Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Editorial Practice xxxvii
6. Suggested Thematic Groupings xli
7. Essays: 1928–39
8. The Cruelty and Beauty of Words 3
9. Censorship in America 20
10. Celts and Irishmen 28
11. Literary Provincialism 33
12. The Modern Novel: A Catholic Point of View 37
13. Revamping Ireland 49
14. Roger Casement 54
15. Dickens and Thackeray 67
16. Daniel Corkery 76
17. The Dangers of Censorship 90
18. Don Quixote O’Flaherty 90
19. Æ and W.B 105
20. Essays: 1940–45
21. This is Your Magazine 123
22. Jack B. Yeats 127
23. Frederick Robert Higgins (1896—1941) 131
24. Ah, Wisha! The Irish Novel 135
25. Standards and Taste 144
26. Ulster 150
27. Our Nasty Novelists 158
28. The Gaelic League 167
29. The Mart of Ideas 176
30. That Typical Irishman 180
31. The Senate and Censorship 186
32. Gaelic – The Truth 192
33. Ireland and the Modern World 197
34. On State Control 202
35. Books and a Live People 208
36. The Strange Case of Sean O’Casey 215
37. The Stuffed Shirts 225
38. Shadow and Substance 237
39. The Plain People of Ireland 244
40. The State and its Writers 250
41. The University Question 257
42. Toryism in Trinity 268
43. One World 281
44. The Pleasures and Pains of Ireland 290
45. The Gaelic Cult 300
46. Eamon de Valera 312
47. Romance and Realism 329
48. One World: An Irish Council 339
49. All Things Considered – 1 346
50. All Things Considered – 2 355
51. Essays: 1946–76
52. Shaw’s Prefaces 365
53. Rebel by Vocation 372
54. On Translating from the Irish 388
55. The Dilemma of Irish Letters 391
56. Religious Art 405
57. Autoantiamericanism 409
58. The Death of Nationalism 422
59. The Dáil and the Bishops 432
60. On a Recent Incident at the International Affairs Association 441
61. The Irish and the Latins 452
62. Love Among the Irish 458
63. Fifty Years of Irish Writing 472
64. A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man 488
65. Index 499