The Ireland anthology

Island where human corpses exposed in the open do not putrefy / G. Cambrensis

Pre-famine parishes / S. Lewis

Windharp / J. Montague

Soil, face of the country and climate / A. Young

Dialogue of Irenius and Eudoxus / Edmund Spenser

Ireland / F. Stuart

Praeger, Howth and Lambay / R. Lloyd

Soil and blood / E.E. Evans

Valentia Observatory / Brendan McWilliams

Quiet Desperation / Daniel Corkery

Dying of the light / Deirdre madden

from Sweeney praises the trees / S. Heaney

Forest clearance / E.C. Nelson

To the oaks of glencree / John Millington Synge

Blackbird by Belfast Lough / Anonymous

Winter / John Millington Synge

Sea / Brendan Kennelly

Pat Cloherty's version of the Maisie / Richard Murphy

Duke returns / Maurice Craig

Hall, Dublin in the 1840's / Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Hall

Social customs / Chevalier de La Tocnaye

Social customs / Moving to finglas / Dermot Bolger

The zoological gardens / Anonymous

Offering of swans / Oliver St. John Gogarty

Stephen's green / Elizabeth Bowen

Abbey-street, Lower / Pettigrew and Oulton's Street directory 1848

Dream of munster's arcadia / William Trevor

Groves of Blarney / Richard Milliken

Polio / Claud Cockburn

Cork / S. O'Faolain

Bells of Shandon / Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout)

County cork / Irish Townlands

John's park / S. Dunne

School easy / G. O'Brien

West Waterford / Dervla Murphy

Our houses / Tomas O. Criomhthain

Killarney / William Makepeace Thackerary

Tipperary / Desmond O'Grady

Thurles / Dennis O'Driscoll

Cashel of munster / S. Ferguson

In county Limerick / Chevalier de la Tocnaye

Summer with Charlie / Kate O'Brien

Garryowen / Anonymous

Stopping by a Clare Graveyard after hours / Michael O. Braonain

The Shannon in Clare

Disused shed in Co. Wexford / Derek Mahon

Streams of Bunclody / Anonymous

Inscape

life and landscape in Callan and County Kilkenny / Tony O'Malley

Ferrybank / Donal Foley

Curragh of Kildare / Anonymous

Glencree / John Millington Synige

Grand canal / James Plunkett

Boyhood / Aidan Higgins

Sweet was the sound / Oliver Goldsmith

In county meath / Frank O'Connor

Duelling Extraordinary / Sir Jonah Barrington

The harp that once through Tara's halls / Thomas Moore

Another country / Dermot Healy

Twilight of the big house / David Thomson

Killala / Desmond Fennell

Leviathan / Tim Robinson

Letter (1851) / Reverend Alexander Synge

Galway / Richard Pococke

Connemara / Somerville and Ross

Black Bullock / Liam O'Flaherty

County of Mayo / Thomas Lavelle

Going home to Mayo, Winter, 1949 / Paul Durcan

Galway Bay / Francis A. Fahy

Galway Bay / George Barker

Clifden to Westport / William Makepeace Thackeray

On mweelrea / Michael Longley

Wild swans at Coole / W.B. Yeats

From her journal / Lady Gregory

Why we're here / John McGahern

Parable of the fat chieftain / John Waters

Emigration / John Healy

Road to Darkley / Colm Toibin

Shancoduff / Patrick Kavanagh

Ballad to a traditional refrain / Maurice Craig

Welfare war / Nell McCafferty

Provisional IRA / Eamonn McCann

Mountains of mourne / Percy French

Fair churchyard of Cregan / Art Mac Cumhaigh

Funerals have lost their style / Sam McAughtry

Inniskillen dragoon / George Sigerson

Ardoe / Polly Devlin

Dancehall, John Montague

Short cut to rosses / Nora Hopper Chesson

Going home / Patrick McGill

Winding banks of Erne / William Allingham

Strand at lough Beg / Seamus Heaney

Ulster names; postscript, 1984 / John Hewitt

First invasion of Ireland / John Montague

Origin of the battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1014 / Geoffrey Keating

Viking Terror / Anonymous

Terra Incognita / Sean O'Faolain

Battle of Kinsale / Reverend E.A. D'Alton

Last lines / Aodhaghan O. Rathaille

Battle of Aughrim / Richard Murphy

Modest proposal / Jonathan Swift

Lament for Arthur O'Leary / E