Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & its Contexts: 1996

Samuel Beckett
• Abbott, H. Porter, Beckett: The Author in the Autograph (Cornell UP 1996), 210pp.
• Breuer, Rolf, and Werner Huber, A Checklist of Beckett Criticism in German (Ferdinand Schöningh 1996), 100pp.
• Cronin, Anthony, Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist (London: HarperCollins 1996), 645pp.
• Gussow, Mel, Conversations with (and about) Beckett (London: Nick Hern 1996), 160pp.
• Knowlson, James, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury 1996), 872pp.
• Oppenheim, Lois, and Marius Buning, eds., Beckett On and On ... (Associated UP 1996).
• Oppenheim, Lois, and Marius Buning, eds., Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (Associated UP 1996)

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James Joyce
• Barta, Peter I., Bely, Joyce, and Doblin (Florida UP 1996), 152pp.
• Beja, Morris, and David Norris, Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis (Ohio State UP 1996), 368pp.
• Bell, Robert H., Jocoserious Joyce: The Fate of Folly in Ulysses (Florida UP 1996), 248pp.
• Blamires, Harry, The New Bloosmday Book: a guide through Ulysses [3rd edn.] (London: Routledge 1996), 264pp.
• Blamires, Harry, The New Bloosmday Book: a guide through Ulysses [3rd edn.] (Routledge 1996), 264pp.
• Brivic, Sheldon, Joyce’s Waking Women: An Introduction to Finnegans Wake (Madison: Wisconsin UP; Eurospan 1996), 162pp. [0 299 14804 1 pb].
• Burrell, Harry, Narrative Design in Finnegans Wake: The Wake Lock Picked [The Florida James Joyce Series] (Florida UP [?1996), 232pp.
• Connor, Steven, James Joyce (Plymouth: Northcote House 1996), 110pp.
 
• Davidson, Neil R., James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography and ’the Jew’ in modernist Europe (Cambridge UP 1996), 305pp.
• Gottfried, Roy, Joyce’s Iritis and the irritated Text: The Dis-Lexic Ulysses (Florida UP 1996), 208pp.
• Hogan, Patrick Colm, Joyce, Milton, And The Theory of Influence (Florida UP 1996), 256pp.
• Kershner, R. B., ed., James Joyce and Popular Culture (Florida UP 1996), 256pp.
• Nadel, Ira B., Joyce and the Jews (Eurospan UP Group 1996), 304pp.

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Bram Stoker
• Belford, Barbara, Bram Stoker (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1996), 384pp.
• Glover, David, Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (Duke UP 1996).

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Oscar Wilde
• Eltis, Sos, Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde [English Monographs] (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996), 236pp.
• Gillespie, Michael Patrick, Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity (Florida UP 1996), 208pp.
• Stokes, John, Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations (Cambridge UP 1996), 216pp.

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W. B. Yeats
• Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, Gender and History in Yeats’s Love Poetry [1st pub. CUP 1993] (Syracuse UP 1996), 356pp.
• Foster, R. F., W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: ’The Apprentice Mage’ (OUP 1996), 625pp.
• Hardwick, Joan, The Yeats Sisters: a biography of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats (London: Pandora 1996), 271pp. ill.
• Sidnell, Michael J., Yeats’s Poetry and Poetics (NY: St. Martin’s Press [Macmillan] 1996), 208pp.
• Gould, Warwick, and Edna Longley, eds., Yeats Annual No. 12 [Special Number], That Accusing Eye: Yeats and his Irish Readers (Macmillan 1996).

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Literary Criticism: General
• Elmer Andrews, ed., Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays (London: Macmillan 1996), 344pp.[see contents].
• Crow, Brian, and Chris Banfield, An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre (Cambridge UP 1996), 186pp.
• Cullen, Fintan, Visual Politics: The Representation of Ireland 1750-1950 (Cork UP 1996), 350pp.
• DiBattista, Maria, & Lucy McDiarmid, eds., High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939 (NY: OUP 1996), x, 259pp., ill. [other contribs. incl. Havey Teres, David Bromwich, A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, Roy Foster, Edna Longley].
• Finneran, Richard, The Literary Text in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: Michigan UP UK: Plymbridge, Estover 1996), 250pp.
• Furomoto, Toshi, et al., eds., International Aspects of Irish Literature (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1996), 462pp.
• Genet, Jacqueline, & Wynne Hellegouarc’h, eds., Irish Writers and their Creative Process [1992 Conference at Caen Univ.] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1996), vii, 151pp.[see contents].
• Genet, Jacqueline, ed., Rural Ireland, Real Ireland? [Irish Literary Studies, 49] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1996), 245pp. [incls. essays on William Chaigneau, Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, J. M. Synge, Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O’Brien, et al.].
• Genet, Jacqueline, La Nouvelle Irlandaise de Language Anglaise [Université de Lille] (Presses Universitaire de Septentrion 1996), 208pp. [critiques of Yeats, Corkery, Banville, Jordan].
• Goodby, John, Irish Poetry 1955-1990 (Manchester UP 1996).
• Jeffares, A. N., Images of Invention [Irish Literary Studies 46] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1996), 351pp. [0 86140 140 362 X].
• Johnston, Dillon, Irish Poetry After Joyce (Notre Dame UP; Dublin: Dolmen 1985; rep. Syracuse 1996). [Joyce, rather than Yeats the model of mod. Irish verse].
• Liam O’Dowd, ed., On Intellectuals and Intellectual Life in Ireland: International, Comparative and Historical Contexts [Conference of May 1993] (Belfast: IIS/QUB/RIA 1996), viii, 165pp.
• Martin, Augustine, Bearing Witness: Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature (UCD press 1996), 274pp.
• Massoud, Mary, ed., Literary Inter-Relations: Ireland, Egypt, and the Far-East (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1996), 436pp.
• Matthews, Steven, Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation: The Evolving Debate 1969-Present (Macmillan 1996), 240pp.[see contents].

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Biographical and Critical Studies
• Callanan, Frank, T. M. Healy: The Rise and Fall of Parnell and the Establishment of the Irish Free State (Cork UP 1996), 320pp.
• Clarke, R. Dardis, Austin Clarke Remembered: essays, poems and reminiscences to mark the centenary of his birth (Dublin: Bridge Press 1996), 133pp. [contribs. incl. Derek Mahon, Brendan Kennelly, John Montague, and Seamus Heaney; essays and memoirs by Lucy Collins, Terence Brown, George A Schirmer, Augustine Martin, Thomas Kinsella, Thomas McCarthy, Michael Hartnett, Aileen Dempsey, and Patricia Boylan.]
• Cooke, Dennis, Persecuting Zeal: A Portrait of Ian Paisley (Dingle: Brandon 1996), 224pp. [by Princ. Of Edgehill Theol. College, Belfast].
• Costello, Francis J., Enduring the Most: The Life and Death of Terence MacSwiney (Dingle: Brandon 1996), 253pp. ill.
• de Bruyn, Frans, The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke (OUP 1996), 328pp.
• Fox, Christopher, and Brenda Tooley, Walking Naboth’s Vineyard: New Studies of Swift (Notre Dame UP [1996]), 224pp. [incl. essays by Seamus Deane; Margaret Anne Doody; A. C. Elias; Carole Fabricant; Robert Mahoney; Heinz J. Vienken; James Woolley.]
• Gailey, Andrew, Crying in the Wilderness. Jack Sayers: a liberal editor in Ulster 193969 (QUB/IIS 1996), 187pp.
• Gonzalez, Alexander G., Assessment of the Achievement of J. M. Synge (Greenwood Press 1996), 250pp.
• Gray, Tony, A Peculiar Man: The Life of George Moore (Sinclair-Stevenson 1996), 352pp. 8 plates.
• Holroyd, Michael, Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition (London: Chatto & Windus 1996), 848pp. [substantially abridged].
• John, Brian, Reading the Ground: The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella (Washington: Catholic UP 1996), 275pp.
• Kendall, Tim, Paul Muldoon (Bridgend: Seren 1996), 258pp.
• Kerney, Micheline, An Exile of Ireland: Hugh ONeill, Prince of Ulster (Dublin: Four Courts 1996), 154pp.
• McCoole, Sinéad, Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery, 1880-1935 (Dublin: Lilliput 1996), 242pp.
• O’Grady, John, The Life and Work of Sarah Purser (Dublin: Four Courts 1996), 288pp.
• Ring, Jim, Erskine Childers (London: John Murray 1996), 352pp. ill.
• Robinson, Nicholas K., Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature (Yale UP 1996), 214pp.
• Stallworthy, Jon, Louis MacNeice (London: Faber & Faber 1996), 572pp.
• Steinman, Michael, The Happiness of Getting it Down Right: Letters of Frank O’Connor to William Maxwell 1945-1966 (NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1996).
• Sullivan, Robert, A Matter of Faith: The Fiction of Brian Moore (Connecticut: Greenwood Press 1996).

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Scholarly Editions & Literary Reprints
• Carleton, William, The Black Prophet (1847) [Hibernia: Literature and Nation in Victorian Ireland] (Poole: Woodstock Books/Cassell 1996), 455pp.
• Kelly, A. A., ed., Letters of Liam O’Flaherty (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1996), 458pp.
• Pethica, James, ed., W. B. Yeats, Last Poems: Manuscript Materials (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP 1996), 471pp.
• Pethica, James, ed., Lady Gregory’s Diaries 1892-1902 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1996), 38pp+346pp. with 16pp.
ills.
• Tyson, Brian, ed., Bernard Shaw’s Book Reviews, Vol. 2: 1884-1950 (Pennsylvania State UP 1996), 588pp.

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Anthologies & Collections
• Bluett, Anthony, Ireland in Love (Cork: Mercier 1996), 95pp.
• Christopher Fitz-Simon & Sanford Sternlicht, eds., New Plays from the Abbey Theatre, Vol. 1: 1993-1995 [Irish Studies] (Syracuse UP 1996), xxiv, 315pp. ill. [incls. Michael Harding, Tom Mac Intyre, Donal O’Kelly, Neil Donnelly and Niall Williams].
• Dawe, and Jonathan Williams, eds., Krino 1986-1996: An Anthology of Irish Writing (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996) [contribs. by Susan Schriebman, Hugh Haughton; J. C. C. Mays; Eavan Boland; Nuala Ni Dhomnaill; Terence Brown; Henry Gifford; Eoin Bourke, and Eve Patten; stories by John McGahern; Peter Hollywood; interview with Tom Kilroy.]
• Donovan, Katie, and Brendan Kennelly, eds., Dublines (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1996), 320pp.
• Dorgan, Theo, ed., Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh [Thomas Davis Lectures] (Blackrock: Four Courts 1996), 162pp. [Thomas Davis lectures by J. C. C. Mays, Gerald Dawe, Eamon Grennan (’American Relations’), John Goodby, Terence Brown, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Léith, Edna Longley, Augustine Martin, and Anthony Roche, Eavan Boland, Alan Titley (’Innti and Onwards’, et al.].
• David B. Eaken & Michael Case, eds., George Moore and Edward Martyn, Selected Plays [Irish Dramatic Selections] (Washington: Catholic UP 1996), 362pp. [incl. Moore, ‘The Strike at Arlingford’; ‘The Bending of the Bough’; ‘The Coming of Gabrielle’; ‘The Passing of the Essenes’; Martyn, ‘The Heather Field’; ‘Maeve’; ‘The Tale of the Town’; ‘An Enchanted Sea’].
• Fitzsimon, Christopher, ed., New Plays from the Abbey Theatre: 1993-1995 (Syracuse UP 1996), 300pp.
• Hayes, Maurice, ed., The Flight Path: Writings by the Winners of The American Ireland Fund Literary Award 1972-1996 (Dublin: Gallery Press 1996), 91pp.
• McGuinness, Frank, sel. and ed., The Dazzling Dark: New Irish Plays (London: Faber & Faber 1996), 311pp. [four plays by Gina Moxley, Jimmy Murphy, Tom MacIntyre, and Marina Carr].
• Marcus, David, ed., The Irish Eros: Irish Short Stories and Poems on Sexual Themes (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
• Masson, Jean-Yves, ed., Anthologie de la Poésie Irlandaise du XX e Siècle 1890-1990 (Paris: Éditions Verdier 1996), q.pp. [incls. translations of poems by Douglas Hyde, Patrick Pearse, Séamas Ó hAodha, Liam Ó Flatharta, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Máirtín Ó Direáin, Caoimhín Ó Conghaile, Seán Mac Fheorais, Séamas Ó Céilleachair, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, Tomás Tóibín, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Breandán Ó Beachán, Seán Ó Tuama, Pearse Hutchinson, Johnny Chóil Mhaidhc/Seán Ó Coisdealbha, Brian Ó Maoileoin, Máire Uí Fhlatharta, Réamonn Ó Muireadhaigh, Michael Hartnett, Caitlín Maude, Joe Steve Ó Neachtain, Derry O’Sullivan, Gréagóir Ó Dúill, Gabriel Risenstock, Michael Davitt, Liam Ó Muirthile, Tomás Mac Con Iomaire, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Cathal Ó Searcaigh].

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Historical & Political Studies
• Bayor, Ronald H., and Timothy J. Meagher, eds., The New York Irish (Johns Hopkins UP 1996), 743ppp.
• Bennett, Martyn, The Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland, 1638-1651 (Oxford: Blackwell 1996), 44pp.
• Bew, Paul, Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism 1912-1916 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996), 185pp.
• Eugenio F. Biagini, ed., Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865-1931 [Liberty and Public Control Conference, Newcastle March 1993] (Cambridge UP 1996), xi, 369pp.
• Boyce, George A., & Alan O’Day, eds., The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy (London: Routledge 1996), 254pp. [contribs. Sean Connolly, Hugh Kearney, John Hutchinson, Alvin Jackson, et al.]
• Bradshaw, Brendan, & John Morrill, The British Problem, c.1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago (London: Macmillan 1996), x, 344pp.
• Bull, Phillip, Land Politics and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
• Carty, Anthony, Was Ireland Conquered? International Law and the Irish Question (London: Pluto Press 1996), 224pp.
• Cronin, Michael, Translating Ireland: Translation, Languages, Culture (Cork UP 1996), 276pp.
• Crossman, Virginia, Politics, Law and Order in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
• Dooley, Dolores, Equality in Community: Sexual Equality in the Writings of William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler (Cork UP 1996), 472pp.
• Evans, Estyn E., Ireland and Atlantic Europe: Selected Writings (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1996), 288pp. [no editor].
• Fagan, Patrick, ed., Ireland in the Stuart Papers, 2 vols. (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1996).
• Fraser, Tom, and Seamus Dunn, Europe and Ethnicity: The Legacy of World War I (London: Routledge 1996), 216pp.
• Garvin, Tom, 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996), 240pp.
• Gordon Wilson, An Ordinary Hero (London: Marshall Pickering. 1996), 196pp. ill.
• H. Bayor, Ronald, and Timothy J. Meagher, eds., The New York Irish (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP 1996), 743pp.
• Jeffrey, Keith, ed., ‘An Irish Empire?’: Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire (Manchester UP 1996), 240pp. [contribs. incl. Alvin Jackson, T[om] G. Fraser, et. al.].
• Kennedy, Liam, Colonialism, Religion and Nationalism in Ireland (QUB/IIS 1996), xii, 231pp.
• Kennedy, Michael, Ireland and the League of Nations, 1919-1946: International relations, diplomacy and politics (Blackrock: Irish Academic Press 1996), 285pp.
• Keogh, Daire, and Nicholas Furlong, eds., The Mighty Wave: The 1798 Rebellion in Wexford [papers of Comoradh 1798 Conference and Byrne-Perry Summer School, 1995] (Four Courts Press 1996) [Kevin Whelan, with Brian Cleary, Louis Cullen, Thomas Graham, Daniel Gahan, Thomas Bartlett; Anna Kinsella, and the editors.]
• Kostick, Conor, Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy, 1917-1922 (London: Pluto Press 1996), vii, 239pp.
• Kotsonouris, Mary, Retreat from Revolution: The Dáil Courts 1920-24 (Dublin IAP 1996), 172pp.
• Lambkin, Brian K., Opposite Religions Still? Interpreting Northern Ireland After Conflict (Aldershot: Avebury Press 1996), ix, 212pp.
• McDonnell, Hector, The Wild Geese of the Antrim MacDonnells (Blackrock: Four Courts 1996), 224pp.
• McMahon, Seán, A Short History of Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press 1996), 224pp.
• Milne, Kenneth, The Irish Charter Schools (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1996), 400pp.
• Ó Ceallaigh, Daltún, Britain and Ireland: Sovereignty and Nationality (Dublin: Léirmheas Publ. 1996), 216pp.
• Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 (Harlow: Longman 1996), 376pp.
• Ó Tuathail, Gearóid, Critical Geopolitics: The politics of Writing Global space (London: Routledge 1996), 314pp.
• O’Brien, Jacqueline, and Peter Harbison, Ancient Ireland (London: Weidenfeld 1996), 256pp.
• O’Day, Alan, Irish Home Rule (Manchester UP 1996) [pb. edn.].
• O’Hagan, J.W., ed., The Economy of Ireland: Policy and Performance of a Small European country (London: Macmillan 1996), 406pp.
• O’Sullivan, Ann, and John Sheehan, The Iveragh Peninsula: An Archaeological Surey of South Kerry (Cork UP 1996), 294pp.
• Osborough, W. N., Law and the Emergence of Modern Dublin (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1996), xxii, 225pp.
• Prendergast, John, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland [first edn. 1965] (London: Constable 1996), 304pp.
• Robins, Joseph, Fools and Mad: A History of the Insane in Ireland (Dublin: Inst. of Public Administration 1986), 255pp. 17 pls.
• Schepers-Hughes, Nancy, Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland (Colorado UP 1979)
• Vaughan, W. E., A New History of Ireland: Ireland under the Union II, 1870-1921, Vol. VI (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996).
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Social & Cultural Commentary
• Breen, Richard, and Christopher T. Whelan, Social Mobility and Social Class in Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996), [q.pp.]
• Brett, David, The Construction of Heritage (Cork UP 1996).
• Brown, Terence, ed., Celticism (Amsterdam; Atlanta GA Rodopi 1996), x+200pp. [see contents].
• Clancy, Patrick, Sheelagh Drudy, Kathleen Lynch, and Liam O’Dowd, eds., Irish Society: Sociological Perspectives (Inst. of Public Admin. 1996).
• Clarke, Sister Sarah, No Faith in the System (Cork: Mercier Press 1996), 216pp, ill.
• Connell, K. H., Irish Peasant Society: Four Historical Essays [1968] (Blackrock: Four Courts 1996), 167pp.
• Foley, Timothy R., Lionel Pilkington, Sean Ryder & Elizabeth Tilley, ed., Gender and Colonialism [Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference 1992] (Galway UP 1996), 300pp. [contribs. incl. Susan Brown, Carol Coulter, Graham Dawson, Anne Fogarty, Barbara Harlow, Catherine La Farge, David Lloyd, Laura Lyons, Scott McCracken, Janet Price & Margrit Shildrick, John Tosh, et al.; var. 1995].
• Gibbons, Luke, Transformations in Irish Culture [Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays] (Cork UP 1996).
• Gray, John, & Wesley McCann, eds., An Uncommon Bookman: Essays in Memory of J. R. R. Adams (Linen Hall 1996), 214pp.
• Herbert, Máire, Iona, Kells, and Derry: The History and Hagiography of the Monastic Familia of Columba [1988] (Blackrock: Four Courts 1996), 327pp.
• Herr, Cheryl Temple, Critical Regionalism and Cultural Studies: From Ireland to the American Midwest (Florida UP 1996), 216pp.
• Kearney, Richard, Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Literature, Philosophy (London: Routledge 1996), 224pp.
• Leerssen, Joseph, Mere Irish, Fíor Ghael: Studies in the Idea of Irish Nationality, its Development and Literary Expression prior to the Nineteenth Century [Field Day Critical Conditions ser.] (1986; Cork UP 1996), 468pp.
• Leerssen, Joseph, Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representations of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century [Field Day Critical Conditions ser.] (Cork UP 1996), 333pp.
• Long, Gerard, ed., Books Beyond the Pale : Aspects of the Provincial Book Trade in Ireland before 1850 [Rare Books Group] (Library Association of Ireland), 168pp.
• Moore-Gilbert, Bart, Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics (London: Verso 197), 243pp.
• Ní Dhonnchadh, Máirín, ed., Nua Léamha; Gnéithe de Chultúr: Stair agus Polaitíocht na hÉireann c.1600-1900 (BaC: Clóchomhar 1996), 206pp.
• Ó Ceallaigh, Daltún, ed., Reconsiderations of Irish History and Culture: Selected Papers from the Desmond Greaves Summer School 1989-1993 (Dublin: Léirmheas 1996), 188pp. [inc. Brendan Bradshaw, Brian P. Murphy, Declan Kiberd, Mary Cullen, Tomá Mac Síomóin, Anthony Coughlin, and Donal McCartney].
• O’Sullivan, Patrick, Religion and Identity (Leicester UP 1996), 262pp.
• Orpen, William, An Onlooker in France [1921] (Dublin: Parkgate Publications 1996).

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Northern Ireland
• Aughey, Arthur, and Duncan Morrow, eds., Northern Ireland Politics (London: Longmans 1996), [22 contribs. from UU; Morrow, Aughey; Paul Doherty; et al.].
• Barton, Brian, Northern Ireland in the Second World War (Ulster Historical Foundation 1996), 172pp.
• Bew, Paul, and Gordon Gillespie, The Northern Ireland Peace Process 19931996 : a chronology. (London: Serif 1996) 192pp.
• Bew, Paul, Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson, Northern Ireland 1921-1996: Political Forces and Social Class (London: Serif 1996), 262pp.
• Blaney, Roger, Presbyterians and the Irish Language (Ulster Hist. Foundation; Ultach Trust 1996), viii, 246pp.
• Catterall, Peter, and Sean McDougall, The Northern Ireland Question in British Politics (Macmillan 1996), 242pp.
• Clayton, Pamela, Enemies and Passing Friends: Settler Ideologies in Twentieth Century Ulster (London: Pluto Press 1996), 275pp.
• Cooney, John, and Tony McGarry, eds., The New Ireland: Quest for Peace and Progress (Dublin: Eaton Sq.: Humbert Publ. 204pp.
• Curtis, Liz, The Cause of Ireland: From the United Irishmen to Partition (Beyond the Pale 1996), 448pp.
• English, Richard, and Graham Walker, eds., Unionism in Modern Ireland (London: Macmillan 1996), 256pp.
• Fall, Cyril, The Birth of Modern Ulster [1936] (London: Constable 1996), 271pp.
• Glassie, Henry, Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community [1982] (Bloomington UP 1996), xx, 852pp.
• Grant, John, Personalism and the Politics of Culture: Readings in the literature and religion from the new Testament to the poetry of Northern Ireland (Macmillan 1996), 200pp.
• Hebburn, A. C., A Past Apart: Studies in the History of Catholic Belfast (Ulster Hist. Foundation ?1996).
• Kelly, Liam, Thinking Long: Contemporary Art in the North of Ireland (Kinsale: Gandon Edns. 1996), ills.; with bio-chronologies of 77 artists.
• King, Sophia Hillan, & Sean MacMahon, Hope and History: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in 20th-century Ulster (Belfast: Friar’s Bush 1996), 226pp.
• Kirkland, Richard, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland since 1965: Moments of Danger (Harlow: Longman 1996), 186pp.
• Maillot, Agnès, IRA: les républicains irlandais (Caen UP 1996), 277pp.
• Robinson, Philip, The Plantation of Ulster: British Settlement in an Irish landscape 1600-1670 (Ulster Hist. Foundation 1996).
• Rolston, Bill, and David Miller, eds., War and Words: the Northern Ireland Media Reader (Beyond the Pale 1996), 474pp.
• Toolis, Kevin, Rebel Hearts: Journeys within the IRA’s Soul (London: Picador 1996), 400pp.
• Walker, Brian, Dancing to History’s Tune: History, Myths and Politics in Ireland (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1996).

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Famine Studies
• Gacquin, William, Roscommon Before the Famine: The Parishes of Kitoom and Cam, 1749-1845 (Dublin: Four Courts 1996), 64pp. [pb.].
• Kinealy, Christine, and T. Parkhill, The Great Famine in Ulster (Ulster Hist. Foundation 1996).
• Morash, Chris, and Richard Hayes, Fearful Realities: New perspectives on the Famine (Irish Academic Press 1996).
• Murphy, Ignatius, A People Starved: Life and Death in West Clare 1845-1851 (Irish Academic Press 1996).
• Murphy, Ignatius, Before the Famine Struck: Life in West Clare 1834-1845 (Irish Academic Press 1996).
• O’Sullivan, Patrick, The Meaning of the Famine [Irish Worldwide Ser.] (Leicester UP 1996)

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Women’s Studies
• Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle, Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets (Dublin: Attic Press 1996), 250pp.
• Colman, Anne Ulry, A Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Poets (Galway: Kenny’s Bookshop 1996), 245pp.
• Dooley, Dolores, and Liz Steiner-Scott, guest-eds., Irish Journal of Feminist Studies [Vol. 1, 1&2 (Spring/Autumn 1996).
• Ó Céirin, Kit, and Cyril Ó Céirin, eds., Women of Ireland: A Biographic Dictionary (Galway: Tír Eolas 1996), 248pp. [300 lives].
• O’Connor Theresa, ed., The Comic Tradition of Irish Women Writers (Florida UP 1996), 188pp. [essays on Maria Edgeworth; Lady Gregory; Edna O’Brine; Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill]
• Luddy, Maria, Women in Ireland 1800-1918: A Documentary History (Cork UP 1996).
• Meek, Chris, and Katherine Simms, The Fragility of Her Sex? Medieval Irish Women in Their European Context (Dublin: Four Courts 1996), symposium.
• Miller, Robert Lee, et al., Women and Political Participation in Northern Ireland (?London: Avebury 1996), 292pp.
• Ryan, Louise, ed., Irish Feminism and the Vote: An Anthology of the ’Irish Citizen’ Newspaper 1912-1920 (Dubli: Folens Publ. 1996).
• Taillon, Ruth, When History was Made: The Women of 1916 (Beyond the Pale 1996), 180pp. ill. [16 pls.]

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Journals: Special Irish Issues
• Recorder, The [Journal of the American Irish Historical Society] (Spring 1996), celebration of Benedict Kiely’s 75th birthday; contribs. Kiely; Kevin Sullivan; Thomas Flanagan; Val Mulkerns, Seamus Heaney, William Kennedy, John Montague, Thomas Kinsella, Thomas Kilroy, John Wilson Foster, Liam de Paor; Darcy O’Brien, Julia Moynihan, et al.]
• South Atlantic Quarterly, ‘Ireland and Cross Cultural Studies’ [Special Issue, guest editor, John Paul Waters], 95, 1 [Duke UP] Winter 1996), ii, 278pp.: ill. [see contents].

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Reference Works
• Christensen, Lis, A First Glossary of Hiberno-English (Odense UP 1996), 14 pp.
• Hogan, Robert, et al., eds., Dictionary of Irish Literature [revised and Expanded Edition], 2 vols. (Connecticut/London: Greenwood Press 1996), pp.1413 [Vol I: xx, 1-734pp. (A-L); Vol. II: xvii, 735-1413pp. Index].
• McRedmond, Louis, Modern Irish Lives: Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996), 348pp.
• McVeagh, John, ed. Irish Travel Writing: A Bibliography (Dublin: Wolfhound 1996), 176pp.
• Snoddy, Theo, Dictionary of Irish Artists: The Twentieth Century (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1996), 595pp. [companion to Strickland, 1913].
• Sturrock, John, The Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing (OUP 1996), 512pp.
• Daragh Smyth, A Guide to Irish Mythology [1st edn. 1988; 2nd edn.] (Dublin: IAP 1996), 201pp.
• Welch, Robert, ed., Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996), 614pp.

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