| Acronyms for most frequently-used Reference Works |
| AEM |
Andrew E. Malone, The Irish Drama 1896-1928 [first issued London 1914] (London: Constable 1929) |
| AOS |
Aosdána Catalogue of Members [various editions]
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| ANJ |
A. N. Jeffares, Anglo-Irish Literature (London: Macmillan 1982) |
| APPL |
Brian M. Walker, Art Ó Broin and Seán McMahon, eds., Face of Ulster (Belfast: Appletree 1980) |
| ATT |
Ann Owen Weekes, ed., Attic Guide to Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers (Dublin: Attic 1993, 1994)
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| BMK |
Brian McKenna, Irish literature, 1800-1875: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1978) |
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BNB
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British National Bibliography |
| BREF
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Brian de Breffny, ed., Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia (London: Thames & Hudson 1983) |
| CAB |
Charles A. Read, The Cabinet of Irish Literature (London, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast & Edinburgh: Blackie & Son [1876-78]) |
| CAH |
James M. Cahalan, The Irish Novel:A Critical History (Boston: Twayne 1988) |
| CRO |
John Crone, ed., A Concise Dictionary of Irish Literary Bibliography (Dublin: Talbot 1928) |
| JCO/DBIV |
John Cooke, ed., Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909 (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1909) |
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DIB
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Harry Boylan, A Dictionary of Irish Biography [first issued 1978] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan [rev. edn.] 1988; enl. edn. 1997) |
| DIH |
James E. Doherty & D. J. Hickey, A Chronology of Irish History since 1500 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989) |
| DIL/ DIL2 |
Robert Hogan, ed., Dictionary of Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979), and
Do., [rev. edn. 1996] |
| DIW |
Brian Cleeve & Anne Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985) [first iss. 1967] |
| DNB |
Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Leslie Stephen (London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1885-1901) [and subsequent editions] |
| DUB |
Kate Newmann, Dictionary of Ulster Biography (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1993) |
| EB |
Encyclopaedia Britannica, gen. ed. Walter Yust (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1949) |
| intro./Intro |
introduced / Introduction |
| FDA[1/2/3] |
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 vols. (Derry: Field Day Publications 1991), Vols. 1, 2 or 3. |
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FOC
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Frank O’Connor, ed., A Book of
Ireland (London: Collins 1959)
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| FOST |
R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland
(London: Allen Lane 1988) |
| GILB |
Sir John Gilbert, History
of the City of Dublin, 3 vols. (Dublin: McGlashan & Gill 1854-59;
facs. rep. IUP 1972). |
| GBI |
Stephen Brown, Guide to Books in Ireland (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1912) |
| IBL |
Irish Book Lover |
| IF1 |
Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I]
(Dublin: Maunsel 1919) |
| IF2 |
Stephen J. Brown & Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. II] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1985) |
| ILS |
Irish Literary Supplement (Boston) |
| IPR |
Irish Publication Records [reinitiated in 1998] |
| KAV |
Peter Kavanagh, Irish Theatre: Being a History of the Drama in Ireland from the Earliest Period up to the Present Day (Tralee: Kerryman 1946) |
| JMC |
Justin McCarthy, gen. ed., Irish Literature (Washington: Catholic University of America 1904), [10 vols.; actually ed. by Charles Welch] |
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KUN
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Stanley Kunitz, Twentieth Century
Authors: A Biographical Dictionary Of Modern Literature (New
York: H. W. Wilson Co, 1967; &. edns.)
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| MAX |
D. E. S. Maxwell, A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980 (CUP 1984) |
| MOR |
Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989)
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| NCBE |
New Cambridge Bibliography of English, ed. F. W. Bateson, 4 vols. (CUP 1966)
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| OCAL |
James D. Hart, Oxford Companion to American Literature (OUP 1983) |
| OCAN |
William Toye, Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (Toronto: Oxford UP 1983)
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| OCEL |
Margaret Drabble, ed., Oxford Companion of English Literature (oxford: OUP 1985) |
| OCIL |
Robert Welch, ed., Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (Oxford: Clarendon 1986) |
| ODQ |
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (OUP 1967) [first iss. 1941] |
| ORM |
Frank Ormsby, ed., Poets from the North of Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 1979) |
| OUP |
Oxford: Oxford University Press |
| OXTH |
Phyllis Hartnoll, ed., Oxford Companion to Theatre (Oxford: Clarendon 1988) |
| PI |
D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Irish Writers of English Verse (Dublin: Hodges and Figgis 1912) |
| PJK
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P. J. Kavanagh, Voices in Ireland (London: Murray 1994) |
| RIA |
Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; Dictionary of National Biography (RIA 2009) |
| RAF |
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period, 1789-1850, 2 vols. (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe 1980) |
| RIA |
Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish Academy ; Cambridge UP 2009), 9 vols. |
| RR |
Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies (London: J. Warren 1821) |
| SUTH |
John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Harlow: Longmans 1988) |
| TAY |
Geoffrey Taylor, ed., Irish Poems of the 19th Century(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1951) |
| TLS |
Times Literary Supplement |
| WIKI |
Wikipedia - the online collaborative encyclopaedia [increasingly after 2010] |
| WJM |
W. J. McCormack, ed., Blackwell Companion
to Modern Irish Culture (Oxford: Blackwell 1999). |
| WSC |
William Smith Clark, The Early Irish Stage (Oxford: Clarendon 1955) |
| WW / WWW |
Who’s Who / Who Was Who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary (London: Black 1891, &c.)
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| WWNI |
Maggie Lennon, ed., Who’s Who in Northern Ireland (Edinburgh: European Editions 1998) |
| WWI |
Who’s Who, What’s What and Where in Ireland (London/Dublin: G. Chapman 1973), compiled by Zircon Publishing Ltd.,[in assoc. with The Irish Times], |