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Introduction: "More real than reality" - an introduction to thefantastic in Irish literature and the arts, Donald E.Morse. Part 1 Ancientknowledge and the fantastic: myth and the fantastic - the example ofW.B.Yeats' plays, Csilla Bertha; siren or victim - the mermaid in Irishlegend and poetry, Maureen Murphy; ghosts recycling the elements, BettinaKnapp. Part 2 The fantastic and Irish arts - theatre, music and paintings:Irish drama and the fantastic, Christopher Murray; "my unshatterable friendof clay" - fantasy in the paintings of Jack B.Yeats, Hilary Pyle; JohnField's imaginative achievement - parallels with Chopin, Shelly and Turner,Peter Egri. Part 3 Uses of the fantastic by Irish playwrights: interrogatingboundaries - fantasy in the plays of John M.Synge, Toni O'Brien Johnson; theuses of the fantastic in the later plays of Sean O'Casey, Jurgen Kamm;"fidelity to failure" - time and the fantastic in Samuel Beckett's earlyplays, Donald E.Morse; Thomas Murphy's psychological explorations, CsillaBertha. Part 4 The occult, fantasy and phantasmagoria in Swift, Dunsany,Joyce and Yeats: Swift and fantasy, C.N.Manlove; Lord Dunsany - the geographyof the gods, Vernon Hyles; the fantastic in James Joyce's "Ulysses" -representational strategies in "Circe" and "Penelope", Aladar Sarbu; thedisplacement of the real - from Coleridgean fancy to Yeats' vision andbeyond, Joseph Swann; looking backward, looking ahead - the study of thefantastic in Irish literature and the arts, Donald E.Morse and Csilla Bertha.