A lively and provocative history of the great achievements of Irish poets from 1800 to the present day.

Justin Quinn is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the Charles University, Prague.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The appearance of Ireland; 2. Tennyson's Ireland; 3. Revival; 4. W. B. Yeats; 5. Wild earth; 6. The ends of modernism; 7. Ireland's empire; 8. Seamus Heaney; 9. Irsko po polsku: poetry and translation; 10. Feminism and Irish poetry; 11. Out of Ireland: Muldoon and other emigrés; 12. The disappearance of Ireland; Guide to further reading.