A Little Bit of Heaven: An Irish-American Anthology
Edited by Sean McMahon
Mercier Press, Cork, 1999
Paperback 176 pages


1. The Irish Emigrant
The Irish Emigrant (Lady Dufferin)
Teddy O'Neale (James Gaspard Maedar)
Shores of Amerikay, Anon
The Moon Behind the Hill (William Kenneally)
Goodbye, Mursheen Durkin, Anon
Ireland — A Seaside Portrait (John James Piatt)
Off to Philadelphia, Anon
The Old Bog Road (Teresa Brayton)
The Emigrant's Letter (Percy French)
An Irish Mother (Percy French)
Goodbye, Mick, Anon

2. A Little Bit of Heaven
Kathleen Mavourneen (Julia Crawford)
Killarney (Edmund Falconer)
The Exile's Devotion (Thomas D'Arcy McGee)
Come Back to Erin (Claribel)
The Exile's Return (John Locke)
Danny Boy (Fred E. Weatherly)
I'll take You Home Again, Kathleen (Thomas P. Westendorf)
The Shamrock (Maurice Francis Egan)
Mr. Dooley on Irish Christmasses (Finley Peter Dunne)
A Little Bit of Heaven (J. Keirn Brennan)
Mother Machree (Rida Johnson Young)
Ireland in America (Alice Furlong)
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream (John J. O'Brien and Al Dubin)

3. When McGuiness Gets a Job
When McGuiness Gets a Job, Anon
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill, Anon
The Hod-Carriers' Song, Anon
Paddy on the Canal, Anon
The Boston Burglar, Anon

4. Wakes and Weddings and Every County Ball
Mick McGilligan's Ball, Anon
If You're Irish, Come into the Parlour (Shaun Glenville and Frank Miller)
The Maguires (Edward Harrigan)
Lannigan's Ball, Anon
Teaching McFadden to Waltz, Anon
McCarthy's Party, Anon
Finnegan's Wake, Anon
Macnamara's Band (John J. Stamford)

5. The Fighting Race
The Wearing of the Green (Dion Boucicault)
The Celts (Thomas D'Arcy McGee)
Irish Astronomy ('Private Myles O'Reilly')
When Johnny Comes Marching Home ('Louis Lambert')
The Croppy Boy ('Carroll Malone')
A Savage (John Boyle O'Reilly)
The Fighting Race (J. L C. Clarke)
The General's Death (Joseph O'Connor)
The Fenian Man o'War, Anon
Come to the Bower, Anon
Mush, Mush, Anon
'Throw Him Down, McCloskey'( John W. Kelly)
A Challenge (John L. Sullivan)
Clancy Lowered the Boom, Anon

6. My Irish Molly, O
Molly Bawn (Samuel Lover)
Molly Brallaghan, Anon
Colleen Dbas Cruthen na Moe (Dion Boucicault)
The Rose of Tralee (William P. Mulchinock)
Bridget Donahue (Johnny Patterson)
My Wild Irish Rose (Chauncey Olcott)
Little Annie Rooney (Michael Nolan)
Macushla (Josephine V. Rowe)
My Irish Molly, O (Billy Jerome)
Peggy O'Neill (V. Pearse, E. C. Nelson and Gilbert Dodge)

7. On Stage, Everybody!
Barney Brallaghan's Courtship (Peter K. Moran)
Dear Old Donegal (Johnny Patterson)
The Donevans (Edward Harrigan)
The Mulligan Guard (Edward Harrigan)
'Who Threw the Overalls in Mistress Murphy's Chowder? (George L. Geifer)
Down Went McGinty (Joseph Flynn)
Harrigan (George M. Cohan)
If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here, Anon

8. A Great Day for the Irish
Maggie Murphy's Home (Edward Harrigan)
Muldoon, the Solid Man (Edward Harrigan)
The Band Played On (John F. Palmer)
Casey at the Bat (Ernest Lawrence Thayer)
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (Chauncey Olcott and George Graff)
It's a Great Day for the Irish (Roger Edens)

Biographical Index
Index of Poems
Index of First Lines
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgements