It is impossible to credit all the sources that have contributed to these essays. The following books provided rich material. In addition to the titles listed here, I am deeply indebted to the Online Publications of the Clare County Library, Ennis, and to the work of CLASP—The Clare Local Areas Studies Project.
Ardagh, John, Ireland and the Irish, Portrait of a Changing Society. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Brodsky, Joseph, Collected Poems in English. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2002.
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Chuilleanain, Eilean Ni, The Brazen Serpent. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1995.
Clune, Rev. G., The Little Ark. Published by the Church of Moneen, Kilbaha, Co., Clare, Ireland, 1990.
Coogan, Tim Pat, Wherever Green Is Worn—The Story of the Irish Diaspora. London: Hutchinson, 2000.
Cozzen, Donald B., The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection of the Priest’s Crisis of Soul. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2000.
Craig, Patricia, ed., The Oxford Book of Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Crealey, Aidan H., An Irish Almanac. Cork and Dublin: Mercier Press, 1993.
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Dinan, Brian, Clare and Its People: A Concise History. Cork and Dublin: Mercier Press, 1987.
Dutton, Hely, Statistical Survey of the County of Clare. Ennis: Online Publication of CLASP Press, 2001.
FitzGerald, M. Ashe, Thomas Johnson Westropp (1860–1922): An Irish Antiquary. Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin, 2000.
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———, W. B. Yeats—A Life: Vol. II, The Arch-Poet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Heaney, Seamus, Electric Light. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001.
———, Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971–2001. London: Faber and Faber, 2002.
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———, Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1980.
Heffernan, Michael, Love’s Answer. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994.
———, The Cry of Oliver Hardy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979.
———, To the Wreakers of Havoc. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
Hogan, Michael, The Lays and Legends of Thomond. Limerick: City Printing, 1924.
Kenny, Mary, Goodbye to Catholic Ireland. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1997.
Killen, John, ed., The Famine Decade: Contemporary Accounts 1841–1851, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1995.
Kissane, Noel, The Irish Famine—A Documentary History. Dublin: The National Library of Ireland, 1995.
Knott, Mary John, Two Months at Kilkee—Co. Clare, 1836. Ennis: CLASP Press, 1997.
Laxton, Edward, The Famine Ships—The Irish Exodus to America 1846–1851. London: Bloomsbury, 1996.
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Murphy, Ignatius, A People Starved: Life and Death in West Clare 1845–1851. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996.
———, Before the Famine Struck: Life in West Clare 1834–1845. Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996.
Murphy, Paul, Do You Think You’ll Like the Wind? Cork: The Collins Press, 1995.
O’Brien, Flann, Myles Away from Dublin. London: Flamingo, 1993.
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O’Donohue, John, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom. New York: Cliff Street Books, 1997.
O’Donovan, John, Eugene Curry, The Antiquities of County Clare: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Ennis: CLASP Press, 1997.
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Poirteir, Catl, ed., The Great Irish Famine. Dublin: RTE/Mercier Press, 1995.
Poverty Before the Famine, County Clare 1835. Ennis: CLASP Press, 1996.
Power, Samantha, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Perennial, 2003.
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