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Tables of Contents for Irish Writing in the 20th Century
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
On a Personal Note
xxxi
Introduction
xxxix
1890s: Shadows, Moods and Arguments
`The Necessity for De-Anglicizing Ireland', from Charles Gavan Duffy et al., The Revival of Irish Literature (1894)
2
11
Douglas Hyde
`Da dTeinnse Siar' (If I Were To Go West), from Abhrain Gradh Chuige Connacht (Love Songs of Connacht)
13
1
Douglas Hyde trans.
`Parnell', from The United Irishman
13
2
Lionel Johnson
`The Associations of Scenery', from The Irish Monthly
15
7
R.P. Carton
`The Orange Lilies', from From the Land of St Lawrence
22
3
Maurice F. Egan
`Lisheen Races, Second Hand', from Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
25
6
E. OE. Somerville
Martin Ross
`The Battle of Two Civilizations', from Lady Gregory (ed.), Ideals in Ireland (1901)
31
7
David Patrick Moran
`The Literary Movement in Ireland', from Lady Gregory (ed.), Ideals in Ireland (1901)
38
6
W.B. Yeats
`Nationality or Cosmopolitanism', from Imagination and Reveries (1921)
44
3
George Russell
`Physical Force in Irish Politics', from Workers' Republic
47
2
James Connolly
Lecture by Mr W. B. Yeats, from Irish Literary Society Gazette
49
3
Anon.
from The Ballad of Reading Gaol
52
4
Oscar Wilde
Irish Writing in the 1900s
Critical and Documentary
`The Great Enhantment', from All Ireland Review
56
1
Standish James O'Grady
`The Symbolism of Poetry', from Ideas of Good and Evil (1907)
57
2
W.B. Yeats
`The Irishman Abroad', `The Decline of National Feeling', from Mr Dooley In the Hearts of His Countrymen
59
3
F.P. Dunne
`Magic', from Ideas of Good and Evil (1907)
62
1
W.B. Yeats
`The Irish Language Movement', from The Irish Language Movement
63
2
Francis Fahy
`The Resurrection of Hungary', from The Resurrection of Hungary
65
3
Arthur Griffith
`From Galway to Gorumna', from The Manchester Guardian
68
2
J.M. Synge
`The De-Davisization of Irish Literature', from Bards and Saints
70
4
John Eglinton
`Criticism and Courage', from Criticism and Courage and Other Essays
74
3
Frederick Ryan
`The Literary Movement in Ireland', from The Fortnightly Review
77
6
George A. Birmingham
`Christ Before the People', from Sin, Society and Behaviour
83
4
Bernard Vaughan
Imaginative
`The Green Flag', from The Green Flag
87
7
Arthur Conan Doyle
`A Farewell to the Hills', from All Ireland Review
94
1
George Russell
`Corrymeela', from Songs of the Glens of Antrim
95
1
Moira O'Neill
`The Only Son of Aoife', from Cuchulain of Muirthemne
95
3
Lady Gregory
Cathleen ni Houlihan
98
5
W.B. Yeats
`Home Sickness', from The Untilled Field
103
5
George Moore
from Such Is Life: Being Certain Extract from the Diary of Tom Collins
108
9
Joseph Furphy
`A Portrait', from Æ (ed.), New Songs
117
1
Padraic Colum
`The Little Waves of Breffny', from The One and the Many
117
1
Eva Gore-Booth
Spreading the News, from Seven Short Plays (1909)
118
8
Lady Gregory
John Bull's Other Island
126
44
G.B. Shaw
`Womens Rights', from The Egyptian Pillar
170
1
Eva Gore-Booth
The Playboy of the Western World
171
24
J.M. Synge
`I am the Gilly of Christ', from The Gilly of Christ
195
1
Joseph Campbell
`The Wooden Leg', from Ballygullion
196
6
Lynn Doyle
`A Piper', `Glasnevin, October 9th, 1904', from Verses: Sacred and Profane
202
1
Seumas O'Sullivan
`The Shell', from Insurrections
202
1
James Stephens
`I am the Mountainy Singer', `Night, and I Travelling', from The Mountainy Singer
203
3
Joseph Campbell
Irish Writing in the 1910s
Critical and Documentary
`The World-wide Empire of the Irish Race', from Journal of the Ivernian Society (1910)
206
2
Reverend P.S. Dinneen
`Affirming, Assenting, and Saluting' from English As We Speak It In Ireland
208
3
Patrick Weston Joyce
`A Ballad-Singer', `The Human Voice', from The Mearing Stones
211
1
Joseph Campbell
`Yeats, Synge and ``The Playboy''', from The Irish Book Lover
212
1
J.M. Hone
`1876', from M.D. Petre, Autobiography and Life of George Tyrrell, Vol. 1
213
4
George Tyrrell
`Irish Book Lovers', from The Freeman's Journal
217
1
Stephen Gwynn
`Irish Literary Society: Coming of Age Celebrations', from The Irish Book Lover
218
1
Anon.
from Hail and Farewell: Vale
219
4
George Moore
`The Hunger', from Mo Sgeal Fein (trans. Cyril O Ceirin, My Story, 1970)
223
4
Peter O'Leary
`My Brother's Personality', from Charles Stewart Parnell: A Memoir
227
3
John Howard Parnell
`The Irish Mode', from Literature in Ireland
230
5
Thomas Macdonagh
`Wednesday', from The Insurrection in Dublin
235
4
James Stephens
`The Easter Week Executions', from The Daily News
239
2
George Bernard Shaw
from Letters of James Stephens (Richard J. Finneran ed., 1974)
241
1
James Stephens
```Reveries'' and ``Responsibilities''', from The Irish Book Lover
242
1
Anon.
from A Chronicle of Jails (1917)
242
4
Darrell Figgis
`The New Nation', from Imagination and Reveries (1921)
246
3
George Russell
Imaginative
from Deoraiocht, (trans. Gearailt Mac Eoin, Exile, 1994)
249
2
Padraic O Conaire
`In Kerry', `A Question', `Prelude', `In May', `The Curse', from Poems and Translations
251
1
J.M. Synge
`The Weaver's Family', from Irishry
252
1
Joseph Campbell
Mixed Marriage, from Four Irish Plays (1914)
252
6
St John Ervine
`June', from Lyrical Poems
258
1
Francis Ledwidge
`The Yellow Bittern', from Lyrical Pieces
258
1
Thomas Macdonagh
`September 1913', `Fallen Majesty', `The Cold Heaven', from Responsibilities
259
1
W.B. Yeats
`I Am Ireland', from Suantraide agus Goltraide
260
1
Patrick Pearse
`De Profundis', from Children of the Dead End
261
6
Patrick Macgill
`The Assignation', from The Poetry Review
267
1
Lord Dunsany
`Padding It', from Songs of the Dead End
268
2
Patrick Macgill
`The Wayfarer', from Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse
270
1
Patrick Pearse
`Easter 1916' from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
270
2
W.B. Yeats
`Thomas MacDonagh', from Songs of Peace
272
1
Francis Ledwidge
`Earth of Cualann', `The Revealer', from Earth of Cualann
272
1
Joseph Campbell
`Righteous Anger', `O Bruadair', from Reincarnations
273
1
James Stephens
`The Wild Swans at Coole', `In Memory of Major Robert Gregory', `An Irish Airman Foresees His Death', from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
274
2
W.B. Yeats
`The Second Coming', from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
276
1
W.B. Yeats
`Catastrophe', from The Wasted Island
277
5
Eimar O'Duffy
Irish Writing in the 1920s
Critical and Documentary
from Esther Roper (ed.) Priosn Letters of Countess Markievicz (1934)
282
2
Constance Markievicz
`Distinctive Culture', from The Path to Freedom
284
2
Michael Collins
`Lessons of Revolution', from Studies
286
2
George Russell
`The Aisling', from The Hidden Ireland
288
2
Daniel Corkery
`To All Artists and Writers', from Tomorrow
290
1
Francis Stuart
Cecil Salkeld
`Speech on Divorce', from Donald R. Pearce (ed.) The Senate Speeches of W.B. Yeats (1961)
291
3
W.B. Yeats
`The Coming of Age of the Irish Drama', from The Dublin Review
294
5
Andrew E. Malone
from Days of Fear
299
3
Frank Gallagher
from Ireland: The Rock Whence I Was Hewn
302
2
Donn Byrne
`Shrovetide, 1878', from An tOileanach (trans. Robin Flower, The Islandman, 1937)
304
3
Tomas O Criomhthain
Imaginative
`The Great Blasket: Poets', from The Irish Book Lover
307
1
Robin Flower
`The Abbey Theatre', from Adam of Dublin: A Romance of Today
307
4
Conal O'Riordan
`St Patrick's Day', from Around the Boree Log
311
2
John O'Brien
from The House of Success
313
7
Darrell Figgis
from The Interpreters
320
3
George Russell
`Telemachus', `Calypso', `Hades', `Scylla and Charybdis', `Wandering Rocks', `Sirens', `Cyclops', `Circe', `Ithaca', `Penelope', from Ulysses
323
24
James Joyce
`The Snipe', from The Manchester Guardian
347
2
Con O'Leary
`Meditations in Time of Civil War', from The Dial
349
1
W.B. Yeats
`The Portrait of Roisin Dhu', from Earth-Bound: Nine Stories of Ireland
350
3
Dorothy Macardle
`Leda and the Swan', from Tomorrow
353
1
W.B. Yeats
`Absolution' from All The Sad Young Men (1926)
354
7
F. Scott Fitzgerald
from Apostate
361
3
Forrest Reid
`The Tent', from The Tent and Other Stories
364
4
Liam O'Flaherty
`Among School Children', from The Dial
368
1
W.B. Yeats
`The Dark Breed', from The Dark Breed
369
1
F.R. Higgins
`Sailing to Byzantium', from The Tower
370
1
W.B. Yeats
`Seventh Gift of the Holy Ghost', from The Dublin Review
371
3
Thomas Macgreevy
Irish Writing in the 1930s
Critical and Documentary
`A Letter from Dublin', from The Saturday Review of Literature
374
1
Mary Manning
`An Essay On The Character In Irish Literature', from Frank O'Connor, The Wild Bird's Nest
375
2
George Russell
from Andrew Turnbull (ed.), The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1968)
377
1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
`Recent Irish Poetry' from The Bookman
378
3
`Andrew Belis'
from The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy
381
4
Pat O'Mara
`Joyce and the New Irish Writers', from Current History
385
4
Ernest Boyd
from The Seals
389
2
Monk Gibbon
`Boston Irish', from The Saturday Review of Literature
391
1
George C. Homans
`What I Saw In Spain', from Ireland Today
392
1
Peadar O'Donnell
`Adios, Turismo', from Farewell Spain
393
5
Kate O'Brien
`A Letter From Ireland', from Scrutiny
398
5
Grattan Freyer
`So They Said And Felt And Saw', from The Rocky Road to Dublin
403
4
Seamas Macmanus
`Leaves from My Note-book', from Blue Angels and Whales
407
1
Robert Gibbings
`Life Is More Than Meat', from I Knock at the Door
408
2
Sean O'Casey
`A Milk-House in Little Island, Nance Daly and Nora Keaveney', from Machtnamh Seana-Mhna (trans. Seamus Ennis, An Old Woman's Reflections, 1962)
410
3
Peig Sayers
Imaginative
`Guests of the Nation', from Guests of the Nation
413
6
Frank O'Connor
from The Garden
419
2
L.A.G. Strong
`Ireland', from The Listener
421
1
John Hewitt
from The Bright Temptation
422
6
Austin Clarke
`Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931', `Byzantium', `Remorse for Intemperate Speech', `Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop', from The Winding Stair and Other Poems
428
2
W.B. Yeats
`Invitation', `Here', `Encyclopaedia', from Hello Eternity!
430
1
Blanaid Salkeld
`Jimmie's Speeding', from The Yellow Briar
431
5
Patrick Slater
from BUtterfield 8
436
3
John O'Hara
from The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan
439
3
James T. Farrell
`Echo's Bones', from Echo's Bones
442
1
Samuel Beckett
`The Fox's Covert', from The Fox's Covert
442
1
Blanaid Salkeld
The King of Spain's Daughter from Three Plays (1939)
443
6
Teresa Deevy
from Ward Eight
449
5
Joseph F. Dinneen
from All That Swagger
454
2
Miles Franklin
`Inniskeen Road: July Evening', from Ploughman and Other Poems
456
1
Patrick Kavanagh
`Game Cock', from Ireland Today
457
4
Michael Mclaverty
`Carrickfergus', from E.R. Dodds (ed.), The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice (1979)
461
1
Louis Macneice
`Poem', `The Tolerance of Crows', from Ireland Today
462
1
Charles Donnelly
from Lifer
463
3
Jim Phelan
from Pray for the Wanderer
466
9
Kate O'Brien
`Lapis Lazuli', from New Poems
475
1
W.B. Yeats
`The Straying Student', `Summer Lightning', from Night and Morning
476
1
Austin Clarke
`Section XVI', from Autumn Journal
477
2
Louis Macneice
from At Swim-Two-Birds
479
4
Flann O'Brien
`Under Ben Bulben', `The Statues', `News for the Delphic Oracle', `The Circus Animals' Desertion', `Politics', from Last Poems and Plays (1940)
483
3
W.B. Yeats
`Cushendun', from Horizon
486
2
Louis Macneice
Irish Writing in the 1940s
Critical and Documentary
`A Chiel's Amang Ye', from Jail Journal
488
1
Jim Phelan
`An Irishman Looks at England', from The Listener
489
3
Frank O'Connor
`Traveller's Return', from Horizon
492
4
Louis Macneice
`The Irish Empire', from Ireland-Atlantic Gateway
496
3
Jim Phelan
`The Future of Irish Literature', from Horizon
499
4
Frank O'Connor
`Cruiskeen Lawn', from The Irish Times
503
1
Myles Na Gopaleen
from The Tailor and Ansty
504
4
Eric Cross
from An Ulsterwoman in England 1924-41
508
4
Nesca A. Robb
`Irish Letters and the War' from Reginald Moore (ed.), Modern Reading No. 6
512
2
Robert Greacen
`Romance and Realism' from The Bell
514
4
Sean O'Faolain
`Reconnoitre', from All For Hecuba
518
3
Micheal Macliammoir
`Tradition and the Falls Road', `How Belfast Streets Got Their Names', `The Northern Star', from As I Roved Out: In Belfast and Districts
521
6
Cathal O'Byrne
`An Irishman's Diary', from The Irish Times
527
1
Patrick Campbell
`The Contemporary Thought of Ireland' from The Listener
528
4
Arland Ussher
`Irish-American Literature, And Why There Isn't Any', from Irish Writing
532
5
John V. Kelleher
`Drift', from We Follow the Roads
537
5
Jim Phelan
`The Worm Turneth', from The Irish Book Lover
542
1
Colm O Lochlainn
`Counter-Terror', from Guerrilla Days in Ireland
543
5
Tom Barry
`High Road and Low Road', from Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well
548
1
Sean O'Casey
Imaginative
`Thinking of Artolas', `Letter From Ireland', from Letter From Ireland
548
2
Ewart Milne
`Section VII', from The Great Hunger
550
1
Patrick Kavanagh
`Yung Mari Li', from The Bell
551
6
Bryan Macmahon
from A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
557
3
Betty Smith
`Once Alien Here', from Lagan
560
1
John Hewitt
`For Whom ``The Bell'' Tolls', from Rime, Gentlemen, Please
560
1
Robert Farren
`Poem', from The Listener
561
1
Valentin Iremonger
`Mysterious Kor', from The Penguin New Writing, No. 20
562
7
Elizabeth Bowen
`Lough Derg', from Lough Derg and Other Poems
569
1
Denis Devlin
`Immigrant Exile I, II, III', `Rhyme of Two Worlds', from The Blossoming Thorn
570
2
John Coulter
`Prince of Darkness', from Price of Darkness And Other Stories
572
17
J.F. Powers
`The Year 1912', from An Braon Broghach (trans. Eoghan O Tuarisc, The Road to Brightcity, 1981)
589
9
Mairtin O Cadhain
Irish Writing in the 1950s
Critical and Documentary
`Our Irish Publishrs', from Envoy
598
1
John Ryan
`Diary', from Envoy
599
2
Patrick Kavanagh
`The Destruction Still Goes On', from Rolling Down the Lea
601
4
Oliver St John Gogarty
`Connemara: Turf and A Camera', from Turf Beneath My Feet
605
2
Garry Hogg
`The First World War', from The Last of the Irish R.M.s
607
2
Sir Christopher Lynch-Robinson
`A Bash in the Tunnel', from Envoy
609
3
Brian O'Nolan
from Sweet Cork Of Thee
612
3
Robert Gibbings
`The Background to ``Dubliners''', from The Listener
615
3
Stanislaus Joyce
`Portrait of a Minority', from The Bell
618
4
Hubert Butler
`Waiting for Godot', from The Dublin Magazine
622
1
A.J. Leventhal
`Coming to London - IV', from The London Magazine
623
2
Elizabeth Bowen
`Meet, Drink, and Be Airy', from The Listener
625
3
W.R. Rodgers
from A Fretful Midge
628
2
Terence De Vere White
`In A Manner Of Speaking', from Irish Journal (trans. Leila Vennewitz, 1971)
630
1
Heinrich Boll
`Hearth and Home', from Irish Folk Ways
631
3
E. Estyn Evans
from Borstal Boy
634
4
Brendan Behan
`Writing a Story - One Man's Way', from The Listener
638
3
Frank O'Connor
Imaginative
from Home Is The Stranger
641
7
Edward A. Mccourt
from December Bride
648
2
Sam Hanna Bell
`Who Killed James Joyce', from Envoy
650
1
Patrick Kavanagh
`Yeats's Tower at Ballylee', from The Dublin Magazine
651
1
Padraic Fallon
`The Net', from Europa and the Bull
652
1
W.R. Rodgers
`Siollabadh', from Eireaball Spideoige; `Syllabling', trans. Patrick Crotty, from Patrick Crotty (ed.), Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology (1995)
653
1
Sean O Riordain
`My Oedipus Complex', from Irish Writing
654
5
Frank O'Connor
from Molloy, trans. Patrick Bowles and Samuel Beckett
659
3
Samuel Beckett
from The Quare Fellow
662
11
Brendan Behan
from The Last Hurrah
673
7
Edwin O'Connor
from Long Day's Journey Into Night (first staged 1956; written 1940)
680
13
Eugene O'Neill
from Malone Dies
693
1
Samuel Beckett
`The Tomb of Michael Collins', from The Sewanee Review
693
2
Denis Devlin
`Lovers of the Lake', from The Finest Stories of Sean O'Faolain
695
11
Sean O'Faolain
`Residue', `Ripple', `The Harbour', from The Body's Imperfection
706
1
L.A.G. Strong
Endgame
707
18
Samuel Beckett
Act One from A Touch of the Poet (first staged 1958, written 1936-9)
725
12
Eugene O'Neill
`An Irishman in Coventry', from New Statesman and Nation
737
3
John Hewitt
Irish Writing in the 1960s
Critical and Documentary
`Fifty Years of Irish Writing', from Studies
740
7
Sean O'Faolain
`Our Set', from West Briton
747
4
Brian Inglis
from The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story
751
2
Frank O'Connor
`Dublin', from My Ireland
753
2
Kate O'Brien
`The Rough Field', from The Spectator
755
1
John Montague
`Passion and Cunning', from A. Norman Jeffares and K.G.W. Cross (eds.), In Excited Reverie
756
3
Conor Cruise O'Brien
`Editorial', from The Dublin Magazine
759
1
Rivers Carew
Timothy Brownlow
`A Long Night in the Spike', from Ulster Folklife
759
2
Michael J. Murphy
`The Reticence of ``Ulysses''', from The Spectator
761
2
Anthony Burgess
`The Severed Hand', from Hibernia
763
1
Roy Mcfadden
`Strife and the Ulster Poet', from Hibernia
764
2
Michael Longley
`John Hume's Derry', from Hibernia
766
1
Seamus Heaney
Imaginative
from The Country Girls
767
2
Edna O'Brien
from The Countrywoman
769
5
Paul Smith
`Foundry House' from The Saucer of Larks
774
6
Brian Friel
`On Raglan Road', `Canal Bank Walk', `Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin', from Collected Poems
780
1
Patrick Kavanagh
`My Dark Fathers', from My Dark Fathers
781
1
Brendan Kennelly
`Claustrophobia', from Brosna, trans. Thomas Kinsella
782
1
Sean O Riordain
from Michael Joe
782
4
William Cotter Murray
`The Valley of Knockanure', as sung by Paddy Tunney on Ireland Her Own
786
1
Bryan Macmahon
`Go Away, Old Man, Go Away', from At Night All Cats Are Grey
787
5
Patrick Boyle
`Light of Other Days', from World's Best Science Fiction 1967
792
3
Bob Shaw
`A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford', from Night-Crossing
795
1
Derek Mahon
from A Bed in the Sticks
796
6
Lee Dunne
from `Nightwalker', from Selected Poems 1956-68 (1973)
802
1
Thomas Kinsella
from Strumpet City
803
3
James Plunkett
from The Hungry Grass
806
4
Richard Power
Irish Writing in the 1970s
Critical and Documentary
`The Divided Mind', from Sean Lucy (ed.), Irish Poets in English
810
4
Thomas Kinsella
`A Censored Decade', from Hibernia
814
2
John Jordan
from The Cecil King Diary 1970-74 (1975)
816
1
Cecil King
`Cry Irish', from `On Our Knees': Ireland 1972
817
3
Rosita Sweetman
`Family Life', from Inishkillane
820
2
Hugh Brody
from I Am Of Ireland
822
4
Richard Howard Brown
`Upon Being Told the Fatal News...', `Dying', from The Unexpurgated Code
826
2
J.P. Donleavy
`In Iowa: A Beauty Queen and a Blind Man', from Ronnie Walsh (ed.), Sunday Miscellany
828
2
Benedict Kiely
`Broken Images', from Hibernia
830
1
Jack Holland
`The Soft Centre of Irish Writing', from The Irish Times
831
2
Francis Stuart
`Being Irish Together', from Southern Review
833
2
Denis Donoghue
`Unhappy and At Home: Interview with Seamus Heaney', from The Crane Bag
835
5
Seamus Deane
`Britain's Irish Workers', from The Tablet
840
3
Donall Macamhlaigh
from A Place Apart
843
1
Dervla Murphy
Imaginative
from Down All the Days
844
5
Christy Brown
from Troubles
849
1
J.G. Farrell
`Early Recollections', from Atlantis
850
1
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
from Black List, Section H
850
3
Francis Stuart
`A Lost Tradition', from The Rough Field
853
1
John Montague
`The Ballroom of Romance', from The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories
854
9
William Trevor
`A Memory', from A Memory and Other Stories
863
19
Mary Lavin
`The Irish', `The Wood-Burners', `By Nature Diffident', from The Wood-Burners
882
2
Patrick Galvin
`Claudy', from West Strand Visions
884
1
James Simmons
`Punishment', `A Constable Calls', `Exposure', from North
885
2
Seamus Heaney
`Visiting the Future', from Henry Imbleau (ed.), The Lady and the Travelling Salesman
887
3
Leo Simpson
from Great Granny Webster
890
3
Caroline Blackwood
from Shadows on Our Skin
893
3
Jennifer Johnston
`The Night We Rode With Sarsfield', from A Cow in the House
896
4
Benedict Kiely
`The Ballad of Ballymote', from Under Stars
900
1
Tess Gallagher
`Theresa's Friends', from Later
901
1
Robert Creeley
`For Poets Writing in English Over in Ireland' from Stand
902
1
Iain Crichton Smith
`Ballinamuck, September 10', from The Year of the French
903
3
Thomas Flanagan
`Casualty', `The Skunk', from Field Work
906
2
Seamus Heaney
`The Gaeltacht', from The Pattern
908
1
Vincent Buckley
from The Mangan Inheritance
909
9
Brian Moore
Irish Writing in the 1980s
Critical and Documentary
`Ireland Blasts Back', from The New Statesman
918
2
Mary Holland
from Tales from Two Cities: Travels of Another Sort
920
3
Dervla Murphy
`A Tribute to Beckett on his Eightieth Birthday', from The Observer
923
2
Derek Mahon
`Poetry in Ireland from its Roots', from The Irish Times
925
3
Peter Sirr
`Introduction', from Memory Ireland
928
2
Vincent Buckley
`Interview with Van Morrison', from The Edge of the City
930
3
Desmond Hogan
`The Irish and the English', from Saintly Billy
933
1
Bill Naughton
`Yeats and Decolonization', from Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature
934
1
Edward Said
`Bono: The White Nigger', from Richard Kearney (ed.), Across the Frontiers
935
3
Paul Hewson
`Mothers, Whores and Villains', from Race and Class
938
1
Bill Rolston
`Tap Dancing Into Reality', from Riding the Yellow Trolley Car
939
7
William Kennedy
`Outside History', from Object Lessons (1996)
946
9
Eavan Boland
from Harp
955
1
John Gregory Dunne
`1927: Earliest Misgivings; the March of the Cadavers', from Helsingor Station and Other Departures
956
4
Aidan Higgins
Imaginative
`Ireland', from Why Brownlee Left
960
1
Paul Muldoon
`A Belfast Woman', from A Belfast Woman
960
6
Mary Beckett
`Gold Watch', from High Ground
966
7
John Mcgahern
`Unique', from Aquarius
973
1
Desmond Egan
from Translations
974
10
Brian Friel
from Good Behaviour
984
2
Molly Keane
from Kepler
986
4
John Banville
`The Flower Master', from The Flower Master
990
1
Medbh Mcguckian
`Quoof', from Quoof
991
1
Paul Muldoon
`Trinity College Dublin, 1983', from Jumping the Tracks with Angela
991
1
Paul Durcan
`Conveyancer', from John Boyd (ed.), The Selected Roy McFadden
992
1
Roy Mcfadden
`A Tourist Comments on the Land of his Forefathers', from Edible Anecdotes
992
1
Julie O'Callaghan
`Magic', `Wine', `A Bit of a Swap', `Therefore I Smile', `A Running Battle', from Cromwell
993
1
Brendan Kennelly
from Ironweed
994
3
William Kennedy
from Cal
997
5
Bernard Maclaverty
from Station Island
1002
1
Seamus Heaney
`Each Bird Walking', from Willingly
1003
1
Tess Gallagher
`Bewley's Oriental Cafe, Westmoreland Street', from The Berlin Wall Cafe
1003
1
Paul Durcan
`A Sense of Wonder' from A Sense of Wonder
1004
1
Van Morrison
from The Streets of Ancoats
1005
2
Malcolm Lynch
`My Land is Too Green' from Mary Coughlan, Under the Influence
1007
1
Eric A. Visser
Antoinette Hensey
Conversations On A Homecoming
1007
26
Tom Murphy
`From the Republic of Conscience', from From the Republic of Conscience
1033
1
Seamus Heaney
`The British Connection', `Enemy Encounter', `Crucifixus', `Tears/A Lacrimosa', from Missa Terribilis
1034
2
Padraic Fiacc
`Survivor', `The Astoria', from Letters to the Hinterland
1036
1
Roy Mcfadden
`Echo's Bones', from The Irish Times
1037
1
Desmond Egan
Pentecost, from Three Plays For Ireland
1037
26
Stewart Parker
`Belfast Confetti', from The Irish For No
1063
1
Ciaran Carson
`Mise Eire', `The Emigrant Irish', `Tirade for the Lyric Muse', from The Journey
1063
2
Eavan Boland
`Abair do Phaidir', from An Bas i dTir na nOg (trans. Peter Denman and Sean O Tuama, `Say a Prayer')
1065
1
Sean O Tuama
`Thousands Are Sailing' from The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace
1066
1
Philip Chevron
from The Other Side
1067
4
Mary Gordon
from Ripley Bogle
1071
3
Robert Mcliam Wilson
Irish Writing in the 1990s
Critical and Documentary
From Cathleen to Anorexia: The Breakdown of Irelands
1074
11
Edna Longley
from Song For A Poor Boy: A Cork Childhood
1085
1
Patrick Galvin
`Wandsworth', from Proved Innocent
1086
3
Gerry Conlon
`Anecdotes Over A Jar', from The Irish Review
1089
3
Gerald Dawe
`Twentieth Century Poetry in Irish' (trans. A. Mac Poilin), from Krino (1991)
1092
4
Sean O Tuama
from Now And In Time To Be
1096
2
Thomas Keneally
`Irish Poetry Since Yeats', from Ake Persson (ed.), Journey Into Joy
1098
9
Brendan Kennelly
`Rejoinder', from Irish Studies Review
1107
5
Colin Graham
`The Belfast Group', from The Honest Ulsterman
1112
3
Philip Hobsbaum
`The Great Flood', from Donkey's Years
1115
1
Aidan Higgins
`Among the Thorns', from Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
1116
2
Tim Robinson
`Declining Identities (lit. and fig.)', from Critical Survey
1118
10
Ailbhe Smyth
`Exile, Attitude, and the Sin-E Cafe', from Eire-Ireland
1128
5
Eamonn Wall
`Playboys of the GPO', from London Review of Books
1133
6
Colm Toibin
`Disappearing Language', from Poetry Ireland Review
1139
4
Louis De Paor
`Brand Leader' from Granta
1143
12
Fintan O'Toole
`Brickle Bridge', from The Star Factory
1155
1
Ciaran Carson
`Revisionism Revisited' from Crazy John and the Bishop
1156
2
Terry Eagleton
from All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
1158
2
Michael Patrick Mac Donald
from Lost Lives
1160
2
David Mckittrick
Imaginative
`An Bhean Mhidhilis' (The Unfaithful Wife, trans. Paul Muldoon), `Ceist na Teangan' (The Language Issue, trans. Paul Muldoon), from Pharaoh's Daughter
1162
3
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
`The Achill Woman', from Outside History
1165
1
Eavan Boland
`A Well Travelled Woman', from Those Sailing Ships of his Boyhood Dreams
1165
5
Moy Mccrory
`Second Generation', from Explaining Magnetism
1170
1
Maura Dooley
`Detour', `The Butchers', from Gorse Fires
1171
1
Michael Longley
from `Hunger-Strike', from Last Poems
1172
1
Vincent Buckley
`high time for all the marys', from high time for all the marys
1172
2
Maire Bradshaw
`From the Irish', from The Bradford Count
1174
1
Ian Duhig
`Caitlin' (Cathleen, trans. Paul Muldoon), from The Astrakhan Cloak
1174
1
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
from The Butcher Boy
1175
4
Patrick Mccabe
`In the Parlour', `Gate 49', `Madonna and Child' from Grub
1179
1
Martin Mooney
`At Spanish Banks', from A Staircase for All Souls
1180
2
George Mcwhirter
`Where We Live', from At The Grave Of Silone
1182
1
Harry Clifton
`Cor Ur' (A Fresh Dimension, trans. Gabriel Fitzmaurice) from Homecoming/An Bealach 'na Bhaile
1183
1
Cathal O Searcaigh
from Resurrection Man
1184
2
Eoin Mcnamee
from The Mai (1995)
1186
12
Marina Carr
`After Two Days Grading Papers From the Seminar I Taught', from The Prince of the Quotidian
1198
1
Paul Muldoon
`51 Sans Souci Park', `A Belfast Bildungsroman' from Walking a Line
1199
1
Tom Paulin
The Steward of Christendom
1200
23
Sebastian Barry
`Sheela-Na-Gig', `Ceasefire', from The Ghost Orchid
1223
1
Michael Longley
`The Fifth Province', `On the Renovation of Ellis Island', from American Wake
1224
1
Greg Delanty
from The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
1225
1
Roddy Doyle
`Global Village', from The Hudson Letter
1226
1
Derek Mahon
from The Bend For Home
1227
1
Dermot Healy
`Remapping the Borders', from Higher Purchase
1228
1
Rita Ann Higgins
`Mother', from Reading in the Dark
1229
4
Seamus Deane
from Eureka Street
1233
2
Robert Mcliam Wilson
`Letters From the Alphabet/O', `Jacta Est Alia', `Tango', from Opera Et Cetera
1235
1
Ciaran Carson
`Cuchulainn', from Another Nation
1236
1
Michael O'Loughlin
from Timothy O'Grady and Steven Pyke, I Could Read the Sky
1237
2
Timothy O'Grady
`The Lightcatchers', from The Knife in the Wave
1239
1
Mary O'Malley
The Lonesome West
1240
23
Martin Mcdonagh
`The Printer's Devil', from The Hellbox
1263
1
Greg Delanty
`The Mary Robinson Years', from Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil
1263
4
Paul Durcan
Topics and Issues
1267
16
Writing and Research
1283
6
Chronology
1289
32
100 Recommended Books
1321
2
Select List of Authors
1323
6
Bibliography
1329
12
Acknowledgements
1341
8
Index of Author Names
1349