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The Ex-Classics Web Site In Preparation Reliques of Irish Poetry, by Charlotte Brooke First published in 1789, this was the first appearence in English of genuine translations of Irish legendary tales of Fionn MacCumhal and the Fianna. Macpherson's Ossian had appeared a decade earlier, but was suspected (rightly) by many people to be largely the work of MacPherson himself. These were geniune.   Eliza Haywood's Self-Help Books. Eliza Haywood was a very popular writer of light fiction and melodramas in the 18th centory. We have some of her plays and novels on our site already. She also wrote works of advice on how to conduct oneself according to one's condition of life, a genre very popular at the time. These -- A Present for a Servant Maid; or, the Sure Means of Gaining Love and Esteem (1743); The Wife; The Young Lady: and The Husband (all 1756) afford a fascinating glimpse into the conventions of those times, so different to our own. Some of this would make you laugh out loud, others would make you thankful you do not live in those times. Our Town, by Patrick Sugrue. Generations of Irish schoolchildren have had to read An Baile Seo 'Gainne by "An Seabhac," First published in 1912, it is a collection of humorous or wry sketches and stories. There is however no English translation available -- until ours.

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