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

Original Literary Works
Poetry Collections
Fiction (novels & short stories)
Drama (plays & collections)
Autobiography & Memoir
Biography (literary & historical)
Miscellaneous Writings
Scholarly Editions & Reprints
Anthologies, Interviews & Almanacs
Criticism & Commentary
Lit. Crit. & Cultural Commentary
Critical Studies: Individual Authors
Language & Folklore Studies
Religion & Philosophy
History & Politics
Historical Studies: General
Historical Studies: pre-20th c.
Historical Studies: 20th c.
Politics, Economics & Society
Northern Ireland/Ulster
Culture & Society
Arch., Topography & Natural Hist.
Arts & Architecture
Diaspora & Migration Studies
Media & Entertainment
Reference Works &c.
Library Studies & Bibliography
Reference, Guides & Companions
Digital Publications
Journals, Annuals & Special Issues
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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].
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    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.
Bibliographical details
John Wilson Foster, Between Shadows: Modern Irish Writing and Culture, with a foreword by Edna Longley (Dublin: IAP 2009), 257pp. CONTENTS. Preface [vii]; Note on the Text [x]; Foreword [xi]; I - Writers [1]: 1. Emblems of Diversity: Yeats and the Great War [3]; 2. The Islandman: The Teller and the Tale [17]; 3. Against Nature? Science and Oscar Wilde [30]; 4. The Weir: Inheriting the Wind [48]; 5. Stretching the Imagination: Some Trevor Novels [57]; 6. ‘All the Long Traditions’: Loyalty in Barry and Ishiguro [72]; 7. Virtual Irelands: Martin McDonagh [90]; 8. Revisitations: Criticism and Benedict Kiely [101]; 9. The Autocartography of Tim Robinson [118]. II - Writing and Culture: 10. Strangford Lough and its Writers [129]; 11. Blackbird [141]; 12. Guests of the Nation [151]; 13. Getting the North: Yeats and Northern Nationalism [174]; 14. Was there Ulster Literary Life before Heaney? [205]; 15. Bloomsday’s Joyce [219]; 16. Between Two Shadows: Kettle, Lynd and the Great War [235]; Index [253].
 
Robin Robertson, ed., Love Poet, Carpenter: Michael Longley at Seventy (London: Enitharmon Press 2009), 125pp. ill. [ports.], 24cm. Contributions [60 writers]: Fleur Adcock, Michael Allen, Simon Armitage, John Banville, Sebastian Barry, Fran Brearton, John Burnside, David Cabot, Ciaran Carson, Douglas Carson, Gillian Clarke, Patricia Craig, Robert Crawford, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Gerald Dawe, Greg Delanty, Eamon Duffy, Ian Duhig, Douglas Dunn, Paul Durcan, Paul Farley, James Fenton, Leontia Flynn, Alan Gillis, Eamon Grennan, Donald Hall, Kerry Hardie, Dermot Healy, Seamus Heaney, Kathleen Jamie, Dillon Johnston, Robert Johnstone, Fergal Keane, Brendan Kennelly, Nick Laird, Sarah Longley [dg.], Tom MacIntyre, Thomas McCarthy, Peter McDonald, Medbh McGuckian, Derek Mahon, John Montague, Jeffrey Morgan, Sinead Morrissey, Andrew Motion, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Bernard O’Donoghue, Dennis O’Driscoll, Sharon Olds, Caitriona O’Reilly, Frank Ormsby, Don Paterson, Glenn Patterson, Justin Quinn, Piotr Sommer, Anne Tannahill, Adam Thorpe, Anthony Thwaite, Michael Viney, David Wheatley. Each has signed in ink on four end-pages. festschrift at Longley’s seventieth birthday, July 2009; signed ltd. edn; with b&w chalk port. of Michael Longley by Jeffrey Morgan on front cover; bound by The Fine Book Bindery in Dubletta mid-blue cloth and housed in a cloth-bound slipcase; de luxe edition of 195 copies of which 100 were sale. [See COPAC online; accessed 19.10.210.]
 
Scott Boltwood, ed., Renogotiating And Resisting Nationalism in 20th-Century Irish Drama [Ulster Editions and Monographs, Vol. 15] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2009), xvi, 211pp,, CONTENTS: Scott Boltwood, ‘Introduction’. Colonialism and the Free State: Hyangsoon Yi, ‘The Traveller in Irish Drama and the Works of J. M.Synge and Seamus O’Kelly’; Barbara Suess, ‘Individualism and the Acceptance of Other: Yeats and Where There is Nothing’; Scott Boltwood, ‘“I Keep Silence for Good or Evil”: Lady Gregory’s Cloon plays and Home Rule’; Paul Cantor, ‘O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock and the Problematic Freedom of the Irish Free State’. The Republic and the North: Paul Davies, ‘Earthing the Void: Beckett, Bio-regionalism, and Eco-poetics’; Shaun Richards, ‘Brian Friel: Seizing the Moment of Flux’; Ros Dixon, ‘Chekhov Bogged Down?: Tom Kilroy’s version of The Seagull’; Susan Cannon Harris, ‘Her Blood and Her Brother: Gender and Sacrifice in Frank McGuinness’s Carthaginians’; Rebecca Pelan, ‘Two’s Company, Three’s a Community: Women’s Drama from Northern Ireland’; Maria-Elena Doyle, ‘“What Sort of Monsters Must We Have Been”: Irishness and the Gothic in McDonagh, Carr and McPherson’. Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.
 
Melissa Sihra & Paul Murphy, ed., The Dreaming Body: Contemporary Irish Theatre [Ulster Editions & Monographs Series, 16] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2009), x, 232 pp. CONTENTS: Seamus Heaney. ‘The Wood Road’; Sihra & Murphy, Introduction: ‘The Dreaming Body’; Eamonn Jordan, ‘Urban Dramas:  Any Myth Will Do?’; Melissa Sihra, intro., Extract from Marina Carr’s Chekhov; Lynne Parker, ‘Showtime: The Strategy of Mischief in the Plays of Stewart Parker’; Mark Phelan, ‘Performing “Authentic” Ireland: (Dis)connecting the Cultural Politics of the Irish Revival and the Celtic Tiger on the Irish Stage’; Rhona Trench, ‘Staging Morality in On Raftery’s Hill: A Kristevan Reading’; Stephen Regan, ‘Terry Eagleton’s Saint Oscar’; Extract from Terry Eagleton’s Saint Oscar; Brian Singleton, ‘Queer Eye for the Irish Guy: Transgressive Sexualities and the Performance of Nation’; Olwen Fouéré, ‘Operating Theatre and Angel/Babel’; Aoife Monks, ‘Looking for Fiona: Gender and Nationality in the Work of Fiona Shaw’; Paul Murphy, ‘Brian Friel’s Wonderful Tennessee, or what was lost in Translations’; Conall Morrison, ‘The Future of Greek Tragedy’; Extract from Conall Morrison’s The Bacchae of Baghdad; Melissa Sihra, ‘Birthdays and Deathdays in the Theatre of Samuel Beckett and Marina Carr’; David Johnston, ‘En otras palabras: Frank McGuinness and Spanish Drama’; Donal O’Kelly in conversation with Paul Murphy; Robert Welch. ‘Des Maxwell: An Afterword’.
 
Nicholas Allen, Modernism, Ireland and Civil War (Cambridge UP 2009), xiv, 225pp. CONTENTS: 1. Civil Wars; 2. Irregular Joyce; 3. The Plough and the Cabaret; 4. W. B. Yeats and A Vision after Empire; 5. Wherever motley is worn; 6. Beckett's Time; 7. Jack Yeats and the Liquid World; 8. Ireland Today; 9. In the Wake; Bibliography.
 
Scott Brewster & Michael Parker, eds., Irish Literature Since 1990: Diverse Voices (Manchester UP 2009), xii, 330pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Introduction, I: Michael Parker, ‘Changing History: the Republic and Northern Ireland since 1990’; [Introduction,] II: Brewster, ‘Flying High? Culture, Criticism, Theory since 1990’. Part One: Drama: 1. Clare Wallace & Ondrej Pilny, ‘Home Places: Irish Drama since 1990’; 2. Maria Kurdi, ‘Foregrounding the Body and Performance in Plays by Gina Moxley, Emma Donoghue and Marina Carr’; 3. Anthony Roche, ‘The Stuff of Tragedy? Representations of Irish Political Leaders in the ’Haughey’ Plays of Carr, Barry and Breen’; 4. Martine Pelletier, ‘New Articulations of Irishness and Otherness on the Contemporary Irish Stage’. Part Two: Poetry. 5. Jerzy Jarniewicz & John McDonagh, ‘Scattered and Diverse: Irish Poetry Since 1990’; 6. Lucy Collins, ‘Architectural Metaphors: Representations of the House in the Poetry of Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Vona Groarke’; 7. Joanna Cowper, ‘“The places I go back to”: Familiarisation and Making Strange in Seamus Heaney’s Later Poetry’; 8. Parker, ‘“Neither Here Nor There”: New Generation Northern Irish Poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird)’ Part Three: Fiction 9. Liam Harte, ‘“Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again”: Irish Fiction and Autobiography since 1990 10. Heidi Hansson, ‘Anne Enright and Postnationalism in the Contemporary Irish Novel’; 11. Stephen Regan, ‘Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark, John Walsh’s The Falling Angels and John McGahern’s Memoir’; 12. Vivian Valvano Lynch, ‘Secret Gardens: Unearthing the Truth in Patrick O’Keeffe’s The Hill Road’; 13. Jennifer M. Jeffers, ‘“What’s it like being Irish?”: The Return of the Repressed in Roddy Doyle’s Paula Spencer’; 14. Neal Alexander, ‘Remembering to Forget: Northern Irish Fiction after the Troubles’. Part Four: After Words. 15. Shane Alcobia-Murphy, ‘“What Do I Say When They Wheel out Their Dead?”: The Representation of Violence in Northern Irish Art’. Notes on contributors. Index.
 
James P. Byrne, Padraig Kirwan & Michael O’Sullivan, eds., Affecting Irishness: Negotiating Cultural Identity Within and Beyond the Nation [Reimagining Ireland., Vol. 2] (Oxford, et al. loc. Peter Lang 2009), xviii, 314pp. CONTENTS, ‘Raphaël Ingelbien, ‘Irish Studies, the Postcolonial Paradigm and the Comparative Mandate’; Oona Frawley, ‘“Who’s he when he’s at home?”: Spenser and Irishness’; Anne-Catherine Lobo, ‘Irishness and the Body: The Presence of the Body in the Debates on Poverty in the Early Nineteenth Century’; Linda M. Hagan, ‘The Ulster-Scots and the “Greening” of Ireland: A Precarious Belonging?’; Niall O’Gallagher, ‘“Ma Right Insane Yirwanny Us Jimmy?: Irishness in Modern Scottish Writing’; Carol Baraniuk, ‘The Leid, the Pratoe and the Buik: Northern Cultural Markers in the Works of James Orr’; Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh, ‘“No Rootless Colonist: John Hewitt’s Regionalist Approach to Identity’; Maureen T. Reddy, ‘Representing Travellers’; Jason King, ‘Irish Multicultural Fiction: Metaphors of Miscegenation and Interracial Romance’; Iris Lindahl-Raittila, ‘Subversive Identities: Femininity, Sexuality and “Irishness” in Novels by Edna O’Brien’; Justin Carville, ‘A ‘Sympathetic Look: Documentary Humanism and Irish Identity in Dorothea Lange’s “Irish Country People”; Thomas W. Ihde, ‘Irish-American Identity and the Irish Language’; William H. Mulligan, Jr., ‘Shades of Green and Orange: Irish Identity in Diaspora’; Florence Schneider, ‘Muldoon’s Palimpsestic Irishness’; Ruth Barton, ‘The Voice of Pierce Brosnan’; Daniel Tobin, ‘Shades, Minstrel and Majestic’; Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, ‘Self-Contradiction in a Small Place: Anne Devlin’s ‘Other at the Edge of Life’.
 
Eóin Flannery, Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia (Palgrave Macmillan 2009), viii, 268pp. CONTENTS. Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ireland - ‘A Supreme Postcolonial Instance’?; Field Day and Irish Postcolonial Criticism; Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse; Postcolonial Metacriticism; The ’Second Wave’ Ireland, Gender and Postcolonialism; Fanon’s One Big Idea: Revising Postcolonial Studies and Irish Studies; Conclusion: Postcolonial Studies and Contemporary Politics; Bibliography; Index.
 
Heather Ingman, A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge UP 2009), viii, 326pp. CONTENTS. 1. Introduction; 2. The nineteenth century: nation and short story in the making; Readings: William Carleton and Emily Lawless; 3. Fin de siècle visions: Irish short fiction at the turn of the century; Readings: W. B. Yeats and George Egerton; 4. The modern Irish short story: Moore and Joyce; Readings: James Joyce; 5. 1920-39: years of transition; Readings: Frank O’Connor and Norah Hoult; 6. 1940-1959: isolation; Readings: Mary Lavin and Sean O’Faolain; 7. 1960-1979: time, memory and imagination; Readings: William Trevor and Edna O’Brien; 8. 1980 to the present: changing identities; Readings: John McGahern and Eilis Ní Dhuibhne; Biographical glossary; Bibliographic essay.
 
John P. , ed., Irish Theater in America (Syracuse UP 2009), xix, 226pp. CONTENTS: Mick Moloney, ‘Harrigan, Hart, and Braham: Irish America and the Birth of the American Musical’; Maureen Murphy, ‘From Scapegrace to Grásta: Popular Attitudes and Stereotypes in Irish American Drama’; Christopher L. Berchild, ‘Ireland Rearranged: Contemporary Irish Drama and the Irish American Stage’; Deirdre McFeely, ‘Between Two Worlds: Boucicault’s The Shaughraun and Its New York Audience’; Gwen Orel, ‘Reporting the Stage Irishman: Dion Boucicault in the Irish Press’; Peter Kuch, ‘Kilkenny, Melbourne, New York: George Tallis and the Irish Theatrical Diaspora’; Lucy McDiarmid, ‘The Abbey, Its “Helpers,” and the Field of Cultural Production in 1913’; Joan Fitzpatrick Dean, ‘Mac Liammóir’s The Importance of Being Oscar in America’; , ‘Beckett and America’; Claire Gleitman, ‘Another Look at Those “Three Bollocks in a Cell”: Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and the Shackles of History’; Nicholas Grene, ‘Faith Healer in New York and Dublin’; Patrick Lonergan, ‘“Dancing on a One-way street”: Irish Reactions to Dancing at Lughnasa in New York’; Christina Hunt Mahony, “The Irish Play”: Beyond the Generic?”.
 
Eugene O’Brien, ‘Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse’: Negotiating Texts and Contexts in Contemporary Irish Studies (Bern: Peter Lang 2009), 215pp. Introduction: Negotiating Texts and Contexts [1]. 1. Ireland in Theory: The Influence of French Theory on Irish Cultural and Societal Development [11]; 2. The Ethics of Translation: Seamus Heaney’s The Cure of Troy and Beowulf [27]; 3. The Body Politic: The Ethics of Responsibility and the Responsibility of Ethics in Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes [47]; 4: ‘You never can know women’: Framing Female Identity in Dubliners [67]; 5: The Return and Redefinition of the Repressed: Postcolonial studies and “Eveline” in Dubliners [81]; 6: ‘Inner Emigré(s)’: Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the Hauntological Redefinition of Irishness [99]; 7. ‘Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse’: Catholicism, Deconstruction and Postmodernity in Contemporary Irish Culture [115]; 8. ‘Guests (Geists) of the Nation’: A Heimlich (Unheimlich) Manoeuvre [133]; 9. Global Warnings: Towards a Deconstruction of the Global and the Local [153]; 10. ‘Ta Siad ag Teacht’: Guinness as a Signifier of Irish Cultural Transformation [171]. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index [205].
 
John McCourt, ed., James Joyce in Context (Cambridge UP 2009), xx, 414pp. CONTENTS: Stacey Herbert, ‘Composition and publishing history of the major works: an overview’; Finn Fordham, ‘Biography’; William S. Brockman,. ‘Letters’; John Nash, ‘Genre, place, and value: Joyce’s reception, 1904-1941’; Joseph Brooker, ‘Postwar Joyce’; Sam Slote, ‘Structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism’; Marian Eide, ‘Gender and sexuality’; Luke Thurston, ‘Psychoanalysis’; Gregory Castle, ‘Postcolonialism’; Dirk Van Hulle, ‘Genetic Joyce criticism’; Jolanta Wawrzycka, ‘Translation studies’; Eric Bulson, ‘Joyce and world literature’; Sean Latham, ‘21st century critical contexts’; Cheryl Temple Herr, ‘Being in Joyce’s world’; L. M. Cullen, ‘Dublin’; Matthew Campbell, ‘Nineteenth-century lyric nationalism’; Clare Hutton, ‘The Irish Revival’; Patrick Parrinder, ‘The English literary tradition’; Jean-Michel Rabate, ‘Paris’; John McCourt, ‘Trieste’; Brian Arkins, ‘Greek and Roman themes’; Vike Martina Plock, ‘Medicine’; Michael Levenson, ‘Modernisms’; Timothy Martin, ‘Music’; Brian Caraher, ‘Irish and European politics, nationalism, socialism, empire’; R. Brandon Kershner, ‘Newspapers and popular culture’; Tim Conley, ‘Language and languages’; Fran O’Rourke, ‘Philosophy’; Geert Lernout, ‘Religion’; Mark Morrisson , ‘Science’; Maria di Battista, ‘Cinema’; Christine Froula, ‘Cinema’.
 
Eamon Maher, ed., Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland [Reimagining Ireland, Vol. 5] (Oxford, et al. loc., Peter Lang 2009), xiv, 242pp. CONTENTS, Fintan O’Toole, ‘Foreword’; Eamon Maher, ‘Introduction’; Michael Cronin, ‘Inside Out, Time and Place in Global Ireland’; Catherine Maignant, ‘The Global Irish Spirit’; Grace Neville, ‘In at the Death: The French Press and the Celtic Tiger’; Eugene O’Brien, ‘Negotiating the Self: The Spectral Mobile Subject’; Peadar Kirby, ‘Globalisation, Vulnerability and the Return to Religion: Reflections from the Irish Experience’; Tom Inglis, ‘The Global is Personal’; Anne Fogarty, ‘Contemporary Irish Fiction and the Transnational Imaginary’; Alison O’Malley-Younger & Tom Herron, ‘Root and Routes: Home and Away in Friel and Heaney’; Patrick Lonergan, ‘Irish Theatre and Globalisation: A Faustian Pact?’; Willy Maley, ‘Coming of Age (and other Fictions of Globalisation) in Three Novels by Seamus Deane, Roddy Doyle and Patrick McCabe’; Eamon Maher, ‘The Universal is the Local without Walls: John McGahern and the Global Project.’
 
Frank Ferguson & James McConnell, eds., Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2009), 182pp. CONTENTS: Kevin James, ‘“In No Degree inferior”: Scotland and ‘Tourist development’ in Late-Victorian Ireland’; Clare M. Norcio, ‘Societies and Seminaries: Technological Exchange in Ulster Agriculture’; S. Karly Lehoe, ‘Irish Migrants and the Recruitment of Catholic Sisters in Glasgow, 1847-1878’; Andrew R. Holmes, ‘Irish Presbyterian Commemorations of their Scottish Past, c.1830-1914’; Frank Ferguson, ‘“Third Character”: The Articulation of Scottish Identities in Two Irish Writers’; Patrick Maume, ‘“From Scotland’s Storied Land: William McComb and Scots-Irish Presbyterian Identity’; Peter Gray, ‘“Thomas Chalmers and Irish Poverty’; Matthew Potter, ‘“Urban Local State in Scotland and Ireland to 1900: Parallels and Contrasts’; Susan Kelly, ‘Tuberculosis Cures Used in Ireland, 1700-1950’; Richard B. McCready, ‘St. Patrick’s day in Dundee, c.1850-1900: a contested Irish institution in a Scottish context’; Amy O’Reilly, ‘“All Irishmen of good character’: the Hibernian Society of Glasgow, 1792-1824’; Máirtín Ó Catháin, ‘Michael Collins and Scotland’.
 
Kate O’Malley, Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-64 (Manchester UP 2009), 224pp. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Communist Menace; 2. V. J. Patel and the Indian-Irish Independence League; 3. Subhas Chandra Bose and Ireland; 4. The Second World War and the ‘Vanishing Empire’; 5. A Commonwealth Republic; Conclusion; Biographical notes; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. [Deals with M. N. Roy, Brajesh Singh, Shapurji Saklatvala, Subhas Chandra Bose, Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, Roddy Connolly, Seán MacBride, Frank Ryan and Peadar O’Donnell.
 
Séamas Ó Síocháin, ed., Social Thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin: UCD Press 2009), xiii, 178pp. CONTENTS: Vincent Comerford, Introduction: ‘Ireland’s Nineteenth Century’; Tom Garvin & Andreas Hess, ‘Gustave de Beaumont: Ireland’s Alexis de Tocqueville’ Graham Finlay, ‘John Stuart Mill and Ireland’; Brian Conway and Michael R. Hill, ‘Harriet Martineau and Ireland’; Séamas Ó Síocháin, ‘Sir Henry Maine and the Survival of the Fittest’; Chandana Mathur & Dermot Dix, ‘The Irish Question in Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s writings on Capitalism and Empire’; Ciaran Brady, ‘Destinies intertwined: The metaphysical unionism of James Anthony Froude’; Peter J. Bowler, ‘Race theory and the Irish’; George J. Watson, ‘Celticism : Macpherson, Matthew Arnold and Ireland’; Peter Gray, ‘Afterword’.
 
John O’Flynn, The Irishness of Irish Music (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, [2009]), xiv, 239pp. ill.; 24 cm. CONTENTS: Irishness and Music: Towards an Interpretive Framework; A Brief and Recent History of Irish Music; Mapping the Field: Snapshots; Ireland in Music?; Irishness and Music in a Changing Society; The Music; Authenticity and Irish Music; Conclusion: Irishness and Music “Inside Out”; Bibliography (pp. [203]-224); Discography (pp. [225]-226); Filmography (p.[227]), Index. [By author of “Perceptions of Irishness in Irish Music: A Sociological Study of National Identity and Music.” [PhD thesis] (London University 2004), 260pp.]
 
Field Day Review, 5, ed. Seamus Deane & Breandán Mac Suibhne (Field Day/Cork UP 2009), 248pp. CONTENTS: Ciaran Deane, ‘Brian Friel’s Translations: The Origins of a Cultural Experiment’; Joe Cleary, ‘Distress Signals: Sean Ó Faolain and the Fate of Twentieth-Century Irish Literature‘; Barry McCrea, ‘Family and Form in Ulysses’; Catriona Kennedy, ‘Our Separate Rooms: Bishop Stock’s Narrative of the French Invasion of Mayo, 1798’; Juliana Adelman, ‘Animal Knowledge: Zoology and Classification in Nineteenth-Century Dublin’; Giovanni Arrighi in Conversation with Joe Cleary: ‘Up for Grabs’. Reviews: Ian McBride, The Whole People of Ireland? David Lloyd, Shadows of a Gunman; Chris Morash, Theatre, Globalization and Recalcitrant Audiences; Sean Mannion, Modernism at the Movies; Carl Dawson, A Different Grammar; Francis Mulhern, Just Another Country?; Seamus Deane, The Great Nation and the Evil Empire.

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