Richard Kirkland is Professor of Irish Literature at King's College London.

• Introduction: The Interregnum, the institution and the critic 1.'In the midst of all this dross': Establishing grounds of dissent The Country, The City 2.'This thing could rule the world': Northern Irish writing and the idea of coterie 3.'Unconscious patriotism': Northern criticism in the 1980s 4.'Nothing left but the sense of exhuastion': Field Day and counter-hegemony 5.'Just another twist in the plot': Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and the final institution. Paradigms of possibility Conclusion: Madoc and the institution Bibliography Index

Richard Kirkland is Professor of Irish Literature at King's College London.

• Introduction: The Interregnum, the institution and the critic 1.'In the midst of all this dross': Establishing grounds of dissent The Country, The City 2.'This thing could rule the world': Northern Irish writing and the idea of coterie 3.'Unconscious patriotism': Northern criticism in the 1980s 4.'Nothing left but the sense of exhuastion': Field Day and counter-hegemony 5.'Just another twist in the plot': Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and the final institution. Paradigms of possibility Conclusion: Madoc and the institution Bibliography Index

Richard Kirkland is Professor of Irish Literature at King's College London.

• Introduction: The Interregnum, the institution and the critic 1.'In the midst of all this dross': Establishing grounds of dissent The Country, The City 2.'This thing could rule the world': Northern Irish writing and the idea of coterie 3.'Unconscious patriotism': Northern criticism in the 1980s 4.'Nothing left but the sense of exhuastion': Field Day and counter-hegemony 5.'Just another twist in the plot': Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and the final institution. Paradigms of possibility Conclusion: Madoc and the institution Bibliography Index