Monographs etc.:
The Silence of Barbara Synge. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. 304pp.
[ISBN 0 - 7190 - 6278 - 0]
Roger Casement in Death; Or, Haunting the Free State. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2002. 240pp.
[ISBN 1 - 900621 - 77 - 0]
Fool of the Family; A Life of J. M. Synge. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New York: New York University Press, 2000. 500pp.
[ISBN 0 - 297 - 64612 - 5]
Sheridan Le Fanu. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1997. 324pp. [ISBN O - 7509 - 1489 - 0].
The Pamphlet Debate on the Union between Great Britain and Ireland 1797 to 1800. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996. 126pp.
[ISBN 0 - 7165 - 2568 - 2]
From Burke to Beckett; Tradition and Betrayal in Literary History. Cork: Cork University Press, 1994. 470pp.
[ISBN 0 - 902561 - 94 - 4]
The Dublin Paper War of 1786-1788; a Bibliographical and Critical Inquiry. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993. 168pp.
[ISBN 0 - 7165 - 2505 - 4]
Dissolute Characters; Irish Literary History through Balzac, Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993, 256pp.
[ISBN 0 7190 - 3962 - 2]
Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland (2nd expanded ed.), Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1991, 324pp.
[ISBN 0 - 946640 - 69 - 6].
The Battle of the Books; Two Decades of Irish Cultural Debate. Mullingar: Lilliput Press, 1986, 96pp.
[ISBN 0 - 946640 - 13 - 0]
Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985, 424pp.
[ISBN 0 19 812806 1]
Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, 310pp., illust.
[ISBN 0 19 812629 8].
Poetry Edited by Mc Cormack/Maxton
Ferocious Humanism: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Before Swift to Yeats and After. London: Dent; New York: New York University Press, 2000. 356pp.
[ISBN 0 - 46087675 - 9]
Selected Poems of Austin Clarke (with corrections). London: Penguin, 1992. 280pp.
Selected Poems of Austin Clarke. Dublin: Lilliput Press; Winston-Salem (N. Carolina); Wake Forest University Press, 1991, 280pp.
Other Literary Texts (Edited/introduced)
Plays Pleasant, by Bernard Shaw. London: Penguin, 2003. (Introduction 'Laughter and After', pp. vii-xiv). 2nd impression, November 2004.
[ISBN 0 - 140 - 43794 - 0]
Phineas Finn, by Anthony Trollope. London: Everyman, 1997.
[ISBN 0 460 87497]
La Vendee, by Anthony Trollope, Oxford: Worlds Classics, 1994.
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Gen. Ed., Seamus Deane) London: Faber, 1991. - vol 1 pp. 1011-1052 ('Maria Edgeworth'); pp. 1070-1172 ('Language, Class and Genre 1780-1830'); pp. 1173-1300 ('The Intellectual Revival of the 1830s and '40s'); - vol 2 pp. 831-949 ('Irish Gothicism, its Finer Legacy, 1820-1945').
Ormond, by Maria Edgeworth. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1990.
In a Glass Darkly, by Sheridan Le Fanu. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1990.
Memoirs of a Wild Goose, by Charles Bewley. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1989.
The Absentee, by Maria Edgeworth, Oxford: World's Classics, 1988. (With Kim Walker).
Borrhomeo the Astrologer, by Sheridan Le Fanu. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1985.
The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope. Oxford: World's Classics, 1983.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys, by Anthony Trollope. Oxford: World's Classics, 1982. (Introduction by William Trevor).
[ISBN 0 19 281577 6]
Uncle Silas, by Sheridan Le Fanu, Oxford: World's Classics, 1981. [ISBN 0 -19 281541]
Collections of Essays and Other Edited Works:
The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture (revised and extended paperback ed.). Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 700pp.
(Consulting editor to, and formerly co- general editor of) The Works of Maria Edgeworth (general editors, Marilyn Butler and Mitzi Myers).London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999-2003. 12 vols. [ISBN 1 851961860]
(General Editor), The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1998. 686pp. [ISBN 0 631 16525 8]
In the Prison of his Days; a Miscellany for Nelson Mandela on his Seventieth Birthday. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1988, 96pp. [ISBN 0 - 946640 - 33 -5]
(as a team member) 'The Dublin University Magazine 1833-1877' [attributions], in Walter E. Houghton (ed.), The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. vol 4 pp. 193-363.
(with A. J. Stead), James Joyce and Modern Literature. London: Routledge, 1982. 222pp. [ISBN 0 - 7100 - 9058 7]
A Festschrift for Francis Stuart on his Seventieth Birthday. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1972. 64pp. [ISBN 85105 - 224 X]
Articles and Contributions to Books etc.
(A select list, omitting items later subsumed into longer work, and omitting also some short pieces in art history.)
Never Give All the Heart. Introduction to Oliver MacDonagh, Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath (2nd ed.) Dublin: University College Press, 2003. pp. vii-xvii.
Dr W. J. Maloney, MC, of Edinburgh, Gallipoli and New York. [In] Davis Coakley and Mary O'Doherty (eds.), Borderlands: Essays in Literature and Medicine in Honour of JB Lyons. Dublin: Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, 2002. pp. 44-59.
Some Versions of Progress Under the Union, With Special Reference to Robert Owen in the 1820s. [In] Bruce Stewart (ed.), Hearts and Minds: Irish Culture and Society under the Act of Union. Gerrards Cross: Smythe, 2002. pp. 90-97.
Haunted Realism: Beckett Through Fontane. [In] Patricia Howe and Helen Chambers (eds), Theodor Fontane and the European Context. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. pp. 181-196.
John Millington Synge (1871-1909): 'The Well of the Saints': Synge and De-Sacralization. In Janis & Richard Londraville (eds.) John Quinn: Selected Irish Writers from his Library. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001. pp. 307-323.
Joseph O'Neill (1886-1953) The Kingdom-Maker and its Author. In Janis & Richard Londraville (eds.) John Quinn: Selected Irish Writers from his Library. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001. pp. 271-281.
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan - The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (third edition, ed. Joanne Shattock). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Between Burke and the Union: Reflections on PRO: CO 904/2. In John Whale (ed.), Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. pp. 60- 93.
Introduction [In] The Irish Parliamentary Register, 1782-1797. [Fascimile reprint] Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999. 17 vols (see vol 1 pp v-xi). [ISBN 1 85506 637 8]
Wilde and Parnell. [In] Jerusha Mc Cormack (ed) Wilde the Irishman. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1998. pp. 95-102.
Irish Gothic. [In] Marie Mulvey-Roberts (ed.) The Handbook to Gothic Literature. London: Macmillan, 1998. pp. 135-137.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu. [In] Marie Mulvey-Roberts (ed.) The Handbook to Gothic Literature. London: Macmillan, 1998. pp. 145-146.
'Fallings from us, vanishings ...Or, How I Didn't Get to Where I am Today; an Inaugural Lecture Given. . . 18 March 1997. London: Goldsmiths College, 1999. 18pp. (ISBN 0 - 902 - 986 - 34 -1]
The 'Plymouth' Brethren? Prologomena to the Re-writing of J. M. Synge's Biography. [In] 'The Endless Knot: Literature and Religion in Ireland' (a special issue of Religion and Literature, vol 28 nos 2-3, summer-autumn 1996) pp. 83-96.
'Never Put Your Name to an Anonymous Letter': Serial Reading in The Dublin University Magazine, 1861 to 1869. [In]The Year Book of English Studies vol 26 (1996) pp. 100-115.
Convergent Criticism; The 'Biographia Literaria' of Vivian Mercier and the State of Irish Literary History. Bullán (Oxford) vol 2 no. 1 (Summer 1995) pp.79-100.
Austin Clarke: The Poet as Scapegoat of Modernism. [In] Patricia Coughlan and Alex Davis (eds.) Modernism and Ireland: the Poetry of the 1930s. Cork: Cork University Press, 1995. pp. 75-102.
(with N. F. Lowe) Jonathan Swift as Publisher of Sir William Temple's Correspondence. [In] Swift Studies vol 8 (1993) pp. 45-57.
Edmund Burke, his Image in Painting and Literature [and also] Men of the West [Douglas Hyde, J. M. Synge, and Mairtín Ó Cadhain] [In] Treasures of the Mind (ed. David Scott), London: Sothebys, 1992, pp. 119-125, 127-134.
Samuel Beckett and the Negro Anthology. [In] Hermathena (September 1992) pp. 73-92.
In Piam Memoriam Agnes Nemes Nagy (1922-1991), with two poems translated by Hugh Maxton. New Hungarian Quarterly. No. 124 (Winter 1991), pp. 23-30.
The Tedium of History: an Approach to Maria Edgeworth's Patronage. [In] Ciaran Brady (ed.) Ideology and the Historians; Papers Read to the 19th Irish Conference of Historians, Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1991, pp. 77-98.
Ideology and Setting, with Special Reference to the Fiction of Maria Edgeworth. [In] Otto Rauchbauer (ed.) Ancestral Voices: The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1991. pp. 33-60.
Seamus Heaney and the Business of Culture, Text and Context (1990) pp. 23-33.
Flavius Arrianus in Maria Edgeworth's Patronage, a Case of Nominalist Allusion, Historical and Literary Review (Dublin) no. 1 (1991) pp. 1-4.
Eighteenth-century Protestant Ascendancy; Yeats and the Historians, Eighteenth-Century Ireland vol 4 (1989) pp. 159-181.
French Revolution. . . Anglo-Irish Literature. . . Beginnings? The Case of Maria Edgeworth. [In] Hugh Gough and David Dickson (eds.) Ireland and the French Revolution, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990, pp. 229-243.
James Joyce, Cliche, and the Irish Language. [In] Bernard Benstock (ed.) James Joyce; the Augmented Ninth; Proceedings of the Ninth James Joyce Symposium. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1989. pp. 323-336.
Isaac Butt and the Inner Failure of Protestant Home Rule. [In] Ciaran Brady (ed.) Worsted in the Game; Losers in Irish History, Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1989, pp. 121-131.
Yeats and Modernisation. Linen Hall Review, vol 5 no. 4 (1988) pp. 4-7.
Finnegans Wake and Irish Literary History. [In] Joris Duytschaever and Geert Lernout (eds.) History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Literature, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988, pp. 111-135.
Thomas Orde and Some Dublin Printing Jobs, 1787. Long Room no 33 (1988) pp. 17-19.
Vision and Revision in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Irish Parliamentary Rhetoric. Eighteenth-Century Ireland vol 2 (1987) pp. 7-37.
Seeing Darkly: Notes on T. W. Adorno and Samuel Beckett. Hermathena no 141 (1986) pp. 22-44.
On Gulliver's Travels. [In] Jeremy Hawthorn (ed.) Narrative from Malory to Motion Pictures, London: Edward Arnold, 1985, pp. 70-84.
'The Protestant Strain'; Or, a Short History of Anglo-Irish Literature from Coleridge to Thomas Mann. [In] Gerard Dawe and Edna Longley (eds.) Across a Roaring Hill; Essays in Honour of John Hewitt, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1985, pp. 48-78.
Goldsmith, Biography, and the Phenomenology of Anglo-Irish Literature. [In] Andrew Swarbrick (ed.) The Art of Oliver Goldsmith, London: Vision Press, 1984, pp. 168-194.
Sean O'Casey's Unpublished Correspondence with Raissa Lomonosova, 1925-26. Irish Slavonic Studies, no 5 (1984) pp 181-191. (With R. Davies).
Sons and Fathers: W. B. Yeats and a Problem in Modernism. [In] U. Dutta (ed.) Unageing Intellect: Essays on W. B. Yeats, Delhi: Doaba House, 1983, pp.14-29.
The Genesis of Protestant Ascendancy. [In] Francis Barker et al (eds.) 1789: Reading, Writing, Revolution. Chelmsford: University of Essex Press, 1980. pp. 302-323.
James Joyce's 'Eveline' and a Problem in Modernism. [In] Dorothea Siegmund Schultze (ed.) Irland: Gesellschaft und Kultur III. Halle: MartinLuther-Universitat, 1982. pp. 252-264.
Yeats's 'Purgatory': a Play and a Tradition. Crane Bag vol 3 no 2 (1979) pp. 33-44.
Yeats and a New Tradition. Crane Bag vol 3 no 1 (1978) pp. 30-40. {Reprinted in David Pierce (ed) WB Yeats: Critical Assessments. Mountfield: Helm, 2000. vol 3 pp. 496-510.}
J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Richard Marston' (1848): the History of an AngloIrish Text. [In] Francis Barker et. al. eds.) 1848: the Sociology of Literature. Colchester: University of Essex, 1978. pp. 107-125.
Francis Stuart, the Recent Fiction. [In] Patrick Rafroidi and Terence Brown (eds.) The Irish Novel in Our Time, Lille: Universite de Lille, 1976, pp. 175183.
'Flaggers' in Maria Edgeworth's Absentee. Notes and Queries (n.s.) vol 23 no 10 (October 1976) p. 453.
A Manuscript Letter from Michael Banim. Hermathena no 117 (1974) pp. 37-38.
Sylvester O'Halloran and Maria Edgeworth's Absentee. Long Room no 9 (1974) p. 41.
The Absentee and Maria Edgeworth's Notion of Didactic Fiction. Atlantis no 5 (1973) pp. 123-135.
J. S. Le Fanu: Letters to William Blackwood and John Forster. Long Room no. 8 (1973) pp. 29-36.
Swedenborgianism as Structure in Le Fanu's Uncle Silas. Long Room no 6 (1972) pp. 23-29.
Straight Lines Becoming Circles; the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Acorn no. 17 (1972) pp. 29-33, 39-43.
Mairtín Ó Cadhain as Folklorist: a Bibliographical Note. Hermathena no 113 (1972) pp. 35-39.
Francis Stuart, a Checklist and Commentary. Long Room no 3 (1971) pp. 38-49.
A Preliminary Checklist of the Separate Publications of Mairtin 0 Cadhain. Long Room no 2 (1970) pp. 7-9.
Some related activities
Prepared a libretto (based on a text by W. B. Yeats) for an opera by John Buckley, first performed in October 1991 (Dublin, Belfast, Wexford Festival etc.) Second production, London (Covent Garden) May 1993.
Prepared the catalogue entry for Blue Funk, the Irish participants in the Sonsbeek 93 International Art Exhibition (Arnhem June 1993.)
Wrote the catalogue essay - 'Negative Powers' - for the four-person exhibition, Alchemy, 1993.
Took part in a day-long Hungarian TV series of programmes on Irish culture, February 1995.
Represented Ireland at the Coimbra International Poetry Festival May 1995.
Wrote exhibition notes to 'Ferenc Martyn: Ulysses', for the exhibition displayed during the Millennium James Joyce International Symposium, June 2000.
'Verse and Prose to Concern the Damaged Art of Margaret Fitzgibbon' issued to mark the installation of Fitzgibbon's 'Hortus Conclusus' at the Crawford Gallery, Cork, October 2002.
'The Spanish Arch'; programme note for the Abbey Theatre's production of F. G. Lorca's 'The House of Bernarda Alba (trans. Sebastian Barry), May 2003.
'Synge and the Nineteenth Century'; programme note for the Abbey Theatre's production of 'The Playboy of the Western World' summer 2004.