Papers given at the 1979 IASAIL Conference at St Patrick'sCollege, Maynooth.
Published in 1982

CONTENTS

Introduction. Peter Connolly vii
Acknowledgements ix

THE PERILS OF NOSTALGIA: A CRITIQUE OF THE REVIVAL.
Declan Kiberd
AUTHOR AND AUDIENCE IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Klaus Lubbers
TOWARDS THE REVIVAL. SOME TRANSLATIONS OF IRISH POETRY:
1789-1897.
Cathal G. ¢ Hinle
VICTORIAN EVANGELICALISM AND THE ANGLO-IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL. Vivian Mercier
IMAGES OF A CHANGING IRELAND IN THE WORKS OF W.B.YEATS.
Suheil Badi Bushrui
HISTORIANS AND MAGICIANS: IRELAND BETWEEN FANTASY AND HISTORY. Stan Smith
SEMANTIC SCRUPLES: A RHETORIC FOR POLITICS IN THE NORTH. D.E.S.Maxwell
THE IRISH WRITER: SELF AND SOCIETY, 1950-1980.
Thomas Kilroy
RHYME IN MODERN ANGLO-IRISH POETRY.
Peter Denman
THREE IRISH WOMEN STORY WRITERS IN THE 1970s.
James O'Brien
CHANGE AND THE IRISH IMAGINATION.
Patrick Rafroidi

Notes on the Contributors
Index