Reference Books: The following books are in the Reference Area of the Hesburgh Library. They are all non-circulating, which means they may be used in the library, but may not be borrowed. The Reference Area is on the first floor, to the right of the Information Desk.
Administration Yearbook and Diary. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration. AY 774 .A238 (earlier editions on regular bookshelves and may be borrowed).
Atlas of Ireland / Royal Irish Academy; prepared under the direction of the Irish National Committee for Geography. Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, 1979. Atlas Oversize Cases G 1830 .R69 1979
The Cambridge History of Irish Literature / edited by Margaret Kelleher and Philip O'Leary. PB 1306 .C36 2006 Also online in Cambridge Histories Online.
The encyclopaedia of Ireland / Brian Lalor, general editor. Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2003.DA 906 .E52 2003
The Oxford companion to Irish history / edited by S.J. Connolly. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. DA 910 .O935 2002
The Cambridge historical encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland / editor, Christopher Haigh. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985. DA 34 .C28 1985
The concise Oxford companion to Irish literature / edited by Robert Welch. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. PR 8706 .C66 2000
Conflict in Northern Ireland : an encyclopedia / Sydney Elliott & W.D. Flackes. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1999. DA 990 .U46 E44 1999
Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations: parties, groups, and movements of the twentieth century / Peter Barberis ... [et al.]. New York : Pinter, 2000. DA 566.7 .E53 2000
The encyclopedia of Ireland: an A-Z guide to its people, places, history, and culture / Ciaran Brady, general editor.New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.DA 906 .E53 2000
Historical dictionary of Ireland / Colin Thomas, Avril Thomas. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997. DA 910 .T39 1997
Ireland : a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present / John P. McCarthy. New York: Facts On File, c2006. DA 911 .M34 2006
The Lore of Ireland: An encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance / Dáithí Ó hÓgáin. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2006. GR 153.5 O15555 2006
Northern Ireland, a political directory, 1968-1999 / Sydney Elliott & W. D. Flackes. Belfast : Blackstaff Press, 1999. DA 990 .U46 E455 1999
The Oxford book of Ireland / edited by Patricia Craig. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. PR 8835 .O95 1998
The Oxford illustrated history of Ireland / edited by R.F. Foster. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. DA 910 .O94 1989