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Translations from Irish or Latin, mainly into English
Authors unknown unless otherwise stated.
The Annals of Ulster AD 431-1201	93064	HTML		PLAIN
The Annals of Ulster AD 1202-1378	39508	HTML		PLAIN
The Annals of Ulster AD 1379-1541	93983	HTML		PLAIN
The Annals of Inisfallen	48439	HTML		PLAIN
The Annals of Inisfallen, Prepatrician Section	2900	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of the Four Masters 1	63565	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of the Four Masters 2	85175	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of the Four Masters 3	67070	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of the Four Masters 4	76330	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of the Four Masters 5	92024	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of the Four Masters 6	72222	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of Loch Cé 1	89489	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of Loch Cé 2	75467	HTML		PLAIN
Annals of Connacht	126231	HTML		PLAIN
Miscellaneous Irish Annals, Fragment I (Mac Carthaigh's Book)	17730	HTML		PLAIN
Miscellaneous Irish Annals, Fragment II	4684	HTML		PLAIN
Miscellaneous Irish Annals, Fragment III	7676	HTML		PLAIN
Chronicon Scotorum	43630	HTML		PLAIN
Fragmentary Annals of Ireland	32144	HTML		PLAIN
The Irish Version of the Historia Britonum of Nennius	17250	HTML		PLAIN
Welches sind die drei, die gleich nach ihrer Geburt zuerst gesprochen haben? (Deutsch)	1773	HTML		PLAIN
Geschichten von Cano mac Gartnáin [Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin] (Deutsch)	4780	HTML		PLAIN
The Battle of Carn Conaill	2310	HTML		PLAIN
The three drinking-horns of Cormac úa Cuinn (Liber Flavus Fergusiorum)	1205	HTML		PLAIN
Geoffrey Keating: History of Ireland, Books I-II	166340	HTML		PLAIN
Chapters towards a History of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth (Philip O'Sullivan Beare)	78495	HTML		PLAIN
The Triumphs of Turlough	69600	HTML		n/a
The Description of Ireland (Fynes Moryson)	10000	HTML		n/a
The Commonwealth of Ireland (Fynes Moryson)	32000	HTML		n/a
The Manners and Customs of Ireland (Fynes Moryson)	7500	HTML		n/a
A Visit to Lecale, in the County of Down, in the year 1602–3 (Sir Josias Bodley)	9000	HTML		n/a
Description of Engand and Ireland under the Restoration (Albert Jouvin)	9000	HTML		n/a
The Law of the Couple [Cáin Lánamna]	3780	HTML		PLAIN
Lebor na Cert [Book of Rights]	23500	HTML		n/a
The Triads of Ireland (K. Meyer)	6800	HTML		n/a
A Poem on the Kings of Connaught	1130	HTML		PLAIN
The Metrical Dindshenchas 1 (ed. and tr. E. Gwynn)	7357	HTML		PLAIN
The Metrical Dindshenchas 2 (ed. and tr. E. Gwynn)	10380	HTML		PLAIN
The Metrical Dindshenchas 3 (ed. and tr. E. Gwynn)	41140	HTML		PLAIN
The Metrical Dindshenchas 4 (ed. and tr. E. Gwynn)	42940	HTML		PLAIN
The Flight of the Earls (by Tadhg Ó Cianáin; trans. by Paul Walsh)	41930	HTML		PLAIN
Bethu Brigte [The Life of Brigit] (ed. and tr. D. Ó hAodha)	6800	HTML		PLAIN
On the Life of Saint Patrick [Betha Phatraic] (ed. and tr. W. Stokes)	10300	HTML		PLAIN
On the Life of Saint Brigit [Betha Brigte] (ed. and tr. W. Stokes)	8680	HTML		PLAIN
On the Life of Saint Columba [Betha Choluim Chille] (ed. and tr. W. Stokes)	8220	HTML		PLAIN
Life of Naile (ed. and tr. Ch. Plummer)	8450	HTML		PLAIN
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore (ed. and tr. Patrick Power)	16288	HTML		PLAIN
The Miracles of Senan [Míorbuile Senáin]	7170	HTML		PLAIN
Life of Colmán Son of Lúachán (ed. and tr. Kuno Meyer)	22500	HTML		n/a
The Life of Columba, written by Adamnan (ed. and tr. William Reeves)	42000	HTML		PLAIN
Monks' Rules of Columbanus (ed. and tr. G. S. M. Walker)	15880	HTML		PLAIN
Sermons of Columbanus (ed. and tr. G. S. M. Walker)	18760	HTML		PLAIN
Letters of Columbanus (ed. and tr. G. S. M. Walker)	17850	HTML		PLAIN
The Easter Controversy [De Controversia Paschali] (by Cummianus)	4435	HTML		PLAIN
Tidings of Doomsday (ed. and tr. W. Stokes)	4209	HTML		PLAIN
The Tidings of the Resurrection (ed. and tr. W. Stokes)	5160	HTML		PLAIN
The fifteen tokens of Doomsday (ed. and tr. W. Stokes)	4413	HTML		PLAIN
The vision of Laisrén (ed. and tr. Kuno Meyer)	1495	HTML		PLAIN
Les Deux Chagrins du Royaume du Ciel [Da brón Flatha Nime] (ed. Georges Dottin) Français	3400	HTML		PLAIN
Une version irlandaise du dialogue du corps et de l'âme (ed. Georges Dottin) Français	4780	HTML		PLAIN
Eine Variante der Brendan-Legende (ed and tr. R. Thurneysen) Deutsch	2800	HTML		PLAIN
Cath Maige Tuired [The Second Battle of Mag Tuired] (ed. and tr. E. Gray)	10350	HTML		PLAIN
The Second Battle of Moytura (ed. and tr. W. Stokes)	9870	HTML		PLAIN
The Wooing of Étaín (ed. and tr. O. Bergin and J. Best)	10500	HTML		PLAIN
Deirdre [Longes mac nUislenn] (ed. and tr. Douglas Hyde)	4200	HTML		PLAIN
The Wooing of Emer [from LU and Stowe] (ed. and tr. Kuno Meyer)	12550	HTML		PLAIN
Táin Bó Cúalnge Recension I(ed. and tr. Cecile O'Rahilly)	51300	HTML		PLAIN
Wie das Schwein des Sohnes der Stummen zerlegt wurde (ed. and tr. Rudolf Thurneysen) (Deutsch)	3555	HTML		PLAIN
Die Sage von CuRoi [Egerton 88] (ed. and tr. Rudolf Thurneysen) (Deutsch)	1922	HTML		PLAIN
Táin Bó Cúalnge from the Book of Leinster (ed. and tr. Cecile O'Rahilly)	62900	HTML		PLAIN
Ailill Aulom, Mac Con, & Find ua Báiscne (Laud 610)	3018	HTML		PLAIN
The Destruction of Dind Ríg (W. Stokes)	2730	HTML		PLAIN
Buile Shuibhne [The Frenzy of Suibhne] being The Adventures of Suibhne Geilt (J. G. O'Keeffe)	17900	HTML		PLAIN
The Death of Finn Mac Cumaill (Kuno Meyer)	900	HTML		PLAIN
Das Werben um Ailbe (Rudolf Thurneysen) (Deutsch)	3840	HTML		PLAIN
Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century (Kuno Meyer)	2200	HTML		n/a
In Cath Catharda: The Civil War of the Romans	73300	HTML		PLAIN
The wandering of Ulixes son of Laertes (K. Meyer)	4055	HTML		n/a
The Irish Lives of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton	58700	HTML		PLAIN
The White Hound of the Mountain [Cú bán an t-shleibhe]	2360	HTML		PLAIN
The Vision of MacConglinne [Aislinge Meic Con Glinne] (Kuno Meyer)	14360	HTML		PLAIN
Rosa Anglica (W. Wulff)	64300	HTML		PLAIN

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Translations from French/Latin into English: 14th Century
Authors unknown unless otherwise stated.
A Statute enacted in Kilkenny, A.D. 1367	7460	HTML		PLAIN
Remonstrance of the Irish Chiefs to Pope John XXII (A.D.1317) by Domhnall Ó Néill	5700	HTML		n/a
The bardic poems of Tadhg Dall Ó Huiginn (1550-1591)	56,000	HTML		n/a

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French Texts: 13th to 14th Century
Authors unknown unless otherwise stated.
Song of Dermot and the Earl	17360	HTML		PLAIN
A Statute enacted in Kilkenny, A.D. 1367	6665	HTML		PLAIN

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Translations from Spanish into English: 16th Century
Francisco de Cuellar
Captain Cuellar's Adventures in Connacht and Ulster	12140	HTML		PLAIN

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Spanish Texts: 16th Century
Francisco de Cuellar
Carta de uno que fué en la Armada y cuenta la jornada	10800	HTML		PLAIN

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English Texts

14th to 15th Century
Authors unknown unless otherwise stated.
The Kildare Poems View Modern English rendering by A. Lucas	13100	HTML		PLAIN

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English Texts: 16th–18th Century

Edmund Spenser * Hugh Collier * Sir John Davies * George Carew

Hugh O'Neill * Sir William Brereton * Luke Gernon

Charles II * Various authors * Jonathan Swift

O. Goldsmith * A. Young * J. Adams

Unknown unless otherwise stated

Edmund Spenser
A view of the present state of Ireland	64100	HTML		PLAIN
Hugh Collier [?]
Dialogue of Silvynne and Peregrynne (S.P. 63/203, no. 119)	45820	HTML		PLAIN
Captain Thomas Lee
Infformacion giuen to Queen Elizabeth against Sir William Fitzwilliams, his gouernmente in Irelande	3900	HTML		n/a
A brief Declaration of the Government of Ireland	18000	HTML		n/a
Hugh O'Neill
Hugh O'Neill's war aims	1900	HTML		n/a
Sir John Davies
Lawes of Ireland [1609] (Huntington Library, Ellesmere 7042)	5432	HTML		PLAIN
George Carew
A discourse of the present state of Ireland [1614]	4000	HTML		n/a
Luke Gernon
A Discourse of Ireland, anno 1620	9500	HTML		n/a
Sir William Brereton
Travels of Sir William Brereton in Ireland [1635]	22000	HTML		n/a
Colonel Henry O'Neill
An impartial relation of the most memorable transactions of General Owen O'Neill [...] [1650]	13200	HTML		n/a
Various authors
Proceedings of the forces in Ireland under Sir Hardress Waller and Lord-Deputy Ireton (...) [1650-1651]	25000	HTML		n/a
King Charles II
Act of Settlement [1662] and Act of Explanation [1665]	6500	HTML		n/a
Jonathan Swift
Travels into several remote nations of the World [Gulliver's Travels]	105000	HTML		n/a
An Answer to a Paper, called "A Memorial of the poor Inhabitants [...] of the Kingdom of Ireland"	3994	HTML		PLAIN
Of Public Absurdities in England	2165	HTML		PLAIN
On Stella's Birthday	850	HTML		PLAIN
To the right Worshipful The Mayor [...] of the City of Cork	1065	HTML		PLAIN
Character of an Irish Squire	1131	HTML		PLAIN
On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland	2844	HTML		PLAIN
The Swearer's Bank	2135	HTML		PLAIN
Maxims Controlled in Ireland	3504	HTML		PLAIN
A Proposal for giving Badges to the Beggars in all the Parishes of Dublin	4313	HTML		PLAIN
The present miserable State of Ireland	5440	HTML		PLAIN
An Examination of certain Abuses, Corruptions, and Enormities in the City of Dublin	7502	HTML		PLAIN
The Battle of the Books	14000	HTML		n/a
A Tale of a Tub	66000	HTML		n/a
A serious and useful Scheme to make an Hospital for Incurables	8000	HTML		n/a
A Short View of the State of Ireland	4800	HTML		n/a
Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation	4700	HTML		n/a
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue	7700	HTML		n/a
A Proposal to pay off the Debt of the Nation	3500	HTML		n/a
The Conduct of the Allies	25000	HTML		n/a
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding	2800	HTML		n/a
An Essay on Modern Education	3800	HTML		n/a
A Modest Proposal	4200	HTML		n/a
A Letter to the Archbishop of Dublin, concerning the Weavers	4600	HTML		n/a
A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (...)	9000	HTML		n/a
unknown unless otherwise stated
A Jacobite narrative of the war in Ireland (A light to the blind; Pluncket memoirs)	89800	HTML		PLAIN
List of officers taken prisoners at Ballymore, 8 June, 1691	688	HTML		PLAIN
Letter from Sir Richard Nagle to Viscount Merrion, 14 August 1691	640	HTML		PLAIN
The Coventry Letter, 1686, on Acts of Settlement and Explanation by Sir Richard Nagle	3670	HTML		PLAIN
Contemporary Diary of Siege of Limerick, 1691 by Colonel Michael Richards	6615	HTML		PLAIN
Members of Parliament at Dublin, 1689	1530	HTML		PLAIN
Extracts from Acts of Parliament at Dublin, 1689	2355	HTML		PLAIN
Jacobite Appeal to Officers and Soldiers, 1689 by Jacobite Army Officers	2355	HTML		PLAIN
Letters from Colonel William Wolseley, 1690	1510	HTML		PLAIN
The Treaty of Limerick, 1691	4550	HTML		PLAIN
Letters from Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, 1691	970	HTML		PLAIN
Reasons for capitulation at Limerick, 1691 by John Wauchope	882	HTML		PLAIN
James II. to officers of Irish forces on arrival at Brest, 1691	632	HTML		PLAIN
Release by Sarsfield, earl of Lucan, 1691	521	HTML		PLAIN
Ratification of Treaty of Limerick 1691/1692	1048	HTML		PLAIN
Ratification of Treaty of Limerick: George Clarke to Sir Theobald Butler	870	HTML		PLAIN
The History of the Kingdom of Ireland (by R.B. =Nathaniel Crouch)	62,000	HTML		n/a
Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village	2245	HTML		PLAIN
Arthur Young
A Tour in Ireland (...) in 1776-78	51,400	HTML		n/a
Jane Adams
Letter from Jane Adams, containing a private narrative of the rebellion of 1798	19,000	HTML		n/a

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English Texts: 19th Century

* Th. C. Croker * Thomas Osborne Davis * J. C. Mangan

John Boyle O'Reilly * J. Sheridan Le Fanu * William Allingham

Bram Stoker * Oscar Wilde

Thomas Crofton Croker
Researches in the South of Ireland	118,800	HTML		n/a
Thomas Osborne Davis
A Chronology of Ireland	4500	HTML		n/a
Art Unions	2500	HTML		n/a
Ballad Poetry of Ireland	2901	HTML		n/a
Foreign Travel	3660	HTML		n/a
The History of Ireland	3980	HTML		PLAIN
Institutions of Dublin	4700	HTML		n/a
Ireland's People	2730	HTML		n/a
Irish Antiquities and Irish Savages	3130	HTML		n/a
Irish Scenery	2700	HTML		n/a
Irish Topography	4900	HTML		n/a
National Art	3267	HTML		PLAIN
The History of To-day	2105	HTML		PLAIN
The Library of Ireland	2640	HTML		PLAIN
The Resources of Ireland	3324	HTML		PLAIN
The Round Towers of Ireland	6096	HTML		PLAIN
The Sea Kings	4470	HTML		n/a
The Songs of Ireland	3350	HTML		PLAIN
The Speeches of Grattan	4295	HTML		PLAIN
The Valuation of Ireland	4565	HTML		PLAIN
Absenteeism of Irish Genius	2500	HTML		n/a
A Ballad History of Ireland	4270	HTML		n/a
Academical Education	3441	HTML		PLAIN
A Second Year's Work	2680	HTML		PLAIN
Commercial History of Ireland	3710	HTML		n/a
Conciliation	2325	HTML		PLAIN
Foreign Policy and Foreign Information	2692	HTML		PLAIN
Hints for Irish Historical Paintings	2500	HTML		n/a
Influences of Education	2668	HTML		PLAIN
The Irish Brigade	2620	HTML		n/a
Irish Music and Poetry	2507	HTML		n/a
The Irish Peasantry	2450	HTML		n/a
Moral Force	2270	HTML		PLAIN
Munster Outrages	2676	HTML		PLAIN
Our National Language	4600	HTML		n/a
No Redress—no Inquiry	2648	HTML		PLAIN
Old Ireland [Ancient Ireland]	2900	HTML		n/a
Orange and Green	2060	HTML		PLAIN
The Right Road	2409	HTML		PLAIN
Scolding Mobs	1575	HTML		PLAIN
Self-Education	3500	HTML		n/a
The State of the Peasantry	2750	HTML		n/a
Wexford	2600	HTML		n/a
The Irish Parliament of James II	23050	HTML		PLAIN
Irish Art	2500	HTML		n/a
James Clarence Mangan
Dark Rosaleen	3040	HTML		n/a
The Dream of John Mac Donnell	3100	HTML		n/a
O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire	3190	HTML		n/a
A Lamentation	2798	HTML		n/a
Woman of three Cows	2900	HTML		n/a
Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan	2680	HTML		n/a
A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnell	4165	HTML		n/a
Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga	3180	HTML		n/a
The Dawning of the Day	2615	HTML		n/a
The Testament of Cathaeir Mor	4270	HTML		n/a
The Expedition and Death of King Dathy	3070	HTML		n/a
Prince Alfrid's Itinerary through Ireland	3150	HTML		n/a
Lament for Banba	2750	HTML		n/a
Ellen Bawn	2590	HTML		n/a
St Patrick's Hymn before Tara	3400	HTML		n/a
Cean-Salla	2565	HTML		n/a
Lamentation of Mac Liag for Kincora	2945	HTML		n/a
The Captivity of the Gaels	2878	HTML		n/a
The Sorrows of Innisfail	2770	HTML		n/a
Rury and Darvorgilla	3665	HTML		n/a
The Irish Language	3120	HTML		n/a
Welcome to the Prince of Ossory	2850	HTML		n/a
Love Ballad	2835	HTML		n/a
Owen Reilly: A Keen	3065	HTML		n/a
Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill	2703	HTML		n/a
The Fair Hills of Eirè, O!	2918	HTML		n/a
The Geraldine's Daughter	2750	HTML		n/a
A Lullaby	3080	HTML		n/a
The Ruins of Donegal Castle	2980	HTML		n/a
A Farewell to Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan	3305	HTML		n/a
The Song of Gladness	2755	HTML		n/a
Roisín Dubh	2660	HTML		n/a
Kathleen Ni Houlihan	2616	HTML		n/a
Soul and Country	2660	HTML		n/a
The Lovely Land	2642	HTML		n/a
A Vision of Connaught in the thirteenth century	2795	HTML		n/a
The Warning Voice	3128	HTML		n/a
A Voice of Encouragement—A New Year's Lay	3335	HTML		n/a
A Highway for Freedom	2640	HTML		n/a
Irish National Hymn	2800	HTML		n/a
To my Native Land	2885	HTML		n/a
The Peal of Another Trumpet	3282	HTML		n/a