Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2005

Poetry Collections
• John Banville, Love in the Wars [after Kleist] (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), q.pp.
• Sara Berkeley, Strawberry Thief (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 64pp.
• Dermot Bolger, Dialogue in Fading Light: New and Selected Poems (Dublin: New Island Press 2005), 150pp.
• Eavan Boland, New Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet 2005), x, 3230pp.
• Pat Boran, New and Selected Poems (Great Wilbraham; Salt 2005), 205pp.
• Eva Bourke, The Latitude of Naples (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2005), 96pp.
• Paddy Bushe, The Nitpicking of Cranes (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2005), 78pp.
• Paddy Bushe, Gile na Gile (Dublin: Coiscéim 2005), 63pp.
• Paddy Bushe, trans., with Yu Jiàzhong, An Góstfhear’; The Ghost Man [Gui Nah], leagan Gaeilge le Gabriel Rosenstock (Dublin: Coiscéim 2005), 243pp.
• Louise C. Callaghan, Remember the Birds (Galway: Salmon Press 2005), 70pp.
• Mary Rose Callan, Footfalls on Snow (Bradshaw 2005), 86pp.
• Ciaran Carson, trans., The Midnight Court [of Brian Merriman] (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 62pp.
• Philip Casey, Dialogue in Fading Light: New and Selected Poems (Dublin: New Island Press 2005), 74pp.
• Máirtín Crawford, Selected Poems (Belfast: Lagan Press 2005), 79pp.
• Michael Davitt, Dánta: 1966-1998 (Dublin: Coiscéim 2005), 218pp.
• John F. Deane, The Instrument of Art (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2005), 118pp.
• Celia de Fréine, Scarecrows at Newtownards (Dublin: Scotus Press 2005), 85pp.
• Louis de Paor, Ag Greadadh Bás sa Reilig/Clapping in the Cemetery, with a foreword by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2005), 232pp. [bilingual, with trans. by Biddy Jenkinson, Mary O’Donoghue & Kevin Anderson].
• Theo Dorgan, trans., Songs of Earth and Light, by Barbara Korun (Southword 2005), 62pp.
• Seán Dunne, Collected Poems, ed. Peter Fallon (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 201pp.
• Desmond Egan, The Outdoor Light (Newbridge: Goldsmith Press 2005), 53pp. [i.m. James McKenna].
• Conleth Ellis, Selected Poems (Athlone: Rebus Books 2005), 175pp.
• Gerard Fanning, Water and Power (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2005), 56pp.
• Gabriel Fitzmaurice, The Bog-hole Boys (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 192pp.
• Janet Fitzpatrick Simmons, The Bowsprit (Belfast: Lagan Press 2005), 66pp.
• Carlo Gebler, The Bull Raid [Táin Bo Cuailgne] (Egmont 2005), 413pp.
• Maurice Harmon, The Doll with Two Backs and Other Poems (Galway: Salmon Press 2005), 71pp.
• Biddy Jenkinson, Oíche Bhealtaine (Coiscéim 2005), 101pp.
• Kevin Higgins, The Boy With No Face (Galway: Salmon Press 2005), 69pp.
• Anne le Marquand Hartigan, Nourishment (Galway: Salmon Publ. 2005), 72pp.
• Seamus Heaney, Testament of Cresseid: A Retelling of Robert Henryson’s Poem (Enitharmon Edns. 2005), 42pp. ill. Hughie O’Donoghue [£175].
• Desmond Hogan, Larks Eggs: New and Selected Stories (2005), 256pp. [22 stories; 10 older and 12 newer].
• Kevin Kiely, Breakfast with Sylvia (Belfast: Lagan Press 2005), 62pp.
• Nick Laird, To a Fault (London: Faber & Faber 2005), 54pp.
• Utterly Monkey (London: Fourth Estate 2005), 344pp.
• Brian Lynch, Pity for the Wicked, with a preface by Conor Cruise O’Brien (Killiney: Duras Press 2005), 78pp.
• James McAuley, New and Selected Poems (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2005), 210pp.
• Thomas McCarthy, Merchant Prince (Dublin: Anvil Press Poetry 2005), 199pp.
• Hugh McFadden, Elegies & Epiphanies: Selected Poems (Belfast: Lagan Press 2005), 87pp.
• Derek Mahon, Harbour Lights (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 80pp.
• Hugh Maxton [W. J. McCormack], Poems 2000-2005 (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2005), 118pp.
• Alan Jude Moore, Black State Cars (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2005), 72pp.
• Sinéad Morrissey, The State of the Prisons (Manchester: Carcanet 2005), 80pp.
• Katarzyn Borun-Jagodzinska, Pocket Apocalypse, trans. Gerry Murphy(Southword 2005), 59pp.
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, trans., After the Raising of Lazarus by Ileanna Mäläncioiu (Cork: Southword Edns. 2005), 67pp.
• Jean O’Brien, Dangerous Dresses (Bradshaw 2005), 73pp.
• Conor O’Callaghan, Fiction (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 80pp.
• Julie O’Callaghan, Problems (Boston: Pressed Wafer 2005), 35pp.
• Micheal Ó Siadhail, Love Life (Newcastle-on-Tyne: Bloodaxe 2005), 117pp.
• Patrick J. O’Connor, To Mete Out a Human Geography: Selected and New Poems (Newcastlewest: Oireacht na Mumhan 2005), 134pp.
• Michael O’Dea, Turn Your Head (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2005), 72pp.
• Dennis O’Driscoll, Fifty O’Clock [New Garland Ser., No. 8] (Dublin: The Happy Dragons Press 2005), 18pp. [ltd. 100; prose poems].
• Nessa O’Mahony, Trapping the Ghost (Blue Chrome 2005), 82pp.
• Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Na hAingle ó Xanadú, 1970-1980 (2005), Maurice Riordan, trans. Immannuel Mifsud, Confidential Reports (Southword 2005), 63pp.
• Gabriel Rosenstock, Rogha Dánta/Selected Poems, trans. by Paddy Bushe, intro. by Robert Welch (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2005), 200pp. [bilingual edn.].
• Knute Skinner, The Other Shoe (Pavement Saw Press 2005), 31pp.
• Michael Smith, Maldon and Other Translations (Shearsman/New Writers’ Press 2005), 156pp.
• Jo Slade, Gift of Bridges (Galway: Salmon Press 2005), 64pp.
• Michael Smith, The Purpose of the Gift: Selected Poems (Shearsman/New Writers’ Press 2005), 164pp.
• Joseph Woods, Bearings (Tonbridge: Worple Press 2005), 63pp.

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Fiction (novels & short stories)
• Cecilia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now (London: HarperCollins 2005), 336pp.
• Colin Batemen, Belfast Confidential (London: Headline 2005), 416pp.
• John Banville, The Sea (London: Picador), 264pp.
• Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way (London: Faber 2005), 292pp.
• Alex Barclay, Darkhouse (London: HarperCollins 2005) [q.pp.].
• Neil Belton, A Game With Sharpened Knives (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005), 328pp.
• Carol Birch, The Naming of Eliza Quinn (London: Virago), 351pp.
• Dermot Bolger, The Family on Paradise Pier (Fourth Estate 2005), 556pp.
• Pádraic Breathnach, Ingne Dearga Dheaideo (Cló Iar Chonnachta 2005), 195pp. [17 stories].
• Jude Collins, Leave of Absence (Dublin: TownHouse 2005), 298pp.
• John Connolly, The Black Angel (London: Hodder 2005), 416pp.
• Helena Close, Pinhead Duffy (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2005), 240pp.
• Tracy Culleton, More Than Friends (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2005), 466p.
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• Séamus de Faoite, Death of a King and Other Stories, ed. John F. Deane (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005) [incls. 2 new stories] 240pp.
• Denyse Devlin, The Catalpa Tree (Penguin Ireland 2005), 456pp.
• Anna Dillon, Consequences (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2005), q.pp.
• Anne Doughty, The Hamiltons of Ballydown (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2005), 432pp.
• Lee Dunne, Dancers of Fortune (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2005), iii, 584pp.
• Seán Dunne, Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 192pp.
• Orflaith Foyle, Belios (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005), 200pp.
• Karen Gillece, Seven Nights in Zaragoza (London: Hodder Headline 2005) [q.pp.]
• Jarlath Gregory, GAAY: One Hundred Ways to Love a Beautiful Loser (Dublin: Sitric 2005), 208pp.
• Tara Heavey, Making It Up As I Go Along (Dublin: Tivoli 2005), 320pp.
• Claire Hennessy, Afterwards (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2005), 188pp.
• Arlene Hunt, False Intentions (London: Hodder Headline 2005), 543p.
• Jason Johnson, Woundlicker (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2005), 176pp.
• Jennifer Johnson, Grace and Truth (London: Review 2005), 223pp.
• Brian Kennedy, Roman Song (London: Hodder Headline 2005), 366pp.
• Mary A. Larkin, Sworn to Secrecy (London: Time Warner 2005), 452pp.
• Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey (London: Fourth Estate 2005), 344pp.
• Declan Lynch, The Rooms (Dublin: Hot Press 2005), 222pp.
• Brian Lynch, The Winner of Sorrow (Dublin: New Island Press 2005), 300pp.
• John Lynch, Torn Water (London: Fourth Estate 2005), 272pp.
• Eugene McCabe, Heaven Lies About Us (London: Jonathan Cape 2005), 309pp. [stories].
• Thomas McCarthy, Merchant Prince (Dublin: Anvill Poetry Press 2005), 199pp.
• Molly McCloskey, Protection (Penguin Ireland 2005), 309pp.
• Sam Millar, The Redemption Factor (Dingle: Brandon Press 2005), 253pp.
• Lia Mills, Nothing Simple (Penguin Ireland 2005), 400pp.
• Gerard Murphy, Death Without Trace (Cork: Collins Press 2005).
• Brian O’Rourke, An Island Heart (Wynkin de Worde 2005), 225pp.
• Mark O’Sullivan, Enright (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2005), 320pp.
• Julie Parsons, The Hourglass (London: Macmillan 2005), 356pp.
• Tom Phelan, The Canal Bridge (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005), 240pp.
• Deirdre Purcell, Children of Eve (Hodder Headline 2005), 508pp.
• Stephen Price, Monkey Man (Dublin: New Island 2005), 280pp.
• Kathy Rogers, It Started with a Wish (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2005), 424pp.
• Mark Roper, Whereabouts (Abbey Press; Peterloo 2005), 63pp.
• Pádraig Standún, Sobalsaol (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2005), 224pp.
• Marsha Swan, Dirty Sky (Dublin [Capel St.]: Hag’s Head Press 2005), 190pp.
• Alice Taylor, House of Memories (Dingle: Brandon Press 2005), 288pp.
• William Wall, This is the Country (London: Sceptre 2005), 288pp.
• Adrian White, An Accident Waiting to Happen (Penguin Ireland 2005), 262pp.
• Denyse Woods, Like Nowhere Else (London: Penguin Ireland 2005), 336pp.
• Grace Wynne-Jones, The Truth Club (Dublin: Tivoli Press 2005), 384pp.

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Drama (Plays & Collections)
• John Banville, Love in the Wars [trans. from Kleist] (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 192pp.
• Padraic Fallon, The Vision of Mac Conglinne and Other Plays, ed. Brian Fallon (Carcanet 2005), 220pp.
• Brian Friel, The Home Place (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 50pp.
• Thomas Kilroy, My Scandalous Life (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), 38pp.
• Tom Mac Intyre, What Happened Bridgie Cleary (Dublin: New Island 2005), 120pp.
• Derek Mahon, Oedipus [after Sophocles] (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2005), [q.pp.].
• James Moran, Staging the Easter Rising: 1916 as Theatre (Cork UP 2005), 260pp.

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Autobiography & Memoir
• Brian Dillon, In the Dark Room: A Journey In Memory (London: Penguin Ireland 2005), 256pp.
• Éamon de Buitléar, A Life in the Wild (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1005), 222pp.
• Terry Eagleton, Holy Terror (Oxford: OUP 2005), 148pp.
• Judith Hill, Lady Gregory: An Irish Life (Sutton Publ. 2005), 432pp,, ill. [+8pp. photos].
• Róisín Ingle, Pieces of Me: A Life in Progress (London: Hodder Headline 2005), 413pp.
• Fergal Keane, All of These People: A Memoir (Harper Collins 2005), 396pp. ill. [8pp. photos].
• James Liddy, The Doctor’s House (Galway: Salmon Press 2005), 142pp.
• Bridget Lyons Thornton, A Noontide Blazing (Currach Press 2005) [q.pp.].
• Seán MacBride, That Day’s Struggle: A Memoir 1904-1951 (Currach Press 2005), 234pp. ill. (+16 photos).
• Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (London: Fourth Estate 2005), 269pp.
• Aidan MacCarthy, A Doctor’s War, intro. by Pete McCarthy (Cork: Collins Press 2005).
• John McGahern, Memoir (London: Faber & Faber 2005), 277pp.
• Máire MacSwiney Brugha, History’s Daughter: A Memoir from the Only Child of Terence MacSwiney (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2005), 320pp.
• Maura Murphy, Don’t Wake Me at Doyles (USA: Thomas Dunne 2005), 416pp.
• Daniel O’Donnell, Follow Your Dream (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2005), 144pp.
• Hilary Pyle, Cesca’s Diary 1913-1916: Where Art and Nationalism Meet (Dublin: Woodfield Press 2005), 450pp.
• Tom Reilly, Joe Stanley: Printer to the Rising (Dingle: Brandon Press 2005), 229pp.
• Tommy Sands, The Songman: A Journey in Irish Music (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005), 278pp.
• Augustus Young, Storytime (Elliott & Thompson 2005), 159pp.

Political & media memoirs

• J. J. Barrett, Martin Ferris: Man of Kerry (Dingle: Brandon Press 2005), 229pp.
• Conor Brady, Up with the Times (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 224pp.
• Pádraig Faulkner, As I Saw It: Reviewing over 30 Years of Fianna Fáil and Irish Politics (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2005), 202pp.
• Paddy Harte, Young Tigers and Mongrel Foxes: A Life in Politics (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2005), 400pp.
• Richard Pine, Music and Broadcasting in Ireland since 1926 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), xxix, 640pp. ill. [24 lvs. of pls.; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM and appendix of recordings of works by Irish composers in RTE Sound Archives compiled by Richard Pine & Joan Murphy].
• Ruairi Quinn, Straight Left: A Journel in Politics (London: Hodder Headline 2005), 442pp.
• Denis Tuohy, Wide-eyed in MediaLand: A Broadcaster’s Journey (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2005), 240pp.

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Biography (Literary & Historical)
• Fiona Brennan, George Fitzmaurice: “Wild in his Own Way”: Biography of an Abbey Playwright (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2005), 241pp.
• John Cowell, A Noontide Mazing: Brigid Lyons Thornton: R ebel, Soldier, Doctor ([Dublin:] Currach Press 2005), 256pp.
• Bob Curran, A Bewitched Land: Ireland’s Witches (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2005), 190pp. [incls. Alice Kyteler, Florence Newton, Bridget Cleary, Biddy Early, Moll Anthony, et. al.].
• John M. Hearne & Rory T. Corish, Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American, foreword by Roy Foster (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 288pp. [13 essays].
• William Henry, Supreme Sacrifice: The Story of Eamonn Ceannt, 1881-1916 (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 160pp.
• Jane Jordan, Kitty O’Shea: An Irish Affair (Stroud: Sutton 2005), 288pp.
• Ray Kavanagh, Mamie Cadden: Backstreet Abortionist (Mercier Press 2005), 224pp. ill. [8pp. photos].
• Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland (London: Hambledon & London 2005), 288pp.
• Gifford Lewis, Edith Somerville (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 528pp. ill. (+32pp. photos.).
• W. J. McCormack, Blood Kindred: The Politics of W. B. Yeats and his Death (London: Pimlico 2005), 224pp.
• Aubrey Malone, A Life in Medicine: Biography of Malachi Smyth 3(Irish Red Cross 2005), 128pp. ill. [+32pp. photos].
• Gerard MacAnastey, Seán Mac Diarmada: The Mind of the Revolution (Drumlin Publ. 2005), 224pp.
• John McGurk, Sir Henry Docwra, 1564-1631: Derry’s Second Founder (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), q.pp.
• Donal Nevin, James Connolly: A Full Life (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 544pp.
• Fintan O’Toole, White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America (London: Faber & Faber 2005), 402pp.
• Eve Patten, Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of 19th-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 207pp.
• Johnny Rogan, Van Morrison: No Surrender (London: Harvill Secker 2005), 628pp. ill. [16pp. of photos].
• Meda Ryan, The Real Chief: The Story of Liam Lynch (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 192pp.
• Phil Young, Patricia Lynch: Storyteller (Dublin: Liberties 2005), 224pp. ill. [+16pp. col.]

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Miscellaneous Writings
• Christine Breen, So Many Miles to Paradise (Dublin: TownHouse 2005) [q.pp.]
• Anne Enright, Making Babies: Stumbling Into Motherhood (London: Jonathan Cape 2005) [q.pp.].
• Padraic Fallon, A Poet’s Journal and Other Writings 1934-1974, ed. Brian Fallon (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005), 351pp.
• Thomas Flanagan, There You Are: Writings on Irish and American Literature and History (NY Review of Books/Granta 2005), 510pp.
• Elgie Gillespie, ed., Vintage Nell: The McCafferty Reader (Dublin: Lilliput 2005), 320pp.
• Mary Ann Lyons & Fionnuala Waldron, eds., Perspectives on Equality: The Second Seamus Heaney Lectures (Dublin: The Liffey Press 2005), ix, 250pp.
• John McNamee, A Man with a Hat: Collected Stories and Prose (Dublin: Weaver Publ. 2005), 192pp.
• Liam Ó Muirthile, Sister Elizabeth ag Eitilt (Dublin: Cois Life 2005), 103pp.
• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Selected Essays, with an introduction by Oona Frawley (Dublin: New Island Press 2005), 300pp.
• John Scally, ed., Easter People: Essays in Honour of Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Dublin: Veritas 2005), 172pp.

 

Scholarly Editions
• David Burleigh, ed., Helen Waddell’s Writings from Japan (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 184pp.
• J. W. Foster, ed., The Nabob: A Tale of Ninety-Eight by Andrew James [Strahan] (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 160pp.

 

Anthologies
• Dermot Bolger & Ciarán Carty, eds., The Hennessy Book of New Irish Writing, intro. by Colm McCann (Dublin: New Island 2005), 300pp. [five years of Sunday Tribune/New Irish Writing].
• Ciaran Carson, ed., The Yellow Nib: The Literary Journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2005), 128pp.
• Ciara Considine, ed., Moments: Irish Women Writers in Aid of the Tsunami Victims (Dublin: Clé/Irish Book Publishers Assoc. 2005), 352pp. [incls. Cecilia Ahern, Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Helen Close, Denise Deegan, Martina Devlin, Laura Froom, Karen Gillece, Cathy Kelly, Sheila O’Flanagan, Julie Parsons, Deirdre Purcell, Patricia Scanlan, et al.].
• Joachim Fischer & Grace Neville, ed., As Others Saw Us: Cork Through European Eyes (Cork: Collins Press 2005), 448pp. [from medieval times].
• Oona Frawley, ed. & intro., New Dubliners: original stories celebrating 100 Years of Joyce’s “Dubliners” (Dublin: New Island 2005), 160pp. [contribs. Maeve Binchy, Joseph O’Connor, Bernard MacLaverty, Roddy Doyle, Ivy Bannister, Desmond Hogan, Colum McCann, Anthony Glavin, Dermot Bolger, Clare Boylan & Frank McGuinness].
• Selina Guinness, ed., The New Irish Poets (Tarset: Bloodaxe 2005), 336pp. [incls. Paula Cunningham, Fergus Allen, Antony Caleshu, Leontia Flynn, Tom French, Paul Grattan, Kerry Hardie, Gearoid Mac Lochlainn, Dorothy Molloy, Sinead Morrissey, Michael Murphy, Conor O’Callaghan, Bernard O’Donoghue, Catriona O’Reilly, Leanne O’Sullivan, Maurice Riordan, Aidan Rooney, David Wheatley, et al.).
• Marie Heaney, Sunday Miscellany: A Selection from 2003 and 2004 (Dublin: TownHouse 2005), 290pp.
• A. Norman Jeffares & Peter van de Kamp, eds., Irish Literature Eighteenth Century: An Annotated Anthology (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 424pp.
• A. Norman Jeffares & Peter van de Kamp, eds., Irish Literature Nineteenth Century, Vol. I (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 424pp.
• Niall MacMonagle, ed., The Open Door Book of Poetry (Dublin: New Island 2005), 128pp.
• Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, ed., The Incredible Hides in Every House: A Collection of Short Stories and Poetry (Dublin: Irish Writers’ Centre 2005), 193p.
• David Marcus, ed., The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories (London: Faber & Faber 2005), 352pp.
[Gerard Donovan, Hugo Hamilton, Claire Keegan, Neil Jordan, Alistair MacLeod, Blanaid McKinney, Molly McCloskey, Bernard MacLaverty, Mary Morrissy, Edna O’Brien, Colm Tóibín, William Wall, Niall Williams, et al.].
• John Moriarty, ed., Invoking Ireland ; Ailu Iath na h-Erend (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005), 238pp.

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Literary & Cultural Commentary
• Louis Armand, Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture ( Litteraria Pragensia’; Charles Univ. Prague 2005), 331pp.
[var. 2008]
• Brian Arkins, Hellenising Ireland: Greek and Roman Themes in Modern Irish Literature (Newbridge: Goldsmith Press: 2005), 236pp. [deals with Synge, Shaw, Yeats; McNeice, Tom Murphy, Tom Paulin, Aidan Mathews, Brendan Kennelly, Frank McGuinness, Brian Friel, Derek Mahon, Marina Carr, et al.).
• Jacqueline Belanger, ed., The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century; Facts and Fictions (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 247pp. [14 papers from conference of 2001, incl. Joe Cleary, et al.]
• Beardow, Frank, & Alison O’Malley-Younger, eds., Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future - A Compendium of Essays (Sunderland UP 2005), xxiv, 173pp.
• Oona Frawley, Irish Pastoral: Nostalgia and Twentieth-century Irish Literature (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), vii, 206pp.
• Sean Campbell & Gerry Smyth, Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock (Cork: Atrium 2005), 194pp. ill. [26 cm].
• Raymond Gillespie & Andrew Hadfield, eds., The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English 1550-1800 (Oxford: OUP 2005), 499pp.
• Glenn Hooper, Travel Writing and Ireland 1760-1860 (London; Palgrave 2005), 240pp.
• Colum Kenny, King’s Inns and the Battle of the Books, 1972: Cultural Controversy at a Dublin Library (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 210pp. ill. [+16pp. photos].
• Declan Kiberd, Irish Writers and the World (Cambridge UP 2005), xi, 331pp.
• Lisbet Kickham, Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society 1979-1922 (Lund Univ. 2005), 252pp. [on Emily Lawless, Jane Barlow, Ella MacMahon, Somerville & Ross, Eliz. Bowen, B. M. Croker, H. H. Penrose, Erminda Rentoul Esler, et al.]
• Jarlath Killeen, Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 240pp. [deals with Sir John Temple, Wm. Molyneux, Archb. William King, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, et al.]
James McCabe, Irish Poetry of World War Two (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 192pp.
• Lucy McDiarmid, The Irish Art of Controversy (Cornell UP; Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005), 288pp.
• Niall O Ciosan, Explaining Change in Cultural History (UCD Press 2005), 188[297]pp. [treats Hugh Lane, Fr. O’Hickey, Lady Gregory & G. B. Shaw, 1913 Lockout and Roger Casement].
• Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & Jennifer Petrie, eds., Patterns in Dante (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 288pp.
• Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation (UCD Press 2005), 240pp.
• Ondrej Pilny & Clare Wallace, eds., Global Ireland: Irish Literatures for the New Millenium [IASIL Conference 2004] (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia 2005), 245pp.[see contents].
• Stan Smith, Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity: Ireland between Fantasy and History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 248pp. [refs. to James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice, Denis Devlin, Brian Coffey, Thomas MacGreevy, Padraic Fallon, Austin Clarke, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, et al.].
• Daragh Smyth, Cú Culann: An Iron Age Hero (Dublin: IAP 2005), x, 206pp.

Critical collections

• Frank Callanan, The Literary and Historical Society 1955-2005 (A&A Farmar 2005), 400pp.
• Ruth Connolly & Ann Coughlin, eds., New Voices in Irlsn Criticism, 5 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 304pp. [29 essays].
• George Cusack & Sarah Goss, eds., Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 304pp.
• Neil Garnham & Keith Jeffrey, eds., Culture, Place and Identity (UCD Press 2005), 206pp.
• Alan Gillis, Irish Poetry of the 1930s (OUP 2005), viii, 228pp.[see contents].
• Anthony Roche, The UCD Aesthetic: Celebrating 150 Years of UCD Writers (Dublin: New Island Press 2005), 250pp. [G. M. Hopkins, Anthony Cronin, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, et al.; contribs. incl. Declan Kiberd, Colm Tóibín and Joseph O’Connor].
• Thompson Mary Shine & Keenan Celia, eds., Treasure Islands: Studies in Children’s Literature (FCP 2005), 219pp.

Bibliography & Library Studies

• Charles Benson & Siobhan Fitzpatrick, eds., That Woman! Studies in Irish Bibliography, a Festschrift for Mary “Paul” Pollard (Dublin: LIbrary Assoc. of Ireland/Lilliput Press 2005), 326pp.
• Michael Slavin, The Ancient Books of Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2005), 208pp.

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Critical Studies: Individual Authors
• Seamus Deane, Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke (Cork UP/Notre Dame UP 2005), 300pp. [essays].
• Brian Devine, Yeats, The Master of Sound (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2005), 374pp.
• Gabriel Fitzmaurice, ed., The World of Bryan MacMahon (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 192pp.
• Raymond Gillespie, Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland (Manchester UP 2005), 232pp.
• John Greening, The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Greenwich Exchange 2005), 100pp.
• Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, ed., Paul Muldoon: Poetry, Prose & Drama (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2005), 304pp.
• Breandan Ó Buachalla, Dánta Aodhagáin Uí Rathaille: Reassessments [ITS, No. 15] (ITS 2005), 64pp.
• Liam P. Ó Murchú, ed., Cinn-lae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúilleanbháin: A Reassessment [5th Annual Seminar of ITS, 2003] (ITS 2005), 134pp. [contribs. incl. Gearoid O Tuathaigh, Cathal O Hainle, et al.].
• Joseph Falaky Nagy & Leslie Ellen Jones, eds., Heroic Poets and poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford [CSANA yearbook, 3-4] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 416pp. [contribs. incl. Geraint Jenkins, Anders Ahlqvist, John Koch, Catherine McKenna and Robin Chapman Stacey.]
• Colm Tóibín, ed., Synge: A Celebration (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2005), 179pp. [contribs. incl. Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle, Anne enright, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Malley, Fintan O’Toole, Vincent Wood and Ann Saddlemyer.]
• Meg Tyler, A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney [Studies in Major Literary Authors ser.] (London: Routledge 2005), xiv, 214pp.

James Joyce

• Joseph Booker, Joyce’s Critics: Transitions in Reading and Culture (Wisconsin UP 2005), 266pp.
• Anne Fogarty & Timothy Martin, eds., James Joyce on the Threshold [17th International James Joyce Symposium] (Florida UP [2005]), 299pp. ill.
• Gert Lernout & Wim Van Mierlo, eds., The Reception of James Joyce in Europe, Vol. 1: Germany, Northern and East Central Europe; Vol. 2: France, Ireland and Mediterranean Europe (Thoemmes Continuum 2005), 540pp.
• Jürgen Schneider, James Joyce in Wiesbaden (Torsten Reis Verlag 2005), 50pp.
• The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition (Brepols Publ. 2002-) [55 fascicles in all; ongoing].
• National Library of Ireland Pamphlet Series, Series 3 (2005), Hans Walter Gabler, “The Rocky Road to Ulysses”; Judith Harrington, “James Joyce: Suburban Tenor; Sean Latham, “Joyce’s Modernism”; Gerard Long, “A Twinge of Recollection: The National Library in 1904 and Thereabouts”; Patrick McCarthy, “Joyce, Family, and Finnegans Wake”; Ira Nadel, “Joyce and His Publishers”; Fran O’Rourke, “Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce’s Quotations from Aristotle”.

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Historical Studies: General
• Gary Boyd, Dublin , 1745-1920: Hospitals, Spectacle and Vice (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), [q.pp.]
• Ciaran Brady & Jane Ohlmeyer, eds., British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland [Conference held in Trinity College, Dublin, 24-25 March 2000, in honour of Aidan Clarke] (Cambridge UP 2005), xx, 371pp. [contents].
• Ciara Breathnach, The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923 (Dublin: Four Courts 2005) [q.pp.]
• Tim Carey, Mountjoy: The Story of a Prison (Cork: Collins Press 2005).
• Liam Chambers, Michael Moore c.1639-1726: The World of an Irish Clerical Migrant (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 160pp.
• Michael de Nie, The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press 1798-1882 (Wisconsin UP 2005), 352pp.
• David Dickson, Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 (Cork UP 2005), xvii, 726pp.
• Rowen Dudley, The Irish Lottery 1780-1801 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 166pp.
• Carlo Gébler, The Siege of Derry (London: Little Brown 2005), 384pp.
• Brian Griffin, Sources for the study of crime in Ireland, 1801-1921 [Maynooth research guides for Irish local history, 9] (Dublin:Four Courts Press 2005), 94pp.
• Heather Laird, Subversive Law in Ireland 1879-1920: From “Unwritten Law” to Dáil Courts (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 188pp.
• David Lynch, Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The History of the Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 208pp.
• James Lyttleton & Tadhg O’Keeffe, The Manor in Medieval and Modern Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 220pp.
• James Kelly, The Liberty and Ormond Boys: Factional Riots in Eighteenth-century Dublin (Dublin: Four Courts 2005) [q.pp.].
• Mary C. Kelly, The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921 (NY: Peter Lang 2005), 262pp.
• Séan McConville, Irish Political Prisoners, 1848–1922: Theatres of War (London: Routledge 2005), q.pp.
• Anthony M. McCormack, The Earldom of Desmond, 1463-1583: The Decline and Crisis of a Feudal Lordship (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 324pp.
• Terrence McDonough, ed., Was Ireland a Colony?: Economics, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-century Ireland, afterword by Terry Eagleton (Dublin: IAP 2005), xiv, 356pp. [see contents]
• Owen McGee, The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood - From the Land League to Sinn Féin (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 392pp.
• Darren McGettigan, Red Hugh O’Donnell and the Nine Years War (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 190pp.
• Kevin McKenny, The Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640-85 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 250pp.
• Christopher Maginn, “Civilising” Gaelic Leinster: The Extension of Tudor Rule in the O’Byrne and O’Toole Lordships (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 224pp.
• Danny Mansergh, Grattan’s Failure: Parliamentary Opposition and the People in Ireland, 1779-1800 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 336pp.
• Elizabeth Malcolm, The Irish Policeman, 1822-1922: A Life (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 272pp.
• Roden, Earl of, ed., The Diaries of Lord Limerick’s Grand Tour 1716 to 1723 (Cashel: Doonreachan Press 2005), 68pp. [Jocelyn, earls of Roden].
• Irene Whelan, The Bible War in Ireland : The Second Reformation and the Polarisation of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005), 384pp.
• Brendan Whiting, Victims of Tyranny: The Story of the Fitzgerald Convict Brothers (NSW [Australia]: Harbour Publ. 2005), 320pp.

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Historical collections

• Damien Bracken & O. Riain-Raedel, eds., Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century: Reform and Renewal (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), [q.pp.].
• Tom Dunne & Laurence M. Geary, ed., History and the Public Sphere: Essays in Honour of John A. Murphy, introduced by Conor Cruise O’Brien (Cork UP 2005), 294pp. [Joe Lee, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Una O’Donoghue, Desmond Clarke, Liam Irwin, Maurice Bric, Emmet Larkin, Cliona Murphy, Maura Cronin, Tomás Ó Canainn, Lawrence McCaffrey, Paul Durcan, et al.] .
• Helen Fulton, ed., Medieval Celtic Literature and Society (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 304pp.
• Terence McDonough, ed., Was Ireland a Colony?: Economy, Politics, Ideology and Culture in Nineteenth-century Ireland, with afterword by Terry Eagleton [SSCR Galway]](Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 384pp. [contribs. incl. Christine Kinealy, Peter Gray, Willa Murphy, Catherine Wynne, Virginia Crossman, et al.]
• Liam Mcllvanney & Ray Ryan, eds., Ireland and Scotland: Culture and Society 1700-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 288pp.
• James H. Murphy, ed., Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 256pp.
Donal Ó Drisceoill & Fintan Lane, ed., Politics and the Irish Working Class 1830-1945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2005), 256pp.[see contents].

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Historical Studies: 20th Century
• Robert Cole, Propaganda, Censorship and Irish Neutrality in the Second World War [International Communications] (Edinburgh UP 2006), x, 196pp.
• Michael Doorley, Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism: The Friends of Irish Freedom 1916-1935 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 223pp.
• Sinéad Joy, The IRA in Kerry 1916-1921 (Cork: Collins Press 2005), [q.pp.].
• Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy, eds., Limerick Boycott 1904: Anti-Semistism in Ireland (Cork: Mercier 2005), 163pp.
• Heather Laird, Subversive Law in Ireland 1929: From ‘Unwritten law’ to the Dáil Courts (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 192pp.
• Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising: Cultural and Political Nationalism in Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.[see contents].
• Rory Miller, Ireland and the Palestine Question 1948-2003 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 280pp.
• Jack Moran, American and Irish Wars: the life and times of Thomas W. Sweeney 1820-1892 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 336pp.
• Brian Murphy, OSB, The Catholic Bulletin and Republican Ireland with special reference to J. J. O’Kelly (“Sceilg”) (Belfast: Athol Books 2005), 314pp. ill.
• John O’Brien, Studies in Irish, British and Australian Relations, 1916-1963 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 164pp.
• Seosamh Ó Longaigh, Emergency Law in Independent Ireland, 1922-48 (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), q.pp.
• Michael Wheatley, Nationalism and the Irish Party: Provincial Ireland 1910-1916 (Oxford: OUP 2005), 303pp.

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Casement Studies
• Mary E. Daly, ed., Roger Casement in Irish and World History [RIA Symposium 5th & 6th May 2000] (Dublin: RIA 2000), 74pp. ill. [facs. & ports] [contribs. incl. Margaret O’Callaghan, Frank Callanan, W. J. McCormack, et al.].
• Mairead Wilson, Roger Casement’s “Black Diaries”: Unravelling the Riddle, with an introduction by Tim O’Sullivan (Belfast: Athol Books/Roger Casement Foundation 2005), 31pp.

New Gill History of Ireland
• Michael Richter, Vol. I: Medieval Ireland – The Enduring Tradition (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 240pp.
• Colm Lennon, Vol. II: Sixteenth-century Ireland - The Incomplete Conquest (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 384pp.
• D. George Boyce, Vol.V: Nineteenth-century Ireland - The Search for Stability (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 352pp. [rev. edn.].
• Dermot Keogh, Vol. VI: Twentieth-century Ireland - Nation and State (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 464pp.

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Military History
• Edward Brett, The British Auxiliary legion in the First Carlist War 1835-1838 (Dublin: Four Courts (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 252pp. [incls. Irish enlistment].
• R. Ryle Dwyer, The Squad and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 271pp.
• Philip Lecane, Torpedoed! The RMS Leinster Disaster (Monkstown: Periscope Publ. 2005), 315pp.
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• Pádraig Lenihan, 1690: Battle of the Boyne (Tempus 2005), 239pp.
• Kevin McKenny, The Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640-80: The Landed Interests, Political Ideologies and Military Campaigns of the North-west Ulster Settlers (Dublin: Four Courts 2005) [q.pp.].
• Alfie Martin, Bale Out! Escaping Occupied France with the Resistance (Newtownards: Colourpoint 2005), 96pp.
• Jack Morgan, Through American and Irish Wars: The Life and Times of Gerneral Thomas W. Sweeny, foreword by Ruan O’Donnell (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 179pp.
• David O’Donoghue, Hitler’s Irish Voices: The Story of German Radio’s Wartime Irish Service (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 256pp.
• David O’Donoghue, The Irish Army in the Congo 1960-1964: The Far Battalions (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 244pp.
• David O’Hara, English Newsbooks and the Irish Rebellon of 1641 (Dublin: Four Courts 2005).
• Philip Orr, Field of Bones: The Gallipoli Campaign (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005) [q.pp.].
• Declan Power, Seige at Jadotville: The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle (Maverick House 2005), 208pp.
• Annie Ryan, Witnesses: Inside the Easter Rising (Dublin: Liberties 2005), 224pp. ill. [+8pp. photos].
• William Sheehan [ed.], British Voices (Cork: Collins Press 2005), 210pp. [Soldiers, sailors and airmen serving in Ireland, 1918-1921].
• James A. Taylor, The 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 368pp. ill. [+8pp. photos].
• Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion (London: Allen Lane 2005), 400pp.
• Gerry White & Brendan O’Shea, Baptised in Blood: The Formation of the Cork Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, 1913-1916 (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 128pp.

The Irish Sword [rep. series]
• Irishmen in War from the Crusades to 1798: Essays from the Irish Sword, Vol. I, intro. by Harman Murtagh with a foreword by Tom Bartlett (Military History Society of Ireland/IAP 2005), 288pp.
• Irishmen in War 1800-2000: Essays from The Irish Sword, Vol. 2, intro. by Harman Murtagh, with a foreword by Keith Jeffery (Military History Society of Ireland/IAP 2005), 304pp.

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Politics, Economics & Society
• Francis D. Murphy, Helen Buckley & Larain Joyce, The Ferns Report, presented by the Ferns Inquiry to the Minister for Health and Children (Dublin: Government Publications 2005).
• Gerry Adams, The New Ireland: A Vision for the Future (Dingle: Brandon Press 2005), 128pp.
• Harry Bohan & Gerard Kennedy, Imagining the Future (Dublin: Veritas 1005), 103pp.
• Michael Corry & Áine Tubridy, Depression: An Emotion Not a Disease (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 296pp.
• Tony Fahey, Bernadette C. Hayes & Richard Sinnott, Conflict and Consensus: A Study of Values and Attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (Dublin: IPA 2005), 320pp.
• Garret FitzGerald, Ireland in the World: Further Reflections on the Irish State(Dublin: Liberties Press 2005), 224pp.
• Brian Girvin & Gary Murphy, The Lemass Era: Politics and Society in the Ireland of Séan Lemass (UCD Press 2005), 288pp.
• Mary Kelly, ed., The Republic: Essays from RTÉ Radio’s Thomas Davis Lecture Series (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 156pp.
• Paddy Hillyard, Bill Rolston & Mike Tomlinson, Poverty and Conflict in Ireland: An International Perspective (IPA for Combat Poverty Agency 2005), 244pp.
• Colum Kenny, Moments that Changed Us (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 288pp.
• Charles Mollan, ed., Science and Ireland : value for society [Science & Irish Culture, 2] (Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, 2005), xxx, 294pp., ill. [Vol. 1 reprinted in c.1980].
• Paul Sweeney, Selling Out? Privatisation in Ireland [TASC] (Dublin: New Island Press 2005), 216pp.
• Suzanne Quin, Contemporary Irish Social Policy (UCD Press 2005), 383pp.

Northern Ireland/Ulster
• Gerry Adams, The New Ireland: A Vision for the Future (Dingle: Brandon Press 2005), 124pp.
• Jonathan Bell, Ulster Farming Families 1930-1960 (Ulster Hist. Found. 2005) [q.pp.]
• Johnston Brown, Into the Dark: 30 Years in the RUC (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 319pp.
• John Coakley, Renovation or Revolution? New Territorial Politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom (UCD Press 2005), 282pp.
• Patrick Hayes & Jim Campbell, Bloody Sunday: Trauma, Pain and Politics (London: Pluto Press 2005), 222pp.
• Thomas Hennessey, Northern Ireland: The Origin of the Troubles (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 462pp.
• Martin Ingram & Greg Harkin, Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland (USA: Wisconsin UP; Dublin: O’Brien Press 2005), q.pp.
• Michael Kerr, Imposing Power-sharing: Conflict and Coexistence in Northern Ireland and Lebanon (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 262pp.
• Michael Kerr, Transforming Unionism: David Trimble and the UUP Election 2005: Doing the Decent Thing? (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 256pp.
• Eamonn McCann, ed. & intro., The Bloody Sunday Inquiry: The Families Speak Out (London: Pluto Press, 2005), 191pp. [electronic version 2006].
• John P. McCann, Passing Through: The Band Airborne Division in Ireland 1943-44 (Newtownards: Colourpoint Books 1005), 128pp.
• Donald M MacRaild, Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: The Orange Order and Irish Migrants in the Northern England, c.1850-1920 (Liverpool UP 2005), 336pp.
• Gerard Murray & Jonathan Tonge, Sinn Féin and the SDLP: From Alienation to Participation (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2005), 320pp.
• Justin O’Brien, Killing Finucane: Murder in Defence of the Realm (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 215pp.
• Richard O’Raw, Blanketmen: The Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike (Dublin: New Island 2005), 271pp.
• Graham Spencer, Omagh: Voices of Loss (Belfast: Appletree 2005), 160pp.
• David Wilson & Mark Spencer, eds., Ulster Presbyterianism in the Atlantic World : Religion, Politics and Identity (Dublin: Four Courts 2005) [q.pp.].

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Religion & Ecclesiastical History
• W. D. Baillie & L. S. Kirkpatrick, ed., Fasti of Seceder Minsters Ordained or Installed in Ireland 1946-1948 (Belfast: Presbyterian Hist. Soc. 2005), 99pp.
• Michael Brown, Converts and Conversion in Ireland 1650-1850 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 320pp.
• Tony Flannery, Keeping the Faith: Church of Rome - Church of God (Cork: Mercier Press 2005), 192pp.
• Patrick Mark Patrick Hederman [OSB], Walkabout: Life as Holy Spirit (Columba Press 2005, 341pp. [incls. reference to Joyce, Yeats, Heaney, Iris Murdoch, Russian icons, San Clemente, et al.].
• Mark Seán Ó Duinn, OSB, Rites of Brigid: Goddess and Saint (Dublin: Columba Press 2005), 236pp.
• Liam Swords, A Dominant Church: The Diocese of Achonry 1818-1960 (Dublin: Columba Press [2005]), 700pp. [Vol. 3 of work].

 

Diaspora Studies
• Brad Patterson, Ulster-New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), q.pp.
• John Hume, Far from the Green Fields of Erin : Ulster Emigrants and Their Stories (Newtownards: Colourpoint 2005), 128pp.

Women’s Studies
• Linda Connolly & Tina O’Toole, Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave (Woodfield Press 2005), 284pp.
• Sandra Cullen, Religion and Gender (Dublin: Veritas 2005), 221pp. [for schools; incls. lives of Nano Nagle, Catherine McAuley, Mary Aikenhead & Margaret Louise Aylward].
• Ruth Kelly, Motherhood Silenced: The Experience of Natural Mothers on Adoption Reunion (Liffey Press 2005).
• Maria Luddy, Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy 1854-56 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 260pp.
• Susan McKay, ed., Without Fear: 25 years of the Rape Crisis Centre (Dublin: New Island 2005), 300pp.
• Christine Meek & Catherine Lawless, ed., Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women 4: Victims or Viragos? (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 240pp.
• Maureen Murphy, ed., Annie O’Donnell, Your Fondest Annie: Letters of Annie O’Donnell to James P. Phelan, 1901-1904 (UCD Press 2005), 160pp.
• Mary O’Dowd, A History of Women in Ireland 1500-1800 (Pearson 2005), 344pp.
• Rosemary Cullen Owens, Social History of Women in Ireland 1870-1970 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 432pp.
• Tina O’Toole, ed., Dictionary of Munster Women Writers 1800-2000 (Cork UP 2005), 376pp. [560 writers with 220 in Irish].
• Rosemary Raughter, Religious Women and Their History: Breaking the Silence, foreword by Margaret MacCurtain (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2005), 160pp.
• Oonagh Walsh, Anglican Women in Dublin: Philanthropy, Politics and Education in the Early Twentieth Century (UCD Press 2005), 304pp.

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Topography & Environment
• Rosita Boland, A Secret Map of Ireland (Dublin: New Island 2005), 280pp. [32 chaps.].
• E. Brett, Georgian Belfast 11750-1850: Maps, Buildings and Trades (RIA/Belfast Natural Hist. and Phil. Soc. 2005), 80pp.
• Jacinta Prunty, Maps and Map-making in Local History (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 352pp.
• Richard Nairn, Ireland’s Coastline: Exploring Its Nature and Heritage (Cork: Collins Press 2005), 200pp.
• Avril Thomas, Derry-Londonderry [Irish Historic Towns Atlas, 15] (RIA 2005), A3, 20 loose maps.

Historical Documents & Literary Reprints
• John Bew, intro., Belfast Politics: William Bruce & Henry Joy (UCD Press 2005), 232pp. [writings from Belfast News-Letter, 1792-93].
• Liam Breatnach, A Companion to the Corpus Iuris Hibernici (DIAS/School of Celtic Studies 2005), 515pp.
• Patrick Corish & Benignus Millett, eds., The Irish Martyrs (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 204pp. [incl. cases of Patrick O’Healy, Margaret Ball and William Tirry].
• Thomas McGrath, [ed.,] The Pastoral and Education Letters of Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin, 1786-1834 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 396pp.
• Dorothy Macardle, The Irish Republic (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2005), 1046pp.
• Benignus Millett & Anthony Lynch, Collectanea Hibernica: Sources for Irish History, Nos. 46 & 47 (Killiney: Franciscan House 2005), 304pp.
• Pádraig Ó Macháin & Tony Delaney, Like Sun Gone Down: Selections from the Writings of John Canon O’Hanlon (Kilkenny: Galmoy Press 2005), 303pp.
• Goddard Henry Orpen, Ireland under the Normans [1911-1920], with an introduction by Seán Duffy [rep. from IHS] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 640pp.
• Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha, Narrative History of Ireland/Stair-Sheanchas Éireann (Aubane Hist. Soc. 2005), 277pp. [rep. of school history to 1933].
• Beverly Schneller, Anna Parnell’s Political Journalism [Irish Research Ser., 22] (MD: Academica Press LLC 2005), 312pp.

 

Irish Language & Celtic Studies
• Michael Cronin, Irish in the New Century/An Ghaeilge San Aois Nua (Baile Átha Cliath: Cois Life Teo. 2005), [128]pp.
• Tony Crowley, War of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004 (Oxford: OUP 2004), 263pp.
• Nollaig Mac Congáil, Irish Grammar Book (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2005), 222pp.
• James MacKillop, Myths and Legends of the Celts (Penguin 2005), 416pp.
• Kevin Murray, Baile in Scáil: The Phantom’s Frenzy (ITS 2005), 188pp.
• Ciarán Ó Coigligh, ed., Caitlín Maude: Dánta Dramaíocht agus Prós (Cosceim 2005), 220pp.
• Breandán Ó Madigáin, Caointe agus Seancheolta Eile: Keening and Other Old Irish Musics (Clo Iar-Chonnachta 2005), 156pp.
• Máirín Nic Eoin, Trén bhFearann Breac: An Díláithriú Cultúir agus Nualitríocht na Gaeilge (Cois Life 2005), 580pp.
• Liam Prút, eag. [ed.], Athbheochan an Léinn nó Dúchas na Gaeilge: iomarbhá idir Pádraig de Brún agus Domhnall Ó Corcora [Daniel Corkery], Humanitas 1930-31 (Dublin: Coiscéim 2005), 61pp.
• Caitriona Ó Torna, Cruthú na Gaeltachta 1892-1922 (sa tSraith Lúb ar Phár) (Dublin: Cois Life 2005), 182pp.
• Seosamh Watson, Irish Dictionary: Pocket Book (Belfast: Appletree Press 2005), 96pp..

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Theatre, Film & Media Studies
• Ray Burke, Press Delete: The Decline and Fall of the Irish Press ([Dublin:] Currach Press 2005), 336pp.
• Mary Corcoran & Mark O’Brien, Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 152pp.
• Margaretta D’Arcy, Loose Theatre: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Theatre Activist (Galway: Trafford & Women’s Press), 490pp.
• Arthur Flynn, The Story of Irish Film (Dublin: Currach Press 2005), 256pp.
• Roger Greene, Under the Spotlight: Profiles of Leading Figures from the Irish Media (Dublin: Liffey Press 2005), 250pp.
• John Hill & Kevin Rockett, Film History and National Cinema [Studies in Film, 2] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 176pp.
• Jim Keenan, Dublin Cinemas: A Pictorial Selection (Dublin: Picture House Publ. 2005), 128pp.
• Des O’Driscoll, ed., Irish Examiner: 100 Years of History (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 224pp.
• Kevin Rockett & John Hill, eds., National Cinema and Beyond [Postgrad. Seminar TCD 2003] (Dublin: Four Courts 2005), 170pp.
• Helen Shaw, The Irish Media Directory and Guide 2005 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 320pp.
• John Sterne, Adventures in Code: The Story of the Irish Software Industry (Dublin: Liffey Press 2005), 344pp.

Arts, Music & Architecture
• Michka Assayas, Bono on Bono: Concversations with Michka Assayas (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2005), 335pp. [8pp. photos].
• Julian Campbell, Walter Osborne in the West of Ireland (Dublin: James Adams 2005), 128pp.
• Colin Harper & Trevor Hodgett, Irish Folk, Trad and Blues: A Secret History (Cork: Collins Press 2005), 422pp.
• William Laffan, Friendship Portraits [of] John Butler Yeats (Dublin: Pym Gallery 2005), 44pp.
• Brian Lalor, The Irish Round Tower: Origins and Architecture Explored (Cork: Collins Press 2005), 24pp.
• Michael McCarthy, Classical and Gothic: Studies in the History of Art (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 160pp.
• Peter Murray, ed., Maritime Paintings of Cork 1700-2005 (rawford Municipal Art Gallery/Gandon Press 2005), 176[240]pp.
• Finola O’Kane, Landscape Design in Eighteenth-century Ireland: Mixing Trees with the Natives (Cork UP 2005), 224pp.
• Lillis Ó Laoire, On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean / Ar chreag i lár na farraige: Songs and Singers in Tory Island, Ireland, in collaboration with Éamonn Mac Ruairí (Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press 2005), xvi, 359pp., ill. [16pp. of pls. + 1 CD].
• Aidan Quinn, On Reflection: Modern Irish Art 1960s-1990s, A Selection from the Bank of Ireland Collection (Crawford Muncipal Art Gallery 2005), 83pp.
• Nicholas Ryan, Stone Upon Stone: The Use of Stone in Irish Building (Cork: Collins Press 2005), 221pp.
• Harry White, The Progress of Music in Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 208pp.
• David Whittaker, Tony O’Malley: An Irish Artist in Cornwall (Waverstone Press/Columba Mercier 2005), 96pp.

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Reference Works & Guides
• Douglas Bennett, Encyclopaedia of Dublin: Revised and Expanded [1st edn. 1991; rev. & enl.] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 352pp.
• Joe Cleary & Claire Connolly, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge UP 2005), 363pp. [contents].
• Laurence M. Geary & Margaret Kelleher, eds., Nineteenth-century Ireland: A Guide to Recent Research (UCD Press 2005), 352pp.
• Brian Griffin, Sources for the Study of Crime in Nineteenth-century Ireland, 1801-1921 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2005), 288pp.
• D. J. Hickey & J. E. Doherty, A New Dictionary of Irish History Since 1800 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005), 528pp.
• Margaret Kelleher & Phillip O’Leary, eds., The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (Cambridge UP 2005), 2 vols. 1400pp.
• Mary Ketsin, Irish Literature: Background and Guide to Books (NY: Nova Science Publ. [2005]), 210pp. [1,250 primary titles]
• H. C. Fleming & Alan O’Day, Longman’s Handbook of Modern Irish History (Harlow: Pearson Education 2005), ix, 808pp. [I - Political history: Elections; Heads of State; House of Lords; Local Government; Parliament & Govt.; Political Parties; Principal Ministers. 2 - Social and Religious History: Communications; Education; Language; Law, Order & Defence; Leaders of Religious Denominations; Membershiop of Relig.Denoms.; Occuptations; Population & Emigration; Irish Peerage; Trade Unions; Women. 3 - Economic History: Cost of living Index; Geography & Transport; Prices & Wages; Trade & Agriculture; Property; Unemployment. 4 - Foreign Relations. 5 - Biographies. 6 - Glossary. Index.
• Seán MacMahon & Jo O’Donoghue, Brewer’s Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable, foreword by Maeve Binchy (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005), 867pp.
• Tina O’Toole, gen. ed., with Gearóidín Nic Carthaigh & Síle Ní Chochláin, Irish eds./Eagarthóirí Gaeilge, A Dictionary of Munster Women Writers/Scríbhneoirí ban na Mumhan, 1800-2000, foreword by Patricia Coughlan & Éibhear Walshe ( Cork UP 2005), xlvi, 330pp.
• Brian Shaffer, ed., A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell 2005), 583pp.

Digital Publications
• James Hardiman, The History of the Town and County of Galway [1820] (Archive CD Books Ireland/TCD 2005) [www.archivecdbooks.ie].
• Pigot’s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory [1824] (Archive CD Books Ireland/TCD 2005).
• Taylor and Skinner’s Maps of the Roads of Ireland Surveyed in 1777 and Corrected Down to 1783 [1783] (Archive CD Books Ireland/TCD 2005).
• Medical Directory for Ireland [1852] (Archive CD Books Ireland/TCD 2005).
• Statistical Survey of County Donegal [1802] (Archive CD Books Ireland/TCD 2005).
• Ireland’s Memorial Records: World War I - 1914-1918 (Enclann CD ROM 2005)
• James E. Maher, ed., Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain and Ireland 1858-1870 (Enclann CD ROM 2005).

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Journal Issues
• Ciaran Carson, ed., The Yellow Nib: The Literary Journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Vol. 1 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2005), 108pp. [poetry & criticism].
• Seamus Deane & Breandán Mac Suibhne, eds., Field Day Review 2005 [Vol. 1] (Field Day Publ./Keough Inst. 2005), 287pp. [contribs. by Benedict Anderson, Mary Burgess, Luke Gibbons, David Lloyd, Brendan O’Leary, Philip Pettit, Cormac Ó Gráda, Clare Carroll, et al.
• Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, eag. [ed.], Irishleabhar Mhá Nuad 2005 (Mhá Nuad [Maynooth]: An Sagart 2005), 224pp.
• Anne Cleary, ed., “Masculinities”, Irish Journal of Sociology [Special Issue] (Dublin: Sociological Association of Ireland 2005), 253pp.
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