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Irish writing in the twentieth century: a reader
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Cork University Press
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2000
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1890s : shadows, moods and arguments. from The revival of Irish literature. "The necessity of de-Anglicizing Ireland" / Douglas Hyde
from Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht = Love songs of Connacht. "Dá d'téinnse siar" = "If I were to go west" / Douglas Hyde [translator]
from The united Irishman. "Parnell" / Lionel Johnson
from The Irish monthly. "The associations of scenery" / R.P. Carton
from From the land of St. Lawrence. "The orange lilies" / Maurice F. Egan
from Some experiences of an Irish R.M. "Lisheen races, second hand" / E. Œ. Somerville, Martin Ross
from Ideals in Ireland. "The battle of two civilizations" / David Patrick Moran
from Ideals in Ireland. "The literary movement in Ireland" / W.B. Yeats
from Imagination and reveries. "Nationality or cosmopolitanism" / George Russell
from Workers' republic. "Physical force in Irish politics" / James Connolly
from Irish Literary Society gazette. Lecture by Mr. W.B. Yeats / Anonymous
from The ballad of Reading gaol / Oscar Wilde.
Irish writing in the 1900s : critical and documentary. from All Ireland review. "The great enchantment" / Standish James O'Grady
from Ideas of good and evil. "The symbolism of poetry" / W.B. Yeats
from Mr. Dooley in the hearts of his countrymen. "The Irishman abroad" ; "The decline of national feeling" / F.P. Dunne
from Ideas of good and evil. "Magic" / W.B. Yeats
from The Irish language movement. "The Irish language movement" / Francis Fahy
from The resurrection of Hungary. "The resurrection of Hungary" / Arthur Griffith
from The Manchester guardian. "From Galway to Gorumna" / J.M. Synge
from Bards and saints. "The de-Davisization of Irish literature" / John Eglinton
from Criticism and courage and other essays. "Criticism and courage" / Frederick Ryan
from The fortnightly review. "The literary movement in Ireland" / George A. Birmingham
from Sin, society and behaviour. "Christ before the people" / Bernard Vaughan.
Irish writing in the 1900s : imaginative. from The green flag. "The green flag" / Arthur Conan Doyle
from All Ireland review. "A farewell to the hills" / George Russell
from Songs of the glens of Antrim. "Corrymeela" / Moira O'Neill
from Cuchulain of Muirthemne. "The only son of Aoife" / Lady Gregory
Cathleen ni Houlihan / W.B. Yeats
from The untilled field. "Home sickness" / George Moore
from Such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins / Joseph Furphy
from New songs. "A portrait" / Padraic Colum
from The one and the many. "The little waves of Breffny" / Eva Gore-Booth
from Seven short plays. Spreading the news / Lady Gregory
John Bull's other island / G.B. Shaw
from The Egyptian pillar. "Women's rights" / Eva Gore-Booth
The playboy of the Western world / J.M. Synge
from The gilly of Christ. "I am the gilly of Christ" / Joseph Campbell
from Ballygullion. "The wooden leg" / Lynn Doyle
from Verses : sacred and profane. "A piper" ; "Glasnevin, October 9th, 1904" / Seumas O'Sullivan
from Insurrections. "The shell" / James Stephens
from The mountainy siǹger. "I am the mountainy singer" ; "Night, and I travelling" / Joseph Campbell.
Irish writing in the 1910s : critical and documentary. from Journal of the Ivernian Society. "The world-wide empire of the Irish race" / Reverend P.S. Dinneen
from English as we speak it in Ireland. "Affirming, assenting, and saluting" / Patrick Weston Joyce
from The mearing stones. "A ballad singer" ; " The human voice" / Joseph Campbell
from The Irish book lover. "Yeats, Synge and 'The playboy'" / J.M. Hone
from Autobiography and life of George Tyrrell, v. 1. "1876" / George Tyrrell
from The Freeman's Journal. "Irish book lovers" / Stephen Gwynn
from The Irish book lover. "Irish Literary Society : coming of age celebrations" / Anonymous
from Hail and farewell : vale / George Moore
from Mo sgéal féin = My story. "The hunger" / Peter O'Leary
from Charles Stewart Parnell : a memoir. My brother's personality" / John Howard Parnell
from Literature in Ireland. "The Irish mode" / Thomas MacDonagh
from The insurrection in Dublin. "Wednesday" / James Stephens
from The daily news. "The Easter week executions" / George Bernard Shaw
from Letters of James Stephens / James Stephens
from The Irish book lover. "Reveries" and "Responsibilities" / Anonymous
from A chronicle of jails / Darrell Figgis
from Imagination and reveries. "The new nation" / George Russell.
Irish writing in the 1910s : imaginative. from Deoraíocht / Pádraic Ó Conaire
from Poems and translations. "In Kerry" ; "A question" ; "Prelude" ; "In May" ; The curse" / J.M. Synge
from Irishry. "The weaver's family" / Joseph Campbell
from Four Irish plays. "Mixed marriage" / St. John Ervine
from Lyrical poems. "June" / Francis Ledwidge
from Lyrical poems. "June" / Francis Ledwidge
from Lyrical pieces. "The yellow bittern" / Thomas MacDonagh
from Responsibilities. "September 1913" ; "Fallen majesty" ; "The cold heaven " / W.B. Yeats
from Suantraide agus goltraide. "I am Ireland" / Patrick Pearse
from Children of the dead end. "De profundis" / Patrick MacGill
from The poetry review. "The assignation" / Lord Dunsany
from Songs of the dead end. "Padding it" / Patrick MacGill
from Collected works of Pádraic H. Pearse. "The wayfarer" / Patrick Pearse
from Michael Robartes and the dancer. "Easter 1916" / W.B. Yeats
from Songs of peace. "Thomas MacDonagh" / Francis Ledwidge
from Earth of Cualann. "Earth of Cualann" ; "The revealer" / Joseph Campbell
from Reincarnations. "Righteous anger" ; "O Bruadair" / James Stephens
from The wild swans at Coole. "The wild swans at Coole" ; "In memory of Major Robert Gregory" ; "An Irish airman foresees his death" / W.B. Yeats
from Michael Robartes and the dancer. "The second coming" / W.B. Yeats
from The wasted island. "Catastrophe" / Eimar O'Duffy.
Irish writing in the 1920s : critical and documentary. from Prison letters of Countess Markievicz / Constance Markievicz
from The path to freedom. "Distinctive culture" / Michael Collins
from Studies. "Lessons of revolution" / George Russell
from The hidden Ireland. "The aisling" / Daniel Corkery
from Tomorrow. "To all artists and writers" / Francis Stuart, Cecil Salkeld
from The senate speeches of W.B. Yeats. "Speech on divorce" / W.B. Yeats
from The Dublin review. "The coming of age of the Irish drama" / Andrew E. Malone
from Days of fear / Frank Gallagher
from Ireland : the rock whence I was hewn / Donn Byrne
from An tOileánach. "Shrovetide, 1878" / Tomás Ó Criomhthain.
Irish writing in the 1920s : imaginative. from The Irish Book Lover. "The Great Blasket : poets" / Robin Flower
from Adam of Dublin : a romance of today. "The Abbey Theatre" / Conal O'Riordan
from Around the boree log. "St. Patrick's Day" / John O'Brien
from The house of success / Darrell Figgis
from The interpreters / George Russell
from The Manchester guardian. "The snipe" / Con O'Leary
from The dial. "Meditations in time of civil war" / W.B. Yeats
from Earth-bound : nine stories of Ireland. "The portrait of Roisin Dhu" / Dorothy MacArdle
from Tomorrow. "Leda and the swan" / W.B. Yeats
from All the sad young men. "Absolution" / F. Scott Fitzgerald
from Apostate / Forrest Reid
from The tent and other stories. "The tent" / Liam O'Flaherty
from The dial. "Among school children" / W.B. Yeats
from The dark breed. "The dark breed" / F.R. Higgins
from The tower. "Sailing to Byzantium" / W.B. Yeats
from The Dublin review. "Seventh gift of the holy ghost" / Thomas MacGreevy.
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-mhná. "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 peoms. "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 peoms 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" / Micheál MacLiammóir
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 Ó 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" / Máirtín Ó 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" / Seán Ó Ríordáin
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" / Seán Ó Ríordáin
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" / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
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 café. "Bewley's Oriental Café, 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 bás i dTír na nÓg. "Abair do Phaidir = "Say a prayer" / Seán Ó 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" / Seán Ó 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 Éire-Ireland. "Exile, attitude, and the Sin-É-Café / Eamonn Wall
from London review of books. "Playboys of the GPO" / Colm Tóibín
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 mhídhílis" = "The unfaithful wife" ; "Ceist na teangan" = "The language issue" / Nuala Ní 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" / Máire Bradshaw
from The Bradford count. "From the Irish" / Ian Duhig
from The Astrakhan cloak. "Caitlín" = "Cathleen" / Nuala Ní 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 úr" = "A fresh dimension" / Cathal Ó 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.
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