{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_28896/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_28896","id":"gutenberg_28896","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28896","summary":null,"tags":["Category: British Literature","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Category: Short Stories","Indexes","Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction"],"text":"Produced by David Widger\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTORIES AND TALES OF THE IRISH\n\nBy William Carleton\n\n\nAN INDEX\n\n\nEdited by David Widger\nProject Gutenberg Editions\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n##  Willy Reilly\n##  Fardorougha, The Miser\n##  Black Baronet\n##  The Evil Eye\n##  Jane Sinclair\n##  Lha Dhu\n##  The Dead Boxer\n##  Ellen Duncan\n##  The Proctor's Daughter\n##  Valentine M'Clutchy\n##  The Tithe-Proctor\n##  The Emigrants Of Ahadarra\n##  Ned M'Keown\n##  The Three Tasks\n##  Shane Fadh's Wedding\n##  Larry M'Farland's Wake\n##  The Battle Of The Factions\n##  The Station\n##  The Party Fight And Funeral\n##  The Lough Derg Pilgrim\n##  The Hedge School\n##  The Midnight Mass\n##  The Donagh\n##  Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver\n##  The Geography Of An Irish Oath\n##  The Lianhan Shee\n##  Going To Maynooth\n##  The Poor Scholar\n##  The Black Prophet\n##  Phelim Otoole's Courtship\n##  Wildgoose Lodge\n##  Tubber Derg (The Red Well)\n##  Neal Malone\n##  Art Maguire (The Broken Pledge)\n\n\n\n\nVOLUMES, CHAPTERS AND STORIES\n\n\nWilly Reilly\nPREFACE \t To The Second Edition\nCHAPTER I.\tAn Adventure and an Escape.\nCHAPTER II.\tThe Cooleen Baum.\nCHAPTER III.\tDaring Attempt of the Red Rapparee\nCHAPTER IV.\tHis Rival makes his Appearance, and its Consequences\nCHAPTER V.\tThe Plot and the Victims.\nCHAPTER VI.\tThe Warning an Escape\nCHAPTER VII.\tAn Accidental Incident favorable to Reilly\nCHAPTER VIII.\tA Conflagration An Escape And an Adventure\nCHAPTER IX.\tA Prospect of Bygone Times\nCHAPTER X.\tScenes that took place in the Mountain Cave\nCHAPTER XI.\tThe Squire's Dinner and his Guests.\nCHAPTER XII.\tSir Robert Meets a Brother Sportsman\nCHAPTER XIII.\tReilly is Taken, but Connived at by the Sheriff\nCHAPTER XIV.\tReilly takes Service with Squire Folliard.\nCHAPTER XV.\tMore of Whitecraft's Plots and Pranks\nCHAPTER XVI.\tSir Robert ingeniously extricates Himself out of difficulty\nCHAPTER XVII.\tAwful Conduct of Squire Folliard\nCHAPTER XVIII.\tSomething not very Pleasant for all Parties.\nCHAPTER XIX.\tReilly's Disguise Penetrated\nCHAPTER XX.\tThe Rapparee Secured\nCHAPTER XXI.\tSir Robert Accepts of an Invitation.\nCHAPTER XXII.\tThe Squire Comforts Whitecraft in his Affliction.\nCHAPTER XXIII.  \tThe Squire becomes Theological and a Proselytizer\nCHAPTER XXIV.\tJury of the Olden Time\nCHAPTER XXV.\tReilly stands his Trial\nList of Illustrations\n\nPage 11-- Is It a Double Murder You Are About to Execute?\n\nPage 18-- Looked With Her Dark Eyes Upon Reilly\n\nPage 28 (and Frontispiece)-- You Must Endeavor to Convert Him from Popery\n\nPage 29-- Readjustment of his Toilet, at the Large Mirror\n\nPage 35-- Touch Me Not, Sir\n\nPage 65-- Dashed up to the Scene of Struggle\n\nPage 65a-- I Entreat You, to Show These Men Mercy Now\n\nPage 91-- Here, Now, I Spread out My Arms--fire!\n\nAge 115-- Isn't he a Nice Bit of Goods to Run Away With A Pretty Girl?\n\nPage 140-- Discharged a Pistol at Our Hero\n\nPage 143-- No, Sir Robert, I Cannot Take Your Hand\n\nPage 157-- There is Not a Toss-up Between Them\n\nPage 175-- Give That Ring to the Prisoner\n\nPage 176-- What, What is This? What Do You Mean?\n\nPage 182-- It is He! It Is He!\n\nPage 183-- My Son! My Son!\n\n\n\n\nFardorougha, The Miser\n\nPART I.\n\nPART II.\n\nPART III.\n\nPART IV.\n\nPART V.\n\nPART VI.\n\nPART VII.\n\nPART VIII. AND LAST.\nList of Illustrations\n\nPage 191-- Imprinted the Father's First Kiss\n\nPage 245-- He Rattled, and Thumped, And Screamed\n\nPage 282-- O'donovan Took the Beloved One in his Arms\n\nPage 311-- Most Frightful of All Precipices--death\n\n\n\n\nBlack Baronet\nPREFACE.\nCHAPTER I.\tA Mail-coach by Night, and a Bit of Moonshine.\nCHAPTER II. \tThe Town and its Inhabitants.\nCHAPTER III.\tPauden Gair's Receipt how to make a Bad Dinner a Good One\nCHAPTER IV.\tAn Anonymous Letter\nCHAPTER V.\tSir Thomas Gourlay fails in unmasking the Stranger\nCHAPTER VI.\tExtraordinary Scene between Fenton and the Stranger.\nCHAPTER VII. \tThe Baronet attempts by Falsehood\nCHAPTER VIII.\tThe Fortune-Teller--An Equivocal Prediction.\nCHAPTER IX.\tCandor and Dissimulation\nCHAPTER X.\tA Family Dialogue--and a Secret nearly Discovered.\nCHAPTER XI.\tThe Stranger's Visit to Father MacMalum.\nCHAPTER XII.\tCrackenfudge Outwitted by Fenton\nCHAPTER XIII.\tThe Stranger's Second Visit to Father M'Mahon\nCHAPTER XIV.\tCrackenfudge put upon a Wrong Scent\nCHAPTER XV.\tInterview between Lady Gourlay and the Stranger\nCHAPTER XVI.\tConception and Perpetration of a Diabolical Plot against Fenton.\nCHAPTER XVII.\tA Scene in Jemmy Trailcudgel's\nCHAPTER XVIII.\tDunphy visits the County Wicklow\nCHAPTER XIX.\tInterview between Trailcudgel and the Stranger\nCHAPTER XX.\tInterview between Lords Cullamore, Dunroe, and Lady Emily\nCHAPTER XXI.\tA Spy Rewarded\nCHAPTER XXII.\tLucy at Summerfield Cottage.\nCHAPTER XXIII.\tA Lunch in Summerfield Cottage.\nCHAPTER XXIV. \tAn Irish Watchhouse in the time of the \"Charlies.\"\nCHAPTER XXV.\tThe Police Office\nCHAPTER XXVI.\tThe Priest Returns Sir Thomas's Money and Pistols\nCHAPTER XXVII.\tLucy calls upon Lady Gourlay, where she meets her Lover\nCHAPTER XXVIII.\tInnocence and Affection overcome by Fraud and Hypocrisy\nCHAPTER XXIX.\tLord Dunroe's Affection for his Father\nCHAPTER XXX.\tA Courtship on Novel Principles.\nCHAPTER XXXI.\tThe Priest goes into Corbet's House very like a Thief\nCHAPTER XXXII.\tDiscovery of the Baronet's Son\nCHAPTER XXXIII. \tThe Priest asks for a Loan of Fifty Guineas\nCHAPTER XXXIV. \tYoung Gourlay's Affectionate Interview with His Father\nCHAPTER XXXV.\tLucy's Vain but Affecting Expostulation with her Father\nCHAPTER XXXVI.\tContains a Variety of Matters\nCHAPTER XXXVII.\tDandy's Visit to Summerfield Cottage\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.\tAn Unpleasant Disclosure to Dunroe\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\tFenton Recovered--The Mad-House\nCHAPTER XL.\tLady Gourlay sees her Son.\nCHAPTER XLI.\tDenouement.\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 329-- A Pair of Enormous Legs, With Spurs on Them\n\nPage 350-- How Will You Be Prepared to Render an Account\n\nPage 409-- He Stooped and Wildly Kissed Her Now Passive Lips\n\nPage 446-- Pistols, Which he Instantly Cocked, and Held Ready\n\nPage 584-- A Faint Smile Seemed to Light up his Face\n\n\n\n\nThe Evil Eye\nPREFACE.\nCHAPTER I.\tShort and Preliminary\nCHAPTER II.\tA Murderer's Wake and the Arrival of a Stranger\nCHAPTER III.\tBreakfast next morning\nCHAPTER IV.\tWoodward meets a Guide\nCHAPTER V.\tThe Bonfire--The Prodigy\nCHAPTER VI.\tShawn-na-Middogue\nCHAPTER VII.\tA Council of Two\nCHAPTER VIII.\tA Healing of the Breach\nCHAPTER IX.\tChase of the White Hare\nCHAPTER X.\tTrue Love Defeated\nCHAPTER XI.\tA Conjurer's Levee\nCHAPTER XII.\tFortune-telling\nCHAPTER XIII.\tWoodward is Discarded from Mr. Goodwin's Family\nCHAPTER XIV.\tShawn-na-Middogue Stabs Charles Lindsay\nCHAPTER XV.\tThe Banshee.\nCHAPTER XVI.\tA House of Sorrow\nCHAPTER XVII.\tDescription of the Original Tory\nCHAPTER XVIII.\tThe Toir, or Tory Hunt\nCHAPTER XIX.\tPlans and Negotiations\nCHAPTER XX.\tWoodward's Visit to Ballyspellan\nCHAPTER XXI.\tThe Dinner at Ballyspellan\nCHAPTER XXII.\tHistory of the Black Spectre\nCHAPTER XXIII.  \tGreatrakes at Work--Denouement\nList of Illustrations\nFrontispiece\nTitlepage\nPage 631-- The Gaze Was Long and Combative\nPage 652-- I Will Follow It Until Morning\nPage 697-- One Long, Dark, Inexplicable Gaze\nPage 736-- Shawn-na-middogue, Your Mother's Victim\nPage 774-- Kiss You for the Sake of Our Early Love\n\n\n\n\nJane Sinclair\n\nPART I.\n\nPART II.\n\nPART III.\nList of Illustrations\n\nPage 5-- Having Gained the Bank, he Approached Them\n\nPage 44-- Spot Which Would Have Been Fatal to You\n\nPage 52-- How is This?--how Is This?--he Is Not Here!\n\n\n\n\nLha Dhu\n\n\n\n\nThe Dead Boxer\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 91-- With Stealthy Pace he Crept Over\n\nPage 110-- He Made a Stab at My Neck\n\n\n\n\nEllen Duncan\n\nELLEN DUNCAN\n\nTHE PROCTOR'S DAUGHTER\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 120-- One Long and Lingering Look of Affection\n\nPage 124-- \"Shame! Oh, for Shame!\" Were the First Exclamations\n\n\n\n\nValentine M'Clutchy\nPREFACE\nCHAPTER I.\tAn Irish Pair and Spoileen Tent\nCHAPTER II.\tBirth and Origin of Mr. M'Clutchy\nCHAPTER III.\tSolomon M'Slime, a Religious Attorney\nCHAPTER IV.\tPoll Doolin, the Child Cadger\nCHAPTER V.\tA Mysterious Meeting\nCHAPTER VI.\tThe Life and Virtues of an Irish Absentee\nCHAPTER VII.\tReflections on Absenteeism\nCHAPTER VIII.\tPoverty and Sorrow\nCHAPTER IX.\tA Dialogue, exhibiting Singular Principles of Justice\nCHAPTER X.\tA Dutiful Grandson and a Respectable Grandmother\nCHAPTER XI.\tDarby and Solomon at Prayer\nCHAPTER XII.\tInterview between Darby and Mr. Lucre\nCHAPTER XIII.\tDarby's Brief Retirement from Public Life.\nCHAPTER XIV.\tPoll Doolin's Honesty, and Phil's Gallantry\nCHAPTER XV.\tObjects of an English Traveller\nCHAPTER XVI.\tSolomon in Trouble\nCHAPTER XVII.\tA Moral Survey, or a Wise Man led by a Fool\nCHAPTER XVIII.\tAn Execution by Val's Blood-Hounds\nCHAPTER XIX.\tAn Orange Lodge at Full Work\nCHAPTER XX.\tSobriety and Loyalty\nCHAPTER XXI.\tDarby's Piety Rewarded\nCHAPTEK XXII.\tCastle Cumber Grand Jury Room\nCHAPTER XXIII.\tA Rent Day\nCHAPTEK XXIV.\tRaymond's Sense of Justice\nCHAPTER XXV.\tVal and his Son brought to Trial\nCHAPTER XXVI.\tHarman's Interview with Mary M'Loughlin\nCHAPTER XXVII.\tBob Beatty's Last Illness\nCHAPTER XXVIII.  \tDarby is a Spiritual Ganymede\nCHAPTER XXIX.\tSolomon Suffers a Little Retribution\nCHAPTER XXX.\tThe Mountain Grave-Yard\nCHAPTER XXXI.\tRichard Topertoe and his Brother\nList of Illustrations\n\nPage 142-- There's As Many Curses Before You in Hell\n\nPage 186-- See, Mary, See--they're Gallopin\n\nPage 216-- Oh, What a Sweet Convert You Are\n\nPage 231-- Borrow the Loan of Your Religion\n\nPage 233-- How Many Articles in Your Church?\n\nPage 322-- \"Ah, Very Right,\" Said Bob.\n\nPage 355-- Such Was the End of Valentine M'clutchy\n\n\n\n\nThe Tithe-Proctor\nPREFACE.\nCHAPTER I.\tThe Chapel Green of Esker Dearg.\nCHAPTER II.\tThe Proctor's Principles and His Family.\nCHAPTER III.\tMountain Legislation, and its Executive of Blood.\nCHAPTER IV.\tMirth and Murder--A Tithe-Proctor's Office.\nCHAPTER V.\tA Hang-Choice Shot--The \"Garrison\" on Short Commons.\nCHAPTER VI.\tUnexpected Generosity--A False Alarm.\nCHAPTER VII.\tA Shoneen Magistrate Distributing Justice.\nCHAPTER VIII.\tAn Unreformed Church\nCHAPTER IX.\tSport in the Mountains.\nCHAPTER X.\tThe Sport Continued.\nCHAPTER XI.\tThe Sport Still Continued.\nCHAPTER XII.\tOut of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.\nCHAPTER XIII.\tStrange Faces--Dare-Devil O'Driscol Aroused\nCHAPTER XIV.\tState of the Country\nCHARTER XV.\tScene in a Parsonage--Anti-Tithe Ringleader.\nCHAPTER XVI.\tMassacre of Carrickshock\nCHAPTER XVII.  \tMidnight Court of Justice\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 374-- the Priest Interfered, and Prevented A Conflict\n\nPage 421-- Just Trust Yourself to Me\n\nPage 445-- Alarmed at the Appearance of a Lawless Whiteboy\n\nDestruction of the Castle\n\n\n\n\nThe Emigrants Of Ahadarra\nCHAPTER I.\tA strong Farmer's Establishment and Family.\nCHAPTER II.\tGerald Cavanagh and his Family\nCHAPTER III.\tJemmy Burke Refuses to be, Made a Fool Of\nCHAPTER IV.\tA Poteen Still-House at Midnight--Its Inmates.\nCHAPTER V.\tWho Robbed Jemmy Burke?\nCHAPTEE VI.\tNanny Peety looks mysterious\nCHAPTER VII.\tThe Spinster's Kemp.\nCHAPTER VIII.\tAnonymous Letter with a Name to It\nCHAPTER IX.\tA Little Polities, Much Friendship, and Some Mystery\nCHAPTER X.\tMore of the Hycy Correspondence\nCHAPTEE XI.\tDeath of a Virtuous Mother.\nCHAPTER XII.\tHycy Concerts a Plot and is urged to Marry.\nCHAPTER XIII.\tMrs. M'Mahon's Funeral.\nCHAPTER XIV.\tMysterious Letter\nCHAPTER XV.\tState of the Country\nCHAPTER XVI.\tA Spar Between Kate and Philip Hogan\nCHAPTER XVII.\tInterview between Hycy and Finigan\nCHAPTER XVIII.\tA Family Dialogue\nCHAPTER XIX.\tBryan Bribed--is Rejected by Kathleen.\nCHAPTER XX.\tM'Mahon is Denounced from the Altar\nCHAPTER XXI.\tThomas M'Mahon is forced to determine on Emigration.\nCHAPTER XII.\tMystery Among the Hogans\nCHAPTER XXIII.\tHarry Clinton's Benevolence Defeated\nCHAPTER XXIV.\tThoughts on Our Country and Our Countrymen\nCHAPTER XXV.\tThe Old Places--Death of a Patriarch.\nCHAPTEE XXVI.\tContaining a Variety of Matters.\nCHAPTER XXVII.  \tConclusion.\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 403--Peety Dhu Turned Towards the House\n\nPage 603-- Country Where I'd Not See These Ould Hills\n\nPage 623-- I Must Leave You--I Must Go\n\nPage 635-- Hycy Received the Money, Set Spurs to his Horse\n\n\n\n\nNed M'Keown\n\nINTRODUCTION.\n\nNED M'KEOWN.\n\nTHE THREE TASKS.\n\nSHANE FADH'S WEDDING.\n\nLARRY M'FARLAND'S WAKE.\n\nTHE BATTLE OF THE FACTIONS.\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 656-- Bringing Home \"graceless Ned,\"\n\nAge 676-- Throw It over Your Left Shoulder\n\nPage 693-- How he Kept his Sate So Long Has Puzzled Me\n\nPage 713-- 'Why, Larry,' Says He, 'how Did You Get In'\n\nPage 725-- The Man Who Could Hit That Could Hit Anything\n\n\n\n\nThe Station\n\nTHE STATION.\n\nTHE PARTY FIGHT AND FUNERAL.\n\nTHE LOUGH DERG PILGRIM.\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 756-- They Set Off, Whip and Spur, at Full Speed\n\nPage 763-- Usually Stood, Shaking at Us his Rod\n\nPage 818-- In This Trim Did I Return to My Friends\n\n\n\n\nThe Hedge School\n\nTHE HEDGE SCHOOL.\n\nTHE MIDNIGHT MASS.\n\nTHE DONAGH; OR, THE HORSE STEALERS.\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 831-- The Findramore Boys Have Sacked You at Last\n\nPage 886-- Upon the Very Spot Where he Had Shot His Rival\n\nPage 899-- Have I Murdhered My Daughter?\n\n\n\n\nPhil Purcel, The Pig-Driver\n\nPHIL PURCEL, THE PIG-DRIVER.\n\nTHE GEOGRAPHY OF AN IRISH OATH.\n\nTHE LIANHAN SHEE.\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 911-- These Be Not Hirish Pigs at Oll\n\nPage 919-- A Rueful Blank Expression in his Visage\n\nPage 975-- Who's There?--What Are You?--Speak!\n\n\n\n\nGoing To Maynooth\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 985-- You're a Fool, Misther O'Shaughnessy!\n\n\n\n\nThe Poor Scholar\nList of Illustrations\n\nFrontispiece\n\nTitlepage\n\nPage 1099-- Received a Rather Vigorous Thwack on the Ear\n\n\n\n\nThe Black Prophet\n\nCHAPTER I. -- Glendhu, or the Black Glen; Scene of Domestic Affection.\n\nCHAPTER II. -- The Black Prophet Prophesies.\n\nCHAPTER III. -- A Family on the Decline--Omens.\n\nCHAPTER IV. -- A Dance, and Double Discovery.\n\nCHAPTER V. -- The Black Prophet is Startled by a Black Prophecy.\n\nCHAPTER VI. -- A Rustic Miser and His Establishment\n\nCHAPTER VII. -- A Panorama of Misery.\n\nCHAPTER VIII. -- A Middle Man and Magistrate--Master and Man.\n\nCHAPTER IX. -- Meeting of Strangers--Mysterious Dialogue.\n\nCHAPTER X. -- The Black Prophet makes a Disclosure.\n\nCHAPTER XI. -- Pity and Remorse.\n\nCHAPTER XII. -- Famine, Death, and Sorrow.\n\nCHAPTER XIII. -- Sarah's Defence of a Murderer.\n\nCHAPTEE XIV. -- A Middleman Magistrate of the Old School, and his Clerk.\n\nCHAPTER XV. -- A Plot and a Prophecy.\n\nCHAPTER XVI. -- Mysterious Disappearance of the Tobacco-box.\n\nCHAPTER XVII. -- National Calamity--Sarah in Love and Sorrow.\n\nCHAPTER XVIII. -- Love Wins the Race from Profligacy.\n\nCHAPTER XIX. -- Hanlon Secures the Tobacco-box.--Strange Scene\n\nCHAPTER XX. -- Tumults--Confessions of Murder.\n\nCHAPTEE XXI. -- Condy Datton goes to Prison.\n\nCHAPTER XXII. -- Re-appearance of the Box--Friendly Dialogue\n\nCHAPTER XXIII. -- Darby in Danger--Nature Triumphs.\n\nCHAPTER XXIV. -- Rivalry.\n\nCHAPTEE XXV. -- Sarah Without Hope.\n\nCHAPTER XXVI. -- The Pedlar Runs a Close Risk of the Stocks.\n\nCHAPTER XXVII. -- Sarah Ill--Mave Again, Heroic.\n\nCHAPTER XXVIII. -- Double Treachery.\n\nCHAPTER XXIX. -- A Picture of the Present--Sarah Breaks her Word.\n\nCHAPTER XXX. -- Self-sacrifice--Villany\n\nCHAPTER XXXI. -- A Double Trial--Retributive Justice.\n\nCHAPTER XXXII. -- Conclusion.\nList of Illustrations\n\nPage 785-- \"It's False,\" Replied the Young Fellow\n\nPage 807-- Tom's Clutches Were Again at his Throat\n\nPage 834-- The Prophet's Brow Darkened\n\nPage 847-- I'll Tell You Nothing About It\n\nPage 853-- His Eye, Like That of His Father, When Enraged\n\nPage 913-- I'll Have Nothing to Do With This Robbery\n\n\n\n\nPhelim Otoole's Courtship\n\nPHELIM O'TOOLE'S COURTSHIP.\n\nWILDGOOSE LODGE\n\nTUBBER DERG; Or, THE RED WELL.\n\nNEAL MALONE.\n\nART MAGUIRE; OR, THE BROKEN PLEDGE\nList of Illustrations\n\nPage Wg939-- By This Sacred An' Holy Book of God\n\nPage Am994-- At Length Margaret Spoke\n\nPage Am1018-- They Immediately Expelled Him\n\nPage Am1019-- There's a Sleep That Nobody Wakens From","title":"Stories and Tales of the Irish: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg 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