Category: Short Stories
It will naturally be expected, upon a new issue of works which may be said to treat exclusively of a people who form such an important and interesting portion of the empire as the Irish peasantry do, that the author should endeavor to prepare the minds of his readers--especial...
“It was one fine, frosty, moonlight night--the sky was without a cloud, and the stars all blinking that it would delight anybody's heart to look at them, when Jack was crassing...
15. Part 15“'I know that, Larry,' says Tom, 'and Squire Dickson knows that no man could handle it to more advantage. Now if you join me in it, whatever means I have will be as much yours a...
8. Part 8“'Och, och!' says Jack, striving to look, the sly thief, as if she had promised to help him--'I only wish I was a king, and, by the powers, I know who would be my queen, any how...
16. Part 16“'Well, you bid him go,' says Dick, 'an let him; the sorrayard I'll go--the shinburnt spalpeen, that's always the way with him; whatever he's bid to do, he throws it on me, beka...
17. Part 17“Ah! I wouldn't fear, Alick,” said Tom, “but you would come at the truth--'tis you that may say they did; there wasn't two in the parish more comfortable than the same two, at t...
11. Part 11“We were sitting at the time under the shade of a rowan-tree, and I had only one answer to make--I pulled her to my breast, where she laid her head and cried like a child with h...
10. Part 10“Not far,” replied his companion--“only fourteen miles; but, I suppose, the fact is, you wish to know who and what I am, where I came from and whither I am going. Well, you shal...
14. Part 14“In this way we passed the time till the evening came on, except that Mary and the bridesmaid were sent for to dance with the priests, who were within at the punch, in all their...
9. Part 9“Accordingly, he stole up at a half bend to the door, and was just going to take a peep in, when out comes the little dog Trig, and begins to leap and fawn upon him, as if it wo...
12. Part 12“'Now,' says she, 'Shane, you must keep this in your company, and for your life and sowl, don't part wid it for nine days after your marriage; but there's more to be done,' says...
13. Part 13“This threat from the tailor went farther, I think, in putting them into good humor nor even what the priest said. They then washed and claned themselves, and accordingly went t...
18. Part 18“'Exactly', says she: 'that's it.' 'Well, acushla,' says he, 'you've a purty and an innocent-looking face; but I'm tould there's many a trap in London well baited. Just only run...
19. Part 19“In the course of time, the whole country was turned against them; for no crowd could get together in which they didn't kick up a row, nor a bit of stray fighting couldn't be, b...
2. Part 2My mother, whose name was Kelly--Mary Kelly--possessed the sweetest and most exquisite of human voices. In her early life, I have often been told by those who had heard her sing...
20. Part 20“Kind reader, without a single disrespectful insinuation against any portion of the fair sex, you may judge what Rose O'Hallaghan must have been, when even these three were nece...
3. Part 3A few words now upon the moral and physical condition of the people may not be unsuitable before I close, especially for the sake of those who may wish to acquire a knowledge of...
5. Part 5Seated in this clear-obscure of domestic light--which, after all, gives the heart a finer and more touching notion of enjoyment than the glitter of the theatre or the blaze of t...
6. Part 6At the extremity of this little circle was a plain altar of wood, covered with a little thatched shed, under which the priest celebrated mass; but before the performance of this...
1. Part 1It will naturally be expected, upon a new issue of works which may be said to treat exclusively of a people who form such an important and interesting portion of the empire as t...
4. Part 4“What did he mane? I'll tell you that. The man is Bonyparty, which manes, when put into proper explanation, the _right side_; that is, the true cause. Larned men have found _tha...
21. Part 21“It might be, indeed, that there were those on both sides who thought that, if the marriage was obstructed, their own sons and daughters would have a better chance. Rose had man...
22. Part 22“The battle now blazed out afresh; and all kinds of instruments were pressed into I the service. Some got flails, some spades, some shovels, and one man got his hands upon a scy...