Select Annual Listing of Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2001

Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2001

Literary Works
Poetry Fiction Drama Autobiography	Literary & Historical Biography Collected & Scholarly Editions Anthologies & Compilations Digital Publications
Commentary
Music, Art and Architecture Literary & Historical Biography Film and Media Literary Criticism Criticism: Individual authors Cultural Commentary Celtic Studies Diaspora Studies	Language Studies Social & Historical Studies Historical Documents Northern Ireland Bibliography & Reference Society & Women’s Studies Literary & Historical Reprints Literary & Critical Journals

Poetry

Brennan, Deirdre, The Hen Party (Belfast: Lapwing 2001), 36pp.
Coady, Michael, All Souls (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 140pp. [rev. edn.; orig. 1987].
Deane, John F., The Hero, Home (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2001), 28pp.
Delanty, Greg, The Blind Stitch (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2001), 52pp.
Dorcey, Mary, Like Joy in Season, Like Sorrow (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2001), 96pp.
Durcan, Paul, Cries of an Irish Caveman: New Poems (London: Harvill Press 2001), 172pp.
Egan, Desmond, The Hill of Allen (Newbridge: Goldsmith Press 2001), 44pp.
Fitzmaurice, Gabriel, A Wren-boy’s Carnival: Poems 1980-2000, intro. by Declan Kiberd (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 144pp.
French, Tom, Touching the Bones (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 72pp.
Granier, Mark, Airborne (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2001), 52pp.
Grennan, Eamon, Still Life with Waterfall (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 80pp.
Greaves, C. Desmond, Elephants against Rome, foreword by Anthony Cronin (BAC: Léirmeas [2000]), 148pp.
Guckian, Mary, The Road to Gowel (Swan Press 2001), 62pp. [autobiog. & poetry].
Harmon, Maurice, The Last Regatta (Salmon 2001).
Hamill, Brendan, Steinbeck in Derry (Belfast: Glandore 2001), 36pp.
Harnett, Michael, Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 320pp.
Healy, Dermot, The Red Bed (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 80pp.
Heaney, Seamus, Electic Light (London: Faber & Faber 2001), 96pp.
Higgins, Rita Ann, An Awful Racket (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 2001), 72pp.
Joyce, Trevor, With the First Dream of Fire the Hunt the Cold: A Body of Work 1966-2000 (Dublin: New Writers’ Press 2001), 244pp.
Kiely, Kevin, Plainchant for a Sundering (Lapwing 2001), 23pp.
Kinsella, Thomas, Collected Poems 1956-2001 (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2001), 390pp.
Lyons, P. D., Search for Magic (Belfast: Lapwing 2001), 28pp.
MacDonagh, Patrick, Poems, ed. Derek Mahon (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 94pp.
Mahon, Derek, Resistance Days (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 24pp. [175 ltd. edn.]
Malone, Aubrey, Pedagogue and Other Poems (Belfast: Lapwing 2001), 46pp.
McAuley, James J., Meditations, with Distractions: Poems 1988-98 (Arkansas UP 2001), 104pp.
McDonnell, Gerry, Mud Island Elegy (Belfast: Lapwing 2001), 42pp.
McGuckian, Medbh, Drawing Ballerinas (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 68pp.
McLoughlin, Nigel, At the Water’s Clearing (Ballyclare: Black Mountain Press 2001), 50pp.
Montague, John, Selected Poems (London: Penguin 2001), 232pp.
Mooney, Martin, Rasputin and His Children (Blackwater Press 2001), 60pp.
Muldoon, Paul, Poems 1968-1998 (London: Faber & Faber 2001), 490pp.
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan, The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 56pp.
O’Brien, Seán, Downriver (Picador 2001), 85pp.
O’Donoghue, John, Conamara Blues (London: Bantam 2001), 142pp.
O’Donoghue, Mary, Tulle (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2001), 96pp.
O’Driscoll, Ciaran, Moving On, Still There: New & Selected Poems (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2001), 155p.
O’Grady, Desmond, The Wandering Celt (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2001), 160pp.
O’Malley, Mary, Asylum Road (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2001), 96pp.
O’Reilly, Catríona, The Nowhere Birds (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 2001), 63pp.
Redmond, John, Thumb’s Width (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2001).
Rosenstock, Gabriel, and Hans-Christian Oeser, trans. Michael Augustin, Ad infinitum: Poems and Epigrams (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2001), 112pp.
Smyth, Cherry, When the Lights Go Up (Belfast: Lagan Press 2001), 54pp.
Woods, Macdara, Knowledge in the Blood: New and Selected Poems (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2001), 216pp.
—, The Nightingale Water (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2001), 92pp.
Boland, Eavan, Code (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2001), 50pp. [title poem occupying second half; incls. lament for Michael Harnett] Marcus, Philip L., Yeats and Artistic Power (Syracuse UP 2001), 296pp.

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Irish Language Poetry

Bushe, Paddy, In Ainneaoin na gCloch (Baile atha Cliath: Coiséim [2001]).
de Fréine, Celia, Faoi Chabáistí agus Ríonach (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2001).
Gréagoir, Ó Duill, Rogha Dánta 1965-2001 (Cois Life 2001), 168pp.
Jenkinson, Biddy, Mis (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2001), 40pp.
Mac Lochlainnn, Gearóid, Sruth Teagacha/Stream of Tongues (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2001), q.pp.
Nic Eoin, Máirín, Gaolta Gairide: Rogha Dánta Comhaimseartha ar Théama óige agus Caidrimh Teaghlaigh (Baile atha Cliath: Cois Life 2001), 96pp.
Ó Ruairc, Mícheál, Loco i Lios na Caolbhaí (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2001), 104pp.
Ó Searcaigh, Cathal, Ag Tnúth leis an tSolas (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2002), 303pp.
Ó Snodaigh, Padraig, Ó Pharnell go Queenie, trans. Mícheál Ó Fionnáin (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2001).
Rosenstock, Gabriel, Syójó (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2001), q.pp.

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Fiction

Baker, Garret, Love Nor Lack of Love (Dublin: A. A. Farmar 2001), 174pp.
Bannister, Jo, Echoes of Lies (London: Allison & Busby 2001), 224pp.
Banville, Vincent, Cannon Law (Dublin: New Island 2001), 250pp.
Bateman, Colin, Wild About Harry (London: HarperCollins 2001), 270pp.
—, Shooting Sean (London: HarperCollins 2001), 256pp.
—, Mohammed Maguire (London: HarperCollins 2001), 236pp.
Barnett, Anne, The Largest Baby in Ireland after the Famine (London: Virago 2001), 288pp.
Benjamin, Peter [Peter Cunningham], Terms and Conditions (Dublin: TownHouse; Simon & Schuster 2001), 314pp.
Bolger, Dermot, The Valparaiso Voyage (London: Flamingo 2001), 256pp.
Brady, Peter, Paveewhack (Dublin: New Island Press 2001), 212pp.
Brennan, Maeve, The Visitor (Dublin: New Island 2001), 90pp. [rep.]
Callaghan, Mary Rose, The Visitors’ Book (Dingle: Brandon Press 2001), 288pp.
Caprani, Mary, The Tree Bent (Inkwell Writers Group 2001), 332pp. [family saga].
Carson, Ciaran, Shamrock Tea (London: Granta 2001), 308pp.
Charles, Paul, The Hissing of the Lonely Room (Dublin: New Island Press 2001), 416pp.
Casey, Philip, The Fisher Child (London: Picador 2001), 257pp.
Cremins, Robert, Send in the Devils (Sceptre-Lir 2001), 224pp.
Crowley, Elaine, The Young Wives (London: Orion 2001), 368pp.
Cullen, Leo, Let’s Twist Again (Belfast: Blackstaff Beeline 2001), q.pp.
Curtin, Michael, Sing (London: Fourth Estate 2001), 216pp.
Davy, Doreen, A Dandelion by any Other Name (London: Mentor 2001), 224pp.
Devlin, Martina, Be Careful What You Wish For (London: HarperCollins 2001), 442pp.
Donnelly, Mick, Doubletime (Belfast: Blackstaff 2001), 202pp.
Doyle, Rose, Friends Indeed (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2001), 480pp.
Deutsch, Richard, Doublé à Dublin ([Paris:] Terre de Brume 2001) [Hippolythe Braquemare, sleuth].
Fine, David, The Beat: Life on the Streets (Dublin: Sitric [Lilliput] 2001), 224pp.
Finlay, Lilian Robert, Cassa’s Choice (Mount Eagle 2001), 288pp.
Haverty, Anne, The Far Side of a Kiss (London: Vintage 2001), 250pp.
Hudson, Henry, Beyond Pulditch Gates (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), [q.pp.].
Kabdebo, Thomas, Decent Island (Maynooth: Cardinal Press 2001), 170pp.
Kelly, Cathy, What She Wants (London: HarperCollins 2001), 678pp.
Kenny, Sean, D-Ram (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 200pp.
Kerr, Simon, The Rainbow Singer (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001), 240pp.
Kiely, Benedict, Collected Stories, introduced by Colum McCann (London: Methuen 2001), 608pp.
Larkin, Mary A., Playing with Fire (London: Little, Brown 2001), 480pp.
McCabe, Patrick, Emerald Germs of Ireland (London: Picador 2001), 382pp.
MacCartney, Aine, Desire Lines (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2001), 347pp.
McGann, Marie, The Drawbridge (Dingle: Brandon Press 2001), 254pp.
McLaverty, Bernard, The Anatomy School (London: Jonathan Cape 2001), 362pp.
McLynn, Pauline, Better than a Rest (London: Headline [Hodder] 2001), 318pp.
MacNamee, Eoin, The Blue Tango (London: Faber & Faber 2001), 276pp.
Madhavan, Cauvery, Paddy Indian (London: Black Amber Books 2001), 246pp.
Mathews, Arthur, Well-remembered Days: Memoir of a Twentieth-century Catholic Life (London: Macmillan 2001), 224pp.
Monaghan, Sean, Planned Accidents (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2001), 238pp.
Mullarkey, Gabriel, A Tale of Two Sisters (Dublin: Townhouse 2001), 304pp.
Myers, Kevin, Banks of Green Willows (NY: Scribner; Dublin: Townhouse 2001), 282pp.
Leitch, Maurice, The Eggman’s Apprentice (London: Secker & Warburg 2001), 345pp.
Leonard, Hugh, A Wild People (London: Methuen 2001), 240pp.
Ó Cíobháin, Pádraig, Faightear Gach Loach in Aisce (Baile Atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2001), 272pp.
O’Connor, Gemma, Walking on Water (London: Bantam 2001), q.pp.
O’Connor, Joseph, Yeats is Dead!: A Novel by Fifteen Writers (London: Jonathan Cape 2001), 304pp.
Ó Dúrois, Seán, Crann Smola (Coisceim 2001), 282pp.
O’Faolain, Nuala, My Dream of You (London: Michael Joseph 2001), 464pp.
O’Leary, Susanne, Diplomatic Incident (Belfast: Blackstaff Beeline 2001), q.pp.
O’Neill, Jamie, At Swim, Two Boys (NY & London: Scribner 2001), 650pp.
O’Reilly, Patricia, Felicity’s Wedding (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 256pp.
Owens, Damien, Dead Cat Bounce (London: Flame 2001), 311pp.
Taylor, Alice, Across the River (St. Martin’s Press 2001), 282pp.
Thompson, Kate, Going Down (London: Bantam [2000]), 480pp.
Tóibín, Bairbre, The Rising: A Novel (Dublin: New Island Press 2001), 248pp.
Tomás Ó Canainn, Fifeanna is Feadóga (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2001), 214pp.
Sweeney, Eamon, The Photograph (London: Picador 2001), 382pp.
Wassell, Elizabeth, The Thing He Loves (Dingle: Brandon Press 2001), 192pp.
Williams, Niall, The Fall of Light (London: Picador 2001), 394pp.
Wilson, Jack, The Wilson Summer (Belfast: Lagan Press 2001), 246pp.

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Drama

Friel, Brian, The Yalta Game [after Chekhov] (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), q.pp.
Leeney, Cathy, ed., Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women ( Dublin: Carysfort Press 2001), 388pp. [Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, “La Corbière”; Dolores Walshe, “In the Talking Dark”, et al.]
Muldoon, Paul, Vera of Las Vegas (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 54pp. [libretto].
Marie Jones, Stones in His Pockets [and] A Night in November (London: Nick Hern Books 2001), 108pp.
Nolan, Jim, Blackwater Angel (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 94pp.
O’Flynn Criostoir, Three Plays: Land of the Living, The Order of Melchizedek and Homo Sapiens (Dun Laoghaire: Obelisk Books [the author] 2001), 268pp.

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Autobiography

Adams, Gerry, An Irish Journal (Dingle: Brandon Press 2001), 286pp.
Campbell, Joseph, I was Among the Captives: Joseph Campbell’s Prison Diaries 1922-1923, ed. Eiléan Ní Chuileanáin (Cork UP 2001), 144pp.
Calder, John, The Uncensored Memories of John Calder (London: Calder Publs. 2001), 621pp. [Beckett’s English publisher].
Cosgrove, Brian, The Yew-Tree at the Head of the Strand (Liverpool UP 2001), 240pp.
Delaney, Eamon, An Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service 1987-1995 (New Island Books 2001), 408, ill. [8pp. b&w photos].
Doherty, Paddy, Paddy Bogside (Cork: Mercier Press 2000), 240pp. ill.
Eagleton, Terry, The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (London: Penguin/Allen Lane 2001), 186pp.
Fennell, Desmond, The Turning Point: My Sweden Year and After (Dublin: Sanas Press 2001), 224pp.
MacIntyre, James, Making My Mark: An Artist’s Early Life (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2001), 154pp.
Mac Anna, Tomás, Fallaing Aonghusa: Saol Amharclainne (Baile atha Cliath: An Clóchomhar), 294pp.
McCourt, Malachi, A Monk Swimming (London: HarperCollins [2001]).
—, Singing My Him Song (London: HarperCollins 2001), 254pp.
MacDonald, Henry, Trimble (London: Bloomsbury 2001), [qpp.]
Moriarty, John, Nostos: An Autobiography (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001), 707pp.
Marcus, David, Oughtobiography: Leaves from the Diary of a Hypenated Jew (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 296pp.
Montague, John, Company: A Chosen Life (London: Duckworth 2001), 190pp.
O’Driscoll, Ciaran, A Runner Among Falling Leaves (Liverpool UP 2001), 172pp.
O’Flynn, Criostoir, A Writer’s Life (Dun Laoghaire: Obelisk Books 2001), 334pp.
Potterton, Homan, Rathcormick: A Childhood Recalled (Dublin: New Island Press 2001), 310pp. ill. Jeremy Williams.
O’Connor, Ulick, The Ulick O’Connor Diaries 1970-1981: A Cavalier Irishman (London: John Murray 2001), 320pp.
Robinson, Tim, My Time in Space (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001), 224pp.
Sands, Bobby, One Day in My Life (Cork: Mercier Press 2001), [?rep. edn.]
Sheridan, Noel, On Reflection (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 220pp.
Sheridan, Peter, Forty-Seven Roses: A Memoir (Basingstoke: Macmillan 2001), 218pp.
Stanford, William Bedell, Memoirs (Dublin: Hinds 2001), 256pp.
Touher, Patrick, Fear of the Collar: My Terrifying Childhood in Artane [rev.; 1st edn. 1991] (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2001), 272pp.
Valentine, Penny, & Vicki Wickham, Dancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield (Coronet 2001) [q.pp.]
Waters, Maureen, Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America (Syracuse UP 2001), 164pp.

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Literary & Historical Biography

Andrews, Hilary, Lion of the West: A Biography of Archbishop John MacHale (Veritas 2001), 358pp.
Arnold, Bruce, Jack Lynch: A Hero in Crisis (London: Merlin 2001), 320pp.
Broderick, Marian, Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives in Irish History (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2001), 320pp. [see contents].
Coghe, Jean-Noel, Rory Gallagher (Cork: Mercier Press 2001), 300pp.
Conradi, Peter, Iris Murdoch: A Life (London: HarperCollins 2001), 544pp.
Dwyer, T. Ryle, Nice Fellow: A Biography of Jack Lynch (Cork: Mercier Press 2001), 416pp.
Fennell, Philip, & Marie King, Voyage of the Hougoumont and Life at Fremantle: The Story of an Irish Rebel (NY: X libris), 377pp. [vide C. W. Sullivan, infra].
David Gardiner, Befitting Emblems of Adversity: A Modern Irish View of Edmund Spenser from W.B. Yeats to the Present (Creighton UP [2001]), xii, 233pp., ill. [ports.].
Green, Roger Lancelyn, C. S. Lewis: A Biography (London: HarperCollins 2001), 272pp.
Hames, Jane Hayter, Arthur O’Connor: United Irishman (Cork: Collins Press 2001), q.pp.
Lane, Fintan, In Search of Thomas Seahan: Radical Politics in Cork 1824-1836 (Dublin IAP 2001), 64pp.
Lynch, Mary C., O’Sullivan Burke: Fenian (Cork: Ebony Jane Press 2001), 262pp.
McDonald, Ronan, Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O’Casey, Beckett (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2001), 216pp.
McDowell, R. B., Grattan: A Life (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001), 288pp.
Newsinger, John, ed., United Irishman: The Autobiography of James Hope (Merlin Press 2001), 112pp.
Ó Corráin, Donnachadh, ed., James Hogan: Revolutionary, Historian and Political Scientist (Dublin: Four Courts 2001), 249pp.
O’Donnell, Ruan, Robert Emmet (Cork UP 2001), 128pp.
Ó Drisceoil, Donal, Peadar O’Donnell [Radical Irish Lives] (Cork UP 2001), 176pp.
O’Neill, Mariel, Grace Gifford Plunkett: Tragic Bride of 1916 (Dublin IAP 2001), 104pp. ill.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen, Louie Bennett [Radical Irish Lives Ser.] (Cork UP 2001), 174pp.
Pilkington, Lionel, Theatre and State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People (London: Routledge 2001), x, 262pp.
Quinn, James, A Life of Thomas Russell 1767-1803 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2001), 278pp.
Ross, Ian Campbell, Laurence Sterne: A Life (Oxford: OUP 2001), 512pp.
Smith, Michael, Unsung Hero - Tom Crean: Antartic Survivor (Cork: Collins Press 2001), 342pp.
Smyth, Gerry, Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination (London: Palgrave 2001), 228pp.
Stevens, Julie Ann, Somerville and Ross and the Irish Landscape (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 320pp.
Sullivan, C. W., ed., Fenian Diary: The Fenian Diary of Denis B. Cashman on Board the Hougoumont 1867-1868 (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 192pp. [Papers donated to East Caroline U. in 1982.]
Walshe, Oonagh, ed., An Englishwoman in Belfast: Rosamund Stephen’s Record of the Great War (Cork UP 2001), 100pp.

Collected & Scholarly Editions

Bolger, Dermot, ed., Druids, Dudes and Beauty Queens: The Changing Face of Irish Theatre (Dublin: New Island 2001), 302pp. [Contribs. Colm Tóibín; John Waters; Vic Merriman; Anna McMullan; John Hanrahan; Karen Fricker; Ben Barnes; Caroline Williams, Katy Hayes, Sian Quill & Clare Dowling; Mária Kurdi & Scilla Bertha; Emile Jean Dumay; Breandán Delpa; Ronan McDonald, Mic Moroney.]
Harris, Claudia, ed., The Charabanc Theatre Company: Five Plays (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2001) [Lay Up Your Ends; Now You’re Talkin’, Gold in the Streets, The Girl in the Picture, and Somewhere over the Balcony].
Michael Hurst, ed. & intro., Letters and Commentaries on Ireland [Irish history and culture ser.] (Bristol: Thoemmes 2001) [incls. JKL, Johann Georg Kohl, John Forbes, H. S. Thomson, Finlay Dun, and William Bence Jones [see contents].
Jeffares, A. Norman, ed. & intro., The Poems & Plays of Oliver St John Gogarty (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2001), xxxi, 861pp.
Kuch, Peter, ed., Writings on Art and Literature - George Russell (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2001), q.pp.
Larrissey, Edward, ed., W. B. Yeats, The Major Works [Oxford World Classics] (OUP 2001), 608pp. [poems; 10 plays; prose selections].
Londraville, Richard & Janis, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford: Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends (Syracuse UP 2001), 318pp.
Mulligan, Shirley, ed., The Poems of James Stephens (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2001).
Mays, J. C. C. & Stephen Parrish, W. B. Yeats: New Poems: Manuscript Materials [Cornell Yeats MS Series] (Cornell UP 2001).
McCann, McCann, ed., The Collected Stories of Benedict Kiely (London: Methuen 2001), 608pp.
Thompson, Mary Shine, ed., Selected Plays of Austin Clarke (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2001) [incl. 2 unpub. plays].
Wilson, Jeremy & Nicole, ed., T. E. Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, Vol. 1 (Hants: Castle Hill Press 2001), 247pp.
Quinn, Toner, ed., Desmond Fennell: His Life and Work (Dublin: Veritas 2001), 170pp.

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Anthologies & Compilations

Beatty, John D., ed., Protestant Women’s Narratives of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 272pp.
Callaghan, Mary Rose, ed., Jumping the Bus Queue: The Old Women’s Network Poetry Collection (Dublin: OWNP 2001), 120pp.
Chambers, Lilian, Ger Fitzgibbon, Eamon Jordan, Dan Farrelly & Cathy Leeney, eds., Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2001), 496pp.[see contents].
Conlon, Evelyn, & Hans-Christian Oeser, eds., Cutting the Night in Two: Short Stories by Irish Women Writers (Dublin: New Island 2001) [incl. Nora Hoult, Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin, Clare Boylan, Blanaid McKinney, et al.
Costello, Stephen, ed., The Irish Soul: In Dialogue (Dublin: Oaktree Press 2001), 286pp. [interviews with Gerry Adams, Roddy Doyle, Dana (Rosemary Scallon), Card. Desmond Connell, Richard Kearney, Daniel O’Donnell, David Norris, et al.]
Davidson, Peter, Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660 (OUP 2001).
Dawe, Gerard, & Michael Mulreany, eds., The Ogham Stone: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing (Dublin: IPA 2001), 240pp. [ded. Michael Hartnett; incls. David Norris, Eavan Boland, Brendan Kennelly, Thomas Kinsella and and Hartnett; Fintan O’Toole, Eve Patten, Terence Brown, et al.]
Gaskin, John, The Dark Companion: Ghost Stories (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001), 224pp.
Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle, ed., My Self, My Muse: Irish Women Poets Reflect on Life and Art (Syracuse UP 2001), 184pp. [anthology of poems with notes by 9 writers, incl. Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian, Mary O’Malley, Eithne Strong].
Hickey, Margaret, Irish Days: Oral Histories of the Twentieth Century (London: Kyle Cathie 2001), 288pp. [incl. Eamon Kelly, et al.].
Hardie, Kerry, & Mark Roper, eds., Ink Bottle: New Writing from Kilkenny (Kilkenny Co. Council 2001), 120pp. [incls. Gillian Somerville-Large, Edward Power, Carmel Cummins, Brian Phelan].
Hooper, Glenn, ed., The Tourist’s Gaze: Travellers to Ireland 1800-2000 (Cork UP 2001), 360pp.
Keane, J. B., A Christmas Omnibus: The Best of John B. Keane (Cork: Mercier Press 2001), 368pp.
Kelly, James, Gallows Speeches from Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 288pp.
Kennelly, Brendan, ed., Between Innocence and Peace: Favourite Poems of Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press 2001), 212pp.
Lander, Ben, ed., Women’s Voices: Irish Women on Love, Men, Sex and Relationships (Meath: Winklecraft 2001), 152pp.
McBreen, Joan, The White Ban/An Bhileog Bhán [rep.] (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2001).
Macdona, Anna, ed., From Newman to New Woman (Dublin: New Island Press 2001), 286pp.
Murtagh, Peter, ed., Irish Times Book of the Year 2000-2001 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001).
O’Brien, George, ed., Playing the Field (Dublin: New Island Press 2001), 160pp. [incl. Anthony Cronin, Mary O’Malley, Joe O’Connor et al.]
Ó Laighleis, Ré, ed., Shooting the Lip: Short Stories from Mayo’s New Young Writers (Mayo Co. Council 2001), 188pp.
Oeser, Hans-Christian, et al., eds., Ireland Almanach, No 3: Irische und barbarische Spiele (2001), 240pp.
Reid, Gerard, ed., Great Irish Voices: Over 400 Years of Irish Oratory (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2001), 416pp.
Shields, Hugh, ed., Tunes of the Munster Pipers: Irish Traditional Music from the James Goodman Manuscripts, Vol. 1. (Irish Trad. Music Arch. 2001), 245pp
Judy Friel & Sanford Sternlicht, ed. & intro., New Plays from the Abbey Theatre, Vol 2: 1996-1998 (Syracuse UP 2001), xviii, 245pp.

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Digital Publications

Taylor, Clare, ed., William Smith O’Brien Petition [1848] (Dublin: Eneclann [TCD] 2001) [link].
Ryan, Christopher, ed., Samuel Lewis, Topography of Dublin [1837] (Cork: Collins Press 2001) [link].

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Music, Art, & Architecture

Hall, Dickon, Colin Middleton (Bangor [Co. Down]: Joga Press 2001), 120pp.
Lanigan, Shirley, Guide to Irish Gardens (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2001) [300 gardens].
McDonald, Frank, The Construction of Dublin (Dublin: Gandon 2000), 360pp.
McParland, Edward, Public Architecture in Ireland, 1680-1760 [Mellon Centre] (Yales UP 2001), ill. David Davison [220 b/w ills., 28 col. pls.], x, 256pp.
Morgan, George, Louis le Brocquy, Paintings 1939-1996 (Dublin: Gandon Press 2001) [rev. edn. of 1999 catalogue].
Smyth, Gerry, Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination (Houndmills: Palgrave 2001), xviii, 228pp. map.
Ryan, Michael, Charles Horton, Clare Pollard, Elaine Wright, The Chester Beatty Library (Chester Beatty Library & Scala Publ. 2001), 211pp.
Turpin, John, Oliver Sheppard 1865-1941 (Dublin: Four Courts [2001), 256pp.[see 2000].
White, James, Pauline Bewick: Painting a Life (Dublin: Wolfhound 2001) [rep. 1985 edn.].

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Film & Media

Bardon, Jonathan, Beyond the Studio: A History of BBC Northern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2001), 240pp.
Barry, Kevin, The Dead [Ireland into Film] (Cork UP 2001), 98pp.
Cassidy, Eoin, & Andrew G. McGrady, Media and the Marketplace: Ethical Perspectives (Dublin: IPA 2001), q.pp.
Farley, Fidelma, This Other Eden (Cork UP 2001), 104pp. [film adapted from Louis D’Alton successful Abbey play, and dir. by Muriel Box in 1959].
Horgan, John, Irish Media: A Critical History Since 1922 (London: Routledge 2001), 217pp.
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, ed., RTÉ 100 Years: Ireland in the 20th Century (Dublin: Townhouse 2001), 374pp. [Also in Irish as RTÉ 100 Blian: Éire san 20ú hAois, eag. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.]
Pettitt, Lance, December Bride [Ireland into Film] (Cork UP 2001), 98pp.
Quinn, Bob, Maverick: A Dissident View of Broadcasting Today (Dingle: Brandon Press 2001), 280pp.

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Literary Criticism

Brearton, Fran, & Eamonn Hughes, eds., Last Before America (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2001), 248pp. [in honour of Michael Allen; see contents].
Burns, Edward A. & Joshua A. Gaylord, A Tour of the Darking Plain: The Finnegans Wake Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen (UCD Press 2001).
Castle, Gregory, Modernism and the Celtic Revival (Cambridge UP 2001), viii, 321pp.
Christensen, Lis, Elizabeth Bowen: The Later Fiction (Museum Tusculanum 2001), q.pp.
de Petris, Carla, & Maria Stella, eds., Continente Irlanda: Storia e scrittura contemporanee (Roma: Carocci 2001), 303pp. [contribs. incl. Desmond O’Grady, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanain, Anthony Butler, Joan Fitzgerald, Diego Poli, Ciro De Rosa, Giuseppi Serpillo, Romolo Runcini, et al.]
Donoghue, Denis, Adam’s Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature (Notre Dame UP 2001), 188pp.
Foster, R. F., The Story of Ireland: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press 2001), 282pp.
Freeman, Philip, Ireland and the Classical World (Texas UP 2001), 148pp.
Gardiner, David, Befitting Emblems of Adversity: A Modern Irish View of Edmund Spenser from W. B. Yeats to the Present (Creighton UP 2001), 248pp. [incls Kinnoul port. of Spenser].
Grant, Patrick, Literature, Rhetoric and Violence in Northern Ireland 1968-98: Hardened to Death (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2001), 173pp.
Greacen, Robert, Rooted in Ulster: Nine Northern Writers (Belfast: Lagan Press 2001), 130pp. [deals with Shan Bullock, Forrest Reid, Kathleen Coyle, Joyce Cary, Patrick MacGill, Patrick Kavanagh, Michael McLaverty, John Hewitt and Sam Hanna Bell].
Grene, Nicholas, The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel (Cambridge UP 2001), 312pp.
Harmon, Maurice, ed., The Dolmen Press: A Celebration (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001), 160pp. [contribs. incl. Thomas Redshaw Dillon, Liam Browne, Louis le Brocquy, John Calder, Terence Brown, Bernard Share, Tom Kinsella, Rory Brennan].
Imhof, Rüdiger, The Modern Irish Novel (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 200pp.
Longley, Edna, Poetry and Posterity (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books 2001), 350pp.
King, Don W., C. S. Lewis, Poet (Kent State UP 2001), 408pp.
Kirkpatrick, Kathryn, Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2000), 316pp. [essays on Lady Morgan, Lady Gregory, Lawless; Katherine Tynan; Eliz. Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Mary Beckett; Emma Donoghue, et al.].
Ó Doibhlin, Breandán, Sanasán Díagachta (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2001), 174pp.
O’Driscoll, Dennis, Troubled Thought, Majestic Dreams: Selected Prose Writings (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2001), 320pp.
Ó Ruairc, Maolmhaodhóg, Séamus Mac Annaidh & Macallaí sa Scáthán (Cois Life 2001), q.pp.
Trotter, Mary, Ireland’s National Theaters: Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement (Syracuse UP 2001), 232pp.
Ryan, Louise. Gender, Identity and the Irish Press: Embodying the Nation [Irish Studies, 2 ] (NY, Lampeter: E. Mellen 2001), xii, 305pp.
Serpillo, Guiseppe, Kingfishers: Essays on Irish and English Poetry (Newbridge: Goldsmith Press 2001), 136pp.
Tobin, Seán, & Lois Tobin, eds., Lady Gregory Autumn Gatherings: Reflections at Coole (Galway [2001]), 218pp. [contribs. incl. Katie Donovan, John Quinn, Lorna Reynolds, Bruce Arnold, Declan Kiberd & Catriona Clutterbuck].
Whyte, Caramine, Reading Roddy Doyle (Syracuse UP 2001), 216pp.

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Individual Authors

W. B. Yeats

Chaudry, Yug Mohit, Yeats: The Irish Literary Revival and the Politics of Print (Cork UP 2001), 280pp.
Marcus, Philip L., Yeats and Artistic Power (Syracuse UP 2001), 296pp.

James Joyce

Burns, Edward M., & Joshua A. Gaylord, eds., A Tour of the Darking Plain: The Finnegans Wake Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen (UCD Press 2001), 738pp.
Gottfried, Roy, Joyce’s Comic Portrait (Florida UP 2001), review by Eugene O’Brien].
McBride, Margaret, Ulysses and the Metamorphosis of Stephen Dedalus (Bucknell UP 2001) .
Potts, Willard, Joyce and the Two Irelands (Texas UP 2001), 220pp.
Senn, Fritz, James Joyce: Thought Through My Eyes / gedacht durch mein augen (Schwabe [2001]), 240pp.
Sultan, Stanley, Joyce’s Metamorphosis [Florida James Joyce Ser.] Florida UP [2001]), xv, 207pp.

Patrick Kavanagh

Kavanagh, Peter, Patrick Kavanagh: A Life Chronicle (NY: 35 Park Ave. 2001), 440pp.
Quinn, Antoinette, Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 524pp.

Oscar Wilde

Day, Barry ed.,Oscar Wilde: A Life in Quotes (Metro 2001), 319pp. [arranged by themes incl. Irishness, to law and prison].
Fong, Bobby & Karl Feckson, eds., The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vol. 1: “Poems and Poems in Prose’ (Oxford: OUP 2001), 333pp.
Holland, Merlin, intro., De Profundis: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript (London: British Library 2001), 80pp.
Wright, Thomas, ed., Oscar Wilde: Table Talk (London: Cassell 2001), 192pp.

Samuel Beckett

Atik, Anne, A Beckett Memento (London: Faber & Faber 2001), 144pp.
Dukes, Gerry, Samuel Beckett (London: Penguin 2001), ix, 161pp.

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Cultural Commentary

Castle, Gregory, Modernism and the Celtic Revival (Cambridge UP 2001), viii, 312pp.
—, ed., Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell 2001), xxv, 526pp. [incls. Irish sect.]
Carroll, Clare, Circe’s Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland [Critical Conditions] (Cork UP/Field Day Co. 2001), 240pp.
Crooke, Elizabeth, Politics, Archaeology and the Creation of a National Museum of Ireland: An Expression of National Life (Dublin IAP 2001), 224pp.
Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, Ireland’s Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture [Critical Conditions Ser.] (Cork UP/Field Day 2001), xi, 304pp.
Clare, Anthony, On Men and Masculinity (London: Chatto & Windus [2001]), 270pp.
Gerard Delanty, Patrick O'Mahony, Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology, ed. by Jo Campling (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2001), 232pp.
Finnegan, Frances, Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland (Kilkenny: Congrave Press 2001),268pp.
Fischer, Joachim, Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939: Geschichte, Form, Funktion (Uinversitätverlag Heidelberg 2001), 696pp.
Geary, Lawrence M., ed., Rebellion and Remembrance in Modern Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 238pp. [contribs. incl. Maura Cronin, James Donnelly, Robert Mahony, Tom Dunne, Seán Ryder, Sophie Ollivier, Gary Owens, Sophie Olliver and Orlaith Mannion].
Gillis, Alan A., & Aaron Kelly, Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture (Dublin: Four Courts 2001), 288pp.[see contents].
Graham, Colin, Deconstructing Ireland: Identity, Theory, Culture [Tendencies Ser.] (Edinburgh UP 2001), xiii, 189pp. [Bibl. Includes p.176ff.; see summary].
Hederman, Patrick Mark [OSB], The Haunted Inkwell: Art and Our Future (Dublin: Columba Press 2001), 280pp.
Herbison, Ivan, Presbyterian Politics and Poetry in Nineteenth-century Ulster: Aspects of Ulster-Scots Literary Tradition (Belfast QUB/IIS 2001), 32pp.
Kearney, Richard, Re-imagining Ireland: Irish Culture in Transition (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 400pp.
—On Stories [Thinking in action ser.] (London: Routledge 2001, 2002), xii, 193pp. ill.
Kennedy, Finola, Cottage to Crèche: Family Change in Ireland (Dublin: IPA 2001), 302pp.
Longley, Edna, & Declan Kiberd, Multiculturalism: Two view from the Two Irelands, intro. Mary McAleese [Pres. of Ireland] (Cork UP 2001), 88pp.
McGovern, Thomas J., Priestly Identity: A Study in the Theology of Priesthood (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 208pp.
Minahane, John, The Contention of the Poets: An Essay in Irish Intellectual History (Slovakia: Sanas 2001), 76pp.
Morrissey, James, The Verge of Want (Crannog Books 2001), q.pp.
Murphy, James A., Abject Loyalty; Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland during the Reign of Queen Victoria (Cork UP; Washington: CUA Press 2001), 350pp.
White, Harry, & Michael Murphy, eds., Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800-1945 (Cork UP 2001), 298pp.
Zimmerman, Georges Denis, The Irish Storyteller (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 634pp.

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Celtic Studies

Ó Catháin, Séamas, with Patricia Lysaght, ed., Northern Lights: Essays in Honour of Bo Almqvist [aistí in adhnoó do Bho Almqvist] (UCD Press 2001), 352pp.
Ó Luing, Seán, Celtic Studies in Europe and Other Essays, intro. by Bo Almqvist (Dublin: Geog. Publ. 2001), 344pp.

Diaspora Studies

Moreton, Cole, Hungry for Home: A Journey to the Edge of Ireland (London: Penguin 2001).
O’Farrell, Patrick, The Irish In Australia: 1788 to the Present Day [1987, 1993; enl. edn.] (Cork UP 2001), 372pp.
Fanning, Charles, New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora (S. Illinois UP/Eurospan 2001), 343pp.
Delaney, Enda, Demography, State and Society: Irish Migration to Britain 1921-1971 (Liverpool UP 2001), 260pp.
Ward, Patrick, Exile, Emigration and Irish Writing (IAP [2001]), 240pp.

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Language Studies

Kelly, Adrian, Compulsory Irish: Language and Education in Ireland 1870s-1970s (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2001), 192pp.
Gannon, Paul, Voice Silenced: Has Irish a Future?/Guthann in Eag: An Mairfhid an Ghaeilge Beo? (Dublin: Cois Life), 104pp.
MacCloskey, James, Voices Silenced: Has Irish a Future/Guttanna in Éag: An Mairfidh an Ghaeilge Beo? (Cois Life Teo. 2001), 51+51pp. [bilingual].
Palmer, Patricia, Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion (Cambridge UP), 266pp.
Pádraigín Riggs, ed., Dáibhí Ó Bruadair: His Historical and Literary Context (London: Irish Texts Soc. 2001), vii, 119pp.
Share, Bernard, Naming Names (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 300pp.
Wall, Richard, An Irish Literary Dictionary and Glossary (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2001), 374pp.

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Social & Historical Studies

Bartlett, Thomas, The 1798 Rebellion: A Bicentennial Perspective (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001) 480pp.
Braddick, Michael J., & John Walter, Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland (Cambridge UP), 326pp.
Canny, Nicholas, Making Ireland British 1588-1650 (Oxford UP 2001), 650pp. [incls. chap. on Spenser].
Ben Novick, Conceiving Revolution: Irish Nationalist Propaganda during the First World War (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 240pp. [also as Ireland’s Propaganda War].
Carey, Vincent P., Surviving the Tudors: The “Wizard’ Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537-1586 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 320pp.
Coogan, Tim Pat, The Easter Rising (London: Cassell 2001), 192pp. ill.
Cooney, Dudley Levistone, The Methodists in Ireland: A Short History (Dublin: Columba Press 2001), 280pp. ill.
Cowley, Ultan, The Men Who Built Britain: A Celebration of the Irish Navvy (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 200pp.
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.]
Duffy, Seán, Edwards & Fitzpatrick, ed., Gaelic Ireland c.1250-c.1650: Land, Lordship and Settlement (Dublin: Four Courts 2001), 454pp.
Duffy, Seán, Robert the Bruce’s Invasion of Ireland: The Celts at War 1206-1329 (Tempus 2001).
Doherty, Richard, Irish Volunteers in the Second World War (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 320pp.
Dwyer, T. Ryle, Tans, Terror and Troubles: Kerry’s Real Fighting Story 1913-1923 (Cork: Mercier Press 2001).
Ferriter, Diarmaid, “Lovers of liberty?”: Local Government in 20th-century Ireland (Dublin: National Archives of Ireland 2001), 215p.
Fitzgerald, Elizabeth, Lord Kildare’s Grand Tour: The Letters of William Fitzgerald, 1766-1769 (London: Collins Press 2001), 155pp.
Fletcher, Alan J., & Raymond Gillespie, eds., Irish Preaching, 700-1700 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 154pp. ill. [contrib. incl. Bernadette Cunningham, Jodi-Anne George, Brian Murdoch, Thomas O’Loughlin, Colman N. Ó Clabaigh, et al.].
Foster, R. F., The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland (London: Penguin/Allen Lane 2001), 304pp
Gillespie, Raymond, ed., The Remaking of Modern Ireland 1750-1950: The Beckett Prize Essays 1999-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 176pp.
Herlihy, Jim, The Dublin Metropolitan Police: A Complete Alphabetical List of Officers and men 1836-1925 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 294pp.
—, The Dublin Metropolitan Police: A Short History and Genealogical Guide (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 280pp.
Kelly, Maria, A History of the Black Death in Ireland (Tempus 2001), 160pp. 16 col. photos.
Helleiner, Jane, Irish Travellers: Racism and the Politics of Culture (Toronto UP 2001), 274pp.
Holmes, Janice, Religious Revivalism in Britain and Ireland 1895-1905 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2001), 240pp.
Kelly, William, ed., The Siege of Derry (Dublin: Four Courts 2001), 144pp. [contrib. incl. Robert Welch, Jim Smyth, Brian Walker, et al.]
Kenny, Kevin, The American Irish: A History (Pearson Education [2001]), 328pp.
Keogh, Dáire, & Kevin Whelan, eds., Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts and Consequences of the Act of Union (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 272pp. ill. [28pp.

contents

Lenihan, Padraig, Confederate Catholics at War 1641-1649 (Cork UP 2001), 320pp.
Litton, Helen, The World War II Years: The Irish Emergency (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 144pp.
Livingstone, Stephen, & Ivana Black, Towards a Culture of Human Rights in Ireland (Cork UP 2001), 104pp.
McCarthy, Michael, ed., Lord Charlemont and His Circle: Essays in Honour of Michael Wynne (Dublin: Four Courts 2000), 208pp. [see contents]
Millet, Benignus, OFM, ed. Collectanea Hibernica, No 42 (Killiney: Franciscan Hse. 2001), 270pp.
Ní Catháin, Proinséas, & Michael Richter, Ireland and Europe in Early Middle Ages: Text and Transmission (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 416pp.
O’Brien, Mark, De Valera, Fianna Fáil and the Irish Press (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2001), 304pp.
O’Callaghan, Sean, To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland (Dingle: Brandon Press 2001), 256pp.
O’Connell, Patricia, The Irish College at Lisbon 1590-1834 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 148pp.
O’Loughlin, Thomas, ed., Adomnán at Birr AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of Innocents (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 78pp. [incls. trans. of the law by Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha.]
Ó Siochru, Micheál, Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s: Essays in Honour of Dónal Cregan (Dublin: Four Courts 2001), 288pp. [altered title]
O’Connor, Ulick, The Troubles: Michael Collins and the Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912-1922 (London: Mainstream 2001), 224pp.
Peatling, G. K., British Opinion and Irish Self-Government, 1865-1925 (Oxford: OUP 2001), 224pp.
Power, Bill, White Knights, Dark Earls: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty (Cork: Collins Press 2001), q.pp.
Power, Patrick C., & Duffy, Seán, The Timechart of History in Ireland: An Illustrated Chronological Chart of the History of Ireland from 6000 BC to the Present Times (Worth Press 2001), 100pp.
Purdon, Edward, The War of Independence (Cork: Mercier 2001).
Rees, Russell, Nationalism and Unionism in the Nineteenth Century (Colourpoint 2001), 112pp.
Robins, Joseph, Champagne and Silver Buckles: The Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle, 1700-1922 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001),
Roy, James Charles, The Fields of Athenry: A Journey Through Irish History (Oxford: Perseus Books 2001) [Irish-American author renovated castle in Co. Galway].
Stewart, A. T. Q., The Shape of History (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2001), 209pp.
Smith, Jeremy, Tories and Ireland 1910-1914: Conservative Party Politics and Home Rule Crisis (IAP 2001), 252pp.
Jim Smyth, The Making of the United Kingdom, 1660-1800: State, Religion and Identity in Britain and Ireland [Four Nations Ser.] (Harlow: Longman 2001), xv, 252pp. [contents].
Tanner, Marcus, Ireland’s Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation’s Soul 1500-2000 (Yale UP 2001), 416pp.
Tyrrell, John, Weather and Warfare: A Climatic History of the 1798 Rebellion (Cork: Collins Press 2001), 216pp.
Walshe, Oonagh, Ireland’s Independence 1820-1923 (London: Routledge 2001), 140pp.
Yeates, Pádraig, Lockout: Dublin 1913 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 688pp.

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Historical studies: Act of Union

Geoghegan, Patrick M., The Irish Act of Union (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 302pp.
Hanna, Ronnie, ed., The Union: Essays on Ireland and the British Connection (Colourpoint 2001), 188pp. [contribs. incl. Martin Mansergh, Danny Morrison, et al.]

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Historical documents

Coates, Tim, ed., Bloody Sunday: Lord Widgery’s Report 1972 (Norwich: Stationary Office 2001), 128pp.
Coates, Tim, ed., The Irish Uprising 1914-21: Papers from the British Parliamentary Archive (Norwich: Stationary Office 2001), 224pp.

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Famine studies

Cathaoir, Brendan, Famine Diary (Dublin IAP 2001), 224pp. [pb. edn.]
Donnelly, James S. [Jr.], The Great Irish Potato Famine (Thrupp, Gloucestershire: Sutton 2001), xii, 292pp.
Gray, Peter, Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society 1843-50 (Dublin IAP 2001), 400pp.
Kinealy, Christine, The Great Famine: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2001), 280pp.
Kinealy, Christine, & Gerard MacAtasney, The Hidden Famine: Poverty, Hunger and Sectarianism in Belfast 1840-50 (London: Pluto Press 2001), 254pp.
King, Carla, ed., Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland (UCD Press 2001), 237pp.
Morrissey, James, On the Verge of Want ([Belfast:] Crannóg Books 2001), 259pp.
Tóibín, Colm, & Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Famine: A Documentary (Profile Books 2001), 222pp. [Tóibín contribs. 34pp. [essay].

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Political studies

Collins, Neil & Terry Cradden, Irish Politics Today (Manchester UP 2001), 176pp.
Collins, Stephen, The Power Game: Ireland under Fianna Fáil (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2001), 352pp.
Fahy, Desmond, How the GAA Survived the Troubles (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 175pp. ill.. [8 pls.]
Kabdebo, Thomas, Ireland and Hungary: A Study in Parallels with an Arthur Griffith Bibliography (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 122pp.
Keena, Colm, Haughey’s Millions: Charlie’s Money Trail (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 320 + 16pp. photos.
O’Brien, Mark, De Valera and Fianna Fail and the Irish Press (Dublin IAP 2001), 254pp.
Ohlmeyer, Jane H., Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: The Career of Randell MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 388pp.

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Edited Documents

Doyle, Anthony, Charles Powell Leslie’s Estate at Glaslough, County Monaghan, 1800-1841 (Dublin IAP 2001), 64pp.

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Topography & Local History

Andrews, John H., A Paper Landscape: the Ordnance Survey in nineteenth-century Ireland (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1975), and Do. [2nd edn.] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), xxiv, 350pp. ill. [xiv. of pls.].
Brady, Joseph, & Anngret Simms, ed., Dublin Through Space and Time, 900-1900 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 393pp.
Doyle, Bill, Images of Dublin: A Time Remembered (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001), 144pp.
Everett, Nigel, A Landlord’s Garden: Derreen Demesne, County Kerry (Bantry: Hafod Press 2001), 96pp. [Petty-Fitzmaurice estate].
Fenehey, M., Catholic Education in Trinidad in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 164pp., ill. [8pp b&w photos].
Healy, Elizabeth, In Search of Ireland’s Holy Wells (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 120pp.
—, Literary Tour of Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 272pp. [pb. edn.]
Herity, Michael, ed., Ordnance Survey Letters Dublin (Four Masters 2001), 118pp. [John

—, ed., Ordnance Survey Letters Meath (Four Masters 2001), 176pp. [John O’Donovan].
Jeffries, Henry A., & Gerard O’Brien, Cork City: Perspectives of an Urban Past (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 256pp.
Lennon, Seán, Dublin Libraries: A Pictorial Record, intro. by Declan Kiberd, with a foreword by Deirdre Ellis-King (Dublin Corp. Public Libraries 2001), 88pp.
Mac Cana, Proinsias, Collège des Irlandais: Paris and Irish Studies (DIAS 2001), 204pp.
Rackard, Anna & Liam O’Callaghan, Fish Stone Water: Holy Wells of Ireland (Cork UP 2001), 144p. ill.
Ryan, Christopher, ed., Lewis’ Dublin: A Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes, Towns and Villages of Dublin City and Country [orig. 1837] (Cork: Collins Press 2001), 264pp.

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Northern Ireland

Anderson, Ronald, Edward, Lord Carson: Architect of Partition (London: HarperCollins 2001), 352pp.
Arthur, Paul, Special Relationships: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland Problem (Belfast: Blackstaff 2001), 348pp.
Bradley, John, & Esmond Birnie, Can the Celtic Tiger Cross the Irish Border? (Cork UP 2001), 112pp.
Clarke, Liam, & Johnston, Kathryn, Martin McGuinness: From Guns To Government (London: Mainstream Publ. 2001), 271pp. [hb]
de Breadun, Deaglan, The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (Collins 2001).
Carruthers, Mark, & Douds, Stephen, Stepping Stones: The Arts in Ulster 1971-2001 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2001), 304pp.
Dixon, Paul, Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace (London: Palgrave 2001), 352pp.
Elliott, Marianne, ed., The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland (Liverpool UP 2001), 208pp. [contribs. incl. Sen. George Mitchell, Peter Mandelson, Lord David Owen and Elliott].
Ellison, Graham, & Jim Smyth, The Crowned Harp: Policing Northern Ireland (London: Pluto Press 2001), q.pp.
Fahey, Des, How the GAA Survived the Troubles 1970-2000 (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 176pp + 8pp photos.
Farrell, Sean Moran, Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster 1784-1886 (Kentucky UP 2001), 262pp.
Fitzgerald, Patrick, Atlantic Crossroads: Historical Connections between Scotland, Ulster and North America (Colourpoint 2001), 112pp.
Fraser, T. G., ed., The Irish Parading Tradition: Following the Drum [Ethnicity & Intercommunity Conflict Ser.]
Godson, Dean, Himself Alone: The Life of David Trimble (London: HarperCollins 2001), 504pp.
Grail, Patrick, Literary Rhetoric and Violence in Northern Ireland 1968-98 - Hardened to Death (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2001), 173pp.
Griffin, Patrick, The People with No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World 1689-1764 (Princeton UP 2001), 256pp.
Harvey, Colin J., Human Rights, Equality and Democratic Renewal in Northern Ireland ([London:] Hart 2001).
Jordan, Glenn, Not of this World: Evangelical Protestants in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 2001), 224pp.
Kleinrichert, Denise, Republican Internment and the Prison Ship Argenta 1922 (Dublin IAP 2001), 400pp.
Liechty, Joseph, & Cecelia Clegg, Moving Beyond Sectarianism: Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland (Dublin: Columba Press 2001), 382pp.
McCartney, Robert, Reflections on Liberty, Democracy and the Union (US: Maunsel 2001), 278pp.
McDermott, Jim, Northern Divisions: The Old IRA and the Belfast Pogroms 1920-22 (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2001), 334pp.
McDowell, Jim, Godfathers: Inside Northern Ireland’s Drug Racket (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 224pp.
McGarry, John, Northern Ireland Divided: The Northern Ireland Conflict and the Good Friday Agreement in Comparative Perspective (Waterloo UP 2001), 374pp.
McKeown, Laurence, Out of Time: Republican Prisoners 1970-2000 ([Belfast:] Beyond the Pale 2001) [q.pp.].
McKitterick, David, & Eamonn Mallie, Endgame in Ireland (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2002), 314pp.
Magee, Patrick, Gangsters or Guerrillas?: Representation of Irish Republicans in Troubles Fiction, (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2001), 256pp.
Mallie, Eamonn, and David McKittrick, Endgame in Ireland (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2001), 320pp + 8pp., col. photos.
Morgan, Austen, The Belfast Agreement: A Practical Legal Analysis (London: Belfast Press 2000), xlvi, 601pp.
Mulholland, Marc, The Longest War: Northern Ireland’s Troubled History (OUP 2001), 209pp.
Potter, John, A Testimony to Courage: The Regimental History of the Ulster Defence Regiment ([London:] Leo Cooper 2001), 448pp.
Rose, Peter, How the Troubles Came to Northern Ireland (London: Palgrave 2001), 236pp.
Ryder, Chris, Inside the Maze: The Untold Story of the Northern Ireland Prison Service (London: Methuen 2001), 384pp. 8 photos. [rev. & enlarged].
Sheehy, Joseph, & Joshua Schultz, You Can’t Eat Flags for Breakfast (New Belfast Community Arts’ Init. 2001), 162 [contribs. incl. Seamus Heaney & Alex Maskey].
St. Clair, Sheila, Unexplained Encounters: Exploring the Paranormal in Ulster ( Belfast: White Row Press 2001), 126pp.
Staunton, Enda, The Nationalists of Northern Ireland 1918-1973 (Dublin: Columba Press 2001), 352pp.
Tanner, Marcus, Ireland’s Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation’s soul, 1500-2000 (Yale UP 2001), 498pp.
Thompson, Frank, The End of Liberal Ulster: Land Agitation and Land Reform in Ulster 1868-1886 (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2001), 400pp.
Trimble, David, To Raise Up a New Northern Ireland: Speeches and Articles 1998-2000 by the Rt. Hon David Trimble, MP MLA (Belfast Press 2001), 166p.
Wilford, Rick, ed., Aspects of the Belfast Agreement (Oxford OUP 2001), 266pp.

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Ó Cuív, Brian, ed., Catalogue of Irish Language Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries: Part One - The Descriptions (DIAS 2001), 336pp.
Pollard, Mary, A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800 (London: Bibliog. Soc. 2001), 724pp.
Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, ed. [comp.], Productions of the Irish Theatre Movement, 1899-1916: A Checklist [Bibliographies & indexes in the performing arts, 24] (Conn.: Greenwood Press 2001), ix, 128pp.
Vallely, Fintan, A Guide to Traditional Music (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2001), 120pp.

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Society & Women’s Studies

[q. auth.,] The Irish Journey: Women’s Stories of Abortion (Irish Family Planning Assoc. 2001), 64pp.
Connolly, Linda, The Irish Women’s Movement: From Revolution to Devolution (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2001, 2002), xvi, 324pp.
Dooley, Terence, The Decline of the Big House in Ireland: A Study of Irish Landed Families 1800-1960 (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2001), 336pp.
Urquhart, Diane, & Alan Hayes, ed., Essays in Irish Women’s History (Dublin IAP 2001), 288pp.
Urquhart, Diane, ed., Irish Women’s History Reader (London: Routledge 2001), viii, 242pp.
Walter, Bronwen, Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place and Irish Women (London: Routledge 2001) xii, 306pp.

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Literary & Historical Reprints

Arensberg, Conrad M. & Kimball, Solon T., Family And Community In Ireland (Co. Clare: Clasp Press 2001), 417pp.
Francis J. Byrne, Irish Kings & High Kings (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 341pp.
Praeger, R. L., The Way that I Went [1937], intro. Michael Viney (Cork: Collins Press 2001).
Patrick MacGill, Children of the Dead End (Dublin: New Island Press 2001), 236pp.
—, The Rat-Pit (Dublin: New Island 2001), 336pp.
Westropp, T. J., Folklore from Clare ([London:] Clasp 2001), 144pp. [arts. from Folklore Soc. Transactions 1910-13].
Bowen, Elizabeth, The Shelbourne (London: Vintage 2001), 208pp.
Mac Amhlaigh, Dónall, Selected Short Stories (Northampton: Connolly Assoc. 2001) [1926-1989].
Morgan, Berenice, Waiting for Time (London: Mentor 2001), 272pp.

Literary & Critical Journals

“Ireland, Postcoloniality, and Contemporary Irish Literature” [Special Issue], Journal of Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies (Spring 2001).

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Lilian Chambers, Ger Fitzgibbon, Eamonn Jordan, Dan Farrelly & Cathy Leeney, eds., Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2001), 496pp. CONTENTS: Introduction [x].In Conversation - 1. Ben Barnes / Martin Drury [1]; 2. Sebastian Barry / Ger Fitzgibbon [16]; 3. Dermot Bolger / Jim O’Hanlon [29]; 4. Jason Byrne / Willie White [43]; 5. Marina Carr / Melissa Sihra [55]; 6. Daragh Carville / Glenn Paterson [64]; 7. Michael Colgan / Jeananne Crowley [76]; 8. Frank Conway / John Kavanagh [90]; 9. Anne Devlin / Enrica Cerquoni [107]; 10. Joe Dowling / Tony Ó Dalaigh [124]; 11. Bernard Farrell / Jim Nolan [140]; 12. Olwen Fouéré / Melissa Sihra [155]; 13. Ben Hennessy & Pat Kiernan / Ger Fitzgibbon [167]; 14. Declan Hughes / Ryan Tubridy [181]; 16. Garry Hynes / Cathy Leeney [195]; Marie Jones / Pat Moylan [213]; 17. John B. Keane / Michael Scott [220]; 18. Raymond Keane / Eric Weitz [224]; 19. Tom Kilroy / Gerry Dukes [240]; 20. Hugh Leonard / Pat Donlon [252]; 21.Tim Loane / David Grant [264]; 22. Tomas Mac Anna / Karen Carleton [277]; 23. Barry McGovern / Michael Ross [290]; 24. Frank McGuinness / Joseph Long [298]; 25. Tom Macintyre / Fiach MacCongail [308]; 26. Patrick Mason / Colm Ó Briain [319]; 27. Paul Mercier / Jim Culleton [331]; 28. Eleanor Methuen & Carol Moore / Helen Lojek [342]; 29. Tom Murphy / Eamonn Jordan [355]; 30. Paddy O’Dwyer / Geraldine O’Neill [366]; 31. Fintan O’Toole / Redmond O’Hanlon [377]; 32. Lynne Parker / Loughlin Deegan [393]; 33. Billy Roche / Conor McPherson [409]; 34. Annie Ryan & Michael West / Luke Clancy [424]; 35. Phyllis Ryan / John P. Kelly [432]; 36. Peter Sheridan / Deirdre Mulrooney [443]; 37. Gerard Stembridge / Hugh Linehan [459]; 38. Enda Walsh / Emelie Fitzgibbon [471]; 39, Vincent Woods / Kevin Barry [481].

Fran Brearton & Eamonn Hughes, eds., Last Before America (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2001), 248pp. [in honour of Michael Allen. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements [vii]; Brearton & Hughes, Introduction [ix]; Michael Longley, ‘Prologue: “Level Pegging”’ [1]; Peter McDonald, ‘Faiths and Fidelities: Heaney and Longley in Mid-Career’ [3]; Patricia Horton, ‘“A Truly Uninvited Shade”: Romantic Legacies in the Work of Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon’ [16]; Seamus Heaney, “The Two Mice” (trans. from Robt. Henryson) [29]; William Watkin, ‘Poppypetal: Thanatropism, Pathos and Pathology in Contemporary Elegy Theory’ [36]; Adrienne Janus, ‘Mnemosyne and the Mislaid Pen: The Poetics of Memory in Heaney, Longley and McGuckian’, [54]; Richard Kirkland, ‘Ways of Saying/Ways of Reading: Materiality, Literary Criticism and the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’ [69]; Paul Muldoon, “News Headlines from the Homer Noble Farm” [80]; Nicholas Allen, ‘Free Statement: Censorship and the Irish Statesman ’ [84]; Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, ‘Antic Dispositions in Some Recent Irish Fiction’ [121]; Ciaran Carson, “Dante’s Inferno: Canto I” [142]; William Wiser, “Poet’s Corner” [148]; Colin Graham, ‘A Glimpse of America’ [159]; Peter Stoneley, ‘Dickinson and Cosmopolitanism’ [186]; Medbh McGuckian, “Poems” [203]; Bernard MacLaverty, ‘Postscript’ [212]; Notes [214]; Notes on Contributors [231]

Aaron Kelly & Alan Gillis, eds., Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 221pp. CONTENTS: Foreword by Edna Longley [v]; Introduction [xii]; Nicholas Allen, ‘A Political Vision: George Russell and the Interpreters’ [1]; Stephanie Bachorz, ‘Postcolonial Theory and Ireland: Revising Postcolonialism’ [6]; Rachel Buxton, ‘‘Structure and Serendipity: The Influence of Robert Frost on Paul Muldoon’ [14]; Ester Carrillo, ‘Bleak Cities: Belfast in Maurice Leitch’s Novels and Barcelona in the Work of Juan Marsé’ [22]; Brian Cliff, ‘“As Assiduously Advertised”: Publicizing the 1899 Irish Literary Theatre Season’ [30]; David Cotter, ‘Note from the Rathmines Underground, or, The Spiders and the Bees’ [37]; Paul Delaney, ‘Becoming National: Daniel Corkery and the Reterritorialized Subject’ [41]; Noreen Doody, ‘An Influential Involvement: Wilde, Yeats and the French Symbolists’ [48]; Gareth Joseph Downes, ‘“A Terrible Heretic”: James Joyce and Catholicism’ [55]; Desmond Fitzgibbon, ‘“Delfas, Dorbqk, Nublid, Dalway”: The Irish City after Joyce’ [62]; Brendan Fleming, ‘French Spectacles in an Irish Case: From Lettres sur l’Irlande to Parnell and His Island’ [69]; Ana Rosa Garcia, ‘Holograms of Cityscapes in Eavan Boland’s Object Lessons’ [76]; Diana Perez Garcia, ‘Imagining Memory: Ulysses and A Journal of the Plague Year, or the Novel of the Inventory’ [81]; Alan A. Gillis, ‘Patrick Kavanagh’s Poetics of the Peasant’ [87]; James Heaney , ‘A E., The Irish Civil War, and the Dialogical Text’ [95]; Christian Huck, ‘Myth, ‘History and Past in the Poetry of Eavan Boland’ [102]; Stephen Hull, ‘Vocationalism, the University and the Poverty of Literary Reviewing’ [108]; Adrienne Janus, ‘Song, Murmurs and Laughter in Irish Writing: Sound and Socialization as Liminal Occasions in Language, Literature and the Self’ [115]; Aaron Kelly, ‘Reproblematizing the Irish Text’ [124]; John Kenny, ‘The Critic in Pieces: The Theory and Practice of Literary Reviewing’ [132]; Jarleth Killeen, ‘Woman and Nation Revisited- Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose’ [141]; Francesca Lacaita, ‘The Journey of the Encounter: The Politics of the National Tale in Sydney Owenson’s Wild Irish Girl and Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui’ [148]; Bernie Leacock, ‘Irish Ireland: Recreating the Gael’ [154]; Michael McAteer, ‘Yeats’s Endgame: Postcolonialism and Modernism’ [160]; John McAuliffe, ‘Urban Hymns: The City, Desire and Theology in Austin Clarke and Patrick Kavanagh’ [166]; Robbie Meredith, ‘The Shan Van Vocht: Notes from the North’ [173]; Katy Plowright, ‘A Celtic Resurrection: Perspectives on Yeats Generation in the Fin de Siècle’ [180]; Jule Anne Stevens, ‘The Staging of Protestant Ireland in Somerville and Ross’ The Real Charlotte’ [188]; Hanne Tange, ‘In Memoriam James Joyce: Hugh MacDiarmid and the Tradition of Scottish Multilingualism’ [195]; Karen Vandevelde, ‘As the Snake It Shed Its Skin - or How the Irish National Ideal of the Irish National Theatre Was Abandoned in Favour of a Corporate Trademark (1902-1906)’ [203]; David Wheatley, ‘“Great Hatred, Little Room”: The Writer, the University and the Small Magazine’ [208]. Index [217].

Colin Graham, Deconstructing Ireland: Identity, Theory, Culture [Tendencies Ser.] (Edinburgh UP 2001), xiii, 189pp. SUMMARY: The book examines the course by which the history of modernity and colonialism has constructed an idea of “Ireland”, produced more often as a citation than an actuality. The author’s approach - using Derridean deconstruction in alliance with positions in postcolonial and subaltern studies - illuminates the way in which this concept of the nation plays across discourses of authenticity, fiction and fantasy in a fascinating range of material. Successive chapters examine the utopian musings of Ignatius Donnelly, John Mitchel and Sean Hillen; the continuing reinvention of Irish criticism; the relation of the figure of the intellectual-artist and the “people” in James Joyce; the tension between postcolonialism and nationalism in the Field Day project and the political thought of John Hume and Richard Kearney; the relation of gender and nation in stories by Gerry Adams and Frank Delaney; the complex appeal to authenticity in political philosophy, tourism and advertising; and the resonant cultural meanings of “Irish” ephemera and kitsch.

Dáire Keogh & Kevin Whelan, eds., Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts and Consequences of the Act of Union (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 272pp. ill. [28pp., pls.] CONTENTS: 1. Kevin Whelan, ‘The other within: Ireland, Britain and the Act of Union’; 2. Patrick Geoghegan, ‘The making of the Union’; 3. James Kelly, ‘The Act of Union: its origins and background’; 4. Allan Macinnes, ‘Union failed, union accomplished: the Irish union of 1703 and the Scottish union of 1707’; 5. James Livesey, ‘Acts of union and disunion: Ireland in Atlantic and European context’; 6. Gillian O’Brien, ‘Camden and the move towards union, 1795-1798’; 7. Daniel Mansergh, ‘The union and the importance of public opinion’; 8. Nicholas Robinson, ‘Marriage against inclination: the union and caricature’; 9. Dáire Keogh, ‘ Catholic responses to the Act of Union’; 10. Claire Connolly, ‘Writing the union’; 11. Willa Murphy, ‘A queen of hearts or an old maid?: Maria Edgeworth’s fictions of union’; 12. Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, ‘Mr and Mrs England: the Act of Union as national marriage’; 13. Ruán O’Donnell, ‘The union and internal security, 1798-1799’; 14. Thomas Bartlett, ‘Britishness, Irishness, and the Act of Union’.

Michael McCarthy, ed., Lord Charlemont and His Circle: Essays in Honour of Michael Wynne [UCD Studies in the History of Art] (Dublin: Four Courts 2000), xii, 216pp., ill. [some color; facs.]. CONTENTS: Desmond Fitzgerald, ‘Cynthia O'Connor: an appreciation’; James Kelly, ‘A 'genuine' whig and patriot: Lord Charlemont's political career’; John Coleman, ‘A lost portrait of Lord Charlemont by Sir Joshua Reynolds’; Christine Casey, ‘Boiseries, bankers and bills: a tale of Charlemont and Whaley’; Sergio Benedetti and Fionnuala Croke, ‘Unpublished letters of Edward Murphy and Lord Charlemont’; John Riely, ‘Lord Charlemont's illness in Rome, 1752-3’; Joseph McDonnell, ‘Joseph Henry of Straffan: a connoisseur of Italian renaissance painting’; Judy Egerton, ‘Lord Charlemont and William Hogarth’; John Loughman, ‘&147;One of the finest pieces Rembrandt ever painted”: Charlemont's collecting of Netherlandish paintings’; Kerry Bristol, ‘Rathfarnham Castle in the architectural œuvre of James 'Athenian' Stuart: a question of patronage’; Teresa Watts, ‘Lord Charlemont and vases’; Michael McCarthy, ‘Jean-Laurent Le Geay and his View of the casino at Marino of 1768’; John Redmill, ‘The buildings of William Chambers in Dublin’; Lynda Mulvin, ‘The Roman sculptures at Russborough House In memoriam Christopher Caffrey, MA’; Helen Byrne, ‘Simon Vierpyl (c.1725-1810), sculptor and stonemason’; Nicola Figgis, ‘A tribute to Michael Wynne’. Also "Michael Wynne: a bibliography": pp.199-204; bibl. references & index.

Jim Smyth, The Making of the United Kingdom, 1660-1800: State, Religion and Identity in Britain and Ireland [Four Nations Ser.] (Harlow: Longman 2001), xv, 252pp. CONTENTS: 1.The Restoration: four nations in Search of a King. 2. Three Kingdoms, One church? 3. Disaffection and Dissent: the Heroic Age. 4. The Catholic Problem. 5. Constitutional Relations, National Identitites, Union. 6. Jacobitism and the British State. 7. Convergence and Divergence: Identity-formation and Politics in the Eighteenth Century. 8. Catholics, Protestants and Dissenters: Religion and Politics in the Eighteenth Century. 9. Uniting the Kingdoms: the British-Irish Union. Afterword. Further Reading.

Marian Broderick, Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives in Irish History (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2001), 417pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Women of Letters: Maria Edgeworth; Lady Sydney Morgan; Marguerite, Countess of Blessington; Lady Jane Wilde; Lady Augusta Gregory; Somerville and Ross; Peig Sayers; Kate O’Brien. Wives and Lovers: Eleanor FitzGerald, Countess of Desmond; Marie Louise (Louison) O’Morphi; Eibhlín Dubh ní Chonaill; Dora Jordan; Sarah Curran; Katharine O’Shea; Bridget Cleary; Nora Barnacle; Kitty Kiernan. The Great Pretenders: Kit Cavanagh; Anne Bonny; Dr James Barry. Women on the Front Line: Anne Devlin; Mother Jones, Madame Eliza Lynch, Dr Kathleen Lynn; Delia Larkin; Mairéad Farrell; Veronica Guerin. Ahead of Their Time: Lady Arabella Denny; Nano Nagle; Ladies of Llangollen; Mary Ann McCracken; Kate Tyrrell; Countess Constance Markievicz; Hanna Sheehy Skeffington; Dame Kathleen Lonsdale. Political Animals: Gormlaith; Charlotte Despard; Fanny and Anna Parnell; Maud Gonne; Louie Bennett; Mary MacSwiney; Kathleen Clarke. Saints and Sinners; St Brighid; Dame Alice Kyteler; Margaret Leeson; Lady Betty; Venerable Catherine McAuley; Margaret Haughery. Tough Cookies: Queen Maeve of Connacht; Katherine FitzGerald, Old Countess of Desmond; Grace O’Malley; Iníon Dubh; Máire Rua O’Brien; Biddy Early; Molly Brown; Kathleen Behan. Intrepid Travellers: Lola Montez; Daisy Bates; Beatrice Grimshaw; Lady Mary Heath; Maura “Soshin” O’Halloran. Stars of Stage and Screen: Peg Woffington; George Anne Bellamy; Sara Allgood; Dame Ninette de Valois; Greer Garson; Siobhán McKenna. Artistic Temperaments: Sarah Purser; Lily and Lolly Yeats; Grace Gifford; Mainie Jellett. Glossary; Bibliography; Plates.

Michael Hurst, ed. & intro., Letters and Commentaries on Ireland [Irish history and culture ser.] (Bristol: Thoemmes 2001). CONTENTS: Vol. 1: “Letters on the state of Ireland addressed by J.K.L. to a friend in England”; Vol. 2: Johann Georg Kohl, “Ireland”; Vols. 3-4: John Forbes, “Memorandums made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852”; Vol. 5. H. S. Thompson, “Ireland in 1839 and 1869”; Finlay Dun, “Landlords and Tenants in Ireland”; Vol. 6: William Bence Jones, “The Life’s Work in Ireland of a Landlord Who Tried to do his Duty”.

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