Readings in Irish

Ceathrúna Phádraigín Haidéad
Seán Ó Tuama 1

Myles na gCopaleen agus Drochshampla na nDealeabhar
Laois de Paor 24

A New Short Story: Fathers
Seán MacMathúna 33

Seán Ó Ríordáin: Joycery-Cookery-Sorcery
Frank Sewell 42

Otherworld Harmonies and Heroic Utterance: The Fruits of the Literary Act Among Us
Gearóid Ó Crualaoich 62

Professors and Performers and 'others of their kind': Contextualizing the Irish Bardic Poet.
Michelle O'Riordan 73

Literatures and Cultures

Modern-Day Troubadours
Olivier Burckhardt 89

The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: Arnold and the Irish Culture
Peter MacDonald 94

Anthologising Ireland: Irish Literature (1904) and Its Contexts
Bruce Stewart 105

1798 Re-Examined

The United Irishmen and the Wexford Rebellion: The Sources Re-Examined
Thomas Powell 127

Reviews

RIANA O'DWYER
Máire Ní Annracháin agus Bríona Nic Dhiarmuida (eds.): Téacs agus Chomhthéacs: Gnéithe de Chritic na Gaeilge 141

CAROL RUMENS
Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters 144

KEVIN BARRY
Derek Mahon: The Yellow Book, Journalism 149

JIM MCLEAVEY
Willy Maley: Savaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity
Anne Fogerty (ed.): Irish University Review Special Issue: Spenser in Irelnd: 'The Faerie Queene' 151

GUINN BATTEN
Neil Corcoran: After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature
Ben Howard: The Pressed Melodeon: Essays on Modern Irish Writing
Steven Matthews: Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation: The Evolving Debate 158

DES O'RAWE
Michael Coady: All Souls
Brendan Kennelly: The Man Made of Rain
Catherine Phil MacCarthy: The Blue Globe
David Wheatley: Thirst 169

M�IRE N� ANNRACH�IN
Pól Breathnach: Do Lorg: Dánta agus Aortha/Traces de Ton Passage: Poͨmes et Satires en Irlandais 173

TOM GARVIN
Peter Hart: The IRA and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork
Richard English: Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual
Malachi O'Doherty: The Trouble with Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA 176

CAITRIONA CLUTTERBUCK
Medbh McGuckian: Selected Poems 179

COLM BREATHNACH
Pádraig Ó Cíobháin: Ar Gach Maoilinn tá Síocháin 181

BRIAN Ó CONCHUBHAIR
Máirín Nic Eoin: B'ait Leo Bean: Gnéithe den Idé-eolaíocht Inscne I dTradisiún Liteartha na Gaeilge 185

JAMES QUINN
James Kelly: Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth Century Ireland
Thomas Bartlett (ed.): Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone 187

CATRIONA O'REILLY
Seán O'Brien: The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 191

Notes on Contributors 194