1. Introduction: Making History? -- 2. John Hewitt: An Honest Ulsterman's 'Poemosaics' -- 3. Thomas Kinsella's Poetic of Unease -- 4. A Failure to Return: John Montague's The Rough Field -- 5. History Is Only Part of It: Brendan Kennelly's Cromwell -- 6. 'Reconciliation Under Duress': The Architecture of Seamus Heaney's Recent Poetry -- 7. Letters from the Alphabet: Carson's and Muldoon's Contingent Poetics
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index