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. 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
What stood in the post office? - John Jay 4. The plays of Yeats through Beckett coloured glasses - Ruby Cohn 5. "Theatre business" - Ronald Ayling 6. The dream itself - Mary O'Malley 7. An idea of music - Raymond Warren 8. The japanese Noh, a survey - Pronoti Baksi 9. Yeats and the japanese theatre - Shotaro Oshima 10. The rhythm and music of Noh drama - Frederick Kalister