Editorial 2. Forrest Reid memorial - E. M. Forster
Interpreter of youth - John Sparrow 4. The early novels - John Bryson 5. Devotion to greek literature - George Huxley 6. Brian Westby - John McGahern 7. Visions and dreams - Mary Bryan 8. Forrest Reid on Yeats - James Simmons 9. Crying for Elysium - Brian Taylor 10. Illustrators of the sixties - Kenneth Jamison 11. The autobiographies - George Buchanan 12. Letters from Forrest Reid - S. Knox Cunningham 13. A successful man - Stephen Gilbert 14. My first meeting with Forrest Reid - Robin Perry 15. A note on the garden god - Robin Perry 16. Notes from a journal - John Boyd
Introduction - John Boyd 2. Yeats and the irishry - D. E. S. Maxwell
Synge's western worlds - Seamus Deane 4. The theatre and Padraic colum - Zack Bowen 5. Sean O'Casey: fifty years after "the plough" - Roger McHugh 6. From beginning to date: some thoughts on the plays of Samuel Beckett - Alec Reid 7. Sunglasses; dog; silver - Matthew Sweeney 8. The scholar at thirty - Pol Breatnac 9. Southern comfort. Confraternity lesson. Scarecrow - John Liddy 10. Foetus papypaceous. Brigid's day, Belfast 1975 - Padraic Fiacc 11. Song for Peter, walking away - Robert Greacen 12. Midnight - Patrick Galvin 13. All for Hecuba; not in the brochure - Norman Dugdale 14. Self-generation; light - Roy McFadden 15. Death-days - Elizabeth Miller
Editorial 2. Armand Gatti: playwright and film director
Armand Gatti: theatre without walls by Joseph Long 4. Exemplary dramatists: Yeats and O'Casey by Seamas Deane 5. Contempory drama in Japan: a report by Kazuo Hayakawa 6. Poetry: Roger Conover 7. Poetry: Seamus Heaney 8.Poetry: Conleth O'Connor 9. Poetry: T. D. Redshaw 10.Poetry: Richard Ryan 11.Poetry: Patric Stevenson 12. Visions of self and society: the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh by John Nemo
Editorial - John Hewitt 2. A lady from Limerick - Donal Casey
The love game: gateposts - Medbh McGuckian 4. Gambler's chances - William Wiser 5. Sancto's dog - Roy McFadden 6. W. B. Yeats in the theatre - Gertrude Patterson 7. Variations on a theme - John Hewitt 8. The test - John O'Connor 9. To Margaret Anderson Smyth (nee Stevenson) 1841-1910 - Patric Stevenson 10. From 1979 to 1596 and back. A look at Edmund Spenser's "a view of the present state of Ireland" - Rene' Fre'chet 11. Reunion: crows: rabbits - W. R. Hutchinson 12. The old firm - Roy McFadden 13. Mother of sorrows: a small blind street - Aidan Murphy 14. Patrick Kavanagh in Belfast - J. B. Kilfeather 15. Holiday 2: Belfast April '79 - Jack Pakenham 16. Daybreak - Richard Telford 17. Candles: but for your gifts: journeys end - Norman Dugdale 18. Bleak afflatus! A review of "Poets from the north of Ireland". Edited Frank Ormsby - Michael Allen
Introduction: the longing for modernity - Seamus Deane 2. Poetry and the avoidance of nationalism - Vincent Buckley
Sweeney astray (a translation) - Seamus Heaney 4. The changing gaelic tradition - Sean O'Tuama 5. A rum cove, a stout cove (poem) - Tom Paulin 6. Passages (a short story) - Anne Devlin 7. "Befitting emblems of adversity": Seamus Heaney, the poet and the troubles - Timothy Kearney 8. Celebrations, the equestrian (poem) - Desmond McAleer 9. Structuralism and the decomposition of political positions (poem) - Niall Crowley 10. A waste of words - Hugh Maxton
Introduction: imageries from a sombre loom - Gerald Dawe 2. George Shiels: the enigmatic playwright - Daniel J. Casey
Three poems: I love you intently, The moose, The ram - Robert Bly 4. Poetry and politics in revolutionary Belfast - James W. Flannery 5. Two poems: history lesson, humming birds - Seamus Deane 6. Short story: wish you to go or wish you to stay - Tom MacIntyre 7. Sean O'Casey: the autobiographies - James Simmons 8. Poem: the round pond - Roy McFadden 9. Coming to terms with Jack B. Yeats - John Hewitt 10. Poem: Coleman to Coleman - Coleman Barks 11. Poem: Cavalier and smiling girl - Eamon Grennan 12. Synge and Ireland: the solitude of the artist in "The playboy of the western world" - Re'ne Fre'chet 13. Rise above: memories of Tyrone Guthrie - John Boyd 14. Address at opening of Annaghmakerrig - Brian Friel
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
Denis Johnston (1901-1984): a personal note - John Boyd 2. Working class fiction in Cork: Corkery and O'Connor - Ruth Sherry
Troubled water - Mairin O'Connor 4. Portrait of Brendan Behan - D. E. S. Maxwell 5. Comings and goings - Graham Reid 6. The social conscience of Patrick MacGill - Robert Greacen 7. Sylvia plath (poem) - Ray Givans 8. Evening with an old friend. Poem - John Holloway 9. Wasteground - Christina Reid 10. Alec of the chimney corner - John Hewitt 11. Trouble in the streets: Dublin and Belfast - Stephen Wynburne 12. Ireland spat in my eye - Michael J. Murphy 13. What is anglo-irish literature? - J. C. Beckett
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
Roger McHugh (1908-1987) - Maurice Harmon 2. Self portrait - Sean O'Faolain
Poems - John Hewitt 4. Remembering Padraic colum - Padraic Fiacc 5. How I write a poem - W. R. Rodgers 6. Poems - Damian Quinn, Norman Dugdale 7. Irish religion and irish politics: a tour of John Bull's other island - Vivian Mercier 8. The hands of Cheryl Boyd - Maurice Leitch 9. The violence of poetry: O'Connell, Davis and Moore - Richard Davis
