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Works by William Carleton (in print): 

  • Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, Volumes 1 and 2, with a preface by Barbara Hayley, Gerrards Cross (1990).
  • Inside the Margins: A Caleton Reader, selected and edited by Tess Hurson, Lagan Press (1992).
  • Fardorougha the Miser, with an introduction by Benedict Kiely, Appletree Press (1992).
  • William Carleton, The Autobiography, with a foreword by Benedict Kelly, White Row Press (1996).
William Carleton Oil Portrait by JJ Slattery (National Gallery of Ireland collection) Monochrome Version

Works by William Carleton (online libraries): All of William Carleton’s published works can be found online, in both plain text and as illustrated facsimiles, at Project Gutenberg, and as free eBooks here.

  • Studies of William Carleton (in print) Benedict Kiely, Poor Scholar: A Study of William Carleton 1794 – 1669 (1948), Re-issued by Wolfhound Press in 1997.
  • John Montague, ‘William Carleton: The Fiery Gift’ (1952) in John Montague:
The Figure in the Cave and Other Essays, edited by Antoinette Quinn, Lillliput (1989).
  • John Cronin, ‘William Carleton: The Black Prophet (1847)’ in The Anglo-Irish
Novel Volume One: the Nineteenth Century, Appletree Press (1980).
  • Barry Sloan, The Pioneers of Anglo-Irish Fiction 1800-1850, Gerrards Cross (1986).
  • Norman Vance, ‘The Literatures of Victorian Ireland: William Carleton and Thomas
 D’Arcy Mc Gee’ in Irish Literature: A Social History, (Blackell, 1990, revised edition 1999).
  • Julian Moynahan, ‘William Carleton (1794-1869): The Native Informer’ in
Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture, Princeton (1995).
  • Brian Donnelly, ‘William Carleton: Novelist of the People’ in Tyrone: History and
 Society, edited by Charles Dillon and Henry A. Jefferies, in Geography Publications (2000).
  • Declan Kiberd, ‘Confronting Famine: Carleton’s Peasantry’ in Irish Classics, Granta Books (2000).
  • Roy Foster, ‘Square Built Power and Fiery Shorthand: Yeats, Carleton and the Irish
Nineteenth Century’ in The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland,
 Allen Lane (2001).
  • David Krause, William Carleton The Novelist, His Carnival and Pastoral World of Tragic Comedy, University Press of America (2001).
  • William Carleton, The Authentic Voice, edited and produced by Gordon Brand and Sam Craig, Gerrards Cross (2006).