Critical material

Allen, Michael (ed.). Seamus Heaney. Houndmills and London: Macmillan, 1997.

Boyce, George. Nationalism in Ireland. London: Routledge, 1995.

Broom, Sarah. Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Brophy, James D. and Porter, Raymond J. (eds.). Contemporary Irish Writing. [New Rochelle, N. Y]: Iona College Press / Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, 1983.

Brown, Terence. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985. London: Fontana Press, 1985.

Brown, Terence. Northern Voices: Poets form Ulster. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1975.

Campbell, Martin (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Dawe, Gerald. A Real Life Elsewhere. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1993.

Dawe, Gerald. Against Piety: Essays in Irish Poetry. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1995.

Dawe, Gerald. False Faces: Poetry, Politics and Place. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1994.

Dawe, Gerald. How’s the Poetry Going: Literary Politics and Ireland Today. Second edition. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1993.

Deane, Seamus. Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature, 1880-1980. Winston-Salem: Wake Forest University Press, 1985.

Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

Heaney, Seamus. Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978. London: Faber and Faber, 1984.

Holdridge, Jefferson. ‘An Island Once Again: the Postcolonial Aesthetics of Contentemporary Irish Poetry’. Colby Quarterly. Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, June 2001.

Holdridge, Jefferson. ‘Homeward, Abandoned: The Aesthetics of Home and Family in Thomas Kinsella’. Irish University Review. Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring / Summer 2001.

Johnston, Dillon. Irish Poetry after Joyce. Notre Dame, Indiana: U of Notre Dame P, 1985.

Kenneally, Michael (ed.). Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1995.

Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland. London: Vintage, 1991.

Longley, Edna. Louis MacNeice: A Critical Study. London: Faber and Faber, 1988.

Longley, Edna. Poetry and Posterity. Highgreen: Bloodaxe, 2006.

Longley, Edna. Poetry in the Wars. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1986.

Longley, Edna. The Living Stream. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1994.

Matthews, Steven. Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation. The Evolving Debate: 1969 to the Present. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997.

Montague, John. The Figure in the Cave and Other Essays. Dublin; The Lilliput Press, 1989.

Patten, Eve (ed.). Returning to Ourselves: Second Volume of Papers from John Hewitt International Summer School. Belfast: Lagan Press, 1995.

Schirmer, Gregory A. Out of What Began: A History of Irish Poetry in English. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Smith, Stan. Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity: Ireland between Fantasy and History. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005.

Vance, Norman. Irish Literature: A Social History. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Texts and anthologies

Bolger, Dermot (ed.). The Bright Wave / An Tonn Gheal: Poetry in Irish Now. Dublin: Raven Arts Press.

Crotty Patrick, (ed.). Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1995.

Deane, Seamus (gen. ed.). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Vol. 3. Derry: Field Day Publications, 1992.

Fallon, Peter and Derek Mahon (eds.). The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry. London: Penguin, 1990.

Heaney, Seamus. New Selected Poems 1966-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1990.

Kinsella, Thomas (ed.). The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Muldoon, Paul (ed.). The Faber Book of Irish London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

Ormsby, Frank (ed.). Poets from the North of Ireland. Fully rev. and updated ed. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1990.

Radu, Adrian. The Politics of Contemporary Irish Poetry: Text Extracts. Cited as TEX.

Táin, The. Translated by Thomas Kinsella. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.