Mistaken Identities Poetry and Northern Ireland [Paperback]

This study addresses questions of Northern Irish poetry and politics through close readings of a number of important writers. McDonald delivers a searching critique of nationalist cultural assumptions about Northern Ireland through illuminating readings of the province's best modern poets, including Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, and others.

A sixth sense; The Fate of Identity: John Hewitt, W R Rodgers, and Louis MacNeice; Poetry, Narrative, and Violence; Derek Mahon, Tom Paulin, and the Lost tribe; Michael Longley's Homes; Paul Muldoon and the Windlass-Men; 'Silly like us'; Anglo-Irish Accommodations; Select Bibliography; Index