Frank Ormsby, ed., Poets of the North of Ireland (1979; new edn. 1990)

Select Bibliography for the Student of Ulster Writing and Its Contexts.

See contributors list in RICORSO Library, “Criticism - Anthologies”, infra.

Studies Articles Anthologies Journals

Studies (monographs)
  • Adams, G. B., ed., Ulster Dialects (Holywood Co. Down 1964).
  • Adams, G. B, Ulster Folklife (Holywood Co Down 1955).
  • Andrews, Elmer, Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays (Macmillan 1990) .
  • Bardon, Jonathan, A History of Ulster (1992).
  • Bell, Sam Hanna, et al., The Theatre in Ulster (Gill&Macmillan 1972).
  • Bew, Paul, Peter Gibbon, and Henry Patterson, The State in Northern Ireland 1921-1972: Political Forces and Social Classes (1979).
  • Boyd, Ernest Andrew, Ireland’s Literary Renaissance (Dublin & London: Maunsel 1916; rev. 1922; rep. Barnes & Noble, NY 1968).
  • Brady, Ciaran, Mary O’Dowd, and Brian Walker, eds., Ulster: An Illustrated History (1989).
  • Brown, Malcolm, The Politics of Irish Literature: From Thomas Davis to WB Yeats (George Allen & Unwin 1972).
  • Brown, Stephen, Ireland in Fiction, intro. DJ Clark (London, 2nd ed 1919 [no first ed.]; rep. Shannon 1968).
  • Brown, Terence, and Nicholas Grene, Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry (Macmillan 1989).
  • Brown, Terence, Ireland’s Literature:Selected Essays (Lilliput Press 1988).
  • Brown, Terence, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History, 1922-1979 (1981).
  • Brown, Terence, Northern voices: Poets from Ulster (Gill & Macmillan 1975).
  • Cahalan, James, Modern Irish Literature and Culture: a chronology (NY GK Hall/Macmillan 1993) [author information; projected].
  • Cairns, David, and Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture (1988).
  • Campbell, Flann, The Dissenting Voice: Protestant Democrary in Ulster from the Plantation to Partition (1991) .
  • Carpenter, Andrew, Place Personality and the Irish Writer (Colin Smythe 1977).
  • Catto, Mike, Art in Ulster, 2 (Blackstaff 1977).
  • Clarke, Desmond, ed., Ireland in Fiction, Part II (1985) [posthum.].
  • Cleeve, Brian, Dictionary of Irish Writers, 3 series 1] Fiction (Cork:Mercier 1967), 2] Non Fiction (Cork:Mercier 1969), 3] Irish language (Cork:Mercier 1971); revised and enlarged, with Anne M Brady (Lilliput 1985).
  • Corcoran, Neil, ed., The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland (Poetry Wales Press/Severn Books 1991).
  • Costello, Peter, The Heart Grown Brutal: The Irish Revolution in Literature from Parnell to the Death of Yeats 1891-1939 (Gill & Macmillan 1977).
  • Cronin, John, The Anglo-Irish Novel, Vol. 1 (1980); Vol 2 (1990).
  • Dawe, Gerald, and Edna Longley, Across the Roaring Hill: the Protestant Imagination in Modern Ireland (1985).
  • Dawe, Gerald, and Edna Longley, Across the Roaring Hill: the Protestant Imagination in Modern Ireland (1985).
  • Deane, Seamus, A Short History of Irish Literature (Hutchinson 1986).
  • Deane, Seamus, Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature (Faber 1984).
  • Doloughlin, Phyllis E., ‘Ulster Poetry: a Checklist of Published collections, 1960-1980 (Dept. of Library and Information Studies, QUB 1983).
  • Doloughlin, Phyllis E., ‘Ulster Poetry: a Checklist of Published collections, 1960-1980 (Dept. of Library and Information Studies, QUB 1983).
  • Dunn, Douglas, ed., Two Decades of Irish Writing (Carcanet 1975).
  • Eager, Alan, A Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material and Some Sources of Information (1960; rep. 1980).
  • Evans, E[myr] E[styn],The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History (1973).
  • Fallis, Richard, The Irish Renaissance (Syracuse UP 1977).
  • Farrell, Michael, Northern Ireland: The Orange State (1976).
  • Finneran, Richard J., ed., Anglo-Irish Literature: A Review of Research (1976).
  • Finneran, Richard J., ed., Recent Research on Anglo-Irish Writers (1983).
  • Foster, John Wilson, Colonial Consequences (1991).
  • Foster, John Wilson, Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival: A Changing Art (Syracuse UP 1987).
  • Foster, John Wilson, Forces and Themes in Ulster Fiction (Gill&Macmillan 1974).
  • Foster, R. F., Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988).
  • Gailey, Alan, Irish folk Drama (Cork 1969).
  • Haffenden, John, Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation (Faber 1981).
  • Harmon, Maurice, ed. Image and Illusion, Anglo-Irish Literature and its Contexts (Wolfhound 1989).
  • Harmon, Maurice, Select Bibliography … of Anglo-Irish Literature and its Backgrounds (1976).
  • Harmon, Maurice, The Irish Writer and the City (Colin smythe 1984).
  • Hayes, Richard J., ed., Sources for the History of Irish Civilization, ‘Articles in Irish Periodicals’, 10 vols (Boston Mass 1970).
  • Hewitt, John, Art in Ulster 1 (Blackstaff 1977).
  • Hewitt, John, with SH Bell, NA Robb, The Arts in Ulster: a symposium (London 1951).
  • Hogan, Robert, After the Renaissance: A Critical History of the Irish Drama since ‘The Plough and the Stars’ (Minnesota UP 1967).
  • Hogan, Robert, ed., Dictionary of Irish Writers (Macmillan 1979).
  • Jeffares, A. N., Anglo-Irish Literature (Macmillan 1982).
  • Jeffrey, Keith, ed., The Divided Province: The Troubles in Northern Ireland 1969-1985 (1985).
  • Johnston, Dillon, Irish Poetry After Joyce (Notre Dame UP 1985).
  • Kenneally, Michael, ed., Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms (Colin Smythe 1989)
  • Kernowski, Frank C., et al., eds., A Bibliography of Modern Irish and Anglo-Irish Literature (1976).
  • Kiely, Benedict, Modern Irish Fiction (London 1950).
  • Lyons, F. S. L., Culture and Anarchy in Ireland 1890-1939 (1979).
  • Lyons, F. S. L., Ireland Since the Famine (1971).
  • McHenry, Margaret, The Ulster Theatre in Ireland (Philadephia UP 1931).
  • Moody, T. W., and JC Beckett, eds., Ulster Since 1900, 2 series 1] A Political and Economic Survey, 2] A Social Survey (London 1955, 1957).
  • Moody, T. W., The Ulster Question 1603-1973 (Cork 1974).
  • O’Donoghue, D[avid] J., The Poets of Ireland (Dublin 1912; fac. rep. NY 1970).
  • Robert F Garratt, Modern Irish Poetry, Tradition and Continuity from Yeats To Heaney (Cal. UP 1986).
  • Stewart, A T Q, The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster 1609-1969 (Lon. 1977).
  • Vance, Norman, Irish Literature: a social history, Tradition, Identity and difference (Basil Blackwell 1990).
  • Warner, Alan, A Guide to Anglo-Irish Literature (Gill & Macmillan, 1981).
  • Whyte, J. H., Interpreting Northern Ireland (OUP 1990).
  • Williams, J. E., Caerwyn, and Patrick K. Ford, The Irish Literary Tradition (Cardiff 1992).
  • Wills, Clair, Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (Oxford:Clarendon Press 1993) [0-19-818239-2 pbk].
 
Articles
  • Buckley, Vincent. ‘Poetry and the avoidance of nationalism’, Threshold, no. 32 (Winter 1982), pp. 8-34.
  • Clyde, Tom. ‘An Ulster Twilight? Poetry in the north of Ireland’, Krino, no. 5 (Spring 1988), pp. 95-102.
  • Dean, Seamus. ‘The Writer and the Troubles’, Threshold, no. 25 (Summer 1974), pp. 13-17.
  • Dunn, Douglas. ‘The speckled hill, the plover’s shore: Northern Irish poetry today’, Encounter, vol. 61, no. 6 (December 1963), pp. 70-6.
  • Foster, John Wilson. ‘Culture and colonisation: view from the north’, Irish Review, no. 5 (Autumn 1988), pp. 17-26.
  • Fullwood, Daphne and Oliver Edwards. ‘Ulster poetry since 1900’, Rann, no. 20 (June 1953), pp. 19-34.
  • Greacen, Robert. ‘A Survey of Ulster writing’, in Northman, vol. 11, no. 2 (Winter 1942-3), pp. 10-14.
  • Greacen, Robert. ‘The Belfast poetry Scene 1939-1945’, Honest Ulsterman, no. 77 (Winter 1984), pp. 17-22.
  • Group, The. ‘The Belfast group: a symposium’, Honest Ulsterman, no. 53 (November/December 1976), pp. 53-63.
  • Hederman, Mark Patrick. ‘Poetry and the Fifth Province’, Crane Bag, vol. 9, no. 1 (1985), pp. 110-19; see also, edna Longley’s reply in the same issue, pp. 120-2.
  • Hewitt, John, ‘”The bitter gourd”: some problems of the Ulster writer’, Lagan, no.3 (1945), pp. 93-105; reprinted in Ancestral Voices: The Selected Prose of John Hewitt,, edited by Tom Clyde, Blackstaff Press, 1987, pp. 108-21.
  • Hewitt, John. ‘Poetry of Ulster: a survey’, Poetry Ireland, no. 8 (January 1950), pp. 3-10.
  • Hewitt, John. ‘The course of writing in Ulster’, Rann, no.20 (June 1953), pp. 43-52; reprinted in Ancestral Voices, pp. 64-76.
  • Kearney, Timothy. ‘The poetry of the north: a post-modernist perspective’, Crane Bag, vol.3, no.2 (1979), pp. 45-53.
  • Liddy, James. ‘Ulster poets and the Catholic muse’, Eire-Ireland (Winter 1978), pp. 126-37.
  • Longley, Edna. ‘Stars and horses, pigs and trees’, Crane Bag, vol.3, no.2 (1979), pp.54-60.
  • Longley,, edna. ‘The writer and Belfast’, in The Irish Writer and the City,, edited by Maurice Harmon, Colin Smythe, 1984, pp. 65-89.
  • Longley, Michael. ‘Tu’penny Stung’, in Northern Windows: An Anthology of Ulster Autobiography,, edited by Frank Ormsby, Blackstaff Press, 1987, pp. 195-206.
  • McFadden, Roy. ‘The Belfast Forties’, Gown Literary Supplement (June 1989), pp.5-8.
  • Mahon, Derek. ‘Poetry in Northern Ireland’, Twentieth Century Studies, no. 4 (November 1970), pp. 89-93.
  • Matthews, Aidan Carl. ‘A question of covenants:modern Irish poetry’, Crane Bag, vol.3, no.1 (1979), pp.48-57; see also Gerald Dawe’s response in Crane Bag, vol.3, no.2 (1979), pp.88-91..
  • Quinn, Damian. ‘The troubled poetry: recent poetry from Northern Ireland’, Prospice, no.20 (1987), pp.69-81.
  • Redshaw, Thomas Dillon. ‘Rí, as in regional: three Ulster poets’, Eire-Ireland (Summer 1974), pp. 41-64 (on Heaney, Deane and Montague).
  • Riordan, Maurice. ‘Eros and history: on contemporary Irish poetry’, Crane Bag, vol.9, no.1 (1985), pp.49-55.
  • Sergeant, Howard. ‘Ulster regionalism’, Rann, no. 20 (June 1953), pp.3-7.
  • Tracy, Robert. ‘An Ireland/the poets have imagined’, Crane Bag, vol.3, no. 2 (1979), pp.82-8.
  • Waterman, Andrews. ‘Ulsterectomy’, in Best of the Poetry Year 6, compiled by Dannie Abse, Robson Books, 1979, pp. 42-57.
Anthologies
  • Bell, Sam Hanna, ed., Within Our Province (1972).
  • Bradley, Anthony, ed., Contempoary Irish Poetry (Cal. UP 1980; new and rev. ed. 1988).
  • Dawe, Gerald, ed., The Younger Irish Poets (Blackstaff 1982; Bloodaxe/Dufour 1992).
  • Deane, Seamus, gen. ed. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 550-1990, 3 vols. (Field Day 1991).
  • Fallon, Peter, and Derek Mahon,ed., The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990).
  • Fiacc, Padraic, ed., The Wearing of the Black: an Anthology of Contemporary Ulster Poetry (Blackstaff 1974).
  • Greacen, Robert, ed., Poems from Ulster (Erskine Mayne 1942).
  • Greacen, Robert, ed., Northern Harvest (Derrick MacCord 1944).
  • Harmon, Maurice, ed., Irish Poetry After Yeats: Seven Poets (Wolfhound Press 1979).
  • Hewitt, John, ed., The Rhyming Weavers, and Other Country Poets of Antrim and Down (Blackstaff 1979).
  • Hoagland, Kathleen, ed., 1,000 Years of Irish Poetry (NY:Devin Adair 1947).
  • Hooley, Ruth, ed., The Female Line: Northern Irish women Writers (NI Women’s rights Movt. 1985).
  • Jeffares AN , and Anthony Kamm, ed., Irish Childhoods: an anthology (Gill & Macmillan, pbk. 1992).
  • Kennelly, Brendan, ed., The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1970; 2nd ed., 1981).
  • Killen, John, ed. The Irish Christmas Book (pb. 1992) [incl. Behan, Yeats, Kavanagh, Joyce, Heaney, Maeve Binchy, B. MacLaverty, et mult. al.].
  • Kinsella, Thomas, ed., The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (OUP 1986).
  • MacDonagh, Donagh, and Lennox Robinson, The Oxford Book of Irish Verse (London:Clarendon 1958).
  • Mahon, Derek, The Sphere Book of Modern Irish Poetry (Sphere 1972) [pb 0-14-058609-1]; .
  • Montague, John, ed., The Faber Book of Irish Verse (Faber 1974).
  • Montague, John, ed., Bitter Harvest: An anthology of Contemporary Irish Verse (Scribner’s 1989).
  • Muldoon, Paul, ed., The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Faber 1986).
  • Ormsby, Frank, ed., Poets from the North of Ireland (Blackstaff 1979; new rev. ed. 1990).
  • Ormsby, Frank, ed., Northern Windows: An Anthology of Ulster Autobiography (Blackstafff 1987).
  • Ormsby, Frank, ed., A Rage for Order: poetry of the Northern Ireland troubles (Blackstaff 1992), 361pp. .
  • Paulin, Tom, ed. Faber Book of Political Verse (1986), and Vernacular Verse (Faber 1990)..
  • Simmons, James, ed., Ten Irish Poets (Carcanet 1974).
  • Swift, Todd, and Martin Mooney, eds., Map-makers’ colours: New Poets of Northern Ireland (Nu-age Eds., 1988).
  • Confounded Language, Nine Poems by Nine Irish Writers (Bloodaxe/Dufour 1992) [Dawe; Heaney, trans. Inferno III.22-52; Foley; McGuckian ‘The Difficulty Age’; Montague; Muldoon; ní Chuilleanáin; Ormsby].
  • Trio Poetry 1 [Will Colhoun, Robert Johnstone, David Park] (Blackstaff 1980).
  • Trio Poetry 2 [Damian Gorman, Medbh McGuckian, Douglas Marshall] (Blackstaff 1981).
  • Trio Poetry 3 [Johston Kirkpatrick, Peter McDonald, Trevor McMahon] (Blackstaff 1982).
  • Trio Poetry 4 [Andrew Elliott, Leon Mcauley, Ciaran O’Driscoll] (Blackstaff 1985).
  • Trio Poetry 5 [Dennis Greig, Martin Mooney, Janet Shepperson] (Blackstaff 1987).
  • Trio Poetry 6 [Angela Greene, Oliver Marshall, Patrick Ramsay] (Blackstaff 1990).
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Journals
  • Uladh (1904).
  • Lagan (1943).
  • Threshold (1957- ).
  • Honest Ulsterman (1968- ).
  • Rann (1948-53), No. 20 [information on Ulster writers from 1900].
  • Irish Booklover (1909-1957).
  • Poetry Ireland.
  • Irish Review, &c.
  • Ulster Writing.

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