History of Verse Translation from the Irish 1789-1897

Contents: Translation and Irish Poetry in English; The Historical and Literary Background to the Translation of Irish Poetry; Joseph Cooper Walker and Charlotte Brooke; The Beginnings of an Irish Tradition in English; Some Cork Translators; James Hardiman and his Translators; Two Northern Translators: Matthew Moore Graham and Samuel Ferguson; James Clarence Mangan; Edward Walsh; The 1850s: W.H. Drummond, S.H. O'Grady, Sigerson; Douglas Hyde; George Sigerson's^R Bards of the Gael and Gall; Notes; Bibliography; Index