Knocknagow, or The Homes of Tipperary /ˈnɒknəˌɡaʊ/ is an 1879 novel by the Irish nationalist Charles Kickham.

[4] Matthew Russell of ExClassics.com wrote of it, "For many years Knocknagow was the book - along with a prayerbook and Old Moore's Almanac -- most likely to be found in any Irish home.

For all its sentimentality and inept plotting, it gives a very accurate picture of rural Irish life in the nineteenth century.

Almost all the other writers who dealt with the rural poor were either of the landlord class themselves (Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, Somerville and Ross, Emily Lawless, Maria Edgeworth) or urban Protestant middle-class (George A. Birmingham, Charles Lever, Dion Boucicault, Samuel Lover).

"[5] In 1941, Seán Ó Faoláin wrote of Knocknagow, “This spirited and idealised novel, Knocknagow, written by a fenian who had been in jail, with the whole land question running through it, came in the precise moment that demanded such a book, and it was exactly of the right spirit for a people emerging from bad times.