"The idea for this issue derives from a conference on 'The Gaelic literary imagination in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' ... 17 March 2000" - cf. p.7. Publication of the volume was first announced with the title 'The Celtic literary imagination in the early modern world'.
Contents: Introduction / Joseph Falaky Nagy
Fun and games among the jet set : a glimpse of seventeenth-century Gaelic Ireland / Micheál Mac Craith
Aspects of tradition formation in eighteenth-century Wales / Catherine McKenna
'The smallest man in Ireland can reach the tops of her trees' : images of the King's peace and bounty in Bardic poetry / Damian McManus
Satire in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gaelic poetry / Máirtín Ó Briain
Growth and development of the late Ulster Cycle : the case of Táin Bó Flídais / Ruairí Ó hUiginn.
Memory and the modern in Celtic literatures. ISBN 1851829822. Published by Four Courts Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.