The Irish Review, No. 23 (Winter 1998), 196pp.

[Guest] Ed. Louis de Paor

CONTENTS:

Seán Ó Tuama, ‘Readings in Irish Ceathruna Phadraigin Haicead’ [1]

Louis de Paor, ‘Myles na gCopaleen agus Drochshampla na nDealeabhar’ [24]

Seán Mac Mathuna, ‘A New Short Story: Fathers’ [33]

Frank Sewell, ‘Sean O Riordain: Joycery-Corkery-Sorcery’ [42]

Gearoid Ó Crualaoich, ‘Otherworld Harmonies and Heroic Utterance: The Fruits of the Literary Act amongst us’ [62]

Michelle O’Riordan, ‘Professors and Performers and "others of their kind": Contextualizing the Irish Bardic Poet’ [73].

Olivier Burckhardt, ‘Literatures and Cultures Modern-Day Troubadours’ [89].

Peter McDonald, ‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: Arnold and Irish Culture’ [94].

Bruce Stewart, ‘Anthologising Ireland: Irish Literature (1904) and its Contexts’ [105].

Thomas Powell, ‘1798 Re-examined: The United Irishmen and theWexford Rebellion - the Sources Re-examined’ [127].

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REVIEWS

Riana O’Dwyer, review of Maire N, Annrachaun agus Briona Nic Dhiannada. eds., Teacs agus Comhtheacs: Gneithe de Chritic na Gaeilge [141].

Carol Rumens, review of Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters [144].

Kevin Barry, review of Derek Mahon: The Yellow Book Journalism [149].

Jim McAleavey, review of Willy Maley: Salvaging Spenser: Glonialism, Culture and Identity, Anne Fogarty, ed., Irish University Review Special Issue: Spenser in Ireland: ‘The Faerie Queene’ [151].

Guinn Batten, review of Neil Corcoran, After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature; Ben Howard, The Pressed Melodeon: Essays on Modern Irish Writing; Steven Matthews, Irish Poetry, Politics, History, Negotiation: The Evolving Debate [158].

Des O’Rawe, review of Michael Coady, All Souls; Brendan Kennelly, The Man Made of Rain; Catherine Phil MacCarthy, The Blue Globe; David Wheatley, Thirst [169].

Máire Ní Annrachain, review of Pól Breathnach, Do Lorg: Danta agus Aortha/Traces de ton passage, Poèmes et satires en irlandais [173].

Tom Garvin, review of Peter Hart, The IRA and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork; Richard English, Ernie O’Malley, IRA Intellectual; Malachi O’Doherty, The Trouble With Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA [176].

Caitriona Clutterbuck, review of Medbh McGuckian, Selected Poems [179].

Colm Breathnach, review of Padraig O Ciobhain, Ar Gach Maoilinn ta Síochaín [181].

Brian Ó Conchubhair, review of Mairin Nic Eoin, B’ait Leo Bean, Gnéithe den Ide-eolafocht Inscne i dTraidisiún Liteartha na Gaeilge [185].

James Quinn, review of James Kelly, Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Thomas Bartlett, ed., Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone [187].

Caitriona O’Reilly, review of Sean O’Brien, The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry [191].

Notes on Contributors [194].

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