Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
A-Z Entries.
Appendix.
Select Bibliography of Recent Publications.
Index.
W. J. McCormack is Professor of English at Goldsmith's University. His numerous pubications in Irish Literature, history and culture include the classic Ascendancy and Tradition (1985), reprinted in a revised and enlarged edition as From Burke to Beckett: Ascendancy, Tradition and Betrayal in Literary History (1994).
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