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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Eighth Century to the Irish Literary Renaissance | |
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| Early and Medieval Irish Literature | |
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| Old Irish Prose | |
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| Tain Bo Cuailnge | |
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| Deirdre | |
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| Oidheadh Chlainne Lir | |
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| Old Irish Poetry | |
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| "News of Winter" | |
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| "The Blackbird by Belfast Loch" | |
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| "Liadan Tells of Her Love for Cuirithir" | |
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| "The Scribe in the Woods" | |
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| "The Viking Terror" | |
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| "Pangur Ban" | |
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| Three Ninth-Century Poems for Students and Pilgrims | |
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| "He That Never Read a Line" | |
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| "The Pilgrim at Rome" | |
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| "Cu Chuimne" | |
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| From the Late Tenth or Eleventh Century | |
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| "Eve" | |
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| Columcille's Poems | |
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| "The Three Best-Beloved Places" | |
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| "Derry" | |
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| "A Blue Eye Will Look Back" | |
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| "My Hand Is Weary with Writing" | |
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| From Duanaire Finn | |
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| "The Bird-Crib" | |
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| From Buile Shuibhne (The Madness of Sweeney) | |
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| The Frenzy of Suibne | |
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| Early Modern Irish Poetry | |
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| "Cill Chais" (Kilcash) | |
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| "O Woman Full of Wile" | |
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| "The County of Mayo" | |
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| "Fair Hills of Eire" | |
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| "Brightness Most Bright" | |
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| "Valentine Brown" | |
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| "The Geraldine's Daughter" | |
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| "Friend of My Heart" | |
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| "Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire" (Lament for Art O'Leary) | |
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| "Cuirt an Mheadhon Oidhche" (The Midnight Court) | |
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| Irish Folk Songs | |
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| "The Grief of a Girl's Heart" | |
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| "Brighidin Ban Mo Store" (Bridget, My Treasure) | |
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| "Have You Been at Carrick?" | |
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| "Shule Aroon, a Brigade Ballad" | |
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| "Mary from Dungloe" | |
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| "Sean O'Dwyer of the Glen" | |
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| "The Sorrowful Lamentation of Callaghan, Greally, and Mullen" | |
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| "The Rising of the Moon" | |
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| "The Wearin' o' the Green" | |
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| "Nell Flaherty's Drake" | |
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| "The Star of Slane" | |
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| "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched" | |
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| "Finnegan's Wake" | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Prose | |
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| From Castle Rackrent | |
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| From "The Poor Scholar" | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Poetry | |
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| "The Minstrel Boy" | |
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| "The Song of Fionnuala" | |
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| "I am Raftery" | |
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| "Raftery's Praise of Mary Hynes" | |
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| "Anach-Cuain" (The Drowning of Annach Doon) | |
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| "Dark Rosaleen" | |
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| "The Nameless One" | |
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| "Shapes and Signs" | |
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| "To the Ingleezee Khafir, Calling Himself Djaun Bool Djenkinzun" | |
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| "Cashel of Munster" | |
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| "Dear Dark Head" | |
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| "Lament for the Death of Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill" | |
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| "The West's Asleep" | |
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| From "Our National Language," Part I | |
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| The Irish Literary Renaissance | |
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| Selections from The Love Songs of Connacht | |
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| "My Grief on the Sea" | |
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| "Ringleted Youth of My Love" | |
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| "My Love, Oh, She Is My Love" | |
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| "The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland" | |
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| "The Only Son of Aoife" | |
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| The Rising of the Moon | |
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| Lyric Voices of the Irish Renaissance | |
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| "Clonmacnoise" | |
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| "The Children of Lir" | |
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| "The Great Breath" | |
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| "Parting" | |
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| "The Winds of Angus" | |
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| "Immortality" | |
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| "Terence MacSwiney" | |
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| "She Moved Through the Fair" | |
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| "June" | |
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| "Thomas MacDonagh" | |
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| Riders to the Sea | |
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| "Prelude" | |
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| "On an Anniversary, After Reading the Dates in a Book of Lyrics" | |
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| "Queens" | |
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| "The Passing of the Shee, After Looking at One of A.E.'s Pictures" | |
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| "On an Island" | |
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| "Is It a Month" | |
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| "Beg-Innish" | |
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| "To the Oaks of Glencree" | |
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| "The Curse" | |
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| "In Kerry" | |
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| "On a Birthday" | |
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| "A Question" | |
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| "Julia Cahill's Curse" | |
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| "Ringsend, After Reading Tolstoi" | |
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| "The Crab Tree" | |
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| "Put to the Rack" | |
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| From The Insurrection in Dublin | |
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| From Irish Fairy Tales | |
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| The Poets of 1916 | |
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| "Proclamation of the Irish Republic" | |
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| "I Am Ireland" | |
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| "Ideal, or Renunciation" | |
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| "The Rebel" | |
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| "To Death" | |
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| "At the Grave of O'Donovan Rossa" | |
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| "The Man Upright" | |
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| "The Yellow Bittern" | |
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| "Of a Poet Patriot" | |
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| "The Little Black Rose Shall Be Red at Last" | |
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| "This Heritage to the Race of Kings" | |
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| Ireland Since Independence | |
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| "Solace" | |
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| "The Fur Coat" | |
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| "The Long Road to Ummera" | |
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| "Going into Exile" | |
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| Poets from the Post-Independence Generation | |
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| "Father and Son" | |
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| "Padraic O Conaire, Gaelic Storyteller" | |
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| "Aisling" | |
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| "The Straying Student" | |
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| "Irish-American Dignitary" | |
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| "Burial of an Irish President (Dr. Douglas Hyde)" | |
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| "A Sermon on Swift" | |
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| "The Glens" | |
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| "An Irishman in Coventry" | |
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| "Shancoduff" | |
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| "Epic" | |
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| "Pegasus" | |
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| "In Memory of My Mother" | |
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| "Canal Bank Walk" | |
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| "Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin, ..." | |
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| From At Swim-Two-Birds | |
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| From An Beal Bocht (The Poor Mouth) | |
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| "Happiness" | |
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| Contemporary Poets in Irish and English | |
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| "Honesty" | |
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| "The Dignity of Sorrow" | |
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| "Memories" | |
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| "The Back of the House" | |
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| "Frozen" | |
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| "My Mother's Burying" | |
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| "Inquisitio 1584" | |
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| "For Sheila" | |
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| "Finit" | |
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| "Lament for Seamus Ennis" | |
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| "In the Ringwood" | |
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| "Handclasp at Euston" | |
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| "Sisters" | |
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| "The Poet Egan O'Rahilly, Homesick in Old Age" | |
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| "Like Dolmens Round My Childhood, the Old People" | |
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| "A Grafted Tongue" | |
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| "The Flight of the Earls" | |
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| "Digging" | |
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| "Traditions" | |
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| "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication" | |
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| "Sunlight" | |
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| "The Seed Cutters" | |
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| "Act of Union" | |
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| "Exposure" | |
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| "Punishment" | |
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| From "Station Island" | |
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| "Sweeney Redivivus" | |
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| "A Brigid's Girdle" | |
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| "Tollund" | |
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| "Postscript" | |
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| "Emily Dickinson" | |
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| "The Linen Industry" | |
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| "In Memoriam" | |
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| "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford" | |
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| "The Snow Party" | |
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| "Imbolc: JBY" | |
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| "'To Mrs. Moore at Inishannon'" | |
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| "Untitled" | |
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| "The Second Voyage" | |
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| "Waterfall" | |
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| "Old Roads" | |
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| "J'ai Mal a nos Dents" | |
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| "St Mary Magdalene Preaching at Marseilles" | |
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| "Athene's Song" | |
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| "Requiem for a Personal Friend" | |
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| "After a Childhood Away from Ireland" | |
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| "Child of Our Time" | |
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| "The Bomb Disposal" | |
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| "Gate" | |
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| "Last Orders" | |
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| "The Mast Year" | |
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| "The Soil-Map" | |
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| "Vanessa's Bower" | |
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| "The Lost Field" | |
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| "Fostering" | |
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| "Mules" | |
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| "The Boundary Commission" | |
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| "Moy Sand and Gravel" | |
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| "The Ancestor" | |
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| "The Stoic" | |
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| "One Last Draw of the Pipe" | |
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| "The Breather" | |
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| "Deepfreeze" | |
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| "Inside Out" | |
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| "Annunciations" | |
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| "Marvellous Grass" | |
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| "The Great Queen Speaks. Cu Chulainn Listens." | |
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| "Muirghil Castigates Sweeny" | |
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| "Parthenogenesis" | |
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| "The Language Issue" | |
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| "The Shannon Estuary Welcoming the Fish" | |
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| "The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks" | |
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| "Night" | |
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| "The Well" | |
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| "Beyond" | |
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| "The Heritage Centre, Cobh 1993" | |
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| "To President Mary Robinson" | |
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| Late Twentieth-Century Fiction and Drama | |
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| "The Ballroom of Romance" | |
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| "Korea" | |
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| "Love, Hate and Friendship" | |
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| On the Outside | |
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| Glossary: Words, Places, Persons, Allusions | |
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| Selected Background Readings | |
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| Index | |