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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 | |