CONTENTS Early Life Richard Lovell Edgeworth Father and Daughter Arrival in Ireland - First Books Disturbed Days Ninety-Eight "Castle Rackrent" - Irish Letters "Belinda" - Visit to Paris Middle Life "Ennui" - "The Absentee" - "Ormond" Memoir of R. L. Edgeworth - The "Quarterly" - Paris - Geneva Friendship with Scott Later Life Conclusion Index Maria Edgeworth was born in England but lived most of her life in Ireland and in her stories, she wrote about the Irish, and portrayed them as they really were. While she never became very well known, she had a substantial influence on Scott, Turgenev,...

Emily Lawless (1845 1913) was a novelist and a prominent figure in the political circles of nineteenth-century Ireland. Although her grandfather had been an Irish patriot with United Irishmen sympathies, Lawless herself remained emphatically opposed to Home Rule. Her novels often explored Ireland's troubled past and present: her first success was Hurrish (1886) which was set in Galway during the Land League campaigns and was dedicated to her friend Margaret Oliphant. Although Lawless enjoyed literary success, her personal life was marked by tragedy: her father and two of her sisters committed...

"It seems to be certain," says the Abbe McGeoghehan, "that Ireland continued uninhabited from the Creation to the Deluge." With this assurance to help us on our onward way I may venture to supplement it by saying that little is known about the first, or even about the second, third, and fourth succession of settlers in Ireland. At what precise period what is known as the Scoto-Celtic branch of the great Aryan stock broke away from its parent tree, by what route its migrants travelled, in what degree of consanguinity it stood to the equally Celtic race or races of Britain, what sort of people...

"The Story Of Ireland" from Emily Lawless. Irish novelist and poet (1845-1914).