Colonial ConsequencesColonial Consequences contains sixteen essays in Irish literature and culture by Belfast born, Vancouver based critic John Wilson Foster. The essays survey texts, genres and cultural backgrounds, from eighteenth century landscape verse, the origins of Irish modernism, Yeatss great poem Easter 1916, to the literature and life styles of Northern Ireland. They give eloquent, close readings of specific writers Kavanagh, Hewitt, Rodgers, Montague, Murphy,

'In the summer of 1939

on the edge of Dublin city centre

As she ascends it we cannot but acknowledge her as a kind of Cortez

with an accompanying bibliography

with the nature of belief and un-belief

the Viceroy

according to Joyce

no drinks on the sideboard: having withstood the attacks of successive generations of Irish rebels over seven centuries

a woman of defining importance for religion and culture ascends the primeval river in an Anaconda Canoe

This is a homage to James Joyce

Trinity College and Radió Telefís Éireann – should have decided to honour the 1969 Nobel prize-winner by staging all of his dramatic productions over three weeks during October 1991 and hosting a series of visual displays

unbelonging and otherness