Every significant Irish writer, from Swift to Heaney, and including Ferguson, Yeats, Kavanagh, Hewitt, and many more, has been intimately involved in Irish literary magazines, as contributor, reviewer or editor. These magazines provided successive generations of writers and artists with their village square, club and debating society rolled into one, and help us to chart the significance of the multifarious literary inter-relationships, and of the writers' interaction with their own times. This is the first comprehensive guide to almost three hundred years of Irish literary magazines - an important, but neglected resource for those interested in a number of areas of Irish Studies, including literature, and literary, social, cultural and economic history. In two parts, it firstly summarises the use which has been made of this material to date, and then outlines the history of these magazines, their development, personalities, and major themes and formats. There follows a descriptive bib

Part 1 Outline history: the prehistory of Irish literary magazines; Irish literary magazines of the 18th century; Irish literary magazines, 1800-1829; Irish literary magazines, 1830-1849; Irish literary magazines, 1850-1869; Irish literary magazines, 1870-1891; Irish literary magazines, 1892-1922; Irish literary magazines, 1923-1939; Irish literary magazines, 1941-1952; Irish literary magazines, 1953-1985; conclusions. Part 2 Descriptive bibliography: bibliography. Part 3: Appendices: alphabetical index; distribution maps; chronological charts.