The titles below were all received since the summer.  Not all books are on the shelves. Please use the library catalog for up-to-date information on each book.  If a book has been borrowed, you may reserve it, and if it has not yet been cataloged, a request will ensure that you are notified when the book is available.

Colin Cousins. Armagh and the Great War. History Press Ireland, 2014.

Father Browne’s First World War.  Messenger Publications, 2014.
Review (Irish Independent 17/8/2014)

James Durney. In a Time of War: Kildare 1914-1918. Irish Academic Press, 2014

Ken Kinsella. Out of the Dark, 1914-1918: South Dubliners who fell in the Great War. Irish Academic Press, 2014.

Travor Parkhill. The First World War Diaries of Emma Duffin: Belfast Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse. Four Courts Press, 2014.
D 630 .D83 A3 2014

Matthew Lewis. Frank Aiken’s War: The Irish Revolution, 1916-23.  UCD Press, 2014.

Gabriel Doherty (ed.). The Home Rule Crisis 1912-14. Mercier, 2014.
DA 960 .H65 2014

Ann Matthews. The Irish Citizen Army. Mercier Press, 2014.

Mick O’Farrell. The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier. Mercier press, 2014.
DA 960 .O46 2014

Gerard Noonan. The IRA in Britain, 1919-1923: ‘In the Heart of Enemy Lines’.  Liverpool University Press, 2014.
DA 964 .G7 N66 2014

Stan Greer. In Search of Bulmer Hobson.  Graven Image Press, 2014.
Review
DA 965 .H6 G74 2014

William Murphy. Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912-1921. Oxford University Press, 2014.
DA 990 .U46 M88 2014

Michael Kennedy. Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo: A Military and Diplomatic History. Four Courts Press, 2014.
DT 658.22 .K46 2014

Pat Walsh. Catastrophe and Resurgence: The Catholic Predicament in Northern Ireland. Belfast Historical and Educational Society, 2014. Volume I: Catastrophe 1914-1968.
DA 990 .U46 W346 2014

Joshua T. Searle. Scarlet Woman and the Red Hand: Evangelical Apocalyptic Belief in the Northern Ireland Troubles. Eugene, Oregen: Pickwick Publications, 2014.
BR 797 .N67 S43 2014

Daragh Curran. The Protestant Community in Ulster, 1825-45: A Society in Transition. Four Courts Press, 2014.
DA 990 .U46 C87 2014

Mary C. Murphy. Northern Ireland and the European Union: The Dynamics of a Changing Relationship. Manchester University Press, 2014.
DA 990 .U46 M875 2014

Cheryl Lawther. Truth, Denial and Transition: Northern Ireland and the Contested Past. Routledge, 2014.
KDE 210 .L39 2014

Colin Graham. Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography. Belfast Exposed Photography, 2013.
TR 59.3 .G73 2013

Marion Rogan. Charles Tisdall of County Meath, 1740-51. From Spendthrift Youth to Improving Landlord.  Four Courts Press, 2014.

Aonghus Dwane.  Donald Caird: Church of Ireland Bishop: Gaelic Churchman, a Life. Columbia Press, 2014.

Paul Clements. Romancing Ireland: Richard Hayward, 1892-1964. Lilliput Press, 2014.
DA 963 .C54 2014

Neil Cronin. Medical Profession and the Exercise of Power in Early Nineteenth-century Cork. Four Courts Press, 2014.

Pádraig Lenihan. The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot (1631-91). UCD Press, 2014.
DA 429 .L46 2014

Brendan Kelly. Custody, Care & Criminality: Forensic Psychiatry in 19th Century Ireland. History Press Ireland, 2014.

Gerard MacAtasney. The Dead Buried by the Dying: The Great Famine in County Leitrim. Irish Academic Press, 2014.

Emmet O’Connor. Derry Labour in the Age of Agitation 1889-1923.  Four Courts Press, 2014.

John Fox. El Proyecto Macnamara: The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846. Irish Academic Press, 2014.

Ronald Kessler. The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty he Founded. Warner Books, 1996.
E 748 .K376 K47 1996

Mary E. Lyons. The Blue Ridge Tunnel: A Remarkable Engineering Feat in Antebellum Virginia. Charleston: The History Press, 2014.
Note in the Crozet Gazette (4/4/14)
TF 238 .B6 L96 2014

Patrick Walsh. The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: Money, Banking and Investment, 1690-1721. Boydell Press, 2014.
HG 6008 .W35 2014

Michael Kelly. Struggle and Strife on a Mayo Estate, 1833-1903: The Nolans of Logboy and their Tenants. Four Courts Press, 2014.

Thomas J. Morrissey. Peter Kenney SJ 1779-1841: The Restoration of the Jesuits in Ireland, England, Sicily, and North America. Catholic University of America Press, 2014.
Reprint of 1996 edition, As One Sent: Peter Kenney SJ (1779-1841): His Mission in Ireland and North America.
BX 4705 .K386 M672 2014

Brendan Walsh (ed.). Knowing Their Place? The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century. History Press Ireland, 2014.

Sarah-Beth Watkins. Ireland’s Suffragettes: The Women who fought for the Vote. The History Press Ireland, 2014.
JN 979 .W38 2014

Roger Courtney. Dissenting Voices: Rediscovering the Irish Progressive Presbyterian Tradition: Profiles of 300 Progressive Presbyterians over Four Centuries. Ulster Historical Foundation, 2013.

Liam Dolan. The Third Earl of Leitrim. Dundalk: The Author, 1978.
CT 868 .L44 D64 1978

Ciarán Reilly. The Irish Land Agent, 1830-60: The Case of King’s County. Four Courts Press, 2014.
DA 990 .O3 R45 2014

Clyve Jones (ed.). Parliament, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c. 1680-1832: Essays in Honour of D. W. Hayton. Wiley, 2014.
DA 445 .P325 2014

Stephen Ferguson. The GPO: Two Hundred Years of History. Mercier Press, 2014.
DA 950 .F474 2014

Myles Dungan. Mr. Parnell’s Rottweiler: Censorship and the United Ireland Newspaper, 1881-1891. Irish Academic PRess, 2014.
DA 957 .D86 2014

Bernard Shillman. A Short History of the Jews in Ireland. Eason, 1945.
DS 135 .I75 S5 1945

John Carlos. Ireland’s Western Islands: Inishbofin, The Aran Islands, Inishturk, Inishark, Clare & Turbot Island. Collins Press, 2014.
DA 988 .C37 2014

Ann Lynch. Poulnabrone: An Early Neolithic Portal Tomb in Ireland. Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, 2014.
DA 990 .B87 L9 2014

Henry Murdoch: Remembering Killaloe: A Memoir. Liffey Press, 2014.
DA 990 .C59 M567 2014

Tom Hartley. Milltown Cemetery: The History of Belfast, Written in Stone. Blackstaff Press, 2014.
DA 995 .B5 H25 2014

David Dickson. Dublin: The Making of a Capital City. London: Profile, 2014.
DRB Review
DA 995 .D75 D53 2014

John Thuillier. Kinsale Harbour: A History. Collins Press, 2014.
DA 995 .K495 T58 2014

Brian P. Murphy. Glenstal Abbey Gardens: C. 1650 to the Present: From Townland to Terrace Garden. Papaver Editions, 2014.
SB 466 .I733 G54 2014

Nigel Everett. The Woods of Ireland: A History, 700-1800. Four Courts Press, 2014.
SD 185 .E84 2014

Pat Finnegan. Loughrea, ‘That Den of Infamy’ During the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879-82. Four Courts Press, 2014.
DA 995 .L79 F56 2014

H. Kingsmill Moore. The Centenary Book of the Church of Ireland Training College, 1811-1911. Dublin: Educational Depository, 1911.
LB 2064 .D8 M8 1911

Deirdre Raftery and Karin Fischer (ed.). Educating Ireland: Schooling and Social Change, 1700-2000. Irish Academic Press, 2014.
LC 191.8 .I73 E38 2014

Antonia McManus. Irish Education: The Ministerial Legacy, 1919-99. The History Press Ireland, 2014.

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Eamon Maher. ‘Tickling the Palate’: Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture. Peter Lang, 2014.
Irish Times review
TX 360 .I73 T53 2014

The latest issue of the DRB features an essay by Professor Jim Smyth, “The Big Smoke” in which he reviews Dublin: the Making of a Capital City, by David Dickson.  This book has not yet reached the Hesburgh Library shelves, but the “on order” note is in the catalogue, where you may request it and receive a note when it arrives.

An additional feature of the DRB that is of great interest to librarians is the New Books listing.

The Breac Team brought out the second issue of their online journal last month.  This issue, edited by Lindsay J. Haney and Shaun Richards, is devoted to Irish drama.  The editors “hope that these essays will stimulate debate and lively conversations around the role of the theater in staging issues such as economic crisis, urban renewal, gender relations, sexual abus, and other matters that are vital to contemporary considerations in Irish Studies” (Preface, Breac, July 10, 2014)

The very first item presents a typical Breac problem for librarians.  What is “Am I Rambling”?  Is it a film?  Is it street theatre?  Is it a guided tour? I can tell that it is an experimental event, organized and presented by Veronica Dyas and Sorcha Kenny, in which a group of people walk around Dublin and encounter street art.  At least that’s what I think it is.  Beyond that, I am waiting to see commentary on the Breac site to help me interpret the video.

Brian Ó Conchubhair describes Fíbín, an Irish language theatre group, once again using the medium of the online journal to provide a video.  Other articles are more traditional scholarly articles, but they take advantage of the digital platform by providing hyperlinked references that take the reader straight to the article under discussion, if available online.

Here are the contents of the current issue:

Theatre-as-Memory and as Witness: Active Spectatorship in The Walworth Farce, The Blue Boy, and Laundry
Emilie Pine

Literature books, new in April 2014

Some of the Irish language books received in April.

Here are some of the titles just in.  This is a “sneak preview” — they are not cataloged, so if you want a book soon, place a request and it will move to the top of the queue.

An Taibhse Ghlas: Na Fíníní: Ceanada 1866/ Brian Ó Baoill. Coiscéim
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Lebor na Cert: Reassessments / Kevin Murray. Irish Texts Society (Subsidiary Series).

An Reifirméisean, na Protastúnaigh agus an Ghaeilge 1534-1800 / Roibeárd Ó hÉanna. Privately published.

Rabhadh! Dánta / Alan Titley.  Coiscéim.

An Colm Bán / Liam Ó Muirthile.  Coiscéim.

Frederick Douglass in Ireland. “The Black O’Connell” / Laurence Fenton. Collins Press

Clerical and learned lineages of Medieval Co. Clare: A survey of the fifteenth-century papal registers / Luke McInerney.  Four Courts.

Laurence O’Neill (1864-1943): Lord Mayor of Dublin (1917-1924):Patriot and man of peace / T. Morrissey.  Dublin City Council with Four Courts Press.

Reading Medbh McGuckian / Leontia Flynn.  Irish Academic Press.

Bram Stoker: Centenary essays.  Edited by Jarlath Killeen.  Four Courts.

 X / Vona Groarke.  Gallery Press.

Working with the O’Neill Collection, I have more questions than answers.  How was music printed and sold in Ireland?  So I was very happy, browsing through the Journal of Music, to learn of a new website called The Dublin Music Trade.

This is based on a card index developed by the late Brian Boydell, of music publishers, printers, sellers and instrument makers in Dublin from 1750 to 1850.  The database has been developed by his son Barra Boydell, and later by Dr. Catherine Ferris.  It appears from the website that while Brian Boydell’s original card index covered one century, this database is expanded to include earlier years, back as far as 1515.

In addition to the search facility, it is possible to browse through lists, so for example we can see all 17 listings for Capel Street, or listings under category, e.g. Musical Instrument maker: Flute, which also has 17 names.

This database, hosted by the Research Foundation for Music in Ireland, will be of great assistance to anyone working with the Francis O’Neill Collection in our library.

All the following books are recently cataloged.  Watch for them on the New Books shelves (first floor), or if you want to make sure to be first, go to the catalog and request the books.

New Irish History Books in order of LC number:

Audrey Horning.  Ireland in the Virginian sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic. Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2013.
DA 16 .H655 2013

The English Isles: Cultural transmission and political conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500. Dublin: Four Courts, 2010.
DA 175 .E55 2013

Tarquin Blake. Ancient Ireland: Exploring Irish historic monuments. Cork: Collins Press, 2013.
DA 920 .B58 2013

Conor Kostick. Strongbow: The Norman invasion of Ireland. Dublin: O’Brien, 2013.
DA 933.3 .K67 2013

Sir Henry Sidney.  A viceroy’s vindication? Sir Henry Sidney’s memoir of service in Ireland, 1556-1578.  Cork: Cork University Press, 2002.
DA 937.5 .S53 A3 2002

Ray Bateson. Memorials of the Easter Rising. Dublin: Irish Graves Publications, 2013.
DA 962 .B375 2013

Marie Coleman. The Irish Revolution, 1916-1923. NY: Routledge, 2014.
DA 962 .C65 2014

Gerry Hunt. At war with the Empire: Ireland’s fight for independence. Dublin: O’Brien, 2012.
DA 962 .H86 2012

Ernie O’Malley. On another man’s wound. Dublin: Anvil, 1979.
Special Collections (MR): DA 962 .O54 1979

Fergal Tobin. Irish Revolution 1912-25: an illustrated history. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2013.
DA 962 .T635 2013

The Irish presidencey: Power, ceremony and politics. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2014.
DA 963 .I746 2014

Michael Mac Evilly. Seamus Mac Evilly and the West Mayo Flying Column: A family memoir: Seamus Mac Evilly, 1897-1921. Castlebar, 2012.
Special collections (MR) DA 965 .M2215 M236 2012

Pat Leahy. The price of power: Inside Ireland’s crisis coalition. Dublin: Penguin Ireland, 2013.
DA 966 .L43 2013

Averil Staunton. Ballinrobe: Aspects of a visual history. Ballinrobe: Ballinrobe Archaeological & Historical Society, 2013.
DA 990 .B35 S83 2013

Jackie Queally. Spirit of the Burren: Exploring a unique Irish landscape through the five elements. Roslin, U.K.: J. Wueally, 2013.
DA 990 .B87 Q43 2013

Seán Beattie. Donegal in transition: The impact of the Congested Districts Board. Sallins: Merrion, 2013.
DA 990 .D6 B44 2013

E. E. O’Donnell. Father Browne’s Laois. Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2013.
DA 990 .L6 O36 2013

Mark Mulholland. Terence O’Neill. Dublin: UCD Press for the Historical Association of Ireland, 2013.
DA 990 .U452 O55 2013

Alastair Campbell. The Irish diaries (1994-2003). Dublin: Lilliput, 2013.
DA 990 .U46 C29 2013

Guy Warner. Sycamores uver Ulster: Royal Air Force support to the security forces during the Border Campaign 1956-1962. Belfast: Ulster Aviation Society, 2013.
DA 990 .U46 W37 2013

Ordnance Survey Letters. Letters relating to the antiquities of the Counties of Wicklow and Carlow containing information collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey, 1838-1840 / Wicklow and Carlow. Dublin: Fourmasters Press, 2013.
DA 990 .W6 O73 2013

John Keane. Hidden Kilkenny: Knaves, knights and Norman abbots. Cork: Mercier, 2013.
DA 995 .K48 K43 2013

Brian Lacey. Medieval and monastic Derry: Sixth century to 1600. Dublin: Four Courts, 2013.
DA 995 .L75 L34 2013

Jarlath Glynn. Wexford then and now. Dublin: History Press, 2013.
DA 995 .W49 G59 2013

The Hesburgh Library is home to a great collection of maps of Ireland, the collection of the late Mr. Thomas McGrath, which he gave to the Library over twenty years ago.  He gave a lecture on the occasion of donating his collection, and the text of his lecture, along with illustrations, is on the Rare Books website: The Joy of the Chase: Collecting old Irish Maps.

It would be nice to see the maps used more often for teaching and research, and so we plan to improve the cataloging of these maps over the coming year, and also to investigate digitization.

A New and Correct Chart of the Harbour of Corke by the Revd. J. Lindsay, 1759.

Mr. McGrath’s collection included sea charts, which he gave to the library as a separate collection, named the Butler Collection of Sea Charts in honor of his wife’s family.

In addition to the McGrath and Butler Collections, there are many maps of Ireland in books in the Hesburgh Special Collections.  Examples:

Main page of Dúchas website.

Ireland’s National Folklore Collection has just launched the first phase of a large digital program. The website, Dúchas.ie, has digital images from the Schools Collection, a nation-wide project carried out from 1937 to 1939 in which schoolchildren recorded oral history, folk tales, legends, information on games, customs, trades and crafts and more. 288,000 pages of student’s notebooks are now part of the National Folklore Collection.  (More information on Dúchas.)

While many features are under construction, we may view a list of places in counties Dublin, Donegal, Mayo and Waterford, select placenames and view the notebooks of collected folklore.  I plan to spend hours of the Christmas break reading through these notebooks and looking for treasure.

Here is an example from Mayo:

ARCHIVAL REFERENCE

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 10

The informant is Mrs. McGee of Balla, and the teacher is Katie M. Walker, Balla, Co. Mayo.

It is the story of a woman who became unable to produce any butter no matter how long she churned.  The priest prayed as she was churning and eventually the butter thief turned up screaming outside the door.  The story provides background for the custom where visitors to a house are expected to take a turn with the churn.

A number of the collections from Co. Donegal are in Irish.  As most students today are not familiar with the script or spellings used in the early 20th century, they will need assistance.  Perhaps some of the content will eventually be available in transcription and I wonder if that transcription would also change the spellings to the standardized spellings that we use today? 

This page is from the following:

ARCHIVAL REFERENCE

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1055, Page 34

The website provides the Archival Reference below each page image, and the name of both the collector, in this case the student, and the informant, normally an older person who shared a story or account with the student, are listed beside the page image.

It would be helpful to have precise instructions on how to cite items from this collection as I expect students will want to use them for their essays.  Information also on where to seek permission to use, especially for publication, material in the collection.  I have no doubt that this information will be forthcoming.

I will be very interested to hear how others use this collection and also comments you have on the website.

Gabhaim comhgháirdeas leis an bhfoireann a chuir an áis iontach seo ar fáil, agus beidh mé an-sásta é a thaispeáint do mhicléinn atá ag déanamh taighde sa bhéaloideas.  That is to say, congratulations to the team who made this available!

The exhibit of Irish children’s books is now in the Rare Books Room, and will be there until mid-December.  A number of classes have already visited and had tours of the exhibit.

Artwork by Sara Weber uses Rosamond Praeger’s Further Doings of Three Bold Babes for the poster image and also for background.

Researching for this exhibit was helped considerably by the assistance of Rebecca Rossi, who worked as an intern during the summer.

Diane Sikorski and Liz Dube provided all the conservation and exhibit-mounting support.  We are lucky to have an excellent conservation lab at the Hesburgh Libraries.

In addition to the Exhibit Committee at the Department of Rare Books, the Hesburgh Libraries’ new Director of Communications and Marketing, Tara O’Leary, is helping to make our exhibits much more visible to the campus community.

A selection of books that arrived in the past month.   Look out for them as they hit the shelves, or speed up the process by requesting a book.

The Structure of modern Irish/ Brian Nolan.  Equinox, 2012.

New perspectives on Irish English/ ed. Bettina Migge, Máire Ní Chiosáin.  John Benjamins, 2012.

Ex-combatants, religion and peace in Northern Ireland: the role of religion in transitional justice/ John Brewer, David Mitchell, Gerard Leavey.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Negotiating insanity in the Southeast of Ireland, 1820-1900 / Catherine Cox.  Manchester University Press.

Irish/ness is all around us: language revivalism and the culture of ethnic identity in Northern Ireland.  Berghahn Books, 2013.

Policing for peace in Northern Ireland: change, conflict and community confidence/ Joanne Murphy.

Template for peace: Northern Ireland, 1972-75/ Shaun McDaid.  Manchester University Press, 2013.

The Clarissa von Ranke letters and the Ranke-Graves correspondence, 1843-1886.  Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Histories, memories and representations of famine in Ukraine and Ireland.  Anthem, 2012.

‘Natural leaders’ and their world: politics, culture and society in Belfast, c. 1801-31.  Liverpool University Press, 2012.

Up the Republic! Towards a new Ireland /edited by Fintan O’Toole.  Faber, 2012.

Leabhar mór na nAmhrán / Lochlainn Ó Tuairisg, Mícheál Ó Conghaile, Peadar Ó Ceannabháin.  Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2013.

The ethics of love: an essay on James Joyce/ Benjamin Boysen.  University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013.

Seamus Heaney and East European poetry in translation: poetics of exile/ Carmen Bugan. Modern Humanities Research Association, 2013.

James Joyce/ editor, Albert Wachtel.

Dhá chlog ag bualadh: Dánta /Louis Mulcahy.  An Sagart, 2012.

Language, learning and teaching: Irish research perspective.

Irish women in medicine, c. 1880s-1920s: origins, education and careers / Laura Kelly. Manchester University Press.

Art in Ireland since 1910/ Fiona Barber.

1916, what the people saw/ selected and edited by Mick O’Farrell.  Mercier, 2013.

The writings of Ivor Browne: Steps along the road, the evolution of a slow learner.  Atrium, 2012.

Mary Tighe/ Miranda O’Connell.  Somerville Press, 2013.

Translation right or wrong/ Susana Bayó Belenguer, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin.

Roderick O’Flaherty’s letters: to William Molyneux, Edward Lhwyd, and Samuel Molyneux 1696-1709.

Boy republic: Patrick Pearse and the weapon of education/ Brendan Walsh.

Mary Lavin / editor, Elke D’Hoker. Foreword by Colm Tóibín.  Irish Academic Press, 2013.

Galway Bay folk dales/ Rab Swannock Fulton.

The leaving of Loughrea: an Irish family in the Great Famine/ Stephen Lally.

Some light reading & a song/ John Liddy.   Lapwing, 2012.

Howl: the silent movie/ Peter Pegnall.  Lapwing, 2013.

Brendan Kennelly.  Raglan, 2013.