TY - ABST T1 - Prophet Song Y1 - 2023 A1 - Lynch, Paul KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a near future in which the GNSB (Garda National Services Bureau), a recently established secret police, is investigating all people they determine to be potentially subversive, and those people tend to disappear. The novel follows the family of a teacher and union leader who is being investigated as they flee across an authoritarian Ireland.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 978-0861546862 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Anomaly in the Rhythm” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Viraj Joshi ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

The story is set in a flawed utopian future London with Universal Basic Income in which all citizens wear a biomechanical glove that give them “suggestions” and monitors their behavior.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Conjugal Frape” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jamie Watt ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

A divorce case in which a wife charges her husband of fraud reveals the fundamental law of the society that the 99% do not want the 1% to know: “Economic self-interest is paramount” (24), and the 99% are manipulated to ensure the self-interest of the 1%.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Col and the Blackouts” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jessica Foley A1 - Rob Kitchin ED - Mark Graham ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

In the story, a city council is taken over by Mobile Network Operator, based on Vodaphone, and a section is cut off from any access to the internet. That section develops its own culture and language. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Mearspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rob Hopkins KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The book begins with a brief eutopia that the author says isn’t one because it still rains, and people don’t always get along. The eutopia follows its protagonist through a day in his life in a town completely transformed into a one in tune with nature and with good schooling and a town-meeting democracy that works. The rest of the book is on the ways cultivating imagination would improve life with a concluding essay entitled “What If All This Came to Pass?” (164-84, 214-16). 

PB - Chelsea Green Publishing CY - . White River Junction, VT/London SN - 978-1603589055 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Potholes and Pumpkin Spice” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kalpana Shankar A1 - Glenn Kaufmann ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire describing a city run by Starbucks. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. Female co-author. Shankar is a Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College, Dublin. Kaufmann is a freelance writer from the United States to Dublin, Ireland in 2011 and now has dual citizenship.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Streamers" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cian O’Callaghan ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a city that has replaced almost all work with temporary jobs offered through streaming, modeled on Spotify. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - You Are Entitled to What the Data Says You Deserve” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rob Kitchin ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The author describes the story as “a thought experiment that imagines a future where a city administration uses a data broker, based on a company like ACXIOM, and their services to make decisions regarding the provision of services.” One  result is to exacerbate existing inequalities. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Miracle Lambs of Minane” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Finbarr O'Reilly KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A future Ireland in a world devasted by climate change. Famine; low birth rate. Power held by the church which insists that people need to produce more children. The story focuses on a woman who had been a scientist when there still universities who uses her knowledge to grow better food and provide access to abortions. the author connects it to his “The Last Boat-Builder of Ballyvoloon.” Clarkesworld, no. 133 (October 2017). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/oreilly_10_17/ which explains why there is no fishing in the future Ireland. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - No. 145 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/oreilly_10_18/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2018. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019), 23-41. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Black" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nora O Murchi ED - William Davies KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia in which most people have lost their jobs to algorithms and the few who work with the algorithms are constantly monitored and required to work precisely as directed. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bombs That Brought Us Together Y1 - 2016 A1 - Brian Conaghan (b. 1971) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which Little Town is controlled by gangs and at war with Old Country. 

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dynamo Island: The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - David [Henry Tudor] Scott (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia set on an island in the middle of the Atlantic that is roughly the size of England. Human scale; no cars and excellent public transport with much use of bicycles; no extremely large machinery. Zero-growth economy. Stress on energy conservation using water, wind, and tidal power. 

PB - Zero Books CY - Winchester, Eng. U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edge of Heaven Y1 - 2016 A1 - R[achael] B. Kelly KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

An overpopulation dystopia set in 2119 in a bi-level city called Creo in France where the dispossessed of the world have been sent to provide more space. The worst conditions at the bottom, where much of the action takes place. 

PB - Liberties Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flawed Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cecelia Ahern KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which perfection is the standard and anyone flawed is branded with an “F”. The novel focuses on a young woman who risks being labelled flawed by helping someone in trouble. First of two volumes followed by Perfect. New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2017 in which, after many more problems, the dystopia is defeated. 

PB - Feiwel and Friends CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oasis Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eilís Barrett KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe (virus) dystopia where the government uses protecting the people as the excuse for imposing complete control over the population. The novel focuses on those young people who work to undermine the system. 

PB - Gill Books CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daedalus" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Niall Bourke KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a failing city that is gradually taken over by a sentient computer and creates what the population generally perceive as a better life. 

JF - Holdfast Magazine VL - no. 6 UR - http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/daedelus-fiction-issue6/4589770052 U2 -

Illus. Sylvia Carrus

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wordsmith Y1 - 2015 A1 - Patricia Forde (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which art and music are banned and everything is rationed, including words. 

PB - Little Island CY - Denil, Ireland N1 -

U.S. ed. as The List. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2017

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U.S. ed. as The List. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bone Clocks. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A wide-ranging novel that begins in 1984 and ends in 2043 with stops in 1991, 2004, 2015, and 2025. 2025 is largely fantasy, and 2043 is a dystopia with a collapsing technology and a deeply damaged environment.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only Ever Yours Y1 - 2014 A1 - Louise [Anne] O’Neill (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which at sixteen girls are selected to be wives of the rich and powerful, become concubines, or “chastities,” who run the School where the girls are taught to be beautiful and submissive. The novel focuses on the demands put on girls to have perfect bodies. Irish female author.

PB - Quercus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wolf From the Door Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rory Mullarkey (b. 1987) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic dystopia set in middle England depicting a violent revolution in progress. The play was the 2014 Pinter Commission for the Royal Court Theatre and premiered there September 10, 2014.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London SN - 978-1-4742-2192-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rat Runners Y1 - 2013 A1 - Oisín McGann (b. 1973) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The young adult novel is set in a world of constant surveillance.

PB - Corgi Books CY - London N1 -

US. ed. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015. 

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Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Breathe Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sarah Crossan (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which oxygen depletion has destroyed the environment and killed everyone except those chosen by a lottery to live under a dome. There is a resistance movement and a belief that some areas outside the dome are still alive, and the novel focus on a quest to find those areas. First volume of two followed by Resist. New York: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2013. U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 in which the protagonists of Breathe are successful in finding fertile land. 

PB - Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday Y1 - 2012 A1 - C. K. Kelly Martin KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia depicting a police state with a primarily robot work force. Climate change has forced the now United North America to abandon its coastal regions. 

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Bohane Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kevin Barry (b. 1969) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in western Ireland in 2053. The city is deeply divided between rich and poor and under the control of a gangland boss. The inside back cover has a map of Bohane.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia. Inspired Thinking from the Ideas Team Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nicola White KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - Scottish author AB -

Nine suggestions toward a better, more fun-filled life. “Wear the Future. Clothes that entertain.” “Signature Smells. Scents that are personalized to you, in products to enjoy.” “Sound Central. A simply-operated library of sounds and music tailored to individual tastes.” “Words Like Knives. A person for hire who articulates what you need to express.” “Squeeze Chair. A firm and calming embrace.” “Seeing With Your Ears. A machine that translates visuals into sound.” “Lux--A Compendium of Light. Light machines that interact with your gestures and mood.” “The Armchair Traveller. Sensational journeys in your home.” “Wrestling With Sound. A robust box of tricks that plays with you as you play with it.”

PB - Artlink Edinburgh & the Lothians CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U2 -

Illus. Jonathan Owen, designed by Tess Wood.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Twenty16Vision. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - [William John] [McCormack] KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a coup in 2016, the centenary of the Irish Easter Uprising, combines with a German invasion circa 1941. Some humor.

PB - Duras Press in association with Linden Publishing CY - [Dublin, Ireland] U1 -

The dust jacket has the title as 20/16 Vision and that has been used in some references to the book.

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By Hugh Maxton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divergence Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2005 Ballantyne. This novel is concerned with the division between humans and altered humans.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Tor U.K., 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Visitors Y1 - 2007 A1 - John [Alexander] Stewart KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Labeled an allegory, the story is about advanced aliens who arrive on Earth with the intent of helping the human race. While they leave without bringing about dramatic change, their positive influence will produce a better world. Something of a New Age perspective.

PB - Shepheard-Walwyn CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pearl Diver" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Caitlín [Rebekah] Kiernan (b. 1964) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an overpopulated, environmentally degraded dystopia in which both government and corporations have everyone under surveillance at all times.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 229-42; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 229-42. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Capacity Y1 - 2005 A1 - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Digital age where artificial intelligences are supposed to have solved the world's problems. See his Recursion. London: Tor, 2004 for background. See also 2007 Ballantyne.

PB - Tor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Salt Y1 - 2005 A1 - Gerard Donovan (b. 1959) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate medicine.

PB - Scribner CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Notes From a Coma Y1 - 2005 A1 - Mike McCormack (b. 1965) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which deep comas are tried to replace prison.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cloud Atlas Y1 - 2004 A1 - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A large novel with multiple story lines ranging from the past to the future, including a future authoritarian dystopia, "An Orison of Sonmi~451" (185-245). Sonmi~451 is the name of a "fabricant" or clone created to work in a fast food restaurant. The clones are drugged to sleep and wake on schedule and to keep their intelligence low and are indoctrinated into complete obedience. Sonmi~451 becomes part of a botched experiment on raising the intelligence of fabricants and experiences the world outside the restaurant. The names and the language used suggests that this part of the novel is set in a future North Korea. Part of the novel is set in the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. 

PB - Sceptre CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Colonizing of Tharle" Y1 - 2004 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in which an invading force tries and fails to find a government with which to negotiate. The invasion is foiled through simple non-cooperation.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 485-509.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epic Y1 - 2004 A1 - Conor Kostick (b. 1964) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which ending violence depends on everyone playing the Epic game, which is controlled by the anonymous Committee. First volume of a trilogy, The Avatar Chronicles, followed by Saga. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2006; U.S. ed. New York: Viking Children’s Edition, 2006; and Edda. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2011; U.S. ed. New York: Viking Press, 2011, both of which are set in dystopias within other computer games with characters from the first part of the second and characters from the first two parts part of the third. 

PB - O'Brien Press CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Viking Press, 2007

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gods and Their Machines Y1 - 2004 A1 - Oisín McGann (b. 1973) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel depicting conflict between a technological society and a supposedly primitive society. The book cover compares the conflict to that between Israel and the Palestinians. The beginning of reconciliation is brought about by young protagonists from each side.

PB - O'Brien Press CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2004.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sun and Wind Y1 - 2004 A1 - Standish James O'Grady (1846-1928) ED - Edward A. Hagan KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

First publication of a eutopia stressing nature and the simple life that was written between 1911 and 1928. 

PB - University College Dublin Press CY - Dublin ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Supernaturalist Y1 - 2004 A1 - Eoin Colfer (b. 1965) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A quite complicated young adult dystopia set in a future satellite city controlled by an authoritarian corporation. Orphans are sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys are used to test dangerous products and generally have a short life expectancy. The novel follows a group of young people through a number of different sub-plots. A sequel was planned but not published.

PB - Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children CY - New York SN - 0-7868-5148-1 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2004. Graphic novel version by Colfer and Andrew Donkin with art by Giovanni Rigano and color by Paolo Lamanna as The Supernaturalist: The Graphic Novel. New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, 2012.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pillowman Y1 - 2003 A1 - Martin [Faranan] McDonagh (b. 1970) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia focusing on a writer in a totalitarian state.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Welcome to Coolsville Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jason Mordaunt KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia set in Dublin with a number of subplots, one of which is a project to turn the inmates of a local prison into meek workers to work for the corporation.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 0-224-06379-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alienations" Y1 - 2002 A1 - David Murphy KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Series of stories set in the near future. "Overload" (99-103) is set in a near-future dystopian Dublin; violence, poverty; anti-gay; corrupt police and politicians.

JF - Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers’ Ash Limited PB - Pipers' Ash CY - Chippenham, Wiltshire, Eng. UR - www.supamasu.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia Closes. A Novel" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Fin Keegan KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Ireland renamed Hibernia and is a police state.

PB - MFA thesis. Columbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Altergeist. A Novel Y1 - 1999 A1 - Tim Booth KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Ireland that has been largely destroyed by internal conflict with the Church now the most powerful force. The novel focuses on a number of mostly young people and the lives their lives amid the chaos with one of them having had a program implanted in her brain.

PB - Fish Publishing CY - Darrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crowlings Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult novel in which a traditional society has to deal with people from space coming to their planet. The novel is concerned with the conflicts, both personal and societal, regarding the temptations of modern civilization.

PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Collins, 2000.

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Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream" Y1 - 1998 A1 - John Seymour KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set on the Aran Islands, which have become dependent on tourists and government handouts. Proposal, originating in a dream showing the life being sucked out of the islands, that they return to the eutopian self-sufficiency (described at the beginning of the story). Specifically, re-establish dairying, fishing, gardening, and other farming and wool-production, work toward energy self-sufficiency through wind power, and get rid of cars.

JF - The Aisling Quarterly (Aran Islands, Ireland) VL - 23 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ThigMOO Y1 - 1998 A1 - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A satirical take on university life and technology in which faculty and students at a third-rate British university establish a Museum of the Mind online by creating fictional electronic characters with the histories and personalities of characters from the past. The escape from the Museum and go through many battles among themselves but ultimately produce a socialist eutopia.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U,K. ed. London: Earthlight, 1999. Part originally published as "ThigMOO." Interzone, no. 120 (June 1997): 40-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back in the USSA Y1 - 1997 A1 - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history. United States had a Communist revolution and formed the United Socialist States of America; Russia had no such revolution.

PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingleton, CA N1 -

Parts published as "In the Air" [Cover adds "In Al Capone's Communist America"]. Interzone, no. 43 (January 1991): 6-30; "Ten Days That Shook the World." Interzone, no. 48 (June 1991): 48-63; "Tom Joad." Interzone, no. 65 (November 1992): 6-21; and "Teddy Bears' Picnic." Interzone, nos. 122 - 123 (August - September 1997): 6-21; 36-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream-Weaver Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult novel set as colonists from Earth prepare to land on a planet inhabited by people with what appears to be little technology. But the people of the planet have mental powers that allow contact to be made with a member of the Earth crew who comes to see the low-tech planet in eutopian terms. 

PB - Clarion Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paths to Otherwhere Y1 - 1996 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of totalitarian states with a wide variety of alternative futures available.

PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Delenda” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Andrea Thomas KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Last woman story in which sickness was followed by madness and violence with a few immune left. The story focuses on a woman and the man who rescues her from final violence, the problems they have, and the freedom she feels after he is killed by dogs. 

JF - Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland VL - no. 9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fortress Manhattan Y1 - 1995 A1 - David Callinan KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a fortress for the rich surrounded by the poor.

PB - VGSF CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disinherited Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Begins with a dystopia of poverty and violence with rigid class divisions in Wales. Ends with the beginnings of a rural utopian community. Classified as Young Adult.

PB - The Bodley Head Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Patchwork People. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

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Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Occupation: A Guide for Tourists" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mike McCormack (b. 1965) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia around the occupation of a country. Allegory on the crucifixion of Christ.

JF - Ambit VL - no. 135 N1 -

Rpt. in Best Short Stories 1995. Ed. Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London: Heinemann, 1996), 149-55; and in his Getting It In the Head (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 169-76.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Multiplex Man Y1 - 1992 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-technology dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Paradise Y1 - 1991 A1 - Catherine Brophy KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia. One group has evolved on mental lines, losing their legs, and becoming extremely weak and dependent on technology while being extremely powerful mentally. Another group, expelled by the first, are called bipeds in that they still have legs and live outside the controlled environment. The novel includes descriptions of the evolution of and stages in the lives of the first group. Food is developed to the point that elimination is no longer necessary. Artificial womb allowed early removal of the defective.

PB - Wolfhound Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1953": A version of Racine's "Andromaque" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Craig Raine (b. 1944) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history play set in a fascist Italy in 1953 in which Mussolini's son is king. The setting is certainly dystopian, but the play is a modern version of Racine.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bray House Y1 - 1990 A1 - Eilís Ní Dhuíbhne (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which  Ireland  is described as having been an economic and ecological dystopia even before the catastrophe.

PB - Attic Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Inheritors” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The story is set in a future Wales experiencing the effects of climate change and with a failed economy and a non-functioning government. The story focuses on a small community that has become successfully self-supporting with the help of an astral being from another planet. 

JF - Extinction is Forever PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mackenna’s Patch” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia with extreme rich versus poor divisions.

JF - Extinction is Forever PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mirror Maze Y1 - 1989 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and struggle to create a eutopia of freedom. Irish author.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bulldozer Rising Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Anna Livia Julian] [Brawn] (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - UK author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia where it is difficult and rare to live past forty-one (“the optimum death date” [15]); for example, curbs are two feet high to make wheelchair use impossible. The one positive element in the novel is found in the connections among lesbians, including some with older women.

PB - Onlywomen Press CY - London U3 -

Anna Livia [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Endgame Enigma Y1 - 1987 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Soviet space colony seemingly a utopian experiment.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man for the Job Y1 - 1986 A1 - Laurie Graham (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Humor. Future dystopia of violence and human degeneration as the setting.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Dust Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult post-nuclear war novel and the revival of human communities.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head Children's Books CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Faillandia Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia called Failland, which is Ireland. Faillandia is a magazine founded by the protagonist and his friends to fight the government and church. The novel follows the attempts of the government and the military to use the magazine for their own benefit.

PB - Raven Arts Press CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Part originally published as “The Water Garden.” The Cork Review 1.3 (March-April 1980): 22-23; rpt. in Firebird 2: New Writing. Ed. T. J. Binding (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1983), 211-16. Rpt. in his States of Mind: Selected Short Prose 1936-1983 (Dublin: The Raven Arts Press/London: Martin Brien & O'Keeffe, 1984), 95-101.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2016" Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Consumerist dystopia. Over 100 indistinguishable TV channels. Constant package holidays. Literary production for the masses. Tranquillizers in the water.

JF - States of Mind: Selected Short Prose 1936-1983 PB - The Raven Arts Press/Martin Brien & O’Keeffe CY - Dublin, Ireland/London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cloud of Desolation Y1 - 1982 A1 - Sam Baneham (b. 1947) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed dystopia. Complex conditioned underground society after the next war.

PB - Wolfhound Press CY - Dublin, Ireland ER - TY - ABST T1 - Voyage From Yesteryear Y1 - 1982 A1 - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth had established colonies of children in the Alpha Centuri system and decades later sent adult colonists and an army to take control. The first group and established a libertarian eutopia and had no intention of being taken over by the new one. The book won the Prometheus Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Baen, 1999. U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1984.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beehive Y1 - 1980 A1 - Margaret O'Donnell KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which women, in particularly are suppressed and their successful revolution.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That's No Way to Treat a Fairy" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Fitzgerald, Luchia KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia. The Leprechauns ruled the small people enslaving some their own people, the workers, and the fairies, and the women were treated worst of all. A women's revolution brings about communities of mixed men and women, all men, and all women, which is presented as a eutopia within the post-revolutionary eutopia.

JF - Crystal Crone (London) VL - no. 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Money--An Alternative Y1 - 1980 A1 - A[nnemarie] Wicklow KW - Austrian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia--title says it. Details of how it would work.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - Ilfracombe, Devon, Eng. U1 -

Dedication page adds A Utopian Possibility

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Andra Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an authoritarian underground city and a revolt by the young people.

PB - William Collins CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daughter" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Anne [Inez] McCaffrey (1926-2011) ED - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

Coming of age story with a background of a society that carefully chooses the occupations of its citizens based on their aptitudes.

JF - The Many Worlds of Science Fiction PB - E.P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Criminal Act" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future dystopia in which no couple is allowed to have more than two children.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 78.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 350-62.

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Illus. Kelly Freas

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Policeman Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Brian] [Ó Nualláin] (1911-66) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Has been called a dystopia. The author calls it a description of hell.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Flamingo, 1993; and London: HarperCollins/Flamingo, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1967. 

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Flann O'Brien [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil and Democracy” Y1 - 1966 A1 - Brian [Brendon Talbot] Cleeve (1921-2003) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the unionization of Hell. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 31.5 (186) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Man: A Novel Based on His Play for Television Y1 - 1964 A1 - Giles Cooper (1918-66) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia of a National Socialist Britain.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Kissing Had to Stop Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Robert Louis] Constantine [Lee-Dillon] FitzGibbon (1919-83) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing Britain followed by a dystopia of a Communist takeover.

PB - Cassell CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1960 with the author's name as Fitz Gibbon on the cover but FitzGibbon elsewhere; rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961 with the author's name as Fitzgibbon on the cover and FitzGibbon on the title page. UK ed. rpt. London: Pan, 1962; London: Tom Stacey Reprints, 1971 with an "Introduction" by the author (i-xi); London: Granada, 1978; and London: Bellew Publishing, 1989, with a brief "Foreword" by Julian Amery and a brief "Tribute" by Louis FitzGibbon. The Granada edition is a reprint of the Tom Stacey edition, but even though the title page says "With a new Introduction by the Author," there is no Introduction.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Half of the World Y1 - 1957 A1 - James Barlow (1921-73) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a postwar authoritarian dystopia where Britain, having lost the war, is occupied. The novel follows a British member of Internal Security as he comes to question his loyalty of the occupiers.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farfetched Fables" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Six fables ranging in time from the contemporary to the far future. A number are satires on utopian aspirations, with satires on diet, genetics, and education, among other topics.

JF - Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav PB - Constable CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 377-466. The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950).  See “Preface.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 381-428. Rpt. as “Farfetched Fables (1951).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 494-531. 

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The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of My Village Y1 - 1947 A1 - H[enry] de Vere Stacpoole (1865-1951) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Village life as eutopia with the end of cities shown. The setting is Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, England.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mistress Masham's Repose Y1 - 1946 A1 - T[erence] H[anbury] White (1906-64) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult Gulliveriana. Gulliver brought some Lilliputians back with him, and they have settled on an island in a lake in a neglected estate. They are befriended by a young girl.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Fritz Eichenberg.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Farrar Saw Y1 - 1946 A1 - James Hanley (1901-85) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia as a fantasy of post-war Britain with clogged highways and difficult class relations.

PB - Nicholson & Watson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his What Farrar Saw and Other Stories (London: André Deutsch, 1984), 1-204.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Dawn Y1 - 1944 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

In the dystopia of the post-war world most countries had been destroyed, but a world confederation begins to be formed led by the Anglo-Saxon Confederation.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bread and Roses; An Utopian Survey and Blue-print Y1 - 1944 A1 - Ethel Edith Mannin (1900-84) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on freedom, equality, and brotherhood. No central government or state. Equal distribution of goods.

PB - McDonald and Co CY - London U5 -

NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rainbow in the Valley Y1 - 1939 A1 - James Creed Meredith (1875-1942) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly a discussion of the current situation on Earth and consideration of various philosophers, which he says was the main purpose of writing the book, but it also presents Mars as a eutopia organized from the top down that was brought about by a dictator, and the discussion presents contemporary European dictators positively.

PB - Browne and Nolan The Richview Press CY - Dublin U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World-Birth Y1 - 1938 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Education. Cooperative system with production for use not profit.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Amaranthers Y1 - 1936 A1 - Jack B[utler] Yeats (1871-1957) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An odd work about Ireland. It can be read as a eutopia with problems or as a fantasy and certainly has elements of each. As a eutopia, the stress is on the friendliness of the small town and the way the people support each other. There is also, at the beginning, a brief dystopian interlude.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

TCD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Earth and A New Heaven Y1 - 1936 A1 - William Boyle Hill (ca. 1861-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Two eutopias. Hopetown is a model town for workers. Dawn City stresses eugenics. Vegetarian. No religion. No money. Health examination every three months. Standardized dress. Set in Australia.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles" Y1 - 1936 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a eugenic experiment on an isolated island using group marriage. Ends with a satire on the Day of Judgment, which Shaw presents as the point of the play.

JF - The Simpleton, The Six, and the Millionaires: Three Plays PB - Constable CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Vision of Judgment. In The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 741-846, with the “Preface” on 745-64. See his “Preface on Days of Judgment.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 745-64. Rpt. with the subtitle “(The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 229-41. See also his “The Simple Truth of the Matter (A reply to the assertion of Joseph Wood Krutch in The Nation New York [140 (March 6, 1935): 286-87] that Shaw’s recent plays were merely vaudeville, quite devoid of meaning.” Malvern Festival Book, 1935). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 841-46. 

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First published in German translation as Die Insel der Überraschungen ein Spiel in zwei Akten und einem Prolog. Trans. Siegfried Trebitsch (Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1935), with the first scene of the “Prologue” having been published in the Berliner Tageblatt (February 12, 1935). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land Under England Y1 - 1935 A1 - [John] Joseph O'Neill (1886-1953) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race dystopia of a Roman civilization under England in which all but a few people are absorbed mentally into the whole. Children are taught only what they need to know for their station in life.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. Rpt. with an “Introduction” by Anthony Storr (1-4). Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1981. 

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With a Foreword by A.E. [George William Russell].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator: The Pronouncements of the Grand Macaroni Y1 - 1934 A1 - Lord [Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett] Dunsany [18th Baron] (1878-1957) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but includes a series of reforms directed at what are clearly the author's pet peeves.

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Victorian Family Robinson. A Novel Y1 - 1934 A1 - Beatrice [Ethel] Grimshaw (1877-1953) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Strait-laced Victorians are shipwrecked on a South Pacific island inhabited by the descendants of British sailors previously shipwrecked there. What follows is mostly adventure and romance with the required happy ending of marriages all around.

PB - Cassell & Co CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Asses in Clover Y1 - 1933 A1 - Eimar [Ultan] O'Duffy (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on human foibles, particularly economic ones. Presents a eutopia on the moon by way of contrast. This society has established a true, low price for all products and distributes the profits to all. People shun hard work and live happily. Sequel to 1926 O'Duffy.

PB - Putnam CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Avatars: A Futurist Fantasy Y1 - 1933 A1 - [George William] [Russell] (1867-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly fantasy but includes brief depictions of an authoritarian dystopia of state control and strong suggestions of a eutopia based on Irish mythology. The natural world and the old gods are in alliance to help the best of the human race to overcome the worst.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1933.

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A.E. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which an airline takes over governments, which gradually cede power. War results.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

US ed. London: Macmillan, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mind Products Limited. A Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue Y1 - 1932 A1 - Charles [St. Lawrence] Duff (1894-1966) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Play. Satire on capitalism and science. Chemicals are used to control human behavior. Gets out of hand and civilization collapses. The scientist wants a completely controlled world and personal power and the capitalist wants money.

PB - The Servire Press CY - The Hague, The Netherlands U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pigeon Irish Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set in the future. Includes an undeveloped plan to establish colonies to keep Irish traditions.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1932.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Cure for Unemployment Y1 - 1931 A1 - Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Cutting unemployment by hiring men out to be pets in place of dogs.

JF - Blue Moon Booklets no. 8. PB - E. Lahr CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Boys of Ben Eadar: A School Story of 1950 Y1 - 1930 A1 - Rev. M[ichael] H[enry] Gaffney O.P. (b. 1895) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Boys adventure story set in a technologically improved future without social changes.

PB - The Talbot Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantopia Y1 - 1930 A1 - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia located on a contemporary isolated island. Natural aristocracy of talent/performance combined with essential equality. Communal economics. Eugenics. See also 1924 Harris, “The Temple of the Forgotten Dead,” which is said to be the basis for Pantopia.

PB - The Panurge Press CY - New York U3 -

Frank Harris [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul Y1 - 1929 A1 - J[ohn] D[esmond] Bernal (1901-71) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The book is presented as speculative prediction that focuses on space travel, the physical modification of humans, and the psychological changes these will bring about (and the resistance to them based in human psychology), but the section on human modification includes a brief non-fictional eutopia in the Stapledonian mode. After a life of 60 to 120 years of living, people will be surgically modified and provided with mechanical extensions of their senses and re-educated. In addition, people will develop mental connections to others that will ultimately produce a group mind, and this entity will be essentially immortal. 

PB - Kegan Paul & Co CY - London N1 -

The book was originally announced under the title “Possibilities” and published in the “To-Day and To-Morrow” series. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart of the Moon Y1 - 1928 A1 - Francis D[urham] Grierson (1888-1972) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Scientific dystopia in the interior of the moon. Society is generally good and could be thought of as a flawed utopia, but science is misused by the powerful.

PB - Alston Rivers CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street Y1 - 1928 A1 - Eimar [Ultan] O'Duffy (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Part eutopia and part satire. Eutopia with little government, no money, and sexual freedom. The usual traveler compares the better society unfavorably to earth, and while in a few instances that comparison is accurate, in most cases it is not.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Victoria, TX: Dalkey Archive Press, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Goshawk and the Birds Y1 - 1926 A1 - Eimar [Ultan] O'Duffy (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy set in a future dystopian world in which a monopolist who already controls much of the world's food supply tries to buy all the songbirds. Most governments in the world had introduced harsh laws designed to eliminate all temptations. Ireland is presented as particularly oppressive. 

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Victoria, TX: Dalkey Archive Press, 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ragnarok Y1 - 1926 A1 - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel focuses on a coming world war with the end describing the dystopia created.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quo Vadimus? Some Glimpses of the Future Y1 - 1925 A1 - E[dmund] E[dward] Fournier d'Albe (1868-1933) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented as mostly fairly conservative predictions with some more wide-ranging, long-term projections at the end. Topics covered include transport and communications, privacy, clothing, housing, automation, children, education, labor, and government.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wairoa in 1975 (More or Less Prophetical)" Y1 - 1925 A1 - Thomas Lambert (1854-1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A man awakes in 1975 from a long trance and discovers much technological improvement, prosperity, and general reform. Harnessing of rivers for power and electricity widely used in industry and transport. Includes illustrations of the outer and inner harbours, the Wairoa River harbour, the botanical gardens, and the Elysium in 1975. The Elysium was a fashionable suburb built on about 60 acres of reclaimed land. Much beautification had taken place. Maori lands had become the private property of Maori and were generally worked as market gardens. Maori College to train girls in domestic arts and nursing. Maori boys were taught agriculture, although even after graduation overseers ensured that they worked as expected and their earnings were set aside for them. Intermarriage and marriage to half castes prohibited.

JF - The Story of Old Wairoa and the East Coast District, North Island New Zealand or, Past, Present, and Future. A Record of Over Fifty Years' Progress PB - Coulls Somerville Wilkie CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U1 -

1859 1975 at the head of the title

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Temple of the Forgotten Dead" Y1 - 1924 A1 - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This story is said to be the basis for his 1930 Pantopia. In the story, a storyteller tells two stories. The eutopian one, which gives the story its title, describes an isolated island which has developed a religion with gods representing each virtue and bases its society on self-development and duty to others. It is also technologically advanced. 

JF - Undream'd of Shores PB - Brentano's CY - New York N1 -

The manuscript is at Princeton University.

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Frank Harris [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Interpreters Y1 - 1922 A1 - [George William] [Russell] (1867-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian setting but with little detail. Discussion among those who have been arrested during an attempted revolution against a dictatorship. The revolution is still in process during the discussion but fails. The discussion focuses on the spiritual basis of various political theories and, in particular, whether capitalism or socialism, the individual or the collective, provides the best basis for the good society.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1923.

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A.E. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch Y1 - 1921 A1 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Traces the history of humankind from prior to Adam to the distant future. Some people become long-lived, initially living for 300 years. In 3000 this divides the world into the long-lived, who live in the British Isles, and the short-lived, who inhabit the rest of the world. In 31920, there are no more short-lived, and the long-lived live hundreds of years.

PB - Brentano's CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1921. The U.S. ed. is marginally the first ed. Rev. and rpt. for the Standard Edition. London: Constable, 1931. Rpt. further rev. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, which includes “Postscript After Twenty Years” (257-71); rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 685-703; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 251-713, which also includes “A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas (632-84), which was first published in the Collected Edition: Volume 6 Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (London: Constable, 1932), 141-85; “Birmingham as a Home of Dramatic Art (Curtain speech after first performance of Birmingham Repertory Theatre production on 12 October, Birmingham Gazette 13 October 1923)” (703-04); “The Serial Play (Interview drafted by Shaw, The Observer, London, 21 October 1923)” (704-07); “Bernard Shaw Piqued (Written statement, presented as interview, Daily Express, London, 22 February 1924” (707-09); and “Letters to the Editor of The Times” (709-13). See Shaw’s “Preface: The Infidel Half Century” (London: Constable, 1931), vii-lxxxvi; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 255-339. Rpt. rev. in his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 2: 1914-1929. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1995), 373-430. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Professor in Erin Y1 - 1918 A1 - L. [Charlotte Elizabeth] (known as "Lal" and Lilly) McManus (ca. 1850-1941) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Parallel history of Ireland as a eutopia developed from original Irish roots and based on the assumption that the Irish defeated the English at the Battle of Kinsale in 1602. As a result, Ireland becomes a eutopia with a monarchy. Much of the novel is mystery and romance

PB - M.H. Gill and Son CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Originally serialized in Sinn Finn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If the Germans Came" Y1 - 1916 A1 - [Mary] [Carbery] KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Satirical dystopia. The first letter describes the general lack of welcome that the Governor received, except from Sinn Fein, which had supported the German invasion and now expected to be rewarded. On the principle "once a traitor, always a traitor" all Sinn Fein members and their families are immediately shipped to Germany and given small holdings or enrolled in the German Army. To clear the slums, all the patients in a large mental hospital are gassed and cremated, the slum dwellers moved into the hospital, and the slums torn down. The second letter includes such reforms as requiring all the Irish to rise early.

JF - Irish Times N1 -

Rev. as The Germans in Cork: Being the Letters of His Excellency The Baron von Kartoffel (Military Governor of Cork in the Year 1918) and Others. Dublin, Ireland: The Talbot Press/London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1917].

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Rev. as The Germans in Cork: Being the Letters of His Excellency The Baron von Kartoffel (Military Governor of Cork in the Year 1918) and Others. Dublin, Ireland: The Talbot Press/London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1917].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once in a Blue Moon" Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Eimar Ultan] [O'Duffy] (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A slight satire on the relations between Britain (Buljohn) and Ireland (Iernia) in which the former oppresses the later until cajoled into changing his ways.

JF - The National Student. A Magazine of Student Life. Conducted by the Students of University College, Dublin VL - 4.6 (16) U3 -

Colin Clout [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crock of Gold Y1 - 1912 A1 - James Stephens (1882/4-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy in which traditional Irish folklore interacts with the contemporary world. Contrast between fulfilled desire, represented by the god Pan (imported by Leprechauns whose gold had been stolen) and happiness (represented by the god Angus Óg). Ends with the suggestion that a eutopia will be created.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1912. With twelve illustrations in colour and decorative headings and tailpieces by Thomas Mackenzie. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Rpt. without the color illustrations. Dublin, Ireland: Gill & Macmillan, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Downfall of Grabbum: An Ulster Fable Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Adela Elizabeth] [Orpen] (1855-1928) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Some satire, but the novel ends with a eutopia of peace and harmony brought about by forensic phrenology or reading the bumps on the heads of individuals.

PB - R. Carswell & Son CY - Belfast, Northern Ireland U3 -

An Ulster Clergyman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Blair: or, Irish Protestants under Home Rule Y1 - 1912 A1 - Rev. P. P. O'Sullivan (1874-1918) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2010 and depicts the crisis of religion due to falling attendance. The Roman Catholic Church conspires to get control of Ireland and is expelled. Spiritualism. Revival of religion followed by a eutopia of non-denominationalism, prosperity, and technological advances.

PB - Ptd. by R. Carswell CY - Belfast, Northern Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night Land: A Love Tale Y1 - 1912 A1 - William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Far future dystopia after the death of the sun. Generally classified as a horror novel. The remaining people live inside large, fortified redoubts that are surrounded by various horrors. The novel describes the adventures of a young man who rescues a young woman from a failing redoubt.

PB - Eveleigh Nash CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Press Cuttings: A Topical Sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers, as performed by the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909 Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women's suffrage, the military, and politics and politicians set three years in the future.

PB - Archibald Constable & Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Translations and Tomfooleries. Vol. 18 of The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable & Co., 1930), 129-68; and The Bodley Head Collected Plays With Their Prefaces. Volume III (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodlery Head, 1971), 837-95, which includes “Banned Play. Censor’s Objection to ‘Press Cuttings’” (886-95). Originally published in German translation as “Zeitungsausschnitte.” März (Berlin) (July 1909). 

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Originally published in German translation as “Zeitungsausschnitte.” März (Berlin) (July 1909).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Strange Land Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Jane] [Barlow] (1857-1917) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Fantasy and eutopia depicting an isolated island somewhere in Southeast Asia. There are no animals, birds, or insects. Plants do not die a lingering death but simply disappear in an instant. Something of an Arcadia physically but with a degree of technology such as gas and electricity. The protagonist is an accomplished musician, and the advanced people of the island fear music because it always precedes the disappearance/death of someone.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U3 -

Felix Ryark [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Triumph of Socialism and How It Succeeded Y1 - 1908 A1 - John D[awson] Mayne (1828-1917) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. The socialists win the 1912 election, establish a republic and nationalize industry while raising parliamentary pay. This proves to be a disaster. Cuts in the military leads Germany to invade, but the socialists are overthrown, and Germany is defeated by a reinvigorated Britain.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Major Barbara" Y1 - 1907 A1 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

While the play's focus is elsewhere, Act III, Scene ii includes a factory town eutopia called Percivale St. Andrews, which includes excellent facilities and a pension system.

JF - John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara: also How he Lied to Her Husband PB - Archibald Constable CY - London N1 -

Rev. in The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable, 1930), 11: 249-350, with his Preface “First Aid to Critics” (205-47). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1971), 3: 67-200 with the “Preface” with its 1933 “Postscript” (15-63); as Major Barbara: Definitive Text. Ed. Nicholas Grene. London: Methuen, 2008 with the “Preface” (133-67). The “Preface” is rpt. in his The Complete Prefaces Volume 1: 1889-1913. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1993), 245-77.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Marriage Lease; The Story of a Social Experiment Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Francis] Frank Frankfort Thomas Moore (1855-1931) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Flawed utopia with considerable satire. A wealthy man decides to establish a eutopia and purchases a small, mostly abandoned island called Azalea and populates it with selected people, with the willingness to work the major qualification. It was very successful, but a proposal was adopted for a limited-term marriage contract, and this was a failure.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as A Trial Marriage. New York: Empire Book Co., [1907].

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U.S. ed. as A Trial Marriage. New York: Empire Book Co., [1907].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Theatre of the Future" Y1 - 1905 A1 - G[eorge] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in 1910. The theatre had become a thing entirely for the rich, who were paid to attend. A man who had been out of London for years starts a successful reform.

JF - Grand Magazine VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in Ayot St. Lawrence Edition of the Collected Works of Bernard Shaw VI Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1932), 55-82.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Leaguers Y1 - 1904 A1 - [John William] Bullock (1865-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The Irish gain independence but prove incapable of governing.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: McClure Phillips, 1904.

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Shan F[adh] Bullock [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Queen of the World or, Under the Tyranny Y1 - 1900 A1 - [Standish James] [O'Grady] (1846-1928) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2174. The rulers are singularly brutal and grasping, keeping most of the world poor for their benefit. The successful revolt takes up most of the novel.

PB - Lawrence and Bullen CY - London U3 -

Luke Netterville [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas Y1 - 1898 A1 - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944) A1 - E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. VL - Vol. 78 of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.

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H.G. Pozzuoli [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfection City Y1 - 1897 A1 - Mrs. [Adela Elizabeth] Orpen (1855-1928) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Novel about a rural U.S. intentional community. The novel traces the history of the community from its eutopian hopes to the collapses brought about by personal conflicts.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1897.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Angel Isafrel: A Story of Prohibition in New Zealand Y1 - 1896 A1 - G[eorge] M[cCullagh] Reed (1831/32?-1898) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a tale of the struggle for prohibition, which is achieved through a referendum. The last chapter (93-100) describes the eutopia that was produced. Violent crime virtually disappeared, as did most other crimes. Family life improved radically, earnings previously spent on drink provided better conditions for families and was also invested in cooperatives. Businesses encouraged investment of the extra money in exchange for part of the profits and guaranteed employment. Men became more economically independent. Mental and physical health improved significantly.

PB - Upton & Co CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

2nd ed. without the subtitle London: Gordon and Gotch, 1905.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mercia, The Astronomer Royal: A Romance Y1 - 1895 A1 - A[melia] Garland Mears (ca. 1842-1920) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia focusing on a better life for women in 2002. Advanced technology. Population controlled voluntarily.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Regeneration of Two" Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Mary Chavelita] [Dunne] (1859-1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The focus of the story is a woman who is dissatisfied with her own life and the hypocrisies of life in contemporary Norway, but the middle section describes the successful community she creates on her estate where she helps others who are rejected by the hypocrites.

JF - Discords PB - John Lane/Roberts Bros. CY - London/Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. as Keynotes and Discords (London: Virago, 1983), 163-253 [The two books are separately paged in the reprint]. 

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George Egerton [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ireland a Nation! The Diary of an Irish Cabinet Minister: Being the History of the First (and Only) Irish National Administration, 1894. Printed from the Ms. Of the Right Hon. Phineas O'Flannagan, Late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Francis (Frank) Frankfort] [Moore] (1855-1931) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Anti-Irish satire

PB - Olley & Co CY - Belfast, Ireland U1 -

Ireland a Nation! is at the head of the title page, and some libraries have cataloged it under the title The Diary of an Irish Cabinet Minister.

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Right Hon. Phineas O’Flannagan, Late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ireland a Nation! The Viceroy Muldoon: His Court and Courtship. Including the True Record of His Excellency’s Encounter With the Right Honourable Timothy Moriarty, Prime Minister, in the Lower Castle Yard, Dublin, A.D. 1895. By Bernard O’Hea, Late Yeoman Usher of the Green Rod and Registrar of the Most Emeral Order of the Shamrock and Sunburst (Now Extinct) Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Francis (Frank) Frankfort] [Moore] (1855-1931) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Anti-Home Rule satire. 

PB - Olley & Co. CY - Belfast N1 -

Some copies indicate London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1893

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Ireland a Nation! is at the head of the title page, and some libraries have cataloged it under the title The Viceroy Muldoon.

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Bernard O’Hea, Late Yeoman Usher of the Green Rod and Registrar of the Most Emeral Order of the Shamrock and Sunburst (Now Extinct) [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Phantom’s Pilgrimage or Home Ruin Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Isabella Augusta] [Persse, Lady Gregory] (1852-1932) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The dystopia created by home rule for Ireland.

PB - W. Ridgeway CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Germ Growers. An Australian Story of Adventure and Mystery Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Robert] [Potter] (1831-1908) KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a hidden valley motif. Supernatural elements. Early example of aliens landing on Earth.

PB - Melville, Mullen & Slade/Hutchinson & Co. CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia/London N1 -

Also published with the subtitle The Strange Adventures of Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham. Ed. Robert Potter. London: Hutchinson, 1892.

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Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Royal Democrat: A Sensational Irish Novel Y1 - 1892 A1 - Alice L[etitia] Milligan (1866-1953). KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Set in 1892-1948. The future King, who does not want to be King, is shipwrecked and settles into life on the West Coast of Ireland. He becomes involved in independence activities, which, when successful, leads to a future eutopia of Ireland which is free but closely tied to Great Britain.

PB - Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co./M.H. Gill & Son CY - London/Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Triumph of Woman's Rights. A Prophetic Vision Y1 - 1892 A1 - Tom [Thomas] Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-women's rights satire. Women are described as pro-Bellamy and anti-Christian.

PB - [W. McCullough] CY - [Auckland, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - History of a World of Immortals Without a God: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University Y1 - 1891 A1 - [James William] [Barlow] (1826-1913) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set on Venus (known as Hesperia). Life is cyclical in that people grow old, grow young, and then grow old again, and society is based on this fact. No reproduction. No death from natural causes.

PB - William McGee CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Later ed. under the author's name entitled The Immortals' Great Quest: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University. London: Smith, Elder, 1909. 

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Later ed. under the author's name entitled The Immortals' Great Quest

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Antares Skorpios [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" Y1 - 1891 A1 - Oscar [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills] Wilde (1854-1900) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Essay and notes toward a utopia. The essay is a critique of both contemporary life under capitalism and authoritarian socialism, but throughout the essay Wilde projects an anarcho-socialism or at least a socialism with very little government that leads to individualism and creativity.

JF - The Fortnightly Review VL - 55 (ns 49) N1 -

Repub. London: Chiswick Press, 1895. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: John W. Luce, 1900. Rpt. New York: Oriole Chapbooks/Oriole Editions, [1978?]; and in The Soul of Man and Prison Writings. Ed. Isobel Murray (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990), 1-27 with Explanatory Notes on 198-206. Critical ed. as “The Soul of Man.” The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Ed. Ian Small. Volume 4 Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man. Ed. Josephine M. Guy (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2007), 231-68, with “The Textual Condition of The Soul of Man” (lxviii-lxxx), “A Note of the Text” (xci-xciv), and a “Commentary” (551-84).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "God's Own Country" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Thomas Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

New Zealand as a eutopia. Origin of the word Godzone to describe New Zealand.

JF - Lays and Lyrics. God's Own Country and Other Poems PB - Brown, Thomson & Co. CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in Ballads of Thomas Bracken (Palmerston North, New Zealand: The Dunmore Press, 1975), 13-17. Said to have been originally published in the Yea Chronicle [Yea, Australia 1890] and rpt. in the New Zealand Herald (May 28, 1892): 9, although the Herald says it was written especially for it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jubilee Day" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Thomas Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Future New Zealand as a eutopian part of the British Empire.

JF - Musings in Maoriland PB - Arthur T. Keirle CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morgante the Lesser: His Notorious Life and Wonderful Deeds. Arranged and Narrated for the First Time Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Edward] [Martyn] (1859-1923) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire, including one on a trip to Hell.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U3 -

Sirius [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plunge into Space Y1 - 1890 A1 - Robert Cromie (1856-1907) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Mars technically and aesthetically advanced. Older culture, less passion, and less government.

PB - Frederick Warne and Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. with a brief "Preface" (5) by Jules Verne. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Dreams of Home Rule, viz.: I.—The Dream of Tim Flanagan of Poolaphoula, II.—The Dream of Father Tynn of Ballybullpost, and III.—The Author's Dream Y1 - 1888 A1 - William C[harles] Bonaparte-Wyse (1826-92) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Ballads. Humor opposing home rule for Ireland presenting a peasant who believes home rule will produce a Cockaigne, a priest who believes it will lead to complete control by the Roman Catholic Church, and the author who believes it will lead to civil strife.

PB - Ptd. at the Union Offices CY - Dublin U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modern Daedalus Y1 - 1885 A1 - Tom [Thomas] Greer (1846/7-1904) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An Irishman builds an airplane and wins independence for Ireland. There is only the vaguest suggestion of a eutopia beyond independence.

PB - Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh/New York: E.P. Dutton, [1887]; and New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King's Men. A Tale of Tomorrow Y1 - 1884 A1 - Robert Grant (1852-1940) A1 - John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) A1 - John T[yler] Wheelwright (1856-1925) A1 - Fredric Jesup Stimson (1855-1943) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the English monarchy has been overthrown and moved to the U.S. and the aristocracy has been dispossessed. This leads to a Britain dominated by demagogues. Political struggle results in a return to a more balanced system. Mostly romance and political intrigue.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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J.S. of Dale [pseud. of Fredric Jesup Stimson]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Palingenesia; or, The Earth's New Birth Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Rev.] [Gideon Jasper Richard] [Ouseley] (1875-1906) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

An extremely detailed eutopian picture of the City Four Square from Revelation 21:16. The text is represented as having been seen in three separate visions and parts in dreams and visions while apparently asleep.

PB - Hay Nisbet CY - Glasgow, Scot. VL - 2 vols. N1 -

The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers.

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The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers.

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Theosopho and Ellora [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of Science; A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1877 A1 - [Frances Power] [Cobbe] (1822-1904) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Satirical dystopia of science gone too far. The Age of Science is the name of the paper and the date given is January 1, 1977. Medicine is particularly powerful, and Parliament is composed entirely of medical people who act in their own interest. People are executed for such heresies against science as homeopathy, religion, and not getting vaccinated. There are so few servants that people must recruit them with excellent offers.The author published an essay along similar lines as “The Scientific Spirit of the Age” The Contemporary Review 54 (July 1888): 126-39. Rpt. in her The Scientific Spirit of the Age and Other Pleas and Discussions (Boston, MA: Geo. H. Ellis, 1888), 3-34. The author anonymously published a story on the nineteenth century as seen from the far future; see “The Nineteenth Century.” Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country 69.412 (April 1864): 481-94. There is very little on the future.

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By Merlin Nostradamus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jack Tubbs, or The Happy Isle" Y1 - 1873 A1 - John Francis Maguire, M.P. (1815-72) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult eutopia about a boy who can communicate with animals. Much adventure.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Generation Y1 - 1871 A1 - John Francis Maguire, M.P. (1815-72) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire largely on women in politics set 1891 and 1892 with women serving in Parliament. London reformed London and presented as middle class.

PB - Hurst and Blackett CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cassandra in Ireland;" or, "'Tis Sixty Years'-----to Come" Y1 - 1838 KW - Irish author AB -

Satire on Irish and British politics and policies written from a Protestant perspective bewailing the dominance of the British Isles by Catholics. Includes a debate on absentee landlords in Ireland. Problematic technology such as a malfunctioning "steam-valet" and an education system that is trying to make everything simpler.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland Y1 - 1837 A1 - [Richard] [Whately] (1787-1863) ED - Lady Mary Fox (1798-1864) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A reformed social and political system set in a eutopia founded by Europeans in the interior of Australia, where one of the eleven states of a federal union is called Eutopia, defined as a fine place. Fairly conservative. Constant reference to not being like the savages, but local Aborigines have been educated, and there has been some blending of the two groups. There are both personal and property votes. Must have basic education to vote and get additional votes for public service and personal qualifications, with three extra votes for intelligence. Religious toleration.

PB - Richard Bentley CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997. 7: 251-348. 2nd ed. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. 3rd ed. rev. as The Southlanders. An Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland. London: John W. Parker & Son, 1860. The revisions are minor except for the addition of a poem on Australia, "The Land of Contrarieties" (215-16)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London in a Thousand Years" Y1 - 1830 A1 - Eugenius Roche Esq. (1798-1829) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. While the poem begins with an almost eutopian description of London, it quickly becomes a description of London's disintegration and collapse.

JF - London in a Thousand Years; With other Poems PB - Colburn and Bentley, 1830 CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whitehall; or, the Days of George IV Y1 - 1827 A1 - [William] [Maginn] (1793-1842) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British politics presenting Britain as a completely corrupt dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revelations of the Dead-Alive Y1 - 1824 A1 - [John] [Banim] (1798-1842) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in 2083. Primarily concerned with improvements in taste, art, and so forth.

PB - W. Simpkin and R. Marshall CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as London and its Eccentricities in the Year 2023, or Revelations of the Dead Alive. By the Author of Boyne Water; Anglo Irish, Etc. [pseud.]. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. A.K. Newman and Co., 1845.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders Y1 - 1816 A1 - [Melesina (Chenevix) St. George] [Trench] (1768-1832) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

A poem in two cantos describing the moon where people are born old and grow young. Traditional gender roles.  The men can fly, the woman can’t. Notes to the text on 45-47. 

PB - Ptd. For J. Hatcher CY - London UR - https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/bl-002087615 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Studies, no. 101 (34.1) (March 2007): 1-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Found: Being an Apology for Irish Absentees. Addressed to a Friend in Connaught Y1 - 1813 A1 - [Edward] [Mangin] (1772-1852) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Presents London as a near-perfect place with no crime, desire, or corruption and with no social problems.

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By An Absentee, Residing in Bath [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oppression Unmasked: Being a Narrative of the Proceedings in a Case Between a Great Corporation, and a Little Fishmonger, Relative to some Customs for Fish, demanded by the former as Legal, but refused by the latter, as Exactions and Extortions Y1 - 1784 A1 - An Advocate for Justice [pseud.] KW - Irish author AB -

Set in Utopia, where justice prevails, but directed to the Irish, where it does not.

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An Advocate for Justice [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Arsaces, Prince of Betlis Y1 - 1774 A1 - [Charles] [Johnstone] (ca. 1719-c. 1800) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Something of an oriental tale that has been compared to 1759 Johnson and 1726 Swift that includes a number of fairly short descriptions of eutopian societies.

PB - Ptd. for T. Becket CY - London VL - 2 Vols. N1 -

Critical ed. ed. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 2014. Extracts published as “The Travels of Himilco, an Oriental Tale.” By the Author of Chrysal [pseud.]. Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London) 55.380 -81 (July - August 1774): 13-19; 61-65.

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By the Editor of Chrysal [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deserted Village, A Poem Y1 - 1770 A1 - Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The poem begins with a description of a village called Auburn as a eutopia, but the wealthy landowner pushes the people off the land creating the deserted village.

PB - W. Griffin CY - London N1 -

There were five further editions in 1770, a 7th ed. in 1772 and an 8th ed. in 1774. Rpt. in Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Volume IV The Vicar of Wakefield Poems The Mystery Revealed. Ed. Arthur Friedman (Oxford, Eng.: The Clarendon Press, 1966), 283-304 with extensive footnotes and an “Introduction” (271-81).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the Moon. Containing an Account of the Island of Noibla. Its Inhabitants, Religious and Political Customs, &c. Y1 - 1764 A1 - [Francis] [Gentleman] (1728-84) KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia with simple laws. The head of the family is responsible for the conduct of all family members and must give a weekly account of their activities. Everyone must attend public worship at least once a day. Children are raised by a woman other than the natural mother because mothers are less likely to be willing to correct a child.

PB - Ptd. by A. Ward for S. Crowder, et al., CY - York, Eng. VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in Gulliveriana: I. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970), 97-204; and as A Trip to the Moon. New York: Garland, 1974.

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By Sir Humphrey Lunatic, Bart. [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reverie; or, a Flight to the Paradise of Fools Y1 - 1762 A1 - [Charles] [Johnstone] (ca. 1719-c. 1800) KW - Irish author AB -

Satire on contemporary events and people set in a fictional “Paradise of Fools.”

PB - Printed by Dillon Chamberlain. CY - Dublin, Ireland VL - 2 Vols. N1 -

 U.K. ed. London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Da Hondt, 1763. Rpt. in one vol. without the subtitle. New York: Garland, 1974.

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Published by the Editor of The Adventures of a Guinea. [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Proceedings of Providence vindicated. An Eastern Tale" Y1 - 1759 A1 - [Oliver] [Goldsmith] (1728-74) KW - Irish author AB -

World of rational men without vices and how bad that is.

JF - The Royal Magazine VL - 1 N1 -

Repub. without either title in his Essays (London: Ptd. for W. Griffin, 1765), 126-39. Rpt. with the original title in Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Ed. Arthur Friedman. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1966), 3: 58-66 with extensive footnotes. Published separately as Asem, the Man-Hater; An Eastern Tale. London: Griffith & Farran, 1877.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** By a late Noble Writer Y1 - 1756 A1 - [Edmund] [Burke] (1729/30-97) KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

Satire on the idealization of the state of nature.

PB - Ptd. for M. Cooper CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Ptd. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 adds The Second Edition: With a New Preface to the title. Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 1-38.

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A Late Noble Writer [pseud.].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to O'Brazeel: or, the Sub-Marine Island. Giving A brief Description of the Country; and a short Account of the Customs, Manners, Government, Law, and Religion of the Inhabitants. Faithfully translated out of the original Irish Y1 - 1752 A1 - Manus O'Donnel KW - Irish author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on virtue brought about by a simplified Christianity.

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Rpt. in The Ulster Miscellany. Containing, I. A Voyage to O’BRAZEEL, a Sub-Marine Island, lying West of the Coast of Ireland. II Advice to a SON, in the exemplary Way of Stories, Fables, &c. III. The Brute Philosophers: In Six Dialogues. IV. The Ladies Monitor; or, The Way of the Army. A FARCE. V. POEMS on Religious Subjects. V. Thoughts on Various Subjects. VII. POEMS on Humourous Subjects; consisting of Tales, Epistles, Songs, Epigrams, &c. &c. (Np: np, 1753), 1-64.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo: A Pre-Adamitical History. Interspersed with a great Number of remarkable Occurrences, which happened, and may again happen, to several Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, and particular Great Men. With some Account of the Religion, Laws, Customs, and Policies of those Times Y1 - 1736 A1 - [Eliza Fowler] [Haywood] (1693-1756) KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Described as about the world before Adam and purported to have been translated from the Chinese. Ijaveo, near the South Pole, is described as having a good climate, little work, a long life, and a wise king. The King educates his daughter to be an excellent monarch, which she is for seven years. Then the novel stresses her trials and tribulations.

PB - S. Baker CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Unfortunate Princess: Life and surprizing Adventures of the Princess of Ijaveo; Intersprs’d with several curious and entertaining Novels, 1741; and as Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo. New York: Garland, 1972, with an “Introduction” (5-13) by Josephine Grieder

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, Being Original Letters of State, under George the Sixth, Relating to the most Important Events in Great-Britain and Europe, as to Church and State, Arts and Sciences, Trade, Taxes, and Treaties, Peace and War, and Characters of the Greatest Persons of those times. From the Middle of the Eighteenth, to the End of the Twentieth Century, and the World. Received and Revealed in the Year 1728; And now Published, for the Instruction of all Eminent Statesmen, Churchmen, Patriots, Politicians, Projectors, Papists and Protestants. In Six Volumes Y1 - 1733 A1 - [Samuel Molyneux] [Madden] (1686-1765) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire directed against Catholics, and Jesuits in particular, and George II (1683-1760) and his court presented through a series of letters supposed to be written in the 20th century and describing conditions in various countries at that time. The book was suppressed within two weeks of publication.

PB - Ptd. for Osborn, Longman, Davis, and Batley et. al CY - London VL - Volume I [all published]. N1 -

Rpt. as Memoirs of the Twentieth Century Being Original Letters of State, under George the Sixth. New York: Garland, 1972 with an “Introduction” by Malcom J. Bosse (5-9). Sometimes confused with 1763 The Reign of George VI.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts Y1 - 1726 A1 - [Jonathan] [Swift] (1667-1745) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Basis of an entire sub-genre of utopias in which the imaginary voyage leads to worlds peopled by beings differing physically from the human norm but usually endowed with speech and reason. Many such works include a eutopia. Here the eutopia is a land of rational horses, the Houyhnhnms. While there may be earlier examples, beginning in the late twentieth century, a number of novels and stories have been published concerning Mrs. Gulliver. See 1999 Fell and the note there.

PB - Ptd. for Beng. Motte CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Usually rpt. as Gulliver’s Travels. Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 1-114 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; as Gulliver’s Travels. A Facsimile Reproduction of a Large-Paper Copy of the First Edition (1726) Containing the Author’s Annotations. Delmar, NY: Scholar’s Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976; Illus. Arthur Rackham. London J.M. Dent, 1899 [rpt. with additional illus. London: J.M. Dent, 1909]; Ed. Robert A. Greenberg. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961; Ed. Clauston Jones. New York: Bantam Books, 1971; as Gulliver's Travels: Based on the 1726 Text: Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002; as Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings: Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Context, Critical Essays. Ed. Clement Hawes, with “A Note on the Texts” by Robert J. Griffin. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004; as Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Allan Ingram. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2012; and as Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. David Womersley. Vol. 16 of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 1-444, with a “Chronology of Swift’s Life” (xi-xx), a “Chronology of Gulliver’s Travels” (xxi-xxiii), “Introduction” (xli-civ), “Long Notes” (445-565), “Textual Introduction” (627-774), and other appendices. An unusual children’s edition is Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World In Words of One Syllable. By [Mrs.] J. C. Gorham From the Original by Dean Swift. Illus. London: Cassell & Co., 1895. U. S. ed. New York: A. L. Burt, [1901?]. Part rpt. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950 with vols. of Lilliput and Brobdingnag in lilliputian and brobdingnagian sizes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - O-Brazile, or the Inchanted Island: Being A perfect Relation of the late Discovery and Wonderful Dis-Inchantment of an Island on the North of Ireland: With an Account of the Riches and Commodities thereof. Communicated by a Letter from London-Derry, to a Friend in London Y1 - 1675 A1 - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A short  description of O-Brazile with fewer utopian elements than in his The Western Wonder (1674). Generally considered to be a description of Ireland. See also 1673 and 1674 Head.

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Also published Edinburgh, Scot.: Np, 1675; and London: William Crook, 1675. Rpt. in Seventeenth-Century Tales of the Supernatural. Publication no. 74 of The Augustan Reprint Society. Los Angeles, CA: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1958. Items separately paged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Western Wonder; or, O Brazeel, an Inchanted Island discovered; with a Relation of Two Ship-wracks in a dreadful Sea-storm in that discovery. To which is added, a Description of a Place, called, Montecapernia, relating the Nature of the People, their Qualities, Humours, Fashions, Religion, &c. Y1 - 1674 A1 - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Begins with an argument that O Brazeel is an actual island but enchanted. O Brazeel is in some ways a classic eutopia of abundance; ". . . whatever grew, came up spontaneously, without the labour of hands" (6), but the island was controlled by Satan, although it is freed from his rule. Montecapernia is both rich in parts and barren in parts. Generally considered to be a description of Ireland and Wales. 

PB - Ptd. for N.C CY - London N1 -

One copy at the British Library is in a volume of "Tracts on Ireland".

Rpt. London: Ptd. for N.C., 1676.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Floating Island: or, A New Discovery, Relating The strange Adventure on a late Voyage From Lambethana to Villa Franca, alias Ramallia, To the Eastward of Terra del Templo, By three Ships, Viz. The Pay-naught, The Excuse, The Least-in-Sight, Under the conduct of Captain Robert Owe-much: Describing the Nature of the Inhabitants, their Religion, Laws and Customs. Published by Franck Careless [pseud.] one of the Discoverers Y1 - 1673 A1 - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A satire on English manners and custom that is particularly concerned with London. See also 1674 and 1675 Head.

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Rpt. [Whitefish, MT]: Kessinger Publishing, [2004].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A View of the State of Ireland, Written Dialogue-wise, betweene Eudoxus and Irenæus. By Edmund Spenser, Esq. In the Yeare 1596 Y1 - 1633 A1 - Edmund Spenser (1552?-99) ED - [James] [Ware] KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Apparently intended as a serious analysis of Ireland and its people, it proposes the complete suppression of the Irish people, the expropriation of all the land, exchange of the Irish among counties where they will work for English landlords, slaughter of cattle, and taxing the Irish to pay for the military that will suppress them. Argues that the Irish are descended from the barbarian Scythians and that resisting English law indicates that the Irish are “the lowest form of savages” (Hadfield and Maley ed., xx). Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 

PB - Ptd. by the Society of Stationers as part of Ancient Irish Histories CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Rpt. as "A View of the Present State of Ireland." In The Works of Edmund Spenser. A Variorum Edition. Ed. Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Frederick Morgan Padelford, and Ray Heffner. Vol. X Spenser’s Prose Works. Ed. Rudolf Gottfried (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949), 39-231 with “Appendix III A View of the Present State of Ireland (497-532); and as A View of the Present State of Ireland. Ed. W. L. Renwick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1970. Critical ed. as A View of the State of Ireland. From the first printed edition (1633). Ed. Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. “Ware’s Annotations” (162-69), “Passages Omitted from Ware’s Text” (170-76), “Glossary” (190-92). 

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