Index

Authorship, where known, has been identified in the index below. In many cases in Irish literature, particularly in the earlier periods, authorship was anonymous.

Abbey Theatre, Dublin 182, 186, 196–203, 205–9, 211, 212, 214, 216–19, 262–3, 300–2, 480–5, 497–500, 501, 505, 506, 516, 517, 519, 521, 525, 632

   actors 205, 206, 208, 482, 542–3

   and cinema 534, 542–6

   and An Comhar Drámaíochta 300–1

   fire at 485–6

   and Irish language 262–3, 300–2, 482–3

   pantomime 483

   reopening 497–8

   at the Queen’s Theatre 485, 494

   see Peacock Theatre

According to the Small Hours (Aidan Carl Mathews) 381

Across the Barricades (Joan Lingard) 567

Acts and Monuments (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) 400

‘Adam’s Curse’ (William Butler Yeats) 58

Adharca Broic (Michael Hartnett) 339

‘Adhlacadh Iníon an Fhile’ (Máire Mhac an tSaoi) 327

Adios (Tarlach Ó hUid) 273

‘Ad Limina’ (Joseph Campbell) 87

Adrigoole (Peadar O’Donnell) 157

‘AE’ see Russell, George William

‘After Aughrim’ (Emily Lawless) 67

After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (George Steiner) 510

‘Afterlives’ (Derek Mahon) 389

After Yeats and Joyce (Neil Corcoran) 566

Ag Stracadh leis an Saol (León Ó Broin) 247

Aids to the Immortality of Certain Persons in Dublin: Charitably Administered (Susan Mitchell) 71

‘Aifreann na Marbh’ (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 45, 333, 602

Aimsir Óg, An (journal) 271, 309

Aird ó Thuaidh, Na h-(Pádraig Ua Maoileoin) 282

‘Aisling’ (Paul Muldoon) 394

Aisling Mhic Artáin (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 303

Aistear (Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin) 288

Aisteoirí an Damer 302

Aisteoirí, Na h-(later An Comhar Drámaíochta) 262

Aistí Dána (Art Ó Maolfabhail) 333

‘Aithrighe’ (Brendan Behan) 325

‘Alabama. Samhradh ’98’ (Biddy Jenkinson) 343

Alcock, Deborah 117

   Crushed Yet Conquering 117

Alexander, Eleanor, The Rambling Rector 116

Algoland (Seán Mac Maoláin) 257

All Souls’ Night (Joseph Tomelty) 482

All That Fall (Samuel Beckett) 44–5

Allagar na h-Inise (Tomás Ó Criomhthain) 258, 613

Amateur Army, The (Patrick MacGill) 131

Amharclann de hÍde 304

‘Among School Children’ (William Butler Yeats) 61

Amongst Women (John McGahern) 430

Ancient Lights (Austin Clarke) 370–1

Anglo-Catholicism 116

Anglo-Irish Literature (Hugh Law) 578

Anglo-Irish treaty 1921 238

Anna Livia Plurabelle (James Joyce) 88

Annals of Chile, The (Paul Muldoon) 395

Another September (Thomas Kinsella) 374

Antarctica (Claire Keegan) 465

Anteroom, The (Kate O’Brien) 163

anthologies 228, 229, 358, 565, 573–5, 587–90

   dual-language 611, 621

   Field Day Anthology 587–90

   and the Revival 573–5

   of short stories 452, 462, 463

Antoine, André 185

Apollo’s Blended Dream: A Study of the Poetry of Louis MacNeice (William T McKinnon) 585

‘Ar an gCaorán Mór’ (Michael Davitt) 344

Ar Bhruach na Laoi (Liam Ó Muirthile) 295

Árd-Chúirt Shochaide na Suadh (later Árd-Chúirt na hÉigse) 228

Ardmore Studios 544–6

Aristocrats (Brian Friel) 506

Árus na nGábhadh agus Sgéalta Eile (León Ó Broin) 247

Ascendancy and Tradition (later revised as From Burke to Beckett by W. J. McCormack) 586

As the Beast Sleeps (Gary Mitchell) 526

Astronár (Piaras Béaslaí) 256

‘Athair’ (‘Father’ by Micheál Ó Conghaile) 619

Athnuachan (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 277–8

Atlantic Rhymes and Rhythms (Emily Lawless) see With the Wild Geese

At Night all Cats are Grey and Other Stories (Patrick Boyle) 461

At Swim Two-Birds (Flann O’Brien) 40, 171–3

At the Hawk’s Well (William Butler Yeats) 212–13

autobiography 258–9, 271–5, 279, 280–1, 284, 467–71

   collaborations 259, 280–1

   Gaeltacht 258–9, 271–3, 274, 280–1, 284, 613

   and incarceration 468

   Northern 470

   novelistic 467

   pseudo-autobiography 272

   see also memoirs, Blasket Islands literature

Autobiography of a Child (Hannah Lynch) 148–9

Autumn Journal (Louis MacNeice) 104–5, 360–1

Autumn Sequel (Louis MacNeice) 361

Avenue Theatre, London 186

Awake! and Other Poems (W. R. Rodgers) 361

Backward Look: A Survey of Irish Literature, The (Frank O’Connor) 584

Baile an Droichid (radio soap by Joe Steve Ó Neachtain) 306

Bailegangaire (Tom Murphy) 515–16, 634

Baile seo Againne, An (Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha) 300

Bairéad, Tomás 245

   Cruithneacht agus Ceannabhán 245

   Cumhacht na Cinneamhna 245

   Geall a Briseadh, An 245

Balcony of Europe (Aidan Higgins) 444

‘Ballad of Reading Gaol, The’ (Oscar Wilde) 64–5

Ballads and Lyrics (Katharine Tynan) 68

Banshee and Other Poems, The (John Todhunter) 65

Banville, John 435–6, 457, 636

   Birchwood 435

   Book of Evidence, The 636

   Nightspawn 435

   Untouchable, The 436

Barbed Wire (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 278

Bárd ’gus an Fó, An (Paul McSwiney) 260

Bards of the Gael and Gall (George Sigerson) 82

Bardwell, Leland 401, 450, 465

Barnes, Ben 492

Barrabas (theatre company) 525

Barracks, The (John McGahern) 427

Barrington, Margaret, My Cousin Justin 164–5

Barry, Sebastian 434, 441–2, 521–2, 639

   Prayers of Sherkin 521

   Steward of Christendom, The 521–2

Bás i dTír na nÓg, An (Seán Ó Tuama) 334–5

‘Bás na Bó’ (Liam O’Flaherty) 245

Bás san Oirthear (Lorcán Ó Treasaigh) 293

Bateman, Colin, Divorcing Jack 542

Battle of Aughrim, The (Richard Murphy) 66, 373

‘Beairtle’ (Seán Ó Curraoin) 347

Bealach Buidhe, An (Fr Peter O’Leary) 260

Bealach chun a’ Bhearnais, An (Tarlach Ó hUid) 273

Béal Bocht, An (The Poor Mouth by Myles na gCopaleen/Flann O’Brien) 271–3, 434, 612–13

Béal na h Uaighe agus Sgéalta Eile (León Ó Broin) 274

Bean Aonair agus Scéalta Eile (Pádraic Breathnach) 292

Bean Ruadh de Dhálach (Séamus Ó Grianna) 282–3

Béaslaí, Piaras 229, 230, 231, 248, 256, 262

   Astronár 256

   Danar, An 262

   Éigse na Nua-Ghaedhilge 231

Beauty Queen of Leenane, The (Martin McDonagh) 522–3, 639

Becker Wives and Other Stories, The (Mary Lavin) 455

Beckett, Mary 450

Beckett, Samuel 99, 100, 169–71, 365, 423–25, 478, 489–91, 493

   All That Fall 44–5

   Echoes Bones and Other Precipitates 100

   Molloy 423

   Murphy 101, 169–71

   Unnamable, The 423

   Waiting for Godot 12, 210, 478, 486, 489–91

Bedmates (George Shiels) 481

Behan, Brendan 318, 324–5, 466, 468, 472, 486–9, 491–2, 498

   ‘Aithrighe’ 325

   ‘Do Bhev’ 324

   ‘Do Sheán Ó Súilleabháin’ 325

   Giall, An (later The Hostage) 301, 491–2

   ‘Jackeen ag Caoineadh na mBlascaod’ 325

   Landlady, The 486

   Quare Fellow, The 486–9

Behan, Dominic 468

‘Beirt Fhear’ see Séamus Ó Dubhghaill

Belfast Confetti (Ciaran Carson) 397

‘Belfast Group’ 382, 388

Bell, Sam Hanna 437, 466

   December Bride 437, 551–2

Bell, The (journal) 359, 422, 581

Bending of the Bough, The (George Moore and Edward Martyn) 185

Bennett, Ronan 440

Bergin, Osborn, Maidin i mBéarra agus Dánta Eile 231

Berkeley, Bishop George 20

Berkeley, Sara 464–5

Berlin Wall Café, The (Paul Durcan) 381

Best of Myles, The (edited by Kevin O’Nolan) 472

Beyond the Pale and Other Stories (William Trevor) 457

‘Bhean Mhídhílis, An’ (‘The Unfaithful Wife’ by Lorca, translation by Máire Mhac an tSaoi) 326

Bheirt Dearbhráthar agus Scéalta Eile, An (Máiréad Ní Ghráda) 246

Bhóinn agus an Bhóchna, An (Liam P. Ó Riain) 253

Bickley, Francis, John Millington Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement 580

Big Birthday, The (John Keyes Byrne, penname ‘Hugh Leonard’) 493, 545

Big House novels 430–3

Big Maggie (John B. Keane) 497

bilingualism 226, 264, 290, 305, 328, 339, 349, 407–12, 489, 604, 611

   in anthologies 611, 621

   in drama 261, 300, 305

   in journals 226

   in the national theatre 300

   in poetry 79, 339, 346, 349, 350, 407–9, 603

   in scripts 305

Binchy, Maeve 450, 555

   Circle of Friends 556

Birchwood (John Banville) 435

Bird Alone (Sean O’Faolain) 158–9

Birds of Innocent Wood, The (Deirdre Madden) 440

Bishop’s Bonfire, The (Sean O’Casey) 480

Black, Cathal 547, 554, 556

‘Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me, The’ (Eavan Boland) 403

Black List, Section H (Francis Stuart) 441–2

Black Soul, The (Liam O’Flaherty) 156

Blackwater Lightship, The (Colm Tóibín) 444

Blackwood, Caroline 450

Blasket Islands 258–9, 282

   literature 258–9, 274, 281, 283–4, 613–15

Blather (magazine) 257

Bliainiris (journal) 271, 309

Blind Fireworks (Louis MacNeice) 104

Blood and Water (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne) 463

Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry (Edna Longley) 585

‘Bloody Sunday’ 501

Blue Raincoat (theatre company) 525

Blundell, Mary see Francis, M. E.

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen 80

Blythe, Ernest (Earnán de Blaghd) 218, 262, 279, 480, 482–3, 485, 486, 499, 506, 542

Blyth, Oliver see Brinsley MacNamara

Bodkin, M. McDonnell 130

   Dora Myrl, The Lady Detective 130

   Paul Beck, The Rule-of-Thumb Detective 130

Bohemia 33–40

Boland, Eavan 402–5, 622

   ‘Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me, The’ 403

   ‘I am Ireland’ 403–4

   ‘Journey, The’ 403

   Kind of Scar, A: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition 152–3

   New Territory 400

   Nightfeed 327

   Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time 153–4

   War Horse, The 402

   ‘Woman in Kitchen’ 154

Boland, Rosita 466

Bolger, Dermot 411, 443–4, 473, 611–12, 635

   Bright Wave, The: An Tonn Gheal (editor) 611

Book of Evidence, The (John Banville) 636

Bord na Gaeilge 302, 304

Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge 299

Borges, Jorge Luis 28

Boucicault, Dion, film versions of plays 533–4

Bourke, Angela 234, 308, 465

Bowen, Elizabeth 161–2, 164, 430, 448, 454–5, 458, 466, 468, 469

   Demon Lover and Other Stories, The 454

   Heat of the Day, The 430, 448

   Last September, The 161, 540

Boyd, Ernest 578–9

   Ireland’s Literary Renaissance 579

Boyd, John 471, 500–2

   Flats, The 500–1

Boyd’s Shop (St John Irvine) 545

Boylan, Clare 449, 464

Boyle, Patrick 460–1

   At Night all Cats are Grey and Other Stories 461

Boyle, William 203

Branar gan Cur, An (Breandán Ó Doibhlin) 286

Braon Broghach, An (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 275

Breathnach, Colm 349–50, 604

   Croí agus Carraig 349

   Fear Marbh, An 349

   Scáthach 349

Breathnach, Pádraic, Bean Aonair agus Scéalta Eile 292

‘Breith Anabaí Thar Lear’ (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 341

Breithiúnas (Máiréad Ní Ghráda) 301

Brennan, Deirdre 342, 349

Brennan, Maeve 455, 464

Bríde Bhán (Pádraig Ua Maoileoin) 283

Bright Wave: An Tonn Gheal, The (Dermot Bolger, editor) 611

Bring Everything (Peter Sirr) 410

British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) 537–9

British film industry and Ireland 534, 542–3

Broderick, John 428

Broken Soil (revised as The Fiddler’s House by Padraic Colum) 202

‘Broken World, A’ (Sean O’Faolain) 158

Brooke, Stopford A, and Rolleston, Thomas William (editors), A Treasury of Irish Poetry 69, 81, 575

Brosna (Seán Ó Ríordáin) 331

Broth of a Boy (screen title of The Big Birthday by Hugh Leonard) 545

Brown, Christy, My Left Foot 549–50

Browne, Noël 468

Brown, Terence 566, 585

   Louis MacNeice: Sceptical Vision 585

   Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster 585

Bryans, Robin see Harbison, Robert

Buachaillí Bána, Na (Cathal Ó Searcaigh) 346

Bullaí Mhártain (Donncha Ó Céileachair and Síle Ní Chéileachair) 274

Burning Perch, The (Louis MacNeice) 361

Bush Theatre 520

Butcher Boy, The (Patrick McCabe) 446, 524, 548, 636

Bute, Mary Ellen 557

Butler, Hubert 472

Byrce, Colette 392

Byrne, John Keyes see Leonard, Hugh

By the Bog of Cats (Marina Carr) 524, 634

Cabinet of Irish Literature, The (edited by Charles A. Read and T. P. O’Connor) 573–4

Cad Ba Dhóbair Dó agus Sgeulta Eile (Liam Ó Rinn) 246

Cailín na Gruaige Duinne (Úna Bean Uí Dhíocsa) 255–6

‘Caillte’ (Eithne Ní Chonaill) 323

‘Cainteoir Dúchais’ (Cathal Ó Searcaigh) 619

caint na ndaoine (‘speech of the people’) 234–6

Cairns, David see Richards, Shaun

Caisleáin Óir (Séamus Ó Grianna) 252, 281

Caitheamh Aimsire (Tadhg Ó Donnchadha) 230

Cal (Bernard MacLaverty) 439

Campbell, Joseph 86–8

   ‘Ad Limina’ 87

   Earth of Cualann, The 87

   Gilly of Christ, The 86

   Irishry 86

   ‘My Lagan Love’ 86

   Mountainy Singer, The 87

   ‘Raven’s Rock’ 87

   ‘Vision of Glendalough, A’ 87

Cannon, Moya 407

Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoire (film; dir. Bob Quinn) 546

Caoineadh na Mná agus Duanta Eile (Séamus Ó hAodha) 233

Caoin Tú Féin (Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin) 286

Captain Lavender (Medbh McGuckian) 399

Carbery, Ethna (penname of Anna Johnston) 69–70

   Northern Patriot (co-editor) 69–70

   ‘Passing of the Gael, The’ 70

   ‘Rody McCorley’ 70

   Shan Van Vocht (co-editor) 69–70

Carleton, William, Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn 535–6

Carolan (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 304

Carr, Marina 523–4, 634, 635

   By the Bog of Cats 524, 634

   Portia Coughlan 523–4

   Mai, The 523–4, 634, 638

   On Raftery’s Hill 524

Carroll, Paul Vincent, Shadow and Substance 216

Carson, Ciaran 391, 392,396–7, 636

   Belfast Confetti 397

   ‘Hamlet’ 396

   Irish for No, The 396

   Last Night’s Fun 396

   New Estate, The 396

   Twelfth of Never 397

Casadh an tSúgáin (Douglas Hyde) 190

Cask, The (Freeman Wills Crofts) 169

Casquet of Literary Gems 573

Castar na Daoine ar a Chéile ’s ní Chastar na Cnuic nó na Sléibhthe (Séamus Ó Grianna) 250

Castle Rackrent (Maria Edgeworth) 14

Catalpa (Donal O’Kelly) 525

Catchpenny Twist (Stewart Parker) 503

Cathleen ni Houlihan (William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory) 15, 183, 189, 190–1

‘Catholic apologetics’ 118

Cattledrive in Connaught, The (Austin Clarke) 101

‘Cattle, The’ (Katharine Tynan) 68–9

Cead Aighnis (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 341–2, 603–4

Ceannracháin Cathrach (Seán Mac Maoláin) 247

‘Ceasefire’ (Michael Longley) 390

‘Ceathrúintí Mháire Ní Ógáin’ (Máire Mhac an tSaoi) 326

Céitinn, Seathrún (Geoffrey Keating) 13

‘Celibacy’ (Austin Clarke) 102

Celtic Theatre 181

Celtic Twilight 366, 367

Celtic Twilight, The (William Butler Yeats) 138

censorship 44, 199, 323, 421, 423, 481, 490

   and cinema 536, 537–9, 556

Censorship Board 496

Censorship of Publications Act 421, 423

Ceol Abhann agus Gleann (Donnchadh Ó Liatháin) 232

Chaise Gharbh, An (Peadar Ó hAnnracháin) 231

Chaise Riabhach, An (Peadar Ó hAnnracháin) 231

Chamber Music (James Joyce) 89–90

Changing Winds (St John Ervine) 132–3

Charabanc Theatre Company 514, 525

Charwoman’s Daughter, The (James Stephens) 138–9

Chéim Bhriste, An (Áine Ní Ghlinn) 342

Childers, Erskine 130–1

   In the Ranks of the C.I.V. 131

   Riddle of the Sands, The 130–1

Children of the Dead End (Patrick MacGill) 120

Churchill, Caryl 513

‘Cill Cais’ (song) 18–19

cinema 266, 368, 531–58, 621

   and Abbey Theatre, Dublin 534, 542–6

   actors 537–9, 542–3

   emergence of 532–6

   and history 536–42

   independent film sector 549

   and the Irish Rebellion of 1916 538

   and landscape 534, 552

   and literature 531–58

   and modernism 547–8

   postmodern 553

   see also screen adaptations

Ciontach (Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin) 288

Cioth is Dealán (Séamus Ó Grianna) 244, 273

‘Circus Animals’ Desertion, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 62

Circle of Friends (Maeve Binchy) 556

Cití (Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin) 304

Civil Rights Movement 499, 585

Claddagh Records 378

Claidheamh Soluis, An (newspaper) 239

Claíomh Solais, An (Liam Mac Cóil) 295

Clancy Name, The (Lennox Robinson) 200

Clanking of Chains, The (Brinsley MacNamara) 155–6

Clarke, Austin 101–3, 358, 369–72

   Ancient Lights 370–1

   Cattledrive in Connaught, The 101

   ‘Celibacy’ 102

   ‘Lost Heifer, The’ 101

   ‘Martha Blake at Fifty-One’ 371

   Mnemosyne Lay in Dust 370

   Night and Morning 102

   ‘Penal Law’ 103

   Pilgrimage and Other Poems 101, 102

   Poems of Joseph Campbell 87

    ‘The Straying Student’ 103

   Tiresias 371

   Vengeance of Fionn, The 101

   ‘Young Woman of Beare, The’ 102

   as co-founder of the Lyric Theatre 370

Clifton, Harry 409

Clóchomhar, An 307, 308

Cluysenaar, Anne 401

Cochrane, Ian 439

‘Codail a Laoich’ (Biddy Jenkinson) 343

Coffey, Brian 99, 100

   Third Person 100

Coghill, Rhoda 401

Coimhthigheach, An (Séamus Mac Conmara) 256

‘Coinnle ar Lasadh’ (Máirtín Ó Direáin) 322

Coinnle Geala (Máirtín Ó Direáin) 319

Cois Caoláire (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 275–6

Coisithe, Na (Liam S. Gógan) 322

Cois Life (Seosamh Ó Torna) 248

Colum, Padraic 52, 83–6, 139–40, 191, 202–3

   Broken Soil (revised as The Fiddler’s House) 202

   Creatures 85

   Dramatic Legends and Other Poems 85

   King of Ireland’s Son, The 139–40

   Land, The 202

   ‘Poor Scholar of the Forties, A’ 84–5

   Poet’s Circuits: Collected Poems of Ireland, The 85

   Wild Earth 83

C(h)omhairle Náisiúnta Amharclainne, An 301

Comhar (magazine) 307

Comhar Drámaidheachta (Drámaíochta), An 262, 300, 301

   see Na hAisteoirí

Coming Back, The (Lady Constance Malleson) 166–7

Commitments, The (Roddy Doyle) 518, 557–8

Common Chord, The (Frank O’Connor) 453

Commotion Theatre Company 524

Compántas Amharclainne, An 300

Compántas Chorcaí 302

‘Conán Maol’ (penname of Pádraig Ó Séaghdha) 240, 251, 258, 260

Confessions of a Young Man (George Moore) 142

Congreve, William, Way of the World, The 188

Conlon, Evelyn 451, 464

Conner, Reardon, Shake Hands with the Devil 540

Connolly, James 31

Connor, Elizabeth (penname of Una Troy) 481–2

Conradh na Gaeilge see Gaelic League

‘Consolation’ (William Larminie) 66

Conversations on a Homecoming (Tom Murphy) 505

Corcoran, Neil, After Yeats and Joyce 566

Cork Dramatic Society 202, 203

Corkery, Daniel 153–4, 202, 228, 577–8

   Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century, The 228, 265, 564, 577

   Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature 154, 202, 630–1

   Threshold of Quiet, The 153–4

‘Cork Realists’ 200

Cormac Ua Conaill (Fr Patrick Dinneen) 249–50

Corp Eoghain Uí Shúilleabháin (Seán Ó Tuama) 303

Council for the Status of Women 400

Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, The (William Butler Yeats) 57

Country Girls Trilogy, The (Edna O’Brien) 427

Coyle, Kathleen 164–6

   Flock of Birds, A 165–6

   Liv 164–5

Cowboys and Indians (Joseph O‘Connor) 445

Crab Apple Jelly (Frank O’Connor) 452

Crane Bag, The (journal) 586

‘Crann na Tubaiste’ (Biddy Jenkinson) 343

‘Craoibhín Aoibhinn, An’ see Douglas Hyde

Crawford, Robert, Devolving English Literature 562

Cré agus Cláirseach (Tomás Mac Síomóin) 338

Creatures (Padraic Colum) 85

Cré na Cille (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 275

‘Crimson in the Tri-colour, The’ (Sean O’Casey) 206

Crock of Gold, The (James Stephens) 78, 139

Crofts, Freeman Wills, Cask, The 169

Croí agus Carraig (Colm Breathnach) 349

Croker, B. M. 122

Cromie, Robert 127, 131

   Plunge into Space, A 127

Cromwell (Brendan Kennelly) 381

Cronin, Anthony 365, 472, 469, 635

Crossroads, The (Lennox Robinson) 200

Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant, A (formerly titled The Fooleen by Tom Murphy) 496, 499

Cruithneacht agus Ceannabhán (Tomás Bairéad) 245

Crushed Yet Conquering (Deborah Alcock) 117

Crystal and Fox (Brian Friel) 499

Cuaifeach mo Londubh Buí (Séamas Mac Annaidh) 293

‘Cuchulain Comforted’ (William Butler Yeats) 63

Cuchulain of Muirthemne (Augusta Gregory) 569

Cúigiú Díochlaonadh, An (Dáibhí Ó Cróinín) 294

Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (Brian Merriman) 22

Cuirtéis, Éamonn (Edmund Curtis) 317

Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler, Ireland’s Others 623

Cumhacht na Cinneamhna (Tomás Bairéad) 245

Cummins, Maria Susanna, The Lamplighter 151

Curious Street, A (Desmond Hogan) 442

Cúrsaí Thomáis (Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta) 254–5

‘Curse of Cromwell, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 19

‘Cú Uladh’ see Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich

Cyphers (journal) 402

Da (Hugh Leonard) 504

Daddy, Daddy (Paul Durcan) 381

Dalkey Archive, The (Flann O’Brien) 433

Dalton, Emmet 543

D’Alton, Louis 481

   Lovers’ Meeting 481

   This Other Eden 545–6

Daly, Ita 450, 451

Damer, An 301–2

Dámh-Sgoil Mhúsgraighe Uí Fhloinn 229, 231, 233, 317

Danar, An (Piaras Béaslaí) 262

Dancers Dancing, The (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne) 450

Dancing at Lughnasa (Brian Friel) 519–20, 550, 555

Dánta agus Amhráin (Séamus Ó Maoildhia) 231

Dánta agus Duanta (Liam S. Gógan) 232, 321

Dánta Aniar (Máirtín Ó Direáin) 319, 321

Dánta Eile (Tomás Ó Floinn) 322

Dark Rosaleen (M. E. Francis) 119

Daughters of Erin (Inghinidhe na hÉireann) 190

Daughters of Men (Hannah Lynch) 125

Davie, Donald 583

Davitt, Michael 336, 344–5, 609–10, 620

   ‘Ar an gCaorán Mór’ 344

   ‘Poker’ 345

Dawe, Gerald 392

Day-Lewis, Cecil 103, 360

‘Dead at Clonmacnois, The’ (Thomas William Rolleston) 81–2

Dead Kingdom, The (John Montague) 380

Dead, The (John Huston) 557

Dealbhóir sa nGairdín, An (Lorcán Ó Treasaigh) 293

Dealg Droighin, An (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 339, 603–4

Deane, John F 381, 411

Deane, Seamus 43, 363, 392, 440, 467, 566, 587–9

   general editor of the Field Day Authology 1–111, 587–90

   ‘Heroic Styles’ 566

   Reading in the Dark 440, 470

Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche, The (Thomas Kilroy) 507

Death of a Chieftain and Other Stories (John Montague) 461

Death of a Naturalist (Seamus Heaney) 382

Death of Humpty Dumpty, The (Graham Reid) 503

De Bhailís, Colm 228

De Bhilmot (Wilmot), Séamus 262–3

   Mise Méara 272

De Blaghd, Earnán see Blythe, Ernest

De Brún, Fr Pádraig (founder of Humanitas) 264

December Bride (Sam Hanna Bell) 437, 551–2

‘De Civitate Hominum’ (Thomas MacGreevy) 97

Deevy, Teresa 216–18, 482

   Katie Roche 217–18

   King of Spain’s Daughter, The 217

De hIndeberg, Risteárd see Henebry, Fr Richard

Deirdre (James Stephens) 135

Deirdre of the Sorrows (J. M. Synge) 75

Deirdre Wed (Herbert Trench) 66

Deirdre (William Butler Yeats) 197

Delanty, Greg 409

Dé Luain (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 289

Demi-Gods, The (James Stephens) 135

Demon Lover and Other Stories, The (Elizabeth Bowen) 454

Deoraidheacht (Pádraic Ó Conaire) 246, 253

De Paor, Alín 250

De Paor, Louis 349, 616

De Paor, Pádraig 308

Dermody, Frank 301, 486

‘Deserted Village, The’ (Oliver Goldsmith) 21

Désirée (Liam Prút) 295

Devlin, Anne 513

Devlin, Denis 99, 364–5

   Heavenly Foreigner, The 365

   Intercessions 100, 364

   Lough Derg 364

Dharmakaya (Paula Meehan) 407

Dialann Bóthair (Liam Ó Muirthile) 603, 606

Dialann Deoraí (Dónall Mac Amhlaigh) 279

Dialann sa Díseart (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc and Rita Kelly) 334

dialect 29–31, 237, 238–9

Dianmhuilte Dé (Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin), 286

Diarmuid agus Gráinne (Micheál Mac Liammóir) 263

Diarmuid and Grania (George Moore and W. B. Yeats) 187

‘Digging’ (Seamus Heaney) 385

Dillon, Eilís 447

Dinneen, Fr Patrick (Pádraig Ua Duinnín) 228, 230, 231, 232, 234, 236, 249, 261

   Cormac Ua Conaill 249–50

Divorcing Jack (Colin Bateman) 542

Dix, Elizabeth Rachel see Úna Bean Uí Dhíocsa

‘Do Bhev’ (Brendan Behan) 324

Dochartach Dhuibhlionna (Seosamh Mac Grianna) 253

Doctor’s Wife, The (Brian Moore) 438

Dolmen Miscellany (John Montague, editor) 378

Dolmen Press, The 372–3, 374, 378–9

Domestic Relations (Frank O’Connor) 452

Donaghy, John Lyle 99

   Wilderness Sings 99

Donnelly, Charles 99

Donoghue, Denis 583

   Warrenpoint 470

Donoghue, Emma 451–2

‘Do Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’ (Máire Mhac an tSaoi) 327

Dora Myrl, The Lady Detective (M. McDonnell Bodkin) 130

Doras do Plabadh, An (Seoirse Mac Liam) 257

Dorcey, Mary 451, 464

   Noise from the Woodshed, A 464

Dorgan, Theo 411

‘Do Sheán Ó Súilleabháin’ (Brendan Behan) 325

Double Cross (Thomas Kilroy) 511

Dowling, Joe 492, 506

Doyle, Paddy 468

Doyle, Roddy 443, 557

   Commitments, The 518, 557–8

   Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 443

   Snapper, The 443

   Star Called Henry, A 638

   Woman Who Walked into Doors, The 443

Dozen Lips, A (pamphlet) 473

Dracula (Bram Stoker) 128–30

Drama in Muslin: A Realistic Novel (George Moore) 120, 121

drama see theatre, also plays

Dramatic Legends and Other Poems (Padraic Colum) 85

Dr Áthas, An (Liam Mac Cóil) 294–5

Drawing Ballerinas (Medbh McGuckian) 400

Druid Theatre Company 507, 515, 523

Druma Mór, An (Seosamh Mac Grianna) 252, 272

Drums of Father Ned, The (Sean O’Casey) 480

‘Dubh – ar thitim Shrebrenice, 11ú Iúil 1995’ (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 341

Dublin 72, 300

   representations of 442–4, 556–8

   theatres 182

   theatre societies in 203

   See also Abbey, Gate, Peacock, Pike theatres

Dubliners (James Joyce) 9, 33–43, 145–7

Dublin Magazine 77, 401

Dublin Opinion (periodical) 258

‘Dublin trilogy’ (Sean O’Casey) 480

Duibhlinn (Ciarán Ó Coigligh) 296

Dúil (Liam Ó Flaithearta/Liam O’Flaherty) 274

Dún na mBan Trí Thine (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne), 306

Dunne, Mary Chavelita see Egerton, George

Dunne, Seán 469

Dunsany, Lord Edward John 93, 95, 173

   King of Elfland’s Daughter, The 173

   My Ireland 173

   Tales of War 132

Durcan, Paul 380–1

   Berlin Wall Café, The 381

   Daddy, Daddy 381

Dutch Interior (Frank O’Connor) 158, 159

Éagnairc (Pádraig Ó Siadhail) 296

Éan Corr (Seán Mac Maoláin) 250

Earth Compels, The (Louis MacNeice) 104

Earth of Cualann, The (Joseph Campbell) 87

‘Easter 1916’ (William Butler Yeats) 16, 59

Easter Rising of 1916 16, 27, 91–5, 205, 250, 255

Echoes Bones and Other Precipitates (Samuel Beckett) 100

Edelstein, Joseph, Moneylender, The 121

Eden (Eugene O’Brien) 521

Edgeworth, Maria 23

   Castle Rackrent 14

Edwards, Hilton (co-founder of the Gate Theatre, Dublin) 211–2, 494, 495–7

Egan, Desmond 409, 411

Egerton, George (born Mary Chavelita Dunne) 124–5

   Keynotes 124

   Keynotes with Discords 124

Eglinton, John 578–9

‘Éiceolaí’ (Biddy Jenkinson) 343

Éigse na Nua-Ghaedhilge (Piaras Béaslaí) 231

Eireaball Spideoige (Seán Ó Ríordáin) 328, 329, 331

Éire-Ireland (journal) 616

Eiriceachtaí agus Scéalta Eile (Alan Titley) 291

Ellis, Conleth 332–3, 339, 349

Ellis-Fermor, Una, The Irish Dramatic Movement 580–1

Ellmann, Richard 32, 566–7, 584

emigration 25–6, 279–80, 458, 505, 636

   and cinema 535, 538, 545

   and Irish-language literature 279–80, 283

   and memoirs 468

   novels of 118, 142, 438, 445

   plays of 484, 492–3, 494, 496, 497, 505

   poetry of 72, 363–5

   see also exile; immigration; migration

Empire Theatre 493

En Attendant Godot, see Waiting for Godot

End House, The (Joseph Tomelty) 482

Enemy of the People, The (Henrik Ibsen) 185

Enemy Within, The (Brian Friel) 494

Enright, Anne 451, 465

   The Portable Virgin 465

Eoghan Rua Ó Néill (Seosamh Mac Grianna) 243, 251

Ervine, St John 132–3, 204–5, 482, 545

   Boyd’s Shop 545

   Changing Winds 132–3

   Magnanimous Lover, The 205

   Mixed Marriage 204–5

Esler, E. Rentoul 119

Esther Waters (George Moore) 141

Eureka Street (Robert McLiam Wilson) 441

Europa and the Bull and Other Poems (W. R. Rodgers) 361

Evelyn Innes (George Moore) 187

exile 29, 44–5, 102, 156, 160, 216, 363–5, 389, 402, 421, 444, 631, 639–41

   writers in 23–5, 44, 216, 363–5, 395

expatriates 444, 448

Expressionism 208–12, 480

Fáinne an Lae (newspaper, later titled An Claidheamh Soluis) 239

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (William Butler Yeats) 138

Faith Healer (Brian Friel) 517–18, 520, 634

Fallon, Pádraic 366–7

   Vision of Mac Conglinne, The 366–7

Fallon, Peter 410–11

Familiar, The (Thomas Kinsella) 376–7

famine in literature 26, 261, 262, 276, 283, 435, 499

Famine (Tom Murphy) 499

Fánaí (Seán Ó Caomhánaigh) 254

Fand and Other Poems (William Larminie) 65

Faoileán na Beatha (Seán Ó Tuama) 334

Faoistin Bhacach (Pearse Hutchinson) 333

Farewell to English, A (Michael Hartnett) 408

Farrell, Bernard 504–5

   I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell 504

   Last Apache Reunion 504–5

Farrell, J. G., Troubles 431

Farrell, M. J. (born Molly Keane) 161, 162, 430–1

   Good Behaviour 431

   Loving without Tears 430

   Mad Puppetstown 162

Farrell, Michael 426, 429

Farren, Robert (see Roibeárd Ó Faracháin), co-founder of the Lyric Theatre 370

‘Father O’Flynn’ (Alfred Perceval Graves) 96

Father Ralph (Gerald O’Donovan)

Father Tim (Rosa Mulholland) 118

Fear an Tae (Liam Ó Muirthile) 305

Fear Dána, An (Alan Titley) 291

Fear in the Heart (Constance Malleson) 167

Fear Marbh, An (Colm Breathnach) 349

Féar Suaithinseach (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 341

Feasta (magazine) 307

Feis (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 603

Felicia’s Journey (William Trevor) 432

feminism 124, 184, 194, 400–1, 589, 602

‘Fergus and the Druid’ (William Butler Yeats) 57

‘Fiachra Éilgeach’ see Ristéard Ó Foghludha

Fiannaidhe Fáin, An (Pádraig Ó Miléadha) 232

Fiche Blian ag Fás (Muiris Ó Súileabháin) 258–9, 613–4

fiction 113–73, 240–59, 271–99, 421–65

   counter-Revival 141–56

   detective 130, 257

   fin de siècle 124–7

   of the Great War 130–4

   Irish-language 240–59, 271–99, 619, 622

   of Northern Ireland 165–8, 436–41, 459–63

   New Woman 122–4

   popular 114–19, 279, 297–9

   post-World War II 424

   of the Revival 134–41

   science fiction 127–8, 257

   spy 130

   supernatural 127–30

   thrillers 257–8, 296, 435

   urban 246–8

   World War II 439

   see also novels; short stories

Fiddler’s House, The (formerly Broken Soil by Padraic Colum) 202

Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 1, 357, 358, 509, 565–6, 587–90

Field Day Theatre Company 495, 509–13, 514, 519, 525

Fielden, Olga 168

   Island Story 168

   Stress 168

Field, The (John B. Keane) 550–1

Field Work (Seamus Heaney) 384

Figgis, Darrell (‘Michael Ireland’), The Return of the Hero 136

File Callánach (Seán Mac Maoláin) 253

Film Company of Ireland (FCOI) 534–5

Finnegans Wake (James Joyce) 31, 88, 557, 634–5

Fíon gan Mhoirt (Roibeárd Ó Faracháin) 248

Fire of Green Boughs, The (Mrs Victor Rickard) 133–4

Fishing the Sloe-Black River (Colum McCann) 458–9

Fitzmaurice, George 203, 483

Flaherty, Robert 266

Flanagan, Fionnuala 34

Flats, The (John Boyd) 500–1

Flight (Vona Groarke) 407

Flock of Birds, A (Kathleen Coyle) 165–6

Flower Master, The (Medbh McGuckian) 397

Fly on the Wheel, The (Katherine Cecil Thurston) 123

Flynn, Gerard Mannix 640

   James X 640–1

Focus Theatre 517

folklore 137, 341, 634

folktales 137–40, 233–4, 240–1

Fonn a Níos Fiach (Pádraig Ua Maoileoin) 283–4

Fooleen, The (retitled A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant by Tom Murphy) 496

Fools of Fortune (William Trevor) 432, 540

Ford, John 552

Foreign Affairs and Other Stories (Sean O’Faolain) 454

Fornocht do Chonac (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 304

‘Fornocht do chonac thú’ (Patrick Pearse, translation by Thomas MacDonagh) 92

Fortune Must Follow (D. G. Waring) 167

Fortune, The (Douglas Goldring) 132

Fox’s Covert, The (Blanaid Salkeld) 100

Francis, M. E. (Mary Sweetman, later Blundell) 119

   Dark Rosaleen 119

   In a North Country Village 119

Francophile, The (Brian Friel) 494

Frankie Pig Says Hello (Patrick McCabe) 524

Freedom of the City (Brian Friel) 501–2

‘Freehold’ (John Hewitt) 362

Freeman’s Journal 571

Free State, Irish 43–6, 156–9, 160, 238

French Life in Town and Country (Hannah Lynch) 149

Friel, Brian 460, 478, 494–5, 496, 499–500, 501–2, 509–11, 517–18, 519–20, 526

   Aristocrats 506

   Crystal and Fox 499

   Dancing at Lughnasa 519–20, 550, 555

   Enemy Within, The 494

   Faith Healer 517–18, 520, 634

   Francophile, The 494

   Freedom of the City, The 501–2

   Living Quarters 506

   Making History 510

   Molly Sweeney 518

   Mundy Scheme, The 500

   Philadelphia, Here I Come! 494–5, 554

   Translations 509, 510

   Volunteers 506

From Ballybeg to Broadway (documentary) 520

From Burke to Beckett (formerly Ascendancy and Tradition by W. J. McCormack) 586

‘Fuath, An’ (Máire Mhac an tSaoi) 326

Full Moon in March, A (William Butler Yeats) 63

Furlong, Alice 137

Gaeilgeoirí (Antaine Ó Flatharta) 305

Gael, The (Edward E. Lysaght) 154–5, 254

‘Gaelic’ (definition of term) 615–16

Gaelic Journal, The (Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge) 226, 229

Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) 35, 79, 226, 229, 230, 237–8, 261, 299

   publishing programme 239–40

Gaelic theatre tradition 260

Gaelic Union 226

Gaeltacht 604, 612, 617

   amateur drama 304

   autobiography 258–9, 271–3, 274, 280–1, 284, 613

   map of 599

   non-Gaeltacht Irish language writers 246, 273, 285, 290, 297, 604–5, 620

   official boundaries of 282

   writing 229, 234, 237, 242, 243, 248, 249, 252–3, 258–9, 261, 263, 270, 271–3, 274–5, 277, 278, 280–4, 293, 295–7, 298–9, 302, 304–5, 306, 317, 328–32, 346–7, 604–5, 618–19, 622

Gaiety Theatre 183, 480, 494

Galvin, Patrick 468, 553

   Song for a Raggy Boy 553

Game Cock and Other Stories, The (Michael McLaverty) 460

Gaodhal, An (The Gael) 229, 239

Gap of Brightness, The (Frederick Robert Higgins) 98

‘Gas from a Burner’ (James Joyce) 88

Gate Theatre Company 209–12, 494, 495–6, 497, 526

   actors 211

   patrons 212

   playwrights 211, 496

Gealas i Lár na Léithe, An (Pádraig Ó Cíobháin) 295

Geall a Briseadh, An (Tomás Bairéad) 245

Gébler, Carlo 434, 437, 445

genealogies 640

Geographical Distribution of Irish Ability, The (D. J. O’Donoghue) 562–3

Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen) 185

ghost stories 127

   see also gothic literature

Giall, An (Brendan Behan) 301, 491

Gibbons, Luke, Transformations in Irish Culture 612

Gibbon, (William) Monk 94, 96

Gigli Concert, The (Tom Murphy) 516, 634

Gilly of Christ, The (Joseph Campbell) 86

Girl Who Married the Reindeer, The (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) 406

Glasshouse Productions (theatre company) 518

‘Glass of Beer, The’ (James Stephens) 79

‘Gleann Maoiliúra’ (Biddy Jenkinson) 344

globalisation 629–35, 637, 639

Goblin, The (newspaper) 36

Gógan, Liam S. 230, 232, 262, 321–4

   ‘Coisithe, Na’ 322

   Dánta agus Duanóga 232

   Dánta agus Duanta 232, 321

   Nua-Dhánta 232

Gogarty, Oliver St John 52, 90–1

   ‘Leda and the Swan’ 91

   Selected Poems 91

Golden Apple, The (Lady Augusta Gregory) 483

Goldring, Douglas, The Fortune 132

Goldsmith, Oliver, ‘The Deserted Village’ 21–2

Good Behaviour (Molly Keane) 431

Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves) 262–3

Gore-Booth, Eva 70

   ‘Little Waves of Breffny, The’ 70

   ‘Visions of Niamh, The’ 70

Gothic literature 128, 431, 458, 547, 548, 635–6, 639

Grá agus an Ghruaim, An (Seosamh Mac Grianna) 42, 243

Grand, Sarah 124

   Heavenly Twins, The 124

Grásta i Meiriceá (Antaine Ó Flatharta) 305

Graves, Alfred Perceval (father of Robert Graves) 95, 96

   ‘Father O’Flynn’ 96

Graves, Robert 96–7

   Goodbye to All That 262–3

   White Goddess, The 96

‘Great Breath, The’ (George William Russell, ‘AE’) 73

Great Cloak, The (John Montague) 379

Great Famine, the 26, 368

   see also famine in literature

Great Hunger, The (Patrick Kavanagh) 517

Great War, The (World War I) 93–8, 130–4

Green Helmet and Other Poems, The (William Butler Yeats) 58

Gregory, Lady Augusta 15, 80, 181–2, 189–92, 210, 219

   Cathleen ni Houlihan (co-authored with Yeats) 190–1

   Cuchulain of Muirthemne 569

   Golden Apple, The 483

   Kiltartan Poetry Book 80

   ‘Kiltartanese’ 80, 191

   Rising of the Moon 192

   Twenty-Five 191

   see also Yeats, William Butler

‘Greidhlic’ (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 340

Grennan, Eamon 358, 366, 409

   Still Life with Waterfall 409

Groarke, Vona 407

   Flight 407, 411

   Other People’s Houses 407

   Shale 407

Group Theatre 493

‘Gruagach an Tobair’ see Pádraig Ó Séaghdha

‘Guests of the Nation’ (Frank O’Connor) 539–40

Guinan, Canon Joseph 118

Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) 20

Gúm, An 251, 266, 271, 621

Gunna Cam agus Slabhra Óir (Seán Ó Tuama) 302

Guthrie, Tyrone 480, 494

Gwynn, Stephen, Irish Literature and Drama in the English Language: A Short History 578

‘Gyres, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 63

Hail and Farewell (George Moore) 143

Halpin, Mary, Semi-Private 513

Hamilton, Hugo 445, 459, 637–8

Hamilton, M. see Mary Churchill Luck

‘Hamlet’ (Ciaran Carson) 396

Harbison, Robert 467, 470, 471

Hard Road to Klondike, The (translation of Rotha Mór an tSaoil by Micí Mac Gabhann) 615

Hardie, Kerry 407

Hartnett, Michael (Mícheál Ó hAirtnéide) 338–9, 408, 605, 611, 622

   Adharca Broic 339

   Farewell to English, A 408

Hayes, Maurice 470

Hay (Paul Muldoon) 395

Healy, Dermot 446, 469

Healy, Randolph 411

Heaney, Seamus 9, 31, 93, 95, 382–6

   Death of a Naturalist 382

   ‘Digging’ 385

   Field Work 384

   North 383–4

   Preoccupations 384

   Redress of Poetry, The 384, 385

   Seeing Things 384–5

   Station Island 384

   Wintering Out 383

Heather Blazing, The (Colm Tóibín) 444

Heather Field, The (Edward Martyn) 187, 190

Heat of the Day, The (Elizabeth Bowen), 430, 448

Heavenly Foreigner, The (Denis Devlin) 365

Heavenly Twins, The (Sarah Grand) 124

Hello Eternity! (Blanaid Salkeld) 100

Henebry, Fr Richard (Risteárd de hIndeberg) 234–6, 241

   ‘Revival Irish’ (essays) 234

Heritage and Other Stories (Eugene McCabe) 462

heroic romances 135

‘Heroic Styles’ (Seamus Deane) 566

Hewitt, John 362–3, 471

   ‘Freehold’ 362

   as poetry editor of Threshold 363

Hickey, Tom 517

Hidden Curriculum, The (Graham Reid) 503

Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century, The (Daniel Corkery) 265, 564, 577

Higgins, Aidan 427–8, 444, 457, 466, 467, 469, 635

   Balcony of Europe 444

   Langrishe, Go Down 427

Higgins, Frederick Robert 98–9, 480

   Gap of Brightness, The 98

Higgins, Rita Ann 407

High Island (Richard Murphy) 373

High Road, The (Edna O’Brien) 448

‘High Talk’ (William Butler Yeats) 63

Hill of Vision, The (James Stephens) 78

Hinkson, Pamela, Ladies’ Road, The 162–3

History of Ireland (Standish James O’Grady) 568

Hitchcock, Alfred 536

Hogan, Desmond 442, 458, 467

   Curious Street, A 442

   Ikon Maker, The 442

   Leaves on Grey, The 442

   New Shirt, A 442

Home is the Hero (Walter Macken) 544

Homer, The Odyssey 28, 31

Homeward Thoughts by the Way (George William Russell, ‘AE’) 73

Honest Ulsterman, The (journal) 387

Hopper Chesson, Nora 71

Horniman, Annie 186

Hostage, The (Brendan Behan) 491–2

‘How Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent’ (William Butler Yeats) 572

Howie the Rookie (Mark O’Rowe) 521

How Many Miles to Babylon? (Jennifer Johnston) 431

Hudson Letter, The (Derek Mahon) 389

Hughes, Declan 518

Humanitas (journal) 264

Hunt by Night, The (Derek Mahon) 389

Hunter, Barbara (co-editor of Rann journal) 363

Hunt, Hugh 216, 218, 498, 499

Huston, John, The Dead 557

Hutchinson, Pearse 401, 409

   Faoistin Bhacach 333

Hutton, Seán 349

hybridity 617–18, 620

Hyde, Douglas 79–80, 138, 229, 230, 236, 261, 563

   Casadh an tSúgáin 190

   Love Songs of Connacht 79

   ‘Necessity for De-Anglicizing Ireland, The’ 79, 563–4, 572

   Úlla de’n Chraobh 230

Hyde-Lees, Georgie 59

Hynes, Garry (Gearóidín) 507–8, 523

‘I am Ireland’ (Eavan Boland) 403–4

Ibsen, Henrik 185

   Enemy of the People, The 185

   Ghosts 185

Í Chearnaigh, Seán Sheáin 284

Ideal Husband, An (Oscar Wilde) 189

identity 429, 442, 584–9, 606

   politics of 583

Idir na Fleadhanna (Áine Ní Fhoghludha) 233, 274

Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 248, 275

I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell (Bernard Farrell) 504

Ikon Maker, The (Desmond Hogan) 442

Imaginary Homelands (Salman Rushdie) 29

‘I mBaile an tSléibhe’ (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 340

Imeachtaí na Saoirse (Antaine Ó Flatharta) 305

immigration 45, 261, 404, 448, 527, 554, 628, 639

   see also emigration; migration

Importance of Being Earnest, The (Oscar Wilde) 188

Inalienable Heritage and Other Poems, The (Emily Lawless) 67

In a Little World of Our Own (Gary Mitchell) 526

In a North Country Village (M. E. Francis) 119

Independent Voice (Gary Mitchell) 525

‘Informant, The’ (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) 405

Informer, The (Liam O’Flaherty) 539

Inglis, Brian 468

Inishowen (Joseph O’Connor) 445

Inland Ice and Other Stories, The (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne) 463

Inniu (newspaper) 273

Innti (journal) 336–8, 348

Innti poets 336–8, 345, 348, 611

   disappearance of 338

   and women writers 337

‘Inquisitio 1584’ (Máire Mhac an tSaoi) 326

inscape theory 329

institutional abuse 553–4

Insurrection in Dublin, The (James Stephens) 78, 139

Intercessions (Denis Devlin) 100, 364

internationalism 199, 577, 582–3

Interpreters, The (George William Russell) 140–1

In the Land of Youth (James Stephens) 136

In the Middle of the Fields (Mary Lavin) 455

In the Seven Woods (William Butler Yeats) 58

In the Shadow of the Glen (J. M. Synge) 183, 193–4

Iolar agus Sionnach (Seán Mac Maoláin) 251

Íosagán agus Sgéalta Eile (Patrick Pearse) 241

‘Ireland, Michael’ see Figgis, Darrell

Ireland’s Others (Elizabeth Butler Cullingford) 623

I Remember! I Remember! (Sean O’Faolain) 453

Iremonger, Valentin 365, 480

Irish Classics (Declan Kiberd) 566

Irish Comic Tradition, The (Vivian Mercier) 583

Irish Constitution of 1937 218

Irish Dramatic Movement, The (Una Ellis-Fermor) 580–1

Irish Fairy Tales (James Stephens) 136

Irish Fairy Tales (William Butler Yeats) 138

Irish Film Censor 556

Irish for No, The (Ciaran Carson) 396

Irish Homestead, The (periodical) 20, 36, 73

Irish Independent Theatre Society 181, 186

Irish language, commentary on 3, 22, 234, 235, 600, 613, 622, 623

   decline of 282, 610–11

   and identity 606

   and nationalism 606–7

   ‘official’ status of 607–10

   revival of 79, 285

   television 306, 621

Irish-language writing 11–19, 40–3, 45, 600–23

   drama 259–63, 299–306, 482–3, 491, 498, 507, 516

   fiction 248–58, 271–99

   film and television 306, 621

   literary criticism 263–6, 306–10, 581–2

   poetry 227–33, 317–51

   prose 233-59, 271–99

   short stories 240–8, 274, 275–6, 288, 291–2, 293, 296

   see also periodicals, Irish-language

Irish Lesson, The (Michael O’Loughlin) 608–10

Irish Literary Theatre 181, 182, 186, 189–91

Irish Literature and Drama in the English Language: A Short History (Stephen Gwynn) 578

Irish Literature (Justin McCarthy, editor-in-chief) 573, 574

Irishman, The (Brinsley MacNamara) 155

‘Irish Mode’ 92, 578

Irish National Dramatic Society see Abbey Theatre

Irish National Theatre see Abbey Theatre

Irish National Theatre Society see Abbey Theatre

Irish Plays and Playwrights (Cornelius Weygandt) 580

Irish Press, the (newspaper) 422

Irish Rebellion of 1798 397

Irishry (Joseph Campbell) 86

Irish Statesman (periodical) 73

Irish Studies 2

Irish Theatre Company 535

Irish Writers Co-operative 442–3

Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad (journal) 285, 307

Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge (The Gaelic Journal) 226, 229, 233, 239

Iron Men, The (later retitled A Whistle in the Dark by Tom Murphy) 493

Is É a Dúirt Polonius (Críostóir Ó Floinn) 303

‘I see His Blood upon the Rose’ (Joseph Mary Plunkett) 93

Island narratives 284

   see also Blasket Islands

Island Story (Olga Fielden) 168

Is the Priest at Home? (Joseph Tomelty) 482

‘Jackeen ag Caoineadh na mBlascaod’ (Brendan Behan) 325

Jail Journal (John Mitchel) 24

James X (Gerard Mannix Flynn) 640–1

Jenkinson, Biddy 342–4, 349, 606

   ‘Alabama. Samhradh ’98’ 343

   ‘Codail a Laoich’ 343

   ‘Crann na Tubaiste’ 343

   ‘Éiceolaí’ 343

   ‘Gleann Maoiliúra’ 344

   ‘Mo Ghrása mo Dhia’ 343

   ‘Suantraí na Máthar Síní’ 343

Jewish life 121

John Bull’s Other Island (George Bernard Shaw) 30, 198–9

John Chilcote, MP (Katherine Cecil Thurston) 115, 123

John Inglesant (J. H. Shorthouse) 117

John Millington Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement (Francis Bickley) 580

Johnston, Anna see Carbery, Ethna

Johnston, Denis 209, 211, 466, 496, 539–40

   Old Lady Says ‘No!’, The 210, 480, 496

   ‘Rhapsody in Green’ 210

Johnston, Jennifer 431, 451

   How Many Miles to Babylon? 431

   Shadows on our Skin 431

Johnstone, Robert 392

Jones, Marie 514, 524

   Stones in his Pockets 525

Jordan, Neil 442, 458, 547–9

   Past, The 442

‘Journal Intime’ (Medbh McGuckian) 398

journalism 472, 473

journals see periodicals

‘Journey, The’ (Eavan Boland) 403

Joyce, James 10, 23, 24, 28, 31, 32–43, 44, 88–90, 145–53, 556–7, 579

   Anna Livia Plurabelle 88

   Chamber Music 89–90

   Collected Poems 88

   Dubliners 9, 33–4, 145–7, 634

   Finnegans Wake 31, 88, 557, 634–5

   ‘Gas from a Burner’ 88

   Pomes Penyeach 90

   Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A 9, 39–42, 88, 147–8, 557

   ‘Tilly’ 90

   Ulysses 18–19, 28, 33–40, 150–3, 556, 579, 631, 634

   Joyce criticism 579, 582

Joyce, Trevor 381–2, 411

Judith Hearne (Brian Moore) see Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The

Juno and the Paycock (Sean O’Casey) 92, 537

Kalem (film company) 532–4

Katie Roche (Teresa Deevy) 217–18

Kavanagh, Patrick 105–6, 367–70, 426

   as diarist in the Envoy journal 369

   Great Hunger, The 367–9, 517

   Ploughman and Other Poems 105–6

   Tarry Flynn 369

Kavanagh’s Weekly (journal) 369, 581

Keane, John B. 492, 497

   Big Maggie 497

   Field, The 550–1

   Many Young Men of Twenty 497

   Sive 492

Keane, Molly see Farrell, M. J.

Keegan, Claire, Antarctica 465

Keenan, Brian 468

Kelly, Maeve 464

Kelly, Rita, 334, 349 see Ó Tuairisc, Eoghan

Kennelly, Brendan 380–1, 511

   Cromwell 381

Keogh, J. Augustus 205

Kettle, Thomas 96

   Poems and Parodies 96

Keynotes with Discords (George Egerton) 124

Kiberd, Declan 566, 610, 613

   Irish Classics 566

   ‘Republicanism and culture in the new millennium’ 613–14

Kickham, Charles, Knocknagow (film version) 535

Kick, The (Richard Murphy) 373

Kiely, Benedict 436–7, 460, 466, 471, 472

   Land without Stars 436

Kilroy, Thomas 429, 434, 506–7, 508, 511–12

   Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche, The 507

   Double Cross 511

   Talbot’s Box 506–7

‘Kiltartanese’ (Lady Augusta Gregory) 80, 191

Kiltartan Poetry Book (Lady Augusta Gregory) 80

Kinderszenen (‘Robert Schumann’, nom-de-plume) 294

Kind of Scar, A: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition (Eavan Boland) 152–3

King Goshawk and the Birds (Eimar O’Duffy) 137

King of Elfland’s Daughter, The (Lord Edward John Dunsany) 173

King of Friday’s Men, The (M. J. Molloy) 483

King of Ireland’s Son, The (Padraic Colum) 139–40

King of Spain’s Daughter, The (Teresa Deevy) 217

King of the Castle (Eugene McCabe) 497

Kinney, Blanaid 458

Kinsella, Thomas 372, 374–8, 386

   Another September 374

   Familiar, The 376–7

   Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of Invasions) Kinsella’s use of 374

   Madonna and Other Poems 376

   Messenger, The 376

   New Poems 1973 375

   One 375

   Starlit Eye, The 372

   Tain, The (translation of Táin Bó Cúailnge) 374

Knife, The (Peadar O’Donnell) 157

Knocknagow (Charles Kickham) 535

‘Korea’ (John McGahern) 541

Lá agus Oidhche (Micheál Mac Liammóir) 247

Lá Breá Gréine Buí (Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin) 288

Lá Dár Saol (Seán Ó Criomhthain) 282

Ladies’ Road, The (Pamela Hinkson) 162–3

Lá Fhéile Míchíl (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 303

Lagan (journal) 363

Lake, The (George Moore) 143

Lamb (Bernard MacLaverty) 553

laments 11, 546

Lamplighter, The (Maria Susanna Cummins) 151

Landlady, The (Brendan Behan) 486

Land of Spices, The (Kate O’Brien) 163

Land of Youth, The (Richard Power) 428

Land, The (Padraic Colum) 202

Land without Stars (Benedict Kiely) 436

Lane, Temple 401

Langrishe, Go Down (Aidan Higgins) 427

‘Lapis Lazuli’ (William Butler Yeats) 63

Larminie, William 66

   ‘Consolation’ 66

   Fand and Other Poems 65

   ‘Nameless Doon, The’ 66

Last Apache Reunion, The (Bernard Farrell) 504–5

Last Night’s Fun (Ciaran Carson) 396

Last Poems and Two Plays (William Butler Yeats) 53, 62

Last September, The (Elizabeth Bowen) 161, 540

L’Attaque (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 289

Laverty, Maura 447–8, 496

Lavin, Mary 447, 455

   Becker Wives and Other Stories, The 455

   In the Middle of the Fields 455

   Patriot Son and Other Stories, The 455

   Single Lady and Other Stories, A 455

Law, Hugh, Anglo-Irish Literature 578

Lawless, Emily 65, 66–8

   ‘After Aughrim’ 67

   Inalienable Heritage and Other Poems, The 67

   Maria Edgeworth 571

   Point of View (Some Talks and Disputations), The 67

   With the Wild Geese 66, 67

Lay Up Your Ends (Martin Lynch) 514

Leanbh sa Lamborghini, An (Liam Prút) 295

Leaves on Grey, The (Desmond Hogan) 442

‘Lecture Delivered to the Royal Academy of Sweden, A’ (William Butler Yeats) 564

‘Leda and the Swan’ (Oliver St John Gogarty) 91

‘Leda and the Swan’ (W. B. Yeats) 61–2

Ledwidge, Francis 93–5

   Songs of the Fields 94

   ‘Thomas McDonagh’ 94, 96

   ‘Wife of Llew, The’ 94

Leitch, Maurice 438–9, 551

   Stamping Ground 438

Leland, Mary 450

Leoithne Andeas (Tadhg Ó Donnchadha) 230

Leonard, Hugh (born John Keyes Byrne) 469, 503–4, 545

   Big Birthday, The 493, 545

   Da 504

   Life, A 504

   Patrick Pearse Motel, The 503–4

Lendennie, Jessie 411

Letts, W. M. (Winifred Mabel) 72, 116–17, 121, 401

   Rough Way, The 116

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples) 95, 96, 168

   Out of the Silent Planet 168

   Spirit in Bondage, The 96

Life, A (Hugh Leonard) 504

‘Lighthouse with Dead Leaves’ (Medbh McGuckian) 399

Lig Sinn i gCathú (Breandán Ó hEithir) 297

Lingard, Joan, Across the Barricades 567

Línte Liombó (Seán Ó Ríordáin) 332

Lismoyle: An Experiment in Ireland (B. M. Croker) 122

Listowel Drama Group 492

literary biography 271, 308

literary canon, the 1, 7, 358, 565–6, 585, 586, 587–9

literary competitions 229, 251, 270, 299, 411

literary criticism 263–5, 271, 306–10, 321, 562–4

   in Irish 263–6, 306–10, 581–2

   journals of 309

   and Joyce 579

   poet-critics 579

   and the Troubles 584–6

   and Yeats 580–1

literary history 1–2, 562–7, 631–2, 633–4

   and anthologies 587–9

   and globalisation 629–35

   and the idea of Ireland 564–5

   and Joyce 582

   and mythology 568–71

   Northern 586

   post-World War II 581

   and the Revival 567–75

   and the Troubles 584

   and Yeats 582

literary societies 572

literary theory 586–9

   see also individual theories: feminism, New Criticism, postcolonial theory

literary tradition 2, 616

Literature in Ireland (Thomas MacDonagh) 92, 576–7

Litríocht, An: Infhiúcha ar Phrionnsabail, Fuirmeacha agus Léirmheastóireacht na Litríochta (Fr Seoirse Mac Clúin) 264

‘Little Black Rose Shall be Red at Last, The’ (Joseph Mary Plunkett) 93

‘Little Waves of Breffny, The’ (Eva Gore-Booth) 70

Littlewood, Joan 491

Living Chalice, The (Susan Mitchell) 71

Living Quarters (Brian Friel) 506

Liv (Kathleen Coyle) 164–5

Loane, Tim (co-founder of the Tinderbox Theatre, Belfast) 525

Logan, Michael 239

Lomnochtán, An (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 290

Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The (Brian Moore) 427, 550

Lonely Voice, The (Frank O’Connor) 33

Lonesome West, The (Martin McDonagh) 522

Longford, Christine 496

Longford Productions 212

‘Long-legged Fly’ (William Butler Yeats) 63

Longley, Edna 363, 585

   Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry 585

   Louis MacNeice: A Study 585

   Poetry in the Wars 585

Longley, Michael 390–1, 471

   ‘Ceasefire’ 390

   No Continuing City 390

   ‘Mustard Tin, The’ 391

Lord Edward, Or ’98 (J. W. Whitbread) 183

Lost Belongings (television series) 502

Lost Fields (Michael McLaverty) 436

‘Lost Heifer, The’ (Austin Clarke) 101

Lough Derg (Denis Devlin) 364

Louise de la Vallière (Katharine Tynan) 68

Louis MacNeice: A Study (Edna Longley) 585

Louis MacNeice: Sceptical Vision (Terence Brown) 585

Lovers’ Meeting (Louis D’Alton) 481

Love Songs of Connacht (Douglas Hyde) 79

Loving without Tears (Molly Keane) 430

Lucht Ceoil (Art Ó Riain) 251

Luck, Mary Churchill (M. Hamilton) 119

Lux Aeterna (Eoghan Ó Tuairisc) 333

Lynch, Hannah 148–9

   Autobiography of a Child 148–9

   Daughters of Men 125

   French Life in Town and Country 149

   United Ireland 149

Lynch, Martin 514

   Lay Up Your Ends 514

Lynch, Patricia 447

Lyrical Poems (Thomas MacDonagh) 92

Lyric Theatre 370, 501, 526

Lysaght, Edward E. (see Éamonn Mac Giolla lasachta) 154–5, 254

   The Gael 154–5, 254

Mac Amhlaigh, Dónall 279–80

   Dialann Deoraí 279

   Saol Saighdiúra 280

Mac Annaidh, Séamas 293–4

   Cuaifeach mo Londubh Buí 293

   Mo Dhá Mhicí 294

   Rubble na Mickies 294

Mac Anna, Tomás 300–1, 483, 486, 492, 499, 501, 506

Mac Aonghusa, Criostóir 317

Mac an tSaoir, Flann see Ó Floinn, Tomás

McAughtry, Sam 466

McCabe, Eugene 462

   Heritage and Other Stories 462

   King of the Castle 497

McCabe, Patrick 446, 524, 635–6

   Butcher Boy, The 446, 524, 548, 636

   Frankie Pig Says Hello 524

McCafferty, Nell 638

McCann, Colum 445, 458–9

   Fishing the Sloe-Black River 458–9

   Songdogs 445

   This Side of Brightness 445

McCann, John, Twenty Years A-Wooing 485

McCarthy, Justin (editor-in-chief of Irish Literature) 573, 574

McCarthy, Sean 506

McCarthy, Thomas 410

   Mr Dineen’s Careful Parade 410

McCart, Martin see Martin, David

McCloskey, James 600, 610–11

Mac Clúin, Fr Seoirse 257

   An Litríocht: Infhiúcha ar Phrionnsabail, Fuirmeacha agus Léirmheastóireacht na Litríochta 264

Mac Cóil, Liam 294–5

   Claíomh Solais, An 295

   Dr Áthas, An 294–5

Mac Conmara, Séamus, An Coimhthigheach 256

McCormack, Mike 458

McCormack, W. J. 469, 586

   Ascendancy and Tradition (revised as From Burke to Beckett)

McCourt, Frank 468, 553

McCrory, Moy 464

Mac Cumhaill, Maoghnas (‘Fionn’) 250, 251, 258, 281

MacDonagh, Donagh 365

McDonagh, Martin 522–3

   Beauty Queen of Leenane, The 522–3, 639

   Lonesome West, The 522

   Skull in Connemara, A 522

MacDonagh, Thomas 91–2, 370, 576–7

   Literature in Ireland 92

   Lyrical Poems 92

MacDonald, Peter 392

MacDonogh, Patrick 365

McFadden, Roy (co-editor of Rann journal) 363

Mac Fhearghusa, Pádraig 349

Mac Fhionnlaoich, Peadar (‘Cú Uladh’) 246, 261

Mac Gabhann, Micí, Rotha Mór an tSaoil (The Hard Road to Klondike) 281, 615

McGahern, John 14, 425–30, 429, 456–7

   Amongst Women 430, 554

   Barracks, The 427

   ‘Korea’ 541

   ‘Wheels’ 547, 554

MacGill, Patrick 95, 120–1, 131–2

   Amateur Army, The 131

   Children of the Dead End 120

   Rat-Pit, The 120

McGinley, Patrick 435

Mac Giolla Bhrighde, Eoghan 263

Mac Giolla Bhrighde, Niall 259

Mac Giolla Iasachta, Éamonn (see Edward Lysaght/MacLysaght) 254–5

   Cúrsaí Thomáis 254–5

   Gael, The 154–5, 254

   Toil Dé 254

Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhín 292

MacGreevy, Thomas 95, 97–8

   ‘De Civitate Hominum’ 97

   Poems 97

Mac Grianna, Seosamh 40–3, 243–4, 265, 271

   Dochartach Dhuibhlionna 253

   Druma Mór, An 272

   Eoghan Rua Ó Néill 243, 251

   Grá agus an Ghruaim, An 42, 243

   Mo Bhealach Féin 40–3, 243, 271–2

   Pádraic Ó Conaire agus Aistí Eile 243

McGuckian, Medbh 391, 392, 397–400, 408

   On Ballycastle Beach 398

   Captain Lavender 399

   Drawing Ballerinas 400

   Flower Master, The 397

   ‘Journal Intime’ 398

   ‘Lighthouse with Dead Leaves’ 399

   Marconi’s Cottage 398

   ‘Realism’ 398

   Shelmalier 397, 399

   Soldiers of Year II, The 400

   ‘Time Before You, The’ 398

McGuinness, Frank 508, 514–15, 520–1

   Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme 508, 514–15, 525

Machtnamh Seanmhná (An Old Woman’s Reflections by Peig Sayers) 258, 614–15

McHugh, Roger 480

MacIntyre, Tom 304, 306, 459, 508, 517, 632

Macken, Walter 434

   Home is the Hero 544

McKenna, Stephen 265

McKinnon, William T., Apollo’s Blended Dream: A Study of the Poetry of Louis MacNeice 585

MacLaverty, Bernard 439–40, 461, 462

   Cal 439, 541

   Lamb 553

   Secrets and Other Stories 462

McLaverty, Michael 436, 460

   Game Cock and Other Stories, The 460

   Lost Fields 436

Mac Liammóir, Micheál 188, 210, 211, 212, 247, 263, 279, 318, 347, 469, 496

   Diarmuid agus Gráinne 263

   Lá agus Oidhche 247

   as co-founder of the Gate Theatre, Dublin 211–12, 495

Mac Liam, Seoirse, Doras do Plabadh, An 257

Mac Lochlainn, Alf 435

Mac Lochlainn, Gearóid 336, 603, 617, 620, 622

MacLysaght, Edward E. see Lysaght, Edward E.

MacMahon, Bryan 426, 456, 466, 469

MacMahon, Ella 117, 121, 122, 125

   New Note, A 125

   Pitiless Passion, A 117, 122–3, 125

MacManus, Francis 426, 429

Mac Maoláin, Seán 253, 273

   Algoland 257

   Ceannracháin Cathrach 247

   Éan Corr 250

   File Callánach 253

   Iolar agus Sionnach 251

Mac Mathúna, Seán 292

Mac Meanman, Seán Bán 244

MacNamara, Brinsley (born John Weldon, and who also wrote as Oliver Blyth) 155–6

   Clanking of Chains, The 155–6

   Irishman, The 155

   Valley of the Squinting Windows, The 155

MacNamara, Gerald, Thompson in Tir na nÓg 204

McNamee, Eoin 440, 462

   Resurrection Man 440, 541, 636

MacNeice, Louis 103–5, 359–61, 471, 585

   Autumn Journal 104–5, 360–1

   Autumn Sequel 361

   Blind Fireworks 104

   Burning Perch, The 361

   Earth Compels, The 104

   Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay 103

   Plant and Phantom 104

   Poems 104

   Poetry of W. B. Yeats, The 581

Mac Néill, Eoin 16

McNeill, Janet 437–8

McPherson, Conor 519, 521, 545, 635–6

   Shining City 636

   Weir, The 521, 636

Mac Piarais, Pádraig see Pearse, Patrick

McShane and Johnson 261

Mac Síomóin, Tomás 337, 338

   Cré agus Cláirseach 338

McSwiney, Paul, An Bárd ’gus an Fó 260

MacSwiney, Terence 73

Mac Thomáis, Éamonn 468

Madden, Deirdre 440

   Birds of Innocent Wood, The 440

‘Madness of King Goll, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 56–7

Madoc: A Mystery (Paul Muldoon) 394

Madonna and Other Poems (Thomas Kinsella) 376

Mad Puppetstown (M. J. Farrell) 162

Maeldún (Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin) 287–8

Magdalene Sermon, The (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) 405

Magnanimous Lover, The (St John Ervine) 205

Mag Shamhráin, Antain 309

Maguire, Mary 92

Mahon, Derek 387–90

   ‘Afterlives’ 389

   Hudson Letter, The 389

   Hunt by Night, The 389

   Night-Crossings 388

   Snow Party, The 388

   Yellow Book, The 389

Mai, The (Marina Carr) 523–4, 634, 638

Maidin i mBéarra agus Dánta Eile (Osborn Bergin) 231

Máire see Ó Grianna, Séamus

Making History (Brian Friel) 510

Malleson, Constance (Colette O’Niel) 166–7

   After Ten Years 166

   Coming Back, The 166–7

   Fear in the Heart 167

Manannán (Máiréad Ní Ghráda) 257

Manning, Mary 211, 496, 533, 539, 557

   as editor of Motley 211

   Youth’s the Season . . . 211

Manning, Olivia 448

‘Man who Dreamed of Faeryland, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 57

Man Who Was Marked by Winter, The (Paula Meehan) 407

Many Young Men of Twenty (John B. Keane) 497

‘Maol Muire’ See Sr Mary Vincent

‘Marbhghin: Glaoch ó Liombó’ (Derry O’Sullivan) 349

Marconi’s Cottage (Medbh McGuckian) 398

Marcus, David (editor of The Irish Press) 422

Margadh na Saoire (Máire Mhac an tSaoi) 325

Maria Edgeworth (Emily Lawless) 571

‘Martha Blake at Fifty-One’ (Austin Clarke) 371

Martin, David (later Martin McCart) 437

Martin, Violet Florence see Ross, Martin

Martyn, Edward 186, 190

   The Heather Field 187, 190

   see also Moore, George

Mary Vincent, Sr (‘Maol Muire’) 265

Masks and Faces (Tom Taylor and Charles Reade) 534

Mason, Patrick 506, 508

Master, The (Colm Tóibín) 640

Mathews, Aidan Carl 381, 459, 511

   According to the Small Hours 381

Maude, Caitlín 45, 333, 366

Maurice Harte (T. C. Murray) 201–2

Max (Katherine Cecil Thurston) 123

Mayne, Rutherford 204

Meade, L. T. (Elizabeth Thomasina) 115

Meehan, Paula 407, 410

   Dharmakaya 407

   Man Who Was Marked by Winter, The 407

Meeting the British (Paul Muldoon) 394

Méirscrí na Treibhe (Alan Titley) 290

memoirs 272, 279, 467–71, 638

   by emigrants 468

   by Irish women 470

   Northern 470

   poetry as 360

   see also autobiography; Blasket Islands literature

Mercier, Paul 518

Mercier, Vivian 583–4

   Irish Comic Tradition, The 583

Merriman, Brian, Cúirt an Mheán Oíche 22

Messenger, The (Thomas Kinsella) 376

Metre (journal) 411

Mhac an tSaoi, Máire 325–8, 331, 342

   ‘Adhlacadh Iníon an Fhile’ 327

   ‘Ceathrúintí Mháire Ní Ógáin’ 326

   ‘Fuath, An’ 326

   ‘Do Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’ 327

   ‘Inquisitio 1584’ 326

   Margadh na Saoire 325

   translation of ‘An Bhean Mhídhílis’ (‘The Unfaithful Wife’ by Lorca) 326

Mhallacht An (León Ó Broin) 263

Mháthair agus Sgéalta Eile, An (Patrick Pearse) 242

Mhéar Fhada, An (Johnny Chóil Mhaidhc Ó Coisdealbha) 304

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (William Butler Yeats) 60, 62

migration 552, 553, 554, 555

   see also emigration; exile; immigration

Miller, Liam 372, 377

   as publisher 372–3

Milligan, Alice (co-editor of the Northern Patriot and Shan Van Vocht) 69, 70, 190

   ‘When I was a Little Girl’ 70

Milligan, Spike, Puckoon 540–1

mime 525

Miontragóid Chathrach (Cathal Ó Searcaigh) 345

Mise (Colm Ó Gaora) 281

Mise Méara (Séamas Wilmot) 272

Mise Raiftearaí an File (Críostóir Ó Floinn) 303

Mitchel, John, Jail Journal 24

Mitchell, Gary 525–6

   As the Beast Sleeps 526

   Independent Voice 525

   In a Little World of Our Own 526

Mitchell, Susan 71

   Aids to the Immortality of Certain Persons in Dublin: Charitably Administered 71

   Living Chalice, The 71

Mixed Marriage (St John Ervine) 204–5

Mnemosyne Lay in Dust (Austin Clarke) 370

Mo Bhealach Féin (My Own Way by Seosamh Mac Grianna) 40, 41, 42, 43, 243, 271–2

Modern Irish Poetry: A New Alhambra (Frank Sewell) 566

modernisation 23, 43, 611–12

modernism 11, 51, 52, 115, 319, 359, 365, 572, 582

   Catholic 142, 147

   and cinema 547–8

   European 32, 51–2, 186, 359, 365

   Irish 23, 31–46, 99–100, 210, 337, 359, 381–2, 582–3

modernity 26–9, 129, 457

Modern Lover, A (George Moore) 141

Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay (Louis MacNeice) 103

Modest Proposal, A (Jonathan Swift) 20

Mo Chara Stiofán (Liam P. Ó Riain) 265

Mo Dhá Mhicí (Séamas Mac Annaidh) 294

Mo Dhá Róisín (Séamus Ó Grianna) 250

‘Mo Ghrása mo Dhia’ (Biddy Jenkinson) 343

Molloy, M. J. 483–5

   King of Friday’s Men, The 483

   Wood of the Whispering, The 484–5, 508

Molloy (Samuel Beckett) 423

Molloy, Frances 451

Molly Sweeney (Brian Friel) 518

Moneylender, The (Joseph Edelstein) 121

monologues 34, 40, 286, 289, 384, 497, 517–18, 520, 521, 524–5

Montague, John 27, 378–80, 393, 461

   Collected Poems 380

   Dead Kingdom, The 380

   Death of a Chieftain and Other Stories 461

   Great Cloak, The 379

   Smashing the Piano 380

   Time in Armagh 380

   as editor of the Dolmen Miscellany 378

Mooney, Martin 392

Mooney, Ria 480

Moore, Brian 427, 429, 436, 438

   Doctor’s Wife, The 438

   Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The 427, 550

Moore, George 120, 141–5, 185–6, 190

   Confessions of a Young Man 142

   Drama in Muslin, A: A Realistic Novel 120, 121

   Esther Waters 141

   Evelyn Innes 187

   Hail and Farewell 143

   Lake, The 143

   Modern Lover, A 141

   Sportsman’s Sketches, A 120

   Story-Teller’s Holiday, A 143

   Untilled Field, The 120, 141, 142

   ‘Wild Goose, The’ 142

   and Martyn, Edward

   Bending of the Bough, The 185

   and Yeats, W. B. Diarmuid and Grania 187

Morning After Optimism, The (Tom Murphy) 505

Morrissey, Sinéad 411

Morrissy, Mary 450, 465

Morrow, John 439, 461

Motherland (Timothy O’Grady) 434

Mountainy Singer, The (Joseph Campbell) 87

Mount Prospect (Elizabeth Connor/Una Troy) 481–2

Moy Sand and Gravel (Paul Muldoon) 395

Mr Dineen’s Careful Parade (Thomas McCarthy) 410

Muintir (Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin) 288

Muireann agus an Prionnsa, see Golden Apple, The 483

Muldoon, Paul 386, 391, 392, 393–6, 408–9

   ‘Aisling’ 394

   Annals of Chile, The 395

   Bandanna 639

   Hay 395

   To Ireland, I 393, 394

   Madoc: A Mystery 394

   Meeting the British 394

   Moy Sand and Gravel 395

   Quoof 394

   ‘Sleeve Notes’ 395

   Why Brownlee Left 395

   ‘Yarrow’ 395, 409

Mulholland, Rosa (Lady Gilbert) 118, 121

   Father Tim 118

Mulkerns, Val 450, 464

Mullen, Marie 507–8

multilingualism 409

Mundy Scheme, The (Brian Friel) 500

Munster poetry 14, 85, 228

Murdoch, Iris 448–9

Murphy, Dervla 467

Murphy, Richard 372–4, 378

   Battle of Aughrim, The 66, 373

   High Island 373

   Kick, The 373

   Sailing to an Island 372

Murphy (Samuel Beckett) 101, 169–71

Murphy, Tom 492–3, 496, 499, 505–6, 515–17

   Bailegangaire 515–16, 634

   Conversations on a Homecoming 505

   Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant, A 499

   Famine 499

   Fooleen, The (retitled A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant) 496

   Gigli Concert, The 516, 634

   Iron Men, The (retitled A Whistle in the Dark) 493

   Morning After Optimism, The 505

   Sanctuary Lamp, The 505–6, 634

   Whistle in the Dark, A (formerly The Iron Men) 493

   White House, The 505

   and O’Donoghue, Noel, On the Outside 492

Murray, T. C. 201–2, 203

   Maurice Harte 201–2

‘Murúcha a Thriomaigh, Na’ (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 342, 604

‘Mustard Tin, The’ (Michael Longley) 391

My Cousin Justin (Margaret Barrington) 164–5

My Ireland (Lord Edward John Dunsany) 173

‘My Lagan Love’ (Joseph Campbell) 86

My Left Foot (Christy Brown) 549–50

Myles Na gCopaleen (pseudonym of Brian O’Nolan), 471; see also Flann O’Brien

mythology 339, 341, 568–71, 634

Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race (Thomas William Rolleston) 569–70

‘Nameless Doon, The’ (William Larminie) 66

National School system 608

National Theatre 480, 481, 498–9, 506

National Theatre Society 182

Native Speaker Examined Home, The: Two Stalking Fallacies Anatomized (Fr John M O’Reilly) 234

nativists 234, 260

Néal Maidine agus Tine Oíche (Breandán Ó Doibhlin) 285–6

‘Necessity for De-Anglicizing Ireland, The’ (Douglas Hyde) 79, 563–4, 572

Nelson, Dorothy 451

‘Nelson Street’ (Seamus O’Sullivan) 77

Nephew, The (film) 555

New Criticism 564, 583

New Estate, The (Ciaran Carson) 396

New Gossoon, The (George Shiels) 544

New Irish Writing (series within The Irish Press newspaper) 422

‘new journalism’ 473

New Note, A (Ella MacMahon) 125

New Poems 1973 (Thomas Kinsella) 375

New Poems (William Butler Yeats) 63

New Shirt, A (Desmond Hogan) 442

New Songs (George William Russell, ‘AE’) 76

New Territory (Eavan Boland) 400

New Woman 122–5, 184

New Writers Press 381

Niamh (Fr Peter O’Leary) 250

Ní Annracháin, Máire 292, 605

   and Nic Dhiarmada, Bríona (editors), Téacs agus Comhthéacs: Gnéithe de Chritic na Gaeilge 309

Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann 299

Nic Éinrí, Tina 299

Nic Eoin, Máirín 617

Nic Gearailt, Máire Áine 336, 342

Ní Chéileachair, Síle and Ó Céileachair, Donncha 274

   Bullaí Mhártain 274

Ní Chonaill, Eithne, ‘Caillte’ 323

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan 386, 400, 401–2, 405–6, 408

   Acts and Monuments 400

   Girl Who Married the Reindeer, The 406

   ‘Informant, The’ 405

   Magdalene Sermon, The 405

   ‘Nuns: A Subject for a Woman Writer’ 406

   Site of Ambush 402

   as co-founder of Cyphers (journal) 402

Nic Mhaicín, Máighréad 248, 249

Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala 308, 327, 339–42, 408, 601, 603–4, 616, 622

   ‘Breith Anabaí Thar Lear’ 341

   Cead Aighnis 341–2, 603–4

   Dealg Droighin, An 339, 603–4

   ‘Dubh – ar thitim Shrebrenice, 11ú Iúil 1995’ 341

   Féar Suaithinseach 341

   Feis 341, 603

   ‘Greidhlic’ 340

   ‘I mBaile an tSléibhe’ 340

   ‘Murúcha a Thriomaigh, Na’ 342, 604

   ‘Súile Uaine, Na’ 339–40

   ‘Venio ex Oriente’ 340

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís 299, 306, 450, 463, 604

   Blood and Water 463

   Dancers Dancing, The 450

   Dún na mBan Trí Thine 306

   Inland Ice and Other Stories, The 463

   Pale Gold of Alaska and Other Stories, The 463

Ní Fhoghludha, Áine 233

   Idir na Fleadhanna 233, 274

Ní Ghlinn, Áine 342, 349

   An Chéim Bhriste 342

Ní Ghráda, Máiréad 246, 263, 301–2

   Bheirt Dearbhráthar agus Scéalta Eile, An 246

   Breithiúnas 301

   Manannán 257

   Triail, An 301

Night (Edna O’Brien) 448

Night and Morning (Austin Clarke) 102

Night-Crossings (Derek Mahon) 388

Nightfeed (Eavan Boland) 327

Nightspawn (John Banville) 435

Ní Ghuithín, Máire 284

Níor Mhaith linn do Thrioblóid (Joe Steve Ó Neachtain) 306

Ní Shéaghda, Nóra 274, 281

   Peats na Baintreabhaighe 274

   Thar Bealach Isteach 274

Ní Shúilleabháin, Siobhán, Cití 299, 304

No Continuing City (Michael Longley) 390

Noise from the Woodshed, A (Mary Dorcey) 464

Nóra Mharcuis Bhig agus Scéalta Eile (Pádraic Ó Conaire) 242

Northern Ireland 46, 327, 336, 387–91, 392

   fiction of 165–8, 436–41

   literary criticism 584–8

   plays 500–3

   short stories in 459–63

   women playwrights 512–13

Northern Patriot (magazine) 69

Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (Terence Brown) 585

North (Seamus Heaney) 383–4

novel, the 113–35, 141–2, 144, 147–53, 154–73, 248–58, 271–99, 421–52

   autobiographical 467

   Big House 430–6

   Catholic 428, 437–8

   country house 121–2, 161–5, 166

   of emigration 118, 142, 438, 445, 458–9, 463

   historical 134, 250–1, 279, 289

   Irish-language 248–58, 271–99

   popular 114–16, 118, 279, 297–9

   religion and the novel 116–20

   see also fiction

novels

   in the Free State 156–65

   in Northern Ireland 165–8, 436–41

   in the Republic 441–6

Nuabhéarsaíocht (Seán Ó Tuama) 317–18

Nuair a Bhí Mé Óg (Séamus Ó Grianna) 272–3

‘Nuns: A Subject for a Woman Writer’ (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) 406

Ó Baoighill, Aindrias 251

Ó Beirne, Pádraic 260

Ó Beirne, Séamus 261

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (Eavan Boland) 153–4

Ó Briain, Liam 242, 279

O’Brien, Conor Cruise 466, 472

O’Brien, Edna 427, 429, 448, 456–7, 471–2, 556

   Country Girls Trilogy 427

   High Road, The 448

   Night 448

O’Brien, Eugene, Eden 521

O’Brien, Flann, (Brian O’Nolan, ‘Myles Na gCopaleen’) 169, 171–3, 433, 434–5

   At Swim Two-Birds 40, 171–3

   Best of Myles, The 472

   Dalkey Archive, The 433

   Poor Mouth, The (An Béal Bocht), 271–3, 612–13

   Third Policeman, The 173, 433

O’Brien, Frank 308

O’Brien, George 468

O’Brien, Kate 163–4, 447, 466

   Anteroom, The 163

   Land of Spices, The 163

Ó Broin, León 247, 263

   Ag Stracadh leis an Saol 247

   Árus na nGábhadh agus Sgéalta Eile 247

   Béal na hUaighe agus Sgéalta Eile 247

   Mhallacht, An 263

   Oíche Úd i mBeithil, An 263

   Rún agus Scéalta Eile, An 247

Ó Bruadair, Dáibhí 611

Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Frank McGuinness) 508, 514–15, 525

O’Byrne, Cathal 466

Ó Cadhain, Máirtín 234, 248, 274–8, 298, 307, 600–2, 612, 618

   Athnuachan 277–8

   Barbed Wire 278

   Braon Broghach, An 275

   Cois Caoláire 275–6

   Cré na Cille 275

   Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre 248, 275

   Páipéir Bhána agus Páipéir Bhreaca 277, 601

   Sraith ar Lár, An t- 276

   Sraith dhá Tógáil, An t- 276–7

   Sraith Tógtha, An t- 276

O’Callaghan, Conor 411

‘Ó Caochlaigh, Barra’ see Art Ó Riain

Ó Caomhánaigh, Seán, Fánaí 248, 254

O’Carroll, Fr John 260

O’Casey, Sean 22, 205–9, 480, 493, 536–8

   Bishop’s Bonfire, The 480

   ‘Crimson in the Tri-colour, The’ 206

   Drums of Father Ned, The 480

   Juno and the Paycock 92, 206, 207, 537

   Plough and the Stars, The 207–8, 498, 537–8

   Shadow of a Gunman, The 206

   Silver Tassie, The 208–9, 480–1, 498

Ó Catháin, Liam 278

Ó Ceallaigh, Seán (‘Sceilg’) 261

Ó Ceallaigh, An tAthair Tomás 261

Ó Céileachair, Donncha and Chéileachair, Síle Ní, Bullaí Mhártain 274

Ó Céilleachair, Séamus 318

Ó Ciarghusa, Seán 251, 258

Ó Cíobháin, Pádraig 295, 604

   Gealas i Lár na Léithe, An 295

Ó Ciosáin, Seán, Sgéalta Cois Laoi 247

Ó Coigligh, Ciarán 296–7

   Duibhlinn 296

   Slán le Luimneach 296

Ó Coisdealbha, Johnny Chóil Mhaidhc 304, 305, 347, 351

   Mhéar Fhada, An 304

   ‘Raiftearaí agus an File’ 347

Ó Conaire, Breandán 308

Ó Conaire, Pádraic 236, 240, 242–3, 246, 248, 261

   Deoraidheacht 246, 253

   Nóra Mharcuis Bhig agus Sgéalta Eile 242

   Seacht mBuaidh an Éirghe Amach 243

   Sgoláire Bocht agus Sgéalta Eile, An 242

   Síol Éabha 242

Ó Conaire, Pádhraic Óg 252, 273, 282

Ó Conaola, Dara 293, 604

Ó Conchubhair, Domhnall 228

Ó Conghaile, Caoimhín 333

Ó Conghaile, Micheál 296, 604, 617–18, 619, 622

   ‘Athair’ (‘Father’) 619

   Sna Fir 296

O’Connor, Frank (born Michael O’Donovan), 44–5, 158–60, 247, 421, 452–3, 466, 467, 469

   Backward Look, The: A Survey of Irish Literature 584

   Common Chord, The 453

   Crab Apple Jelly 452

   Domestic Relations 452

   Dutch Interior 158, 159

   ‘Guests of the Nation’ 539–40

   Lonely Voice, The 33

   Traveller’s Samples 452

O’Connor, Joseph 445, 459, 467, 472

   Cowboys and Indians 445

   Inishowen 445

   Secret World of the Irish Male 472

O’Connor, Pat 540, 555

O’Connor, Rory 467

O’Connor, T. P. see Read, Charles A.

Ó Criomhthain, Seán, Lá Dár Saol 282

Ó Criomhthain, Tomás (Tomás O’Crohan) 157, 228, 229, 230, 258, 259

   Allagar na h-Inise 258, 613

   Oileánach, An t- 157, 228, 258–9, 272

Ó Croiligh, Oilibhéar 299

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí 294

Ó Cruadhlaoich, Pádraig (‘Gaedheal na nGaedheal’) 229

Ó Cuaig, Mícheál 347, 349

Ó Cuív, Shán 265, 582

Ó Curraoin, Seán 347, 349

   ‘Beairtle’ 347

Ó Dálaigh, Muireadhach Albanach 291

Odd Man Out (Carol Reed) 543

Ó Direáin, Máirtín 319–24, 335

   ‘Coinnle ar Lasadh’ 322

   Coinnle Geala 319

   Dánta Aniar 319, 321

   Rogha Dánta 319

Ó Doibhlin, Breandán 285–6, 307

   Branar gan Cur, An 286

   Néal Maidine agus Tine Oíche 285–6

Ó Domhnaill, Hiúdaí Sheáinín 280

Ó Domhnalláin, Pádhraic 245, 246

Ó Donnchadha, Tadhg (‘Torna’) 226, 228, 229, 230

   Caitheamh Aimsire 230

   Leoithne Andeas 230

O’Donnell, Peadar 157

   Adrigoole 157

   Knife, The 157

   as editor of The Bell 157

O’Donoghue, Bernard 408, 409

O’Donoghue, D. J. 562, 573

   as editor of The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary 562, 573

   Geographical Distribution of Irish Ability, The 562–3

O’Donoghue, Gregory 380

O’Donoghue, John 467

O’Donoghue, Noel see Murphy, Tom

O’Donovan, Gerald (formerly Fr Jeremiah O’Donovan) 144–5

   Father Ralph 144

   Waiting 144

O’Donovan, Michael see O’Connor, Frank

Ó Drisceoil, Colmán 299

O’Driscoll, Dennis 409–10

Ó Droighneáin, Muiris 265, 582

Ó Dubhghaill, Séamus (‘Beirt Fhear’) 236, 240

Ó Dubhda, Peadar 248, 250, 258

O’Duffy, Eimar 137

   King Goshawk and the Birds 137

   Wasted Island, The 137

Ó Dúill, Gréagóir 349

Ó Duinnshléibhe, Seán 228

Ó Duirinne, Séamus 261

Ó Dúshláine, Tadhg 299

Odyssey, The (Homer) 28, 31

Oedipal theme 32

Oeser, Hans-Christian 616

O’Faolain, Eileen 447

O’Faolain, Julia 449, 463–4

O’Faolain, Nuala 470

O’Faolain, Sean (born John Whelan) 157–60, 247, 359, 452–3, 454, 465–6, 469, 472

   Bird Alone 158–9

   ‘Broken World, A’ 158

   Foreign Affairs and Other Stories 454

   I Remember! I Remember! 453

   Teresa, and Other Stories 453

   as founder and editor of The Bell 359, 367, 422

Ó Faracháin, Roibeárd, 248, 370, see also Farren, Robert

   Fíon gan Mhoirt 248

Ó Farrelly, Agnes (Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh) 244, 250

O’Flaherty, Liam (Liam Ó Flaithearta) 156–7, 245, 263, 274, 538–9

   ‘Bás na Bó’ 245

   Black Soul, The 156

   Dorchadas, An 263

   Dúil 274

   Informer, The (film versions of) 539

   Skerrett 156

Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Máirtín 249

Ó Flatharta, Antaine 305, 604, 618

   Gaeilgeoirí 305

   Grásta i Meiriceá 305

   Imeachtaí na Saoirse 305

   Solas Dearg, An 305

Ó Floinn, Críostóir 303

   Is É a Dúirt Polonius 303

   Mise Raiftearaí an File 303

Ó Floinn, Tomás (also Flann Mac an tSaoir) 307, 321

   Dánta Eile 322

Ó Foghludha, Risteárd (‘Fiachra Éilgeach’) 228, 229, 262

Ó Gaoithín, Micheál 274, 281

Ó Gaora, Colm, Mise 281

Oghma (journal) 271, 309

O’Grady, Desmond 409

O’Grady, Standish James 134, 135

   History of Ireland 568

O’Grady, Timothy, Motherland 434

Ó Grianna, Séamus (‘Máire’) 224, 237–9, 250, 272–3, 282–3

   Bean Ruadh de Dhálach 282–3

   Caisleáin Óir 252, 281

   Castar na Daoine ar a Chéile ’s ní Chastar na Cnuic nó na Sléibhthe 250

   Cioth is Dealán 273

   Mo Dhá Róisín 250

   Nuair a Bhí Mé Óg 272–3

   Saoghal Corrach 273

Ó Gríobhtha, Micheál 245–6, 257, 258

O’Growney, Father Eugene 260

Ó hAirtnéide, Mícheál see Hartnett, Michael

Ó hAodha, Séamus 233, 264

   Caoineadh na Mná agus Duanta Eile 233

   Uaigneas 233

Ó hAodha, Tomás 250–1

Ó hAnnracháin, Peadar 231

   Chaise Gharbh, An 231

   Chaise Riabhach, An 231

Ó hÉigeartaigh, Diarmuid 251, 259

Ó hEithir, Breandán 297–8, 472

   Lig Sinn i gCathú 297

   Sionnach ar mo Dhuán 155

Ó hEodhasa, Eochaidh 13

Ó hUid, Tarlach 273, 279

   Adios 273

   Bealach chun a’ Bhearnais, An 273

   as editor of Inniu (newspaper) 273

Oíche Úd i mBeithil, An (León Ó Broin) 263

Oidhche i nGleann na nGealt (Ciarán Ua Nualláin) 257

Oidhche Sheanchais (film) 266

Oileánach, An t- (Tomás Ó Criomhthain) 157, 228, 258–9, 272

Oireachtas, An t- 229, 231, 239, 270, 299, 302, 308

O’Kelly, Donal, Catalpa 525

Ó Laighléis, Ré 299

Old Lady Says ‘No!’, The (Denis Johnston) 210, 480, 496

O’Leary, Fr Peter (An tAthair Peadar Ua Laoghaire) 236, 240, 261, 300

   Bealach Buidhe, An 260

   Niamh 250

   Séadna 249, 300

Ó Leocháin, Seán 349

Ó Liatháin, Annraoi 279

Ó Liatháin, Donnchadha (’An Rí Liath’)

   Ceol Abhann agus Gleann 232

   Tiomna Naofa agus Dánta Eile, An 232

Ó Lochlainn, Gearóid 262, 263

O’Loughlin, Michael 409, 410, 459

   The Irish Lesson 608–10

Olympia Theatre 183, 480, 500

O’Malley, Mary 363, 407, 409

Ó Maoildhia, Séamus 231

   Dánta agus Amhráin 231

Ó Maolchathaigh, Séamas 281

Ó Maolfabhail, Art, Aistí Dána 333

Ó Miléadha, Pádraig 318

   An Fiannaidhe Fáin 232

Ó Muilleoir, Máirtín 299

Ó Muireadhaigh, Réamonn 333

Ó Muirí, Daithí 294

Ó Muirí, Pól 299, 336, 349

Ó Muirthile, Liam 305, 336, 347–8, 351, 603, 617

   Ar Bhruach na Laoi 295

   Dialann Bóthair 348, 603, 606

   Fear an Tae 305

   Tine Chnámh 347, 603

   Walking Time agus Dánta Eile 348

Ó Murchadha, Tadhg 258

Ó Murchú, Micheál 231

   Tuaim Inbheir agus Dánta Eile 231

On Ballycastle Beach (Medbh McGuckian) 398

‘On Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition’ (George William Russell, ‘AE’) 74

Ó Neachtain, Joe Steve 306, 604

   Baile an Droichid (radio soap) 306

   Níor Mhaith linn do Thrioblóid 306

O’Neill, J. M. 445

O’Neill, Mary Devenport (Agnes Nestor Skrine) 99

   Prometheus and Other Poems 99

O’Neill, Moira 71–2

   Songs of the Glens of Antrim 71

Ó Néill, Séamus 248, 263, 274, 299, 323

   Máire Nic Artáin 274

   Tonn Tuile 255, 274

One (Thomas Kinsella) 375

O’Niel, Colette see Malleson, Constance

Only Jealousy of Emer, The (William Butler Yeats) 213–14

O’Nolan, Brian (Ó Nualláin, Brian), see O’Brien, Flann, ‘Myles Na gCopaleen’

O’Nolan, Kevin (editor), Best of Myles, The 472

On Raftery’s Hill (Marina Carr) 524

On the Outside (Tom Murphy and Noel O’Donoghue) 492

Ó Nualláin, Gearóid 257

Ó Rabhartaigh, Tadhg 278

Ó Raghallaigh, Criostóir 264

Ó Raithbheartaigh, Toirdhealbhach 265

oral narratives 137, 234

O’Reilly, Caitríona 411

O’Reilly, Fr John M. 344–5

   Native Speaker Examined Home, The: Two Stalking Fallacies Anatomized 234

Ó Riada, Seán 337

Ó Riain, Art, Lucht Ceoil 251, 257

   Tost, An 257

Ó Riain, Éamonn 16–18

Ó Riain, Liam P. (William P. Ryan) 236, 253, 265

   Bhóinn agus an Bhóchna, An 253

   Mo Chara Stiofán 265

   Plough and the Cross, The 253

Ó Rinn, Liam 236, 246, 323

   Cad Ba Dhóbair Dó agus Sgeulta Eile 246

Ó Ríordáin, Seán 309, 328–32, 337, 344, 601

   Brosna 331

   Eireaball Spideoige 328, 329, 331

   Línte Liombó 332

   Tar Éis mo Bháis 332

Ormsby, Frank 387, 411–12

O’Rowe, Mark, Howie the Rookie 521

Ó Ruadháin, Seán, Pádhraic Mháire Bhán 250, 251

Ó Ruaidhrí, Seán 251

Ó Sándair, Cathal 278

Ó Séaghdha, Pádraig (‘Conán Maol’) 240–1, 251, 258, 260

Ó Séaghdha, Pádraig (‘Gruagach an Tobair’) 240–1

Ó Séaghdha, Pádraig (‘Pádraig na Léime’) 261

Ó Searcaigh, Cathal 338, 345–6, 603, 618, 619, 622

   Buachaillí Bána, Na 346

   ‘Cainteoir Dúchais’ 619

   Miontragóid Chathrach 345

   Suibhne 346

   Súile Shuibhne 345

   and Rosenstock, Gabriel, Tuirlingt 345

Ó Siadhail, Mícheál (Micheal O’Siadhail) 338

Ó Siadhail, Pádraig 296

   Éagnairc 296

   Parthas na gCleas 296

   Peaca an tSinsir 296

Ó Siochfhradha, Micheál 244–5, 263

Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig (‘An Seabhac’) 234, 236, 244–5, 259, 262

   Baile Seo Againne, An 244, 300

Ossianic tales and ballads 85

Ó Súileabháin, Muiris 258, 259

   Fiche Blian ag Fás 258–9, 613–14

Ó Súilleabháin, Diarmaid 286–9

   Aistear 288

   Caoin Tú Féin 286

   Ciontach 288

   Dianmhuilte Dé 286

   Lá Breá Gréine Buí 288

   Maeldún 287–8

   Muintir 288

   Uain Bheo, An 287

O’Sullivan, Derry 349

   ‘Marbhghin: Glaoch ó Liombó’ 349

O’Sullivan, Seamus (James Sullivan Starkey) 76–8

   ‘Nelson Street’ 77

   ‘Twilight People, The’ 77

   as editor of the Dublin Magazine 77

Other People’s Houses (Vona Groarke) 407

Ó Thuaidh! (Pádraig Ua Maoileoin) 283

O’Toole, Fintan 473

Ó Torna, Seosamh, Cois Life 248

Ó Treasaigh, Lorcán

   Bás san Oirthear 293

   Dealbhóir sa nGairdín, An 293

   Sracfhéachaint 293

Ó Tuairisc, Eoghan (Eugene Watters) 289–90, 303–4, 309, 318, 333–4

   ‘Aifreann na Marbh’ 45, 333, 602

   Aisling Mhic Artáin 303

   Carolan 304

   Dé Luain 289

   Fornocht do Chonac 304

   Lá Fhéile Míchíl 303

   L’Attaque 289

   Lomnochtán, An 290

   Lux Aeterna 333

   and Kelly, Rita, Dialann sa Díseart 334

Ó Tuama, Seán 280, 291, 302–3, 308, 334–6, 337, 344

   Bás i dTír na nÓg, An 334–5

   Corp Eoghain Uí Shúilleabháin 303

   Faoileán na Beatha 334

   Gunna Cam agus Slabhra Óir 302

   Nuabhéarsaíocht 317–18

   Saol fó Thoinn 334, 335

Out of Joint (theatre company) 522

Out of the Silent Planet (C. S. Lewis) 168

Outsiders Inside – Whiteness, Place and Irish Women (Bronwen Walter) 613

Over the Bridge (Sam Thompson) 493

Owenson, Sydney (later Lady Morgan) 23

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle) 443

Pádhraic Mháire Bhán (Seán Ó Ruadháin) 251

Pádraic Ó Conaire agus Aistí Eile (Seosamh Mac Grianna) 243

Páipéir Bhána agus Páipéir Bhreaca (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 277, 601

Pale Gold of Alaska and Other Stories, The (Éilís Ní Dhuibhne) 463

Park, David 461

Parker, Lynne 518

Parker, Stewart 502–3

   Catchpenny Twist 503

   Pentecost 511–2

   Spokesong 502

Parnell, Charles Stewart 184

Parnell’s Funeral (William Butler Yeats) 63

Parthas na gCleas (Pádraig Ó Siadhail) 296

Partridge, Felix 261

Passing Day (George Shiels) 481

Passion Machine (theatre company) 518

‘Passing of the Gael, The’ (Ethna Carbery) 70

‘Passing of the Shee, The’ (J. M. Synge) 74

pastoralism 52, 83, 461

Past, The (Neil Jordan) 442

‘Patch-Shaneen’ (J. M. Synge) 75–6

Patrick Pearse Motel, The (Hugh Leonard) 503–4

Patriots (Lennox Robinson) 201

Patriot Son and Other Stories, The (Mary Lavin) 455

Patterson, Glenn 440–1

Paul Beck, The Rule-of-Thumb Detective (M. McDonnell Bodkin) 130

Paulin, Tom 391, 392

Peaca an tSinsir (Pádraig Ó Siadhail) 296

Peacock Theatre 210, 300, 498–9, 506, 517–18, 521

Pearse, Patrick (Pádraig Mac Piarais) 28, 92–3, 232, 241–2, 255

   ‘Fornocht do chonac thú’ 92

   Íosagán agus Sgéalta Eile 241

   Mháthair agus Sgéalta Eile, An 242

   ‘Renunciation’ 92

   Suantraidhe agus Goltraidhe 232

Peats na Baintreabhaighe (Nóra Ní Shéaghda) 73, 77, 274

Peg Woffington (film) 534

Peig (Peig Sayers) 258–9

‘Penal Law’ (Austin Clarke) 103

Pentecost (Stewart Parker) 511

Peppercanister (imprint) 376

periodicals 73, 77, 226, 237, 239, 271, 323, 365, 369, 372, 382, 387, 401, 402, 411, 452, 565, 571, 581, 583

   Irish-language 226, 237, 239, 248, 257, 271, 285, 307, 309, 348

Peter Abelard (Helen Waddell) 167

Phibbs, Geoffrey see Taylor, Geoffrey

Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Brian Friel) 494–5, 554

Piatt, Donn 263–4

Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Oscar Wilde) 125–6, 531

Pike Theatre, Dublin 486–92, 493

Pilgrimage and Other Poems (Austin Clarke) 101, 102

Pitiless Passion, A (Ella MacMahon) 117, 122–3, 125

Plant and Phantom (Louis MacNeice) 104

Playboy of the Western World, The (J. M. Synge) 194–6, 508

plays 181–219, 259–63, 299–306, 479–527

   adaptations of novels 498

   emigrant 484, 494, 496

   English-language 181–219, 478–527

   Irish-language 259–63, 299–306, 482–3, 491, 498, 507, 516

   Japanese Noh 212

   ‘New Woman’ 184

   verse 196

Plough and the Cross, The (William P. Ryan/Liam P. Ó Riain) 253

Plough and the Stars, The (Sean O’Casey) 207–8, 498, 537–8

Plunge into Space, A (Robert Cromie) 127

Plunkett, James 429, 443, 456, 466

   Strumpet City 429

Plunkett, Joseph Mary 91, 93

   ‘I see His Blood upon the Rose’ 93

   ‘Little Black Rose Shall be Red at Last, The’ 93

Poems (Thomas MacGreevy) 97

Poems (Louis MacNeice) 104

Poems (J. M. Synge) 75

Poems and Parodies (Thomas Kettle) 96

Poems of Joseph Campbell (Austin Clarke) 87

poetic codes 15–19

poetry 10–12, 13, 50–106, 227–33, 317–51, 357–412, 602–3

   aisling 15

   bilingual 79, 350

   dual-language 79

   of the Easter Rising, 1916 91–5

   emigrant 363–5

   of the Great War 93–8

   Irish-language 227–33, 317–51, 600–4, 605–6, 608–10, 611–12, 616, 618–20, 622–3

   macaronic 408

   translations of 350–1, 407–9

   and the war years 322–3

   women’s themes 401–4

Poetry in the Wars (Edna Longley) 585

Poetry of W. B. Yeats, The (Louis MacNeice) 581

Poets and Poetry of Munster, The (George Sigerson) 83

Poet’s Circuits: Collected Poems of Ireland, The (Padraic Colum) 85

Poets of Ireland, A Biographical Dictionary, The (edited by D. J. O’Donoghue) 562, 573

Point of View (Some Talks and Disputations), The (Emily Lawless) 67

‘Poker’ (Michael Davitt) 345

Pomes Penyeach (James Joyce) 90

‘Poor Scholar of the Forties, A’ (Padraic Colum) 84–5

Portable Virgin, The (Anne Enright) 465

Portia Coughlan (Marina Carr) 523–4

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (James Joyce) 9, 39–42, 88, 147–8, 557, 634

postcolonial theory 309, 401, 564, 577, 586–9, 602, 606

postmodernism 553

Power, Richard 428, 429

   Land of Youth, The 428

‘Prayer for My Daughter, A’ (William Butler Yeats) 60

Prayers of Sherkin (Sebastian Barry) 521

Preoccupations (Seamus Heaney) 384

Professor Tim (George Shiels) 481, 543

Prometheus and Other Poems (Mary Devenport O’Neill) 99

prose 12–13, 113–73, 233–59, 271–99, 421–73, 602

   see also autobiography; fiction; memoirs; novels; short stories

Prút, Liam 295

   Désirée 295

   Leanbh sa Lamborghini, An 295

Puckoon (Spike Milligan) 540–1

Purcell, Lewis 204

Purgatory (William Butler Yeats) 214–15

Quare Fellow, The (Brendan Behan) 486–9

‘Queens’ (J. M. Synge) 75

Queen’s Theatre 183

Quiet Man, The (dir. John Ford) 485, 494, 552–3

Quinn, Bob 546–7

Quinn, Justin 411

Quintessence of Ibsenism, The (George Bernard Shaw) 184

Quoof (Paul Muldoon) 394

Raftery, Anthony 190

‘Raiftearaí agus an File’ (Johnny Chóil Mhaidhc Ó Coisdealbha) 347

Rambling Rector, The (Eleanor Alexander) 116

Rann (journal) 363

Rat-Pit, The (Patrick MacGill) 120

‘Raven’s Rock’ (Joseph Campbell) 87

Read, Charles A. and O’Connor, T. P. (editors), Cabinet of Irish Literature, The 573–4

Reading in the Dark (Seamus Deane) 440, 470

Real Charlotte, The (Edith Somerville and Martin Ross) 116

realism 153, 154, 200–2, 367, 398, 481

   and drama 198–203

   magic 292, 293

   and myth 28

   and poverty 120–2

   social 274, 279

‘Realism’ (Medbh McGuckian) 398

Redemption (Francis Stuart) 424–5

‘Red-haired Man’s Wife, The’ (James Stephens) 78

Redress of Poetry, The (Seamus Heaney) 384, 385

Reed, Carol, Odd Man Out 543

regionalism 272, 281, 284, 307, 362–3

Reid, Christina 513

   Tea in a China Cup 513

Reid, Graham 503

   Death of Humpty Dumpty, The 503

   Hidden Curriculum, The 503

Reincarnations (James Stephens) 78

‘Renunciation’ (Patrick Pearse) 92

‘Republicanism and culture in the new millennium’ (Declan Kiberd) 613–14

Responsibilities (William Butler Yeats) 58, 59, 62

Resurrection Man (Eoin McNamee) 440, 541, 636

Return of the Hero, The (Darrell Figgis) 136

‘Revival Irish’ (Fr Richard Henebry) 234

Revival, the 74, 82, 101, 113–14, 134, 562–81

   and anthologies 573–5

   and book collectors 571

   canon 134

   commentators and literary historians 578–81

   and the ‘English novel’ 113–14

   fiction 134–41, 240–58

   Irish-language Revival 226–66

   and literary criticism 562–3, 575–81

   and literary history 567–75

   and modernism 31–46, 572, 582–3

   and mythology 568–71

   non-Revival fiction 114–34

   plays 183, 189–96, 259–63

   and poetry 53–106, 227–33

   and publication 239–40

   term ‘Revival’ 74, 113–14

   and translation 229

‘Rhapsody in Green’ (Denis Johnston) 210

Richards, Shaun 586

   and Cairns, David, Writing Ireland 586

Richards, Shelagh 480

Rickard, Mrs Victor (Jesse Louise), Fire of Green Boughs, The 133–4

Riddell, Mrs J. H. (Charlotte, née Cowan) 115, 119, 127

Riddle of the Sands, The (Erskine Childers) 130–1

Ridireacht Liteartha, An 246

Riders to the Sea (J. M. Synge) 194

Ridgeway, Keith 444–5

‘Righteous Anger’ see ‘The Glass of Beer’ (James Stephens)

Ripley Bogle (Robert McLiam Wilson) 441

Robinson, Lennox 200–1, 219

   Clancy Name, The 200

   Crossroads, The 200

   Patriots 201

Robinson, Tim 466

Roche, Billy 520

Roddy, Lalor (co-founder of the Tinderbox Theatre, Belfast) 525

Rodgers, W. R. 361–2

   Awake! and Other Poems 361

   Europa and the Bull and Other Poems 361

‘Rody McCorley’ (Ethna Carbery) 70

Rogha Dánta (Máirtín Ó Direáin) 319

Rolleston, Thomas William 81–2

   ‘Dead at Clonmacnois, The’ 81–2

   Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race 569–70

   see also Brooke, Stopford

Rosenstock, Gabriel 337–8, 605, 606

   Susanne sa Seomra Folctha 337

   see also Ó Searcaigh, Cathal

Ross, Martin (Violet Florence Martin) see Somerville, E. A.

Rossetti, Christina 68

Rotha Mór an tSaoil (The Hard Road to Klondike by Micí Mac Gabhann) 281, 615

Rough Magic (theatre company) 518

Rough Way, The (W. M. Letts) 116

Rubble na Mickies (Séamas Mac Annaidh) 294

Rudkin, David 551

Rugged Path, The (George Shiels) 481

Rún agus Scéalta Eile, An (León Ó Broin) 247

Rushdie, Salman, Imaginary Homelands 29

Russell, George William (‘AE’, editor of the Irish Homestead and the Irish Statesman) 72–4, 140, 636

   ‘Great Breath, The’ 73

   Homeward Thoughts by the Way 73

   Interpreters, The 140–1

   New Songs 76

   ‘On Behalf of Some Irishmen Not Followers of Tradition’ 74

Russell, Thomas O’Neill 234

Ryan, William P. see Ó Riain, Liam P.

‘Sabháiste, Seán’ see Seosamh Ó Torna

sagas 135–7

Sailing to an Island (Richard Murphy) 372

‘Sailing to Byzantium’ (William Butler Yeats) 57

Salkeld, Blanaid 99, 100

   Fox’s Covert, The 100

   Hello Eternity! 100

Sally’s Irish Rogue (screen title of The New Gossoon by George Shiels) 544

Salomé (Oscar Wilde) 188, 189, 531

Samhain (magazine) 218

Sanctuary Lamp, The (Tom Murphy) 505–6, 634

Sands of Pleasure, The (Filson Young) 127

Saoghal Corrach (Séamus Ó Grianna) 273

Saol fó Thoinn (Seán Ó Tuama) 334

Saol Saighdiúra (Dónall Mac Amhlaigh) 280

Sayers, Peig 258, 614

   Machtnamh Seanmhná (An Old Woman’s Reflections) 258, 614–15

   Peig 258–9

Scáthach (Colm Breathnach) 349

‘Sceilg’ see Seán Ó Ceallaigh

school texts 250

‘Schumann, Robert’ (nom-de-plume), Kinderszenen 294

science fiction 127, 257

scientific romances 127

screen adaptations 531–2

   of Abbey Theatre plays 543–6

   of Brian Friel 550, 555

   of Brian Moore 550

   of Christy Brown 549–50

   criticism of 547–9

   of Dion Boucicault 532–4

   of Edna O’Brien 555

   of Frank O’Connor 539

   of historical novels 534–6

   of Hugh Leonard 545

   of James Joyce 556–7

   of John B. Keane 550–1

   of J. M. Synge 531

   of the lament for Art O’Leary 546

   of Liam O’Flaherty 536, 538–9

   of Louis D’Alton 545

   of Maeve Binchy 556

   of Maurice Walsh 552

   of Reardon Conner 540

   of Roddy Doyle 557–8

   of Sam Hanna Bell 551

   of Sean O’Casey 536–8

   of the War of Independence 540–2

Scríobh (journal) 271

‘Seabhac, An’ see Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha

Seacht mBuaidh an Eirighe Amach (Pádraic Ó Conaire) 243

Séadna (Peadar Ua Laoghaire) 249, 300

‘Second Coming, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 60

Secret Rose, The (William Butler Yeats) 140

Secret World of the Irish Male (Joseph O’Connor) 472

Secrets and Other Stories (Bernard MacLaverty) 462

Seeing Things (Seamus Heaney) 384–5

Selected Poems (Oliver St John Gogarty) 91

Semi-Private (Mary Halpin) 513

Seod Do-Fhághala, An (Úna Bean Uí Dhíocsa) 251

‘September 1913’ (William Butler Yeats) 59

Sewell, Frank, Modern Irish Poetry: New Alhambra, A 566

sexuality 124, 254, 340, 343, 346, 428, 438, 619, 622

   female 448, 451–2, 464

   homosexuality 346, 619, 622

   lesbianism 451, 464

   male 451, 619, 622

Sgéalta Cois Laoi (Seán Ó Ciosáin) 247

Sgoláire Bocht agus Sgéalta Eile, An (Pádraic Ó Conaire) 242

Shadow and Substance (Paul Vincent Carroll) 216

Shadow of a Gunman, The (Sean O’Casey) 206

Shadows on our Skin (Jennifer Johnston) 431

Shake Hands with the Devil (Reardon Conner) 540

Shale (Vona Groarke) 407

Shame of Mary Boyle, The (American title of film version of Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey) 536

Shamrocks (Katharine Tynan) 68

Shan Van Vocht (magazine) 69–70

Shaughraun, The (film) 533–4

Shaw, George Bernard 184, 186, 187, 198–200, 205

   John Bull’s Other Island 30, 198–9

   Quintessence of Ibsenism, The 184

   Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, The 199

Sheehan, Canon 118–19

   Triumph of Failure, The 118–19

Sheehan, Ronan 442–3, 458

Sheehy-Skeffington, Hanna 27

‘Sheep and Lambs’ (Katharine Tynan) 68

Shelmalier (Medbh McGuckian) 397, 399

Sheridan, Jim 549, 550

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 22

Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, The (George Bernard Shaw) 199

Shiels, George 216, 481–2

   Bedmates 481

   New Gosoon, The 544

   Passing Day 216, 481

   Professor Tim 481, 543

   Rugged Path, The 481

   Summit, The 481

Shining City (Conor McPherson) 636

Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry), John Inglesant 117

short stories 120, 142–3, 145–7, 156, 240–8, 274, 275–6, 288, 291–2, 293, 296, 422, 452–65

   in Northern Ireland 459–63

   by women 462–5

Sigerson, George 82–3

   Bards of the Gael and Gall 82

   Poets and Poetry of Munster, The 83

Sigerson Shorter, Dora 70–1

Silence in the Garden, The (William Trevor) 432

Silver Tassie, The (Sean O’Casey) 208–9, 480–1, 498

Simmons, James 387, 389

Simpson, Alan 486, 489–90

Single Lady and Other Stories, A (Mary Lavin) 455

Síol Éabha (Pádraic Ó Conaire) 242

Sionnach ar mo Dhuán (Breandán Ó hEithir) 155, 409, 410, 411

Sirr, Peter

   Bring Everything 410

Site of Ambush (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) 402

Sive (John B. Keane) 492

Skerrett (Liam O’Flaherty) 156

Skull in Connemara, A (Martin McDonagh) 522

Slán le Luimneach (Ciarán Ó Coigligh) 296

‘Sleeve Notes’ (Paul Muldoon) 395

Smashing the Piano (John Montague) 380

Smith, Michael 381

Sna Fir (Micheál Ó Conghaile) 296

Snapper, The (Roddy Doyle) 443

Snow Party, The (Derek Mahon) 388

Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language 226

Solas Dearg, An (Antaine Ó Flatharta) 305

Soldiers of Year II, The (Medbh McGuckian) 400

Somerville, E. A. (Edith) and Ross, Martin (Violet Florence Martin) 116

   Real Charlotte, The 116

Song for a Raggy Boy (Patrick Galvin) 553

Songdogs (Colum McCann) 445

Songs from the Clay (James Stephens) 78

Songs of Myself (Thomas MacDonagh) 92

Songs of the Fields (Francis Ledwidge) 94

Songs of the Glens of Antrim (Moira O’Neill) 71

Southern Theatre Group 497

Southwark Irish Literary Club 572

sovereignty myths 15

‘speech of the people’ (caint na ndaoine 234–6)

Spender, Stephen 16

Spirit in Bondage, The (Clive Staples Lewis) 96

Spokesong (Stewart Parker) 502

Sportsman’s Sketches, A (George Moore) 120

Sracfhéachaint (Lorcán Ó Treasaigh) 293

Sraith ar Lár, An t- (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 276

Sraith dhá Tógáil, An t- (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 276

Sraith Tógtha, An t- (Máirtín Ó Cadhain) 276

Stamping Ground (Maurice Leitch) 438

Standish O’Grady, AE and Yeats (Michael McAteer) 568

Standún, Pádraig 155–6, 297–8, 299

   Súil le Breith 155–6

Starkey, James Sullivan see O’Sullivan, Seamus

Starlit Eye, The (Thomas Kinsella) 372

Station Island (Seamus Heaney) 384

Steiner, George, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation 510

Stephens, James 78–9, 135–6, 138–9

   Charwoman’s Daughter, The 138–9

   Collected Poems 79

   Crock of Gold, The 78, 139

   Deirdre 135

   Demi-Gods, The 135

   ‘Glass of Beer, The’ 79

   Hill of Vision, The 78

   Insurrection in Dublin, The 78, 139

   In the Land of Youth 136

   Irish Fairy Tales 136

   ‘Red-haired Man’s Wife, The’ 78

   Reincarnations 78

   Songs from the Clay 78

   ‘Street Behind Yours, The’ 78

stereotypes 30–1

   stage Irish 197, 523, 533

Steward of Christendom, The (Sebastian Barry) 521–2

Stiall Fhial Feola (Alan Titley) 291

Still Life with Waterfall (Eamon Grennan) 409

Stoker, Bram 128–30

   Dracula 128–30

‘Stolen Child, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 56, 57

Stones in his Pockets (Marie Jones) 525

Stories of Red Hanrahan (William Butler Yeats) 138, 140

Story of the Night, The (Colm Tóibín) 444

Story-Teller’s Holiday, A (George Moore) 143

‘Straying Student, The’ (Austin Clarke) 103

‘Street Behind Yours, The’ (James Stephens) 78

Stress (Olga Fielden) 168

Strong, Eithne 342, 349, 401

Strong, Leonard Alfred George 105

Strumpet City (James Plunkett) 429

Stuart, Francis 160, 423–5, 441–2

   Black List, Section H 441–2

   Redemption 424–5

   Women and God 160

Studies (journal) 583

‘Suantraí na Máthar Síní’ (Biddy Jenkinson) 343

Suantraidhe agus Goltraidhe (Patrick Pearse) 232

Suibhne (Cathal Ó Searcaigh) 346

Súil le Breith (Pádraig Standún) 155–6

Súile Shuibhne (Cathal Ó Searcaigh) 345

‘Súile Uaine, Na’ (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 339–40

Summit, The (George Shiels) 481

supernaturalism 127, 128, 138, 342, 410

Susanne sa Seomra Folctha (Gabriel Rosenstock) 337

Sweeney, Matthew 409

Swift, Caroline 489

Swift, Jonathan 20

   Gulliver’s Travels 20

   Modest Proposal, A 20

Symons, Arthur 185

Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature (Daniel Corkery) 154, 202, 630–1

Synge, J. M. (John Millington) 29, 74–6, 192–6, 483, 531

   Deirdre of the Sorrows 75

   In the Shadow of the Glen 183, 193–4

   ‘Patch-Shaneen’ 75–6

   Playboy of the Western World, The 194–6, 508

   Poems 75

   ‘Queens’ 75

   Riders to the Sea 194

   ‘Passing of the Shee, The’ 74

   Well of the Saints, The 194

Taibhdhearc, An 262, 302, 303, 306, 507, 516

Táin Bó Cúailnge 135

   translated by Thomas Kinsella as The Tain 374

Talbot’s Box (Thomas Kilroy) 506–7

Tales of War (Lord Edward John Dunsany) 132

Tar Éis mo Bháis (Seán Ó Ríordáin) 332

Tarry Flynn (Patrick Kavanagh) 369

Taylor, Geoffrey (formerly Geoffrey Phibbs) 105

Taylor, Tom and Reade, Charles, Masks and Faces 534

Téacs agus Comhthéacs: Gnéithe de Chritic na Gaeilge (edited by Máire Ní Annracháin and Bríona Nic Dhiarmada) 309

Tea in a China Cup (Christina Reid) 513

television 553, 621

   Irish-language 306

Teresa, and Other Stories (Sean O’Faolain) 453

Thar Bealach Isteach (Nóra Ní Shéaghda) 274

theatre 181–219, 259–63, 299–306, 479–527

   amateur 271, 304, 485, 492–3

   in English 181–219, 478–527, 532, 639

   experimental 498–500, 517–18

   Gaeltacht-based 299, 302, 304–6

   Irish-language 259–63, 299–306, 482–3, 491, 498, 507, 516

   Japanese Noh 213

   in Northern Ireland 493–4, 499, 500–3, 509–15

   origins of 181–2, 185–7

   see also plays

theatre companies 301, 518

   see also individual companies

theatre festivals 526

Theatre of Ireland Society 203

Théâtre-Libre de Paris 185–7

theatre societies 203

Third Person (Brian Coffey) 100

Third Policeman, The (Flann O’Brien) 173, 433

This Other Eden (Louis D’Alton) 545–6

This Side of Brightness (Colum McCann) 445

‘Thirties Writers’ 363

Thomas Campion and the Art of English Poetry (Thomas MacDonagh) 91

‘Thomas McDonagh’ (Francis Ledwidge) 94, 96

Thompson in Tír na nÓg (Gerald MacNamara) 204

Thompson, Sam, Over the Bridge 493

Thomson, George 259

Threshold of Quiet, The (Daniel Corkery) 153–4

Thurston, Katherine Cecil 115, 123–4

   Fly on the Wheel, The 123

   John Chilcote, MP 115, 123

   Max 123

‘Tilly’ (James Joyce) 90

‘Time Before You, The’ (Medbh McGuckian) 398

Time in Armagh (John Montague) 380

Tinderbox Theatre Company 525

Tine Chnámh (Liam Ó Muirthile) 347, 603

Tiomna Naofa agus Dánta Eile, An (Donnchadh Ó Liatháin) 232

Tiresias (Austin Clarke) 371

Titley, Alan 290–1, 294, 306, 605

   Eiriceachtaí agus Scéalta Eile 291

   Fear Dána, An 291

   Méirscrí na Treibhe 290

   Stiall Fhial Feola 291

‘To a Shade’ (William Butler Yeats) 59

Todhunter, John 65–6

   The Banshee and Other Poems 65

Tóibín, Colm 444, 466, 467, 473

   Blackwater Lightship, The 444

   Heather Blazing, The 444

   Master, The 640

   Story of the Night, The 444

Tóibín, Nioclás 251

Tóibín, Tomás 317

Toil Dé (Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta) 254

To Ireland, I (Paul Muldoon) 393, 394

‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’ (William Butler Yeats) 57

Tomelty, Joseph 482

   All Souls’ Night 482

   End House, The 482

   Is the Priest at Home? 482

Tonn Tuile (Séamus Ó Néill) 255, 274

Tost, An (Art Ó Riain) 257

‘To the Rose upon the Rood of Time’ (William Butler Yeats) 57

Tower, The (William Butler Yeats) 57, 61–2

Tracy, Honor 466

Transformations in Irish Culture (Luke Gibbons) 612

translations 28, 29, 45, 79–83, 135, 229–31, 258, 262–3, 265, 277, 302, 304, 318, 321, 325, 339, 346, 349, 350–1, 374, 386, 397, 407–9, 434, 483, 488–9, 511, 574, 609, 521, 622

Translations (Brian Friel) 509, 510

Traveller’s Samples (Frank O’Connor) 452

travel writing 279, 465–7

Treasury of Irish Poetry, A (edited by Stopford A. Brooke and Thomas William Rolleston) 69, 81, 575

Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, A (Katharine Tynan) 69

Trench, Herbert 66

   Deirdre Wed 66

Trevor, William 431–3, 456–7, 469

   Beyond the Pale and Other Stories 457

   Felicia’s Journey 432

   Fools of Fortune 432, 540

   Silence in the Garden, The 432

Triail, An (Máiréad Ní Ghráda) 301

Triumph of Failure, The (Canon Sheehan) 118–19

Troubles (J. G. Farrell) 431

Troubles, the (post-1969 Northern Ireland) 382, 383–4, 390, 436, 439–40, 461–3, 478

   and literary criticism 584–6

   and literary history 584

   plays on 500–3

see also Northern Ireland

Troy, Una (penname ‘Elizabeth Connor’) 481, 543

   Mount Prospect 481–2

   We Are Seven 543

Tuaim Inbheir agus Dánta Eile (Micheál Ó Murchú) 231

Tuirlingt (Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Gabriel Rosenstock) 345

Twelfth of Never (Ciaran Carson) 397

Twenty Years A-Wooing (John McCann) 485

‘Twilight People, The’ (Seamus O’Sullivan) 77

Tynan, Katharine 68–9

   Ballads and Lyrics 68

   ‘Cattle, The’ 68–9

   Louise de la Vallière 68

   Shamrocks 68

   ‘Sheep and Lambs’ 68

   Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue, A 69

Ua Duinnín, An tAthair Pádraig see (Fr) Patrick Dinneen

Uaigneas (Séamus Ó hAodha) 233

Uain Bheo, An (Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin) 287

Ua Laoghaire, Diarmuid 251

Ua Laoghaire, An tAthair Peadar, see (Fr) Peter O’Leary

Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig 234, 283–4

   Bríde Bhán 283–4

   Fonn a Níos Fiach 283–4

   hAird ó Thuaidh, Na 282

   Ó Thuaidh! 283

Ua Nualláin, Ciarán (Kevin O’ Nolan) 256–7

   Oidhche i nGleann na nGealt 257

Ua Tuathail, Lorcán 261

Uí Dhíocsa, Úna Bean (Elizabeth Rachel Dix) 251, 255–6

   Cailín na Gruaige Duinne 255–6

   Seod Do-Fhághala, An 251

Uí Mhaolaoi, Nóirín 299

Uladh (journal) 565

Úlla de’n Chraobh (Douglas Hyde) 230

Ulster Bridge Productions 493

Ulster Group Theatre 482, 493

Ulster Literary Theatre 203–4

Ulster novelists 119, 165

Ulster-Scots language 86, 362

Ultach, An t- 237, 307

Ulysses (James Joyce) 18–19, 28, 33, 36, 38, 150, 152–3, 556, 579

‘Unappeasable Host, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 57

‘Under Ben Bulben’ (William Butler Yeats) 63

‘Unfaithful Wife, The’ (‘An Bhean Mhídhílis’ by Lorca, translation by Máire Mhac an tSaoi) 326

United Ireland (Hannah Lynch) 149

Unnamable, The (Samuel Beckett) 423

Untilled Field, The (George Moore) 120, 141, 142

Untouchable, The (John Banville) 436

urbanisation 39, 120–1, 184, 204, 245, 246, 247, 248, 270, 274, 299, 304, 320, 322, 348, 349, 471, 521, 554, 556–7, 600, 605, 616, 631

Valley of the Squinting Windows, The (Brinsley MacNamara) 155

Vengeance of Fionn, The (Austin Clarke) 101

‘Venio ex Oriente’ (Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill) 340

Vision, A (William Butler Yeats) 9, 60

‘Vision of Glendalough, A’ (Joseph Campbell) 87

Vision of Mac Conglinne, The (Padraic Fallon) 366–7

‘Visions of Niamh, The’ (Eva Gore-Booth) 70

Volunteers (Brian Friel) 506

Waddell, Helen 167

   Peter Abelard 167

   Wandering Scholars, The 167

Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) 12, 210, 478, 486, 489–90

Waiting (Gerald O’Donovan) 144

Walking Time agus Dánta Eile (Liam Ó Muirthile) 348

Wall, Eamonn 409

Wall, Mervyn 426

Walsh, Maurice, The Quiet Man 552

Walter, Bronwen, Outsiders Inside – Whiteness, Place and Irish Women 613

Wandering Scholars, The (Helen Waddell) 167

‘Wanderings of Oisin, The’ (William Butler Yeats) 56

War Horse, The (Eavan Boland) 402

Waring, D. G. 167–8

   Fortune Must Follow 167

Warrenpoint (Denis Donoghue) 470

Wasted Island, The (Eimar O’Duffy) 137

Watters, Eugene see Eoghan Ó Tuairisc

Way of the World, The (William Congreve) 188

We Are Seven (Una Troy) 543

Weir, The (Conor McPherson) 521, 636

Weldon, John see MacNamara, Brinsley

Weldon, Robert (Roibeárd Bheldon) 228

Well of the Saints, The (J M Synge) 194

West, Anthony C. 439, 461

Weygandt, Cornelius, Irish Plays and Playwrights 580

Wheatley, David 411

‘Wheels’ (John McGahern) 554

Whelan, John see O’Faolain, Sean

‘When I was a Little Girl’ (Alice Milligan) 70

Whistle in the Dark, A (earlier title The Iron Men by Tom Murphy) 493

Whitbread, J. W., Lord Edward, Or ’98 183

White Goddess, The (Robert Graves) 96

White House, The (Tom Murphy) 505

Why Brownlee Left (Paul Muldoon) 395

‘Wife of Llew, The’ (Francis Ledwidge) 94

Wild Earth (Padraic Colum) 83

Wilde, Oscar 24, 30, 64–5, 187–9

   ‘Ballad of Reading Gaol, The’ 64–5

   Decay of Lying, The 637

   Ideal Husband, An 189

   Importance of Being Earnest, The 188

   Picture of Dorian Gray, The 125–6, 531

   Salomé 188, 189, 531

Wilderness Sings (John Lyle Donaghy) 99

‘Wild Goose, The’ (George Moore) 142

Wild Swans at Coole, The (William Butler Yeats) 60

Willy Reilly and His Colleen Bawn (William Carleton) 535–6

Wilmot, Séamus see also De Bhilmot, Séamus

Wilson, Robert McLiam 440–1, 467

   Eureka Street 441

   Ripley Bogle 441

Wind Among the Reeds, The (William Butler Yeats) 57, 58, 60

Winding Stair and Other Poems, The (William Butler Yeats) 57, 62

Wingfield, Sheila 401

Wintering Out (Seamus Heaney) 383

With the Wild Geese (Emily Lawless) 66, 67

‘Woman in Kitchen’ (Eavan Boland) 154

Woman Who Walked into Doors, The (Roddy Doyle) 443

‘Woman Young and Old, A’ (William Butler Yeats) 62

Women and God (Francis Stuart) 160

women’s issues 122–4, 400–1, 464

women writers 1, 160–5, 299, 358, 400–7, 555

   and Field Day Theatre Company 512, 588

   in the Innti poets 337

   Irish-language 255–6, 274, 281, 299, 301, 325–8, 339–44

   of memoirs 274, 281, 470

   novelists 160–5, 165–8, 255–6, 422, 447–51, 452

   playwrights 496, 508, 512–13

   poets 66–72, 99, 325–8, 339–44, 398–407

   of short stories 462, 463–5

Wood of the Whispering, The (M. J. Molloy) 484–5

Woods, Macdara 401

‘Words for Music Perhaps’ (William Butler Yeats) 62

Words upon the Window Pane (William Butler Yeats) 214

World War I, see Great War, The

World War II 359, 423, 439

Writing Ireland (Shaun Richards and David Cairns) 586

‘Yarrow’ (Paul Muldoon) 395, 409

Yeats, John Butler 65

Yeats, William Butler 9, 15, 25, 30, 38, 53–64, 138, 140, 181–2, 187, 189, 191, 196–7, 212–16, 218–19, 569, 582–3

   ‘Adam’s Curse’ 58

   ‘Among School Children’ 61

   At the Hawk’s Well 212–13

   Celtic Twilight, The 138

   ‘Circus Animals’ Desertion, The’ 62

   Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, The 57

   ‘Cuchulain Comforted’ 63

   ‘Curse of Cromwell, The’ 19

   Deirdre 197

   ‘Easter 1916’ 16, 59

   Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry 138

   ‘Fergus and the Druid’ 57

   Full Moon in March, A 63

   Green Helmet and Other Poems, The 58

   ‘Gyres, The’ 63

   ‘High Talk’ 63

   ‘How Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent’ 572

   In the Seven Woods 58

   ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’ 57

   Irish Fairy Tales 138

   ‘Lapis Lazuli’ 63

   Last Poems and Two Plays 53, 62

   ‘Lecture Delivered to the Royal Academy of Sweden, A’ 564, 567

   ‘Long-legged Fly’ 63

   ‘Madness of King Goll, The’ 56–7

   ‘Man who Dreamed of Faeryland, The’ 57

   Michael Robartes and the Dancer 60, 62

   New Poems 63

   Only Jealousy of Emer, The 213–14

   Parnell’s Funeral 63

   ‘Prayer for My Daughter, A’ 60

   Purgatory 214–15

   Responsibilities 58, 59, 62

   ‘To the Rose upon the Rood of Time’ 57

   ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ 57

   ‘Second Coming, The’ 60

   Secret Rose, The 140

   ‘September 1913’ 59

   ‘To a Shade’ 59

   ‘Stolen Child, The’ 56, 57

   Stories of Red Hanrahan 138, 140

   ‘Unappeasable Host, The’ 57

   ‘Under Ben Bulben’ 63

   ‘Wanderings of Oisin, The’ 56

   Tower, The 57, 61–2

   Vision, A 9, 60

   Wild Swans at Coole, The 60

   Wind Among the Reeds, The 57, 58, 60

   Winding Stair and Other Poems, The 57, 62

   ‘Woman Young and Old, A’ 62

   ‘Words for Music Perhaps’ 62

   Words upon the Window Pane 214, 531

   and Gregory, Lady Augusta, Cathleen ni Houlihan 183, 189, 190

   and Moore, George, Diarmuid and Grania 187

   Yeats criticism 580–1, 582–3

Yellow Book, The (Derek Mahon) 389

Young, Ella 137

Young, Filson, The Sands of Pleasure 127

Young Ireland 84

‘Young Woman of Beare, The’ (Austin Clarke) 102

Youth’s the Season . . . (Mary Manning) 211