W.B. Yeats, 'The Grey Rock', in Responsibilities (1914); reprinted in Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. Richard J. Finneran (New York: Scribner's, 1996), 104.
Michael Longley, Tuppenny Stung: Autobiographical Chapters (Belfast: Lagan Press, 1994),39.
5.
Rivers Carew and Timothy Brownlow, 'Fifty years after', Dublin Magazine, 5 (2) (1966), 6.
6.
Eileen Battersby , 'Blooming lately', Irish Times , 9 March 2000, from The Irish Times on the web (http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/1999/1231/fea6.htm).
7.
Theo Dorgan, 'Right from the heart', Irish Times, 31 December 1999, from The Irish Times on the web (see Note 6).
8.
Eavan Boland, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time ( London: Vintage, 1996), xi.
9.
Michael Longley , 'River and Fountain. A Quatercentenary Poem' (1992), in Tuppenny Stung, 79-82.
10.
Kit Lively and Scott Street, 'The rich get richer - the wealthiest universities report spectacular returns on investments', Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 October 2000 (http://www.nd.edu/-prinfo/news/2000/10-9w.html ).
11.
Emory University, Special Collections of the Robert L. Woodruff Library online brochure (http://info.library.emory.edu/Special/brochure-irishlit.html).
12.
Edna Broderick [Longley], Letter to Michael Longley, 3 April 1964; Michael Longley Papers, Collection #744, Box 1, Folder 1. Special Collections, Robert L. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
13.
Michael Longley , 'A Personal Statement', in No Continuing City (Chester Springs, PA: DuFour, 1969), 19-21.
14.
Michael Longley , 'No Continuing City', in No Continuing City , 32-4.
15.
Michael Longley , letter to Edna Broderick, 30 March 1964; Michael Longley Papers, Emory University .
16.
Seamus Heaney , letter to Michael Longley, 26 April 1971; Michael Longley Papers, Emory University .
17.
Longley, op. cit (Note 4), 40.
18.
Seamus Heaney , letter to Michael Longley, 26 April 1971; Michael Longley Papers, Emory University .
19.
Seamus Heaney , 'The Tollund Man', in Wintering Out (1972); reprinted in Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (New YorkFarrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998), 62-3.
20.
Declan Kiberd , Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995), 591.
21.
Derek Mahon , 'Young Eavan and early Boland,' Irish University Review, 23 (1) (1993), 23-7.
22.
Edna Longley, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland ( Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : Bloodaxe, 1994).
23.
Derek Mohon, 'In Carrowdore Churchyard', in Poems 1962-1978 (London : Oxford University Press, 1979).
24.
Kiberd, Inventing Ireland , 599.
25.
Derek Mahon, letter to Michael Longley, Nov. 1966; Michael Longley Papers, Emory University.
26.
Eavan Boland, letter to Michael Longley, 20 May 1965; Michael Longley Papers, Emory University.
27.
Derek Mahon, letter to Michael Longley, autumn or winter 1966; Michael Longley Papers, Emory University.
28.
Line taken from Mahon's poem 'An Irishman in London', Dublin Magazine, 4 (1) (Spring 1965).
29.
William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, scene 4, 28-33.
30.
Eavan Boland, 'Thanked Be Fortune', The New Yorker, 26 March 2001, 48.
31.
Janet Montefiore , "'Dried in an Irish Field", review of Eavan Boland's The Lost Land', Times Literary Supplement, 10 December 1999, 23.
32.
Eavan Boland, letter to Michael Longley, 15 Oct. 1966; Michael Longley Papers, Emory University.
33.
Clair Wills, letter to Medbh McGuckian; Medbh McGuckian Papers, Emory University.
34.
Eavan Boland, 'What Language Did', in In a Time of Violence (New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 1995 ), 63-5.
35.
Michael Longley , 'River and Fountain', op. cit. (Note 9).
