Books Ireland, September 2002: Shopping List [Forthcoming]

  • I am Just Going Outside: Captain Oates’ Antarctic Tragedy. Michael Smith. Collins. 2002. 300pp.
  • Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys. Dervla Murphy. London: Murray. 2002.
  • Sean McMahon, ed., The Derry Anthology. Blackstaff. 2002. 256pp.
  • Máirín Ni Dhonnchadha et al., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions, vols. 4 & 5. ed. Cork UP 2002. 3200pp.
  • Antoinette Quinn, ed., Patrick Kavanagh: Selected Prose. Lilliput. 2002. 256pp.
  • Tim Robinson, Tales and Imaginings. Dublin: Lilliput Press 2002. 256pp.
  • Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne. Geraline Stout. Cork UP 2002.
  • Architecture Profile 4: Shay Cleary Architects. ed. John O’Regan. Gandon Editions. 2002. 132pp.
  • Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, Vol. 5. ed. Nicky Figgis. Irish Georgian Society. 2002. 224pp.
  • Irish Architectural Review, vol. 4. ed. John O’Regan. Gandon Editions and RIA1. 2002. 240pp.
  • The New Housing. ed. John Graby and Kathryn Meghen. RIAI (Dublin: Gandon [distrib.] 2002.), 272pp.
  • The New Neighbourhood of Dublin: The Sights of County Dublin in 1948 and 2002. Maurice Craig, Joseph Hone & Michael Fewer. Farmar. 2002. 272pp. [incl. Hone’s unpublished 1948]
  • Peter Pearson’s Decorative Dublin. Peter Pearson. O’Brien Press. 2002. 160pp.
  • Conor: Drawing from Life. Jonathan Bell. Appletree Press. 2002. 144pp.
  • Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland. ed. Katy Deepwell. Gandon Editions Britain: KT Press. 2002. 160pp. [Interviews with 16 Irish women artists]
  • Ireland’s Painters. Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin. Yale UP 2002. 352pp. 375 colour reproductions from Morphy to le Brocquy.
  • John Shinnors: Paintings and Drawings. ed. Mike Fitzpatrick. Gandon Editions. 2002. 128pp
  • Profile 18: John Shinnors. ed. John O’Regan. Gandon Editions. 2002. 60pp. essay by Brian Fallon, interview by Aidan Dunne; 36 ills.
  • Public Sculpture in County Cork. ed. Peter Murray. Cork County Council (distrib. Gandon). 2002. 72pp.
  • All the Dead Voices. Danny Morrison. Mercier Press. 2002. 192pp
  • Fat God, Thin God. James Kennedy. Mercier Press. 2002. 320pp.
  • Flowers of the Fairest. Rosemary Conry Brandon. 2002. 224pp.
  • Growing up in Clare. Colette Dinan. Mercier Press. 2002. 92pp.
  • I Sailed the Sky in a Silver Ship. Teresa Lennon Blunt. Brandon. 2002. 286pp.
  • It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples. Bill Cullen. Mercier Press. 2002. 400pp.
  • Scholar Bishop: The Recollections and Diary of Narcissus Marsh, 1638-96. ed. Raymond Gillespie. Cork UP 2002.
  • Shane Lynch: Just One of the Boyz. Shane Lynch. Virgin. [Boyzone band]
  • A Ghost upon your Path. John McCarthy. Bantam. 2002.
  • Untold Stories: Protestants in the Republic of Ireland, 1922-2002. ed. Colin Murphy and Lynne Adair. Liffey Press. 2002. 280pp.
  • Irish Literary Magazines: An Outline History and Descriptive Bibliography. Tom Clyde. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 256pp. £45
  • Across the Waves: A True Story of Love and Loss in a Time of War. T. Ryle Dwyer. Mercier Press. 2002. 300pp.
  • Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats. Ann Saddlemyer. Oxford UP 2002. £25.
  • Bono. Laura Jackson. Piatkus. 2002. £7.99 pb
  • David Ervine: Uncharted Waters. Henry Sinnerton. Brandon. 2002.
  • Charles W. Magill, From Dublin Castle to Stormont: The Memoirs of Andrew Philip Magill, 1913-25 Cork UP 2002.
  • Jim Larkin. Emmet O’Connor. Cork UP 2002.
  • Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA. Brendan Anderson, O’Brien Press. 2002.
  • John B. Gus Smith and Des Hickey. Mercier Press. 2002. [updated]
  • The Modern Prince: Charles J. Haughey and the Quest for Power. Justin O’Brien. Merlin. 2002. 320pp.
  • Nice Fellow: A Biography of Jack Lynch. T. Ryle Dwyer. Mercier Press. 2002. 400pp. pb. edn.
  • Pierce Brosnan. York Membery. Virgin. 2002.
  • Ranji: Maharajah of Connemara. Anne Chambers. Wolfhound. 2002. 200pp.
  • The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Anne Marreco. Women in History series. Phoenix. 2002. 352pp.
  • Robert Emmet: A Life. Patrick M. Geoghegan. Gill & Macmillan. 2002. 304pp.£24.99
  • Soul on Fire: A Life of Thomas Russell, 1767-1803 James Quinn. Irish Academic Press 2002. 280pp.
  • Wellington: The Iron Duke. Richard Holmes. Harper Collins 2002.
  • Celtic Hagiography and Saints’ Cults. Jane Cartwright. Univ. of Wales Press. 2002. £40
  • The Celts: A Chronological History. Dáithí Ó hÓgain. Collins. 2002.
  • Conor McPherson: Imagining Mischief. Gerald C. Wood. Liffey Press. 2002. 200pp.
  • Joyce and the Scene of Modernity. David Spurr. Florida UP 2002. 176pp.
  • Neil Jordan: Exploring Boundaries. Kevin and Emer Rockett. Liffey Press. 2002. 260pp.
  • No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh - An Anthology. Tom Stack. Columba. 2002. 176pp.
  • Reading Godot. Lois Gordon. Yale UP 2002.
  • Rite of Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce. Jennifer Margaret Fraser. Florida UP. 2002. 288pp.
  • Shakespeare is Hard but So is Life. Fintan O’Toole. Granta. 2002.
  • Shelley & Revolutionary Ireland. Paul O’Brien. Redwords, 47 Synge Street Dublin 8. 2002. 328pp.
  • Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions. ed. Joseph Bristow. Toronto UP. 2002. 312pp.
  • William Trevor: Re-Imagining Ireland. Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt. Liffey Press. 2002. 200pp.
  • People & Places: The Ireland Yearbook 2003. Appletree Press. 2002. 128pp. [Ulster Mus. Diary]
  • Fire in the Morning: the story of the Irish and the Twin Towers on September 11. Niall O’Dowd. Brandon. 2002. 236pp.
  • Ariel. Marina Carr. Gallery. 2002. 72pp.
  • The Complete Guide to the Quiet Man. Des McHale. Appletree Press. 2002. 240pp.
  • The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche. Thomas Kilroy. Gallery. 2002. 64pp.
  • Defending Peace: Ireland’s Role in a Changing Europe. John Maguire. Cork UP. 2002.
  • Irish Folk and Fairy Tales. ed. Gordon Larvie. Blackstaff. 2002. 272pp.[retold by famous writers
  • Bhéal an Bhab. Bab Feirtéar. Cló Iar-Chonnachta. 2002. 76pp. [seanachie; with CR ROM].
  • Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798-1922. Nick Pelling Routledge. 2002. 128pp.£30
  • The Bible War: ‘The Second Reformation’and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic relations in Ireland, 1800-1840. Irene Whelan. Lilliput. 2002. 384pp.
  • Breaking New Ground: Fifty Years of Change in Northern Ireland Agriculture, 1952-2002. Derek W. Alexander and Michael Drake. Blackstaff. 2002.
  • Commanding Boston’s Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. ed. Christian C. Samito. Fordham UP 2002. 312pp.£16.95.
  • The Flight of the Earls. John McCavitt. Gill & Macmillan. 2002. 304pp.
  • Free State or Republic? Pen Pictures of the Historic Treaty Session of Dáil Eireann. Padraig de Burca and John E Boyle. UCD Press. 2002. 112pp.
  • From Union to Union: The Act of Union to the European Union. Brian Girvin. Gill & Macmillan. 2002. 304pp.
  • Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages. K. W Nicholls. Lilliput. 2002. 224pp. [prev. 1972]
  • Genteel Revolutionaries: Anna and Thomas Haslarn, Pioneers of Irish Feminism. Carmel Quinlan. Cork UP 2002.
  • The Great Dying: The Black Death in Dublin. Maria Kelly. Tempus. 2002. £14.99.
  • Herr Hempel at the German Legation in Dublin, 1937-1945. John Duggan. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 352pp.
  • The Idea of a Nation. Arthur Clery. Classics of Irish History Ser. UCD Press. 2002. 128pp.
  • Ireland’s Independence 1880-1923. Oonagh Walsh. Routledge. 2002. 144pp. £40
  • The Irish Act of Union: Bicentennial Essays. ed. Michael Brown et al. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 304pp. £49.50
  • Irish Republican Women in America: Lecture Tours, 1916-1925. Joanne Mooney Eichacker. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 352pp. ill. [Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Mary MacSwiney, Mrs Muriel MacSwiney, Constance Markievicz and Mrs Margaret Pearse. Foreword by Michelene Sheehy Skeffington. $49.50
  • Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939-1945. Mark M. Hull. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 496pp. £49.50
  • The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland. R. F, Foster. Penguin. £7.99 pb. edn.
  • Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas. Graham Davis. Texas A&M UP 2002. 320pp., 12 b&w photos, maps. £23.50
  • Eunan O’Halpin, MI5 and Ireland, 1939-1945: The Secret History, Introduction by Christopher Andrew. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 192pp.
  • Recoveries: Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History. John Wilson Foster. UCD Press. 2002. 160pp. illus.
  • Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales, 1800-1937: A Social History . Barbara Walsh. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 240pp.
  • To the Leaders of Our Working People. Standish James O’Grady. Classics of Irish History. UCD Press. 2002. 160pp.
  • Victory and Woe: the West Limerick Brigade in the War of Independence. Mossie Harnett. Classics of Irish History. UCD Press. 2002. 184pp.
  • The 1st Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. James W. Taylor. Four Courts. 2002. Foreword by Martin Middlebrook.
  • A History of the Church of Ireland, 1691-2001. Alan Acheson. Columba. 2002. 320pp.
  • The IRA, 1926-36. Brian Hanley. Four Courts. 2002. 288pp.
  • Royal Roots - Republican Inheritance: The Survival of the Irish Office of Arms. Susan Hood. Woodfield Press. 2002. 320pp.
  • Athlone in Old Photographs. Gearóid O’Brien. Gill & Macmillan. 2002. 144pp.
  • Coalisland, County Tyrone, in the Industrial Revolution, 1830-1901. Austin Stewart. Four Courts. 2002.
  • Cumber is my Dandy. Len Ball and Desmond Rainey. White Row Press. 2002. 128pp.
  • County Longford and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1923. Marie Coleman. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 224pp. ill.
  • A County Wexford Family in the Land War: the O’Hanlon Walshs of Knocktartan. Margaret Unwin. Four Courts 2002.
  • Dundalk in Old Photographs. Sean Casey. Gill & Macmillan. 2002. 144pp.
  • Fr Michael Dungan’s Blanchardstown, 1836-68. Elizabeth Cronin. Four Courts. 2002.
  • Galway GAA in Old Photographs. Jack Mahon A & Macmillan. 2002. 144pp.
  • The Holy Well Tradition: The Pattern of St Declan Ardmore, County Waterford, 1800-2000. Stiofán Cadhla. Four Courts. 2002.
  • The Murder of Conell Boyle, County Donegal, 1898. Frank Sweeney. Four Courts. 2002.
  • Rare Old Dublin: Heroes, Hawkers & Whores. Frank Hopkins. Marino. 200pp.
  • Rossin, County Meath, 1724-1901:An Unofficial Place. Bryn Coldrick. Four Courts. 2002.
  • The Celts: A History. Dáithí hÓgain. Collins. 2002. 325pp.
  • Goodnight, God Bless and Safe Home: the Golden Showband Era. Finbar O’Keeffe. O’Brien Press. 2002. 760pp.
  • The Irish: A Photohistory. Sean Sexton and Christine Kinealy. Thames & Hudson. 2002. 224pp., 271 photos.
  • Roman Ireland. Vittorio Di Martino. Collins. 2002. 160pp.
  • The Story of the Irish Pub. Cian Molloy. Liffey Press. 2002. 300pp.
  • Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-county exploration of the Mysteries and Marvels of the Ingenious Irish. Mary Mulvihill. TownHouse. 2002. 220pp.
  • In So Many Words. Con Houlihan. Mercier Press. 2002. 200pp. [collected articles of columnists]
  • Greeenspeak: Ireland in her Own Words. Paddy Sammon. TownHouse. 2002. 272pp. [2,000 commonly used words and phrases in Anglo Irish]
  • The Symbolic Significance of the Irish Language in the Northern Ireland Conflict. Lisa. Goldenberg Columba. 2002. 112pp.
  • History of the Law Society of Ireland 1851-2001. ed. Daire Hogan and Eamonn Hall. Four Courts. 2002.
  • How Free Are You? Steve MacDonogh. Brandon. 2002.
  • The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan. Part 1: Prose, 1832-1839 and Part 2: Prose, 1840-1882. ed. Jacques Chuto et al. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 496pp.
  • Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan. ed. Jacques Chuto et al. Irish Academic Press. 2002. 320pp.
  • Rural Planning and Development in Northern Ireland. John Greer and Michael Murray. Institute of Public Administration. 2002. 330pp.
  • A Short History of Orangeism. Kevin Haddick Flynn. Mercier Press. 2002. 128pp.
  • Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland. Sharon Pickering. Beyond the Pale. 256pp.
  • Angels. Marian Keyes. Michael Joseph. 2002.
  • Banks of Green Willow. Kevin Myers. Scribner TownHouse. 2002. 288pp.
  • Breaking Out. Aisling Maguire. Blackstaff. 2002. 208pp.
  • Downhill Farm: The Final Episode. Wesley Burrowes. TownHouse. 2002. 192pp..
  • Fate and Tomorrow. Rose Doyle. Hodder. 2002.
  • A Fire in His Head: The Story of Wandering Aengus. Loreto Todd. O’Brien Press. 2002. 224pp. [fantasy adventure]
  • Fodder. Tara West. Blackstaff. 2002. 252pp.
  • Home. Frank Ronan. Sceptre Lir. 2002.
  • Just Between Us. Cathy Kelly. HarperCollins. 2002. Three very different women find romance and fulfilment
  • The Mercury Man. John Calvin. TownHouse. 2002. 384pp. [Black comedy about two gardaí investigating a spate of bizarre murders in Dublin]
  • The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch. Anne Enright. Cape. 2002.
  • Shroud. John Banville. Picador. 2002. [sequel to Eclipse]
  • Small Acts of Treachery. Kitty Fitzgerald. Brandon. 2002. Civil rights thriller from sixties through nineties
  • Story of Lucy Gault. William Trevor. Viking. 2002. set in the twenties.
  • The Sway of Winter. Orla Murphy. Lilliput 2002. 256pp. Psychological study of two on an island, recovering from a marriage and alcoholism.
  • Undertow. John F. Deane. Blackstaff. 2002. 400pp . A story from the western isles.
  • A Waste of Shame. Jim Lusby. Orion. 2002. 304ppMurder mystery October
  • Willie and Maud: A Love Story. Barry Shortall Collins. 2002. 336pp.
  • All Things Considered. Mary Colil. Salmon. 2002. 48pp.
  • A Better Life. John McAuliffe. Gallery. 2002. 56pp.
  • A Book of Strays. Michael Hartnett. Gallery. 2002. 80pp.
  • Birds. Saint-John Perse, trans. Derek Mahon. Gallery. 2002. 36pp.
  • Cape Clear: New & Selected Poems. Ted Deppe. Salmon. 2002. 100pp.
  • Cats and their Poets. ed. Maurice Craig. Lilliput. 2002. 144pp.
  • Dancing with Chaos. Patricia Monaghan. Salmon. 2002. 82pp.
  • Day of the Dead. Katie Donovan. 2002. Bloodaxe. 80pp
  • Exemplary Damages. Dennis O’Driscoll. Anvil Poetry. 2002. 88pp.
  • The Face of the Earth. Medbh McGuckian. Gallery. 2002. 80pp.
  • The Gossamer Wall: Poems In Witness to the Holocaust. Michael O’Siadhail. Bloodaxe 2002. 128pp.
  • I and the Village. Gabriel Fitzmaurice. Marino. 2002. 160pp.
  • Moveable Darkness. Ron Houchin. Salmon. 2002. 68pp.
  • Moy Sand and Gravel. Paul Muldoon. Faber. 2002.
  • Off the Wall. ed. Niall MacMonagle.Marino 2002. 224pp. [anthology of contemp. poets]
  • Shelley Plain. Robert Greacen. Happy Dragons Press. 2002. [Selection]
  • Stretches. Knute Skinner. Salmon. 2002. 92pp.
  • Translations. Michael Hartnett. Gallery. 2002. 144pp.
  • W. B. Yeats: The Love Poems. ed. A. Norman Jeffares. Kyle Cathie.
  • Changing Shades of Orange and Green Redefining the Union and Nation in Contemporary Ireland. ed. John Coakley. Perspectives in British-Irish Studies Ser. UCD Press 2002. 224pp.
  • Community and the Soul of Ireland: The Need for Values-based Change. Harry Bohan. Liffey Press. 2002. 125pp.
  • On Reflection: Thoughts on the Irish State. Garret FitzGeraid. Irish Academic Press. Perspectives in British-Irish Studies. 2002. 192pp.
  • Northern Ireland Yearbook 2003.
  • Christianity in Ireland: Revisiting the Story. ed. Dáire Keogh and Brendan Bradshaw. Columba. 2002. 352pp.
  • The Anatomy School. Bernard MacLaverty. Vintage. 2002. pb.
  • Arrows in Flight: stories from a new Ireland. ed. S Caroline Walsh. Scribner / TownHouse. 2002. 384 pp. [Short stories from Tom Humphries, John MacKenna, Molly McCloskey, Claire Keegan, Keith Ridgeway, loseph O’Neill et al.
  • Irish Short Stories. Sigerson Clifford. Mercier Press. 2002. 112pp. [reiss.]
  • Collected Short Stories. Michael McLaverty. Introduced by Seamus Heaney. Blackstaff. 2002. 352pp. Wood-engravings by Barbara Childs.
  • Great Irish Drinking Stories. ed. Peter Haining. Souvenir. 2002.

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