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Known as LibrarySearch, this interdisciplinary database is UofT's largest--and your best bet when more focused databases let you down. It combs through more than 1,200 databases, journal packages, e-book collections, and other resources ranging from the sciences to the social sciences and humanities. At its best, LibrarySearch finds relevant results you won't find elsewhere; at its worst, however, LibrarySearch can overwhelm you will a mish-mash of results from different subject areas.
The MLA is the major English literature database. It covers criticism related to literature, linguistics and folklore from 1921 to the present, and contains more than 1-million citations to journal articles, series, books, working papers and conference proceedings. Most of the materials indexed before 1963 are American.
Looking for articles, books or essays? This article database, covering from 1920 to the present, is one of the most important resources available. Packed with more than 840,000 records, ABELL refers you to journal articles, books, essay collections, book reviews, and doctoral dissertations. Another advantage is scope. Covering American, British and Commonwealth literature, as well as some material in languages besides English, ABELL is one of the two key indices for literature students--the other is the MLA International Bibliography.
Bibliography of British & Irish History (BBIH)
Heaney, Seamus. North. Faber & Faber, 1992.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Project Gutenberg, 2021 [First published 1916].
Attridge, Derek. How to Read Joyce. Granta Books, 2007. In Print Only.
Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill. Anne Enright. Irish Academic Press, 2011. In Print Only.
Brewster, Scott, and Michael Parker, editors. Irish Literature since 1990: Diverse Voices. Manchester University Press, 2011.
Cahill, Susan. Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years, 1990 to 2008. Continuum, 2011.
De Paor, Louis, Ed. Leabhar na hAthghabhála / Poems of repossession: 20th-century poems in Irish. Bloodaxe Books, 2016.
D’hoker, Elke. Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story. Springer, 2016.
Enright, Anne. No Authority: Writings from the Laureateship. University College Dublin Press, 2019. In Print Only.
González-Arias, Luz Mar, editor. National Identities and Imperfections in Contemporary Irish Literature: Unbecoming Irishness. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017.
Harte, LIam. Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel, 1987-2007. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Levin, Harry. James Joyce: A Critical Introduction. New Directions, 1941. Available on the Internet Archive with free registration.
McCourt, John, editor. James Joyce in Context. Cambridge UP, 2009.
McWilliams, Ellen. Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013.
Mianowski, Marie. Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction. Routledge, 2017.
O Cadhain, Mairtin, and Alan Titley. The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille. Yale University Press, 2015.
Smyth, Gerry. The Judas Kiss: Treason and Betrayal in Six Modern Irish Novels. Manchester University Press, 2015.
Tracy, Tony, and Michaela Schrage-Früh, editors. Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture. Routledge, 2022.
Campbell, J.F. The Celtic Dragon Myth. Routledge, 2013.
Cunliffe, Barry W. The Celts: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford UP, 2003.
Dooley, Ann, Jacqueline Borsje, Séamus Mac Mathúna, and Gregory Toner. Celtic Cosmology: Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2014.
Frehan, Pádraic. Education and Celtic Myth: National Self-Image and Schoolbooks in 20th Century Ireland. Rodopi, 2012.
Haywood, John. The Celts: Bronze Age to New Age. Routledge, 2014.
MLA Handbook
MLA Works Cited Citation Examples Chapter 4: Documenting Sources Chapter 5: The List of Works Cited
Chapter 6: Citing Sources in the Text
MLA Style: Quick Guide - Purdue University
Twenty-First Century Irish Prose
Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Companion to Irish Literature [2-volume set]
Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
Cambridge Companion to James Joyce
Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel
Companion to James Joyce (Blackwell)
Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945-2000
Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction
Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry
Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800–2000
Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women’s Poetry
Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. By Peter Berresford Ellis. ABC-CLIO, 1992.
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. By James MacKillop. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Both online and in print, and containing more than 1,500 articles, this 5-volume set is the major encyclopedia for Celtic studies.
Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
This series provides detailed critical essays—often by well-known critics—on a wide range of authors. Works by anonymous authors (e.g. Táin Bó Cúailnge) are listed in the title section. Most essays are available online in Literature Criticism Online, a database comprising 10 print series and consisting of more than 250 volumes compiled over the past 30 years. Using this online collection, you can search individual series titles (e.g. Contemporary Literature Criticism) all together, in a selected combination, or individually. You can find articles on such topics as Irish nationalism in literature, the Irish novel, and the Irish literary renaissance. Arranged alphabetically, the entries provide in-depth critical essays on an author’s work, along with biographical facts, a list of major works, and related sources. Usually, the essays give an overview of a writer’s work or themes.
Oxford Companion to Irish History
With more than 9,000 articles on subjects ranging from politics, law, engineering, and religion to literature, painting, medicine, and sport, this encyclopedia is a key resource for Irish studies. The entries, written by established academics, contain bibliographies to guide students in further research. The 9-volume set is so detailed that you get thorough articles on a wide range of people, from internationally-famous figures such as the poet W.B. Yeats to lesser-known persons such as Denis Kilbride, a 19th Century agrarian campaigner and MP.