Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-235) and index.
Introduction -- The appearance of Ireland -- Tennyson's Ireland -- Revival -- W.B. Yeats -- Wild earth -- The ends of modernism : Kinsella and Irish experiment -- Ireland's empire -- Seamus Heaney -- Irsko po Polsku : poetry and translation -- Feminism and Irish poetry -- Out of Ireland : Muldoon and other émigrés -- The disappearance of Ireland