Abbreviations & Acronyms commonly used in Ricorso

Acronyms for Titles Common Abbreviations

Acronyms for most frequently-used sources

AEM

Andrew E. Malone, The Irish Drama 1896-1928 [first issued London 1914] (London: Constable 1929)

AOS

Aosdána Catalogue of Members [various editions]

ANJ

A. N. Jeffares, Anglo-Irish Literature (London: Macmillan 1982)

APPL

Brian M. Walker, Art Ó Broin and Seán McMahon, eds., Face of Ulster (Belfast: Appletree 1980)

ATT

Ann Owen Weekes, ed., Attic Guide to Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers (Dublin: Attic 1993, 1994)

BMK

Brian McKenna, Irish literature, 1800-1875: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1978)

BNB

British National Bibliography

BREF

Brian de Breffny, ed., Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia (London: Thames & Hudson 1983)

CAB

Charles A. Read, The Cabinet of Irish Literature (London, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast & Edinburgh: Blackie & Son [1876-78])

CAH

James M. Cahalan, The Irish Novel: A Critical History (Boston: Twayne 1988)

CRO

John Crone, ed., A Concise Dictionary of Irish Literary Bibliography (Dublin: Talbot 1928)

JCO/DBIV

John Cooke, ed., Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909 (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1909)

DIB

Harry Boylan, A Dictionary of Irish Biography [first issued 1978] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan [rev. edn.] 1988; enl. edn. 1997)

DIH

James E. Doherty & D. J. Hickey, A Chronology of Irish History since 1500 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989)

DIL/ DIL2

Robert Hogan, ed., Dictionary of Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979), and Do., [rev. edn. 1996]

DIW

Brian Cleeve & Anne Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985) [first iss. 1967]

DNB

Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Leslie Stephen (London: Smith, Elder, & co. 1885-1901) [and subsequent editions]

DUB

Kate Newmann, Dictionary of Ulster Biography (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1993)

EB

Encyclopaedia Britannica, gen. ed. Walter Yust (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1949)

intro./Intro introduced / Introduction

FDA[1/2/3]

Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 vols. (Derry: Field Day Publications 1991), Vols. 1, 2 or 3.

FOC

Frank O’Connor, ed., A Book of Ireland (London: Collins 1959)

FOST

R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland (London: Allen Lane 1988)

GILB
Sir John Gilbert, History of the City of Dublin, 3 vols. (Dublin: McGlashan & Gill 1854-59; facs. rep. IUP 1972).

GBI

Stephen Brown, Guide to Books in Ireland (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1912)

IBL

Irish Book Lover

IF1

Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919)

IF2

Stephen J. Brown & Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction [Pt. II] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1985)

ILS

Irish Literary Supplement (Boston)

IPR

Irish Publication Records [reinitiated in 1998]

KAV

Peter Kavanagh, Irish Theatre: Being a History of the Drama in Ireland from the Earliest Period up to the Present Day (Tralee: Kerryman 1946)

JMC

Justin McCarthy, gen. ed., Irish Literature (Washington: Catholic University of America 1904), [10 vols.; actually ed. by Charles Welch]

KUN

Stanley Kunitz, Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary Of Modern Literature (New York: H. W. Wilson Co, 1967; &. edns.)

MAX

D. E. S. Maxwell, A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980 (CUP 1984)

MOR

Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989)

NCBE

New Cambridge Bibliography of English, ed. F. W. Bateson, 4 vols. (CUP 1966)

OCAL

James D. Hart, Oxford Companion to American Literature (OUP 1983)

OCAN

William Toye, Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (Toronto: Oxford UP 1983)

OCEL

Margaret Drabble, ed., Oxford Companion of English Literature (OUP: 1985)

OCIL

Robert Welch, ed., Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (Oxford: Clarendon 1986)

ODQ

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (OUP 1967) [first iss. 1941]

ORM

Frank Ormsby, ed., Poets from the North of Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 1979)

OUP

Oxford: Oxford University Press

OXTH

Phyllis Hartnoll, ed., Oxford Companion to Theatre (Oxford: Clarendon 1988)

PI

D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Irish Writers of English Verse (Dublin: Hodges and Figgis 1912)

PJK

P. J. Kavanagh, Voices in Ireland (London: Murray 1994)

RIA

Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

RAF

Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period, 1789-1850, 2 vols. (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980)

RIA
Dictionary of Irish Biography (Royal Irish Academy ; Cambridge UP 2009), 9 vols.

RR

Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies (London: J. Warren 1821)

SUTH

John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Harlow: Longmans 1988)

TAY

Geoffrey Taylor, ed., Irish Poems of the 19th Century(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1951)

TLS

Times Literary Supplement

WJM
W. J. McCormack, ed., Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Oxford: Blackwell 1999).

WSC

William Smith Clark, The Early Irish Stage (Oxford: Clarendon 1955)

WW/ WWW

Who’s Who / Who Was Who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary (London: Black 1891, &c.)

WWNI

Maggie Lennon, ed., Who’s Who in Northern Ireland (Edinburgh: European Editions 1998)

WWI
Who’s Who, What’s What and Where in Ireland (London/Dublin: G. Chapman 1973), compiled by Zircon Publishing Ltd.,[in assoc. with The Irish Times],

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Abbreviations for frequently-used reference-titles
adpt. adapted intro./Intro introduced / Introduction
aka also known as iss. issue/issued [wrote]
appt. appointed ltd. edn.
limited edition
bapt. baptised [i.e., given name] m. married
Bibl./bibl. Bibliography mbr. member [of society]
bur. buried [at] [n.a.] no author in source
Chap/chaps. chapter(s) [number] [n.cit] no citation in source
cf. compare [n.d.] no date in source
CG Covent Garden Th. [n.p.] no page number(s)

CUA

Catholic Univ. of America Press

[n.pub.] no publisher details

CUP

Cork UP; occas. Cambridge UP]

[n.s.] new series
d. died [q.s.] query source
ded.
dedicated to [name] NY New York
dg. daughter occas.
occasionally [known as]
ed. [var. educ.] educated at OUP Oxford UP
edn./ Edn. edition / Edition [as in 1st] posthum.
posthumous/ly
e.g. for example [exempli gratia] pseud.
pseudonym/ously
enl. enlarged edition [q.a.]
query author
est. established [q.edn.]
query edition
et al. and/with others [q.p.] / [q.pp.] query page number[s]
f. father reput.
reputed/ly
facs. facsimile rev. edn. revised edition
fam. familiarly known as rep./rep. edn.
reprint edition
fl. flourished [floreat] Rx see elsewhere in Ricorso
fnd./fnd-mbr.
founded/founding member supra
above
freq. frequently usu. usually
ftn. footnote UP University Press [name]
i.e. that is [id est] vide see [L. see]
ill./ills. illustrated / illustrations viz. that is [videlicet]

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