Reading diaries that aren't yours, in celebration of the diaries that are yours. This list covers diaries from Irish diarists around the world. Recommendations welcome.
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An Irishman in Dixie: Thomas Conolly's Diary of the Fall of the Confederacy
Thomas Conolly
The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier
Mick O'Farrell
The grand tours of Katherine Wilmot: France 1801-3 and Russia 1805-7
Elizabeth Mavor
The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench: Being Selections From Her Journals, Letters, & Other Papers
Melesina Chenevix George St Trench
Betsy Sheridan's Journal: Letters from Sheridan's Sister 1784-1786 and 1788-1790 (Oxford Paperbacks)
Betsy Sheridan
The Diary of Nicholas Peacock, 1740-51: The Worlds of a County Limerick Farmer and Agent
Marie-Louise Legg
The Diary of an Irish Countryman 1827-1835
Humphrey O'Sullivan
Then the Walls Came Down: A Prison Journal
Danny Morrison
Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Life and Letters of an Irish Zen Saint
Maura O'Halloran
Island Cross-Talk (Oxford Paperbacks): Pages from a Diary by Tom?s O'Crohan (1986-01-23)
Tomás Ó Criomhthainn
A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime
Mary Morris
The diary of Mary Mathew
Maria Luddy
An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile
DĂłnall Mac Amhlaigh
Between Literature and History: The Diaries and Memoirs of Mary Leadbeater and Dorothea Herbert (Reimagining Ireland)
Barbara Hughes
The Complete Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce
Stanislaus Joyce
The Highland Lady in Dublin, 1851 - 1856
Elizabeth Grant
The Diaries of Mary Hayden (v. 1)
Mary Hayden
Lady Gregory's Diaries 1892-1902
Lady Gregory
The Ulick O'Connor diaries, 1970-1981: A cavalier Irishman
Ulick O'Connor
A Diary: 1824-1889
William Allingham
Mere Bagatelles: Women's Diaries from Ireland, 1760–1810 (Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature)
Amy Prendergast
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