Contents: [5] On the state funerals DIARMAID FERRITER [15] Three notes on the Elgin Marbles TIM ROBINSON [21] A hundred acres, a few ditches, some mist VONA GROARKE [32] The IRA and the cinema RICHARD ENGLISH [41] Virginia Woolfs America ANDREW MCNEILLIE [61] Letter from Ground Zero PATRICK MCGRATH [71] Estrangement JAMES MCCABE [78] from Annie Dunne SEBASTIAN BARRY [90] I and e MOLLY MCCLOSKEY [97] The faint music of the soul ALAN GILSENAN [107] Fables ofhome GEORGE SZIRTES [123] Notes on contributors