Sydney Owenson’s novel, The Wild Irish Girl (1806), provides both information about Irish history and culture for her British readers, in a form reminiscent of travel narratives, as well as allegorical commentary on the 1800 Act of Union and Anglo-Irish relations. In doing so, her novel additionally explores or interrogates Irish stereotypes and associations with cannibalism, slavery, and botany. In Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl, the English male narrator, Horatio, is sent by his father, Lord M., to visit their estates in Ireland for the first time in hopes that this experience will reform the son from his profligate past. While in Ireland, Horatio discovers that his family murdered the ancestor of the Irish Prince of Inishmore during the Interregnum in order to attain these estates. Avoiding the familial enmity that plays out national tensions, he therefore introduces himself to the Prince and falls in love with the Prince’s daughter, Glorvina, by an assumed name. Horatio’s father, an absentee landowner, also courts Glorvina under a false name, and, when both suitors’ identities are revealed, the elderly Prince dies of shock at the prospect of an alliance with his hereditary adversary. Nevertheless, Glorvina agrees to marry Horatio in a union that will conjoin the families and, symbolically, their respective nations.