The Critical Mirror
Forgetting the Future: An Outline History of Irish Literary Studies
Eamonn Hughes 1
Reading Ireland: Print, Nationalism and Cultural Identity
Andrew Murphy 16
'The Bitter Glass': Postcolonial Theory and Anglo-Irish culture – A Case Study
Bruce Stewart 27
The Boards and the Border: Myths and Mythtakes in the Criticism of Northern Irish Drama
Colin Teevan 51
After the News: Critiquing the Irish Novel since the Sixites
John Kenny 62Edna Longley 75
Politics
Brian Maginess and the Limits of Liberal Unionism
Henry Patterson 95
Poetry
Three Poems
Greg Delanty 113
Three Poems
Medbh McGurkian 117
Prose
The Globe
Tim Robinson 120
Firewalking
Tim Robinson 124
Review Article
Remembrance or Imagination? The McCourt Phenomenon
Roy Foster 137
Reviews
MARK THORNTON BURNETT Andrew Murphy: But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature 145
JIM McALEAVEY Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray (eds): Shakespeare and Ireland 147
NICHOLAS ROE Tom Paulin: The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style 154
DAMIEN KEANE Paul Muldoon: Hay
Ciaran Carson: The Twelfth of Never 157
DES O'RAWE Vona Groarke: Other People's Houses
Medbh McGuckian: Shemalier
Conor O'Callaghan: Seatown
James Simmons: The Company of Children
TIM HANCOCK Seamus Heaney: Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996
Helen Vendler: Seamus Heaney
Neil Corcoran: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney 165
EDNA LONGELY John Wilson Foster and Helena G. C. Chesney (eds): Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History 168
GEORGE FLEMING Ruth Dudley Edwards: The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions 172
GEORGE D. BOYCE Gillian McIntosh: The Force of Culture: Unionist identities in Twentieth Century Ireland
Senia Pašeta: Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland's Catholic Elite 1879-1922
Joost Augusteijn (ed): Ireland in the 1930s: New Perspectives
Ferghal McGarry: Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War
Eunan O'Halpin: Defending Ireland: The Irish Stand and its Enemies since 1922 174
GEARÓID Ó CRUALAOICH Angela Bourke: The Burning of Bridget Cleary 178
GERALD J. LYNE Erin Bishop: The World of Mary O'Connell 1778-1836
Erin Bishop (ed): My Darling Danny: Letters from Mary O'Connell to her son Daniel, 1830-32 180
TOMÍS Ó CANAINN Fintan Vallely (ed): The Companion to Irish Traditional Music
Marie McCarthy: Passing it On: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture 184
Notes on Contributors
