Gerald Dawe & Edna Longley, eds., Across the Roaring Hill: The Protestant Imagination in Modern Ireland (Belfast: Blackstaff Press 1985), 242pp.

  Introduction i
1 John Kelly, Choosing and Inventing: Yeats and Ireland 1
2 D.E.S. Maxwell, J. M. Synge and Samuel Beckett 25
3 Michael Allen, A Note on Sex in Beckett 39
4 W. J. McCormack, ‘The Protestant Strain’: Or, A Short History of Anglo-lrish Literature from S.T. Coleridge to Thomas Mann 48
5 James Simmons, ‘The Recipe for all Misfortunes, Courage’ 79
6 Edna Longley, Louis MacNeice: ‘The Walls are Flowing’ 99
7 Bridget O’Toole, Three Writers of the Big House: Elizabeth Bowen,
Molly Keane and Jennifer johnston		 124
8 John Wilson Foster, ‘The Dissidence of Dissent’: John Hewitt and
W.R. Rodgers		 139
9 Mark Storey, ‘Bewildered Chimes’: Image, Voice and Structure
in Recent Irish Fiction		 161
10 Terence Brown, Poets and Patrimony: Richard Murphy and
James Simmons		 182
11 Lynda Henderson, ‘The Green Shoot’: Transcendence and the Imagination
in Contemporary Ulster Drama		 196
12 Geraid Dawe, ‘Icon and Lares’: Dejrek Mahon and Michael Longley 218
  Bibliography 236
  Notes on Contributors 239
  Acknowledgements 241

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