Books Ireland (Feb. 2003): Bibliographical Listings and Publishers’ Notices

Archaeology, Topography & Architecture
Eberhard Bort, Commemorating Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (IAP 2003).
Bill Clements, Defending the North : the fortifications of Ulster 1796-1956 (Colourpoint 2003), 120pp.
Peter Harbison, Our Treasure of Antiquities (Wordwell/NLI 2003)
Colum Hourihane, Gothic Art in Ireland 1169-1550: Enduring Vitality (Yale UP 2003), 208pp.
Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald, The Aran Islands : History, Tradition, Landscape, Stories [Curriculum Development Unit] (Dublin: O’Brien Press 2003)
Mary Daly, et al., Dublin’s Victorian Houses (Farmar 2003), 170pp., ill.
John O’Regan, ed., Irish Architectural Review, vol. 4 (Gandon & RIAI 2003), 240pp.
Yvonne Whelan, Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity (UCD Press 2003), 336pp., 75 ills.

Autobiography Biography
Richard Murphy, The Kick (London: Granta 2003),
John Quinn, Sea of Love, Sea of Loss: Letters to Olive (TownHouse. 2003), 14pp.
Patricia Boylan, So Far, So Good (Farmar 2003), 250pp.
John Kelly, Sophisticated Boom Boom (Cape 2003), 272 pp.
Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose (New island 2003), 425pp. [life with a priest]
? Dooley, The Rebel Returns: John Devoy in Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 2003),. 176pp.

Bibliography
Claire Hutton, The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century (Irish Academic Press 2003), 256pp.
David Edgar, Treasuring the Word : An Introduction to Biblical Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library (TownHouse 2003), 48pp.
Charles Horton, Alfred Chester Beatty: From Miner to Bibliophile (TownHouse 2003), 48pp.

Literary Criticism
Enoch Brater, The Essential Samuel Beckett (London: Thames & Hudson 2003)
Christopher Fox, Jonathan Swift [Cambridge Companion Ser.] (Cambridge UP 2003).
Fionnuala Dillane & Ronan Kelly, eds., New Voices in Irish Criticism (Dublin: Four Courts. 2003), 224pp.

Cultural History & Comment
Robert Savage, ed., Ireland and the New Century: Politics, Culture and Identity (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 256pp.
Mark Patrick Hederman, Tarot: A Way Towards Creative Thinking (Currach 2003), 200pp.

Social & Political History
Thomas Bartlett, et al., The 1798 Rebellion: A Bicentennial Perspective (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 640pp.
Margaret Crawford, Counting the People: A Guide to the Censuses of Ireland 1813-1911 (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 96pp.
Williarn P Kelly, Docwra’s Derry: North West Ulster and the Nine Years War (Ulster Historical Foundation 2003), 152pp.
Donal P. McCracken, Forgotten Protest: Ireland and the Anglo-Boer War (Ulster Historical Foundation 2003), 224pp.
James Murphy, Ireland: A Social, Cultural and Literary History, 1791-1891 (Dublin: Four Courts 2003), 224pp.
Toby Barnard, Irish Protestant Ascents and Descents, 1641-1779 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 368pp.
James Lydon, The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages [2nd edn.] (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.
Karen Steele, ed., Maud Gonne’s Irish Nationalistic Writings, 1895-1946 (Irish Academic Press 2003).
Toby Barnard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Yale UP 2003), 352pp.
Lawrence McBride, ed., Reading Irish Histories : texts, contexts, and the creation of national memory, 1870-1922 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003).
Raymond Cillespie, ed., The Remaking of Modern Ireland, 1750-1950: Beckett Prize Essays in Irish History 1999-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 256pp.
Vincent Carey & Ute Lotz-Heumann, eds., Taking Sides? Colonial and Confessional Mentalités in Early Modern Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 320pp.
Peter Collins, Who Fears to Speak of ’98? commemoration and the continuing impact of the United Irishmen (Ulster Historical Foundation 2003), 176pp.
Robert Kee, Ireland [rev. edn.] (Abacus 2003)

Media & Language Studies
Iarfhlaith Watson, Broadcasting in Irish: Minority, Language, Radio, Television and Identity. (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 240pp.E45 h7*23 cm 1-85182-731-5; f 19.95 pb - 73 2-3. 21 Apri 1.
Úna Ní Bhroiméil, The Gaelic Revival and America, 1870-1915 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 240pp.
Bernard Share, Slanguage: A Dictionary of Irish Slang [rev. & enl. edn.] (Gill & Macmillan 2003), 432pp.
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Newspapermen (London: Secker & Warburg 2003), 320pp. [Cudlipp and King.]

Reprints Literary & Historical
Sybil le Brocquy, Cadenus and Swift’s Most Valuable Friend (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 320pp. [ltd edn of 100 hb in slip case; two images by Louis le Brocquy; signed].

Novels & Short Fiction
Kevin Brophy, Allegations of Love (Wynkyn de Worde 2003), 288pp. [author o In the Company of Wolves]
Claire Kilroy, All Summer (London: Faber 2003), 224pp.
Ruth Dudley Edward, Carnage on the Committee (London: Harper Collins 2003), 224pp.
Colin Bateman, Chapter and Verse (London: Headline 2003)
Sam Millar, Dark Souls (Wynkyn de Worde 2003), 176pp. [crime reporter faces his past in Dakota]
Jarlath Gregory, Dispassion (Sitric 2003), 188pp.
Declan Burke, Eight-Ball Boogie (Sitric 2003), 254pp.
Susanne O’Leary, European Affairs (Beeline 2003)
Patrick Devaney, The Gate of Ivory (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 240pp. [a Connacht outlaw in pre-Cromwellian times].
Gavin Corbett, Innocence [Pocket Books] (TownHouse 2003), 368pp.
Edmund Power, No Christian Grave [Pocket Books] (TownHouse 2003), 416pp.
Grace Wynne-Jones, Ready or Not (Tivoli 2003), 352pp. [author of Ordinary Miracles]
Somerville & Ross, The Real Charlotte (Dublin: A & A. Farmar 2003), 348pp.
Evelyn Conlon, Skin of Dreams (Dingle: Brandon Press 2003), 288pp.
Catherine Donnelly, The State of Grace (Sitric 2003), 24pp.
William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault (Penguin 2003).
Kate Thompson, Striking Poses (London: Bantam 2003).
Denise Deegan, Turning Turtle (Tivoli 2003), 368pp. [first novel]
June Considine, When the Bough Breaks (Dublin: New Island 2003), 375pp.
Roger Derham, When Twilight C6mes (Wynkyn de Worde 2003), 320pp

Poetry
Mary Melvin Geoghegan, The Bright Unknown (Belfast: Lapwing 2003), 44pp.
Zlatko Tomicic, Croatia, My Love, trans. Desmond O’Grady (Belfast: Lapwing 2003), 16pp. [ltd. Edn. 100]
Rosita Boland, Dissecting the Heart (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 48pp.
Elegy for a Sergeant. Charles Hobday (Belfast: Lapwing 2003), 40pp.
Gerald Dawe, Lake Geneva (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 56pp
Bernard O’Donoghue, Outliving (London: Chatto & Windus 2003), 64pp.
James Clarence Mangan, Poems, ed. David Wheatley (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 160pp.
Tom Hanahoe, America Rules (Dingle: Brandon Press 2003), 288pp.

Philosophy & Theology
Cahal B. Daly [Card.], The Minding of Planet Earth (Dublin: Veritas 2003), 288pp.

Reprints & Historical Documents
Michael MacGowan, The Hard Road to Klondike, trans. Valentin Iremonger [rep.] (Cork: Collins Press 2003).
An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile Donall MacAmhlaigh, trans. by Valentin Iremonger (Cork: Collins Press 2003).

Anthologies, Almanacs & Gazettes
David Marcus, Phoenix Irish Short Stories 2003 (London: Phoenix 2003), 224pp.
Women
Elgy Gillespie, Changing the Times : Irish women journalists from the Irish Times (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2003), 256pp.
Christine Meek & Catherine Lawless, eds., Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2003), 224pp.
Mary T. Malone, Women & Christianity, Vol. 3 : From the Reformation to the Twenty-First Century (Dublin: Columba Press 2003), 304 pp.