For my father and mother
Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following magazines, in which some of these poems have appeared: The Dublin Magazine, The Honest Ulsterman, The Irish Press, The Irish Times, The Listener, New Statesman, Outposts, Phoenix, Times Literary Supplement, University Review; and to the Northern Ireland Service of the BBC. Some details in "Requiem for the Croppies' are taken from P. O'Kelly's General History of the Rebellion of 1798, Dublin, 1842.