| COMMENTARY |
| Catherine Paul |
Rita Ann Higgins: A Moderator's View |
| ESSAYS |
| Alma Bennett |
Words and Music: an Uneasy Liaison? |
| Ronald Schuchard |
The Countess Cathleen and the Revival of the Bardic Arts |
| Michael J. Sidnell |
The Countess Cathleen as a Study in Theatrical Genre |
| Kimberly Myers |
The Sexual Dialectic of Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill |
| Ed Madden |
Austin Clarke's "Tiresias" and the Aisling Tradition |
| Julie Sloan Brannon |
Joyce.com |
| William Kupinse |
Household Trash: Domesticity and National Identity in The Lamplighter and
the "Nausica" Episode of Ulysses |
|
Jeanette Shumaker |
Bruised Boys and "Fallen" Women: The Need for Rescue in Short
Stories by Elizabeth Brown |
| Thomas Dillon Redshaw |
Abstracting Icons: The Graphic Ornamentation of John Montague's The Rough
Field (1972) and The Dead Kingdom (1984) |
| Michael Cavanagh |
Walking into the Light: Dante and Seamus Heaney's Second Life |
| Simon Gatrell |
"In step with what escaped me": Millenial Reflections on Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things |
| Irene Martyniuk |
The Irish in the Caribbean: Derek Walcott's Examination of the Irish in
Omeros |
| Leigh Tillman Partington |
"roughly hammered links": Lady Gregory, Irish Ballads, and Political
Memory |
| Sarah Del Collo |
Yeats, Fergus(on), O'Grady, and Deirdre |
| Melinda Morrow |
Ritual Strangeness: Elements of Noh in The Only Jealousy of Emer |
| Geraldine Higgins |
The Quotable Yeats: Modified in the Guts of the Living |
| INTERVIEW |
| Lorraine Pearsall |
Strokestown Park and the Making of the Famine Museum: An Interview with
Richard Ford |
| PERSONAL ESSAY |
|
Charis Chapman |
Across the Atlantic: Impressions of England, Ireland, and Anne Yeats |
| POETRY |
| Rita Ann Higgins |
The Clemson Experience • The Weather Beaters • Mother and Son • The River • Why I Refuse to
be Gracious • Anthem |
| Paul Muldoon |
A Telegram for Seamus Heaney |
|
Kathryn Kirkpatrick |
Undoubtedly Miss Edgesworth • First Meeting |
| Dan MacIsaac |
Death of a Gardener • Tent Caterpillars
|
| David L. Tillinghast |
Sin and Satisfaction |
| J. Stephen Lang |
Regarding Mr. Shelley, and Such Tender Folk • "The Window Rattled in the Wind All Night" |
| Lyn Lifshin |
Jeane Marie Plouffe |
| Jim Kacian |
Beyond the Ivory Door • Flywheel • Jonah Among the Inuit
|
|
Paul Grant |
VIII •
XXVI |
| Lucas Carpenter
|
The Discovery of the C.S.S. Hunley • Flannery O'Connor at Lourdes |
| Paul McRay
|
A Thousand Years Later
|
| Alex Richardson
|
Ice |
| Richard Newman
|
The Basement of Joe Barnes • Husbands |
| Tim Keane
|
London Dishabille
|
| Rick Mulkey |
With Susan in Krakow |
| Molly Knight |
My Brother |
| PREFACE |
| Wayne K. Chapman |
Ireland in the Arts and Humanities, 1899-1999 |
| THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS |
| Matthew DeForrest |
Philosophical Differences and Yeats's Corroborative System in A Vision |
Madeline Smith and
Richard Eaton |
Con-Fusion: Con Melody's Identity Crisis |
| REVIEWS |
| Declan Kiely |
Recovering the Autograph |
| Steve Collier |
Whose Joyce is it? |
| Leigh Tillman Partington |
Editing Diaries--Ditto a Life |
| Janis E. Haswell |
The Eye of the Beholder |
| Sarah Del Collo |
It is Myself I Remake |
| Sarah Del Collo |
Yeats's Feminine Daimon |
| Hallman Bryant |
Yeats as a Nasty Boy |
| Wayne K. Chapman |
Art and Letters |
