CONTENTS: Terence Brown, Preface [vii]; Michael Longley , ‘Blackthorn and Bonsai or, A Little Brief Authority’ [1]; Eavan Boland , ‘The Irish Woman Poet: Her Place in Irish Literature’ [29]; Frank Mc Guinness, ‘The Spirit of Play in Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis’ [49]; Anita Desai, ‘The First and The Last Renaissance Man from Bengal’ [61-83].
[Note also William O’Brien, MP, intro. to W. P. Ryan, The Heart of Tipperary.]¶