• Provides the full text of short plays, fiction, and poetry by a wide selection of prominent writers, including Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Maria Edgeworth, Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, Samuel Ferguson, Lady Jane Wilde, and Oscar Wilde
• Features a selection of collaboratively authored works by the Edgeworths, the Banims, and the Kavanaghs, as well as excerpts from collaborative publications such as Paddy’s Resource and The Nation
• Includes substantial selections from Ireland's women writers, as well as Ulster poets and writers who emigrated to North America during this period
• Offers a variety of helpful features for students, including a chronology of historical events and major literary works of the era

“… a diverse and highly entertaining selection of Irish Literature and a teaching tool that will become the standard anthology for the study of Irish Literature.”
Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University

Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her publications in Irish literature include Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Literature (2007) and an edition of Lady Morgan’s The Missionary (2002).