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List of Primary Works In addition to referencing the editions of works from which excerpts are taken, I provide details of other, usually later, editions below, though this list is not exhau- sive. Many of these later editions are facsimile reprints of the original books and some are still in print. The place of publication is the same as that of the original unless otherwise stated. Barclay, Tom. Memoirs and Medleys: The Autobiography of a Bottle-Washer (Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1934; Coalville: Coalville Publishing, 1995, with an introduction by David Nash). Binns, John. Recollections of the Life of John Binns: twenty-nine years in Europe and fifty-three in the United States (Philadelphia: Parry and Macmillan, 1854; Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2007). Blake, Jim. Jim Blake’s Tour from Clonave to London (Dublin: M. H. Gill, 1867). Bowen, Elizabeth. Pictures and Conversations (London: Allen Lane, 1975). Boyle, John. Galloway Street: Growing Up Irish in Scotland (London: Doubleday, 2001). Burn, James Dawson. The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (London: William Tweedie, 1855; Europa Publications, 1978, edited with an introduction by David Vincent). Cobbe, Frances Power. The Life of Frances Power Cobbe (London: Richard Bentley, 1894), 2 vols. Collis, J. S. An Irishman’s England (London: Cassell, 1937). Collis, Robert. The Silver Fleece: An Autobiography (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1936). Conner, Rearden. A Plain Tale from the Bogs (London: John Miles, 1937). Crowe, Robert. The Reminiscences of Robert Crowe, the Octogenerian Tailor (New York: n.p., n.d. [1902]). Crowley, Elaine. Technical Virgins (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1998). Davys, Mary. The Works of Mrs Davys: Consisting of plays, novels, poems, and familiar letters. Several of which never before publish’d. In two volumes (London: H. Woodfall, 1725). Denvir, John. The Life Story of an Old Rebel (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1910; Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972, with an introduction by Leon Ó Broin). Donnelly, Peter. The Yellow Rock (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950). E., J. ‘Life of an Irish Tailor, Written by Himself’. The Commonwealth, 18 April 1857. Fagg, Michael. The Life and Adventures of a Limb of the Law (London: A. Hancock, 1836). Fahy, Francis. ‘Ireland in London – Reminiscences’, National Library of Ireland, MS 11431. Published edn: Clare Hutton (ed.), ‘Francis Fahy’s “Ireland in London – Reminiscences” (1921)’, in Wayne K. Chapman and Warwick Gould (eds), Yeats’s Col- laborations. Yeats Annual No. 15: A Special Number (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 233–80. Figgis, Darrell. A Chronicle of Jails (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1917). FitzGerald, Kevin. With O’Leary in the Grave (Salisbury: Michael Russell, 1986). Foley, Alice. A Bolton Childhood (Manchester: Manchester University Extra-Mural Department, 1973). Foley, Dónal. Three Villages: An Autobiography (Dublin: Egotist Press, 1977). 282 List of Primary Works 283 Gallagher, Patrick. My Story (Dungloe: Templecrone Co-operative Society, n.d. [1945], revd. edn; London: Jonathan Cape, 1939, with an introduction by Peadar O’Donnell). Geldof, Bob, with Paul Vallely. Is That It? (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986; Penguin, 1986; Pan Macmillan, 2005). Hamilton, Elizabeth. An Irish Childhood (London: Chatto & Windus, 1963). Hamish, Maureen. Adventures of an Irish Girl at Home and Abroad (Dublin: J. K. Mitchell, 1906). Hammond, William. Recollections of William Hammond, A Glasgow Hand-Loom Weaver (Glasgow: ‘Citizen’ Press, 1904). Hampson, Walter. ‘Reminiscences of “Casey”’. Forward, 28 March – 31 October 1931 (24 October excepted). Healy, John. The Grass Arena: An Autobiography (London: Faber & Faber, 1988; Kingpin, 2007; Penguin New Classics, 2008). Hogan, Desmond. The Edge of the City: A Scrapbook 1976–91 (London: Faber & Faber, 1993). Jowitt, Jane. Memoirs of Jane Jowitt, the Poor Poetess, Aged 74 Years, Written by Herself (Sheffield: J. Pearce, 1844). Keane, John B. Self-Portrait (Dublin: Mercier Press, 1964). Keane, Mauyen. Hello, Is It All Over? (Dublin: Ababúna, 1984). Keating, Joseph. My Struggle for Life (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent, 1916; Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2005, with an introduction by Paul O’Leary). McAloren, Margaret. ‘The Wild Freshness of Morning’. Unpublished typescript. Mac Amhlaigh, Dónall. An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964; Cork: Collins Press, 2003). McCarthy, Justin. The Story of an Irishman (London: Chatto & Windus, 1904). McGeown, Patrick. Heat the Furnace Seven Times More (London: Hutchinson, 1967). MacGill, Patrick. Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy (London: Her- bert Jenkins, 1914; Caliban Books, 1985, with an introduction by John Burnett; Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005). McGinn, Matt. McGinn of the Calton: The Life and Works of Matt McGinn 1928–1977 (Glasgow: Glasgow District Libraries, 1987). MacGowan, Michael. The Hard Road to Klondike (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962; Cork: Collins Press, 2003). MacNeice, Louis. The Strings Are False: An Unfinished Autobiography (London: Faber & Faber, 1965). MacStiofáin, Seán. Memoirs of a Revolutionary (London: Gordon Cremonesi, 1975). Mangan, Owen Peter. ‘Memoir’, Northern Irish Public Record Office, T/3258/53/1. Mullin, James. The Story of a Toiler’s Life (Dublin and London: Maunsel & Roberts, 1921; Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2000, with an introduction by Patrick Maume). Naughton, Bill. Saintly Billy: A Catholic Boyhood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). Neary, John. Memories of the Long Distance Kiddies (Australia: Tony Ross, n.d. [1994]). O’Brien, George. Out of Our Minds (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1994). O’Casey, Sean. Rose and Crown (London: Macmillan, 1952; included in Mirror in my House, 1956, 2 vols and Autobiographies, 1963, 2 vols). O’Mara, Pat. The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy (London: Martin Hopkinson, 1934; New York: Vanguard Press, 1933; as The Autobiography of a Liverpool Slummy, Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, n.d. [2007], with an introduction by Colin Wilkinson). 284 List of Primary Works O’Neill, Ellen. Extraordinary Confessions of a Female Pickpocket (Preston: J. Drummond, 1850). O’Neill, John. ‘Fifty Years’ Experience of an Irish Shoemaker in London’. St Crispin: A Magazine for the Leather Trades, May 1869 – February 1870. Phelan, Jim. The Name’s Phelan: The First Part of the Autobiography of Jim Phelan (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1948; Belfast: Blackstaff, 1993). Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Mrs Laetitia Pilkington, Wife to the Reverend Mr Matthew Pilkington, Written by Herself (Dublin: Printed for the Author, 1748, vol. 2; London: George Routledge & Sons, 1928, with an introduction by Iris Barry; Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols, edited with an introduction by A. C. Elias, Jr.) Power, Richard. Apple on the Treetop (Dublin: Poolbeg, 1980). Robb, Nesca A. An Ulsterwoman in England, 1924–1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1942). Smithson, Annie M. P. Myself – and Others: An Autobiography (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1944). Stapleton, Michael. The Threshold (London: Hutchinson, 1958). Sweeney, John. At Scotland Yard: Being the Experiences during Twenty-Seven Years’ Service of John Sweeney, ed. Francis Richards (London: Grant Richards, 1904). Thompson, Bonar. Hyde Park Orator (London: Jarrolds, 1934). Trevor, William. Excursions in the Real World (London: Hutchinson, 1993; Penguin, 1994). Walsh, John. The Falling Angels: An Irish Romance (London: Flamingo, 1999). Yeats, William Butler. Reveries over Childhood and Youth (New York: Macmillan, 1916; revd. edn included in Autobiographies, 1955). Select Bibliography Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1991). Anthias, Floya. ‘Evaluating “Diaspora”: Beyond Ethnicity?’, Sociology, vol. 32, no. 3 (1998), pp. 557–80. Archibald, Douglas. ‘Introduction’. William Trevor Special Issue. Colby Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3 (September 2002), pp. 269–79. Armitstead, Claire. ‘My Life as a Story’, The Guardian Review, 27 January 2001, p. 5. Arnold, Matthew. On The Study of Celtic Literature (London: Smith, Elder, 1867). Ayling, Ronald F. ‘The Origin and Evolution of a Dublin Epic’, in Robert G. Lowery (ed.), Essays on Sean O’Casey’s Autobiographies (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1981), pp. 1–34. Boland, Eavan. Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995). Bowden, Martha F. ‘Mary Davys: self-presentation and the woman writer’s reputation in the early eighteenth century’, Women’s Writing, vol. 3, no. 1 (1996), pp. 17–33. ——. ‘Silences, Contradictions, and the Urge to Fiction: Reflections on Writing about Mary Davys’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 36, no. 2 (Fall 2003), pp. 127–47. Bowen, Elizabeth. ‘Autobiography’, in Afterthought: Pieces about Writing (London: Longmans, Green, 1962), pp. 199–204. Brah, Avtar. Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities (London: Routledge, 1996). Bruner, Jerome. ‘The Autobiographical Process’, in Robert Folkenflik (ed.), The Culture of Autobiography (California: Stanford University Press, 1993), pp. 38–56. Burnett, John (ed.). Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s (London: Routledge, 1994). Burnett, John, Mayall, David and Vincent, David (eds). The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated Critical Bibliography, 3 volumes (Brighton: Harvester, 1984–89). Campbell, Sean. ‘Beyond “Plastic Paddy”: A Re-examination of the Second-Generation Irish in England’,