Introduction / Gerald Dawe
Prolegomena: 'Spenser's Island' / Sean Lysaght
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 / James Ward
Aogan O'Raithille c.1670-1729 / Aodan MacPoilin
Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774 / Michael Griffin
Thomas Moore 1779-1852 / Jeffrey Vail
James Clarence Mangan 1803-1849 / John Mc Auliffe
W B Yeats 1865-1939 / Nicholas Grene
Francis Ledwidge 1887-1917 / Fran Brearton
Thomas MacGreevy 1893-1967 / David Wheatley
Austin Clarke 1896-1974 / Lucy Collins
Patrick Kavanagh 1904-1967 / Tom Walker
Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 / Gerald Dawe
Louis MacNeice 1907-1963 / Chris Morash
John Hewitt 1907-1987 / Guy Woodward
Sean O Riordain 1916-1977 / Louis de Paor
Richard Murphy 1927 / Benjamin Keatinge
Thomas Kinsella 1928 / Andrew Fitzsimons
John Montague 1929 / Maurice Riordain
Brendan Kennelly 1936 / Richard Pine
Seamus Heaney 1939-2013 / Terence Brown
Michael Longley 1939 / Florence Impens
Michael Hartnett 1941-1999 / Peter Sirr
Derek Mahon 1941 / Matt Campbell
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain 1942- / Hugh Haughton
Eavan Boland 1944- / Justin Quinn
Paul Durcan 1945- / Alan Gillis
Ciaran Carson 1948- / Nicholas Allen
Medbh McGuckian 1950- / Maria Johnston
Paul Muldoon 1951- / Peter Mc Donald
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill 1952- / John Dillon.