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• Irish literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
• Epic literature, Irish -- History and criticism
• Irish poetry -- History and criticism
• Irish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Irish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism

• The Beginnings of the Irish Revival (Groningen, Netherlands: P. Noordhoff, 1933), by Rebecca Pauline Christine Brugsma (page images at delpher.nl)
• Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, During the Sessions of 1855 and 1856 (Dublin: W. Hinch and P. Traynoe, 1878), by Eugene O'Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish, by Lady Gregory, contrib. by Douglas Hyde (Gutenberg text)

• The Irish Review (1911-1914) (full serial archives)

• Early Bardic Literature, Ireland, by Standish O'Grady (Gutenberg text)
• Standish O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1918), by Standish O'Grady, contrib. by Ernest Augustus Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Prolegomena to the Study of the Later Irish Bards, 1200-1500 (extract from the Proceedings of the British Academy, 1911), by Edmund Crosby Quiggin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Changing Ireland: Literary Backgrounds of the Irish Free State, 1889-1922 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by Norreys Jephson O'Conor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Changing Ireland: Literary Backgrounds of the Irish Free State, 1889-1922 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by Norreys Jephson O'Conor (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Irish Literary Revival: A Lecture Delivered At the Request of the Catholic Young Ladies' Literary Association, by Countess of Aberdeen (page images at canadiana.org)
• The Wonders of Ireland and Other Papers on Irish Subjects (first edition, 1911), by P. W. Joyce (HTML at libraryireland.com)
• Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature (Dublin: Browne and Nolan ltd, 1913), by National Library of Ireland, ed. by R. I. Best
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature (Dublin: Browne and Nolan ltd, 1913), by National Library of Ireland, ed. by R. I. Best
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Belfast Magazine and Literary Journal (published 6 issues only; 1825) (full serial archives)
• Dana: An Irish Magazine of Independent Thought (1904-1905) (full serial archives)
• The Dublin University Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Ériu (partial serial archives)

• Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish, by Lady Gregory, contrib. by Douglas Hyde (Gutenberg text)
• The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1919), trans. by Lady Gregory
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (London: David Nutt, 1904), trans. by L. Winifred Faraday (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, trans. by Lady Gregory, contrib. by W. B. Yeats (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, trans. by Lady Gregory, contrib. by W. B. Yeats
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Heroic Romances of Ireland, ed. by Arthur Herbert Leahy (Gutenberg text)
• Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic (second edition; London: D. Nutt, 1894), trans. by P. W. Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Celtic Romances, Translated from the Gaelic (Dublin: Education Co. of Ireland; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920), trans. by P. W. Joyce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living (main text, plus some editorial material), ed. by Kuno Meyer (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1919), trans. by Lady Gregory
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, And songs, Translated into English Verse; With Notes Explanatory and Historical; and the Originals in the Irish Character; To Which is Subjoined an Irish Tale (Dublin: G. Bonham, 1789), ed. by Charlotte Brooke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fled Bricrend, the Feast of Bricriu: An Early Gaelic Saga Transcribed From Older Mss. into the Book of the Dun Cow (Irish texts Society v2; London: D. Nutt, 1899), ed. by George Henderson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Deirdre of the Sorrows, by J. M. Synge (Gutenberg text)

• Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature (Indiana University Publications folklore series #7; 1952), by Tom Peete Cross (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900 (electronic edition; originally published 2006), by Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, contrib. by Anne Mullin Burnham (searchable HTML and PDF files in Ireland)

• True Irish Ghost Stories (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis and Co., c1914), by Harry Neligan, ed. by St. John D. Seymour (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Weird Tales: Irish (London and Edinburgh: W. Paterson, n.d.), contrib. by Samuel Lover, William Carleton, Charles Lever, Thomas Crofton Croker, S. C. Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and J. B. O'Meara (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, And songs, Translated into English Verse; With Notes Explanatory and Historical; and the Originals in the Irish Character; To Which is Subjoined an Irish Tale (Dublin: G. Bonham, 1789), ed. by Charlotte Brooke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (based on an edition from 1901 or later), by Finley Peter Dunne (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (London: William Heinemann, 1901), by Finley Peter Dunne, illust. by William Nicholson, E. W. Kemble, and Frederick Burr Opper (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
• An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)

• The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

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