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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 (: 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. ‘ 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).

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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: , 1988). Neary, John. Memories of the Long Distance Kiddies (Australia: Tony Ross, n.d. [1994]). O’Brien, George. Out of Our Minds (: 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’. 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’, in Donald M. MacRaild (ed.), The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000), pp. 266–88. Canavan, Bernard. ‘Story-tellers and writers: Irish identity in emigrant labourers’ autobiographies, 1870–1970’, in Patrick O’Sullivan (ed.), The Irish World Wide: The Creative Migrant (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1994), pp. 154–69. Corcoran, Neil. Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Cowley, Ultan. The Men Who Built Britain: A History of the Irish Navvy (Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2001). Cullen, Fintan. ‘Erskine Nicol’, in Jane Turner (ed.), The Dictionary of Art (London: Macmillan, 1996), vol. 23, pp. 106–07. Dekker, Thomas. The Second Part of The Honest Whore (London: Elizabeth All-de, for Nathaniel Butter, 1630). Doody, Margaret Anne. ‘Swift Among the Women’, The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 18 (1988), pp. 68–92. Dudley Edwards, Owen. ‘Patrick MacGill and the making of a historical source: With a handlist of his works’, The Innes Review, vol. 37, no. 2 (1986), pp. 73–99. Eakin, Paul John. Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).

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Ellmann, Maud. Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003). Felski, Rita. Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989). Fitzpatrick, David. ‘“A peculiar tramping people”: The Irish in Britain, 1801–70’, in W. E. Vaughan (ed.), A New History of Ireland, Volume 5: Ireland Under the Union, I (1801–70) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp. 623–60. Foot, Michael. Debts of Honour (London: Davis Poynter, 1980). Foster, R. F. Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History (London: Penguin, 1995). ——. W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume 1: The Apprentice Mage (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). ——. The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland (London: Allen Lane, 2001). Giemza, Bryan. ‘The Technique of Sorrow: Patrick MacGill and the American Slave Narrative’, New Hibernia Review/Iris Éireannach Nua, vol. 7, no. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 73–87. Gramsci, Antonio. ‘Justification of Autobiography (i)’, in David Forgacs and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (eds), Selections from Cultural Writings (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1985), p. 132. Gray, Nigel (ed.). Writers Talking (London: Caliban Books, 1989). Greacen, Robert. The Sash My Father Wore: An Autobiography (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1997). Greenslade, Liam. ‘The Blackbird Calls in Grief: Colonialism, Health and Identity Among Irish Immigrants in Britain’, in Jim Mac Laughlin (ed.), Location and Disloca- tion in Contemporary Irish Society: Emigration and Irish Identities (Cork: Cork University Press, 2001), pp. 36–60. Gusdorf, George. ‘Conditions and Limits of Autobiography’, trans. James Olney, in James Olney (ed.), Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980), pp. 28–48. Hackett, Nan. XIX Century British Working-Class Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliog- raphy (New York: AMS, 1985). ——. ‘A Different Form of “Self”: Narrative in British Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography’, Biography, vol. 12, no. 3 (1989), pp. 208–26. Hamilton, Elizabeth. I Stay in the Church (London: Vision Press, 1973). Harris, Ruth-Ann M. The Nearest Place That Wasn’t Ireland: Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Labour Migration (Ames, IO: Iowa State University Press, 1994). Harte, Liam. ‘“Somewhere Beyond England and Ireland”: Narratives of “Home” in Second-Generation Irish Autobiography’, Irish Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 3 (2003), pp. 293–305. Hartigan, Maureen and Hickman, Mary J. (eds). The History of the Irish in Britain: A Bibliography (London: Irish in Britain History Centre, 1986). Hogan, Desmond. Larks’ Eggs: New and Selected Stories (Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2005). Hooper, Glenn (ed.). The Tourist’s Gaze: Travellers to Ireland 1800–2000 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2001). Hutton, Clare (ed.). ‘Francis Fahy’s “Ireland in London – Reminiscences” (1921)’, in Wayne K. Chapman and Warwick Gould (eds), Yeats’s Collaborations. Yeats Annual No. 15: A Special Number (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 233–80. Kenneally, Michael. Portraying the Self: Sean O’Casey and the Art of Autobiography (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1988). Select Bibliography 287

Kenny, Kevin. ‘Diaspora and Comparison: The Global Irish as a Case Study’, Journal of American History, vol. 90, no. 1 (June 2003), pp. 134–62. Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995). Kilfeather, Siobhán. ‘Beyond the Pale: Sexual Identity and National Identity in Early Irish Fiction’, Critical Matrix, vol. 2, no. 4 (1986), pp. 1–31. Lee, J. J. Ireland 1912–1985. Politics and Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Mac Amhlaigh, Dónall. ‘Documenting the fifties’, Irish Studies in Britain, no. 14 (Spring/Summer 1989), pp. 7–13. McCrum, Robert. ‘The vanishing man’, The Observer Review, 14 November 2004, p. 1. McGeown, Patrick. ‘The Wordster’, New Statesman, 28 May 1965, pp. 839–40. MacRaild, Donald M. Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750–1922 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999). Matthews, William. British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of British Auto- biographies Published or Written Before 1951 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955). Maume, Patrick. ‘James Mullin, the Poor Scholar: A Self-made Man from Carleton’s Country’, Irish Studies Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (1999), pp. 29–39. Miller, David. Don’t Mention the War: , Propaganda and the Media (London: Pluto Press, 1994). Miskell, Louise. ‘“The heroic Irish doctor?”: Irish immigrants in the medical profession in nineteenth-century Wales’, in Oonagh Walsh (ed.), Ireland Abroad: Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), pp. 82–94. Moran, Gerard. ‘“A Passage to Britain”: Seasonal Migration and Social Change in the West of Ireland, 1870–1890’, Saothar, vol. 13 (1988), pp. 22–31. Murphy, James H. ‘Between Drawing-Room and Barricade: The Autobiographies and Nationalist Fictions of Justin McCarthy’, in Bruce Stewart (ed.), Hearts and Minds: Irish Culture and Society under the Act of Union (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe: 2002), pp. 111–20. Murray, Christopher. Sean O’Casey: Writer at Work, A Biography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2004). Murray, Tony. ‘Curious streets: Diaspora, displacement and transgression in Desmond Hogan’s London Irish narratives’, Irish Studies Review, vol. 14, no. 2 (2006), pp. 239–53. Naughton, Bill. On the Pig’s Back: An Autobiographical Excursion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987). O’Connor, Frank. My Father’s Son (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999). O’Connor, Joseph. ‘Introduction’, in Dermot Bolger (ed.), Ireland in Exile (Dublin: New Island, 1993), pp. 11–18. O’Day, Alan. ‘Varieties of anti-Irish behaviour in Britain, 1846–1922’, in Panikos Panayi (ed.), Racial Violence in Britain, 1840–1950 (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1993), pp. 26–43. Ó Háinle, Cathal. ‘Aspects of Autobiography in Modern Irish’, in Ronald Black, William Gillies and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (eds), Celtic Connections: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Celtic Studies (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999), pp. 360–76. O’Leary, Paul. Immigration and Integration: The Irish in Wales, 1798–1922 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000). ——. ‘Introduction’ to My Struggle for Life by Joseph Keating (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2005), pp. ix–xxx. 288 Select Bibliography

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A social history in, xxv–xxvi Abbey Theatre, 188 subjectivity in, xxiv–xxv Aberdeen, xxxvii, 24 themes and motifs, xxx–xxxvi Achill Island, , 255, Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), 256, 258 239–41 Act of Union (1800), xxvii–xxviii Aylmer, Barry, 71, 72 Aga Khan III, 107n agricultural labour, xxxvii, 139, 216 B Ahearne, Andy, 264 Baird, John Logie, 195 Aiséirí, 247 Baird Company, 93 Albert, Prince, 47 Balfe, Michael, 72 Alboni, Marietta, 58 Ballinasloe, County Galway, 278, 279, Aldington, Richard, 195 281 Alfred the Great, 76 Balliol College, Oxford, 216 Allen, William, 52, 76n Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, xxxiv, 158 American Civil War, 51 Baltimore, 153 Anderson, Adam, 60n Banim, John, 71 Anderson, Benedict, 69n Banim, Michael, 71n Anglo-Celt, 264 Banyard, James, 97n Anglo-Irish, xxx–xxxi, 1–2, 29, Barclay, Tom, xxvi–xxvii, 74–8, 79, 153 170 Barrie, J. M., 217 dislocation of, 125, 175–6 Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, 212–15 Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921), 185 Barry, Kevin, 237 Anglo-Saxons, xxix, 159, 160 Battersea, London, 270, 272 anglophobia, xxiv, xxxv Beardsley, Aubrey, 190 anti-vivisectionism, 64 Behan, Brendan, 170, 232n Antrim, County, 33 Belfast, 25, 26, 33–4, 98, 150, 219, 221, Aran Islands, 251 230, 236 Arlen, Michael, 195 Bell, Desmond, 92 Armadale, West Lothian, 93–4 Bellingham, Greater London, 279 , County, 149, 212 Bellingham, Northumberland, 26 Armstrong, Andrew, 60n, 62 Bevan, Ada, 191n Armstrong, Neil, 269 Binns, Benjamin, 10 Arnold, Arthur, 65–6, 68 Binns, John, 10–14 Arnold, Matthew, xxix, 159 Birmingham, 10, 13, 35–6, 180, 237, Arran, Lord, 271 271n artist’s model, 60–3 and Richard Power, 251–4 Athenry, County Galway, 224 Black and Tans, 200, 272 Australia, 98n Black Hat, The, 134 autobiography, xix–xx, xvii, 188 Blackburn fair, 47 didactic, xxi, xxvi Blake, Jim, 60–3 as documentary, xxii–xxiv Blanc, Louis, 42 interpretive issues, xxii–xxvii Blatchford, Robert, 106 motivations, xxi Blockley, Gloucestershire, 275–7

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Boer War, 144 C Boland, Eavan, xxxvii Calcraft, William, 40 Bolton, xxxiv, 36, 160–1, 177 Calcutta, 170 and Alice Foley, 129–33 Callan, County , 248n Bolton and District Weavers’ and Calmady-Hamlyn, Sylvia, 187 Winders’ Association, 129 Calton District Hand-Loom Weavers’ Bolton Trades’ Council, 129 Trades Union, 44 Bonar, Dan, 119 Cambridge, 1 Boot, Jesse, 194n Cambridge University, 166 Boots’ Booklovers’ Library, 194 Camden, London, 237 Boots’ Chemists, 242 Campbell, Richard, 72 Bow, Clara, 194 Campbell, Sean, 74n Bowden, Martha, 1 Campbell, Thomas, 42 Bowen, Elizabeth, xv, xxxv, 125–8, Canada, 185 176, 274 Carbery, Ethna, 235n Bowen’s Court, , 125 Cardiff, 88–91 Boyle, John, 255–8 Carlyle, Thomas, xxix, xxviii, 106 Boyle, Mick, 256 Carnearney, County Antrim, 134 Bradley, Jimmy, 256, 257 Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Bramham, Yorkshire, 32 15, 19 Carrickfergus, County Antrim, 180, 181 Brennan, Frank, 52 Carson, Sir Edward, 183 Brennan, Stephen, 247 , County Mayo, 173, 174 Brett, Sergeant, 52 Catford, Greater London, 279–81 Brian, Paddy, 18 , 111, 139, 274 Bridgeton Rambling Club, 42 conversion to, 121, 175 Brien, Matthew, 19 in England, 77, 133, 187, 245–6 Brighton, 239 in Liverpool, 153–4, 157 Bristol, 20–3, 64 prejudice against, xxviii, xxx–xxxi, British army, 146, 175 xxxi–xxxii, 91 British Broadcasting Corporation in Scotland, 150, 208, 209–11 (BBC), 180 in Wales, 87 British Empire, 159 Catholic Institute, 70n British Railways, 236 Catholic Times,69 Brixton prison, 237n Catholic Young Men’s Association, 99 Broad Campden, Gloucestershire, 276 Cavan, County, 225 Brown, Christy, 166 Celts, xxix, 159, 160 Brown, Spencer Curtis, 125 census returns, xxviiin Brush, Micky, 163 Chartism, 24, 37, 38–41, 44 Bryant, Mrs Sophie, 98 Chelsea Hospital for Women, 121–4 Buckstone, John, 58 Cheshire, 109–10, 239, 274 Budleigh Salterton, , 277 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 35 Burn, James Dawson, 24–8 Childers, Erskine, 170 Burnett, John, xxii chimney-sweeping, 106–10 Burns, Helen, 37 Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire, 275 Bury, Lancashire, 177 Cibber, Colley, 4, 5, 7, 8 Bushmills, County Antrim, 69 Cibber, Theophilus, 5 Byrne, Father James, 78n Cinque Ports, 127 Byron, Lady, 279 Clan-na-Gael, 102, 104 Byron, Lord George, 279 Clarke, John, 72 Index 291

Clarke, Thomas, J. 123 Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876, 64 Clay, Reverend John, 45 Crystal Palace exhibition, 57 Cleendra, County Donegal, 115, 116, Cumberland, 214 117–18 Curragh Camp, County Kildare, 72 Clerkenwell prison, 76 Curtis, Peter, 50 Climbing Boys Act, 1840, 106 Cloghaneely, County Donegal, 92 D Clonave, County Westmeath, 60 Dagenham, Greater London, 204–5 Clonmel, County Tipperary, 17 Dáil Éireann, 164n, 170 co-operativism, 115 , 139, 195n Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, 93, 94–5 , 45, 65 Cobbe, Frances Power, xvii, xxi, 64–8 Daily Sketch, 275 Cobbett, William, 77, 216 Dalton, Canon John, 139 Coigley, Father James, 10 Dartmoor, Devon, 277 Collis, John Stewart, xxxiv, 166, Dartmoor Pony Society, 187n 216–18 Daventry, Northamptonshire, 248 Collis, Robert, 166–9, 216 Davis, Chaplain, 40 colonialism, xxvii–xxix, xxx–xxxi Davis, Eugene, 98 Commonwealth, The,33 Davis, Graham, 74n communism, 35 Davis, Thomas, 39n, 70 Connaught Tribune, 264 Davitt, Michael, 89, 103n Connemara, County Galway, 250 Davys, Mary, xxx, 1–3 Conner, Rearden, 193–7 Davys, Peter, 1 Connolly, James, 106, 231 de Candia, Giovanni Matteo (Mario), 58 Cookstown, County Tyrone, 88, 111 de Cateforde, John, 280 Cooper Settlement, New York, 37 de Valera, Eamon, 230, 236, 239 Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ), 249 Deasy, Captain Timothy, 52 Corcoran, Neil, 125 Defoe, Daniel, 222 Cork, 19, 20, 56, 144, 193, 229, 231, Dekker, Thomas, xxix 237, 244 Democratic Press,10 Cork, County, 204, 275 Dent & Sons, 170 Cork Examiner,55 Denvir, John, 69–73,96 Corn Laws, 31n, 44 Derby, 47 Cornwall, 130 Derbyshire, 277 Costain construction firm, 204 Dermody, Thomas, 279–80 Cotswolds, 275–7 Derry/Londonderry, 93, 150 Cotterill, Reverend Thomas, 29–30 Devon, 188, 274 Coventry, 237 Devonshire, 185–7 Cowie Square Wanderers Football Club, diaries, xxi, xxxv 151 Dickens, Charles, 5, 57, 58, 106, 185 Cowley, Ultan, 202n, 235n Dillon, John Blake, 39n Cowper, John, 183n Dodds, Eric, 180 Coyle, Sean, 260 Dolan, Joe, 280 Craigneuk, North Lanarkshire, 149–52 domestic service, xvi, xxi, 111–14 Crewe, Cheshire, 237–8 Donabate, County Dublin, 64 Crilly, Dan, 97 Donaghadee, County Down, 26 Cromwell, Oliver, 76, 154 Doncaster, 29, 31 Crossmaglen, County Armagh, 152 Donegal, County, 78, 115, 139, 256, Crowe, Robert, xv, 37–41 257, 258 Crowley, Elaine, xxxvi, 239–41 Donnelly, Peter, 212–15 292 Index

Doody, Margaret Anne, 2n Elizabeth I, Queen, 63, 76, 279 Doris, Patrick J., 171n Ellis, William Webb, 168 Doris, William, 171n Ellman, Maud, 125 Dormer, Lord, 187 Emerald Minstrels, 69–73 Dorset, 216 Emerald Staff Agency, 263–5 Douglas, James, 195 emigrant boat, 234–8, 242–3, 246, Dover, Kent, 29 249–50 Down, County, 121 Escouflaire, Rodolphe, 232n Downey, Edmund, 97 Essex, 204, 205 Downey, Richard J., of Euston Station, London, 190–1, Liverpool, 157 238 Drogheda, County Louth, 49 Evening Standard, 271, 272 Dublin, xxxvi, 10, 37, 81, 106, 121, 125, Examiner,65 170, 180, 193, 216, 239, 242–3 and Bob Geldof, 266–9 F and Donal Foley, 238 Fagan, James Bernard, xxxii, and Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, 246–7 191–2 and Elizabeth Hamilton, 176 Fagg, Michael, 20–3 and Jane Jowitt, 29 Fahy, Francis, 96–100, 104n and J.E., 36 Falconer, Edmund, 71 and Jim Phelan, 143, 144 farm labour, xxxviii, 139, 216 and Laetitia Pilkington, 4 Faucit, Helen, 58 mailboat from, 234–8, 242–3, 249–50 Felski, Rita, xxv and Mary Davys, 1 Fenianism, xxviii, xxxi, 49, 69, 89, and Sean O’Casey, 188, 190 104n, 123, 129; see also and Second World War, 221n Manchester Martyrs and William Butler Yeats, 79 Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Duke of York’s Theatre, London, 191 The,xl Dumfries, 24, 26–7, 28 Figgis, Darrell, xxxv, 170–4 Dún Laoghaire mailboat, 234–8, 242–3, Figgis, Millie, 170 246, 249–50 First World War, xxxvii, 83, 133, Dungarvan, County Waterford, 198–201 134, 139, 153, 162, 166–9, 177–8, Dungloe, County Donegal, 117–18, 120 209, 216 Durham, 212 FitzGerald, Kevin, xxxii, 185–7 Fitzpatrick, David, xxxix E Fitzwilliam, Countess Mary, 31n E., J., 33–6 Fitzwilliam, Earl, 31 Eakin, Paul John, xxvii Flaherty, Horse, 250 East India Company, 17, 50, 63n Flannery, Thomas, 99 , 121, 123n, 162, 166–7, Florida, 175 171n, 193, 231n Foley, Alice, 129–33, 149 Echo, The, 64, 65–8 Foley, Cait, 238 ecological movement, 216 Foley, Cissy, 129–30 Edinburgh, 121, 122 Foley, Dónal, xxxv, 234–8, 242 Edward Ebley Theatrical Company, 85 Foley, Sheila, 235 Edwardes-Ker, Lt. Colonel D. R., 185–7 folk singing, 207 Edwards, Owen Dudley, 140n Foot, Michael, 134 Egypt, 51, 239 Forbes-Robertson, Jean, 191 Elias, A. C., 4 Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston, Eliot, T. S., 177n 191n Index 293

Ford, Henry, 204 Great Eastern Railway, 24 Ford, Johnny, 154–7 Great Famine, xxviii, 20, 39, 74 Ford factory, Dagenham, 204–5 Greenacre, James, 40 Fortune Theatre, London, 191 Grey, Mary, 191 Forward, 106 Griffith, D. W., 194 Foster, Roy, xxin, xxv, 79–80, 125 Grimsby, 48 Franklin, Benjamin, 33n Grisi, Giulia, 58 Freind, John, 8n Gusdorf, Georges, xxiii Freind, Reverend William, 8 French Revolution, 10, 11–12 Frost, John, 38–9 H Furnese, Henry, 7 Hackett, Nan, xxvi Fussell, John, 40 Halifax, Yorkshire, xxxvii Hall, Henry, 275 Hall, Stan and Gladys, 232 G Hamilton, Elizabeth, xxxiv, 175–9, Gaelic League, 162, 163–4, 188 180 Gaeltacht, 92–3 Hamilton, James, Viscount Clandeboye, Gallagher, James, Bishop of Raphoe, 78 176 Gallagher, Patrick, xxvi, 115–20 Hamish, Maureen, xxi, 111–14 Gallagher, Sally, 116–20 Hamlyn Group, 198 Galway, 245 Hammond, William, xxxi, 42–4 Galway, County, 246n, 250n Hampshire, 248 Garbo, Greta, 194 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 42 Hampson, Walter, 106–10 Gartsherrie Iron Works, 93 Hardie, Keir, 135 Gavan Duffy, Charles, 39n, 98 Harte, Liam, xxxvi–xxxviii, 270n Gaynor, Janet, 194 Harte, Willie, xxxvii Geldof, Bob, xxxvi, 266–9 Haweis, Reverend Hugh, 65 Georgetown University, 263 Hawthornden Prize, 188 Georgia, 37 Healy, John, xxvi, 259–62 Germany, 154, 155, 167, 224, 232, 239 Healy, Metre, 18 Gibbons, Margaret, 139 Heaton, Ted, 155 Gilmour, Deacon, 44 Heenan, John C., 75 Glasgow, xxxi, 24, 33, 121, 150, 237, 241 Heeney, Andy, 50 and Matt McGinn, 207–11 Heeney, Patrick, 232n and Michael MacGowan, 93 Henderson, Bill, 225 and William Hammond, 42–4 Henry VIII, King, 76 Glasgow Campbell Club, 42 Hertfordshire, 185 Glasgow Celtic, 151, 208, 209 Hess, Rudolf, 220 Glasgow Rangers, 151 Hexham, Northumberland, 24 Glasgow University, 42 hiring fairs, xxxvii, 202 Glenties, County Donegal, 139 Hitler, Adolf, 182, 220n, 238 Globe Hotel, Dublin, 235 Hobhouse, Henry, 103 Gloucestershire, 47, 275–7 Hogan, Desmond, 278–81 Godolphin School, 79, 80–2 Hogan, J. F., 98 Gosling, Bob, 109 Hogerzeil, Han, 166 Gramsci, Antonio, xix, xxii Hogg, Billy, 151 Graves, Alfred Perceval, 105 Holocaust, 166 Greacen, Robert, 134 Holyhead, 237 Great Central Railway, 134 Home Rule Association, 96 294 Index

Home Rule Confederation of Great Irish Times, 234 Britain, 69 Irish Volunteers, 163, 170 Home Rule movement, 54, 65n, 69, Isle of Man, 158, 177, 178 88–9, 91, 101, 183 Israel, 176 homecoming, 246–50 Italy, 181 Hot Gospellers, 130–1 House of Commons, 54, 55, 59, 83, 103, J 135, 164n Jackson, Raymond (Jak), 271 Hull, 47–8 jail journals, xxxv, 170–4 Hungary, 42 Jamaica, 229 Hunter, Aarron, 53 James VI, King of Scotland, 176 Hurley, Jim, 163 Jarvis, Sir John, 40 Hutchinson Group, 198 Jersey, German occupation of, Hutton, Clare, 96 224–8 Huxley, T. H., 106 Johnny Noakes’s theatre, 85 Hyde Park, London, 57, 100, 122, 134, Johnson, Samuel, 58 136–8 Jones, Ernest Charles, 40 Jones, John Gale, 13 I Jones, William, 38–9 Illustrated Irish Penny Library,69 journalism Ince, Angela, 271 and Dónal Foley, 234 Indian Mutiny, 51 and Frances Power Cobbe, 64–8 , 247 and John Denvir, 69–73 Inquirer,65 Jowitt, Jane, xv, xxxi, 29–32 Iowa, 251 Joyce, James, xviii, 83, 251 Iremonger, Valentin, 245 ’July barbers’, xxxvii; see also Irish army, 245 migratory harvesters Irish Citizen Army, 231n Irish Constitution (1922), 170 K Irish Exhibition, Olympia, 1888, 99 Kay, James Phillips, xxviii Irish Fireside,99 Keane, Eamonn, 242–3 Irish in Britain, attitudes towards, xviii, Keane, John B., xxxv, xxxvi, 140, 242–4, xxvii–xxix, 76, 79–82, 186, 230 245, 263 , 263 Keane, Mauyen, 224–8 Irish language, xxxi, 38, 92–3, 188, 205, Kearney, Peadar, 232n 245, 251, 260 Keating, Joseph, xxii–xxiii, xxxiii, 83–7, decline of, 248–9 153, 255 revival movement, 89–90, 99–100, Keats, John, 181 104, 163 Keeley, Mary Ann, 58 , 70, 96–100 Keeley, Robert, 58 Irish Literary Society, 79, 96–7, 105n Kelly, Colonel Thomas J., 52 Irish National League, 89–90 Kelly, Tommy, 152 Irish News Agency, 234 Kelmscott Press, 98n Irish Party, 54 Kendal, Cumbria, 214 Irish Press, 234 Kenmare, County Kerry, 20 Irish Republican Army (IRA), 164, 229, Kenneally, Michael, 189 230, 231, 233, 237n, 271–3 Kennedy, President John F., 139 Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), Kenny, Kevin, xx 76n, 231n Kent, 126–8 Irish Studies Review, xviii Kentish Town, Greater London, 259 Index 295

Kermode, Frank, xxiv literacy, xx–xxi Kerryman, 264 Lithuania, 150 Kidderminster, Worcestershire, 47 Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, 266 Kilburn, London, 237 Liverpool, xxxi, 20, 29, 33, 56, 70n, 143, Kilcoo, County Cavan, 49 177 Kilfeather, Siobhán, xxxn, 1 boat to, 20, 50, 53 Kilkenny, 235, 245, 247–50 and J.E., 34–6 , 264 and Jim Blake, 61, 62 Killiney, County Dublin, 166 and John Denvir, 69–73 Killorglin, County Kerry, 280, 281 and John O’Neill, 15 Killyleagh, County Down, 25 and Justin McCarthy, 54 Kilmainham Jail, 123n and Pat O’Mara, 153–7 Kilmallock, County Limerick, 264 Lloyd, Mary, 64 Kiltimagh, County Mayo, xxxvii, 205n Locke, John, 67 Kilvert, Francis, 216 Logan, Charlie, 210 Kinlochleven waterworks, 139, 140–2 London, xviii, xxxiii, xxxvii, 24, 29, 74, Kinvara, County Galway, 96 125, 170, 180, 185, 198, 243, 246, kip houses, xxxvii 248, 274 Klondike gold rush, 92 and Annie M. P. Smithson, 121–4 Knott Mill Fair, 46 and Bill Naughton, 158 Kossuth, Lajos, 42 and Bonar Thompson, 134–8 and Chartism, 39–40 L and Desmond Hogan, 279–81 Lablache, Luigi, 58 and Dónal Foley, 234, 238 labour movement. see trade unions and Elizabeth Hamilton, 177, 178 Labour Party, British, 135n, 168n, 271n and fogs, 218 Lamb, Charles, 58 and Frances Power Cobbe, 64–8 Lanarkshire, 115 and Francis Fahy, 96–100 Lancashire, 109, 159 and George O’Brien, 263–5 Land League, 82, 102, 103 and Jim Blake, 60–3 Landseer, Sir Edwin, 63 and Jim Phelan, 143–4 Lane Fox, Lady Charlotte, 32 and John Binns, 10 Lane Fox, George, 32 and , 259, 260, 262 Larkin, Michael, 52, 76n and John Neary, 202–6 Lawless, Tom, 50 and John O’Neill, 15 Lawson, George Anderson, 61n Lee, Joe, xxiii and John Stewart Collis, 217–18 Leeds, 47, 237 and John Sweeney, 101–5 Lees, Lynn, 74n and John Walsh, 270–3 Lefanu, Joseph Sheridan, 72 and Justin McCarthy, xxix, 55–9 Leicester, xxxiii, 74–8 and Laetitia Pilkington, xxxi, 4–5 Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 63 and Margaret McAloren, 162 Lemass, Sean, 236 and Michael Fagg, 20 Letterkenny, County Donegal, 115 and Nesca Robb, 220–3 Limerick, 77, 212 and Peter Donnelly, 214–15 Lincoln’s Inn, London, 20 and Rearden Conner, 193–7 Lincolnshire, xxxvii, 267 and Robert Collis, 166 ’linguistic turn’, xxiii and Seán MacStiofáin, 229–33 Lismore, County Waterford, xxxiv, 263 and Sean O’Casey, 189–92 , County Kerry, 242, 243 and William Butler Yeats, 79–82 296 Index

London Corresponding Society, 10, 11, MacNeice, Louis, 125, 180–4 12 MacNeice, Willie, 181 London Evening News, 158 MacRaild, Donald, xxviiin, xxix London Gaelic League, 96 Macready, William Charles, 58 London Irish Rifles, 139 MacStiofáin, Seán, xxxiii, 229–33 London Metropolitan Police, 101 MacSweeney, Tim, 99 London Oratory School, 187n MacSwiney, Terence, 164–5, 237n London University, 175 Maidment, Brian, xxxix Loughran, Mary, 111 Manassi, Joe, 154–7 Lover, Samuel, 71, 72, 73 Manchester, 35, 36, 45, 46, 48, 134, 135, Luddy, Maria, xxxix 136n, 149, 177 Lugton, Thomas, 42 Manchester Martyrs, 40n, 52, 76; see also Luton, xxxi–xxxii Fenianism Lyme Hall, Cheshire, 109–10 Mander-Mitchenson collection, 280–1 Lyme Regis, Dorset, 277 Mangan, Johnny, 154–7 Mangan, Owen Peter, xxix, xxxi, 49–53 M Manton, James, 121 Mac Amhlaigh, Dónall, xviii, xx–xxi, Markievicz, Countess, 164 xxiii, xxvi, xxxiv, xxxv, 140, 202, Marlborough College, Wiltshire, 180, 245–50, 263 183, 184 McAloren, Margaret, 162–5 Marseilles, 144 McAloren, Nell, 163 Marshalsea prison, xxxi, 5, 29 McArdle, James, 72 Marx, Karl, 182 McArdle, John Francis, 70, 71, 72 Marxism, 229, 266 MacBride, Maud Gonne, 164 Massachusetts, 49 McCallum, Tommy, 208 Mathew, Father Theobald, 37 McCann, Michael Joseph, 71 Mathews, Charles, 58 McCarthy, Charlotte, 55n Matrimonial Causes Act, 1878, 64 McCarthy, Justin, xxix, 54–9,98 Matthews, William, 20n McConnell, Colin, 210 May, Harold, 154–7 MacCool, Finn, 248 May, Robert, 98 McCourt, Frank, 153 Maynooth, County Kildare, 49, 51 McCrum, Robert, 278 Mayo, County, xxxvi–xxxvii, 99, 236, MacCutcheon, James Lister, 136 246n MacDermott, John, 221n Mayo News, The, 171n McDonagh, Michael, 98 Mazzini, Giuseppe, 181 MacDonald, Ramsay, 168 Meade, Sir John, 6n McGahern, John, 272 Meade, Dr Richard, 6 McGeown, Patrick, 139n, 140, 149–52 medical profession, xxxi–xxxii, 88–91, MacGill, Patrick, xviii, xxiii, xxvi, 166, 224–8 139–42, 149, 202, 274, 278 Mee, John, 77 McGinn, Gus, 210–11 Merthyr, Wales, 90 McGinn, Matt, 207–11 Mew, Joe, 18 MacGowan, Michael, xxvi, 92–5, 115, migratory harvesters, xxxvii, 139 274 millworkers, 129–33 McGuinness, Tommy, 152 Mitchel, John, 170 McInally, Harry, 152 , County Cork, 274 MacLean, John, 207 modernism, xxv–xxvi Macmillan, Harold, 234 Molloy, Barney, 257, 258 McNamee, William, 24 Montana, 92 Index 297

Moody, Dwight, 130–1 Normanton, Yorkshire, xxxvii Moore, Thomas, 56n, 71, 162 Norris, Jim ’Black’, 235 More, Sir Thomas, 77 North, Rita, 170 Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, Northampton, xxxvi, 147, 245, 248 276 Northern Daily Times,54 Morning Chronicle,20 Northumberland, 24, 26 Morning Star,54 Norton’s theatre, 85 Morris, William, 98n, 106 Nugent, Father James, 70 Morrison, Danny, 170 nursing, xvi, 224–8 Morton, Sanny, 151 Mountain Ash, Wales, 83–7 O Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 273 Ó Conluain, Prionsias, 92 Mountjoy prison, 229 Ó Gaora, Colm, 170 Mulhern, Patrick, 119 Ó Háinle, Cathal, 92 Mullaghmore, County Sligo, 273n Ó hEochaidh, Seán, 92, 93 Mullen, Francis, 49, 50 Ó Nualláin, Ciaráin, 247n Mullin, James, xxxi, xxxiv, 88–91, Oats, Johnny, 50 101 O’Boyle, Paddy, 93, 94–5 Murchu, Jonnie, 118 O’Brien, Edna, xviii Murphy, Paddy, 151–2 O’Brien, Flann, 247n O’Brien, George, xxxiv, xxxvi, 263–5 N O’Brien, James, 46 Nation, The, 71n, 72n O’Brien, Michael, 52, 76n National Children’s Hospital, Dublin, O’Casey, Eileen, 188 166 O’Casey, Sean, xxi, xxxii–xxxiii, 188–92 nationalism, xxxii–xxxiii, xxxiv, 69, 153, Ockley, Joe, 145 162, 188, 200–1, 274 O’Connell, Daniel, 37–8, 39, 69n and Annie M. P. Smithson, 121–4 O’Connor, Arthur, 10 and James Mullin, 88–91 O’Connor, Fergus, 38 and prisoners, 170–4 O’Connor, Frank, xxxvi, xxxviii Nationalist,69 O’Connor, Joseph, xviii, 278 Naughton, Bill, xxxiii, xxxiv, 158–61, Oddfellows movement, 24 165, 212 O’Donnell, Peadar, 115 Navan, County Meath, 229 O’Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah, 170 navvying, 245, 251 O’Faolain, Sean, 251, 272 and John Neary, 202–6 Old Bailey, 40–1 and Patrick MacGill, 139–42 Oldham, Jackie, 154–7 Neary, John, 202–6 Oldham, Lancashire, 177 Neill, Tom, 18 O’Leary, Paul, 83n neutrality, 221, 230, 233, 235–6 O’Mara, Pat, xxxiii, 153–7, 255 New Authors, 198 O’Neill, Ellen, 45–8 New Orleans, 144 O’Neill, John, 15–19 New Statesman, 149 O’Neill, Terence, 236 New York, 24, 37, 58, 71, 153 oral tradition, xxvi, 115–16 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 204 , 150, 155–7, 210 Newgate prison, 40, 41, 67–8 O’Rourke, Edmund, 71n Newport, Wales, 38–9, 90 O’Shea, John Augustus, 97 Nicol, Erskine, 20, 60, 61, 62–3 O’Sullivan, Humphrey, 248 Noble, Matthew, 63n Outram, Sir James, 63 Norfolk, Duke of, 187 Oxford, 180 298 Index

Oxford University, 219 public speaking, 134–8 Oxford University Press, 198 Puck Fair, 280, 281 Punch, 41, 271 P Paine, Tom, 10 Q Paisley, Renfrewshire, 150, 255–8 Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute, 122 Paisley, Reverend Ian, 272 Queen’s College Galway, 88 Pall Mall Gazette, 65n Queen’s Theatre, 191n Palmer, Susannah, 67–8 Parker, Hugh, 31 R Parnell, Charles Stewart, 54, 89, 103n racism, xxxvi, 76, 79–82, 231 Parnell, Fanny, 235 radicalism, 10, 42, 74, 103 Parry, J. Humphrey, 40 Radio Éireann, 232, 242 Patrick, Adam, 18 Raftery, Anthony, 246 pea-canning, 267–8 Ralph, Ben, 18 Pearse, Patrick, 89 Ramsgate, Kent, 277, 280 Peculiar People, 97 Rasputin, Grigori, 186–7 Peel, Sir Robert, 44n Reader,65 Pelham, Emily, 20 Reading, Berkshire, 237 Peterborough, 267 Red Cross, 166 Petter & Galpin, Messrs., 65 Redmond, John, 171n Phelan, Jim, xxiv, 140, 143–8 Regan, Stephen, xl Phelps, Samuel, 58 Repeal movement, 37–8 Philadelphia, xxxi, 10, 49, 52, 266 republicanism, xxxv, 10, 229–33, 272 Phillips, ’Lepsey’, 154–7 Richardson, Samuel, 4 Phoenix Park murders, xxxii, 89 Richmond Barracks, 173 pickpocketing, 45–8 Ring, County Waterford, 234 Pierce, David, xxxix–xl Robb, Nesca A., 219–23, 236n Pilkington, Laetitia, xxxi, 4–9 Rochdale, Lancashire, 177 Pilkington, Reverend Matthew, 4, 8 Roche, Bernard, 154–7 Platt, Judge Baron, 40 Roche, Henry, 154–7 Pope, Alexander, 78 Rogers, John, 99 Port Talbot, Wales, 239 Romford, Greater London, 203 Portchester Castle, 11–12 Rooney, Brendan, 61n Portnuck pit, 117, 119 Rosalie, Laura, 67n Portpatrick, Stranraer, 26 Rose, Jonathan, 129n Portsmouth, xxxvii, 10, 11–12 Rosslare, County Waterford, 244 poststructuralism, xxii, xxiii–xxiv, xxv Rotherham Statute fair, 47 Powell, Enoch, 271 Roxburghshire, 115 Power, Richard, 251–4 Royal Air Force (RAF), 229, 235, 268 Power, Victor, 251 Royal Irish Academy (RIA), 60 Powys, Littleton, 183 Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), 193 Preston, xxix, xxxi, 35, 49, 106, 177 Royal Theatre, London, 191 jail, 45 Royalty Theatre, London, 191 market, 48 Roza, Frankie, 154–7 and Owen Mangan, 50–3 Rugby School, 166–9, 216 Priestley, J.B., xxix Rush, Mick, 212–13, 215 prisoner experiences, 170–4 Ruskin College, Oxford, 207, 263 prostitution, 45, 58 Russell, Henry, 73 Provisional IRA, 229, 272–3 Ryan, Mick, 200 Index 299

S , Devon, 277 Sadler’s Wells Opera, 198 Silvertown, North Woolwich, 162–5 St Alban’s, Hertfordshire, 146, 147 Simmons, Pimple, 145 St George’s Players, 280–1 Sinn Féin, 170, 231, 271 St Helier, Jersey, 224–8 Sitwell, Edith, 198 St Michael’s School, Liverpool, 154, 155 Skibbereen, County Cork, 275 St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 122 Skipton hiring fair, 202 St Patrick’s Day, xxxii, 90, 116, 123–4, slavery, 37 150, 155–6, 209, 234 Sligo, County, 79, 81, 259–62, 272 St Peter’s School, Liverpool, 153–7 Slough, 237 St Crispin: A Magazine for the Leather Smith, Holt, & Co., 30–1 Trades,15 Smith, Sidonie, xxiii–xxiv St Giles in the Fields, London, 17–19 Smithson, Annie M. P., xxxii, xxiii, St Helens, 51 121–4 Salford, 65 socialism, xxvi, 74, 98, 186–7, 188 Salt, Sarah, 195 and Alice Foley, 129 Salvation Army, 210 and Bonar Thompson, 134 Sanchez, Jackie, 154–7 and ’Casey’, 106 Sankey, Ira, 130–1 and Matt McGinn, 207 Sarsfield, Patrick, 77 Socialist Party of Ireland, 106 Sayers, Tom, 75 ’Soldier’s Song, The’, 232 Scotland, xix, xvi, xxviii, 24, 26–8, 92–5, South Devon Herd Book Society, 187 111, 115, 139–42, 149–52, 204, 220, Southcott, Joanna, 276, 277 255 Southwark Irish Literary Club, 96–100 immigration from, 42 Southwell, Viscount, 187 Scotland Yard, 101–5 Sparling, Henry Halliday, 98 Scullion, Peter, 152 Special Branch, 101–5 Seale Hayne College, Devonshire, 185–7 Spectator, The, 65, 105 second-generation Irish, xxxiii–xxxiv, Spenser, Edmund, xxx 74–8, 129–33, 149–52, 153–7, 180, Stafford, xxxv 255–8, 259–62 Stafford Jail, 172–4 Second World War, xxxv, xxxvi, 166, Staigue, County Kerry, 101 181, 202 Standard, The,64 Irish in, 198, 239–41, 271 Stapleton, Michael, 198–201 and Jersey, 224–8 Stapleton, Richard, 199, 200 and London, 220–3 Steel, Sir Richard, 7 and neutrality, 230, 235–6, 271 steel industry, 149–52 Seegar, Freddie, 154–7 Stephens, James, 76, 234 Selby, Yorkshire, 48, 202 stereotypes, xx, xxviii–xxix, xxx–xxxi self-dramatisation, xxi, xxvi–xxvii Stevenson, William, 135n self-representation, xxiv–xxv Stewartstown, County Tyrone, 42 Shakespeare, William, 58, 152, 170 Stockport, Cheshire, 46, 48, 106, 108 Shannon Free Airport Development Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, 276 Company, 212 street singers, 217–18 Shaw, George Bernard, 74, 176, 216 Strindberg, August, 216 Sheffield, 29, 31, 47, 48 subjectivity, xvii, xxiv–xxv, xxxiii–xxxiv Sheppard, Jack, 40 Sue, Eugène, 108 Sherborne, Dorset, 180, 181–4 suffragette movement, 129 Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, 276 Sullivan, Maggie, 163 shoemakers, 15–19 Sussex, 216, 248 300 Index

Suttle, Jemmy, 145–6 V Sutton, John, 109 Vallely, Paul, 266 Swansea, 239 van Lewen, Laetitia, 4 Sweeney, John, 101–5 Vanguard Press, 153 Swift, Jonathan, 1, 2n, 4 Victoria, Queen, 58n, 101, 123 Swift, Roger, xxii Swinford, County Mayo, 202 W Wakefield, Yorkshire, 48 T Wales, xix, xxxiii, 38–9, 83–7, 88–91, tailors, 37–41 184, 189, 204, 239 Tailors’ Club, 33, 34–5 Wallace, Edgar, 195 Tauchnitz publishers, 66 Walsh, John, xxxiii–xxxiv, 270–3 temperance movement, 15, 37 Templecrone Co-operative Society, 115 Walsh, Oonagh, 121 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 277 War of Independence, 185, 193, 200, Thackeray, William M., 58, 106 231, 272 Thompson, Bonar, 134–8 Ward, Joseph, 72 Times, The,39 Warrington, Cheshire, 121, 147 Tipperary, County, 185, 201, 225, 278 Warwick, 13–14 Toaster Dick, 144–5 Warwick University, 263 Tobin, Kip, 264 Waterford, 15, 19, 97, 144, 235, 238 Todhunter, John, 98 Watling Street, 144, 147 Tolstoy, Leo, 216 Waugh, Evelyn, 195 Torquay, Devon, 188 weavers and weaving, 42–4, 49–53, Totnes, Devon, 188 129–33 Towcester, Northamptonshire, 147 Webster, Benjamin, 58 Townend, Paul, 54 Wellington, Duke of, 39 trade unions, 19, 24, 37, 42, 83, 129, 188 Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, 55n tramping, 24–8, 143–8 Westminster House of Correction, 40, 41 Transport Act, 1944, 249n Whiteman, Paul, 194 Tressell, Robert, xviii Whittingham Asylum, Preston, 106 Trevor, William, 274–7 Wicklow, County, 175, 199, 237, 250, , 176 273 ’’, 270 Wild, Jonathan, 40 Turpin, Dick, 280 Wilde, Lady, 98 Twelfth of July, 150, 156–7, 183, 209–10 Wilde, Oscar, 98, 171 Tynan, Katharine, 98 William IV, King, 37 Tyrone, County, 140n, 173 William of Orange, King, 76, 77, 183, 219 U Williams, Zephaniah, 38–9 , 24, 183, 221, 225, 236, 270 Wilson, A. N., 216 Underhill, Edward, 131n Wimpey construction firm, 235 United Irish rebellion, 19, 29 Windsor Castle, 139 ,69 Winthrope, William, 42 United Irishmen, 10, 72n Wise, George, 156 United States of America, 10, 37, 42, 44, Women’s Employment Federation, 219 49, 55, 92, 153, 181, 242, 255 Woolwich, Greater London, 162 Ushaw College, Durham, 212 Worcester, 47 Ussher, James, Archbishop of Armagh, Workers’ Educational Association, 176 129, 149 Index 301

Working Boy’s Home, Liverpool, 155, Yorkshire, xxxvii, 109, 202 156 , County Cork, 275 Wormwood Scrubs prison, 164 Young, Jimmy, 256 Young, Margaret, 256 Y Young Irelanders, 39, 70 Yeats, John Butler, 79 Young’s Company, 119 Yeats, William, 81, 82 Yeats, William Butler, xv, xxi, 79–82, Z 97–8, 164n, 188 Zinn-Collis, Zoltan, 166 York, 1, 47