Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & its Contexts: 1999

Poetry
• Carson, Ciaran, The Ballad of HMS Belfast: A Compendium of Belfast Poems (Gallery 1999), 117pp.
• —, The Twelfth of Never: Seventy Five Sonnets (Dublin: Gallery Press 1999), 85pp. [ded. to Paul Muldoon].
• Cronin, Anthony, Minotaur and Other Poems (Dublin: New Island Books 1999), 55pp.
• Daly, Padraig J., Selected Poems (Dublin: Dedalus Press 1999), 200pp.
• Dawe, Gerald, The Morning Train (Oldcastle: Gallery Books 1999), 49pp.
• Fanning, Gerard, Working for the Government (Dedalus 1999) 62pp.
• Groarke, Vona, Other People’s Houses (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 1999), 57pp.
• Haverty, Anne, The Beauty of the Moon (London: Chatto & Windus 1999) [q.pp.].
• Heaney, Seamus, trans., Beowulf (London: Faber & Faber 1999), xxx, 106pp.
• Longley, Michael, with Sarah Longley, Out of the Cold: Drawings and Poems for Christmas (Newry: Abbey Press 1999), 64pp.
• Mahon, Derek, The Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 1999), 360pp.
• Montague, John, Smashing the Piano (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 1999), 88pp.
• Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, Cead Aighnis (Maynooth: An Sagart 1999).
• Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Medbh McGuckian, The Water Horse (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 1999), 112pp.
• O’Callaghan, Conor, Seatown (Gallery 1999), 61pp.
• O’Siadhhail, Michael, Poems 1975-1995 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1999), 240pp.
• Rice, Adrian, The Mason’s Tongue (Newry: Abbey Press 1999) 64pp.
• Strong, Eithne, Nobel (BAC: Coiscéim 1999), 96pp.

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Fiction
• Bateman, Colin, Turbulent Priests (London: Harper Collins 1999), 283pp.
• Bateman, Colin, Maid of the Mist (London: HarperCollins 1999), 250pp.
• Berkeley, Sara, Shadowing Hannah (Dublin: New Island Press 1999), 288pp.
• Dermot Bolger [ed.,] Ladies’s Night at Finbar’s Hotel (Dublin: New Island 1999), 270pp. [Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Kate O’Riordan].
• Boylan, Clare, Beloved Stranger (London: Abacus; NY: Little Brown 1999), 317pp.
• Collins, Michael, The Emerald Underground (London: Phoenix House 1998; pb. 1999), 256pp.
• Connolly, John, Every Dead Thing (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1999) [best-seller].
• Deane, John F., In the Name of the Wolf (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1999), 176pp.
• Evans, John, A Pocketful of Stones (Marino 1999), 221pp.
• Harte, Lara, Losing It (Dublin: Phoenix House 1999), 237pp.
• Haverty, Anne, The Far Side of A Kiss (London: Chatto & Windus 2000), 224pp.
• Johnston, Jennifer, The Essential Jennifer Johnston, preface by Sebastian Barry (London: Review 1999), 435pp.
• Keane, John B., Best of John B. Keane: Collected Humorous Writings (Cork: Mercier Press 1999), 365pp.
• McCabe, Patrick, Mondo Desperado (London: Picador 1999) 239pp.
• McCourt, Frank, ’Tis (London: Harper Collins 1999).
• McEldowney, Eugene, The Faloorie Man (Dublin: New Island Books 1999), 286pp.
• McKenna, John, A Haunted Heart (London: Picador 1999) 264pp.
• Matthews, Aidan, According to the Small Hours (London: Jonathan Cape 1999).
• O’Brien, Edna, Wild Decembers (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999), 253pp.
• Patterson, Glenn, International (London: Anchor 1999) 316pp.
• O’Gaora, Colm, A Crooked Field (London: Picador 1999) 320pp.
• Sheridan, Frances, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph [World’s Classics Ser.] (Oxford: OUP 1995, 1999), xxxix, 478pp.
• Toibín, Colm, The Blackwater Lightship (London: Picador 1999), 273pp.

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Drama
• Carr, Marina, Plays 1: Low in the Dark; The Mai; Portia Coughllan; By the Bog of Cats [Contemporary Classics] (London: Faber & Faber 1999), 341pp.
• Keane, John B., Moll; The Chastitude; Many Young Men of Twenty (Cork: Mercier Press 1999), 176pp.
• Mayne, Rutherford, Selected Plays (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1999), [‘The Turn of the Road’, ‘The Drone’, ‘The Troth’ ‘Red Turd’, ‘Bridgehead’, ‘Peter’, ‘and the Phantoms’].
• Muldoon, Paul, Bandanna: An Opera in Two Acts and a Prologue (London: Faber 1999), 52pp.
• Muldoon, Paul, trans., with Richard Martin, The Birds [after Aristophanes] (Oldcastle, Co. Meath: Gallery 1999), 80pp.
• Richard Allen Cave, ed., Selected Plays of T. C. Murray (Gerrrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1999), xxiv, 272pp.
• Welch, Robert, The Abbey Theatre 1899-1999: Form and Pressure (Oxford: OUP 1999), xii, 280pp.

 

Memoirs, Biography Travel, Essays
• Adams, R[alph] J[ames] Q., Bonar Law (London: John Murray 1999), xvii, 458pp. 16pls.
• Costello, Mary, Titanic Town: Memoirs of a Belfast Girlhood (London: Methuen 1992; Mandarin rep. 1993; Methuen pb. 1999), 340pp.
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• E. G. Evans, Fanatic Heart: John Boyle O’Reilly (Boston: Northeastern UP 1999).
• McIntyre, Tom, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (BAC: Cois Life 1999), 46pp.
• Moriarty, John, Dreamtime [1994; rev. edn.] (Lilliput 1999) 288pp.
• Morrison, Danny, Then the Walls Came Down: A Prison Journal (Cork: Mercier 1999), 318pp.
• Murphy, Dervla, One Foot in Laos (London: John Murray 1999) 304pp.
• Ó Floinn, Criostóir, Consplawkus: A Writer’s Life (Cork: Mercier Press 1999) [q.pp.]

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Scholarly Editions & Collections
• Agnew, Jean, ed., The Drennan-McTier Letters, 3 vols. [Women’s History Project, gen. ed., Maria Luddy (Dublin: Irish MSS Commission 1998-99) [Vol. 1:1776-1793; Vol. 2: 1794-1801; Vol. 3: 1802-1819].
• Bayless, Martha, and Michael Lapidge, ed., Collectanea pseudo-Bedae (DIAS 1999), 343pp.
• Bishop, Erin I., ed., My Darling Danny: Letters from Mary O’Connell to her Son Daniel, 1830-32 (Cork UP 1999), 114pp.
• Clark, David R., ed., Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats (NY: Cornell UP 1999), xlviii 626pp.
• Meyer, Kuno, trans. Life of Colmán of Lynn; Betha Colmáin Lainne, ed. Leo Daly (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1999), 120pp.
• James P. Meyers, Jr., ed., Writing Irish: Selected interviews with Irish Writers from the Irish Literary Supplement (Syrcause UP 1999), 255pp. [interviews with McGahern, Jennifer Johnston, John Montague, William Trevor, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley, John Banville, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Tom Paulin, Hugh Leonard, Medbh McGuckian, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Benedict Kiely].
• Harmon, Maurice, ed., No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider (Harvard UP 1999), 458pp.
• Quinn, John, ed., Open Mind Guest Lectures 1989-1998 (Institute of Public Administration 1999), 208pp.

Reprint Editions
• Allingham, William, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland: a Modern Poem [1864; rep. edn.] (Poole: Woodstock 1999), xii, 292pp.
• Dunton, John, The Dublin Scuffle [1699], ed. Andrew Carpenter (Dublin: Fourt Courts 1999), 192pp.
• Jackson, John Wyse, ed., Flann O’Brien at War: Myles na Gopaleen, 1940-1945 (London: Duckworth 1999), 192pp.
• Johnston, Joseph, Civil War in Ireland [1913], ed Roy Johnston (UCD Press 1999), 224pp.
• Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Caiscín: Altanna san Irish Times 1953-56 (BAC: Coiscéim 1999), 459pp.

 

Anthologies & Translations
• Craig, Patricia, ed., Belfast Anthology (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1999), 459pp.
• Duffy, Noel, & thoe Dorgan, Watching the River Flow: A Century of Irish Poetry (Dublin: Poetry Ireland/RTÉ 1999) 264pp.
• Heaney, Marie, Sources: Letters from Irish People on Sustenance for the Soul (Dublin: Town House 1999), 247pp.
• Henry, Mark, ed., Chasing Danny Boy: Powerful Stories of Celtic Eros (California: Palm Drive Publishing 1999), 218pp.
• Kravis, Judy, and Peter Morgan, Lives Less Ordinary: Thirty-two Irish Portraits (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1999), 191pp.
• Muldowney, Pat, trans., Dánta Phiarais Feiritéir (Millstreet, Co Cork: Aubane Historical Society 1999), 120pp.
• Scannell, Donal, & Sarah Champion, Shenanigans (London: Sceptre/Lir 1999), 300pp.
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• O’Brien, Peggy, ed. & intro., The Wake Forest Book of Irish women’s Poetry, 1967-2000 (Wake Forest UP 1999), xxxi, 314pp.
• Pierce, David, ed., Irish Writing in , the Twentieth Century: A Reader (Cork UP 1999), 1,351pp.
• Reidy, Gerard, ed., Great Irish Voices: over 400 Years of Irish Oratory (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999), 414pp.
• Somerville-Large, Peter, Irish Voices: 50 Years of Irish Life 1916-1966 (London: Chatto & Windus 1999), 318pp., index [pp.291-314].
• Toibín, Colm, with Carmen Callil, The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 (London: Picador 1999).
• ed. & intro. The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (London: Viking 1999), Do. ([rev. edn.] London: Viking Press 2000), 120pp.

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Literary & Historical Biography
• Arnold, Bruce, Swift: An Illustrated Life (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1999), 128pp.
• Behan, Brian, with Aubrey Dillon-Malone, The Brothers Behan (Dublin: Ashfield Press 1999), 257pp.
• Bishop, Erin I., The World of Mary O’Connell, 1778-1836 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1999), 224pp.
• Breslin, Ronald, The Backward Glance: C. S. Lewis and Ireland (Belfast: IIS/QUB 1999) [q.pp.]
• Brown, Terence, W. B. Yeats: A Critical Life (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1999), 464pp.
• Cooney, John, John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland (Dublin: O’Brien Press 1999).
• Cronin, Anthony, Dead as Doornails: A Chronicle of Life [1976] (Dublin: Lilliput Press 1999), 208pp.
• Wayne E. Hall, Dialogues in the Margin: A Study of the Dublin University Magazine (Catholic Univ. of America 1999), viii, 252pp.
• Hegarty, Peter, Peadar O’Donnell (Cork: Mercier Press 1999), 334pp.
• Legg, Marie-Louise, ed., Alfred Webb: The Autobiography of the Quaker Nationalist (Cork UP 1999), vi, 100pp.
• Daire Keogh, A Patriot Priest: A Life of Reverend James Coigly (Cork UP 1999), 96pp.
• Lysaght, Seán, Robert Lloyd Praeger: The Life of a Naturalist (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999), 208pp.
• MacMahon, Sean, Sam Hanna Bell: A Biography (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1999), 304pp.
• McMinn, Joseph, The Supreme Fictions of John Banville (Manchester UP 1999) , 220pp.
• Maddox, Brenda, George’s Ghosts: A New Life of W. B. Yeats (London: Picador 1999), 444pp.
• Maher, Jim, Harry Boland (Cork: Mercier Press 1999), 284pp.
• Manning, Maurice, James Dillon (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1999).
• O’Connor, Cynthia, Pleasing Hours: the Grand Tour of James Caulfield, First Earl of Charlemont (1728-1799), Traveller, Connoisseur and Patron of the Arts (Cork: Collins Press 1999), 304pp. 8 pls.
• O’Leary, Olivia, and Helen Burke, Mary Robinson: The Authorised Biography (London: Sceptre 1999), 336pp. 8 ills.
• Prunty, Jacinta, Margaret Aylward 1810-1889: Lady of Charity, Sister of Faith (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999).
• Tymoczko, Maria. Translation in a Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation (Manchester, UK: St Jerome 1999), 336pp. [contents].

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Literary History & Literary Criticism
• Backus, Margot Gayle, The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality Child Sacrifice and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (London: Duke UP 1999), xi, 291pp. [contents].
• Caball, Marc, Poets and Politics: Reaction and Continuity in Irish Poetry, 1558-1625 (Cork UP 1999), 228pp.
• Blake, James S., Twentieth-Century Irish Language Literature: A Survey of Fiction and Poetry (Internat. Scholars Publications 1999) 264pp.
• Eagleton, Terry, Crazy Jane and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture [Critical Conditions Ser.] (Cork UP 1998; Chicago UP 1999), 355pp.
• Cahalan, James M., Double Visions: Women and Men in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction (NY: Syracuse UP 1999), xiii, 218pp.
• Hufstader, Jonathan, Tongue of Water, Teech of Stones: Northern Irish Poetry and Social Violence (Kentucky UP 1999), xi, 324pp.
• Frehner, Ruth, The Colonizers’ Daughters: Gender in the Anglo-Irish Big House Novel (Tübingen; Basel: Francke 1999), x, 256pp.
• Kamm, Jürgen, ed., Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama in English: Festschrift for Heinz Kosok on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 1999) [see contents].
• Kiely, Benedict, A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essays (Cork UP 1999), 280pp.
• Lloyd, David, Ireland After History (Cork UP 1999), viii, 141pp.
• Mahony, Christina Hunt, Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 1999), 336pp.
• McGrath, Francis Charles, Brian Friel’s (Post-)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion and Politics (Syracuse UP 1999).
• MacKenna, Dolores, William Trevor: The Writer and His Work (Dublin: New Island;US Dufour 1999), 252pp.
• Nic Eoin, Máirín, B’ait Leo Bean ([Baile Atha Cliath:] An Clochomhar 1999).
• Ó Muirí, Pól, Flight from Shadow: The Life and Work of Seosamh Mac Grianna (Belfast: Lagan Press 1999), 213pp.
• Pine, Richard, The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel [rev. edn.] (UCD Press 1999), 429pp. [prev. 1990].
• St. Peter, Christine, Changing Ireland (London: Macmillan Press 1999), 200pp. [women’s writer’s in various genres].
• Welch, Robert, The Abbey Theatre 1899-1999: Form and Pressure (Oxford OUP 1999), xii, 280pp.
• Wheatley, Christopher, Beneath Ierne’s Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth century (Notre Dame UP 1999), x, 166pp. [bibl., pp.150-61].
• White, Harry, & Michael Murphy, ed., Musical Constructions of Nationalism: The History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800-1945 (Cork UP 1999, 2001), xi, 285pp.
• Wills, Clair, Reading Paul Muldoon (Newcastle-on-Tyne: Bloodaxe Poetry 1999), 222pp.

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Individual Authors
James Joyce
• Boheemen-Saaf, Christine van, Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History: Reading, Narrative and Postcolonialism (Cambridge UP 1999), 237pp.
• Frehner, Ruth, The Colonizers’ Daughters: Gender in the Anglo-Irish Big House Novel [Schweizer anglistische arbeiten/Swiss studies in English, 125] (Tübingen: Francke [1999], x, 256pp. ill.
• O’Brien, Edna , James Joyce (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999), 190pp.
• Gillespie, Michael Patrick, Joyce Through the Ages (Florida UP 1999), 232pp.
• Reizbaum, Marilyn, James Joyce’s Judaic Other (Stanford UP 1999), 208pp.
• Rickard, John S., Joyce’s Book of Memory: The Mnemotechnics of Ulysses (Duke UP 1999), 280pp.

 

Samuel Beckett
• Birkett, Jennifer, & Kate Ince, ed., Samuel Beckett (London: Wesley Longman 1999), 304pp. [criticism from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings for the 1980s and 1990s].
• Stewart, Bruce, ed., Beckett and Beyond [Princess Grace Irish Library Series No. 9] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1999), 318pp.
• Uhlmann, Anthony, Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge UP 1999), 212pp.
• Worth, Katharine, Samuel Beckett’s Theatre: Life Journeys (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999), 192pp.

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Social & Cultural Commentary
• Bohan, Harry, and Gerard Kennedy, ed., Are We Forgetting Something?: Our Society in the New Millennium [Conference of 1989] (Dublin: Veritas 1999), 167pp. [speakers incl. Mary McAleese, Sister Thérèse Mark Hederman, John Lonergan, Joe Lee, and John Quinn].
• Bourke, Angela, The Burning of Bridget Cleary (London: Pimlico 1999), xiii, 240p, [8]pp.
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• Brewster, Scott, et al., Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender Space (London: Routledge 1999), xv, 198pp.
• Brozyna, Andrea Ebel, Labour, Love and Prayer: Female Peity in Ulster Religious Literature, 1850-1914 (UB/IIS; Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP 1999), xvi, 291pp.
• Cabot, David, Ireland: A Natural History (London: Harper Collins 1999), 512pp.
• Crowley, Tony, Language and Politics in Ireland 1366-1922 (London: Routledge 1999), 248pp.
• Cunningham, Bernadette, & Máire Kennedy, eds., The Experience of Reading: Irish Historical Perspectives (Dublin: Rare Books Group of Library Assoc. of Ireland & Econ. And Social Hist. Soc. Of Ireland 1999), pp.130ff.
• David, John, ed., Rural Change in Ireland (Belfast: IIS 1999) xii, 228pp.
• Eagleton, Terry, The Truth about the Irish (Dublin: New Island 1999), 181pp.
• Edwards, Owen Dudley, Ireland in the British Imagination (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999).
• Graham, Colin, & Richard Kirkland, eds., Ireland and Cultural Theory: The Mechanics of Authenticity (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999) 249pp.
• McBride, Lawrence W. , ed., Images, Icons and the Irish Nationalist Imagination (Four Courts 1999).
• McKillop, James, ed., Contemporary Irish Cinema: From the Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa (Syracuse UP 1999).
• Pašeta, Senia, Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change, and Ireland’s Catholic Élite, 1879-1922 (Cork UYP 1999), viii, 183pp.
• Thiessen, Giess E., Theology and Modern Irish Art (Dublin: Columba Press 1999), 304pp. [deals with Mainie Jellett, Jack B. Yeats Gerard Dillon, Colin Middleton, Patrick Collins, Tony O’Malley Patrick Scott, Patrick Graham, Patrick Hall.]
• Todd, Loreto, Green English: Ireland’s Influence on the English Language (Dublin: O’Brien Press 1999), 159pp.
• White, Richard, Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family’s Past (Cork UP 1999), vii, 273pp.
• Whyte, Nicholas, Science, Colonialism and Ireland (Cork UP 1999), x, 214pp.

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Language, Myth & Religion
• Carroll, Denis, ed., Religion in Ireland: Past, Present and Future (Dublin: Columba Press 1999), 176pp.
• McGrath, F. C., Language, Illusion and Politics (Syracuse UP 1999) 320pp.
• Ó hÓgáin, Daithí, Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-christian Ireland (Cork: Collins Press 1999), 267pp.
• Maria Tymoczko, Translation in a Postcolonial Context: Early Irish Literature in English Translation (Manchester: St Jerome Pub. 1999), 336pp.
• Wooding, Jonathan M., The Otherworld Voyage in Irish Literature and History: An Anthology of Criticism (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999), 289pp.

Feminism & Gender Studies
• Gonzalez, Alexander G., ed., Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Some Male Perspectives (Westport & London: Greenwood Press 1999) xvii, 184pp.
• Hill, Myrtle, & Vivienne Pollock, Women in Ireland: Image and Experience, c.1880-1920 [corr. edn. with new title] (Blackstaff Press, 1999), 189pp. [formerly Image and Experience: Photographs of Irishwomen c.1880-1920, 1993].
• Hug, Chrystel, The Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland, 1922-1995 (London: Macmillan 1999), 288pp.
• Brewster, Scott, et al., Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender Space (London: Routledge 1999), 208pp.

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Historical Studies
• Augusteijn, Joost, Ireland in the 1930s (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999), 170pp.
• Barry, Terry, A History of Settlement in Ireland (London: Routledge 1999), 240pp.
• Bernard, Toby, and Jane Fenlon, The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745 ([London:] Boydell Press), 352pp.
• Brown, Stewart J., & David W. Miller, ed., Piety and Power in Ireland 1760-1960: Essays in Honour of Emmet Larkin (Belfast: QUB/IIS; Notre Dame UP 1999), q.pp.
• Cooney, Gabriel, Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland (London: Routledge 1999), 276pp.
• Cronin, Mike, & John M. Regan, Ireland: The Politics of Independence 1922-1949 (London: Macmillan 1999), 256pp.
• Doherty, Richard, Irish Men and Women in the Second World War (Dublin Four Courts Press 1999), 319pp. 16 ills.
• Dooge, Jim and Ruth Barrington, eds., A Vital National Interest: Ireland in Europe 1973-1998 (Dublin: IPA 1999), xx, 358pp.
• Douglas, Roy, et al., Ireland Since 1690: A Concise History (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1999), 255pp.
• Douglas, Roy, Liam Harte & Jim O’Hara, Ireland Since 1690: A Concise History (Belfast: Blackstaff: 1999), 2,476pp.
• Ellis, Peter Berresford, Erin’s Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland (London: Constable 1999), 352pp., 12pp., photos.
• Ferriter, Diarmaid, A Nation of Extremes: The Pioneers of Twentieth-century Ireland (Dublin: IAP 1999; rep. 2008), 303pp.
• Foley, Tadhg, & Thomas Boylan, eds., From Queen’s College to National University: Essays towards an Academic History (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999), 448pp.
• Gaffney, Phyllis, Healing amid the Ruins: the Irish Hospital at Saint-Lô, 1945-46 (Dublin: A. & A. Farmar 1999), 188pp.
• Geoghegan, Patrick M., The Irish Act of Union: A Study in High Politics 1789-1801 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1999), 300pp.
• Hill, Jacqueline, & Colm Lennon, ed., Luxury and Austerity [1997 Irish Conference of Historians] (Dublin: UCD Press 1999), 256pp. 12 pls.
• Hopkinson, Michael, ed., The Last Days of Dublin Castle (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999), 278pp.
• Keneally, Thomas, Great Shame: The Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New (London: Chatto & Windus 1999), 752pp. 32 ills. photos.
• Kinealy, Christine, A Disunited Kingdom? Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1800-1949 (Cambridge UP 1999).
• Laffan, Michael, The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin Party 1916-1922 (Cambridge UP 1999).
• Martin W. Dowling, Tenant Right and Agrarian Society in Ulster 1600-1870 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999), 400pp.
• McCarron, Donal, Step Together!: Ireland’s Emergency Army 1939-46 as told by Its Veterans (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999), 192pp. 4 col. pls.
• McCracken. Donal P., MacBride’s Brigade: Irish Commandos in the Anglo-Boer War (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999), 202pp. 16 ills.
• McGarry, Fearghal, Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War (Cork UP 1999), 336pp.
• McLoughlin, Thomas, Contesting Ireland: Irish Voices against England in the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press), 248pp.
• Maume, Patrick, The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life 1891-1918 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1999), 340pp.
• Molohan, Cathy, Germany and Ireland 1945-1955: Two Nations’ Friendship (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999), 144pp.
• O’Halpin, Eunan, Defending Ireland: the Irish State and its Enemies since 1922 (Oxford: OUP 1999), 398pp.
• Paseta, Senia, Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland’s Catholic Élite, 1879-1922 (Cork UP 1999) 191pp.
• Pearce, Edward, Lines of Most Resistance: The Lords, Tories and Ireland 1886-1914 (Little, Brown 1999), 535pp.
• Pittock, Murray, Celtic Identity and the British Image (Manchester UP 1999), xii, 180pp. [chaps incl. ‘Self and Other’, ‘Gendering the Celt’ and ‘Imagined Community’ - at Google Books - online].
• Reilly, Tom, Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy: The Untold Story of the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland (Dingle: Brandon Press 1999) 320pp.
• Regan, John M., The Irish Counter-revolution 1921-1936: Treatyite Politics and Settlement in Independent Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan; NY: St. Martin’s Press 1999), 400pp. [475]pp.
• Richter, Senia, Ireland and her Neighbours in the Seventh Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999), 256pp.
• Stradling, Robert, The Irish and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 (Manchester UP 1999).
• Townsend, Charles, Twentieth-century Ireland (London: Arnold 1999), 256pp.
• Sturgis, Mark, The Last Days of Dublin Castle: The Diaries of Mark Sturgis (Irish Acadmic Press 1999), 288pp.
• Swift, Roger, & Sheridan Gilley, eds., Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999), 320pp.

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Famine Studies
• Gray, Peter, Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society 1843-50 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999).
• Gribben, Arthur, ed., The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America (Massachusetts UP; Eurospan 1999), 280pp.
• Clarkson, L., E. Crawford, P. Ell, and L. Kennedy, Mapping the Great Irish Famine (Dublin: Four Courts Press 1999), 240pp.
• Kennedy, Liam, Paul S. Ell, E. M. Crawford, & L. A. Clarkson Mapping the Great Irish Famine: A survey of the Famine Decades (Dublin: Four Courts 2000), 220pp.
• Ó Cathaoir, Breandan, Famine Diary (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999), xix+201pp.
• Swords, Liam, In Their Own Words: The Famine in North Connacht, 1845-1849 (Dublin: Columba 1999), 508pp.

Northern Ireland
• Anderson, Malcolm, & Eberhard Bort, ed., Irish Border: History Politics, Culture ( Liverpool UP 1999), 295pp.
• Bew, Paul, & Gordon Gillespie, Northern Ireland: a chronology of the troubles 1968-1999 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1999), 493pp.
• Edwards, Ruth Dudley, The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions (London: HarperCollins 1999), 464pp.
• McGarry, John, & Brendan O’Leary, Policing Northern Ireland: Proposals for a New Start (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1999), 146pp.
• McKittrick, David, et al., Lost Lives: The Stories of Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles (London Mainstream 1999), 1,630pp. 16 ills.
• McIntosh, Gillian, The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Twentieth-Century Ireland (Cork UP 1999), 245pp.
• Wichert, Sabine, Northern Ireland since 1945 [1991; enl. edn.] (London: Longman 1999), 243pp.

Reference Works
• Collectanea Hibernica: Sources for Irish History, No.41 (Naas: Leinster Leader Ltd 1999), 248pp.
• Ó Conchubhair, Liam, Traditional Songs of North of Ireland intro. Derek Bell (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1999), 127pp.
• Vallely, Fintan, ed., Companion to Irish Traditional Music (Cork UP 1999), 496pp.

Miscellaneous
• Doolan, Brian, Principles of Irish Law [1981; 5th edn.] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1999), 491pp.
• Guinness, Michele, The Guiness Spirit: Brewers and Bankers, Ministers and Missionaries (London: Hodder & Stoughton 1999), 535pp.

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Arts & Music

• Donal Hickey, Stone Mad for Music: The Sliabh Luachra Story (Dublin: Marino 1999), 223pp., ill.
• McCarthy, Marie, Passing It on: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture (Cork UP 1999), 2234pp.
• McGonagle, Declan, Fintan O’Toole & Kim Levin, eds., Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political (London: Merrell Holberton/Independent Curators International in assoc. with the Irish Museum of Modern Art 1999), 96pp. [see contents].