"...Never while you breathe give up"

J.P. Donleavy from JP Donleavy's Ireland
Trinity College, Dublin - one of the institutions of higher learning interested in acquiring The J.P. Donleavy Archives.
The Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature

Robert Hogan, ed. - Macmillan & Co., 1980 | ISBN 0333270851

JPD included.
"Sex and Performance"

The Drama Review (TDR), Vol. 25, No.1, March 1981

JPD included.

Thesaurus of Book Digests

 Irving Weiss, ed. - Crown, 1981

JPD included.
"Developmental Recognition of Consumption Symbolism"

Russell W. Belk, Kenneth D. Bahn, Robert N. Mayer, eds. - The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 9, No.1, June, 1982, The University of Chicago Press

JPD included.

To purchase books by J.P. Donleavy, go to the Buyers' Guide.

Isolation and Protest: a Case Study of JP Donleavy's Fiction

 by R.K. Sharma - Ajanta Publications, Delhi, India, 1983
Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain, 1960 - 1982

by John Sutherland - Rowman & Littlefield, 1983

JPD included.

The Modern American Novel

 Malcolm Bradbury, ed. - Oxford University Press, 1984 - ISBN 0192890441

JPD and The Ginger Man included.
"The Satire of JP Donleavy's Ginger Man"

Patrick W. Shaw, ed., Studies in Contemporary Satire v.12, 1985
Contemporary Literary Criticism: Vol. 45

 Daniel G. Matuz, Roger Matuz, eds. - Gale Research Inc., Book Tower, Detroit, MI, 1987

JPD included.
Paracriticisms: Seven Speculations of the Times

by Ihab Hassan, ed. - University of Illinois Press, Feb. 1, 1987 - ISBN 025201166X

JPD included.
Re-Forming the Narrative: Toward a Mechanics of Modern Fiction

 David Hayman, ed. - Gale Research Inc., Book Tower, Detroit, MI, Dec., 1987

JPD included.
"From Heaven to Hell: Ireland in the Novels of J.P. Donleavy" by Donald E. Morse

Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World Vol. III: National Images and Stereotypes - Wolfgang Zach, Heinz Kosok, eds. - Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987

The Paris Olympia Press: An Annotated Bibliography

 by Patrick J. Kearney - Black Spring Press, London, 1987 - ISBN 094823802X

The Bible for scholars and collectors. Includes The Ginger Man by JPD.

Visit Patrick J. Kearney's site, "Scissors & Paste Bibliographies."

The Possibility of Weakness of Will

 By Robert Dunn - Hackett Publishing, 1987 - ISBN 0915145987

JPD and The Ginger Man included.

A Chronological Outline of American Literature

 Samuel J. Rogal, ed. - Greenwood Press, New York, 1988

Includes JPD.

Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs (2 vol. set)

 Jean-Charles Seigneuret, ed. - Greenwood Press, London - Nov. 29, 1988 - ISBN 0313263972

Includes JPD.
Performing Texts

Michael Isscharoff, Robin F. Johnes, eds. - University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988

JPD included.
The Traverse Theatre Story

by Joyce McMillan - Methuen Publishing Ltd., 1988

Production of JPD's Fairy Tales of New York included.
A Bibliography of the Publications of the New York Olympia Press

by Patrick J. Kearney - Privately Printed: Santa Rosa, California, 1988. 4to. pp. xxv+87.
A publication of Scissors & Paste Bibliographies.

Includes 3 Ophelia Press, NY (an imprint of Olympia Press) editions of The Ginger Man Many thanks to Patrick for providing details on this publication.

Visit Patrick J. Kearney's site, "Scissors & Paste Bibliographies." 

Encyclopedia of American Humorists

Steven H. Gale, ed. - Garland, 1988 - ISBN 0824086449

JPD included.
American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties

Vincent B. Leitch, ed. - Columbia University Press, 1988 - ISBN 0231064276

JPD included.
Essays on Canadian Writing #37

York University, Toronto, Ont., Spring, 1989

JPD included.
Reference Works in British and American Literature

James K. Bracken, James Rettig, eds. - Libraries Unlimited, July 15, 1989

JPD included in work.
The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism: Twentieth Century American Literature
Harold Bloom, S.T. Joshi, eds. - Chelsea House Publishing, December, 1989

Section on JPD.

Modern Irish-American Fiction: A Reader

Daniel J. Casey, Robert E. Rhodes, eds. - Syracuse University Press, Syracuse New York, 1989

Contains the short story version of "A Fairy Tale of New York," which first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, 1961.

Picnic in a Foreign Land: The Eccentric Lives of the Anglo-Irish

by Ann Morrow - Grafton, 1989 - ISBN 0246132043

JPD included.

The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews, ed. - Columbia University Press, 1989 - ISBN 0231069901

JPD quotes from The Ginger Man included.
Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer

 Julia Carlson, ed. - Article 19 Organization - Routledge, London, 1990

Section on JPD and The Ginger Man.
Technique in Fiction: Second Edition, Revised and Updated for a New Generation

Robbie Macauley, George Lanning, eds. - (Writer's Library Series) - St. Martin's Press, New York - September 15, 1990

JPD included.
The Columbia History of the American Novel
Emory Elliott, Cathy N. Davidson, Patrick O'Donnell, Valerie Smith, eds. - Columbia University Press - January, 1991 - ISBN 0231073607

Section on black humorists, includes JPD.
Critical survey of long fiction

Frank Northen Magill, ed. - Salem Press, Pasadena, CA, 1991 - ISBN 0893568252

JPD included.

"American Readings of JP Donleavy's The Ginger Man"

by Donald E. Morse, Eire-Ireland: a Journal of Irish Studies, v26, no. 3, 1991
Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion

Paul Hyland & Neil Sammells, eds. - St. Martins Press, New York, 1991 - ISBN 0312060793

JPD's section is called "Parables of Estrangements: The Fiction of J.P. Donleavy" 

A Dictionary of Literary Devices

by Bernard Dupriez (translated by Albert W. Halsall) - University of Toronto Press, 1991 - ISBN 0802068030

JPD included.

"Prospects of Power: Tragedy, Satire, the Essay, and the Theory of Genre"

by John Snyder, from The Modern Satiric Grotesque and Its Traditions - John R. Clark, ed. - University Press of Kentucky, 1991 - ISBN 0813117240

JPD included.

Sporting With the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture

by Michael Oriard - Cambridge University Press, 1991 - ISBN 052139113X

JPD included.
"The Beatific Vision: J.P. Donleavy and Jack Kerouac"

American Catholic Arts and Fictions. Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics. - Paul Giles ed.
Cambridge University Press, 1992
Modern Irish Literature and Culture: A Chronology

James M. Cahalan, ed. - G.K. Hall & Company, Dec., 1992 - ISBN: 0816172641

JPD included.
And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker

Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, eds. - St. Martin's Press, 1992 - ISBN 0312068972

JPD included.
Constructing Postmodernism

by Brian McHale - Taylor & Francis, Inc., Jan. 22, 1993 - cloth - ISBN 0415060133

JPD included.

The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations

Fred R. Shapiro, ed. - Oxford University Press, New York, 1993

Contains an excerpt from Donleavy's The Unexpurgated Code....

The Irish - A Treasury of Art and Literature

Leslie Conron, ed. - Hugh Lauter Levin Associates (distributed by Mcmillan), New York, 1993

JPD included.
The New Oxford Guide to Writing

Thomas S. Kane, ed. - Oxford University Press, April 1994 - 336 Pages - ISBN 0195090594

JPD section is very favorable regarding his style.
The Encyclopedia Americana

Bernhard S Cayne, ed. - Grolier, 1994 - ISBN 0717201120

JPD included in Black Humor section.
Understanding the Modern Short Story

Cornelsen Verlag GmbH+C, 1994 - ISBN 3464665720

A workbook/study guide in English, published in Germany. Contains JPD's story "Longitude and Latitude" also found in his collection of short fiction, Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule.
The Good Ship Venus: The Erotic Voyage of The Olympia Press

By John de St. Jorre

UK ed. Hutchinson Books (an imprint of Random House), London, 1994 - ISBN 0091778743

Very good chapter on JPD and his dealings with the infamous publisher Girodias.
Venus Bound: The Erotic Voyage of The Olympia Press and its Writers