, or, The convicts of Lisnamona (Classic Irish novels)

Appletree Press, [

Art Maguire, or, The broken pledge

RareBooksClub.com

The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine (Classic Reprint)

Children's Books

Forgotten Books

Fardorougha, The Miser

Echo Library

Celebrate Irish culture with this literary collection, which includes traditional ballads; poems by Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, William Allingham, William Butler Yeats, and others; short stories by Wilde, Le Fanu, and Carleton; the novels Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce; and Synge's drama The Playboy of the Western World.

A Treasury of Irish Literature (Barnes & Noble Omnibus Leatherbound Classics)

Oscar, Wilde

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Thomas, Moore

Aubrey, De Vere

Maria, Edgeworth

James, Joyce

Bram, Stoker

George, Moore

Lionel Johnson

William Allingham

James Clarence Mangan

Samuel Ferguson

Thomas Osborne Davis

Katharine Tynan

Sterling Juvenile

Createspace

William Carleton: The Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

The White Row Press

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