Poems 4. Memory's Murphy Maker - Brian Coffey 5. The fortune teller - Thomas MacIntyre 6. Little Chandler and Byron's "first poem" - Maurice Harmon 7. Young Magdalen and the pharisee - Thomas Kilroy
Introduction - John Boyd 2. Sean O'Faolain's "Pleasure principle" - Munira H. Mutran
Nora's Christmas tree - Louis A. Muinzer 4. Poem - John Hewitt 5. O'Doherty's ashes - Dan Casey 6. Poems - Patrick Galvin 7. "Paved unerring roads": the poetry of John Hewitt - Fiona Mullan 8. Poems - Robert Greacen, John Holloway, Damian Smyth 9. James Joyce's "The dead": the symbolist inspiration - Walter T. Rix 10. A boyhood in the colony - James Simmons
Atlantic crosscurrents - John Boyd and Dan Casey 2. Henry James in Rye - H. Montgomery Hyde
Short story: oldfashioned - John McGahern 4. Anno Montague - Mark J. Waelder 5. Three poems: A flowering absence; The locket; A Christmas card - John Montague 6. Two poems: Dublin suite: homage to James Joyce; At drumcliffe churchyard; County Sligo - John Logan 7. Short story: the black diamond - Elizabeth Cullinan 8. Algonquin woods sketches - Bob Callahan 9. Robert Kelly: an appreciation - Patrick H. Meanor 10. Four poems: Oil of excess; Untitled; The cry of I; A woman from Connaught - Robert Kelly 11. Three poems: Ool about to proclaim a parable; Thanksgiving; Epigrams - X. J. Kennedy 12. Short story: the secrets of creative love -William Kennedy 13. James T. Farrell's irish and irish-american writing - Dennis Flynn 14. A protestant childhood - Diana Hyde