This volume consists of commissioned essays and selected papers from the 1988 Montreal Conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies, covering literature and the other arts: painting, music, architecture, theatre and film. In addition, the cultural background of specific periods in the Irish literary tradition as well as aesthetic and cultural dimensions in the work of Edmund Burke, Thomas Moore and James Joyce are examined. ; Contributors:^R Zack Bowen, Andrew Carpenter, Richard Allen Caves, Terry Eagleston, John Wilson Foster, Richard Kearney, Michael Kenneally, Declan Kiberd, Edna Longley, Fintan O'toole, Patrick Rafroidi, Hiroshi Suzuki, Mary Helen Thuente, Wolfang Zach. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 35.
