The Humour of Ireland

About this eBook

Editor

O'Donoghue, D. J. (David James), 1866-1917

Title

The humour of Ireland

Original Publication

United Kingdom: The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd.,1908.

Credits

MFR, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Irish wit and humor

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68835

Release Date

August 25, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.THE HUMOUR OF IRELAND
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.THE HUMOUR OF IRELAND.
7. 7.EXORCISING THE DEMON OF VORACITY. — THE ROMAN EARL. — THE FELLOW IN THE GOAT-SKIN. — OFTEN-WHO-CAME. — THE OLD CROW AND THE YOUNG CROW. — ROGER AND THE GREY MARE. — WILL O’ THE WISP. — EPIGRAMS. — RIDDLES. — DONALD AND HIS NEIGHBOURS. — THE WOMAN OF THREE COWS. — IN PRAISE OF DIGRESSIONS. — A RHAPSODY ON POETRY. — LETTER FROM A LIAR. — EPIGRAMS. — A FINE LADY. — THE BORROWER . — WIDOW WADMAN’S EYE. — BUMPERS, SQUIRE JONES. — JACK LOFTY. — BEAU TIBBS. — THE FRIAR OF ORDERS GREY. — THE TAILOR AND THE UNDERTAKER. — TOM GROG. — BULLS. — THE MONKS OF THE SCREW. — ANA. — THE CRUISKEEN LAWN. — THE SCANDAL-MONGERS. — CAPTAIN ABSOLUTE’S SUBMISSION. — ANA. — — MY AMBITION. — A WAREHOUSE FOR WIT. — CONJUGAL AFFECTION. — WHISKY, DRINK DIVINE! — TO A YOUNG LADY BLOWING A TURF FIRE WITH HER PETTICOAT. — EPIGRAMS, ETC. — LETTER FROM MISS BETTY FUDGE, IN PARIS, TO MISS DOROTHY——. — MONTMORENCI AND CHERUBINA. — MODERN MEDIÆVALISM. — — — THE NIGHT BEFORE LARRY WAS STRETCHED. [7] — DARBY DOYLE’S VOYAGE TO QUEBEC. — ST. PATRICK OF IRELAND, MY DEAR! — THE LAST LAMP OF THE ALLEY. — THOUGHTS AND MAXIMS. — THE GATHERING OF THE MAHONYS. — DANIEL O’ROURKE. — THE HUMOURS OF DONNYBROOK FAIR. — THE NIGHT-CAP. — KITTY OF COLERAINE. — GIVING CREDIT. — — BRIAN O’LINN. — THE TURKEY AND THE GOOSE. — WIDOW MACHREE. — BARNEY O’HEA. — MOLLY CAREW. — HANDY ANDY AND THE POSTMASTER. — THE LITTLE WEAVER OF DULEEK GATE. — BELLEWSTOWN HILL . — THE PEELER AND THE GOAT. — THE LOQUACIOUS BARBER. — NELL FLAHERTY’S DRAKE. — ELEGY ON HIMSELF. — BOB MAHON’S STORY. — THE WIDOW MALONE. — THE GIRLS OF THE WEST — THE MAN FOR GALWAY. — HOW CON CREGAN’S FATHER LEFT HIMSELF A BIT OF LAND. — KATEY’S LETTER. — DANCE LIGHT, FOR MY HEART IT LIES UNDER YOUR FEET. — FATHER TOM’S WAGER WITH THE POPE. — THE OULD IRISH JIG. — MOLLY MULDOON. — THE QUARE GANDER. — TABLE-TALK. — ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET. — SAINT KEVIN AND KING O’TOOLE. — THE SHAUGHRAUN. — RACKRENTERS ON THE STUMP. — LANIGAN’S BALL. — THE WIDOW’S LAMENT. — WHISKY AND WATHER. — THE THRUSH AND THE BLACKBIRD. — IRISH ASTRONOMY. — PADDY FRET, THE PRIEST’S BOY. — O’SHANAHAN DHU. — SHANE GLAS. — AN IRISH STORY-TELLER. — — THE HAUNTED SHEBEEN. — FAN FITZGERL. — FATHER O’FLYNN. — PHILANDERING. — HONIED PERSUASION. — THE FIRST LORD LIFTINANT. — — THE AMERICAN WAKE. [43] — HOW TO BECOME A POET. — — — — — — — — — — THE DONOVANS. — PETTICOATS DOWN TO MY KNEES. — MUSICAL EXPERIENCES AND IMPRESSIONS. — FROM PORTLAW TO PARADISE. — THE DANCE AT MARLEY. — FIONN MACCUMHAIL AND THE PRINCESS. — TATTHER JACK WELSH. — THEIR LAST RACE. — I.— The Faction Fight. — II.— Their Last Race. — IN BLARNEY. — BINDIN’ THE OATS. — SELECTED IRISH PROVERBS, ETC.
8. 8.BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF WRITERS.
9. 9.NOTES — FOOTNOTES:

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