Select Annual Listing of Books
on Irish Literature & Its Contexts: 2002
Poetry
- Beckett, Samuel, Poems 1930-1989; with Previously Unpublished Poems
and Translations (London: John Calder Publ 2002), 226pp.
- Bolger, Dermot, The Reed Bed (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2002),
78pp.
- Boran, Pat, As the Hand, the Glove (Dublin: Dedalus Press
2002), 86pp.
- Bradbury, Ray, I Live by the Invisible (Galway: Salmon Poetry
2002), 96pp.
- Carson, Ciaran, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri: A New Translation
(London: Granta 2002), 296pp.
- Coll, Mary, All Things Considered (Galway: Salmon Press 2002),
48pp.
- Deppe, Ted., Cape Clear: New & Selected Poems (Galway:
Salmon Press 2002), 100pp.
- Donaldson, Moyra, Beneath the Ice (Belfast: Lagan Press 2002),
72pp.
- Donovan, Katie, Day of the Dead (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe
2002), 80pp
- Ennis, John, Near St. Mullins (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2002),
78pp.
- Fitzmaurice, Gabriel, I and the Village (Dublin: Marino 2002),
160pp.
- French, Tom, Touching the Bones (Oldcastle: Gallery Books 2002),
72pp.
- Greacen, Robert, Shelley Plain (Dublin: Happy Dragons Press
2002), q.pp. [Selection]
- , Lunch at the Ivy (Belfast: Lagan Press 2002), 52pp.
- Groarke, Vona, Flight (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2002), 74pp.
- Hartnett, Michael, A Book of Strays (Oldcastle Gallery Press
2002), 80pp.
- Henry, James, Selected Poems, ed. Christopher Ricks (Dublin:
Lilliput Press 2002), 192pp.
- Houchin, Ron, Moveable Darkness (Galway: Salmon Press 2002),
68pp.
- Hutchinson, Pearse, Collected Poems (Oldcastle: Gallery Books
2002), 293pp.
- , Done into English (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2002),
q.pp.
- Johnston, Fred, Being Anywhere: New and Selected Poems (Belfast:
Lagan Press 2002), 110pp.
- Lysaght, Seán, Erris (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2002),
96pp.
- Kell, Richard, Collected Poems, intro. Fred Johnston (Belfast:
Lagan Press 2002), 246pp.
- McAuliffe, John, A Better Life (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2002),
56pp.
- McGuckian, Medbh, The Face of the Earth (Oldcastle: Gallery
Press 2002), 80pp.
- McKiernan, Ethna, Those Who Swear You Cant Start Over (Galway:
Salmon Poetry 2002), 92pp.
- Mahon, Derek, trans., Saint-John Perse, Birds (Oldcastle: Gallery
Press 2002), 36pp.
- Monaghan, Patricia, Dancing with Chaos (Galway: Salmon Press
2002), 82pp.
- Morrissey, Sinéad, Between Here and There (Manchester:
Carcanet Press 2002), 58pp.
- Muldoon, Paul, Moy Sand and Gravel (London: Faber & Faber
2002), q.pp.
- ODriscoll, Dennis, Exemplary Damages (Anvil Poetry Press
2002), 88pp.
- OMeara, Liam, Burned All My Witches: An Autobiography in
Verse (Dublin: Riposte Books 2002), 104pp.
- OSiadhail, Michael, The Gossamer Wall: Poems In Witness to
the Holocaust (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 2002), 128pp. [cover
ill. by Tony OMalley].
- Quinn, Justin, Fuselage (Dublin: Gallery Press 2002), 56pp.
- Smith, Michael, trans. Federico Garcia Lorca, The Tamarit Poems
(Dublin: Dedalus Press 2002), 68pp.
- Scully, Maurice, Postlude (Wicklow: Wild Honey Press 2002),
32pp.
- Skinner, Knute, Stretches (Galway: Salmon Press 2002), 92pp.
- Smyth, Gerard, Daytime Sleeper (Dublin: Dedalus Press 2002),
104pp.
- Sweeney, Matthew, A Picnic on Ice: Selected Poems (London:
Jonathan Cape 2002), 147pp.
- Tinley, Bill, Grace (Dublin: New Island Press 2002), 64pp.
- Woods, Joseph, Sailing to Hokkaido (Kent: Worple Press 2002),
56pp.
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Fiction
- Banville, Vincent, An Accident Waiting to Happen (Dublin: New
Island Press 2002), 80pp.[John Blaine crime]
- Baker, Garret, Love Nor Lack of Love (Dublin: A. & A. Farmer
2002). 177pp.
- Banville, John, Shroud (London: Picador 2002), 408pp. [sequel
to Eclipse]
- Bardwell, Leland, Mother to a Stranger (Belfast: Blackstaff
Press 2002), 186pp.
- Barry, Sebastian, Annie Dunne (London: Faber & Faber 2002),
228pp.
- Binchy, Maeve, The Builders (Dublin: New Island Press 2002),
80pp.
- Binchy, Maeve, Quentins (London: Orion 2002), 345pp.
- Bruen, Ken, The Killing of the Tinkers (Dingle: Brandon Press
2002), 304pp.
- Calvin, John, The Mercury Man (Dublin: TownHouse 2002), 384pp.
- Citron, Lana, Spilt Milk (NY: Simon & Schuster; Dublin:
TownHouse 2002) [author of Sucker]
- Collins, Jude, The Garden of Eden All Over Again (NY: Simon
& Schuster; Dublin: TownHouse 2002)
- Considine, June, When the Bough Breaks (Dublin: New Island
Press 2002), 400pp.
- Conry, Rosemary, Flowers of the Fairest (Dingle: Brandon 2002),
224pp.
- Corr, Audrey, Dead Organised (Dublin: Townhouse 2002), 368pp.
- Deane, John F., Undertow (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2002),
400pp.
- Donoghue, Emma, The Woman who Gave Birth to Rabbits (London:
Virago, 2002), 212pp.
- Doughty, Anne, On a Clear Day (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2002)
[q.pp.]
- Doyle, Mogue, Dancing with Minnie the Twig (Black Swan 2002),
252pp.
- Doyle, Rose, Fate and Tomorrow (London: Stoddard & Houghton
2002), 404pp.
- Enright, Anne, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (London: Jonathan
Cape 2002), 256pp.
- Foley, Michael, Beyond (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2002), 298pp.
- Gallagher, Brian, Junk Male (London: Orion 2002), 256pp.
- Graham, Brendan, The Elements of Fire (London: HarperCollins
2002), 446pp.
- Haire, Wilson John, The Yard (Dingle: Brandon Press 2002),
192pp.
- Furlong, Nicholas, Young Farmer Seeks Wife (Dublin: Marino
2002), q.pp.
- Johnston, Jennifer, This is Not a Novel (London: Review 2002),
213pp.
- Kelly, Cathy, Letter from Chicago (Dublin: New Island Press
2002), 80pp.
- , Just Between Us (London: HarperCollins 2002), q.pp.
- Kennedy, James, Fat God, Thin God (Cork: Mercier Press 2002),
320pp.
- McCloskey, Molly, The Beautiful Changes (Dublin: Lilliput Press
2002), 224pp. [stories]
- McCafferty, Kate, Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl (NY: Viking
Press 2002), xii, 210pp.
- McEldowney, Eugene, Stellas Story (Dublin: New Island
2002), 370pp.
- McGahern, John, That They May Face the Rising Sun (London:
Faber & Faber 2002), 298pp.
- McLaverty, Michael, Collected Short Stories, intro. by Seamus
Heaney (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2002), 307pp.
- Mhac an tSaoi, Máire, A Bhean Óg Ón
(Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2002), 62pp.
- McKinney, Blánaid, The Ledge (London: Phoenix House
2002), 249pp.
- Maguire, Aisling, Breaking Out (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2002),
208pp.
- Murphy, Orla, The Sway of Winter (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2002),
256pp.
- Myers, Kevin, Banks of Green Willow (London: Scribner; Dublin:
TownHouse 2002), 288pp.
- Morrison, Danny, All the Dead Voices (Cork: Mercier Press
2002), 192pp.
- Nestor, Tom, Driving with Daisy (Dublin: New Island Press 2002),
80pp.
- Nestor, Tom, The Blue Pool (Cork: Collins Press 2002), 380pp.
- OBrien, Edna, In the Forest (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002), 218pp.
- OConnor, Joseph, Star of the Sea (London; Secker &
Warburg 2002), 410pp.
- Ó Muirí, Daithí, Cogaí (Cló
Iar-Chonnachta 2002), q.pp.
- , Uaigheanna agus Scéalta Eile (Cló Iar-Chonnachta
2002), q.pp.
- Ó Raighne, Mícheál, Nach Iomaí Cor
sa Saol (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2002).
- OConnell, Fergus, Call the Swallow (Dublin: New Island
Press 2002), 420pp.
- Parsons, Julie, Eager to Please (London: Pan Books 2002), 300pp.
- Power, Edmund, No Christian Grave (NY: Simon & Schuster;
Dublin: TownHouse 2002), 416pp.
- Purcell, Deirdre, Entertaining Ambrose (London: Pan Books 2002),
420pp.
- , Has Anyone Here Seen Larry? (Dublin: New Island Press
2002), 80pp.
- , Marble Gardens (Dublin: New Island Press 2002), 375pp.
- Robinson, Tim, Tales and Imaginings (Dublin 2002), 256pp.
- Ronan, Frank, Home (London: Sceptre Lir 2002), q.pp.
- Trevor, William, Story of Lucy Gault (London: Viking 2002),
227pp.
- Wall, William, The Map of Tenderness (London: Sceptre 2002),
286pp. [stories]
- West, Tara, Fodder (Belfast: Blackstaff 2002), 252pp.
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Drama
- Carr, Marina, Ariel (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2002), 72pp.
- Culletin, Jim, ed., Fishamble/Pigsback Plays (Dublin:
New Island Press 2002), 400pp. [incl. plays by Joseph OConnor,
Pat Kinevane, Ian Kilroy, et al.)
- Friel, Brian, Three Plays After (Oldcastle: Gallery Books 2002),
104pp. [The Bear, Yalta Game, and Afterplay].
- Kilroy, Thomas, Ghosts (Oldcastle: Gallery Books), q.pp. [after
Ibsen].
- Mac Intyre, Tom, The Great Hunger [and] The Gallant John-Joe (Oldcastle: Gallery Books 2002), 96pp.
- Mathews, Aidan, Communion (London: Nick Hern 2002), 88pp.
- Ó Conghaile, Mícheál, Ualach an Uaignis/The
Lonesome West (Cló Iar-Chonnachta 2002) [trans.]
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Autobiography
- Boylan, Henry, A Voyage Round My Life (Dublin: A. & A.
Farmar 2002), 176pp.
- Brennan, Robert, Ireland Standing Firm: My Wartime Mission in Washington [and] Eamon de Valera, ed., Richard H. Rupp [Classic Irish
History] (UCD Press 2002), 200pp.
- Keane, Roy [with Eamon Dunphy], The Autobiography of Roy Keane (London: Michael Joseph 2002), 292pp.
- McNeillie, Andrew, An Aran Keening (Dublin: Lilliput Press
2002), 246pp.
- Montague, John, Company (London: Duckworth 2002), 190pp.
- Moriarty, John, Notes: An Autobiography (Dublin: Lilliput Press
2002), 710pp.
- Morrison, Blake, Things My Mother Never Told Me (London: Chatto
& Windus 2002), 352pp. [the English laureates mother was Irish].
- Morrison, Danny, All the Dead Voices (Cork: Mercier Press 2002),
192pp.
- Murphy, Richard, The Kick (London: Granta 2002), vi, 390pp.
- Stanley Price, Somewhere To Hang My Hat (Dublin: New Island Press
2002), qpp.
- Ó Grianna, Séamus, When I Was Young, trans. A.
J. Hughes (Dublin: A. & A. Farmar 2002), 248pp.
- OHiggins OMalley, Una, From Pardon to Protest: Memoirs
from the Margins (Galway: Arlen House 2002), 230pp.
- Quinn, Niall, Niall Quinn: The Autobiography (London: Headline
2002), 320pp.
- Somerville-Large, Peter, An Irish Childhood (London: Constable
2002), 256pp.
- Young, Augustus, Light Years (London: Enitharmon/London Magazine
Edns 2002), 320pp.
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Biography (Literary &
Historical)
- Adams, Bernard, Denis Johnston 1901-1984 (Dublin: Lilliput
Press 2001), 320pp.
- Anderson, Brendan, Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA (Dublin: OBrien
Press 2002), 384pp., ill [32pp. photos].
- Brannigan, John, Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist
Writer (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 202pp.
- Brown, Michael, Francis Hutcheson in Dublin 1719-1730 : The Crucible
of his Thought (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 240pp.
- Craig, Patricia, Brian Moore: A Biography (London: Bloomsbury
2002), 306pp.
- de Brún, Fionntán , Seosamh Mac Grianna: An Mhein Ruin
(An Clochomhar 2002).
- Fauske, Christopher, William King and the Anglican Irish Context
1688-1729 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 208pp.
- Geoghegan, Patrick M., Robert Emmet: A Life (Dublin: Gill &
Macmillan 2002), 304pp.
- Gillespie, Raymond, Scholar Bishop: The Recollections and Diary
of Narcissus Marsh, 1638-96 (Cork UP 2002).
- Holmes, Richard, Wellington: The Iron Duke (London: HarperCollins
2002).
- McCormack, W. J., Roger Casement in Death or Haunting the Free
State (UCD Press 2002), 256pp. & 4pp. photos.
- McKenna, John, & Jonathan Shackleton, Shackleton: an Irishman
in Antarctica (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2002), 192pp.
- Mulvey, Helen E., Thomas Davis and Ireland: A Biographical Sketch
(Washington: CUA Press 2002), 288pp. [incl. bibl.]
- Mulholland, Marie, The Politics and Relationships of Kathleen Lynn (Dublin: Woodfield Press 2002), 124pp.
- Murphy, Richard, The Kick (London: Granta 2002), vi, 379pp.
- OBrien, Justin, The Modern Prince: Charles J. Haughey and
the Quest for Power (London: Merlin 2002), 320pp.
- OMeara, Liam, A Lantern on the Wave: A Study of the Life
of the Poet Francis Ledwidge (Dublin: Riposte Books 2002), 176pp.
- Quinlan, Carmel, Genteel Revolutionaries: Anna and Thomas Haslam and the Irish Womens Movement (Cork UP 2002, 2005), i, 265pp.
- Quinn, James, A Life of Thomas Russell 1767-1803: A Soul on Fire (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 336pp.
- Rafter, Kevin, Martin Mansergh: A Biography (Dublin: New Island
Press 2002), 350pp., ill.
- Saddlemyer, Ann, Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats (Oxford
UP 2002), 808pp.
- Semple, Patrick, Believe It or Not: A Memoir (Dublin: Columba
Press 2002), 180pp.
- Shortall, Barry, Willie and Maud: A Love Story (Cork: Collins
Press 2002), 250pp.
- Smith, Gus, & Des Hickey, John B. (Cork: Mercier Press
2002), q.pp.
- Tierney, Martin, A Classicists Outlook: Michael Tierney,
KSG, MA, DLitt 1874-1975: A Life and Essays (Marlborough Rd. [Author]
2002), 252pp., ill.
- Townend, Paul A., Father Mathew: Temperance and Irish Identity
(N. Carolina UP 2002), 320pp.
- Turner, Frank, John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion (Yale UP 2002], 752pp.
- White, Norman, Hopkins in Ireland (UCD Press 2002), 236pp.
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Miscellaneous Writings
- Heaney, Seamus, Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2000 (London:
Faber & Faber 2002), 416pp.
- Kelly, Rita & Pauline Bewick, Kelly Reads Bewick (Galway:
Arlen House 2002), 112pp. [poet on painter].
- Kelleher, John V., Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland
and Irish America (South Illinois UP 2002), 320pp.
- J. C. C. Mays, Fredson Bowers and the Irish Wolfhound (Clonmel: Coracle 2002), 82pp.
Murphy, Dervla, Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys (London:
John Murray 2002), 388pp.
- Ó Cadhain, Mairtín, Barbed Wire (Baile atha Cliath:
Coiscéim 2002), 531pp.
- Tóibín, Colm, Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from
Wilde to Almodovár (London: Picador 2002), 279pp. [incls.
Wilde, Casement, et al.]
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Scholarly Editions
- Chuto, Jacques, et al., eds., The Collected Works of James Clarence
Mangan. Part I: Prose 1832-1839, and Part 2: Prose 1840-1882. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 496, 496pp.
- , Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan (Dublin: Irish Academic Press
2002), 320pp.
- Clifford, Brendan, ed., James Clarence Mangan: Anthologica Germanica [rep. edn.] (Belfast: Athol 2002), 68pp.
- Deane, Vincent, D. Ferrer & G. Lernout, eds., James Joyce, The
Finnegans Wake Notbooks at Buffalo (Belgium: Brepols Publ 2002-)
- Finneran, Richard, ed., The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium
of Poetry, Drama and Prose (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2002), 588pp.
- Hurst, Michael, ed., Political and Cultural Analyses of Ireland,
6 vols.[Ireland Observed Ser.] (Bristol: Thoemmes 2002), 2700pp. [contents].
- Kelly, William, ed., Sir Henry Dowcras Narration of the Service
Done by the Army employed to Lough Foyle [Irish Narratives] (UHF
2002) [96pp.].
- McWilliams, Patrick, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland: Index of People and Places (Belfast: QUB/IIS 2002) [being index to 40-vol. ser.], 767pp.
- Moody, T. W, R. B. Mc Dowell, & C. J. Woods, ed., The Writings
of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Vol. II: America, France and Bantry
Bay, Aug. 1795-Dec. 1796 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2002), 446pp.
- Mullaly, Evelyn, The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland: La Geste
des Engleis en Yrlande [The Song of Dermot and the Earl]
(Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 240pp.
- Nicholson, Asenath, Irelands Welcome to the Stranger (Dublin:
Lilliput Press 2002), 384pp.
- Seán Ó Coileain, ed., An tOileánach by Tomás Ó Criomthain (BAC: Cló Talbóid 2002), 346pp.
- Quinn, Antoinette, ed., Selected Prose of
Patrick Kavanagh (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2002), 320pp.
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Anthologies, Interviews &
Almanacs
- Cooper, David, ed., The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music
of Ireland (Cork UP 2002), 280pp.
- Brown, John, ed., In the Chair: Interviews with Poets from the
North of Ireland (Galway: Salmon 2002)., 333pp. [22 poets; Robert
Greacen to Colette Bryce, incl. Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Michael
Longley, Medbh McGuckian & Cathal Ó Searcaigh].
- Dawe, Gerald, & Michael Mulreany, eds., The Ogham Stone: An
Anthology of Contemporary Ireland, intro. by Brian Farrell (Dublin:
IPA 2002), 240pp., 8 b&w photos.
- Dorgan, Theo, & Malcolm Maclean, eds., An Leabhar Mór:
The Great Book of Gaelic (Edinburgh; Canongate 2002), 334pp.
- Flannery, Noel, & Matt Cannon, eds., Pens for Peace (Irish
Peace Inst./Limerick Univ 2002), 268pp.
- Longley, Michael, ed., 20th Century Irish Poems (London: Faber
& Faber 2002), 130pp.
- MacMonagle, Niall, ed., Off the Wall (Dublin: Marino 2002),
224pp. [anthology of contemp. poets]
- MacMahon, Seán, ed., The Derry Anthology (Belfast: Blackstaff
2002), 256pp.
- Burke, Angela, Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín, et al.,
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Womens Writing
and Traditions [Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature, Vols. 4 & 5] (Cork UP 2002), 1,600pp.
- OHagan, Andrew, & Colm Tóibín, eds., New
Writing II (London: Picador 2002) [pb.]
- McAllister, et al., eds., Breaking the Skin: Twenty-First Century
Irish Writing, 2 vols. ([Belfast:] Mountain Press 2002), Vol I:
ed. John McAllister & Frankie Sewell; Vol. II: ed., Nigel McLoughlin
& Martin Fluharty.
- Rice, Adrian, ed., A Conversation Piece: Poetry & Art [Ulster Museum; 1st edn. 1998] (Abbey Press: Newry 2002) [lit. contribs. incl. Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon,
Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Cathal O Searcaigh, Brendan Kennelly, Carol Rumens, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Joan Newmann, Ian Duhig, Matthew Sweeney, Paula Meehan, Dennis ODriscoll, Peter Sirr, Ruth Padel, Mark Roper, Gerald Dawe, Vona Groarke, John Montague, et al.]
- Walsh, Caroline, ed., Arrows in Flight: Stories from a New Ireland (Dublin: TownHouse; UK & US: Scribner 2002), 328pp. [stories by Aidan Mathews, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Claire Keegan, Mary Morrissey, Sean OReilly, Tom Humphreys, Joseph ONeill, Molly McCloskey, John McKenna, Blanaid McKinney, Keith Ridgeway].
- Zimmerman, Georges Denis, ed., Songs of Irish Rebellion (Dublin:
Four Courts Press 2002), 360pp. [rep. edn.; ultimately based on Geneva
thesis of 1966].
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Literary & Cultural
Commentary
- Barton, Ruth, Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation (Dublin: Liffey
Press 2002), 175pp.
- Kevin Collins, The Roman Catholic Church and the Celtic Revival in Ireland, 1848-1916 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 280pp.
Connolly, Claire, ed., Theorizing Ireland [Readers in Cultural
Criticism Ser.] (London: Palgrave 2002), 266pp. [contribs. incl. Angela
Bourke, Patricia Coughlan, Colin Graham, Seamus Deane, Terry Eagleton,
Declan Kiberd, Siobhán Kilfeather, Clair Wills, et al.].
- Cleary, Joe, Literature, Partition and the Nation-state: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine [Cultural margins Ser., 10] (Cambridge UP 2002), xii, 259pp. [incls. Chapter 1: Ireland, Palestine and the antinomies of self-determination in the badlands of modernity; Chap. 3. Fork-tongued on the border bit: partition and the politics of form in contemporary narratives of the Northern Irish].
- Clyde, Tom, Irish Literary Magazines: An Outline History and Descriptive
Bibliography (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 250pp.
- Devine, Kathleen, ed., Modern Irish Writers and the Wars (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe 2002) [contribs. A. N. Jeffares, Declan Kiberd,
Terence Brown, John Goodby, et al.]
- Duddy, Thomas, A History of Irish Thought (London: Routledge
2002), xviii, 362pp.
- Fegan, Melissa, Literature and the Irish Famine, 1845-1919 (OUP 2002), x, 281pp. [see contents].
- Haughey, Jim, The First World War in Irish Poetry (Bucknell
UP; AUP 2002), 310pp.
- Hooper, Glenn, & Colin Graham, eds., Irish and Postcolonial
Writing: History, Theory and Practice (London: Palgrave 2002), 265pp.
[contribs. Richard Kirkland, Shakir Mustafa, Tim McLaughlin, Steven
Matthews, Joshua Esty, Lynne Innes, David Johnson, Maria Tymoczko, Sarah
Fulford]
- Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, Fiction and the Northern Irish Troubles
Since 1969: (De-constructing the North) (Dublin: Four Courts Press
2002), 240pp.
-
Kelsall, Malcolm, Literary Representations of the Irish Country House: Civilisation and Savagery Under the Union (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2002), 224pp. [treats Edgeworth, Lever, Trollope, Martin and Somerville, Bowen and Lady Gregory; also cites Giraldus Cambrensis and J. A. Froude].
- Keyes, John, Going Dark: Two Ulster Theatres (Belfast: Lagan
Press 2002), 88pp.
- Kirby, Peadar, Luke Gibbons & Michael Cronin, eds., Reinventing
Ireland: Culture, Society and The Global Economy (London: Pluto
Press 2002), 232pp.
- Jeffers, Jennifer, The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth
Century: Gender, Bodies and Power (London: Palgrave 2002), 207pp.
- Ferris, Ina, The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland (Cambridge UP 2002), x, 205pp.
- Foster, John Wilson, Recoveries: Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural
History (UCD Press 2002), 160pp. ills.
- Leerssen, Joep, Hidden Ireland, Public Sphere [Centre for Irish Studies, UCG] (Dublin: Arlen House 2002), 47pp.
- Llewellan-Jones, Margaret, Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural
Identity (Bristol: Intellect Books 2002), 188pp. [remarks on Murphy,
McGuiness, McDonagh, Mercier, Roche, Parker & Carr].
- MacManus, Antonia, The Irish Hedge School and its Books 1695-1831 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 288pp.
- MacBride, Ian, History and Memory in Modern Ireland (Cambridge
UP 2002), 290pp.
- McCourt, Malachy, Danny Boy: The Legend of the Beloved Irish Ballad (US: Running Press 2002), 142pp.
- McDonald, Marianne, & J. Michael Walton, eds., Amid Our Troubles:
Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy, intro. by Declan Kiberd (London:
Methuen 2002), 302pp. [contribs. Brian Arkin, Richard Cave, Seamus Deane, Cathy
Leenan, Eamonn Jordan, Joseph Long, John McDonagh, Síle Ní
Mhurchú, Helen Vendler, et al. - writing on Marina Carr, Brian
Friel, Seamus Heaney, Brendan Kennelly, Frank McGuinness, T. C. Murray,
Tom Paulin and W. B. Yeats.]
- McDonald, Peter, Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats
to Hill (Oxford: OUP 2002), 225pp.
- Mays, J. C. C., Fredson Bowers and the Irish Wolfhound (Clonmel: Coracle Press 2002), 82pp.
- Morash, Christopher, A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 (Cambridge
UP 2002), 360pp.
[contents].
- Norquay, Glenda, & Gerry Smyth, Across the Margins: Cultural
Identity and Change in the Atlantic Archipelago (Manchester UP
2002), 224pp. [contribs. Willey Maley, Colin Graham, Peter Childs, Aileen
Christianson, Berthold Schoene, Linden Peach, Sean Campbell, Shaun Richards & Murdo Macdonald].
- OKeeffe, Finbar, Goodnight, God Bless and Safe Home: the
Golden Showband Era (Dublin: OBrien Press 2002), 760pp.
- Pilkington, Lionel, Theatre and the State in Twentieth Century Ireland: Cultivating the People (London: Routledge 2001), x, 262pp.
- Pine, Richard, 2RN and the Origins of Irish Radio (Dublin:
Four Courts Press 2002), 220pp.
- Ryan, Louise, Gender, Identity and the Irish Press 1922-1937: Embodying the Nation Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press 2002), 305pp.
- Ryan, Ray, Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State
and Nation 1966-2000 (Oxford: OUP 2002), 329pp. [incls. comm. on
Brendan Bradshaw, Declan Kiberd, Seamus Deane, Dermot Bolger, Colm Tóibín
and Ferdia Mac Anna].
- Norman Vance, Irish Literature Since 1800 (Harlow: Longman 2002), viii, 301pp. [contents].
- Vandevelde, Karen, ed., New Voices in Irish Criticism, III (Dublin:
Four Courts Press 2002), 230pp.
- Ward, Patrick, Exile, Emigration and Irish Writing (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 304pp.
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Critical Studies: Individual
Authors
- Arkins, Brian, James Liddy: A Critical Study (Galway: Arlen
House 2002), 128pp.
- Brannigan, John Brendan Behan: Cultural Nationalism and the Revisionist
Writer (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 208pp.
- Bristow, Joseph, ed., Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions (Toronto
UP 2002), 312pp.
- Chapman, Wayne K., & Warwick Gould, eds., Yeats Collaborations [Yeats Annual No. 15] (London: Palgrave 2002), 430pp. Christensen,
Lis, Elizabeth Bowen: The Later Fiction (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum
Press 2002), 224pp. + 4pp.col. pls.
- Corbett, Toby, Brian Friel: Decoding the Language of the Tribe [Contemp. Irish Writers & Filmmakers Ser.] (Dublin: Liffey Press
2002), 188pp.
- Fitzgerald-Hoyt, Mary, William Trevor: Re-Imagining Ireland (Dublin:
Liffey Press 2002), 200pp.
- Hand, Derek, John Banville: Exploring Fictions (Dublin: Liffey
Press 2002), 188pp.
- Levitt, Morton P., Joyce and the Joyceans (Syracuse UP 2002),
22pp.
- Lojek, Helen Heusner, ed., The Theatre of Frank McGuinness: Stages of Mutability (Dublin: Carysfort Press 2002), ix, 197pp.
- Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, ed., The Poetry of Derek Mahon (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd 2002), 356pp.
- McAteer, Michael, ed., Standish OGrady, Yeats and AE (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 224pp.
- Mikami, Hiroko, Frank McGuinness and his Theatre of Paradox (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe 2002), 290pp.
- Ní Riain, Isabel, Carraig agus Cathair: Ó Direáin (Dublin:
Cois Life 2002), 146pp.
- OBrien, Eugene, Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind (Dublin: Liffey Press 2002), 190pp.
- Nelson OCeallaigh Ritschel, Synge and Irish Nationalism: The Precursor to Revolution (Westport, NJ: Greenwood Press 2002), xvi, 113pp.
- Robert Savage, ed., Ireland and The New Century: Politics, Culture
& Identity (Dublin: Four Courts 2002), 220pp. [contribs. incl.
Alvin Jackson, Seamus Deane and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill].
- Spurr, David, Joyce and the Scene of Modernity (Florida UP
2002), 176pp.
- Stack, Tom, No Earthly Estate: The Religious Poetry of Patrick
Kavanagh (Dublin: Columba Press 2002), 184pp.
- Tóibín, Colm, Lady Gregorys Toothbrush (Dublin:
Lilliput Press 2002), 128pp.
- Whyte, James, History, Myth and Ritual in the Fiction of John McGahern (NY: Edwin Mellon Press 2002).
- Wood, Gerald C., Conor McPherson: Imagining Mischief (Dublin:
Liffey Press 2002), 200pp.
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Samuel Beckett
- Gordon, Lois, Reading Godot (Yale UP 2002), 214pp.
- John Keller, Samuel Beckett and the Primacy of Love (Manchester UP 2002), 240pp.
Historical Studies: General
- Augusteijn, Joost, ed., The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2002), 264pp.
- Auguesteijn, J., and Lyons, M., eds., Irish History: A Yearbook (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 224pp.
- Brady, Ciarán, A Viceroys Vindication? Sir Henry Sidneys
Memoir of Service in Ireland, 1556-1578 [Irish Narrative Series]
(Cork UP 2002), 96pp.
- Broderick, David, The First Toll Roads: Irelands Turnpike
Roads 1729-1858 (Cork: Collins Press 2002).
- Brown, Stewart J., The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland 1801-1846 (Oxford: OUP 2002), 459pp.
- Christy Campbell, Fenian Fire: The British Government Plot to Assassinate
Queen Victoria (London: HarperCollins 2002), 420pp.
- Collins, Kevin, The Roman Catholic Church and the Celtic Revivals
in Ireland, 1848-1916 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 280pp.
- Collins, Tim, Transaltlantic Triumph and Heroic Failure: The Story
of the Galway Line (Cork: Collins Press 2002), q.pp.
- Connolly, Philomena, ed., Statute Rolls of the Irish Parliament
from Richard III to Henry VIII (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002),
372pp.
- Duffy, Seán, Robert Bruces Irish Wars: The Invasion
of Ireland 1306-1329 ([London:] Tempus 2002), 224pp.
- Fraser, Jennifer Margaret, Rite of Passage in the Narratives of
Dante and Joyce (Florida UP 2002), 288pp.
- Greer, Desmond, & James W. Nicolson, The Factory Acts in Ireland,
1802-1914 (Dublin: Four Courts 2002), 240pp.
- Gregory, Adrian, & Senia Paeta, eds., Ireland and the Great
War: A War to Unite Us All? (Manchester UP 2002), x, 226pp.
- Hood, Susan, Royal Roots - Republican Inheritance: The Survival
of the Irish Office of Arms (Dublin: Woodfield Press 2002), 320pp.
- Jones, Greta, Captain of all these Men of Death: The History of
Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Ireland
(Amsterdam: Rodopi Publ 2002), 263pp.
- Macauley, Ambrose, The Holy See: British Policy and the Plan of
Campaign in Ireland, 1885-93 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 400pp.
- McCavitt, John, The Flight of the Earls (Dublin: Gill &
Macmillan 2002), 288pp. [rep. 2005].
- Sean McConville, Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922: Theatre of War (London: Routledge 2002), 820pp.
- Macinnes, Allan, & Jane H. Ohlmeyer, The Stuart Kingdoms in
the Seventeenth Century: Awkward Neighbours (Dublin: Four Courts
Press 2001), 272pp.
- Nicolls, K. W., Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages [1972; rev. & enl.] (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2002), 224pp.
- Hickey, Patrick, Famine in West Cork: The Mizen Peninsula - Land
and People 1800-1852 (Cork: Mercier Press 2002), 424pp., ill. [maps.,
facs. ports.]
- Kelly, Maria, The Great Dying: The Black Death in Dublin (Tempus
2002).
- Murphy, David, Ireland and the Crimean War (Dublin: Four Courts
Press 2002), 272pp.
- Ó Ciardha, Eamonn, Ireland and the Jacobite Cause 1685-1766 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001), 480pp.
- Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí, The Celts:
A History (Cork: Collins Press 2002), 308pp.
- Geraldine Stout, Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne (Cork
UP 2002), 244pp.
- Smith, Jim, The Making of the United Kingdom 1660-1800 (London:
Longman 2002), 272pp. + 8pp. photos.
- Wheeler, James Scott, The Irish and British Wars 1637-1654: Triumph,
Tragedy and Failure (London: Routledge 2002), 282pp.
- Whelan, Irene, The Bible War: The Second Reformation
and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations in Ireland, 1800-1840
(Dublin: Lilliput Press 2002), 384pp.
- Whelan, Ruth, & Carol Baxter, Toleration and Religious Identity:
The Implications of the Edict of Nantes for France, Britain and Ireland
(Dublin: Four Courts 2002), 302pp.
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Historical Studies: 20th Century
- Augusteijn, Joost, The Irish Revolution 1913-1923 (London:
Palgrave 2002), 250pp. 14 essays of QUB conference in 1998.]
- Bielenberg, Andy, The Shannon Scheme and the Electrification of the Irish Free State: An Inspirational Milestone (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 168pp.
- Coogan, Tim Pat, 1916: The Easter Rising (London: Cassell 2002),
192pp.
- Costello, Francis, The Irish Revolution and its Aftermath 1916-1923:
Years of Revolt (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), xii, 464pp., ill. [16 pp. photos].
- OHalpin, Eunan, MI5 and Ireland, 1939-1945: The Secret History,
intro. by Christopher Andrew (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 192pp.
- Duggan, John, Herr Hempel at the German Legation in Dublin 1937-1945,
foreword by Sean Donlon (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 288pp.
- Fanning, Bryan, Racism and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland
Manchester UP 2002). 224pp.
- Feeney, Brian, Sinn Féin: A Hundred Years (Dublin: OBrien
Press 2002), 463pp.
- Gallagher, Michael, & Michael Marsh, Days of Blue Loyalty:
The Politics of Membership of the Fine Gael Party (Dublin: PSAI
Press 2002), 287pp.
- Hanley, Brian, The IRA 1926-1936 (Dublin: Four Courts Press
2002), 286pp., ill.
- Hopkinson, Michael, The Irish War of Independence (Dublin:
Gill & Macmillan 2002), 400pp.
- Hull, Mark M., Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland,
1939-1945 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 496pp.
- Lentin, Ronit, & Robbie McVeigh, eds., Racism and Anti-racism
in Ireland (Belfast: BTP Publications 2002), vi, 248pp.
- Paeta, Senia & Adrian Gregory, ed., Ireland the The Great
War: A War to Unite us All? (Manchester UP 2002), 238pp.
- Patterson, Henry, Ireland Since 1939 (OUP 2002), 416pp.
- Rolston, Bill, & Michael Shannon, Encounters: How Racism Came to Ireland (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2002), iv, 108pp.
- Street, C. J., The Administration of Ireland 1920 (Belfast:
Athol Books 2002), 192pp. [orig. pseud. I.O.]
- Taylor, James, The Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War, with
foreword by Martin Middlebrook (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 320pp.
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Act of Union
- Brown, Michael, ed., The Irish Act of Union: Bicentennial Essays (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 304pp.
- Coakley, John, ed., Changing Shades of Orange and Green Redefining
the Union and Nation in Contemporary Ireland [Perspectives in British-Irish
Studies Ser.] (UCD Press 2002), 224pp.
- Girvan, Brian, From Union to Union: Nationalism, Religion and Democracy
in Ireland since 1800 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2002), 320pp.
- Pelling, Nick, Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1922 (London: Routledge
2002), 128pp.
- Stewart, Bruce, ed., Hearts and Minds: Irish Literature and Society
under the Act of Union (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 2002) [contribs.
incl. Tom Bartlett, Sighle Breathnach-Lynch, Claire Connolly, Anthony
Cronin, Marianne Elliott, J. W. Foster, R. F. Foster, Liam Kennedy,
Joep Leerssen, W. J. McCormack, Gearoid O Tuathaigh, Patrick OSullivan,
Norman Vance, et al.]
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Politics & Economics
- Cullen, Paul, With a Little Help from My Friends: Planning and
Corruption in Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2002), 300pp.
- MacDonogh, Steve, How Free Are You? (Dingle: Brandon Press
2002), q.pp.
- Maguire, John, Defending Peace: Irelands Role in a Changing
Europe (Cork UP 2002), q.pp.
- Mansergh, Martin, The Legacy of History, foreword by Bertie
Ahern (Cork: Mercier Press 2002), 500pp.
- Tonra, Ben, & Eilís Ward, Ireland in International Affairs:
Interests, Institutions and Identities (Dublin: IPA 2002), 228pp. [
contribs. Declan Kiberd &Michael D. Higgins [joint contrib.], Brigid Laffan, Noel Dorr, Miriam Hederman-OBrien, et al.].
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Northern Ireland/Ulster- Cochraine, Feargal, & Seamus Dillon, People Power? The Role
of the Volunteer and Community Sector in the Northern Ireland Conflict
(Cork UP 2002), 222pp.
- Foley, Imelda, The Girls in the Big Picture: New Voices in Ulster
(Belfast: Blackstaff 2002), 208pp. [Successful women and new radical
playwrights].
- Goldenberg, Lisa, The Symbolic Significance of the Irish Language
in the Northern Ireland Conflict (Dublin: Columba 2002), 112pp.
- MacGinty, Roger, & John Darby, Guns and Government: the Management
of the Northern Ireland Peace Process (NY: Palgrave 2002), 226pp.
- McMahon, Margery, Government and Politics of Northern Ireland (Belfast:
Colourpoint 2002), 96pp.
- McQuade, Owen, and Joanne Fagan, The Governance of Northern Ireland:
A Comprehensive Guide to the Institutions and Processes of Government
in Northern Ireland (BMF Publishing Co./HMSO 2002), 296pp.
- Moloney, Ed., A Secret History of the IRA (London: Allen Lane
2002), 624pp.
- Mullan, Don, Eyewitness Bloody Sunday: The Truth (London: Merlin
2002), 320pp. + 16pp. photos.
- Mulholland, Marc, The Longest War: Northern Irelands Troubled
History (Oxford: OUP 2002), 220pp.
- Northern Ireland Yearbook 2003 (Colourpoint 2002), 592pp.
- OConnor, Emmet, & Trevor Parkhill, Loyalism and Labour
in Belfast: The Autobiography of Robert McElborough, 1884-1952 [Irish
Narrative Series] (Cork UP 2002), 96pp.
- OConnor, Fionnuala, A Shared Childhood: The Story of Integrated
Education in Northern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2002),
224pp.
- Sinnerton, Henry, David Ervine: Uncharted Waters (Dingle: Brandon
Press 2002), 256pp.
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Religion in Ireland
- Acheson, Alan, A History of the Church of Ireland, 1691-2001 (Dublin:
Columba Press 2002), 320pp.
- Bradshaw, Brendan, & Dáire Keogh, Christianity in Ireland:
Revisiting the Story (Dublin: Columbia Press 2002), 408pp.
- Louise Fuller, Irish Catholicism since 1950: The Undoing of a Culture (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2003) 478pp.
- Hirst, Catherine, Religion, Politics and Violence in Nineteenth-Century
Belfast: The Pound and Sandy Row (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001),
208pp.
- Ó Clabaigh, Colmán, From Reform to Reformation: The
Franciscans in Ireland 1400-1534 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001),
256pp.
- Malcomson, Anthony, Archbishop Charles Agar: Churchmanship and
Politics in Seventeenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press
2002), 680pp.
- Storey, Earl, Traditional Roots: Towards an Appropriate Relationship
between the Church of Ireland and the Orange Order (Dublin: Columba
Press 2002), 96pp.
- Whelan, Ruth, Toleration and Religious Identity: Implications of
the Edict of Nantes for Britain, France and Ireland (Dublin: Four
Courts Press 2002), 304pp.
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Diaspora Studies
- Davis, Graham, Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary
Texas (Texas: A & M UP 2002), 320pp., 12 b&w photos, maps.
- Delaney, Enda, Emigration since 1921 (Econ. & Social Hist.
Soc. of Ireland 2002), 64pp.
- Herbert, Michael, The Wearing of the Green: A Political History
of the Irish in Manchester (Irish in Britain Rep. Group 2002), 224pp.
- Moloney, Mickey, Far from the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish-American
Immigration through Song (Cork: Collins Press [2002]), 40pp.
- OFarrell, Patrick, The Irish in Australia: From 1788 to
the Present (Cork UP 2002), 372pp. [rev. edn.]
- Swift, Roger, Irish Migrants in Britain, 1815-1914: A Documentary
History (Cork UP 2002), 360pp.
- Walsh, Barbara, Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales, 1800-1937:
A Social History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 240pp.
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Womens Studies
- Boada-Monegut, Irene, ed., Women Write Back: Contemporary Irish
and Catalan Stories in Colonial Context (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 192pp.
- Curtin, Geraldine, The Women of Galway Jail: Female Criminality
in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Galway: Arlen House 2002), 136pp.
- Hall, Dianne, Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c.1140-1540
(Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 302pp.
- Porter, Fran, Changing Women, Changing Worlds (Belfast: Blackstaff
Press 2002), 268pp.
- Quinlan, Carmel, Genteel Revolutionaries: Anna and Thomas Haslam,
Pioneers of Irish Feminism (Cork UP 2002).
- Urquhart, Diana, & Alan Hayes, eds., Essays in Irish Womens
History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 256pp.
- Ward, Margaret, ed., In Their Own Voice: Women and Irish Nationalism (Dublin: Attic Press 2002), 208pp. [rep.]
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Historical Documents &
Literary Reprints
- Barton, Brian, From Behind a Closed Door: Secret Court Martial
Records of the 1916 Rising (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2002), 300pp.
- Clery, Arthur, The Idea of a Nation [1907; Classics of Irish
History Ser. rep. edn.] (UCD Press 2002), 128pp.
- Johnston-Liik, E[dith] M[ary], ed., History of the Irish Parliament
1692-1800: Commons, Constituencies and Statutes, 6 vols. (Belfast:
Ulster Hist. Foundation 2002), 3,000pp. Vol. 1: Political survey; statures
at large, 610pp.; Vol. II: Constituencies, members and elections, 474pp.;
Vol. III: Members of the Irish House of Commons, introduction and Acheson
Curtis, 580pp.; Vol. IV: Members, Dalrymple-Jones-Nevil; V: Members,
Kavanagh-Osborne; VI: Members, Pacey-Zuylestein. [Cover design shows
Grattan addressing the Irish Parliament by Francis Wheatley.]
- Ferriter, Diarmaid, Lovers of Liberty? Local Government in Twentieth-Century
Ireland (National Archives of Ireland 2002), 216pp.
- Hart, Peter, British Intelligence in Ireland, 1920-21: The Final
Reports [Irish Narrative Series] (Cork UP 2002), 96pp. [papers of
Sir Ormonde Winter].
- Mullally, Evelyn, The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland: La Geste
des Engleis en Yrlande [The Song of Dermot and the Earl]
(Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 192pp.
- Pearce, Donald R., ed., The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats [1960]
(London: Prenderville Publ 2002), 192pp.
- Standish James OGrady, Standish James, To the leaders of
Our Working People [Classics of Irish History] (UCD Press 2002),
160pp.
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Language Studies
- Hickey, Raymond, A Source Book of Irish English, 2 vols. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2002), 525pp.
- Kelly, Adrian, Compulsory Irish: Language and Education in Ireland,
1870s-1960s (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), 192pp.
- Ní Chartúir, Darerca, The Irish Language: An Overview
and Guide (NY: Avena Press 202), q.pp.
- Sammon, Paddy, Greeenspeak: Ireland in her Own Words (Dublin:
TownHouse 2002), 272pp.
- Ua Corbaibh, Pádraig, Creideamh, Polaitíocht
agus Teangta: Polaitíocht Éireann (Cill na Seanrátha
2002), 32pp.
- Walsh, John, Díchoimisiúní Teanga: coimisiún
na Gaeltachta 1916 (Baile atha Cliath: Cois Life 2002), 138pp.
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Media Studies & digital publications
- Gibbons, Luke, The Quiet Man [Ireland into Film Ser.] (Cork UP 2002), 98pp.
- Herr, Cheryl, The Field [Ireland into Film Ser.] (Cork UP 2002), 98pp.
- Kiberd, Damien, Media in Ireland: Issues in Broadcasting [3rd Cleraun Media Ser.](Dublin: Four Courts Press 2002), 144pp.
- McCullagh, Ciaran, Media Power: A Sociological Introduction (London:
Palgrave 2002), 230pp.
- Séan O Mordha, Seven Ages (RTÉ DVD 2002)
- Sheeran, Patrick F., The Informer [Ireland into Film Ser.] (Cork UP 2002), 98pp.
- Rockett, Kevin & Emer, Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries (Dublin:
Liffey Press 2002), 260pp.
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Archaeology, Art & Architecture
- Craig, Maurice, Joseph Hone & Michael Fewer, The New Neighbourhood of Dublin: The Sights of County Dublin in 1948 and 2002 (Dublin: A. &. A. Farmar 2002), 272pp. [incl. Hones unpublished 1948 MS.]
- Crookshank, Ann, & The Knight of Glin [Desmond Fitzgerald], Irelands
Painters,
foreword by James White [1978] (Dublin: Yale UP 2002), 352pp., ill. [375 col. rep.]
- Deepwell, Katy, ed., Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland
(Dublin: Gandon Editions; Britain: KT Press 2002), 160pp. [Interviews
with 16 Irish women artists]
- Graby, John, & Kathryn Meghen, The New Housing (Dublin:
RIAI/Gandon 2002), 272pp. [7 contribs. incl. Anthony Reddy, Gerry Cahill,
Alan Mee].
- Peter Harbison, Our Treasure of Antiquities: Beranger and Bigaris antiquarian sketching tour of Connacht in 1779: based on material in the National Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy (Wicklow: Wordwell/NGI 2002), xi, 237pp.,ills. [photos. by Josephine Shields].
- MacDonnell, Randal, The Lost Houses of Ireland (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002), 232pp.
- Pearson, Peter, Peter Pearsons Decorative Dublin (Dublin:
OBrien Press 2002), 160pp.
- Snoddy, Theo, Dictionary of Irish Artists, 20th Century (1996; new edn. Merlin 2002) [complementing Walter Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 1913; rep. edn. 1989].
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Reference & Guides
- Connolly, Philomena, Medieval Record Sources (Dublin: Four
Courts Press 2002), q.pp.
- Clyde, Tom, Irish Literary Magazines: An Outline History and Descriptive
Bibliography (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002), xvii, 318pp.
- Gurrin, Brian, Pre-Census Sources for Irish Demography (Dublin:
Four Courts Press 2002; 2003), 120pp.
- National Library of Ireland: One Hundred and Twenty-five Years (NLI 2002).
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Journals & Special Issues
- Anthony Roche, ed., Irish University Review, Vol. 32, No. 1: Thomas Kilroy Special Issue (Spring 2002), 214pp. [ contribs.
incl. Nicholas Grene, Patrick Mason, et al.]
- James Dudley & Luke Gibbons, eds., Yale Journal of Criticism, 15:1 (Spring 2002) [see contents].
Electronic Publication
- Cathach CD ROM (Dublin: RIA 2002), accomp. by 64pp. booklet
- The Book of Kells CD ROM (London: Thames & Hudson 2002) [4 discs].
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Bibliographical details
Michael Hurst, ed. & intro., Political and Cultural Analyses of Ireland [Ireland Observed Ser.], 6 vols. (Bristol: Thoemmes 2002), 2700pp. [22cm.] CONTENTS - Vols. 1-2: W. C. Taylor, ed., Ireland: Social, Political and Religious, by Gustave de Beaumont (1839); Vols. 3-4: M. W. Savage, ed. & annot., Sketches, Legal and Political, by Richard Lalor Shiel (1855); Vol. 5: Father Mathew: A Biography, John Francis Maguire (1863); Vol. 6: Charles Russell, New Views on Ireland; Or, Irish Land: Grievances: Remedies (1880); Clifford Lloyd, Ireland under the Land League. A Narrative of Personal Experiences (1892). |
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Melissa Fegan, Literature and the Irish Famine, 1845-1919 (OUP 2002), 281pp. CONTENTS: Faction: the Historiography of the Great Famine; War of Words: The Famine in The Times and The Nation; Victims and Voyeurs: Travelling in Famine Ireland; The Immigrants Evasion: The Subtext of Trollopes Famine Novels; William Carleton in Retrospect: The Irish Prophecy Man; A Ghastly Spectral Army: History, Identity, and the Visionary Poet; The Black Stream: Politics and Proselytism in Second-generation Famine Novels.
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Christopher Morash, A history of Irish theatre, 1601-2000 (Cambridge UP 2002), xviii, 322pp., ill.., maps. CONTENTS. Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Playing court: 1601-1692; A night at the theatre - 1: Pompey, Smock Alley, February 10, 1663; 2. Stage rights, 1691-1782; A night at the theatre - 2: Mahomet, Smock Alley, March 2, 1754; 3: Our National Theatre: 1782-1871; A night at the theatre - 3: She Stoops to Conquer and Tom Thumb, Theatre Royal, Hawkins Street, December 14, 1822; 4: That Capricious Spirit: 1871-1904; A night at the theatre - 4: The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea, Abbey Theatre, January 29, 1907; 5: Not understanding the clock: 1904-1921; A night at the theatre - 5: The Plough and the Stars, Abbey Theatre, February 11, 1926; 6: Aftermath: 1922-1951; A night at the theatre - 6: Waiting for Godot, Pike Theatre, October 28, 1955; 7: Phoenix flames: 1951-1972; A night at the theatre - 7: Translations, Guildhall, Derry, September 23, 1980; A night at the theatre - 8: Babel 1972-2000; A Millennial Flourish: Conclusions; Chronology. |
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Norman Vance, Irish Literature Since 1800 [Longman Literature in English Ser.] (Harlow: Longman 2002), viii, 301pp. CONTENTS: 1. Introducing Ireland and Irish Writing: Historical Background; The Irish Language Tradition, and Others Writing in English before 1800. 2. Victorian Ireland, 1837-1890: Thomas Moore; Romantic Ireland and Romantic Visitors; Maria Edgeworth, Morgan and Maturin; Romanticising Politics and History. 3. Victorian Ireland, 1837-1890: Hunger, Dissent and the Age of Reform; Le Fanu and Ferguson; Journals and Journalism; Lover, Lever, and Irishness for Export Literature; Violence and Nationalism Nature and Natures God. 4. The Literary Revival And Other Stories, 1890-1920: Revival, Religion and Politics; Some Revivalist Writers; Yeats; Other Stories. 5. James Joyce and Modern Ireland, 1920-1960: Joyce; Europeans, Romantics, Realists and Others. 6. Writing and Contemporary Ireland, 1960-2000: Past and Present; Reliving Anglo-Ireland; Rebels and Resentments; Books from Books; Seamus Heaney.
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James Dudley Andrew & Luke Gibbons, eds., Yale Journal of Criticism, 15:1 (Spring 2002) – CONTENTS: Issue; James Dudley Andrew & Luke Gibbons, Preface [pp.1-2]; Paul Muldoon, Moy Sand and Gravel [p.3]; Stephen Rea, Luke Gibbons, Kevin Whelan, In Conversation with Stephen Rea [pp.5-19]; Stephen Rea: Select Film and Stage Credits [p.21]; James Dudley Andrew, The Theater of Irish Cinema [p.23-58]; Kevin Whelan, The Memories of The Dead[pp.59-97]; Bonnie Roos, James Joyces The Dead and Bret Hartes Gabriel Conroy: The Nature of the Feast [pp.99-126]; Luke Gibbons, The Cracked Looking Glass Of Cinema: James Joyce, John Huston, and the Memory of The Dead [pp.127-148]; Marjorie Elizabeth Howes, Tradition, Gender, and Migration in The Dead, or: How Many People Has Gretta Conroy Killed? [pp.149-171]; Jaime Morrison, Irish Choreo-Cinema: Dancing at the Crossroads of Language and Performance [pp.173-184]; Elizabeth Cullingford, Virgins and Mothers: Sinead OConnor, Neil Jordan, and The Butcher Boy [pp.185-210]; David Bromwich, Comment: On Art and Nationalism [pp.211-16]; Joseph R. Roach, Flickless in Dublin [pp.217-19] |
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