The triumph of prudence over passion

The history of Arsaces, Prince of Betlis

By Charles Johnston

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Recounting the eventful travels of Selim, an intrepid young Arab who runs away from his parental home to learn about the world, The History of Arsaces, Prince...
Author/Editor: Daniel Sanjiv Roberts editor

Vertue rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693)

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Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693) is one of the earliest examples of Irish prose fiction. Published in London, the novel is set in and around...
Author/Editor: Ian Campbell Ross & Anne Markey, editors

Irish Tales (1716)

by Sarah Butler

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Published in London only months after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Irish Tales is an historical romance offering a Jacobite reading of early Irish history, culminating in Brian...
Author/Editor: Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas & Anne Markey, editors

The history of Jack Connor

by William Chaigneau

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The history of Jack Connor (1752) is the only, and once very popular, novel of the Irish writer of Huguenot descent, William Chaigneau (1709–81). An example of...
Author/Editor: Ian Campbell Ross, editor

The life of John Buncle, Esq.

by Thomas Amory

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Thomas Amory’s The Life of John Buncle, Esq (1756) is an appealingly eccentric fiction, in which Buncle, a student in Trinity College Dublin, embarks on a series...
Author/Editor: Moyra Haslett, editor

Children's fiction, 1765–1808

by John Carey; Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell; and Henry Brooke

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The present volume offers a pioneering selection of stories for children, published between 1765 and 1808 by Irish authors. Learning better than House and Land (1808) is...
Author/Editor: Anne Markey, editor