Irish Wolfhound History

The Irish Wolfhound in Books on Dogs, and in Magazines and Newspapers

The books and other publications covered so far are (to see them listed in date order, click here):

The Complete Book of the Dog by Robert Leighton (1922)

Show Dogs: Their Points & Characteristics by Theo Marples (around 1908)

The Dog, Man's Best Friend by Captain A.H. Trapman (1929)

Stonehenge on the Dog by "Stonehenge" (1887)

Dogs and Their Ways by the Rev. Charles Williams (1863)

The New Book of the Dog by Robert Leighton (1907)

Woman's Pets (A Section of Every Woman's Encyclopaedia ) (around 1910)

The Irish Penny Journal - article by H.D. Richardson (1841)

British Dogs by Hugh Dalziel (1887) 1st Edition

British Dogs by Hugh Dalziel (1897?) 2nd Edition

Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse, Esq. (1880)

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1840)

The Hounds of Kidnal House by Cumming Macona, Country Life, Volume X, No. 260 (1901)

The Twentieth Century Dog by Herbert Compton (1904)

The Noblest of the Kind by A. Croxton Smith, Country Life, September 20th, 1919

Best of Dogs An Anthology by Eric Parker (1949)

The Irish Wolfhound The publication of the Irish Wolfhound Association (U.K.), September 1925

The Livestock Journal Letters by Capt. Graham printed in issues in January and February 1881 and a letter by G.W Hickman printed in the issue of March 18th, 1881

Dogs That Come from Erin's Isle by Jacqueline Archer Stewart, printed in the American Kennel Gazette, June 30, 1925

Bally Shannon - Dog of War Country Life, November 1918

The Hounds of Celt and Gael Country Life in America, January 1916

Ireland's Great Hound - The Dog of Romance and Story by L. O. Starbuck, Country Life February 1929

Mrs. Shewell's Irish Wolfhound Kennels at Cotswold Lady's Pictorial, September 3, 1910

Some Early Illustrations of the Old Irish Wolf-dog 1738-1839 by F.H. Purchase, "The Kennel" c. 1911

Kennel Notes by A. Croxton Smith, late 1912

Article from Fredson Bowers on the Irish wolfhound & Scottish deerhound, publication date unknown

A Feud Between Ireland and England Caused a Dog Canard To Be Born, by Fredson Bowers, American Kennel Gazette, May 1st, 1939

Dogs of Great Size by A.C. Smith (A Croxton Smith), name and date of publication unknown but c. mid-1911

The Dog Book by James Watson, 1905, on the Hound Family and on the Irish Wolfhound
The Dog Book Chapter on Deerhounds

The Natural History of Quadrupeds and Glorious Animals, published 1811

The New Dog of the White House, by Arthur Frederick Jones, The American Kennel Gazette January 1, 1929

Dog Breeds of the World, Their Origin, Development, and Uses Throughout the Ages, by Freeman Lloyd, The American Kennel Gazette, August 1, 1931

Erin's Famous Hound Finding Greater Glory at Rathmullan, by Arthur Frederick Jones, the American Kennel Gazette, May 1, 1934

Wolfhound Whines, the breed column in the weekly paper "Our Dogs," which was mainly written by Isaac Everett of the Felixstowe Kennels, covering the period 1911 to 1925, plus one from 1938.

On the Breeds of Dogs Peculiar to Ireland and their Origin, by R.F. Scharff, B.Sc., Ph.d. The Irish Naturalist, August 1924

The Kennel Encyclopædia by Frank Townend Barton, M.R.C.V.S., first published 1903
The Kennel Encyclopædia article on deerhounds

Everybody's Dog Book by Major A.J. Dawson, June, 1922

The Great Hound of Ireland by Walter A. Dyer, Country Life (U.S.A.), February 1920

Here is the Strange Story of the Big Irish Wolfhound by Edward C. Ash, The American Kennel Gazette, October, 1938, Vol. 55, No. 10 

Modern Dogs by Rawdon Briggs Lee,  Published 1893 by Horace Cox, London

The Illustrated Book of the Dog by Vero Shaw (assisted by the leading breeders of the day), 1881

Dogs and All About Them by Robert Leighton, assisted by Eminent Authorities on the Various Breeds, 1910

The Irish Wolfhound by A.J. Dawson (author of Finn The Wolfhound), c. 1909

The Irish Wolfhound by J.E. Harting, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes,Vol. XXXIV, 1879

Irish Wolfhound from the National Geographic Magazine, 1958

Sporting Irish Wolfhounds by A. Croxton Smith, Country Life, December 27th, 1924

Management of Irish Wolfhounds by A.Croxton Smith, Country Life, May 14th, 1932

The Dogs That Fingal Bred by A. Croxton Smith, Country Life, October 17th, 1914

My Interpretation of Irish Wolfhound Type by John F. Baily, 1927

Dogs With a Personality by A. Croxton Smith, Country Life April 6th, 1929

The Irish Wolfhound by H. Boycott Oddy, Country Life, May 15th, 1909

Cragwood Breeds a Royal Hound by Arthur Frederick Jones, Pure Bred Dogs American Kennel Gazette, April 1963 (originally from the February 1928 issue)

The American Kennel Gazette breed column dating between 1935 and 1967, written by L.O. Starbuck, F.T. Bowers, A.J. Starbuck, Charles D. Burrage, Jnr., & Gordon F. Graham

Dog World (U.S.A.) breed column dating between March, 1966 and June, 1984

Irish Wolfhounds in Tierra del Fuego The Kennel Gazette, March 1916

Irish Wolfhounds, 1934 A Retrospect by I.W. Everett; "Our Dogs" December 14, 1934

Forty-five Years in Irish Wolfhounds by I.W. Everett; "Our Dogs" December 13, 1935

Mr. James Voase Rank Article from Dog World, probably sometime in 1935

Dublin Penny Journal July 7, 1832

Nessa, Wolfhound, Dies of Grief at Death of Duck Pal Article from Oakland Tribune, June 19th, 1928

Do Dogs Talk? Decatur Herald, Decatur, Illinois. Friday, August 3rd, 1928

Articles from various American newspapers from 1926 to 1967

The Fancy Endured article from the AKC Gazette on what happened to the breed during the 2nd World War

Two articles from the AKC Gazette on the Breed Standard and Wolfhound Type by Fredson Bowers, March 1 & April 1, 1939

Les Races de Chiens by Count Henri Bylandt, first published 1897 (The Irish Wolfhound in French, English, German and Dutch, with pictures)

How Science is the Ruler of Halcyon's Famous Dogs by Arthur Frederick Jones. Article from American Kennel Gazette, 1935

Aids to Breeding Good Irish Wolfhounds by Florence Nagle. Article from The Indian Kennel Gazette, Christmas number, 1960

Ring Manners by Phyllis E.A. Hudson. Article from the IWC Year Book 1929-30-31

The Irish Wolfhound as a Sporting Hound by Phyllis E.A. Hudson. Article from the IWC Year Book 1932-33-34

The Massive Irish Wolfhound by S.M. Lampson from Country Life, May 23 1957

The True Successor by Phyllis Gardner from The Irish Wolfhound Club Year Book 1929-30-31

A Life in the Day of Florence Nagle by Muriel Bowen, The Sunday Times, 1979

Each page is given in chronological order as regards previous and next buttons, e.g. the next button on this page will take you to the earliest date of publication, i.e. The Natural History of Quadrupeds and Glorious Animals of 1811.

SHORT STORIES WITH WOLFHOUNDS
I have also started a section on fiction including wolfhounds; not books that have been published, but short stories. So far there are only four - The Irish Hero by Lorn M. MacIntyre, published in "Blackwoods Magazine" in 1973, Murphy by Della Galton, published in Womens' Weekly, The Hound of Ireland by Donn Byrne, published in "Colliers Magazine" in 1923, and The Guardian Hound by R.G. Kirk, published in 'Colliers Magazine', February 1943.

David Bell has written a new version of the story of Gelert, which is available in text only or in an illustrated version, full details of which can be seen here - http://www.davidnbell.com/The_Dog_Hunters_Book/The_Dog_Hunters_Book.html

Google has made available many books which can be read online or are downloadable in PDF format, if preferred. There is also the choice to do a search on a particular subject [such as 'Irish wolfhound'], which will bring up a list of books and where they can be obtained, but will also allow reading of pages online.

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Updated 1/6/2016