Providers: Eric W. H. Kao & Buck Lee

• I. General Introduction to Irish Culture and History

• II. Irish Literary History & Criticism

• III. Selected Anthologies

I. General Introduction to Irish Culture and History

Boyce, D. George, and Alan O’Day, eds.  The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy.  London: Routledge, 1997.

Brady Ciaran. The Encyclopedia of Ireland. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.

Brown, Terence.  Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985.  London: Fontana, 1985.

Cullen, Louis.  The Hidden Ireland: Reassessment of a Concept.  Mullingar: The Lilliput Press 1988.

Gibbons, Luke.  Transformations in Irish Culture.  Cork: Cork UP, 1996.

Hughes, Eamonn, ed.  Culture and Politics in Northern Ireland, 1960-1980.  Milton Keynes: Open UP, 1991.

Lebow, Richard Ned.  White Britain and Black Ireland: The Influence of Stereotypes on Colonial Policy.  Philadelphia: Institute for Study of Human Issues, 1976.

Luddy, Maria, ed.  Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History.  Cork: Cork UP.  262-263.

Lyons, F.S.L.  Ireland Since the Famine.  1971.  London: Fontana, 1973.

- - -.  Culture and Anarchy in Ireland 1890-1939.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1982.

MacCurtain, Margaret, and Mary O’Dowd, eds.  Women in Early Modern Ireland.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. 1991.

Massie, Sonja. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Irish History and Culture. New York: Alpha Books, 1999.

Moody, TW and FX. Martin, eds.  The Course of Irish History.  Dublin: Mercier,1994.

Dorgan, Theo, and Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, eds.  Revising the Rising.  Derry: Field Day, 1991.

O’Rouke, Meghan.  Irish Facts.  New York: Granmercy Books, 2000.

Ranelagh, John O’Beirne.  A Short History of Ireland.  2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Paseta, Senia.  Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change, and Ireland’s Catholic Elite, 1879-1922.  Cork: Cork UP, 1999.

Whyte, John H.  Church and State in Modern Ireland 1923-1970.  Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1971.

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II. Irish Literary History & Criticism

Boyd, Ernest.  Ireland’s Literary Renaissance.  1916.  Dublin: Figgis, 1968.

Cairns, David and Richards Shaun.  Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture.  Manchester, Manchester UP, 1988.

Cairns, David, and Toni O'Brien Johnson.  Gender in Irish Writing.  Milton Keynes. Open University Press. 1991.

Corcoran, Neil.  Poets of Ireland. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.

Deame, Seamus. A Short History of Irish Literature. Notre Dame: U. Notre Dame, 1986.

- - -.  Celtic Revivals. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Wake Forest UP, 1987.

- - -.  Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.

Donoghe, Denis. We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature and Society. Berkeley: U California P, 1986.

Dorgan, Theo. Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh. Dublin:Four Courts Press, 1996.

Eagleton, Terry. “History and Myth in Yeats's‘Easter 1916’.” The Eagleton Reader. Ed. Stephen Regan. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. 350-8.

Innes, C.L.  Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society 1880-1935.  London. Harvester Wheatsheaf. 1993

Johnston, Dillon.  Irish Poetry after Joyce.  Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1997.

Kiberd, Declan.  Synge and the Irish Language.  1973.  London: Macmillan, 1993.

- - -.  Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation.  London: Vintage, 1996.

- - -.  Irish Classics.  London: Granta. 2000.       

Kinsella, Thomas. The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland. Manchester: Carcanet, 1995.

Kinsella, Thomas and W.B. Yeats. “The Irish Writer.” Davis, Mangan, Ferguson ?: Tradition and the Irish Writer. Dublin: Dolmen, 1970. 57-70.

Lloyd, David.  Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Movement. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.

- - -.  “The Poetics of Politics: Yeats and the Founding of the State.” Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post-Colonial Movement. Durham: Duke UP, 1993. 59-87.

Mahony, Christina Hunt.  Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition. New York, St. Martin Press, 1988.

MacDonagh, Thomas.  Literature in Ireland: Studies Irish and Anglo-Irish.  1916.  Tyone: Relay, 1996.

O’Leary, Philip.  The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881-1921. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania UP, 1994.

O’Mahony, Patrick and Gerard Delanty.  Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity, and Ideology.  London: Macmillian, 1998.

Westemdrop, Tjebbe A, and Jane Mallinson, eds.  Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995.

Schirmer, Gregory A. Out of What Begin: A History of Irish Poetry in English. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1998.

- - -.  Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature. London: Pluto, 1998.

Serpillo, Giuseppe. "Twentieth-Century Irish Poetry and the Strategy of Composition." Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry. Ed. Tjebbe. A. Westemdrop. and Jane Mallinson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 77-86.

Smyth, Gerry. Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature. London: Pluto, 1998.

Vance, Norman.  Irish Literature: A Social History.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1990

- - -.  Irish Literature since 1800.  Harlow. Longman. 2002.

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III. Selected Anthologies

Bourke, Anglea, eds.  The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions.  2 Vols.  Cork: Cork UP, 2002.

Deane, Seamus, gen. ed.  The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing.  3 Vols.  Derry: Field Day, 1991.

Greene. David. H, ed.  An Anthology of Irish Literature.  New York: New York UP, 1974.

Kinsella, Thomas, ed.  The Oxford Book of Irish Verse.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.

---, trans. The Tain: from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988.

Murphy, Maureen O’Rourke and James MacKillop.  Irish Literature: A Reader. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1987.

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