Owen MacCarthy’s Library as described in The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan (1979).
Aeneid
History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating [ Foras feasa ar Éirinn].
Eclogues
Georgics
some volumes of Shakespeare
Paradise Lost
Poems of O’Rahilly (probably Aogan O’Rahilly)
Poems of O’Sullivan (probably Owen Rua O’Sullivan)
[... it {Muckross} has inspired many gems of literature, both Irish and English, as for example Tennyson's finest lyric in The Princess. Muckross means more than that, however, to the Gael, for in the ruined priory of its age-old abbey is the last resting place of the noblest warriors of the great clans of the McCarthys, the O'Sullivans and the O'Donoghues. Here, too, in the chancel, lie two of the greatest of the Munster poets, Egan O'Rahilly and Owen Rua O'Sullivan.---
Seanad Éireann - Volume 16 - 13 December, 1932,Bourn Vincent Memorial Park Bill, 1932]. See Kerry Poets Monument - statue of the ‘Speir Bhean’, i.e. Beautiful Woman. A personification of Ireland sculptured by Seamus Murphy and erected in 1940 to commemorate Kerry’s four best known Gaelic poets. Pierce Ferriter, Aogan O’Rahilly, Geoffrey O’Donoghue, Eoghan Rua O’Sullivan.]
Metamorphoses
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Book I’m reading now:
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan (1979).