Table of Contents

Introduction Catherine E. Paul * Writing Modern Ireland * Essays Ronald Schuchard * Yeats in Extremis Ed Madden * "Here, of all places": Geographies of Sexual and Gender Identity in Keith Ridgway's The Long Falling Michael J. Sidnell * Beckett's Discovery of Theater: Human Wishes, and the Dramaturgical Contexts of Eleutheria Wim Van Mierlo * "I have met you too late": James Joyce, W. B. Yeats and the Making of Chamber Music Liam Harte * The Politics of Pity in Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way Margaret Mills Harper * Flesh and Bones: Anne Enright's The Gathering Alexandra Poulain * "Westward ho!": The Only Jealousy of Emer, From Noh to Tragedy Ken Monteith * Enabling Emer, Disabling the Sidhe: W. B. Yeats's The Only Jealousy of Emer Eamonn Wall * The Use of Memory: Michael Coady's All Souls John Dennison * "To construct something upon which to rejoice": Seamus Heaney's Prose Revisions Thomas Dillon Redshaw * Remains and Removals: Th e Cuala Press Revival, 1969-1989 Jonathan Allison * "The Old Moon-Phaser": Yeats, Auden, and MacNeice Michael Cade-Stewart * A Satyric Paradise: Th e Form of W. B. Yeats's "News for the Delphic Oracle" Wanda Balzano * Abroad and at Home: The Question of the Foreigner in Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle Jeanette Shumaker * The Deathly Conformity of Irish Women: Novels by Mary O'Donnell and Susan Knight Rand Brandes * Mercury in Taurus: W. B. Yeats and Ted Hughes Wayne K. Chapman * "Notes Chirruping Answer": Language as Music in James Joyce and Virginia Woolf Hedwig Schwall * Allegories of Writing: Figurations of Narcissus and Echo in W. B. Yeats's Work Jefferson Holdridge * "Halved Globe, Slowly Turning": Editing Irish Poetry in America * Contributors

About the Author

Catherine E. Paul is Professor Emerita of English at Clemson University.