Select Annual Listing of Books on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2009

Poetry Collections
• Chris Agee, Next to Nothing ([Belfast:] Salt Publishing 2009), 123pp.
• Ivy Bannister, Vinegar and Spit (Astrolable Press 2009), 58pp.
• Dermot Bolger, External Affairs: New Poems (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 77pp.
• Ciaran Carson, On the Night Watch (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 160pp.
• Michael Coady, Going By Water (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 166pp.
• C. L. Dallat, The Year of Not Dancing (Belfast: Blackstaff 2009), 80pp.
• Janet Fitzpatrick Simmons, Saint Michael and the Perils of the Sea (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2009), 57pp.
• David Gardiner, Downstate (Moher: Salmon Press 2009), 68pp.
• Vona Groarke, Spindrift (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 80pp.
• Kerry Hardie, Only This Room (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 80pp.
• Joseph Horgan, Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea (Doghouse 2009), 66pp.
• Sextus and Cynthia, after Propertius (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 32pp. ill. [by Hammond Journeax].
• Paula Meehan, Painting Rain (Manchester: Carcanet 2009), 100pp.
• Joan McBreen, Heather Island (Moher: Salmon Press 2009), 51pp.
• Niall McGrath, Treasures of the Unconscious (Scotus Press 2009), 117pp.
• Paul Muldoon, Wayside Shrines (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 44pp. ill. [by Keith Wilson; ltd signed edn 350].
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun-fish (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 64pp.
• Peggy O’Brien, Frog Spotting (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2009), 87pp.
• Máighréad Medbh, When the Air Inhales You (Dublin: Arlen House 2009), 96pp.
• Ulick O’Connor, The Kiss: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2009), 87pp.
• Liz O’Donoghue, Train to Gorey (Dublin: Arlen House 2009), 64pp.
• Stella O’Hagan, Along the Liffey: Poems and Short Stories (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2009), 81pp.
• Nessa O’Mahony, In Sight of Home (Moher: Salmon Poetry 2009), 172pp. [verse-novel].
• Mark Roper, Even So: New & Selected Poems, introduced by Carol Rumens (Dubin: Dedalus Press 2008), 170pp.
• Rosemarie Rowley, In Memory of Her (Dublin: Rowan Tree 2009), 210pp.
• Peter Sirr, The Thing Is (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 80pp. [incls. trans. of Catullus].
• Alice Taylor, The Journey: New and Selected Poems (Dingle: Brandon Press 2009), q.pp.
• Augustus Young, Diversifications: Mayakovsky, Brecht & Me (UK & USA: Shearsman Books 2009), 87pp.
• Enda Wyley, To Wake To This (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2009), 66pp.

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Fiction (novels & short stories)
• Colin Bateman, Mystery Man (London: Headline 2009), 213pp.
• Colm Breathnach, Con-Trick an Bhalla Bháin (Iar Chonnachta: Cló 2009), 160pp.
• Ken Bruen, American Skin (Dingle: Brandon Press 2009), 281pp.
• Mary Rose Callaghan, A Bit of a Scandal (Dingle: Brandon Press 2009), 240pp.
• Kevin Casey, A State of Mind (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 288pp.
• John Connolly, The Lovers (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2009), 396pp.
• Anne Enright, Yesterday’s Weather (London: Vintage 2009), x, 308pp.
• David Gardiner, The Other End of the Rainbow (Merilang Press 2009), 251pp.
• Gabriel Fitzmaurice, GF Woz Ere (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 96pp. ill. by Stella Macdonald [for children].
• Christine Dwyer Hickey, Last Train from Liguria (Atlantic 2009), 392pp.
• Desmond Hogan, Old Swords and Other Stories (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 144pp.
• Declan Hughes, All the Dead Voices (London: John Murray 2009), 316pp.
• Michael J. Farrell, Life in the Universe (Dublin: The Stinging Fly 2009), 169pp.
• Thomas Kabdebo, Tracking Giorgione (Dingle: Brandon Press 2009), 224pp.
• Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky (London: Michael Joseph 2009), 400pp.
• Claire Kilroy, All Names Have Been Changed (London: Faber & Faber ), 271pp.
• Nick Laird, Glover’s Mistake (London: Fourth Estate 2008), 254pp.
• Maurice Leitch, Dining at the Dunbar (Belfast: Lagan Press 2009), 281pp.
• Eugene McCabe, The Love of Sisters (Dublin: New Island 2009), 112pp.
• Patrick McCabe, The Holy City (London: Bloomsbury 2009), 216pp.
• Tom Mac Intyre, Only an Apple (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 100pp.
• John MacKenna, The Space Between Us (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 250pp.
• Hugh Maxton, Twenty16vision (Duras 2009), 287pp.
• Roisin Meaney, Half Seven on Thursday (Dublin: Hachette Ireland 2009), 365pp.
• Sam Millar, The Dark Place (Dingle: Brandon Press 2009), 224pp.
• John Montague, A Ball of Fire: Collected Stories (Dublin: Liberties Press 2009), 288pp.
• Peter Murphy, John the Revelator (London: Faber 2009), 272pp.
• Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nude (London: Salt Publ. 2009), 133pp.
• Julia O’Faolain, Adam Gould (Telegram 2009), 377pp.
• Nuala O’Faolain, Best Love, Rosie (Dublin: New Island 2009), 460pp.
• Bridget O’Toole, At Miss Mulligan’s and Other Stories ([Donegal:] Drumkeen Press 2009), 227pp.
• Bernard Share, Inish (USA: Dalkey Archive Press 2009), 148pp.
• Bernard Share, Transit (Dalkey Archive Press 2009), 139pp.
• Gerard Stembridge, Counting Down (Dublin: Penguin Ireland 2009), 311pp.
• Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (London: Viking Press 2009), 226pp.
• Kate Thompson, The Kinsella Sisters ([London:] AvonCollins 2009), q.pp.
• William Trevor, Love and Summer (London: Viking 2009), 256pp.
• Niall Williams, Boy and Man (London: HarperCollins 2009), 303pp.
• [sundry authors,] From the Republic of Conscience: Stories Inspired by the University Declaration of Human Rights (Dublin: Liberties Press 2009), 224pp.

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Drama (plays & collections)
• Marina Carr, Marble (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 72pp.
• Celia de Fréine, Mná dána: Dornán drámaí (Dublin: Arlen House 2009), 220pp.

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Autobiography & Memoir
• Anita Fennelly, Blasket Spirit (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 224pp.
• Conor Clery, May You Live in Interesting Times (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2009), 396pp. ill. [+ 16 of photos].
• Hanna Greally, Bird’s Nest Soup [1971, 1987] (Dublin: Attic Press 2009), 160pp.
• Joseph Hone, Wicked Little Joe: A Tale of Childhood and Youth (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 288pp.
• Nuala Fennell, Political Allsorts: A Memoir ([Dublin:] Currach Press 2009), 176pp.
• John Horgan, Noel Browne: Passionate Outsider (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 354pp.
• Colm O’Gorman, Beyond Belief (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2009), 317pp.
• June Levine, Sis ters (Dublin: Attic Press [Cork UP] 2009), 306pp.
• James Liddy, The Full Shilling (Moher: Salmon Press 2009), 146pp.
• Michael Murphy, At Five in the Afternoon: My Battle with Male Cancer, foreword my Mary Robinson (Dingle: Brandon Books 2009), 280pp. [RTE broadcaster].
• Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire: Ireland, India and the Politics of Alfred Webb [Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies ser.] (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), xiii, 229pp.
• Albert Reynolds [with Jill Arlon], (Transworld 2009), 486pp.
• Sonia O’Sullivan, Sonia (London: Penguin 2009), 320pp.
• Pádraig Ua Cnáimhsí, Róise Rua: An Island Memoir, trans. J. J. Keaveny (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 286pp.
• Éibhear Walshe, Cissie’s Abattoir (Dublin: Collins Press 2009), 180pp.

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Biography (literary & historical)
• Anna Bryson, No Coward Soul: A Biography of Thekla Beere (Dublin: IPA 2009), q.pp.
• Peter Edwards, The Victorian Spy: Henri le Caron (London: Maverick 2009), 288pp.
• Patricia Groves, Petticoat Rebellion: The Anna Parnell Story (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 256pp.
• Marney Hay, Bulmer Hobson and the Nationalist Movement in Twentieth-century Ireland (Manchester UP 2009), 287pp.
• Brendan Hoban, A Melancholy Truth: The Trqvels and Travails of Fr. Charles Bourke, c.1765-1820 ([Mayo:] Banley House 2009), 272pp.
• Michael Holden, Freney the Robber: The Noblest Highwayman in Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 256pp.
• Roisin Higgins & Regina Uí Chollatáin, The Life and After-life of P. H. Pearse / Pádraig Mac Piarais: saol agus oidhreacht (Dublin: IAP 2009), 288pp.
• Judith Hill, In Search of Islands: A Life of Conor O’Brien (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 200pp. [the sailor].
• John Horgan, Noel Browne: A Passionate Outsider (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 352pp.
• James Kelly, Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 272pp.
• Thomas McAlindon, Two Brothers, Two Wars: Front the Western Front to the Burmese Jungle (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 198pp.
• Donal P. McCracken, Inspector Mallon: Buying Irish Patriotism for a Five-pound Note (Dublin: IAP 2009), 256pp.
• A. P. W. Malcolmson, Virtues of a Wicked Earl: The Life & Legend of William Sydney Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, 1806-78 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 420pp. ill.
• Risteárd Mulcahy, My Father, the General: Richard Mulcahy and the Military History of the Revolution (Dublin: Liberties Press 2009), 256pp. ill. (+ 8pp ills.).
• Patrick Myler, Dan Donnelly 1788-1820: Pugilist, Publican, Playboy (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 168pp.
• Dennis O’Driscoll, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (London: Faber 2009), 558pp. ill. [+16pp. photos].
• Terence O’Reilly, Rebel Heart: George Lennon, Flying Column Commander (Cork: Mercier 2009), 288pp.
• Matthew Potter, William Monsell of Tervoe 1812-1894: Catholic Unionist, Anglo-Irishman, foreword by Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (Dublin: IAP 2009), 256pp.
• John Privilege, Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879-1925 (Manchester UP 2009), 230pp.
• Otto Rauchbauer, Shane Leslie: Sublime Failure (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 320pp.
• John Walsh, Patrick Hillery: The Official Biography (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 615pp.
• Noël P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer: Public Works and Civil Surveys (Dublin: IAP 2009), 448pp.

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Miscellaneous Writings
• Chris Arthur, Words of the Grey Wind: Family and Epiphany in Ulster (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2009), q.pp. [essays].
• Sebastian Balfour, et al., eds., Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the Sixties (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 288pp.
• Eileen Battersby, Second Readings: From Black Beauty to Beckett, foreword by Richard Ford (Dublin: Liberties Press 1009), 310pp.
• Sam Hanna Bell, A Salute from the Banderol: The Selected Writings of Sam Hanna Bell, ed. Fergus Bell (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2009, 240pp.
• Pat Boran, ed., Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2009), 185pp. [updating Watching the River Flow: A Century of Irish Poetry, 1999].
• Jane Conroy, ed., Franco-Irish Connections: Essays, Memoirs and Poems in Honour of Pierre Joannon (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 360pp.
• Desmond Fennell, Ireland After the End of Western Civilisation (Belfast: Athol Books 2009), 102pp.
• Declan J. Foley, ed., The Only Art: Jack B. Yeats, foreword by Bruce Stewart (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 208pp.
• John Wilson Foster, Between Shadows: Modern Irish Writing and Culture, with a foreword by Edna Longley (Dublin: IAP 2009), 257pp.[see contents].
• Niall Harnett, ed., Notes from Contemporaries: A Tribute to Michael Hartnett, ed. (priv. 2009) [40 contribs. on Harnett incl. Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, et al.; details at Lulu - online].
• Thomas Kinsella, Prose Occasions 1951-2006, ed. Andrew Fitzsimons (Manchester: Carcanet Press 2009), 235pp.
• Jessie Lendennie, ed., Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing It (Moher: Salmon Press 2009), 120pp. [contribs. incl. Maurice Harmon, Rita Ann Higgins, Joan McBreen, Eamonn Wall, John Hildebidle, Celia de Fréine, Nessa O’Mahony, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Janice Fitzpatrick-Simmon, et al.].
• Ronan McDonald, The Death of the Critic (London: Continuum 2009), q.pp.
• John Montague, et al., Chosen Lights (Dublin: Gallery Press 2009), 152pp. [poets on poems by Montague].
• March Edna O’Brien, Byron in Love (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2009), 240pp. ill. [+8pp.
pls.]
• Mary Shine Thompson, ed., The Fire i’ the Flint: Essays on the Creative Imagination [Seamus Heaney Lectures, 3rd. Ser.] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 20089), 224pp. ill. [artists & scientists].
• Richard Tillinghast, Finding Ireland: A Poet’s Exploration of Irish Literature and Culture (Notre Dame UP 2009), 298pp.

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Scholarly Editions, Translations & Literary Reprints
• Mario Corrigan, ed., The Annals of Ballitore (Newbridge: Kildare Collections & Research Services 2009), 352pp.
• John Joseph Horgan, From Parnell to Pearse: Some Recollections and Reflections (UCD Press 2009), 400pp.
• Angelina Lynch, A Tragedy “Cola’s Furie, or Lirenda’s Miserie” by Henry Burkhead, intro. by Patricia Coughlan (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 140pp.
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• Carole Fabricant, ed. & intro., A Modest Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift (London: Penguin 2009), 464pp.
• Victoria Glendinning with Judith Robertson, ed. Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Richie - Letters and Diaries 1941-1973 (NY: Simon & Schuster 2009), 475pp.
• Lavinia Greacen, J. G. Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries (Cork UP 2009) 300pp.
• Maurice Harmon, trans. & intro., The Dialogue of the Ancients of Ireland: A New Translation of Acallam na Senórach (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2009), 130pp.
• Thomas Moore, Memoirs of Captain Rock, ed. & intro. Emer Nolan (Field Day Company 2009), lxiii + 328pp.
• Philip O’Sullivan Beare, The Natural History of Ireland [Zoilomastix], trans. Denis C. O’Sullivan [from Latin] (Cork UP 2009), 384pp.
• Patrick Pearse, Short Stories (UCD Press 2009), 131pp.
• John Pope-Hennessy, Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland (UCD Press 2009), 187pp.
• James Stephens, The Birth of the Fenian Movement: American Diary, Brooklyn 1859 (UCD Press 2009), 160pp.
• Jennie Wyse-Power, ed., Words of the Dead Chief: Being Extracts from the Public Speeches […] of Charles Stewart Parnell, with introduction by Anna Parnell (UCD Press 2009), 192pp.

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Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
• Dermot Bolger, ed., Night and Day: Twenty-four Hours in the Life of Dublin City (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 123pp. [incls. poems from his own External Affairs].
• Pat Boran, ed., Flowing, still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 194pp.
• Heather Brett & Noel Monahan, ed., Towards a Wilderness (Windows Publ. 2009), 126pp. [children’s work in poetry & ills.].
• Gerald Dawe, ed., Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2009), 432pp.
• Liam Harte, ed., The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), 301pp.
• Joan McBreen, ed., ed., The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets: Poems & Essays (Moher: Salmonpoetry 1009), q.pp.
• Tomas Mac Domhnaill, ed., Micheál Breatnach: A Shaol agus a Shaothar (Clo Iar-Chonnachta 2009), 200pp.
• John MacDonagh, A Fine Statement: An Irish Poets’ Anthology (Dublin: Poolbeg 2009), 335pp. [leading poets’ choice of the favourite five of their own poems]
• Christopher Morash, ed., The Hungry Voice, foreword by Terence Brown [2nd edn.; new preface] (Dublin: IAP 2009), 304pp.
• Pádraig Ó Fiannachta, ed., Criathar Meala ([Maynooth:] An Sagart 2009), 150pp. [bilingual]; Paul Perry & Nuala Ní Chonchúir, eds., Best of Irish Poetry 2009: Scoth na hÉigse ([Dublin:] Southword 2009), 118pp.
• Gregory A. Schirmer, ed., After the Irish: An Anthology of Poetic Translation (Cork UP 2009), 500pp.
[includes originals and num. trans. incl. those by Kinsella, Carson, Heaney, Mahon, Montague, Muldoon and Rosenstock].

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Literary Criticism & Cultural Commentary
• Nicholas Allen, Modernism, Ireland and Civil War (Cambridge UP 2009), xiv, 225pp. [see contents].
• Scott Brewster & Michael Parker, eds., Irish Literature Since 1990: Diverse Voices (Manchester UP 2009), xii, 330pp.[see contents]
• James P. Byrne, ed., Affecting Irishness; Negotiating Cultural Identity Within and Beyond the Nation [Reimagining Ireland, gen. ed. Eamon Maher] (Berne: Peter Lang 2010), 331pp. xviii, 314pp.[see contents].
David Cregan, ed., Deviant Acts: Essays on Queer Performances (Blackrock: Carysfort Press 2009), 237pp.
• Eóin Flannery, Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia (Palgrave Macmillan 2009), viii, 268pp.[see contents].
• Heather Ingman, A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge UP 2009), viii, 326pp.[see contents].
• John P. , ed., Irish Theater in America (Syracuse UP 2009), xix., 226pp.[see contents].
• Edwina Keown & Carol Taaffe, eds., Irish Modernism: Origins, Contexts, Publics [Reimagining Ireland ser., 14] (Bern & Oxford: Peter Lang 2009), 244pp. [contribs. incl. Anne Markey, Robert Baines, Eamonn Hughes, Rhiannon Moss, Karen E. Brown, James Matthew Wilson, Roisín Kennedy, & Ellen Rowley.]
• Jarlath Killeen, Gothic literature, 1825-1914 [Gothic Literary Studies: History of the Gothic, Vol. 2] (Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2009), ix, 248pp.
• Claire Lynch, Irish Autobiography: Stories of Self in the Narrative of a Nation [Reimagining Ireland, 7] (Berne: Peter Lang 2009), 228pp.
• Muriel McCarthy & Ann Simmons, eds., Marsh’s Library: A Mirror on the World: Law, Learning and Libraries, 1650-1750 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 288pp.
• Jerusha McCormack, ed., China and the Irish: Different Stories, Similar Dreams [Thomas Davis Lectures.] (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 250pp.
[incls. letter of welcome by Pres. Mary McAleese and afterword by Ambass. Declan Kelleher].
• James McEvoy & Michael Dunne, eds., The Irish Contribution to European Scholastic Thought , with a foreword by Cahal Daly [The Irish Philosophical Society; Internat. Conference at Centenary of Queen’s University, Belfast] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 320pp. ill. [8pp. of pls., facs., 25cm.].
• Mark Mossman, Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing, 1800-1922 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave 2009), ix, 188pp. [incls. commentary on Swift, Lady Morgan, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Joyce, et al.].
• Ciaran Murray, Disorientalism: Asian Subversion / Irish Visions [Transactions of the Asiatic Soc. of Japan, 5th Ser.], Vol. 1 (2009) - Supplement [incls. chaps. on Lady Morgan, Lafcadio Hearn, Oscar Wilde, and W. B. Yeats.]
  Máiréad Ní Loingsigh, ed., Tar Éis a Bháis: Aistí ar Shéan Ó Riordáin (Clo Iar Chonnachta 2009), 122pp.
• Eugene O’Brien, ‘Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse’: Negotiating Texts and Contexts in Contemporary Irish Studies [] (Bern: Peter Lang 2009), 215pp.[see contents].
• Timothy O’Leary, Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book (London: Continuum 2009), 192pp. [incls. studies of Swift, Joyce, Beckett, Friel and Heaney].
• Nancy Watson, The Politics and Poetics of Irish Children’s Literature (Dublin: IAP 2009), 205pp.

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Critical Studies: Individual Authors
• Marije Altorf, Irish Murdoch and the Art of Imagining (London: Continuum 2009), 160pp.
• Scott Boltwood, Brian Friel, Ireland, and the North (Cambridge UP 2009), xii. 257pp.
• Mary Burke, “Tinkers”: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (OUP 2009), 329pp.
• Michael Cavanagh, Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s Poetics (Washington: CUA Press 2009), xv, 254pp.
• Mary Coll, ed., Faithful Companions: Collected Essays Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Kate O’Brien Weekend (Limerick: Mellick Press 2009), iv, 187pp.
• Julie Donovan, Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan and the Politics of Style (Bethesda, Md.: Maunsel & Co. 2009), xii, 266pp. ill. [8pp. of pls.].
• David Dwan, The Great Community: Culture and Nationalism in Ireland (Field Day Co. / Keough-Naughton Inst. NDU 2009), [xi], 232pp. [formerly “Cultural Nationalism and Mass Culture in Yeats’s Ireland”, London Univ. PhD of 2002]
• Eileen Fauset, The Politics of Writing: Julia Kavanagh, 1824-77 (Manchester UP 2009), 320pp.
• Frank Ferguson & Andrew R. Holmes, eds., Revising Robert Burns and Ulster: Literature, Religion and Politics, c.1770-1920 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 240pp.
• Seamus Heaney, Spelling it Out [MacGill Summer School, 2008] (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2009), 20pp. [in praise of Brian Friel].
• Kathleen Heininge, Buffoonery in Irish Drama: Staging Twentieth-century Post-colonial Stereotypes [Irish Studies Ser., vol. 11] (NY & Oxford: Peter Lang 2009), viii, 191pp.
• Keith Hopper, Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist [rev. edn], with a Foreword by J. Hillis Miller (Cork UP 2009), 292pp.
• Stephane Jousni, Lectures de “A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man” [de] J. Joyce (Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2009), 188pp.
• Benjamin Keatinge & Aengus Woods, ed., Other Edens: The Life and Work of Brian Coffey (Dublin: IAP 2009), 288pp.
• Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, ed., Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays [Ulster Poetry Symposium, UU 2002] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 184pp. [incls. editor’s conversation with Carson].
• John Kenny, ed., John Banville [Visions & Revisions Ser.] (Dublin: IAP 2009), 224pp.
• Declan Kiberd, Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living (London: Faber & Faber 2009), xi, 399pp. [on Joyce’s novel].
• Patrick Lonergan, Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), 260pp. [treats of Brian Friel, Sean O’Casey, Marie Jones, Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr and Conor McPherson; winner of 2010 ESSE Award].
• Paddy Lyons & Alison O’Malley-Younger, No Country for Old Men Fresh Perspectives on Irish Literature (Peter Lang 2009), 289pp.
• John McCourt, ed., James Joyce in Context (Cambridge UP 2009), xx, 414pp.[see contents].
• Eamon Maher, ed., Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland [Reimagining Ireland, Vol. 5] (Oxford, et al. loc., Peter Lang 2009), xiv, 242pp.[see contents]
• Peter Mahon, Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum 2009), 216pp.
• Bernard O’Donoghue, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (Cambridge UP 2009), xviii, 239pp. [chaps. by Rand Brandes, Patrick Crotty, Dennis O’Driscoll, Fran Brearton, Justin Quinn, O’Donoghue, David Wheatley, Andrew Murphy, Dillon Johnston, Neil Corcoran, Guinn Beatten, Heather O’Donoghue, and John Wilson Foster].
• Ryoji Okuda, Paul Muldoon: Poetics and Politics (Shumpusha Publishing 2009), 167pp.
• Susan Osborn, ed., Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives (Cork UP 2009), 256pp.
• Rebecca Pelan, ed., Éilis Ní Dhuibhne: Perspectives (Dublin: Arlen House 2009), 32pp.
• Marguerite Pernot-Deschamps, The Fictional Imagination of Neil Jordan, Irish Novelist and Film Maker: A Study of Literary Style, with a foreword by Desmond Fennell (NY: Edwin Mellen 2009), vi, 156pp.
• Richard Rankin Russell, Bernard MacLaverty (Bucknell UP 2009), 175pp.
• Robin Robertson, ed., Love Poet, Carpenter: Michael Longley at Seventy (London: Enitharmon Press 2009), 125pp.[see contents].
• Franca Ruggieri, John McCourt & Enrico Terrinoni, eds., Joyce in Progress: Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference in Rome (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars 2009), xxi, 262pp.
• Stephen Watt, Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing (Cambridge UP 2009), viii, 226pp.
• Diarmuid Whelan, Conor Cruise O’Brien Violent Notions (Dublin: IAP 2009), 224pp. ill.

Samuel Beckett
• Peter Boxall, Since Beckett; Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (London: Continuum 2009), 192pp.
• Patrick Bixby, Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel (Cambridge UP 2009), viii, 238pp. ill.
• Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck, eds., The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940 (Cambridge UP 2009), 831pp. ill. [+ 8pp. photos].
• Matthew Feldman, Beckett’s Books: A Cultural History of the Interwar Notes (London: Continuum 2009), 192pp.
• Matthew Feldman & Ulrike Maude, Beckett and Phenomenology (London: Continuum 2009), 208pp.
• Emilie Morin, Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Irishness (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), xii, 224pp.
• Kathryn White, Beckett and Decay (London: Continuum 2009), 192pp.

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Theatrical studies

• Scott Boltwood, ed., Renegotiating and Resisting Nationalism in 20th Century Irish Drama [Ulster Mongraphs, 15] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smyth 2009), xvi, 216pp.[see contents].
• George Cusack, The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J. M. Synge (London: Routledge 2009), 210pp.
• Eamonn Jordan, Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre (Dublin: IAP 2009), 288pp.
• Kenneth Nally, ‘Celebrating Confusion’: The Theatre of Frank McGuinness (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009), x, 300pp.
• Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy, eds., The Dreaming Body: Contemporary Irish Theatre [Ulster editions & Monographs, 16] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2009), x, 231pp.[see contents].

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Language & Folklore Studies
• Joan Allen & Richard C. Allen, eds., Faith of our Fathers: Six Centuries of Popular Belief in England, Ireland and Wales (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press 2009), viii, 216pp.
• John Cash & Dathai Ó hÓgáin, Dreaming of Giants: Images and Folklore of Ireland (Dublin: Nonsuch Press 2009), 96pp. col. ill. [stories].
• John Eastlake, Seán Crosson & Nessa Cronin, Anáil and Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009), ix, 274pp.
• Peter J. Smith, ed., Three Historical Poems Ascribed to Giolla Cóemáin: A Critical Edition of the Work of an Eleventh-century Irish Scholar (Nodus Publikationen 2009), 288pp.
• Anita Fennelly, Blasket Spirit: Stories from the Islands (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 224pp. [healing].
• Jason Harris & Keith Sidwell, Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin Writers and the Republic of Letters (Cork UP 2009), 300pp.
• Bill Long & Raymonde Standun, Voices of Connemara (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 220pp.
• Jennifer Keating-Miller, Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), 208pp.
• Muiris Mac Chonghail, Aghaidheanna Fidil agus Púicíní: Seorse Mac Tomáis in Éirinn 1923-1934 (BAC: Sairseal/Marcaigh 2009), 236pp.
• Roisín McLaughlin, Early Irish Satire (DIAS 2009), 312pp.
• Brian Ó Conchubhair, Fin de Siècle na Gaeilge: Darwin, an athbheochan agus smaointeoireacht na hEorpa (Iar-Chonnachta: An Clóchomhar 1009), 368pp.
• Ruairí Ó hUiginn & Brian Ó Catháin, eds., Ulidia 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales [Maynooth 24-27 June 2005] (An Sagart 2009), 429pp.
• Philip O’Leary, Irish Interior: Keeping Faith with the Past in Gaelic Prose 1940-1951 (UCD Press 2009), 656p. [deals with Ó Grianna, Seán Mac Maoláin, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, et al.].
• Patrick O’Sullivan, The Magic of Irish Nature (Dublin: Nonsuch 2009), 130pp.
• Ríona Ní Fhrighil & Máirin Nic Eoin, eds., Ó Theagasc Teanga go Sealbhú Teanga: múineadh agus foghlaim na Gaeilge ar an tríú leibhéal (Dublin: Cois Life 2009), 160pp.
• Ann Ridge, Death Customs in Rural Ireland: Traditional Funerary Rites in the Irish Midlands (Dublin: Arlen House 2009), 158pp.
• Rionach uí Ó hÓgáin, trans., Going to the Well for Water: The Seamus Ennis Field Diary 1942-1946 (Cork UP 2009), 480pp.

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Religion & Philosophy
• Ena Gray, Healing the Past - Catholic Anti-Semitism: Roots and Redemption (Dublin: Veritas 2009), 157pp.
• Patrick Hannon: Right or Wrong? Essays on Moral Theology (Dublin: Veritas 2009), 149pp.
• Eamon Maher & John Littleton, eds., What Being a Catholic Means to Me (Dublin: Columbia Press 2009), 176pp. [25 contribs. in the wake of the Ryan Report].
• Eamon Maher, Grace Neville & Eugene O’Brien, eds., Modernity and postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context [Studies in Franco-Irish Relations, 2] (Frankfurt & Oxford: Peter Lang 2008), 262pp.
• James McEvoy & Michael Dunne, eds., The Irish Contribution to European Scholastic Thought (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 320pp.
• Geoffrey Moorhouse, Sun Dancing - A Medieval Vision: Seven Centuries of Skellig Micheal [prev. 1997] (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 258pp.
• D. Vincent Twomey, SVD, Overcoming the Crises in Moral Theology in the Wake of Humanae Vitae (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 224pp.

 

Historical Studies: General (incl. Ecclesiastical)
• Jonathan Bardon, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 544pp. [orig. short radio programmes].
• Jonathan Bell & Mervyn Watson, eds., A History of Irish Farming, 1750-1950 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 344pp. ill.
• John Crawford & Raymond Gillespie, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin: A History (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 440pp. il.. [+16pp.
pls.]
• Martin Curtis, The Splendid Cause: The Catholic Action Movement in Ireland in the Twentieth Century (Dublin: Greenmount Publ. 2009), 348pp.
• Ruth Delany, Ireland’s Royal Canal 1789-2005 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 256pp.
• Frank Ferguson & James McConnell, eds., Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 182pp.[see contents].
• Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac & David Murphy, ed., Franco-Irish Military Connections 1590-1945 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 304pp.
• Douglas Kanter, The Making of British Unionism: Politics, Government and the Anglo-Irish Constitutional Relationship, 1740-1848 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 320pp.
• Mary Kenny, Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate between Ireland and the British Monarchy (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 394pp.
• Cal McCarthy, Green, Blue and Grey: The Irish in the American Civil War (Cork: Collins Press 2009) 260pp.
• Jerusha McCormack, ed., China and the Irish: Different Stories, Similar Dreams (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 250pp.
• Kate O’Malley, Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 (Manchester UP 2009), 224pp. [TCD doct. thesis of 2006; see contents].
• Séamas Ó Síocháin, ed., Social Thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (UCD Press 2009), 256pp.
• Benedict O’Sullivan, Medieval Irish Dominican Studies (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 237pp.

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Historical Studies: pre-20th Century
• John Bradley, Alan Fletcher & Anngret Simms, eds., Dublin in the Medieval World: Studies in Honour of Howard B. Clarke (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 604pp.
ill.
• Francis Devine, Organising History (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 1236pp. [on SIPTU].
• James S. Donnelly, Jr., Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824 [History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Ser.] (Wisconsin UP 2009), xiv, 509pp. ill.
  Ken Douglas, The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 320pp.
• Eoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism (London: Pluto Press 2009), 343pp.
• Susan Flavin & Evan Jones, eds., Bristol’s Trade with Ireland and the Continent, 1503 1601: the Evidence of the Exchequer Customs Accounts (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 1,012pp.
• John Gray, The Making of the Irish Poor Laws 1815-43 (Manchester UP 2009), 392pp.
• Enrique Garcia Hernan, Ireland and Spain in the Reign of Philip II (Dublin:Four Courts Press 2009), 320pp.
• Brian Jenkins, The Fenian Problem: Insurgency and Terror in a Liberal State 1958-1874 (Liverpol UP 2009), 455pp.
• James Kelly, et al., eds., People, Politics and Power: Essays on Irish History, 1660-1850 (UCD Press 2009), 240pp.
• William P. Kelly & John R. Young, eds., Scotland and the Ulster Plantations: Explorations in the Scottish Settlement of Ulster in Stuart Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 208pp.
• Patricia Kilroy, Fall of the Gaelic Lords, 1544-1616 (Eamonn de Burca 2009), 220pp. [Silken Thomas to Hugh O’Neill].
• Christine Kinealy, Repeal and Revolution: 1848 in Ireland (Manchester UP 2009), 326pp.
• Conor Kostick, Revolution in Ireland: Popular Militancy 1917 to 1923 (Cork UP 2009), 248pp.
• Ian McBride, Eighteenth-Century Ireland [New Gill History of Ireland] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 576pp.
• Moira J. Maguire, Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland (Manchester UP 2009), 272pp.
• Martyrs Powell, Piss-pots, Printers and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-century Dublin: Richard Twiss’s Tour of Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 64pp.
• Séamas Ó Síocháin, ed., Social Thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: UCD Press 2009), xiii, 178pp.[see contents].
• David A. Wilson, ed., Irish Nationalism in Canada [McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History, 26] (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP 2009), x, 244pp. [ Contribs. incl. Harman Akenson, Sean Farrell, Mark G. McGowan, Frederick J. McEvoy, Michael Petermajn, Garth Stevenson, Peter M. Toner, Rosalyn Trigger, and David A. Wilson].

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Historical Studies: 20th Century
• Angela Clifford, The Arms Conspiracy - Ireland, 1970: The Prosecution and Trial of Charles Haughey, Captain Kelly and Others (Belfast: Athol Books 2009), 720pp.
• Brian Hanley & Scott Millar, The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Worker’s Party (Penguin Ireland 2009), 658pp.
• Daniel M. Jackson, Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain (Liverpool UP 2009), 300pp.
• Michael J. Geary, An Inconvenient Wait: Ireland’s Quest for Membership of the EEC 1957-73 (Dublin: IPA 2009), q.pp.
• Peter Murray, Facilitating the Future: US Aid, European Integration and Irish Industrial Viability 1948-73 (UCD Press 2009), 250pp.
• Gerard O’Brien & Peter Roebuck, eds., The University of Ulster: Genesis and Growth (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 202pp. ill. [+ 8pp. photos].
• John Walsh, The Politics of Expansion: The Transformation of Educational Policy in the Republic of Ireland 1957-72 (Manchester UP 2009), 366pp.
• Pat Walsh, The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 223pp. ill. [8pp photos].

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The “Troubles” and War
• Joseph E. A. Connell, Dublin in Rebellion: A Directory 1913-1923 ( Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 288pp.
• Denis Carroll, et al., Images of Sarsfield Barracks (Dublin: Nonsuch 2009), 120pp.
• George Clarke, Border Crossing (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 256pp.
• T. Ryle Dwyer, Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s Phony Neutrality During World War II (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 352pp.
• Barry Flynn, Soldiers of Folly: The IRA Border Campaign 1956-1962 (Dublin: Collins Press 2009), 210pp.
• Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac & David Murphy, eds., Franco-Irish Military Connections, 1590-1945 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 288pp.
• Gerry Hunt, Blood Upon the Rose: Easter 1916 - the Rebellion that Set Ireland Free (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2009), 48pp. [popular, ill.]
• Keith Jeffrey & Robert Blyth, ed., The British Empire and Its Contested Pasts (Dublin: IAP 2009), 272pp.
• Sinead Joy, The IRA in Kerry 1916-1921 (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 210pp.
• Richard Killeen, A Short History of the 1916 Rising (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 143pp.
• J. J. Lee, introd., Kerry’s Fighting Story 1916-21: The Men Who Made It (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 352pp.
• Kevin C. Kearns, The Bombing of Dublin’s North Strand, 1941 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 288pp.
• Ian Kenneally, Courage and Conflict: Forgotten Stories of the Irish at War (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 384pp. [incls. American-Mexican War].
• Martin Maguire, The Civil Service and the Revolution in Ireland 1912-38: ‘Shaking the Blood-Stained Hand of Mr Collins’ (Manchester UP 2009), 288pp.
• Micheal Martin, Freedom to Choose: Cork and Party Politics in Ireland 1918-1932 (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 320pp.
• Donal MacCarron, Silent Sentinels: Irish Treaty Ports (Dublin: Nonsuch Press 2009), 156pp.
• Philip O’Connor, ed., Coolacrease: The True Story of the Pearson Executions - an Incident in the Irish War of Independence (Aubane Hist. Soc. 2009), 470pp.
• Ruan O’Donnell, intro., Limerick’s Fighting Story 1916-21: The Men Who Made It (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 352pp.
• Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, Blood on the Banner: The Republican Struggle in Clare (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 351pp.
• James McConnel & Fearghal McGarry, eds., The Black Hand of Republicanism: Fenianism in Modern Ireland (Dublin: IAP 2009), 240pp.
• Sean MacMahon, Bombs Over Dublin ([Dublin:] Currach Press 2009), q.pp.
• Liam Nolan & John E. Nolan, Secret Victory: Ireland & the War at Sea 1914-1918 (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 317pp. [on WWI anti-submarine activity in Cobh].
• Eoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism (London: Pluto Press 2009), 371pp.
• Terence O’Reilly, Our Struggle for Independence: Eye-witness Accounts from the Pages of “An Cosantóir” (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 255pp.
• Niamh O’Sullivan, Written in Stone (Dublin: Liberties Press 2009), 100pp. ill. [Political graffiti in Kilmainham].
• William Sheehan, Hearts and Mines: The British 5th Division, Ireland, 1920-1922 (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 210pp.

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Politics, Economics & Society
• [q. auths.], 60 Years, 30 Perspectives: Ireland and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [Amnesty international] (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 160pp. [prev. in Irish Times].
• Bruce Arnold, The Great Shame (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 256pp. [industrial schools and child abuse].
• Derek Brawn, Ireland’s House Party: What the Estate Agents Don’t Want You to Know (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 366pp.
• Sara Burke, Irish Apartheid: Healthcare Inequality in Ireland (Dublin: New Island 2009), 366pp.
• Marc Coleman, Back from the Brink: Ireland’s Road to Recovery (Transworld Ireland 2009), 328pp.
• Commission of Investigation. Report into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, July 2009 [The Murphy Report] (Dublin: The Stationery Office 2009).
• Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report [The Ryan Report] (Dublin: The Stationery Office 2009).
• Matt Cooper, Who Really Runs Ireland: The Story of the Elite who Led Ireland from Buswt to Boom ... and Back Again (Penguin Ireland 2009), 464pp.
• John Cunningham, Unlikely Radicals: Irish Post-primary Teachers and the ASTI, 1909-2009 (Cork UP 2009), 300pp.
• Catherine de Courcy, Dublin Zoo: An Illustrated History (Cork: Collins Press 2009), q.pp.
• Marianne Elliott, When God Took Sides: Religions and Identity in Irish History - An Unfinished History (Oxford UP 2009), 320pp.
• John Fanning, The Guinnesses: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Most Successful Family (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 2009), 390pp.
• Bryan Fanning, New Guests of the Irish Nation (Dublin: IAP 2009), 240pp.
• James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury, The Irish Pub (London: Thames & Hudson 2009), 192pp.
• Diarmaid Ferriter, Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (London: Profile Books 2009), 694pp. [viz., abortion, pregnancy, celibacy, contraception, censorship, infanticide, homosexuality, prostitution, marriage].
• Brian Lacey, Terrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish History (Dublin: Wordwell 2008), viii, 295pp.
• Daniel Leach, Fugitive Ireland: European Minority Nationalists and Irish Political Asylum, 1937-2008 ( Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 285pp. ill.
• Pat Leahy, Showtime: The Inside Story of Fianna Fail in Power (Penguin Ireland 2009), 384pp.
• Malcolm Macourt, Counting the People of God? The Census of Population and the Church of Ireland (Church of Ireland Publishing 2009), 204pp.
• Margaret Lynch-Brennan, The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930, with a foreword by Maureen O’Rourke Murphy (NY: Syracuse UP 2009), xxii, 232pp.
• Gerard O’Brien & Peter Roebuck, eds., The University of Ulster: Genesis and Growth (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 180pp.
• Deiric Ó Broin & Peadar Kirby, eds., Power, Dissent and Democracy: Civil Society and the State in Ireland (Dublin: A. & A. Farmar 2009), 198pp.
• Joan O’Flynn, Poverty, Policy and Practice: Combat Poverty 1986-2009 (Dublin: IPA 2009), 112pp.
• Con Power, Metamorphosis: Lessons from the Formative Years of the Celtic Tiger, 1979-1993 (Oak Tree Press 2009), 335pp.
• Shane Ross, The Bankers: How the Banks Ruined the Irish Economy (Penguin Ireland 2009), ix, 293pp. [reiss. in London as The Bankers: How the Banks Brought Ireland to Its Knees (Harmonsworth: Penguin 2010), ix, 293pp.
• Anthony Sweeney, Banana Republic: The Failure of the Irish State and How to Fix It ( Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 256pp.

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Northern Ireland/Ulster
• Chris Arthur, Words of the Grey Wind: Family and Epiphany in Ulster (Belfast: Blackstaff 2009), 320pp. [essays].
• Brian Barton & Patrick J. Roche, The Northern Ireland Question: The Peace Process and the Belfast Agreement (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), 298pp.
• Gerry Bradley with Brian Feeney, Insider: Gerry Bradley’s Life in the IRA (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2009), 288pp.
• Gordon Gillespie, A Short History of the Troubles (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 160pp.
• David Gordon, The Fall of the House of Paisley (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 352pp.
• John Kennedy, Warts and All: Ten Years of the Good Friday Agreement (Belfast: Appletree Press 2009), 96pp.
• Pearse Lawlor, The Burnings of 1920 (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 351pp.
• Don McCloy, Creating Belfast: Technical Education and the Formation of a Great Industrial City, 1801-1921 (Dublin: Nonsuch 2009), 288pp.
• Henry McDonald, Gunsmoke and Mirrors (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009), 256pp.
• William McKee, Governor: Life in Charge of the Maze (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2009) 224pp.
• Robert Ramsay, Ringside Seats: An Insider’s View of the Crisis in Northern Ireland (Dublin: IAP 2009), 288pp.
• Russell Rees, Labour and the Northern Ireland Problem 1945-51: The Missed Opportunity (Dublin: IAP 2009), 208pp.
• Timothy Shanahan, The Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism (Edinburgh UP 2009), vii, 245pp. ill. [8pp. of pls.].

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Archaeology, Topography and Natural History
• J. H. Andrews, Maps in Those Days: Carthographic Mthods before 1850 ((Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 540pp. ill.
• Francis John Byrne, et al., Historical Knowth and Its Hinterland, intro. by George Eogan (Dublin; RIA 2009), 353pp.
• John Crowley & John Sheehan, The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry (Cork UP 2009), 512pp.
• Hugh McElveen, Landscape and Legend in Connemara (Dublin: Nonsuch Pres 2009), 120pp. col. ill.
• Ian Maxwell, Armagh: History and Guide (Dublin: Nonsuch 2009), 160pp.
• Carmel Mooney, A Sense of Place (Dublin: Gandon Press 2009), 131pp. ill. [incls. essays by Julian Campbell and Cyril Barrett].
• Liam Ó Duibhir, The Donegal Awakening: Donegal and the War of Independence (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 320pp.
• Mícheál Ó Duibhshláine, Inisvickillane (Dingle: Brandon Press 2009), q.pp.
• Nicky Rossiter, The Streets of Wexford (Dublin: Nonsuch Press 2009), 128pp.
• Rob Vance, Talking of the Stones: Decoding Ireland’s Lost Past (Dublin: Ashfield Press 2009), 182pp.

Arts & Architecture
• Tarquin Blake, Abandoned Mansions of Ireland (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 348pp.
• Barra Boydell & Kerry Houston, eds., Music and Culture in Seventeenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 224pp. ill.
• John Crawford & Raymond Gillespie, eds., St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin: A History (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 432pp.
• John O’Flynn, The Irishness of Irish Music (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, [2009]), xiv, 239pp. ill. [see contents].
• Conan Kennedy, My Father’s House: Monte Alverno, Dalkey, Co. Dublin ([Dublin:] Morrigan Books 2009), 126pp.
• Ronald W. Lightblown, An Architect Earl: Edward Augustus Strafford (1703-1801): 2nd Earl of Aldborough (Oll Editions [Irish Georgian Soc.] 2009), 479pp.
• Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in the 1950s (Yale UP 2009), 224pp.
• Olwen Purdue, The Big House in North of Ireland: Land, Power and Social Elites 1870-1960 (UCD Press 2009), 320pp. ill. [+ 8pp.].

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Diaspora & Migration Studies
• Paul Darby, Gaelic Games, Nationalism and the Irish Diaspora in the United States (UCD Press 2009), 288pp., ill. [+ 8pp.].
• Patrick Fitzgerald & Brian Lambkin, Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), 423pp.
• William Henry, Coffin Ship: The Wreck of the Brig St. John (Cork: Mercier Press 2009), 256pp.
• Helen Kelly, Irish “Ingleses”: The Irish Immigrant Experience in Argentina, 1840-1920 [The Irish Abroad Ser.] (Dublin: IAP 2009), 272pp.
• Cal McCarthy, Green, Blue and Grey: The Irish in the American Civil War (Cork: Collins Press 2009), 336pp.
• Matthew J. O’Brien & James Silas Rogers, eds., After the Flood: Irish America, 1945-1960 (Dublin: IAP 2009), 237pp.

 

Media & Entertainment
• Ruth Barton, Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television (Dublin: IAP 2009), 304pp.
• Niall Ciosáin, Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750-1850 (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2009), 288pp.
• Seán Crossan & Rod Stoneman, ed., The Quiet Man … and Beyond: Reflections on a Classic Film, by John Ford and Ireland (Dublin: Liffey Press 2009), 264pp.
• Barry Monahan, Ireland’s Theatre on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen (Dublin; IAP 2009), viii, 279pp. ill. [8pp. of pls.].
• Mark O’Brien, The Irish Times: A History (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 312pp. [= 16pp. photos].

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Library Studies & Bibliography
• Muriel McCarthy & Ann Simmons, eds., Marsh’s Library: A Mirror on the World (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 340pp. ill.
• Katharine Simms, Medieval Gaelic Sources (Dublin: Four Court Press 2009), 128pp.
• Matthew Taylor, The National Library of Ireland: Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann (NLI/Scala Publ. 2009), 96pp.

 

Reference, Guides & Companions
• Gary Bannister, Kiss my … Póg Mo Thóin: A Dictionary of English-Irish Slang (Dublin: New Island Press 2009), 153pp.
• Peter Brooker & Andrew Thacker, eds., The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazine - Vol. 1, “Britain and Ireland 1880-1955” (Oxford: OUP 2009).
• James McGuire & James Quinn, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 9 vols. (RIA 2009) [9,014 signed entries; $1,200].

 

Digital Publications
• Seamus Heaney: Collected Poems (RTE/Lannan 2009), 15 CDs.

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Journals, Annuals & Special Issues
• Cork Literary Review, ed. Eugene O’Connell (2009), 257pp.
• Field Day Review, 5, ed. Seamus Deane & Breandán Mac Suibhne (Field Day/Cork UP 2009), 248pp.[see contents].
• Irisleabhar Mha Nua, 2008, ed. Pádraig Ó Fiannachta ([Maynooth:] An Sagart 2009), 223pp.