Grattan Freyer, Modern Irish Writing (Irish Humanities Centre 1979), 309pp.
CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface by Conor
Cruise OBrien [x-xvi]; poems in translation from S. E. Ó
Cearbhaill [That Moment], Sean Ó Riordain [Frozen
Sea]; Maire Mac an tSaoi [No Compromise]; Liam OFlaherty,
The Black Mare, story; Peadar ODonnell, extract from
The Knife; Sean Ó Faolain, Lovers of the Lake; Donagh
MacDonagh, poems [The Day Set for Our Wedding; Going
to Mass Last Sunday; Dublin Made Me; A Warning
to Conquerors]; Patrick Kavanagh, poetry [Ploughman;
Canal Bank Walk; The Great Hunger complete; In
Memory of My Mother]; Austin Clarke, poems [The Envy of Poor Povers
The Straying Student; The Medical Missionaries of Mary;
The Thorn; Martha Blake]; Brendan Behan, The
Big House, one-act radio play; Tom Murphy, On the Outside [one
act play, outside dancehall]; Flann OBrien, from the opening of At Swim-to-Birds; Benedict Kiely, A Great Gods Angel
Standing, story; M. J. Molloy, The Paddy Pedlar, one-act
play; Edna OBrien, ext. from Girl with Green Eyes; John McGahern,
Korea, story; Padraic Fiacc, poem [Christ Goodbye];
John Hewitt, poems [The Dilemma (1969); An Irishman
in Coventry]; John Montague [Premonition; Coming
Events; The Wild Dog Rose; Soliloquy on a Southern
Strand; Windharp; She Dreams]; Richard Murphy,
poems [The Wolfhound; the Reading Lesson; Enigma;
For Sylvia Plath]; Thomas Kinsella, poems [A Lady of
Quality; In the Ringwood; Prologue; First
Light; A Moments Peace; Butchers Dozen;
Finistère]; John Morrow, extract from The Confessions
of Prionsias OToole; Seamus Heaney [Good Night;
The Outlaw; The Wifes Tale; The Tollund
Man]; Eavan Boland, poems [New Territory; The
Other Woman; The Hanging Judge; Child of Our Time;
The War Horse]; Juanita Casey, poem [Housemaids
Unconnected Knee]; Francis Stuart, extr. from Things to Live
For, and poem [Homecoming].
Suggestions for Further Reading [cites
works, collections, and Maurice Harmon Select Biliography for Anglo-Irish
Lit. (1977). For Preface, See Under OBrien.
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