Ricorso: Reference Titles

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Commonly cited reference works and critical sources

 
  • William Bergquist, A Checklist of English and American Plays [in conjunction with the Wells full-textMicrocards] (1963)
  • Henry Boylan, Dictionary of Irish Biography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988)
  • Patricia Boylan, All Cultivated People (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1988)
  • Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I] (Dublin: Maunsel 1919)
  • Stephen Brown, ed., Guide to Books in Ireland (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1912)
  • James Cahalan, The Irish Novel (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988)
  • David Cairns & Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland, Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture (Manchester UP 1988)
  • Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. 2] (Cork: Royal Carbery 1985)
  • William Smith Clark, The Early Irish Stage: The Beginnings to 1720 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955; Connecticut 1973)
  • William Smith Clark, The Irish Stage in Country Towns 1720-1860 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965)
  • Brian Cleeve & Ann Brady, A Dictionary of Irish Writers [rev. 1 vol. edn.] (Dublin: Lilliput 1985)
  • John Cooke, ed., The Dublin Book of Irish Verse (Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1909)
  • John Crone, A Concise Dictionary of Irish Biography (Dublin: Talbot 1928).
  • Dominic Daly, The Young Douglas Hyde: The Dawn of the Irish Revolution and Renaissance, 1874-1893 (Shannon: IUP 1974)
  • D. J. Doherty & J. E. Hickey, A Dictionary of Irish History Since 1800-1980 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1980; 1987)
  • Margaret Drabble, Oxford Companion of English Literature (Oxford: OUP 1985)
  • Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day Co. 1991), Vol.
  • Brian de Breffny, ed., Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia (London: Thames & Hudson 1983)
  • G. C. Duggan, The Stage Irishman: A History of the Irish Play and Stage Characters from the Earliest Times (1937; NY: Benjamin Blom; reiss. 1969)
  • Alan Eager, A Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material and Some Sources of Information (London: Library Association 1964)
  • R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (London: Allen Lane; NY Viking/Penguin 1988)
  • Stephen Gwynn, Irish Literature and Drama in the English Language: A Short History (London: Nelson 1936)
  • Robert Hogan, ed., A Dictionary of Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979), and Do. [rev. edn.], 2 vols. (Greenwood Press 1996).
  • Robert Hogan, ed., A Dictionary of Irish Literature, 2 vols. [rev. edn.] (Conn: Greenwood Press 1996)
  • Peter Kavanagh, The Irish Theatre (Tralee: The Kerryman 1946)
  • A. N. Jeffares, Anglo-Irish Literature (London: Macmillan 1982)
  • Joseph Th. Leerssen, Mere Irish & Fior-Ghael: Studies in the Idea of Irish Nationality, Its Development and Literary Expression Prior To The Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. 1986)
  • Justin McCarthy, gen. ed., Irish Literature (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America 1904)
  • Brian McKenna, Irish Literature, 1800-1875: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1978)
  • Kate Newmann, Dictionary of Ulster Biography (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1993)
  • D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary (Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912)
  • Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1955 Edn.)
  • Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980)
  • Charles A. Read, ed., A Cabinet of Irish Literature, 3 vols., 1876-78), and Do. [rev. edn. with add. vol.], ed. T. P. O’Connor (London & Glasgow: Blackie & Co. 1880); rev. edn., ed. Katherine Tynan (London: Gresham Publ. Co. 1903), 4 vols.
  • W. P. Ryan, The Irish Literary Revival, Its History, Pioneers and Possibilities (London: Paternoster Steam Press 1894; facs. 1970)
  • Bernard Share, ed., Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing (Belfast: Blackstaff 1992)
  • William Smith Clark, Early Irish Stage (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955)
  • La Tourette Stockwell, Dublin Theatres and Theatre Customs 1637-1820 (Kingsport, Tennessee: Kingsport Press; New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968)
  • John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Longmans 1988; rep. 1989)
  • Ann Owens Weekes, ed., Unveiling Treasures: The Attic Guide to the Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers: Drama, Fiction, Poetry (Dublin: Attic Press 1993)
  • Robert Welch, A History of Verse Translation from the Irish 1789-1897 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1988)