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See also:CARLETON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1794-1869) , Irish novelist, was See also:born at Prillisk, See also:Clogher, Co. See also:Tyrone, on the 4th of See also:March 1794. His See also:father was a See also:tenant See also:farmer, who supported a See also:family of fourteen See also:children on as many acres, and See also:young Carleton passed his See also:early See also:life among scenes precisely similar to those he after-wards delineated with so much See also:power and truthfulness. His father was remarkable for his extraordinary memory, and had a thorough acquaintance with Irish See also:folklore; the See also:mother was noted throughout the See also:district for the sweetness of her See also:voice. The beautiful See also:character of Honor, the See also:miser's wife, in Fardorougha, is said to have been See also:drawn from her.
The See also:education received by Carleton was of a very humble description. As his father removed from one small See also:farm to another, he attended at various places the hedge-See also:schools, which used to be a notable feature of Irish life. The admirable little picture of one of these schools is given in the See also:sketch called " The Hedge School " included in Traits and Stories of Irish Peasantry. Most of his learning was gained from a See also:curate named Keenan, who taught a classical school at Donagh (Co. See also:Monaghan), which Carleton attended from 1814 to 1816. Before this Carleton had resolved to prosecute his education as a poor See also:scholar at See also:Munster, with a view to entering the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; but in obedience to a warning See also:dream, the See also:story of which is told in the Poor Scholar, he returned See also:home, where he received the unbounded veneration of the neighbouring peasantry for his supposed wonderful learning. An amusing See also:account of this phase of his existence is given in the ittle sketch, " See also:Denis O'Shaughnessy." About the See also:age of nineteen he undertook one of the religious pilgrimages then See also:common in See also:Ireland. His experiences as a See also:pilgrim, narrated in "The Lough See also:Derg Pilgrim," made him resign for ever the thought of entering the church, and he eventually became a See also:Protestant. His vacillating ideas as to a mode of life were determined in a definite direction by the See also:reading of Gil Blas. He resolved to See also:cast himself boldly upon the See also:world, and try what See also:fortune had in See also:store for him. He went to Killanny, Co See also:Louth, and for six months acted as See also:tutor in the family of a farmer named Piers See also:Murphy, and after some other experiments he set out for See also:Dublin, and arrived in the See also:metropolis with 2S 9d. in his See also:pocket. He first sought occupation as a See also:bird-
stuffier, but a proposal to use potatoes and See also:meal as stuffing failed to recommend him. He then determined to become a soldier, but the See also:colonel of the See also:regiment in which he desired to enlist persuaded him—Carleton had applied in Latin—to give up the See also:idea. He obtained some teaching and a clerkship in a See also:Sunday School See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, began to contribute to the See also:journals, and his See also:paper " The See also:Pilgrimage to Lough Derg," which was published in the See also:Christian Examiner, excited See also:great See also:attention. In 183o appeared the first See also:series of Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (2 vols.), which at once placed the author in the first See also:rank of Irish novelists. A second series (3 vols.), containing, among other stories, "Tubber Derg, or the Red Well," appeared in 1833, and Tales of Ireland in 1834. From that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time till within a few years of his See also:death Carleton's See also:literary activity was incessant. "Fardorougha the Miser, or the Convicts of Lisnamona " appeared in 1837–1838 in the Dublin University See also:Magazine. Among his other famous novels are: See also:Valentine McClutchy, the Irish See also:Agent, or See also:Chronicles of the See also:Castle Cumber See also:Property (3 vols., 1845); The See also:Black See also:Prophet, a See also:Tale of the See also:Famine, in the Dublin University Magazine (1846), printed separately in the next See also:year; The Emigrants of Ahadarra (1847); Willy Reilly and his dear Colleen Bawn (in The See also:Independent, See also:London, 1850); and The Tithe See also:Proctor (1849), the violence of which did his reputation harm among his own countrymen. Some of his later stories, The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852) for instance, are defaced by the See also:mass of See also:political See also:matter with which they are overloaded. In spite of his very considerable literary See also:production Carleton remained poor, but his necessities were relieved in 1848 by a See also:pension of £too a year granted by See also:Lord See also:John See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell in response to a memorial on Carleton's behalf signed by See also:numbers of distinguished persons in Ireland. He died at See also:Sandford, Co. Dublin, on the 3oth of See also:January 1869.
Carleton's best See also:work is contained in the Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. He wrote from intimate acquaintance with the scenes he described; and he See also:drew with a sure See also:hand a series of pictures of See also:peasant life, unsurpassed for their appreciation of the passionate tenderness of Irish home life, of the buoyant See also:humour and the domestic virtues which would, under better circumstances, bring prosperity and happiness. He alienated the sympathies of many Irishmen, however, by his unsparing See also:criticism and occasional exaggeration of the darker See also:side of Irish character. He was in his own words the " historian of their habits and See also:manners, their feelings, their prejudices, their superstitions and their crimes." (See also:Preface to Tales of Ireland.)
During the last months of his life Carleton began an autobiography which he brought down to the beginning of his literary career. This forms the first See also:part of The Life of William Carleton . . . (2 vols., 1896), by D. J. O'Donoghue, which contains full See also:information about his life, and a See also:list of his scattered writings. A selection from his stories (1889), in the " Camelot Series," has an introduction by Mr W. B. Yeats. He must not be confused with Will Carleton (b. 1845), the See also:American author of Farm See also:Ballads (1873).
End of Article: CARLETON, WILLIAM (1794-1869)
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