1. Ancient Things
2. Iron Age Martial Arts and Christian Scribes
3. Reciting from the Finger-Ends: The Bards and Ossian
4. The Undoing of Ireland: Conquest and Reconquest
5. Ireland: A Colony?
6. Romantic Ireland?
7. The Folk Tradition
8. Famine
9. New Departures
10. The West's Awake
11. Hearts of Stone
12. Matrix of Surds
13. Astrakhan Ataraxie
14. Coda: By the Bog of Cats
15. Conclusion.
The cold of May Day Monday : an approach to Irish literary history by Robert Welch. ISBN 9780199686841. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.