That Island Never Found

That Island Never Found is a collection of poems and essays by some of Ireland's leading writers and scholars. An account of Ireland's diasporic literary history from the 19th century to the present, from Britain to the United States, it places readings of Dion Boucicault, Gerald Griffin, James Joyce, Louis MacNeice, Olivia Manning, Edna O'Brien and William Butler Yeats, beside poetry by Gerald Dawe, Greg Delanty, Seamus Heaney, Brendan Kennelly and Derek Mahon.