Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Gaelic Ireland: Apocalypse Now?

2. Bardic Poetry: The Loss of Aura

3. Saving Civilization: Céitinn and Ó Bruadair

4. Dying Acts: Ó Rathaille and Others

5. Endings and Beginnings: Mac Cuarta and After

6. Jonathan Swift: a Colonial Outsider?

7. Home and Away: Gulliver's Travels

8. Nostalgia as Protest: Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village'

9. Radical Pastoral: Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

10. Sheridan and Subversion

11. Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill: The Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire

12. Brian Merriman's Midnight Court

13. Burke, Ireland and Revolution

14. Republican Self-Fashioning: The Journal of Wolfe Tone

I5. Native Informants: Maria Edgeworth and Castle Rackrent

16. Confronting Famine: Carleton's Peasantry

17. Feudalism Falling: A Drama in Muslin

18. Love Songs of Connacht

19. Anarchist Attitudes: Oscar Wilde

20. George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man

21. Somerville and Ross: The Silver Fox

22. Undead in the Nineties: Bram Stoker and Dracula

23. Augusta Gregory's Cuchulain: The Rebirth of the Hero

24. Synge's Tristes Tropiques: The Aran Islands

25. W.B. Yeats - Building Amid Ruins

26. Ulysses, Newspapers and Modernism

27. After the Revolution: O'Casey and O'Flaherty

28. Gaelic Absurdism: At Swim-Two-Birds

29. The Blasket Autobiographies

30. Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice

31. Kate O'Brien: The Ante-Room

32. All the Dead Voices - Cré Na Cille

33. Underdeveloped Comedy: Patrick Kavanagh

34. Anglo-Gaelic Literature: Seán Ó Ríordéin

35. Irish Narrative: A Short History

Notes

Index