Diaries Of Ireland

From Ludov Von Munchhausen to Lady Gregory

Melosina Lenox-Conyngham

• Publisher: The Lilliput Press
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9781874675785
• eBook ISBN: 9781843512912
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Biografie nell'ambito delle scienze sociali

Here is Ireland's past distilled – poignant personal narratives and privileged moments, human behaviour recorded in its infinite variety, voices overheard: chamber music. In these pages Elizabethan adventurers, fops, soldiers, widows, landlords, republicans, poets, hedge-school masters and literary lesbians seem to dance through 400 years of Irish history. National events – the siege of Limerick, the battle of the Boyne, Wexford in 1798, the Famine, literary revival, 1916 Rising and Civil War – commingle with details of individual lives – procreation and recreation, courtship, food, clothing, religion, privation, death. Diaries of Ireland is an intimate history of everyday life on this island, a feast for mind and imagination. 'It is altogether an enterprise truly unique; we have not one guinea, we have not a tent; we have not a horse to draw our four pieces of artillery; the General-in-Chief marches on foot, we leave all our baggage behind us; we have nothing but the arms in our hands, the clothes on our backs, and a good courage, but that is sufficient – we are all gay as larks.' – Theobald Wolfe Tone, 24 December 1796 'A Levée at the Castle, attended as usual by pimps, parasites, hangers-on, aidecamps, state officers, expectant clergymen, hungry lawyers, spies, informers, and the various descriptions of characters that constitute the herd of which the motley petty degraded and pretended Court of this poor fallen country is made up. Alas, poor Ireland.' – Sir Vere Hunt, 4 June 1813 'Well, [Patrick] Kavanagh has come and gone: like the monsoon, the mistral, Hurricane Annie: things will never be quite the same again, even if it only meant that somebody told Lady Bellew to shut up, and went on to declare later that he hates Prods.' – Frank McEvoy, 4 March 1958

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Ludolf von Münchhausen 1570–1640
• Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork 1566–1643
• Anon.: Siege of Limerick Castle 1642
• Elizabeth Freke 1641–1714
• John Stevens 16??–1726
• Colonel Thomas Bellingham 1646–1721
• John Scott c. 1685–1709
• John Wesley 1703–1791
• John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell 1739–1798
• Lucy Goddard 17??–1802
• John Tennent 1772–1813
• Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763–1798
• Mary Leadbeater 1758–1826
• John Fitzgerald 17??–1795
• Marianne Fortescue 1767–1849
• Richard Farrell 1776–1850
• Anne, Dowager Countess of Roden 1730–1802
• Elisabeth Richards 1778–1863
• Sir Vere Hunt 1761–1818
• Nicholas Marshall Cummins 1783–1838
• Humphrey O’Sullivan 1780–1837
• Frances & Emily Ponsonby 1812–?; 1820–1856
• Sir John Benn-Walsh 1798–1881
• William Joseph O’Neill Daunt 1807–1894
• Asenath Nicholson c. 1796–1855
• Rev. William Sewell 1804–1874
• Elizabeth Smith 1797–1885
• William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim 1805–1878
• John Sarsfield Casey 1846–1896
• Thomas Johnson Westropp 1860–1922
• Hattie Cowper 1863–?
• Joseph Holloway 1861–1944
• James Stephens 1882–1950
• Joseph Campbell 1879–1944
• Lady Gregory 1852–1932
• Frank McEvoy 1925–
• Seán Ó Ríordáin 1916–1977
• Gemma Hussey 1938–
• Sources
• Copyright