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DOHERTY, J.E. & HICKEY, D.J. A Chronology of Ireland Since 1500. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989. Pp. 395. ISBN: 0717117057.

ELLIOT, S. & FLACKES, W.D. Conflict in Northern Ireland. London: ABC-Clio, March 1999. Pp. 620. ISBN: 0874369894. (£37.50 HB) [A complete guide to personalities, parties, events and and administrations in Northern Ireland. A "must" for the student of Northern Ireland politics.]

HICKEY, D. & DOHERTY, J. Dictionary of Irish History. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN: 0717115674. (£17.99 HB)

HOUSTON, Eugenie. Living and Working in Ireland. Dublin: The Oak Tree Press, Nov. 1998. Pp. 300. ISBN: 186076102X. (IR£10.95 PB)

Ireland: A Directory 1998. Euromonitor, Dec. 1998. Pp. 500. ISBN: 1872002544. (HB)

McART, Pat (ed. ). Irish Almanac and Yearbook of Facts [Politics, business, arts, entertainment, sport, tourism, who’s who, top stories, images]. "The ultimate reference book, the ultimate guide to everything about Ireland, north and south. " (RTÉ Guide). Speenoge, Burt, Co. Donegal: Artcam Publishing. Annual.

Autobiography and Biography (Ireland and Northern Ireland)

MacLAVERTY, Bernard. Cal. New York: G. Braziller, 1983 and London: Jonathan Cape, 1983 (reissued in 1997 and still available). There are several recent editions, including Penguin in 2000. Fictionalized autobiography of adolescence in Northern Ireland. This book was made into a film in 1984 (dir. Peter O'Connor; script by MacLaverty himself).

Cultural Studies

BREWSTER, Scott et al. (eds). Ireland in Proximity London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 208. ISBN: 0415189586. (£14.99 PB). [Chapters on revisionism, eighteenth-century Protestant "Patriotism", the famine, the legacy of Oscar Wilde, cinematic representations of Northern Ireland, women in politics and in prisons, community activism in Derry, women dramatists and poets]

CRAIG, Patricia. The Oxford Book of Ireland. Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 528. ISBN: 0192881124. (£11.99 PB)

CULLEN, Fintan. Sources on Irish Art: A Reader. University of Cork Press, March 2000. Pp. 320. ISBN: 1859181554. (IR£19.95 PB). [An anthology of sources and documents relating to the development of visual arts from the 18^th century to the present day]

LLOYD, David. Ireland After History. University of Cork Press, October 1999. Pp. 240. ISBN: 1859182380. (IR£14.95 PB). [This collection of essays presents a lively and progressive view of the colonial experience in Ireland and Irish historiography.]

McCORMACK, W. J. The Blackwell Companion to Irish Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Pp. 450. ISBN: 0631165258. (£75 HB)

MCINTOSH, Gillian. The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Contemporary Ireland. University of Cork Press, October 1999. Pp. 248. ISBN: 0859182054. (IR£ 15.95 PB)

Ó GIOLLÁIN, Diarmuid. Irish folklore: Tradition, Modenity, Identity. University of Cork Press, April 2000. Pp. 256. ISBN: 1859181694. (IR£14.95 PB)

WATERS, John. An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Ireland. Pp. 192. London: Duckworth, March 1998. ISBN: 071562847X. (£8.50 PB)Cultural Studies
 

The Economy

CURRY, John. Irish Social Services (3^rd ed.). Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, Aug. 1998. Pp. 208. ISBN: 1902448014. (IR£7.99; £9.95 PB)

O’HEARN, Denis. Inside the Celtic Tiger. London: Pluto, 1998. Pp. 216. ISBN: 0745312837. (£12.99 PB)

PAGE, Renuka. Sources of Economic Information: Ireland. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, April 1999. ISBN: 1902448073. (IR£20; £17.29 PB)

SWEENEY, Paul. The Celtic Tiger: Ireland’s Economic Miracle Explained (new ed.). Dublin: The Oak Tree Press, Sept. 1999. ISBN: 1860761488. (£14.95 PB)
 

Education

WALSH, John. A New Partnership in Education: from Consultation to Legislation in the Nineties. Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, March 1999. ISBN: 1902448103. (IR£14.70 PB)

Ethnicity

HAINSWORTH, Paul (ed.). Divided Society: Ethnic Minorities and Racism in Northern Ireland. London: Pluto, 1998. Pp. 288. ISBN: 0745311954. (£14.99 PB)

MacLAUGHLIN, Jim. Travellers and Ireland: Whose Country? Whose History? University of Cork Press, 1995. Pp. 102. ISBN: 0859180940. (IR£4.95 PB)

History of Ireland

BOYCE, D.G. The Irish Question and British Politics 1868-1996. London: Macmillan Press, Sept. 1996. Pp. 216. ISBN: 0333665309. (£12.50 PB)

BREWSTER, Scott et al. (eds). Ireland in ProximityLondon: Routledge, 1999. Pp. 208. ISBN: 0415189586. (£14.99 PB). [Chapters on revisionism, eighteenth-century Protestant "Patriotism", the famine, the legacy of Oscar Wilde, cinematic representations of Northern Ireland, women in politics and in prisons, community activism in Derry, women dramatists and poets]

CONNOLLY, S. J. (ed. ). The Oxford Companion to Irish History. Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 636. ISBN: 0198662408. (£12.99 PB).

CURTIS, Liz. The Cause of Ireland: From the United Irishmen to Partition. Belfast: Beyond the Pale, 1994. Pp. 448. ISBN: 0951422960. (£12.95 PB) [A post-revisionist landmark]

DOHERTY, J.E. & HICKEY, D.J. A Chronology of Ireland Since 1500. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989. Pp. 395. ISBN: 0717117057.

DUFFY, Seán et al. Atlas of Irish History. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1997. Pp. 144. ISBN: 0717124797.

ENGLISH, Richard. History of Ireland. Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1991. Pp. 172. ISBN: 0717119181.

FOSTER, R. F. The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 398. ISBN: 0192852450. (£13.99 PB).

GALLAGHER, Frank. The Indivisible Island: The History of the Partition of Ireland. London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. Pp. 316.

KEARNEY, Hugh. The British Isles: A History of Four Nations. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 336. ISBN: 052148488X. (£7.95 PB)

LYDON, James. The Making of Ireland. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. 440. ISBN: 0415013488. (£14.95 PB)

MOODY, T. & MARTIN, F. X. The Course of Irish History. Dublin: The Mercier Press, 1996. Pp. 480. ISBN: 1856351084. (£13.99 PB) [A good illustrated introduction to Irish history]

MORRISON, G. & COOGAN, T.P. The Irish Civil War. London: Weidenfeld, 1998. Pp. 287. ISBN: 0297824546. (£25 HB)

NEVILLE, Peter. A Traveller’s History of Ireland (3^rd ed.). Interlink Publishing Group, June 1997. Pp. 288. ISBN: 1566562597. ($14.95)

POIRTEIR, Cathal. The Great Irish Famine: 1845-1852. Dublin: The Mercier Press, 1996. Pp. 192. ISBN: 1856351114. (£8.99 PB)

RANELAGH, John O'Beirne. A Short History of Ireland (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0 52146944 9. (£14.95 PB)

TOWNSHEND, Charles. Ireland: The Twentieth Century. London: Arnold (£17.90 PB)

Industrial Relations

BERRESFORD-ELLIS, P. A History of the Irish Working Class. London: Pluto Press, 1996. Pp. 372. ISBN: 0745311032. (£45 HB)

MURPHY, T.V. & ROCHE, W.K. Irish Industrial Relations in Practice (2^nd ed.). Dublin: Oak Tree Press, 1997. Pp. 550. ISBN: 1860760295. (IR£24.95 PB)

Language

Educational Co. of Ireland. Irish-English/English-Irish Easy Reference Dictionary. Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Aug. 1998. Pp. 384. ISBN: 1570981655. ($24.95)

Foclóir Scoile. English-Irish/Irish-English Dictionary. Dublin: An Gúm, 1994. Pp. 417.

MACAFEE, C. A Concise Ulster Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 466. ISBN: 0198600593. (£9.99 PB) [Dictionary of the dialect spoken in Northern Ireland]

SHARE, B. Slanguage: A Dictionary of Irish Slang. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1997. ISBN: 0717126838. (£10.99 PB)

Literature

CHAMPION, Sarah & SCANNELL, Donal (eds). Shenanigans: An Anthology of Irish Fiction. Sceptre. (£7.80 PB)

DELANTY, Greg (ed.). Jumping Off Shadows: Selected Contemporary Irish Poets. Cork University Press, 1995. Pp. 270. ISBN: 090256191. (IR£12.99 PB)

DUNN, Seán. The Cork Anthology (Literature and Poetry). University of Cork Press, 1995. Pp. 448. ISBN: 090256188X. (IR£12.95 PB)

FORKNER, Ben. (ed.). Modern Irish Short Stories. Penguin USA, 1995. ISBN: 0140246991.

GENET, Jacqueline et FIEROBE, Claude. La littérature irlandaise. Paris: Armand Colin, 1997. Pp. 320.

JEFFARES, A.N. A Pocket History of Irish Literature. Dublin: The O’Brien Press, 1997. Pp. 160. ISBN: 0862785022. (£4.99 PB)

PIERCE, David. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Cork University Press, September 1999. Pp. 800. ISBN: 1859182089. (IR£19.99 PB)

TREVOR, W. The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. 584. ISBN: 0192828452. (£8.99 PB)

WELCH, Robert & STEWART, Bruce (eds ). The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 640. ISBN: 0198661584. (£25 HB)

Politics (Republic of Ireland)

BARBERIS, P. et al. Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations. London: Pinter Publishers, Aug. 1999. Pp. 544. ISBN: 1855672642. (£90 HB)

CHUBB, Basil. The Government and Politics of Ireland (3^rd ed.). Wokingham: Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education, 1992. Pp. 360. ISBN: 0582086248. (£18.50 PB)

COLLINS, Neil & CRADDEN, T. Irish Politics Today. Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp. 175. ISBN: 0719051363. (£7.99 PB)

COLLINS, Neil. Political Issues in Ireland Today. Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. 223. ISBN: 0719037700 (£10.99)

COOGAN, Tim Pat. De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow. London: Hutchinson, 1993. Pp. 772.

HAZELKORN, Ellen. Guide to Irish Politics. Dublin: Edco, The Educational Company of Ireland, 1995. ISBN: 0861674928. (£7.25 PB)

SINNOTT, Richard. Irish Voters Decide: Voting Behaviour in Elections and Referendums since 1918. Manchester University Press, 1995. Pp. 339. ISBN: 071904037X (£17.99 PB)

Society and social life (Ireland and Northern Ireland)

TÓIBIN, Colm. Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border. London: Vintage, 1994. First published in 1987 under the title Walking Along the Border.

Sociology

BYRNE, Anne & LEONARD, Madeleine. Women and Irish Society: A Sociological Reader. Belfast: Beyond the Pale, Oct. 1997. Pp. 574. ISBN: 1900960036. (£16.95 PB)

CLANCY, P. et al. (eds). Ireland: Sociological Perspectives. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1995. Pp. 736. ISBN: 1872002870. (£17.99 PB). [A series of wide-ranging essays assembled under three headings: population, work and social change; class, politics and the state; education, culture and social movements].

COULTER, Colin. Contemporary Northern Ireland Society. London: Pluto, 1999. Pp. 320. ISBN: 0745312446. (£14.99 PB)

GALLIGAN, Yvonne. Women and Politics in Contemporary Ireland: From the Margins to the Mainstream. London: Pinter Publishers, 1998. Pp. 184. ISBN: 1855674335. (£15.99 PB)

HANNON, Patrick. Church, State, Morality and Law. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1992. Pp. 159.

HUSSEY, Gemma. Ireland Today: Anatomy of a Chaging State. Penguin Books, 1993. Pp. 536.

JOHNSON, J. H. A Human Geography of Ireland. New York: J. Wiley, 1994. Pp. 234. ISBN: 0471948357. (£32.50 PB)

LEE, J. J. Ireland: 1912-1985. Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 754. ISBN: 0521377412. (£19.95 PB)

Ó MUIRCHEARTAIGH, Fionán. Ireland in the Coming Times. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1997. Pp. 424. ISBN: 1872002447 (IR£20 PB)

O’CONNOR, Pat. Emerging Voices (Women in Contemporary Irish Society). Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1998.Pp. 320. ISBN: 1872002749. (IR£18.95 PB)

PEILLON, Michel and SLATER, Eamonn. Encounters with Modern Ireland. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, March 1998. Pp. 194. ISBN: 1872002595. (IR£12 PB)

WHELAN, C. T. Values and Social Change in Ireland. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1994. Pp. 336. ISBN: 0717119475. (£15.50 PB)

NORTHERN IRELAND

History, Northern Ireland

BARDON, Jonathan & HEALEY, G. A Shorter Illustrated History of Ulster. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1996. Pp. 325. [Dufour editions, 1998. ISBN: 0856405868. ($29.95)]

BARTON, Brian. A Pocket History of Ulster. Dublin: The O’Brien Press, Sept. 1997. ISBN: 086278428X. ($ 8.95)

BRENNAN, Paul. The Conflict in Northern Ireland. Paris: Longman France, 1991. Pp. 159. ISBN: 2866442075.

BRUCE, Steve. The Edge of the Union: The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision. Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 176. ISBN: 0198279760. (£6.99 PB)

COOGAN, Tim Pat. The IRA: A History. Roberts Rinehart Publishing, Nov. 1994 (reprint). Pp. 554. ISBN: 1879373998. ($18.95)

DEUTSCH, Richard. Le républicanisme irlandais (Actes du colloque de Rennes 1995). Presses Universitaires de Rennes/Terre de Brume Editions, 1997. Pp. 240.

ELLIOT, S. & FLACKES, W.D. Conflict in Northern Ireland. London: ABC-Clio, March 1999. Pp. 620. ISBN: 0874369894. (£37.50 HB) [A complete guide to personalities, parties, events and and administrations in Northern Ireland. A "must" for the student of Northern Ireland politics.]

FALLS, Cyril. The Birth of Ulster. London: Constable, 1998. Pp. 272. (£9.99 PB)

FAY, Marie-Therese et al. Northern Ireland’s Troubles. London: Pluto, 1999. Pp. 240. ISBN: 0745313744. (£12.99 PB)

GUIFFAN, Jean. La question d’Irlande. Bruxelles: Editions Complexe, 1989. Pp. 255.

KENNEDY-PIPE, Caroline. The Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland. Wokingham: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., April 1997. Pp. 224. ISBN: 0582100739. ($21 PB)

MURRAY, G. John Hume and the SDLP. Irish Academic Press, 1998. Pp. 339. (£29.50 HB)

Ó DOCHARTAIGH, Niall. From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles. University of Cork Press, March 1997. Pp. 240. ISBN: 1859181090. (IR£15.95 PB)

O’BRIEN, Brendan. A Pocket History of the IRA. Irish Books and Media, Sept. 1997. Pp. 144. ISBN: 0862785111. (PB)

O’BRIEN, Brendan. The Long War: the IRA and Sinn Féin, 1985 to Today. Syracuse University Press, April 1995. ISBN: 0815603193. ($17.95 PB)

SHARROCK, D. & M. DEVENPORT. Man of War, Man of Peace? The Unauthorised Biography of Gerry Adams. London: Macmillan, 1997. ISBN: 0333698835. (£16.99 PB)
 

Identity, Northern Ireland

BREWER, John D. Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland: The Mote and the Beam. London: Macmillan Press, 1998. Pp. 260. ISBN: 033374635X. (£16.99 PB)

CROZIER, M. Cultural Traditions in Northern Ireland. Institute of Irish Studies, Oct. 1998. Pp. 168. ISBN: 0853897204. (£7.50 PB)

EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley. The Faithful Tribe. London: HarperCollons, 1999. Pp. 288. ISBN: 0006388906. (£7.99 PB). ["An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions"]

ERSKINE, John. Cultural Traditions in Northern Ireland: Varieties of Scottishness. The Institute of Irish Studies, 1997. Pp. 160. ISBN: 0853896682. (£7.50 PB)

HADDICK-FLYNN, K. Orangeism: The Making of a Tradition. Dublin: The Wolfhound Press, 1999. Pp. 448. (£30 HB)

HYNDMAN, M. (ed.) Further Afield: Journeys from a Protestant Past. Belfast: Beyond the Pale, 1996. Pp. 304. ISBN: 190096001X. (£9.95 PB)

McCALL, Cathal. Identity in Northern Ireland. London: Macmillan Press, 1999. Pp. 248. ISBN: 0333740181. (£42.50 HB)

McEWEN, A. Public Policy in a Divided Society: Schooling, Culture and Identity in Northern Ireland. Ashgate Publishing, 1999. Pp. 160. (£32.50 HB)

McINTOSH, Gillian. The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Contemporary Ireland. University of Cork Press, October 1999. Pp. 248. ISBN: 0859182054. (IR£ 15.95 PB)

RICHARDSON, N. A Tapestry of Beliefs: Christian Traditions in Northern Ireland. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1998. Pp. 353. (£9.99 PB)

ROBINSON, Gillian. Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland. Seventh Report 1997-98. [Report findings from the 1996 NI Social Attitudes Survey]. Ashgate Publishing, 1998. Pp. 232. (£35 HB)

TAYLOR, Peter. Loyalists. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Pp. 284. (£10 PB) [Interviews with loyalist paramilitaries]

TAYLOR, Peter. The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Féin. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. Pp. 382. (£16.99 HB)

TREW, K. & BENSON, D. Defining Ourselves: A Survey of Socio-Political Identity in Northern Ireland. The Institute of Irish Studies, May 1997. Pp. 100. (£6.50 PB)

Politics, Northern Ireland 

ANDERSON, James & GOODMAN, James (eds). Dis/Agreeing Ireland: Contexts, Obstacles, Hopes. London: Pluto, 1998. Pp. 288. ISBN: 0745312756. (£14.99 PB)

COCHRANE, Feargal. Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism since the Anglo-Irish Agreement. University of Cork Press, March 1997. Pp. 444; ISBN: 085918139. (IR£17.95 PB)

PORTER, N. Rethinking Unionism. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, Sept. 1998. Pp. 272. ISBN: 0856406430 (£11.99 PB)