Select Annual Listing: 2006

Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & its Contexts: 2006

Original Works (Literature)
Poetry Collections Fiction (short stories & novels) Drama (plays & collections) Autobiography & Memoir	Biography (literary & historical) Miscellaneous Writings Scholarly Editions & Selections Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
Literature & Culture
Literary & Cultural Commentary Critical Studies: Indiv. Authors Language & Folklore Studies	Media & Entertainment Art & Architecture Natural History & Topography
History, Politics & Society
Historical Studies: General Historical Studies: 20th Century Historical Studies: Easter 1916	Historical studies: Ecclesiastical Politics, Economics & Society Religion & Philosophy
Northern Ireland/Ulster	Women’s Studies
Reference Works & Digital Publications
Reference & Bibliography Digital Publication	Journals & Special Issues

Poetry Collections

Fergus Allen, Gas, Light and Coke (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2006), 83pp.
Leland Bardwell, The Noise of Masonry Settling (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2006), 76pp.
Michael S. Begnal, Ancestor Worship (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2006), 72pp.
Tony Curtis, The Well in the Rain: New and Selected Poems (Arc Publications 2006), 197pp.
Greg Delanty, Collected Poems 1986-2006 (Manchester: Carcanet 2006), 244pp.
Mícheál Fanning, Homage (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2006), 126pp.
Michael Foley, Autumn Beguiles the Fatalist (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2006), 151pp.
Robert Greacen, Selected & New Poems, ed. Jack J. Weaver (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2006), 199pp.
Vona Groarke, Juniper Street (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2006), 72pp.
Kerry Hardie, The Silence Came Close (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2006), 79pp.
Seamus Heaney, District and Circle (London: Faber & Faber 2006), 80pp.
Jerome Kiely, Swallows in December (Trafford 2006), 123pp.
Thomas Kinsella, Marginal Economy [Peppercanister 24] (Dublin: Dedalus; Manchester: Carcanet; USA: Dufour 2006), 36pp.
Thomas Kinsella, A Dublin Documentary (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2006), 111pp.
Michael Longley, Collected Poems (London: Jonathan Cape 2006), 366pp.
Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Trodaí agus Dánta Eile/The Warrior and Other Poems (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2006), q.pp.
Patrick McCabe, Winterwood (London: Bloomsbury 2006), 242pp.
Tom Mac Intyre, ABC: New Poems (Dublin: New Island Press 2006), 80pp.
Medbh McGuckian, The Currach Requires No Harbours (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2006), 80pp.
Derek Mahon, Art Works (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2006), 24pp. ill. [drawings by Vivienne Roche; signed ltd. edn.].
Paul Muldoon, General Admission (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2006), 104pp. [with Warren Zevon].
Gerard Murphy, End of Part One: New & Selected Poems, preface by John Montague (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2006), 204pp.
Kevin Kiely, A Horse Called El Dorado (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2006), 141pp.
Dorothy Molloy, Gethsemane Day (London: Faber & Faber 2006), 64pp.
Colette Nic Aodha, Sundial (Dublin: Arlen House 2006), 64pp.
Mary O’Donnell, The Place of Miracles: New and Selected Poems (Dublin: New Island Press 2006), 200pp.
Gregory O’Donoghue, Ghost Dance (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2006), 87pp.
Desmond O’Grady, On My Way (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2006), 112pp.
Mary O’Malley, A Perfect V (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2006), 78pp. [96pp.].
Michael O’Siadhail, Love Life (Bloodaxe Poetry 2006), 117pp.
Yilmaz Odabaci, Everything But You, trans. Patrick Galvin & Robert O’Donoghue (Cork: Southword 2006), 66pp.
Paul Perry, The Orchid Keeper (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2006), 64pp.
Justin Quinn, Waves and Trees (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2006), 78pp.
Maurice Scully, Sonata (Hastings: Reality Street 2006), 104pp. [last of “Things that Happen” series.]
Maurice Scully, Tig (Shearsman Books 2006), 102pp.
Robert Welch, The Evergreen Road (Belfast: Lagan Pres 2006), 96pp.
David Wheatley, Mocker (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2006), 72pp.
Macdara Woods, Artichoke Wine (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2006), 112pp.

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Fiction (Short stories & novels)

Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here (London: Harper Collins 2006), 389pp.
John Banville [as Benjamin Black], Christine Falls (London: Picador 2006), 389pp.
Jack Barry [psued. of John Maher], Miss Katie Regrets: A Dublin Murder Mystery (Dingle: Brandon 2006), 254pp.
Maeve Binchy, Start Sullivan (London: Orion 2006), 128pp.
Benjamin Black [pseud. of John Banville], Christine Falls (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2006), 310pp.
Mary Bond, All Things Perfect (Dublin: Tivoli 2006), 549pp.
Liam Browne, The Emigrant’s Farewell (London: Bloomsbury 2006), 316pp.
Marita Conlon-McKenna, The Hat Shop on the Corner (London: Bantam 1006), qpp.
John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2006), 310pp.
Denise Deegan, Love Comes Tumbling (Penguin Ireland: 2006), 408pp.
Denyse Devlin, Hopscotch (Penguin Ireland 2006), 436pp.
Anne Doughty, The Hawthorns Bloom in May (Belfast: Blackstaff Press; Sutton: Severn Press 2006), 296pp.
Roddy Doyle, Paula Spencer: A Novel (London: Jonathan Cape 2006), 277pp.
Catherine Dunne, Something Like Love (London: Macmillan 2006), 310pp.
Mícheál Fanning, Homage (Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry 2006), 126pp.
Mia Gallaher, Hellfire (Penguin Ireland 2006), 658pp.
Karen Gillece, Longshore Drift (London: Hodder Headline 2006), 301pp.
Hugo Hamilton, The Sailor in the Wardrobe (London: Fourth Estate 2006), 271pp.
Kerry Hardie, The Bird Woman (London: HarperCollins 2006), 400pp.
Jack Harte, Wake of the Bagger (Scotus Press 2006), 190pp.
Kate Holmquist, The Glass Room (Pengin Ireland 2006), 340pp.
Declan Hughes, The Wrong Kind of Blood (London: John Murray 2006), 350pp.
M. J. Hyland, Carry Me Down (Canongate 2006, 344pp.
Tara Heavey, Making It Up As I Go Along (Dublin: Tivoli Press), 320pp.
Jason Johnson, Alina (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2006), 224pp.
Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage (Dublin: Tivoli 2006), 223pp.
Claire Kilroy, Tenderwire (London: Faber & Faber 2006), 272pp.
Pauline McLynn, Summer in the City (London: Review 2006), 319pp.
Colum McCann, Zoli (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006), 352pp.
Elizabeth MacDonald, A House of Cards ([Dublin:] Pillar Press 2006), 124pp.
John McGahern, Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories (London: Faber & Faber 2006), 408pp.
Glenn Meade, The Devil’s Disciple (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2006), 569pp.
Cormac Millar [pseud. of Cormac Ó Cuillleanáin], The Grounds (Penguin Ireland 2006), 336pp.
Sam Millar, The Darkness of Bones (Dingle: Brandon Press 2006), 234pp.
Andrew Nugent, [OSB], The Four Courts Murder (London: Hodder Headline 2006), 286pp.
Deirdre Purcell, Tell Me Your Secret (London: Hodder Headline 2006), 349pp.
Stephen Price, The Christmas Club (Dublin: New Island 2006), 320pp.
Edna O’Brien, The Light of Evening (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006), 224pp.
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse (Pengujin Ireland 2006), 288pp.
Sheila O’Flanagan, Yours, Faithfully (London: Headline Review 2006), 441pp.
Pamela Rowan [Terri Prone], Honeymoon Hurricane (Cork: Mercier Press 2006), 122pp.
Keith Ridgeway, Animals (London: Fourth Estate 2006), 271pp.
Ian Sansom, The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books (London: HarperCollins 2006), 351pp.
Billy Roche, Tales from Rainwater Pond (Thomastown: Pillar Press 2006), 302pp.
Liz Ryan, Beautiful Dreamer (London: Hodder 2006), 320pp.
Gerard Stembridge, Life According to Luke (Penguin Ireland 2006), 240pp.
Kate Thompson, Hard to Choose (Dublin: New Island Press 2006), 250pp.
Colm Tóibín, Mothers and Sons (London: Picador 2006), 309pp.
Peter Tremayne [pseud. of Peter Beresford Ellis], A Prayer for the Damned (London: Headline 2006), 316pp.
William Wall, No Paradiso (Brandon Books 2006), 191pp.
Bill Walsh, About Matilda (Penguin Ireland 2006), 318pp.
Robert Welch, The Evergreen Road (Belfast: Lagan Press 2006), 69pp.

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Drama (Plays & Collections)

Maeve Binchy, Deeply Regretted By … (Dublin: Arlen House 2006), 80pp.
Bernard Farrell, Many Happy Returns (Cork: Mercier Press 2006), 126pp.
Marina Carr, Woman and Scarecrow (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2006, 68pp.
Stella Feehily, O Go My Man (London: Nick Hern Books 2006), 128pp. [prod. by Out of Joint at Royal Court Th., London, 2006].
Elizabeth Kuti, The Sugar Wife (London: Nick Hern Books 2006), 96pp. [nom. Irish Times best new play].
Conor McPherson, The Seafarer (London: Nick Hern Books 2006), 111pp.
Robert Welch, Protestants (Belfast: Lagan Press 2006), 79pp. [with add. remarks by Welch, Rachel O’Riordan and Michael Portillo].

Autobiography & Memoir

Patrick Skene Catling, Better Than Working (Dublin: Liberties Press 2006), 294pp. ill. [8pp.].
Ronnie Delaney, Ronnie Delaney: Staying the Distance (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2006), 208pp.
Geraldine Plunkett Dillon, All in the Blood (Dublin: A. & A. Farmar 2006), 350pp.
Bob Doyle & Harry Owens, Brigadista (Dublin: Currach 2006), [q.pp.]
Henry Glassie, The Stars of Ballymenone (Bloomington: Indiana UP 2006), 579pp. [text & compact disk; available online].
Eamonn Holmes, The Autobiography (London: Orion 2006), 352pp.
Michael Kirby, Skelligs Sunset (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2006), 224pp.
Larry Kirwan, An Irish Odyssey (Dingle: Brandon Books 2005), 371pp, ill. [8pp. of pls.].
Desmond FitzGerald, To the Rising: The Memoirs of Desmond FitzGerald (Dublin: Liberties Press 2006), 160pp.
Anne Leonard, ed., The Magnificent McDowell: Trinity in the Golden Era (London: Eccleston Press 2006), xi, 150pp.
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (London: Harper 2006), 352pp.
John McGahern, Memoir (London: Faber & Faber 2006), 288pp.
John McKenna, Things You Should Know: A Memoir (Dublin: New Island 2006), 240pp.
Will Morrison, Between the Mountains and the Gantries (Belfast: Appletree Press 2006), 217pp.
Kevin Myers, Watching the Door: A Memoir 1971-1978 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2006), 256pp.
Deirdre Purcell, Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes (London: Hodder Headline Ireland 2006), 377pp.
Celine Roberts, No One Wants You: A Memoir of a Child Forced into Prostitution (Lodnon: Merlin 2006), 320pp.
Peter Tyrrell, Founded on Fear: Letterfrack Industrial School, War and Exile (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 288pp.
U2 by U2 (London: HarperCollins 2006), 352pp. [Bono & Co.].
Michael White, C. S. Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia (London: Abacus 2006), xi, 268pp. ill. [8pp. of pls].

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Biography (Literary & Historical)

J. J. Barrett, Martin Ferris: Man of Kerry (Dingle: Brandon 2006), 256pp.
Gabriel Doherty & Dermot Keogh, Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State (Cork: Mercier 2006), 224pp.
Nicholas Furlong, Diarmaid King of Leinster [Dermot MacMurrough] (Cork: Mercier Press 2006), 192pp.
Anthony J. Jordan, W. T. Cosgrave: Founder of Modern Ireland (Westport Books 2006), 218pp.
Gordon T. Ledbetter, The Great Irish Tenor: John McCormack (Dublin: TownHouse 2006), 254pp.
Anne Leonard, ed., The Magnificent McDowell: Trinity in the Golden Era (London: Eccleston Press 2006), xi, 150pp
John P. McCarthy, Kevin O’Higgins: Builder of the Irish State (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), xvi, 328pp. ill. [8 lvs. of pls.].

The Ivy Leaf: the Parnells Remembered

Fionnula MacCurtain, Remember It’s for Ireland: A Portrait of Tomás MacCurtain (Cork: Mercier Pres 2006), 224pp.
Ambrose Macaulay, Patrick McAlister, Bishop of Down and Connor, 1886-95 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 160pp.
Linda Kelly, Ireland’s Minstrel: A Life of Tom Moore - Poet, Patriot and Byron’s Friend ([London:] IB Tauris 2006), 262pp.
Paschal Scotti, Out of Due Time: Wilfrid Ward and the Dublin Review (Washington: CUA UP 2006), x, 329pp. [editor of Dublin Review, 1906-16].
Michael Smith, Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing (Cork: Collins Press 2006), 300pp.
Michael Smith, Tom Crean: An Illustrated Life (Cork: Collins Press 2006), q.pp.
Eibhear Walshe, Kate O’Brien: A Writing Life (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), xiii, 194pp. ill. [8pp. of pls.].

Miscellaneous Writings

Michael Kirby, Skelligs Sunset (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2006), 224pp. [poetry & fiction].
Maurice Harmon: Selected Essays, ed. Barbara Brown, foreword by Terence Brown (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 248pp. [essays on Clarke, Kavanagh, Kinsella, O’Faolain, Kiely, et al.].
Roy H. W. Johnston, A Century of Endeavour: A Biographical and Autobiographical View of the Twentieth Century in Ireland (Tyndall & Lilliput 2006), 584pp.
Anthony Jordan, ed., Boer War to Easter Rising: Writings of John MacBride (Westport Books 2006), 200pp.
Richard Kearney, Navigations: Collected Irish Essays, 1976-1996 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2006), 480pp.
John Killen, ed., Dear Mr McLaverty: The Literary Correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty (Linen Hall Library 2006), 58pp.
Thomas Kinsella, Readings in Poetry (Dublin: Peppercannister/Dedalus; USA: Dufour 2006), 49pp.
Hugh McFadden, ed., Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2005), 400pp.
Paul Muldoon, The End of the Poem (London: Faber & Faber 2006), 432pp.
Glenn Patterson, Lapsed Protestant [Collected Pieces] (Dublin: New Island Press 2006), 200pp.
Tim Robinson, Connemara: Listening to the Wind (Penguin Ireland 2006), viii, 439pp. ill. [map].

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Scholarly Editions & Reprints (Literary & Historical)

Catriona Crowe, Ronan Fanning, Michael Kennedy, Eunan O’Halpin & Dermot Keogh, eds., Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Vol. V [1937-39] (RIA 2006), 600pp.
Jane Desmarais & Marilyn Butler, ed., Maria Edgeworth, An Essay on Irish Bulls (UCD Press 2006), 176pp.
Raymond Gillespie & Raymond Refaussé, eds., The medieval Manuscripts of Christ Church Cathedral (Dublin: Four Courts 2006), 192pp. ill. [4pp.
David Howlett, Muirchú Macthéni’s Life of St. Patrick (Dublni: Four Courts Press 2006), 160pp.
Anthony Jordan, ed., Boer War to Easter Rising: Writings of John MacBride (Wesport Books 2006), 200pp.
Elizabeth McCullough, ed., Jack & Dorothy: Letters from the Front 1915-1917 (UK: Serendipity 2006), 117pp.
Derek Mahon, ed., Jonathan Swift [Poet to Poet Ser.] (London: Faber & Faber 2006), 128pp.
Patrick Maume, ed., D. P. Moran, The Philosophy of Irish Ireland (UCD Press 2006), 160pp.
Shirley Stevens Mulligan, ed., The Poems of James Stephens, foreword by A. N. Jeffares (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2006), xlii, 343pp.
Kate O’Brien [see under Virago reprints, infra].

Anthologies & Interviews (Literature)

Dermot Bolger, ed., County Lines: A Portrait of Life in South Dublin County (Dublin: New Island 2006), 206pp. [stories, memoirs].
Pat Boran, ed., Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2006), 200pp. [ded. J. F. Deane].
Ken Bruen, ed., Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs The Ugly American (Dingle: Brandon Press 2006), 230pp. [Ray Banks, James O. Born, Bruen, Reed Farrell Coleman, Eoin Colfer, Jim Fusilli, Patrick J. Lambe, Laura Lippman, Craig McDonald, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, John Rickards, Peter Spiegelman, Jason Starr, Olen Steinhauer, Charlie Stella, Duane Swierxzynski, Sarah Weinman, Kevin Wignall.
Patricia Craig, ed., The Ulster Anthology (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2006), 722pp.
A. Norman Jeffares & Peter van de Kamp., eds., Irish Literature - The Eighteenth Century: An Annotated Anthology, foreword by Brendan Kennelly (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 402pp.
A. Norman Jeffares & Peter van de Kamp., eds., Irish Literature - The Nineteenth Century: An Annotated Anthology: Vol. I, foreword by Terence Brown] (Irish Academic Press 2006) [1 vol. of 3].
Niall MacMonagle, ed., Lifelines: New and Collected Letters of Famous People about their Favourite Poems (TownHouse 2006), 386pp.
Rebecca O’Connor, Scéalta: Short Stories by Irish Women (www.telegrambooks.com 2006), 174pp. [incls. Julia O’Faolain, Claire Keegan, et al.].
Dennis O’Driscoll, ed., The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations (Bloodaxe Books 2006), 251pp.
Frank Ormsby, ed., The Blackbird’s Nest: An Anthology of Poetry from Queen’s University, Belfast (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2006), 178pp.

contents

Sheila Pratschke, ed., Annaghmakerrig (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2006), 224pp.

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Literary & Cultural Commentary

Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry (Liverpool UP 2006), 284pp. [on Heaney, Muldoon & McGuckian].
T.G. Ashplant & Gerry Smyth, eds., Explorations in Cultural History (London: Pluto 2001), xi, 207pp.1 ill., [cased].
Guy Beiner, Remembering the Years of the French(Wisconsin UP 2006), [q.pp.].
Heather Clark, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972 (Oxford: OUP 2006), 255pp.
Michael Cronin, Translation and Identity (London & NY: Routledge 2006), x, 166pp. [covers Cosmopolitanism, Migration, Interpretating Identity, and Future of Diversity].
George Cusack & Sarah Judith Goss, eds., Hungry Words. Images of Famine in the Irish Canon (Dublin: IAP 206), 342pp. [see contents].
Eóin Flannery, Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press 2006), 234pp. ill.
Thomas Herron & Michael Potterton, Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 288pp.
Peter Martin, Censorship in the Two Irelands 1922-1939 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.
Joseph Falaky Nagy, ed., The Celtic Literary Imagination in the Early Modern Period [CSANA Yearbook 5] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 176pp.
Martin Fanning & Raymond Gillespie, Print Culture and Intellectual Life in Itreland, 1660-1941 (Dublin: Woodfield Press 2006), 287pp. [contribs. incl. Andrew Carpenter, Toby Barnard, W. N. Osborough, Jean-Michel Picard, Bernadette Cunningham, Tadhg O’Keeffe, Harry White, Nicholas Allen, Nicola Gordon Bowe, et al.].
Tadhg Foley & Maureen O’Connor, eds., Ireland-India: Colonies, Culture and Empire, with a foreword by Saurabh Kumar [SSNCI Conference Proc. 2004] (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 320pp.
John Wilson Foster, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (Cambridge UP 2006), xix, 286pp.[see contents]
Patricia Boyle Haberstoh & Christine St Peter, Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts (Cork UP 2006), 240pp.
Liam Harte & Yvonne Whelan, Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-first Century (London: Pluto Press 2006), 283pp.[see review]
Raymond Gillespie & Andrew Hadfield, ed., The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: “The Irish Book in English 1500-1800”, [gen. eds. Robert Welch & Brian Walker] (Oxford: OUP 2006), 499pp.
Marjorie Howes, Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History [Field Day Files, 2] (Dublin: Field Day 2006), 116pp.
Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, ed., Irish Fiction Since the 1960s: A Collection of Critical Essays [Ulster Editions & Monographs, 13] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2006), vi, 339pp. [on Samuel Beckett, Brian Moore, Jennifer Johnston, Maurice Leitch, John McGahern, Patrick McGinley and John Banville, et al.]
Leon Litvack & Colin Graham, eds., Ireland and Europe in the Nineteenth Century [Nineteenth-century Ireland Ser., 10 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 224pp. ill.
Kaori Nagai, Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland (Cork UP 2006), 185pp.
Irene Gilsenan Nordin, The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 264pp.
Peggy O’Brien, Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney [Irish studies ser.] (Syracuse UP 2006), xxiii, 312pp.
Helen O’Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement (Oxford: OUP 2006), 240pp.
Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, Corinna Salvadori & John Scattergood, Italian Culture: Interactions, Transpositions, Translations Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 264pp.
Patrick R. O’Malley, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (Cambridge UP 2006), x, 274pp.[see contents].
Stephen O’Neill, Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama. (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 256pp.
Michelle O’Riordan, Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality (Cork UP 2006), 256pp.
Padraig de Paor, Cathal Ó Searcaigh & Gabriel Rosenstock agus ról comhaimseartha an fhile sa Ghaeilge (BÁC: An Clochomhar 2006), 292pp.
James Moran, Staging the Easter Rising: 1916 as Theatre (Cork UP 2006), q.pp.
Heather Pulliam, Words and Image in the Book of Kells (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 240pp.
Laura O’Connor, Haunted English: The Celtic Fringe, The British Empire and De-Anglization (Johns Hopkins UP 2006), xviii, 240pp.
Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, Performative and Textual Imaging of Women on the Irish Stage, 1820-1920: M. A. Kelly to J. M. Synge and the Allgoods (NY: Mellen 2006), v, 206pp.
Margaret Scanlan, Culture and Customs of Ireland (NJ: Greenwood Press 2006), 257pp.
Shaun Richards & Eve Patten, Irish Studies and English Studies: Two Essays, ed. Norman Vance [English Association Issues in English Ser., No. 5 (Leicester: English Association 2006), 28pp. [30cm.].
Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006), xiii, 736pp. [discusses exceptionalism of Ireland].
Gerry Smyth & Jo Croft, eds., Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Modern Culture [Nature, culture and literature, 2] (NY: Rodopi 2006), 268pp., ill.
Mary Shine Thompson & Celia Keenan, eds., Treasure Islands: Studies in Children’s Literature [2nd conference of Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 219pp.
Philip J. Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain, 1870-1918 (Oxford: OUP 2006), x, 1,181pp. ill. [26cm.; see contents].
Clare Wallace, Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama (Prague: Litteraria Prengensia 2006), 337pp.[see contents].
Andrew Higgins Wyndham, ed., Re-imagining Ireland: How a Storied Island is Transforming its Politics, Economy, Religious Life and Culture for the 21st Century (Virginia UP 2006), 288pp.

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Critical Studies: Individual Authors

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, ed., Dante and his L iterary Precursors (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 352pp.
John Borgonovo, Spies, Informers and the Anti-Sinn Féin Society: The Intelligence War in Cork City, 1919-1921 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.
Gordon Brand, ed., William Carleton: The Authentic Voice [Irish Literary Studies, 53] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2006), xlvii, 455pp. ill. by Sam Craig.
Fran Brearton, Reading Michael Longley (Tarset: Bloodaxe Press 2006), 265pp.
Lillian Chambers & Eamonn Jordan, eds., The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2006), 453pp. [contribs. by Mary Luckhurst, Catherine Rees, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Nicholas Grene, Vic Merriman, Paul Murphy, Christopher Murray, John MacDonagh, Martin Arrowsmith, et al.].
Brendan Clifford & Julianne Herlihy, Envoi: Taking Leave of Roy Foster Reviews of His Made Up Irish Story (Belfast: Aubane Hist. Soc. 2006), 204pp.
Michael Cronin, Barrytown Trilogy (Cork UP 2006), 96pp. [study of The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van].
Margaret Mills Harper, Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats (Oxford: OUP 2006), xii, 382pp.
Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, ed., Paul Muldoon: Poetry, Prose and Drama - A Collection of Critical Essays [Ulster Poetry Symposium] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2006), 299pp.
Richard Kirkland, Cathal O’Byrne and the Northern Revival in Ireland, 1890-1960 (Liverpool UP 2006), 224pp.
John McDonagh & Stephen Newman, eds., Remembering Michael Hartnett: A Language Seldom Spoken (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 192pp. [14 contribs. incl. Seamus Heaney, Declan Kiberd, Louis de Paor, Gabriel Rosenstock, Eoin Flannery, et al.].
Christina Hunt Mahony, ed., Out of History: Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2006), 272pp.
James Quin, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne & Ciara McDonnell, W. B. Yeats: Works and Days (NLI 2006) [accomp. Library exhibition].
Eibhear Walshe & Gwenda Young, eds., Molly Keane: Centenary Essays (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 240pp.

Samuel Beckett

C. J. Ackerley & S. E. Gontarski, The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett (London: Faber & Faber 2006), 736pp.
Christopher Murray & Seamus Hosey, eds., Samuel Beckett: 100 Years [RTÉ Thomas Davies Lectures] (Dublin: New Island Press 2006), 150pp. [contribs. Richard Kearney, Anthony Roche, Declan Kiberd, Barry McGovern, Dermot Moran, Anthony Cronin, John Banville, Katherine Worth].
Seán Lennon, Godot go Deo: Waiting in Beckett’s Dublin, foreword by Barry McGovern (Fingal Co. Libraries), 85pp. [humour].

Edna O’Brien

Donald E. Morse, et al., eds., Brian Friel’s Dramatic Artistry: ‘The Work Has Value’ (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2006), 360pp. [chiefly from Hungarian Journal of English & American Studies].
Anthony Roche, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel (Cambridge UP 2006), 177pp.

Edna O’Brien

Lisa Colletta & Maureen O’Connor, eds., Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O’Brien (Wisconsin UP 2006), 186pp.
Kathryn Laing, Sinead Mooney & Maureen O’Connor, eds., Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2006), 252pp.

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Language & Folklore

Fionntán de Brún, ed., Belfast and the Irish Language (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 208pp.
Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Beat the Goatskin until the Goat Cries! (Cork: Mercier Press 2006), 160pp.
Eddie Lenihan, Irish Tales of Mystery and Magic (Cork: Mercier Press 2006), q.pp.
Michael Montgomery, From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2006), 248pp.
Michael Montgomery & Philip Robinson, The Academic Study of Ulster-Scots: Essays for and by Robert J. Gregg, ed. Anne Smyth (Belfast: Ulster Folk & Transport Museum [2006]), xxv, 293pp. ill.
Máirín Nic Craith, Europe and the Politics of Language (London: Palgrave 2005), 232pp.
Bernard Share, Dublinese: Know What I Mean? (Cork: Collins Press 2006), 208pp.

Media Studies & Entertainment

Ruth Barton, Acting Irish in Hollywood: From Fitzgerald to Farrell, with a foreword by Luke Gibbons (Dublin: IAP 2006), 269pp. [covers Barry Fitzgerald, George Brent, Maureen O’Sullivan, Maureen O’Hara, Constance Smith, Richard Harris, Stephen Rea, Gabriel Byrne, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Farrell.).
Dara O’Canoala, Arthur Power: Master Sculptor (Stroud: Nonsuch Press 2006), 128pp.
Visnja Cogan, U2: An Irish Phenomenon (Cork: Collins Press 2006), 260pp.
Michael Cronin, The Barrytown Trilogy (Cork UP 2006), 96pp. [Roddy Doyle, Parker and Frears].
Godfrey Graham, Forty Years Behind the Lens at RTÉ (Ashfield Press 2006)[q.pp.]
John Hill, Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics (London: BFI 2006), vii, 262pp.
Paul Laverty, The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Gallery Head Press), 166pp. [script of Ken Loach film with accounts of Loach’s films by Mike Robbins and Irish history on screen by Kevin Rockett; also commentary by Donal Ó` Drisceoil].
Colin MacCabe, The Butcher Boy (Cork UP 2006), 96pp. [Pat MacCabe’s novel as film].
Stephanie McBride, Felicia’s Journey (Cork UP 2006), 96pp. [William Trevor’s novel as film].
Kevin Rockett & John Hill, National Cinema and World Cinema: Studies in Irish Film (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 176pp.
Andrew Whittaker, ed., Bright, Brilliant Days: Douglas Gageby and The Irish Times (Dublin: A & A Farmar 2006), 242pp. [contribs. incl. Bruce Arnold, Maeve Binchy, John Bowman, John Horgan, Conor Brady, Olivia O’Leary, Michael Viney, et al.]

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Arts & Architecture

Eileen Black, Art in Belfast: Art Lovers or Philistines? (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.
David Carrier, Sean Scully (London: Thames & Hudson 2006), 224pp.
William Gallagher, National Self-portrait Collection of Ireland, Vol. II [1989-1999] (Limerick UP 2006), 396pp.
William Laffan, ed., Painting in Ireland: Topographical Views from Glin Castle (Dublin: Churchill Hse. Press 2006), 270pp.
Karen Latimer, Modern Ulster Architecture (Ulster Arch. Heritage Soc. 2006), 205pp.
Rachel Moss, et al., eds., Art and Devotion in Late Medieval Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 256pp.
Peter Murray, ed., Whipping the Herring: Survival and Celebration in 19th-century Irish Art (Crawford Art Gallery/Gandon 2006), 200pp. [with Tom Dunne, Julian Campbell& Claudia Kinmonth; 80pp., col. ills.].
John O’Regan, ed., Camille Souter: Paintings, with essay by Brian Fallon and interview by Niall McMonagle (Dublin: Gandon Press 2006), 120pp.
John O’Regan, ed., O’Donnell & Tuomey: Glucksman Gallery (Dublin: Gandon Press 2006), 72pp.
Vera Ryan, Movers and Shapers, 2 (Cork: Collins Press 2006), x, 381pp.
Yvonne Scott, Jack Yeats: Among Friends [Douglas Hyde Gallery Symp. 2004] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 208pp.

Natural History & Topography

Muriel Bolger, Statues & Stories: Dublin’s Monuments Unveiled (Ashfield Press 2006), 107pp.
Andrew Kincaid, Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment (Minnesota UP 2006), xxx, 267pp. ill.
Stíofan Ó Cadhla, Civilising Ireland: Ordnance Survey 1824-1842 - Ethnography, Cartography, Translation (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.
Patrick O’Connor, Seeing Through Counties: Geography and Identity in Ireland (Newcastle West: Oireach na Mumhan Bks. 2006), 200pp.
Con O’Rourke, Nature Guide to the Aran Islands (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2006), 192pp.
William J. Smyth, Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of C olonial and Early Modern Ireland, c.1530-1750 (Notre Dame UP/Cork UP/Field Day 2006), xxiii, 584pp. [ill.; 32 col. pls.; see contents].

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Historical Studies: General

Damian Bracken & Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, eds., Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 288pp.
Michael J. Carroll, The Knights Templar and Ireland (Bantry Studio Publs. 2006), 220pp.
Howard Clarke & J. R. S. Phillips, eds., Ireland, England and the Continent in the Middle Ages and Beyond. Essays in Memory of a Turbulent Friar, F. X. Martin, OSA (UCD Press 2006), 408pp.
Brenda Collins, ed., Industry, Trade and People in Ireland 1650-1950 (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2006), 304pp.
Mary E. Daly, The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973 [History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Ser.] (Wisconsin UP 2006), [q.pp.]
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick & Raymond Gillespie, The Parish in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland: Community, Territory and Building (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 352pp.
Raymond Gillespie, Seventeenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2006), 359pp.
Andy Halpin & Conor Newman, Ireland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from the Earliest Times to AD 1600 (Oxford: OUP 2006), 568pp.
Benjamin Hudson, Irish Sea Studies, 900-1200 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 256pp.
Pierre Joannon, Histoire de l’Irlande et des irlandais (Paris: Editions Perrins 2006), 689pp.
Desmond Norton, Landlords, Tenants, Famine: The Business of an Irish Land Agency in the 1840 (UCD Press 2006), 400pp.
Fintan Lane & Donal Ó Drisceoil, Politics and the Irish Working Class 1830-1945 (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2006), 307pp.
Edith Mary Johnston-Liik, MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2006), 196pp.
M. J. Kelly, The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism, 1882-1916 [Irish Historical Monographs Ser.] (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer 2006), x, 282pp.
Elizabeth Malcolm, The Irish Policeman 1822-1922: A Life (Dublin: Four Courts 2006), 266pp. ill. [16pp. photos].
Senan Molony, The Phoenix Park Murders: Conspiracy, Betrayal and Retribution (Cork: Mercier Press 2006), 285pp.
Gerard Moran, Sending Out Ireland’s Poor: Assisted Emigration to N. American in the 19th Century (Four Courts Press 2006), 288pp.
Robert Armstrong & Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin, eds., Community in Early Modern Ireland [Conference at UCD, Sept. 2003] (Dublin: Four Courts Press [2006]), 240pp.
Thomas O’Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, eds., Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 525pp. [contribs. incl. Thomas Bartlett, L. M. Cullen, Jane Ohlmeyer, et al.]
Cormac Ó Gráda, Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays (UCD Press 2006), 336pp.
David A. O’Hara, English Newsbooks and the Irish Rebellion of 1641 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 240pp.
Colin Rynne, Industrial Ireland 1750-1930: An Archaeology (Cork: Collins Press 2006), 500pp.
Marilyn Silverman, An Irish Working Class: Explorations in Political Economy and Hegemony 1800-1950 (Toronto UP 2006), 580pp.
Rober Swift & Christine Kinealy, Politics and Power in Victorian Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 240pp.

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Historical Studies: 20th Century

James Durney, The Far Side of the World: Irish Servicemen in the Korean War 1950-1953 (Naas: Gaul House 2006), 248pp, ill. [16pp. photos].
Richard English, Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (London: Macmillan 2006), 625pp.
Diarmaid Ferriter, What If?: Alternative Views of Twentieth-century Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2006), 302pp.
Niall Keogh, Con Cremin: Ireland’s Wartime Diplomat (Cork: Mercier Press 2006, 352pp.
Jason Knirck, Women in the Dail: Gender, Republicanism and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, foreword by Maria Luddy (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.
Yvonne McEwen, “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”: British and Irish Nurses in the Great War (Drumferline: Cualann Press 2006), 208pp.
Tom O’Neill, The Battle of Clonmult: the IRA’s Worst Defeat (Stroud: Nonsuch 2006), 120pp.
Seosamh Ó Longaigh, Emergency Law in Independent Ireland, 1922-48 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 336pp.
Henry Patterson, Ireland Since 1939: The Persistent Conflict (Penguin Ireland 2006), 422pp.
Bernard Share, In Time of Civil War: The Conflict on the Railways 1922-23 (Cork: Collins Press 2006), [qpp.].
William Sheerin, ed., British Boices from the Irish War of Independence 1918-1921: The Words of British Servicemen Who Were There (Cork: Collins Press 2006), 261pp.
Bernadette Whelan, United States Foreign Policy and Ireland: From Empire to Independence, 1913-1929 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 640pp.
Paula L. Wylie, Ireland and the Cold War: Diplomacy and Recognition 1949-1963 (Blackrock: Irish Academic Press), 312pp.

Historical Studies: Easter 1916 Rising

John Borgonovo, ed., Florence and Josephine O’Donoghue’s War of Independence : A Destiny That Shapes Our Ends (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.
Risteárd de Róiste, Loch Garman agus Éire Amach 1916 (BAC: Comhar 2006) [pamph.].
T. Ryle Dwyer, I Signed My Death Warrant: Michael Collins and the Treaty (Dublin: Mercier Press 2006), 250pp.
Stephen Ferguson, G.P.O Staff in 1916 (An Post: GPO Desmond FitzGerald, To the Rising: The Memoirs of Desmond FitzGerald (Dublin: Liberties 2006), 160pp.
Shane Hegarty & Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2006), 224pp.
Keith Jeffrey, The GPO and the Easter Rising (IAP 2006), 208pp. [incl. The Sinn Fein Rebellion As They Saw It, IAP 1999].
D. R. O’Connor Lysaght, The Great Revolution: Myths and Realities (Dublin: [the author] 2006), 25pp.
Sean MacMahon, Rebel Ireland: Easter Rising to Civil War (Cork: Mercier Press 2006), 191pp.
Padraig Ó Snodaigh, Na Priompalláin 1916 against athscríobh na staire (BAC: Comhar 2006) [pamph - after Keating’s “dungbeatles”].
Frank Sherwin, Independent and Unrepentant, ed. Frank Shewin Jnr. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 288pp.
Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: the Irish Rebellion (Penguin Ireland 2006), 461pp.
[Q.auth,] Was 1916 a Crime? A Discussion from “Village” Magazine, July-December 2005 (Aubane Hist. Soc. 2006), 48pp.

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Historical Studies: Ecclesiastical

Toby Barnard & W. G. Neely, eds., The Clergy of the Church Ireland: Messengers, Watchmen and Stewards (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 288pp.
Damian Bracken & Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, eds., Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 288pp.
Patrick O’Connell, The Irish College at Santiage de Compostela 1605-1769 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 158pp.
Louise Fuller, ed. Irish and Catholic: Towards an Understanding of Identity [Conference at Priory Inst., Tallaght, 2005] (Blackrock: Columbia Press 2006), 260pp. [contrib.s incl. Colum Kenny, John Littleton, Patrsy McGarry, Eamon maher, Timothy J.White].
Emmet Larkin, The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-famine Ireland, 1750-1850 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 304pp.
Brendan Scott, Religion and Reform in the Diocese of Meath, 1536-1622 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 256pp.
Mark Spencer & David Wilson, eds., Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World: Religion, Politics and Identity (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 240pp.

Politics, Economics & Society

Ethel Crowley, Land Matters: Power Struggles in Rural Ireland (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2006), 224pp.
Kevin Costello, The Law Habeas Corpus in Ireland: History, Scope of Review and Practice Under Article 40.4.2 of the Irish Constitution (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 278pp.
Mary E. Daly, The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1922-1973 (Wisconsin UP), 452pp.
John Garry, Irish Social and Political Attitudes (Liverpool UP 2006), 182pp, survey of 2002].
Michael D. Higgins, Cause for Concern: Irish Politics, Culture and Society (Dublin: Liberties Press 2006), 320pp.
Luke Gibbons, Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonization, and Irish Culture (Dublin: Arlen Press; distrib. Syracuse UP 2006), 96pp.
Michael Holmes, The Development of the Irish Labour Party’s European Policy: From Opposition to Support (NY: Edwin Mellen Press 2006), xii, 255pp.
Ursula Kilkelly, Youth Justice in Ireland: Tough Lives, Rough Justice, foreword by Peter McVerry (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 304pp.
David McWilliams, The Pope’s Children: Ireland’s New Elite (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2006), 272pp.
Paula Meyock & Krizan Vekic, Lives in Crisis: Homeless Young People in Dublin (Dublin: Liffey Press 2006), 200pp.
Eunan O’Halpin, et al., Intelligence, Statecraft and International Power (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.
Olivia O’Leary, Party Animals (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2006), 231pp.
Michael J. O’Sullivan, Ireland and the Global Question (Cork UP 2006), 233pp.
George Taylor, Conserving the Emerald Tiger: The Politics of Environmental Regulation in Ireland (Dublin: Arlen Press; distrib. Syracuse UP 2006), 96pp.
A. Dale Tussing & Maev-Ann Wren, How Ireland Cares: The Case for Health Care Reform (Dublin: New Island Press 2006), 438pp.

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Northern Ireland/Ulster

Eileen Black, Arts in Belfast: Art Lovers or Philistines (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 304pp. ill. [16pp.
Frederick Boal & Stephen Royle, eds., Enduring City : Belfast in the Twentieth Century (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1006), q.pp.
Johnston Brown, Into the Dark: 30 Years in the RUC (Dubln: Gill & Macmillan 2006), 319pp. ill. [16pp. of photos].
Mervyn Busteed, Castlecaldwell, County Fermanagh: Life on a West Ulster Estate in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 352pp.
Andrew Boyd, Montgomery and the Black Man (Dublin: Columba Press 2006), 88pp. [biog.].
Francis M. Carroll, American Presence in Ulster: a Diplomatic History 1796-1996 (CUA Press 2006), 295pp.
Desmond Fahy, Death on a Country Road (Cork: Mercier 2006), 191pp. [killing of Sean Farmer & Colm McCartney by UVF].
Raymond Gillespie & Stephen A. Royle, Belfast c.1600-1900: The Making of the Modern City [TCD Conference 2005] (RIA 206), 400pp. ill. [maps in wallet].
K. J. James, Handloom Weavers in Ulster’s Linen Industry, 1815-1914 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 256pp.
Brian Kennaway, The Orange Order: A Tradition Betrayed (London: Methuen 2006), 415pp.
Mina Lenox-Conyngham, Springhill: An Old Ulster House and the People Who Lived In It (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2006), q.pp.
Derek Lundy, Men That God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland (London: Jonathan Cape 2006), 351pp.
Robert Lynch, The Northern IRA and the Early Years of Partition, 1920-1922 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 264pp.
Thomas McAlindon, Bloodstains in Ulster: The Notorious Case of Robert the Painter (Dublin: Liffey Press 2006), 200pp. [murder of Mary McGowan, 1949].
John P. McCann, Passing Through: The 82nd Airborne Division in Northern Ireland 1943-44 (Colourpoint 2006), 128pp.
Gillian McClelland & Diana Hadden, Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queen’s University (Ulster Hist. Foundation 2006), 230pp.
Gary McGladdery, The Provisional IRA in England: The Bombing Campaign 1973-1997 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 288pp.
Danny Morrison, ed., Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike (Dingle: Brandon Books 2006), 272pp. [contribs. Edna O’Brien, Tony Benn, Ronan Bennett, Ken Loach, et al.].
Maria Power, Inter-church Relationships in Northerin Ireland 1980-2005 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 272pp.
Chris Ryder, A Special Kind of Courage: 321 EOD Sqaudron - Battling the Bombers (London: Methuen 2006), 350pp.
Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA (Edinburgh UP 2006), 408pp. ill. [8pp. of photos].

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Religion & Philosophy

Crawford Gribben & Andrew R. Holmes, eds., Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2006), xii, 244pp. [see contents].
Louise Fuller, John Littleton & Eamon Maher, eds., Irish and Catholic?: Towards an Understanding of Identity (Dublin: Columba Press 2006), 256pp.
Stephen Skuce, The Faiths of Ireland (Dublin: Columba Press 2006), 204pp.
Rob Vance, The Magic of Celtic Spirituality (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2006), q.pp.
Rob Vance, The Magic of Pagan Ireland (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2006), q.pp.

Women’s Studies

Anne Stopper, Mondays at Gaj’s: The Story of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement (Dublin: Liffey 2006), 256pp.
Rachel Ward, Women, Unionism and Loyaism in Northern Ireland: From “tea-makers” to Political Actors (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2006), 208pp.

Reference & Bibliography

Timothy Cadogan & Jeremiah Falvey, eds., A Biographical Dictionary of Cork (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 384pp.
Ailsia C. Holland & Kate Manning, Archivists and Archives (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), 272pp.
Margaret Kelleher & Philip O’Leary, eds., Cambridge History of Irish Literature (Cambridge UP 2006), 2 vols [set] (Cambridge UP 2006), 1,286pp.
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, 3 vols. (Cambridge UP 2006) of which Vol. 1: To 1640, ed. Elisabeth Leedham-Green & Teresa Webber, xx+688pp.; Vol. 2: 1640–1850, ed. Giles Mandelbrote & K. A. Manley, xii + 575pp.; Vol. 3: 1850–2000, ed. Alistair Black & Peter Hoare, xxiv + 737pp.
Rolf Loeber & Magda Loeber, with Anne Mullin Burnham, A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), cxv, 1,489pp. ill. [64pp. of pls.; see contents].
J. Howard Woolmer, ed., The Leonad L. Millberg Irish Theater Collection (Princeton UL 2006), 506pp.

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Digital Publication

E. M. Johnston-Liik, ed., History of the Irish Parliament Online: A Handbook and Introduction (Ulster Hist. Found. 2006).

Journals & Special Issues

Ciaran Carson, ed., The Yellow Nib: The Literary Journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Vol. 2 (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2006), 128pp.
Seamus Deane & Breandán Mac Suibhne, eds., Field Day Review 2006 (Field Day Publications 2006/Notre Dame 2006), 351pp.
Irish University Review, “John Banville Special Issue” [ed. Derek Hand] (Spring/Summer 2006), 268pp.

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Bibliographical details

Patrick R. O’Malley, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (Cambridge UP 2006), x, 274pp. : Introduction: Skeletons in the Cloister; 1. Goths and Romans: the Literature of Gothic from Radcliffe to Ruskin; 2. ‘The Church’s closet’: Victorian Catholicism and the Crisis of Interpretation; 3. Domestic Gothic: Unveiling Lady Audley’s Secret; 4. The Blood of the Saints: Vampirism from Polidori to Stoker; 5. ‘Monstrous and Terrible Delight’: The Aesthetic Gothic of Pater and Wilde; 6. Conclusions: Oxford’s Ghosts and the End of the Gothic; Works Cited.

Frank Ormsby, ed., The Blackbird’s Nest: An Anthology of Poetry from Queen’s University Belfast, with a foreword by Seamus Heaney and an afterword by Ciaran Carson (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2006), xxix, 151pp. CONTENTS: Helen Waddell: Epitaph for his Niece, Sophia; Lament for Hathimoda; Abess of Gandesheim. John Hewitt: Substance and Shadow; The King's Horses. W.R. Rodgers, from Resurrection: An Easter Sequence; Field Day. Robert Greacen: St Andrew's Day; Carnival at the River. Roy McFadden: My Mother's Young Sister; The Hunger-marchers. Philip Larkin: Church Going; Reasons for Attendance. W.J. Harvey: Arriving at Larne: Seasick. Laurence Lerner: Raspberries; In Memoriam: 17 June 1977. G. Singh: The Carillon Pendulum Clock; In the Smoke. Arthur Terry: A Small War; Time Was. Victor Price: Jeanie. James Ellis: Over the Bridge. James Fenton: Watter Quail. Philip Hobsbaum: The Astigmatic; Girl Reporter. James Simmons: Didn't He Ramble; Stephano Remembers. John Campbell: An Oul Jobbin' Poet. Seamus Heaney: A Sofa in the Forties; Postscript. Michael Longley: Ceasefire; The Leveret. George McWhirter: Homework. Seamus Deane: The Brethren. Stewart Parker: Paddy Dies. Joan Newmann: The Angel of Death. Sabine Wichert: The Smell of Frying Cheese. John McGuckian: Irish Hare. Carol Rumens: Stealing the Genre; Prayer for Northern Ireland. Tom Matthews: Robert Sat. Greagoir O Duill: Sionnach; Fox. Michael Foley: The Middle Manager in Paradise. Frank Ormsby: One Looks at One. Ciaran Carson: Hamlet; Belfast Confetti. Medbh McGuckian: Tulips; The Sitting. Paul Muldoon: Truce; Green Gown. Leon McAuley: The Children of Lir. Ruth Carr: The Blue Bowl. C.L. Dallat: Morning Star. Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons: Salt Caress. Tess Hurson: Rite of Spring. Chris Agee: Mushrooming. Jean Bleakney: By Starlight on Narin Strand. Moyra Donaldson: Words from the Other Side. Cathal O Searcaigh: Do Isaac Rosenberg; For Isaac Rosenberg; I gCeann Mo Bliana A Bhi Me; Clabber: The Poet at Three Years. Andrew Elliott: Angel. John Hughes: A Respect for Law and Order. Damian Smyth: Disappeared. Martin Mooney: Footballers in the Snow. Kate Newmann: Dream of a Portrait Painter on a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda. Pol O Muiri: Bobby, Wilfred and Sean. Deirdre Cartmill: The Waterfall Walk. Mairtin Crawford: Untitled Sonnet. Gearoid Mac Lochlainn: An Maine Gaelach; The Irish-speaking Mynah. Sinead Morrissey: Sea Stones; Clocks. Alan Gillis: 12th October, 1994. Leontia Flynn: By My Skin.

George Cusack & Sarah Judith Goss, eds., Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon (IAP 2006), 324pp. CONTENTS: Part One: The Burden of Witness. Christine Kinnealy, The stricken land: the Great Hunger in Ireland; Katherine Parr, ‘The caoineadh in Famine poetry: a communal expression of defiance’; Margaret Kelleher, ‘Philosophick views’?: Maria Edgeworth and the Great Famine’; Margaret Scanlan, ‘The limits of empathy: Trollope’s Castle Richmond’; Sarah Goss, ‘Dracula and the spectre of Famine’. Part Two: The Politics of Memory. Jerome Joseph Day, ‘Feeding on gossamer, caught in the web: Famine tensions in Yeats’s The Countess Cathleen’; George Cusack, ‘In the gripe of the ditch’: nationalism, famine and The Playboy of the Western World’; Bonnie Roos, ‘The Joyce of eating: feast, famine and the humble potato in Ulysses’; Julieann Ulin, ‘Buried! Who would have buried her?’: Famine ‘ghost graves’ in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame’. Part Three: The Struggle for Context. Robert C. Evans, ‘Frank O’Connor and the Irish Holocaust’; Nicholas Grene, Tom Murphy: ‘Famine and Dearth’; Nieves Pascual, ‘Irresponsible anorexia: the ethics of Eavan Boland’s Famine’; Karen Hill McNamara, ‘It was a life-changing book’: tracing Cecil Woodham-Smith’s impact on the canon of children’s literature of the Irish Famine’; Christopher Morash, ‘An afterword of silence.

John Wilson Foster, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (Cambridge UP 2006), xix, 286pp. CONTENTS: Notes on Contributors [vii]; Acknowledgement [ix]; Chronology [x]; 1. Foster, Introduction [1]; 2. Aileen Douglas, ‘The Novel Before 1800’ [22]; 3. Miranda Burgess, ‘The National Tale and Allied Genres, 1770s-1840’ [22]; 4. Vera Kreilkamp, ‘The Novel of the Big House’ [60]; 5. Siobhan Kilfeather, ‘The Gothic Novel’ [78]; 6. James H. Murphy, ‘Catholics and Fiction during the Union (1801-1922)’ [97]; 7. Adrian Frazier, ‘Irish Modernisms, ‘1880-1930’ [113]; 8. Bruce Stewart, ‘James Joyce’ [133]; 9. Norman Vance, ‘Region, Realism, and Reaction, 1922-1972’ [153]; 10. Alan Titley, ‘The Novel in Irish’ [171]; 11. Ann Owens Weekes, ‘Women Novelists, 1930s-1960s’ [189]; 12. Terence Brown, ‘Two Post-modern novelists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien’ [205]; 13. Elizabeth Grubgeld, ‘Life Writing in the Twentieth Century’ [223]; 13. Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, ‘The Novel and the Northern Troubles’ [238]; 14. Eve Patten, ‘Contemporary Irish Fiction’ [276].

Crawford Gribben & Andrew R. Holmes, eds., Protestant Millennialism, Evangelicalism and Irish Society, 1790-2005 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2006), xii, 244pp. CONTENTS: Crawford Gribben, Introduction: Antichrist in Ireland - Protestant millennialism and Irish Studies; Myrtle Hill, Watchmen in Zion: Millennial Expectancy in Late eighteenth-century Ulster; Irene Whelan, The Bible gentry: evangelical religion, aristocracy, and the new moral order in the early nineteenth century; Timothy C. F. Stunt, John Nelson Darby: contexts and perceptions; Thomas J. Kelley, ‘Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come!’: the writing and thought of Edward Nangle, 1828-1862; Jacinta Prunty, Battle plans and battlegrounds: Protestant mission activity in the Dublin slums, 1840s-1880s; Andrew R. Holmes, The uses and interpretation of prophecy in Irish Presbyterianism, 1850-1930; Nicholas M. Railton, ‘The dreamy mazes of millenarianism’: William Graham and the Irish Presbyterian Mission to German Jews; Patrick Mitchel, Unionism and the eschatological ‘fate of Ulster’, 1921-2005; Andrew R. Holmes, Conclusions.

Rolf Loeber & Magda Loeber [with Anne Mullin Burnham], A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2006), cxv, 1,489pp. ill. [pls. between pp.396-97 & 812-13].Front. pl. “Serena” [Honora Sneyd]; Foreword by Joep Leerssen [xv], Foreword by Seamus Deane [xvii]; Acknowledgements [xxiii]; Permission[s] [xxvii]; Abbrevs. [xxix]; Organization [xlvii]; Inroduction: General introduction [xlix]; Scope of this Guide[lxviii]; How We Worked and Editorial Procedures; Arrangement of the Entries [lxxxvi]; Selected Key Issues Based on Findings from this Guide [lxxxiii]; This Guide and Beyond [ciii].Glossary [cvi].THE GUIDE [1].Anonymous Authors of Only One Work [3]; Anon. Authors of More than One Work of Fiction [61]; Authored Works [69]; Addenda [1394].Index of Persons []1407]; Index of Book Titles [1429];Index of History Periods, Themes and Settings [1457]; Index of Publishers [1469]; Index of Places Relating to the Authors [1478].Descriptive note: Most Irish fiction published between 1650 and 1900 has fallen into virtual oblivion. The Loebers’ research, based on their personal collection, has led to the identification of hundreds of unknown or forgotten Irish authors and their works and provides thousands of summaries of novels and anthologies as well as publication details for Irish fiction in Ireland, England, and North America and several other European countries. Rolf Loeber is previously the author of a Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 (London: Murray 1981), 127pp.- and also works such as Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems: Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence (NJ.: L. Erlbaum Associates 1998, viii, 330pp.), based on case studies in Pennsylvania, and Violence and Serious Theft: Development and Prediction from Childhood to Adulthood [with Magda Stouthamer-Loeber. et al.] (London & NY: Routledge 2008, xxiii, 404pp.)].Authors var. given as Rolf Loeber & Magda Stouthamer-Loeber. Ded. to the late Mary “Paul” Pollard. Covers 5,889 titles and 1,455 authors.

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pp.396-97 [Banim to Edgeworth - sample titles - here listed in sequence with occasional titles omitted]: Ireland’s Authors [viz. Goldsmith, Banim, Burke] (Dublin O’Connell Press Pop. Library 1886) [price 6d.]; The Irish Freebooter, or suprising adventures of Captain Redmond O’Hanlon (London 1818), front.; The Boyne Water / by / The O’Hara Family / Dublin / James Duffy / Wellington Quary / London, 22 Paternoster Row [cover] (Dublin 1865-66); The Croppy: A Tale of the Irish Rebellion by the O’Hara Family (Duffy & Sons / Dublin & London 1865-66); The Ghost Hunter and His Family / by John Banim (London: Frederick Warke 1888) [under Michael Banim]; [Selina Bunbury,] Recollections of Ireland (Dublin: William Curry, Jun., and Company, 9 Upper Sackville-Street 1839]; Rody the Rover / or / The Ribbonman / by / W. Carleton (Dublin 1845); Do. (Philadephia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers / 306 Chestnut Street [186-]); Willy Reilly / by / William Carleton / Geo. Munro’s Sons / 17 to 27 Vandewater St. /New York [Seaside Library / Pockert Edition] (NY n.d.]; [William Anderson Cawthorne,] Mick Tracy, The Irish Scripture Reader / or / The Martyred Convert and the Priest / A Tale of Facts / by the author of Tim Doolan, the Irish Emigrant [epig. from Cowper] (London: S. W. Partridge & Co. / 8 & 9 Paternoster Row [n.d.; new edn,]); Samuel Alfred Cox, Saints and Sinners: A Tale [unpub. MS vol.] (Dublin 1856) [epig. ‘My dear sir, clear your mind of cant’ - Johnson]; B. M. Croker, Interference (London: F V. White 1894 [3rd edn]); Terence / B. M. Croker (London: 1899); Irish Folk-tales / Collected by Jeremiah Curtin (Dublin 1944); A House of Tears / by / Edmund Downey [Canadian Copyright Edition] (Toronto: William Bryce 1887); The Parent’s Assistant, /or / Stories for Children / in one volume / by / Maria Edgeworth / author of Practical Education, Moral Tales, Early Lessons, &c. &c. (Boston: Munroe & Francis, 128 Washington Street / Charles S. Francis, New York [1842]); Popular Tales / by Maria Edgeworth [The Lily Series] (London [1878]); Miss Edgeworth’s Stories for Children [Waste not, Want Not; The Bracelets] (London 1846) [sep. vols. in series]

pp.812-13 [Griffin to Stoker - sample titles - here listed in sequence with occasional titles omitted]: The Collegians / by Gerald Griffin (London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1892); Holland Tide / The Aylmers / The Hand & Word / Barber of Bantry / by Gerald Griffin (Duffy Dublin 1857) [titles on spine; harp and shamrock frieze on cover]; The Invasion / by /Gerald Griffin (Dublin: James Duffy & Co. [1889]); Mrs. Hall, Sketches of Irish Character (London [1855?; 5th edn.) Mrs. S. C. Hall, The Prince of the Fair Family [1867]; John Hill, Ninety-Eight: A Story of Irish Rebellion (London 1898, new edn.); The Last Throw / by “The Duchess” [Margaret Wolfe Hungerford] (New York: J. S. Ogilvie); W. H. G. Kingston, Paddy Finn (London 1883); The Pedlars [Mary Leadbeater] (Dublin: Bentham & Hardy, Cecilia St., 1826) [with epig.]; Charles Lever, Harry Lorrequer (M. A. Donohue & Company, Chicago) [cover without author]; Charles O’Malley / the /Irish Dragoon / by / Harry Lorrequer /illustrated by / Phiz (William Curry Jun., and Company, Dublin; William S. Orr and Company, London; Fraser and Crawford, Edinburgh (Dublin 1841; issued in parts); Irish Stories and Legends / by Samuel Lover (London [1878; t.p. Legends and Stories of Ireland]; Brother & Sister [or, the trials of the Moore family] / by / Eliz. J. Lysaght (London 1908; new edn.); Henry Martin, Stories of Irish Life (S. W. Partridge [1878]; issued in parts); Illustrations of Political Economy, No. IX[:] / Ireland / A Tale / by / Harriet Martineau / London: / Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster Row 1832) [t.p.]; W. O’Byrne, Kings and Vikings (London 1901); Jane Marian Richardson, Apples of Gold / or Talks with the Children (London 1896); Regina Maria Roche, Children of the Abbey (London: [1881] issued in parts; 1 penny weekly; No. 2 given away with No. 1 (Shoe Lane, Fleet St., London); Mrs. J. Sadleir, The daughter of Tyrconnell (NY 1863); L. T. Meade, The Girls of Kings Royal (London 1913), ill. by Gordon Brown; James Stinton, The Lights and Leaders of Irish Life (Dublin: James Duffy & Co. [1889]); Bram Stoker, Under the Sunset (London 1882) [cover].

P[hilip].J. Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain, 1870-1918 (Oxford: OUP 2006), x, 1,181pp. ill., 26cm. CONTENTS: Pt. I: The Reading World; 1. Back to the Future: Authors at the Movies; 2. Consenting and Dissenting Bibliophiles in Public and Private; 3. Literary Advice and Advisers; 4. Reviews and Reviewers; 5. The Great Tradition; 6. The Commemmoration Movement; 7. English Literature’s Foreign Relations; or ’e dunno ou il est!’; Pt. II: Writers and the Public: The Price of Fame; 8. Having a Flutter: Product Advertising and Self-Advertising; 9. The Star Turn; 10. Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure; 11. Securing the Future; 12. Titles and Laurels; 13. Social Prestige and Clubability; 14. The Aristocratic Round and Salon Circle; 15. Looking and Acting the Part; 16. Lecture Tours; 17. Literary Properties and Agencies; Pt. III: Best-sellers; 18. Market Conditions; 19. In Cupid’s Chains: Charles Garvice; 20. Hymns and Heroines: Florence Barclay; 21. The Epic Ego: Hall Caine; 22. The Demonic Dreamer: Marie Corelli; 23. Authors at Play: Nat Gould Leads the Field; Pt. IV: Writers and the Public: Penmen as Pundits; 24. The Campaign Trail; 25. Public Service and Party Politics; 26. Pens at War; 27. Pricking Censorship; 28. Theology versus Sociology and Psychology; Bibliography; Index

Clare Wallace, Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama (Prague: Litteraria Prengensia 2006), 337pp. CONTENTS: Suspect cultures: new playwriting at century’s end; Conor McPherson: solitary micronarratives; Mark Ravenhill: plagiarism, play or critique?; Martin McDonagh: ‘pastiche soup’, bad taste, biting irony; Sarah Kane: radical alterity & staging trauma; Marina Carr: nostalgia for destiny; David Grieg: time-space compressions; Evasion or engagement?

W. J. Smyth, Map-making, Landscape and Memory: a Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c.1530-1750 (Notre Dame UP/Cork UP/Field Day 2006), xxiii, 584pp. CONTENTS: Marking out the terrain - making the documents of conquest speak. Making Ireland visible: maps as instruments of conquest; Maps versus memory: exploring the hidden Irelands; The transformation of Ireland, 1641-1654: wars of the ‘body politic’; William Petty and the construction of Cromwellian Ireland; Society, settlement and immigration in mid-seventeenth-century Ireland: the evidence of the "1659 census"; Regional case-studies. Dublin County: changing social geographies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; County Kilkenny: territorial, social and settlement hierarchies; County Tipperary: property, patronage and population; A world turned upside down. Revolutionary changes in the territorial organization of Irish society, 1530-1750; Upheavals in economy, family naming patterns and language, 1530-1750; A global context. Ireland and America: England's first frontiers.

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