Select Annual Listing: 2004

Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & its Contexts: 2004

Original Literary Works
Poetry Collections Fiction (Novels & Short Stories) Drama (Plays & Collections) Autobiography & Memoir Biography (Literary & Hist.)	Miscellaneous Writings Scholarly Editions & Reprints Anthologies, Interviews & Selections
Criticism & Commentary
Literary & Cultural Studies Criticism: Individual Authors Historical studies: General Historical Studies: 20th Century Politics, Economics & Society Northern Ireland/Ulster Archaeology Art & Architecture	Religion in Ireland Diaspora Studies Women’s Studies Historical Documents & Reprints Irish Language Studies Media Studies Reference Works Digital Publications

Poetry Collections

Sebastian Barry, The Pinkening Boy (Dublin: New Island 2004), 32pp.
Dermot Bolger, The Chosen Moment (Dublin: New Island 2004), 28pp.
Sonya Broderick, Things You Left Me With (Belfast: Lapwing 2004), 40pp.
Anthony Cronin, Collected Poems (Dublin: New Island 2004), 334pp.
Colette Bryce, The Full Indian Rope Trick (London: Picador 2004), 48pp.
Michael Davitt, Fardoras (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2004), 101pp.
Paul Durcan, The Art of Life (London: Harvill 2004), 118pp.
Celia de Fréine, Fiacha Fola (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2004), 70pp.
Peter Fallon, trans., The Georgics of Virgil (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2004), q.pp.
Leontia Flynn, These Days (London: Jonathan Cape 2004), 64pp.
Alan Gillis, Somebody, Somewhere (Dublin: Gallery Press 2004), 64pp.
Eamon Grennan, The Quick of It (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2004), q.pp.
Seamus Heaney, Columcille the Scribe [Special Edition] (Dublin: RIA 2004), [version of ‘sgith mo crob on scribinn’, on vellum with script derived from Cathach by Tim O’Neill; €650].
Maurice Harmon, The Doll With Two Backs (Galway: Salmon 2004), 80pp.
Michael D. Higgins, An Arid Season: New Poems (Dublin: New Island 2004), 66pp.
Ben Howard, Dark Pool (Galway: Salmon Press 2004), 88pp.
Michael Longley, Snow Water (London: Jonathan Cape 2004), 74pp.
Brian Lynch, New and Revised: Poems 1967-2004 (Dublin: New Island Press 2004), 120pp.
Richard Kell, Under the Rainbow (Belfast: Lagan Press 2004), 100pp.
Tom Mac Intyre, Tamall Suirí (Coiscéim 2004), 46pp.
Medbh McGuckian, The Book of the Angel (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2004), 88pp.
Leanne O’Sullivan, Waiting for My Clothes (Bloodaxe Books 2004), 64pp.
Noel Monahan, Funeral Game (Galway: Salmon Press 2004), 70pp.
Dorothy Molloy, Hare Soup (London: Faber & Faber 2004), 164pp.
John Montague, Drunken Sailor (Oldcastle: Gallery Press), 88pp.
Sinéad Moriarty, The Baby Trail (Penguin Ireland 2004), 311pp.
Tomás Ó Canainn, Dornán Dánta (BAC: Coiscéim 2004), 48pp.
Dermot O’Brien, Small World: Spiritual Poetry in Haiku Form (Dublin: Veritas 2004), 192pp.
Peggy O’Brien, Sudden Thaw (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), q.pp.
Dennis O’Driscoll, New and Selected Poems (Dublin: Anvil Press Poetry 2004), 272pp.
Sheila O’Flanagan, Anyone But Him (London: Headline 2004), q.pp.
Críostóir O’Flynn, The Easter Rising: A Poem Sequence (Obelisk Books 2004), 52pp.
Pól Ó Muirí, Na Móinteacha (Belfast: Lagan Press 2004), 50pp.
Pádraig Ó Snodaigh, Cronú (BAC: Coiscéim 2004), 72pp.
Tom Paulin, The Road to Inver: Translations, Versions and I mitations 1975-2003 (London: Faber & Faber 2004), 128pp.
Gabriel Rosenstock, Eachtraí Krishamurphy (BAC Coiscéim 2004), 116pp.
Gabriel Rosenstock, Ólann mo Mhiúil as an nGainséis (Cló Chonnachta 2004)), 156pp.
Maurice Scully, Livelihood (Wild Honey Press 2004), 346pp.
Peter Sirr, Nonetheless (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2004), 80pp.
Peter Sirr, Selected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2004), 94pp.
Gerard Smyth, A New Tenancy (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2004), 80pp.
Geoffrey Squires, Untitled and Other Poems 1975-2002 (Bray: Wild Honey Press 2004), 210pp.
Matthew Sweeney, Sanctuary (London: Jonathan Cape 2004), 54pp.
Eddie Wainwright, Things Being Various (Belfast: Lapwing 2004), 44pp.
Eamonn Wall, Refuge at De Soto Bend (Galway: Salmon Press 2004), 80pp.
William Wall, Fahrenheit Says Nothing to Me (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2004), 86pp.
Enda Wyley, Poems for Breakfast (Dedalus 2004), 64pp.

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Fiction (Novels & Short Stories)

Cecilia Ahern, Where Rainbows End (London: HarperCollins 2004), 454pp.
John Arden, The Stealing Steps (London: Methuen 2004), 328pp.
Colin Bateman, Driving Big Dave (London: Headline 2004), [q.pp.]
Eoin Coffler, The Ssupernaturalist (London: Puffin 2005), 299pp.
John Connolly, Nocturnes (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2004), 404pp.
June Considine, Deception (Dublin: New Island 2004), 362pp.
Emma Cooke, A Book of Tricks (Galway: Wynkin de Worde 2004), 238pp.
Denyse Devlin, Catalpa Tree (London: Penguin Ireland 2004), 460pp.
Emma Donoghue, Life Mask (London: Virago Press 2004), q.pp.
Anne Dunphy, Second Chances ([Drogheda:] Trafford Publ. 2004), 292pp.
Clare Dowling, Amazing Grace (Dublin: Poolbeg 2004), 500pp.
Roddy Doyle, Oh, Play That Thing (London: Jonathan Cape 2004), 376pp. [also on audio-tape].
Rose Doyle, Shadows Will Fall (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2004), 282pp.
Christine Dwyer Hickey, Tatty (Dublin: New Island 2004), 205pp.
Jack Harte, From Under Gogol’s Nose (Scotus Press), 208pp.
Neil Jordan, Shade (London: John Murray 2004), 400pp.
Michael Judge, Vintage Red (London: Robert Hale 2004), 222pp.
John B. Keane, Pints of Porter: Selected Essays and Writings, foreword by Conor Keane (Mercier 2004), 128pp. [32 uncoll. pieces].
Brian Kennedy, The Arrival of Fergal Flynn (London: Hodder Headline 2004), 314pp.
Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Claire Kilroy, All Summer (London: Faber & Faber 2004), 248pp.
Hugh Leonard, Fillums (London: Methuen 2004), 240pp.
Regina McBride, The Marriage Bed (London: Touchstone; NY: Simon & Schuster 2004), 300pp.
Pauline McLynn, The Woman on the Bus (London: Headline 2004), 318pp.
Eoin McNamee, The Ultras (London: Faber & Faber 2004), 288pp.
Bryan MacMahon, Hero Town (Dingle: Brandon 2004), 224pp. [posthum.].
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (London: Sceptre 2004), 529pp.
Anne-Marie O’Connor, Everyone’s Got a Bono Story (Dublin: Tivoli 2004), 352pp.
Seán Ó Curraoin, Boscaí (BAC: Coiscéim 2004), 138pp. [stories].
Criostoir O’Flynn, The Heart Has Its Reasons (Obelisk Books 2004), 210pp.
Sean O’Reilly, The Swing of Things (London: Faber & Faber 2004), 300pp.
Glenn Patterson, That Which Was (London: Hamish Hamilton 2004), 286pp.
Suzanne Power, The Virgo Club (London: Hodder Lir 2004), 544pp.
Kate Thompson, Living the Dream (London: Bantam 2004) [q.pp.].
Colm Tóibín, The Master (London: Picador 2004), 470pp.
Desmond Traynor, The Myth of Exile and Return (Silenzio Press 2004), 296pp.
Peter Tremayne, Badger’s Moon: A Novel of Ancient Ireland (London: Headline 2004), 414pp.
William Trevor, Bit on the Side (London: Viking; Penguin 2004), 244pp.
[Various authors,] Girls Are Back in Town (Dublin: Pocket Books; TownHouse 2004), 432pp. [stories].
Niall Williams, Only Say the Word (London: Picador 2004, 2005), 345pp.

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Drama (Plays & Collections)

Peter Fallon, Tarry Flynn (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2004), 102pp.
Frank McGuinness, Euripides’ Hecuba: a new version, from literal translation by Fionnuala Murphy (London: Faber & Faber 2004).
Conor McPherson, Play: Two (London: Nick Hern 2004), 220pp.
Conor McPherson, Shining City (London: Nick Hern 2004), 78pp.
Tom Murphy, The Drunkard (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2004), 100pp.
Colm Tóibín, Beauty in a Broken Place (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 96pp.

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Autobiography & Memoir

Dame Judy Coyne, Providence My Guide (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 192pp.
Austin Currie, All Hell will Break Loose (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2004), 402pp.
Terry de Valera, A Memoir (Currach Press), 368pp.
Tom Dunne, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 336pp.
Dorothea Herbert, The Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1770-1806 (Dublin: TownHouse 2004), 432pp.
Eamon Kelly, The Storyteller (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 352pp. [prev. as 2 vols., 1995, 1998].
James Liddy, The Doctor’s House (Galway: Salmon Press 2004), 142pp.
Nell McCafferty, Nell (Penguin Ireland 2004), 320pp.
David Marcus, Buried Memories (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 192pp. [as story of ‘Aaron Cohen’].
Danny Morrison, Then the Walls Came Down: A Prison Journal (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 300pp.
Patrick J. Murphy, Patrick Tuohy from Conversations with His Friends (Dublin: TownHouse 2004), 206pp.
Siobhán Mulcahy, ed., Cecil Nash, 1902-1993: A Life in the Roving Irish Theatre (Dun Laoghaire: Chomsky Publ. 2004), 253pp., ill.
Graham Norton, So Me (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2004), 342pp.
Tomás Ó Canainn, Home to Derry (Belfast: Appletree Press 2004), 104pp.
Maureen O’Hara with John Nicoletti, ’Tis Herself: A Memoir (London: Simon & Schuster / TownHouse 2004), 384pp.
Alice Taylor, A Fallen Leaf: A Journey Through Bereavement (Dnigle: Brandon Press 2004), 160pp.

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Biography (Literary & Historical)

Angela Bourke, Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker (London: Jonathan Cape 2004), 192pp.
Liam Chambers, Michael Moore c.1639-1726: The World of an Irish Clerical Migrant (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), [q.pp.].
Judith Cook, Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O’Malley (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 144pp.
Ciara O’Farrell, Louis D’Alton and the Abbey Theatre (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 240pp.
Adrian Hoar, In Green and Red: The Lives of Frank Ryan (Dingle: Brandon Press 2004), 321pp. ill.
Dermot James, The Gore-Booths of Lissadell (Dublin: Woodfield Press 2004), 400pp.
Gerard MacAtasney, Seán MacDiarmada: The Mind of the Revolution (Manorhamilton: Drumlin Publs. 2004), 24pp.
Paul MacCotter, Colmán of Cloyne: A Study (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Thomas Morrissey, Thomas Finlay SJ, 1848-1940: Educationalist, Editor Social Reformer (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 172pp.
Ray Mac Mánais, The Road from Ardoyne: Tthe Making of a President (Dingle: Brandon Press 2004), 384pp. [on Mary McAleese].
Siobhán Mulcahy, Heroes & Villains: Forgotten Irish Stories (Dun Laoghaire: Chomsky 2004), 152pp. [contribs. Francis Tumblety; Helena Grace Rice; Countess Lola Montez; Ché Guevara [Lynch]; Alice Kyteler; Captain John Riley of the San Patricios; Lady Mary Heath; Agnes Clerke].
David Murphy, The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock (Cork: Collins Press 2004) 176pp.
Christopher Murray, Sean O’Casey (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2004), 544pp.
Paul Murray, From the Shadow of “Dracula”: A Life of Bram Stoker (London: Johnathan Cape 2004), 352pp. ill. [8 pp. of photos].
Peter Murray, George Petrie (1790-1866): The Re-Discovery of Ireland’s Past (Crawford Municipal Art Gallery 2004), 180pp.
P. Ó Dochartaigh, Julius Pokorny, 1887-1970: Germans, Celts and Nationalism (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 160pp.
Thomas P. O’Neill, James Fintan Lalor,trans. by John T. Goulding (Wexford: Golden Publications 2003), 223pp.
John J. O’Sullivan, Mulvany’s Legacy (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 192pp. [William Thomas Mulvany, 1806-85].
Gerard Ronan, The Irish Zorro: The Extraordinary Adventures of William Lamport, 1615-1659 (Dingle: Brandon/Mount Eagle 2004), 320pp.
Elaine Sisson, Pearse’s Patriots: St Enda’s and the Cult of Boyhood (Cork UP 2004), 240pp.
Michael Smith, The Boss: The Remarkable Adventures of Ernest Shackleton, Heroic Antarctic Explorer (Cork: Collins Press 2004), 128pp. ill. [Anne Brady], maps.
Sean Ua Chearnaigh, Roibeard Emmet again 1803: a Chomráidhe agus a Chéastúnaigh (Coiscéim 2004), q.pp.

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Essays & Miscellaneous Writings

Theo Dorgan, Sailing for Home: A Voyage from Antigua to Kinsale (Penguin Ireland 2004), 320pp.
Anne Enright, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood (London: Jonathan Cape 2004), 196pp.
Seamus Heaney, Anything Can Happen, a poem and essay, after Horace, intro. Bill Shipsey [Art for Amnesty] (Dublin: TownHouse 2004), 48pp. [with trans. into Irish, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Basha, Dutch, Hebrew, Arabic, Serbian, Bosnian, German, Russian, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, Malay, French, Swahili, Spanish, Basque, Hindi, Urdu, Turkish, Greek].
Mary Maher, ed., How Far We Travelled: The Voice of Mary Holland (Dublin: Townhouse 2004), q.pp.
Deirdre Purcell, ed., Be Delighted: A Tribute to Maureen Potter (Dublin: New Island Books 2004), 269pp. [contrib. Phyllis Ryan; Gene Kerrigan, Bertie Ahern, Maeve Binchy, Gay Byrne, Joe Duffy, Joe Dowling, Frank McGuinness, Fred O’Donovan, Fintan O’Toole and Nuala O’Faolain].
Pádraig Standún, Eaglais na gCatacómaí (Cló lar-Chonnachta 2004), 350pp.
John Waters, The Politburo Has Decided That You Are Unwell (Dublin: Liffey Press 2004), 310pp.

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Scholary Editions & Reprints

Jacques Chuto & Peter van de Kamp, eds., Selected Prose of James Clarence Mangan (2004), 360pp.
Peter McLoughlin, Cromwell’s Revenge: A True Story (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 192pp.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Irish Recollections, ed. Patrick Maume (UCD Press 2004), 208pp.
Sean Ryder, ed., James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings (UCD Press 2004), 528pp.
Karen Steele, ed., Maud Gonne: Irish Nationalistic Writings, 1895-1946, ed. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2003) , 34pp.
Bruce Stewart, ed., The Irish Book Lover: An Irish Studies Reader, introduced by Nicholas Allen (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2004), 407pp.
Mary Sullivan, ed., The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841 (Dublin: Four Courts; Washington: CUA Press 2004), 504pp.

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Anthologies, Selections & Interviews

Eavan Boland, After Every War: Twentieth-century Women Poets (Princeton UP 2004), 184pp.
Seamus Cashman, ed., Something Beginning with P: New Poems from Irish Poets (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2004), 160pp. [ill. Corrina Askin and Alan Clarke].
John & Margaret Corbett, eds., Making Shapes with Slates and Marla: A Gurteen Anthology (Galway: Gurteen Schools Reunion 2004), 288pp. [incls. contribs. by Seamus Heaney and Peter Fallon].
John Ennis, Randall Maggs, and Stephanie McKenzie, eds., However Blows the Winds (Waterford: Scop Productions; Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 2004), q.pp.
Gabriel Fitzmaurice [trans], Poems from the Irish (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 192pp.
Selina Guinness, ed., The New Irish Poets (Newcastle-on-Tyne: Bloodaxe: Books 2004), 336pp. [see contents].
Joseph McMinn, ed., Rich and Rare Land: Irish Poetry and Paintings (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2004), 144pp.
Aubrey Malone, ed., Talk Nation: The Irish on Everything and Anything (Currach Books 2004), 416pp.
Philip O’Leary, Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922-1939 (UCD Press 2004), 766pp.
Antoinette Quinn, ed., Dancing with Kitty Stobling: Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award Winners, 1971-2003 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 240pp.
Stephen Regan, ed., Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English, 1789-1939 [World Classics Ser.] (Oxford UP 2004), vi+546pp. [614pp.]
Peter Tremayne, Whispers of the Dead: A Collection of Ancient Irish Mysteries (London: Headline 2004), 320pp.

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Literary & Cultural Studies

D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, eds., Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921 (London & NY: Routledge 2004), vii, 291pp. ill. [see contents].
Terence Brown, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2001 (London: Harper Press 2004), 510pp. [rev. 2nd edn. of 1981 text].
Ultan Cowley, The Men Who Built Britain: A History of the Irish Navvy (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2004), 272pp.
Karina Daly, Tom Walsh’s Opera: A History of the Wexford Festival, 1951-2004 (Four Courts Press 2004), 224pp.
Michael de Nie, The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882 [History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora] (Wisconsin UP 2004), xi, 339pp. ill.
Thomas Redshaw Dillon, ed., Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague (Creighton UP 2004), 456pp. ill. [8pp. b&w] [contribs. incl. Dillon Johnston, J. W. Foster, Eamonn Wall, Patrick Crotty, et al.].
Dawn Duncan, Postcolonial Theory in Irish Drama from 1800-2000 (Lampeter, Wales: Mellen Press 20004), 272pp. [Alicia LeFanu, Dion Boucicault, W. B. Yeats and Brian Friel].
Duncan Greenlaw, Borders of Mourning: Remembrance, Commitment and the Contexts of Irish Identity (Dublin: Maunsel 2004) [q.pp.].
S. M. Griffin, Anti-Catholicism and nineteenth-century fiction (Cambridge UP 2004), ix, 284pp. [contents].
Elizabeth Grubgeld, Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender and the Forms of Narrative (Syracuse UP 2004), xii, 180pp.
Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh & Amanda Wrigley, Dionysius Since ’69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millenium (Oxford: OUP 2004), 500pp. [incls. Irish playwrights].
Liam Harte, ed., Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2004), ix, 260pp. [contribs., Máire Nic Eoin, George O’Brien, Eve Patten, Sean Ryder, D. Sampson, Barry Sloan, Berenice Schrank, et al.]
Clare Hutton, ed., The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2004), 224pp. [contribs. incl. Michael Adams, Nicola Gordon Bowe, Nial Ó Ciosáin, Anna Tannahill, et al.]
Celia Keenan & Mary Shine Thompson, eds., Studies in Children’s Literature, 1500-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 182pp.
Joseph Lennon, Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History (Syracuse UP 2004), 481pp.
Anne MacCarthy, Identities in Irish Literature [Irish Studies Ser., ge. ed. Antonio Raul de Toro Santos; University Inst. of Research in Irish Studies] (Netbiblio 2004), 205pp. [avails of Itamar Even-Zohar’s ‘polysystem theory; available at Google Books - online].
Neil McCaw, ed., Writing Irishness in Nineteenth-century British Culture (Aldershot, Hants., England: Ashgate 2004), x, 248pp. ill. [contribs. incl. Andrew Blake, Kathleen Constable, Maureen O’Connor, Anne MacCarthy, Carla King, et al.].
John McDonagh, Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts (Dublin: Liffey Press 2004), 170pp.
Sinéad Garrigan Mattar, Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival (Oxford: OUP 2004), viii, 277pp. [Oxford diss. of 1997 - see contents].
Christopher Fitz-simon, ed., Players and Painted Stage: Aspects of Twentieth-century Drama in Ireland (Dublin: New Island 2004), 200pp. [contribs. Nicholas Grene, Emer O’Kelly, Christopher Murray, Lynda Henderson, Joe Dowling, Alan Titley & Anthony Roche].
Eamon Maher & Grace Neville, eds., France-Ireland - Anatomy of a Relationship: Studies in History, Literature and Politics, preface J.J. Lee (Frankfurt am Main/ Oxford: Peter Lang [2004]), 372pp. ill. [incls. essays on John McGahern and Kate O’Brien].
Neil Murphy, Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt: An Analysis of the Epistemological Crisis in Modern Irish Fiction (Edwin Mellen Press 2004), 286pp. [on Aidan Higgins, John Banville and Neil Jordan].
Clare O’Halloran, Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations: Antiquarian Debate and Cultural Politics in Ireland, c.1750-1800 (Cork UP; USA: Notre Dame UP 2004), 300pp.
Anne E. O’Reilly, Sacred Play (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2004), 350pp.
Fintan O’Toole, Critical Moments: Fintan O’Toole on Modern Irish Theatre (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2004), 400pp.
Kirtsi Tarien Powell, Irish Fiction: An Introduction (London: Continuum 2004), 224pp.
Friedhelm Rathjen, Die grüne Tinte: kleiner Leittaden durch die irische Literatur [Editions Rejoyce] (Norderstedt: Books on Demand [distrib] 2004), 168pp.
Neil Sammells, ed., Beyond Borders: IASIL Essays in Modern Irish Writing [IASIL Conference Transactions] (Sulis Press 2004), [contribs. Louis Armand, Michall Faherty, Rui Carvalho Homem, Ellen Carol Jones, John Kenny, Marisol Morales Ladron, Vivian Valvano Lynch, Donald E. Morse, Paul Murphy, Erin V. Obermueller, Monica Randaccio, Maryna Romanets, Robert Tracy, Simon Tresize, Clare Wallace, Kim Wallace].
Linden Peach, The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2004), xvi, 250pp. [contents].
Michael L. Storey, Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction (Washington: CUA Press 2004), 256pp. [discusses Corkery, O’Connor, O’Faolain, O’Flaherty, MacLaverty, Colum McCann, Valerie Mulkern, Anne Devlin, et al.].
Betsey Taylor FitzSimon & James Murphy, eds., The Irish Revival Reappraised (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 236pp.
Eric Weitz, ed., The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2004), 202pp. [contribs. by Raymond Keane, Declan Drohan, Olabisi Adigun, et. al.; treats of Deborah Warner, Frank McGuinness, Martin McDonagh, Bernard Farrell and Marina Carr].

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Critical Studies: Individual Authors

Bernadette Cunningham, The World of Geoffrey Keating: History, Myth and Religion in Seventeenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), xv, 263pp. [first iss. 2000].
Richard Dalby & William Hughes, eds., Bram Stoker: A Bibliography (Westcliff-on-Sea: Desert Island Books, 2004), q.pp.
Seamus Deane, Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke (Cork UP 2004), 300pp.
Gabriel Fitzmaurice, ed., Come All Good Men and True: Essays from the John B. Keane Symposium (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 144pp.
Heidi Kaufman & Chris Fauske, An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts (Delaware UP 2004), 290pp. ill. [port.; see contents].
Helen Heusner Lojek, Contexts for Frank McGuinness’s Drama (CUA Press 2004), xix, 283pp.
Sharon Murphy, Maria Edgeworth and Romance (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 208pp.
Lois Oppenheim, Palgrave Advances in Beckett Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2004), 274pp. [contribs. incl. Enoch Brach, Peter Oxall, Linda Ben-Zvi, Mary Bryden, Angela Moorjani, et al.].
Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Fools of Fiction: Reading William Trevor Stories (Maunsel & Co. [2004]), 364pp. [due Dec. 2004].
Eve Patten, Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 208pp.
Margaret Reynolds & Jonathan Noakes, Iris Murdoch: The Essential Guide (London: Vintage 2004), 224pp.
Margaret Reynolds & Jonathan Noakes, Roddy Doyle: The Essential Guide (London: Vintage 2004), 224pp.

W. B. Yeats

Christine Finn, Past Poetic Archaeology in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney (London: Duckworth 2004), 214pp.
Seamus Heaney, ed., The Faber Yeats (London: Faber & Faber 2004) [retitle of 2002 edn.].
Marjorie Howes & John Kelly, eds., The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge UP 2004), 260pp. [contribs. George Bornstein, George Watson, Daniel Albright, Helen Vendler, Bernard O’Donoghue, Declan Kiberd, James Pethica, Margaret Mills Harper, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Jonathan Allison.].
Michael O’Neill, ed., The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A Sourcebook [Routledge Literary Sourcebook] (London: Routledge 2004), xv, 194pp.

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James Joyce

A Joycean Scrapbook from the National Library of Ireland (Dublin: NLI/Wordwell 2004), q.pp.
Derek Attridge, ed., The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce [2nd. edn.] (Cambridge UP 2004), 308pp. [revised essays].
David Butler, An Aid to Reading Ulysses (Dublin: The James Joyce Centre 2004), 56pp.
Luca Crispi & Catherine Fahy, eds., Joyce Studies 2004 [Series 2] (Dublin: NLI 2004): Vincent J. Cheng, Joyce, Race and Colonialism [No. 8]; Kimberly J. Devlin, Taste and Consumption in Ulysses [No. 9]; A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Joyce’s Catholic Moments [No. 10]; Cheryl Herr, Joyce and the Art of Shaving [No. 11]; Sebastian D.G. Knowles, Humor Detection in Ulysses [ No. 12]; Geert Lernout, James Joyce Reader [No. 13]; Margot Norris, Ulysses for Beginners [No. 14].
Claire A Culletin, Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism (Palgrave 2004), 232pp. ill. [16pp. of photos].
Oona Frawley, ed., A New and Complex Sensation: essays on Joyce’s Dubliners (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 272pp.
Ian Gunn & Clive Hart, James Joyce’s Dublin: A Topographical Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses (London: Thames & Hudson 2004), 160pp. [maps & photos].
Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, ed., Joyce in Art (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 400pp. [Man Ray, Matisee, Bacon, et al.].
Kieran & Des Hickey, Faithful Departed: The Dublin of James Joyce’s Ulysses (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 104pp. [Lawrence Collection].
Terence Killeen, Ulysses Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to James Joyce’s Ulysses (NLI Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Niall Murphy, A Bloomsday Postcard (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 336pp. [240 postcards].
Carol Loeb Shloss, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake (NY: Farrar & Strauss 2004), 561pp.
Danial Schwartz, Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (Oxford: Blackwell 2004), 297pp. [incls. Joyce].
Jean-Michel Rabaté, ed., James Joyce Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2004), xviii, 293pp. [contribs. incl. Ronald Bush, Garry Leonard, Eric Bulson, Joseph Valante, Sam Slote, Margot Norris, et al.].
Luke Thurston, James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (Cambridge UP 2004), 244pp.

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J. M. Synge

Adrian Frazier, Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories (Carysfort Press, (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2004), xiv, 182pp.
Colm Tóibín, ed., Synge: A Celebration (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2004) [contribs. vincent Woods, Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Mary O’Malley, Joe O’Donoghue, et. al.].

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Historical Studies: General

Kevin Bright, The Royal Dublin Society, 1815-45 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), q.pp.
Toby Barnard, Making the Grand Figure: Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770 (Yale UP 2004), 520pp.
Thomas Bartlett & D. W. Hayton, eds., Penal Era and Golden Age (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2004), 232pp.
Howard B. Clarke, Jacinta Prunty and Mark Hennessy, eds., Surveying Ireland’s past: multidisciplinary essays in honour of Anngret Simms (Dublin: Geography Publ. 2004), xxxii, 802pp. [see contents].
Walter Curley, Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and Their Families AD 900-2000 (Dublin: Lilliput 2004), 192pp.
Patrick Duffy, et al., eds., Gaelic Ireland, c.1250-1650: Land, Lordship and Settlement (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 454pp. [see contents].
David Edwards, Regions and Rulers in Ireland 1100-1650 [Feschrift for Kenneth Nicholls] (Dublin: Four Courts 2004), 288pp.
Steve Garner, Racism in the Irish Experience (London: Pluto Press 2004), 288p. [see contents].
Joseph P. Finnan, John Redmond and Irish Unity, 1912–1918 (Syracuse UP 2004), xxi, 307pp.
Robin Haynes, Charles Trevelyan and the Great Irish Famine (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 624pp.
Laurence M. Geary, Medicine and Charity in Ireland 1718-1851 (UCD Press 2004), 304pp.
Ann Hamlin & Kathleen Hughes, The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Peter Gray, Victoria’s Ireland: Irishness and Britishness, 1836-1901 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 188pp.
D. W. Hayton, Ruling Ireland, 1685-1742: Politics, Politicians and Parties [Irish Historical Monographs Ser.] (Woodbridge: Boydell Press 2004), xiv + 304pp.
Kevin Kenny, ed., Ireland and the British Empire [Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Ser.] (OUP 2004), xxiv, 296pp. [contribs. by Jane H. Ohlmeyer, Thomas Bartlett, Alvin Jackson, Vera Kreilkamp, Deirdre McMahon, Stephen Howe, Joe Cleary].
Maria Luddy, The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy 1854-1856 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 290pp.
James Lyttleton & Tadhg O’Keeffe, The Manor in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), q.pp.
Peter McLoughlin, Cromwell’s Revenge: A True Story (Dublin: Mercier Press 2004), 192pp.
Antonia McManus, The Irish Hedge School and Its Books, 1695-1831 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin, ed., The Island of St Patrick: Church and Ruling Dynasties in Fingal and Meath, 400-1148 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Christopher Maginn, The Extension of Tudor Rule in the O’Byrne & O’Toole L ordships (Dublin: Four Courts Press), q.pp.
Hiram Morgan, ed., The Battle of Kinsale [Kinsale Winter School, 2002] (Wicklow: Wordwell 2004), 456pp. [contribs. incl. Enriqué García Hernan, Oscar Recio Morales,, John McGurk, Mary Ann Lyons, Hector McDonnell, &c.].
Finola O’Kane, Landscape Design in Eighteenth-century Ireland (Cork UP 2004), 288pp.
Eamonn Ó Ciardha, Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Paul O’Leary, ed., Irish Migrants in Modern Wales (Liverpool UP 2004) [q.pp.
Gillian Smith, The Irish Ordnance Survey: History, Culture and Memory (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 238, ills. [8pp.].
Sarah Alan Stacey & Veronique Désnain, Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-century France and Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 288pp.

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Historical Studies: 20th Century

John Coakley, et al., eds., Renovation or Revolution? New Territorial Politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom (UCD Press 2004), 320pp.
Richard Doherty, Ireland’s Generals in the Second World War (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 250pp. [24pp. of photos [Bernard Montgomery, Gen. Alexander, John Greer Dill, Richard O’Connor, Richard McCreery, Tim Pile, and Alan Brooke].
Terence Dooley, The Land for the People: The Land Question in Independent Ireland (UCD Press 2004), 318pp.
Diarmaid Ferriter, The Transformation of Ireland, 1900-2000 (London: Profile Books), xi, 884pp.
Jim Hourihane, Ireland in Europe: The First Thirty Years, 1973-2002, foreword by David Byrne [Thomas Davis Lects.] (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 138pp. [contribs. incl. Bertie Ahern, Garret Fitzgerald, David Begg, Michael Cronin, Cathryn Costello, Brigid Laffan, Larry Siedentop].
Till Geiger & Michaeal Kennedy, Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 240pp.
Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, The Irish Experience during the Second World War: An Oral History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 304pp. [Maurice James Craig, James F. Hickie, Patrick Lynch, Uinseann MacEoin, Patrick Scott, et al.].
Mark M. Hull, Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland 1939-1945 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2004), 406pp.
Dermot Keogh, Ireland in the 1950s: The Lost Decade (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 302pp.
Dermot Keogh & Mervyn O’Driscoll, eds., Ireland in World War Two: Neutrality and the Art of Survival (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 352pp. [contribs. incl. T. Ryle Dwyer, Donal Ó Drisceoil, Andrew McCarthy, Geoffrey Roberts, Mervyn O’Driscoll and Emma Cunningham].
Mary Kotsonouris, The Winding-up of the Dáil Courts 1922-1925: An Obvious Duty (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 282pp. ill.
Gerard O’Brien, Irish Government and the Guardianship of Historical Records, 1922-72 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 232pp.
Emmet O’Connor, Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 (UCD Press 2004), 280pp.
Mervyn O’Driscoll, Ireland, Germany and the Nazis: Politics and Diplomacy, 1919-1939 [Cork Studies in Irish History, 3] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 304pp. [treats of Charles Bewley, Herr Hempel, Daniel Binchy, Joseph Walshe, et al.].
Cornelius O’Leary & Patrick Maume, Controversial Issues in Anglo-lrish Relations, 1910-21 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 180pp.
Kevin Matthews, Fatal Influence: The Impact of Ireland on British Politics 1920-1925 (UCD Pres 2004), 317pp.
John Newsinger, Rebel City: Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement (Merlin [UK] 2004), 192pp.

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Politics, Economics & Society

Ivana Bacik, Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the 21st Century (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2004), 256pp.
Frank Dunlop, Yes, Taoiseach: Irish Politics from Behind Closed Doors (Penguin Ireland 2004), 362pp.
Tom Garvin, et al., eds., Dissecting Irish Politics: Essays in Honour of Brian Farrell (UCD Press 2004. 272pp.
Tom Garvin, Preventing the Future: Why Was Ireland So Poor For So Long? (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2004), 294pp.
Katie Hannon, The Naked Politician (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2004), 256pp.
Kieran Keohane & Carmen Kuhling, Collision Culture: Transformations in Everyday Life in Ireland (Dublin: Liffey Press 2004), viii, 204pp. [traffic accidents, New Age communities, &c.].
Olivia O’Leary, Politicians and Other Animals (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2004), 160pp.

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Northern Ireland/Ulster

Brian Cliff & Eibhear Walshe, eds., Representing the Troubles: Text and Images 1970-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 160pp. [see contents].
Maurice J. Bric & John Coakley, ed., From Political Violence to Negotiated Settlement: The Winding Path to Peace in Northern Ireland (UCD Press 2004), 256pp.
Leslie Clarkson, A University in Troubled Times, Queens’s Belfast 1945-2000 (Dublin: Fourt Courts Press 2004), 272pp.
Jim Cusack & Henry McDonald, UDA: Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror (Penguin Ireland 2004), 544pp.
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Aftermath: the Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice (London: Secker & Warburg 2004), 384pp.
Brian Feeney, O’Brien Pocket History of the Troubles (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2004), 192pp.
Dean Godson, Himself Alone: The Life of David Trimble (London: Harper Collins 2004), 874pp.
William Kelly & John R. Young, eds., Ulster and Scotland, 1600-2000: History, Language and Identity (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 190pp. [contribs. incl. Alan Titley, Richard Finlay, Steve Murdoch, Kerby A. Miller and Michael Montgomery].
Henry McDonald & Jim Cusack, UDA (Penguin Ireland 2004), 406pp.
Frank Millar, David Trimble: The Price of Peace (Dublin: Liffey Press 2004), 230pp.
Raymond Murray, The SAS in Ireland [1st edn. 1990; rev. edn.] (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 542pp.
Michael O’Connell [NI barrister], Anything But the Truth (Locke Island Books), 224pp.
D. Osborne & I. Shuttleworth, Fair Employment in Northern Ireland: A Generation On (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Alan Parkinson, Belfast’s Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 366pp. ill. [+16pp. photos].
G. K. Peatling, The Failure of the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2004), 320pp.
Raymond John Quinn, Irish Volunteers for Spain: A Short history of the Northern Irish volunteers who fought in defence of the republican government of Spain, 1936-1939 (Belfast Cultural & Local Hist. Group 2004), 50pp.
Chris Ryder, The Fateful Split: Catholics and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (London: Methuen 2004), 384pp.
Sabine Wichert, From the United Irishmen to Twentieth-century Unionism; A Festschrift for A. T. Q. Stewart (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 224pp.

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Archaeology

Isabel Bennett, ed., Excavations 2002: Summary Accounts of Archaeological Excavations in Ireland (Wicklow: Wordwell 2004), 500pp.
Ruth Johnson, Viking Age Dublin (Dublin: TownHouse 2004), 80pp. [popular].
Chris O’Callaghan, Newgrange: Temple to Life (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 128pp.

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Art & Architecture

Fintan Cullen, The Irish Face: Redefining the Irish Portrait (NGI 2004), 240pp.
Brian Lynch, intro., Tony O’Malley (Dublin: New Island 2004), 250pp. [orig. 1996].
Norbert Lynton, William Scott (London: Thames & Hudson 2004), 448pp.
Etain Murphy, A Glorious Extravaganza: The History of Monkstown Church ([Wicklow:] Wordwell 2003), 308pp.
Peter Murray, George Petrie (1790-1866): The Re-Discovery of Ireland’s Past [Crawford Municipal Art Gallery] (Dublin: Gandon 2004), 180pp.
John O’Regan, ed., The Architecture of Scott Tallon Walker, 1960-2004 (Dublin: Gandon Edns. 2004), 360pp.
Virginia Teehan & Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, eds., The Honan Chapel: A Golden Vision (Cork UP 2004), 288pp.

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Religion in Ireland

Mavis Arnold & Heather Laskey, Children of the Poor Clares: The story of an Irish Orphanage (Belfast: Appletree press 2004), 160pp.
John Crawford, The Church of Ireland in Victorian Dublin (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), q.pp.
Robert Dunlop, ed., Evangelicals in Ireland: An Introduction (Columba Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Louise Fuller, Irish Catholicism Since 1950: The Undoing of a Culture (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2002), xxxviii, 380pp.
Muriel McCarthy & Ann Simmons, eds, The Making of Marsh’s Library: Learning, Politics and Religion in Ireland, 1650-1750 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 288pp. [contribs. incl. Colin Wakefield, Ruth Whelan, Raymond Gillspie, J. G. A. Pocock and Andrew Carpenter].
Robert MacCarthy, Preached at St Patrick’s (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004) [q.pp.].
Andrew Madden, Altar Boy: A Story of Life after Abuse (Harmondsworth: Penguin 2004), 220pp.
Norman W. Taggart, Conflict, Controversy and Co-operation: The Irish Council of Churches and “The troubles” 1968-1972 (Dublin: Columba Press 2004), 143pp.

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Diaspora Studies

Patrick J. Duffy, ed., To and from Ireland: Planned Migration Schemes 1600-2000 (Dublin: Geography Publications, 2004), 203pp.
Gerry Harrison, The Scattering: A History of the London Irish Centre, 1954 - 2004 (Historical Publs. Ltd. 2004), 284pp.
Gerard Moran, Sending Out Ireland’s Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004) [q.pp.].

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Women’s Studies

Linda Connolly & Tina O’Toole, Documenting Irish Feminisms (Dublin: Woodfield Press 2004), 396pp.
Richard B. Finnegan & James L. Wiles, Women and Public Policy in Ireland: A Documentary History 1922-1997 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2004), 450pp.
Barbara Freitag, Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an Enigma (London: Routledge 2004), viii, 205pp. [20 ills.]
Susan M. Parkes, ed., A Danger to the Men? A History of Women in Trinity College, Dublin 1904-2004 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 256pp.
Louise Ryan & Margaret Ward, eds., Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2004), 248pp.

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Historical Documents & Literary Reprints

John Sarsfield Casey, The Galtee Boy: A Fenian Prison Narrative, ed. Mairead Maume, Patrick Maume & Mary Casey (UCD Press 2005), 226pp.
Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy, Dermot Keogh, Eunan O’Halpin, eds., Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Vol. 4: 1932-1936 (Royal Irish Academy 2004), xlix, 595pp.
John Broderick, The Pilgrimage (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 200pp. [prev. vols. in 1998, 2000 & 2002].
John Broderick, The Waking of Willie Reilly (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2004), 240pp.
William Bruce & Henry Joy, Belfast Politics: Thoughts on the British Constitution (UCD Press 2004), 220pp.
John Sarsfield Casey, The Galtee Boy: a Fenian Prison Narrative (UCD Press 2004), 208pp.
George Moore, Parnell and His Island, intro. by Carla King (UCD Press 2004), 160pp.
William & Mary Hanbridge, Memories of West Wicklow, 1813-1939, ed. W. J. McCormack (UCD Press 2004), 144pp.
Fearghal McGarry, ed., Republicanism in Modern Ireland (UCD Press), 214pp.
A. P. A. O’Gara, The Green Republic: A Visit to South Tyrone (Dublin: UCD Press 20004), 272pp.
Standish James O’Grady, Sun and Wind, intro. by Edward A. Hagan [Classics of Irish History] (UCD Press 2004), 160pp.
William Cooke Taylor, Reminiscences of Daniel O’Connell (UCD Press 2004), 160pp.
Charlotte Elizabeth Torna, Irish Recollections (UCD Press 2004), 208pp.

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Irish Language Studies

Morty McCarthy, Dowtcha Boy: An Anthology of Cork Slang (Cork: Collins Press 2004), 96pp.
Ciarán MacMurchaidh, ed., Who Needs Irish? Reflections on the Irish Language in the New Millennium (Dublin: Veritas 2004), 160pp. [contribs. incl. Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Neasa Ní Chinnéide, Garbiel Rosenstock, Kate Fennell, et al.].
Peter McQuillan, Native and Natural (Cork UP 2004), 400pp.
Máirín Nic Eoin, ‘Trén bhFearann Breac’: An Díláithriú Cultúir agus Nualitríocht na Gaeilge (BAC: Cois Life 2004), q.pp.
Seán Sheehan, Dictionary of Irish Quotations (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 128pp.
Nancy Stenton, An Haicléara Mánas: A Nineteenth-century Text from Clifden, Co. Galway (DIAS 2004), 266pp.
Alan Titley, Beir leat do shár-Ghaeilge: súil siar agus ar aghaidh [Pamph. 3] (An Aimsir Óg 2005), 50pp.
Thornton B. Edwards, Irish!: A Dictionary of Phrases, Terms and Epithets beginning with the word “Irish” (Cork: Mercier Press 2004), 232pp.
Fionnuala Carson Williams, ed., Wellerisms in Ireland: Towards a Corpus from Oral and Literary Sources (Vermont UP; Linenhall Library 2004), 326pp.

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Media Studies

Ruth Barton, Irish National Cinema (London: Routledge 2004), 213pp.
Mary Corcoran & Mark O’Brien, ed., Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 152pp. [contribs. incl. Conor Cruise O’Brien, Alex White, Desmond Fisher, Farrel Corcoran, Helen Shaw, Ed Moloney, Michael D. Higgins].
Farrel Corcoran, RTÉ and the Globalisation of Irish Television (Portland, Or.: Intellect 2004), 249pp.
Arthur Flynn, The Story of Irish Film ([Dublin:] Currach Press 2004), 256pp.
Geraldine Meaney, Ireland Into Film: Nora (Cork UP 2004, 86pp.
Margot Norris, Ireland Into Film: Ulysses (Cork UP 2004), 98pp. [on the film].
Simon J. Potter, Newspapers and Empire in Ireland and Britain, c.1857-1921 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 240pp.
Kevin Rockett, Irish Film Censorship: A cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 496pp.
Kevin Rockett & John Hill, National Cinema and Beyond [Irish Film Studies, 1] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 176pp.
Helena Sheehan, The Continuing Story of Irish Television Drama: Tracking the Tiger (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 188pp. ill. [24 photos].

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Reference & Guides

Joseph Byrne, Byrne’s Dictionary of Irish Local History: From Ealiest Times to c.1900 (Cork: Mercier 2004), 350pp.
James S. Donnelly, Jr., ed.-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture, 2 vols. [assoc. eds., Karl Bottigheimer, Mary E. Daly, James E. Doan & David W. Miller] (Macmillan Reference USA [Thomson Gale] 2004), xliii-515pp, 517-1,084 [Index., p.1027ff.].
Paul Dryburgh & Brendan Smith, eds., Handbook of Medieval Irish Records in the National Archives of the United Kingdom (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), q.pp.
Sean Duffy, Medieval Ireland: An Encylopedia (London: Routledge 2004), 592pp.
Mary Ketsin, ed., Irish Literature: Background and Guide Books (Nova Publishers 2004), 183pp. [available at Google Books - online].
Neil Lazarus, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (Cambridge UP 2004), xvi, 301pp. [contents].
Maire Ní Mhurchu & Diarmuid Breatnach, 1983-2002 Beathnaisnéis: maille le forlíonadh le 1560-1982 beathaisnéis, agus le hinnéacs (1560-2002) (BAC: An Clóchomhar 2004), 318pp.
Laurence M. Geary & Margaret Kelleher, Nineteenth-century Ireland: A Guide to Recent Research (UCD Press 2004), 320pp.
Shaun Richards, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-century Irish Drama (Cambridge UP 2003), xiii, 287pp. [contents].

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Digital Publications

Regina Uí Chollatáin, An Claidheamh Soluis agus Fáinne an Lae, 1899-1932 (Cois Life 2004), 276pp. [CD with bilingual index].

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Journal Issues

John F. Deane, ed., Europoésie: Journal of the European Academy of Poetry, No. 1 (2004) [contribs. incl. Seamus Heaney]
Patricia McCarthy, ed., Agenda, 40, 1-3, “Irish Issue” ([Aug.] 2004), [cp493].

Irish Geography

Karen Fricker & Brian Singleton, guest eds., “Critical Ireland”, special issue of Modern Drama, 47, 4 [Univ. of Toronto] (Winter 2004), pp.

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Bibliographical details

Selina Guinness, ed., The New Irish Poets (Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books 2004), 336pp. ill [ports]. CONTENTS: Introduction; poems by Fergus Allen; Jean Bleakney; Colette Bryce; Anthony Caleshu; Yvonne Cullen; Paula Cunningham; Celia de Fréine; Katie Donovan; Leontia Flynn; Tom French; Sam Gardiner; Paul Grattan; Vona Groarke; Kerry Hardie; Nick Laird; John McAuliffe; Cathal McCabe; Gearóid Mac Lochlainn; Dorothy Molloy; Martin Mooney; Sinéad Morrissey; Michael Murphy; Colette Ni Ghallchoóir; Conor O’Callaghan; Mary O’Donoghue; Caitríona O’Reilly; Leanne O’Sullivan; Justin Quinn; John Redmond; Maurice Riordan; Aidan Rooney-Céspedes; David Wheatley; Vincent Woods. [Some bilingual Irish-English on facing pages.]

D. George Boyce & Alan O’Day, eds., Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921 (London & NY: Routledge 2004), vii, 291pp. ill. CONTENTS: Alan O’Day., ‘Max Weber and leadership, Butt, Parnell and Dillon: Nationalism in Transition’; James Loughlin, ‘Nationality and Loyalty: Parnellism, Monarchy, and the Construction of Irish Identity, 1880-85’; Michael Wheatley, ‘These quiet days of peace nationalist opinion before the home rule crisis, 1909-1913’; Ian Sheehy, ‘T.P. O’Connor and The Star, 1886-90’; D. George Boyce, ‘A great war transition: state and citizen in Ireland, 1914-1919’; James H. Murphy, ‘Broken glass and batoned crowds: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the tensions of transition’; Nicholas Allen, ‘National reconstruction: George Russell (Æ) and the Irish Convention’; Matthew Kelly, ‘The End of Parnellism and the Ideological Dilemmas of Sinn Féin’; Margaret O’Callaghan, ‘With the eyes of another race of people once hunted themselves: Casement, Colonialism and a Remembered Past’; Janet Nolan, ‘ Unintended Consequences: The National Schools and Irish Women’s Mobility in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’; Virginia Crossman, ‘The charm of allowing people to manage their own affairs: Political Perspectives on Emergency Relief in Late Nineteenth-century Ireland’; Emmet O’Connor, ‘True bolsheviks? the rise and fall of the Socialist Party of Ireland, 1917-21’; Neil Fleming, ‘Old and new unionism: the Seventh Marquess of Londonderry, 1906-21’.

S. M. Griffin, Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-century Fiction (Cambridge, 2004), ix, 284pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. ‘Awful disclosures: the escaped nun’s tale’; 2. ‘The dead father and the rule of religion: the Oxford Movement’; 3. ‘The foreign father and the sons of the sires: nativist novels of the 1850s’; 4. ‘Mariolatry, imperial motherhood, and manhood’; 6. ‘Under which lord? Ritualism, marriage and the law’; 6. ‘Black robes, white veils and foregone conclusions: Disraeli, Howells and James’; ‘Reliquaries’; Notes; Bibliography; Index. [Authors covered incl.Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Kingsley, Henry James, Charlotte Brontë. Griffin has also written on Henry James.]

Sinéad Garrigan Mattar, Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival (Oxford: OUP 2004), viii, 277pp. [Oxford diss. of 1997; CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. The Rise of Celtology; 2. Yeats, Celticism, and Comparitive Science; 3. Yeat’s Ritual of Revolt; 4. The Passing of the Shee: John Millington Synge; 5. Lady Gregory: The Primitive Picturesque; Conclusion].

Linden Peach, The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2004), xvi, 250pp. CONTENTS. 1. Interruptive narratives: emergent voices and haunted presents; 2. Posting the present: modernity and modernization in Glenn Patterson’s Fat Lad (1992) and Robert McLiam Wilson’s Eureka Street (1996); 3. Secret hauntings: Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark 1996), Joseph O’Connor’s The Salesman (1998), Jennifer Johnston’s Fool’s Sanctuary (1987), Mary Leland’s The Killeen (1985) and Linda Anderson’s To Stay Alive (1984); 4. Mimicry, authority and subversion: Brian Moore’s The Magician’s Wife (1997), Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin (2000) and John McGahern’s Amongst Women (1990); 5. Unspoken desires: Jennifer Johnston’s later novels, Emma Donoghue’s Stir-fry (1994) and Kathleen Ferguson’s The Maid’s Tale (1994); 6. Fetishizing absence: Dermot Bolger’s Father’s Music (1997) and Emily’s shoes (1992); 7. ‘Mater Dolorosa’: abject mothers in Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper (1990) and Mary Morrissy’s Mother of Pearl (1995); 8. Limit and transgression: Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Who Walked into Doors’ (1996), Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992) and William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey (1994); 9. Return to silence and beyond: speculative narrative in Bernard MacLaverty’s Grace Notes (1997) and John Banville’s Birchwood (1973).

Heidi Kaufman & Chris Fauske, An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts (Delaware UP 2004), 290pp. ill. [port.] CONTENTS: Introduction; Marilyn Butler, ‘Edgeworth, The United Irishmen, and “More Intelligent Treason”’; Peter Cosgrove, ‘History and Utopia in Ormond’’; Frances R. Botkin, ‘The Keener’s Cry in Castle Rackrent: The Death of Irish Culture?’; Jacqueline Belanger, ‘“Le vrai n’est pas toujours vraisemblable”: The Evaluation of Realism in Edgeworth’s Irish Tales’; Darryl Jones, ‘“Distorted Nature in a Fever”: Irish Bulls, Irish Novels, the 1798 Rebellion, and their Gothic Contexts’; Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, ‘National Character and Foreclosed Irishness: A Reconsideration of Ennui’; Heide Thomson, ‘“The Fashion Not to be an Absentee”: Fashion and Moral Authority in Edgeworth’s Tales’; Jessica Richard, ‘“Games of chance”: Belinda, Education, and Empire’; Catherine Toal, ‘Control Experiment: Edgeworth’s Critique of Rousseau’s Educational Theory’; Susan Manly, ‘Harrington and Anti-Semitism: Mendelssohn’s Invisible Agency’; Kit Kincade, A Whillaluh for Ireland: Castle Rackrent and Edgeworth’s Influence on Sir Walter Scott’; Bibliographical References (pp.270-82)’; Index.

Brian Cliff & Eibhear Walshe, eds., Representing the Troubles: Text and Images 1970-2000 [RIA Conference, April 2003] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 160pp. CONTENTS. 1. Writing the Troubles - Talks by Glenn Patterson, Anne Devlin and Colm Tóibín; 2. Derek Hand, ‘Something Happened: Benedict Kiely’s Nothing Happens in Carmincross and the Breakdown of the Irish Novel’; 3. Richard Haslam, ‘Critical reductionism and Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal’; 4. Jayne Steel, ‘Politicizing the Private: Women Writing the Troubles’; 5. Jozefina Komporály, ‘The Troubles and the Family: Women’s Theatre as Political Intervention’; 6. Gerardine Meaney, ‘The Devil’s Own - Patriot Games: the Troubles and the Hollywood Action Movie’; 7. Des O’Rawe, ‘The Northern Other: Southern Irish Cinema and the Troubles’; 8. J’aime Morrison, ‘Shall We Dance?: Movement Metaphors as Political Discourse’; 9. Bill Rolston, ‘Visions or Nightmares?: Murals and Imagining the Future in Northern Ireland’; 10. Celia Keenan, ‘The Troubles Told to Children’; 11. Liam Kelly, ‘Language, Memory and Conflict: Acts of Interrogation’.

Howard B. Clarke, Jacinta Prunty & Mark Hennessy, eds., Surveying Ireland’s past: multidisciplinary essays in honour of Anngret Simms (Dublin: Geography Publ. 2004), xxxii, 802pp. CONTENTS: Tom Jones Hughes, Foreword; Preface [The editorial board]. 1. Barry Raftery. ‘The end of prehistory’; 2. Patrick F. Wallace, ‘The big picture: mapping Hiberno-Norse Dublin’; 3. Howard B. Clarke, ‘Angliores ipsis Anglis: the place of medieval Dubliners in English history’; 4. Tadbg O’Keeffe, ‘Space, place, habitus, geographies of practice in an Anglo-Norman landscape’; 5. Mark Hennessy, ‘Manorial agriculture and settlement in early fourteenth-century Co. Tipperary’; 6. Terry Barry, ‘Tower houses and terror: the archaeology of late medieval Munster’; 7. Margaret Mac Curtain, ‘Late medieval nunneries of the Irish pale’; 8. Katharine Simms, ‘References to landscape and economy in Irish bardic poetry’; 9. F. H. A. Aalen, ‘The mythical isles and North Atlantic discovery’; 10. Raymond Gillespie, ‘Small worlds: settlement and society in the royal manors of sixteenth-century Dublin’; 11. J. H. Andrews, ‘Classifying early Irish town plans’; 12. William J. Smyth, ‘Excavating, mapping and interrogating ancestral terrains: towards a cultural geography of first names and second names in Ireland’; 13. Philip S. Robinson, ‘Germanic place-names in East Ulster’; 14. Kevin Whelan, ‘Reading the ruins: the presence of absence in the Irish landscape’; 15. Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, ‘The documentation of architecture and sites in Irish gazetteers and road-books, 1647-1875’; 16. Patrick O’Flanagan and Julian Walton, ‘The Irish community at Cadiz during the late eighteenth century’; 17. Susan Hood, ‘Church of Ireland sources for the historical geographer: a case-study of the Meath diocesan archive’; 18. William Nolan, ‘“A public benefit”: Sir Vere Hunt, Bart and the town of New Birmingham, Co. Tipperary, 1800-18’; 19. Avril Thomas, ‘Londonderry c. 1856: a city mapped in unusual detail’; 20. Jacinta Prunty, ‘Military barracks and mapping in the nineteenth century: sources and issues for Irish urban history’; 21. Stephen A. Royle, ‘Small towns in Ireland, 1841-1951’; 22. Mary E. Daly, ‘Dublin the restored capital: civic identity in an independent Ireland’; 23. Ruth McManus, ‘Written in space and stone: aspects of the iconography of Dublin after The documentation of architecture and sites in Irish gazetteers and road-books, 1647-1875’; 25. Joseph Brady, ‘Reconstructing Dublin city centre in the late 1920s’; 26. / Arnold Horner, ‘Reinventing the city: the changing fortunes of places of worship in inner-city Dublin’; 27. Patrick J. Duffy, ‘Unwritten landscapes: reflections on minor place-names and sense of place in the Irish countryside’; 28. K. Mary Davies, ‘Illuminating Irish towns: the Irish historic towns atlas comes of age’; 29. John Bradley, ‘The Irish historic towns atlas as a source for urban history’; 30. Loughlin Kealy, ‘Design and change: reflections on expectations and experience’; 31. Anne Buttimer, ‘On geographical knowledges: retrospect and prospect’; Edel Sheridan-Quantz, Bibliography of the works of Anngret Simms.

Patrick Duffy, et al., eds., Gaelic Ireland, c.1250-1650: Land, Lordship and Settlement (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2004), 454pp. CONTENTS: Patrick J. Duffy et al., ‘Introduction: recovering Gaelic Ireland, c.1250-c.1650’. Part I: The lordships: political structure and social organisation: 1. David Edwards, ‘Collaboration without Anglicisation: the MacGiollapadraig lordship and Tudor reform’; 2. Simon Kingston, ‘Delusion of Dál Riada: the co-ordinates of Mac Domnaill power, 1461-1550’; 3. Patrick J. Duffy, ‘Social and spatial order in the MacMahon Lordship of Airghialla in the late sixteenth century’; 4. Fiona Fitzsimons, ‘Fosterage and gossiprid in late medieval Ireland: some new evidence’. Part II: The natural and built environment - some documentary and scientific records: 5. John H. Andrews, ‘The mapping of Ireland’s cultural landscape, 1550-1630 ‘; 6. Kenneth Nicholls, ‘Woodland cover in pre-modern Ireland’; 7. Valerie A. Hall & Lynda Bunting, ‘Tephra-dated pollen studies of medieval landscapes in the north of Ireland’; 8. Nollaig Ó Mura&aicute;le, ‘Settlement and place-names’; 9. Katharine Simms, ‘Native sources for Gaelic settlement: the house poems’. Part III: Settlement studies: the architectural and archaeological record; 10. Rolf Loeber, ‘An architectural history of Gaelic castles and settlements, 1370-1600’; 11. Colm J. Donnelly, ‘Tower houses and late medieval secular settlement in county Limerick’; 12. Kieran D. O’Conor, ‘The morphology of Gaelic lordly sites in North Connacht’; 13. Thomas E. McNeill, ‘The archaeology of Gaelic lordship east and west of the Foyle’; 14. Elizabeth FitzPatrick, ‘Assembly and inauguration places of the Burkes in late medieval Connacht’; 15. / Audrey J. Horning, ‘“Dwelling houses in the old Irish barbarous manner”: archaeological evidence for Gaelic architecture in an Ulster plantation village’; 16. Aidan O’Sullivan, ‘Crannogs in late medieval Gaelic Ireland, c.1350-c.1650’; 17. Colin Breen, ‘The maritime cultural landscape in medieval Gaelic Ireland’; Place-name index; Personal-name and collective-name index

Steve Garner, Racism in the Irish Experience (London: Pluto Press 2004), 288p. CONTENTS: Sociological frameworks for understanding racism; Money, Migrations and Attitudes; Racing the Irish in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; The ‘Filthy Aristocracy of Skin’: Becoming White in the USA; In the Belly of the Beast: Nineteenth-century Britain, Empire and the Role of ‘Race’ in Home Rule; Other People’s Diasporas: The ‘Racialisation’ of the Asylum Issue; ‘New Racism’, Old Racisms and the Role of Migratory Experience; ‘Remember Blanqui?’: Nation State, Community and Some Paradoxes of Irish Anti-racism; Beyond the New Socio-economic ‘pale’: Racialisation and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland.

Neil Lazarus, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (Cambridge UP 2004), xvi, 301pp. CONTENTS. Neil Lazarus, ‘Introducing postcolonial studies’; Neil Lazarus, ‘Social and Historical Context: The global dispensation since 1945’; Tamara Sivanandan, ‘Anti-colonialism, national liberation, and postcolonial nation formation’; Benita Parry, ‘The institutionalisation of postcolonial studies’; John Marx, ‘The Shape of the Field: Postcolonial literature in the western literary canon’; Simon Gikandi, ‘Poststructuralism and postcolonial discourse’; Timothy Brennan’; ‘From development to globalisation: postcolonial studies and globalisation theory’; Pryiamvada Gopal, ‘Reading subaltern history’; Keya Ganguly, ‘Temporality and postcolonial critique’; Laura Chrisman, ‘Sites of Engagement: Nationalism and postcolonial studies’; Deepika Bahri, ‘Feminism in/and postcolonialism’; Fernando Coronil, ‘Latin American postcolonial studies and global decolonisation’; Andew Smith, ‘Migrancy, hybridity and postcolonial literary studies.

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’; 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’; 7. Richard Allen Cave, ‘On the Siting of Doors and Windows: Aesthetics, Ideology and Irish Stage Design’; 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’; 16. Claire Gleitman, ‘Reconstructing History in the Irish History Play’; 17. Lionel Pilkington, ‘The Abbey Theatre and the Irish State’; 18. Vic Merriman, ‘Staging Contemporary Ireland: Heartsickness and Hopes Deferred’; 19. Brian Singleton, ‘The Revival Revised; Guide to Further Reading; Supplementary Material.

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