Section Editors: Early and middleIrish literature (c. 600-1600) / Proinsias MacCana; Latin writing in Ireland (c. 400 -- c. 1200) / Charles Doherty; The literature of Norman Ireland / Terence Dolan; The early planters: Spenser and his contemporaries / Nicholas Canny, Andrew Carpenter; Ireland and her past: topographical and historical writing to 1690 / Andrew Carpenter, Alan Harrison; Literature inIrish 1600-1800 / Alan Harrison; Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) / Andrew Carpenter; Anglo-Irish verse 1675-1825 / Bryan Coleborne -- Drama 1690-1800 / Christopher Murray; Oliver Goldsmith: miscellaneous writings 1759-74 / Seamus Deane; Fiction to 1800 / Ian Campbell Ross; Eighteenth-centuryIrish philosophy / David Berman, Andrew Carpenter; Edmund Burke (1729-97) / Seamus Deane; Political prose: Cromwell to O'Connell / Andrew Carpenter, Seamus Deane, W.J. McCormack; The shifting perspective (1690-1830) / Andrew Carpenter, Seamus Deane; Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) / W.J. McCormack; Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Seamus Deane; Language, class and genre (1780-1830) / W.J. McCormack; The intellectual revival (1830-50) / W.J. McCormack

CONTENTS: Early and middle Irish literature (c. 600-1600) -- Introduction; from: Tain Bo Cuailnge (The cattle raide of Cuailnge); from: Longes Mac N-Uisleann (The exile of the sons of Uisliu); Aislinge Oenguso (The vision of Oenghus); from: Aislinge Mac Conglinne (The vision of MacConglinne); from: Fledh Bricrenn (The feast of Bricrui); Creatures great and small Ciaran of Saigir; St Maelanfaid of Dairnis; St Mochua; from:Togail Bruidne Da Derga (The destruction of the hall of Da Derga); from: Serglige con culainn (The wasting sickness of Cu Chulainn); from: Tochmar Etaine (The wooing of Etain); Fianaigheacht (Membership of the fianna); from: Agallamh na Seanorach (The converse of the ancients); Caillech Berri (The old woman of Beare); Seasonal poems; May-time; Summer has come; Winter; The flightiness of thought; The dead lover; On the crucifixion; Jesus and the sparrows; Ranns and Epigrams; The storm; Pointless pilgrimage; The monk's choice; The light o' love; An uncouth patron; Flatulence; A kiss; The poet on his dead wife; The scholar and his cat; from: Immram Brain (The voyage of bran); Lyrics; A stormy night; The scribe out of doors; The blackbird; The blackbird at Belfast Lough; The blackbird in the willow; Liadan and Cuirithir; from: Felire Oengusso (The Matryrology of Oengus); Do Mhac I Dhomhnuill (In praise of Conn, son of O Domhnaill); from: Immram brain (The voyage of bran); Bibliography / Proinsias MacCana -- Latin writing in Ireland (c. 400 -- c. 1200) -- Introduction; Saint Patrick (died c.492); from: The confession; from: Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus; from: The Bishop's synod; from: Liber Angeli (Book of the Angel); Tirechan (fl. second half of 7th century); Trom: Collectanea concerning St Patrick; Cogitosus (fl. mid-7th century) from: Vita Sanctae Brigitae (Life of Saint Brigit); Muirchu Moccu Mactheni (fl. second half of 7th century) from: Vita Sancti Patricii (Life of St Patrick); Colman Mac Muirchon (died 7356); Hymnus S. Colmani in Laudem S. Michaelis (The hymn of Saint Colman in praise of Saint Michael); Columbanus (c. 543-615); from: Sancti Columbani opera: Espitula II (The works of St Columbanus: Letter II); from: Sancti Columbani opera: Instructio VIII (The works of St Columbanus: Sermon VIII); from: Sancti Columbani Opera: Regulae (The works of St Columbanus: Rules); from: The hisperica famina (Western Sayings) (c. mid-7th century); The rule of the day; (c. mid-7th century); The rule of the day; Adamnan (c. 624-704); from: Adamnan's life of Columba (c. 700); from: De Locis Sanctus (Concerning the holy places); Dicuil (fl. c. 760-c.825); from: Diculi Liber de Mensura Orbis Tarrae (Dicuil: The book on the measurement of the earth); Johannes Scottus (Eriugena) (c. 810-c.877); Lumine Sidereo Dionysius Auxit; Athenas (Athens was exalted with heavenly light by Dionysius); Hellinas troasque suos cantarat; Homerus (Homer once sang of his Hellenes and Trojans); from: De Divisione naturae (The division of nature); from: Periphyseon (De divisione naturae) (On the division of nature); Sedulius Scottus (fl. 848-859); Flamina nos boreae niveo canentia vultu (The gust of the north wind are blowing and there are signs of snow); Gaudeant Caeli, Mare, Cuncta terra (Rejoice ye heavens, sea and all the land); Vestri Tecta Nitent Luce Serena (Your house gleams with calm light); Cum deus altipotens animalia; condidit orbis (When God in his lofty power created with animals in the world); Libera plebem tibi servientem (Set free thy people, set free thy servants); Surrexit Christus sol versus Vespere Noctis (Last night did Christ the sun rise from the dark); Aut Lego Vel Scribo, doceo scrutorve sophiam (I read and write, teach and study scripture); Bishop Patrick (Gilla Patraic) (died 1084); Liber Sancti Patricii Episcopi (The book of holy Patrick the Bishop); from: The three dwelling places of the soul; from: Mentis in excessu (In ecstasy of mind); Biographies/Bibliographies / Charles Doherty -- The literature of Norman Ireland / Terence Dolan; Introduction; Norman-French texts; The song of dermot and the earl (1200-25); The walling of new ross (1265); Middle English texts; The land of Cokaygne (early 14th century); A satire on the people of Dublin (early 14th century); The pride of life (first half of 15th century); from: The Gouernaunce of prynces (c. 1423); Latin texts; The internerarium of symon Simeonis (first half of 14th century); Two poems by Richard Ledrede (c.1275-1360) (1350s); Richard FitzRalph (c.1300-60); from: Defensio Curatorum (1375); Historical and linguistic background; Note on the texts -- The early planters: Spenser and his contemporaries / Nicholas Canny, Andrew Carpenter; Introduction: I political writings Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-99); from: a view of the present state of Ireland (1596); from: Solon his follie, or a political discourse touching the reformation of commonweals conquered, declined, or corrupted (1594) / Richard Beacon (fl. 1567-92); from: Of the commonwealth of Ireland (c.1620) / Fynes Moryson (1566-1630); from: A discovery of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued ... (1612) / Sir John Davies (1569-1626); from: TheIrish rebellion ... (1646) / Sir John Temple (1600-77).

Introduction: II Spenser the poet from: Colin Clouts come home againe; from: Epithalamion; from: The fairie queene VII (1609); Notes on the texts; Biographies/Bibliographies -- Ireland and her past: topographical and historical writing to 1690 / Andrew Carpenter, Alan Harrison; Introduction; Giraldus Cambrensis (c.1146-1223) from: Topographia Hiberniae (The history and topography of Ireland) (c.1187); from: The historie of Ireland (1577) / Richard Stanihurst (1547-1618); from: An itinerary ... containing his ten yeeres travell ... (1617) / Fynes Moryson (1566-1630); from: Historiae Catholicae Hiberniae compendium (Chapters towards a Catholic history of Ireland) (1621) / Philip O'Sullivan-Beare (c. 1590-c.1660); from: A discourse of the religion anciently professed by theIrish and British (1631) / James Ussher (1581-1656); from: Translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise (1627) / Conall Mac Geoghegan (fl. 1620-40); from: Foras Feasa ar Eirinn (A basis of knowledge about Ireland) (c.1634) / Geoffrey Keating (c.1580-c.1650); from: Annals Rioghachta Eireann (The annals of the kingdom of Ireland, or the annals of the four masters) (c.1636) / Micheal O Cleirigh (1575-1643) and others; from: Acta Sanctorum ... Hiberniae ... (The deeds of the Saints of Ireland) (1645) / John Colgan (c.1592-1658); from: Annales Ordinis Minorum ... (Annals of the Friars Minors or Franciscans) (1625-54) / Luke Wadding (1588-1657); from: De Hibernia et Antiquitatibus Ejus ... Disquisitiones ... (Inquiries concerning Ireland and its antiquities, tr. Robert Ware, 1705) (1654); from: Cambrensis Eversus ... (Or refutation of the authority of Giraldus Cambrensis on the history of Ireland ...) (1662) / John Lynch (c.1599-c.1673); from: Ogygia; or, a chronological account ofIrish Events (1685) / Roderic O'Flaherty (1629-1718); Biographies/Bibliographies -- Literature inIrish 1600-1800 / Alan Harrison; Introduction; from: The Winter campaign / Eochaidh O hEodhasa (c. 1565-1613); from: The deserted land / Aindrias Mac Marcais (fl. 1610); from: A friend's consolation / Bonaventura O hEdhasa (c. 1570-1614); from: News from Ireland / Seathrun Ceitinn (c.1580-c.1650); from: The emigrant's love for Ireland the marigold; from: Maire's death / Padraigin Haicead O.P. (c.1600-54); from: The poet falls on hard times; The poet laments his learning / Daibhi O Bruadair (c.1625-98); Last Words I; Aogan O Rathaille (c.1670-1726): Cabhair ni ghairfead (no help I'll call); Last Words II; Seamas Dall Mac Cuarta (c.1650-1733): Is fada me 'mo lui i Lughaidh; Last words III; Cathal bui mac giolla gunna (died c.1756): Marbhnai Chathail Bhui (Lament of the Yellow-haired Cathal); The lover's invitation I; Peadar O Doirnin (c.1700-69); The lover's invitation II / Sean O Neachtain (c.1650-1729); Dreams of love and freedom I / Aogan O Rathaille: Mac an Cheannai (The merchant's son); Dreams of love and freedom II / Art Mac Cumhaigh (c. 1738-73): Uirchill an Chreagain (Fair churchyard of Cregan); Dreams of love and freedom III; Eoghan Rua O Suilleabhain (c.1748-84); Ceo Draiochta (Magical Mist); from: The midnight court / Brian Merriman (c. 1749-1805); from: The spoilt priest / Tomas Mac Caiside (fl. c.1760); The favourite sounds of Finn; O'Rourke's feast (Plearaca na Ruarcach) / Aodh Mac Gabhrain (f. c.1720); The cuckoo's return / Seamas Dall Mac Cuarta; Love's bitter sweet / Cearbhall O Dalaigh (fl. 1610); The lover's lament / Tomas Laidir Mac Coisdealbha (fl. 1660); from: The lament for Art O'Leary / Ebhil Dhubh ni Chonaill (c.1745-?); from: Toraiocht Dhiarmada agus Ghrainne (The pursuit of Diarmaid and Grainne); From: Pairlement Chloinne Tomais; from: Scathan Shacramuinte na hAithri (The mirror of the sacrament of repentance) / Aodh Mac Aingil (c.1571-1626); from: Tri Biorghaoithe an Bhais (The three shafts of death); from: Foras Feasa ar Airinn (A Basis of knowledge about Ireland) (c.1634) / Seathrun Ceitinn; from: Stair Eamainn Ui Chleire (The story of Eamonn O'Clery) / Sean O Neachtain; Biographies; Select biblioography -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) / Andrew Carpenter; Introduction; from: A tale of a tub (1704); from: The journal to stella (1710-13); A propsal for the universal use ofIrish manufacture, &c. (1720); The first Drapier's letter (1724); from: Letter to Alexander Pope (1725); from: Travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver (1726); A modest proposal ... (1729); from: Verses on the death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. (1731); Biography/Bibliography -- Anglo-Irish verse 1675-1825 / Bryan Coleborne; Introduction; I 'A monarch in his mind'; The description of anIrish-Feast ... / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745); The hue and cry after the clieve-boy / Laurence Whyte (c.1700-55); October Ale / Matthew Concanen (1701-49); John Baynham's Epitaph / Thomas Dermody (1775-1802); The modish school-master from: The art of Gate-passing: or, the murphaeid / William Dunkin (c.1709-65); An inventory of the furniture of a Collegian's chamber / John Winstanley (c.1678-1750); Epigram / Jonathan Swift; While shepherds watched their flocks by night / Nahum Tate (1625-1715); On the prospect of planting arts and learning in America / George Berkeley (1685-1753); The character of a good parson / William Dunkin; The progress of music in Ireland, to Mira / Matthew Pilkington (c.1701-74); A dissertation on Italian andIrish Musick, with some Panegyrick on Carrallan our lateIrish orpheus / Laurence Whyte; An epilogue, to be spoke at the theatre-royal / Jonathan Swift; An epilogue to their graces the Duke and Dutchess of Grafton ... / Ambrose Philips (1674-1749); The poet's prayer / William Dunkin; An ode to myself / Thomas Dermody; On the new bridge built on the Eastern side of Dublin / William Dunkin; The beau walk, in Stephen's-Green / Thomas Newburgh (c.1695-1779); To Miss Laetitia van Lewen in a country-town at the time of the Assizes / Constantia Grierson (c.1704-32); The temple-oge ballad / Richard Pockrich (c.1690-1759); A character, panegyric, and description of the legion club epigram / Jonathan Swift; On the college of physicians in Dublin; from: Phoenix park / James Ward (f. 1710-20); from: Universal beauty / Henry Brooke (c.1703-83); A thought, in the Pleasant Grove at Cabragh / John Winstanley; The blessings of a country life; The plagues of a country life / Jonathan Swift; Garryowen; Song / Henry Brereton Code (fl. 1810-30); The happy beggarman; The humours of Donnybrook Fair / Charles O'Flaherty (c.1794-c.1828); Holyhead / Jonathan Swift; from: The traveller, or a prospect of society / Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74); The new ferry, addressed to the Mayor of Liverpool / Samuel Whyte (1733-1811); Brennan on the moor; TheIrish Hudibras: or Fingallian prince; Hesperi-neso-graphia: or, A description of the Western Isle; from: a description of the county of Kerry; Carbery rocks in the county of Cork, Ireland; from: The Parson's revels / William Dunkin; The deserted village / Oliver Goldsmith; II 'St Patrick's Dean'; In sickness / Jonathan Swift; Verses, fix'd on the Cathedral door, the day of Dean Gulliver's installment / Jonathan Smedley (1671-c.1729); An epigram on the Battle of the Books / Mary Barber (1690-1757); An epigram ... / James Sterling (1701-63); The gift / Matthew Pilkington; News from Parnassus / Patrick Delany (c. 1685-1768); To Dr. Swift on his Birth-day / Esther Johnson ('Stella') (1681-1728); On sending my son, as a present, to Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's on Birth-day / Mary Barber; To the dean, when in England in 1726 / Thomas Sheridan (1687-1738); Momus mistaken: a fable, occasioned by the publication of the works of the Revd. Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. in Dublin / James Arbuckle (c.1700-42); To the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, on the publishing of a new edition of his works in four volumes; On St. Patrick's-Eve / Laurence Whyte; An epistle of R[o]b[er]t N[u]g[en]t, Esquire, with a picture of Doctor Swift; III 'My love ... is ... firmly fixt'; A song, by a cumberland-lass; A song upon an intended jaunt to power's-court to see Miss P-----L---- / John Winstanley; Song / Thomas Parnell (1679-1718); A pastoral dialogue / Jonathan Swift; The happy pair. A ballad / Laetitia Pilkington (1712-50); On his brother's marriage / James Dalacourt (c.1710-c.1785); The old Westmeath-Ballad; or Young Bobb's lamentation for the death of old Sarah / Laurance Whyte; The hone: a piece ofIrish; Mythology / Samuel Whyte; Mailligh a stor (My darling Molly) / George Ogle (1742-1814); Kathleen O'More / George Nugent Reynolds (c.1770-1802); The boys of Kilkenny.

Song: Sprig of Shillela / Henry Brereton Code; IV 'How's poor ould Ireland, and how does she stand?'; Lilli burlero; The blackbird; Verses said to be written on the union; Part of the 9th ode of the 4th book of horace, address'd to Doctor William King, late Lord Archbishop of Dublin; A serious poem upon William Wood, Brasier, Tinker, Hard-ware-man, Coiner, Counterfeiter, Founder and Esquire; Horace Book I. Ode XIV; Ireland / Jonathan Swift; A new song sung at the club at Mr. Taplin's the sign of the Drapier's head in truck-street / Richard Witheral (fl. 1720-30); A second song, sung at the club at Mr. Taplin's the sign of the Drapier's-head in truck-street / Charles Shadwell (fl. 1710-25); Advice to the people of Dublin, in their choice of a recorder / Laetitia Pilkington; On disbanding a troop of dragoon volunteers ... / James Dalacourt; Love and whiskey; The man who led the van ofIrish volunteers / Edward Lysaght (1763-1811); The deserter's meditation / John Philpot Curran (1750-1817); The freedom of John Bull; Paddy's opinion. AnIrish ballad / Mary O'Brien (fl. 1783-90); The wake of William Orr; The green little shamrock of Ireland / Andrew Cherry (1762-1812); Song; TheIrishman / James Orr; Oliver's advice / William Blacker (1777-1855); Checklist of poems and sources; General bibliography; Biographies/Bibliographies -- Drama 1690-1800 / Christopher Murray; Introduction; fom: The recruiting officer (1706); from: The Beaux' strategem (1707) / George Farquhar (1677-1707); from: The conscious lovers / Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729); The braveIrishman; or, Captain O'Blunder (1743) / Thomas Sheridan (1719-88); from: The true-bornIrishman; or, theIrish fine lady (1762) / Charles Macklin (1699-1797); from: All the wrong (1761) / Arthur Murphy (1727-1805); from: False Delicacy, from: the school for wives (1773) / Hugh Kelly (1739-77); She stoops to conquer; or, the mistakes of a night (1773) / Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74); The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816); from: Tony Lumpkin in town (1780); from: The poor soldier (1783) / John O'Keeffe (1747-1833); Textual note; Biographies/Bibliographies -- Oliver Goldsmith: miscellaneous writings 1759-74 / Seamus Deane: Introduction; from: An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe (1759); from: The bee (27 October 1759); A description of the manners and customs of the nativeIrish. In a letter from an English gentleman (1759); The history of Carolan, the lastIrish bard (1760); from: A comparative view of races and nations (1760); from: The citizen of the world (1762); from: A general history of the world from the creation to the present time ... (1764); An essay on the theatre; or a comparison between laughing and sentimental comedy (1773); Biography/Bibliography -- Fiction to 1800 / Ian Campbell Ross: Introduction; from: The history of Jack Connor (1752) / William Chaigneau (1709-81); from: The life of John Buncle, esq ... (1756-66) / Thomas Amory (c.1691-1788); from: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-66) / Laurence Sterne (1713-68); from: Chrysal; or, The adventures of a guinea ... (1760-65) / Charles Johnstone (c.1719-c.1800); from: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761) / Frances Sheridan (1724-66); from: The fool of quality; or, The history of Henry, Earl of Moreland (1765-70) / Henry Brooke (c.1703-83); from: The vicar of Wakefield; A tale of supposed to be written by himself (1766) / Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74); from: the triumph of prudence over passion; or, the history of Miss Mortimer and Miss Fitzgerald (1781); Biographies/Bibliographies -- Eighteenth-centuryIrish philosophy / David Berman, Andrew Carpenter: Introduction; from: Christianity Not Mysterious (1696) /John Toland (1670-1722); from: Two letters to John Locke (1692-93, 1695-96) / William Molyneux (1656-98); from: An appendix to a gentleman's religion (1698) / Edward Synge (1659-1741); Summary of the Chief principles of De Origine Mali (1702); from: Predestination and foreknowledge ... (1709) / William King (1650-1729); from: A new theory of vision (1709); from: Treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge (1710); from: The guardian, no. 27 (1713); from: Alciphron, or the minute philosopher (1732); from: The querist (1752) / George Berkeley (1685-1753); Letter to William Mace (1727) / Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746); from: The procedure, extent and limits of human understanding (1728); From: Things divine and supernatural conceived by analogy with things natural and human (1733) / Peter Browne (c.1665-1735); from: Ophiomaches; or, Deism revealed (1749) / Philip Skelton (1707-87); from: A vindication of the histories of the old and new testament, Part III (1757) / Robert Clayton (1695-1758); from: A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful (1757) / Edmund Burke (1729-97); Biographies/Bibliographies. Edmund Burke (1729-97) / Seamus Deane; Political prose: Cromwell to O'Connell / Andrew Carpenter, Seamus Deane, W.J. McCormack; The shifting perspective (1690-1830) / Andrew Carpenter, Seamus Deane; Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) / W.J. McCormack; Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Seamus Deane: Introduction; from: Tracts relative to the laws against popery in Ireland (c.1763); from: Speech in support of resolutions for conciliation with the American colonies (22 March 1775); from: Letter to a peer of Ireland (1782); from: Reflections on the revolution in France (1790); from: First letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792); from: Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1795); Biography/Bibliography -- Political Prose: Cromwell to O'Connell / Andrew Carpenter, Seamus Deane, W.J. McCormack: Introduction; from: Letters from Ireland (1649) / Oliver Cornwell (1599-1658); from: A disquisition ... concerning an act in England binding Ireland ... (1660) / William Domville (died 1689); from: His Majesty's gracious declaration for the settlement of his Kingdom of Ireland ... (1662) / Charles II (1630-85); from: The political anatomy of Ireland (1672; published 1691) / William Petty (1623-87); from: Hibernia Anglicana: or the History of Ireland ... (1691) / William King (1650-1729); from: An account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692 (1694) / Robert Molesworth (1656-1725); from: The case of Ireland's being bound by acts of Parliament in England, Stated (1698) / William Molyneux (1656-98); from: The penal laws; William Kin; Letter to the Revd Edward Nicolson; from: A brief discourse in vindictation of the antiquity of Ireland (1717) / Hugh MacCurtain (c.1680-1755); The 'declaratory' act (1720); from: The Case of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland ... (1724) / Corenelius Nary (c.1660-1738); from: An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue (4th edition 1738) / Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746); Letter to the Earl of Peterborough (1726) / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745); from: Reflections upon the present unhappy circumstances of Ireland ... (1731); from: The benefits which arise to a trading people from navigable rivers ... (1729) / John Browne (c.1700-62); from: a list of the absentees of Ireland ... (1730 edition) / Thomas Prior (1682-1751); from: The farmer's letters to the protestants of Ireland (1745) / Henry Brooke (c.1703-83); from: A second address to the free citizens and free-holders of the city of Dublin (3rd edition 1748) / Charles Lucas (1713-71); from: The querist (1753) / George Berkeley (1685-1753); from: Dissertations on the antient history of Ireland (1753) / Charles O'Conor (1710-91); from: The tryal and cause of the Roman Catholics ... (1761) / Henry Brooke; from: The freeman's journal (vol. I, September 1763); from: An argument in support of the right of the poor in the kingdom of Ireland to a national provision (1768) / Richard Woodward (1726-94); from: A compleat collection of the resolutions of the volunteers, Grand Juries etc. of Ireland ... (1782) / Charles H. Wilson (1757-1808); from: Speech in theIrish parliament, 16 April 1782 / Henry Grattan (1746-1820); from: Renunciation speech (1782) / Henry Flood (1732-91); from: An argument on behalf of the Catholics of Ireland ... (1791) / Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98); from: Speech in favour of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1794) / John Philpot Curran (1750-1817); 'Speech from the Dock' (1803) / Robert Emmet (1778-1803); Petition to parliament (1813) / The Catholic Board; Speech in defence of William Magee, editor of the Dublin Evening Post (1813) / Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847); from: 'A speech made in cork' (1825) / Richard Lalor Sheil (1791-1851); Biographies/Bibliographies -- The shifting perspective (1690-1830) / Andrew Carpenter; Seamus Deane: Introduction; from: de extistentia dei et humanae Mentis Immortalite ... (Of the existence of God and the immorality of the human mind ...) (1692) / Michael Moore (1640-1726); from: Of the bogs and loughs of Ireland (1685) / William King (1650-1729); from: A critical history of the Celtic religion, and learning ... (1718, published 1726) / John Toland (1670-1722); from: Dissertation ... prefix'd to the memoirs of the Marquis of Clanricarde (1722) / Thomas O'Sullevane (c.1670-c.1726); from: The antient and present state of the county of Kerry (1756) / Charles Smith (c.1715-62); from: The life of Turlough O'Carolan (1786); From: An historical essary on theIrish stage (1788) / Joseph Cooper Walker (1761-1810); from: Reliques ofIrish poetry (1789) / Charlotte Brooke (c. 1740-93); from: A general collection of the ancientIrish music ... (1796) / Edward Bunting (1773-1843); from: An account of some of God's providences to the Archbishop of Tuam ... (1689-91) / John Vesey (1636-1716); Letter to Bishop William King (1691) / Nahum Tate (1652-1715); from: 'On salvation ... ' A sermon (1680s) / Anthony Dopping (1643-97); from: The dubline scuffle (1699) / John Dunton (1659-1733); from: Two letters to Charles Wogan (1732, 1735) / Jonathan Swift (1667-1745); from: Memoirs (1748) / Laetitia Pilkington (c.1707-50); Letter to Mrs Ann Granville (1731) / Mary Delany (1700-88); from: The Catechims, or Christian doctrine ... (1742) / Andrew Donlevy (c.1694-c.1761); from: A philosophical survey of the south of Ireland ... (1778) / Thomas Campbell (1733-95); from: A Frenchman's walk through Ireland (1797) / Le Chevalier de la Tocnaye (c. 1767?); from: Personal sketches of his own times (1827-32) / Jonah Barrington (1760-1834); Biographies/Bibliographies -- Mary Edgeworth (1768-1849) / W.J. McCormack: Introduction; from: Castle Rackrent (1800); from: An essay onIrish bulls (1802); from: The absentee (1812); Letter to Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1834); Biography/ Bibliography -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Seamus Deane: Introduction; from: Intolerance, a satire (1808); from:Irish melodies (1808-34); Go where glory waits thee; Remember the glories of Brian the brave; Erin! The tear and the smile in thine eyes; Oh! breathe not his name; She is far from the land; When he, who adores thee; The harp that once through Tara's halls; Rich and rare were the gems she wore; The meeting of the waters; How dear to me the hour; Let Erin remember the days of old; The song Fionnuala; Believe me, if all those endearing young charms; Erin, oh Erin; Oh! blame not the bard; Avenging and bright; At the mid hour of night; One bumper at parting; 'Tis the last rose of summer; The minstrel boy; Dear harp of my country; In the morning of life; As slow our ship; When cold in the earth; Remember thee; Whene'er I see those smiling eyes; Sweet Innisfallen; As vanquish'd Erin; They know not my heart; I wish I was by that dim Lake; from: National Airs (1818); Oft, in the stilly night; from: Songs, ballads and sacred songs (1849); Songs (1849); The dream of home; The homeword march; Calm be thy sleep; The exile; Love thee, dearest? love thee?; My heart and lute; 'Tis all for thee; Oh, call it by some better name; Biography/Bibliography -- Language, class and genre (1780-1830) / W.J. McCormack: Introduction; from: A tour in Ireland ... (1780) / Arthur Young (1741-1820); from: An essay on the best means of providing employment for the people of Ireland / Samuel Crumpe (1766-96); Letter to Thomas Hussey (1796) / Edmund Burke (1729-97); from: Memoirs (1863) / Myles Byrne (1780-1862); Anon: Come all you warriors; 'J.B.': The tree of liberty; Richard Alfred Milliken (1767-1815): The groves of Blarney (1797-98); Leonard MacNally (1752-1820); The lass of Richmond Hill (1789) / Four popular songs 1789-1815; from: An intercepted letter from J--- T--- Esq., writer at Canton, to his friend in Dublin, Ireland (1804); from: A sketch of the state of Ireland, past and present (1808) / John Wilson Croker (1780-1857); from: Sketches of Dublin and the North of Ireland (1811, 1826) / John Gamble (c.1770-1831); from: Women; or, Pour et Contre (1818) / Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824); from: An appeal of one half the human race, women, against the pretensions of the other half, men ... (1825) / William Thompson (c. 1785-1833); Seven letters (1817-43) / Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847); Three clergymen give evidence to a Committee of the house of commons (1825); from: The Anglo-Irish of the nineteenth century (1828) / John Banim (1798-1842); from: The collegians: a tale of Garryowen (1829) / Gerald Griffen (1803-40); Biographies/Bibliographies -- The intellectual revival (1830-50) / W.J. McCormack: Introduction; A dialogue between the head and heart of anIrish protestant (1833); from: Hibernian nights' entertainment (1833) / Samuel Ferguson (1810-86); Past and present state of literature in Ireland (1837) / Isaac Butt (1813-79); The twenty-fourth of February (1837) / James Clarence Mangan (1803-49); Strange event in the life of Schalken the painter (1839) / Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73); from: Jack Hinton, the Guardsman (1842) / Charles Lever (1806-72); from: The nation; Unsigned editorial (1842); Thomas Moore (1842); Mr Lever's 'Irish' Novels (1843) / Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903); Our periodical literature; The youngIrishman of the middle classes (1848) / Thomas Davis (1814-45); Dreadful loss of life in the Catholic Chapel, Galway (1842); The memory of the dead / John Kells Ingram (1823-1907);Irish; Lecture on theIrish language; A catholic literature for Ireland / James Duffy (1808-71); Biographies/Bibliographies -- Index of first lines of poems -- General index to Volume I.

Section Editors: Poetry and song 1800-1890 / Seamus Deane; The famine and young Ireland / Seamus Deane; Political writing and speeches 1850-1918 / Seamus Deane; The London exiles: Wilde and Shaw / Declan Kiberd; Cultural nationalism 1880-1930 / Terence Brown;Irish drama 1899-1929: the Abbey Theatre / D.E.S. Maxwell; Poetry 1890-1930 / Seamus Deane; William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) / Seamus Heaney;Irish gothic and after 1820-1945 / W.J. McCormack; Constructing the canon: versions of national identity / Luke Gibbons; Prose Fiction 1880-1945 / Augustine Martin

Poetry and song 1800-1890 / Seamus Deane -- Introduction -- I. Poetry 1800-1890; from: The Agreeable surprise (1781); Jingle / John O'Keefe (1747-1833) -- from: Hope: a poetic essay (1810); In ringlets curl'd thy tresses flow; The dew each trembling leaf inwreathe'd / Mary Balfour (1780-1819) -- from: Poems on various subjects (1811); from: Morna's hill / James Stuart (1764-1842) -- from: Advice to Julia: a letter in rhyme (1820); Luttrell to Moore (1818) / Henry Luttrell (c.1765-1851) -- from: Nepenthe (1835); Canto I; Canto II / George Darley (1795-1846) -- The spirit ofIrish song (1829); from:Irish minstrelsy (1829); Roisin Dubh / Thomas Furlong (1794-1827) -- from: The O'Dohrty Papers (1855); The wine-bibber's glory: a new song; Toporis gloria: a latin melody; 'Tis the last glass of claret / William Maginn (1794-1842) -- from: The poems of J.J. Callanan (1847); Dirge of O' Sullivan Bear; The convict of Clonmel; The outlaw of Loch Lene / James (Jeremiah) Joseph Callanan (1795-1829) -- from: The political works (1842-43); Ancient lullaby; Aileen aroon / Gerald Griffin (1803-40) -- from: The comet (1832); To my native land; from: The vindicator (1839); A despairing sonnet; from: the Dublins University magazine (1840); The time of the Barmecides; from: The Dublin University magazine (1844); The caramanian exile; from: TheIrish monthly magazine monthly (1845); The night is falling; from: The nation (1846); Dark Rosaleen; from: The poets and poetry or munster (1849); Roisin Dubh; from: Specimens of the Early Native poetry of Ireland (1846); O'Hussey's Ode to the maguire; from: The nation (1846); A vision of Connaught in the thirteenth century; Lament over the ruins of the Abbey of teach Molaga; Siberia; The warning voice; The dawning of the day; from: The poets and poetry of munster (1849); The Geraldine's daughter; from: TheIrishman (1849); The nameless one; from: The poets and poetry of Munster (1849); The fair hills of Eire, O!; from: The Dublin university magazine (1840); Twenty golden years ago; from: The nation (1849); The lovely land / James Clarence Mangan (1803-49) -- from: The reliques of Father Prout (1844); The bells of Shandon; The attractions of a fashionableIrish watering-place / Francis Sylvester Mahony (1804-66) -- from: Reliques of Jacobite poetry (1844); An bonnaire Fiadha-Phuic (The cruel base-born tyrant); from:Irish popular songs (1847); Owen Roe O'Sullivan's Drinking song; Mairgread ni Chealleadh; No Craoibhin Cno / Edward Walsh (1805-50) -- from: Lays of the western Gael (1867); The burial of King Corman; Lament over the ruins of the Abbey of Timoleague; Pastheen Finn; Ceann Dubh Deelish; Cashel of Munster; The coolun; The death of Dermid; from: The Dublin University magazine (1847); Lament for the death of Thomas Davis / Sir Samuel Ferguson (1810-86) -- from: The spirit of the nation (1845, 1882); Lament for the death of Owen Roe O'Neill; Song of the volunteers of 1782; My grave; Nationality; Celts and Saxons; The west's asleep / Thomas Davis (1814-45) -- from: The sisters, inisfail and other poems (1861); In ruin reconciled; Song; The year of sorrow: Ireland---1849 (Spring); (Winter); from: the Dublin university magazine (1849);Irish colonization: 1848 / Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814-1902) -- from: Versicles (1856); Angelo; from: Songs and romances (1878); Summer wanderings; from: Sonnets on the poetry and problems of life (1881); I; IV; V; VIII / Thomas Caulfield Irwin (1823-92) -- from: Ballads, poems and lyrics, original and translated (1850); The pillar towers of Ireland / Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817-82) -- from: Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland, a modern poem (1864); V Ballytullagh; from: Songs, ballads and stories (1877); The girl's lamentation; The ruined chapel; The fairies; The winding banks of Erne: or, the Emigrant's adieu to Ballyshannon / William Allingham (1824-89) -- from: The poems of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1869); The woeful winter: suggested by accounts of Ireland, in December 1848 / Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-68) -- from: Poems (1891); The return; Drifting; My jack; A July dawn; Reminiscences of a day (Wicklow); An interview; Happy Christmases I-III; By the turnstile; To spring / John Francis O'Donnell (1837-74) -- II. Popular songs: Introduction; (a) Traditional folk songs; The Lament of Richard Cantillon; The curragh of Kildare, or The winter it is past; An Rabh tu ag an gCarraig? (Have you been a Carrick?); Casadh an tSugain (The twisting of the rope); Taim sinte ar do Thuama (From the cold sod that's o'er you); Pearla an Bhrollaigh Bhain (The pearl of the white breast); An clar bog deil (The soft deal board); Bean an fhir ruaidh (The red-haired man's wife); An draighnean donn (The blackthorn tree); A Bhuachaill an chuil dualaigh (A youth of the flowing hair); An chumhimn leat an oiche ud? (Do you remember that night?); My lagan love; Oganaigh oig (Young lad); Inghean an phailitinigh (The palatine's daughter); Snaidhm an Ghra (The true lovers' knot); An beinnsin Luachra (The little bunch of rushes); Preab san ol! (Another round!); Mairin de barra; Liam O Raghallaigh (Liam O'Reilly); An chuilfhionn (The coolun); Selected bibliography -- (b) Anglo-Irish songs and ballads anonymous; Castle hyde; I know where I'm going; The night before Larry as stretched; The rakes of mallow; Finnegan's wake; The lambs on the green hills; The parting glass; If I was a blackbird; from: Ballads and songs (1851); The rose of tralee / William Pembroke Mulchinock (c.1820-64) -- from: Songs, poems and verses (1894); TheIrish emigrant / Lady Dufferin (1807-67) -- from: chronicles and poems of Percy French (1922); The mountains of mourne; from: Prose, poems and parodies (1925); 'Are ye right there, Michael?' / Percy French (1854-1920) -- (c) Political ballads; Boulavogue; God save Ireland; The old orage flute; The croppy boy; Croppies lie down; The wearing of the green; The shan van vocht -- from: A wreath of Shamrocks: ballads, songs and legends (1866); The rising of the moon / John Keegan Casey (1846-70) -- Bibliographies/Bibliographies.

The famine and young Ireland / Seamus Deane -- Introduction -- from: The sword (28 July 1846) / Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-67) -- from: The black prophet (1847) / William Carleton (1794-1869) -- from: Mo sgeal fein (My own story) (1915) / Peadar O Laoghaire (1839-1920) -- from: Lights and shades of Ireland (1850) / Asenath Nicholson (1839-1920) -- Realities ofIrish life (1868) / William Steuart Trench (1808) -- Memories of the Famine -- (a) South Kerry -- from: The petrie collection of The Ancient music of Ireland (1855) / George Petric (1789-1866) -- from: A voice for Ireland. The famine in the land (1847) / Isaac Butt (1813-79) -- from: The nation (24 April 1847); from: TheIrish felon (24 June 1848) / James Fintan Lalor (1807-49) -- from: Jail journal (1854); from: The last conquest of Ireland (perhaps) (1861) / John Mitchel (1815-75) -- from: Essays in political economy (1873); Political economy and land; Political economy and Laissez-Faire (1870) / John Elliot Cairnes (1823-75) -- from: New Ireland (1877) / Alexander Martin Sullivan (1830-84) -- from: The fall of Feudalism in Ireland (1904) / Michael Davitt (1846-1906) -- (b) Rannafast, Co. Donegal; Memories of the famine -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Political writing and speeches 1850-1918 / Seamus Deane: Introduction -- I. Unionism to home rule -- from: Leaders of public opinion in Ireland (1861) / W.E.H. Lecky (1828-1903) -- from: The parliamentary policy of home rule (1875); from: Land tenure in Ireland: a plea for the celtic race (1866); from:Irish Federalism (1875) / Isaac Butt (1813-79) -- II. Fenianism 1858-1916 -- from: Arrah-Na-Pogue (1864) / Dion Boucicault (1820-90) -- from: Modern Ireland ... (1868) / George Sigerson (1836-1925) -- from: Knocknagow, or the homes of Tipperary (1873) / Charles J. Kickham (1828-1925) -- from: Recollections of fenians and fenianism (1896) / John O'Leary (1830-1907) -- from: O'Donovan Rossa's prison life (1874); from: Rossa's Recollections 1898 (1898) / Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1831-1915) -- from: Recollections of anIrish Rebel (1929) / John Devory (1842-1928) -- III. Fenianism, the land league and home rule -- from: The fall of feudalism in Ireland (1904); from: Some suggestions for a final settlement of the land question (1902) / Michael Davitt (1846-1906) -- from: Glimpses of anIrish Felon's prison life (1912-13) / Thomas Clarke (1857-1916) -- The North Began (1913) / Eoin Mac Neill (1867-1945) -- from: The murder machine (1916) / Patrick H. Pearse (1879-1916) -- Panegyric (1915); from: The sovereign people (1916) / O'Donovan Rossa: Graveside -- from: Speech from the dock (1916) / Roger Casement (1864-1916) -- Amended constitution of theIrish republican brotherhood (1873) -- IV. Parnell and Parliamentarianism 1891-1918 -- from: Words of the dead chief (1892); To the people of Ireland (1890) / Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91) -- from: The life of Charles Stewart Parnell (1898) / R. Barry O'Brien (1847-1918) -- from: The fall of feudalism in Ireland (1904) / Michael Davitt (1846-1906) -- from: Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian (1929) / T.P. O'Connor (1848-1929) -- from: Letters and leaders of my day (1928) / Timothy Michael Healy (1855-1931) -- from: A history of theIrish parliamentary party (1910) / Frank Hugh O'Donnell (1848-1916) -- from: Speeches of John Redmond MP (1910); from: Ireland and the war (1915) / John Redmond (1856-1918) -- from: The downfall of parliamentarianism (1918) / William O'Brien (1852-1928) -- V. Sinn Fein 1904-18 -- from: The resurrection of Hungary (1904) / Arthur Griffith (1871-1922) -- from: The Pope's green island (1912) / William P. Ryan (1867-1942) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

The London exiles: Wilde and Shaw / Declan Kiberd -- Introduction -- from: The happy prince and other tales (1888); Mr Froude's blue book (on Ireland) (1889); Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- from: Intentions: (1891); The decay of Lying; The importance of being earnest (1895) -- Introduction; John Bull's other Island (1904); John Bull's other Island: preface for politicians (1906); from: Composite autobiography (1969); The protestants of Ireland (1912); A note on aggressive nationalism (1913); from: How to settle theIrish question (1917); O'Flaherty V.C. (1915); from: war issues forIrishmen (1918) / George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Cultural nationalism 1880-1930 / Terence Brown -- from: History of Ireland, volume one (1878); from: History of Ireland: critical and philosophical (1881); from: Toryism and the tory democracy (1886) / Standish O'Grady (1846-1928) -- from: The necessity for de-anglicising Ireland (1892); from: Love songs of Connacht (Abhrain Gradh Chuige Connacht) (1893); A oganaigh an chuil cheangailte (Ringleted youth of my love) / Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) -- from: Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) / Lady Gregory (1852-1932) -- AE (George Russell) (1967-1935) -- from: A letter to W.B. Yeats (1896) -- from: Collected poems (1913) -- Carrowmore -- from: Hail and farewell: Salve (1912); from: The untilled field (1903); The wedding gown / George Moore (1852-1933) -- from: The philosophy ofIrish Ireland (1905) / D.P. Moran (1872-1936) -- The coming revolution (1913); from: Poems (1958); 'I am Ireland'; 'The rebel' / Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.
Irish drama 1899-1929: the Abbey Theatre / D.E.S. Maxwell -- Introduction -- The heather field (1899) / Edward Martyn (1859-1923) -- Cathleen ni houlihan (1902); On baile's strand (1904); Purgatory (1938) / W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) -- Spreading the news (1904); The workhouse ward (1908) / Lady Gregory (1852-1932) -- In the shadow of the Glen (1903); from: The playboy of the Western World (1907) / John Millington Synge (1871-1909) -- from: The whitheeaded boy (1916) / Lennox Robinson (1886-1958) -- from: The land (1905) / Padraic Colum (1881-1972) -- Birthright (1910) / T.C. Murray (1873-1959) -- from: The dandy dolls (1913) / George Fitzmaurice (1878-1963) -- The shadow of a gunman (1923); from: The plough and the stars (1926) / Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) -- from: The passing day (1936) / George Shiels (1886-1949) -- from: Mixed marriage (1911) / St. John Ervine (1883-1971) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Poetry 1890-1930 / Seamus Deane -- Introduction -- Mise raifteri; I am raftery; Cill liadain; Killeaden, or county mayo; Maire ni eidhin; Mary Hynes, or The posy bright / Antoine Raftery (c.1784-1835) -- from: Bards of the Gael and Gaill (1907); Niall's dirge; The ruined nest; The visit of death; A compliment; Fand's farewell to Cuchulainn / George Sigerson (1836-1925) -- from: Fand and other poems (1892); The nameless doon; Consolation / William Larminie (c.1849-1900) -- from: The ballad of reading gaol (1898); from: The poems of Oscar Wilde (1903); Requiescat; impressions I. Les silhouettes; II. La fuite de la lune (The flight of the moon); The harlot's house (1904) / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- from: Sea Sray: verses and translation (1909); The dead at clonmacnois / Thomas William Rolleston (1857-1920) -- from: Aids to the immortality of certain persons in Ireland: charitably administered (1908); TheIrish council bill, 1907; Ode to the British Empire; George Moore becomes the priest of Aphrodite / Susan Mitchell (1866-1926) -- from: Collected poems (1913); Faith; Three counsellors; Symbolism; Immortality; In connemara; Truth; The twilight of earth; On behalf of someIrishmen not followers of tradition; from: Vale and other poems (1931); A prisoer (Brixton, September 1920) / George Russell (AE) (1867-1935) -- from: Poems (1895); Mystic and cavalier; The dark angel; By the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross; from: Ireland, and other poems (1897); Ninety-eight; Parnell / Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) -- from: Poems and translations (1909); Prelude; To the oaks of Glencree; A question; Winter; The curse; From poems (1962); Abroad; In dream; In a dream / John Millington Synge (1871-1909) -- from: An offering of swans (1923); To the liffey with the swans; from: Wild apples (1928); The crab tree; Per iter tenebricosum; from: others to Adorn (1938); Ringsend; Verse / Oliver St John Gogarty (1878-1957) -- from: Songs of myself (1910); In absence; After a year; In an island; Two songs from theIrish; from: Lyrical poems (1913); The night hunt; Wishes for my son; The yellow bittern / Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916) -- from: Verses sacred and profane (1908); Glasvnevin, 9 October, 1904; from: The earth-lover and other poems (1909); Poems (1909); The land war (Prelude); In mercer street; from: Collected poems (1940); Dublin (1916) / Seuman O'Sullivan (1879-1958) -- from: collected works of Padraic H. Pearse: plays, poems and stories (1917); The fool; The mother; Christmas 1915; The wayfarer; To my brother; Why do ye torture me?; Long to me thy coming; A rann I made; Christ's coming / Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) -- from: The rushlight (1906); Who buys land; I will go with my father a-ploughing; O beautiful dark woman; The shrine; from: The gilly of Christ (1907); When rooks fly homeward; I am the gilly of Christ; As I came over the grey, grey hills; from: The mountainy singer (1909); I am the mountainy singer (a); I am the mountainy singer (b); from:Irishy (1913); The gombeen; The old age pensioner / Joseph Campbell (1879-1944) -- from: The poet's circuits (1960); Across the door; Cradle song; Woman by the hearth; Old woman of the roads; Poor scholar; from: Wild earth and other poems (1917); She moved through the fair drover; I shall not die for thee / Padraic Colum (1881-1972) -- from: The hill of vision (1912); Light-O'-Love; from: Songs from the Clay (1915); The ancient elf; from: Collected poems (1954); The snare; A glass of beer; I am writer / James Stephens (1882-1950) -- from: Chamber music (1907); I; III; XXXIV; XXXV; from: Pomes Penyeach (1927); Tilly; A flower given to my daughter; She weeps over Rahoon; from: Collected poems (1936); Flood!; Nightpiece / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Ecce puer -- The holy office (1904) -- Gas from a burner (1912) -- from: Songs of the fields (1916); June; from: Songs of peace (1917); A twilight in middle March; Lament for Thomas MacDonagh; The shadow people; The herons; from: The complete poems of Francis Ledwidge (1974); At lisnaskea; Derry; The sad queen; A dream / Francis Ludwidge (1887-1917) -- from: The dark breed (1927); The dark breed; Heresy; The fair of maam; The little clan; Rain; A sheiling of the music; from: The gap of brightness (1940); Song for the clatter-bones; Chinese winter; Father and son; O you among women / Frederick Robert Higgins (1896-1941) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) / Seamus Heaney -- Introduction -- from: Crossways (1889); The indian upon God; Down by the salley gardens; The meditation of the old fisherman -- from: The rose (1893); Cuchulain's fight with the sea; The rose of the world; The lake isle of innisfree; Who goes with fergus?; The lamentation of the old pensioner; To Ireland in the coming times -- from: The wind among the reeds (1899); The host of the air; The song of wandering aengus; The heart of the woman; He hears the cry of the sedge; He wishes for the cloths of heaven; He thinks of his past greatness when a part of the contellations of heaven -- from: In the seven woods (1904); The folly of being comforted; Adam's curse; Red hanrahan's song about Ireland -- from: The green halmet and other poems (1910); No second Troy; The fascination of what's difficult; Upon a house of shaken by the land agitation; At galway roaces -- from: Responsibilities (1914); September 1913; To a friend whose work has come to nothing; Paudeen; To a shade; Running to paradise; Fallen majesty; The cold heaven; The magi -- from: The wild swans at Coole (1919); The wild swans at coole; In memory of Major Robert Gregory; AnIrish airman foresees his death; The collar-bone of a hare; The fisherman; Memory; Her praise; Broken dreams; To a squirrel at Kyle-na-no; Ego dominus tuus -- from: Michael Robartes and the dancer (1921); Easter 1916; Sixteen dead men; The second coming -- from: The tower (1928); Sailing to Byzantium; Meditations in time of Civil War; Nineteen hundred and nineteen; Leda and the swan; Among school children -- from: The winding stair and other poems (1933); In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz; A dialogue of self and soul; Mohini chatterjee; Byzantium -- from: Words for music perhaps and other poems (1932); Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop after long silence; The delphic oracle upon plotinus -- from: A woman young and old (1933); A last confession -- fom: A full moon in March (1935); Rbh at the tomb of baile and aillinn whence had they come?; Meru -- from: New poems (1938); Lapis lazuli; An acre of grass; What then?; Beautiful lofty things; The O'Rahilly; Come gather round me, Parnellites; The great day; The municipal gallery revisited -- from: Last poems (1939); The statues; News for the delphic oracle; Long-legged fly; High talk; The circus animals' desertion; Politics; The man and the echo; Cuchulain comforted -- Biography/Bibliography.
Irish gothic and after 1820-1945 / W.J. McCormack -- Introduction -- fom: Melmoth the wanderer (1820) / Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) -- from: The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys (1829) / Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (c.1783-1859) -- Wildgoose lodge (1830) / William Carleton (1794-1869) -- from: The house by the Church-yard (1861-63) / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) -- from: Dracula (1897) / Bram Stoker (1847-1912) -- When the moon has set (n.d.) / John Millington Synge (1871-1909) -- The canterville ghost (1891) / Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- The words upon the window-pane (1934) / W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) -- from: The demon lover and other stories (1945) / Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) -- The happy autumn fields -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Constructing the canon: versions of national identity / Luke Gibbons -- Introduction -- I. National literature: the preoccupation with the past -- from: Literary ideals in Ireland (1899); John Eglinton, 'What should be the subjects of national drama?'; W.B. Yeats, 'A note on national drama'; John Eglinton, 'National drama and contemporary life'; W.B. Yeats, 'John Eglinton and spiritual art'; John Eglinton, 'Mr. Yeats and popular poetry' -- II. Universal versus national ideals -- The day's burden (1937) / Thomas Kettle (1880-1916) -- from: A treasury ofIrish poetry in the English tongue (1900) / Stopford A. Brooke (1832-1916) -- from: The leader (1900); More muddle / D.P. Moran (1871-1936) -- The Brooke-Rolleston anthology (1901) / T.W. Rolleston (1857-1920) -- Our reply / D.P. Moran -- from Dana (May 1904) / John Eglinton and Frederick Ryan (1874-1913) -- from: Dublin essays (1919) / Arthur Clery (1879-1932) -- III. Nation, state and cultural identity -- Our whig inheritance (1936) / Eoin Mac Neill (1867-1945) -- from: Towards the republic (1918) / Aodh de Blacam (1890-1951) -- from: Erin's hope (1896); from: Socialism and revolutionary traditions (1900) / James Connolly (1868-1916) -- IV. Critical nationalism -- from: Literature in Ireland, studiesIrish and Anglo-Irish (1916) / Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916) -- from: Bards and Saints (1906) / John Eglinton -- from: Dana (December 1904) / Frederick Ryan -- from: Sinn Fein (12 April 1913); from: Sinn Fein (25 April 1913) / Arthur Griffith (1871-1922) -- V. Nationalism: Exclusivism or cultural diversity -- from:Irish Essays (1919) / Arthur Clery -- from: Synge and Anglo-Irish literature (1911) / Daniel Corkery (1878-1964) -- from: Studies (September 1934); The other hidden Ireland -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Prose Fiction 1880-1945 / Augustine Martin -- from: Hurrish (1886) / Emily Lawless (1845-1913) -- from: The untilled field (1903); A letter to Rome / George Moore (1852-1933) -- from: My new curate (1900) / Patrick Augustine (Canon) Sheehan (1852-1913) -- from: The real Charlotte (1894) / Edith Somerville (1858-1949) and Martin Ross (1862-1915) -- from: The secret rose (1897); The crucifixion of the outcast; The adoration of the Magi / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- from: The awkward squads (1893); A state official / Shan F. Bullock (1865-1935) -- from: The adventures of Dr. Whitty (1913); The deputation / George A. Birmingham (1865-1950) -- from: Father Ralph (1913) / Gerald O'Donovan (1871-1942) -- from: Peter Waring (1937) / Forrest Reid (1875-1947) -- from: Waysiders (1917); The building / Seumas O'Kelly (c.1875-1918) -- from: The hounds of Banba (1920); On the heights / Daniel Corkery (1878-1964) -- from: The crock of gold (1912); Hunger (1918) / James Stephens (1882-1950) -- from: A house of children (1941) / Joyce Cary (1888-1957) -- from: The rat-pit (1915) / Patrick MacGill (1891-1963) -- from: The valley of the squinting windows (1918) / Brinsley MacNamara (1890-1963) -- from: The wasted island (1919); from: King Goshawk and the birds (1926) / Eimar O'Duffy (1893-1935) -- from: Islanders (1928) / Peadar O'Donnell (1893-1986) -- from: The mountain tavern and other stories (1929); The mountain tavern / Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) -- from: The bright temptation (1932) / Austin Clarke (1896-1974) -- Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) -- from: The ante-room (1934) -- from: The last September (1929) / Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) -- from: Midsummer night madness and other stories (1932); Midsummer night madness / Sean O'Faolain (1900- ) -- from: Guests of the nation (1931); Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor (1903-66) -- from: A single lady (1951); A visit to the cemetery; from: In the middle of the fields (1967); In the middle of the fields / Mary Lavin (1912- ) -- from: The pedlar's pack (1944); Old clothes --- Old glory / Francis MacManus (1909-65) -- from: The game cock and other stories (1947); The game cock / Michael McLaverty (1907- ) -- Biographies/Bibliographies -- Index of first lines of poems -- General index to Volume II.

Section Editors: James Joyce 1882-1941 / Seamus Deane; The counter-revival provincialism and censorship 1930-65 / Terence Brown; The counter-revival 1930-65 : poetry / Terrence Brown; The counter-revival 1930-60: drama / Terrence Brown; Samuel Beckett (1907-89) / J.C.C. Mays; Northern Protestant oratory and writing 1971-1985 / Tom Paulin; Autobiography and memoirs 1890-1988 / Seamus Deane; Challenging the canon: revisionism and cultural criticism / Luke Gibbons; Political writings and speeches 1900-1988 / Seamus Deane;Irish writing : prose fiction and poetry 1900-1988 / Eoghan O Hanluain;Irish Fiction 1965-1990 / John Wilson Foster; Contemporary Drama 1953-1986 / D.E.S. Maxwell; ContemporaryIrish poetry / Declan Kiberd

The counter-revival provincialism and censorship 1930-65 / Terence Brown -- Introduction -- from: TheIrish statesman (1928) seven years' change / AE (George Russell) (1867-1935) -- from: TheIrish statesman (1928); The censorship / George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -- from: The hidden Ireland (1925) / Daniel Corkery (1878-1964) -- from: The bell (1943); The stuffed-shirts; from: A purse of coppers (1937); A broken world / Sean O'Faolain (1900-- ) -- from: Bones of contention (1936); The majesty of the law / Frank O'Connor (1903-66) -- from: Spring sowing (1924); Going into exile / Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) -- from: At swim-two-birds (1939) / Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan) (1911-66) -- from: The best of myles (1968) / Myles na gCopaleen (Brian O'Nolan) -- Biographies/ Bibliographies.

The counter-revival 1930-65 : poetry / Terrence Brown -- Introduction -- from: The cattledrive in Connaught (1925); The lost heifer; from: Pilgrimage and other poems (1929); Pilgrimage; The scholar -- from: Night and morning (1938); Tenebrae -- from: Ancient lights (1955); Ancient lights -- from: Flight to Africa (1963); The last republicans; Martha Blake at Fifty-One; Eighteenth century harp songs -- from: Mnemosyne lay in dust (1966) -- from: Orphide and other poems (1970); The healing of mis -- from: The great hunger (1942); from: A soul for sale (1947); Advent; from: Come dance with Kitty Stobling (1960); Shancoduff; In memory of my mother; If ever you go to Dublin town; The hospital; October; from: Collected poesm (1964); Innocence; from: November Haggard (1971); Lough derg / Patrick Kavanaugh (1904-67) -- from: Lough derg and other poems (1946); Lough Derg; Encounter; from: Later poems (1946-59); The colours of love; The tomb of Michael Collins / Denis Devlin (1908-59) -- from: Poems (1934); De civitate hominum; Aodh ruadh o domhnaill; Nocturne of the self-evident presence / Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967) -- from: Selected poems (1971); Missouri sequence / Brian Coffey (1905-- ) -- from: Poems (1935); Belfast; Snow; from: Poem (1937); The sunlight on the garden; Bagpipe music; from: Autumn jounral (1939); from: The last ditch (1940); Meeting point; from: Holes in the sky (1948); The strand; from: Visitations (1957); House on a cliff; Charon / Louis MacNeice (1907-63) -- from: No rebel word (1948); Frost; Once Alien here; The swathe uncut; from: Collected poems 1932-67 (1968); Becasue I paced my thought; The colony / John Hewitt (1907-87) -- from: Awake! and other poems (1941); White Christmas; from: Europa and the bull (1952); Lent; The net / W.R. Rodgers (1909-69) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

The counter-revival 1930-60: drama / Terrence Brown -- Introduction -- from: The old lady says 'No!' (1929) / Denis Johnston (1901-84) -- from: Drama at Inish (1933) / Lennox Robinson (1886-1958) -- from: Shadow and substance (1937) / Paul Vincent Carroll (1900-68) -- The quare fellow (1954) / Brendan Behan (1923-64) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Samuel Beckett (1907-89) / J.C.C. Mays -- Introduction -- from: More pricks than kick (1934); Dante and the lobster -- RecentIrish poetry (1934) -- from: Collected poems 1930-1978 (1984); Gnome; Echo's bones; Dieppe; Saint-Lo; my way is in the sand flowing; I would like my love to die -- from: Murphy (1938) -- from: Letter to Azel Kaun (1937) -- Endgame (1958) -- Embers (1959) -- Enough (1967) -- Ping (1967) -- Come and go (1968) -- Lessness (1970) -- Not I (1972) -- That time (1976) -- Company (1980) -- Biography/Bibliography.
Northern Protestant oratory and writing 1971-1985 / Tom Paulin -- Introduction -- A stable unseen power (1791); The unitedIrish declaration (1791); The intended defence (1794); 'When Erin first rose' (1795) / William Drennan (1754-1820) -- Orange toasts (1795-- ) -- Bending the knee: Presbyterian addresses (1798) -- Overtured addresses (1798) -- The synod of Ulster versus viscount castlereagh (1802-17) -- Attack on Castlereagh (1817) / James Carlile (1784-1854) -- from: The cookstown speech (1828); Letter to Henry Cooke (1829); Letter to Daniel O'Connell (1831) / Henry Montgomery (1788-1865) -- 'The cold air of the north' (1828); from: 'Our cultivated fields' (1833); from: 'The hillsborough speech' (1834); from: The sins of the times (1837); Ulster's solemn league and covenant (1912) / Henry Cooke (1788-1868) -- 'I was in earnest' (1921) / Edward Carson (1854-1935) -- 'We are king's men' (1940) / James Craig (1871-1940) -- Gospel power; from: What think ye of Christ? (1976); from: An exposition of the epistle to the Romans (1966); The three Hebrew children (1985) / Ian Paisley (1926-- ) -- 'Waiting like a dog: the gates of Hillsborough' (1985) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Autobiography and memoirs 1890-1988 / Seamus Deane -- Introduction -- from: Seventy years ofIrish life (1893) / William Richard Le Fanu (1816-94) -- from: Autobiography on The life of William Caleton (1896) / William Carleton (1794-1869) -- from: Autobiography (1896-1907); from: The aran islands (1907) / John Millington Synge (1871-1909) -- from: Autobiography and life of George Tyrrell (1912) / George Tyrrell (1861-1909) -- from:Irishmen all (1912) / George A. Birmingham (1865-1950) -- from: Twenty-five yeasr (1913) / Katharine Tyan (1861-1931) -- from: The trembling of the veil (1922); from: Autobriography (1938) / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- from: Immaturity (1930) / George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -- from: On another man's wound (1936) / Earnan O Malley (1989-1957) -- from: As I was going down Sackville Street (1937) / Oliver St John Gogarty (1878-1957) -- from: Seven winters. Memories of a Dublin childhood (1943) / Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) -- from: Drums under the window (1945) / Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) -- from: No surrender: An ulster childhood (1960) / Robert Harbinson (1928- ) -- from: An only child (1961) / Frank O'Connor (1903-66) -- from: Vive Moi! (1964) / Sean O'Faolain (1900-- ) -- fom: Self portrait (1964) / Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) -- from: The strings are false: An unfinished autobiography (1965) / Louis MacNeice (1907-63) -- from: A penny in the coulds (1968) / Austin Clarke (1896-1974) -- from: Ireland yesterday and tomorrow (1968) / Bulmer Hobson (1883-1969) -- from: The price of my soul (1969) / Bernadette Devlin (1947-- ) -- from: War and anIrish town (1974) / Eamon McCann (1943-- ) -- from: Dead as doornails (1975) / Anthony Cronin (1926-- ) -- from: voices and the sound of drums: anIrish autobiography (1981) / Patrick Shea (1908-- ) -- from: Man of no property (1982) / C.S. Andrews (1901-88) -- from: Escape from the anthill (1985) / Hubert Butler (1900- ) -- from: Against the tide (1986) / Noel Browne (1915- ) -- from: The village of longing (1987) / George O' Brein (1945- ) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.
Challenging the canon: revisionism and cultural criticism / Luke Gibbons -- Introduction -- I. The revisionist turn -- from: The bell (1944) / Sean O'Faolain (1900- ) -- from: Hemathena (1978) / T.W. Moody (1907-84) -- The burden of our history (1978) / F.S.L. Lyons (1923-83) -- from: TheIrish Review (1986) / Roy Foster (1949-- ) -- from: TheIrish review (1988) / Desmond Fennell (1929- ) -- II. Aspects of revisionsim -- from: Studies (1972) / Father Francis Shaw (1908-70) -- Passion and cunning (1988) / Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917- ) -- from: Watchmen in Zion: The protestant idea of liberty (1985) / Marriane Ellott (1948- ) -- from: Celtic revivals (1985) / Seamus Deane (1940- ) -- from: Ireland's literature: selected essays (1988) / Terence Brown (1944- ) -- III. Tradition and discontinuity -- from: States of mind: a study in Anglo-Irish conflict 1780-1980 (1983) / Oliver MacDonagh (1925- ) -- from: TheIrish writer (1966) / Thomas Kinsella (1929- ) -- from: Traditions (1987) / Richard Kearney (1954- ) -- from: TheIrish review (1988) / David Lloyd (1955- ) -- IV. Culture and conflict -- from: Anglo-Irish attitudes (1984) / Declan Kiberd (1951- ) -- from: WeIrish (1986) / Denis Donoghue (1928- ) -- from: Poetry in the wars (1986) / Edna Longley (1940- ) -- V. Modernization and Modernism -- from: The crane bag (1985) / Fintan O'Toole (1958- ) -- from: The crane bag (1979) / Lian de Paor (1926- ) -- from: Ascendancy and tradition in Anglo-Irish literary history from 1789-1939 (1985) / W.J. McCormack (1947- ) -- from: The crane bag (1979) / Sean Golden (1948- ) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Political writings and speeches 1900-1988 / Seamus Deane -- Introduction -- from: Ireland in the new century (1904) / Horance Plunkett (1854-1932) -- from: Catholicity and progress in Ireland (1905) / Michael O'Riodan (1857-1919) -- from: Criticism and courage and other essays (1906); Political and intellectual freedom (1904); from: 'The spoil of Egypt: A sordid story of modern empire-building' (1910) / Frederick Ryan (1874-1913) -- from: Larkin's scathing indictment of Dublin Sweaters (1913) / James Larkin (1876-1947) -- War and feminism (1914); 'Speech from the dock' (1915) / Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878-1916) -- from: Socialism and nationalism (1897); Parnellism and labour (1898); Sinn Fein, socialism and the nation (1909); from: North-East Ulster (1913); from: Socialism and nationalism (1914); Labour and the proposed; Partition of Ireland; The exclusion of Ulster (1914); Our duty in this crisis (1914); from: A continental revolution (1914); A war of civilisation (1915); TheIrish flag (1916) / James Connolly (1969-1916) -- Proclamation of the republic (1916) -- The democratic programme of the first dail (1919) -- from: Arguments for the treaty (1922) / Michael Collins (1890-1922) -- The treaty (1921) -- from: Speeches and statements of Eamon de Valera 1917-1973 (1980) / Eamon de Valera (1882-1975) -- from: TheIrish republican congress (1934-35) / Frank Ryan (1902-44) and George Gilmore (1898-1985) -- from: Ireland and the corporate state (1933) / Michael Tierney (1894-1975) -- 'The republic of Ireland bill' (1948) / John A Costello (1891-1976) -- from: Towards a New Ireland (1972) / Garret FitzGerald (1926- ) -- from: The spirit of the nation: the speeches and statements of C.J. Haughey 1957-1986 (1986) / Charles J. Haughey (1925- ) -- 'TheIrish question: a British problem' (1980); 'Reconciliation of the irreconcilable' (1983) / John Hume (1937- ) -- from: A message to theIrish people (1985) / Sean MacBride (1904-88) -- from: The politics ofIrish freedom (1986) / Gerry Adams (1948- ) -- Anglo-Irish agreement 1985 -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Irish writing: prose fiction and poetry 1900-1988 / Eoghan O Hanluain -- Introduction -- from: Seadna (1904) / Peadar Ua Laoghaire (Canon Peter O'Leary) (1839-1920) -- from: An Mhathair agus Sgealta Eile (The mother and other stories) (1916); An deargadaol; The deargadaol / Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) -- from: Deoraiocht (1910); from: Scothscealta (1956); An bhean ar leag Dia Lamh; Uirthi; The woman on whom God; Laid his hand / Padraic O Conaire (1992-1928) -- from: Duil (1953); An chulaith nua; The new suit / Liam O Flaithearta (Liam I'Flaherty) (1896-1894) -- from: An gradh agus an Ghruaim (1929); Ar an tra fhoilimh; On the empty shore / Seosamh Mac Grianna (1901-90) -- from: an broan broghach (1948); An Bhearna mhil; The hare-lip / Mairtin O Cadhain (1906-70) -- from: The bridge/an droichead (1987) -- Gadaithe -- Thieves / Sean Mac Mathuna (1936- ) -- from: Eiriceachtai agus scealta eile (1987); An sisceal de reir eoin; The gobspiel according to John / Alan Titley (1947- ) -- from: An tOileanach (1929); The Islandman / Tomas O Criomhthainn (Tomas O Crohan) (1855-1937) -- Muiris O Suilleabhain (Maurice O'Sullivan) (1904-50) -- A-growing (1933); Scairt phiarais; Pierce's cave / Fiche Bliain age fas (Twenty years) -- from: Suantraidhe agus Goltaidhe (1914); Fornocht do chonac thu Ideal / Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) -- from: Danta 1939-1979 (1980); Dinit an bhroin; Grief's dignity; Cuimhni cinn; Memories; Run na mBan; The women's secret; An tEarrach thiar; Spring in the west; Arainn 1947; Aran 1947; Stoite; Uprooted; O morna; O morna; Omos do John Millington Synge; homage to John Millington Synge; Leigheas na hEagla; Salve for fear; Cranna foirtil; Stout oars; Mar chaitheamar an choinneal; How we wasted the candle / Mairtin O Direain (1910-88) -- from: Eireaball Spideoige (1952) and Brosna (1964); Adhlacadh mo mhathar; My mother's burial; Cuil an ti; Behind the house; Cnoc melleri; Mount Melleray; Reo; Freeze; Fiabhras; Fever; Na leamhain; The moths; Claustrophobia / Sean O Riordain (1916-77) -- from: Lux Aeterna (1964); Aifreann na Marbh; Mass for the dead; Graduale / Eoghan O Tuairise (1919-82) -- from: An cion go dti seo (1987); Inquisitio 1584; Finit; Do shile; For sheila; Gniomhartha corportha na trocaire; The corporal works of mercy; Cre na mna ti; The housewife's credo; Ceathruinti mhaire ni ogain; Mary Hogan's quatrains / Maire Mhac an tSaoi (1922- ) -- from: Poems and a play inIrish (1981); Jackeen ag Caoineadh na mBlascaod; A jackeen laments the blaskets; Do shean o suilleabhain; Oscar / Breandan O Beachain (Brendan Behan) (1923-64) -- from: Saol fo thoinn (1978) and An bas i dTir na nOg (1988); Roussea na gaeltachta; A gaeltacht Rousseau; Ca suilfam?; Where shall we walk?; Ise seachto hOcht, Eisean ochto ceathair; She being 78, he being 84; 'Besides, who knows before the end what light may shine' / Sean O Tuama (1926- ) -- from: Faoistin Bhacach (1968); Maitheamh; Forgiveness / Pearse Hutchinson (1927- ) -- from: Codarsnai (1981) and cre agus clairseach (1983); Eadartheangachadh; Translation; Nil in aon fhear ach a fhocal; 'A man is only as good as his word' / Tomas Mac Siomoin (1938- ) -- from: Adharca broic (1978), Do nuala foigne crainn (1984) -- An dobharchu ghonta; The wounded otter; Fis dheireanach Eoghan Rua O suilleabhain; Gne na Gaeltachta; The gaeltacht face; from: An lia nocht (1984); from: The naken surgeon / Michael Hartnett (1941- ) -- from: Selected poems/Rogha danta 1968-1984 (1987); Meirg agus Lios Luachra; Rust and rampart of rushes; An scathan; The mirror; O mo bheirt phailistineach; O my two palestinians; I gCuimhne ar Lis Cearnaighe, blascaodach (1974); Dan do Sheosamh O hEanai; Poem to Joe Heaney / Michael Davitt (1950- ) -- from: Tine chnamh (1984), Innti II (1988); Portraid oige I; Portrait of youth I; An ceoltoir jazz; The jazz musician; Do chara liom; For my friend; Tobar; A well; Sa daingean; In dingle / Liam O Muirthile (1950- ) -- from: An dealg droighin (1981), Fear suaithinseach (1984); Leaba shioda; Labasheedy (The silken bed); I amBaile an tSleibhe; In baile an tSleibhe; An bhagog bhriste; The broken doll; Dan do Mhelissa; Poem for Melissa; Breith anabai thar lear; Miscarriage abroad; Gaineamh shuraic; Quicksand; Masculus giganticus Hibernicus / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (1952- ) -- from: Suibhne (1987); Suile Shuibhne; Sweeney's eyes / Cathal O Searcaigh (1956- ) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Irish Fiction 1965-1990 / John Wilson Foster -- Introduction -- from: Redemption (1949) / Francis Stuart (1902- ) -- from: At night all cats are grey (1966); Myko -- Patrick Boyle (1905-82) -- from: Talk to me (1965) / Janet McNeill (1907- ) -- Return of the boy (1973) / Michael J. Murphy (1913- ) -- from: A ball of malt and Madame Butterfly (1973); A great God's angel standing / Benedict Kiely (1919- ) -- from: The trusting and the maimed and otherIrish stories (1955); Dublin Fusilier / James Plunkett (1920- ) -- from: The lonely passion of Judith Hearne (1955) / Brian Moore (1921- ) -- from: Antiquities: a sequence of short stories (1978); A bitch and a dog hanging / Val Mulkerns (1925- ) -- from: Scenes from a receeding past (1977) / Aidan Higgins (1927- ) -- from: Tattoo lily, and other ulster stories (1961); Benedicite / Robert Harbison (1928- ) -- from: Beyond the pale and other stories (1981); Beyond the pale / William Trevor (1928- ) -- from: Different kinds of love (1987); The hairdresser / Leland Bardwell (1928- ) -- from: Sects and other stories (1987); Lonely heart / John Morrow (1930- ) -- from: Heritage and other stories (1978); Cancer / Eugene McCabe (1930- ) -- from: Mrs Reinhardt and other stories (1978); Number ten / Edna O'Brien (1932- ) -- from: Daughters of passion (1982); Why should not old men be mad? / Julia O'Faolain (1932- ) -- from: Nightlines (1970); Korea / John McGahern (1934- ) -- from: Bogmail (1978) / Patrick McGinley (1937- ) -- from: A time to dance (1982); Language, truth and lockjaw / Bernard MacLaverty (1942- ) -- from: The lady with the red shoes (1980); The lady with the red shoes / Ita Daly (1944- ) -- from: Long Lankin (1970, 1984); De rerum natura; from: Mefisto (1986) / John Banville (1945- ) -- from: Banished misfortune and other stories (1982); Banished misfortune / Dermot Healy (1947- ) -- from: Night in tunisia and other stories (1976); Night in Tunisia / Neil Jordan (1951- ) -- Paradise (1991) / Ronan Sheehan (1953- ) -- from: Adventures in a Bathyscope (1988); Fathers / Aidan Mathews (1956- ) -- His father's son (1988) / Dermot Bolger (1959- ) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

Contemporary Drama 1953-1986 / D.E.S. Maxwell -- Introduction -- The wood of the whispering (1953) / Michael J. Molloy (1917- ) -- from: Over the bridge (1960) / Sam Thompson (1916-65) -- from: King of the castle (1964) / Eugene McCabe (1930- ) -- from: The field (1965) / John B. Keane (1928- ) -- from: The flats (1971) / John Boyd (1912- ) -- from: Catchpenny twist (1977) / Stewart Parker (1941-88) -- from: The death of humpty-dumpty (1979) / Graham Reid (1945- ) -- Translations (1980) / Brian Field (1929- ) -- Bailegangaire (1985) / Thomas Murphy (1935- ) -- from: Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the somme (1985) / Frank McGuinness (1956- ) -- Double cross (1986) / Thomas Kilroy (1934- ) -- Biographies/Bibliographies.

ContemporaryIrish poetry / Declan Kiberd -- Introduction -- from: One landscape still (1958); No mean city; Be still as you are beautiful; Of late; She walked unaware; Flowering currant; O! Come to the land / Patrick MacDonogh (1902-61) -- from: Poems (1974); Assumption; Yeats's tower at Ballylee; Women; The poems of love; Johnstown castle; The young fenians; Kiltartan Legend; Letter from Ballylee; Mater Dei; Magna Mater; Painting of my father; Sunday morning; From: Poems and versions (1983); A hedge schoolmaster; After horace. Solvitur acris hiems / Padraic Fallon (1905-74) -- from: Charlie Donnelly. The life and poems (1987); The flowering bars; The tolerance of crows; Poem; Heroic heart / Charles Donnelly (1914-37) -- from: Horan's field and other reservations (1972); This houre her vigill; Shadows; Underworld; Icarus; Hector / Valentin Iremonger (1918- ) -- from: Nights in the bad place (1977); The British connection; Credo credo; Soldiers / Padraic Fiacc (1924- ) -- from: New and selected poems (1982); Concord; Plentitude; Baudelaire in brussels; For a father; Prophet / Anthony Cronin (1925- ) -- from: Tongue without hands (1963); Eight frontiers distant; from: The frost is all over (1975); Achnasheen; The frost is all over / Pearse Hutchinson (1927- ) -- from: Sailing to an island (1963); The last galway hooker; from: The battle of Aughrim (1968); Casement's funeral; from: High island; Little hunger; from: The price of stone (1985); Moonshine; The price of stone; Wellington testimonial; Ice rink; Natural son / Richard Murphy (1927- ) -- from: Another September (1958); Another September; Baggot street deserta; from: Moralities (1960); Song; from: Downstram (1962); Downstream; Mirror in February; from: Wormwood (1966); Wormwood; from: Notes from The land of the dead and other poems (1972); Ancestor; Tear; Hen woman; St. Paul's rocks: 16 February 1832; The dispossed; from: One and other poems (1974); His father's hands; from: Out of Ireland (1987); The furnace; Entrance / Thoams Kinsella (1928- ) -- from: Forms of exile (1958); Speech for an idealIrish election; The trout; from: Poisoned lands (1961); Like dolmens round my childhood, the old people; A welcoming party; from: A chosen light (1967); All legendary obstacles; Back to school; The siege of Millingar, 1963; To cease; from: The rough field (1972); A lost tradition; from: A slow dance (1975); Mount Eagle; Dowager; Small secrets; from: The great cloak (1978); She walks alone / John Montague (1929- ) -- from: Energy to burn (1971); The silent marriage; from: The long summer still to come (1973); Didn't he ramble; from: Poems 1956-1986 (1986); Ulster says yes / James Simmons (1933- ) -- from: The dark edge of Europe (1967); The poet in old age fishing at evening; from: A limerick rake: versions from theIrish (1978); The county mayo; The lass from Ballynalee / Desmond O'Grady (1935- ) -- from: Collection one (1966); My dark fathers; The thatcher; Yes; from: Cromwell (1983); Reading aloud; Radio; Mud; 'Therefore, I smile.'; Am / Brendan Kennelly (1936- ) -- from: Death of a naturalist (1966); The early purges; Follower; from: Door into the dark (1969); Requiem for the Croppies; Bogland; from: Wintering out (1972); Traditions; The tollund man; from: North (1975); Viking Dublin: trial pieces; Punishment; Singing school: exposure; from: Field work (1979); The skunk; from: Station island (1984); Chekhov on Sakhalin; Station island: II; XII; The master; The old icons; from: The haw lantern (1987); From the republic of conscience clearances / Seamus Heaney (1939- ) -- from: An exploded view (1973); The adulterer; Wouds; from: Man lying on a wall (1976); The lodger; Man lying on a wall; from: The echo gate (1979); Second sight / Michael Longley (1939- ) -- from: Gradual wars (1972); Roots; Return; from: History lessons (1983); A world without a name; History lessons; Breaking wood; from: Selected poems (1988); Reading Paradise Lost in protestant Ulster 1984 / Seamus Deane (1940- ) -- from: Night-crossing (1968); Glengormley; In carrowdore churchyard; A portrait of the artist; Thinking of inishere in Cambridge, Massachusetts; from: Lives (1972); Ecclesiastes; An image from Beckett; I am raftery; from: The snow party (1975); The mute phenomena; A disused shed in co.; Wexford; from: Poems 1962-1978 (1979); The chinese restaurant in Portrush; from: The hunt by night (1982); The globe in North Carolina; Courtyards in delft; Derry morning / Derek Mahon (1941- ) -- from: A farewell to English (1975); Maiden street wake; Pigkilling; Dryad; A visit to Castletown house; Mrs Halpin and the lightning; A visit to cromm 1745; Patience of a tree / Michael Harnett (1941- ) -- from: What light there is (1987); A closer look; Four deer / Eamon Grennan (1941- ) -- from: Acts and monuments (1972); Acts and monuments; Going back to Oxford; from: Site of Ambush (1975); Lucina schynning in silence of the night ...; Darkening all the strand; The lady's tower; from: The second voyage (1977, 1986); The second voyage / Eilean Grennan (1941- ) -- from: New territory (1967); New territory; from: Night feed (1982); Night feed; Ode to suburbia; The woman turns herself into a fish; from: The journey and other poems (1987); The journey; The emigrantIrish / Eavan Boland (1944- ) -- from: O westport in the light of Asia minor (1975); Dun chaoin; from: Teresa's bar (1986); The baker; from: Jesus, break his fall (1980); The death by heroin of Sid Vicious; from: The Berlin wall cafe (1985); The marriage contract; Bewley's oriental cafe, Westmoreland street / Paul Durcan (1944- ) -- from: A store of candles (1977); Islands; from: A northern spring (1986); McConnell's birthday; Home / Frank Ormsby (1947- ) -- Elegy for John Donne by Joseph Brodsky; from: At the protestant museum (1986); Mount nebo / Hugh Maxton (1947- ) -- from: TheIrish for no (1987); TheIrish for no; Belfast confetti; Clearance / Ciaran Carson (1948- ) -- from: The strange museum (1980); Still century; from: Liberty tree (1983); Desertmartin; Off the back of a lorry; A written answer; Manichean geography I; Of difference does it make; A nation, yet again; Argument from design; from: Fivemiletown (1987); Father of history; An ulster unionist walks the streets of London / Tom Paulin (1949- ) -- from: The flower master (1982); Slips; The flitting; from: Venus and the rain (1984); The villain; Painter and poet; Catching geese / Madbh McGuckian (1950- ) -- from: New weather (1973); Thrush; The field hospital; from: Mules (1977); The bearded woman by Ribera; from: Whe browlee left (1980); Cuba; Anseo; Why Brownlee left; Truce; from: Quoof (1983); Trance; The right arm; Cherish the ladies; Aisling; My father and I and Billy; Two rivers; Quoof; from: Meeting the British (1987); The wishbone; Christo's / Paul Muldoon (1951- ) -- from: Winter work (1983); My care; Dung; Winter work; The heart of Ireland / Peter Fallon (1951- ) -- from: The lundys letter (1985); The Lundys letter; The desert campaign; The clock on a wall of Farringdon Gardens, August 1971; The sleepwalker / Gerald Dawe (1952- ) -- from: Comparative lives (1983); The seamstress / Harry Clifton (1952- ); from: The liberal cage (1988); The liberal cage; Id / Matthew Sweeny (1952- ) -- from: Hidden extras (1987); Thurles; Brief lives / Dennis O'Driscoll (1954- ) -- from: The sorrow garden (1981); A meeting with Parnell Windows; from: The non-aligned Storyteller (1984); Black flags at a party meeting; The non-aligned storyletter / Thomas McCarthy (1954- ) -- from: The rhetorical town (1985); The tree alphabet; The real snow; The February town / Sebastian Barry (1955- ) -- from: Windfalls (1977); An answer; from: Minding Ruth (1983); Passages; The death ofIrish; Keeping pacific time / Aidan Mathews (1956- ) -- from: The diary of a silence (1985); The black piano; On hearing Michael Hartnett read his poetry inIrish / Michael O'Loughlin (1958- ) -- from: Cast in the fire (1986); Thrust & Parry; Out of the ordinary; Interrogative; Leavetaking / Greg Delanty (1958- ) -- Bibliographical note -- Biographies/Bibliographies -- Select general bibliography -- Index of first lines of poems -- General index to Volume III.

Early Medieval law, c. 700-1200 / Donnchadh O Corrain; Mary, Eve and the church c. 600-1800 / Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha; Gormlaith and her sisters c. 750-1800 / Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha; Society and myth c. 700-1300 / Maire Herbert; Sovereignty and politics c. 1300-1900 / Mairin Nic Eoin; Courts and coteries I c. 900-1600 / Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha;Irish medical writing 1400-1600 / Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha; Courts and coteries II c. 1500-1800 / Mairin Ni Dhonnchadha; Women and the religious reformation in early modern Ireland / Magaret Mac Curtain; Memoirs and testimonies: nonconformist women in seventeenth-century Ireland / Phil Kilroy; Eighteenth-century Catholic and Protestant women / Rosemary Raughter;The re-emergence of nuns and convents 1800-1962 / Caitriona Clear; The century of religious zeal, 1800-74 / Janice Holmes; Hymns and hymn-writers 1850-1930 / Sarah MacDonald; Recollections of Catholicism 1906-1960 / Margaret Mac Curtain; Religious conviction: women's voices 1900-2000 / Margaret Mac Curtain; Poetry of the spirit 1900-95 / Margaret MacCurtain; Expanding boundaries: faith and science 1850-1990 / Maire Rodgers; Theology and ethics: the twentieth century / Mary Condren; Sexual discourse in English before the act of union: prescription and dissent 1685-1801 / Siobhan Kilfeather; Sexual expression and genre 1801-1917 / Siobhan Kilfeather; Childbirth 1742-1955 / Jo Murphy Lawless; Infanticide in nineteenth-century Ireland / Dympna McLoughlin; Public discourse, private reflection, 1916-70 / Marjorie Howes; Contesting Ireland: the erosion of heterosexual consensus 1940-2001 / Siobhan Kilfeather and Eibhear Walsh; Lesbian encounters 1745-1997 / Emma Donoghue; Explorations of love and desire in writing for children 1791-1979 / Siobhan Kilfeather; Life stories / Angela Bourke and Patricia Lysaght; International folktales / Eilis Ni Dhuibhne; Storytelling traditions of theIrish travelers / Bairbre Ni Fhloinn; Legends of the supernatural / Angela Bourke and Patricia Lysaght;The song tradition / Rionach Ui Ogain and Tom Munnelly; Lamenting the dead / Angela Bourke; Spirituality and religion in oral tradition / Angela Bourke and Patricia Lysaght; Work and play / Angela Bourke; Writing oral traditions / Patricia Lysaght --