Bibliography of bibliographies for Irish Literary Studies (1997)

  • Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed. F. W. Bateson (Cambridge UP 1966), 1800-1900: Literature of the Dominions. 1. Anglo-Irish Literature pp.1045-1063 [incl. General Works; Gaelic literature; sources and scholarship; Poetts of the Irish Revival; Yeats and Synge; Dramatist of the Irish Revival] [SEE New Cambridge Bibl., infra].
  • Abbott, T. K., Catalogue of Fifteen Century Books in the Library of TCD and in March’s Library (Dublin 1907).
  • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature [ZPR8.A61].
  • Armitage, [?], Bibliography of Louis MacNeice (1973).
  • Armstrong, William, British Writers [incl. O’Casey, in Vol. 7; et al.] (1984).
  • Bale, [Bishop] John, Catalogue of Writers over 1400 Years [cited in Irish Book Lover].
  • Batdell, Tom, Bibliography of J. C. Mangan [?1940-].
  • Bateson, George, gen. ed., ‘Anglo-Irish Literature’ [1800-1900], in The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. III, (CUP 1940), pp.1045-1067; Supplement (Cambridge UP 1957), pp.698-706.
  • Baumgarten, Rolf, Bibliography of Irish Language and Literature, 1942-1971 (DIAS 1986).
  • Bayliss, Gwynn, Bibliographical Guide to the World Wars [JORD 016.9403].
  • Benson, Charles ‘Printers and Booksellers in Dublin 1800-1850’, in Spreading the Word: The Distribution Networks of Print, 1550-1850, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris (Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies 1990), pp.47-59. .
  • Best, Richard Irvine, A Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Material (Dublin 1913).
  • Bibliog. Biog. Microfiche 1978-84 [on 44 microfiche BML 1985; 1989].
  • Bibliographica: Papers on Books, Their History and Art, vols. 1-3 (Kegan Paul & Trench 1895-97) [PER X 21007].
  • Bibliographical Catalogue of Macmillans & Co. 1843-1889 A (1891), 715pp.
  • Bibliography of Biography, microform 1978-84; 44 microfiche (BML 1985; 1989).
  • Bibliography of Contemporary Poets (Regency 1970), 191pp.; also 1973.
  • Bibliotheca Celtica: a register of publications relating to Wales and Celtic peoples and languages [1910-28; 1929-52; 1953-].
  • Black, Collison R. D., A Catalogue of Pamphlets on Economic Subjets published between 1750-1900 and now housed in irhs Libraries (NY: Kelley 1969), 636pp., folio.
  • Blanck, Jacob, Bibliography of American Literature (Yale UP 1955- ).
  • Bohn, Henry G., Bibliographers’ Manual of English Literature (1858; 1859).
  • Books Ireland [monthly from Jeremy Addis, ed., 11 Newgrove Ave., Sandymount Dublin 4).
  • Books on Ireland printed abroad, Belfast Municipal Museum (1934) Q N 52:2-7 Je.
  • Bourke, Fr. Books on Kilkenny Bradshaw, Henry, Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library, (printed B. Quaritch, 1916); 3 vols.
  • Brady, Anne M., and Brian Cleeve, A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers [rev. ed.] (1985).
  • Brady, Ann, Women in Ireland: An Annotated Bibliography (Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press 1988), 478pp.
  • British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books.
  • British National Bibliography [Z001.B88].
  • Brown, Stephen, A Guide to Books on Ireland (1912, rep. 1969).
  • Brown, Stephen, Ireland in Fiction: a Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folklore, Vol 1 (1919; rep. 1968); and Do. [Part 2], ed. Desmond Clarke (1985).
  • Brown, Stephen, The Press in Ireland [Lemma repr., 1971].
  • Carty, James, Bibliography of Irish History, 1870-1911 (NLI 1940); also Carty, ed., 1912-1921.
  • Clarke, Desmond, ed., Ireland in Fiction, Vol. 2 (1985) [2nd vol. of Do., ed. Stephen Brown].
  • Cole, Richard Cargill, Irish Booksellers and English Writers, 1740-1800 (Atlantic Heights, NJ: Mansell Pub. 1986), 266pp., with index.
  • Colman, Anne Ulry, A Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Poets (Galway: Kenny’s Bookshop 1996), 245pp.
  • Coleman, J., A Medieval Irish Monastic Library Catalogue, BSI, ii (1925), 6. [Stanford, 1986].
  • Complete Catalogue of the Library of John Quinn [Lemma Publ’g Co. NY 1969].
  • Daiches, David, The Present Age after 1920, Vol 5: Introduction to Irish literature (London 1958).
  • Dalmer, Roger C., Bibliographical Retrieval Services, Inc. (Colorado 1983) [on line].
  • Danaher, ed., Kevin, Bibliography of Irish Ethnology and Folk Tradition (Mercier 1978), 95pp.
  • Davis, William Twiston Pennar, Bibliography of John Bale [Oxford Bibl. Soc. Proc. Vo. I pt. IV] (1939), 79pp.
  • de Breffny, Brian, Bibliography of Irish Family History (1973).
  • de Hae, Ristéard [Richard Hayes] and Bríghid Ní Donnchadha, Clár Litridheacht na Nua-Ghaedhilge 1850-1936 (Dublin 1938).
  • Deane, Seamus, gen. ed. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 vols (1991) [contains comprehensive bibliographies.].
  • Dix, Ernest Reginald McClintock, Catalogue of Early Dublin-printed books, 1601-1700, with hist. Intro. and Bibl. notes by C Winston Dugan, 4 pts and Suppl. (Dublin 1898-1912) [See also endpaper DJ O’Donoghue, Irish Ability, 1906.].
  • Dix, Ernest Reginald McClintock, The Earliest Dublin Printing, with List of Books etc. printed in Dublin prior to 1601 (Dublin 1901). Dix, E. R. McClintock, with J Cassedy [sic], List of Books, Pamphlets, etc. printed wholly, or partly, in Irish, from the earliest period to 1820 [compiled Dix and Seamus ua Casaidhe] (Dublin 1905; enl. Dublin 1913), sect. 1. [cited with the foregoing as authority in Catalogue to Bradshaw Collection in University Library, Cambridge, 1916.].
  • Dix, Ernest Reginald McClintock, The Earliest Journals Published in Dublin, rep. of Proc. RIA, 3rd ser. Vol VI., no. 1 (Dublin 1900).
  • Dix, Ernest Reginald McClintock, with Plumer and Bushell, in A dictionary of Printers and Booksellers who were working in England, Soctland, and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (Bibl. Soc. 1968); Ireland, pp.376-428.
  • Doloughlin, Phyllis E., ‘Ulster Poetry: a Checklist of Published Collections, 1960-1980 (Dept. of Library and Information Studies, QUB 1983).
  • Eager, Alan, A Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material and Some Sources of Information (1960; rep. 1980); var. ([Lon 1964] enl., and rev. edn. 1980).
  • Elvsam, Theodore G., Bibliographies of 12 Victorian Authors, originally compiled by Ehrsam and Robert H Deily, dir. Robert N Smith (NY:Octagon 1968).
  • Finneran, Richard J., ed., Anglo-Irish Literature: A Review of Research (1976).
  • Finneran, Richard J., ed., Recent Research on Anglo-Irish Writers (1983).
  • Gonzalez, Alexander, Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press; London: Aldwych 1997), 457pp.
  • Greg, Walter Wilson [Sir], Bibliography [of] Printed Drama to the Restoration, (1962).
  • Grosjean, P., and D O’Connell, A Catalogue of Incunabula in the Library at Milltown Park, Dublin (Dublin 1932).
  • Grove, Pearce S., and Evelyn G Clement, Bibliographical Control of non-printed media [American Lib. Assoc.] (Chicago 1972).
  • Harmon, Maurice, A Select Bibliography for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature and its Backgrounds (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1976).
  • Harmon, Maurice, Modern Irish Literature 1800-1875: A Reader’s Guide (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1967), 71pp. Harner, James, Literary Research Guide: a guide to reference sources for the study of literatures in English and related topics, 2nd ed. (NY:MLA 93), 766pp.
  • Harris, Walter, Historiographorum Aliorumque Scriptorum Hiberniæ Commentarium: or, A History of the Irish Writers [1736].incl. [based on Sir James Ware’s list].
  • Hayes, Richard [Risteard de Hae], Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation, 11 vols (Boston: G. K. Hall 1965).
  • Hayes, Richard, Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilization [Catalogue of MSS relating to Irish History in Irish and Foreign Libraries], 11 vols. (US 1966). Hayes, Richard, Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation: articles in Irish periodicals, 9 vols (1970).
  • Hayley, Barbara, Bibliography of the Writings of William Carleton (Colin Smythe 1985), 241pp. .
  • Hayley, Barbara, ‘A Reading and Thinking Nation: Periodicals as the Voice of Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, in Three Hundred Years of Irish Periodicals, ed. Hayley and Enda McKay (Mullingar: Lilliput Press 1987), pp.29-48. Hayley, Barbara, ‘British Critical Reception of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Fiction’, in Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, ed. Wolfgang Zach & Heinz Kosok, 3 vols. (Tubingen: G. Narr 1987), Vol. I, pp.39-50, p.39. .
  • Helferty, Seamus, and Raymond Refaussée, Directory of Irish Archives (IAP 1988; 2nd ed. 1993), 107pp, index [TCD, Marsh’s, & many lesser collections.], 154pp.
  • Higgins, Paul, Bibliography of periodical literature relationg to Irish Laws (Belfast: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 1966).
  • Takemoto, Hiroshi, A Bibliography of Irish Writers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Tokyo 1985).
  • Hodges Figgis, A Catalogue of Books Relating to Ireland, No. 10 (1953) [3,42 items].
  • Holzapfel, Rudi, Author Index 3 (Dublin:Carraig Books 1992), 145pp.
  • Howard-Hill T[revor]. H., British Literary Bibliography, 1970-1979: A Bibliography (Clarendon OUP 1987; 1992).
  • IASAIL [later IASIL], Annual Bibliographical Bulletin in The Irish University Review (1975- ).
  • Introduction to Bibliography (OUP 1972).
  • Irish Booklover [first issue contains essay on the origins of modern Irish bibliography].
  • Irish Books in Print (1984) [z2031.I55].
  • ‘Irish Newspapers, 1600-1880’, in T. Howard-Hill, ed., Bibliography of British Literature (OUP 1969), p. 733.
  • ‘Irish Radical Newspapers of the Twentieth Century’, microfilm resource [held Center for Research Libraries in Chicago and Notre Dame, et al.; hardcopies in U. of Minnesota, Newberry Libr. yale, et al.].
  • Jennet, Sean, The Making of Books (Faber 1964; 3rd ed. 1967), 512pp., index.
  • Jochum, K. P. S., W. B. Yeats, a Classified Bibliography of Criticism inc. additions to Wade’s Bibliography and [the] Section on Irish Literature and Drama, rev. (Ill. UP 1978), 801pp.; [epigraph: ‘My Dear William B Y: Your 1/2 [half] was too moderate’, Ezra Pound: Canto LXXIX].
  • Jones, Brynmar, Bibliography of Anglo-Welsh Literature 1900-1945 (Swnasea Lib. Assoc. 1970), 139pp.
  • Jones, J., General Catalogue of Books … Printed in Ireland and Published in Dublin 1700-1791 (1891) [lists about 5,000 eds. of classical authors; see Stanford, 1984].
  • K[?]appe, Edward A Jr., J M Synge: A Reference Guide (GK Hall 1979), 199pp. [Major Works of Synge, xxix; Writings About Synge 1900-1977, 1-178pp.; Index, pp.179ff.
  • Kenney, James F., [Fellow of Hist. Soc.] The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: An Introduction and Guide, 2 vols; vol 1 ‘Ecclesiastical’ (Columbia UP 1929), 801pp.
  • Kinane, Vincent, A History of the Dublin University Press 1734-1976 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1995), 406pp.
  • Frank L. Kersnowski, C.W. Spinks & Laird Loomis, A Bibliography of Modern Irish and Anglo-Irish Literature [Checklists in the Humanities & Education] (San Antonio, Texas: Trinity UP 1976), xiv, 157pp. [24cm. .
  • Killen, James E., Bibliography of Irish Geography (1992; Aug. RIA 1992) .
  • Vincent Kinane, A History of the Dublin University Press 1734-1976 (G&M 1995), 406pp. .
  • Kirkpatrick, T. P. C., ‘The Worth Library: Stevens Hospital Dublin’, Bibl. Soc. Irel., I, 3 (1919), 1-12.
  • Le Calire, Lucien, A General Analytical Bibliography of the Regional Novelist of the British Isles, 1880-1950 (Paris Les Belles Lettres, 1954).
  • Lester, DeeGee, comp., Irish Research: A Guide to Collections in North America, Ireland, and Great Britain, Bibl. and Indexes in World History, No. 9, (Greenwood P. 1987), 348pp.; 7 22031 L47.
  • Loeb, Catherine, Women’s Studies: Recommended Core Bibliography, 1980-85 [vol ii] (Winsconsin 1987)
  • Levitt, Paul M., J M Synge: Bibliography of Published Criticism (IUP 1974), 224pp.
  • Lipcott, William, ed., Bibliographical Account of Principal Works Relating to English Topography, new ed. J Simmons (1918; rep. Wakefield 1978).
  • Long, Gerard, ed., Books Beyond the Pale: Aspects of the Provincial Book Trade in Ireland before 1850 [Rare Books Group] (Library Association of Ireland), 168pp.
  • MacIntyre, Sylvia, and G H Martin, A Bibliography of British and Irish Municipal History, Vol. [I]: Gen. Works (Licester UP 1972).
  • MacLysaght, Edward [1889-1986], Bibliography of Irish Family History (IAP 1981).
  • MacManus, M. J., Dublin Bookseller [unknown].
  • MacPartland, Edward, ed., Bibliography of Irish Architectural History (IHS 1989).
  • McVeagh, John, comp., Irish Travel Writing: a bibliography (Dublin: Wolfhound 1996), 176pp. [0 86327 503 6].
  • Madden, R. R., History of Irish Periodical Literature, 2 vols (London 1867).
  • Mason, Stuart [pseud], Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, with note by Robert Ross (Botram OTA 1967).
  • McKenna, Brian, Irish Literature, 1800-1875: Unfamiliar Sources (1978).
  • McVeagh, John, Irish Travel Writing: A Bibliography (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1996), 159pp.
  • Modern Languages Association Bibliography [ZPB1.M6].
  • Mount Bellow Auction Cat., May 1933 (see Michael Sadleir, op.) [note: there is a study of the Bellews of Mountbellew].
  • Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland, 1550-1775 (NY: Fordham UP 1988).
  • National Library of Ireland/ List of publications [Stationary Office].
  • New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, David Daiches et al. eds. (1940- ) [Irish and Anglo-Irish Literature in vols 3-4]; Vol. 3: 1800-1900, ‘ Anglo-Irish Literature’, I. Gaelic Sources. II General Works. III. Poets [&c.]. IV. Yeats and Synge. V. Dramatists, 1885-1949. [ZPR8.N5].
  • Nicholson [Bishop], ‘Irish Historical Library’; a list used as the basis for John Power’s first modern bibliography.].
  • O’Donoghue, D[avid] J[ames], The Poets of Ireland (1892-93 [?three pamphlets]; enl. in one vol. 1912; facs. rep. NY 1970).
  • O’Malley, William T., ed. Anglo-Irish Literature: Bibliography of Dissertations, 1873-1989 (NY 1990).
  • Plomer, Henry R., A dictionary of Booksellers and Printers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland 1641-1667 (Lon:Bibl. Soc. 1907); do. 1668-1725; do. 1856-1928.
  • Pollard, Alfred W. [1859-1944], and G. W. Redgrove, Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland and English Books Printed abroad 1475-1640 (n.d. rep. Bibl. Soc. 1991).
  • Pollard, Mary, Dublin’s Trade in Books 1550-1800 (London: OUP 1990).
  • Pollard, Mary, A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800 (Bibl. Soc. 2001), 675pp. [based on records of 1670 Guild of St Luke the Evangelist of Cutlers, Painter-Stainers and Stationers.].
  • Power, John, Irish Literary Enquirer, or Notes on Authors, Books, and Printing in Ireland, Biographical and Bibliographical. conducted by John Power, Nos. 1-4 (London 1865-6) [cited as authority in Cat. of Henry Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Univ. Lib., Cambridge, 1916].
  • Purgellis, Stanley, et al., eds., Bibliograpy of British History, [with Conyers Reid, Lucy M Brown, H. J. Hanham, Godfrey Davis, Geo S Bain].
  • Rafroidi, Patrick, Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period, 1789-1850, 2 vols (1980) [the bibl. volume of this work].
  • Royal Irish Academy, Committee for Anglo-Irish Literature, Handlist of Works in Progress (1974- ).
  • Schneider, Jürgen, and Ralf Sotscheck, Irland: Eine Bibliographie selbständiger deutschsprachiger Publikationen 16. Jahrhundret bis 1989 (Verlag der Georg Büchner Buchhandlung 1989), 379pp. with index [contribs. incl. Fritz Senn on Joyce; Rüdiger Imhof on Laurence Sterne and Synge, Heinz Kosok on Swift, and Laura O’connor on W. B. Yeats; Richard Ellmann on Oscar Wild; also Eva and Eoin Bourke, Pat Burke on Modern Irish Drama; Dorothea Siegmund Schulze, on Irandrezeption in de DDR; and note that this vol. includes the questionable photo-port. of Wilde as Salomé, p.219.].
  • Shannon, Michael Owen, Modern Ireland: a bibliography of Politics, Planning, Research, and Development (Library Association 1981), 733pp.; also as Irish Republic, in World Bibliographical Series, No. 69 (Clio Press, Oxford, Santa Barbara, and Denvir), gen. ed., Robert L. Collison (1986).
  • Shea, Ann M., and Marion R. Casey, The Irish Experience in New York City, A Select Bibliography [New York Irish History] (NY: Roundtable 1995), 130pp.
  • Slack, Robert Charles, Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature, 1955-64 (Illinois UP 1967), 461pp.
  • Slocum, John I., and Herbert Cahoon, Bibliography of James Joyce (1953) Symons, A. J. A., Bibliography of First Edition Books of W. B. Yeats, (First Ed. Club 1974), 46pp.
  • Stineman, Esther, Women’s Studies: Recommended Core Bibliography [Vol I] (Winsconsin 1979).
  • Takemoto, Hiroshi, A Bibliography of Irish Writers in the 17th and 18th centuries (Tokyo 1985).
  • William Upcott, Bibliographical Account of Principal Works relating to English Topography (1818); new ed. J. Simmons (Wakefield 1978).
  • Wade, Allen, Bibliography of the Writings of W B Yeats [3rd edn.] (1968), 514pp.
  • Wagner, H.R., Irish Economics: 1700-1783, a bibliography with notes [priv. printed] (London 1907).
  • Waller Cross, Gustave, and R. T. Dunlop, Bibliography of Yeats Criticism, foreword AN Jeffares (Macmillan 1971), 341pp.
  • Walsh, M. O’Neill, Irish Books Printed Abroad 1475-1700, an interim checklist, from Irish Book , vol 2, No. 1 (1962-63).
  • Ware, Sir James, Irish Writers and writers in Ireland to 1600 (1639); [not mentioned in Hadfield].
  • Wheeler, H. G., Libraries in Ireland before 1855 (unpublished thesis, TCD 1957).
  • Whitaker’s British Books in Print (Microfiche; Annual).
  • Whitaker’s British Books Out of Printer (Microfiche; Annual)

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