IRELAND: LITERATURE, HISTORY, and CULTURE
Reference Books | Travel | Books | DVDs | Research Database
REFERENCE BOOKS
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | (e-book) |
A Dictionary of World History | (e-book) |
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World | (e-book) |
The Encyclopedia of Ireland | REF. 941.5003 En19La |
Encyclopedia of Ireland: An A-Z Guide To Its People, Places, History, and Culture | REF. 941.5003 En19br |
The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland | REF. 941.5 Ox2fo |
Place-names of Great Britain and Ireland | REF. 914.1 F456pL |
Encyclopedia of Irish History And Culture | REF. 941.5 En19do |
Brewer’s Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable | REF. 941.5 M227br |
The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature | REF. 820.99415 Ox2we |
Dictionary Of Irish Literature | REF. 820.99415 D561 v.1 |
Medieval Ireland: an Encyclopedia | REF. 941.50303 M468du |
The Penguin Atlas of British & Irish History | REF. 911.41 P367cu |
TRAVEL
Frommer’s Ireland | 914.15 F927 2010 |
Back Roads Ireland | 914.15 B126da |
A to Z Maps Online | (Database) |
BOOKS
▪ Contemporary Ireland | |
Continuity, Change and Crisis in Contemporary Ireland | 941.50824 C767gi |
“Blighted Beginnings”: Coming Of Age in Independent Ireland | 823.0099417 B639bL |
The Transformation of Ireland | 941.5 F417tr |
Celtic Revival?: The Rise, Fall, and Renewal of Global Ireland | 941.50824 K18ce |
▪ History of Ireland | |
The Irish Experience: A Concise History | 941.5 H115ir2 |
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970 | 941.7082 F816Lu |
The Rising: Ireland–Easter 1916 | 941.7082 M171ri |
Spying On Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War | 940.548641 Oh1sp |
Ireland: A History | 941.7 B284ir |
The Making of Modern Ireland, 1603-1923 | 941.5 B388ma |
Timeline of Irish History from the BBC | (website) |
▪ Irish Politics | |
Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland: Boundaries of Belonging And Belief | 941.60842 M692re |
Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women, and Wicked Hags | 305.4209415 Ir4ry |
Our Own Devices: National Symbols and Political Conflict in Twentieth-Century Ireland | 941.5082 M831ou |
Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789-2006 | 941.508 B468ir |
▪ Culture of Ireland | |
Culture and Customs of Ireland | 306.09415 Sca63cu |
Global Ireland: Same Difference | 941.70824 In4gL |
I Never Knew That About Ireland | 941.5 W73in |
▪ Literature of Ireland | |
Poetry and Translation in Northern Ireland: Dislocations in Contemporary Writing | 821.0099416 H756po |
Twentieth-Century Irish Literature | 820.99415 K295tw |
The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend And Romance | 398.209415 Oh5Lo |
James Joyce in Context | 823.91 j853ymccou2 |
A History of the Irish Short Story | 823.0109 In4hi |
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation | 820.99415 K533in |
Irish Sagas And Folk-Tales | 398.209415 Of1ir |
Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland | 398.2109415 F169ye |
▪ Art and Music of Ireland | |
National Museum Of Ireland | (website) |
IMMA: Irish Museum Of Modern Art | (website) |
National Photographic Archive From The National Library Of Ireland | (website) |
Music in Ireland: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture | 780.9415 H279mu |
*Music in Ireland: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Audio CD) | CD 780.9415 H279mu |
The Heartbeat of Irish Music | 780.9415 W866he |
Music and Irish Cultural History | 780.9415 M973gi |
DVDS – Feature Films and Documentaries
Over Ireland | VHS 914.15 Ov2pi |
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The Dead | DVD 791.4352 D34hu |
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Hunger | DVD 791.4352 H894mc |
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley | DVD 791.4352 W722Lo |
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Strumpet City | DVD 791.4572 St89ba vols. 1-3 |
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The Shadow of A Gunman | DVD 822.912 Oc1sh |
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Bloody Sunday | DVD 791.4352 B623gr |
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Michael Collins | DVD 791.4352 M582jo |
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Irish Writers | DVD 820.99415 Ir4ku |
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RESEARCH DATABASES
Scholarly, trade and popular magazines and journals on multi-disciplinary topics.
Scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, humanities and social sciences. (See the Ireland Collection and the list of Irish Studies Collection Titles).
Scholarly journal titles covering the humanities and social sciences.
Access to thousands of newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts. Offers international resources in several languages.
NewsBank Access World News AND NewsBank Retrospective (1970-1991)
Articles from international newspapers (1992-present) and an archive of news articles from 1970-1991.
World History articles from 1450 to the present.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides citations to research in literature, literary criticism, linguistics, modern languages, drama, folklore, film and video, and other communicative behavior.
International Medieval Bibliography
Index of articles in journals and miscellany volumes on the Middle Ages (400-1500).