Foilsiú volume 3

Foilsiú

Volume 3. Number 1

Spring 2003

Introduction                                                     5

Seeking Agency, Finding Nothing                           7

Irish American Identity as a His-Story of Absence in

James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan

    James P. Byrne

Children’s Literature of the Great Irish Famine          21

An Annotated Bibliography

    Karen Hill McNamara

“Whither thou goest”                                          33

The Possibility of Community in Observe the Sons of

Ultser Marching Towards the Somme and

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

    Brian Cliff

In Their Own World                                            47

Belfast and Derry

    Photo Essay by Christina Cahill

Poetry

The Ink Moth                                                    67

    Greg Delanty

Poetry by Eamonn Wall                                       71

          August 15:  the Seals

          The Countryman

          North Atlantic Drift

                   Garden

                    Child

                   Voice

                   History

                   Victory

Book Reviews

Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush by Colm Tóibín                81

    Elizabeth Gilmartin