On A Personal Note [xxxi] Introduction [xxxix]

1890s: Shadows, Moods and Arguments: Douglas Hyde (1892) “The Necessity for De-Anglicizing Ireland”, from Charles Gavan Duffy et al., The Revival of Irish Literature (1894) [2] Douglas Hyde trans. (1893) “Da dTeinnse Siar' (If I Were To Go West), from Abhrliin Grlidh Chuige Connacht (Love Songs of Connacht) [13] Lionel Johnson (1893) “Parnell' from The United Irishman [13] R. P. Carton (1895) “The Association of Scenery'; from The Irish Monthly [15] Maurice F. Egan (1898) “The Orange Lilies' from from the Land of StLawrence [22] E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross (1899) “Lisheen Races, Second Hand”, from Some Experiences of an Irish R.M [25] David Patrick Moran (1899) “The Battle of Two Civilizations”, from Lady Gregory (ed.), Ideals in Ireland (1901) [31] W.B. Yeats (1899) “The Literary Movement in Ireland”, from Lady Gregory (ed.), Ideals in Ireland (1901) [38] George Russel (Æ) (1899) “Nationality or Cosmopqlitanism”, from Imagination and Reveries (1921) [44] James Connolly (1899) “Physical Force in Irish Politics”, from Workers' Republic [47] Anon. (1899) Lecture by Mr W B. Yeats, from Irish Literary Society Gazette [49] Oscar Wilde (1899) from The Ballad of Reading Gaol [52]

Irish Writing in the 1900s, CRITICAL & DOCUMENTARY: Standish James O'Grady (1900) “The Great Enchantment' from All Ireland Review [56] W.B. Yeats (1900) “The Symbolism of Poetry”, from Ideas of Good and Evil (1907) [57] F.P. Dunne (1900) “The Irishman Abroad”, “The Decline of National Feeling”, from Mr Dooley In the Hearts of His Countrymen [59] W.B. Yeats (1901) “Magic”, from Ideas of Good and Evil (1907) [62] Francis Fahy (1901) “The Irish Language Movement”, from The Irish lAnguage Movement [63] Arthur Griffith (1904) “The Resurrection of Hungary”, from The Resurrection of Hungary' [65] J.M. Synge (1905) “from Galway to Gorurnna”, from The Manchester Guardian [68] John Eglinton (1906) “The De-Davisization of lrish Literature”, from Bards and Saints [70] Frederick Ryan (1906) “Criticism and Courage”, from Criticism and Courage and Other Essays [74] George A. Birmingham (1907) “The Literary Movement in Ireland”, from The Fortnightly Review [77] Bernard Vaughan (1908) “Christ Before the People”, from Sin, Society and Behaviour [83] IMAGINATIVE: Arthur Conan Doyle (1900) “The Green Flag”, from The Green Flag [87] George Russell (Æ) (1900) “A Farewell to the Hills”, from All Ireland Review [94] Moira O'Neill (1901) “Corrymeela”, from Songs of the Glens of Antrim [95] Lady Gregory (1902) “The Only Son of Aoife”, from CUthulain of Muirthemne [95] W.B. Yeats (1902) Cathleen ni Houlihan [98] George Moore (1903) “Home Sickness”, from The Untilled Field [103] Joseph Furphy (1903) from Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins [108] Padraic Colum (1904) “A Portrait”, from Æ (ed.), New Songs [117] Eva Gore-Booth (1904) “The Little Waves of Breffny”, from The One and the Many [117] Lady Gregory (1904) Spreading the News, from Seven Short Plays (1909) [118] G.B. Shaw (1904) John Bull’s Other Island [126] Eva Gore-Booth (1906) “Womens Rights”, from The Egyptian Pillar [170] J.M. Synge (1907) The Playboy of the Western World [171] Joseph Campbell (1907) “I am the Gilly of Christ”, from The Gilly of Christ [195] Lynn Doyle (1908) from Ballygullion “The Wooden Leg' [196] Seumas O’sullivan (1908) “A Piper”, “Glasnevin, October 9th, 1904”, from Verses: Sacred and Profane [202] James Stephens (1909) “The Shell”, from Insurrections [202] Joseph Campbell (1909) “I am the Mountainy Singer”, “Night, and I Travelling”, from The Mountain' Singer [203]

Irish Writing in the 1910s, CRITICAL & DOCUMENTARY: Reverand P.S. Dinneen (1909) “The World-wide Empire of the Irish Race”, from Journal of the Ivernian Sodety (1910) [206] Patrick Weston Joyce (1910) “Affirming, Assenting, and Saluting' from English As We Speak It In Ireland [208] Joseph Campbell (1911) “A Ballad-Singer”, “The Human Voice”, from The Mearing Stones [211] J.M. Hone (1912) “Yeats, Synge and “The Playboy””, fromThe Irish Book Lover [212] George Tyrrell (1912) “1876”, from M.D. Petre, Autobiography and Life of George Tyrrell, Vol. 1 [213] Stephen Gwynn (1913) “Irish Book Lovers”, from The Freeman’s Journal [217] Anon. (1913) “Irish Literary Society: Coming of Age Celebrations”, from The Irish Book Lover [218] George Moore (1914) From Hail and Farewell: Vale [219] Peter O'Leary (1915) “The Hunger”, from Mo Sgeal Fein (trans. Cyril Ó Ceirin, trans., My Story, 1979) [223] John Howard Parnell (1916) “My Brother’s Personality”, from Charles ,Stewart Parnell: A Memoir [227] Thomas MacDonagh (1916) “The Irish Mode”, from Literature in Ireland [230] James Stephens (1916) “Wednesday”, from The Insurrection in Dublin [235] George Bernard Shaw (1916) “The Easter Week Executions”, from The Daily Neivs [239] James Stephens (1916) From Letters of James Stephens (Richard J. finneran ed., 1974) [241] Anon. (1917) “Reveries” and “Responsibilities”, from The Irish Book Lover [242] Darrell Figgis (1917) from A Chronide of Jails (1917) [242] George Russell (Æ) (1917) “The New Nation, from Imagination and Reveries (1921) [246]. IMAGINATIVE: Padraic O Conaire (1910) from Deoraiocht, (trans. Gearailt Mac Eoin, Exile, 1994) [249] J.M. Synge (1911) “In Kerry”, “A Question”, “Prelude”, “In May”, “The Curse”, from Poems and Translations [251] Joseph Campbell (1911) “The Weaver’s Family”, from Irishry [252] St John Ervine (1911) Mixed Marriage, from Four Irish Plays (1914) [252] Francis Ledwidge (1913) “June”, from Lyrical Poems [258] Thomas MacDonagh (1913) “The Yellow Bittern”, from Lyrical Pieces [258] W.B. Yeats (1914) “September 1913”, “Fallen Majesty”, “The Cold Heaven”, from Responsibilities, [259] Patrick Pearse (1914) “I Am Ireland”, from Suantraide agus Goltraide [260] Patrick MacGill (1914) “De Profundis”, from Children of the Dead End [261] Lord Dunsany (1914) “The Assignition”, from The Poetry Review [267] Patrick MacGill (1916) “Padding It”, from Songs of the Dead End [268] Patrick Pearse (1917) “The Wayfarer”, from Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse [270] W.B. Yeats (1916) “Easter 1916' from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) [270] Francis Ledwidge (1917) “Thomas MacDonagh”, from Songs of Peace [272] Joseph Campbell (1917) “Earth of Cualann”, “The Revealer”, from Earth of Cualann [272] James Stephens (1918) “Righteous Anger”, “0 Bruadair”, from Reincarnations [273] W.B. Yeats (1919) “The Wild Swam at Coole”, “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory”, “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”, from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) [274] W.B. Yeats (1919) “The Second Coming”, from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) [276] Eimar O'Duffy (1919) “Catastrophe”, from The Wasted Island [277]

Irish Writing in the 1920s, CRITICAL & DOCUMENTARY: Constance Markievicz (1920) from Esther Roper (ed.) Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz (1934) [282] Micheal Collins (1922) “Distinctive Culture”, from The Path to Freedom [284] George Russell (Æ) (1923) “Lessons of Revolution”, from Studies [286] Daniel Corkery (1924) “The Aisling”, from The Hidden Ireland [288] Francis Stuart and Cecil Salkeld (1924) “To All Artists and Writers”, from Tomorrow [290] W.B. Yeats (1925) “Speech on Divorce”, from Donald R. Pearce (ed.) The Senate Speeches of W.B. Yeats (1961) [291] Andrew E. Malone (1927) “The Coming of Age of the Irish Drama”, from The Dublin Review [294] Frank Gallagher (1928) from Days of Fear [299] Donn Byrne (1929) from Ireland: The Rock Whence I Was Hewn [302] Tomas O Criomhthain (1929) “Shrovetide, 1878”, from An tOileanach (trans. Robin Flower, The Islandman, 1937) [304]. IMAGINATIVE: Robin Flower (1920) “The Great Blasket: Poets”, from The Irish Book Lover [307] Conal O'Riordan (1920) “The Abbey Theatre”, from Adam of Dublin: A Romance of Today [307] John O'Brien (1921) “St Patrick’s Day”, from Around the Boree Log [311] Darrell Figgis (1922) from The House of Success [313] George Russell (Æ) (1922) from The Interpreters [320] James Joyce (1922) “Telemachus”, “Calypso”,:Hades”, “Scylla and Charybdis”, “Wandering Rocks”, “Sirens”, “Cyclops”, “Circe”, “Ithaca”, “Penelope' from Ulysses, [323] Con O'Leary (1922) “The Snipe”, from The Manchester Guardian [347] W.B. Yeats (1923), “Meditations in Time of Civil War”, from The Dial [349] Dorothy MacArdle (1924) “The Portrait of RoisinDhu”, from Earth-Bound: Nine Stories of Ireland [350] W.B. Yeats (1924) “Leda and the Swan”, from Tomorrow [353] F. Scott Fitzgerald (1924) “Absolution' from All The Sad Young Men (1926) [354] Forrest Reid (1926) from Apostate [361] Liam O'Flaherty (1926) “The Tent”, from The Jent and Other Stories [364] W.B. Yeats (1927) “Among School Children”, from The Dial [368] F.R. Higgins (1927) “The Dark Breed”, from The Dark Breed [369] W.B. Yeats (1928) “Sailing to Byzantium”, from The Tower [370] Thomas MacGreevy (1929) “Seventh Gift of the Holy Ghost”, from The Dublin Review [371]

Irish Writing in the 1930s, CRITICAL & DOCUMENTARY: Mary Manning (1931) “A Letter from Dublin”, from The Saturday Review of Literature [374] George Russell (Æ) (1932) “An Essay On The Character In Irish Literature”, from Frank O'Connor, The Wild Birds Nest [375] F. Scott Fitzgerald (1933) from Andrew Turnbull (ed.), The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1968) [377] “Andrew Belis' (1934) “Recent Irish Poetry' from The Bookman [378] Pat O'Mara (1934) from The Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy [381] Ernest Boyd (1934) “Joyce and the New Irish Writers”, from Current History [385] Monk Gibbon (1935) from The Seals [389] George C. Homans (1936) “Boston Irish”, from The Saturday Review of Literature [391] Peadar O'Donnell (1936) “What I Saw In Spain”, from Ireland Today [392] Kate O'Brien (1937) “Adios, Turismo”, from Farewell Spain [393] Grattan Freyer (1938) “A Letter from Ireland”, from Scrutiny [398] Seamas MacManus (1938) “So They Said And Felt And Saw”, from The Rocky Road to Dublin [403] Robert Gibbings (1938) “Leaves from My Note-book”, from Blue Angels and Whales [407] Sean O'Casey (1939) “Life Is More Than Meat”, from I Knock at the Door [408] Peig Sayers (1939) “A Milk-House in Litde Island, Nance Daly and Nora Keaveney”, from Machtnamh Seana-Mhna (trans.’seamus Ennis, An Old Woman’s Reflections, 1962) [410] IMAGINATIVE Frank O'Connor (1931) “Guests of the Nation”, from Guests of the Nation [413] L.A.G. Strong (1931) from The Garden [419] John Hewitt (1932) “Ireland”, from The Listener [421] Austin Clarke (1932) from The Bright Temptation [422] W.B. Yeats (1933) “Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931”, “Byzantium”, “Remorse for Intemperate Speech”, “CrazyJane Talks with the Bishop”, from The Winding Stair and Other Poems [428] Blanaid Salkeld (1933) “Invitation”, “Here”, “Encyclopaedia”, from Hello Eternity! [430] Patrick Slater (1933) “Jimmie’s Speeding”, from The Yellow Briar [431] John O'Hara (1934) from BUtterfield 8 [436] James T. Farrell (1934) from The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan [439] Samuel Beckett (1935) “Echo’s Bones”, from Echo’s Bones [442] Blanaid Salkeld (1935) “The Fox’s Covert”, from The Fox’s Covert [442] Teresa Deevy (1935) The King of Spain’s Daughter from Three Plays (1939) [443] Joseph F. Dinneen (1936) from Ward Eight [449] Miles Franklin (1936) from All That Swagger [454] Patrick Kavanagh (1936) “lnniskeen Road: July Evening”, from Ploughman and Other Poems [456] Michael McLaverty (1937) “Game Cock”, from Ireland Today [457] Louis MacNeice (1937) “Carrickfergus' from E.R. Dodds (ed.), The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice (1979) [461] Charles Donnelly “Poem”, “The Tolerance of Crows”, (1937) from Ireland Today [462]

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Irish writing in the 1930s: critical and documentary. from The Saturday review of literature. “A letter from Dublin” / Mary Manning -- “An essay on the character in Irish literature” / George Russell -- from The letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- from The bookman. “Recent Irish poetry” / Andrew Belis [Samuel Beckett] -- from The autobiography of a Liverpool Irish slummy / Pat O'Mara -- from Current history. “Joyce and the new Irish writers” / Ernest Boyd -- from The seals / Monk Gibbon -- from The Saturday review of literature. “Boston Irish” / George C. Homans -- from Ireland today. “What I saw in Spain” / Peadar O'Donnell -- from Farewell Spain. “Adios, turismo” / Kate O'Brien -- from Scrutiny. “ A letter from Ireland” / Grattan Freyer -- from The rocky road to Dublin. “So they said and felt and saw” / Seamas MacManus -- from Blue angels and whales. “Leaves from my note-book” / Robert Gibbings -- from I knock at the door. “Life is more than meat” / Sean O'Casey -- from Machtnamh seana-mhnaá. “A milk house in Little Island: Nance Daly and Nora Keaveney” / Peig Sayers.

Irish writing in the 1930s: imaginative. from Guests of the nation. “Guests of the nation” / Frank O'Connor -- from The garden / L.A.G. Strong -- from The listener. “Ireland” / John Hewitt -- from The bright temptation / Austin Clarke -- from The winding stair and other poems. “Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931”; “Byzantium”; “Remorse for intemperate speech”; “Crazy Jane talks with the bishop” / W.B. Yeats -- from Hello eternity! “Invitation”; “Here”; “Encyclopaedia” / Blanaid Salkeld -- from The yellow briar. “Jimmie’s speeding” / Patrick Slater -- from BUtterfield 8 / John O'Hara -- from The young manhood of Studs Lonigan / James T. Farrell -- from Echo’s bones. “Echo’s bones / Samuel Beckett -- from The fox’s covert. “The fox’s covert” / Blanaid Salkeld -- from Three plays. “The king of Spain’s daughter” / Teresa Deevy -- from Ward eight / Joseph F. Dinneen -- from All that swagger / Miles Franklin -- from Ploughman and other poems. “Inniskeen road: July evening” / Patrick Kavanagh -- from Ireland today. “Game cock” / Michael McLaverty -- from The collected poems of Louis MacNeice. “Carrickfergus” / Louis MacNeice -- from Ireland today. “Poem”; “The tolerance of crows” / Charles Donnelly -- from Lifer / Jim Phelan -- from Pray for the wanderer / Kate O'Brien -- from New poems. “Lapis lazuli” / W.B. Yeats -- from Night and morning. “The straying student”; “Summer lightning” / Austin Clarke -- from Autumn journal. “Section XVI” / Louis MacNeice -- from At swim-two-birds / Flann O'Brien -- from Last poems and plays. “Under Ben Bulben”; “The statues”; “News for the Delphic oracle”; “The circus animals' desertion”; “Politics” / W.B. Yeats -- from Horizon. “Cushendun” / Louis MacNeice.

Irish writing in the 1940s: critical and documentary. from Jail journal. “A chiel’s amang ye” / Jim Phelan -- from The listener. “An Irishman looks at England” / Frank O'Connor -- from Horizon. “Traveller’s return / Louis MacNeice -- from Ireland-Atlantic gateway. “The Irish empire” / Jim Phelan -- from Horizon. “The future of Irish literature” / Frank O'Connor -- from The Irish times. “Cruiskeen lawn” / Myles Na Gopaleen -- from The tailor and Ansty / Eric Cross -- from An Ulsterwoman in England 1924-41 / Nesca A. Robb -- from Modern reading no. 6. “Irish letters and the war” / Robert Greacen -- from The bell. “Romance and realism” / Sean O'Faolain -- from All for Hecuba. “Reconnoitre” / Micheaál MacLiammoáir -- from As I roved out: in Belfast and districts. “Tradition and the Falls road”; “How Belfast streets got their names”; “The northern star” / Cathal O'Byrne -- from The Irish times. “An Irishman’s diary” / Patrick Campbell -- from The listener. “The contemporary thought of Ireland” / Arland Ussher -- from Irish writing. “Irish-American literature, and why there isn't any” / John V. Kelleher -- from We follow the roads. “Drift” / Jim Phelan -- from The Irish book lover. “The worm turneth” / Colm Oá Lochlainn -- from Guerrilla days in Ireland. “Counter-terror” / Tom Barry -- from Inishfallen, fare thee well. “High road and low road” / Sean O'Casey.

Irish writing in the 1940s : imaginative. from Letter from Ireland. “Thinking of Artolas”; “Letter from Ireland” / Ewart Milne -- from The great hunger. “Section VII” / Patrick Kavanagh -- from The bell. “Yung Mari Li” / Bryan MacMahon -- from A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith -- from Lagan. “Once alien here” / John Hewitt -- from Rime, gentlemen, please. “For whom 'the bell' tolls” / Robert Farren -- from The listener. “Poem” / Valentin Iremonger -- from The Penguin new writing, no. 20. “Mysterious Kôr” / Elizabeth Bowen -- from Lough Derg and other poems. “Lough Derg” / Denis Devlin -- from The blossoming thorn. “Immigrant exile I, II, III”; “Rhyme of two worlds” / John Coulter -- from Prince of darkness and other stories. “Prince of darkness” / J.F. Powers -- from An braon broghach = The road to brightcity. “The year 1912” / Maáirtián Oá Cadhain.

Irish writing in the 1950s: critical and documentary. from Envoy. “Our Irish publishers” / John Ryan -- from Envoy. “Diary” / Patrick Kavanagh -- from Rolling down the lea. “The destruction still goes on” / Oliver St. John Gogarty -- from Turf beneath my feet. “Connemara: turf and a camera” / Garry Hogg -- from The last of the Irish R.M.s. “The First World War” / Sir Christopher Lynch-Robinson -- from Envoy. “A bash in the tunnel” / Brian O'Nolan -- from Sweet Cork of thee / Robert Gibbings -- from The listener. “The background to 'Dubliners'” / Stanislaus Joyce -- from The bell. “Portrait of a minority” / Hubert Butler -- from The Dublin magazine. “Waiting for Godot” / A.J. Leventhal -- from The London magazine. “Coming to London--IV” / Elizabeth Bowen -- from The listener. “Meet, drink, and be airy” / W.R. Rodgers -- from A fretful midge / Terence De Vere White -- from Irish journal. “In a manner of speaking” / Heinrich Böll -- from Irish folk ways. “Hearth and home” / E. Estyn Evans -- from Borstal boy / Brendan Behan -- from The listener. “Writing a story: one man’s way / Frank O'Connor.

Irish writing in the 1950s: imaginative. from Home is the stranger / Edward A. McCourt -- from December bride / Sam Hanna Bell -- from Envoy. “Who killed James Joyce” / Patrick Kavanagh -- from The Dublin magazine. “Yeats’s tower at Ballylee” / Padraic Fallon -- from Europa and the bull. “The net” / W.R. Rodgers -- from Eireaball spideoige. “Siollabadh” = “Syllabling” / Seaán Oá Riáordaáin -- from Irish writing. “My Oedipus complex” / Frank O'Connor -- from Molloy / Samuel Beckett -- From the quare fellow / Brendan Behan -- from The last hurrah / Edwin O'Connor -- from Long day’s journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- from Malone dies / Samuel Beckett -- from The Sewanee review. “The tomb of Michael Collins” / Denis Devlin -- from The finest stories of Sean O'Faolain. “Lovers of the lake” / Sean O'Faolain -- from The body’s imperfection. “Residue”; “Ripple”; “The harbour” / L.A.G. Strong -- Endgame / Samuel Beckett -- from A touch of the poet, act one / Eugene O'Neill -- from New statesman and nation. “An Irishman in Coventry” / John Hewitt.

Irish writing in the 1960s: critical and documentary. from Studies. “Fifty years of Irish writing” / Sean O'Faolain -- from West Briton. “Our set” / Brian Inglis -- from The lonely voice: a study of the short story / Frank O'Connor -- from My Ireland. “Dublin” / Kate O'Brien -- from The spectator. “The rough field” / John Montague -- from In excited reverie. “Passion and cunning” / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- from The Dublin magazine. “Editorial” / Rivers Carew, Timothy Brownlow -- from Ulster folklife. “A long night in the spike” / Michael J. Murphy -- from The spectator. “The reticence of 'Ulysses'” / Anthony Burgess -- from Hibernia. “The severed hand” / Roy McFadden -- from Hibernia. “Strife and the Ulster poet” / Michael Longley -- from Hibernia. “John Hume’s Derry” / Seamus Heaney.

Irish writing in the 1960s : imaginative. from The country girls / Edna O'Brien -- from The countrywoman / Paul Smith -- from The saucer of larks. “Foundry house” / Brian Friel -- from Collected poems. “On Raglan Road”; “Canal bank walk”; “Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin” / Patrick Kavanagh -- from My dark fathers. “My dark fathers” / Brendan Kennelly -- from Brosna. “Claustrophobia” / Seaán Oá Riáordaáin -- from Michael Joe / William Cotter Murray -- from Ireland her own. “The valley of Knockanure” / Bryan MacMahon -- from At night all cats are grey. “Go away, old man, go away” / Patrick Boyle -- from World’s best science fiction 1967. “Light of other days” / Bob Shaw -- from Night-crossing. “A disused shed in Co. Wexford” / Derek Mahon -- from A bed in the sticks / Lee Dunne -- from Selected poems 1956-68. from “Nightwalker” / Thomas Kinsella -- from Strumpet City / James Plunkett -- from The hungry grass / Richard Power.

Irish writing in the 1970s: critical and documentary. from Irish poets in English. “The divided mind” / Thomas Kinsella -- from Hibernia. “A censored decade” / John Jordan -- from The Cecil King diary 1970-74 / Cecil King -- from 'On our knees': Ireland 1972. “Cry Irish” / Rosita Sweetman -- from Inishkillane. “Family life” / Hugh Brody -- from I am of Ireland / Richard Howard Brown -- from The unexpurgated code. “Upon being told the fatal news--”; “Dying” / J.P. Donleavy -- from Sunday miscellany. “In Iowa: a beauty queen and a blind man” / Benedict Kiely -- from Hibernia. “Broken images” / Jack Holland -- from The Irish times. “The soft centre of Irish writing” / Francis Stuart -- from Southern review. “Being Irish together” / Denis Donoghue -- from The crane bag. “Unhappy and at home: interview with Seamus Heaney / Seamus Deane -- from The tablet. “Britain’s Irish workers” / Donall MaCamhlaigh -- from A place apart / Dervla Murphy.

Irish writing in the 1970s: imaginative. from Down all the days / Christy Brown -- from Troubles / J.G. Farrell -- from Atlantis. “Early recollections” / Eileáan Niá Chuilleanaáin -- from Black list, section h / Francis Stuart -- from The rough field. “A lost tradition” / John Montague -- from The ballroom of romance and other stories. “The ballroom of romance” / William Trevor -- from A memory and other stories. “A memory” / Mary Lavin -- from The wood-burners. “The Irish”; “The wood-burners”; “By nature diffident” / Patrick Galvin -- from West strand visions. “Claudy” / James Simmons -- from North. “Punishment”; “A constable calls”; “Exposure” / Seamus Heaney -- from The lady and the travelling salesman. “Visiting the future” / Leo Simpson -- from Great granny Webster / Caroline Blackwood -- from Shadows on our skin / Jennifer Johnston -- from A cow in the house. “The night we rode with Sarsfield” / Benedict Kiely -- from Under stars. “The ballad of Ballymote” / Tess Gallagher -- from Later. “Theresa’s friends” / Robert Creeley -- from Stand. “For poets writing in English over in Ireland” / Iain Crichton Smith -- from The year of the French. “Ballinamuck, September 10” / Thomas Flanagan -- from Field work. “Casualty”; “The skunk” / Seamus Heaney -- from The pattern. “The gaeltacht” / Vincent Buckley -- from The Mangan inheritance / Brian Moore.

Irish writing in the 1980s: critical and documentary. from The new statesman. “Ireland blasts back” / Mary Holland -- from Tales from two cities: travels of another sort / Dervla Murphy -- from The observer. “A tribute to Beckett on his eightieth birthday” / Derek Mahon -- from The Irish times. “Poetry in Ireland from its roots” / Peter Sirr -- from Memory Ireland. “Introduction” / Vincent Buckley -- from The edge of the city. “Interview with Van Morrison” / Desmond Hogan -- from Saintly Billy. “The Irish and the English” / Bill Naughton -- from Nationalism, colonialism and literature. “Yeats and decolonization” / Edward Said -- from Across the frontiers. “Bono: the white nigger” / Paul Hewson -- from Race and class. “Mothers, whores and villains” / Bill Rolston -- from Riding the yellow trolley car. “Tap dancing into reality” / William Kennedy -- from Object lessons. “Outside history” / Eavan Boland -- from Harp / John Gregory Dunne -- from Helsinger station and other departures. “1927: earliest misgivings, the march of the cadavers” / Aidan Higgins.

Irish writing in the 1980s: imaginative. from Why Brownlee left. “Ireland” / Paul Muldoon -- from A Belfast woman. “A Belfast woman” / Mary Beckett -- from High ground. “Gold watch” / John McGahern -- from Aquarius. “Unique” / Desmond Egan -- from Translations / Brian Friel -- from Good behaviour / Molly Keane -- from Kepler / John Banville -- from The flower master. “The flower master” / Medbh McGuckian -- from Quoof. “Quoof” / Paul Muldoon -- from Jumping the tracks with Angela. “Trinity College Dublin, 1983” / Paul Durcan -- from The selected Roy McFadden. “Conveyancer” / Roy McFadden -- from Edible anecdotes. “A tourist comments on the land of his forefathers” / Julie O'Callaghan -- from Cromwell. “Magic”; “Wine”; “A bit of a swap”; “Therefore I smile”; “A running battle” / Brendan Kennelly -- from Ironweed / William Kennedy -- from Cal / Bernard MacLaverty -- from Station Island / Seamus Heaney -- from Willingly. “Each bird walking” / Tess Gallagher -- from The Berlin Wall cafeá. “Bewley’s Oriental Cafeá, Westmoreland Street” / Paul Durcan -- from A sense of wonder. “A sense of wonder” / Van Morrison -- from The streets of Ancoats / Malcolm Lynch -- from Under the influence. “My land is too green” / Eric A. Visser, Antoinette Hensey -- Conversations on a homecoming / Tom Murphy -- from the Republic of conscience. “From the republic of conscience” / Seamus Heaney -- from Missa terribilis. “The British connection”; “Enemy encounter”; “Crucifixus”; Tears/a lacrimosa” / Padraic Fiacc -- from Letters to the hinterland. “Survivor”; “The Astoria” / Roy McFadden -- from The Irish times. “Echo’s bones” / Desmond Egan -- from Three plays for Ireland. “Pentecost” / Stewart Parker -- from The Irish for no. “Belfast confetti” / Ciaran Carson -- from The journey. “Mise Eire”; “The emigrant Irish”; “Tirade for the lyric muse” / Eavan Boland -- from An baás i dTiár na nOág. “Abair do Phaidir = “Say a prayer” / Seaán Oá Tuama -- from The pogues, if I should fall from grace. “Thousands are sailing” / Philip Chevron -- from The other side / Mary Gordon -- from Ripley Bogle / Robert McLiam Wilson.

Irish writing in the 1990s: critical and docuentary. from Cathleen to anorexia: the breakdown of Irelands / Edna Longley -- from Song for a poor boy: a Cork childhood / Patrick Galvin -- from Proved innocent . “Wandsworth” / Gerry Conlon -- from The Irish review. “Anecdotes over a jar” / Gerald Dawe -- from Krino. “Twentieth century poetry in Irish” / Seaán Oá Tuama -- from Now and in time to be / Thomas Keneally -- from Journey into joy. “Irish poetry since Yeats” / Brendan Kennelly -- from Irish studies review. “Rejoinder” / Colin Graham -- from The honest Ulsterman. “ The Belfast group” / Philip Hobsbaum -- from Donkey’s years. “The great flood” / Aidan Higgins -- from Stones of Aran: labyrinth. “Among the thorns” / Tim Robinson -- from Critical survey. “Declining identities (lit. and fig.)” / Ailbhe Smyth -- from Eáire-Ireland. “Exile, attitude, and the Sin-Eá-Cafeá / Eamonn Wall -- from London review of books. “Playboys of the GPO” / Colm Toáibián -- from Poetry Ireland review. “Disappearing language” / Louis De Paor -- from Granta. “Brand leader” / Fintan O'Toole -- from The star factory. “Brickle bridge” / Ciaran Carson -- from Crazy John and the bishop. “Revisionism revisited” / Terry Eagleton -- from All souls: a family story from Southie / Michael Patrick MacDonald -- from Lost lives / David McKittrick et al.

Irish writing in the 1990s: imaginative. from Pharaoh’s daughter. “An bhean mhiádhiális” = “The unfaithful wife”; “Ceist na teangan” = “The language issue” / Nuala Niá Dhomhnaill -- from Outside history. “The Achill woman” / Eavan Boland -- from Those sailing ships of his boyhood dreams. “A well travelled woman” / Moy McCrory -- from Explaining magnetism. “Second generation” / Maura Dooley -- from Gorse fires. “Detour”; “The butchers” / Michael Longley -- from Last poems. from “Hunger strike” / Vincent Buckley -- from high time for all the marys. “high time for all the marys” / Maáire Bradshaw -- from The Bradford count. “From the Irish” / Ian Duhig -- from The Astrakhan cloak. “Caitlián” = “Cathleen” / Nuala Niá Dhomhnaill -- from The butcher boy / Patrick McCabe -- from Grub. “In the parlour”; “Gate 49”; “Madonna and child” / Martin Mooney -- from A staircase for all souls. “At Spanish banks” / George McWhirter -- from At the grave of Silone. “Where we live” / Harry Clifton -- from Homecoming/an bealach 'na bhaile. “Cor uár” = “A fresh dimension” / Cathal Oá Searcaigh -- from Resurrection man / Eoin McNamee -- from The mai / Marina Carr -- from The prince of the quotidian. “After two days grading papers from the seminar I taught” / Paul Muldoon -- from Walking a line. “51 Sans Souci Park”; “A Belfast bildungsroman” / Tom Paulin -- from The steward of Christendom / Sebastian Barry -- from The ghost orchid. “Sheela-na-gig”; “Ceasefire” / Michael Longley -- from American wake. “The fifth province”; “On the renovation of Ellis Island” / Greg Delanty -- from The woman who walked into doors / Roddy Doyle -- from The Hudson letter. “Global village” / Derek Mahon -- from The bend for home / Dermot Healy -- from Higher purchase. “Remapping the borders” / Rita Ann Higgins -- from Reading in the dark. “Mother” / Seamus Deane -- from Eureka Street / Robert McLiam Wilson -- from Opera et cetera. “Letters from the alphabet/o”; “Jacta est alia”; “Tango” / Ciaran Carson -- from Another nation. “Cuchulainn” / Michael O'Loughlin -- from I could read the sky / Timothy O'Grady, Steven Pyke -- from The knife in the wave. “The lightcatchers” / Mary O'Malley -- The lonesome west / Martin McDonagh -- from The hellbox. “The printer’s devil” / Greg Delanty -- from Greetings to our friends in Brazil. “The Mary Robinson years” / Paul Durcan.