Gerald Dawe & Jonathan Williams, ed., Krino: An Anthology of Irish Writing (1996)

Krino: A Literary Magazine from Ireland, ed. Gerald Dawe (1986-96) was a semi-annual publication from with an address at Glenrevagh, Corrandulla, Galway - of which the first issue appeared in Spring 1986. A fifth issue appeared in 1988 (166pp., ill.). It was supported by the Irish Arts Council throughout its publication. The compendium edited by Gerald Dawe and Jonathan Williams as An Anthology of Irish Writing came out from Gill & Macmillan (Dublin) in 1996 in a volume of xii, 435 pages [21-23cm.] with contents chiefly in English and some in Irish. Critical writings included in it are:

Contents
  • Eve Patton, ‘Women and Fiction 1985-1990’, pp.8-16.
  • Nicholas Grene, ‘John McGahern’s The Power of Darkness’, 80-87.
  • Alan Titley, ‘Modern Irish Prose: A Necessary introduction for the Uninitiated’, pp.122-30.
  • Terence Brown, ‘Translating Ireland’, pp.137-40.
  • Hugh Haughton, ‘Denis Devlin and the Lines of Communication’ [review of coll. Poems], pp.141-54.
  • —Brown, ‘Poetry and Partition: A Personal View’, pp.267-72.
  • J. C. C. Mays, ‘Brian Coffey’s Work in Progress’, pp.332-41.
  • W J McCormack, ‘Holy Sinner: Seamus Heaney’s The Government of the Tongue’, pp.354-58.
  • Edna Longley, ‘Misplaced figures of a Partial Map: The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry’, pp.359-65.



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