Select Annual Listing: 2003

Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2003

Original Literary Works
Poetry Collections Fiction (Short stories & Novels) Drama (Plays & Collections) Autobiography & Memoir Biography (Lit. & Hist.)	Miscellaneous Writings Scholarly Editions & Reprints Anthologies, Selections & Almanacs
Criticism & Commentary
Literary & Cultural Studies Critical Studies: Indiv. Authors Bibliography & Book History Philosophy & Theology Historical studies: pre-1900 History & Society: post-1900 1798 Rebellion & the Act of Union Northern Ireland/Ulster	Women’s Studies Media & Language Studies Art, Topography & Architecture Folklore & Music Reference Works Digital Publications Irish-studies Journals
In this session I have begun to front the first name of the authors while continuing to list in alphabetical order by surname since the method is conspicuously better suited to electronic searching.

Poetry Collections

Chris Agee, First Light (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2003), 96pp.
Michael S. Begnal, The Lakes of Coma (Geneva: Six Gallery Press 2003), 68pp.
Eavan Boland, et al., Three Irish Poets: Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2003), 144pp.
Rosita Boland, Dissecting the Heart (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 48pp.
Joan Breen, Winter in the Eye: New and Selected Poems (Clare: Salmon Publ. 2003), p.96pp.
Ciaran Carson, Breaking News (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 74pp.
Maureen Charlton, That Enduring Song, foreword by Brendan Kennelly (Dublin: Martello Press 2003), 67pp.
Harry Clifton, God in France: A Paris Sequence, 1994-1998 (Glenageary: Metre Edns. 2003), 32pp. [ltd. edn. 200].
Michael Coady, One Another (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 192pp.
Mary Coll, All Things Considered (Clare: Salmon 2003), 46pp.
Susan Connolly, Winterlight (Flax Mill Publications 2003), 36pp. ill.
Michael Davitt, Fardoras (Cló lar-Chonnachta 2003), 120pp.
Gerald Dawe, Lake Geneva (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 56pp.
J. F. Deane, trans., Philippe Jones, The Breath of Words (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2003), 74pp.
John F. Deane, Manhandling the Deity (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2003), 128pp.
Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth (Manchester: Carcanet 2003), 62pp.
Desmond Egan, Famine/De Hambrune (Tenerife: Ayuntamiento de Puerto del Rosario 2003), 60pp. [11 poems by Egan with facing trans.].
John Ennis, Near St. Mullins (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2003), 78pp.
Louis de Paor, Agus Rud Eile De (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2003), 56pp.
Mary Melvin Geoghegan, The Bright Unknown (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2003), 44pp.
Padraic Fallon, A Look in the Mirror and Other Poems, ed. Brian Fallon, intro. by Eavan Boland ( Manchester: Carcanet 2003), xi, 150pp.
Pamela Greene, Tattoo Me (Summer Palace Press 2003), 64pp. [previous collection Heartland].
Tom Hanahoe, America Rules (Dingle: Brandon Press 2003), 288pp.
Kerry Hardie, The Sky Didn’t Fall (Gallery Press 2003), 64pp.
Michael Hartnett, Translations (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 128pp. [posthum.]
Charles Hobday, Elegy for a Sergeant: A Poem for Voices (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2003), 40pp.
Pearse Hutchinson, Done into English (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 208pp.
Fred Johnston, Paris without Maps (Sandstone Press 2003), 28pp.
John B. Keane, The Street: Poems and Songs (Cork: Mercier 2003), 96pp.
Roy McFadden, Last Poems, intro. Philip Hobsbaum (Abbey Press 2003), 32pp.
Gerry McDonnell, Lost and Found (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2003), 16pp.
Medbh McGuckian, Had I a Thousand Lives (Gallery Press 2003), 88pp.
Frank McGuinness, The Stone Jug (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 104pp.
Christine McNeill, trans., Rainer Maria Rilke, The Life of the Virgin Mary (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2003), 32pp.
Margaret Moore, What the Wind Scatters (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2003), 36pp.
Gerry Murphy, Torso of an ex-Girlfriend (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2003), 64pp.
Bernard O’Donoghue, Outliving (London: Chatto & Windus 2003), 64pp.
Desmond O’Grady, My Field This Springtime (Belfast: Lapwing 2003), 20pp.
Desmond O’Grady, trans., Zlatko Tomicic, Croatia, My Love (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2003), 16pp. [ltd. edn. 100]
Séamas Ó Scannláin, Poets and Poetry of the Great Blasket (Cork: Mercier Press 2003), 160pp. [bi-lingual anth.]
Pádraig Ó Snodaigh & Aogán Ó Muircheartaigh, Vae Puero: Athleaganacha ar dhánta le Padraic Fiacc (Baile Atha Cliath: Coiscéim), 48pp.
Paul Perry, The Drowning of the Saints (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2003), 80pp.
Gabriel Rosenstock, Forgotten Whispers (Kinsale: Anam Press 2003), 24pp.
Rosemarie Rowley, Hot Cinquefoil Star (Dublin: Rowan Tree Press 2003), 172pp.
Damian Smyth, Soldiers of the Queen (Belfast: Lagan Press 2003), 64pp.
John Stevenson, The Cherry Tree (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2003).
Jerry Twomey, High are the Waters, Heaven Sent (Belfast: Lapwing Press 2003), 40pp.

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Fiction: Novels

Curtis Adler, Colours (Pocket Books & TownHouse 2003), 320pp.
Catherine Barry, Null and Void (London: Simon & Schuster/Town House 2003), 432pp.
Colin Bateman, Chapter and Verse (London: Headline 2003), 352pp.
Clare Boylan, Emma Brown (NY/London: Little, Brown 2003), 448pp.
Una Brankin, Half Moon Lake (Pocket Books & TownHouse 2003), 416pp.
Kevin Brophy, Allegations of Love (Tuam: Wynkyn de Worde 2003), 288pp. [author o In the Company of Wolves].
Ken Bruen, The Magdalen Martyrs (Dingle: Brandon Press 2003), 304pp.
Declan Burke, Eight-Ball Boogie (Dublin: Sitric 2003), 254pp.
Brian Callagher, Payback (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2003), 576pp.
Dan Collins, How It Ends (London: Jonathan Cape 2003), 224pp.
Michael Collins, Lost Souls (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 384pp.
Evelyn Conlon, Skin of Dreams (Dingle: Brandon Press 2003), 288pp.
John Connolly, Bad Men (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2002), 416pp.
June Considine, When the Bough Breaks (Dublin: New Island 2003), 375pp.
Gavin Corbett, Innocence [Pocket Books] (Dublin: TownHouse 2003), 368pp.
John Creed, The Day of the Dead (London: Faber & Faber 2003), 256pp.
Peter Cunningham, The Taoiseach (London: Hodder Headline 2003), 368pp.
Judi Curtin, Sorry, Walter (Dublin: Tivoli [G&M] 2003), 400pp.
Philip Davison, The Long Suit (London: Jonathan Cape 2003), 288pp.
Denise Deegan, Turning Turtle (Dublin: Tivoli [G&M] 2003), 368pp.
Patrick Devaney, The Gate of Ivory (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 240pp.
Roger Derham, When Twilight Comes (Tuam: Wynkyn de Worde 2003), 320pp.
Anna Dillon [pseud. of Michael Collins], Another Season (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2003), 502pp.
Catherine Donnelly, The State of Grace (Dublin: Sitric 2003), 24pp.
Anne Doughty Beyond the Green Hills (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2003), 414pp.
Catherine Dunne, Another Kind of Life (London: Picador 2003), 492pp.
Ruth Dudley Edward, Carnage on the Committee (London: Harper Collins 2003), 224pp.
Mannix Flynn, Nothing to Say (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 144pp.
David Foster, The Land Where Stories End (Dingle: Brandon 2003), 224pp.
Carlo Gébler, The Eleventh Summer (Belfast: Lagan Press 2003), 206pp.
Áine Greaney, The Big House (London: Simon & Schuster/TownHouse 2003), 432pp.
Jarlath Gregory, Dispassion (Dublin: Sitric 2003), 188pp.
Hugo Hamilton, The Speckled People (London: Fourth Estate 2003), 298pp.
Lara Harte, Wild Geese (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003), 224pp.
Tara Heavey, A Brush with Love (Dublin: Tivoli [G&M] 2003), 432pp.
Grace Wynne-Jones, Ready or Not (Dublin: Tivoli [G&M] 2003), 352pp. [author of Ordinary Miracles]
Peter Hollywood, Lead City & Other Stories (Belfast: Lagan Press 2003), 160pp.
Paul Howard, The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003), 206pp.
Fred Johnston, Mapping God/Le Tracé de Dieu (Wynkin de Worde 2003), 262pp. [bilingual on facing pages].
Claire Kilroy, All Summer (London: Faber 2003), 224pp.
Morgan Llywelyn, 1949: a Novel of the Irish Free State (London: Forge 2003), 414pp.
Sarah-Kate Lynch, Blessed are the Cheesemakers: For They Shall Inherit True Love (Black Swan 2003), 320pp.
John McAllister, The Fly in the Pool & Other Stories (Black Mountain Press 2003), 164pp.
Patrick McCabe, Call Me the Breeze (London: Faber & Faber 2003), 308pp.
Kate McCafferty, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl (Dingle: Brandon Press 2003), 224pp.
Colum McCann, The Dancer (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003), 292pp.
Catherine Phil MacCarthy, One Room an Everywhere (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2003) [q.pp.]
Tom Mac Intyre, Story of a Girl (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 160pp.
Liam Mac Uistín, An Geall (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2003), 120pp.
Sam Millar, Dark Souls (Tuam: Wynkyn de Worde 2003), 176pp.
Jason Mordaunt, Welcome to Coolsville (London: Jonathan Cape 2003; Vintage 2004), 361pp.
Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Midwife to the Fairies: New and Selected Stories, foreword by Anne Fogarty (Dublin: Attic Press 2003), 180pp.
Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Cailíní Beag Ghleann na mBláth (Baile atha Cliath: Cois Life 2003) , 186pp.
Micheál Ó Conghaile, An Fear Nach nDéanann Gáire (Cló lar-Chonnachta 2003), 150pp. [stories].
Fiona O’Brien, Charity (Dublin: New Island Press 2003) [q.pp.]
Gerard O’Brien, A Kind of Innocence (Athenry: Blue Horse Publ. 2003), 176pp.
Colm O’Gaora, Another Sky (London: Picador 2003), 192pp.
Mícheál Ó Laoghaire, Tearmainn Mheabhail (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2003), 152pp.
Susanne O’Leary, European Affairs ([Dublin?]: Beeline 2003).
Brian Ó Maoileoin, Brothall (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2003), 142pp.
Dáithí Ó Muirí, Uaigheanna agus Scéalta Eile (Cló Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2003), 232pp.
Patricia O’Reilly, Time and Destiny (London: Hodder Headline 2003), 304pp. [based on life of Eileen Gray].
Glenn Patterson, Number 5 (London: Hamish Hamilton 2003), 307pp.
Edmund Power, No Christian Grave [Pocket Books] (Dublin: TownHouse 2003), 416pp.
Edmund Power, The Last Chapter (Simon & Schuster/Town House 2003), 384pp.
Liam Prút, Scéalta nach Beag (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2003), 136pp.
Deirdre Purcell, Last Summer in Arcadia (Dublin: New Island Press 2003), 500pp.
Peter Sheridan, Big Fat Love (Dublin: Tivoli 2003), 316pp.
Annie Sparrow, Matchstick Love (Simon & Schuster/TownHouse 2003), 368pp.
Mary Stanley, Revenge (London: Review 2003), 320pp.
Kate Thompson, Striking Poses (London: Bantam 2003).
William Trevor, Juliet’s Story (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003), 128pp. [for children].
Shane White, Frontier Folk (Belfast: Lagan Press 2003), 192pp.

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Drama (Plays & Collections)

Mannix Flynn, X (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 96pp.
Brian Friel, Performances (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 48pp.
Judy Friel & Sanford Sternlicht, eds., New Plays from the Abbey Theatre, Vol. 3: 1999-2001 (Syracuse UP 2003), 208pp. [incls. Hugh Leonard, Frank McGuinness, Jimmy Murphy].
Cathy Leeney, ed., Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women (Carysfort Press [2003]), 338pp. [Elizabeth Burke Kennedy; Siofra Campbell; Emma Donoghue Anne le Marquand Hartigan; Michelle Read; Dolores Walsh].
Jennifer Johnston, Selected Short Plays (Dublin: New Island 2003), 126pp.
Tom Kilroy, The Shape of Metal (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 64pp.
Aidan Mathews, Communion (Nick Hern Bks), 88pp.

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Autobiography & Memoir

Gerry Adams, Hope and History: Making Peace in Northern Ireland (Dingle: Brandon Press 2003), 416pp.
Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose (Dublin: New Island 2003), 425pp. [life with a priest].
Patricia Boylan, So Far, So Good (Dublin: A. & A. Farmar 2003), 250pp.
Patricia Boylan, Gaps of Brightness: A Memoir (Dublin: A. & A. Farmar 2003), 192pp.
Brian Cosgrove, The Yew-Tree at the Head of the Strand (Liverpool UP 2003), 240pp.
Evelyn Doyle, Evelyn (London: Orion 2003), 224pp.
Tom Dunne, Rebellions (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 288pp.
Padraic Fallon, A Hymn of Dawn (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 388pp.
Donal Foley, Three Villages (Waterford: Ballybough Books 2003), 127pp.
Patrick Galvin, The Raggy Boy Trilogy (Dublin: New Island Press), 426pp.
Aidan Higgins, As I was Riding Down Duval Boulevard with Pete La Salle (Anam Press 2003), 28pp.
Billy Hutchinson, My Loyalist Life (Dublin; New Island Press 2003), 350pp.
John Kelly, Sophisticated Boom Boom (London: Jonathan Cape 2003), 272pp.
Bernard Loughlin, In the High Pyrenees (London: Penguin 2003), 320pp.
Michael Kirby, Skelligs Calling (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 176pp.
Máire Mac an tSaoi, The Same Age as the State (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003), 376pp.
Sam McAughtry, On the Outside Looking In: A Memoir (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2003), 272pp.
Joe McGowan, Constance Markievicz: The People’s Countess (Sligo: Markievicz Millenium Comm. 2003), 136pp.
Andrew Madden, Altar Boy: A Story of Life after Abuse (London: Penguin Books 2003), 224pp.
Charles W. Magill, ed., From Dublin Castle to Stormont: The Memoirs of Andrew Philip Magill, 1913-1925 (Cork UP 2003), 96pp.
Christy Moore, One Voice: My Life in Song (London: Hodder & Stoughton), 560pp.
Máire Cruise O’Brien, The Same Age as the State (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003), 352pp.
Brendan Ó Cathaoir, ed., Young Irelander Abroad: The Diary of Charles Hart (Cork UP 2003), 106pp.
Malachi O’Doherty, I was a Teenage Catholic (Dublin: Marino 2003), 170pp. [Northern Ireland].
Nuala O’Faolain, Almost There: The Onwards Journey of a Dublin Woman (London: Michael Joseph/Penguin 2003), 275pp.
John Quinn, Sea of Love, Sea of Loss: Letters to Olive (Dublin: TownHouse. 2003), 14pp.
Michael Skellig, Skelligs Calling (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), xii, 158.

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Biography (Literary & Historical)

Nicholas Allen, George Russell (Æ) and the New Ireland, 1905-30 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 240pp.
Martin J. Andrews, The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings (Bicester: Primrose Hill Press 2003), 438pp., ill. [8pp. col. pls.].
Nigel Cawthorne, The Empress of South America (London: Heinemann 2003), 320pp. [on Eliza Lynch]
Anne Chambers, Granuaile: The Life and Times of Grace O’Malley, c.1530-1603 [rev. edn.] (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2003), 224pp.
Terence Dooley, The Greatest of the Fenians: John Devoy in Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2003).
David Fitzpatrick, Harry Boland’s Irish Revolution, 1887-1922 (Cork UP 2003), 420pp.
R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats - A Life, II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Oxford: OUP 2003), 798pp. [with index].
Luke Gibbons, Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime (Cambridge UP 2003), 303pp.
Cliff Goodwin, Behaving Badly: The Life of Richard Harris, 1930-2002 (London: Virgin 2003), 272pp. ill. [16pp. photos].
Merlin Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde, foreword by John Mortimer (London: Fourth Estate 2003, 2004), xliii, 340pp.
Charles Horton, Alfred Chester Beatty: From Miner to Bibliophile (Dublin: Townhouse 2003), 48pp.
Roy Johnston, Bunting’s Messiah [Belfast Nat. Hist. & Phil. Soc.] (Ulster Hist. Foundation [2003]), 158pp.
Thomas H. Jordan, Two Thomases: Dublin Castle and the Quality of Life in Victorian Ireland [Social Indicators Research, Vol. 64, Issue 2] (Dordrecht 2003), pp.
James Kelly, Sir Edward Newenham, MP, 1734-1814 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 320pp.
S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry (National Gallery of Ireland/Yale UP 2003), 160pp. [Cat. raisonnée].
Mary Kenny, Germany Calling: A Personal Biography of William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw (Dublin: New Island Press 2003), 400pp.
Kevin Kiely, Francis Stuart Outcast Witness (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 336pp.
Gordon T. Ledbetter, John McCormack: The Great Irish Tenor (Dublin: Townhouse 2003), 288pp.
Ferghal McGarry, Frank Ryan (Historical Association of Ireland 2003), 98pp.
Ray Mac Mánais, Máire Mhic Ghiolla Íosa: Beathaisnéis (Cló Iar-chonnachta 2003), 450pp.
W. J. McCormack, The Silence of Barbara Synge (Manchester UP 2003), 318pp.
A. P. W. Malcolmson, Primate Robinson 1709-96: ‘A Very Tough Incumbent in Fine Preservation’ [Ulster Hist. Foundation 2003), 76pp.
Thomas Morrissey, Bishop Edward Thomas O’Dwyer of Limerick, 1842-1917 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 500pp.
Máire Ní Mhurchú, & Diarmuid Breatnach, 1560-1781 Beathaisnéis [Maille le forlíonadh le 1782-1982 Beathaisnéis agus le hinnéacs 1560-2001] (An Clóchomhar), 224ppp.
Frank Nugent, Seek the Frozen Lands: Irish Polar Explorers 1740-1922 (Cork: Collins Press 2003), 292pp. [Tom Crean, Ernest Schackleton, Capt. Crozier, McClintock, Kellett, Henry Gore-Booth, Jerome Collins, John Cole; Capt. Scott].
Tomás Ó Canainn, Sean O Riada: His Life and Work (Cork: Collins Press 2003), 220pp.
Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh, Ag Samhlú Troda Máirtín Ó Cadhain 1905-1970 (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2003), 332pp.
Emmet O’Connor, James Larkin [Radical Irish Lives] (Cork UP 2003), 158pp.
Pól Ó Dochartaigh, Julius Pokorny , 1887-1970 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 160pp.
Prionnsíos Ó Duigneán, Linda Kearns [1886-1951]: A Revolutionary Irish Woman (Manorhamilton: Drumlin Publs.), 192pp. ill. [16 b&w.].
Brendan Rooney, The Life and Work of Harry Jones Thaddeus (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 336pp.
Martin Ryan, William Francis Butler: A Life 1838-1910 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 256pp.
Michael Sheridan, Death in December: The Story of Sophie Toscan du Plantier (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003), 192pp.
Brian S. Turner, A Man Stepped out for Death: Thomas Russell and County Down (Colourpoint 2003),. 96pp. ills.

Robert Emmet (centenary studies)

Thomas Bartlett, ed., Revolutionary Dublin: The Letters of Francis Higgins to Dublin Castle, 1795-1801 (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 480pp.
Marianne Elliott, Robert Emmet: The Making of a Legend (Profile Books 12003), 292pp.
Ruán O’Donnell, Robert Emmet (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), Vol 1: Robert Emmet and the 1798 Rebellion, 528pp. Vol II: Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803 (Dublin IAP 2003), 528pp.
Ruán O’Donnell, Remembering Emmet: Images of the Life and Legacy of Robert Emmet (Wordwell/NLI 2003), 184pp.

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Miscellaneous Writings

John Banville, Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City (London: Bloomsbury 2003), 256pp.
Desmond Fennell, Cutting to the Point: Essays and Objections, 1994-2003 (Dublin: Liffey Press 2003), 288pp.
Peter Woods, Hard Shoulder (Dublin: New Island Press 2003), 350pp.
Paul Durcan, Paul Durcan’s Diary (Dublin: New Island Press 2003), 270pp. [based on RTE series].
Michael Cronin, Time Tracks: Scenes from the Irish Everyday (Dublin: New Island Press 2003), 200pp.
R. B. McDowell, Historical Essays 1939 -2001 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 256pp.
Martin Mansergh, The Legacy of History, foreword by Bertie Ahern (Mercier Press 2003) [q.pp.]
Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Seal i Neipeal (Cló lar Chonnachta 2003), 150pp.

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Scholarly Editions & Reprints

Andrew Carpenter, ed., Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland (Cork UP 2003), 618pp.
Daniel Corkery, The Stones and Other Stories, ed. Paul Delaney (Cork: Mercier Press 2003), 192pp.
Bernadette Cunningham & Raymond Gillespie, Stories from Gaelic Ireland: Microhistories from the Sixteenth-century Irish Annals (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 224pp.
Joseph Dunne & James Kelly, eds., Childhood and Its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures; foreword by Heaney (Dublin: Liffey Press 2003, 250pp.[see contents].
John Dunton, Teague Land, or a Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish, ed. Andrew Carpenter [1681] (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 192pp.
Thomas Addis Emmet, Robert Memoirs of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet with Their Ancestors and Immediate Family, Vols. I & II [facs. rep. 1915 1st Edn.] (Kildare: Warfield Press 2003), 654pp. [the author being a grandson of the subject].
William Kelly, ed., Dowcra’s Derry: a Narration of Events in North-West Ulster 1600-1604 (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2003), 166pp.
Sybil le Brocquy, Cadenus and Swift’s Most Valuable Friend (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 320pp. [ltd. edn. of 100 hb in slip-case; 2 signed images Louis le Brocquy].
Donall MacAmhlaigh, An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile, trans. by Valentin Iremonger (Cork: Collins Press 2003).
Michael MacGowan, The Hard Road to Klondike, trans. Valentine Iremonger (Cork: Collins Press 2003).
Jane Moore, ed., The Satires of Thomas Moore [British Satire, 1785-1840, Vol.5 - gen. ed., John Strachan] (London: Pickering & Chatto 2003), xxxvi, 555pp.
Evelyn Mullally, ed., The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland: La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 180pp.
Flann O’Brien, The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman [and] The Brother (Dublin & NY: Scribner/Townhouse 2003), 188pp.
William H. O’Donnell, ed., W. B. Yeats, The Speckled Bird (London: Palgrave), 274pp. [Var Edn.: 1896 text and final draft of 1902].
Raymond Gillespie, Scholar Bishop: The Recollections and Diary of Narcissus Marsh, 1638-96 (Cork UP 2002), 106pp.
Séamus Ó Grianna, The Sea’s Revenge and Other Stories, ed. Nollaig Mac Condáil (Cork: Mercier Press 2003), 192pp.
Angus Ross & David Woolley, eds., Jonathan Swift: Major Works [Oxford Classics Ser.] (OUP 2003), 768pp. [excl. Gulliver].
Edith Somerville & Martin Ross, The Real Charlotte (Dublin: A & A. Farmar 2003), 348pp.
Paul Walsh, Irish Leaders and Learning through the Ages, ed. Nollaig Ó Muruile (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 508pp. [rep.].
Christopher Wheatley & Kevin Donovan, eds., Irish Drama of the Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries, 2 vols. (UK: Ganesha Publishing UK 2003), 1,1140pp. [works of Henry Burnell, Richard Head, Charles Shadwell, William Philips, Robert Ashton, Henry Brooke, Francis Dobbs, Gorges Edmond Howard, Mary O’Brien, and John O’Keeffe.]
W. B. Yeats, The Collected Works (Scribner Ser.): Vol. III - Autobiographies, ed., William H. O’Donnell & Douglas N. Archibald (NY: Scribner 2003), 560pp.

Later articles and reviews

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Roger Casement Papers

[Brendan Clifford, ed. & intro.] Roger Casement, The Crime Against Europe (Belfast: Athol Books 2003), 48pp.
Jeffrey Dudgeon, Roger Casement: The Black Diaries with a Study of His Background, Sexuality, and Irish Political Life (Belfast Press 2003), 680pp.
Angus Mitchell, Roger Casement’s Heart of Darkness: The 1911 Documents (Irish Manuscript Commission [2003]), 864pp.
Séamas Ó Síocháin & Michael O'Sullivan, eds., The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary (Dublin: UCD Press 2003), 376pp.

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Anthologies & Almanacs

Peter Berresford Ellis, ed., Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends (London: Robinson. 2003), 536pp.
Daragh Carville, New Soundings: An Anthology of New Writing from the North of Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 2003), 190pp.
Marie Heaney, ed. 50 Irish Poems that Touched the Soul (Dublin: Townhouse 2003), 144pp.
R. A. Gilbert, ed., Irish Folklore and Mythology in the Nineteenth Century [Irish history and culture, 6 vols] ( Tokyo: Edition Synapse; London : Ganesha Pub. 2003- ) [contents].
Vona Groarke, intro., Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted Village (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 58pp.
Niall MacMonagle, Off the Wall (Dublin: Marino 2003), 202pp. [incls. Durcan, Kennelly, Muldoon, et al.].
Eavan Boland, ed., Three Irish Poets: An Anthology (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2003), 120pp. [Boland, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley].
David Marcus, Phoenix Irish Short Stories 2003 (London: Phoenix 2003), 224pp.
Brian Molloy, Voices and Poetry of Ireland: A Collection of Ireland’s Best-loved Poetry with Recordings by Ireland’s Best-loved Figures (London: HarperCollins 2003), 158 + 2 CDs.
Caitriona Moloney & Helen Thompson, eds., Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices from the Field, with a foreword by Ann Owen Weekes (Syracuse UP 2003), xviii, 286pp. [see contribs., infra].
Rebecca Pelan, Divas! New Irish Women’s Writing (Dublin: Arlen House 2003), 218pp.
David Wheatley, ed., James Clarence Mangan: Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 160pp.

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Literary & Cultural Studies

Bruce Arnold, The Spire and Other Essays on Modern Irish Culture, foreword by Charles Lysaght (Dublin: Liffey Press 2003), 280pp.
Nicholas Allen & Aaron Kelly, ed., & intro., The Cities of Belfast (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 272pp. [contribs. incl. David Brett, Terence Brown, Suzanna Chan, John Duncan, Gerald Dawe, Colin Graham, Aodán Mac Póilin, Catherine Morris, Tom Paulin, et al.].
Michael Böss & Eamon Maher, eds., Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the Turn of the Century (Dublin: Veritas 2003), 234pp. [contribs. incl. J. J. Lee, Tom Inglis, Deidi Hansson, Elisabeth Delattre, et al.].
Eberhard Bort, ed., Commemorating Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (IAP 2003, 306pp. [incls. Neal Acherson, Tony Canavan, Mry Daly, Owen Dudley Edwards, Aideen Howard & Gerald Dawe].
Helen M. Burke, Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in Irish Theater, 1912-1984 (Notre Dame UP 2003), 368pp.
Matthew Campbell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge UP 2003), 294pp. [see contents].
Clare Carroll & Patricia King, eds., Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (Cork UP 2003), 280pp.[see contents]; Do. [another edn.] (Notre Dame UP 2003), 256pp.
John Coakley, ed., Changing Shades of Orange and Green: Redefining the Union and the Nation in Contemporary Ireland (UCD Press 2003), 240pp. [contribs. incl. Des O’Malley, David Ervine and Paul Arthur]
Kevin Collins, Catholic Churchmen and the Celtic Revival in Ireland, 1848-1916 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 204pp. [treats of John Lanigan, Patrick Dineen, Patrick Sheehan, John McHale, Paul Cullen, Peter O’Leary and Michael O’Flanagan].
Claire Connolly, ed., Theorizing Ireland [Readers in Cultural Criticism] (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2003), 215pp. [see contents].
R. V. Comerford, Ireland [Inventing the Nation ser.] (London: Hodder Arnold 2003), xii, 279pp. ill. [contents].

Translation and Globalization

Fionnuala Dillane & Ronan Kelly, eds., New Voices in Irish Criticism [Annual Postgrad. Conference Series; No. 4] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 224pp.
Albert J. deGiacomo, T. C. Murray, Dramatist: Voice of Rural Ireland (Syracuse UP 2003), 212pp.
Betsy Taylor Fitzsimon & James H. Murphy, ed., The Irish Revival Reappraised [10th International Conference of Soc. for Study of 19th-c. Ireland; 10th Internat. Conference; All Hallows College, Dublin, 28-30 June 2000] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 236pp.
Christopher Fitz-simon, The Abbey Theatre: Ireland’s National Theatre - The First 100 Years (London: Thames & Hudson 2003), 208pp. [commissioned centennial history].
Máire Herbert & Kevin Murray, Retrospect and Prospect in Celtic Studies: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Celtic Studies Held in UCD 25-31 July 1999 (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 128pp.
Mark Patrick Hederman, Tarot: A Way Towards Creative Thinking (Currach 2003), 200pp.
Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles since 1969: Deconstructing the North (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 303pp.
Peter Kuch & Julie-Ann Robson, eds., Irelands in the Asia-Pacific [Irish Literary Studies, 52] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2003), 489pp. [contribs. incl. Terence Brown, Joan Coldwell, Maurice Harmon, Jin Di, Bruce Stewart, Diane Stubbings, Donald E. Morse, Nicholas Grene, Csilla Bertha, Ann Saddlemyer, A. M. Gibbs, Maureen Murphy, James E. Doan, Andrew Parkin, Taketoshi Furemoto, George Hughes, and Frances Devlin-Glass].
Ben Levitas, The Theatre of Nation: Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism 1890-1916 (Oxford: OUP 2003), 278pp.
P. J. Mathews, Revival: The Abbey Theatre, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement (Cork UP 2003), 280pp.
James H. Murphy, Ireland: A Social, Cultural and Literary History, 1791-1891 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 224pp.
Munira H. Mutran & Laura P.Z. Izarra, eds., Kaleidoscopic views of Ireland (São Paulo: Humanitas 2003), 257pp. [contribs. incl. Terence Brown, Edna Longley, Nicholas Grene, Anne Saddlemyer, Fintan O’Toole, John Brannigan, Maurice Harmon, Christopher Murray, Margaret Kelleher and Maria Tymoczko; also statements by John Banville, Billy Roche, and Michael Longley - see notice online; accessed 24.06.2015].
Joseph Falaky Nagy, ed., Identifying the ‘Celtic’: CSANA Yearbooks 1 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 144pp.
Diane Payne, et. al., Changing Irish Values: An Analysis of Social and Political Attitudes in Ireland (Dublin: Liffey Press 2003), 300pp.
Shaun Richards, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Irish Drama (Cambridge UP 2003), xiii, 287pp.[see contents].
Frank Sholvin, The Irish Literary Periodical 1923-1958 [Oxford English Monographs] (Oxford: OUP 2003), 210pp.
Maria Tymoczko & Colin Ireland, eds., Language and Tradition in Ireland: Continuities and Displacements (Massachusetts UP/ ACIS 2003), viii, 239pp.[see contents].

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Critical Studies: Individual Authors

Sabine Baltes, The Pamphlet Controversy about Wood’s Halfpence (1722-25) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism (Franfurt: Peter Lang 2003), xviii, 355pp.
Enoch Brater, The Essential Samuel Beckett (London: Thames & Hudson 2003).
Gareth Cox, Alex Klein & Michael Taylor, eds., The Life and Music of Brian Boydell (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 160pp. [musician].
James Doan & Frank Sewell, eds., On the Side of Light: The Poetry of Cathal Ó Searchaigh (Galway: Arlen House 2003), 266pp. [ded. Foreword poem to Máire Mhac an tSaoi].
Christopher Fox, Jonathan Swift [Cambridge Companion Ser.] (Cambridge UP 2003) [q.pp.].
William Johnsen, Violence and Modernism: Ibsen, Joyce and Woolf (Florida UP 2003), xv, 168pp.
John Haynes & James Knowlson, Images of Beckett (Cambridge UP 2003), 174pp.
Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Yeats and the Visual Arts (Syracuse UP 2003), 264pp.
Dermot McCarthy, Roddy Doyle: Raining on the Parade (Dublin: Liffey Press 2003), 284pp.
Eamonn Maher, John McGahern: From the Local to the Universal [Contemporary Irish Writers Ser.] (Dublin: Liffey Press 2003), 200pp.
Katherine Mullin, James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity (Cambridge UP 2003), vii+224pp.
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, ed., The Wilde Legacy (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 172pp. [contribs. incl. Robert Dunbar, Lucy McDiarmid, Davis Coakley, et al.].
Jerry Nolan, ed. & Intro., The Tulira Trilogy of Edward Martyn, 1859-1923, Irish Symbolist Dramatist [Irish Studies, 10] (NY: Edwin Mellen Press [2003]), xi, 202pp.
Michael O’Neill, ed., A Routledge literary Sourcebook on the Poems of W. B. Yeats [Routledge Literary Sourcebooks] (London: Routledge 2003), 200pp.
John Sloan, Oscar Wilde (Oxford: OUP 2003), 240pp.
Barbara A. Suess, Progress and Identity in the Plays of W. B. Yeats, 1892-1907 [Studies in Major Literary Authors, 25] (London: Routledge 2003), xx, 189pp.
Alexis Tadié, Sterne’s Whimsical Theatres of Language: Orality, Gesture, Literacy [Studies in Early Mod. Eng. Lit.] (London: Ashgate 2003), 202pp.

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Bibliography & Book History

Tom Clyde, Irish Literary Magazines: An Outline History and Descriptive Bibliography (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 336pp.
David Edgar, Treasuring the Word: An Introduction to Biblical Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library (Dublin: TownHouse 2003), 48pp.
Charles Horton, Alfred Chester Beatty: From Miner to Bibliophile (Dublin: TownHouse 2003), 48pp.
Claire Hutton, The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 256pp.
Muriel McCarthy, Marsh’s Library, Dublin: All Graduates and Gentlemen (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.

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Historical Studies: General

Jérome aan de Wiel, The Catholic Church in Ireland, 1914-1918: War and Politics [New Directions in Irish History Ser.] (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 400pp.
Toby Barnard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Yale UP 2003), 352pp. [var.489pp.]
Toby Barnard, Irish Protestant Ascents and Descents, 1641-1775 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 380pp.
Colin Barr, Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865 (Leominster; Gracewing 2003), 306pp.
Andy Bielenberg, ed., Irish Flour Milling: A History 600-2000 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 216pp.
Eberhard Bort, ed., Commemorating Ireland History, Politics, Culture (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 288pp.
Vincent Carey & Ute Lotz-Heumann, eds., Taking Sides? Colonial and Confessional Mentalités in Early Modern Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 320pp. [incls. essays on Bishop Bale, J. A. Froude, William King, John Atherton].
Judith Devlin & Howard B. Clarke, eds., European Encounters: Essays in Memory of Albert Lovett (UCD Press 2003), 448pp., ill. [16 pp.
Vittorio Di Martino, Roman Ireland (Cork: Collins Press 2003), 160pp.
David Edwards, The Ormond Lordship in County Kilkenny, 1515-1642: The Rise and Fall of Butler Feudal Power (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 400pp.
Richard English, Armed Struggle: A History of the IRA (London: Macmillan 2003), 512pp. Pt.I: 1916-63; Pt. II: 1963-1975; Pt. III: 1975-88; Pt. IV: 1988-2002.
Christopher Fauske, William King and the Anglican Irish Context, 1688-1729 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.
Joe Fenwick, ed., Lost and Found: Discovering Ireland's Past (Wicklow: Wordwell 2003), 350pp.
Kevin Haddick Flynn, Sarsfield and the Jacobites (Cork: Mercier Press 2003), 240pp.
Raymond Gillespie, ed., The Remaking of Modern Ireland, 1750-1950: Beckett Prize Essays in Irish History 1999-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.
Winifred Glover, Exploring the Spanish Armada (Dubln: O’Brien Press 2003), 136pp.
Julian Hoppit, ed., Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1650-1850 (Manchester UP 2003), xii + 255pp.
Robert Kee, Ireland [rev. edn.] (London: Abacus 2003).
William P. Kelly, Docwra’s Derry: North West Ulster and the Nine Years War (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2003), 152pp.
John Kenyon & Kieron O’Conor, The Medieval Castle in Ireland and Wales (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.
Simon Kingston, Ulster and the Isles in the Fifteenth Century: The Lordship of the Clan Domhaill of Antrim (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 208pp.
Maria Luddy, ed., The Crimean journals of the Sisters of Mercy (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), xxviii, 260pp. ill. [8pp. of pls., map].
James Lydon, The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages [2nd edn.] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.
Mary Ann Lyons, Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610: Politics, Migration and Trade [Royal Historical Society Studies in History, n.s.](Woodbridge: Boydell Press [for the] Royal Historical Society 2003), xiii, 242pp. ill.
Donal P. McCracken, Forgotten Protest: Ireland and the Anglo-Boer War (Ulster Historical Foundation 2003), 224pp.
Senia Pašeta, Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2003), 114pp.
Lawrence McBride, ed., Reading Irish Histories: Texts, Contexts, and the Creation of National Memory, 1870-1922 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 234pp. [contribs. Colin Barr, Anne E. Kane, Seán Farrell Moran & Eileen Reilly].
E. O’Byrne, War and Politics and the Irish of Leinster, 1156-1606 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003) [q.pp.].
Desmond Greer & James W. Nicolson, The Factory Acts in Ireland 1822-1914 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 458pp. ill. [16pp. b&w].
Thomas O’Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, eds., Irish Migrants in Europe After Kinsale, 1602-1820 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 208pp. ill.
Dáithí Ó Cróinin, Early Irish History and Chronology (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.
Pašeta, Senia, Modern Ireland: A Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP 2002), 164pp.
Perry Share, Hilary Tovey & Mary P. Corcoran, A Sociology of Ireland [3rd edn.] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2007), viii, 615pp. [contents].
Oonagh Walsh, Ireland Abroad: Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 224pp.
Pat Walsh, The Rise and Fall of Imperial Ireland: Redmondism in the Context of Britain’s Conquestion of South Africa and its Great War on Germany 1899-1916 (Belfast: Athol Books 2003), 594pp.
Ruth Whelan & Carol Baxter, Toleration and Religious Identity: The Implications of the Edict of Nantes for France, Britain and Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 304pp.
Leslie A. Williams, Daniel O’Connell, The British Press and The Irish Famine: Killing Remarks, ed., William H. A. Williams [Nineteenth Century Series] (UK: Ashgate Press 2002), 398pp.

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History & Society: Post-1900

Andy Bielenberg, ed, Irish Flour Milling: A Thousand Year History (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), pp.
Timothy Bowman, Irish Regiments in the Great War: Discipline and Morale (Manchester UP 2003), 238pp.
Tim Pat Coogan, Ireland in the Twentieth Century (London: Hutchinson 2003), 352pp.
Gabriel Doherty & Dermot Keogh, eds., De Valera’s Irelands (Cork: Mercier Press 2003), 192pp. [incls. Owen Dudley Edwards, John McGahern, Catriona Clear & Garret Fitzgerald].
Anne Dolan, Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory 1923-2000 (Cambridge UP 2003), xii, 238pp. [contents]:
John P. Duggan [Lt.-Col.], Herr Hempel at the German Legation in Dublin, 1937-1945, foreword by Sean Donlon (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 328pp. ill.
Mel Cousins, The Birth of Social Welfare in Ireland, 1922-1952 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 214pp.
Francis M. Carroll, Money for Ireland: Finance, Diplomacy, Politics and the first Dáil Éireann Loans 1919-1936 (Praeger/Eurospan) 200pp.
Margaret Crawford, Counting the People: A Guide to the Censuses of Ireland 1813-1911 (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 96pp.
Anne Dolan, Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory 1923-2000 (Cambridge UP 2003), xii, 238pp.

An Unconsidered People

Enda Delaney, Demography, State and Society ((Liverpool UP 2003), 304pp.
Garret Fitzgerald, Reflections on the Irish State (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), xxvi, 202pp.
Joseph Hone, with Maurice Craig & Michael Fewer The New Neighbourhood of Dublin (Dublin: A. A. Farmar 2003), 264pp.
Mark M. Hull, Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland 1939-1945, preface by Enno Stephan (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 406pp. ill. [1pp. b&w].
Dermot Keogh & Carmel Quinian, Ireland in the 1950s: The Lost Decade? (Cork: Mercier Press 2003), 240pp.
Tom Inglis, Truth, Power and Lies: Irish Society and the Case of the Kerry Babies (Dublin: UCD Press 2003), xv, 288pp.
Ruth MacManus, Dublin 1910-1940: Shaping the City and Suburbs (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003) [reiss.].
James P. Mackey & Enda McDonagh, Religion and Politics in Ireland at the Turn of the Millenium: Essays in Honour of Garret Fitzgerald on […] His Seventy-fifth Birthday (Dublin: Columba Press 2003), 304pp.
Joanne Mooney-Eichacker, Irish Republican Women in America: Lecture Tours 1916-1925 (Dublin: IAP 2003), xxii, 329pp. ill. [covers Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Mary MacSwiney, Mrs Muriel MacSwiney, Countess Constance Markievicz, and Mrs Margaret Pearse].
Ewan Morris, Our Own Devices: National Symbols and Political Conflict in Twentieth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 240pp.
Eunan O’Halpin, ed., MI5 and Ireland, 1939-1945: The Official History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 144[192]pp.
Ray Rivlin, Shalom Ireland: A Social History of the Jews in Modern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2003), 256pp.
James W. Taylor, The 1st Irish Rifles in the Great War (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 364pp. ill. [8pp. photos].
Barbara Walsh, Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales 1800-1937: A Social History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 256pp.
Robert Savage, ed., Ireland and the New Century: Politics, Culture and Identity (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 256pp.
Michael Shiel, The Quiet Revolution (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003), 304pp. [1940s Electrification Scheme].

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1798 & the Act of Union

Thomas Bartlett, et al., The 1798 Rebellion: A Bicentennial Perspective [QUB Conference of 1988] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), xii, 756pp. ill. map. [34 contribs. incl. Bartlett, David Dickson, Daire Keogh, Kevin Whelan, et al.].
Michael Brown, Patrick Geoghegan & James Kelly, eds. The Irish Act of Union Bicentennial Essays (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 304pp.
Peter Collins, Who Fears to Speak of ’98?: Commemoration and the Continuing Impact of the United Irishmen (Ulster Historical Foundation 2003), 176pp.
Colin Crawford, Inside the UDA: Volunteers and Violence, foreword by Marie Smyth (London: Pluto Press 2003), xix, 225pp.
Oliver MacDonagh, Ireland: The Union and Its Aftermath [rep of 1977 edn.], intro. W. J. McCormack (Dublin: UCD Press 2003), 232pp.

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Philosophy & Theology

Cahal B. Daly [Card.], The Minding of Planet Earth (Dublin: Veritas 2003), 288pp.
Colin Coulter & Steve Coleman, eds., The End of Irish History?: Critical Approaches to the Celtic Tiger (Manchester UP 2003), 224pp.
Crawford Gribben, The Irish Puritans: James Ussher and the Reformation of the Church (Evangelical Press 2003), 161pp.
Padraig Faulkner, As I Saw It (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2003), 300pp.
Sean Freyne [TCD Chair of Theology] Texts, Contexts and Cultures: Essays on Biblical Topics (Dublin: Veritas 2003), 266pp.
John Morrow, On the Road of Reconciliation: A Brief Memoir (Dublin: Columba Press 2003), 88pp.
Pádraig Standún, Eaglais na gCatacóm (C1ó Iar-Chonnachta 2003), 250pp.
D. Vincent Twomey, The End of Irish Catholicism? (Dublin: Veritas 2003), 220pp.

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Northern Ireland/Ulster

Derek W. Alexander & Michael Drake, Breaking New Ground: Fifty Years of Change in Northern Ireland Agriculture 1952-2000 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2003), 156pp.
Silvia Calamati, The Trouble We’ve Seen: Women’s Stories from the North of Ireland (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2003), 124pp. [21 interviews].
John Greer & Michael Murray, eds., Rural Planning and Development in Northern Ireland (Dublin: IPA 2003), 348pp.
Richard Kirkland, Identity Papers: Northern Irish Culture and Dissident Subjects (Liverpool UP 2003), 224pp.
Marc Mulholland, Northern Ireland: A Very S hort I ntroduction (Oxford University Press 2003), 172pp. ill.
Sharon Pickering, Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2003), 220pp.
Norman Porter, The Elusive Quest: Reconciliation in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 2003), 290pp.
Edith Shillue, Peace Comes Dropping Slow: Conversations in Northern Ireland (Massachusetts UP [2003], x, 187pp.

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Women’s Studies

Irene Boada-Montagut, Women Write Back: Contemporary Irish and Catalan Short Stories in Colonial Context (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 218pp.
Imelda Foley, The Girls in the Big Picture: Gender in Contemporary Ulster Theatre (Belfast: Blackstaff 2003), 186pp.
Elgy Gillespie, Changing the Times: Irish women Journalists from The Irish Times (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 256pp.
Christine Meek & Catherine Lawless, eds., Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 224pp.
Dianne Hall, Women and Church in Medieval Ireland, c.1140-1540 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 252pp.
Myrtle Hill, Women in Ireland 1900-2000 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2003), 400pp.
Sinead McCoole, No Ordinary Women : Irish Female Activists in The Revolutionary Years, 1900-1923 (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003), 288pp.
Mary T. Malone, Women & Christianity, Vol. 3: “From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century” (Dublin: Columba Press 2003), 304pp.
Nellie Ó Cléirígh, Hardship and High Living: Irish Women’s Lives 1808-1923 (Templemore: Portobello Press 2003), 232pp.
Sara Parson, A Whole New World: A Femininst Model of Community and Lifelong Learning (WERRC/UCD 2003), 100pp.
Diane Urquhart & Alan Hayes, eds., Irish Women’s History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003), 256pp.

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Media & Language Studies

Michael Cronin & Cormac Ní Cuilleanáin, Languages of Ireland: Strangers to Ourselves (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.
Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Dancing at Lughnasa (Cork UP 2003), 98pp. ill.
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Newspapermen (London: Secker & Warburg 2003), 320pp. [Cudlipp and King.].
Gerardine Meaney, Nora (Cork UP 2003), 98pp.
Micheál Ó Cearúil, Bunreacht na Éireann: Divergences and Inconsistencies? / Neamhréireachtai agus Easpa Leanúinachais? (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2003), 80pp.
Úna Ní Bhroiméil, Building Irish Identity in America: 1870-1915: The Gaelic Revival and America (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 240pp.
Ella O’Dwyer, The Rising of the Moon: The Language of Power (London: Pluto Press 2002), 176pp.
Tomás Ó Máille, An Béal Beo (Baile atha Cliath: An Gúm 2003), 332pp. [orig. 1936].
Gearóidín Uí Laighléis, Seán Mac Maoláin agus Ceart na Gaeilge (Cois Life 2003), 290pp.
Máirtín Ó Murchú, Ag Dul ó Chion? Cás na Gaeilge 1952-2002 (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2003), 44pp.
Séamas Ó Tuathail, Gaeilge agus Bunreacht (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim/Inst. na hÉireann 2003), 96pp.
Emer Rockett & Kevin Rockett, Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries [Contemporary Irish Filmmakers Ser.] (Dublin: Liffey [2003]).
Bernard Share, Slanguage: A Dictionary of Irish Slang [rev. & enl. edn.] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2003), 432pp.
Maria Tymoczko & Colin Ireland, eds., Language and Tradition in Ireland: Continuities and Displacements (Massachusetts UP 2003), viii, 239pp.
Iarfhlaith Watson, Broadcasting in Irish: Minority, Language, Radio, Television and Identity (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003) [q.pp.]
Nicholas Williams, Caighdeán Nua do Gaeilge (Baile atha Cliath: Coiscéim 2003), 42pp.

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Archaeology, Topography, Architecture and Art

Bill Clements, Defending the North: The Fortifications of Ulster 1796-1956 (Colourpoint 2003), 120pp.
Tricia Cusack & Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch, eds., Art, Nation and Gender: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths, and Mother-figures (VT: Ashgate 2003), x, 147pp. ill. [20pp. of pls.].
Mary Daly, et al., Dublin’s Victorian Houses (Dublin: A. & A. Farmar 2003), 170pp. ill.
Kevin Dwyer, Ireland our Island Home [rev. edn.] (Cork: Collins Press 2003), 160pp. [39 add. aerial photos].
Joe Fenwick, ed., Lost and Found: Discovering Ireland’s Past (Wicklow: Wordwell 2003), xxiv, 349pp. ills., facsims., maps, plans & ports.
Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald, The Aran Islands: History, Tradition, Landscape, Stories [Curriculum Development Unit] (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003), 95pp.
Peter Harbison, Our Treasure of Antiquities (Wicklow: Wordwell/NLI 2003), ill. Josephine Shields [photos].
Peter Harbison, Treasures of the Boyne Valley (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2003), 192pp.
Colum Hourihane, Gothic Art in Ireland 1169-1550: Enduring Vitality (Yale UP 2003), 208pp.
William Laffan, ed., Cries of Dublin, Drawn from the Life by Hugo Douglas Hamilton (Dublin: Churchill House Press 2003), pp.208; 66 drawings.
Tadhg O’Keeffe, Romanesque Ireland: Architecture and Ideology in the Twelfth Century (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 366pp.
John O’Regan, ed., Irish Architectural Review, Vol. 4 (Gandon & RIAI 2003), 240pp.
Clare Pollard, The Art of Hokusai: Masterpieces of Japanese Printing in the Chester Beatty Library (Dublin: TownHouse 2003), 48pp.
Vera Ryan, Movers and Shapers: Irish Art Since 1960 (Cork: Collins Press 2003), 320pp.
Michael Viney, Ireland [Smithsonian Inst. USA] (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2003), 352pp, ill. [16p. col. prints].
Yvonne Whelan, Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity (UCD Press 2003), 336pp. 75 ills.

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Folklore & Music

Gareth Cox & Axel Klein, Irish Musical Studies: Irish Music in the Twentieth Century (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 208pp. [deals with Seán Ó Riada, Brian Boydell, Alan Fleischmann, Frederick May, Ian Wilson, et al.].
Gary Hastings, With Fife and Drum (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2003) [q.pp.].
Tony Kearns & Barry Taylor, A Touchstone for the Tradition: The Willie Clancy Summer School (Dingle: Brandon Press 2003), 160pp.
Eddie Lenihan, Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macrnillan 2003), 296pp.
Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin, A Hidden Ulster: People, Songs and Traditions of Oriel (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 540pp. ill. [maps, music; 26cm.].
Patrick J. O’Connor, Fairs and Markets of Ireland: A Cultural Geography (Oireacht na Mumhan 2003), 166pp.
Gearóid Ó Crualaoich, The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise-woman Healer (Cork UP 2003), xvi, 302pp. [8pp. of pls.]
Martin Verling, ed., A Beara Woman Talking (Cork: Mercier Press 2003), 144pp.

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Reference & Guides

Brian Lalor, ed., Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2003), 1,256pp. [5,000 entries].
John Goodby, Irish Studies: The Essential Glossary (London: Arnold 2003), 304pp.
D. J. Hickey & J. E. Doherty, The New Dictionary of Irish History 1800-2000 [rev. edn.] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2003), 544pp.
Richard Killeen, A Timeline in Irish History (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2003), 112pp.
Brian Ó Cuív, ed., Catalogue of Irish Language Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries: Part Two - The Descriptions (DIAS 2003), 162pp. [40 col. pls.].
Josh Schultz, The Lonely Poets’s Guide to Belfast: A Poetry and Resource Guide Visiting Belfast’s People and Places (New Belfast Community Arts Initiative 2003), 144pp.

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Digital Publications

Sydney Bernard Smith, Collected Works 1957-2000 (LRH Publications 2003) [digital publication].
Michael Herity & Aidan Breen, The Cathach of Colum Cille: An Introduction (RIA 2003), 76pp.
Sean Sheehan, Anarchism (www.ReaktionBooks.co.uk 2003), 224pp.
Voices and Poetry of Ireland (London: HarperCollins 2003) [num. Irish poets read by poets and celebrities].

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Journal Issues

[to be compiled]

Bibliographical details

Joseph Dunne & James Kelly, eds., Childhood and Its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures; foreword by Heaney (Dublin: Liffey Press 2003, 250pp.[see contents]. CONTENTS: Seamus Heaney, Foreword. 1. Dunne & Kelly, Introduction: Changing Perspectives on Childhoods’; 2. John R. Gillis, ‘Birth of the Virtual Child: Origins of our Contradictory Images of Children’; 3. David Elkind, ‘The Cosmopolitan Family: Social Adaptation to a Changing World’; 4. Diarmaid Ferriter, ‘Suffer Little Children? The Historical Validity of Memoirs of Irish Childhood’; 5. Mark Morgan, ‘Too Much Knowledge, Too Much Fear: Curricular Developments in Irish Primary Schools’; 6. Ronit Lentin, ‘Chaotic Girlhood: Narratives of Jewish Girl Survivors of Transnistria’; 7. Marie Smyth, ‘The Concept of Childhood and the Experience of Children in Violently Divided Societies’; 8.Nel Noddings, ‘Education and Happiness’.

R. A. Gilbert, ed., Irish Folklore and Mythology in the Nineteenth Century [Irish history and culture, 6 vols] ( Tokyo: Edition Synapse; London : Ganesha Pub. 2003- ) [contents]. CONTENTS. Vol. 1-2: Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland, with sketches of the Irish past; Vol. 3: Lady Wilde, ‘Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland’; Vol. 4. "Lageniensis", ‘Irish local legends’; B. Hunt, ‘John O'Hanlon and Folk tales of Breffny’; Vol. 5: P. J. McCall, Pulse of the bards (Cuisle na h-éigse) and Irish fireside songs; Vol. 6: Denis Florence McCarthy, ‘Dermot MacMorrogh, or, the Conquest of Ireland; John Quincy Adams and The Book of Irish Ballads’.

Perry Share, Hilary Tovey & Mary P. Corcoran, A Sociology of Ireland [3rd edn.] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2007), viii, 615pp. CONTENTS: Part I - Sociology in Ireland. Introduction; 1: Sociology and Modernity; 2: Irish Sociology; 3: The Dynamics of Irish Development ; 4: The Modernising State; 5: Civil Society: Community and Citizenship. Part II - Irish Society. Introduction; 6: Population & Migration; 7: Inequality, Poverty & Class; 8: Education; 9: Gender, Sexuality and the Family; 10: The Body, Health & Illness; 11: Crime & Deviance. Part III - Cultural Change. Introduction; 12: One Nation, One Culture? ; 13: The Culture of Everyday Life; 14: Religion; 15: Media; 16: New Social Movements. Part IV - A Post-Modern Society. Introduction; 17: Consumption; 18: Environmentalism; 19: Ireland Goes Global?

Shaun Richards, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Irish Drama (Cambridge UP 2003), xiii, 287pp. CONTENTS: 1. Richards, ‘Plays of (ever) changing Ireland’; 2. Stephen Watt, ‘Late Nineteenth-century Irish Theatre: Before the Abbey - and Beyond’; 3. Adrian Frazier, ‘The Ideology of the Abbey Theatre’; 4. Joep Leerssen, ‘The Theatre of William Butler Yeats’; 5. James Pethica, ‘Lady Gregory’s Abbey Theatre Drama: Ireland Real and Ideal’; 6. Mary C. King, ‘J. M. Synge, “National” Drama and the post-Protestant Imagination’; 8. Neil Sammells, ‘Oscar Wilde and the Politics of Style’; 9. Gearóid O’Flaherty, ‘George Bernard Shaw and Ireland’; 10. Ronan McDonald, ‘Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy: Disillusionment to Delusion’; 11. Cathy Leenan, ‘Ireland’s “Exiled” Women Playwrights: Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr’; 12. John Harrington, ‘Samuel Beckett and the Countertradition’; 13. Helen Lojek, ‘Brian Friel’s Sense of Place’; 14. Marilynn Richtarik, ‘The Field Day Theatre Company’; 15. Nicholas Grene, ‘Tom Murphy and the Children of Loss’.

Maria Tymoczko & Colin Ireland, eds., Language and Tradition in Ireland, ‘Continuities and Displacements (Massachusetts UP/ ACIS 2003), viii, 239pp. CONTENTS, Maria Tymoczko and Colin Ireland, ‘Language and Tradition in Ireland: Prolegomena’; Cóilín Owens, ‘Stephen Dedalus, filí’; Joanne Findon, ‘Gender and power in Serglige Con Culainn and The Only Jealousy of Emer’; Helen Fulton, ‘Hegemonic Discourses in Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City’; Jeremy Lowe, ‘Contagious Violence and the Spectacle of Death in Táin Bó Cuailnge’; Sally K. Sommers Smith, ‘Interpretations and Translations of Irish Traditional Music’; Michael Cronin, ‘Interpreting Ireland: Literary and Historical Perspectives on the Role of Interpreters in Ireland’; Catherine McKenna, ‘Triangulating Opposition: Irish Expatriates and Hagiography in the Seventeenth Century’; Gordon McCoy & Camille O’Reilly, ‘Essentializing Ulster? The Ulster-Scots Language Movement’; Thomas Dillon Redshaw, ‘Patrimony: On the tête coupée in John Montague’s The Rough Field’; Declan Kiberd, ‘John McGahern’s Amongst Women’.

Anne Dolan, Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory 1923-2000 (Cambridge UP 2003), xii, 238pp. CONTENTS: Introduction: Civil war and the politics of memory; 1. The elephant on Leinster Lawn: a Cenotaph to civil war. 2. ‘History will record the greatness of Collins’? Michael Collins and the politics of memory. 3. The forgotten President: the awkward memory of Arthur Griffith. 4. ‘Who is the fool Pat?’: Soldiers and the selective memory of civil war. 5. ‘Shows and stunts are all that is the thing now’: ceremony and the collective memory of conflict.

Caitriona Moloney & Helen Thompson, eds., Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices from the Field, with a foreword by Ann Owen Weekes (Syracuse UP 2003), xviii, 286pp. [contribs. Evelyn Conlon; Miriam Dunne; Catherine Dunne; Anne Enright; Jennifer Johnston; Liz McManus; Clair ni Aonghusa; Eilis ni Dhuibhne; Mary O'Donnell; Ivy Bannister; Catherine Brady; Emma Donoghue; Lia Mills; Valerie Miner; Edna O'Brien; Kate O'Riordan; Maura Stanton].

Matthew Campbell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge UP 2003), 294pp. CONTENTS: Notes on contributors [vii]; Preface [x]; Chronology [xiii]; 1: Matthew Campbell, ‘Ireland in Poetry: 1999, 1949, 1969’ [1]; 2: John Goodby, ‘From Irish Mode to Modernisation: The Poetry of Austin Clarke’ [21]; 3: Jonathan Allison, ‘Patrick Kavanagh and Antipastoral’ [42]; 4: Peter McDonald, ‘Louis MacNeice: Irony and Responsibility’ [59]; 5: Alex Davis, ‘The Irish Modernists and Their Legacy’ [76]; 6: Fran Brearton, ‘Poetry of the 1960s: The ’Northern Ireland Renaissance’ [94]; 7: Dillon Johnston, ‘Violence in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry’ [113]; 8: Terence Brown, ‘Mahon and Longley: Place and Placelessness’ [133]; 9: Frank Sewell, ‘Between Two Languages: Poetry in Irish, English and Irish English’ [149]; 10: Guinn Batten, ‘Boland, McCuckian, Ní Chuilleanáin and the Body of the Nation’ [169]; 11: Shane Murphy, ‘Sonnets, Centos and Long Lines: Muldoon, Paulin, McGuckian and Carson’ [189]; 12: Lucy Collins, ‘Performance and Dissent: Irish Poets in the Public phere’ [209]; 13: Robert Faggen, ‘Irish Poets and the World’ [229]; 14: David Wheatley, ‘Irish Poetry into the Twenty-First Century’ [250]. Further reading [268]. Index [285].

Clare Carroll & Patricia King, Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (Cork Univ. Press 2003), 246pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements[vii]; Notes on Contributors’ [ix]; Clare Carroll, ‘Introduction: The Nation and Postcolonial Theory’ [1]; Joe Cleary, ‘“Misplaced Ideas”?: Colonialism, Location, and Dislocation in Irish Studies’ [16]; David Lloyd, ‘After History: Historicism and Irish Postcolonial Studies’ [46]; Clare Carroll, ‘Barbarous Slaves and Civil Cannibals: Translating Civility in Early Modern Ireland’ [63]; Luke Gibbons, ‘Towards a Postcolonial Enlightenment: The United Irishmen, Cultural Diversity and the Public Sphere’ [81]; Kevin Whelan, ‘Between Filiation and Affiliation: The Politics of Postcolonial Memory’ [92]; Seamus Deane, ‘Dumbness and Eloquence: A Note on English as We Write It in Ireland’ [109]; Amitav Ghosh, ‘Mutinies: India, Ireland and Imperialism’ [122]; Joseph Lennon, ‘Irish Orientalism: An Overview’ [129]; Gauri Viswanathan, ‘Spirituality, Internationalism and Decolonization: James Cousins - the “Irish Poet from India”’ [158]; Edward W. Said, ‘Afterword: Reflections on Ireland and Postcolonialism’ [177-85]. Notes and References [187]; Bibliography [223]; Index [237].

Claire Connolly, ed., Theorizing Ireland [Readers in Cultural Criticism] (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2003), 215pp. CONTENTS: General Editor’s Preface vii; Acknowledgements ix; Claire Connolly , 'Introduction: Ireland in Theory’ [11]; Seamus Deane, ‘Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea’ [14]; Angela Bourke, ‘The Virtual Reality of Irish Fairy Legend’ [27]; Patricia Coughlan, ‘“Bog Queens”: Representation of Women in the Poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney’ [41]; Shaun Richards, ‘To Bind the Northern to the Southern Stars: Field Day in Derry and Dublin’ [61]; Luke Gibbons, 'Narratives of the Nation: Fact, Fiction and Irish Cinema’ [69]; Terry Eagleton, ‘Changing the Question’ [76]; Joe Cleary, '‘Misplaced Ideas?: Colonialism, Location and Dislocation in Irish Studies’ [91]; Siobhan Kilfeather, ‘Sex and Sensation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel’ [105]; Chrisopher Morash, ‘antalized by Progress’ [114]; Clair Wills, ‘The Politics of Poetic Form’ [125]; Richard Kirkland, ‘“In the Midst of All this Dross”: Establishing the Grounds of Dissent’ [135]; Colin Graham, ‘Subalternity and Gender: Problems of Postcolonial Irishness’ [150]; David Lloyd, ‘The Spirit of the Nation’ [160]; Summaries and Notes [173]; Glossary [202]; Further Reading [205]; Notes on Contributors [210]; Index [212]

R[ichard] V[incent] Comerford, Ireland [Inventing the Nation ser.] (London: Hodder Arnold 2003), xii, 279pp. ill. CONTENTS [Chaps.]: Faith and the fatherland in the 17th century; colonial nationalism in the 18th century; revolutionary nationalism; the Orange order; Catholic nationalism; romantic nationalism; national schooling; land and nation; an empire for nationalists; Irish-America's Ireland; unionism; Celtic nationalism; independent Ireland, Gaelic and Catholic; Northern Ireland - British and Protestant; sport and identity; history-writing.

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