Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & its Contexts: 2000

Poetry

Byron, Catherine, The Getting of Vellum (Galway: Salmon 2000), 72pp.
Cannon, Moya, Oar (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 50pp.
Cashman, Seamus, Clowns and Acrobats (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 60pp.
Davitt, Michael, Freacnairc Mhearcair/The Ooomph of Quicksilver: Rogha Dánta 1970-1998, ed. trans. Louis de Paor (Cork UP 2000), 157pp. [trans. by Muldoon, Kennelly, Mary Malley, John Montague, Derry O’Sullivan.].
Deane, John., Toccata and Fugue: New and Selected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2000), 95pp.
Deane, John F., trans. Ingemar Leckius, Ljus av ljus / Light from Light (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2000), 106pp.
Deeley, Patrick, Decoding Samara (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2000), 64pp.
Duffy, Carol Ann, The Salmon Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems 1985-1999 (Galway: Salmon 2000), 112pp.
Egan, Desmond, Music (Newbridge: Goldsmith Press 2000), 60pp.
Ennis, John, Tráithníní (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2000), 104pp. [100 poems].
Fiacc, Padraic, Semper Vacere (Belfast: Lagan Press 2000), 60pp.
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel, The Wrenboys Carnival: Poems 1980-2000 (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 144pp.
Greacen, Robert, Captain Fox: A Life (Belfast: Lapwing 2000), 48pp. [first collected Capt. Fox poems.].
Grennan, Eamon, Selected Poems and New Poems 1983-95 (Oldcastle: Gallery Books 2000), 105pp.
Hamill, Brendan, Alameda Park (Belfast: Glandore Publ. 2000), 30pp.
Hardie, Kerry, Cry for the Hot Belly (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 60pp.
Harmon, Maurice, The Last Regatta (Galway: Salmon Press 2000), 80pp.
Harnett, Michael, A Necklace of Wrens: Selected and New Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 121pp.
—, Poems to Younger Women (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 104pp.
—, O Bruadair (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 52pp.
Heaney, Seamus, The Midnight Verdict (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 42pp. [Merriman’s “Midnight Court” with excerpts from Ovid.].
Jenkinson, Biddy, Rogha Dánta (Cork UP 2000), 24pp.
Kinsella, Thomas, Citizen of the World [Peppercannister 22] (Dublin: Dedalus Press), q.pp.
Kinsella, Thomas, Littlebody [Peppercannister 23] (Dublin: Dedalus Press), q.pp.
Liddy, James, Gold Set Dancing (Galway: Salmon Press 2000), 80pp.
Longley, Michael, The Weather in Japan (London: Jonathan Cape 2000), 68pp.
Maxton, Hugh, Gubu Roi: Poems and Satires 1991-1999 (Belfast: Lagan Press 2000), 90pp.
MacCarthy, Thomas, Mr. Dineen’s Careful Parade: New and Selected Poems ([Dublin:] 2000 Anvil), 174pp.
McCloskey, Phil, Revelations of an Ant (Donegal [author] 2000), 87pp.
McGuckian, Mebdh, On Ballycastle Beach [rev. edn.] (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 62pp.
McGuinness, Frank, The Sea with No Ships (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 72pp.
Meehan, Paula, Dharmakaya (Manchester Carcanet Press 2000), 63pp.
Monahan, Noel, Curse of the Birds (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2000), 270pp.
Montague, John, Smashing the Piano (Oldcastle: Gallery Press [2000])
Murphy, Gerry, Extracts from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus (Dedalus Press 2000), 71pp.
Murphy, Richard, In the Heart of the Country: Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 248pp.
O’Callaghan, Julie, No Can Do (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 2000), 93pp. [American poet living in Ireland].
Ó Duill, Gréagóir, Fearnann Filíocht: Filíocht 1900-1999 (Baile Atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2000), 412pp.
Ó Muírí, Pól, Is Mise Ísmeáél (Belfast: Lagan Press 2000), 56pp.
Ó Muirthile, Liam, Gaothán (Baile atha Cliath: Cois Lífe 2000).
Ó Muirthile, Liam, Walking Time agus Dánta Eile (Cló Iar-Chonnacta 2000), 96pp. & CD.
Ó Searcaigh, Cathal, Ag Tnúth leis an Solas: Dánta 1975-2000 (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2000), 250pp.
O’Callaghan, Conor, Seatown (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 61pp.
O’Donohue, John, Connemara Blues (NY: Doubleday 2000), 96pp.
O’Driscoll, Dennis, Weather Permitting (London: Anvil Press 2000), 83pp.
O’Floinn, Criostoir, Van Gogh’s Chocolates: Poems and Translations (Obelisk Books 2000), 108pp.
Oeser, Hans-Christian, & Gabriel Rosenstock, Said (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2000), 82pp. [Iranian poet].
Riordan, Kate, The Angel in the House (London: Flamingo 2000), 347pp.
Simmons, James, The Company of Children (Galway: Salmon Poetry [2000]), 103pp.
Sirr, Peter, Bring Everything (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 79pp.
Smyth, Damian, Downpatrick Races (Belfast: Lagan Press 2000), 62pp.
Sweeney, Matthew, A Smell of Fish (London: Jonathan Cape 2000), pp.
Wheatley, David, Misery Hill (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000).
Young, Augustus, Lightning in Low Places (Coleraine: Cranagh Press 2000), p.81 [b. 1943].

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Fiction

Banville, John, Eclipse (London: Picador 2000), 220pp.
Binchy, Maeve, Scarlet Feather (London: Orion Press 2000), 507pp.
Bolger, Dermot, Temptation (London: Flamingo Press 2000), 230pp.
Breatnach, Deasún, Galar n bhFocal Agus Scéalta Eile (An Clóchomhar 2000), 168pp.
Brennan, Maeve, The Springs of Affection (London: Flamingo 2000), 354pp. [collected in 1969, 1974; rep. 1999].
Casey, Philip, The Water Star (London: Picador 2000), 442pp.
Carson, Paul, Final Duty (London: Heinemann 2000).
Cathal Póirtéir, Scéalta san Aer (Baile Atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2000), 177pp.
Clifton, Harry, Berkeley’s Telephone and Other Fictions (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 224pp.
Conlon, Evelyn, Telling: New and Selected Stories (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000) [9 new & 10 old].
Deane, John F., The Coffin Master and Other Stories (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000), 195pp. [14 stories].
Donoghue, Emma, Slammerkins (London: Virago 2000), 434pp.
Doyle, Roddy, The Giggler Treatment ([Dublin:] Scolastic 2000), ill. Brian Ahjar [for children].
Doyle, Rose, In Secret Sin (London: Town House 2000), 256pp. [prev. novels Images, Alva and 2 others] Dunne, Lee, No Time for Innocence (Gill & Macmillan 2000), 244pp.
Dunne, Sean, In My Father’s House (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 117pp.
Edwards, Ruth Dudley, The Anglo-Irish Murders (London: HarperCollins 2000), 236pp.
Enright, Anne, What are You Like? (London: Jonathan Cape 2000), 259pp.
Hardie, Kerry, Hannie Bennet’s Winter Marriage (London: HarperCollins 2000), 416pp.
Harte, Lara, First Time and Losing It (London: Phoenix 2000), 208 & 204pp.
Haverty, Anne, The Far Side of a Kiss (London: Chatto & Windus 2000), 249pp.
Galvin, John, Bog Warriors (London: Town House 2000), 358pp. [novel].
Hayes, Katy, Gossip (London: Phoenix House 2000) 253pp. [prev. novel Curtains].
Healy, Dermot, Sudden Times (London: Harvill Press 2000), 341pp.
Hickey, Christine Dwyer, The Gatemaker (Dublin: Marino Press 2000), 398pp.
Walsh, John, The Falling Angels (London: Flamingo 2000).
Johnston, Fred, Atalanta: A Novel (Cork: Collins Press 2000), 222pp.
Johnston, Jennifer, The Gingerbread Woman (London: Review Press 2000), 211pp.
Keenan, Brian, Turlough: A Novel (London: Jonathan Cape 2000), 331pp.
Kelly, Rita, Travelling West (Galway: Arlen House 2000), 185pp.
Mac Anna, Ferdia, Cartoon City ([London:] Review 2000), 279pp.
McCann, Colum, Everything in This Country Must (London: Phoenix House 2000), 160pp.
McIntyre, Tom, Stories of the Wandering Moon (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 64pp. ill. by Barrie Cooke.
McKinney, Blánaid, Big Mouth (London: Phoenix House 2000), 211pp. [stories].
Morrison, Mary, The Pretender (London Jonathan Cape 2000), 284pp.
Murphy, Judy May, That Girl from Happy (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000).
Ní Dhuibhne, Éilis, Dúnmharú sa Daingean (Baile atha Cliath: Cois Lífe 2000), 241pp.
—, The Dancers Dancing (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000; Review Press).
—, The Pale Gold of Alaska and Other Stories (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000), 240pp.
O’Connor, Joseph, Inishowen (London: Secker & Warburg 2000), 480pp.
—, The Comedian [Open Doors Ser.] (Dublin: New Island Books 2000), 64pp.
O’Connor, Kathleen Sheehan, Different Kinds of Loving (Dingle: Mount Eagle 2000), 346pp.
O’Connor, Rory, Gander at the Gates (Dublin: Lilliput; London: Hodder Headline 2000), 240pp.
O’Doherty, Brian [Patrick Ireland], The Deposition of Father McGreevy (London: Arcadia 2000), 320pp.
O’Donovan, Siofra, Malinski (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), q.pp.
O’Reilly, Sean, Curfew and Other Stories (London: Faber & Faber 2000), 174pp.
O’Riordan, Kate, Angel in the House (London: Flamingo 2000), 347pp.
Parsons, Julie, Eager to Please (Dublin: TownHouse 2000).
—, The Courtship Gift (Dublin: TownHouse 2000), 400pp.
Patterson, Glenn, The International (London; Anchor [2000].
Purcell, Deirdre, Entertaining Ambrose (Dublin: TownHouse 2000), 400pp.
Ryan, John C., The Broken Place (Cromwell Publ. 2000), 212pp.
Sheridan, Peter, 44: A Dublin Memoir (London: Pan 2000), 304pp.
—, Old Money, New Money [Open Door Ser.] (Dublin: New Island Books 2000).
Sweeney, Eamonn, The Photograph (London: Picador 2000), 382pp.
Taylor, Alice, Across the River (Dingle: Mount Eagle 2000), 283pp.
Thompson, Kate, An Act of Worship ([London:] Sceptre 2000).
Tremayne, Peter, Hemlock at Vespers (London: Hodder Headline 2000).
Wall, William, Alice Falling (London: Sceptre 2000), 206pp.

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Drama

Banville, John, God’s Gift (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 70pp.
Gébler, Carlo, trans., Dance of Death [after Strindberg, do., Pts. 1 & 2] (Lagan Press 2000), 166pp.
Carr, Marina, On Raftery’s Hill (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000), 55pp.
Carr, Marina, The Mai (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000) [rep. edn.].
Hewitt, John, Two Plays: The McCrackens and The Angry Dove (Belfast: Lagan 2000), 121pp.
Jones, Marie, Stones in His Pockets and A Night in November (London: Nick Hern Books 2000), 108pp.
Mac Gabhann, Seosamh, Cumhacht na Cuimne (Cló Iar-Chonnacta 2000) [rep.; 4 plays for teenagers].
McElhinney, Ian, The Green Shoot: Life of John Hewitt (Belfast: Lagan Press 2000), 61pp.

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Autobiography & Biography

Daly, Edward [Bishop of Derry], Mr., are you a Priest? (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 272pp.
Desmond, Barry, Finally and In Conclusion: A Political Memoir (New Island Books 2000), 411pp. [16pp. photos].
Devlin, Edith Newman, Speaking Volumes: A Dublin Childhood (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000).
Dowling, Vincent, Astride the Moon: A Theatrical Life (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000).
Gébler, Carlo, Father and I: A Memoir (London: Little, Brown & Co. 2000), 405pp.
Gregory [Lady] Augusta, The Autobiography of Sir William Gregory, ed. Colin Smythe (Colin Smythe: Gerrard Cross 2000).
Higgins, Aidan, The Whole Hog: Sequel to Donkey’s Years and Dog Days (London: Secker & Warburg 2000), xiv, 400pp.
Blain, Angela Kearn, Stealing Sunlight: Growing Up in Irishtown (Dublin: A & A Farmer 2000), 248pp.
Leonard, Hugh, Dear Paule (Dublin: Marino 2000), 144pp.
Moore, Christy, One Voice: My Life in Song (London: Hodder 2000), 287pp.
[Q.a.,] The Life of Sir Denis Henry: Catholic Unionist (Historical Found. [2000]), 160pp.
Scoular, Clive, James Chichester-Clark: Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (Co. Down: Clive Scoular 2000), 175pp.
Taylor, Alice, Across the River (Dingle: Mount Eagle 2000), 283pp.

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Collected & Scholarly Editions

Clifford, Brendan, The Nation: Selections 1842-1844, Vol. 1 (Belfast: Aubane Hist. Soc. [2000]), 205pp.
Barrington, Brendan, ed., The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 192pp.
Barry, Kevin, ed., James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writings (Oxford: OUP 2000), 360pp.
Bromwich, David, ed. Edmund Burke: On Liberty & Reform - Speeches and Letters, Yale UP 2000.
Duffy, Joseph, ed., Patrick in his Own Words (Veritas 2000), 147pp.
Holland, Merlin, & Hart-Davis, Rupert, ed., The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (Fourth Estate 2000), 1,296pp.
Holland, Merlin, ed., The Oscar Wilde Anthology (Harper Collins 2000), 288pp.
Hooper, Glen, ed., Harriet Martineau’s Letters from Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), 194pp.
Michael Hurst, ed., The Truth about Ireland: Tours of Observation in 1872 and 1875 [Contemporary observations of Ireland from Grattan to Griffith, 4; Irish history and culture], 6 vols. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press; Japan: Synapse Edns. 2000) [contents].
Keane, John B., The Little Book of John B. Keane (Cork: Mercier Press 2000) [selected by himself].
Pierce, David, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century, intro. Peter Sutherland (Cork UP 2000), 1,351pp. [blank pages for Joyce; see contents].
Walsh, Paul, Irish Places and People, ed., Nollaig Ó Muraile (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000).
Williams, Guy St John, comp. & ed., The Renvyle Letters: Gogarty Family Correspondence 1939-1957 (Monasterevan: Daletta Press 2000), 355pp.
Zach, Wolfgang, Selected Plays of Rutherford Mayne (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2000), 288pp.

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Literary reprints

Carpenter, Andrew, ed., John Dunton: The Dublin Scuffle [rep. edn.] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 380pp.
Coyle, Kathleen, Liv (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000) [rep. edn.].
Cronin, Anthony, Dead as Doornails (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000) , 203pp. [rep. edn.].
McClelland, Aiken, ed., W. G. Lyttle, Betsy Gray or Hearts of Down with Other Stories and Pictures of ’98 (Newcastle: Mourne Observer 2000), 207pp.
Clifford, Brendan, ed, The Nation: Selections 1824-1844, Vol. 1 (Aubane Hist. Soc. 2000), 205pp.
Clifford, Brendan & Pat Muldowney, ed., Bolg an tSolair, or the Gaelic Magazine (Athol Books 2000), 243pp. [lives of Patrick Lynch and Charlotte Brooke by Clifford and Muldowney; non-facs. edn.].
Clifford, Brendan, intro., Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Davis [rep. edn.] (Aubane Soc. 2000) [rep. of 1890 edn.; shorter pop. edn. in 1896; chiefly anthology; prefaced by extract from My Life in Two Hemispheres.
Devlin, Polly, The Far Side of the Lough [1983] (Dublin: O’Brien Press [2000]), 110pp.
Maher, Eamon, trans., Anticipate Every Goodbye: The Award-winning Account of the Death of his Mother, by [..] Jean Sulivan [prev. as Devance tout adieu, Paris: Gallimard, 1966] Dublin: Veritas 2000), 135pp.
Maume, Patrick, ed., James Mullin, The Story of A Toiler’s Life (UCD Press 200), 253pp.
Kickham, Charles Joseph, Knocknagow, or The Homes of Tipperary ([London:] Woodstock Press 2000).
Healey, Dermot, The Ballyconnell Colours (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000) [rep.].
Lavin, Mary In a Café (Dublin: Town House 2001).
Lewis, C. S., Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength (London: HarperCollins 2000) [rep. edns.].
MacGill, Patrick, The Great Push ([London:] Birlinn 2000), 256pp. [rep. edn.].
O’Connor, Ulick, Oliver St. Gogarty [1964] (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2000), 328pp. [rep. edn.].
Somerville & Ross, The Real Charlotte [and] The Big House at Inver (A. & A. Farmer 2000) [sep. covers].
Trevor, William, Three Early Novels (Penguin 2000), [The Old Boys, The Boarding-House, The Love Department] p.1, p.167, p.411; 663pp.
Trevor, William, The Hill Bachelors: Stories (NY & London: Viking Press 2000), 245pp.
Wall, Mervyn, The Unfortunate Fursey (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 240pp. [rep. edn].

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Anthologies

Craig, Patricia, ed., The Belfast Anthology (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000), 459pp.
Cronin, Anthony, ed., Anthony Cronin’s Personal Anthology (Dublin: New Island Books 2000), 148pp.
Duffy, Noel, & Theo Dorgan, ed., Watching the River Flow: A Century of Irish Poetry ([Dublin:] Poetry Ireland 2000), 270pp.
Hayes, Alan, ed., The Years Flew By: Recollections of Madame Sidney Gifford Czira (Arlen House 2000) [rep. of 1974 edn.].
Heaney, Marie, Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 1995-2000 (Dublin: Townhouse & Country House 2000), 268pp.
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel, The Kerry Anthology (Dublin: Marino 2000), 4000pp.
Marcus, David, ed., Phoenix Irish Short Stories (London: Phoenix Press 2000) [5th annual collection].
McBreen, Joan, ed., The White Page/An Bhileog Bán (Galway: Salmon Press 2000), 297pp. [113 poets incl. Sinéad Morrissey, Marie Aine Nic Gearailt, Ann Zell, Sarah Berkeley, Moya Cannon, Medbh McGuckian, Eithne Strong, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, et al.; bibl. of criticism & special journal issues on Irish women’s poetry].
McCormack, W. J., ed., Ferocious Humanism: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Before Swift to Yeats and After (London: Dent 2000), 355pp.
McGonigal, Jim, Donny O’Rourke & Hamish Whyte, eds., Across the Water: Irishness in Modern Scottish Writing ([Edinburgh:] Argyll Publ. 2000), 380pp. [incls. Patrick MacGill, Bernard McLaverty, Hayden Murphy, Rody Gorman].
Murtagh, Peter, Irish Times Book of the Year 1999-2000 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2000), 256pp.
O’Brien, George, ed., Playing the Field (New Island Books 2001), 160pp. [incl. Anthony Cronin, Mary O’Malley, Joe O’Connor et al.].
Ó Tuathaigh, Gearóid, ed., Pobal na Gaeltachta: A Scéal agus a Dhán (Cló Iar-Chonnachta/Radio na Gaeltachta 2000), 746pp.
Ormsby, Frank, The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 176pp.
Somerville-Large, Peter, Irish Voices: 50 Years of Irish Life (London: Pimlico 2000), 320pp.
Walsh, Caroline, & Theo Dorgan, ed., The Irish Times Book of Favourite Poems, intro. by Colm Toibín (Irish Times 2000), 172pp.

Miscellaneous

O’Donohue, John, Eternal Echos (London: Bantam 2000), 416pp. [Celtic Mysticism].
O’Connor, Joe, The Last of the Irish Males (Dublin: New Island Books [2000]), 306pp.

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Reference Works

Andrews, J. H., Philip Robinson, Katharine Simms, Patrick O’Flanagan, Harman Murtagh, K.M. Davies, Anngret Simms, ed., Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Vol. 1 [Royal Irish Academy] (Dublin: RIA 1996), 140pp.
Costello, Peter, The Irish 100 (NY: Simon & Schuster 2000), 336pp.
Curran, Bob, Complete Guide to Celtic Mythology (Belfast: Appletree Press 2000).
Dee, Roslyn, A Sense of Place: Reflections of an Irish Landscape (Dublin: New Island Books 2000), 120pp. [celebrities and photos].
Dooley, Terence, Sources for the History of Landed Estates in Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), 87pp.
[Hogan, Gonzalez, et al.,] Studies in Irish Literature (Greenwood Electronic Media 2000) [£195.00; CDROM].
McKillop, James, A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (OUP 2000), 488pp.
Ní Mhurchú, Máire, & Diarmaid Breathneach, 1782-1881 Beathainéis (Dublin: Clóchomhar 2000), 221pp.
Ó Muirthe, Diarmaid, ed., A Dictionary of Anglo-Irish: Words and Phrases from Gaelic in the English of Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000).
Sawyers, June Skinner, Celtic Music: The Complete Guide (Da Capo Press [2000].
Ward-Perkins, Sarah, ed., Writings on Irish History 1993- & 1994 [Irish Comm. of Hist. Sciences & HIS] (2000), 324pp. [1984- ; discontinuous].

Arts & Music

Campbell, Julian, ed., Peintres irlandais en Bretagne (Musée de Pont-Aven; Crawford Gallery, ork [2000), 104pp.
Cullen, Fintan, ed., Sources in Irish Art: A Reader (Cork UP 2000), 325pp. [Lord Charlemont, James Barry, Thomas Bodkin, Myles na Gopaleen, et al.].
Farrell, Brian, & Niall MacMonagle, Camille Souter [Profile 14] (Dublin: Gandon 2000).
Fleischmann, Ruth, Aloys Fleischmann, 1910-1992: A Life for Music in Ireland Remembered by Contemporaries (Cork: Mercier 2000), 192pp. [160 contribs.].
Harbison, Peter, Cooper’s Ireland: Drawings and Notes from an Eighteenth-century Gentleman (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2000), 288pp.
Harbison, Peter, The Crucifixion in Irish Art (Dublin: Columba Press 2000)[ q.pp.].
Ó Cuiv, Ruairi, ed., Artists’ Century: Irish Self-Portraits and Selected Works, 1900-2000. (Gandon/RHA, Ormeau Baths Gallery and National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland].
Smith, Alistair, Louis le Brocquy: Paintings 1936-1996 (Gandon 2000), 112pp.
Stalley, Roger, ed., George Edmund Street and the Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral (Four Courts Press 2000), 237pp.
Thiessen, Geza Elizabeth, Theology and Modern Art (Dublin: Columba Press 2000), 304pp. [le Brocquy, Jack Yeats, Mainie Jellett, Gerard Dillon, Colin Middleton, Patrick Collins, and Patrick Hall].
Turpin, John, Oliver Sheppard 1865-1941: Symbolist Sculptor of the Irish Literary Revival (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 268pp.
Vallely, Fintan, Irish Traditional Music: Almanaca and Directory with CD (Gill & Macmillan 2000), 128pp.
Weston, Nancy, Daniel Maclise: Irish Artist in Victorian London (Dublin: Four Courts [2001]).

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Cultural Studies

Allen, Kieran, Bust to Boom? The Irish Experience of Growth and Inequality (Dublin: IPA [2000]).
—, The Celtic Tiger: The Myth of Social Partnership in Ireland (Manchester UP 2000), viii, 216pp.
Ashok Bery & Patricia Murray, eds., Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations (Basingstoke: Macmillan 2000), xii, 283p. [see contents].
Clare, Anthony, On Men and Masculinity (London: Chatto & Windus 2000), 270pp.
Corbett, Mary Jean, Allegories of Union: in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold (Cambridge UP 2000), x, 228pp.[see contents].
Cronin, Michael, Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (Cork UP 2000), x, 198pp.
Crowley, Tony, The Politics of Language in Ireland 1366-1922: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge 2000), xvi, 236pp.
Fauske, Christopher, Jonathan Swift and the Church of Ireland 1710-24 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), 296pp.
Hall, Wayne E., Dialogues in the Margin: A Study of the Dublin University Magazine (Wasington: CUA Press; Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2000), 252pp.
Hanna, W. A., Intertwined Roots: An Ulster-Scots Perspective (Dublin: Columba Press 2000), 192pp.
Holmes, Janice, Religious Revivals in Britain and Ireland, 1859-1905 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), xxii, 281pp. ill. [Bibl., pp.[235]-71].
Hourihane, Anne Marie, She Moves Through the Boom (Dublin: Sitric Books 2000), 192pp.
Howe, Stephen, Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture (Oxford: OUP 2000), 334pp.
Fennell, Desmond, The Postwestern Condition: Between Chaos and Civilisation (London: Minerva Press 2000), 137pp.
Foster, John Wilson, Titanic (London: Penguin 2000), q.pp.
Eamon Maher, Crosscurrents and Confluences: Echoes of Religion in Twentieth-century Fiction (Dublin: Veritas 2000), 184pp.
Mathews, P. J., ed., New Voices in Irish Criticism (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), q.pp.
McCarthy, Conor, Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland, 1969-1992 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 240pp.
McCoy, Gordon, & Maolcholaim Scott, Gaelic Identities: Aithne na nGael (Belfast: IIS 2000), 240pp.
Moss, John, Invisible Among the Ruins: Field Notes of a Canadian in Ireland (UCD Press 2000), 166pp.
Murray, Damien, Romanticism Nationalism and Irish Antiquarian Societies 1840-1880 (Maynooth UP 2000) [q.pp.]
Ó Giolláin, Diarmuid, Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (Cork UP 2000), xi, 256pp. [contents].
Ó Lúing, Seán, Celtic Studies in Europe and Other Essays, with an appreciation by Bo Almqvist (Dublin: Geography Publications 2000), xvi, 317pp. ill. [16pp. of pls., ports.; 24cm.].
Ó Tuathaigh, Gearoid, Liam Lillis Ó Laoire & Seán Ua Suilleabháin, eds., Pobal na Gaeltachta: A Scéal agus a Dán (Cló-Iar-Chonnachta 2000), 745pp.
Ryan, Ray, ed., Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics, 1949-1999 (London: Macmillan 2000; NY: St. Martin’s Press 2001), x, 289pp.[see contents].
Smyth, Jim, ed., Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790s (Cambridge UP 2000), 235pp.[see contents].
Wooding, Jonathan, ed., The Otherworld Voyage in Irish Literature and History: A Critical Anthology (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 326pp.

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Biography

Mac Con Iomaire, Liam, Breandán Ó hEithir (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2000), 800pp.
Manning, Maurice, John Dillo n: A Biography (Dublin: Wolfhound Press), 432pp.
O’Byrne, Robert, Hugh Lane 1875-1915 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 256pp.
Frazier, Adrian, George Moore, 1852-1933 (Yale UP 2000), 604pp.
Horgan, John, Noel Browne: Passionate Outsider (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan), viii, 346pp.
McDonald, Henry, Trimble (London: Bloomsbury 2000), 342pp.
O’Neill, Mariel, Grace Gifford Plunkett: Tragic Bride of 1916 (Dublin IAP 2001), 104pp. ill.
Tierney, Mark, Blessed Columba Marmion (Dublin: Columba 2000), 248pp.
Wall, Richard, Wittgenstein in Ireland (Martin Chambers/Reaktion Bks. 2000), 160pp.

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Literary Criticism: General

Brearton, Fran, The Great War in Irish Poetry: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley (Oxford: OUP 2000), 315pp. [Durham PhD 1998].
Eagleton, Terry, Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Oxford: Blackwell 2000), 177p
Goodby, John, Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History (Manchester UP 2000), 362pp.
Gonzalez, Alexander G., ed., Contemporary Irish Poets: Some Male Perspectives (Conn: Greenwood Publ. 2000), 104pp.
Grene, Nicholas, The Politics of Irish Drama (Cambridge UP [2000]), 312pp.
Grennan, Eamon, Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Creighton UP 1999; Eurospan 2000), 456pp.
Harte, Liam, Tom Herron & Michael Parker, eds., Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories (London: Macmillan 2000), ix, 260pp.
Jordan, Eamonn, ed., Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2000), 370pp.[see contents].
Kelleher, Margaret , ed., Making it New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate Syllabus (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 256pp.
Kirkpatrick, Kathyrn, Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities (Dublin: Wolfhound Press; Alabama UP 2000), ix, 305pp. [essays on Lady Morgan, Lady Gregory, Emily Lawless; Katherine Tynan; Eliz. Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Mary Beckett; Emma Donoghue, Jennifer Johnston, et al.; see contents].
Kiberd, Declan, Irish Classics (London: Granta Books 2000), 704pp.
Lanters, José, Unauthorized Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952 (Washington: CUA Press 2000), 287pp.

contents

Mac Con Iomaire, Liam, Breandán Ó hEithir: Iomramh Aonair (Cló Iar-Chonnacta 2000), 729pp.
Muldoon, Paul, To Ireland, I [Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1998] (Oxford: OUP 2000) 150pp.
Murray, Christopher, Twentieth Century Irish Drama (Syracuse UP 2000), 288pp. [Manchester UP 1997].
Peacock, Alan & Kathleen Devine, eds., The Poetry of Michael Longley (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2000), xxi, 191pp.
Sammells, Neil, Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde [Studies in 18th- & 19th c. Lit.] (Harlow: Longman 2000), vi, 143pp.
Sewell, Frank, Modern Irish Poetry: A New Alhambra (Oxford: OUP 2000) 233pp. [studies of Ó Riordáin, Ó Díreain; Ní Dhomhnaill, Ó Searchaigh].
Sloan, Barry, Writers and Protestantism in the North of Ireland: Heirs of Adamnation (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), 372pp.
Schwaber, Paul, The Cast of Characters: A Reading of Ulysses (Yale UP 2000), 256pp.
Christine St. Peter, Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women’s Fiction (London: Macmillan 2000), 200pp.

contents

Strand, Mark, & Eavan Boland, The Making of a Poem (NY & London: Norton 2000), 366pp.
Stubbings, Diane, Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Maternal: From Yeats to Joyce (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2000), 249pp. [Moore, Joyce, Synge, Yeats and O’Casey].
[Q. ed.], The Poet’s Album: Seamus Heaney Bibliography (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2000).
Watt, Stephen, Eileen Morgan & Shakir Mustafa, eds., A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage (Indiana UP 2000), 332pp.
Wheatley, Christopher, Beneath Ierne’s Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century (Notre Dame UP 2000), 176pp.

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Individual authors

Brennan, Brian, Máire Bhuí Ní Laoire: Poet of Her People (Cork: Collins Press 2000), 141pp.
Burgoyne-Johnson, Jolanta, Bleeding the Boundaries: The poetry of Medbh McGuckian (Crannagh Press 2000) [pamphlet].
Cunningham, Bernadette, The World of Geoffrey Keating: History, Myth, and Religion in Seventeenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 264pp. [author is RIA librarian].
Davis, Alex, A Broken Line: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism (UCD Press 2000), 212pp.
Frazier, Adrian, George Moore 1852-1933 (Yale UP 2000), 604pp.
Gilligan, David, The Banims and Regency Ireland (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2000).
Holdridge, Jefferson, Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats - The Beautiful and the Sublime (UCD Press) [q.pp.]
Jordan, Anthony J., Christy Brown’s Women (Dublin: Westport Books 2000), 178pp.
Krause, David, William Carleton the Novelist: His Carnival and Pastoral World of Tragi-comedy ([Cath] Univ. of America Press 2000), 338pp.
McCartney, Anne, Francis Stuart: Face to Face - A Critical Study (Belfast: IIS/QUB 2000), 192pp.
McGuckian, Medbh, Horsepower Pass By: A Study of the Car in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Coleraine: Cranagh Press [Univ. of Ulster] 1999), 36pp.
Haddesley, Stephen, Charles Lever: The Lost Victorian, foreword by Benedict Kiely [Ulster Monographs] (Gerards Cross: Colin Smythe [2000]), 170pp.
Moriarty, Donal, The Art of Brian Coffey (UCD Press 2000), 143pp.
Ó Glaisne, Rísteard, Denis Ireland (Baile atha Cliath: Coisceim 2000).
O’Byrne, Robert, Hugh Lane, 1875-1915 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000).
Tubridy, Derval, Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems (UCD Press 2000), 288pp.

Brian Friel

Murray, Christopher, ed. & intro., Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews 1964-1999 (London: Faber & Faber 2000); 200pp.
Pine, Richard, The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel (UCD Press 2000) [q.pp.].

James Joyce

Attridge, Derek, Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory and History (Cambridge UP [2000]), 226pp.
Howes, Marjorie, & Derek Attridge, ed., Semicolonial Joyce (Cambridge UP 2000), x, 269pp.
Brooker, M. Keith, Ulysses, Capitalism and Colonialism (Conn: Greenwood Press 2000), 240pp.
Gillespie, Michael Patrick, Joyce through the Ages: A Non-linear View (Florida UP 2000), 227pp.
McCourt, John, James Joyce and Nora: Passionate Exiles (London: Orion 2000), 112pp.
McCourt, John, The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 320, 8pp. photos.
Thornton, Weldon, Voices and Values in Joyce’s Ulysses (Florida UP 2000), 238pp.
van Boheem-Saaf, Christine, Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History: Reading, Narrative and Postcolonialism (Cambridge UP [2000]), q.pp.
Zeller, Ursula, Ruth Frehner, Hannes Vogel, eds., James Joyce: ‘Thought Through My Eyes’ (CH-Basel: Schwabe Verlag 2000), 237pp.

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Samuel Beckett

Blau, Herbert, Sailing the Herring Fleet: Essays on Samuel Beckett (Michigan UP [2000]).
Dukes, Gerry, ed., Samuel Beckett, First Love and Other Novellas [Penguin Modern Classics] (London: Penguin 2000), 192pp.
Friedman, Alan Warren, ed., Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard’s ‘Negro’ [1934] (Kentucky UP 2000), xl, 207pp.
Oppenheim, Lois, The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett’s Dialogue with Art (Michigan UP 2000).
Pilling, John, ed., Beckett’s Dream Notebook (Reading: Beckett Internat. Found. 1999), 197pp.
Uhlmann, Anthony, Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge UP 2000).

J. M. Synge

Grene, Nicholas, ed., Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 220pp. [contents].
McCormack, W. J., Fool of the Family: A Life of J. M. Synge (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2000), xii, 450pp.+4pp.

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Oscar Wilde

Belford, Barbara, Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius (London: Bloomsbury 2000), 388pp.
McCormack, Jerusha Hull, The Man Who was Dorian Gray (NY: St. Martin’s Press; Basingstoke: Palgrave 2000), 353pp.
Pearce, Joseph, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde (London: HarperCollins 2000), 320pp.

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W. B. Yeats

Gould, Warwick, Yeats Annual: Yeats and the Nineties (London: Macmillan 2000).
Maddox, Brenda, George’s Ghosts (London: Picador [2000]).
Pierce, David, ed., W. B. Yeats: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (Mountfield: Helm Information 2000), 708, 598, 562 & 864pp.

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Literary Interviews

Miller, Karl, Seamus Heaney in Conversation (London: Between the Lines 2000), 112pp.
Myers, James P., Writing Irish: Selected Interviews with Irish Writers from the Irish Literary Supplement (Syracuse UP 2000), 270pp. [incl. John McGahern, Jennifer Johnston, John Montague, Ben Kiely, William Trevor, Hugh Leonard, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Tom Paulin, Nuala Ní Domhnaill, Paul Muldoon, et al.].
Ní Anlauain, Caitríona, ed., Reading the Future: Irish Writers in Conversation with Mike Murphy, intro. Declan Kiberd (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 224pp.

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Archaeology

Crooke, Elizabeth, Politics, Archaeology and the Creation of a National Museum in Ireland: an Expression of National Life (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), xii, 211pp.
Smyth, Alfred P., Seancas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne (Four Courts [2000]), 478pp.
Wiggins, Kenneth, Anatomy of a Siege: King John’s Castle, Limerick, 1642 (Wicklow: Wordwell Ltd. 2000), xix, 306pp. ill., maps.

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Historical Studies: General

Brown, Stewart J., & David W. Miller, eds., Piety and Power in Ireland 1760-1960: Essays in Honour of Emmet Larkin (Belfast: IIS; Notre Dame UP 2000), ix, 304pp.
Carroll-Burke, Patrick, Colonial Discipline: The Making of the Irish Convict System (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 256pp.
Cullen, L. M., The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France (Lilliput Press 2000), 272pp.
Foy, Michael, & Brian Barton, The Easter Rising (Sutton Publ. 2000), 274pp.
Cunningham, John, St Jarlath’s College, Tuam, 1800-2000 (SJC Publications. 2000).
O’Donnell, Seán, Clonmel: Anatomy of an Irish Town (Dublin: Geog. Publications 2000).
Elliott, Marianne, The Catholics of Ulster: A History (London: Allen Lane 2000), 685pp.
Foley, Tadhg, From Queen’s College to National University (Four Courts 2000) [contribs. incl. Gearoid O Tuathaigh].
Jeffrey, Keith, Ireland and the Great War (Cambridge UP 2000), 208pp.
Kearney, Hugh, Irish Nationalism (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2000).
Kinane, Vincent & Anne Walsh, Essays on the History of Trinity College Library (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 206pp. 16 photos.
Gaffney, Phyllis, Healing Amid the Ruins: The Irish Hospital at Saint-Lo 1945-46 (Dublin: A & A Farmar 2000) [Société Française d’Histoire des Hopitaux prize].
Girvin, Brian, & Geoffrey Roberts, ed., Ireland and the Second World War: Politics, Society and Remembrance (Four Courts Press 2000), 186pp.
Peter Hart, The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork 1916-23 (Oxford: OUP [2000]).
McKay, Susan, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People (Blackstaff 2000), 393pp.
Somerville-Large, Peter, Irish Society (London: Sinclair Stevenson 2000).
Walker, Brian, Past and Present: History, Identity and Politics in Ireland (IIS 2000).
Jonathan Wooding, The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature: An Anthology of Criticism (Dublin:Four Courts Press, 2000).

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Historical studies: pre-1900

Bartlett, Thomas, et al., ed., The 1798 Rebellion: A Bicentennial Perspective (Dublin: Four Courts 2000), q.pp.
Carey, Vincent P., Surviving the Tudors: The Wizard Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland 1527-1586(Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 256pp.
Comerford, R. V., & Enda Delaney, National Questions: Reflections on Daniel O’Connell and Contemporary Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 111pp.
Connolly, S. J., ed., Political Ideas in Eighteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), [seminar at Centre for History of British Political Thought, Washington].
Costello, Peter, Dublin Castle in the Life of the Irish Nation (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000).
Doyle, William, Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution (London: Macmillan 2000), x, 109pp.
Dunford, Stephen, The Irish Highwaymen ([London:] Merlin 2000), 330pp.
Hart, A. R., A History of the King’s Serjeants at Law in Ireland: the Honour Rather than the Advanage? (Four Courts Press 2000), 231pp.
Litvack, Leon & Glenn Hooper, eds., Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 224pp. [contents].
Jaski, Bart, Early Irish Kingship and Succession (Four Courts Press 2000), 224pp.
Kiely, Brendan, The Waterford Rebels of 1849 (Geog. Publ. 2000), 161pp.
Kinane, Vincent, & Anne Walsh, ed., Essays on the History of Trinity College, Dublino (Dublin: Four Courts [2000]).
Lenihan, Padraig, Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-1649 (Cork UP 2000), 320pp.
Mary Ann Lyons, Church and Society in County Klldare, c.1470-c.1547 (Dublin: Four Coourts Press 2000), 208pp.
MacInnes, Allan, and Jane Ohlmeyer, The Three Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century (Four Courts Press 2000), 256pp.
Magennis, Eoin, The Irish Political System 1740-1765: The Golden Age of the Undertakers (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 232pp.
McGrath, Charles Ivar, The Making of the Eighteenth-century Irish Constitution: Government, Parliament and the Revenue 1692-1714 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 314pp.
Moylan, Terry, The Age of Revolution: 1776-1815 in the Irish Song Tradition (Lilliput Press 2000), 176pp.
Ó Clabaigh, Colmán, From Reform to Reformation: The Franciscans in Ireland, 1400-1534 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 256pp.
Jane H. Ohlmeyer, ed., Political thought in seventeenth-century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony? (Cambridge UP 2000), xvii, 290pp. ill. [contents].
O’Connor, Thomas, The Irish in Europe: 1580-1815 (Four Courts Press 2000), 224pp.
Ruan O’Donnell, Aftermath: Post-Rebellion Insurgency in Wicklow 1799-1803 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000).
Power, Bill, White Knights, Dark Earls: The Rise and Fall of An Anglo-Irish Dynasty (Collins Press 2000), 317pp. [on the Kings of Mitchelstown and Rockingham] pp. photos.
Robins, Joseph, Champagne and Silver Buckles: The Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle, 1700-1922 (Lilliput Press 2000).
Robinson, Philips S., The Plantation of Ulster: British Settlement in an Irish Landscape 1600-1670 (Ulster Hist. Found. 2000), 288pp.
Silke, John J., Kinsale: The Spanish Intervention in Ireland at the End of the Elizabethan Wars (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 224pp.
Smythe, Jim, Ireland and the 1790’s: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union (Cambridge UP 2000).

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Historical Studies: post-1900

Abbott, Richard, Police Casualties in Ireland, 1919-1922 (Cork: Mercier Press 2000), 340pp. ill.
Cronin, Mike, Ireland: The Politics of Independence 1922-1949 (London: Palgrave 2000), 237pp.
Deasy, Liam, Towards Ireland Free: The West Cork Brigade in the War of Independence 1917-1921 (Cork: Mercier Press 2000), 368pp.
Doerries, Reinhard R., Prelude to the Rising: Sir Roger Casement and Imperial Germany (London: Cassell 2000), 233pp.
Doherty, Richard, Irish Volunteers in the Second World War (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 224pp.
Jeffrey, Keith, Ireland and the Great War [Lees Knowles Lectures] (Cambridge UP 2000), 222pp.
Kennedy, Michael, and Joseph Morrison Skelly, Irish Foreign Policy 1919-1966: From Independence to Internationalism (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 352pp.
Kiely, Brendan, The Waterford Rebels of 1849 (Geography Publications 2000), 151pp.
Maume, Patrick, The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life 1891-1918 (Dublin: Gill & Macmaillan 2000), 340pp.
O’Driscoll, Mervyn, Irish-German Relations 1919-1939 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 256pp.
O’Sullivan, Patrick, The Lusitania: Unravelling the Mysteries (Staplehurst: Spellmount 2000) 140pp. maps. [rep. Cork: Collins Press 2002].
Yeates, Padraig, Lockout: Dublin 1913 (Four Courts Press 2000), 688pp.

Historical Biography

Clark, Mary, et al., Sir John T. Gilbert, 1829-1898: Historian, Archivist and Librarian (Dublin: Four Courts [2000]), 157pp.
Costello, Con, Faith or Fatherhood? Bishop Dunboyne’s Dilemma [Joh Butler, 1731-1800] (Woodfield Press 2000), 126pp.
Fitzgerald, Elizabeth, Lord Kildare’s Grand Tour: The Letters of William Fitzgerald 1766-1769 (Cork: Collins Press 2000), 176pp.
Harrison, Richard S., Abraham Abell [1782-1851], MRIA, Corkman Extraordinary (Skibereen: Red Barn [2000]), 108pp.
Horgan, John, Noel Browne: Passionate Outside (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2000), 352pp.
Houston, Ken, Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection (UCD Press 2000), 160pp.
Manning, James, John Dillon: A Biography (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 448pp.
O’Neill, Marie, Grace Gifford Plunkett and Irish Freedom (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), 136pp.
O’Shea, James, Prince of Swindlers: John Sadleir 1813-1856 (Dublin: Geography Publ. 2000), 516pp.
Roth, Andreas, Mr Bewley in Berlin: Aspects of the Career of an Irish Diplomat (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 96pp.
Sloan, Robert, William Smith O’Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 320pp.
Smith, Michael, An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean (Cork: Collins Press 2000).
Strijbosch, Clara, The Sea-Faring Saint: Sources and Analogues of the Twelfth-century Voyage of Saint Brendan (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 335pp.
Tierney, Mark, OSB, Blessed Columba Marmion 1853-1923 (Dublin: Columba Press 2000), 150pp. [abbrev. of 1994 edn.].
Wall, Richard, Wittgenstein in Ireland (London: Reaktion Books 2000), 202pp. [prev. Klagenfurt: Ritter 1999].
Walsh, Basil F., Catherine Hayes: The Hibernian Prima Donna (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000).

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Cromwell in Ireland

Litton, Helen, Oliver Cromwell: An Illustrated History (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 106pp.
Reilly, Tom, Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy (Phoenix Press 2000).
Wheeler, James Scott, Cromwell in Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan [2000]), 315pp.
McMahon, Sean, Charles Stewart Parnell (Cork: Mercier 2000), 96pp.

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Gender Studies

Clare, Anthony, On Men: Masculinity in Crisis (London: Chatto & Windus 2000), 262pp.
Clear, Catriona, Woman of the House: Women’s Household Work in Ireland 1926-1961 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), 288pp.
Fearon, Kate, ‘s Work: The Story of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 192pp.
Hill, Myrtle, Women in Ireland: A Century of Change (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2003), xi, 335pp. ill.
McNamara, Meadbh, & Pascal Mooney, Women in Parliament: The Irish Experience 1918-2000 (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 224pp.
Mooney-Einhacker, Joanne, Varieties of Irish Republican Womanhood: Lectures During their United States Tours (IAP 2000), 144pp.
Sullivan, Megan, Women in Northern Ireland: Cultural Studies and Material Conditions (Florida UP/Eurospan 2000), 203pp.
Urquhart, Diane, Women in Ulster Politics 1890-1940 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), 288pp.
Urquhart, Diane, & Alan Hayes, eds., The Irish Women’s History Reader (London: Routledge 2000), viii, 242pp.
Whelan, Bernadette, ed., Women and Paid Work in Ireland 1500-1930 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 240pp.

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Emigration & Diaspora

Coogan, Tim Pat, Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora (London: Hutchinson 2000), xxii, 746pp.
Glazier, Michael, The Encylopaedia of Irish America (Notre Dame UP 2000), 1,012pp.
Kenny, Kevin, The American Irish: A Concise History Since 1700 [Studies in Modern History]
(Harlow: Longman 2000), 352p. : ill. [8pp pls.].
Meagher, Timothy J., Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class and Ethnic Identity in a New England City 1880-1928 (Notre Dame UP 2000).
Molony, Senan, The Irish Aboard the Titanic (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 256pp.
Moreton, Cole, Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets - a Journey from the Edge of Ireland (London: Viking 2000), 298pp.
O’Callaghan, Sean, To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland (Dingle: Brandon Press 2000), 256pp.
Rees, Jim, Surplus People: The Fitzwilliam Clearances 1874-1856 (Cork: Collins Press 2000), 168pp.

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Famine studies

King, Carla, Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland (UCD Press 2000) 272pp.
MacRaild, Donald M., The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2000), 303pp.

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Media Studies

Bardon, Jonathan, Beyond the Studio: The History of BBC Northern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 208pp.
Curtis, L. Perry, Curtis, L. Perry, Images of Erin in the Age of Parnell (NLI [2000]), 57pp. [Exhib. of Sept. 2000; works of John Feargus O’Hea, John D. Reigh, Thomas Fitzpatrick, et al.].
Pettitt, Lance, Screening Ireland: Film & Television Presentation (Manchester UP 2000), 336pp.
MacHale, Des, The Complete Guide to The Quiet Man’ (Belfast: Appletree Press 2000), 247pp.
McLoone, Martin, Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema [British Film Institute] (London: BFI [Palgrave Macmillan] 2000), 234pp.

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Northern Ireland

Blake, John W., Northern Ireland in the Second World War (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 591pp.
Cox, Michael, ed., A Farewell to Arms: From Long War to Peace in Northern Ireland (Manchester UP), 360pp.
Ellison, Graham, & Jim Smyth, The Crowned Harp: Policing Northern Ireland (London: Pluto Press 2000), 238pp.
Farren, Sean, & Robert F. Mulvihill, Paths to a Settlement in Northern Ireland (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2000), 230pp.
Fraser, T. G., The Irish Parading Tradition: Following the Drum (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2000), 224pp.
Harnden, Toby, Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh (London: Coronet 2000), 576pp. [hb. 1999].
Hennessy, Thomas, The Northern Ireland Peace Process: Ending the Troubles? (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2000), 248pp.
Holland, Jack, Hope against History (London: Coronet 2000), 414pp.
Killen, John, The Unkindest Cut: A Cartoon History of Ulster (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 176pp.
McKay, Susan, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 403pp.
McKittrick, David, & David McKea, Making Sense of the Troubles (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 256pp.
Mulholland, Marc, Northern Ireland at the Crossroads: Ulster Unionism in the O’Neill Years 1960-69 (Basingstoke: Macmillan 2000), xi, 287pp.
Kennedy, Michael, Division and Consensus: The Politics of Cross-border Relations in Ireland 1925-1969 (Dublin: IPA [2000].
Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala, The Politics of Force: Conflict Management and Stage Violence in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 2000), 348pp.
Restorick, Rita, Death of a Soldier: A Mother’s Search for Peace in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000), 247pp.
Rolston, Bill, & Maireade Gilmartin, Unfinished Business: State Killings and the Quest for Truth (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2000), 351pp.
Roulston, Carmel, & Celia Davies, eds., Gender, Deomcracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland (NY: Palgrave 2000), 197pp.
Ryder, Chris, Inside the Maze: The Untold Story of the Northern Ireland Prison Service (London: Methuen 2000), 366pp.
Smyth, Marie & Marie-Therese Fay, Personal Accounts from Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Cost (London: Pluto Press 2000), 157pp. [advertised as Public Conflict, Private Loss].
Walsh, Dermot P., Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2000), 363pp.

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Ecclesiastical studies

Cooney, John, John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2000), 559pp.
Kelly, James, & Daire Keogh, History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin (Four Courts Press 2000), 400pp.
Fletcher, Alan J., & Raymond Gillespie, Irish Preaching 700-1700 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000).
Alan Megahey, The Irish Protestant Churches in the Twentieth Century(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2000), 248pp.
McCormack, Bridget, Perceptions of St. Patrick in Eighteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 119pp. ill.
Murray, Patrick, Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics 1933-1937 (UCD Press 2000) [with Lavery’s Blessing the Soldiers on the cover].
Morrissey, Thomas J., SJ., William J. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin 1841-1921 (Four Courts Press 2000), 416pp.

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Historical reprints

Altholx, Josef L., Selected Documents in Irish History (Eurospan Group 2000).
Byrne, Francis J., Irish Kings and High Kings (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000).
Chambers, Anne, Eleanor, Countess of Desmond (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 256pp.
Clarke, Aidan, The Old English in Ireland 1625-42 [1966] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 288pp.
Harbison, Peter, ed., Cooper’s Ireland: Drawings and Notes from an Eighteenth-Century Gentleman (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2000).
Michael Herity, ed., Ordnance Survey Letters: Donegal, preface by Brian Friel ([Dublin:] Four Masters Press 2000), 148pp.
Lecky, W. E. H., Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, 2 vols. (London: Synapse Edns. 2000).
Simms, J. G., Jacobite Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 310pp.
O’Sullivan, Donal, Carolan: The Life and Music of an Irish Harper (Ossian 2000) [incl. ‘Memoir’ by Arthur O’Neill and appendix by piper Bonnie Shaljean.].

Bibliographical details

Michael Hurst, ed. & intro., The Truth about Ireland: Tours of Observation in 1872 and 1875 [Contemporary observations of Ireland from Grattan to Griffith, 4; Irish history and culture], 6 vols. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press 2000). CONTENTS - Vol. 1: Jósef Eotvos, Ireland through Continental eyes [including], Poverty in Ireland, trans. by Eva Baer & Michael Hurst; Camillo di Cavour, Considerations on the present state and future prospects of Ireland [Considérations sur l’etat actuel d’Irlande et sur son avenir], and Édouard Dechy, A journey: Ireland in 1846 and 1847, [both] trans by Hurst; Vol. 2: Henry D. Inglis, A Journey throughout Ireland, during the spring, summer, and autumn of 1834 [4th edn. (1836); facs. rep.]; Vol. 3: Sir Francis B. Head, A Fortnight in Ireland (1852) [facs. rep.]; Vol. 4: James Macaulay, The Truth about Ireland (1876) [facs. rep.]; Vols. 5 & 6, Thomas Macknight, Ulster As It Is (1896) [facs. rep.].

David Pierce, ed., Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader (Cork UP 2000), xliv, 1351pp. [pb.; 25cc.]. CONTENTS:—

1890s: shadows, moods and arguments. from The revival of Irish literature. “The necessity of de-Anglicizing Ireland” by Douglas Hyde; from Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht/Love songs of Connacht. “Dá d’téinnse siar”/“If I were to go west” by Douglas Hyde [translator]; from The united Irishman. “Parnell” by Lionel Johnson; from The Irish monthly. “The associations of scenery” by R.P. Carton; from From the land of St. Lawrence. “The orange lilies” by Maurice F. Egan; from Some experiences of an Irish R.M. “Lisheen races, second hand” by E. Œ. Somerville, Martin Ross; from Ideals in Ireland. “The battle of two civilizations” by David Patrick Moran; from Ideals in Ireland. “The literary movement in Ireland” by W.B. Yeats; from Imagination and reveries. “Nationality or cosmopolitanism” by George Russell; from Workers’ republic. “Physical force in Irish politics” by James Connolly; from Irish Literary Society gazette. Lecture by Mr. W.B. Yeats by Anonymous; from The ballad of Reading gaol by Oscar Wilde.

Irish writing in the 1900s: critical and documentary. from All Ireland review. “The great enchantment” by Standish James O’Grady; from Ideas of good and evil. “The symbolism of poetry” by W.B. Yeats; from Mr. Dooley in the hearts of his countrymen. “The Irishman abroad”; “The decline of national feeling” by F.P. Dunne; from Ideas of good and evil. “Magic” by W.B. Yeats; from The Irish language movement. “The Irish language movement” by Francis Fahy; from The resurrection of Hungary. “The resurrection of Hungary” by Arthur Griffith; from The Manchester guardian. “From Galway to Gorumna” by J.M. Synge; from Bards and saints. “The de-Davisization of Irish literature” by John Eglinton; from Criticism and courage and other essays. “Criticism and courage” by Frederick Ryan; from The fortnightly review. “The literary movement in Ireland” by George A. Birmingham; from Sin, society and behaviour. “Christ before the people” by Bernard Vaughan.

Irish writing in the 1900s: imaginative. From The green flag. “The green flag” by Arthur Conan Doyle; from All Ireland review. “A farewell to the hills” by George Russell; from Songs of the glens of Antrim. “Corrymeela” by Moira O’Neill; from Cuchulain of Muirthemne. “The only son of Aoife” by Lady Gregory; Cathleen ni Houlihan by W. B. Yeats; from The untilled field. “Home sickness” by George Moore; from Such is life: being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins by Joseph Furphy; from New songs. “A portrait” by Padraic Colum; from The one and the many. “The little waves of Breffny” by Eva Gore-Booth; from Seven short plays. Spreading the news by Lady Gregory; John Bull’s other island by G.B. Shaw; from The Egyptian pillar. “Women’s rights” by Eva Gore-Booth; The playboy of the Western world by J.M. Synge; from The gilly of Christ. “I am the gilly of Christ” by Joseph Campbell; from Ballygullion. “The wooden leg” by Lynn Doyle; from Verses: sacred and profane. “A piper”; “Glasnevin, October 9th, 1904” by Seumas O’Sullivan; from Insurrections. “The shell” by James Stephens; from The mountainy singer. “I am the mountainy singer”; “Night, and I travelling” by Joseph Campbell.

Irish writing in the 1910s: critical and documentary. from Journal of the Ivernian Society. “The world-wide empire of the Irish race” by Reverend P.S. Dinneen; from English as we speak it in Ireland. “Affirming, assenting, and saluting” by Patrick Weston Joyce; from The mearing stones. “A ballad singer”; “ The human voice” by Joseph Campbell; from The Irish book lover. “Yeats, Synge and ‘The playboy’“ by J.M. Hone; from Autobiography and life of George Tyrrell, v. 1. “1876” by George Tyrrell; from The Freeman’s Journal. “Irish book lovers” by Stephen Gwynn; from The Irish book lover. “Irish Literary Society: coming of age celebrations” by Anonymous; from Hail and farewell: vale by George Moore; from Mo sgéal féin/My story. “The hunger” by Peter O’Leary; from Charles Stewart Parnell: a memoir. My brother’s personality” by John Howard Parnell; from Literature in Ireland. “The Irish mode” by Thomas MacDonagh; from The insurrection in Dublin. “Wednesday” by James Stephens; from The daily news. “The Easter week executions” by George Bernard Shaw; from Letters of James Stephens by James Stephens; from The Irish book lover. “Reveries” and “Responsibilities” by Anonymous; from A chronicle of jails by Darrell Figgis; from Imagination and reveries. “The new nation” by George Russell.

Irish writing in the 1910s: imaginative. from Deoraíocht by Pádraic Ó Conaire; from Poems and translations. “In Kerry”; “A question”; “Prelude”; “In May”; The curse” by J.M. Synge; from Irishry. “The weaver’s family” by Joseph Campbell; from Four Irish plays. “Mixed marriage” by St. John Ervine; from Lyrical poems. “June” by Francis Ledwidge; from Lyrical poems. “June” by Francis Ledwidge; from Lyrical pieces. “The yellow bittern” by Thomas MacDonagh; from Responsibilities. “September 1913”; “Fallen majesty”; “The cold heaven “ by W.B. Yeats; from Suantraide agus goltraide. “I am Ireland” by Patrick Pearse; from Children of the dead end. “De profundis” by Patrick MacGill; from The poetry review. “The assignation” by Lord Dunsany; from Songs of the dead end. “Padding it” by Patrick MacGill; from Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse. “The wayfarer” by Patrick Pearse; from Michael Robartes and the dancer. “Easter 1916” by W.B. Yeats; from Songs of peace. “Thomas MacDonagh” by Francis Ledwidge; from Earth of Cualann. “Earth of Cualann”; “The revealer” by Joseph Campbell; from Reincarnations. “Righteous anger”; “O Bruadair” by James Stephens; from The wild swans at Coole. “The wild swans at Coole”; “In memory of Major Robert Gregory”; “An Irish airman foresees his death” by W.B. Yeats; from Michael Robartes and the dancer. “The second coming” by W.B. Yeats; from The wasted island. “Catastrophe” by Eimar O’Duffy.

Irish writing in the 1920s: critical and documentary. from Prison letters of Countess Markievicz by Constance Markievicz; from The path to freedom. “Distinctive culture” by Michael Collins; from Studies. “Lessons of revolution” by George Russell; from The hidden Ireland. “The aisling” by Daniel Corkery; from Tomorrow. “To all artists and writers” by Francis Stuart, Cecil Salkeld; from The senate speeches of W.B. Yeats. “Speech on divorce” by W.B. Yeats; from The Dublin review. “The coming of age of the Irish drama” by Andrew E. Malone; from Days of fear by Frank Gallagher; from Ireland: the rock whence I was hewn by Donn Byrne; from An tOileánach. “Shrovetide, 1878” by Tomás Ó Criomhthain.

Irish writing in the 1920s: imaginative. from The Irish Book Lover. “The Great Blasket: poets” by Robin Flower; from Adam of Dublin: a romance of today. “The Abbey Theatre” by Conal O’Riordan; from Around the boree log. “St. Patrick’s Day” by John O’Brien; from The house of success by Darrell Figgis; from The interpreters by George Russell; from The Manchester guardian. “The snipe” by Con O’Leary; from The dial. “Meditations in time of civil war” by W.B. Yeats; from Earth-bound: nine stories of Ireland. “The portrait of Roisin Dhu” by Dorothy MacArdle; from Tomorrow. “Leda and the swan” by W.B. Yeats; from All the sad young men. “Absolution” by F. Scott Fitzgerald; from Apostate by Forrest Reid; from The tent and other stories. “The tent” by Liam O’Flaherty; from The dial. “Among school children” by W.B. Yeats; from The dark breed. “The dark breed” by F.R. Higgins; from The tower. “Sailing to Byzantium” by W.B. Yeats; from The Dublin review. “Seventh gift of the holy ghost” by Thomas MacGreevy.

Irish writing in the 1930s: critical and documentary. from The Saturday review of literature. “A letter from Dublin” by Mary Manning; “An essay on the character in Irish literature” by George Russell; from The letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald; from The bookman. “Recent Irish poetry” by Andrew Belis [Samuel Beckett]; from The autobiography of a Liverpool Irish slummy by Pat O’Mara; from Current history. “Joyce and the new Irish writers” by Ernest Boyd; from The seals by Monk Gibbon; from The Saturday review of literature. “Boston Irish” by George C. Homans; from Ireland today. “What I saw in Spain” by Peadar O’Donnell; from Farewell Spain. “Adios, turismo” by Kate O’Brien; from Scrutiny. “ A letter from Ireland” by Grattan Freyer; from The rocky road to Dublin. “So they said and felt and saw” by Seamas MacManus; from Blue angels and whales. “Leaves from my note-book” by Robert Gibbings; from I knock at the door. “Life is more than meat” by Sean O’Casey; from Machtnamh seana-mhná. “A milk house in Little Island: Nance Daly and Nora Keaveney” by Peig Sayers.

Irish writing in the 1930s: imaginative. from Guests of the nation. “Guests of the nation” by Frank O’Connor; from The garden by L.A.G. Strong; from The listener. “Ireland” by John Hewitt; from The bright temptation by Austin Clarke; from The winding stair and other poems. “Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931”; “Byzantium”; “Remorse for intemperate speech”; “Crazy Jane talks with the bishop” by W.B. Yeats; from Hello eternity! “Invitation”; “Here”; “Encyclopaedia” by Blanaid Salkeld; from The yellow briar. “Jimmie’s speeding” by Patrick Slater; from BUtterfield 8 by John O’Hara; from The young manhood of Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell; from Echo’s bones. “Echo’s bones by Samuel Beckett; from The fox’s covert. “The fox’s covert” by Blanaid Salkeld; from Three plays. “The king of Spain’s daughter” by Teresa Deevy; from Ward eight by Joseph F. Dinneen; from All that swagger by Miles Franklin; from Ploughman and other poems. “Inniskeen road: July evening” by Patrick Kavanagh; from Ireland today. “Game cock” by Michael McLaverty; from The collected poems of Louis MacNeice. “Carrickfergus” by Louis MacNeice; from Ireland today. “Poem”; “The tolerance of crows” by Charles Donnelly; from Lifer by Jim Phelan; from Pray for the wanderer by Kate O’Brien; from New poems. “Lapis lazuli” by W.B. Yeats; from Night and morning. “The straying student”; “Summer lightning” by Austin Clarke; from Autumn journal. “Section XVI” by Louis MacNeice; from At swim-two-birds by Flann O’Brien; from Last poems and plays. “Under Ben Bulben”; “The statues”; “News for the Delphic oracle”; “The circus animals’ desertion”; “Politics” by W.B. Yeats; from Horizon. “Cushendun” by Louis MacNeice.

Irish writing in the 1940s: critical and documentary. from Jail journal. “A chiel’s amang ye” by Jim Phelan; from The listener. “An Irishman looks at England” by Frank O’Connor; from Horizon. “Traveller’s return by Louis MacNeice; from Ireland-Atlantic gateway. “The Irish empire” by Jim Phelan; from Horizon. “The future of Irish literature” by Frank O’Connor; from The Irish times. “Cruiskeen lawn” by Myles Na Gopaleen; from The tailor and Ansty by Eric Cross; from An Ulsterwoman in England 1924-41 by Nesca A. Robb; from Modern reading no. 6. “Irish letters and the war” by Robert Greacen; from The bell. “Romance and realism” by Sean O’Faolain; from All for Hecuba. “Reconnoitre” by Micheál MacLiammóir; from As I roved out: in Belfast and districts. “Tradition and the Falls road”; “How Belfast streets got their names”; “The northern star” by Cathal O’Byrne; from The Irish times. “An Irishman’s diary” by Patrick Campbell; from The listener. “The contemporary thought of Ireland” by Arland Ussher; from Irish writing. “Irish-American literature, and why there isn’t any” by John V. Kelleher; from We follow the roads. “Drift” by Jim Phelan; from The Irish book lover. “The worm turneth” by Colm Ó Lochlainn; from Guerrilla days in Ireland. “Counter-terror” by Tom Barry; from Inishfallen, fare thee well. “High road and low road” by Sean O’Casey.

Irish writing in the 1940s: imaginative. from Letter from Ireland. “Thinking of Artolas”; “Letter from Ireland” by Ewart Milne; from The great hunger. “Section VII” by Patrick Kavanagh; from The bell. “Yung Mari Li” by Bryan MacMahon; from A tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith; from Lagan. “Once alien here” by John Hewitt; from Rime, gentlemen, please. “For whom ‘the bell’ tolls” by Robert Farren; from The listener. “Poem” by Valentin Iremonger; from The Penguin new writing, no. 20. “Mysterious Kôr” by Elizabeth Bowen; from Lough Derg and other poems. “Lough Derg” by Denis Devlin; from The blossoming thorn. “Immigrant exile I, II, III”; “Rhyme of two worlds” by John Coulter; from Prince of darkness and other stories. “Prince of darkness” by J.F. Powers; from An braon broghach/The road to brightcity. “The year 1912” by Máirtín Ó Cadhain.

Irish writing in the 1950s: critical and documentary. from Envoy. “Our Irish publishers” by John Ryan; from Envoy. “Diary” by Patrick Kavanagh; from Rolling down the lea. “The destruction still goes on” by Oliver St. John Gogarty; from Turf beneath my feet. “Connemara: turf and a camera” by Garry Hogg; from The last of the Irish R.M.s. “The First World War” by Sir Christopher Lynch-Robinson; from Envoy. “A bash in the tunnel” by Brian O’Nolan; from Sweet Cork of thee by Robert Gibbings; from The listener. “The background to ‘Dubliners’“ by Stanislaus Joyce; from The bell. “Portrait of a minority” by Hubert Butler; from The Dublin magazine. “Waiting for Godot” by A.J. Leventhal; from The London magazine. “Coming to London--IV” by Elizabeth Bowen; from The listener. “Meet, drink, and be airy” by W.R. Rodgers; from A fretful midge by Terence De Vere White; from Irish journal. “In a manner of speaking” by Heinrich Böll; from Irish folk ways. “Hearth and home” by E. Estyn Evans; from Borstal boy by Brendan Behan; from The listener. “Writing a story: one man’s way by Frank O’Connor.

Irish writing in the 1950s: imaginative. from Home is the stranger by Edward A. McCourt; from December bride by Sam Hanna Bell; from Envoy. “Who killed James Joyce” by Patrick Kavanagh; from The Dublin magazine. “Yeats’s tower at Ballylee” by Padraic Fallon; from Europa and the bull. “The net” by W.R. Rodgers; from Eireaball spideoige. “Siollabadh”/“Syllabling” by Seán Ó Ríordáin; from Irish writing. “My Oedipus complex” by Frank O’Connor; from Molloy by Samuel Beckett; From the quare fellow by Brendan Behan; from The last hurrah by Edwin O’Connor; from Long day’s journey into night by Eugene O’Neill; from Malone dies by Samuel Beckett; from The Sewanee review. “The tomb of Michael Collins” by Denis Devlin; from The finest stories of Sean O’Faolain. “Lovers of the lake” by Sean O’Faolain; from The body’s imperfection. “Residue”; “Ripple”; “The harbour” by L.A.G. Strong; Endgame by Samuel Beckett; from A touch of the poet, act one by Eugene O’Neill; from New statesman and nation. “An Irishman in Coventry” by John Hewitt.

Irish writing in the 1960s: critical and documentary. from Studies. “Fifty years of Irish writing” by Sean O’Faolain; from West Briton. “Our set” by Brian Inglis; from The lonely voice: a study of the short story by Frank O’Connor; from My Ireland. “Dublin” by Kate O’Brien; from The spectator. “The rough field” by John Montague; from In excited reverie. “Passion and cunning” by Conor Cruise O’Brien; from The Dublin magazine. “Editorial” by Rivers Carew, Timothy Brownlow; from Ulster folklife. “A long night in the spike” by Michael J. Murphy; from The spectator. “The reticence of ‘Ulysses’“ by Anthony Burgess; from Hibernia. “The severed hand” by Roy McFadden; from Hibernia. “Strife and the Ulster poet” by Michael Longley; from Hibernia. “John Hume’s Derry” by Seamus Heaney.

Irish writing in the 1960s: imaginative. from The country girls by Edna O’Brien; from The countrywoman by Paul Smith; from The saucer of larks. “Foundry house” by Brian Friel; from Collected poems. “On Raglan Road”; “Canal bank walk”; “Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin” by Patrick Kavanagh; from My dark fathers. “My dark fathers” by Brendan Kennelly; from Brosna. “Claustrophobia” by Seán Ó Ríordáin; from Michael Joe by William Cotter Murray; from Ireland her own. “The valley of Knockanure” by Bryan MacMahon; from At night all cats are grey. “Go away, old man, go away” by Patrick Boyle; from World’s best science fiction 1967. “Light of other days” by Bob Shaw; from Night-crossing. “A disused shed in Co. Wexford” by Derek Mahon; from A bed in the sticks by Lee Dunne; from Selected poems 1956-68. from “Nightwalker” by Thomas Kinsella; from Strumpet City by James Plunkett; from The hungry grass by Richard Power.

Irish writing in the 1970s: critical and documentary. from Irish poets in English. “The divided mind” by Thomas Kinsella; from Hibernia. “A censored decade” by John Jordan; from The Cecil King diary 1970-74 by Cecil King; from ‘On our knees’: Ireland 1972. “Cry Irish” by Rosita Sweetman; from Inishkillane. “Family life” by Hugh Brody; from I am of Ireland by Richard Howard Brown; from The unexpurgated code. “Upon being told the fatal news--”; “Dying” by J.P. Donleavy; from Sunday miscellany. “In Iowa: a beauty queen and a blind man” by Benedict Kiely; from Hibernia. “Broken images” by Jack Holland; from The Irish times. “The soft centre of Irish writing” by Francis Stuart; from Southern review. “Being Irish together” by Denis Donoghue; from The crane bag. “Unhappy and at home: interview with Seamus Heaney by Seamus Deane; from The tablet. “Britain’s Irish workers” by Donall MaCamhlaigh; from A place apart by Dervla Murphy.

Irish writing in the 1970s: imaginative. from Down all the days by Christy Brown; from Troubles by J.G. Farrell; from Atlantis. “Early recollections” by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; from Black list, section h by Francis Stuart; from The rough field. “A lost tradition” by John Montague; from The ballroom of romance and other stories. “The ballroom of romance” by William Trevor; from A memory and other stories. “A memory” by Mary Lavin; from The wood-burners. “The Irish”; “The wood-burners”; “By nature diffident” by Patrick Galvin; from West strand visions. “Claudy” by James Simmons; from North. “Punishment”; “A constable calls”; “Exposure” by Seamus Heaney; from The lady and the travelling salesman. “Visiting the future” by Leo Simpson; from Great granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood; from Shadows on our skin by Jennifer Johnston; from A cow in the house. “The night we rode with Sarsfield” by Benedict Kiely; from Under stars. “The ballad of Ballymote” by Tess Gallagher; from Later. “Theresa’s friends” by Robert Creeley; from Stand. “For poets writing in English over in Ireland” by Iain Crichton Smith; from The year of the French. “Ballinamuck, September 10” by Thomas Flanagan; from Field work. “Casualty”; “The skunk” by Seamus Heaney; from The pattern. “The gaeltacht” by Vincent Buckley; from The Mangan inheritance by Brian Moore.

Irish writing in the 1980s: critical and documentary. from The new statesman. “Ireland blasts back” by Mary Holland; from Tales from two cities: travels of another sort by Dervla Murphy; from The observer. “A tribute to Beckett on his eightieth birthday” by Derek Mahon; from The Irish times. “Poetry in Ireland from its roots” by Peter Sirr; from Memory Ireland. “Introduction” by Vincent Buckley; from The edge of the city. “Interview with Van Morrison” by Desmond Hogan; from Saintly Billy. “The Irish and the English” by Bill Naughton; from Nationalism, colonialism and literature. “Yeats and decolonization” by Edward Said; from Across the frontiers. “Bono: the white nigger” by Paul Hewson; from Race and class. “Mothers, whores and villains” by Bill Rolston; from Riding the yellow trolley car. “Tap dancing into reality” by William Kennedy; from Object lessons. “Outside history” by Eavan Boland; from Harp by John Gregory Dunne; from Helsinger station and other departures. “1927: earliest misgivings, the march of the cadavers” by Aidan Higgins.

Irish writing in the 1980s: imaginative. from Why Brownlee left. “Ireland” by Paul Muldoon; from A Belfast woman. “A Belfast woman” by Mary Beckett; from High ground. “Gold watch” by John McGahern; from Aquarius. “Unique” by Desmond Egan; from Translations by Brian Friel; from Good behaviour by Molly Keane; from Kepler by John Banville; from The flower master. “The flower master” by Medbh McGuckian; from Quoof. “Quoof” by Paul Muldoon; from Jumping the tracks with Angela. “Trinity College Dublin, 1983” by Paul Durcan; from The selected Roy McFadden. “Conveyancer” by Roy McFadden; from Edible anecdotes. “A tourist comments on the land of his forefathers” by Julie O’Callaghan; from Cromwell. “Magic”; “Wine”; “A bit of a swap”; “Therefore I smile”; “A running battle” by Brendan Kennelly; from Ironweed by William Kennedy; from Cal by Bernard MacLaverty; from Station Island by Seamus Heaney; from Willingly. “Each bird walking” by Tess Gallagher; from The Berlin Wall café. “Bewley’s Oriental Café, Westmoreland Street” by Paul Durcan; from A sense of wonder. “A sense of wonder” by Van Morrison; from The streets of Ancoats by Malcolm Lynch; from Under the influence. “My land is too green” by Eric A. Visser, Antoinette Hensey; Conversations on a homecoming by Tom Murphy; from the Republic of conscience. “From the republic of conscience” by Seamus Heaney; from Missa terribilis. “The British connection”; “Enemy encounter”; “Crucifixus”; Tears/a lacrimosa” by Padraic Fiacc; from Letters to the hinterland. “Survivor”; “The Astoria” by Roy McFadden; from The Irish times. “Echo’s bones” by Desmond Egan; from Three plays for Ireland. “Pentecost” by Stewart Parker; from The Irish for no. “Belfast confetti” by Ciaran Carson; from The journey. “Mise Eire”; “The emigrant Irish”; “Tirade for the lyric muse” by Eavan Boland; from An bás i dTír na nÓg. “Abair do Phaidir/“Say a prayer” by Seán Ó Tuama; from The pogues, if I should fall from grace. “Thousands are sailing” by Philip Chevron; from The other side by Mary Gordon; from Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson.

Irish writing in the 1990s: critical and documentary. from Cathleen to anorexia: the breakdown of Irelands by Edna Longley; from Song for a poor boy: a Cork childhood by Patrick Galvin; from Proved innocent . “Wandsworth” by Gerry Conlon; from The Irish review. “Anecdotes over a jar” by Gerald Dawe; from Krino. “Twentieth century poetry in Irish” by Seán Ó Tuama; from Now and in time to be by Thomas Keneally; from Journey into joy. “Irish poetry since Yeats” by Brendan Kennelly; from Irish studies review. “Rejoinder” by Colin Graham; from The honest Ulsterman. “ The Belfast group” by Philip Hobsbaum; from Donkey’s years. “The great flood” by Aidan Higgins; from Stones of Aran: labyrinth. “Among the thorns” by Tim Robinson; from Critical survey. “Declining identities (lit. and fig.)” by Ailbhe Smyth; from Éire-Ireland. “Exile, attitude, and the Sin-É-Café by Eamonn Wall; from London review of books. “Playboys of the GPO” by Colm Tóibín; from Poetry Ireland review. “Disappearing language” by Louis De Paor; from Granta. “Brand leader” by Fintan O’Toole; from The star factory. “Brickle bridge” by Ciaran Carson; from Crazy John and the bishop. “Revisionism revisited” by Terry Eagleton; from All souls: a family story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald; from Lost lives by David McKittrick et al.

Irish writing in the 1990s: imaginative. from Pharaoh’s daughter. “An bhean mhídhílis”/“The unfaithful wife”; “Ceist na teangan”/“The language issue” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill; from Outside history. “The Achill woman” by Eavan Boland; from Those sailing ships of his boyhood dreams. “A well travelled woman” by Moy McCrory; from Explaining magnetism. “Second generation” by Maura Dooley; from Gorse fires. “Detour”; “The butchers” by Michael Longley; from Last poems. from “Hunger strike” by Vincent Buckley; from high time for all the marys. “high time for all the marys” by Máire Bradshaw; from The Bradford count. “From the Irish” by Ian Duhig; from The Astrakhan cloak. “Caitlín”/“Cathleen” by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill; from The butcher boy by Patrick McCabe; from Grub. “In the parlour”; “Gate 49”; “Madonna and child” by Martin Mooney; from A staircase for all souls. “At Spanish banks” by George McWhirter; from At the grave of Silone. “Where we live” by Harry Clifton; from Homecoming/an bealach ’na bhaile. “Cor úr”=“A fresh dimension” by Cathal Ó Searcaigh; from Resurrection man by Eoin McNamee; from The mai by Marina Carr; from The prince of the quotidian. “After two days grading papers from the seminar I taught” by Paul Muldoon; from Walking a line. “51 Sans Souci Park”; “A Belfast bildungsroman” by Tom Paulin; from The steward of Christendom by Sebastian Barry; from The ghost orchid. “Sheela-na-gig”; “Ceasefire” by Michael Longley; from American wake. “The fifth province”; “On the renovation of Ellis Island” by Greg Delanty; from The woman who walked into doors by Roddy Doyle; from The Hudson letter. “Global village” by Derek Mahon; from The bend for home by Dermot Healy; from Higher purchase. “Remapping the borders” by Rita Ann Higgins; from Reading in the dark. “Mother” by Seamus Deane; from Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson; from Opera et cetera. “Letters from the alphabet/o”; “Jacta est alia”; “Tango” by Ciaran Carson; from Another nation. “Cuchulainn” by Michael O’Loughlin; from I could read the sky by Timothy O’Grady, Steven Pyke; from The knife in the wave. “The lightcatchers” by Mary O’Malley; The lonesome west by Martin McDonagh; from The hellbox. “The printer’s devil” by Greg Delanty; from Greetings to our friends in Brazil. “The Mary Robinson years” by Paul Durcan.
Bibl. Refs., pp.1,329-40; and index.

Ashok Bery & Patricia Murray, eds., Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations (Basingstoke: Macmillan 2000), xii, 283p. CONTENTS [sel.]: Introduction; Pt. I - On the Border: C. L. Innes, Postcolonial Studies in Ireland; W. Maley, Crossing the Hyphen of History: The Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness; G. Smyth, The Politics of Hybridity: Some Problems with Crossing the Border. Pt. II - Diasporas : A. Arrowsmith, Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Identity and Irish Migration to England; L.Harte & L.Pettitt, States of Dislocation: William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey and Maurice Leitch’s Gilchrist; D. Vernon, The Limits of Goodwill’: The Value and Dangers of Revisionism in Keneally’s Aboriginal’ Novels. Pt. IV: Versions of Hybridity [...]

Mary Jean Corbett, Allegories of Union: in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold (Cambridge UP 2000), x, 228pp. [Contents: Acknowledgements; 1. Public affections and familial politics: Burke, Edgeworth, and Ireland in the 1790s; 2. Allegories of prescription: engendering union in Owenson and Edgeworth; 3. Troubling others: representing the Immigrant Irish in Urban England at mid-century; 4. Plotting colonial authority: Trollope’s Ireland, 1845-1860; 5. England's opportunity, England's character: Arnold, Mill and the Fate of the Union in the 1860s; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (Cork UP 2000), xi, 256pp. CONTENTS. Acknowledgements [ix]; Introduction [1]; 1. The End of Tradition [8]; 2. Towards a Concept of Folklore [32]; 3. Folklore and Nation-building [63]; 4. Irish Pioneers [94]; 5. The Gaelicization of Folklore [114]; 6. Folklore and Poverty [142]; 7. From Folklore to Popular Culture … and Beyond? [165]; Notes and references [185]; Select Bibliography [207]; Index 221

Ray Ryan, ed., Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics, 1949-1999 (London: Macmillan 2000; NY: St. Martin’s Press 2001), x, 289pp. CONTENTS: Ryan, Introduction: State and Nation: The Republic and Ireland, 1949-1999. PART I: LITERATURE. Catriona .Clutterbuck, ‘Irish Women’s Poetry and the Republic of Ireland: Formalism as Form’; Jonathan Allison, ‘Acts of Memory: Poetry and the Republic of Ireland since 1949’; C.Morash, ‘“Something’s Missing”: Theatre and the Republic of Ireland Act’; Ryan, ‘The Republic and Ireland: Pluralism, Politics, and Narrative Form’. PART II: CULTURE. Joe Cleary, ‘Modernization and Aesthetic Ideology in Contemporary Irish Culture’; Richard Haslam, ‘Irish Film: Screening the Republic’; P. Hannafin, ‘Legal Texts as Cultural Documents: Interpreting the Irish Constitution’; Michael Cronin & B. O’Connor, ‘From Gombeen to Gubeen: Tourism, Identity and Class in Ireland, 1949-1999’. PART III: POLITICS. T.Garvin, ‘A Quiet Revolution: The Remaking of Irish Political Culture’; Carol Coulter, ‘’Miserable Failure of a State’: Unionist Intellectuals and the Irish Republic’; Anthony Canavan, ‘The Profession of History: The Public and the Past’; John Horgan, ‘The Media and the State: Television and the Press 1949-99’. PART IV: AFTERWORD. Colm Ó Grada, ‘From “Frugal Comfort” to Ten Thousand a Year: Trade and Growth in the Irish Economy’. Index

Jim Smyth, ed., Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790s (Cambridge UP 2000), 235pp. CONTENTS: Introduction’; 1. Jim Smyth, ‘The 1798 rebellion in its eighteenth-century contexts’; 2. Louis Cullen, ‘The politics of crisis and rebellion, 1792-1798’; 3. Nancy J. Curtin, ‘The magistracy and counter-revolution in Ulster, 1795-1798’; 4. Tommy Graham, ‘The shift in United Irish leadership from Belfast to Dublin, 1796-1798’; 5. Mary Helen Thuente, ‘“The Belfast Laugh”: the context and significance of United Irish satires’; 6. Daniel Gahan, ‘Class, religion and rebellion: Wexford in 1798’; 7. Thomas Bartlett, ‘Endgame: the treatment of defeated rebels and “suffering loyalists” after the 1798 rebellion’; 8. Michael Durey, ‘Marquess Cornwallis and the fate of Irish rebel prisoners in the aftermath of the 1798 rebellion’; 9. Jim Smyth, ‘The act of union and “public opinion”’; 10. Fintan Cullen, ‘Radicals and reactionaries: portraits of the late 1790s in Ireland’; 11. David W. Miller, ‘Irish Christianity and revolution’; 12. Luke Gibbons, ‘Republicanism and radical memory: the O’Connors, O’Carolan and the United Irishmen.

Eamonn Jordan, ed., Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2000), 370pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Eamonn Jordan, Introduction’ [xi]; Thomas Kilroy, ‘A Generation of Playwrights’ [1]; Declan Hughes, ‘Who The Hell Do We Think We Still Are? Reflections On Irish Theatre and Identity’ [8]; Marianne McDonald, ‘Classics as Celtic Firebrand:; Greek Tragedy, Irish; Playwrights, and Colonialism’ [16]; Lionel Pilkington, ‘Theatre History and the Beginnings; of the Irish National Theatre Project’ [27]; Anna McMullan, ‘Gender, Authorship and Performance in Selected Plays by Contemporary Irish Women Playwrights: Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Marie Jones, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue’ [34; Fintan O’Toole, ‘Irish Theatre: The State of the Art’ [47]; Bruce Arnold, ‘The State of Irish Theatre’ [59]; Ashley Taggart, Theatre of War? Contemporary Drama in Northern Ireland’ [67]; Caoimhe McAvinchey, ‘Theatre - Act or Place?’ [84]; Joseph Long, ‘Come Dance With Me in Ireland: Current Developments in the Independent Theatre Sector’ [89]; Jocelyn Clarke, ‘(Un)critical Conditions’ [95]; Redmond O’Hanlon, ‘Brian Friel’s Dialogue with Euripides: Living Quarters’ [107]; Bernice Schrank, ‘Politics, Language, Metatheatre: Friel’s The Freedom of the City and the Formation of an Engaged Audience’ [122]; Declan Kiberd, Theatre as Opera: The Gigli Concert’ [145]; Anne F. Kelly, ‘Bodies and Spirits in Tom Murphy’s Theatre’ [159]; Terry Eagleton, ‘Unionism and Utopia: Seamus, Heaney’s The Cure at Troy’ [172]; Akiko Satake, ‘The Seven Ages of Henry Joy McCracken: Stewart Parker’s Northern; Star as a History Play of the United Irishmen in 1798’ [176]; Deirdre Mulroooney, ‘Tom MacIntyre’s Theatre’ [187]; Eamonn Jordan, ‘From Playground to Battleground: Metatheatricality in the Plays of Frank McGuinness’ [194]; Christopher Murray, ‘Billy Roche’s Wexford Trilogy: Setting, Place, Critique’ [209]; Ger Fitzgibbon, ‘The Poetic Theatre of Sebastian Barry’ [224]; Riana O’Dwyer, ‘The Imagination of Women’s Reality: Christina Reid and Marina Carr’ [236]; Martine Pelletier, ‘Dermot Bolger’s Drama’ [249]; Melissa Sihra, ‘A Cautionary Tale: Marina Carr’s By the Bag of Cats’ [257]; Eric Weitz, ‘Barabbas at Play with The Whiteheaded Boy’ [269]; Victor Merriman, ‘Songs of Possible Worlds: Nation, Representation and Citizenship in the Work of Calypso Productions’ [280]; Karen Vandevelde, ‘The Gothic Soap of Martin McDonagh’ [292]; Scott T. Cummings, ‘Homo Fabulator: The Narrative; Imperative in Conor McPherson’s Plays’ [303]; Biography Contributors’ [313]; Index 318.

Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities (Dublin: Wolfhound Press; Alabama UP 2000), ix, 305pp. CONTENTS: Kathryn Kirkpatrick, ‘Introduction’; 1. Julia-Anne Miller, ‘Acts of union: family violence and national courtship in Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee and Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl’; 2. James M. Cahalan, ‘Forging tradition : Emily Lawless and the Irish literary canon’; 3. James H. Murphy, ‘Things which seem to you unfeminine: gender and nationalism in the fiction of some upper middle class Catholic women novelists, 1880-1910’; 4. Donna L. Potts, ‘’Irish poetry and the modernist canon: a reappraisal of Katharine Tynan’; 5. Anne Fogarty, ‘A woman of the house : gender and nationalism in the writings of Augusta Gregory’; 6. Ann Owens Weekes, ‘Trackless road : Irish nationalisms and lesbian writing’; Medbh McGuckian, Women are trousers’; 7. Katie Conboy, ‘Revisionist cartography: the politics of place in Boland and Heaney; 8. Anne Rea, ‘Reproducing the nation: nationalism, reproduction, and paternalism in Anne Devlin’s Ourselves Alone’; 9. Megan Sullivan, ‘Instead I said I am a home baker: nationalist ideology and materialist politics in Mary Beckett’s Give them stones’; 10. Rachael Sealy Lynch, ‘Public spaces, private lives: Irish identity and female selfhood in the novels of Jennifer Johnston’; 11. Katherine Martin Grey, ‘The Attic LIPs: feminist pamphleteering for the new Ireland’.

José Lanters, Unauthorized Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952 (Washington: CUA Press 2000), 287pp. Authors covered by chapters incl. Darrell Figgis, The Return of the Hero; Eimar O'Duffy, King Goshawk and the Birds; The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street; Asses in Clover; Austin Clarke, The Bright Temptation; The Singing-Men at Cashel; The Sun Dances at Easter; Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds; The Third Policeman; Mervyn Wall, The Unfortunate Fursey; The Return of Fursey.

Christine St. Peter, Changing Ireland: Strategies in Contemporary Women’s Fiction (London: Macmillan 2000), 200pp. [content] Introduction; Authorship, the Forbidden Country; Women Writing Exile; Returning from the “Ghost Place’: Recomposing History; “The War that has Gone into Is”: Troubles from the North; Traveling Back Home: The Blockbusters of Patricia Scanlan and Maeve Binchy; Feminist fiction.

Nicholas Grene, ed., Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), 220pp. CONTENTS: Seamus Heaney, “Glanmore Eclogue”; Nicholas Grene, ‘On the Margins: Synge and Wicklow’; R. F. Foster, ‘Good Behaviour: Yeats, Synge and Anglo-Irish Etiquette’; Frank McGuinness, ‘John Millington Synge and the King of Norway’; Angela Bourke, ‘Keening as theatre: J. M. Synge and the Irish Lament Tradition’; J. M. Synge, “On an island”; Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, “Ar Oileán”; Declan Kiberd, ‘Synge’s tristes tropiques: The Aran Islands’; Tom Paulin, ‘Riders to the Sea: a Revisionist Tragedy?’; Antoinette Quinn, ‘Staging the Irish Peasant Woman: Maud Gonne versus Synge’; Christopher Morash, ‘All Playboys Now: the Audience and the Riot’; Martin Hilsky, ‘Re-imagining Synge’s Language: the Czech Experience’; Gerald Dawe, “Distraction”; Anthony Roche, ‘J. M. Synge and Molly Allgood: The Woman and the Tramp’; Ann Saddlemyer, ‘Synge’s soundscape’; Brendan Kennelly, “Synge”.

Leon Litvack & Glenn Hooper, eds., Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity [Papers from Regionalism and 19th c. Ireland Conference, QUB April 1977] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), 247pp. CONTENTS: Litvack & Hooper, Introduction; Part I: Leon Litvack (QUB), ‘Exhibiting Ireland, 1851-53: Colonial Mimicry in London, Cork & Dublin’; Elizabeth Tilley (NUI/Galway), Charting Culture in the Dublin University Magazine’; A. Jamie Saris (NUIM), ‘Imagining Ireland in the Great Exhibition of 1853’; Eva Maria Stöter (NUIM), ‘Region vs. Nation: Nineteenth Century ‘Germany' as a Mirror for Irish Regional/National Politics'. Part II: PERIPHERIES: Jacqueline Belanger (U. of Kent at Canterbury), ‘The Desire of the West: The Aran Islands and Irish Identity in Grania’; Patrick Maume (QUB), ‘The Papish Minister: Shan Bullock, John Haughton Steele, and the Literary Portrayal of the Nineteenth-Century Clergyman’; Brian Caraher (QUB), ‘Edgeworth, Wilde and Joyce: Reading Irish Regionalism Through “the cracked lookingglass” of a Servant's Art’; Frances Botkin (U. of Illinois at Chicago), ‘Edgeworth and Wordsworth: Plain Unvarnished Tales’; Richard McMahon (NUIG), The Regional Administration of a Central Legal Policy. Part III NATIONS: Seán Ryder (NUIG), ‘The Politics of Landscape and Region in Nineteenth-Century’; POETRY: Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame), ‘Writing Ireland: Reading England’; Michael McAteer (QUB), ‘”Ireland and the Hour”: Paternalism and Nationality in Standish James O'Grady's Toryism and the Tory Democracy’; Glenn Hooper (U. of Aberdeen), ‘The Pursuit of Signs: Searching for Ireland after the Union.'

Jane H. Ohlmeyer, ed., Political Thought in Seventeenth-century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony? (Cambridge UP 2000), xvii, 290pp. ill. CONTENTS: Ohlmeyer, ‘Introduction: For God, king or country? Political thought and culture in seventeenth-century Ireland’; 1. Aidan Clarke, ‘Patrick Darcy and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and Britain’; 2. Patricia Coughlan, ‘Counter-currents in colonial discourse: the political thought of Vincent and Daniel Gookin’; 3. Patrick Kelly, ‘Recasting a tradition: William Molyneux and the sources of The case of Ireland ... stated (1698)’; 4. Raymond Gillespie, ‘Political ideas and their social contexts in seventeenth-century Ireland’; 5. Bernadette Cunningham, ‘Representations of king, parliament and the Irish people in Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn and John Lynch’s Cambrensis eversus (1662)’; 6. Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, ‘“Though hereticks and politicians should misinterpret their good zeale”: political ideology and Catholicism in early modern Ireland’; 7. Jerrold Casway, ‘Gaelic Maccabeanism: the politics of reconciliation’; 8. Allan I. MacInne, ‘Covenanting ideology in seventeenth-century Scotland’; 9. David Armitage, ‘The political economy of Britain and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution’; 10. Charles C. Ludington, ‘From ancient constitution to British empire: William Atwood and the imperial crown of England’; 11. J. G. A. Pocock, ‘The Third Kingdom in its history: an afterword.

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