William Carleton

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2005
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Going to Maynooth

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • Lha Dhu: Or, the Dark Day

    Large Format for easy reading. A novel set in Ireland from the prolific Irish author, social historian and anthropologist whose works are unique pictures of Irish rural life and preserve and document the cultural traditions of nineteenth-century Irel...

  • The Black Prophet

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Dark Day And Other Tales

    William Carleton was an Irish novelist, and one of fourteen children of a tenant farmer. Carleton's early life resembled what he later described in his books. His father had an extraordinary memory and a thorough acquaintance with Irish folklore, whi...

  • The Dead Boxer

    One evening in the beginning of the eighteenth century-as nearly as we can conjecture, the year might be that of 1720-some time about the end of April, a young man named Lamh Laudher O'Rorke, or Strong-handed O'Eorke, was proceeding from his father's...

  • Amos Huntingdon

    According to Wikipedia: William Carleton (20 February 1794, Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone - 30 January, 1869, Sandford, Co. Dublin) was an Irish novelist... Carleton wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described, and drew with a sure ...

  • Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey

    According to Wikipedia: William Carleton (20 February 1794, Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone - 30 January, 1869, Sandford, Co. Dublin) was an Irish novelist... Carleton wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described, and drew with a sure ...

  • Elkin Lubliner, American

    According to Wikipedia: William Carleton (20 February 1794, Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone - 30 January, 1869, Sandford, Co. Dublin) was an Irish novelist... Carleton wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described, and drew with a sure ...

  • The Emigrant Trail

    According to Wikipedia: William Carleton (20 February 1794, Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone - 30 January, 1869, Sandford, Co. Dublin) was an Irish novelist... Carleton wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described, and drew with a sure ...



  • Eve's Diary

    According to Wikipedia: William Carleton (20 February 1794, Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone - 30 January, 1869, Sandford, Co. Dublin) was an Irish novelist... Carleton wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described, and drew with a sure ...

  • Far Past the Frontier

    According to Wikipedia: William Carleton (20 February 1794, Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone - 30 January, 1869, Sandford, Co. Dublin) was an Irish novelist... Carleton wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described, and drew with a sure ...

  • The Hedge School and Other Stories

    According to Wikipedia: William Carleton (20 February 1794, Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone - 30 January, 1869, Sandford, Co. Dublin) was an Irish novelist... Carleton wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described, and drew with a sure ...

  • Jane Sinclair or The Fawn of Springvale

    Large Format for easy reading. A novel set in Ireland from the prolific Irish author, social historian and anthropologist whose works are unique pictures of Irish rural life and preserve and document the cultural traditions of nineteenth-century Irel...

  • Lha Dhu or The Dark Day

  • Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver and Other Stories

  • Willy Reilly

    Spirit of George Prince Regent James, Esq., forgive me this commencement * * I mean no offence whatsoever to this distinguished and multitudinous writer; but the commencement of this novel really resembled that of so many of his that I was anxious t...

  • The Three Wishes

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  • Ellen Duncan; And the Proctor's Daughter

    There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy are unequal to the task of soothing or dispelling them. Such was the grief of Ellen Duncan, who was silently weeping in her lone cottage on the bo...

  • Jane Sinclair; Or, the Fawn of Springvale

    If there be one object in life that stirs the current of human feeling more sadly than another, it is a young and lovely woman, whose intellect has been blighted by the treachery of him on whose heart, as on a shrine, she offered up the incense of he...



  • Phil Purcel, the Pig-Driver; The Geography of an Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee

    Phil Purcel was a singular character, for he was never married; but notwithstanding his singularity, no man ever possessed, for practical purposes, a more plentiful stock of duplicity. All his acquaintances knew that Phil was a knave of the first wat...

  • The Station; The Party Fight and Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • Phelim O'Toole's Courtship and Other Stories

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry

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  • The Works of William Carleton, Volume III

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • Phil Purcel, the Pig-Driver

    " ...] "The pig is it, the crathur? Why, your haner," said Purcel, after a little hesitation, "it sometimes goes up of a mornin' to waken the childhre, particularly when the buckwhist happens to be late. It doesn't like to be waitin'; and sure none o...

  • The Black Baronet

    The incidents upon which this book is founded seem to be extraordinary and startling, but they are true; for, as Byron says, and as we all know, "Truth is strange-stranger than Fiction." Mr. West, brother to the late member from Dublin, communicated ...

  • The Evil Eye

    There is very little to be said about this book in the shape of a preface. The superstition of the Evil Eye is, and has been, one of the most general that ever existed among men. It may puzzle philosophers to ask why it prevails wherever mankind exis...

  • Lha Dhu; Or, the Dark Day

    There is no country in the world whose scenery is more sweetly diversified, or more delicately shaded away into that exquisite variety of surface which presents us with those wavy outlines of beauty that softly melt into each other, than is that of o...

  • Jane Sinclair

    William Carleton (4 March 1794, Prolusk (often spelt as Prillisk as on his gravestone), Clogher, County Tyrone - 30 January 1869, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin) was an Irish writer and novelist. He is best known for his Traits and Stories of the Ir...



  • Lha Dhu

    William Carleton (4 March 1794, Prolusk (often spelt as Prillisk as on his gravestone), Clogher, County Tyrone - 30 January 1869, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin) was an Irish writer and novelist. He is best known for his Traits and Stories of the Ir...

  • The Black Baronet; Or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain

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    Some twenty and odd years ago there stood a little cabin at the foot of a round hill, that very much resembled a cupola in shape, and which, from its position and height, commanded a prospect of singular beauty. This hill was one of a range that ran ...

  • Ellen Duncan; And, The Proctor's Daughter

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    There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy are unequal to the task of soothing or dispelling them. Such was the grief of Ellen Duncan, who was silently weeping in her lone cottage on the bo...

  • The Emigrants Of Ahadarra

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    Large Format for easy reading. A novel set in Ireland from the prolific Irish author, social historian and anthropologist whose works are unique pictures of Irish rural life and preserve and document the cultural traditions of nineteenth-century Irel...

  • The Evil Eye; or, the Black Spector

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    Large Format for easy reading. A novel set in Ireland from the prolific Irish author, social historian and anthropologist whose works are unique pictures of Irish rural life and preserve and document the cultural traditions of nineteenth-century Irel...

  • Fardorougha, The Miser

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    It was on one of those nights in August, when the moon and stars shine through an atmosphere clear and cloudless, with a mildness of lustre almost continental, that a horseman, advancing at a rapid pace, turned off a remote branch of road up a narrow...

  • Father Butler, And The Lough Dearg Pilgrim - Vol. 1

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  • The Ned M'Keown Stories

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    It will naturally be expected, upon a new issue of works which may be said to treat exclusively of a people who form such an important and interesting portion of the empire as the Irish peasantry do, that the author should endeavor to prepare the min...

  • One Way Out

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    My great-grandfather was killed in the Revolution; my grandfather fought in the War of 1812; my father sacrificed his health in the Civil War; but I, though born in New England, am the first of my family to emigrate to this country -- the United Stat...

  • Phelim Otoole's Courtship And Other Stories

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...



  • The Poor Scholar

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    One day about the middle of November, in the year 18-, Dominick M'Evoy and his son Jemmy were digging potatoes on the side of a hard, barren hill, called Esker Dhu. The day was bitter and wintry, the men were thinly clad, and as the keen blast swept ...

  • The Station, The Party Fight And Funeral, And The Lough Derg Pilgrim

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    William Carleton (1794-1869) was a prolific Irish author, social historian and anthropologist who wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described. His works are unique pictures of Irish rural life and preserve and document the cultural ...

  • Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantr

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    Large Format for easy reading. Based on the author's knowledge of the character and folklore of the people he knew, it gives an accurate and vivid description of life in rural Ireland. It won him a great reputation. From the prolific Irish author, so...

  • Valentine M'Clutchy, the Irish Agent

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    It was not my intention to have written any Preface to this book, but to have allowed it simply to speak for itself. As it is very likely, however, that both it and the motives of its author may be misrepresented by bigoted or venal pens, I think it ...

  • The Tithe Proctor

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    After the reader shall, have perused the annexed startling and extraordinary narrative, on which I have founded the tale of the Tithe-Proctor, I am sure he will admit that there is very little left me to say in the shape of a preface. It is indeed ra...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Carleton has published 44 books.

William Carleton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lha Dhu, was published in November 2024.

The first book by William Carleton, Going to Maynooth, was published in October 2005.

No. William Carleton does not write books in series.
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