"I did my dears
At least have the courage
Of my desires"

- J.P. Donleavy from J.P. Donleavy's Ireland
Biographical information, bibliography and a complete collection of JPD's works are part of the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco.
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A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage

Stephen Watt, Eileen Marie Morgan Shakir M. Mustafa eds. - Indiana University Press, 2000 - Cloth - 332 pages - ISBN 025321419X

Section discussing the The Ginger Man, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 1959 fiasco.

Notable American Novelists, Volume 1

Carl E. Rollyson, ed. - Salem Press, Pasadena, 2000 - ISBN 0893561622

Section on JPD.
Masterplots II: American Fiction Series (revised edition)

Stephen G. Kellman, ed. - Salem Press, Pasadena, CA - 2000 - ISBN 0893568716

Includes The Ginger Man.
Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Ireland: An A-Z Guide to its People, Places, History, and Culture

by Ciaran Brady, Ed.- Helicon Publishing Ltd, 2000 - ISBN 1859863205

Section on JPD.
The Beat Generation and the Popular Novel in the United States 1945 - 1970

by Thomas Newhouse - McFarland & Co., 2000 - ISBN 0786408413

JPD and The Ginger Man included.

Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century - A Reader

David Pierce, ed. - Cork University Press, Ireland, 2000 - ISBN 1859182585

JPD amidst virtually all the important Irish writers of the century. Contains an excerpt from The Unexpurgated Code.

The New Romanticism: A Collection of Critical Essays

Eberhard Alsen, ed. - Routledge, 2000 - ISBN 0815335474

JPD included.
Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature

By Alison Russell - Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 - ISBN 0312233884

JPD included.
Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness Into History

By John Goodby - Manchester University Press, 2000 - ISBN 071902997X


JPD and The Ginger Man included.
Contemporary Novelists

Introduction by David Madden; Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer, eds. - St. James Press, 2001 (multi-volume set)

JPD included.
Critical Survey of Short Fiction, 2nd. Revised Ed. 7 volumes.

Charles E. May, ed. - Salem Press, January, 2001 - ISBN 9780893560065

JPD included.
In the Company of Actors: Reflections on the Craft of Acting

by Carole Zucker - Routledge, Jan. 22, 2001

The stage version of The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B covered.
The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America

Michael Glazier, ed. - The University of Notre Dame Press, 2001

JPD included.
Irish Stage Censorship in the 1950s

by Joan Fitzpatrick Dean - Cambridge University Press Theatre Survey - 2001

Section on the first performance of The Ginger Man in Dublin, which was closed by religious and conservative zealots.
For the Love of Ireland: a Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers

Edited and with an introduction by Susan Cahill - Ballantine Books, New York - 2001

JPD included.
The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Ronald Carter, John McRae, Malcolm Bradbury, eds. - Taylor & Francish, Inc., May, 2001 - ISBN 0415243181

JPD included.
The Guide to the Jerome Charyn Papers 1937 - 1997

Fales Library and Special Collections; Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York. Publisher - New York University Libraries, 2001.

JPD included.
Who's Who of Twentieth-Century Novelists

Tim Woods, ed. - Routledge, 2001 - ISBN 0415165067

JPD included.
Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultivating the People

by Lionel Pilkington - Routledge, 2001 - ISBN 0415069386

Includes the censorship of the first Dublin stage production of The Ginger Man.
"A Fairy Tale of New York"

Kirk H. Beetz, ed., Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, Thompson Gale, a part of the Thompson Corporation, April, 2002
To Set the Darkness Echoing: An Exhibition of Irish Literature 1950 - 2000

James O'Halloran, Stephen Ennis & Ronal Schuchard, curators. Catalogue for an event at The Grolier Club, New York, 2002. Books, manuscripts, letters and art.

JPD included.
The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present (Cultural History of Literature)

by Geoff Ward - Illustrated - May 1, 2002

JPD included.
The Oxford Chronology of English Literature

Michael Cox, ed. - Oxford University Press, May 2002 - ISBN 0198600267

JPD among authors included.
Magill's Literary Annual

John D. Wilson, Steve G. Kellman eds. - Salem Press, June, 2002 - ISBN 978158765

The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman critiqued.
The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Nicholas Mosley, Louis Zukofsky, Coleman Dowell, eds. - Dalkey Archive Press, Oct. 2002 - ISBN 1564782778

JPD among authors critiqued.
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable

Adrian Room, ed. - Sterling Publishing, 2002 - ISBN 0304358711

JPD included.
Across the Margins: Cultural Identity and Change in the Atlantic

By Glenda Norquay, Gerry Smyth - Manchester University Press, Scotland, 2002 -
ISBN 0719057493

JPD included.

Dramaturges et Cinéastes de L'Antipsychiatrie: Entretiens sur l'ère de la fragmentation

by Brigitte Gauthier Jullet, Paris, 2003 - ISBN 2747543781.

Literary critiques include JPD.
Critical Survey of Drama, 2nd Rev. Ed.

Carl Rollyson, ed. - Baruch College, Salem Press, April, 2003 - ISBN 9781587651021

JPD included.
The Encyclopedia of Ireland

Brian Lalor, ed. - cloth, Yale University Press, Sept. 1, 2003, 1256 pages - ISBN 0300094426

JPD and Brendan Behan included in a section about Dublin.
Encyclopedia of World Authors: 4th revised Ed. (5 Vols.)

The editors of Salem Press - Salem Press, November, 2003 - ISBN 9781587654384

JPD included.
Everything Irish: The History, Literature, Art, Music, People and Places of Ireland A - Z

Lelia Ruckenstein, James A. O'Malley, eds. - Ballintine Books, Dec. 2003 ISBN-13 9780345461100

JPD included.
Bibliography of American Literature

Jacob Blanck, Michael Winship, Virginia L Smyers, eds. - Bibliographical Society of America - Oakknoll Press, Dec. 2003

JPD included.
The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography

The Houghton Mifflin editors, Justin Kaplan, contributor - Houghton Mifflin & Co., 2003 - ISBN 061825210X

JPD included.
International Who's Who - Authors and Writers 2004

Taylor & Francis Group, Elizabeth Sleeman, Alison Neale eds. - Routledge, 2003 - ISBN 1857431790

JPD included.
The New York Chronology : A Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present

By James Trager - HarperCollins, 2003 - ISBN 0060740620

JPD included.
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