Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: pre-1996
[ This index is currently in some disorder but the contents can be searched in the usual way. ]
Note: The present file is simply a holding bay for titles that come to my attentions outside of the original listing from 1994 to 2004 (and somewhat after in a lesser degree). The aim is to distribute to contents to annual files at a later time. |
Poetry Collections
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Fiction (Short stories &
Novels)
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Drama (Plays & Collections
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Autobiography & Memoir
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Biography (Literary &
Historical)
- Janice Holmes and & Diane Urquhart. Belfast, ed., Coming into the light: The Work, Politics, and Religion of Women in Ulster, 1840-1940 (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1994), x, 213pp. [see contents].
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Miscellaneous Writings
- Angela Cifford, ed. & intro., Godless Colleges and Mixed Education in Ireland: extracts from speeches and writings of Thomas Wyse, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, Frank Hugh O'Donnell and Others (Belfast: Athol Books 1992), 132pp.
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Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
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Anthologies, Interviews &
Almanacs
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Literary & Cultural
Commentary
- Deborah M. Averill, The Irish Short Story from George Moore to Frank OConnor (Washington: CUA 1982), x, 328pp.
- C. C. Barfoot & Theo Dhaen, eds., The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections [DQR Studies in Literature 4] (Amsterdam & Atlanta GA: Rodopi 1989), pp.281. [see contents].
- Anthony Bradley, Contemporary Irish Poetry (California UP 1988), 430pp.
- Cyril J. Byrne & Margaret Harry, eds., Talamh an Eisc: Canadian and Irish Essays [Irish Studies St. Marys Coll.] (Halifax Can.: Nimbus Publ. Co. 1986); being papers of 16th International Conference of CAIS. [see contents]
- Julia Carlson, Banned in Ireland: Censorship & the Irish Writer, intro. and ed. Julia Carlson, for Article 19; Preface by Kevin Boyle [founder of Art. 19] (London: Routledge/US:Georgia UP 1990), 176pp, index. [see contents]
- Neil Corcoran, The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland (Brigend, Mid Glamorgan: Seren Books; Dufour 1992), 288pp.[see contents]
- Gerald Dawe & Edna Longley, eds., Across the Roaring Hill: The Protestant Imagination in Modern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1985), 242pp.[see contents]
- Douglas Dunn, ed., Two Decades of Irish Writing (Carcanet Press 1975), 256pp.
+ index [see contents].
- Joris Duytschaever & Geert Lernout, eds., History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Literature [Conference of 9 April 1986; Costerus Ser. Vol. 71] (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1988), 135pp.[see contents].
- Barbara Hayley & Christopher Murray, eds., Ireland and France - A Bountiful Friendship: Essays in Honour of Patrick Rafroidi (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), 221pp.
index. [see contents]
- Paul Hyland & Neil Sammells, eds., Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion [Insight series] [from Bath College of Higher Ed.] ] (London: Macmillan 1991), pbk., 256pp.
with index [se contents]
- Michael Kenneally, ed., Irish Literature and Culture [CAIS Conference, Marianopolis 1988 / Irish Literary Studies No. 35] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), 196pp.[see contents].
- Michael Kenneally, ed., Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature [Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature 2; Irish Literary Studies 43] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1995), 462pp.[see contents].
- Heinz Kosok & Wolfgang Zach, eds., Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, 2 vols. (Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987) [270pp; 370pp., 244pp.; see contents].
- Geert Lernout, ed., The Crows Behind the Plough: History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Poetry and Drama [Costerus Ser., Vol. 79] (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1991), 173pp. [see contents].
- Vincent Newey & Ann Thompson, eds., Literature and Nationalism [Liverpool English texts and Studies] (Liverpool UP 1991), xiii, 286pp.[see contents].
- Linden Peach, Ancestral Lines: Culture and Identity in the Work of Six Contemporary Poets (Bridgend: Seren 1992), 175pp. [contribs. incl. Gillian Clarke, Douglas Dunn, Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Sally Roberts Jones, Oliver Reynolds].
- Patrick OSullivan, ed., The Irish World Wide, (Leicester UP 1992; pb. edn. 1997) [see contents].
- David Ian Rabey, British and Irish Political Drama in the Twentieth Century: Implicating the Audience (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1990), 247pp.
- David Trotter, The English Novel in History, 1895-1920 (London: Routledge 1993), vi, 337pp.[see contents].
- Robert Welch, ed., Irish Writers and Religion [Irish Literary Studies ser., No. 37; IASIL-Japan ser., No. 4] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), xiii, 242pp.[see contents].
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Critical Studies: Individual
Authors
- Adrian Frazier, Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley: California UP 1990), xxv, 258pp.
- Alan Peacock, ed., The Achievement
of Brian Friel (Gerrards Cross 1993), 267pp. [see contents].
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Language & Folklore Studies
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Religion & Philosophy
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Media & Entertainment
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Arts & Architecture
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Historical Studies: General
- William Nolan, Thomas P. Power, & Des Cowman, eds., Waterford History & Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, 5] (Dublin: Geography 1992), xxiv, 754pp. [see contents]
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Historical Studies: 20th Century
- Gordon Lucy, ed., The Ulster Covenant: A Pictorial History of the 1912 Home Rule Crisis ([Belfast]: The Ulster Society [1989}]), viii,100pp. ill. [facs., ports.].
- Robert Kee, The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1972), 877pp. [References, p.753ff; Select Bibliography, p.823ff; Index, p.841ff.].
- Seán Hutton & Paul Stewart, eds., Irish Histories: Aspects of State, Society and Ideology (London: Routledge 1991), 304pp. [see contents].
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Historical Studies: Centenary Topic
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Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical
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Natural History & Topography
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Politics, Economics & Society
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Northern Ireland/Ulster
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Womens Studies
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Reference, Guides & Bibliography
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Digital Publications
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Journals & Special Issues
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Literary & Cultural Commentary
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Critical Studies: Individual
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Historical Studies: pre-20th Century
- Thomas Power, Land, Politics, and Society in 17th Century Tipperary (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1993), xiv, 376pp.
- James Kelly & Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, ed., Dublin and Dubliners: Essays in the History and Literature of Dublin City [Helicon History of Ireland] Dublin: Helicon 1990), 237pp., ill.; maps; 22 cm. [see contents].
- Jane H. Ohlmeyer, ed., Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641-1660 (Cambridge UP 1995), li, 324pp. ill., maps. [see contents].
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Northern Ireland/Ulster
- Bernard Cullen, ed., Discriminations Old and New: Aspects of Northern Ireland Today [Proceedings of the Irish Association Conference] (Belfast: IIS/QUB 1992),
ix, 177pp.
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Culture & Society
Language & Folklore
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Archaeology, Topography and Natural History
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Arts & Architecture
- Hugh Shields, Narrative Singing in Ireland: Lays, Ballads, Come-all-yes, and Other Songs (Blackrock: IAP [1993]), ix, 283pp., ill. [10pp. of pls., map, music].
- Georges Denis Zimmermann, Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs, 1780-1900. [thesis] (Geneve: Impr. La Sirene 1966), 342pp. ill. [Propositions complementaires incl.].
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Womens Studies
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Religion & Philosophy
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Media & Entertainment
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Library studies & Bibliography
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Reference Works, Guides & Companions
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Digital Publications
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Journals & Special Issues
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Bibliographical details
C. C. Barfoot & Theo Dhaen, eds., The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections [DQR Studies in Literature 4] (Amsterdam & Atlanta GA: Rodopi 1989), pp.281. CONTENTS, C. C. Barfoot & Theo Dhaen, Introduction [1]; Bart Westerweel, Astrophel and Ulster: Sidneys Ireland [5]; Juan E. Tazón Salces, Politics, Literature and Colonization: A View of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century [23]; Peter J. de Voogd, Uncle Toby, Laurence Sterne, and the Siege of Limerick [37]; C. C. Barfoot, Deserting the Village [52]; J. Th. Leerssen, How The Wild Irish Girl Made Ireland Romantic [98]; Marek van der Kamp, J. M. Synges Tir-Na-Nog [118]; Peter van de Kamp, Yeatss Magic and Manipulation [125]; P. Th. M. G. Liebregts, Yeats and Homer [153]; E. J. van Hulst, Tradition and Transformation in Rilke and Yeats [172]; Wim Tigges, Ireland in Wonderland: Flann OBriens The Third Policeman as a Nonsense Novel [195]; José Lanters, Jennifer Johnstons Divided Ireland [209]; Tjebbe A. Westendorp, Songs of Battle: Some Contemporary Irish Poems and the Troubles [223]; August J. Fry, Confronting Seamus Heaney: A Personal Reading of His Early Poetry [234]; Geert Lernout, The Dantean Paradigm: Thomas Kinsella and Seamus Heaney [248]; Ruud Hisgen & Adrian van der Weel [265], On Translating Kinsella into Dutch. Contributors [&c.]. |
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Cyril J. Byrne & Margaret Harry, eds., Talamh an Eisc: Canadian and Irish Essays [Irish Studies St. Marys Coll.] (Halifax Can.: Nimbus Publ. Co. 1986); being papers of 16th International Conference of CAIS. CONTENTS: R. B. McDowell, Grattans Parliament, pp.3-11; Sean Connolly, Popular Culture in Pre-Famine Ireland, pp.12-28; Norman Vance, Irish Literary Traditions and the Act of Union, pp.29-47; Robert ODriscoll, Foundations of the Literary and Musical Revival, pp.48-70; J. Th. Leerssen, Antiquarian Research: Patriotism to Nationalism, pp.71-83; Augustine Martin, Anglo-Irish Poetry: Moore to Ferguson, pp.84-104; John Cronin, The Creative Dilemma of Gerald Griffin, pp.105-118; R. B. Walsh, John ODonovan, The Man and the Scholar, pp.119-39; Desmond Guinness, The Volunteer Earl, pp.140-47. [Essays in Pt. concern Irish in Canada] |
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Julia Carlson, Banned in Ireland: Censorship & the Irish Writer, intro. and ed. Julia Carlson, for Article 19; Preface by Kevin Boyle [founder of Art. 19] (London: Routledge/US:Georgia UP 1990), 176pp, index. CONTENTS: Interviews with Irish Writers, Benedict Kiely [23-35], John Broderick [39-51], John McGahern [55-67], Edna OBrien [71-79], Lee Dunne [83-95], Maurice Leitch [99-108], Brian Moore [111-121]. Appendix contains AE [George Russell], The Censorship Bill [Irish Statesman 10 (1928), 486-87)]; W B Yeats, The Censorship and St Thomas Aquinas [Irish Statesman 11 (1928), 47-48; rep. in Uncollected Prose, Reviews, Arts., and Other Misc. Prose 1897-1939, ed. J P Frayne and Colton Johston (Lon. 1975), 477-80]; G Bernard Shaw, The Irish Censorship [Irish Statesman 11 (1928), 206-08]; Liam OFlaherty, the Irish Censorship [The American Spectator 1 (Nov. 1932)]; Samuel Beckett, Censorship in the Saorstat [commissioned by The Bookman 1935; publ. 1983, in Disjecta:Misc. Writings and a Dramatic Fragment, ed. Ruby Cohn, pp.84-88; Sean OFaolain, The Mart of Ideas [Bell 4 (June 1942), pp.153-57)]; Frank OConnor, Frank OConnor on Censorship [The Dubliner (Mar 1962), 39-44]; also Notes, Select Bibliography; Index. BIBL incl. Michael Adams, Censorship: The Irish Experience (Dubln:Sceptre 1968); Terence Brown, A Social and cultural History 1922-1985 (Fontana 1987); Kieran Woodman, Media Control in Ireland 1923-1983 (Galway: Officina Typographica 1985); Peter R. Connolly, Censorship, Christus Rex 13 (1959), 151-70 [Ireland should not be bereft of the salutary criticism of its own most passionately aware members
cynicism about the Act and contempt for Censorship in general. |
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Neil Corcoran, The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland (Brigend, Mid Glamorgan: Seren Books; Dufour 1992), 288pp. CONTENTS: Gerald Dawe, Invocation of Powers John Montague [15]; Stan Smith, Seamus Heaney: The distance between [35]; Peter McDonald, Michael Longleys Homes [65]; Hugh Haughton, Even now there are places where a thought might grow: Places and Displacement in the Poetry of Derek Mahon [87]; Clair Wills, The Lie of the Land: Language, Imperialism and Trade in Paul Muldoons Meeting the British [123]; Richard Brown, Bog Poems and Book Poems: Doubleness, Self-Transition and Pun in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon [153]; Bernard ODonoghue, Involved Imagings: Tom Paulin [171]; Thomas Docherty, Initiation, Tempers, Seductions: Postmodern McGuckian [191]; Corcoran, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Ciaran Carsons The Irish for No [213]; John Kerrigan, Ulster Ovids [237]; Selected Bibl. [270]; Index. [279]; notes on contributors [287]. |
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Gerald Dawe & Edna Longley, eds., Across the Roaring Hill: The Protestant Imagination in Modern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1985), 242pp. CONTENTS:
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John Kelly, Choosing and Inventing: Yeats and Ireland |
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D.E.S. Maxwell, J. M. Synge and Samuel Beckett |
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Michael Allen, A Note on Sex in Beckett |
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W. J. McCormack, The Protestant Strain: Or, A Short History of Anglo-lrish Literature
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James Simmons, The Recipe for all Misfortunes, Courage |
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Edna Longley, Louis MacNeice: The Walls are Flowing |
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Bridget OToole, Three Writers of the Big House: Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane
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John Wilson Foster, The Dissidence of Dissent: John Hewitt and W.R. Rodgers |
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Mark Storey, Bewildered Chimes: Image, Voice and Structure in Recent Irish Fiction |
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Terence Brown, Poets and Patrimony: Richard Murphy and James Simmons |
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Lynda Henderson, The Green Shoot: Transcendence and the Imagination in Contemporary Ulster Drama |
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Geraid Dawe, Icon and Lares: Dejrek Mahon and Michael Longley |
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Bibliography
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Douglas Dunn, ed., Two Decades of Irish Writing (Carcanet Press 1975), 256pp.+ index. CONTENTS: Introduction; Seamus Deane, Irish poetry and Irish Nationalism: A Survey [4]; Michael Allen, Provincialism and Recent Irish Poetry: The Importance of Patrick Kavanagh [23]; Donald Davie, Austen Clarke and Padraic Fallon [37]; Stan Smith, On Other Grounds: The Poetry of Brian Coffey [59]; Terence Brown, The Poetry of WR Rodgers and John Hewitt [81]; Michael Longley, The Neolithic Night: A Note on the Irishness of Louis MacNeice [98]; Seamus Heaney, The Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh: From Monaghan to the Grand Canal [105]; Edna Longley, Searching the Darkness: The Poetry of Richard Murphy, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, and James Simmons [118]; Michael Smith, The Contemporary Situation in Irish Poetry [154]; D. E. S. Maxwell, Contemporary Poetry in the North of Ireland [166]; James Atlas, The Prose of Samuel Beckett: Notes from the Terminal Ward [186]; Lorna Sage, Flann OBrien [197]; Roger Garfitt, Constants in Contemporary Irish Fiction [207]; Tom Paulin, A Necessary Provincialism: Brian Moore, Maurice Leitch, Florence Mary McDowell [244]. |
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Joris Duytschaever & Geert Lernout, eds., History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Literature [Conference of 9 April 1986; Costerus Ser. Vol. 71] (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1988), 135pp. CONTENTS: Preface, p.3; Brendan Kennelly, Poetry and Violence, pp.5-27 [keynote]; Joep Leerssen, Táin and Táin: The Mythical Past and the Anglo-Irish, pp.19-45; Louis Dieltjens, The Abbey Theatre as a Cultural Formation, pp.47-65; Lernout, Banville and Being: The Newton Letter and History, pp.67-77; Theo dHaen, Desmond Hogan and Irelands Post-Modern Past, pp.79-83; Ginete Verstraete, Brian Friels Drama and the Limits of Language, pp.85-96; Duytschaever, History in the Poetry of Derek Mahon, pp.97-109; W. J. McCormack, Finnegans Wake and Irish Literary History, pp.111-35. |
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Barbara Hayley & Christopher Murray, eds., Ireland and France - A Bountiful Friendship: Essays in Honour of Patrick Rafroidi (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), 221pp., index. CONTENTS: A. N. Jeffares [poems]; Brian Moore [appreciation]; F. X. Martin [17th c. Irish Capuchins in France and Holland]; Seamus Deane [Burke & Montesquieu]; Richard Kearney [Irish heritage in French Revolution]; Claude Fierobe [Maturins Albigenses]; Bernard Escarbelt [John Banim in France]; Jacqueline Genet [Yeatss Crazy Jane]; Brigit Brämsback [James Stephens & Thomas Bodkin]; Maurice Harmon [Mary Lavin, moralist]; Rüdiger Imhof [Post-Joycean experiment]; Robert Welch [Denis Devlin & Montaigne]; Terence Brown [Derek Mahon]; Pierre Joannon [French perspect. on Irish identity]; Maurice Goldring [Paisley/Le Pen]; Mark Mortimer [Etudes Irlandaises & Rafroidi]; Desmond Egan [LOeuillet Invisible/The Invisible Carnation, ded. poem & trans.] |
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Paul Hyland & Neil Sammells, eds., Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion [Insight series] [from Bath College of Higher Ed.] ] (London: Macmillan 1991), pbk., 256pp., with index [0 333 52541 8/6] CONTENTS: Stephen H Daniel, The Subversive Philosophy of John Toland [1-12]; Hyland, Naming Names: Swift and Steele [13-31]; Robert Phiddian, The English Swift/The Irish Swift [32-44]; Bryan Coleborne, They sate in counterview: Anglo-Irish Verse in the Eighteenth Century [45-63]; Alan Booth, Irish Exiles: Revolution and Writing in England in the 1790s [64-81]; Margaret OBrien, William Carleton: The Lough Derge Exile [82-97]; Graham Davis, Making History: John Mitchel and the Great Famine [98-115]; Declan Kiberd, Yeats, Childhood and Exile [126-145]; C. L. Innes, A Voice in Directing the Affairs of Ireland: LIrlande Libre, The Shan Van Vocht, and Bean na hEireann [146-58]; Bonnie Scott Kime, James Joyce: A Subversive Geography of Gender [159-72]; Keith Williams, Joyces Chinese Alphabet: Ulysses and the Proletarians [173-87]; Charles R. Lyons, Fin de partie as Political Drama [188-208]; R. K. R. Thornton, Friel and Shaw: Dreams and Responsibilities [224-33]; Neil Corcoran, Strange Letters: Reading and Writing in Recent Irish Poetry [234-47; End]. |
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Michael Kenneally, ed. Irish Literature and Culture, [CAIS Conference, Marianopolis 1988; [in] Irish Literary Studies Ser., No. 35] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), 196pp. CONTENTS: Preface [ix]; Hiroshi Suzuki, Opening Address [1]; Andrew Carpenter, Changing Views of Irish Musical and Literary Culture in Eighteenth-centry Anglo-Irish Literature [5]; Terry Eagleton, Aesthetics and Politics in Edmund Burke [25]; Mary Helen Thuente, The Literary Significance of the United Irishmen [35]; Patrick Rafroidi, Thomas Moore: Towards a Reassessment? [55]; Zack Bowen, Music and Ritual in Ulysses [63]; Richard Allen Cave, Stage Design as a Form of Dramatic Art [72]; Edna Longley, No More Poems About Paintings? [90]; Wolfgang Zack, Criticism, Theatre and Politics: Brian Friels The Freedom of the City and its Early Reception [112]; Declan Kiberd, Fathers and Sons: Irish-Style [127]; Richard Kearney, Modern Irish Cinema: Re-viewing Traditions [144]; John Wilson Foster, Culture and Colonisation: A Northern Perspective [158]; Notes, 173; Contributors, 186; Index, 189. |
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Michael Kenneally, ed., Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature [Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature 2; Irish Literary Studies 43] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1995), 462pp. CONTENTS: Introduction [ix]; Rory Brennan, Contemporary Irish Poetry: An Overview [1]; Eamon Grennan, The American Connection: An Influence on Modern and Contemporary Irish Poetry [28]; Dennis ODriscoll, Foreign Relations: Irish and International Poetry [48]; Stan Smith, The Language of Displacement In Contemporary Irish Poetry [61]; Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Contemporary Poetry in Irish: Private Language And Ancestral Voices [84]; Gerardine Meaney, History Gasps: Myth In Contemporary Irish Womens Poetry [99]; Tom Clyde. The Echo Chamber: Some Emerging Ulster Poets [114]; Ron Marken. Michael Foley, Robert Johnstone and Frank Ormsby: Three Ulster Poets in the Go Situation [130]; Terence Brown, Telling Tales: Kennellys Cromwell, Muldoons The More A Man Has The More A Man Wants [144]; Peter Denman, Ways of Saying: Boland, Carson, McGuckian [158]; Peter McDonald, Seamus Heaney as A Critic [174]; Rand Brandes, A Shaping Music: Richard Murphys The Price of Stone [190]; Gerald Dawe, Poetry As Example: Kinsellas Peppercanister Poems [204]; Richard Allen Cave, John Montague: Poetry of the Depersonalised Self [216]; Robert Tracy, Into An Irish Free State: Heaney, Sweeney And Clearing Away [238]; Alan Peacock, Michael Longley: Poet Between Worlds [263]; Edna Longley, Derek Mahon: Extreme Religion of Art [280]; Maurice Elliott, Paul Durcan - Duarchain, [304]; Elmer Andrews, Tom Paulin: Underground Resistance Fighter [329]; Linda Revie, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaills Parthenogenesis: A Bisexual Exchange [344]; Kathleen McCracken, Ciaran Carson: Unravelling The Conditional, Mapping The Provisional [356]; Clair Wills, Voices From The Nursery: Medbh McGuckians Plantation [373]; Bernard ODonoghue, The Half-Said Thing To Them Is Dearest: Paul Muldoon [395]; Notes [419]; Notes on Contributors [451], Index [455]. |
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Heinz Kosok & Wolfgang Zach, eds., Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, 3 vols. (Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987) [270pp; 370pp. 244pp.] - CONTENTS: |
Vol. I - Reception and Translation
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- Wolfgang Zach, Introduction [ix].
- Robert Welch, Translation and Irish Poetry in English [1].
- Andrew Carpenter, Irish and Anglo-Irish Scholars in the Time of Swift: The Case of Anthony Raymond [11].
- Walter T. Rix, Ireland as a Source of German Interest in the Early Nineteenth Century: From Politics to Literature [21].
- Istvan Palffy, Hungarian Views of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century [33].
- Barbara Hayley, The Eeerishers are marchin in leeterature: British Critical Reception of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Fiction [39].
- Birgit Bramsback, William Butler Yeats and Sweden [51].
- Ivanka Koviloska-Poposka, The Reception of Yeats in Macedonian [61].
- Waffia Mursi, Moliere and the Abbey Theatre [69].
- Palmira De Angelis & Odetta Tita Farinella, Synge in Italian: Problems of Translation [75].
- Theo Dhaen, Translation, Adaptation, Inspiration: The Creative Reception of Anglo-Irish Works in Dutch Literature [81].
- Svetozar Koljevic, The Reception and Translation of James Joyce in Serbo-Croat [91].
- Jerneja Petric, How Adequately Can Joyce Be Translated? Ulysses and its Slovene Translation [101].
- John Paul Riquelme, Ireland and Switzerland: The Cases of James Joyce and Fritz Senn [109].
- Mada Edekon, Polish Critics on Joyce Cary [117].
- Richard Wall, The Stage History and Reception of Brendan Behans An Giall [123].
- Paul C Buchloh, et al., The Transposition of Politics in Anglo-Irish Drama: Brendan Behan on the German Stage [131].
- Gizella Kocztur, Anglo-Irish and Hingarian Relations [141].
- Doroffiea Siegmund-Schultze, Some Remarks on the Reception of Anglo-Irish Literature in the German Democratic Republic [149].
- Mirko Jurak, Irish Playwrights in the Slovene Theatre [159].
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Vol. II - Comparison and Impact
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- Heinz Kosok Anglo-Irish Literature and Comparative Literary Studies in English [3].
- Mary E. F. Fitzgerald, The Unveiling of Power: 19th Century Gothic Fiction in Ireland, England and America [15].
- Richard Ellmann, The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats and Joyce [27].
- Maria Gottwald, New Approaches and Techniques in the Short Story of James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield [41].
- Peter Barta, Childhood in the Autobiographical Novel. An Examination of Tolstoys Childhood, Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Belys Kotik Letaev [49].
- Ljiljana Gjurgjan, The Subversion of a Traditional Value System Built into Language in Joyces Portrait and Kamovs Dried-Up Bog [57].
- Johannes Kleinstuck, Yeats and Ibsen [65].
- Maria Kurdi, Parallels between the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Endre Ady [75].
- Csilla Bertha, An Irish and a Hungarian Model of Mythical Drama: W. B. Yeats and Aron Tamasi [85].
- Jacqueline Genet, W.B. Yeats and W. H Auden [95].
- Ann Saddlemyer, At Home in the Theatre: Irelands Lady Gregory and Canadas Gwen Pharis Ringwood [111].
- Cecelia Zeiss, Aspects of the Short Story: A Consideration of Selected Works of Frank OConnor and Herman Charles Bosman [121].
- T.O. McLoughlin, Fables from the Desert: Functions of Irony in Beckett and Some Southern African Writers [129].
- Anthony Roche, A Bit Off the Map: Brian Friels Translations and Shakespeares Henry IV [139].
- Desirée Hirst, Modern Writing in English from Ireland and Wales: A Comparative Study [149].
- Walentyna Wltoszek, Culturomachia in Modern Irish and Polish Drama [161].
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- Julian Moynahan, Gerald Griffin and Charles Dickens [173].
- Patricia Coughlan, The Recycling of Melmoth: A Very German Story [181].
- Jolanta Natlecz-Wojtczak, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu and New Dimensions for the English Ghost Story [193].
- Samira Basta, The French Influence on Dion Boucicaults Sensation Drama [199].
- Patrick ONeill, Ossians Return: The German Factor in the Irish Literary Revival [207].
- Suheil Badi Bushrui, Yeats, India, Arabia, and Japan The Search for a Spiritual Philosophy [221].
- B. N. Prasad, The Impact of W. B. Yeats on Modern Indian Poetry [235].
- Donald T. Torchiana, W. B. Yeats and Italian Idealism [245].
- William E. Hart, Synge and Sienkiewicz [255].
- Peter Egri, Synge and ONeill: Inspiration and Influence [261].
- E. H. Mikhail, The International Role of the Abbey Theatre [269].
- Fethi Hassaine, The Influence of Bergson and Dujardin on Moores The Lake and Joyces The Dead [273].
- Carla de Petris, The Shade of Shelley: From Prometheus to Ulysses [283].
- Monika Fludernik, The Ulyssean Paradigm of the Modern Novel [293].
- Barbara Fisher, The Influence of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky on Joyce Cary with Particular Reference to Carys Irish Novels [299].
- Ruth Fleischmann, Old Irish and Classical Pastoral Elements in Patrick Kavanaghs Tarry Flynn [311].
- Margaret E. Fogarty, The Fiction of Iris Murdoch: Amalgam of Yeatsian and Joycean Motifs [323].
- Rüdiger Imhof, German Influences on John Banville and Aidan Higgins [335].
- Ruth Niel, Non-realistic Techniques in the Plays of Brian Friel: The Debt to International Drama [349].
- Joseph Swann, The Poet as Critic: Seamus Heaneys Reading of Wordsworth, Hopkins and Yeats [361].
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Vol. III - National Images and Stereotypes |
Wolfgang Zach, Introduction [ix].
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- Terence Brown, Saxon and Celt: The Stereotypes [1].
- Patrick Rafroidi, Franco-Irish Encounters of the Literary Kind [11].
- Aladar Sarbu, Literary Nationalism: Ireland and Hungary [19].
- Giuseppe Serpillo, Why donsh yeh tell ush shometin about Marseille?: Being Abroad and Being Irish - Being Irish is Being Abroad [27].
- Maurice Colgan, Exotics or Provincials?: Anglo-Irish Writers and the English Problem [35].
- Janet Madden-Simpson, Haunted Houses: The Image of the Anglo-Irish in Anglo-Irish Literature [41].
- Kathleen Rabl, Taming the Wild Irish in English Renaissance Drama [47].
- Peter Bischoff & Peter Noçon, The Image of the Irish in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture [61].
- Christopher J. Woods, American Travellers in Ireland before and during the Great Famine: A Case of Culture-Shock [77].
- Harold Orel, William Carleton: Attitudes toward the English and the Irish [85].
- Gunther Klotz, Thackerays Ireland: Image and Attitude in The Irish Sketch Book and Barry Lyndon [95].
- Jochen Achilles, Transformations of the Stage Irishman in Irish Drama: 1860-1910 [103].
- Richard A. Cave, The Presentation of English and Irish Characters in Boucicaults Irish Melodramas [115].
- Steven D. Putzel, Whiskey, Blarney and Land: Eugene ONeills Conceptions and Misconceptions of the Irish [125].
- Robert ODriscoll, A Greater Renaissance: The Revolt of the Soul against the Intellect [133].
- Maurice Riordan, Matthew Arnold and the Irish Revivall [145].
- Patrick F. Sheeran, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: A Tourist of the Revolutions [153].
- Ferenc Takacs, Joyce and Hungary [161].
- Siga Asanga, Joyce Carys Representation of African Reality: A Study of Carys Novels on Africa [169].
- Lorna Reynolds, The Image of Spain in the Novels of Kate OBrien [181].
- Michael Kenneally, Ireland and Russia in the Autobiographical Imagination of Sean OCasey [189].
- Werner Huber, Autobiography and Stereotypy: Some Remarks on Brendan Behans Borstal Boy [197].
- Brendan P. O Hehir, Flann OBrien and the Big World [207].
- Donald E. Morse, From Heaven to Hell: Ireland in the Novels of J. P. Donleavy [217].
- Paul N. Robinson, Brian Friels Faith Healer: An Irishman Comes Back Home [223].
- Patricia Kelly, The Big House in Contemporary Anglo-Irish Literature [229].
- Klaus Lubbers, Balcony of Europe: The Trend towards Internationalization in Recent Irish Fiction [235].
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Geert Lernout, ed., The Crows Behind the Plough: History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Poetry and Drama [Costerus Ser., Vol. 79] (Amsterdam: Rodopi 1991), 173pp. CONTENTS: Nina Witoszeck & Patrick Sheeran, The Tradition of Vernacular Hatred, pp.11-27; Werner Huber, Notes on Becketts Reception in Germany, pp.29-39; Gerald Fitzgibbon, Historical Obsession in Recent Irish Drama, pp.41-59; Christopher Murray, Brian Friels Making History and the Problem of Historical Accuracy, pp.61-77; Ulrich Schneider, Staging History in Contemporary Anglo-Irish Drama: Brian Friel and Frank McGuinness, pp.79-98; Riana ODwyer, Dancing in the Borderlands: The Plays of Frank McGuinness, pp.99-115; Rüdiger Imhof, The Gigli Concert Revisited, pp.117-27; Tjebbe Westendorp, The Great War in Irish Memory: The Case of Poetry, pp.129-41; Peter van de Kamp, Desmond Egan: Universal Provincialist, pp.143-57; Edna Longley, Traditionalism and Modernism in Irish Poetry, pp.159-73. |
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Vincent Newey & Ann Thompson, eds., Literature and Nationalism [Liverpool English texts and Studies] (Liverpool UP 1991), xiii, 286pp. In honour of Philips Edwards] CONTENTS: R.A. Foakes, Coleridge, Napoleon and nationalism; Bernard Beatty, Byron and the paradoxes of nationalism; Hazard Adams, Yeats and antithetical nationalism; Ruth Nevo, Yeats, Shakespeare and nationalism; Edna Longley, Defending Irelands Soul: Protestant writers and Irish nationalism after independence; Terence Brown, McNeices Ireland, McNeices Islands; Nicholas Grene, Murpheys Ireland : Bailegangaire; Kenneth Muir, Dissident poets; Donald Davie, Another old Bolshevik: a melodrama for three voices. Bibl. references, pp.271-74;and Index. [Publishers notice cited at Google Books - online; 31.07.2023.] |
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Patrick OSullivan, ed., The Irish World Wide, (Leicester UP 1992; pb. edn. 1997) - [6] vols.: |
Vol. I: Patterns of Migration [ISBN 0 7185 0118 7]: CONTENTS, Patrick OSullivan, General Introduction to the Series; OSullivan, Introduction: Patterns of Migration; 1: Patrick Fitzgerald, Like Crickets to the crevice of a Brew-house: poor Irish migrants in England, 1560-1640; 2: John McGurk, Wild Geese: The Irish in European armies (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries); 3. Patrick McKenna, Irish migration to Argentina; 4. Joseph A. King, The Murphys and the Breens of the overland parties to California, 1844 and 1846; 5. James Sturgis, Ned Kelly (Australia) and William Donnelly (Canada) in comparative perspective; 6. Alun Munslow, A bigger, better and busier Boston- The pursuit of Irish political legitimacy: the Boston Irish, 1890-1920; 7. T. D. Regehr, The Irish childhood and youth of a Canadian capitalist; 8. Seamus Grimes, Friendship patterns and social networks among post-war Irish migrants in Sydney. |
Vol. II: The Irish in the New Communities [ISBN 0 7185 0116 0]. CONTENTS: Patrick OSullivan, Introduction: The Irish in the New Communities; 1. M. A. Busteed, R. I. Hodgson and T. F. Kennedy, The myth and reality of Irish migrants in mid-nineteenth century Manchester: a preliminary study; 2. Roger Swift, The historiography of the Irish in nineteenth century Britain; 3. David M. Emmons, Faction fights: The Irish worlds of Butte, Montana, 1875-1917; 4. Donald Harman Akenson, The historiography of the Irish in the United States; 5. Gordon Forth, No petty people: the Anglo-Irish identity in colonial Australia; 6. Karen P. Corrigan, I gcuntas De muin Bearla do na leanbhain: eismirce agus an Ghaeilge sa naou aois deagFor Gods sake teach the children English: emigration and the Irish language in the ninettenth century; 7. Laurence M. Geary, Australia felix: Irish doctors in nineteenth century Victoria; 8. Ellen Hazelkorn, We cant all live on a small island: the political economy of Irish migration; 9. Liam Greenslade, White skins, white masks: psychological distress among the Irish in Britain; 10. Nessan Danaher, Irish studies: a historical survey across the Irish diaspora. |
Vol. III: [Q. title] [ISBN 0 7185 0114 4]. CONTENTS: Patrick OSullivan, Introduction: The Creative Migrant; 1. Martin J. Counihan, Ireland and the scientific tradition; 2. James P. Myers, Jnr., Till their... bog-trotting feet get talaria: Henry D. Thoreau and the immigrant Irish; 3. Patrick OSullivan, The Irish joke; 4. Owen Dudley Edwards, The stage Irish; 5. Frank Molloy, The sigh of thy harp shall be sent oer the deep: the influence of Thomas Moore in Australia; 6. Patrick J. Quinlivan, Hunting the fenians: problems in the historiography of a secret organisation; 7. Bernard Canavan, Story-tellers and writers: Irish identity in emigrant labourers autobiographies, 1870-1970; 8. Kevin Rockett, The Irish migrant and film 9. John P. Cullinane, Irish dance world-wide: Irish migrants and the shaping of Irish traditional dance; 10. Graeme Smith, My love is in America: migration and Irish music. |
Vol. IV: Irish Women and Irish Migration [...] |
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David Trotter, The English Novel in History, 1895-1920 (London: Routledge 1993), vi, 337pp. CONTENTS: Part I: Economies and Styles 1. Consuming Passions 2. Labour 3. Gold Standards 4. Thresholds 5. Interiors 6. The Relevance of Ulysses. Part II: Nation and Society 7. Degeneration 8. Declensions 9. Frontiers 10. Englishness 11. Spies 12. Awakenings. Part III. The Psychopathology of Modernism 13. Sex Novels 14. Disgust 15. Jamess Old Women 16. Irony and Revulsion in Kipling and Conrad 17. Waiting - Jamess Last Novels 18. Wyndham Lewis 19. Stephen Hero and Bloom the Obscure. |
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Robert Welch, ed., Irish Writers and Religion, ed. by Robert Welch [Irish Literary Studies: 37; IASIL-Japan ser. 4] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), xiii, 242pp.; CONTENTS: Robert Welch, Introduction [ix-xiii]; Séamus MacMathúna, Paganism and Society in Early Ireland [11]; Joseph McMinn, Literature and Religion in Eighteenth-century Ireland: A Critical Survey [15]; Barbara Hayley, Religion and Society in Nineteenth-century Irish Fiction [32]; Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, The Word, The Lore, and the Spirit: Folk Religion and the Supernatural in Modern Irish Literature [43]; Peter Denman, Ghosts in Anglo-Irish Literature [62], A. M. Gibbs, Shaw and Creative Evolution [75]; Ruth Fleischmann, Catholicism in the Culutre of the New Ireland: Canon Sheehan and Daniel Corkery [89]; Mitsuko Ohno, Yeats and Religion [105]; Eamon Hughes, Joyce and Catholicism [116]; Anne McCartney, Francis Sstuart and Religion: Sharing the Lepers Lair [138]; Alan Peacock, Received Religion and Secular Vision: MacNeice and Kavanagh [148]; Lance St John Butler, A Mythology with Which I am Perfectly Fami Samuel Beckett and the Absence of God [169]; Patrick Rafroidi, Pilgrims Progress: On the Poetry of Desmond Egan and Others [185]; Desmond Egan, Religion? [190]; Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Mis an Dubh Ruis: a Parable of Psychic Transformation [194]; Notes [203]; Notes on Contributors [232]; index. Bibl. pp.203-31; Index [235]. Preview available at Google Books - online. |
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Alan Peacock, ed., The Achievement of Brian Friel (Gerrards Cross 1993), 267pp.; CONTENTS: Alan Peacock, Introduction [xi]; John Cronin, Donging the Tower - The Past Did Have Meaning: The Short Stories of Brian Friel [1]; Neil Corcoran, The Penalties of Retrospect: Continuities in Brian Friel [14]; Elmer Andrews, The Fifth Province [29]; Desmond Maxwell, Figures in a Peepshow: Friel and the Irish Dramatic Tradition [49]; Christopher Murray, Friels Emblems of Adversity and the Yeatsian Example [69]; Thomas Kilroy, Theatrical Text and Literary Text [91]; Seamus Deane, Brian Friel: The Name of The Game [103]; Alan Peacock, Translating the Past: Friel, Greece and Rome [113]; Robert Welch, Isnt This Your Job? - To Translate?: Brian Friels Languages [134]; Sean Connolly, Translating History: Brian Friel and the Irish Past [149]; Richard York, Friels Russia [164]; Joe Dowling, Staging Friel [178]; Terence Brown, Have We a Context?: Transition, Self and Society in the Theatre of Brian Friel [190]; Fintan OToole, Marking Time: from Making History to Dancing at Lughnasa [202]; John McVeagh, A Kind of Comhar: Charles Macklin and Brian Friel [215]; Seamus Heaney, For Liberation: Brian Friel and the Use of Memory [229]; 241; Select Bibliography, 254; Notes on Contributors, 259; Index, 263. |
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James Kelly & Uáitéar Mac Gearailt, ed., Dublin and Dubliners: Essays in the History and Literature of Dublin City [Helicon History of Ireland] Dublin: Helicon 1990), 237pp., ill. [maps; 22 cm.]. CONTENTS: Part I - History and education. James Kelly, Napper Tandy: radical and republican; Patrick ODonoghue, John Thomas Troy, Archbishop of Dublin 1785-1823: a man of his times; Patrick Kelly, Drumcondra, Clonliffe and Glasnevin township 1878-1900; Pauric Travers, Our Fenian Dead : Glasnevin cemetery and the genesis of the republican funeral; Ciarán Ó Coigligh, Padraig Mac Piarais oideachasoir; Andrew Burke, Trinity College and the religious problem in Irish education; Part 2 - Language and literature: Alan Titley, The city of words; Liam Mac Mathúna, An Ghaeilge mar theanga phobail i mBaile Átha Cliath; John Killeen, Dubliners in Joyce; Tom Halpin, Strumpet City and her songster; Patrick Burke, Juno and the playwrights: the drama of Dublin. |
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Jane H. Ohlmeyer, ed., Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641-1660 (Cambridge UP 1995), li, 324pp. ill., maps. CONTENTS: Jane Ohlmeyer, Introduction: a failed revolution?; Nicholas Canny, What really happened in Ireland in 1641?; Scott Wheeler, Four armies in Ireland; Rolf Loeber & Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland; Jane Ohlmeyer, Ireland independent: confederate foreign policy and international relations during the mid-seventeenth century; Michelle ORiordan, Political poems in the mid-seventeenth-century crisis; John Adamson, Straffords ghost: the British context of Viscount Lisles lieutenancy of Ireland; Raymond Gillespie, The Irish economy at war, 1641-1652; Kevin McKenny, The seventeenth-century land settlement in Ireland: towards a statistical interpretation; Phil Kilroy, Radical religion in Ireland, 1641-1660; T. C. Barnard, The Protestant interest, 1641-1660; Aidan Clarke, 1659 and the road to Restoration; T. C. Barnard, Conclusion: settling and unsettling Ireland: the Cromwellian and Williamite revolutions. |
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William Nolan, Thomas P. Power, eds., with Des Cowman [assoc. ed.], Waterford History & Society [Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county; Irish county history series, 5] (Dublin: Geography 1992), xxiv, 754pp., ill., 24cm. CONTENTS: 1. Michael Moore, Peter Woodman, The prehistory of County Waterford; 2. Sarah Sanderlin; The monastery of Lismore, A.D. 638-111; 3. Maurice Hurley, Late Viking age settlement in Waterford City; 4. Tadhg OKeeffe, Romanesque architecture and sculpture at Ardmore; 5. John Bradley and Andrew Halpin, The topographical development of Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman Waterford City; 6. Adrian Empey, Anglo-Norman Waterford, 1200-1300; 7. Eamon McEneaney, Mayors and merchants in medieval Waterford, 1169-1495; 8. Julian Walton, Church, crown and corporation in Waterford City, 1520-1620; 9. Catherine Ketch, County Waterford from the Civil Survey; 10. Thomas Power, Electoral politics in Waterford City, 1692-1832; 11. Eoghan OSuilleabhain, Scriobhaithe Phort Lairge, 1700-1900; 12. Henry F. Morris, The Principle Inhabitants of County Waterford in 1746; 13. Kenneth Milne, The corporation of Waterford in the eighteenth century; 14. Cyril Byrne, The Waterford Colony in Newfoundland, 1700-1850; 15. Q. auth., Vessels, masters and seafaring: patterns in Waterford voyages, 1766-1771; 16. Daire Keogh, Thomas Hussey, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 1797-1803 and the Rebellion of 1798; 17. Des Cowman, Trade and society in Waterford City, 1800-1840; 18. Maurice B. Kiely, William Nolan, Politics, land and rural conflict in County Waterford, c. 1830-1845; 19. Peter Solar, The agricultural trade of the port of Waterford, 1809-1909; 20. Lindsay Proudfoot, The estate system in mid-nineteenth century County Waterford 21. Jack Burtchaell, A typology of settlement and society in County Waterford c. 1850; 22. Christine Kinealy, The workhouse system in County Waterford, 1838-1923; 23. Thomas A. ODonoghue; The bilingual programme of instruction in the County Waterford Gaeltacht, 1904-1922; 24. Rionach Ui Ogain, The folklore of County Waterford; 25. Emmet OConnor, Trades councils of County Waterford; 26. Diarmaid Ó hAirt, Senchas OChnoc Na Faille; 27. Q.auth., Industry in Waterford City, 1932-1962; 28. Proinnsias Breathnach, The development of the dairy industry in County Waterford; 29. Donald Brady, A select bibliography of County Waterford.. |
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Seán Hutton & Paul Stewart, eds., Irish Histories: Aspects of State, Society and Ideology (London: Routledge 1991), 304pp. CONTENTS: Seán Hutton and Paul Stewart, Introduction: perspectives on Irish history and social studies; David S. Johnson and Liam Kennedy; Nationalist Historiography and the Decline of the Irish economy: George OBrien Revisited; D.R. OConnor Lysaght. A Saorstát is Born: How the Irish Free State Came into Being; Seán Hutton, Labour in the Post-independence Irish State: An Overview; Joseph Lee, The Irish Constitution of 1937; Jim Smyth, Industrial Development and the Unmaking of the Irish Working Class; J.W. McAuley and P.J. McCormack, The Protestant Working Class and the State in Northern Ireland since 1930: A Problematic Relationship; Donald Graham, Tearing the House Down: Religion and Employment in the Northern Ireland Housing Executive; Margaret Ward, The Womens Movement in the North of Ireland: Twenty Years On; Bob Purdie, The Demolition Squad: Bew, Gibbon and Patterson on the Northern Ireland State; Paul Stewart, The Jerrybuilders: Bew, Gibbon and Patterson, the Protestant Working Class and the Northern Ireland state; Patrick OSullivan, Patrick MacGill: the Making of a Writer; Ann Rossiter, Bringing the Margins into the Centre: A Review of Aspects of Irish Womens Emigration; Jonathan Moore, Missing the Boat: the Labour Party and the Irish Question. |
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