Gaelic Ireland : apocalypse now?

Bardic poetry : the loss of aura

Saving civilization : Céitinn and Ó Bruadair

Dying acts : Ó Rathaille and others

Endings and beginnings : Mac Cuarta and after

Jonathan Swift : a colonial outsider?

Nostalgia as protest : Goldsmith's 'Deserted village'

Radical pastoral : Goldsmith's She stoops to conquer

Sheridan and subversion

Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill : the lament for Art Ó Laoghaire

Brian Merriman's midnight court

Burke, Ireland and revolution

Republican self-fashioning : the journal of Wolf Tone

Native informants: Maria Edgeworth and Castle Rackrent

Confronting famine : Carleton's peasantry

Feudalism falling : A drama in muslin

Love songs of Connacht

Anarchist attitudes : Oscar Wilde

George Bernard Shaw : Arms and the man

Somerville and Ross : The silver fox

Undead in the nineties : Bram Stoker and Dracula

Augusta Gregory's Cuchulain : the rebirth of the hero

Synge's Tristes tropiques : the Aran Islands

W.B. Yeats : building amid ruins

Ulysses, newspapers and modernism

After the revolution : O'Casey and O'Flaherty

Gaelic absurdism : At swim-two-birds

The Blasket autobiographies

Incorrigibly plural : Louis MacNeice

Kate O'Brien : The ante-room

All the dead voices : Cré na cille

Underdeveloped comedy : Patrick Kavanagh

Anglo-Gaelic literature : Seán Ó Riordáin

Irish narrative : a short history.