Sean O'Faolain: Reassessments
Introduction
Eibhear Walshe 1
The Man who Stayed
Julia O'Faolain 3
Building a Nest for a Bird Alone: Self as Fiction
Marie Arndt 14
Sean O'Faolain and the Evolution of Modern Ireland
Dan Mulhall 20
King of the Beggers: 'A Perfect Onion of Worlds within Worlds'
Fiona Dunne 30
O'Faolain and UCC
John A. Murphy 38
Vive Moi! And the Knowingness of Adult Life
Eibhear Walshe 51
1978: Memory, Commeration and Art
Negotiations of Memory: Rethinking 1798 Commeration
Gus Beiner 60
Conjuring Past or Future? Versions of Synge's 'Play of '98'
Mary C. King 71
Politics
The Radicalism of William Thompson
Terry Eagleton 80
Gaelic Poetry
Born to Die ... and to Live On: Terminal Metaphors in the Life of Irish
Sarah E. McKribben 89
Poetry
Three Poems
Adam Czerniawski 100
Autobiographical Fragments
Clouds of Glory
Oliver MacDonagh 103
Words Without End, Amen
Oliver MacDonagh 109
Reviews
COLIN GRAHAM
David Lloyd: Ireland After History
Scott Brewster et al: Ireland in Proximity: History, Gender, Space 114
LIONEL PILKINGTON
Robert Welch: The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999
W. McCormack: Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge
Nicholas Grene: The Politics of Irish Drama 118
SEAN RYDER
James MacKillop: Contemporary Irish Cinema 121
FRAN BREARTON
John Wilson Foster: Titanic 123
CAROL RUMENS
Noel Duffy and Theo Dorgan: Watching the River Flow: A Century of Irish Poetry
Peggy O'Brien: The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry
Joan McBreen: The White Page/An Bhileog Bhán: Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets 126
DAVID WHEATLEY
Mary Bryden: Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God
Allan Warren Friedman (ed.) Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's 'Negro' 131
DEIRDRE MCMAHON
Patrick Maume: The Long Gestation: Irish National Life 1891-1918
Michael Laffan: The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Fein Party 1916-1923
Patrick Murray: Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics, 1922-37 134
DAVID FITZPATRICK
Donal P. McCracken: MacBride's Brigade: Irish Commandos in the Anglo-Beor War
Richard Doherty: Irish Men and Women in the Second World War 139
ALAN A. GILLIS
Brian Fallon: An Age of Innocence: Irish Culture 1930-1960 143
TOM DUNNE
Ruán O'Donnell: The Rebellion in Wicklow 1798
Ruán O'Donnell: Aftermath: Post-Rebellion Insurgency in Wicklow 1799-1803 145
Notes on Contributors 148
