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A history of libraries in Britain and Ireland (forthcoming book). Library Review 45, 3 (1996): 50-4.

A rare Monaghan printing. Long Room, 40 (1995): 18.

Bibliophile's diary number seven. Long Room, 40 (1995): 7-15.

Bloomfield, Barry. A directory of rare books and special collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. London: Library Association, 1995.672p. ISBN 1 856040631

Bloomfield, B.C. The revision of the Directory of rare books and special collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Library Review 44, 6 (1995): 23-7.

Brown, Barbara Traxler. Continental travel memoirs: a source for the provincial book trade? In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 6-22. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish saved civilization: the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe. New York: Doubleday, 1995.x,246p. ISBN 0385418485

Cains, Anthony. Summary of Anthony G. Cains report on the preparation of the Ellesmere Manuscript for the new facsimile, the repair (and the history of repair) of the manuscript and its rebinding. In Ellesmere Chaucer: essays in interpretation. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1995.ISBN 0873281500

Clare Local Studies Project. Poverty before the Famine: County Clare 1835. First report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring into the Conditions of the Poorer Classes in Ireland. Ennis, Co. Clare: CLASP Press, 1996.viii, 169p. ISBN 1 900545 01 2

Cloney, Sean. A 17th century mass book. The Past 19 (1995): 90-95.

Crawford, W.H. A Ballymena business in the late eighteenth century. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 23-33. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Crookes, Gearóid. The genesis of an archive: forty years of The Irish Builder, 1859-1899(including The Dublin Builder). PhD, UCD, 1994.

Cunningham, Bernadette. Irish language sources for early modern Ireland. History Ireland 4, 1 (1996): 44-48.

Dixon, Roger. Northern Ireland provincial press as a window to the past. Ulster Folklife 41 (1995): 42-51.

Dixon, Roger. 'By appointment to emperors': Marcus Ward and Company of Belfast. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 34-46. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Erskine, John. The Reverend Robert Magill: a bibliographical view, 1827-1828. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 213-41. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Faulkner, Anselm. Tóruidheacht na bhFiréun air lorg Chríosda(1762): the translator. In Dún Mhuire Killiney 1945-95: léann agus seanchas, edited by Benignus Millett, and Anthony Lynch, 127-134. Dublin: Lilliput Press in association with the Franciscans, Killiney, 1995.ISBN 1 874675 73 2

Fenning, Hugh. Cork imprints of Catholic historical interest 1723-1804. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 100 (1995): 129-148.

Fenning, Hugh. Cork imprints of Catholic historical interest 1805-1830: a provisional check-list (part2). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 101 (1996): 115-42.

Fenning, Hugh. The Catholic press in Munster in the eighteenth century. In Books beyond the Pale, aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Books Group seminar 1994, edited by Gerard Long, 19-31. Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, 1996.ISBN 0 946037 31 0

Finegan, Joanna. The role of the printed word in Drogheda up to 1815: a case study of print production and consumption in provincial Ireland. Co. Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 23, 2 (1994): 181-213.

Finegan, Joanna. Georgian Drogheda and the printed word. In Books beyond the Pale, aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Books Group seminar 1994, edited by Gerard Long, 33-50. Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, 1996.ISBN 0 946037 31 0

Friends help purchase first book in Irish type (Aibidil gaoidheilge & caiticiosma). Friends of the Library Trinity College Dublin Newsletter, 28 (1995): 1.

Froggatt, Peter. Two neglected Belfast medical professors: James Lawson(1783-1853) and James Drummond Marshall(1808-1868). In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 74-99. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Gailey, Alan. The Ulster poets and local life 1790-1870. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 159-74. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Gamble, John E. An introduction to the literature of travel in Ireland 1600-1900. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 47-58. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Gillespie, Raymond. The book trade in southern Ireland, 1590-1640. In Books beyond the Pale, aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Books Group seminar 1994, edited by Gerard Long, 1-17. Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, 1996.ISBN 0 946037 31 0

Gray, John and Wesley McCann, ed. An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.241p. ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Gray, John. A tale of two newspapers: the contest between the Belfast News-letter and the Northern Star in the 1790s. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 175-98. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Kennedy, Máire. The distribution of a locally-produced French periodical in provincial Ireland: the Magazin a la Mode, 1777-1778. Eighteenth-Century Ireland 9 (1994): 83-98.

Kennedy, Máire. The Encyclopédie in eighteenth-century Ireland. The Book Collector 45, 2 (1996): 201-13.

Killen, John. John Templeton, the Linen Hall Library and the preservation of Irish music. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 199-212. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Kinane, Vincent. The early book trades in Galway. In Books beyond the Pale, aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Books Group seminar 1994, edited by Gerard Long, 51-73. Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, 1996.ISBN 0 946037 31 0

Kissane, Noel. The Irish famine: a documentary history. Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 1995.viii,184p. ISBN 0 907328 24 5

Lange, Thomas V. The decorated bookbindings of Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart. Long Room, 40 (1995): 41-47.

Long, Gerard, ed. Books beyond the Pale, aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Books Group seminar 1994. Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, 1996.xiii, 154p. ISBN 0 946037 31 0

McCann, Wesley. The distribution of books from Belfast: the evidence of subscription lists. In Books beyond the Pale, aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Books Group seminar 1994, edited by Gerard Long, 75-85. Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, 1996.ISBN 0 946037 31 0

McCarthy, J.P. In search of Cork's collecting tradition: from Kilcrea's Library to the Boole Library of today. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 100 (1995): 29-46.

Mc Cormack, W.J. The pamphlet debate on the union between Great Britain and Ireland, 1797-1800. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996.116p. ISBN 0 7165 2568 2

McGuinne, Dermot. The Newman Irish printing type of the Catholic University. Studies 83, 329 (1994): 80-87.

McGuinne, Dermot. Irish types in the USA. Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 88, 2 (1994): 227-234.

McGuinne, Dermot. The Moxon Irish type of 1680. Printing Historical Society Bulletin 37, Summer (1994): 1-7.

Mac Lochlainn, Alf. Jesuit printing and binding in Kilkenny, 1648. Long Room, 40 (1995): 19-25.

Mac Raghnaill, Fearghal. Teagasc Críostaí Uí Eoghasa. In Dún Mhuire Killiney 1945-95: léann agus seanchas, edited by Benignus Millett, and Anthony Lynch, 95-100. Dublin: Lilliput Press in association with the Franciscans, Killiney, 1995.ISBN 1 874675 73 2

Maguire, W.A. The Belfast Historic Society, 1811-1835. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 100-18. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Millett, Benignus and Anthony Lynch. Dún Mhuire Killiney 1945 -95: léann agus seanchas. Dublin: Lilliput Press in association with the Franciscans, Killiney, 1995.xiii, 238p. ISBN 1 874675 73 2

Nelson, Charles E. Mount Usher, County Wicklow: its story in two books. Long Room, 40 (1995): 54-56.

Ó Ciosáin, Niall. Printing in Irish and Ó Súilleabháin's Pious miscellany. In Books beyond the Pale, aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Books Group seminar 1994, edited by Gerard Long, 87-99. Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, 1996.ISBN 0 946037 31 0

Ó Cuív, Brian. Scríbhinní Gaeilge na mBráthar Mionúr. In Dún Mhuire Killiney 1945-95: léann agus seanchas, edited by Benignus Millett, and Anthony Lynch, 8-13. Dublin: Lilliput Press in association with the Franciscans, Killiney, 1995.ISBN 1 874675 73 2

O'Malley, Mairín. Millennium-old craft preserves literary heritage. Irish Printer June (1996): 20-3.

Parkhill, Trevor. Between revolution and famine: patterns of emigration from Ulster 1776-1845. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 59-73. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Ó Maonaigh, Cainneach. Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge oird San Froinsias. In Dún Mhuire Killiney 1945-95: léann agus seanchas, edited by Benignus Millett, and Anthony Lynch, 37-56. Dublin: Lilliput Press in association with the Franciscans, Killiney, 1995.ISBN 1 874675 73 2

O Neill, Robert. Preserving Ireland's cultural heritage: the John J. Burns Library, Boston College. Biblio 1, 1 (1996): ??

Ó Súilleabháin, Pádraig. Leabhair urnaithe an ochtú haois déag. In Dún Mhuire Killiney 1945-95: léann agus seanchas, edited by Benignus Millett, and Anthony Lynch, 57-60. Dublin: Lilliput Press in association with the Franciscans, Killiney, 1995.ISBN 1 874675 73 2

Some signed 19th-century bookbinders' tools. Long Room, 40 (1995): 16-17

Trimble, Joan. A ninteenth-century printer: William Trimble of Enniskillen and his newspaper The Impartial Reporter. Long Room, 40 (1995): 35-40.

Walker, B.M. Country letters: some correspondence of Ulster poets of the nineteenth century. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 119-39. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Wallis, Helen and Anita McConnell, ed. Historian's guide to early British maps: a guide to the location of pre-1900 maps of the British Isles preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Cambridge: University Press, 1995.480p. ISBN 0 521 55152 8

Walsh, Martin. Irish War and Honesty: two rare periodicals of the 1916 period. Long Room, 40 (1995): 48-53.

Wheeler, Gordon. Bishop Francis Hutchinson: his Irish publications and his library. In An uncommon bookman: essays in memory of J.R.R. Adams, edited by John Gray, and Wesley McCann, 140-158. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1996.ISBN 1 900921 00 6

Whelan, Kevin. The Republic in the Village: the dissemination and reception of popular political literature in the 1790s. In Books beyond the Pale, aspects of the provincial book trade in Ireland before 1850: proceedings of the Rare Books Group seminar 1994, edited by Gerard Long, 101-40. Dublin: Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, 1996.ISBN 0 946037 31 0

Zachs, William. John Murray and the Dublin book trade 1770-93, with special reference to the 'mysterious' Society of Dublin Booksellers. Long Room, 40 (1995): 26-33.