Foreword / John Wilson Foster -- A mayfly / Paul Muldoon -- Remains of Ellen Hanley : theatre, commodification and Irish identity in the nineteenth century / Chris Morash -- The search / Brendan Kennelly -- Yeats and Dates / Nicholas Grene -- Gift of adaptability : Yeats, Joyce and modern Ireland / R.F. Foster -- Chorus from 'Antigone' / Derek Mahon -- Louis MacNeice and Autumn's ghosts / Nicholas Allen -- Olivia Manning, imperial refugee / Eve Patten -- The rising, To a teacher / Greg Delanty -- Growing up absurd : Edna O'Brien and The country girls / Declan Kiberd. Commemorating whose dead? : a study of two Irish gardens of remembrance / Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch -- The pleasure boats / Gerald Dawe -- Back in the 1960s: Belfast poets, Liverpool poets / Helen Vendler -- Human chain / Seamus Heaney.