Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & its Contexts: 1997

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Cultural Commentary
• Foster, John Wilson, ed., with Helena C. G. Chesney, Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History (Lilliput 1997), 672pp. [contents].
• Foster, John Wilson, The Titanic Complex: A Cultural Manifest (Portaferry: Belcouver 1997), 92pp.
• Mullin, Kay, The Wondrous Land: The Faery Faith of Ireland (Berkshire: Capall Bann Pub. 1997), 197pp. [incl .verses by ’seer’ Gabriel Rosenstock].
• Murphy, Daniel, Christianity and Modern European Literature (Four Courts Press 1997), 544pp.
• Riagain, Ó Pádraig, Language Policy and Social Reproduction: Ireland 1893-1993 (Clarendon Press 1997).
• Walsh, Frank, Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry (Yale UP 1997), 394pp.

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Literary Criticism: General
• Mark Thornton Burnett & Ramona Wray, eds., Shakespeare and Ireland (London: Macmillan 1997), q.pp. [incls. Jonathan Allison, W. B.Yeats and Shakespearean Character’, pp.114-35 ].
• Carter, Ronald, and John McRae, Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland (London: Routledge 1997), 604pp.
• Corcoran, Neil, After Yeats and Joyce (OUP 1997), 256pp.
[Kinsella, Beckett, to Trevor, Heaney, etc.; also chaps on Big House; Ulsters of the Mind, etc.]
• Deane, Seamus, Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing Since 1790 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997), 269pp.
• Dennis, Ian, Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction (NY: St Martin's Press 1997), ix, 203pp.
• Denvir, Géaroid, Litríoacht agus Pobal: Cnuasach Aistrí (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 1997), 447pp.
• Genet, Jacqueline, and Claude Fiérobe, La Littérature irlandaise (Masson & Armand Colin 1997), 320pp.
• Johnson, Dillon, Irish Poetry After Joyce [2nd edn.] (Syracuse UP 1997), 384pp.
• Kennedy, David, New Relations: The refashioning of British Poetry 1980-1994 (Brigend, Mid Glamorgan: Seren 1997), 295pp.
• John P. Harrington, The Irish Play on the New York Stage, 1874-1966 [Irish Literature, History & Culture] (Kentucky UP [1997]), 192pp. ill.
• Kirkland, Richard, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland since 1965 (Edinburgh: Addis, Wesley, Longman 1997).
• Steven Matthews, Irish Poetry, Politics, History: Negotiating the Evolving Debate - 1969 to the Present (London: Macmillan 1997), viii, 249pp.
• McDonald, Peter, Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (OUP 1997), 240pp. [explores politics of Northern Irish poetry espec. in Heaney, MacNeice, and Mahon.]
• Murphy, James M., Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873-1922 (Conn: Greenwood Press 1997), 176pp.
• Murray, Christopher, Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to a Nation (Manchester UP 1997), 288pp.
• Ó Buachalla, Breandan, Aisling Ghéar: Na Stíobhartaigh agus an t-Aos Léinn (Baile atha Cliath: An Clóchmhar 1997), 808pp.
• Quintelli-Neary, Marguerite, Folklore and the Fantastic in Twelve Modern Irish Novels (Conn: Greenwood Press 1997), 176pp). [James Joyce, Darrell Figgis, Flann O’Brien, et al.].
• Smyth, Gerry, The Novel and the New Nation: Studies in New Irish Fiction (London: Pluto 1997), 208pp.
• Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell & David Trotter, Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion (Oxford: OUP 1997), xxxi, 431pp.

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Literary Criticism: Individual Authors
• Berman, David, Berkeley: Experimental Philosophy (London: Phoenix 1997), 57pp.
• Clune, Anne, and Tess Hurson, eds., Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O’Brien (Belfast: IIS/QUB 1997), 233pp.
• Costello, Peter, Liam O’Flaherty’s Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound 1997), 125pp. 16 photos.
• Crane, Ralph J., and Jennifer Livett, eds., Troubled Pleasures: The Fiction of J. G. Farrell (Dublin: Four Courts 1997), 173pp.
• Danson, Lawrence, Wilde’s Intentions: The Art in His Criticism (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997), 220pp.
• de Paor, Pádraig, Tionscnamh Filíochta Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (An Clóchmhar 1997), viii+303pp.
• Devine, Kathleen, and Alan J. Peacock, ed., Louis MacNeice and his Influence [Ulster Editions & Monographs] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1997) [contribs. incl. Peacock, Robert Welch, Terence Brown, Peter MacDonald, Edna Longley, Jon Stallworthy, Richard York, Michael Allen, Neil Corcoran, Alan Heuser.]
• Gonzalez, Alexander G., Peadar O’Donnell: A Reader’s Guide (Chester Springs: Dufour 1997), 128pp.
• Gregson, Ian, Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement (London: Macmillan 1997) [chap. on Paul Muldoon].
• Hollingworth, Brian [Charles], Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writing: Language, History, Politics (London: Macmillan 1997), 244pp.
• Jordan, Eamonn, The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (Berne: Lang 1997), 210pp.
• Kiely, Benedict, Poor Scholar: A Study of William Carleton 1794-1869 [rep. edn.] (Wolfhound Press 1997), 208pp.
• Kirakawa, Sukehiro, ed., Rediscovering of Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Legends, Life & Culture (Kent: Global Books 1997), 280pp. index [contribs. inlc. Earl Miner; George Hughes; Louis Allen; Alan Rosen; Naoko Sugiyama; Hiromi Kawashima; Yoko Makino; Yuzo Ota; Paul Murray].
• McCracken, Kathleen, Radical Vision: The Poetry of Paul Durcan (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1997), 288pp.
• Raby, Peter, ed., Companion to Oscar Wilde (Cambridge UP 1997), 329pp. [fifteen chap. contribs.]
• Ronan, Sean G., Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hearn and Japan (Folkstone: Global 1997), 351pp.

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Samuel Beckett
• Acheson, James, Samuel Beckett’s Artistic Theory and Practice: Criticism, Drama and Early Fiction (London: Macmillan 1997), 254pp.
• Begam, Richard, Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity (Stanford UP 1997), 237pp.

Brendan Behan
• Behan, Brendan, The Dubbalin Man [Irish Press column in the 1950s], intro. Anthony Cronin (A & A Farmar 1997).
• Dillon-Malone, Aubrey, ed., The Sayings of Brendan Behan (London: Duckworth 1997), 64pp.
• O’Sullivan, Michael, Brendan Behan: A Life (Blackwater 1997), 350pp.

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Edmund Burke
• Crowe, Ian, ed., Edmund Burke: His Life and Legacy (Blackrock: Four Courts 1997), 221pp.
• Kirk, Russell, Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Inst. 1997), 285pp.
• McCue, Jim, Edmund Burke and Our Present Discontents ([London:] Claridge 1997), 208pp.
• McLoughlin, T. O. [Harare U.], and J. T. Boulton [Birmingham U.], eds., The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Vol. 1: ’The Early Writings’ (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997), 590pp.
• O’Brien, Conor Cruise, Edmund Burke (New Island Books; Sinclair-Stevenson 1997) [abridged by Jim McCue].
• Whelan, Frederick, Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire (Pittsburgh UP 1997), 368pp.

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James Joyce
• Brannigan, John, et al., Re: Joyce (London: Macmillan 1997), 220pp.
• Connor, Steven, James Joyce [Writers and their Works] (British Council 1997), 110pp.
• Davison, Neil R., James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Construction of Jewish Identity (Campbridge UP 1997), 305pp.
• Frehner, Ruth and Ursula Zeller, ed., A Collideorscape of Joyce: Fesctschrift for Fritz Senn on his seventieth Birthday (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1997).
• Haurretche, Colleen, The Sensual Philosophy: Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism (Eurospan 1997), 179pp.
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• Hodgart, Matthew J. C., and Ruth Bauerle, Joyce’s Grand Operoar: Opera in Finnegans Wake (Illinois UP 1997), 341pp.
• Johnson, Jeri, ed., Ulysses [World Classics] (OUP 1997), 980pp.
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• Kimball, Jean, Odyssey of the Psyche: Jungian Patterns in Joyce’s Ulysses (Southern Illinois UP 1997), 217pp.
• McCarthy, Patrick A., and Paul Tiessen, Joyce/Lowery: Critical Perspectives (Kentucky UP 1997), 206pp.
• Nagy, Joseph Falaky, Conversing with Angels and Ancients Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Cornell UP 1997), 376pp. [emergence of written literature in medieval Ireland].
• Parlej, Piotr, The Romantic Theory of the Novel: Genre and Reflection in Cervantes, Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, and Kafka (Louisiana State UP 1997), 344pp.
• Rainsford, Dominic, Authorship, Ethics, and The Reader: Studies in Blake, Dickens, and Joyce (NY: St Martin’s Press 1997), 264pp.
• Rice, Thomas Jackson, Joyce, Chaos and Complexity (Champaign: Illinois UP 1997), 224pp.
• Rose, Danis, ed., James Joyce, Finn’s Hotel (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1997), 120pp.
• Rose, Danis, ed., Ulysses [Dublin Edition] (Dublin: Lilliput 1997; London: Picador 1997), 739pp.
• Yee, Cordell D. K., The World According to James Joyce: Reconstructing Representation (Bucknell UP 1997), 176pp.
• Wawrzycka, Jolanta W., and Marlena G. Corcoran, eds., Gender in Joyce (Florida UP 1997), 198pp.
• Tymoczko, Maria, The Irish Ulysses (California UP 1997), 408pp. [winner of ACIS award].
• Vanderham, Paul, James Joyce and Censorship: The Trial of Ulysses (London: Macmillan 1997), 245pp.
• Wyse, John Jackson, and Peter Costello, John Stanislaus Joyce: the voluminous life and genius of James Joyce’s father (Fourth Estate 1997), 512pp.

James Clarence Mangan
• Chuto, Jacques, ed., James Clarence Mangan: A Bibliography of his Works (Irish Academic Press 1997).
• Kelly, John S., intro., James Clarence Mangan, The Poets and Poetry of Munster [rep. edn.] (Woodstock Books 1997) [contains unfinished Autobiography].
• Mangan, James Clarence, Poets and Poetry of Munster [Hibernia: Literature and Nation in Victorian Ireland] [1855] (Poole: Woodstock Books [Cassell] 1997), 355pp.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Kelly, Linda, Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life (London: Sinclair Stevenson 1997), 365pp.
• O’Toole, Fintan, A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Granta 1997), 516pp.

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W. B. Yeats
• Albright, Daniel, Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot and the Science of Modernism (Cambridge UP 1997), 317pp.
• Alldritt, Keith, W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu (London: John Murray 1997), 388pp.
• Cave, Richard, ed., W. B. Yeats, Selected Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1997), 448pp.
• Coote, Stephen, W. B. Yeats: A Life (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1997), 612pp.
• Foster, R. F., W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. I: “The Apprentice Mage” (OUP 1996), 625pp.
• Gould, Warwick, John Kelly, and Deirdre Toomey, ed., Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. II: 1896-1900 (OUP 1997), lxxxi, 790pp. [vols. appearing out of series: I, III, II, &c.].
• Howes, Marjorie, Yeats’s Nation: Gender, Class and Irishness (Cambridge UP 1997), 250pp.
• Larrissy, Edward, ed., W. B. Yeats [The Oxford Authors] (OUP 1997).
• McCready, Sam, A William Butler Yeats Encyclopaedia (Conn: Greenwood; UK: Aldwych Press 1997), 520pp.
• Pethica, James, ed., W. B Yeats, Last Poems: Manuscript Materials (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP), 471pp.
• Pyle, Hilary, Yeats: Portrait of an Artistic Family ([London:] Merrill Holberton 1997), 304pp. ill.

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Reference: General
• Gonzalez, Alexander G., Modern Irish Writers: a Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Conn: Greenwood Press; UK: Aldwych 1997), 476pp.
• Jeffares, A Norman, A Pocket History of Irish Literature (Dublin: O’Brien Press 1997) [1st of new series].
• Macafee, Caroline I., ed., A Concise Ulster Dictionary (OUP 1997), 400pp.
• McArt, Pat, and Dónal Campbell, eds., Irish Almanac and Yearbook of Facts 1997 (Donegal: Artcam Publishing, Burt 1996), 300pp [Inishowen, Co Donegal, tel. 07768186].
• Ó Muirithe, Diarmaid, A Word in Your Ear (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1997), 128pp.
• O’Farrell, Padraic, Who’s Who in the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War 1916-1923 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1997), 232pp.
• Bernice Schrank & William Demastes, ed., Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook (CT: Greenwood Press 1997), 450pp.
• Waters, John, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Ireland (Duckworth 1997).

Reference: Language
• Share, Bernard, Slanguage: A Dictionary of slang and colloquial English in Ireland (Dublin Gill &Macmillan 1997), 356pp.
• Snoddy, Theo, Dictionary of Irish Artists: The Twentieth Century (Dublin: Wolfhound 1997), 595pp.
• Wall, Richard, A Dictionary and Glossary for the Irish Literary Revival (Colin Smythe 1996).

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Anthologies
• Budd, Declan, and Ross Hinds, The Hist and Edmund Burke’s Club: an Anthology 1747-1997 (Lilliput 1997), 437pp.
• Donovan, Katie, and Brendan Kennelly, eds., Dublines (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1997), 320pp.
• Dunne, Sean, ed., The Ireland Anthology, introduction and notes by George O’Brien (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1997), xxxi, 455pp.
• Fitz-Simon, Christopher, and Sanford Sternlicht, eds., New Plays from the Abbey Theatre 1993-1995 (Syracuse UP; Eurospan 1997), 315pp. [Michael Harding; Tom MacIntyre; Donal O’Kelly; Neil Donnelly; Niall Williams.]
• Haining, Peter, ed., Great Irish Stories of Childhood (London: Souvenir 1997), 271pp.
• Daniel Karlin, ed., The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (London: Penguin 1997) [incls. Irish poets: William Allingham, Jane Barlow, Edward Dowden, William Larminie, James Clarence Mangan, George William Russell [AE], John Todhunter, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats ].
• Marcus, David, ed., The Irish Eros: Irish short stories and poems on sexual themes (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
• Muldoon, Paul, ed., Faber Book of Beasts (London: Faber 1997), 295pp.
• Murphy, Lizz, ed., Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (Oxford: Spinifex 1997), 373pp. [1 875559 51 1].
• O’Brien, Kate Cruise, and Mary Maher, eds., If Only (Dublin: Poolbeg 1997), 314pp.

Scholarly Editions & Reprints
• Auerbach, Nina, and David J. Skal, eds., Dracula [1897] (NY: Norton 1997), 492pp.
• Calloway, Stephen, ed., Oscariana, The Wit and Maxims of Oscar Wilde, ed., (London: Orion 1997), 111pp.
• Cave, Richard A., Yeats, W. B., Selected Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1997), 448pp.
• Connolly, Claire, ed., Lady Morgan, The Wild Irish Girl (London: Pickering & Chatto 1997), 400pp.
• Maurice Harmon, Irish Poets After Yeats [rep. edn.] (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1997).
• Keyes, John, ed., Sam Thompson, Over the Bridge and Other Plays (Belfast: Lagan Press 1997), 249pp.
• McGuinness, Philip, ed., John Toland, Christianity Not Mysterious: text, associated works and critical essays (Dublin: Lilliput 1997), 320pp.
• Rose, Danis, ed., [James Joyce,] Finn’s Hotel (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1997), 120pp. [first fragments of Finnegans Wake].
• Tyneman, William, and Steven Price, [eds.], Wilde: Salomé (Cambridge UP 1997), 228pp.
• Wilde, Merlin, ed., The Wilde Album (London: Fourth Estate 1997), 192pp. [incl. 27 poses for Napoleon Sarony, NY.].

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Geography & Topography

• Aalen, F. H. A., and Kevin Whelan, eds., Atlas of Irish Rural Landscape (Cork UP 1997), 260pp.
• Andrews, John, Shapes of Ireland: Maps and Their Makers 1564-1839 (Geography Publ. 1997).
• Day, Angelique, and Patrick McWilliams, eds., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 40: Cavan, Letrim, Louth, Monaghan, Sligo (Belfast: IIS/QUB 1997), 170pp.
• Duffy, Seán, ed., Atlas of Irish History (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1997), 144pp.
• Feehan, John, and Grace O’Donovan, The Bogs of Ireland: An Introduction to the Natural, Cultural and Industrial History of Irish Peatlands ([Envir. Institute, UCD] 1997), 518pp.
• Graham, Brian J., ed., In Search of Ireland: Cultural Geography (London: Routledge 1997), 240pp.[see contents].
• Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 38: Donegal [regions of] Belfast: IIS/QUB 1997).
• Prunty, Jacinta, Dublin’s Slums 1800-1925: A Study in Urban Geography (Dublin IAP 1997; 2001), 364pp.

Medieval and Early Modern History
• de Paor, Liam, Ireland and Early Europe (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1997) [34 writings, incl. many from “Roots” in the Irish Times.]
• Devlin, Judith, & Ronan Fanning, eds., Religion and Rebellion [Papers read before the 22nd Irish Conference of Historians, held at University College Dublin, 18- 22 May 1995]
• (UCD Press 1997), 232pp. [incls. Nicholas Canny, ‘Religion, Politics, and the Irish Rising of 1641’].
• Ford, Alan, The Protestant Reformation in Ireland, 1590-1641 (Dublin: Four Courts 1997), 256pp.
• McNally, Patrick, Parties, Patriots and Undertakers: Parliamentary Politics in Early Hanoverian Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts 1997), 252pp.
• McNeill, Tom, Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in the Gaelic World (London: Routledge 1997), 261pp.
• O’Connell, Patricia, The Irish College at Alcalá de Henares 1649-1785 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1997), 128pp.
• Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 (Harlow: Longman 1997), 397pp.
• O’Brien, F., The Impact of the Anglo-Normans on Munster (Gandon 1997), 32pp.

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Modern History & Politics
• Akenson, Donald Harman, If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730 (Liverpool UP 1997), xi, 273pp.
• Bew, Paul, Ideology and the Irish Question (Clarendon Press 1997), 192pp. [rep. ed.]
• Bonsall, Penny, The Irish RMs: Resident Magistrates in the British Administration of Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts 1997), 224pp.
• Brockliss, Laurence, and David Eastwood, eds., A Union of Multiple Identities: The British Isles c.1750-1850 (Manchester UP 1997), 22pp.
• Conway, Martin, Catholic Politics in Europe, 1918-1945 (London: Routledge 1997), 118pp.
• Crawford, E. Margaret, ed., The Hungry Stream: Essays in Emigration and Famine (Belfast: Centre for Emigration Studies, Ulster-American Folk Park & IIS/QUB 1997, q.pp. [contribs. incl. Donald Akenson, Lawrence Bickford, Evelyn Cardwell, David Fitzpatrick, Donal McCracken, Janet Nolan, Edward O'Donnell, Frank Neal, and Michael Quigley.
• Cronin, Mike, The Blueshirts and Irish Politics (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1997), 220pp.
• Curtis, L. Perry Jr., Apes and Angels: the Irishman in Victorian Caricature [rev. edn.; 1st edn. 1971] (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press 1997), xxxiv, 211pp. [27cm.].
• Hannon, Phillip, and Jackie Gallagher, Taking the Long View: 70 Years of Fianna Fáil (Blackwater Press 1997), 187pp.
• Michael Holmes & Denis Holmes, eds., Ireland and India: Connections, Comparisons, Contrasts [Sponsored by the Irish-Indian Business and Economic Association, the Department of Government and Society, University of Limerick] (Dublin: Folens 1997), x,246pp.
• Knox, Oliver, Rebels and Informers: Stirrings of Irish Independence (London: John Murray 1997), 304pp.
• Mansergh, Diana, ed., Nicholas Mansergh, Nationalism and Independence: Selected Irish Papers (Cork UP 1997).
• Mansergh, Nicholas, Nationalism and Independence: Selected Essays on Modern Irish History (Cork UP 1997), 320pp.
• McDowell, Robert Brendan, Crisis and Decline: The Fate of the Southern Unionists (Dublin: Lilliput 1997), 240pp.
• McNiffe, Liam, A History of the Garda Síochána: A Social History of the Force, 1922-52, with an Overview for the Years 1952-97 (Wolfhound Press 1997), pp.
208 + 16pp. photos.
• Ó Grada, Cormac, The Rocky Road: The Irish Economy Since 1922 (Manchester UP 1997), 246pp.
• Pittock, Murray G. H., Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 [British studies Ser. (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1997), ix, 189pp.
• Skelly, Joseph Morrison, Irish Diplomacy at the United Nations, 19451965: National Interests and the International Order (Blackrock: Irish Acad. Press 1997), 314pp.

Military History
• Bartlett, Thomas, and Keith Jeffrey, A Military History of Ireland (Cambridge UP 1997), 591pp.
• Dungan, Myles, They Shall Not Grow Old (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1997), 228pp.
• Kinross, John, The Boyne and Aughrim: The War of the Two Kings (Windrush 1997), 172pp.
• Quinn, John, with Robert Taylor, Down in a Free State: Wartime Air Crashes in Éire 1939-1945 (Belfast: [the author] 1999), 192pp. [BL]
• Stradling, R. A., The Spanish Monarchy and Irish Mercenaries: The Wild Geese in Spain 1618-68 (Irish Academic Press 1997), 219pp.

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1798 Rebellion
• Dickson, Charles, The Wexford Rising in 1798: Its Causes and Its Course [1st edn. 1955] (London: Constable 1997), 273pp.
• Foley, Terence, Eyewitness to 1798 (Mercier Press 1997), 92pp.
• Gahan, Daniel J., Rebellion!: Ireland in 1798 (Dublin: O’Brien Press 1997), ill.
• Weber, Paul, On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen in Hamburg 1796-1803 (Dublin: Four Courts 1997), 205pp.
• Whelan, Kevin, The Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism, and the construction of Irish Identity, 1760-1830 [Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays] (Cork UP 1996), 236pp.

Famine Studies
• Doyle, Avril, pref., Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the Famine in Ireland in 1846 and 1847 (Edmund Burke Publ. 1997), 529pp.
• Hayden, Tom, ed., Irish Hunger: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of the Irish Famine (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1997). [contribs. John Waters, Nell McCafferty, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Tim Pat Coogan.]
• Kinealy, Christine, A Death-dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland (London: Pluto 1997), 192pp.
• Laxton, Edward, The Famine Ships: the Irish exodus to America 1846-51 (Bloomsbury 1997), 256pp.
• Neal, Frank, Black ’47: Britain and the Famine Irish (Macmillan 1997), 210pp.

Emigration Studies
• Coogan, Tim Pat, The Irish Diaspora (London: Hutchinson 1997), 512pp.
• Guinnane, Timothy W., The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850-1914 (Princeton UP 1997), 368pp. maps.
• Mary J. Hickman & Bronwen Walter, Discrimination and the Irish Community in Britain: A Report of Research Undertaken for the Commission for Racial Equality (London: Commission for Racial Equality 1997), 286pp. ill., maps. [30cm.].

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Northern Ireland
• Bew, Paul, Henry Patterson & Paul Teague, Northern Ireland: Between War and Peace: The Political Future of Northern Ireland (Lawrence & Wishart 1997), 231pp. [pb].
• Byrne, Sean, Growing Up in a Divided Society: The Influence of Conflict on Belfast Schoolchildren (Farleigh Dickinson UP 1997), 232pp.
• Cochrane, Feargal, Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism Since the Anglo-Irish Agreement (Cork UP 1997; 2001), xiii, 426pp.
• Cusack, Jim, The Red Hand of Ulster (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1997), 364pp.
• Dillon, Martin, God and the Gun: The Church and Irish Terrorism (London: Orion 1997), 244pp.
• Griffin, Brian, The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800-1865 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press [in association with the Irish Legal History Society] 1997), x, 166pp. ill.
• Hennessy, Thomas, A History of Northern Ireland, 1920-1996 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1997), 347pp.
• Maurice Collis, Foreign Mud: Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830’s and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followed [1946] (London: Faber 1997), 285pp.
• Lynn, Brendan, Holding the Ground: The Nationalist Party in Northern Ireland, 1945-72 (Ashgate 1997), 285pp.
• Marshall, William S., The Billy Boys: A Concise History of Orangeism in Scotland ([q.pub.] 1997), 214pp.
• Ó Dochtartaigh, Niall, From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles (Cork UP 1997), 364pp.
• Ryder, Chris, The RUC 1922-1997: A Force Under Fire (London: Mandarin 1997), 506pp.
• Shirlow, Peter, and Mark McGovern, eds., Who Are "The People"?: Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland (London: Pluto 1997), 215pp.
• Stevenson, Jonathan, ’We Wrecked the Place’: Contemplating an End to the Northern Irish Troubles (Free Press 1997), 294pp.
• Taylor, Peter, Provos: the IRA and Sinn Fein (London: Bloomsbury 1997), 384pp.
• Jonathan Tonge, Northern Ireland: Conflict and Change (London: Prentice Hall 1997), xix, 218pp.
• Walker, Graham, Intimate Strangers: Political and Cultural Interaction between Scotand and Ulster in Modern Times (Edin: John Donald 1997), 199pp.
• Wood, Ian S., Scotland and Ulster (Edinburgh: Mercat 1997),224pp.

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Art & Architecture
• Brett, Charles E. B. [OBE], Five Big Houses of Cushenden and Some Literary Associations (Belfast; Lagan Press 1997), 81pp.
• Brett, Charles E. B. [OBE], The Buildings of County Antrim (Ulster Arch. Heritage Society/Ulster Historical Foundation 1997).
• Butler, Patricia, 300 Years of Irish Watercolours and Drawings [1990] (London: Phoenix 1997), 224pp.
• Green, Miranda Aldhouse, Celtic Art: Reading the Messages [Everyman Art Library] (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1997), 176pp.
• Kennedy, S. B., Great Irish Artists from Lavery to le Brocquy (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1997), 137pp.
• Potterton, Homan, ed., Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1997 (1997).
• Walker, Dorothy, Modern Art in Ireland, foreword Seamus Heaney (Dublin: Lilliput 1997), 240pp.

Post-Colonial Studies
• Baker, David J., Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (Stanford UP 1997), 221pp. [$39.50].
• Bennett, Mark Thornton, Shakespeare and Ireland (Macmillan 1997), 220pp.
• Hadfield, Andrew, & Willy Maley, ed., Edmund Spenser, A View of the State of Ireland (Blackwell 1997), 197pp.
• Hadfield, Andrew, Edmund Spenser’s Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soil (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997), 227pp.
• Highley, Christopher, Shakespeare and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge UP 1997), xi, 246pp.
• Maley, Willey, Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (Macmillan 1997), 251pp.

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Media Studies
• Cullen, Fintan, Visual Politics: The representation of Ireland 1750-1930 (Cork UP 1997), 228pp.
• Shaw, Susan Sailer, Representing Ireland (Florida UP 1997), 256pp.

Gender Studies
• Byrne, Ann, & Madeleine Leonard, Women and Irish Society: A Sociological Reader (Beyond the Pale Publs. 1997), xvii, 573pp.
• Bradley, Geraldine, and Maryann Gialanella Valiulis, ed., Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland [ACIS Annual] (Massachusetts UP 1997), 275pp. [contribs. include Margaret War, Maureen Murphy, et al.].
• Flanagan, Laurence, ed., Irish Women’s Letters (Sutton: Far Thrupp 1997), 224pp.
• Kelleher, Margaret, and James H. Murphy, eds., Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1997).
• Kelleher, Margaret, The Feminisation of the Famine: Expression of the Inexpressible? (Cork UP 1997), 270pp.
• Holmes, Janice, & Diane Urquhart, Coming into the Light: the Work, Politics and Religion of Women in Ulster, 1840-1940 (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1997) [q.pp.].
• Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella, and Mary O’Dowd, Women in Irish History (Wolfhound Press 1997), 352pp.
• Walshe, Eimar, ed., Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing (Cork UP 1997) [deals witn Wilde, Somerville & Ross, Casement, Kate O’Brien, Behan, Bowen, et al.].

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Early & Medieval Literature
• Barnes, Michael P., The Runic Inscriptions of Viking Age Dublin (RIA/NMus. 1997), 92pp.
• Bourke, Cormac, ed., Studies in the Cult of Columba (Dublin: Four Courts 1997).
• Cahill, Thomas, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (NY: Doubleday 1995), 246pp.
• Lacey, Brian, Colum Cille and the Columban Tradition (Dublin: Four Courts 1997), 112pp.
• Nagy, Joseph Falaky, Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland (Cornell UP 1997), 371pp.
• Raftery, Barry, Pagan Celtic Ireland: the enigma of the Irish Iron Age (London: Thames & Hudson 1997), 240pp.

Biography & Autobiography
• Bew, Paul, John Redmond [for Historical Assoc. of Ireland; Life and Times ser., No. 8] (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press 1997), 67pp.
• Costello, Peter, Liam O’Flaherty’s Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound 1997), 125pp. 16 pls.
• Doyle, Eugene J., Justin McCarthy [for Historical Assoc. of Ireland; Life and Times ser., No. 7] (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press 1997), 67pp.
• Elias, A. C., ed., Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, 2 vols. (Georgia UP 1997), 845pp.
• Elliott, Marianne, Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence [1989] (London: Wylie 1997).
• Harrison, The Dean’s Friend Anthony Raymond, 1675-1726: Jonathan Swift and the Irish Language (Dublin: De Burca 1997), ill.
• Holroyd, Michael, Bernard Shaw: The One-volume Definitive Edition (London: Chatto & Windus 1997), 834pp. [substantially abridged].
• Horgan, John, Sean Lemass: The Enigmatic Patriot (Dublin: Gll & Macmillan 1997), 424pp.
• McCormack, W. J., Sheridan Le Fanu [3rd edn.] (Sutton: Far Thrupp 1997), 324pp.
• Mitchell, Geraldine, Deeds Not Words: The Life of Muriel Gahan (Town House 1997), 216pp.
• Mitchell, Julian, Wilde (London: Orion Media 1997), 299pp.
• Routledge, Paul, John Hume (London: HarperCollins 19970, 326pp.
• Sharrock, David, and Mark Devenport, Man of War Man of Peace?: The Unauthorised Biography of Gerry Adams (Macmillan 1997), 488pp.
• Ward, Margaret, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington: Suffragist and Sinn Féiner (Dublin: Attic Press 1996), 329pp.
• Wilson, Gordon, An Ordinary Hero (London: Marshall Pickering. 1996), 196pp. ill.

Bibliography & Library Studies
• McDonnell, Joseph, 500 Years of the Art of the Book in Ireland: 1500 to the Present (Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland/Merrill Holberton 1997), 175pp.
• Ó Ciosáin, Níall, Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750-1850 (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1997), 249pp. [Ireland as ‘an intensely bilingual and diglossic society’; new edn. 2010, 271pp.].
• Tom O’Connor, Paul Murray & Mark Kennedy, Strategies for sustainable growth: the software industry in Ireland [Putting strategy to work ser.] (Dublin: Prospectus / Forbairt 1997), 63pp. ill. [30 cm.].
• O’Neill, R. K., Guide to the Libraries and Archives of Ulster (Ulster Hist. Foundation 1996).
• O’Neill, Robert K. Ulster Libraries: Archives, museums and ancestral heritage centres (Ulster Historical Foundation 1997), 192pp.
• [q. auth.,] Vanity Enough: The Story of the Origins and Development of Newry Public Library (Armagh: S. Educ. And Lib. Board Libr. Serv. 1997), 79pp.

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