Foreword / John Wilson Foster
A mayfly / Paul Muldoon
Remains of Ellen Hanley : theatre, commodification and Irish identity in the nineteenth century / Chris Morash
The search / Brendan Kennelly
Yeats and Dates / Nicholas Grene
Gift of adaptability : Yeats, Joyce and modern Ireland / R.F. Foster
Chorus from 'Antigone' / Derek Mahon
Louis MacNeice and Autumn's ghosts / Nicholas Allen
Olivia Manning, imperial refugee / Eve Patten
The rising, To a teacher / Greg Delanty
Growing up absurd : Edna O'Brien and The country girls / Declan Kiberd. Commemorating whose dead? : a study of two Irish gardens of remembrance / Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch
The pleasure boats / Gerald Dawe
Back in the 1960s: Belfast poets, Liverpool poets / Helen Vendler
Human chain / Seamus Heaney.
That island never found : essays and poems for Terence Brown. ISBN 9781846820724. Published by Four Courts in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.