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  • THE DREAMER COMETH
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    THE DREAMER COMETH
    WILLIAM A. CARLETON
    Luther Rice was born on a small farm in Northborough, MA. He underwent a powerful religious conversion as a teenager in a time when spiritual revival was sweeping across New England. Sensing a call to missions, he and Adoniram Judson traveled to India with the Congregational mission agency. While on the ship during the long voyage, his study of Scripture led him to embrace a Ba...

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  • GOING TO MAYNOOTH
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    GOING TO MAYNOOTH
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Young Denis O'Shaughnessy was old Denis's son; and old Denis, like many great men before him, was the son of his father and mother in particular, and a long line of respectable ancestors in general. He was, moreover, a great historian, a perplexing controversialist, deeply read in Dr. Gallagher and Pastorini, and equally profound in the history of Harry the Eighth, and Luther's...

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  • THE DEAD BOXER
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    THE DEAD BOXER
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "One evening in the beginning of the eighteenth century—as nearly as we can conjecture, the year might be that of 1720—some time about the end of April, a young man named Lamh Laudher O'Rorke, or Strong-handed O'Eorke, was proceeding from his father's house, with a stout oaken cudgel in his hand, towards an orchard that stood at the skirt of a country town, in a part o...

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  • THE BLACK PROPHET: A TALE OF IRISH FAMINE
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    THE BLACK PROPHET: A TALE OF IRISH FAMINE
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    The Black Prophet centres upon an unsolved murder and the love affair between the niece of the victim and the son of his supposed killer, and the plot unfolds against the powerfully rendered background of the famine and typhus epidemic of 1817, which Carleton had witnessed at first hand. Yeats praised the novel's 'sombre and passionate dialogue', and said that 'all nature, and ...

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  • PHELIM OTOOLE'S COURTSHIP AND OTHER STORIES
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    PHELIM OTOOLE'S COURTSHIP AND OTHER STORIES
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "Phelim O'Toole, who had the honour of being that interesting personage, an only son, was heir to a snug estate of half an acre, which had been the family patrimony since the time of his grandfather, Tyrrell O'Toole, who won it from the Sassenah at the point of his reaping-hook, during a descent once made upon England by a body of "spalpeens," in the month of August. T...

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  • JANE SINCLAIR
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    JANE SINCLAIR
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "If there be one object in life that stirs the current of human feeling more sadly than another, it is a young and lovely woman, whose intellect has been blighted by the treachery of him on whose heart, as on a shrine, she offered up the incense of her first affection. Such a being not only draws around her our tenderest and most delicate sympathies, but fills us with ...

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  • THE TITHE-PROCTOR
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    THE TITHE-PROCTOR
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "After the reader shall, have perused the annexed startling and extraordinary narrative, on which I have founded the tale of the Tithe-Proctor, I am sure he will admit that there is very little left me to say in the shape of a preface. It is indeed rarely, that ever a document, at once so authentic and powerful, has been found prefixed to any work of modern Irish Ficti...

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  • THE NED M'KEOWN STORIES
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    THE NED M'KEOWN STORIES
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "Honest, blustering, good-humored Ned was the indefatigable merchant of the village; ever engaged in some ten or twenty pound speculation, the capital of which he was sure to extort, perhaps for the twelfth time, from the savings of Nancy's frugality, by the equivocal test of a month or six weeks' consecutive sobriety, and which said speculation he never failed to wind...

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  • PHIL PURCEL
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    PHIL PURCEL
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Phil Purcel was a singular character, for he was never married; but notwithstanding his singularity, no man ever possessed, for practical purposes, a more plentiful stock of duplicity. All his acquaintances knew that Phil was a knave of the first water, yet was he decidedly a general favourite. Now as we hate mystery ourselves, we shall reveal the secret of this remarkable popu...

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  • ONE WAY OUT: A MIDDLE-CLASS NEW-ENGLANDER EMIGRATES TO AMERICA
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    ONE WAY OUT: A MIDDLE-CLASS NEW-ENGLANDER EMIGRATES TO AMERICA
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "My great-grandfather was killed in the Revolution; my grandfather fought in the War of 1812; my father sacrificed his health in the Civil War; but I, though born in New England, am the first of my family to emigrate to this country—the United States of America. That sounds like a riddle or a paradox. It isn't; it's a plain statement of fact. As a matter of convenience...

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  • ELLEN DUNCAN; AND THE PROCTOR'S DAUGHTER
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    ELLEN DUNCAN; AND THE PROCTOR'S DAUGHTER
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy are unequal to the task of soothing or dispelling them. Such was the grief of Ellen Duncan, who was silently weeping in her lone cottage on the borders of Clare—a county at that time in a frightful state of anarchy and confusion. Owen Duncan, her husband, at the per...

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  • THE STATION
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    THE STATION
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "Our readers are to suppose the Reverend Philemy M'Guirk, parish priest of Tir-neer, to be standing upon the altar of the chapel, facing the congregation, after having gone through the canon of the Mass; and having nothing more of the service to perform, than the usual prayers with which he closes the ceremony. "Take notice, that the Stations for the following week wil...

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  • LHA DHU; OR, THE DARK DAY
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    LHA DHU; OR, THE DARK DAY
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "There is no country in the world whose scenery is more sweetly diversified, or more delicately shaded away into that exquisite variety of surface which presents us with those wavy outlines of beauty that softly melt into each other, than is that of our own green island. Alas! how many deep valleys, wild glens, green meadows, and pleasant hamlets, lie scattered over th...

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  • THE EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA
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    THE EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "It was one summer morning, about nine o'clock, when a little man, in the garb and trim of a mendicant, accompanied by a slender but rather handsome looking girl about sixteen, or it may be a year more, were upon their way to the house of a man, who, from his position in life, might be considered a wealthy agriculturist, and only a step or two beneath the condition of ...

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  • THE HEDGE SCHOOL
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    THE HEDGE SCHOOL
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "There never was a more unfounded calumny, than that which would impute to the Irish peasantry an indifference to education. I may, on the contrary, fearlessly assert that the lower orders of no country ever manifested such a positive inclination for literary acquirements, and that, too, under circumstances strongly calculated to produce carelessness and apathy on this...

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  • VALENTINE M'CLUTCHY, THE IRISH AGENT
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    VALENTINE M'CLUTCHY, THE IRISH AGENT
    WILLIAM CARLETON
    Excerpt: "The town of Castle Cumber it is not our intention to describe at more length than simply to say, that it consists of two long streets, intersecting each other, and two or three lanes of cabins—many of them mud ones—that stretch out of it on each side at right angles. This street, and these straggling appendages, together with a Church, a Prison, a Court-house, a Catho...

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