CONTENTS.
THE CHURCH OF BALLYMORE.
THE OLD BOREEN.
AN IRISH SCHOOLHOUSE.
PAT MURPHY'S COWS.
FATHER TOM MALONE. A LAND LEAGUE REMINISCENCE.
YOU CAN GUESS.
ONLY!
SONGS OF INNISFAIL.
TAMING A TIGER.
THE LORD OF KENMARE.
RYAN'S REVENGE.
AN OLD IRISH TUNE.
"HARVEY DUFF."
A SEDITIOUS SLIDE.
IVAN PETROKOFFSKY.
THE EMPEROR'S RING.
BLACK LORIS.
WHO SHOT PHLYNN'S HAT? I.
THE RED-HEART DAISY. A RUSSIAN ALLEGORY.
THE TIDE IS TURNING.
OUR OWN AGAIN.
THE TALE OF A TAIL.
THE SEA-SICK SUB-COMMISSIONERS.
CAOINE OF THE CLARE CONSTABULARY.
CLAUSE TWENTY-SIX. (A COTTER'S REVERY ON THE EMIGRATION CLAUSE OF THE LAND ACT.)
JENKINS, M. P.
THADY MALONE.
[B] RORY'S REVERIE.
A DOUBLE SURPRISE. I. GALLAGHER'S GOOSE.
OUR LAND SHALL BE FREE.
PHILIPSON'S PARTY.
THE FELONS OF OUR LAND.
AN OFFICIAL VALUATION.
A BEWILDERED BOYCOTTER.
A COMPLAINT OF COERCION.
O'NEILL'S ADDRESS. BENBURB: JUNE 6, 1646.
THE FENIAN'S DREAM. CHRISTMAS, 1867.
THE SPEAKER'S COMPLAINT. [C]
ERIN MACHREE (1798).
THAT TRAITOR TIMMINS.
BALFOUR'S WISH.
OUR CAUSE.
SERVED HIM RIGHT.
RAPPAREE SONG.
TO THE LANDLORDS OF IRELAND.
BALFOUR REJOICES.
A PICTURESQUE PENNY-A-LINER.
THE IRISH BRIGADE.
SNOOKS.
CALEDONIAN CANDLESTICKS.
FAITHFUL TO THE LAST.
FENIAN BATTLE-SONG.
THE GRAVE OF THE MARTYRS. [D]
DEATH'S VICTORY. IN MEMORIAM JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY.
THE GREEN FLAG AT FREDERICKSBURG.
THE FLAG OF OUR LAND.
HURRAH FOR LIBERTY.
THE MESSENGER. NOVEMBER 23, 1867. [E]
A TYPICAL TRIAL.
JOHN BULL'S APPEAL TO JONATHAN.
THE STORY OF A BOMB.
AVENGING, THOUGH DIM (1798).
CHRISTMAS DIRGE OF THE LONDON POLICE (1885).
IRELAND'S PRAYER (MAY, 1885).
JOHN BULL'S NEW YEAR.
READY AND STEADY. A FENIAN NEW-YEAR SONG (1867).
WHY SMITHERS RESIGNED.
THE CHARGE OF THE GUARDS AT LONDON TOWER. [I] BY ALFRED TENNYSON'S GHOST.
AN ADDRESS TO SLAVES. [J]
EXPLOITS OF AN IRISH REPORTER.
A POLITICAL LESSON SPOILED.
THE LION'S LAMENTATION.
MEMORIAL ODE TO THE IRISH DEAD WHO WERE SLAUGHTERED DURING THE
AN ORANGE ORATION.
SONG OF KING ALCOHOL.
CONTRARY COGNOMENS.
AN AESTHETIC WOOING.
THE DRUNKARD'S DREAM.
FREDERICK'S FOLLY.
CONSTABLE X.
LUCIFER'S LABORATORY.
THE MONOPOLIST'S MOAN.
WITH THE GRAND ARMY VETERANS. AT GRANT'S FUNERAL, AUGUST 8, 1885.
THE IRISH SOLDIER AT GRANT'S GRAVE.
MAINE AND MAYO.
A SANDY ROW SKIRMISH.
THE PRIEST WITH THE BROGUE. A MINER'S REMINISCENCE.
ARAB WAR SONG.
HOBBIES IN OUR BLOCK.
NOT A JOHN L. SULLIVAN.
THE LINGUIST OF THE LIFFEY.
A WINDY DAY AT CABRA.
PEGGY O'SHEA. AN IRISH SERENADE.
THE BOSTON CARRIER'S PLAINT.
APROPOS OF THE CENSUS.
NEW ENGLAND'S MARKSMEN.
A MIXED ANTIQUARIAN.
JONES'S UMBRELLA.
LESSONS IN THE FRENCH DRAMA.
CALCRAFT AND PRICE. [M] A LYRIC FOR LOYALISTS.
ENTITLED TO A RAISE. SUGGESTED BY A ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY PETITION.
THE POSTMAN'S WOOING. THE POSTMAN'S PLIGHT.
SONNETS TO A SHOEMAKER.
A COMMERCIAL CRISIS.
AT THE COLLEGE SPORTS.
A MUSICAL REVENGE.
A LIAR LAID OUT.
MULROONEY. A TROOPER'S TALE.
An Irish Crazy-Quilt.
SMILES AND TEARS, WOVEN INTO SONG AND STORY.
BY
ARTHUR M. FORRESTER.
BOSTON:
ALFRED MUDGE & SON PRINTERS, 24 FRANKLIN STREET.
1891.
Copyright,
1890,
By ARTHUR M. FORRESTER.
TO THE
“FELONS” OF IRELAND,
THE BRAVE AND FAITHFUL FEW,
Who have been Exiled or Imprisoned or Executed
Because they Loved their Native Land more than
Home or Liberty or Life,
This Volume
IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.
