English readers : three historical 'Moments' / Vivian Mercier -- Swift : anatomy of an anti-colonialist / A. Norman Jeffares -- Edmund Burke: a voice crying in the wilderness / Lorna Reynolds -- The enigma of Samuel Ferguson / Maurice Harmon -- W. B. Yeats : politics and history / Donna Gerstenberger -- Ascendency nationalism, feminist nationalism and stagecraft in Lady Gregory's revision of Kincora / Maureen S.G. Hawkins -- The fifth bell : race and class in Yeats's political thought / John S. Kelly -- Kinesis stasis, revolution in Yeatsean drama / Augustine Martin -- James Joyce and politics / Heather Cook Callow -- Saint Joan : Fabian feminist and Protestant mystic / Declan Kiberd -- The'might of design' in The Plough and the Stars / Christopher Murray -- The will to freedom : politics and play in the theatre of Stewart Parker / Elmer Andrews -- Too little peace : the political poetry of Desmond Egan / Brian Arkins -- Who we are : Protestants and poetry in the north of Ireland / David Burleigh -- Theatre with its sleeves rolled up / Emelie Fitzgibbon