Romantic Ireland -- Yeats : the question of symbolism -- Yeats, ancestral houses, and Anglo-Ireland -- On the winding stair -- European Joyce -- Pound/Joyce -- On the text of Ulysses -- Bakhtin and Finnegans wake -- Another complex fate -- Together -- Drums under the window -- De Valera's day -- Castle Catholic -- T.C.D. -- At swim -- Literature of trouble -- AE -- James Stephen -- Synge in his letters -- George Moore -- Maud Gonne -- O'Casey in his letters -- Frank O'Conner -- Sean O'Faolain -- Austin Clarke -- Bair's Beckett -- Year of the French -- Heaney's Sweeney.