| Acronyms
for most frequently-used sources |
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AEM
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Andrew E. Malone, The Irish Drama
1896-1928 [first issued London 1914] (London: Constable 1929)
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AOS
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Aosdána Catalogue
of Members [various editions]
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ANJ
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A. N. Jeffares, Anglo-Irish Literature
(London: Macmillan 1982)
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APPL
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. Brian M. Walker, Art Ó
Broin and Seán McMahon, eds., Face of Ulster (Belfast:
Appletree 1980)
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ATT
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Ann Owen Weekes, ed., Attic Guide
to Published Works of Irish Women Literary Writers (Dublin:
Attic 1993, 1994)
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BMK
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Brian McKenna, Irish literature,
1800-1875: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research
Co. 1978)
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BNB
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British National Bibliography
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BREF
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Brian de Breffny, ed., Ireland:
A Cultural Encyclopaedia (London: Thames & Hudson 1983)
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CAB
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Charles A. Read, The Cabinet
of Irish Literature (London, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast &
Edinburgh: Blackie & Son [1876-78])
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CAH
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James M. Cahalan, The Irish Novel:
A Critical History (Boston: Twayne 1988)
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CG
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Covent Garden Theatre, London
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CRO
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John Crone, ed., A Concise Dictionary
of Irish Literary Bibliography (Dublin: Talbot 1928)
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CTS
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Catholic Truth Society
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CUA/CUAP
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Catholic University of America Press
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CUP
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occas. used for Cambridge UP [cf.
Cork UP]
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JCO/DBIV
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John Cooke, ed., Dublin Book
of Irish Verse 1728-1909 (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1909)
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DIB
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Harry Boylan, A Dictionary of
Irish Biography [first issued 1978] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan
[rev. edn.] 1988; enl. edn. 1997)
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DIH
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James E. Doherty & D. J. Hickey,
A Chronology of Irish History since 1500 (Dublin: Gill &
Macmillan 1989)
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DIL/ DIL2
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Robert Hogan, ed., Dictionary
of Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979), and
Do., [rev. edn. 1996]
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DIW
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Brian Cleeve & Anne Brady, A
Dictionary of Irish Writers (Dublin: Lilliput 1985) [first iss.
1967]
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DNB
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Dictionary of National Biography,
ed. Leslie Stephen (London: Smith, Elder, & co. 1885-1901) [and
subsequent editions]
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DUB
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Kate Newmann, Dictionary of Ulster
Biography (Belfast: QUB/IIS 1993)
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EB
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Encyclopaedia Britannica,
gen. ed. Walter Yust (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1949)
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FDA[1/2/3]
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Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field
Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 vols. (Derry: Field
Day Publications 1991)
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FOC
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Frank O'Connor ed., A Book of
Ireland (London: Collins 1959)
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FOST
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R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland
(London: Allen Lane 1988)
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| GILB |
Sir John Gilbert, History
of the City of Dublin, 3 vols. (Dublin: McGlashan & Gill 1854-59;
facs. rep. IUP 1972). |
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GBI
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Stephen Brown, ed., Guide to
Books in Ireland (Dublin: Hodges, Figgis 1912)
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IBL
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Irish Book Lover
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IF1
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Stephen Brown, Ireland in Fiction:
A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances and Folklore [Pt. I]
(Dublin: Maunsel 1919)
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IF2
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Stephen J. Brown & Desmond Clarke,
Ireland in Fiction [Pt. II] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan
1985)
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ILS
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Irish Literary Supplement
(Boston)
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IPR
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Irish Publication Records
[reinitiated in 1998]
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KAV
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Peter Kavanagh, Irish Theatre:
Being a History of the Drama in Ireland from the Earliest Period
up to the Present Day (Tralee: Kerryman 1946)
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JMC
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Justin McCarthy, ed., Irish Literature
(Washington: Catholic University of America 1904), [10 vols.]
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KUN
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Stanley Kunitz, Twentieth Century
Authors: A Biographical Dictionary Of Modern Literature (New
York: H. W. Wilson Co, 1967; &. edns.)
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MAX
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D. E. S. Maxwell, A Critical
History of Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980 (CUP 1984)
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MOR
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Chris Morash, The Hungry Voice
(Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1989)
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NCBE
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New Cambridge Bibliography of
English, ed. F. W. Bateson, 4 vols. (CUP 1966)
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OCAL
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James D. Hart, Oxford Companion
to American Literature (OUP 1983)
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OCAN
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William Toye, Oxford Companion
to Canadian Literature (Toronto: Oxford UP 1983)
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OCEL
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Margaret Drabble, Oxford Companion
of English Literature (OUP: 1985)
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OCIL
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Robert Welch, ed., Oxford Companion
to Irish Literature (Oxford: Clarendon 1986)
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ODQ
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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
(OUP 1967) [first iss. 1941]
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ORM
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Frank Ormsby, ed., Poets from
the North of Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff 1979)
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OUP
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Oxford: Oxford University Press
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OXTH
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Phyllis Hartnoll, ed., Oxford
Companion to Theatre (Oxford: Clarendon 1988)
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PI
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D. J. O’Donoghue, Poets
of Ireland: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of Irish
Writers of English Verse (Dublin: Hodges and Figgis 1912)
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PJK
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P. J. Kavanagh, Voices in Ireland
(London: Murray 1994)
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RIA
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Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
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RAF
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Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature
in English: The Romantic Period, 1789-1850, 2 vols. (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe 1980)
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RR
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Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica:
Irish Worthies (London: J. Warren 1821)
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SUTH
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John Sutherland, The Longman
Companion to Victorian Fiction (Harlow: Longmans 1988)
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TAY
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Irish Poems of the 19th
Century, ed. Geoffrey Taylor (London: Routledge & Kegan
Paul 1951)
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TLS
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Times Literary Supplement
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| WJM |
W. J. McCormack, ed., Blackwell Companion
to Modern Irish Culture (Oxford: Blackwell 1999). |
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WSC
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William Smith Clark, The Early
Irish Stage (Oxford: Clarendon 1955)
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WW/ WWW
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Who's Who / Who Was Who:
An Annual Biographical Dictionary (London: Black 1891, &c.)
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WWNI
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Maggie Lennon, ed., Who's Who
in Northern Ireland (Edinburgh: European Editions 1998)
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| WWI
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compiled by Zircon Publishing
Ltd.,[in assoc. with the 'Irish Times'], Who's Who, What's
What and Where in Ireland (London/Dublin: G. Chapman 1973) |