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Ireland: A Literary Visit
Listed below are only selected titles by Irish authors or fiction
with an Irish setting. Additional titles can be found in the online
catalog by
searching for a specific author or title. Or, you can search for the
subject: Ireland in Literature or Ireland-Fiction or Irish fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 891.623 M17a
Amongst women / John McGahern.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1991, c1990.
184 p. ; 20 cm.
Fathers and daughters--Ireland--Fiction.
Ireland--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 J76c
Collected stories / John Jordan ; edited by Hugh McFadden
; with an introd. by Benedict Kiely.
Dublin, Ireland : Poolberg, 1991.
vii, 377 p. ; 20 cm.
Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 Ob6c
The country girls trilogy and epilogue / Edna O'Brien.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.
Summary: The story of two Irish girls, Kate, and Baba, who are sent to a
convent school. They are expelled from school and move to Dublin. The
trilogy continues with their later marriages and relationships.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.912 Ob61d
The Dalkey Archive : a novel / Flann O'Brien.
1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1993.
204 p. ; 22 cm.
Ireland--Fiction.
Black humor (Literature).
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 P277dr
Drink with the Devil / Jack Higgins.
New York : G.P. Putnam's, 1996.
311 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Terrorism--Ireland--Fiction.
Adventure stories.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.912 J85d 1993
Dubliners / James Joyce ; edited by Hans Walter Gabler
with Walter Hettche.
New York : Garland Pub., 1993.
455 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
City and town life--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 K19d
Durango : a novel / John B. Keane.
Cork : Mercier Press, 1992.
329 p. ; 20 cm.
Irish fiction.
Ireland--History--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 B728gr
Green shadows, white whale : a novel / by Ray Bradbury
; with drawings by Edward Sorel.
1st ed.
New York : Knopf, 1992.
271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Authors, American--Ireland--Fiction.
Ireland--Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Summary: Story of Bradbury's trip to Ireland to help with the adaptation
of Moby Dick
for John Huston.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 B4575h
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Bernen, Robert.
The hills : more tales from the Blue Stacks, stories
of Ireland / by Robert Bernan.
New York, NY : Scribner's, 1983.
viii, 147 p. ; 22 cm.
Fox -- The scythe -- Brock -- The rush -- The extra
wether -- Sacrament of the sick -- A keen observer
of footwear -- The windcharger -- Two lives.
85-01352
Blue Stack Mountains (Ireland)--Fiction.
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The informer : a novel / by Liam O'Flaherty.
London : J. Cape, 1949.
Summary: Set in the Irish Civil War, this is the story of a poor man who
accepts money for "informing" on a friend.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.01 Ox1t
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The Oxford book of Irish short stories / edited by William
Trevor.
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,
1989.
xvi, 567 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.912 J85p 1993
A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce
; edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Walter Hettche.
New York : Garland Pub., 1993.
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 18).
Young men--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
Artists--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 D447r
Rebels : the Irish rising of 1916 / Peter De Rosa.
1st ed.
New York : Doubleday, 1991.
xvi, 535, [1] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-[536]) and
index.
Ireland--History--Sinn Fein Rebellion, 1916--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 Ur3r
Redemption : a novel / Leon Uris.
New York : HarperCollins, 1995.
827 p. ; 25 cm.
New Zealand--Fiction.
Ireland--History--1910-1921--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 Ur3tr
Trinity / Leon Uris.
1st ed.
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
Summary: The "trinity" includes the Larkin clan, catholic farmers, the
Hubble dynasty-- British aristocracy, and the MacLeods of Belfast. Set in
19th century Ireland.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 M363r
The road to Ballyshannon / David Martin.
1st U.S. ed.
New York : St. Martin's Press, [1983], c1981.
155 p. ; 22 cm.
84-07387
Ireland--History--1625-1649--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 M196w
The scorching wind.
New York, Macmillan [1964]
308 p. 21 cm.
Ireland--History--1910---Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 M196
Seek the fair land.
New York, Macmillan 1959.
308 p. 22 cm.
Ireland--History--17th Century--Fiction
MAIN COLLECTION 823.01 Sh8g
Short stories from the Irish Renaissance : an antholog
/ edited by Alexander G. Gonzalez.
Troy, New York : Whitston Publishing, 1993.
592 p. ; 24 cm.
Short stories, English--Irish authors.
Ireland--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 M196p
Macken, Walter, 1915-
The silent people.
New York, Macmillan [1962]
371 p. 25 cm.
Ireland--History--19th century--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 K544s
The state of Ireland : a novella & seventeen stories
/ by Benedict Kiely ; with an introd. by Thomas
Flanagan.
Boston : D.R. Godine, 1980.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.01 St7c
Stories by contemporary Irish women / edited by Daniel
J. Casey and Linda M. Casey.
1st ed.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1990.
x, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 Od5s
Strong pagans and other stories / Mary O'Donnell.
Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland : Poolbeg, 1991.
258 p. ; 20 cm.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 C235s
Supply of heroes / James Carroll.
1st ed.
New York : Dutton, c1986.
x, 403 p. ; 25 cm.
88-00694
World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
Ireland--History--1910-1921--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.01 T27d
Territories of the voice : contemporary stories by Irish
women writers / edited by Louise DeSalvo, Kathleen
Walsh D'Arcy & Katherine Hogan.
Boston : Beacon Press, c1989.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.912 F247t
Thy tears might cease. Introd. by Monk Gibbon.
[1st American ed.]
New York, Knopf, 1964.
xxv, 577 p. 22 cm.
Ireland--History--1910---Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.4 V61m
Vertue rewarded, or, The Irish princess / edited with
an introduction by Hubert McDermott.
Gerrards Cross [England] : C. Smythe, 1992.
Man-woman relationships--Ireland--Fiction.
Ireland--Social life and customs--17th century--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 G35w
The water is wide : a novel of Northern Ireland /
Elizabeth Gibson.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan Pub. House, c1984.
299 p. ; 24 cm.
85-08764
Northern Ireland--History--1969- --Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 D77w
The woman who walked into doors / Roddy Doyle.
New York : Viking, 1996.
226 p. ; 23 cm.
Women--Ireland--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.54 F613y
The year of the French : a novel / by Thomas Flanagan.
1st ed.
New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1979.
516 p. : maps (on lining papers) ; 25 cm.
80-04396
Ireland--History--French invasion, 1798--Fiction.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 M224c
Cal / Bernard Mac Laverty.
New York : G. Braziller, 1983.
MAIN COLLECTION 821.914 M76s
A slow dance / John Montague.
Dublin : Dolmen Press ; Winston-Salem, N.C. : Wake Forest
University Press, 1975.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.914 T729n
The news from Ireland & other stories / William Trevor.
1st Am. ed.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1986.
MAIN COLLECTION 821.8 Y34p 1989
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
The poems / W.B. Yeats ; edited by Richard J. Finneran.
Revised.
New York : Macmillan, c1989.
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A fine, soft day / James Forman.
New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1978.
245 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
A sensitive Catholic boy and his family become deeply
involved in and emotionally affected by the escalating
Protestant-Catholic conflict in Belfast.
Northern Ireland--History--1969-1994--Juvenile fiction.
Northern Ireland--History--1969-1994--Fiction.
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Finn Mac Cool / Morgan Llywelyn.
1st ed.
New York : Forge, 1994.
400 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-400).
Finn MacCumhaill, 3rd cent.--Fiction.
Tales--Ireland--Adaptations.
Heroes--Ireland--Fiction.
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Ghost of summer / Eve Bunting.
New York : F. Warne, c1977.
192 p. ; 22 cm.
Searching for treasure hidden by an eighteenth-century
highwayman in northern Ireland, Kevin uncovers a
clue, receives warnings to search no further, and
brushes with the IRA.
Buried treasure--Fiction.
Ireland--Fiction.
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The haunting of Kildoran Abbey / by Eve Bunting.
New York : F. Warne, c1978.
159 p. ; 22 cm.
Caught in the grip of a severe famine, eight hungry
homeless youngsters join forces for one simple mission:
to steal food from the rich and feed the poor.
Famines--Ireland--Fiction.
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Pangur Ban / by Mary Stolz ; illuminations by Pamela
Johnson.
1st ed.
New York : Harper & Row, c1988.
182 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Fifteen-year-old Cormac, longing to fulfill his artistic
inclinations, leaves his family farm in ninth-century
Ireland and joins a monastery, where he creates an
illuminated manuscript to be treasured by generations
to come.
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Only a few of the many titles in the MTSU library about Irish Literature
are listed below. Look in PALS for additional titles about Irish
Literature in general or for specific authors or writers.
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823.809 F81f Fictions of the Irish literary revival : a changeling
art / John Wilson Foster.
1st ed.
Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, c1987.
xx, 407 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 381-394.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.9109 F81t
Forces and themes in Ulster fiction.
[Dublin], Gill and Macmillan, [1974]
299 p. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. 289-293.
76-02086
English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Northern Ireland in literature.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.081 C11g
Great hatred, little room : the Irish historical novel
/ James M. Cahalan.
1st ed.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1983.
xiv, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 223-232.
84-06816
Historical fiction, English--Irish authors--History
and criticism.
English fiction--Irish authors--History and criticism.
REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 891.623 B81i
Ireland in fiction; a guide to Irish novels, tales,
romances, and folklore.
New edition.
New York, B. Franklin 1970.
362p. 23 cm.
English fiction--Irish authors--Bibliography.
Irish fiction (English)--Bibliography.
Fiction--Bibliography.
Ireland--Social life and customs--Bibliography.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.009 W41i
Irish women writers : an uncharted tradition / Ann Owens
Weekes.
Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c1990.
252 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MAIN COLLECTION 813.009 F21i
The Irish voice in America : Irish-American fiction
from the 1760s to the 1980s / Charles Fanning.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1990.
x, 402p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-392) and
index.
American fiction--Irish-American authors--History and
criticism.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.912 J85f H67
Joyce and the invention of Irish history : Finnegans
wake in context / Thomas C. Hofheinz.
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University
Press, 1995.
xiii, 200 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-196) and
index.
MAIN COLLECTION 823.009 F24o
On Irish themes / by James T. Farrell ; edited with
an introduction by Dennis Flynn ; foreword by William
V. Shannon.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
xiii, 201 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
MAIN COLLECTION 822.91 R58c
Contemporary Irish drama : from Beckett to McGuinness
/ Anthony Roche.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
321 p. ; 23 cm.
MAIN COLLECTION 820.99415 K53i
Inventing Ireland / Declan Kiberd.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
MAIN COLLECTION 828.5 Sw5Z M27
Jonathan Swift : the Irish identity / Robert Mahony.
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 1995.
MAIN COLLECTION 821.914 K62Z Ab1
Thomas Kinsella / Donatella Abbate Badin.
New York : Twayne Publishers, c1996.
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LEARNING LAB (LRC) H05287a
PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, PT. 1(and 2) [videorecording]
/ Films for the Humanities
[S.1. : s.n.], 1988
1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. : 1/2 in.
Presents the Druid Theater Company's production of John
Millington Synge's drama.
LEARNING LAB (LRC) H01268a
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK [videorecording] / Insight Media
[S.1. : s.n.] 1930
1 videocassette (85 min.) : sd., b&w. : 1/2 in.
Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Maire O'Neill
Dramatizaion of Sean O'Casey's play about a poor Dublin
family in the 1920's. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
LEARNING LAB (LRC) H03057a
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SEAMUS HEANEY : POET IN LIMBOLAND [videorecording] /
Films for the Humanities
[S.l : s.n.], 1972
1 videocassette (27 min.) : sd., col.: 1/2 in.
Shows Heaney at work and in thought against the background
of his native Ireland torn by civil strife.
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